Re: Problems with 1.1.5pre3
2) When opening a document written in 1.1.4 everything looks fine. However, when
I want to view the dvi or postscript file (File - View dvi) the LaTeX run
produces the following errors and fails (from the LaTeX log):
The piece of text is from the end of a figure caption in a figure float.
According to the coding in the lyx-file there is no excess '}'. Below follows
the caption text extracted using cut-and-paste:
Entrainment rate E as a function of s=\sin \varphi . The simple formula
([eq:E_bope80_simple]) is compared to ([eq:E_bope80]), as tabulated in Table 5.4
of \citeN{bope80} for the lower values of C_{D}, and the results of
\citeN{eltu59} (determined from the fitted curve in their Fig. 8).
Now, the interesting part is that if I remove the citations everything works
(?)! Putting them back produces the same errors again. Is this a bug in
1.1.5pre3, that one cannot have citations in figure captions?
Maybe the problem is that the \citeN command is fragile (which cite package
are you using?), so you should put \protect (in LaTeX mode) before it.
Note that the bug is actually in 1.1.4 as it doesn't report the LaTeX errors
correctly.
Re: Presentation
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:21:15AM -0500, Roland Krause wrote:
Hi,
I am a long time LyX user and I am kind of in trouble. I am giving a
presentation on Friday and I kinda bet on that I can do it with LyX/pstricks
just as good as with Powerpoint. The presentation has lots and lots of formulas
and some screenshots too.
I am using foiltex with a modified layout file that lets me put graded
background behind the slides. Then I convert to pdf with ps2pdf because I can
not get pdflatex to work with pstricks.
My problem is of course the fonts... They just look crappy on the projector
especially the math fonts.
So what can I do, I know there was a lengthy discussion on Type1 fonts here
lately but I dont understand the whole issue
Can anyone clue me in on this or give me pointer where to find
__comprehensive__ (Remember I am under time pressure big time :-) information?
First, if you use ps2pdf, you should use gs version 6.0 (not 5.x)
Second, if you use the EC fonts (T1 font encoding),
you should add \usepackage{ae,aecompl} to the preamble.
PS: If anybody is interested in how to use these graded backgrounds in
combination with foiltex and the foils layout I'll be happy to write a
mini-howto and summarize the process of making presentations for scientific
purposes with LyX after this is over.
BTW, it may be better to use pdflatex directly for doing presentations.
Look for example at the pdfslide package or the PPower4 post-processor.
Re: Nested includes
On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 09:07:00AM +0200, Michael Zapf wrote:
"Lars Gullik Bj?nnes" wrote:
Nested inputs are allowed, but not nested includes.
You can use include on the first level, but have to use input to get
deeper than that.
If that only did work... Actually, it does not. Try doing the following:
1. Create a file doc1.lyx which contains a file inclusion. Use "Insert-Include
File", select "use input" and enter doc2.lyx.
2. Do the same with doc2.lyx which is to include doc3.lyx.
3. Create doc3.lyx with some content lines.
4. Select "File-View DVI".
5. You get an alert "There were errors during the LaTeX run...".
6. Clicking on the "error" tag pops up a window which states: "LaTeX error: File
'doc3.tex' not found.", "\input{doc3.tex}"
The reason seems to be that LyX does not recursively create temporary .tex files.
Nested input will work if LyX doesn't use temporary directories
(put "\use_tempdir false" in the lyxrc file).
If LyX uses temporary directories, it creates all doc*.tex files,
but it puts doc1.tex doc2.tex in one directory
(e.g. /tmp/lyx_tmp11555aaa/lyx_bufrtmp11555aaa), and the doc3.tex in another
directory (e.g. /tmp/lyx_tmp11555aaa/lyx_bufrtmp11555aab).
This is a bug that needs to be fixed.
Re: Lyx-1.1.5pre3
many thanks for having a look at my table which is attached as .gzip -file. The problem is that the document is in German, but some words are in English (american), and there is a bug in the code for handling mixed languages in a table. Now, I presume you didn't want to have English text in the document. To fix this, select the whole text, open the character style popup (alt+l c) select german from the language combox, and press ok. Another question is how did you manage to get the English words? It may have happened if you copypaste from another document, which had the default language. Is this what happened?
Re: Question about future functionalities
Is it envisaged, before October 2000, to include the following functionalities : - The displaying (on the screen) of the whole of the symbols of AMS (currently, the pallet of displayable symbols is rather restricted) This is a feature I too would like to see. I've actually did some work on this, but I stopped as I learned that Alejandro Sierra (the author of the math editor) has been working on a totally new mathed, so I will probably start working again after the new mathed is merged to the current code (unless the new mathed already supports all AMS symbols :) [Note to Alejandro: is the new mathed is feature complete (i.e. is it ready to replace the old mathed?] - The functionality ABOVE/BELOW which allows, for example, to write the arrow of an equation in chemistry (arrow with text above). You can use arrays for composing two symbol vertically. However, for arrows it is better to use the amsmath commands \xleftarrow and \xrightarrow. Use can use these command in the math editor, but you don't get visual representation for these commands. Again, the addition of better support for these (and other amsmath) commands should be done after the merge with the new mathed.
Re: How to generate a link to and HTML page ?
On Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 09:54:31PM +0200, Jacques Nilo wrote:
Hello. I am totally new to lyx and installed today the 1.1.5 version on
my Mandrake 7.0 linux box.
I would like to be able to make a link to an HTML page without showing
the full adress of thi page. I do not find the solution. I am using the
Insert/URL command I click on the HTML type box but I always see the
full adress (dvi view or after HTML generation)
What did I missed
Thanks
Jacques
To create such a link, use the \href command, e.g.
\href{http://www.lyx.org}{LyX homepage}
(you need to enter this text in LaTeX mode).
You also need to put \usepackage{hyperref} in the preamble.
Also note that the tex2html converter you use should have support for the
\href command.
Future versions of LyX may have support for the hyperref package.
Re: Language conversion?
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:09:33AM -0500, Roland Krause wrote: How do I convert text that has the attribute Language:english to Language:default? Is there a way to do this the "GUI way" or do I need to know a magic command? Select the text, open the layout-character popup (alt+l c, or use the menu) select american language (assuming the language of the document is "default". Otherwise select the language of the document) and press apply.
Re: poor quality of on-screen fonts in PDFs from Lyx
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 06:21:11PM +0200, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
Dear Rachel,
I've had a similar problem. What I have done is force lyx (latex) to use Type I
fonts. To do this, I have in the preamble:
\usepackage{ae}
\usepackage{aecompl}
and prevent Lyx from using the default encoiding "T1" by changing the
lyxrc file in ~/.lyx, as follows:
#\font_encoding "T1" - this line is commented
\font_encoding default - this I have added
You only need to use one of the above (i.e., the 'ae' package is only needed
when you use the T1 font encoding).
It should also be mentioned that if you use ps2pdf to create the pdf, you
need to use ghostscript version = 6.0, and put the following in ~/.dvipsrc
p+ psfonts.cmz
p+ psfonts.amz
PS: Shouldn't this be in the FAQ?
Re: Underlined text does not split up!
On Thu, Jul 13, 2000 at 02:43:59PM +0200, Juergen Vigna wrote: As said in the subject if I have some long text and underline it in LyX it is not split up in rows in the LaTeX output. I could emphasize it and then use ulem, but I think that's not really what I want. Does someone have a solution to this problem? Use the soul package.
Re: .layout and \par
On Fri, Jul 14, 2000 at 08:22:55AM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
I fiddled with a .layout file, and there is now a style 'Proof'.
In LyX everything looks ok (including e.g. the EndLabel),
but the exported LaTeX looks like:
some text.
\end{proof}
And here comes the next paragraph ...
The .dvi consequently looks like
some text. [] And here comes the next paragraph ...
i.e. there is either a \par or an empty line after the \end{proof}
missing. How can I convince LyX to insert one there?
One possible solution:
Style Proof
...
Preamble
\newenvironment{proof}{\emph{Proof:}}{\hfill\rule{2mm}{2mm}\par\vspace{2mm}}
EndPreamble
End
^^^
(note the \par command!)
Re: Bug in pretty ref
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 11:25:20PM +, Herbert Voss wrote:
prettyref needs a label definiaion like \label{tab:MyTable}
than \prettyref{tab:Mytable} gives in dvi-output Table aNumber.
from my point of view, lyx doesn't create the labels in
prettyref-style, so it's not possible to use cross-reference
with the prettyref-button.
Why not?
When inserting the label in LyX, give it the name tab:mytable,
and then you can insert the prettyref. No need for ERT!
it's a question to Lars or/and Jean-Marc:
insert label AND insert cross-reference must have BOTH
the prettyref-option?! if someone chooses once this option
all the rest of labels and references must converted
to prettyref-style.
It seems that you expect to use labels without a prefix, (like MyTable),
and let lyx automatically generate the prefix (tab:) when generating the
latex file.
This is not done by LyX.
An interesting question is whether it is possible to write a smarter LaTeX
package, which doesn't need the prefixing the labels (i.e., the \label command
is redefined to output also the counter name to the auxiliary file) ?
Re: LaTeX error ignored by 1.04 but not by 1.15
On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 04:42:13PM +0200, Lionel Portmann wrote: In a figure (float) caption, I want to put within the text some math symboles. If I use for instance an overrightarrow over even a single letter, I get an error from Latex. With Lyx 1.04, this error was ignored, (no grey box) and the DVI came out all right (fine for me). With Lyx 1.15 the error is caught, and I get a grey box in my Lyx document, and no DVI (bad for me). Actually, Lyx 1.04 and 1.15 write the same Latex code, which triggers the same error. These errors come when I use overrightarrow, overbrace, etc., but not with overline or tilde! You can use the attached patch that fixes this problem. If you can not use the patch, a workaround for the problem is to type \protect before the overrightarrow. patch.gz
Re: Lyx: Hebrew quotes
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 04:19:44PM +0300, Yotam Medini wrote: Hebrew: === * In Hebrew mode, how shoud one insert right '' and left `` quotation marks - without turning into L2R mode? Why do you want to have these quotes? In Hebrew, identical quotes marks are used, and this is exactly what LyX generates when you use the " key. * When starting a Hebrew paragraph with quotation marks Lyx or Lyx user gets confused. There should be an option to insert a 'logical R2L'-symbol to control teh paragraph main direction. More generally, you need the language of the paragraph to be different then the language of the first character in the paragraph. The solution: go to the start of the paragraph, select the desired paragraph language (using the character style popup, or in your case with F12), and insert a note inset.
Re: vertical spacing within table
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 09:28:07AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:16:06 -0700 (PDT) you wrote: Klyx offers also a linespacing part in the Layout|Paragraph menu which allows to adjust the \baselineskip (space between lines) within a paragraph. Besides "single", "double" and so on there is the option "other" which allows any length to be insertet into a alligned text field. I just tried (with "2ex") and it worked fine! The bad news is, this menu point is missing in Lyx without K. (Could it be inserted?) Actually, LyX 1.1.5 has this feature, but without GUI support. To use it, move to the paragraph, then type "M-x paragraph-spacing other 1.5" (or any other number instead of 1.5). However, it will not work if LyX was compiled by a compiler without sstream support. I've fixed the bug, and I'll send a patch to the lyx-devel mailing list.
Re: Importing PS files
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 02:18:38AM +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Jonathan Pennington wrote: I seem to remember this thread rearing its head before, but I can't find it in the archives. I want to import and edit postscript files. How can I do so? Not too easy. Probably the best way is to load the postscript file to xfig and "paint over": ie, you can't really edit the postscript file in xfig, but you can remove parts by drawing white rectangles over the graphics and add new graphics. pstoedit can convert from Postscript to xfig (and other formats).
Re: noindent
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 12:16:22PM +, thomas sch?nhoff wrote: Hello, I've written a paper encompassing about 90 pages . Because I didn't want to number the introduction I changed from chapter to paragraph. Now everything seems to be fine, but unfortunately the first sentence is set as an indent, this looks rather curiously. So marking the whole paragraph and changed it to \noindent, I inserted ERT (\noindent), but no way.. If I understand correctly, you need to set the layout of the introduction to chapter*
Re: Document versions
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 08:28:04PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote: Content-Description: Mail message body Let me transfer a discussion from lyx-docs. I think, that it may be much more interesting here. On Tue, 18 May 1999 08:39:17 -0700 Amir Karger wrote on lyx- docs list: I was just thinking about comparing two documents and seeing additions/deletions, like diff does for text file. This sounds Hard. Do tools like this exist for, say, HTML? If so, we could probably steal them. There is already a tool for comparing latex files: $TEXMF/latex/changebar/chbar.sh This script "take two LaTeX files and produce a third which has changebars highlighting the difference between them."
Re: Bibliography
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:16:35PM -0500, Will Fischer wrote: As is, (LyX 1.1.5fix1 of Tue Jul 18, 2000) I can put in the several citation keys in the bibtex pop-up (and it works fine) BUT it makes adding citations or changing their arrangement more problematic. In the CVS version, the citation dialog was completely rewritten, and it is now very easy to add/change several citations inside a single citation inset.
Re: How to suppress FoilTeX advertising
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 02:02:21AM +0200, Martijn Brouwer wrote:
How can I suppress the annoying 'Typeset by FoilTeX' messages in a FoilTeX
presentation? Even Micro$oft does not play such a trick...
Put \MyLogo{} in the preamble.
[fwd] Re[2]: Followup: Bibliography problems.]
On Fri, 1 Sep 2000 14:50:26 +0300 Dekel wrote: It is much better to build a bibtex database than enter the bibliography inside LyX. If you don't know the bibtex file format, you can use a GUI bibliography managers like gbib, pyliographer, tkbibtex or barracuda. I strongly agree, however I recommend reading about BibTeX database format even when using a GUI just to understand what is happening as the concept is very different from "normal" textprocessing systems (far better) Besides Chapters about BibTeX in any good LaTeX book I recommend the files btxdoc.txt und btxdoc.bib that come with BibTeX and should be part of every complete TeX installation. Guenter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Call for feature
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 02:42:34PM +0200, Aleksandr Konstantinov wrote: Hello, All. I finally moved from lyx-1.1.4 to lyx-1.1.5fix1 and liked it very much. Especially I liked the possibility to create multilingual documents. But this feature is not full without possibility to change inputencoding as well. Is it possible to include such feature in upcoming version ? I've already added this feature :) However, the inputenc package allows changing the input encoding only between paragraphs, (not inside paragraphs). I tried to change the package to remove my limitations, but since I don't know much about latex programming, I couldn't managed to do it without adding some side-effects. Does anyone knows how to do it correctly ? I also want to add support for Omega, which I think allows processing of utf8 encoded files. A patch from you will be welcomed. For 1.1.5 i can suggest the patch to add this feature and also to provide the possibility to add more encoding and languages than precompiled in LyX. I have planned to have the languages definition in a file and not hard-coded, but I haven't done it yet. Again, a patch will be welcomed.
Re: Preprocessing .tex file
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 12:26:09AM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
I am a Czech. And we have a problem in the Czech typography --
one letter prepositions. According to the Czech typographical rules,
one-letter preposition cannot be the last word on a line. Therefore,
some Czechs prepared program vlnka (see
http://math.feld.cvut.cz/olsak/Welcome.html for further reference),
which replaces space after one-letter preposition by tilde (~). How
to include such preprocessor to work in the LyX-driven process of
{dvi,ps}-generation?
Create a script called (for example) mylatex
-
#!/usr/bin/tcsh
set f = $1:r
vlnka $f.tex ! $f_tmp.tex
latex $f_tmp
cat $f_tmp.log ! $f.log
cat $f_tmp.aux ! $f.aux
cat $f_tmp.dvi ! $f.dvi
-
and add the following line to ~/.lyx/lyxrc
\latex_command mylatex
Re: Couple of complaints
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:45:01PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
1) There is something screwed up with LinuxDoc support (I know,
Original text is HTML, which I have transformed by hand into
linuxdoc-SGML (checked via sgmlcheck -- sgml-tools-1.0.9-2 w/
Czech support) and then imported via sgml2latex and reLyX into
LyX. Everything seems to be OK, the format of document is fairly
simple anyway.
You can import Linuxdoc files directly from LyX (using the sgml2lyx command).
2) Well, the only part of LyX which I really do not like is its
international keyboard support (for example the issue of inserting
non-alphanumeric characters, like \{} -- necessary when using ERT;
I can't understand what is the problem here. Please explain more verbosely.
Pause doesn't work for me as a switcher and I really hate "intuitive"
combination of M-k,x for US keyboard and M-x,1 for Czech keyboard
:-).
I'm not sure what you meant here, but you can define your own bindings for
changing between keymaps.
I understand, that LyX has been initiated in the time when there was
not support for international keyboards at all, so LyX has been built
to work even on "empty railway-station" as my brother characterize
programs working without any support from operating environment.
But (thanks God) such awfull times are gone and bot GNOME as well
as KDE (which counts for 90% of all LyX's users, IMHO) have
excellent international keyboard support and you could rely on it. Or
at least (if the number of plain X-Window users is bigger) you could
at least make use of LyX's own support optional, couldn't you?
Why using an external keymap program is better ?
Re: *.lyx --- *.pdf ??
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 07:45:01PM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
I do not know anything about math-fonts, but using
\usepackage{pslatex} (available via Layout/Document/Font) makes
things working for me very well (no Type3 fonts).
It is also possible to use the default (Computer Modern) fonts.
See http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg06029.html
On 13 Sep 00, at 10:15, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, John Culleton wrote:
You can convert ps documents to pdf using ps2pdf. I find this the surest
Yes, but the fonts (at least for math) will be bitmapped, which means that
they look ugly with acroread and don't work at all with xpdf. It will be
fine with gv, though.
It is probably better to use pdftex/pdflatex, which works fine as long as
You can also have outline fonts when using ps2pdf.
The problem is that either you are using an old Ghostscript (version 6.0),
or that your dvips isn't set to use outline fonts.
See the link above for more information.
Re: *.lyx --- *.pdf ??
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:20:22AM +0200, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
Up to my experience, it's OK unless you used bodsymbol
(there is a warning message :
LaTeX Warning: there is no bold Symbol font on input line 48.
and it fails).
Perhaps this doesn't happen in LyX, this was with a LaTeX file where
\newcommand{\delbol}{\mbox{\boldmath $\delta$}}
allowed to have bold greek symbols, \mathbf fails with usual fonts.
It is perhaps cleaner to use the \boldsymbol{} command (from AMS math)
for bold symbols.
When using pslatex, the \boldsymbol{} (or \boldmath) doesn't work as
the Postscript fonts do not have a bold symbol font. You should use instead
the \pmb{} (poor man's bold) command (from AMS math).
You can also redefine the \boldsymbol command by putting
\renewcommand{\boldsymbol}[1]{\pmb{#1}} in the preamble.
But I checked that \mathbf works fine with greek symbol when
pslatex is called, so should pslatex should be recommended to provide
bold math symbols ?
\mathbf only works with latin letters, and not with greek.
Re: quality .eps screenshots???
On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 10:04:19PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I desperately try to insert Linux desktop screenshots into my LyX formatted thesis. The problem is and was that I don't manage to generate .eps grayscale (because B/W laserprinter)with enough quality. My fellow students would laugh on me when comparing their sharp pictures inserted in Word :-(( So I tried both Gimp and Xv as advised in your ML archive under the thread reference "Using GIF Images?" (especially by contributor C. Sawtell). Unfortunately, the results seen and printed via GV5.50 are still awful. What's the procedure to prove that LyX "can do it"? If bitmap graphics is needed, perhaps the best way is to use pdflatex which can directly include JPEG/PNG/TIFF images. Unfortunately, the most recent stable version (1.1.5fix1) doesn't have PDF support, so you will have to export the file as latex and run pdflatex yourself (the CVS version does have PDF support).
Re: proof in Lyx
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 01:50:43PM +0200, Nicolas SABOURET wrote:
How can I make inferences like :
B C
--- (y)
A D
-- (x)
E
There exists a "proof.sty" package with a "\infer{}{}" command, but if
A,B,C,D,E are big math formulaes, I can't use "\infer{}{}" in math mode
: it doesn't hold on a single lyx line (screen isn't wide enough :)). Is
there a solution ?
Can I temporarily redefine \frac by \infer ? How can I do this ?
Nicolas.
Yes. If you don't need to use (normal) \frac, just put the following line in
the preamble:
\def\frac##1##2{\infer{##2}{##1}}
If you do need to use \frac, then put the following line in the preamble
\def\foo#1{{\def\frac##1##2{\infer{##2}{##1}}#1}}
and then put \foo{} around each formula inset with a proof (outside of the
insets).
Re: second try: CJK-LyX with Japanese AND German support
as it seems I'm in a dilemma. Perhaps someone can help me. Basicly I'm writing in German but sometimes I also need Japanese (in the same document). So I installed CJK-LyX on an RedHat 6.2J and really managed to get japanese support for writing and printing -- but I lost the German support. As far as I see it depends on the LANG variable. If I define LANG as "de_DE", the japanese support doesn't work. If I define it "ja_JP" the german umlauts don't work although the document is defined in lyx as language=German and encoding=Latin1. (By the way the menues appear in German!) I also tried to define a secondary keyboard as german. But no success: documents written in German don't appear correctly and I can't write umlauts. Does anybody know a way to get japanese support in LyX without losing the Which of the following are you experiencing when LANG is set to ja_JP ? (1) You can't enter umlauts within LyX. (2) Umlauts are not shown in the LyX window (3) Umlauts are not shown in the DVI/Postscript. I suspect that (3) happens as the encoding defined by the inputenc package (Latin1) clashes with the encoding defined by the CJK package (Big5, GB etc.). Perhaps you need to use the UTF8 encoding option of the CJK package (if CJK-LyX supports it), or use Omega instead of LaTeX (if CJK-LYX supports it). Also, if (3) happens, please send me a small example file (the lyx file + the latex file). Anyhow, I plan of integrating the CJK-LyX into the normal version, and I hope that in this process your problem will be solved.
Re: initial enumerate counter value
On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:52:37PM -0400, Lior Silberman wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to have an enumerate environment, starting the count from 5
(rather than 1). The LaTeX effect I'd like to have is:
\begin{enumerate}
\setcounter{enumi}{5}
\item My First Item
\item My Second Item
\end{enumerate}
But in LyX, if I put ERT in the "Enumerate" enivronment, it's put into the
first item and not before it, while if I put it before the start of the
environment it has no effect.
Put [5.]\setcounter{enumi}{5} in latex mode at the beginning of the first
item.
Note that if you just want to suspend an enumerate (i.e., you have items
1,2,3,4 then some text and then items 5,6,7,...) then you should use the
mdwlist package. See the attached file.
#LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 2.16
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{mdwlist}
\end_preamble
\language default
\inputencoding latin1
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\spacing single
\papersize Default
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
\layout Enumerate
Item 1
\layout Enumerate
Item 2
\layout Enumerate
Item 3
\layout Enumerate
Item 4
\begin_deeper
\layout Standard
\latex latex
\backslash
suspend{enumerate}
\latex default
This is a text outside the enumerate.
This is a text outside the enumerate.
This is a text outside the enumerate.
\layout Standard
It may contain more than one paragraph.
\latex latex
\backslash
resume{enumerate}
\end_deeper
\layout Enumerate
Item 5
\layout Enumerate
Item 6
\the_end
Re: Status of pdflatex support in lyx?
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:29:27AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjnnes wrote: Beaubert Francois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi, | | I'm wondering about the status of pdflatex support in lyx | To me the only tool avaible to produce pdf directly from lyx files is | lyx2pdf which work well on my computer | But is there plan to include pdflatex support in lyx in 1.1.6? No, not directly... but there will be support for exporting to latex. And that export can use pdflatex. More integrated support will not come until 1.2.x No, there will be a direct support for pdflatex in 1.1.6, i.e. in the File-Export menu, one of the options is to export as PDF (using pdflatex).
Re: the most annoying feature...
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:12:58AM -0400, Christopher wrote: This is a comment for anyone who wants to take notice (hint hint, you developers out there). I am ever annoyed that when I have a footnote standing at the end of a line I cannot place my cursor after the footnote using my mouse, without opening the footnote window. I have to use my arrow keys to get my cursor there. Nor can I select such a line to delete it, without the same thing happening. I have to use shift-arrow. I hope that's clear. And in case I am griping about something which is fixable, please let me know how. Good news: this bug will be fixed in 1.2.0, as footnotes will be implemented as insets. Bad news: due to the above, it is possible that no developer will bother to fix the bug before 1.2.0 (although it should probably be easy to fix).
Re: Itemize in Enumerate, how to ?
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:20:08PM +0200, Aleksandr Konstantinov wrote: Hello I want to write following in LyX (using lix1.1.4): 1. Enumerated string 1 * Itemized string 1 * Itemized string 2 Continuation of enumerated string 1 2. Enumerated strig 2 ... But can't find how. Can anybody help me ? You just need to change the layout of the "Continuation of.." paragraph to "Standard", and change its depth with the "Change env. depth" icon in the toolbar. See the attached file. #LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 2.16 \textclass article \language default \inputencoding default \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize Default \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \layout Enumerate Enumerated string 1 \begin_deeper \layout Itemize Itemized string 1 \layout Itemize Itemized string 2 \layout Standard Continuation of enumerated string 1 \end_deeper \layout Enumerate Enumerated string 2 \the_end
Re: right to left writting
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 05:35:18AM -0400, Mahmud Ashrafizaadeh wrote: Hi there, Could someone please help me find the documentation for the Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic in Lyx 1.1.5-fix2 ? Your help is appreciated. Thanks. Instructions for Hebrew are given in http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/lyx/ (more specifically, http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/lyx/instructions.txt) Instructions for Arabic are given in the file lyxrc.example in the LyX distribution.
Re: TOC and section numbering
On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 01:06:21PM -0500, Will Fischer wrote: Here's my problem: I like to use the TOC to navigate around my documents, but I don't like to have the numbers in the section, subsection, etc. Currently I use the Section environment while I'm writing, then (when I'm printing final copy) I edit the file with a text editor to change all the "Section" headings to "Section*". This works, but is a pain. Could it be made possible to include the Section* etc. environments in the TOC? The Section* environments do not appear in the TOC menu as they also do not appear in the "Table of Contents" generated by latex. However, you can use the non-stared environments (section, ...), and set the section number depth (using layout-document menu) to -1 (this will omit the numbering from these environments).
Re: command line export fails
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:45:11AM -0500, Will Fischer wrote: Running lyx-1.1.5fix2-1 on RedHat linux 6.2 I type: me% lyx --export ps Research+TrainingPlan.lyx A lyx window pops up briefly, then goes away. lyx types: About to handle -x 'buffer-export postscript' We are done! So, all is well ... but no postscript file appears. Same thing if I ask for latex. What's up? This is supposed to work, right? I can verify that in 1.1.5fix2, command line export to postscript doesn't work, but export to latex does work. However, in 1.1.6pre1 it is possible to export to postscript (and PDF). Morover, LyX doesn't open a window in the process!. (Warning: using a pre-release is at your own risk).
Re: blue underline for wrong language?
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:54:35AM +0100, Oscar wrote: I understand that this feature tries to allow multilingual documents, but it has never worked for me, I mean if I try to spellcheck a document which has text with differents languages ispell is not able to work properly There is no support, yet!, for spellchecking multi-lingual documents. The multi-lingual support does the following: 1. Change the font between languages that uses different fonts (e.g. English/Russian). 2. Make latex use correct hyphenation patterns (i.e., if you write some German text inside a English document, and you don't mark this text as German, the German words will not get hyphenated). 3. Change the language of automatically generated text (e.g. "Figure" or "Table").
Re: Customizing Chapter
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 05:49:15PM +0800, Teddy Surya Gunawan wrote:
Hi,
I want to change the appearance of Chapter. I am using report class to
write my thesis. So, how can I customize lyx/latex from :
Chapter 1
Introduction
to :
Chapter 1
Introduction
--
Put the following in the preamble:
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\chapter}[display]
{\normalfont\Large\filcenter\sffamily}
{\LARGE\chaptertitlename \thechapter}
{1ex}
{\Huge}
[\vspace{0.5ex}\titlerule]
You can also look in the titlesec documantion for more (prettier) examples.
Re: Presentation / large fonts
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:33:56PM +0200, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: I need to do a presentation (transparencies etc) due Friday. Of course, I'd like very much to use LyX. First I'd like to hear comments, tips and maybe even have example presentations done with LyX. I've recently created a presentation using pdfscreen and TeXPower. The result PDF file is viewed using Acrobat reader in full screen mode, and the result is like a powerpoint presentation (i.e. I didn't create transparencies). I've put a small example at http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~dekelts/lyx/pdfscreen.tar.gz It contains slightly modified version of pdfscreen.sty, and a pdfscreen.layout file. Note that the file can only be processed with pdflatex, so either use lyx 1.1.6cvs/1.1.6pre*, or manually export to latex and run pdflatex.
Re: I got some problem to produce a tex file
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 03:42:54AM -0600, Yong Min Wang wrote:
To whom it may concern:
Hi, I have gladly installed you program and tried some documents.
But after finishing making a document, I tried to print but failed.
The message is that there are some errors for tex file, which is
the same message as the one I got when trying to make a tex file.
Those messages seem to be related with tex syntex, "begin{document}"
and "end{document}" but I don't know how to fix them.
Please give me some help to fix those errors.
In the latex preamble you have a '{' which isn't closed by '}'.
To fix the problem, you can just erase the whole preamble.
Re: Section with line (slightly off-topic)
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 11:47:00AM +0100, Matej Cepl wrote:
Hi,
trying to create sectino with line. What I mean is something
like this
Section title___ (to the right edge)
\usepackage{titlesec}
\titleformat{\section}[hang]
{\ttfamily\huge\bfseries}
{}{}{\hrulefill}
Use:
\usepackage{titlesec}
\newcommand{\hruleafter}[1]{#1\hrulefill}
\titleformat{\section}[hang]
{\ttfamily\huge\bfseries}
{}{0ex}{\hruleafter}
Re: Newbie request: severe problem with fontenc in LyX with latex2html
On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 06:05:37PM +0100, Heiko Schroeder wrote:
My aim: I want to create a HTML-Output with LyX using "Export HTML".
You don't write what exactly is your problem with the output generated by
latex2html. My guess is that at least one problem is that the URLs entered
using the URL inset are not translated into hyperlinks.
My problem: I get the folowing message although I put in the LaTeX preamble
\usepackage {html, fontenc, url} and fontenc.sty, html.sty do exist:
You don't need to use include the fontenc and url packages, as LyX
already does this.
No implementation found for style 'fontenc'
No implementation found for style 'url'
This is a warning message of latex2html telling that it doesn't know how to
handle these packages (although it can handle the \url command).
The ???.aux file was not found
Before running latex2html from LyX, you need to create a .aux file by
selecting file-export-dvi. This bug was fixed in lyx 1.1.6
redefining command \url
previous meaning of \url will be lost
Unknown commands IfFileExists
LyX generates the following latex code:
\IfFileExists{url.sty}{\usepackage{url}}
{\newcommand{\url}{\texttt}}
which is used to define a simple \url command if the url.sty package is not
available. However, latex2html doesn't understand the IfFileExists, which
causes it to redefine \url as \texttt, and therefore, it will not create a
hyperlink when the \url command is used.
Solutions to this problem:
1) Check if this bug happens in the latest version of latex2html.
2) Switch to another latex-html converter.
3) Export the lyx file to tex, and change the two lines above
(\IfFileExists... ) to '\usepackage{url}', and run latex2html manually.
4) Write a script that does (3) or use the lyx2html script from
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tron/opensource/node31.html
Re: Something like reftex
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:10:29PM +0100, Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: Hi LyX-Users! Is there anything like reftex for LyX? Reftex with Emacs+AucTeX nearly automagically inserts labels for each section. It would be nice if each heading, table, figure etc. gets a label by default. Are there any plans? I've already implemented this feature. However, it may not appear in 1.1.6 as we don't want to add new feature now, but it may appear in 1.1.6fix1.
Re: Footnoteref Problem
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 09:53:19PM -0800, Dave Tweten wrote:
This time, I need for both the original footnote and the \footnoteref to be in
section headings. In spite of adding \protect's everywhere I can think to do
so, I'm left with the following LaTeX error at the \footnotemark:
Missing number, treated as zero.
...ect\footnotemark[\protect\ref{foot:div}]}
A number should have been here; I inserted "0".
(If you can't figure out why I needed to see a number,
look up `wierd error' in the index to The TeXbook.)
"Wierd error" indeed. I protected the original footnote in its section
heading. I protected the label within the footnote. I protected the
footnotemark in its section heading, and I protected its optional reference
argument. My previous experience is that a \ref to a label in a previous
footnote will produce the number footnotemark needs.
Is this just not possible, or can someone show me how to get what I'm looking
for?
You should put protect _only_ before \footnotemark, namely
\protect\footnotemark[\ref{foot:div}]
Re: Picture on title page
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 02:11:27PM +0100, Yann Collete wrote: Hello, I have tried very hard to add a picture on the title page but it does not work. When I put the picture under the author's name, the picture is printed on the second page. I can't find any information on the Latex FAQ. So, how can I do ? After entering the author name, press ctrl+enter, and then insert the figure as _inlined_. Another option, is to put the figure (as inlined) in the date layout.
Re: Footnoteref Problem
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 12:59:33AM +, Herbert Voss wrote:
Dave Tweten wrote:
it's a solution without \footnoteref. the command \sups
for superscript is defined in latex preamble.
hope this helps.
It is better to use
\newcommand\sups[1]{\textsuperscript{\rm #1}}
Re: footnotes in HTML
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:30:15PM -0500, Dikeman, Brett wrote:
I'm trying to export an HTML version of some docs I just finished up. After
reading through the various docs and checking both the archives and the web
in general, I haven't found any conclusive instructions on "fixing"
footnotes...just unhelpful stuff about cleanup scripts that Lyx runs to prep
the tex file and then clean up latex2html's output.
Specifically, I get munged footnotes with what appears to be latex commands
and @@'s around the footnote text, which is inline with the text. I tried
both an export and a manual run of latex2html. Both spit out text that's
pretty much useless with the footnotes the way they are(otherwise, the docs
look great.)
I'm using 1.1.5-fix2 of Lyx and 99.2beta6(1.42) of Latex2html.
Perhaps you use a footnote in a section, in which case LyX redefines
the footnote command, which probably confuses the latex2html converter.
Try exporting to latex, and check if you get the following in the beginning
of the file:
%% Special footnote code from the package 'stblftnt.sty'
%% Author: Robin Fairbairns -- Last revised Dec 13 1996
\let\SF@@footnote\footnote
...
\expandafter\noexpand\csname SF@gobble@opt \endcsname}
\def\SF@gobble@twobracket[#1]#2{}
If so, remove this part, and run latex2html manually.
If the above doesn't help, try using a different latex2html converter:
tth - http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/
ltoh - http://www.best.com/~quong/ltoh/
hevea - http://para.inria.fr/~maranget/hevea/
Re: Help with Maths Symbol
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:29:09AM +0200, Lindsey Bangay wrote:
HI
I need help for displaying notation used in the teaching of our
introductory financial maths course for displaying present and future values
of annuities.
The required symbol is n with a line on top and a line to the right, followed
by and i, pronounced n angle i. Looks something like this
_
n | i
but with the lines joined. It can be done manually with ERT latex as a single
cell table with a top line and right line, however I need to use this within
maths displays. Is this possible? Any ideas?
Here is a possible solution (there may be a better solution):
In the preamble put
\newcommand{\foo}[1]{\mbox{\begin{tabular}{@{}c@{\,}|} \hline #1\\
\end{tabular}\,}}
and when in the math editor, type \foo{n
(you will see foo{n} where foo{} is in red, and n in blue).
Re: how to get date out of title?
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 09:48:27AM -0600, Ronny Haryanto wrote:
On 14-Dec-2000, Anna H.Pryor wrote:
I don't want to have the date automatically appear with the title. Is there an
easy way to fix that?
You could put a forced blank in the date environment, Ctrl-Space by default.
This will generate too much space between the title/author and the beginning
of the text.
A better option is to insert a note in the date layout, or alternatively,
insert {} in latex mode in the date layout.
Re: Comment/lyx-code problem
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 08:27:08AM +, Herbert Voss wrote: Jason Stirling wrote: Here's how to produce the problem: The problem is the quotes in the lyx-code paragraph. To fix this problem, edit the file LYXLIBDIR/layouts/lyxmacros.inc replacing the line \verbatim@font}% by \normalfont\ttfamily}% i could only produce an error once, when i deleted some text in the comment line, but all other runs no problem with class article, an empty preamble and lyx 1.1.6pre2 The above fix has been applied to 1.1.6, which explains why you didn't have problems.
Re: How can I fax with 1.1.6pre2
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 06:16:03PM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote: I haven't tried Lyx-1.1.6pre2, but for previous versions of LyX, including 1.1.5fix2, tkhylafax (at least version 3.2 or later) works very well with the following in lyxrc: \fax_program "tkhylafax -file $$FName" Hylafax is a superb fax daemon for a networked setup, and far more reliable and versatile than any other fax program I've tried. In 1.1.6pre2 you should use \converter ps fax "tkhylafax -file $$i" in lyxrc/preferences (or define this converter using the GUI).
Re: Converting Lyx files to PDF
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 10:10:14PM -0300, German Poo Caaman~o wrote: IMHO, don't try pdflatex until you have more experience. You can try: 1. Choose "pslatex" on Format/Document/Font. This should be Layout-Documents-Fonts. 2. Export to PostScript 3. execute ps2pdf your-file.ps It seems he was using LyX 1.1.6pre2 in which steps 2,3 should be replaced by 2. Choose View-PDF from the menu.
Re: figure floats with text besides the picture
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:21:10PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote:
Alternatively, you can use the following hack:
Insert the following lines to your .layout file
Style Caption
...
An alternative to the above is to put the following in the layout file:
Style ShortCaption
CopyStyle Caption
LatexName setshortcaption
LabelString "Short Caption:"
LabelType Static
Preamble
\let\oldcaption=\caption
\renewcommand{\caption}[1]{
\ifx \shortcaption \undefined
\oldcaption{#1}
\else
\oldcaption[\shortcaption]{#1}
\fi
}
\newcommand{\setshortcaption}[1]{
\newcommand{\shortcaption}{#1}
}
EndPreamble
End
Re: footnotes at end of a longtable
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 08:39:22PM +, Herbert Voss wrote:
Rolf von Kuhlmann wrote:
I want footnotes in a longtable, but they should appear at the end of the table,
not at the
bottom of the respective pages. This seems not to be covered by any of the
examples in
TableExamples.lyx .
Is it possible, or does anybody know a workaround?
from my point of view with standard-footnotes not possible.
It is possible!
The following solution is based of the footnote.sty package, after changing
one line (so the footnotes will not appear as footnotes at the last page of
table).
To use it, put
\usepackage{myfootnote}
\makesavenoteenv{longtable}
in the preamble (and use \footnote in the longtable as usual).
myfootnote.sty.gz
Re: bibtex question
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 06:23:21PM +0200, Liad Blumrozen wrote:
Hi lyx users,
How can I change the vertical space between entries of the bibtex
section? I need to change the space between the bib entries, but do not
change the vertical space in other parts of the document.
In default, there is a line space which I want to ommit.
Put
\renewcommand{\@openbib@code}{\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}}
in the preamble (this will work in the standard classes article/report/book).
You might need to put negative space instead of 0pt.
Re: Directory Tree
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:14:11AM -0600, Darryl VanDorp wrote: Hiya lyx users, I'm trying to diagram a directory layout using lyx that will export nicely to ASCII and html. However I can't use spaces etc. in lyx. how would i do something like this: Use the lyx-code layout (and use ctrl+enter to break the lines).
Re: 1.1.6-pre3 and wv
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: Nice to see Word import in 1.1.6-pre3 - I never use Word myself, but people insist on sending me files in .doc format. However, I'm having trouble getting it to work. With wv versions 0.5.26 and 0.5.44, lyx won't detect wv (i.e. after reconfiguring there is still no "Import - Word" option). With version 0.6.2, Import-Word gives me all the LaTeX commands' but the text is just digital garbage. Is there another version of wv I should be using, or is there something else I should have installed? What was the language of the document? wv supports only latin1 encoding (but it is possible to change this).
Re: VNC and LyX
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:50:14PM +1200, Arnim Littek wrote: I find that LyX V1.1.5fix2 and earlier does not work over VNC. I've not done any homework to establish why. Your vncserver probably runs in 8 bit *TrueColor* which causes many problems. You should either run it in 8 bit PseudoColor by using the -cc 3 flag or run in in 16 bit (or more) TrueColor using the -depth 16 flag.
Re: Table of Contents in Text output?
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:56:50PM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote: Brian Lavender wrote: How do I get the table of contents generated with ascii text Herbert's suggestion is, as usual, timely and correct. But I wonder: if the philosopy of LyX is that the user should worry about content and not the form of what is being written, shouldn't the user be able to export to commonly used formats, like ascii without the gyrations of converting to pdf or ps and then to ascii? I've seen comparably complicated recommendations for getting a word-count and other operations that shouldn't require the user to look up the procedure and revert to an xterm and a shell to run off scripts and pipelines. The CVS version now creates a table of contents when doing ascii export, so this feature will be in 1.1.6 which will be released soon.
Re: Should Lyx allow me to introduce a mistake like this?
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:46:05AM -0600, Paul E Johnson wrote: If it is true that sections cannot be correctly modified through layout-paragraph, shouldn't LyX block me from making those changes? Yes, it should. I'll fix this.
Re: 1.1.6 Bugs
On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 06:42:09PM -0800, Jeremy Fox wrote: Hi. I am a lowly user, but I've had a lot of trouble with 1.1.6: I have experienced other problems I can't remember and am going to reinstall 1.1.5fix2. I am using Solaris 2.6. Previous versions of LyX have always worked. What is your compiler ? Try compiling again, after running 'configure --with-included-string'
Re: Release LyX 1.1.6 - DVI view
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 01:10:16PM +, Adrian Ball wrote: I am having real trouble with previewing the document I am working on. Everything works fine, but running a preview consistently shows me a previous version. The only way to fix it easily is to close and reopen the document, then preview it. This might be a bug. Please run LyX with the '-dbg depend' flag, open a file, do view-dvi, make a change in the file, and do view-dvi again. Now, send to lyx-devel all the debug messages from LyX.
Re: configuring fax custom ascii export commands (lyx-1.1.6)
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 03:31:25PM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote: pointer to a guide, or perhaps a brief summary instruction, on how to configure lyx-1.1.5 (lyxrc) features like \fax_program "tkhylafax -file $$FName" Open the preferences dialog, select converter from the top row, then converters from the bottom. Fill the fields as follows: from=Postscript, To=Fax, and Converter="tkhylafax -file $$i", and press the add(or modify) button. \custom_export_command envelope [using ascii export] into the preferences of lyx-1.1.6? Open the preferences dialog, select converter from the top row, then formats from the bottom. Fill the fields as follows: Format=envelope,GUIname=Envelope (leave the rest empty) and press Add. Now go to the converters tab, and add an ASCII-envelope converter (from=ASCII, to=Envelope, Converter="envelope $$i").
Re: double quotes are displayed as
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:45:00AM +0100, Thorsten Mika wrote: there is another problem of which i do not know whether it is xfs-related or a lyx problem. since upgrading, lyx sometimes displays the "french" quotes as two "greater" signs, i.e. instead of the character lyx 1.1.2 used, which was correct. strange thing: sometimes it works, esp. after changing the display font for standard text, sometimes it does not. any idea? i am sorry, but i cannot really reprodzue this "bug". This is a a bug in LyX, which I've just fixed.
Re: pdf fonts
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 07:26:18AM +, Herbert Voss wrote:
I have just tried out the new LyX 1.1.6 and its new shiny integrated PDF
exporters, and I've found that the generated PDF documents have really ugly
fonts, close to unreadable in Acrobat Reader. I'm sure there's a way to fix
this ;-). Any hint?
layout-document-fonts-pslatex
and in your atex preamble
\usepackage{ae}
Only _one_ of the above should be used!
(and instead of the latter, it is better to use \usepackage{ae,aecompl} ).
More information is available in section 3.3.6.2 of Extended.lyx
Re: Two points on a letter.
On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 11:32:57PM +0100, Joeri Verbiest wrote: Hi, Some german letters have two points on it, how can I to this in Lyx. I can't find it in the symbol list of LaTex. You can enter these letters by pressing, M-m " and then pressing letter you want (there also other methods).
Re: partial pdf export in 1.1.6
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 09:40:33AM -0500, Roy Cutler wrote: Hello everyone, I have the need to pull out chapters of a book seperately and make pdf versions of them. In 1.1.5 I can do this by: exporting to PS and then using the dialogue box to print out a range of pages, name the file "ChapterX.ps" and then use to ps2pdf to convert it. Worked great. Is there anyway to do this with the new pdf export function in 1.1.6? Does PS export still have the same dialogue box in 1.1.6? You can have this dialog if you choose file-print from the menu.
Re: 1.1.6-pre3 and wv
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 07:22:23PM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: I installed from RPMs. If I compile wv from source, Lyx doesn't detect it. In order to autodetect the wvCleanLatex program, it must be in your path. Did you did a make install after compiling it ? You can also add a Word-Latex converter manually using the preferences dialog. Is it possible to use the old mswordview in Lyx (i.e. convert Word to HTML, then HTML to LaTeX)? Yes. You just need to define a Word-html and html-latex converters in the preferences dialog (but you will probably need to install a html-latex converter).
Re: two definitions in a row, article(AMS), 1.1.5fix1
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:46:33PM -0600, Rodney Bates wrote: I am just learning lyx for the first time on a paper. I want two (sometimes more) Definitions in a row. The definition environment puts all contiguous definition paragraphs under one occurrence of the label "definition", with one definition number. The only way I have gotten two of them is to put a standard paragraph in between, but I have no content for it, so I put the name of the thing being defined in the definition paragraph and its actual definition in subsequent stardard paragraphs. I greatly doubt this is the way it was intended. How do I do this the right way. This is a limitation of LyX (we have plans to remove it, of course). Currently, you need to put a "Comment" paragraph between any two consecutive Definition paragraphs.
Re: two definitions in a row, article(AMS), 1.1.5fix1
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:42:15AM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
Rodney Bates wrote:
I am just learning lyx for the first time on a paper. I want two
(sometimes
more) Definitions in a row. The definition environment puts all
contiguous
definition paragraphs under one occurrence of the label "definition",
with
one definition number.
insert a ctrl-space with the standard paragraph-style
No, this will generate too much space between the two definition paragraphs.
But you can put {} in latex mode (using standard paragraph), or as I mentioned
in another message, you can put a comment paragraph.
Re: how to add layout
Please would you help me to add in "layout" arabic
article.
But with lyx I must add in the preambule
\usepackage{arabtex}. Unfortunatly the caracteristic
of the arabtex don't appear.
Did you put
\language_package "\usepackage{arabtex,iso88596} \setcode{iso8859-6}"
in .lyx/lyxrc ?
I used to save in latex file and change the document
class to the class "arabart".
It works OK.
Now I would add this ine Layout to have directly from
the Lyx.
I mean I would have : "article (arab)" in the layout
and standard ,section, subsection, , in the list
(these words written in english it doesn't matter),
but when choose them tey refere to the correct thing.
Put the attached file (arab-article.layout) in ~/.lyx/layouts/
and then do options-reconfigure from LyX (or edit-reconfigure in LyX 1.1.6),
and restart LyX.
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[arabart]{article (Arabic)}
# Arabic article textclass definition file.
# Author: Dekel Tsur [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Input article
Re: Fw: Section Numbering and Face.
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:12:47PM +, Angus Leeming wrote: Another question is how do I set the page margins? I have tried but it does not let me set them. May be I need to try milimeters? You need a valid unit with the integer. Eg, "1 cm", "2 em", "3 mm" etc. You also need to make sure that the "Use geometry package" option is selected.
Re: Bibliography question
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:01:13AM -0800, Mohammad Reza Danesh wrote: I've recently upgraded my Lyx to 1.1.6 and I have the following problem with inserting bibliography citations. Let's say I have a master document with several chapters as sub-files inserted to it. I put the BibTex generated references in the master document. Now in sub-files, when I want to add a citation, I can't since the BibTex references are inserted in the master doc and aren't viewable by sub-files (all of the files are open). In previous versions, I had the option to type in the index of the citation (assuming that I know it) in sub-files. LaTex would find it and create the correct citation reference. In "Insert Citation Reference" of 1.1.6, I can't type anything in (it should be taken from the existing list). My question is: should I use Tex to insert citations or there is another way to do this? Copy the bibtex inset from the master file, and paste it into each of the included files, changing the paragraph layout to comment.
Re: html
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:57:35PM +, Robin Gerard wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 11:15:18PM +, Herbert Voss wrote: Robin Gerard wrote: when I convert a file (lyx) into a file html the result is very fine, but not any of amya or netscape(3.04) can display the mathematical expressions...it is not a problem with lyx but, wich are the softs allows to display mathematical expression written in html ? what kind of converter do you have installed? tex2html or tth? I think that it is tex2html. Lyx dispays the msg : this document was generated using the latex2html latex2html converts the math formulae into PNG images which are readable by any decent browser (I think that netscape 3 doesn't support PNG, but who uses it ?). I should be possible to cause latex2html to create GIF images instead of PNG, but I don't know how (read the docs).
Re: Bibliography question
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:05:51AM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote: In previous versions, I had the option to type in the index of the citation (assuming that I know it) in sub-files. LaTex would find it and create the correct citation reference. In "Insert Citation Reference" of 1.1.6, I can't type anything in (it should be taken from the existing list). My question is: should I use Tex to insert citations or there is another way to do this? Copy the bibtex inset from the master file, and paste it into each of the included files, changing the paragraph layout to comment. Another option is to type 'M-x citation-insert the citation key' (in fact, instead of typing citation-insert, you can type ci and press Tab).
Re: lyx crashed for insert label
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 03:26:40PM +0200, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: I didn't manage to crash it another time, so I guess this bug report is pretty useless, but I hope the best. Aha! Now I found how to reproduce this. Get the file http://s-inf-pc24.oulu.fi/ftp/incoming/lyxbug1.lyx I cannot access this machine. Send the file (compressed) to lyx-devel, if it is not too large ( 50K). Move the cursor so that the middle of the cursor is exactly on top of the "," character after the word "SSD". Ie. the cursor must be at "subscript" position. Click left mouse button. The equation jumps suddenly down half a line (bug #1). I think I've already fixed this bug. Try using the latest CVS.
Re: LyX 1.1.6: Bug report #12
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 06:48:59PM +0100, Michael Schmitt wrote: Assume that I have created a reference to some label. Now if I select a different reference in the reference dialog and click at 'Goto Reference', LyX still jumps to the former label. Only after clicking "Apply", 'Goto Reference" jumps to the new label. I think this is at least very confusing. And it is not possible to check whether you have choosen the right label before you apply it. I've already fixed this bug (a week ago).
Re: LyX 1.1.6: Bug report #12
I've already fixed this bug (a week ago). Sorry, wrong list!
Re: page break before headers
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 11:31:18PM -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: How can I tell lyx once and for all to break before Section, subsection, paragraph etc. headers if there is no room for a couple of lines at least? I think that LaTeX usually does that: it will put a pagebreak before a section if there is no room for 2 lines, but I don't know how to increase the value 2. However, in some document classes, the sections command are poorly defined, and the the section heading can appear on one page while the paragraph begins at the next page. Marco Bravi wrote: This translates into: "does LaTeX provide control over the number of widows/orphans of a document?". Every decent wordprocessor does, so I assume LaTeX does even better! LaTeX does have widows/orphans control (from the LyX FAQ): To eliminate widows and orphans (first line from a paragraph at the bottom of the page and the last line from a paragraph at the top of the page), add the following to the LaTeX preamble: \widowpenalty=1 \clubpenalty=1 but I don't think it will help with the problem above.
Re: trouble exporting lyx to pdf and html
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 07:46:58PM +0100, Marcus Beyer wrote: Isn't PDFLaTeX the _only_ reasonable solution, when you want to include bitmap pictures, but don't want to have huge (Megabytes instead of Kilobytes) target files? Now, you can also use latex+dvipdfm.
Re: trouble exporting lyx to pdf and html
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:55:00AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: If however your problem is only to get small and readable pdf files, a good solution is to use the Postscript Type1 version of the computer modern fonts. Usually you can do that by doing dvips -Pps myfile.dvi -o myfile.ps ps2pdf myfile.ps See Extended.lyx, section 3.3.6.2 for more information on this issue.
Re: disabling columns for wide matrix
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 08:55:20PM +, Herbert Voss wrote: Tuukka Toivonen wrote: I'm writing an article using two columns. It looks good but I have couple of wide math matrices that don't fit in single column. How could I disable the columns for a few lines so that the matrix would use both columns? from my point of view the only senseful way is to use the multicol package. than you can switch between multicols and not on one page. maybe that there is a special latex package, have a look at CTAN. You can also use a wide figure float. it's also possible to use the package, which breaks equations like textlines. What is the name of the package?
Re: deleting one line from multiline equation
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 06:51:04PM +0200, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: This feels like simple question but I cannot find answer from LyX documents. How can I delete one line from multiline math equation? User Guide says M-e k but it doesn't work with 1.1.6. I couldn't find the command from reference manual. If you use the emacs keybinding then the binding is C-k, but there is currently no binding for this action when using the cua (default) bindings. But, you can define a binding yourself, or just write line-delete-forward in the minibuffer.
Re: double lines at the top and bottom of tables?
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 10:03:14AM -0800, Anna H.Pryor wrote:
Is it possible to put double lines at the top and bottom of tables? I know that
I can do this for all of the other lines in the table, but I only need it for
the top and bottom lines...and can't seem to figure that out.
You cannot do it with the GUI, but you can do it with ERT:
For double line at the top, put '\hline ' (using latex mode) at the beginning
of the first cell (i.e. the top left cell).
For double line at the bottom, put the following line in the preamble
\newcommand{\dblline}[2]{\\ \hline\hline}
and put '\dblline' at the end of the last cell.
Re: Working with multipart documents
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:21:05PM -0700, Michael Zapf wrote: And now for the cross references. Lets add a "... like in section x.y". This section is in another LyX file. How do I insert this reference? Suppose that your files are master.lyx, chap1.lyx, chap2.lyx, and you want to insert a label from chap2.lyx to chap1.lyx. There are three methods: 1. Open master.lyx, open the insert reference dialog, and return to chap1.lyx. Now, whenever you open the insert reference dialog in chap1.lyx, you will get a list of all labels in all the files. 2. Open chap2.lyx, open the insert reference dialog, and without closing the dialog, return to chap1.lyx, and then insert the reference. This doesn't work in LyX 1.1.6. 3. In LyX 1.1.6, type M-x reference-insert ref|++||++|label where label is the required label.
Re: Importing Gnumeric spreadsheet, rotation by 90deg
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:37:35PM +, Adrian Ball wrote:
Dear all,
I have a spreadsheet, created in Gnumeric. I can export as latex2e, reLyX it
and include it within a table float.
So far so good, however, the spreadsheet, whilst not enormous, does not fit
horizontally across the page. What ERT do I need (and wherabouts!) to rotate
this by 90 degrees within the float?
\rotatebox{90}{the include inset} in latex mode.
If your document doesn't have eps figures, you also need to put
\usepackage{graphics} in the preamble.
Re: figure problems
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:33:22PM -0800, Anna H.Pryor wrote: I am using 1.1.5fix2 on linux. Someone sent me some .eps files that I would like to include in a paper that I am writing. I have already included some .eps files generated from matlab with no problem. When I try to include these .eps files in a float figure, I am able to preview the figure in the ghostview screen. However, when I try to bring up a postscript version of the paper I get the message: dvips: ! premature end of file in binary section. The postscript version will not come up at all...not even anything else that I have written. I hope that one of you knows what is going on? The eps file may be corrupt (perhaps it doesn't have a bounding box?). Was the eps file generated on Windows ? (the default postscript driver in Windows is not good).
Re: Working with multipart documents
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 03:09:31PM +0100, Michael Zapf wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 09:21:05PM -0700, Michael Zapf wrote: And now for the cross references. Lets add a "... like in section x.y". This section is in another LyX file. How do I insert this reference? Suppose that your files are master.lyx, chap1.lyx, chap2.lyx, and you want to insert a label from chap2.lyx to chap1.lyx. There are three methods: 1. Open master.lyx, open the insert reference dialog, and return to chap1.lyx. Now, whenever you open the insert reference dialog in chap1.lyx, you will get a list of all labels in all the files. Yes, seems to be working alright. Hmm, what about adding a box to InsertReference like "Take references from file(s)..."? I am planning to add this.
Re: .eps file will not show up in lyx but will show up in ghostview
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 06:31:47AM -0800, Anna H.Pryor wrote: I am using 1.1.5fix2 on linux. Here is a sample of what I was talking about. Maybe one of you can get it to show up in lyx?? I have a friend at work who works in LaTex and she had no problem getting it to show up in her document, so I know that the problem is with Lyx. It does have a bounding box. The file was made on a PC using raw pictures and Adobe Photoshop. The problem is in dvips, not in LyX (and I suppose that your friend uses LaTeX on Windows, so her dvi-ps program is different). You can fix the problem in the eps file by running epstopdf Fig3.pdf pdf2ps Fig3.pdf Fig3.eps (and the size of the result file is half of the original!)
Re: BibTeX problem
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:55:14PM +0100, Guido Milanese wrote:
I think I am doing a stupid error in my bibtex files.
I cannot use crossref. Both from within Lyx and from running direct
LaTeX, the "missing" fields are not added -- regardless the style I use.
I followed the instructions given in the standard manuals regarding
order of entries.
Example (partially faked):
@InBook{Ludwig:Musik,
Author = {Ludwig, Friedrich},
Title = {Die geistliche nichtliturgische {M}usik},
Pages = {157-295},
crossref = {Adler:Handbuch},
}
I think that you need to use @InCollection instead of @InBook.
Re: moving equations to left
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 06:13:56PM +0200, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: My problem is that I have some wide equations on 2-column article, that will be printed over the equation number on the right edge of the column. If there's just one equation line, the AMSmath is clever enough to move the equation number down that they don't overlap. But it doesn't do this for multiline equations. How could I prevent the equation and its number from overlapping? You should use the AMS math environment align, instead of using eqnarray. Unfortunately, LyX currently doesn't have support for it, so you need to write the the formula using ERT (you can use math-macro to define parts of of the formula, and then use the defined macros in the ERT). However, I recently added to LyX support for the align environment, but the code is not yet in CVS. I can send you a patch if you are interested.
Re: moving equations to left
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Herbert Voss wrote:
layout-paragraph-extra(1.1.6)-Indented Paragraph
and write in the field for example -1cm!
But this might cause an equation on the right column to overlap with the text
on the left column.
One thing that might help you is to put the lines below in the preamble.
It will decrease the space between the 3 column of an eqnarray in all
the eqnarrays in the document (and therefore, it will reduce (or eliminate)
the overlap between the formula and the number).
\let\oldeqnarray=\eqnarray
\let\oldarray=\array
\newlength{\oldcolsep}
\setlength{\oldcolsep}{\arraycolsep}
\def\eqnarray{
\setlength{\arraycolsep}{1.5pt}
\def\array{\setlength{\arraycolsep}{\oldcolsep}\oldarray}
\oldeqnarray
}
Re: FoiTeX (again!)
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:36:47PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LyXers, I have downloaded and installed FoiTeX on my tetex setup. It works well *if* I select the English language. Unfortunately, latex produces an error: "Package babel error: You haven't defined the language english yet" and then says: "your command will be ignored, type RETURN to proceed". Anybody coming up with any idea? Thanks in advance! This is a known problem. You just need run latex again, and the error will go away.
Re: pdflatex don't work with images
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:46:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with the same source. You don't have to export the tex-file and edit it, you can do that directly within LyX : in the figure dialog box, enter the filename without its prefix (but you lose the preview !). You don't lose the preview in 1.1.6.
Re: File - Export -HTML
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 02:50:49PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, 1. with lyx-1.1.6 if I click on "View - HTML" on a file containing mathematical expressions and graphic inserted, (.ps created with xfig) I obtain a fine result. 2. If I do "File - Export - HTML" I obtain a .html file and when I open it with nescape (4.76) I obtain a bad result: all the files PNG are not present and those wich are present do not position in the right place. How can I do to obtain a fine result in the case 2 ? Thanks for your comments and advices. You need to copy all the png files from the tempdir (e.g. 'cp lyx_tmpdir24080a24080/lyx_tmpbuf24080a24080/*.png DESTDIR/') Another option is to disable the temporary directory. PS: I'll fix this bug shortly.
Re: how to really deal with figures?
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:56:56AM +0200, Baruch Even wrote: - figures render and scale correctly in the LyX GUI - 'View - DVI' works correctly - 'View - PS' works correctly - 'View - PDF (pdflatex)' works correctly If you agree to lose rendering and scaling in the gui you can use the new external inset, it will accept your .fig file and will convert it by itself into PNG or EPS for inclusion into the document when you export or preview. The external inset will not work with pdflatex.
Re: how to really deal with figures?
On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 09:51:37PM +0100, Friedemann Baitinger wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am having real problems with integrating figures into LyX documents. If I include them as .eps files, then for instance "View - PDF (pdflatex)" does not work. If I leave the .eps extension away, then the figures are not rendered correctly in the LyX GUI, and the "View - DVI" causes Latex to hang in the background for way too long and eventually aborts with 50 error boxes, however, the "View - PDF" obviously works this way. (I am using xfig to create the figures and then fig2dev commandlines to generate .eps and .pdf out of the .fig files) What errors are you getting ?
Re: abstract in two languages
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:28:57PM +0200, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: I guess this is LaTeX question, but I'm very novice with TeX and LyX user anyway, so here it goes... How can I put two abstracts in a document, one in English and one in Finnish? I'll assume that the main language of the document is English, and that the English abstract appears first. 1. Change the layout to Abstract and write the English abstract. 2. Press enter. 3. Change language to Finnish by opening layout-character and selecting the Finnish language (all other fields should be "no change"). 4. Select standard layout. Change to latex mode (ctrl+l) 5. Press % and then enter. 6. Change the layout to Abstract and write the Finnish abstract. 7. Press enter. 8. Change layout to Standard. Change to latex mode (ctrl+l) 9. Press % and then enter. 10. Change back to English by pressing the toolbar button "Font".
Re: abstract in two languages
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:37:38PM +0200, Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
The second % doesn't seem to be necessary, it is enough just to have one
between the abstracts. It's surprising how easily this works now that LyX
can use many languages in one document from the GUI. And multiple
"abstract" paragraphs don't seem to bother LaTeX either.
It is necessary, because curenly LyX misplaces the \selectlanguage command:
\begin{abstract}
Tämä puolestaan on suomenkielinen tiivistelmä.
\selectlanguage{english}
\end{abstract}
which means that the rest of the document is now considered Finnish.
The correct latex code should be
\begin{abstract}
Tämä puolestaan on suomenkielinen tiivistelmä.
\end{abstract}
\selectlanguage{english}
The second % (in Finnish language) is a workaround for this problem.
I will fix the problem in the next version.
Re: Revision bars
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 10:54:37PM +0100, ben wrote: Hello, I would like to know if it is possible to define revision bars in a lyx document, in order to show differences between two versions. If so, can it be an automatic process? Use the changebar package.
Re: spelling
On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 07:35:09PM +0100, Joeri Verbiest wrote: Hi, When I convert lyx to pdf I get (sorry that it is in Dutch) zoals het zoeken naar bruinen dw- ergen en extrasolar ... How can I get zoals het zoeken naar bruinen dwergen en extrasolar ... I mean how can I configure the document so that never words would be split, because lyx does not do this correct in the Dutch language. First you can try to enable hyphenation for the Dutch language by running texconfig. If this doesn't work, you can disable hyphenation by putting \hyphenpenalty = 1 in the preamble.
