Re: Changing the starting number of Exercise
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:13:55 +0200
Hannan Sadar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am using Document class: article (AMS,sequential numbering).
I would like that my Exercise numbers would start with the number 8.
I know the command \setcounter, but i am not foamier with the type of
counter so i could not change it by my-self.
It should be
\setcounter{exercise]{7}
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Re: Changing the starting number of Exercise
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:23:44 -0400
David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:13:55 +0200
Hannan Sadar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am using Document class: article (AMS,sequential numbering).
I would like that my Exercise numbers would start with the number 8.
I know the command \setcounter, but i am not foamier with the type of
counter so i could not change it by my-self.
It should be
\setcounter{exercise]{7}
Oops
\setcounter{exercise}{7}
^
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Re: Changing the starting number of Exercise
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 09:19:19 +0200
Hannan Sadar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I tried it before and it didn't work. It makes the following error:
LaTeX Error: No counter 'exercise' defined.
What are the names of Exercise, Theorem and etc. counters?
I just looked, and it should be
\setcounter{xca}{7}
that acutually worked... In general, these things are defined in
/usr/share/lyx/layouts/amsmaths-seq.inc. Sorry for the bad advice earlier.
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_`\(,_ | common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance,
(_)/ (_) | and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my
trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my
business! --Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Re: LyX and xypic
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:44:54 +0200 (CEST) H. Peter Gumm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, is there anyone working with LyX and xypic. Is there any support, or are there any workarounds to see commutative diagrams in their full glory within LyX. I usually kludge it by using a matrix. The only problem with that is that labels on the arrows need to be finagled to keep the arrow aligned (for a horizontal arrow, put a 3x1 submatrix in with the arrow in the center, the label on top, and a blank below). This will be somewhat short of full glory; for that you would, I presume, have to do it all in ERT. -- David L. Johnson __o | You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but _`\(,_ | what canst thou say? -- George Fox. (_)/ (_) |
Re: Algorithm
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:34:35 -0300 (ART) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm happy because all auto names of LaTeX (like ``2nd February, 2005'', and ``Figure 1'' and ``Table 1'') are translated to portuguese and spanish as I need (like ``20 de outubro de 2005'', or ``Figura 1'', or ``Tabela 1''), but some single words remain in english, like ``algorithm''. Those headings are part of the ams* layouts, which are defined in /usr/share/lyx/layouts/* (on unix-like systems, at least). You can make new ones, with translated titles, for each of the languages you want. Other label strings on other layout files may also be language-specific. I never have installed LyX for a language different from US/English, so I don't know what is already done to translate layouts. -- David L. Johnson __o | Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of _`\(,_ | business. (_)/ (_) |
Re: lyx on Debian testing
On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 14:59:26 +0100 Alexandru Cabuz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody found a way to get lyx working on a Debian testing system? It seems there is a bug that prevents one from just apt-getting it. See http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lyx.html I was surprised to see it wasn't there when I last updated. In fact, apt actually removed a fully functional lyx in order to add something else, and I could not get it back. There was a weird library dependence issue (can't recall the specifics) when I put lyx on my Zaurus, too, and I think this was related. But there are *.deb packages on lyx.org, which installed just fine. -- David L. Johnson __o | When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember _`\(,_ | that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. -- LBJ (_)/ (_) |
Re: lyx on windows (and printing notes)
On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 21:24:39 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: admin priviliges. Again, you don't *need* latex installed to run LyX. Angus, then try to install LyX without an installed TeX system and try to run LyX ... ;-) being able to run lyx without latex is IMHO a good and useful thing! I don't want to get too involved in the debate, but I also find being able to install lyx on a computer that does not have TeX is a good option. On my Zaurus, there is not only not enough room for TeX, there is no direct printer access, so just being able to edit documents, then move them to another computer to print, is fine. IMO there should be the option of using LyX without TeX. -- David L. Johnson __o | Enron's slogan: Respect, Communication, Integrity, and _`\(,_ | Excellence. (_)/ (_) |
Re: The best 2d and 3d eps math graphs to Lyx
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 19:08:46 + Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/27/05, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can recommend MuPAD which is free for Linux: http://mupad.de/download_linux.html MuPAD is no longer free for Linux, I am afraid to tell you. That's odd. I downloaded it 2 days ago. Now, I have yet to install it, but it seems to be the real thing. IMO MuPad is nice (especially the graphics), but since I get Maple through work I haven't been motivated to use it. -- David L. Johnson __o | The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand _`\(,_ | mathematics. (_)/ (_) |
Re: Missing references bug: lyx not calling pdflatex again?
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:19:03 -0700 Fernando Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a document with a bibtex-generated list of references, and when I try to export it to PDF or postscript (via the GUI or with 'lyx -e pdf2', for example), all the citations appear as [??] marks, though the references section is correctly generated. Typically with Latex the first run would generate missing references such as this. If I am running Latex manually, I simply run it twice. That way the appropriate temporary files are generated so that the second run can read them. I thought LyX would do the same thing. The only workaround I've been able to find is to click on the 'bibtex references' box at the end, make some trivial change (choose a different style, or check the 'add to TOC' box), and rerun the PDF/PS generation. THEN, the numbers appear, and I can revert my trivial change and continue. Needless to say, it is incredibly annoying to have to do this every time, and it breaks my makefile-based workflow (this is a document being developed in collaboration from many places, so I wrote a makefile to generate all the required PDFs without human intervention). Try adding a second Latex run into that makefile. -- David L. Johnson __o | Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The _`\(,_ | common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, (_)/ (_) | and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business! --Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.
On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:34:17 -0800 Marc D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a rather large lyx file (all my course notes). In one section, I can't get it to work. I have reduced the problem to a minimum. There are 3 characters on my screen, in two lines. I get SIX errors with those 3 characters. Answer: it's the \textmf that causes ALL six errors. You mean \textrm (and all 35 errors in my original file). All from a a single, obviously misplaced, \textmf tag that I DID NOT INSERT (or knowingly insert. I don't USE different fonts in my document!) Well, the thing is, in order to typeset the 2^Q, you should use math-mode -- which you seemed to have done. However, _within_ math mode, if you go into math-mode _again_, LyX treats it as text-within-a-formula -- an inset of a text box within the formula inset. You may have done that inadvertantly, or you may be trying to get the 2^Q to display without the Q being italicized. At any rate, TeX then thinks you are trying a math layout inside a text region, and will get confused. If you just hit the math-mode menu item a second time, then don't do that. If you want to avoid the italicized Q, then, ... , there is a way. Go into math-mode. Type the 2, then type ^ to get in the superscript. Then toggle math-mode again, inside the superscript box, and type your Q. Questions: What key sequence would have inserted \textmf when ANY occurence of such text causes so many errors? It's the double entry into math-mode, which gets you a text box within a math box, that was the problem. Why doesn't LyX do the right thing when converting said text to LaTeX? Because it thinks it isn't supposed to do that. Why, when I erased the entire paragraph containing this string and retyped it, did the textmf string REAPPEAR in exactly the same place?? Because you typed it in the same way. -- David L. Johnson __o | A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored _`\(,_ | by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo (_)/ (_) | Emerson
Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:09:40 +0100 Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If, however, I write 2^Q as text, then select it and press ctrl+M (to turn it into a formula, then I also get that problem. You can make that work properly in 1.3.* by entering $2^Q$ as text, then hitting math mode. This allows the insertion of bits of TeX text properly in LyX. -- David L. Johnson __o | Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front _`\(,_ | of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of (_)/ (_) | them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has proven this not to be the case.
Re: LyX is getting... very annoying.
On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 10:30:16 +0100
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Herbert == Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Herbert this is nonsense! How did you insert it? 2^{Q} is a math
Herbert expression, it cannot be part of \textrm, it should be an
Herbert argument of\mathrm
Herbert, while we are at it, does it ever make sense to use \textrm in
math? I am a bit puzzled about what this really does. I would tend to
use \mathrm{} for a variable name in upright shape, and \mbox{} or
\text{} for something which is more like a word.
I believe the advantage will be for entering more than one word, with spaces
and all. At any rate, the simple toggle to insert text this way means that
that is what I have been doing for years with it, to no ill effect.
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David L. Johnson
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_`\(,_ | common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance,
(_)/ (_) | and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my
trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my
business! --Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Re: Problem\Bug with subsection at article AMS at 1.4.0pre6
On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:20:23 +0100 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hannan == Hannan Sadar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hannan Hi I was using document class: article (AMS, sequential Hannan numbering). After defining subsection or subsubsection, i saw Hannan my first line (until the enter) and my subsection or Hannan subsubsection joining together at the same line. My guess is Hannan that this is a bug, but i don't know if its a reported bug or Hannan not. I also tried just article as a document class and then Hannan the problem was not present. I'm sorry I missed the first post on this. If you mean, as I guess, that the heading of the subsection appears on the printouut on the same line as the beginning of the text, tgat is correct behavior for amsart. Only section headings get their own line. That it appears on a separate line in LyX is arguably a limitation of LyX, but not, in my mind, a serious one. -- David L. Johnson Lehigh University
Re: converting to html
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 19:45:32 +1100 Lee Yeoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just dowloaded Lyx 1.3.7, and am using it on a mac OS X 10.4.5. I'm finding it very cool, a little bit of a learning curve to start with, but pretty good in the end. I'm specifically having problems converting to html (I want some documents on my palm v.4.1, which seems to have no DVI viewer or decent PDF viewer available, unfortunately). I can export fine, but the html file appears to reference several .png files for some of the mathematical symbols that aren't created. I thought it might have had something to do with not having libpng, so i got that too, but that made no difference. There are several options to generate html from latex files. You should be able to use tth (I gather this is a Windows machine, which I know little about, but check the tth website to see whether there is a Windows version; there probably is), which does not generate bitmap graphics of mathematical expressions; it does it all in (really ugly code) html, and it displays quite nicely on most browsers. It is at least worth a try. One thing to check is how whatever browser you have with the PDA handles the code. I will send you a sample output by e-mail. LyX should be able to be re-configured to use tth instead of whatever you are using. -- David L. Johnson __o | Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of _`\(,_ | business. (_)/ (_) |
Question about language appearing in running heads
Sorry to butt in after such a long absense, but the later versions of LyX
have had a persistent bug?/problem? that I can't seem to solve in a
reasonable manner.
I have been using LyX for a very long time, since back when it had a Motif
interface and did not really display math. I even contributed at one point,
but this is all beyond me now.
Here is my problem. I regularly use the AMS layouts, seeing as how I am a
mathematician (I even wrote the original layout files, though they have
since been re-written by others). Anyway, these formats automatically
generate a running header for all pages beyond page 1, displaying either the
author name or title on alternate pages.
However, in recent versions (I am currently using 1.4.2 under debian linux),
before either the author name or the title, on the running heads in the
printout or dvi files, occurs the word english --- the document language. I
can sometimes get it to generate american instead, but that is not the
point. It is printing the document language label on the running head.
When I edit the TeX file and comment out the line \usepackage{babel} the
problem goes away. But removing the babel option within LyX does not cause
the problem to go away, and can cause compilation of dvi files to stop with
an error message about the language not being loaded.
Has anyone else seen this, or am I alone? If the latter, I imagine it might
be a leftover file in my local config, but I moved $HOME/.lyx out of the way
and let LyX regenerate it, to no avail.
Any clue? Any help?
LyX version: 1.4.2 (also occurred with 1.4.1 and later 3.? versions).
OS: debian linux testing on amd64 and x86 machines
Problem file types: Any AMS document type with running heads.
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_`\(,_ | common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance,
(_)/ (_) | and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my
trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my
business! --Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Re: Question about language appearing in running heads
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:51:44 +0200 Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David L. Johnson wrote: However, in recent versions (I am currently using 1.4.2 under debian linux), before either the author name or the title, on the running heads in the printout or dvi files, occurs the word english --- the document language. I can sometimes get it to generate american instead, but that is not the point. It is printing the document language label on the running head. This smells like the following babel bug: http://www.latex-project.org/cgi-bin/ltxbugs2html?pr=babel/3238 Which babel version are you using? The bug should be fixed with version 3.7. Well, this looks like the culprit, but according to my tex output I have: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) entering extended mode (./301f06-info-johnson.tex LaTeX2e 2003/12/01 Babel v3.8d and hyphenation patterns for american, ... Document Class: amsart 2004/08/06 v2.20 so maybe the babel bug did not get fixed with v3.8d, or came back in, or it is a latex bug instead. These were just updated by an upgrade of debian etch, but the bug has been with me for several upgrades. Thanks for the help; at least I know where to go. -- David
Re: Historical question
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:05:43 +0100 José Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 September 2006 20:37, Alex wrote: Hi! I would like to know when was the development of LyX started? This is what I have been able to dig. If you have details to add I am all hears. :-) I could find 0.8.0 dated to 21st of dec, 1995. But when was it first announced or released to the public? In 95, David mentioned last month that he still used the motif based version. (At version 1.5 :-) Oh, no, I don't still use that version. But I got more involved after I found the program (who here remembers when Matthias called it LyriX?) because of motif. In order to compile it under linux, you needed motif libraries. I had actually gone out and paid for them, so provided (legally, I think...) binaries. Heck, I think the first ones were static binaries. The whole tarball, with binary, fit on one floppy disk. I also built AIX-3.5 binaries, and some of those are still in the archives. The name was changed because someone contacted Matthias threatening to sue, that name having been taken for a word processor of some sort. I no longer can find any of these old binaries. But, they were carved on clay tablets, anyway, so I couldn't read them now. I believe Matthias released his first version sometime in 1995. It did not display math at all. All formulas were ERT. Yes, it was red, even back then. I don't recall a version number. -- David L. Johnson __o | The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand _`\(,_ | mathematics. (_)/ (_) |
Reconfigure oddity
I have recently updated my little Zaurus 3100 to a new version of debian (armel), so re-installed LyX. I wanted to make sure it had access to everything it really needed, so I ran reconfigure. I have the debian-sid lyx-1.5.2-1 package installed. I tried to compile lyx on the machine, but it is a long, slow process with the limited memory I have available. Sometimes it will crash in mid-compile of some of the larger object files, so make has to be re-started often. However, the debian package works fine. The output of the command is stored in a LyX file, but my LyX could not read it. That file claims to be lyxformat 2.15, for LyX 0.11. Current Lyx 1.5.2 uses lyxformat 276. The file is not readable, and my LyX could not convert it to readable format. My usual trick, simply changing the format number, also does not work. It seems that my machine is configured adequately, but maybe it would be time to update this output format. I just checked on my desktop machine and it, also, produces the same old lyx format from reconfigure. On that machine (debian lenny, amd64 machine) I compiled lyx-1.5.2 myself. -- David L. Johnson And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. [1 Corinth. 13:2]
Re: Math subject classification
Philipp Schlicht wrote: Hi, in my Lyx version 1.5.1 the environment subjectclass produces the output 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification instead of the current 2000 Mathematics subject classification (see AMS website). Huh. I thought that was fixed. It is in my 1.5.2 -- although it could be that I changed that myself. However, I think not, I think this was installed from the source. In your amsdefs.inc file, look for the Subjectclass style. It should read: Style Subjectclass CopyStyle Address LatexName subjclass[2000] LabelString 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: End Do you bave an old ~/.lyx file around? Of course, this just puts the problem off for a few years. It would be really clever to change that subjclass[2000] name to auotmatically print the right decade. -- David L. Johnson And what if you track down these men and kill them, what if you killed all of us? From every corner of Europe, hundreds, thousands would rise up to take our places. Even Nazis can't kill that fast. -- Paul Henreid (Casablanca).
Re: Slowness
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: Hello, Does anybody else experience that LyX1.5.2 sometimes becomes extremely slow? So slow that after pressing a key I must wait 1sec to see the character appear in the document. I have not yet been able to detect any underlying pattern behind this behaviour, but it is always fixed immediately by restarting LyX. I don't remember if I had the same problem in LyX1.5.1 or not... I noticed this problem as well, but I don't know whether it is the same as the mac OS problem as indicated by the earlier reply. I have a workaround. I simply changed text fonts, and it improved dramatically. I can probably find what fonts I changed to, but it would probably be better for you to just find one you like, and test it out. I saw this mostly on my 64-bit amd and on my zaurus/debian sid. -- David L. Johnson And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. [1 Corinth. 13:2]
New version question
Hi folks. It has been a while since I have been on this list, but I
thought I'd ask about something I noticed in the last upgrade I made.
I am currently using 2.0.0beta4, which came to me with my latest upgrade
of debian testing. I have been using both Lyx and debian testing for aeons.
Anyway, I notice a new behavior that is a little annoying. When I use
an empty delimiter in math-mode, previously the empty limit was marked
with a dashed vertical line. Now, it is a solid black line. Since one
of the common delimiters I use is \.{}\| (that is, empty on left,
vertical line on the right) the difference between that and vertical
lines left and right requires more judgment than my eyes can handle.
With math text being dark blue by default, there is not much difference
between a vertical line and an empty delimiter.
So, why was this change made? Can I set some preference to un-make it?
I don't really want to downgrade, if I can avoid it. LyX is my
default program for writing just about everything.
--
David L. Johnson
A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
-- Paul Erdos
Re: two theorems right after another
On 03/10/2011 04:25 PM, Randolf Altmeyer wrote: Sorry, if this question has been asked a million times already. I don't know how to search for it in the archive. It's probably a simple thing. I want to add a theorem environment and right after that another one. However, whenever I just hit return to enter to the next line, and select Theorem from the drop down list in Lyx, nothing changes, there is no Theorem 2 or something like that. When I hit return again, there is still only one theorem. What can I do? I always enter a blank line in between them. Make that blank line in the standard environment, and put in, say, an ERT %, and it will be fine. Or you could prove the first result... -- David L. Johnson You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? -- George Fox.
Re: Summation
On 03/11/2011 06:50 PM, Charles Reichert wrote: Hello Everybody, The only way I've been able to get the upper and lower limits in a Summation operand to be directly above and below the summation symbol is to click on the set display mode icon in the lower left corner of the tool bar. The problem is it moves the symbol to the middle of the screen, which of course is out of context with the sentence it was in. How can I get my limits to be directly above and below, while maintaining the symmetry of the sentence the symbol is in? Look on the math panels toolbar for the styles popup, and set displaystyle. Alternately, under the Edit - Math menu, you can set limits type to display. The problem, though, with using displaystyle in an inline formula is that you will force large linespacings around that formula. -- David L. Johnson Enron's slogan: Respect, Communication, Integrity, and Excellence.
Odd warning message
I am using LyX 2.0.0beta4 with debian testing. I have had several warning popups when saving a file saying that the file has been modified by an external program, when that is not the case. It does not happen every time, but it happens often, especially, it seems, with new files. It's not, of course, a big deal, since I can just ignore the warning, but it is odd behavior. -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw
Re: Odd warning message
On 03/15/2011 11:10 PM, Charlie wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:30:52 -0400 David L. Johnsondavid.john...@lehigh.edu wrote: It's not, of course, a big deal, since I can just ignore the warning, but it is odd behavior. It happens here as well, but only on the next save after the first after one has created and saved a new file. That is when I have noticed it as well. I assumed it had something to do when the preamble was manipulated. Not consistently. I just changed (trivially) a preamble and re-saved, with no problem. This pop up appears also when a template is used and saved the second time, but it doesn't appear to do any harm? I don't know about that. -- David L. Johnson It is a scientifically proven fact that a mid life crisis can only be cured by something racy and Italian. Bianchis and Colnagos are a lot cheaper than Maserattis and Ferraris. -- Glenn Davies
Re: My equation is flowing off the page. What can I do?
On 03/21/2011 08:00 PM, Patrick Li wrote: Hello everyone, I am a complete beginner to Lyx and am enjoying it immensely. I have typesetted a page of math with it using the eqnarray environment, and now the equations are too long and are flowing off the page. However, there is still lots of space on the left hand side of the page. The reason the equations run off the page is because Lyx insists on placing the = sign in the center of the page. What can I do to get Lyx to move all my equations to the left a bit? I presume that at least one line in the eqnarray environment on the left-hand side has some expression there. For all lines in that multi-line environment, the = signs will be aligned to allow enough for that LHS. You could re-write that left-hand side to shorten it, or maybe arrange things like: A = B = C instead. BTW, unless something else is going on, this is a TeX issue, not LyX. -- David L. Johnson Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. -- J. R. R. Tolkein
Re: LyX Promotion
On 03/22/2011 10:58 PM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: 1) Compile Errors. Normal users aren't used to dealing with compile errors and shouldn't be expected to fix them. Even I don't like dealing with compile errors all that much. With LyX you should not get compile errors unless you are doing something fancy. It should be the case that no ERT = smooth compilation. I can't recall the last time that was not the case with LyX. 1a) Perhaps we could do some sort of bisect to determine where the error is (either over the file itself or some fine-grained history). That is hard because sometimes TeX gets royally confused, and doesn't really understand what's wrong until far past the real mistake. 1b) Perhaps we could improve the latex export so that compile errors only occur if the user uses ERT. Particularly with beamer, this isn't always the case. Well, AFAIK beamer is a new addition to LyX, and is not yet mature. 2) Compatibility with Word. Typical users expect to be able to open and save word documents. 2a) It is easy to bundle import/export filters so that the users don't have to manually set up OOXML and ODF. This export wouldn't work as well as e.g. OOXML- ODF though. I really don't think this will work, since LyX documents have a lot more structure than word documents. You can certainly import word documents successfully, but exporting them is going to lose a lot of structure. You don't want to be saving to word format and expect to get the right file when you import it into LyX again. 3) Not WYSIWYG. Normal users clearly expect WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG and WYSIWYM don't need to be mutually exclusive. They are to an extent, since WYSIWYG really means that all the document contains is what you see on the screen, without additional structure that properly formats it for a number of different export situations. Think about writing a document in word. You spend time getting the spacing right, the margins to look right, and align all the bits of text by hand. I never have to worry about that in LyX, since I trust TeX to get it right. Ignoring the difficulty in implementing for a while, having a WYSIWYG mode would be great. After the content is complete, I go though a cycle of: Notice something weird with the line-breaking in the PDF, muck around with the LyX source hoping it fixed the problem; No. TeX handles all that, don't ask users to spend effort in dealing with how lines break. Write the paper, let TeX format it. I would not want to worry about how it looks on the page while writing, that is a bad habit that you can avoid with LyX. recompile PDF. This can take a while and having a WYSIWYG mode could make this process a factor of ten times faster. No, in my experience it creates the takes a while part. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Re: tengo problemas al trabajar con lyx
On 03/23/11 13:40, irving rangel wrote: Buenas tardes, tengo una complicación al trabajar con lyx, al tratar de visualizar el archivo en DVI o PDF me marca los siguientes errores; Missing \endcsname inserted,Argument of \@firstoftwo has an extra }.Paragraph ended before \@firstoftwo was complete. gracias de antemano espero me puedad ayudar, la verdad es que no se a que se deba esto. I occasionally see errors like that, and they are usually the result of me accidentally having a displayed equation (eqnarry environment) in a section or subsection environment. Check each equation for the environment that is being used. If it is a shortish file, send it to me and I will see what I can see. -- David L. Johnson It doesn't get any easier, you just go faster. --Greg LeMond
Re: frage -Rechtschreibung startet nicht
On 03/25/11 09:15, momo...@ovi.com wrote: Hallo Vielen Dank für deine Antwort version 1.6.9 Hier untergeladen 03/03/2011 12:33 182,339,690 LyX-169-4-27-AltInstaller-Complete.exe /pub/lyx/bin/1.6.9/LyX-169-4-27-AltInstaller-Complete.exe Rechtschreibungfehler ist gelöst Neue fehlermeldung: s.Anhang First thing to check: reconfigure. Your installation may have missed the spellchecker. The next thing to check is the preferences menu, then look under editing for the spellchecker settings. Maybe it is looking for the wrong spellchecker. This happened to me when I tried out the continuous spellchecking. Good luck. -- David L. Johnson You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? -- George Fox.
Re: LyX: Saves edited version of document as a new version (new file) ?
On 03/25/11 14:54, BOB Merhebi wrote: Hello fellow LyXers, I wonder if LyX can save documents that have been edited as a new (updated) version of the same file ? I guess I don't understand. Using Save As you can save it incrementally with any name you please. I do this all the time. But, if you want something automatic, you'd get a new filename every time you saved. Are you sure you want that? I often save a file I am working on several times, so that I don't lose too much if, say, the power goes out, or if the computer crashes, or if lyx itself crashes. I would have half a dozen copies by the end of the day, and that would eat up a lot of space, and files would proliferate. Maybe what you really want to enable is something on the order of version control, or change tracking. Look under tools for that; maybe someone who uses it can provide suggestions. P.S.: Please reply to me personally, not just to the lyx mailing list. Generally, it is better form, when asking a question of a list, to join the list at least until your question is answered. -- David L. Johnson What am I on? I'm on my bike, six hours a day, busting my ass. What are you on? --Lance Armstrong
Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0
On 03/30/11 09:26, Pavel Sanda wrote: - old -- David L. Johnson Let's not escape into mathematics. Let's stay with reality. -- Michael Crichton
Re: People can't read my pdf's
On 04/12/2011 01:52 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users, For the past week or so, people have been having trouble opening and printing PDF files I generate with LyX. I am trying to figure out what changed. My details: LyX 1.6.9 Mac OS 10.6.7 PDF viewer: Preview.app 5.0.3 With this setup, I can view my PDFs just fine, and they print fine as well. People using Acrobat Reader (9 or 10, both Mac and Windows) report that everything but the title of the file comes out looking like dots, and I verified this on another Mac that has Acrobat installed. Preview.app worked fine. The Acrobat error message reads, Cannot extract the embedded font 'TXVCLW+SFRM1095'. Some characters may not display or print correctly. There are several different ways to export as pdf, and the pdf files generated by various methods are not the same. This one probably depended upon specific fonts that your people did not have installed. This is common for us linux users. pstopdf gives, usually, readable output, but text may not be selectable. -- David L. Johnson It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste in the nation. -- David Sarnoff, 1939
Re: Translations issues in French
On 04/15/11 06:04, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Hello
2011/4/15 Jean-Pierre Chrétienjeanpierre.chret...@free.fr:
This post is intended for French-speaking users of the users list who are
not subscribed to the lyx-fr list.
From my understanding, 'acknowledgement' and 'remerciement' are not
perfect equivalents. You can easily see the first term used in
singular ('acknowledgement of success or of help') and in plural forms
('acknowledgements for the contribution to this paper'). (I must admit
that I'm not sure in what sense the term is used in the 'thms' class.)
In the Theorems class, Acknowledgment(s) is/are used primarily for
thanks to others who contributed to the work, or perhaps to a reviewer
who helped improve an argument. In that sense, Remerciements seems to
be an appropriate translation. But you also see Thanks as a label for
such acknowledgments in English. As I recall, I came up with these
theorem styles, way back in the day, using AMS style recommendations.
Unfortunately, those did not come with translations. But given the AMS
dominance in mathematical writing, maybe now there is a French version
of those recommendations.
As for the French term, I have a hard time finding a use case in
singular form. Even if only one person contributed, she would still
get 'des remerciements'.
As in English, even one person would get Thanks, which is in a sense
plural (we often say many thanks to so-and-so). But, you would
acknowledge one person, or several.
--
David L. Johnson
It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by
first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste
in the nation.
-- David Sarnoff, 1939
Re: Numbering the rows of a table
On 04/18/11 12:51, CLOSE Dave wrote: I admit I'm a newbie with LyX, but this seems like such a simple operation. I read that LyX is especially good with lists, numbered, itemized, etc. Well, I need that in a table. I want one column of my table to contain the number of that row. For example, +--+--+ | item | head | +--+--+ | 1 | text | +--+--+ | 2 | text | +--+--+ | 3 | text | +--+--+ The numbers should automatically update if I add or delete a row in the table. I am astounded that I can't easily find a way to do this with LyX. What am I missing? I presume you need the lines in the table, or else there is no reason why you couldn't just use an enumerated list, which would do what you want. But inside of a table, I don't know how to do that. -- David L. Johnson When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. -- LBJ
Re: Numbering the rows of a table
On 04/18/11 17:36, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
It can be done with LaTeX. Add the following to your preamble:
\newcounter{trow}
\newcommand{\therow}{\addtocounter{trow}{1}\arabic{trow}}
Then insert \therow in ERT in the item column. You can copy it and paste it
into the item cell of each new row.
That works very nicely. It's be cool to add this to the table
functionality in LyX at some point, but this is simple enough to satisfy
the original request, I think.
--
David L. Johnson
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein
Re: How?
On 04/19/11 15:30, gordon cooper wrote: What is the correct way to pronounce 'Lyx' in a country speaking English? I don't know how many people on this list were around at the time, but there was some discussion at the beginning. Matthias Ettrich, who started this project, first named it LyriX (pronounced lyrics), but then got a nasty letter from some company that had a commercial word processing program by the same name. So, he changed the name. He had intended it to be pronounced as licks, referring more to guitar licks than anything else; not that it had anything particularly to do with music. If you look on Wikipedia, both Matthias and LyX have pages, and most of the history is pretty accurate. The LyX page mentions that the name evolved from the default .lyx filename suffix, which indeed was used even when he called it LyriX. But my memory is that he also liked the connection to the music term. -- David L. Johnson Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig... You soon find out the pig likes it!
Re: Latex - absolute beginners
On 04/20/2011 07:21 PM, Marc Wijnand wrote:
Hi
I am trying to learn how to make a document with Latex. I am working on Mac OS
X and I installed MacTex and LyX.
I just typed
\documentclass{document}
\begin{document}
Hello world!
\end{document}
but when trying to make a pdf, I get this error message:
As the message indicated, you did not enter those commands in the
preamble, which is accessible from within LyX through Documents -
Settings - preamble (bottom of list). You are trying to enter raw TeX
in a LyX document. This is not how it is done.
--
David L. Johnson
Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of
enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would
reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has
proven this not to be the case.
Re: Example is counted as a theorem
On 04/21/2011 11:58 AM, Jinxi Cheng wrote: Hi, I am writing an article [ams] using Lyx. I started a few hours ago and I inserted an example. Lyx autoatically named it Example 1. that is good. next I inserted a theorem. But it is named Theorem 2 and not Theorem 1. It seems Lyx counted the example as a theorem also. How can I fix this in Lyx? You can change the way all such things are counted in Document - Modules. Try numbered by type. -- David L. Johnson You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? -- George Fox.
Re: Single quotes don't pair up
On 04/26/11 17:33, Steve Litt wrote: In input: Alt+ will produce correct single quotation marks. With LyX 2.0 and advanced search/replace, you can directly replace ' by real single quotation mark insets. For me, with English defaults, also `this' gave correct single quotes, and ``that'' gave correct double quotes, while the other did not give correct double quotes. That last usage did, at one time, give correct quotes in LyX, but I think there was some reason why that behavior was changed. I don't use quotes that often (when you plagiarize, you plagiarize, and don't use quotes to give away what you did), so did not pay too much attention. The way I did those quotes seems easier than the Alt- stuff, although it is kind of texish. I'd rather ask a stupid question than make a stupid mistake. In American English, should the opening matched single quote look like a six and the closing one look like a nine? That's how mine is, although of course the six and nine don't have actual loops. I'm pretty sure that's right. -- David L. Johnson A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdos
Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?
On 06/13/2011 10:35 PM, Les Denham wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepardrshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R can make a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as PostScript (.ps). When I view the document, the figure is properly oriented, but when I export the file to pdflatex, the figure is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. Rotating the figure in the document is necessary so it is properly oriented when the file is compiled. Any ideas why this happened? Not that this will help, but I recall this phenomenon some years ago. For me (using linux) the problem has not reappeared in some time. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Re: LyX 2.0.0 spell checker {KBD shortcut(s)}
On 06/14/2011 11:52 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: I may be a bit too dependent on the various package management systems on my installed distros but most of the time this saves me a lot of dependency headaches. I don't think I would fault anyone for being dependent upon package management systems on a distro. I've been using debian since -- I have no idea how long --- and have found that the package management is now very, very good (it wasn't so smart at first), and it is very difficult to avoid difficulties if you oppose its wishes. I am also using 2.0.0, under debian testing (wheezy). The shortcut issues I'm having are: 1) The Alt+D on the Add button conflicts with the Document pull down menu. To actually add the word to the word list I MUST click on the button with the mouse. 2) The Alt+I on the Ignore button conflicts with the Insert pull down menu. Again I MUST click... 3) The Alt+F on the Find next button conflicts with the File pull down menu. Again I MUST click... I see these phenomena as well (I use gnome, but it seems that this is an issue about LyX that is independent of the window-manager). If you just right-click on the misspelled word when using continuous spellchecking (something I thought I would never do, but I do like it now), you do not get those keyboard shortcuts at all. Maybe they need to be removed from the spellchecker window, or changed to avoid the conflicts. This may also depend upon how you set up your LyX shortcuts. I use cua with a few additions (not conflicting with these commands). One thing to note is that, if the spellchecker window has the focus, you can use the shortcuts. But typically the focus would be on the main window, and since that gets the focus the shortcuts would go to its menu. So you have to use the mouse, no matter what, at least to shift the input focus to the spellchecker window. -- David L. Johnson Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business! --Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Re: Can use ' symbol in \letterine?
On 06/21/2011 10:30 AM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك
نورونيا wrote:
\lettrine{T} {he people's}
Odd. It works fine for me, with or without the '. I use lyx-2.0.0 in
linux (debian wheezy), with US English as the default language. Though I
don't know what impact using other systems or languages would have, you
should indicate what those parameters are. When you say it does not
produce a pdf file, does it give you an error message?
--
David L. Johnson
Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death.
And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not
be too eager to deal out death in judgement.
-- J. R. R. Tolkein
Re: How to make formatted cross-reference capitalized in Lyx 2.0?
On 06/28/2011 10:30 AM, PG wrote: Thanks! I think I'll just do it by the ugly way for now, using ERT or manually type Section. Looking forward to the release of Lyx 21! One way to do things like this -- not officially sanctioned, of course, but worth a try, is to make one such change manually, then examine the Lyx files in an editor (pre and post change) to see what the replacement text is, and do a global search and replace (or, if you are good at this, you can write a perl script or some such) on the file. Things like this may or may not be possible to do within LyX, but may work in an external editor. -- David L. Johnson It is a scientifically proven fact that a mid life crisis can only be cured by something racy and Italian. Bianchis and Colnagos are a lot cheaper than Maserattis and Ferraris. -- Glenn Davies
Re: tetex - texlive
On 07/17/2011 01:02 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I've just replaced the tetex I've used for years with texlive-20100722. LyX fires right up. What I want to know is if there are potential gotcha's due to the transition. I expect not, but I'd like to be sure before I hit one during a critical event (such as a deadline to produce a document). I did that transition some time ago, since AFAIK tetex is no longer supported, and texlive is. I do not recall any problems with the transition. -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has proven this not to be the case.
Re: Latex use in Lyx
On 07/26/2011 07:26 AM, Johan wrote:
Hello.
I did see I can add LaTeX code to Lyx, it is displayed as latex code. I want to
type some shotcut key and $\int$ then I want to see the integral sign in math
mode. Is this possible in Lyx?
Certainly. You can use Ctrl-m to enter math-mode, then \int (no need to
use the $'s) will get you an integral sign. Or, you can bind enter
math mode to a function key (I use f10).
Also for environments like \begin{enumerate}...\end{enumerate},
\begin{align*}...\end{align*}, etc ..
Again, there are built-in shortcuts, or you can assign keys to the ones
you use most often.
--
David L. Johnson
Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The common
welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence,
were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of
water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
--Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Re: Adding title/text to Propositions/Theorems/...
On 07/28/2011 11:12 AM, ChiPro wrote: Hi, does anyone know how to add text to/name a Proposition/Theorem/...? Example: Proposition 2 (Main Result) blablabla I always put [Main Result] in boldface, emphasized, at the beginning of the theorem. That works, and as far as I know is the standard way to do it in TeX. -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has proven this not to be the case.
Re: Can I use lyx for a shopping list
On 08/13/2011 01:49 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Monty Zukowskimo...@codetransform.com wrote:
I'd like to lay out a 3x5 card shopping list in 3 columns. I'm not
I have never played with multiple column documents, but you have at
least Document Settings Page layout Two sided document and
Orientation Landscape. Look in the modules and on the wiki on how
LaTeX allows several columns on one page.
Two-sided will not give you multiple columns. It changes the default
margins and placement of page numbers so the document can be printed up
double-sided, bound on the left, and have the page numbers and margins
appropriately arranged.
What you want is the multicolumn package. I do this with ERT, but
perhaps it could be added to LyX -- although I don't think you would
want to display it that way within LyX; it'd be a mess with the margins.
There is a setting within LyX to set the entire document as a two
column document, in Document Settings Text Layout, but I use the
ERT to set parts of the document as multi-column, and this way you can
set up as many columns as you want.
Add \usepackage{multicol} to your preamble. Then, when you want to turn
on multi-column (3 column in this case) text, enter
\begin{multicols}{3} in ERT, and then \end{multicols} to return to
single-column layout.
--
David L. Johnson
Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of business.
Re: Drehen von Seiten
On 08/16/2011 08:11 PM, Marcus Glöder wrote: Am 11.08.2011 15:22, schrieb Marvin Roth: Guten Tag Hallo, diese Mailingliste ist auf Englisch. Wenn Du mehr als diese Antwort haben willst, wäre es vielleicht ganz gut, wenn Du Deine Frage noch einmal auf Englisch postest. I do find it convenient to have people from all over the world posting on this, and other, mailing lists in English. However, I do understand that not everyone is able to express themselves fluently in English, and so must either find a language-specific help group, or ask for the help they may need in whatever language they can use. I would not want to discourage anyone from trying LyX, or for asking for help, just because they cannot write in English. I know that this has been beaten to death both here and on other lists, but maybe we should cut people some slack. I'll also admit that I enjoy trying to figure out what the question is in various languages; it helps me recall my college German, for one. In this case, anyone with some experience in using other default languages than English may need to offer suggestions if they can; I haven't experienced that, so can't help get the menus to show up in German. As far as the styles not functioning, I presume that is an installation issue. Again, it matters what your experience has been. But since he had a clean install of his OS (Mac OS -- which one?), and LyX, I would hope that the installation would have included enough styles and required pieces of TeX to make it work. If not, it is either an installer problem, or the installation was not as straightforward as the poster suggested. For the original poster: You stated that you did not have any experience with TeX or LyX. What programs do you use that give you the citations as you want them? Maybe someone else knows how to make LyX/LaTeX behave in the same way. -- David L. Johnson It is a scientifically proven fact that a mid life crisis can only be cured by something racy and Italian. Bianchis and Colnagos are a lot cheaper than Maserattis and Ferraris. -- Glenn Davies
Re: how to write an Augmented Matrix
On 08/21/2011 02:56 PM, srlp...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Lyx Users, Could you please suggest me writing an Augmented matrix in LyX? In this matrix, I actually need to type a bar between second and third column of a matrix. Start out by setting the size of the augmented matrix in the menu, and add your choice of brackets. Then click on the next-to-rightmost column, on any row, and click on (I think) the right mouse button. You should get a menu with a choice of line right and line left for you to choose. I use this all the time. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics.
Re: linux permissions of exported pdf file: how to set it to 660 by default?
On 08/30/2011 02:19 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 08/29/2011 09:14 AM, Sophie Vandenbussche wrote: Hi everyone! I use LyX in a professional linux environment, in shared folders where 660 rights are automatically given to any created file. When I export a pdf file (using pdflatex), the created file has 600 permission. I made a trace of what happens during the saving, and at the end of everything it makes a chmod 600 on the file. So, does anyone know how to change that? Or deactivate it? I've had a look at this, and I don't think it's a LyX-specific thing. I just exported a file, and it's created with 664 permissions. And, so far as I can see, LyX does not do anything to change the permissions. The copying happens at the end of the Buffer::doExport routine, via the call to copyFile(), which is implemented in Exporter.cpp, which calls Mover::copy(), which eventually calls FileName::copyTo, which finally calls QFile::copy(), the static version, to effect the copy. Nowhere there do I see any attempt to change the permissions. So perhaps this is something to do with your Qt installation? It might also have to do with the global setup that assigns that 660 permission. Remember that the export to ___ process starts with a TeX file in the /tmp/* directory, which might have different default permissions than the user space, pdflatex may preserve those permissions. -- David L. Johnson Let's not escape into mathematics. Let's stay with reality. -- Michael Crichton
Re: TeX Capacity problem
On 09/04/2011 11:27 PM, Hady Ariwibowo Teguh wrote: Dear All, I have a problem with TEX capacity. Well, When i debug the file, an error say TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=300]. How i can fix it? My experience is that that is not really the problem. I get that error when I mistakenly have a whole paragraph, including mathematics, inside an environment such as a subsubhead. Check for errors like that first. -- David L. Johnson What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. --Robert F. Kennedy
Re: Importing excel/gnumeric to LyX
On 09/10/2011 10:14 AM, Christian Wilhelmsen wrote: Hi! When trying to import and .xls or .gnumeric to LyX 2.0 I get the error message: no information for converting gnumeric format files to latex. Define a converter in the preferences. Hmm. Works for me. Appears within LyX as spreadsheet but export/print works fine. I'm using linux (debian testing), so maybe your system is different. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Re: lexlive2011 and Debian squeeze
On 09/13/2011 10:01 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Could somebody who uses Debian squeeze and texlive2011 share his experience installing it with me (and others)?. Where is texlive installed and how do I make sure that lyx is using it (and also other programs which use tex/latex such as xfig etc), i.e. the Path setting? At the moment I have downloaded the unx.tar.gz package, which is waiting to be unpacked and further manipulated. I am using wheezy, not squeeze (the testing distribution rather than the stable), but texlive has always been trivial to install, and is a big improvement over the previous version of tex that came with debian (whose name I forgot). Just don't install tarballs on top of the distribution and expect it all to work together. The better approach would be to just install texlive and lyx, both using the package management system (which has several interfaces, from the minimal dpkg to synaptic. I use apt, which helps me keep things up to date without it being too busy. I haven't worried about paths in years. The only reason to install something other than is what comes with the distribution is to get new bells and whistles. With lyx, the build process automatically finds the stuff it needs, and if it doesn't, something serious is wrong. You may have to install a lot of packages to get lyx compiled, which is why the package management is easier. Wheezy, at least, is up to 2.0.0 with lyx. -- David L. Johnson Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of business.
Re: lexlive2011 and Debian squeeze
On 09/14/2011 05:26 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: The old tetex packages are long gone, but even Debian/unstable is still at TeXLive 2009! If you want to work with LuaTeX or the unicode-math package, updating the TeXLive distro is a must. Oops. I did not pay attention to texlive2011 being the issue. Sorry for my misunderstanding. -- David L. Johnson And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. [1 Corinth. 13:2]
Re: Lyx color schemes and beamer class
On 09/23/2011 12:04 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Ibot wrote: Does anyone know the appropriate label so that I maybe can assign via the .lyx/preferences file and the set_color command a different color for this particular element. You have to change the beamer.layout file. In the Style BeginFrame layout definition, change Font Series Bold Size Largest Color Blue EndFont to whatever you need. You do have to be cautious about this, since an upgrade to a newer version of LyX will overwrite your changes. Be sure at least to make a copy of any changes in any layout file. Upgrades in most schemes will look for local changes in a configuration file and warn you before overwriting them, but not for basic system files such as this. Can this be done in the user's preferences? -- David L. Johnson What am I on? I'm on my bike, six hours a day, busting my ass. What are you on? --Lance Armstrong
Re: Equation annotations in a multiline equation
On 10/02/2011 08:27 PM, Abiel Reinhart wrote:
I'm trying to understand how I can add annotations that sit to the
right of each line of a multiline equation. For example, in a proof,
such annotations might provide justification for each step in the
proof.
In pure LaTeX I could accomplish this like so:
\begin{align*}
h(x)= \int_a^b{[f(x)+g(x)]dx} \text{(Some annotation)}\\
= \int_a^b{y(x)dx} \text{(Another annotation)}
\end{align*}'
However, I'm not sure how to achieve the same effect in LyX.
Abiel
Try, within an aligned environment, entering a standard inline math
environment. This will give you a blue rectangle, and if you type
something there, it will be in standard Roman text. It is a \text{}
environment. Alternately, heck, you can type \text and hit the Enter
key; you will then be in the text environment you want, but I have
enter an inline math environment linked to F10, so I just hit F10.
You can leave that environment by moving the cursor.
--
David L. Johnson
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein
Re: Equation annotations in a multiline equation
On 10/03/2011 11:45 AM, Abiel Reinhart wrote: Thanks, after pasting in the text and then examining it I was able to figure out the correct approach. It appears my earlier alignment difficulty stemmed from placing the equals sign in its own column. Now I create a four-column structure in the align environment, with equation= in the first column, equation in the second column, nothing in the third column, and the annotation in the last column. This gets me exactly what I had in pure LaTeX, which makes sense. The problem really is in the default alignments that AMS-LaTeX uses here. I don't know offhand what the rules are supposed to be, but the problem is that some of the columns are right-justified, and others are left-justified. I'm sure that the algorithms are available somewhere. You placing the = in the first column, rather than in a column by itself, changed the count of columns, and thus the justification. The justification is different in LyX than it is in the output, which might be something to worry about in the future. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics.
Re: Triangle of Tartaglia with Lyx
On 10/13/2011 10:54 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 10/13/2011 05:32 AM, Rubén Jiménez wrote: Hi Will you show me how I can draw the triangle of Tartaglia with Lyx? In most of the world, it is known as Pascal's triangle. I was hoping for something really exotic. The links you gave look essentially like a table, so why not use a table or a matrix. I tried it, and they both look pretty good, with perhaps a little more space than would be ideal. -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw
Re: Fwd: Move from d:drive to c:drive
On 10/14/2011 02:17 PM, Sølvi wrote: ANYONE?? -- Forwarded message -- From: *Sølvi* s.n.mi...@gmail.com mailto:s.n.mi...@gmail.com Date: 2011/10/11 Subject: Move from d:drive to c:drive To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Hi, I'm currently using Windows XP with LyX v.2.0.0 I have a huge document, it's a master with several child documents included which then again have documents/figures etc inserted (it's like a christmas tree). I have been working on the d: drive on a pc but now I have to work on a pc that only have a c: drive and I probably have to move it all back to the pc with the d: drive later. Is there any easy way to do this or do I have to rebuild the entire document? It's a big document with lots of files incorporated. I'm sorry, but I don't really know how Windows file management works. Isn't there a way you can archive all of that into a file (.zip or .tar), starting from withing the d:drive so the archive is relative. Then, unarchive it in the c:drive and I would think that it should work. Or. maybe you can set up a recursive copy command to copy it all over. But I am shooting in the dark. -- David L. Johnson Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed even pronounce. -- Douglas Adams
Re: spacing objects and arrows in xymatrix diagrams
On 10/16/2011 05:26 PM, Alberto Alcalá Alvarez wrote: hello, I'm trying to get the following done, using the xymatrix command: I have a diagram with a --- arrow going down, but the tail of the arrow, , gets overlapped with the name of the origin of the arrow, so my question is if there is a way to save some space between the name of the origin and de tail of the arrow, or if I could rescale the shaft of the arrow in order to make it shorter. thanks a lot! Is this a standard commutative diagram? If it lies within the realm of the CD macros from the AMS (amscd), I would use them. CD is limited to rectangular arrays of objects, and non-diagonal arrows, but beyond that you get real AMS-LaTeX arrows and spacing that should prevent that kind of thing. The arrows on the xymatrix help file I found are cheesy. They look to be formed from several characters, like we used to do when we actually typed this stuff. The tail of your arrow is probably of that sort (literally ), and it is not correctly accounted for in determining the spacing. J. S. Milne has a nice guide to CD-type packages which might help. http://www.jmilne.org/not/CDGuide.html -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw
Re: Printing a LyX file as it appears onscreen
On 10/17/2011 02:57 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Bert Lloydbert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote: Hello LyX users, Is it possible to print a paper copy of a LyX document as it appears onscreen, i.e. without exporting to PDF? Have you tried File Print? Normally it prints the document as seen in LyX, and usually people complain that the output is crap while we point them to the PDF preview. I'm confused. How is the output of FilePrint any different from exporting to PDF and printing? For me they have always be identical. -- David L. Johnson What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. --Robert F. Kennedy
Re: Printing a LyX file as it appears onscreen
On 10/17/2011 11:27 AM, Bert Lloyd wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Liviu Androniclandronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Bert Lloydbert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote: Hello LyX users, Is it possible to print a paper copy of a LyX document as it appears onscreen, i.e. without exporting to PDF? Have you tried File Print? Normally it prints the document as seen in LyX, and usually people complain that the output is crap while we point them to the PDF preview. Regards Liviu When I try File Print, I get a popup menu titled LyX: Print Document, with Print Destination options of Printer: and File: The Printer field is blank, and when I choose this option, dvips starts, saying that it's working with a .dvi file. Didn't LyX automatically run a configure script when it was first run? Maybe on Windows you don't see that. It failed to find a printer. But if you have a default printer on your computer, it should be able to find it. You might try ToolsPreferencesOutputPrinter to see what it thinks is available (it probably thinks none is), and if there is a problem, run ToolsReconfigure and see if it finds the printer. -- David L. Johnson You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? -- George Fox.
Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis
On 10/17/2011 12:49 PM, Johnston81 wrote: 1. Considering LyX over Word, how much time would I approximately need to learn LyX to the extent that I can actually produce text, including graphics and formulas(!), from a template? Should be quick. I presume you have some basic programming skills. Not that you need them with LyX, but it would show the ability to easily learn the few special commands you might need. 2. What can I reasonably expect my learning curve to be after having learned the bare basics; what I mean is, is it simple to teach LyX to oneself and how easy is it to solve problems when encountered? Should be easy indeed. There may be special gotcha's with Windows (another questioner had considerable trouble due to the use of absolute path names-- that may be the default under Windows, but I would advise against it), but it always made more sense to me than word or its clones. 3. And finally, being a skilled user of Word would I - ultimately - save or spend time if I did try my luck on LyX?' The problem is that many things will never be easy in Word. Dealing with equations is trivial in LyX, and a headache in Word. Some knowledge of TeX makes it even better. -- David L. Johnson What am I on? I'm on my bike, six hours a day, busting my ass. What are you on? --Lance Armstrong
Re: Creating References
On 10/18/2011 03:35 PM, William Hanson wrote: Dear All, I've used LyX for a while, and I'm familiar with the basic features, but I'm now trying for the first time to create a bibliography (list of references). The Users' Guide doesn't help, and neither do the various links on the LyX web site (e.g., to information on BibTeX). I'm probably missing something petty simple, but I'm stuck. Bill Hanson The standard bibliography environment, available for the article, AMS-article, and most other document classes, works well for a smallish bibliography. It is, frankly, all I ever use. I have had some coauthors who use bibtex, but we have also always used raw LaTeX to write the file under those conditions (I was not the main text-writer on those). So, I have no experience with bibtex in LyX, but lots of people use it. -- David L. Johnson A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdos
Re: TeXmacs Shorthands in Lyx
On 10/24/2011 09:43 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: On Oct 24, 2011, at 2:37 PM, François-Xavier Thomas wrote: Hi, I currently write a lot of mathematical documents in TeXmacs, mainly because the way you can type formulas is very intuitive. Two basic examples for those who don't know about it : * Begin a formula : Only the $ sign, no Ctrl/Meta/Alt keys LyX has very powerful and flexible shortcut capabilities. The default for getting into math mode is Opt-m m but you can add a shortcut that will enable $ to do the same. Which will work fine so long as you never need to use the dollar sign as a dollar sign. There is no reason not to tie such a command to a simple keystroke that is not a character. I use F10, so no key-chord. Ctrl keys and the like are not really inherently evil; you can use them and they don't get confused with their other uses. -- David L. Johnson It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste in the nation. -- David Sarnoff, 1939
Re: keyboard shortcut for AMS align?
On 10/24/2011 02:58 AM, Joshua Horowitz wrote: Hi lyx-users! I use the AMS align environment extensively, and I am wondering A: if there is a keyboard shortcut for inserting it, or B: if there is a way for me to set up such a shortcut. Thanks for any help! - Josh You can easily get display math mode to appear from a keystroke. Under PreferencesShortcutsMathematical Symbols, look for math-display and modify the line as you prefer. I use F11. To get AMS-align, I modified ./.lyx/bind/cua.bind to include the line F12command-sequence math-mode on; math-mutate eqnarray; and of course I use cua under PreferencesEditingShortcuts. -- David L. Johnson It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste in the nation. -- David Sarnoff, 1939
Re: Spellchecking problem
On 11/08/2011 05:10 PM, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: If my document contains e.g. the mathematical term d-dimensional, the LyX spellchecker will treat this as a single word and complain, instead of considering it as a combination of two words to be checked independently. In the latter case I would only be forced to add d to the list of words, and all would be well. Is there a way to make this Enchant spellchecker understand that it should only check each word separately when they are connected by a hyphen? Now I'm hoping someone will simply tell me about a magical configuration setting for Enchant to obtain this behaviour! :-) I definitely me-too this. When you have a lot of these in your file, you tend to overlook other squiggly underlines, and so misspelled words sneak through. As a particular caution, for most mathematical notation it really is d-dimensional where the d is in math-mode (or emphasized), which may be even worse. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics.
Re: copy/paste problem in lyx 2.0.1
On 11/23/2011 01:32 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Csikos Belabcsikos...@freemail.hu wrote: Hello: I am using lyx 2.0.1 on openSUSE 11.2. I have an openoffice odt document and I would like to copy text from it into lyx. For this I select the text in openoffice writer, press ctrl+C, then I select the lyx window. First, the lyx window responds very slowly, it takes several seconds until it shows the (already entered) text. Second, I can not copy the text with ctrl+V: the info line shows that command disabled. Also in the edit menu most of the paste commands are grayed out except for Paste Special - Selection and Selection, Join Lines. There is no problem with pasting the selected text into a simple text editor. Copy/paste from a simple text editor into lyx also works OK. When I want to paste the the text into lyx from openoffice, the lyx console window (if I start lyx in console window) gives the following message: GuiClipboard.cpp(89): No timely response from clipboard, perhaps process holding clipboard is frozen? What Desktop Environment? What clipboard manager? There were some similar, strange issues when using LyX under Xfce [1]. Liviu [1] http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6780 In fairness to my new desktop environment, xfce4, that bug does not seem to be particularly related to xfce4's clipboard-manager, but to other clipboard managers under other environments as well. -- David L. Johnson When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. -- LBJ
Re: Display Style
On 11/26/2011 05:22 PM, Charles Reichert wrote: Hello All, Come across a problem...When I use display style under Edit Math Change Limit Types Display Style, I can get my lower limit to be directly underneath my summation sign...no problem. How can I get two lower limits directly underneath the summation sign, and the same size? Is that possible? I usually put a 1x2 matrix in the subscript, and it works well enough. -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has proven this not to be the case.
Re: Display Style
On 11/26/2011 05:40 PM, David L. Johnson wrote: On 11/26/2011 05:22 PM, Charles Reichert wrote: Hello All, Come across a problem...When I use display style under Edit Math Change Limit Types Display Style, I can get my lower limit to be directly underneath my summation sign...no problem. How can I get two lower limits directly underneath the summation sign, and the same size? Is that possible? I usually put a 1x2 matrix in the subscript, and it works well enough. Make that 2x1 -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has proven this not to be the case.
Re: ! Missing $ inserted.
On 01/05/2012 06:43 PM, Gerry Clare wrote: I am a fairly new LyX user. I recently edited a chapter (Document class 'report') that I had previously had no trouble compiling. I now get the following errors: ! Missing $ inserted. ! Extra }, or forgotten $. ! LaTeX Error: Command \item invalid in math mode. ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item. ! Extra }, or forgotten \endgroup. Many of these sorts of errors occur because of a mistaken environment setting. For example, if you accidentally have a whole bunch of stuff included in a heading type environment, it can mess things up badly. Of course, if you have some ERT included, you might have a problem there, too. LyX is really quite good at writing tex that actually compiles, so if it doesn't, there is usually some sort of unnoticed mistake somewhere. The previous suggestion is a good one, though. Break the file up (after saving it) into pieces to see in which piece the problem lies. If you still can't isolate it, put the smallest bad chunk of the document on the list, and I'll take a look at it. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics.
Re: Spell-checker with Lyx on Ubuntu 11.04
On 01/11/2012 05:42 PM, Simon Cullen wrote: Hello, The spellchecker in Lyx is marking all strings which end with a right-quotation marks as spelled incorrectly. So the string: manifest will not get marked as incorrect, but the string: `manifest' will be marked incorrect. I have searched everywhere for a fix for this irritating problem, but to no avail. Any suggestions will be appreciated. This also occurs with hyphens; unhyphenated, 2 manifold is considered OK, but 2-manifold is not. It would be nice to be able to exclude these punctuation marks from the spellchecker. I use debian testing, lyx-2.02. -- David L. Johnson And what if you track down these men and kill them, what if you killed all of us? From every corner of Europe, hundreds, thousands would rise up to take our places. Even Nazis can't kill that fast. -- Paul Henreid (Casablanca).
Re: Spell-checker with Lyx on Ubuntu 11.04
On 01/12/2012 06:31 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 12.01.2012 um 08:46 schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: Am Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2012, 00:32:47 schrieb David L. Johnson: On 01/11/2012 05:42 PM, Simon Cullen wrote: Hello, The spellchecker in Lyx is marking all strings which end with a right-quotation marks as spelled incorrectly. So the string: manifest will not get marked as incorrect, but the string: `manifest' will be marked incorrect. I have searched everywhere for a fix for this irritating problem, but to no avail. Any suggestions will be appreciated. This also occurs with hyphens; unhyphenated, 2 manifold is considered OK, but 2-manifold is not. It would be nice to be able to exclude these punctuation marks from the spellchecker. I use debian testing, lyx-2.02. I found it easier to use the feature where the words unknown to the spellchecker are underlined in the text in red, since in my case there are many scientific names or dash-combined names. Sorry, I cannot reproduce the 2-manifold problem. For the quotes it makes a difference how I've entered the quotation marks. (See the screenshot below.) The first one are real quotes. The second simple quote key strokes. The suggestion would be to use Insert-Special Character-Single Quote or the short cut given there. It depends on how the 2 is entered, and I did not make that clear. I usually write things like n-manifold (n being the dimension), but the n is in math-mode (which is the proper way). I am so much in that habit that I enter the 2 in math-mode as well. -- David L. Johnson Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of business.
Re: Lyx2.0.2 for windows cannot display \leq
On 01/18/2012 12:25 AM, zzjjzz wrote: hello all, I installed Lyx2.0.2 on win XP. But it cannot display $\leq$, the other math symbols are all right. That's weird. I don't see that in linux. But, as a bit of troubleshooting help, have you had and earlier versions of LyX installed on that computer, and did \leq display properly with it? Also, when you print the file, does the symbol print? Can I see the LyX file you used to show that picture? -- David L. Johnson Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business! --Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Re: What is the toolbar icon name for
On 01/19/2012 03:19 PM, Yaniv wrote: Julien Riouxjriouxat physics.utoronto.ca writes:/ On 10/08/2011 1:55 AM, Jason Rute wrote: Hello, I added Item Insert | | math-delim | | to my stdtoolbars.inc file. It works fine, except that I can't figure out what the corresponding icon file name should be (in AppData/Roaming/Lyx2.0/images/math). ... Does anyone know? Is this a bug? I just wanted to share that I also looked for this icon filename but could not find what it was. Anyone knows the answer? Doesn't it show up on the toolbar as | | when you do it that way? It does for me. I have similar items for . | and (math-delim langle rangle), and I use these all the time. -- David L. Johnson Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are all greater. -- A. Einstein
Re: Import into LyX
On 02/02/2012 11:04 AM, UD wrote: IMHO it is unlikely that math-heavy documents are produced by anything but Latex/Lyx. I applaud the initiative to make MS-WORD/Lyx conversion easier. I am sure it will have many appreciative users. Unfortunately, there are math-heavy documents that are produced using Word. And not only is it difficult to translate such things into LyX or even LaTeX, they also don't load into Abiword or Open Office. I actually am a co-author of a math paper that I could not read except when my collaborator printed it out for me, since he only used Word -- and he is a prolific writer, having written at least 4 advanced mathematical texts, all of which I am sure the publishers had to typeset from scratch into LaTeX in order to publish. But I suspect that Word math translation will be a very difficult task which in the end will be pointless, anyway, since I am sure MS will continually change the encoding to prevent precisely this procedure. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Re: SV: Many huge pictures - Memory problems?
On 02/11/2012 01:36 PM, Peter Baumgartner wrote: Ingar, Thanks for your answer. You mentioned that you had no problems with very huge pictures. Perhaps it has to do with the kind of compilation? I compile with pdflatex. I often get errors in trying to compile a file with pdflatex if I have graphics in it, but typically the problem is with postscript files, for which it has trouble finding sizes. It will typically work fine with ps2pdf. It is certainly worth a try. I can't imagine that there would be a formatting difference between the two methods of export. -- David L. Johnson A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdos
Re: Recommended third-party tools
On 02/18/2012 10:56 PM, Les Denham wrote: Firstly, the version of Linux is not all that important. I've had good experiences with Ubuntu in the past, but thanks to some idiotic (in my opinion) decisions recently by the maintainers of both Gnome and KDE and by Ubuntu for its default desktop, I've given up on Ubuntu, Gnome, and KDE, all three of which I have used happily in the past. For the average user now I would recommend Linux Mint (which just works even more smoothly than Ubuntu) and, for those willing to learn a little or a lot about what is behind the pretty windows, either Sabayon or Gentoo. Whichever distro you choose, change the window manager to XFCE or LXDE. Amen to that. Gnome has, IMNSHO, shot themselves in the foot with a bloated interface that doesn't work on a lot of hardware with their version 3. For that reason, you do need to be careful to not use a distribution that only uses Gnome. It was a long annoying process for me to switch over after an upgrade dumped me into Gnome 3. Xfce is fine, though, so and distribution that allows you to choose will be good. Frankly, I don't know what Kde did, but my advice is to avoid Gnome. -- David L. Johnson When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. -- LBJ
Re: tex2lyx fails when run from Import menu
On 03/05/2012 12:23 PM, Barger, Carla wrote: What can be done so that tex import works from the file menu? Since you installed python after you installed LyX, you should reconfigure LyX (from the Tools menu). -- David L. Johnson Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig... You soon find out the pig likes it!
Re: format problem: subsection headline taking too much space on page
On 03/07/2012 05:29 PM, Hauke wrote: Hey everyone, as you can see in the attached screenshots, the headline of the subsection 2.2 is taking too much space on the page in the pdf (dvi or how its called). and i absolutely dont know why. This is a TeX issue, since it can't decide where to hyphenate that long word. One thing that might help is to decide for yourself where the break should be; my guess would be it would be best with the newline before von, rather than try to hyphenate SDS-Ganzzell My knowledge of German hyphenation rules and style is zero, but that would be what I would recommend for English, especially since the word is already hyphenated. To do what I suggest, enter a protected newline, which on my machine is a Ctrl-Enter. If you prefer to hyphenate the word, there is a hyphenation-point under Insert Formatting. No matter what, you are going to have to make that heading 2 lines, not one, unless you shrink the font considerably, which IMO would be worse. -- David L. Johnson What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. --Robert F. Kennedy
Re: vertical line character
On 03/08/2012 06:24 AM, Bieniasz wrote: Hi, I need to put into the text a vertical line character: | How to do this in LyX? The character is seen correctly while editing, but when I convert the text to pdf, then I see a horizontal line instead of the vertical one. It certainly does not do that for me. Send or post a small example file. This is somehow language-dependent, I guess. You can force it to work by going to math-mode and selecting the vertical line from the menu. This should of course avoid language issues, but there should be a better way. -- David L. Johnson Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. -- J. R. R. Tolkein
Re: Question
On 03/12/2012 12:42 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 03/10/2012 07:04 PM, Esther Beneish wrote: No I checked all the settings and all choices are the same as in older papers. In this paper some environments are missing. Can you send me this particular file? Something is weird. She and I cleared up the problem off-list. She needed to add a module Document Settings Modules Theorems (AMS-Extended), which had been added to the other documents she was looking at, but not the one she was concerned about. -- David L. Johnson You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? -- George Fox.
Re: multiline equations cases
On 03/14/2012 07:27 AM, Bieniasz wrote: Hi, I am trying to produce a multiline equation (with a number) by using the option cases. I want to have two lines of some expressions, with a single brace at the right-hand side, followed by the equation number. Is there any way to do this? The option cases offers a brace at the left- hand side, and I don't see any way to transpose the brace so that it occurs on the right. Any suggestions? Leslaw Use the large brackets, blank on the left, } on the right, and put a matrix inside it of size nx2, where n is the number of cases you want. -- David L. Johnson It doesn't get any easier, you just go faster. --Greg LeMond
Re: multiline equations cases
On 03/15/2012 05:35 AM, Bieniasz wrote:
Well, this is what I want to have, but I don't see any predefined option for
creating such large brackets, blank on the left, } on the right in LyX.
There is only an option for double braces { } in the equation editor of LyX.
Please tell me how to create it.
When in math mode on that same menu bar that shows the {}, there is
another choice with [ ] (and a smaller rectangle inside). Click on that
and you get a popup menu with lots of choices for right and left side
delimiters. Alternately, go to Insert Math Delimiters. Be sure to
uncheck the keep matched option, and choose for the left, {, and for
the right, (None).
--
David L. Johnson
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you
that mine are all greater.
-- A. Einstein
Re: Article layout for plos?
On 03/22/2012 02:08 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: I have an objection to the use of bibitems in LyX: If you use BibTeX you can choose the bibliographic standard such as Vancouver, etc, besides the BibTeX sorts bibliography items in the required order acordingly to the standard; with LyX's bibitems you simply cannot do this and is like turning back to MS Office. Is this a bug? No, it's not a bug. Perhaps it's old-fashioned, but I've never seen the need to bother with bibtex. Most of my papers have maybe 5-10 references, that is certainly easy enough to do by hand. -- David L. Johnson Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -- Douglas Adams
Re: Questions about LyX files
On 03/26/2012 09:35 AM, Bieniasz wrote: 1) I notice that apart from *.lyx files there are also files with extension lyx~. I presume these are previous versions of the *.lyx files, produced when any changes are made to the *.lyx files. Is this so? Yes, but it only applies to the current editing session. The ~ file is a copy of what you had when you started working on the file. Next time you load the file into LyX, it overwrites that ~ file with the then current version. 2) I observe that some other files are also created, the names of which begin with #. What are these files, and can I delete them safely? Those are emergency saves, if LyX crashed. 3) I am not sure about the relationships between the *.lyx files and *.tex files. It seems to me that the *.tex files are not updated or used at all during the LyX operations, but all changes are saved in *.lyx files. Is this correct? If so, can I delete all *.tex files? I presume the *.tex files can be re-created by using the file/export command. Is this correct? Yes. *.tex files in your user directory are only created when you export to TeX, and not automatically updated. There are other files, in (well, for linux) /tmp/* which are created and used during conversions to other formats, or for printing. Can I be sure that if I import a *.tex file into LyX, and then export the result into another *.tex file, the two *.tex files will be identical (assuming I do not do any editing)? No, you can't. There are too many ways to encode things in TeX. LyX uses only a subset of those. Fortunately, the importer understands a broader range, but still exports will be LyX's flavor of TeX. -- David L. Johnson The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of our present life. It long ago ran down Simple Living, and never halted to inquire about the prostrate figure which fell as its victim. -- Warren G. Harding
Re: Inserting Space in Mathematical Equation
On 03/28/2012 08:03 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: I have an equation that contains words, such as '0.75 * Total Stream Length'. I looked in Herbert's Typesetting Mathematics with LaTeX and found a single index reference to 'space' that referred to something different. Ctrl-space does nothing. How do I insert a space within an equation? You have several options. When in math-mode, you might have a menubar on the bottom of the window. One option looks like \_/ in red. That gives various spaces. Ctrl-Shift-Space should also give you a medium space. But, while you are in math-mode, you can enter a text box by clicking on the insert math icon again. You see a blue-outlined rectangle, and what you type in that is regular, upright, text. Including spaces. So you can get Total Stream Length by just typing that, in this text box inside of math-mode. -- David L. Johnson It is probable that television drama of high caliber and produced by first-rate artists will materially raise the level of dramatic taste in the nation. -- David Sarnoff, 1939
Re: numbering multi-line formulas
On 04/11/2012 12:12 AM, s nedunuri wrote: Hello, I wonder if anyone can help me with how to number multi-line formulas, as the Help manual appears to be out of date (it refers to menu options that no longer exist). I am running Lyx 2.0.2. I have a multi-line formula that I created via the Insert Matrix command. I would like to number each line in the formula. However, when I try this: Edit | Math | there are two choices: Number Whole Formula or Number This Line. However, they seem to be the same thing. The problem is that a matrix does not really give you a multi-line formula, it is a one-line formula including a matrix. To get a multiline formula, use one of the aligned environments. I prefer the eqnarray environment. Then you can number each line of the multi-line environment. I will attach a simply LyX file showing first an eqnarray environment, then a matrix environment, both numbered, but the matrix only allows numbering of the whole thing. -- David L. Johnson Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -- Douglas Adams numbering.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Getting rid of You cannot type two spaces this way message?
On 04/11/2012 01:50 PM, Bill Foote wrote: Is there an easy way for me to get rid of the You cannot ... Please read the tutorial message? I know that typing two spaces that way doesn't change the layout, and I'm more-or-less fine with LyX auto-deleting the space. I'm completely fine with TeX not changing the formatting based on extra spaces. With all that said, I'd prefer that LyX stop nagging. I know already! Me, too. -- David L. Johnson Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has proven this not to be the case.
Re: Open second LyX window (equivalent to split window)
On 04/12/2012 09:08 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: If you open the window via he menue File - New Window , you don't have to. All edits in the one are also in the second. Yes, and a very nice option that is. Although I have been using LyX for a very long time, I did not notice this feature being added. I have often used a split view to cutpaste details from one part of a document to another, but this is IMO much better, in that you don't lose half of the space for the document. Thanks for pointing it out. -- David L. Johnson The lottery is a tax on those who fail to understand mathematics.
Re: numbering multi-line formulas
On 04/13/2012 08:32 AM, Merhebi, Bob wrote: Hello David, Thanks for your reply on this topic; I also benefited from this. One question though; isn't there a keyboard shortcut to use it instead of using the menus? You can define keyboard shortcuts to substitute for many, if not all, menu choices. I only use a few such shortcuts, and not for line numbering since I don't do that so often. Look under Tools Preferences Shortcuts Mathematical symbols, for math-number-line-toggle and math-number-toggle and assign them as you prefer. Another question is regarding fullscreen mode; the math toolbar pops out when I use Ctrl(+Shift)+M that's useful, but what about the main toolbar? is there a way to bring it out temporarily in fullscreen mode? I don't know. -- David L. Johnson Deserves death! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. -- J. R. R. Tolkein
Re: numbering multi-line formulas
On 04/15/2012 06:18 PM, El Merehbi, Ibrahim wrote: Hello again, I believe I didn't clear it out well. I meant a shortcut for the eqnarray not the equation numbering. Sorry, I misunderstood. Add to the shortcuts something like this: command-sequence math-mode on; math-mutate eqnarray; and link it to your favorite hot-key. I use F12. -- David L. Johnson A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. -- Paul Erdos
Re: LyX on Ubuntu Precise (12.04): big download size!
On 04/19/2012 08:03 PM, Merhebi, Bob wrote: Just one question: for LyX to work it requires TeX packages right? How big should that be for a regular usage involving mathematics physics? Moreover, how can I install it (with TeX packages; more accurately: like it is installed on my system!) on a system with no connection? I would suggest that if you are doing either mathematics or physics, you really, really need the TeX packages, no matter what. The idea of not using TeX to write mathematics is impossible for me to deal with -- especially if your alternative is Word. In my opinion, TeX is a huge improvement in writing technical material over anything else out there, and LyX is a huge improvement to using TeX. Yes, these things require a large download any more (I remember when LyX fit on a floppy disk -- without TeX, but even so, one floppy disk). If you have no internet connection, then I imagine you have a usb port, or other pluggable access. Get a usb keychain drive, or equivalent other media, get access somehow to download the archive to the drive, and you should have no problem. You clearly have some internet access since you did send this message. Others can answer about how big the distribution ought to be, but again, believe me, you need this to write mathematics. -- David L. Johnson When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. -- LBJ
Re: Undo undoes too much
On 04/22/2012 03:58 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:01:14 +0200 David Bdaav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In newer versions of LyX (I'm using 2.0.3 on windows) I have noticed the following very annoying behaviour: If you undo it undoes not only the latest key press but something like the last 20-30 key presses. This means that if you make some changes, and then delete something by mistake, undo doesn't just undo the mistake, but also the changes before which you want to keep. Thus you must either choose not to undo, and manually retype what you deleted by mistake, or undo and retype the changes you made before the deletion. Is it possible to disable this behaviour so that an undo undoes only a single key press? Best Regards, David I'm still on 2.0.0 for Linux, but the behavior you describe sounds like a showstopper. Uuch! This is not quite the behavior I see. I am using 2.0.3 on debian linux. If you type a string without backspaces, or deletes, or other stoppages, undo will erase a string of some length. For example, I just typed a string of c's, about 20 of them, and undo removed 14 of them. But, when I typed ccbackspace, undo just went back to the backspace, leaving one c. I don't think this is new behavior for undo, and I don't think it's unreasonable. If you want to delete just one character, you use backspace, don't you? Undo (or Crtl-z ) would be a bit more bother. -- David L. Johnson Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of business.
Re: keyboard Scrolling Anomaly
On 04/26/2012 10:30 AM, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote: Hi all I've not been a LyX user for long but am going to write a 300-page academic paper with it for the final typesetting and formatting. I've practised on and off for the past few months but one thing that has always troubled me is how I'm unable to scroll with the keyboard (up and down arrow keys). I'd like to be rid of the mouse if possible. When I hold a particular directional key for up to 20 secs it appears to work but as if it's in slow motion. Qt shouldn't be having any such scrolling problem, so I haven't been able to troubleshoot this any further. I don't see this behavior at all. The only thing that slows down scrolling with the arrows is if the cursor enters a math formula. Then it runs through all the superscripts and subscripts, but still it is reasonably fast. You also might try using the Pageup and Pagedown keys. What system are you using? Mine is debian testing (a linux variant), on a fast machine -- but it works well on even my slow netbook. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Re: Change math Language - critical
On 05/18/2012 03:30 AM, Kenedy Torcatt wrote: Hey guys... I'm working with lyx in spanish, The mathematical operator like sin are showing in english sin. I need this math operators in spanish, I mean sen. Hmm. TeX itself does not seem to recognize $\sen(x)$ -- at least mine doesn't. I've read some Spanish math papers, and have not seen that name for that function. You could define a macro giving an (upright) sen(x) which would function as well as $\sin(x)$. How many different names are involved? What do you call $\log(x)$ in Spanish? -- David L. Johnson If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. -- George Bernard Shaw
Re: Proof with enumerate
On 05/27/2012 11:06 PM, Diego Villamil wrote: Hello Lyx Users, I am writing a math document, and I have a proposition with a number of properties. I would like to start an enumeration of those properties within the proof, but haven't found a clean way of doing that as LyX ignores the proof environment once I added the enumeration. I want to it to look something like this: Proposition: The following properties hold: 1. This is property 1. 2. This is property 2. Proof. 1. This is the proof of the first property. 2. This is the proof of the second property. Thank you, Diego Simply increase the environment depth for the enumerated list, so that is inside the proof environment. There is a button on the top, and a menu item, for this. You do have to be more creative (deeper depth) if your proof is more than one line, so either strive for elegance or work with the environment depth some more. -- David L. Johnson A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Re: Preparing Scientific paper for submission as LaTeX (Elsevier...)
On 06/11/2012 10:07 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I know this has been asked before, but I can't find that thread... I have written a paper which is now ready for submission to the publisher (Elsevier - I know...) I can submit a compressed (zip) folder with all the documents necessary for compilint the LaTeX document, but I am stuck. I copied the files from the tmp directory and tried running pdflatex but it did not work. I think the previous responses were off the mark a bit. You should not have to submit things like amsmath.sty --- they certainly have all that. Elsevier often requires that your document use their style sheets, which means you have to include those in your document but, again, you don't need to send them those files. What you need to submit beyond the exported *.tex file (but don't use the one in your temporary directory; the exported one is better-formatted) will depend on your document. You will need to send in any graphics files (in an archive with subdirectories set up so that TeX can find them), bibtex files if you use that, and any special style files. But they are probably not going to want to use your style files, and will ask you to prepare the document with theirs, instead. That used to be an issue with older versions of Scientific workplace and similar products. But LyX can be set up compatibly with the publisher's requirements. So: which files need to be included in the archive? How can I test the archive? I never used LaTeX from the commandline, only via LyX... Put what you think you should need in a new directory, along with subdirectories for graphics in the same relative position as the original (if the original was in ~/doc with pictures in ~/doc/pictures, you need a subdirectory ./pictures in the new location for the graphics files). Try latex filename a couple times, and look at the dvi file, or see what the errors are. BTW: Maybe, for a submission rather than a final edit for publication, you can just submit a PDF file. Check their requirements. -- David L. Johnson When you are up to your ass in alligators, it's hard to remember that your initial objective was to drain the swamp. -- LBJ
Re: Duda.
On 06/02/2012 04:33 AM, Harold Nieves Medina wrote:
Hola, apenas comienzo a trabajar con LyX y quiero que el número que
acompaña a cada capitulo sea romano, pero no encuentro forma de
cambiarlo, pues en el contorno genera el capitulo y el numro
automaticamente sale 1, 2 y asi sucesivamenete en dependencia de la
cantidad de capitulos, saludos y gracias de antemano por la ayuda que
me puedan ofrecer.
I assume you are using the book document class. Just add
\renewcommand{\thechapter}{\Roman{chapter}}
to your preamble. It will not change the look within LyX, but will
change the numbering to Roman numerals in the output.
I don't know whether the command changes if your document language is
Spanish, though.
--
David L. Johnson
Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we
like to call it something you can't understand, or indeed even
pronounce.
-- Douglas Adams
Re: Table of Contents and naming the sections
On 07/12/2012 11:23 AM, Nergis wrote: Hi, I would like to ask two questions. I am using the article format for my thesis First, I would like to add the abstract, acknowledgements to the table of content which I can not do right now. Secondly I have sections like introduction, method but I would like to have it in this format: Chapter 1 Introduction instead of 1 Introduction Is there a particular reason why you are using the article style? Articles don't have chapters, they have sections (as far as LyX style goes). Try a book style; whichever one fits your area best, and see if that doesn't work better for you. -- David L. Johnson Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. -- Douglas Adams
