segmentation fault
hello, I got lyx-1.1.4, I put it on /usr/local/, I put xform-88 in /usr/local but I must do ./configure --with-extra-lib=/usr/local What is the standard directory where to put xform-88 ? configure and make works successfully. (apparently), but when I do src/lyx I get the message : segmentation fault Can someone help me please. gerard. N.B. I use slackware 7.0 -- Robin Gerard
Re: segmentation fault
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Hmm, slackware is glibc2.1-based, isn't it? Did you get the xforms > library for glibc2.1? Otherwise the known result of mixing libraries > can be what you describe. Thanks for your advice, lyx works fine now with bxforms-glib2.1.0.89. However this needs few task: Copy these to /usr/local/lib: libforms.a libforms.so.0.89 Copy these to /usr/local/include: forms.h Copy these to /usr/local/bin: fdesign fd2ps Copy these to /usr/local/man/man1: fdesign.1 fd2ps.1 Copy these to /usr/local/man/man5: xforms.5 these five points were given to me by slackware support. (and I had to copy in /usr/lib:libforms.so.0.89 and to do ln -s /usr/lib/libforms.so.0.89 /usr/lib/libforms.so) I hope this can help the users of slackware. gerard -- Robin Gerard
table of contents
Hello,
I write a document in french language, with lyx, and
I insert a table of contents.
How can I make appear "table des matières" in place
of "table of contents" ?
Forgive me if this question had already been submited .
gerard.
--
Robin Gerard
lyx-1.1.5pre1
Thanks to all who have helped me.(table of contents) Now I tried to instal lyx-1.1.5pre1 : "./configure" and "make" work fine, but "src/lyx" gives: "You are either running LyX wrong version of dynamic Xforms library or you have build LyX with conflicing header and library". I don't understand this problem since lyx-1.1.4 works fine and the library xforms required is the same for lyx-1.1.5pre1 ? Can someone help me with this problem please ? Thanks.. Gerard N.B. I use linux with the Slackware 7.0 -- Robin Gerard
frac and overline
Hello,
If I write the program
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{displaymath}
\frac{overline{MN}}{\overline{OM}}
\end{document}
the result is correct with latex.
If I write the equivalente expression with lyx-1.1.4
the bar of fraction is confused with the overline of OM.
Had someone come across this problem and resolved it eventally ?
Tanks for your help ?
N.B.
I can't resoved my problem with lyx-1.1.5pre1,
"./configure" and "make" works fine but src/lyx give me :
"You are either running LyX wrong version of dynamic Xforms library or
you have build LyX with conflicting header and library"
although I used the correct library for slackware and lyx-1.1.5.
( bxforms-089-gligc.2.1 )
Perhaps I should remove lyx-1.1.4 before installing lyx-1.1.5pre1 ?
Gerard.
--
Robin Gerard
users and lyx
Hello, lyx run all right when I am as root, but when I am as user, when I am wieving and saving a file I get error and : "Font T 1/cmr/m/n/14.4=ecrm 1440 at 14.4 pt no loadable : Metric: (TFM) file not found. /fontencoding/endcodingdefault/selectfont. Y wan't able to read the size data forthis font." What must Ido to change for that lyx works fine with users ? Thanks in advance for your help. Gerard.
Re: Sobig worm
John Levon wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 04:20:49PM +0100, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Recently several mails from "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with attachments reached the list. This is the well known worm "Sobig": http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99950.htm or even better, ban any mails with .pif attachments Indeed, any attachments other than .lyx or .tex. We had a discussion about banning all attachments some time back, but we need people to be able to post example files, and I'm pretty sure these particular types are not used by viruses or spammers! Robin -- "A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you." - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Prerelease #2 of LyX 1.3.0
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: I have just uploaded the tarball and the rpms to ftp.devel.lyx.org. A lot of small fixes has been applied since (the unannounced) first prerelease. Even if I am not aware of any serious problems with pre2, you should be careful to backup your documents before trying this one out. The rpms are created against the xforms rpms that can be found in the same dir as the prerelease. Reports on installation and running this will be greately appreciated. Be it failure or success reports... It seems to work fine on Mandrake 9.0 with xforms-1.0-0. The Turkish character bug (#413) is still there, as in 1.2.2 - did you compile with John Levon's patch? Robin -- "A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you." - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Compiling lyx 3.0 - missing binary?
I ran ./configure --with-frontend=qt (after the autogen stuff) on LyX 3.0 (CVS) and got the following error message: configure: error: moc binary not found in $PATH or /bin ! What is moc? Robin -- "A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you." - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: special fonts
Rudolf Henze wrote: Hi, Iam using Lyx 1.1.6fix4 with SuSE 8.0 and the class book(coma-script). The text Iam writing on, has a lot of pathnames in it. Example: "the configuration file is in /data/config.txt" For better reading I want that /data/config.txt is formatted with a non-proportional font like courier. tia R. Henze Why not just use Layout->Character->Family->Typewriter ? Robin -- "Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies." - Montaigne Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Want to subscribe to lyx mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I Want to subscribe to lyx mailing list. Thanks. Send an empty mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robin -- "Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies." - Montaigne Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: help please. What i have written seems lost!
Herbert Voss wrote: Carlo F. schrieb: I am using LyX 1.1.6fix4 on Gnu?Linux Debian. I have just finished in writing an about twenty pages document with inside about twenty ".eps" pictures. I have tried to see it by C-T and C-D. I have have the following message (more or less) "file/document empty" with only a part of the first page displyed. After several tries, I have rebooted the machine and restarted LyX. Now the document appear with very very small characters and the C-T shows only a portion of the first page but now lists three pages as available on the left. C-D the same. I suppose that there is a problem in the preamble or in some ERT stuff in the doc with a missing closing curly brace } Have a look at it. Herbert If that doesn't turn up anything, exporting to LaTeX and running latex on it might be more revealing. Robin -- "Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies." - Montaigne Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
1.3.0pre3 keymap problems
I've just installed 1.3.0pre3 from the i386 RPM. It still has the Turkish keymap bug from 1.2.* (bug #413, IIRC). To get Turkish (Latin 5 / iso-8859-9) characters to work at all, I need to change my normal keyboard layout from Turkish to US and use the Turkish keymap. Even so, the uppercase dotted I comes out as a quotation mark (as in 1.2.2). This is because for some weirtd reason it's not encoded as an uppercase "i". I believe John Levon's patch fixes this, so downloadable binaries should probably include it. Robin -- "A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you." - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: 1.3.0pre3 keymap problems
Angus Leeming wrote: John Levon wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 06:19:07PM +0200, robin wrote: I've just installed 1.3.0pre3 from the i386 RPM. It still has the Turkish keymap bug from 1.2.* (bug #413, IIRC). To get Turkish (Latin 5 / iso-8859-9) characters to work at all, I need to change my normal keyboard layout from Turkish to US and use the Turkish keymap. Even so, the uppercase dotted I comes out as a quotation mark (as in 1.2.2). xforms ? Could be. I tried to compile with Qt, but ran into problems I mentioned earlier (it's probably a problem with my RPM database - I'm getting that "everything already installed" message when everything is obviously not installed, or at least not installed properly). I believe John Levon's patch fixes this, so downloadable binaries should probably include it I don't have any such patch. john Reading the bug, credit is due to JMarc/Mike Fabian. And it would appear (reading the bug) that Robin hasn't actually been able to test it properly, for one reason or another. Various reasons - I can't compile CVS programs at home because my tiny hard drive fills up. Until recently my Linux box at work was so slow that compiling anything of any size would slow it to a crawl, which didn't please people who were waiting for print jobs. Now I have an upgraded box I'm working on it, but it'll take some time. So he can hardly be overly upset that an untested patch hasn't made it into cvs ;-) I wasn't upset, just felt I should point it out - the bug was marked as fixed, if I remember rightly. Robin -- "A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you." - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Installing lyx 1.3.0pre3
Raphael Clifford wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 22:35, Angus Leeming wrote: Antonio Sousa wrote: One more question. I supposed that with this new version will be different in it's graphical aspect. But everything seems the same. Where am I wrong? LyX now comes with a choice of frontends: * the one you are used to which uses the xforms library. * a new one which uses the Qt library. If you want the Qt one, then you have to build it from the .tar.gz sources. AFAIK, nobody has created an rpm yet. HTH, -- Angus Just FYI mandrake started removing all headers etc. from it's standard packages and putting them in -devel. It's very annoying ... Raphael Yep, it took me a while to find all the necessary Qt stuff. Now I get past all that when I run configure, but it fails, saying it couldn't find the XFree86 headers. I have XFree86-devel installed - what gives? Robin -- "A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you." - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Announce: LyX 1.3.0 released.
Wow - I finally managed to compile 1.3.0 with the Qt frontend and it is a joy to use. Congratulations to all the developers. As an added bonus, I finally get to use Turkish characters, and I don't have to change my keyboard layout to do so. I don't know if this is a fix between the last prelease and the stable release, or if it's a result of compiling it on my own machine. Robin -- "A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you." - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Announce: LyX 1.3.0 released.
John Levon wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:24:19PM +0200, robin wrote: Wow - I finally managed to compile 1.3.0 with the Qt frontend and it is a joy to use. Congratulations to all the developers. As an added bonus, I finally get to use Turkish characters, and I don't The Qt frontend behaves very differently in this respect. All hail to the GUI-independence team! Even without the Turkish charset problem, I was itching to get away from x-forms (though I hear the version with xforms 1.0 is a bit more workable). The new dialogue boxes are very pretty too, and much more functional. Great job, guys. Robin -- "A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you." - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
More Questions about the QT front end
In xforms it is possible to change the character set of the GUI independently of the language, but this doesn't seem to be the case in Qt, unless I'm missing something. For example, I write classroom materials, administrative stuff etc. in English, but frequently have to insert Turkish names, so in older versions I would set the lnguage as English but set the encoding as iso-8859-9. As far as I can see, in 1.3.0-qt, I can set the font but not the charset. Robin -- " Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells." - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: More Questions about the QT front end
Angus Leeming wrote: robin wrote: In xforms it is possible to change the character set of the GUI independently of the language, but this doesn't seem to be the case in Qt, unless I'm missing something. For example, I write classroom materials, administrative stuff etc. in English, but frequently have to insert Turkish names, so in older versions I would set the lnguage as English but set the encoding as iso-8859-9. As far as I can see, in 1.3.0-qt, I can set the font but not the charset. Robin That is correct. This is the one major limitation of the Qt frontend at the moment. The fault, if fault is to be aportioned, lies within Qt itself I understand. Perhaps more fairly, they do not deal with many projects such as ours which do not use their classes in the core of the program and so have not had to develop the flexible interface to their library that we require in this instance. I also understand that they are now aware of our problem and are addressing it. In the meantime, what you have got has taken an enormous amount of creative 'hacking' by John Levon to get it into the state it is now. Personally. I think that the man deserves a medal for his efforts ;-) I'll second that! If you require the flexibility you describe, then you are stuck with the xforms frontend for a little while longer. I'll sacrifice flexibility for usability and aesthetics for the time being. There is no problem with the output, as I can set language and charset differently in Layout-Document, so I guess I can live with the limited GUI for a while. Robin -- " Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells." - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: More Questions about the QT front end
Dekel Tsur wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:55:34PM +0200, robin wrote: In xforms it is possible to change the character set of the GUI independently of the language, but this doesn't seem to be the case in Qt, unless I'm missing something. For example, I write classroom materials, administrative stuff etc. in English, but frequently have to insert Turkish names, so in older versions I would set the lnguage as English but set the encoding as iso-8859-9. As far as I can see, in 1.3.0-qt, I can set the font but not the charset. The document text is shown using a unicode font, so you don't need to mess with font encodings: if you have iso10646-1 fonts, LyX will be able to show any language that you can input. The text in menus/dialogs is shown using an 8-bit encoding. You can control which encoding is used by setting the LANG environment variable (in the future, it will also be unicode). OK - got it. It's only a problem with documents I wrote on the xforms version, but hell, I can live with that. Robin -- " Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells." - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: bottom of the page
Peter Harkins wrote: I've got some text (and tabulars) I'd like to appear at the bottom of a page. I tried putting it in a minipage and setting alignment to bottom, but this did nothing. Quick and dirty fix - Layout>Paragraph : Space above>VFill In Qt it's slightly different but pretty obvious. Robin -- " Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells." - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: View -> DVI doesn't work for me
Jeffrey Stephens wrote: I am beginning the Lyx tutorial, and it says to type a few words, save the file, then "Run LaTeX to create a dvi file, with View -> DVI." When I do this the disk thrashed for second as if something is happening, but nothing does. I think maybe I am missing something. I did a "rpm -qa | grep dvi" and got the following: tetex-xdvi-1.0.7-47 kdvi-3.0.3-0.7.2 tetex-dvips-1.0.7-47.1 Is there another package(s) that I need to have for this to work correctly, or does something need to be configured differently? Thanks for any help. Regards, Jeff S The default DVI viewer is gv, which you may not have installed. Otherwise, change it to kdvi. Robin -- " Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells." - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Change font-size to 13 pt.
I Wayan Warmada wrote:
Dear LyX-users,
how can I get a font size of 13 points. With a normal report class the
maximum font size is 12 pt, but in the exreport class that could be get 8,
9, 14, 17, 20pt. Could you please suggest me how to get a 13-points font
from either report or extreport class. 12 point is too small, 14 point is
too big.
There are a number of ways to reset the base font size. Here's one I
haven't tried but saw somewhere:
\def\@normalsize{\@setsize\normalsize{13pt}\xpt\@xpt}
Another would be to export as LaTeX and change the first line to read
something like
\documentclass[13pt]{exreport}
If that doesn't work for your class, then you may have to hack the class
file, I suppose.
A quick kludge is to block the whole text the go to Layout>Character and
select Increase under Size.
Robin
--
" Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and
picke quarrells."
- G. Pettie
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: More Questions about the QT front end
Dekel Tsur wrote: You can set the language to Turkish for the Turkish names using the character dialog (you can make a key-binding for it). The documentation on making key-bindings mentions the "Reference Guide" for a complete list of functions. Where can I find this? Robin -- " Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells." - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Sorry - ignore last post!
Robin rather stupidly wrote The documentation on making key-bindings mentions the "Reference Guide" for a complete list of functions. Where can I find this? In /usr/share/lyx/doc, of course (I looked earlier, but missed it in the swirl of international documentation). A link in the Help menu would be good, though. Robin -- " Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells." - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: New user
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 10:20:49PM +1100, Steven Homolya wrote: If messages on this list are any indication, there are a lot of people using Lyx in MS-Windows (with Cygwin). Which begs the question where we failed... Failed to make it clear that one does not need to look for a "LyX-like type setting program for Windows" because Lyx works on MS-Windows. (As I far as I understand, most open source stuff can be run in Cygwin. ? ) More or less. Usually there is quite some pain as it does not integrate as well as applications specifically developed for MS Windwows. Which leads to over-generalization "OSS does not work well" (as in "cannot read MS-Word files flawlessly"). I was wondering whether it would be possible to have LyX use the OpenOffice Word filters rather than wv. wv does a pretty good job on many Word documents, but it tends to choke on complicated formatting and some charsets. One way to avoid that impression is simply by not supporting MS Windows at all. Maybe not the best, but certainly the simplest. True, but I think now the Qt version is up and running, a native Windows version is a realistic goal. Whether it would be worth the effort is uncertain - that's something for interested developers to decide. Robin -- " Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells." - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Skips before and after new environment
In the preamble section of my layout I have the following (adapted from
an environment by Herbert)
\newenvironment{myBox}{%
\medskip
\noindent%
\begin{lrbox}{\@tempboxa}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\columnwidth}%
}{%
\end{minipage}%
\end{lrbox}%
\fbox{\parbox{0.5\columnwidth}{\usebox{\@tempboxa}}}\\%
\vspace{0.5ex}
\medskip
}%
Now I would have thought that when this is invoked, it would produce a
box with a medium skip before and after, but in fact the skips happen
inside the box, which is flush with the previous and following
paragraphs. Does anyone have an idea how I can change this behaviour?
Thanks,
Robin
--
" Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells."
- G. Pettie
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Skips before and after new environment
Herbert Voss wrote:
robin schrieb:
Now I would have thought that when this is invoked, it would produce a
box with a medium skip before and after, but in fact the skips happen
inside the box, which is flush with the previous and following
paragraphs. Does anyone have an idea how I can change this behaviour?
choose \medskip if \bigskip is too much
\newenvironment{myBox}{%
\par\bigskip
\noindent%
\begin{lrbox}{\@tempboxa}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\columnwidth}%
}{%
\end{minipage}%
\end{lrbox}%
\fbox{\parbox{0.5\columnwidth}{\usebox{\@tempboxa}}}%
\par\bigskip
}%
Thanks - that did the trick.
Robin
--
" Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and
picke quarrells."
- G. Pettie
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: off-topic: can't access Herbert's pages from home
Christian Ridderström wrote: Hi I'm sorry for being totally off topic here, but does anybody have an idea why I can access Herbert's pages (http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de) from work, but not from home? Does your ISP employ censorware? It's amazing the kind of stuff these programs filter out (e.g. some people can't get at my philosophy and linguistics site, and one of my students couldn't download Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality from home). Maybe all those references to latex trigger some anti-fetish subroutine ;-) Robin -- " Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells." - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Bibliography
Jade wrote: Hello, I've been using Lyx for a while now for my law thesis, and I'm very happy with it, but I still have a problem. I have to quote my references on a footnote this way : "author, nameofbook, wherepublished, year." (plus a bibliography at the end), but the only thing that Lyx can give me is : "[ 1 ]", or "[ AuthorYear ]", and produce a biblioraphy at the end. The problem is that is human sciences there is no choice, we HAVE to use the first way (quote the entire reference eache time we mention the book, or the article, in a footnote). I have found a package called "jurabib", that can help doing this, but I wondered if there was a way to include the package automatically using Lyx. I'm sure it would promote a lot Lyx into the human science community, because we have to use this format (and not the way "[ x ]" + biblio at the end), I know a lot of persons that would love to see this implemented. I'm also quiet sure that it would't be very hard to implement. Doesn't jurabib show up under styles when you click the BibTeX box? Robin -- " Like these cutters, and hackers, who will take the wall of men, and picke quarrells." - G. Pettie Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Changing straight quotes to left/right quotes
Angus Leeming wrote:
Nalan Turner wrote:
I have a large text file which I have imported into LyX. I'd like to
replace the straight ASCII quotation marks with LaTeX left/right
quotation marks, but if I were to do them all by hand I'd be at it for
days. Is there a way to do it automatically, and still have the quotes
going in the correct direction?
Robin
This appears to work. No promises however...
Run as
$ conv.sh yourfile.lyx
The output will be in tmp-yourfile.lyx
Incidentally, does anyone know how to escape "'" so I could have
sed 's/RE//'
here instead of having to use
sed "s/RE//"
with the ensuing nastiness of ''?
Angus
#! /bin/sh
replacequotes () {
TMP=tmp-$1
cp $1 $TMP
while (grep "'" $TMP > /dev/null); do
sed "s/'/\\
begin_inset Quotes eld\\
end_inset\\
\\
/" $1 | sed "s/'/\\
begin_inset Quotes erd\\
end_inset\\
\\
/" > tmp-out
mv tmp-out $TMP
done
}
test $# -eq 1 || exit 1
replacequotes $1
Thanks, but that replaces all apostrophes with quotation marks - what I
need is something to replace straight quotes ("). Nevertheless, I think
I've got the idea - I'm not that familiar with sed, but I can probably
knock something together in Perl.
Robin
--
"The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't
mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake."
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: MLA Format?
Andrey Goder wrote: Is there a document class for the MLA format available? Yes - you can download mla.sty from CTAN. If I recall correctly, hum.sty is also MLA-like. Robin -- "The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake." - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: installing Bst files properly
Owen Lucas wrote:
I think that this depends on what bst you are using.
In the past I have put "\usepackage [authoryear,round] {natbib}" in my
preamble but there may be a better way to do it in new versions of lyx.
These days I use the harvard package which uses round as standard.
But Harvard won't do APA - it's too simple and logical ;-)
Robin
--
"The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't
mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake."
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Authoring HTML pages with Lyx?
Chris Carlen wrote: > Hi: > > I want to write some web pages with equations and graphics. Some > graphics will be images created by programs with aren't set up well to > export in a format suitable for Lyx. > > But the main question is, if I create a document in Lyx, how might I > convert it to HTML, and in your experience, does this process work well? The short answer: File->Export->HTML The long answer: LyX does not produce HTML itself; it uses whatever converters are installed on your computer. The most commonly used is latex2html, but you can specify others such as tth or hevea. In using latex2html, it's worth learning how to tweak the options that control whether, and at what level, pages are split, navigation tools etc. and specifying those (in Edit->Preferences->Converters). For example latex2html -no_subdir -split 0 -show_section_numbers $$i will give you a one-page document, retaining the section numbers from LyX (the default is to remove them). There is a lengthy documentation supplied with the latex2html package. Personally I find latex2html is best used in combination with stylesheet tweaking. It is _not_ suitable for sophistiacted website design - you want an HTML editor for that (Bluefish, Quanta+, CoffeeCup ... take your pick). > At this point I can't fathom how links might be inserted into LyX > documents. Insert->URL, but I can't work out how to get that to turn into a real hyperlink in 1.3. Used to work fine in 1.2.* Robin -- "The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake." - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: LyX 1.3.0-Qt no paragraph vertical spacing fill
Raymond Ouellette wrote:
I compiled and installed both Qt and XForm version of LyX 1.3.0 a few weeks ago.
Qt version is really pleasing to use and the viisual comfort with aa fonts is great.
I do have 2 small concerns.
1. There are some not translated options in the different combo boxes (I use it in french) -- if I note the different missing sentences, who must be advised? This problem occurs in both version (Qt and XForm).
2. Only in Qt version: you can't do a vertical space fill for a paragraph, it doesn't work. Selecting « ressort vertical » (vertical fill I guess in the english text) does nothing. The other options work. I had to use \vspace{\fill} in ERT to get my paragraph pushed at the bottom of the page.
That's funny - I only just noticed I have the same problem with 1.3 Qt.
Robin
--
"The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't
mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake."
- Wittgenstein
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: howto fonts
Thomas Zauner wrote: hi, i am working on a college paper, and i need to add some arabic words to my text. the rest of the doc is in normal latin15. (EU) i really would like to RTFM but i don't know where to start. do i need to - install the fonts (which arabic fonts are there?) to my system (RH7.3) - or intsall them to my X server ? - and how to just use them for a couple of words in lyx and not the whole document ? - and the printing isn't handled by lyx anyway so do i need to tell tex to use these to get the right dvi/ps? i have used xfontsel to check my fonts. i found sth. like " -arabic-*-*-*- " . i don't if taht helps? help would very appreciated. I can't help you with the Arabic side, but I have a general guide to fonts in LyX at www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/lyxfonts2.lyx This has advice on installing fonts in TeX and using different fonts within the same document. Robin -- "A Perl script is "correct" if it gets the job done before your boss fires you." - Larry Wall Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.1 is released
If anyone compiles a Mandrake RPM, please let me know! If no one wants to do it, I'll have a go, but last time I got bogged down in dependencies, got fed up, and made myself a simple tar.gz binary instead. Don't trust me on this one! Robin -- "The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake." - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?
Nirmal Govind wrote: missing something? Some killer feature? :-) Not really. There are just people out there who like pain, you know... Not sure I understand what you mean by "pain" Andre... cos I thought that one of the coolest features of the Qt version was being able to navigate thru folders and files much quicker than in the xforms version.. and this took away a lot of the pain, for me at least! :-) Oh yes! It's nice knowing what will happen when I click on a file, too ;-) Robin -- "The raisins may be the best part of a cake, but that doesn't mean that a bag of raisins is better than a cake." - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: others like lyx?
back (I remember, I was one of the people asking questions!). Have a hunt through the archives. 7.- I'm sure there was something else as well, but i can't remember it right now... Implementing character styles has been mentioned a few times, as has replacing the "hardwired" font selection with something more flexible, based on what fonts are actually installed in LaTeX. I've also mentioned that using the OpenOffice Word filter would be nice, but again that's a major project, since AFAIK it is not available as a standalone application like wv. I realise that people get very defencive about software they have worked on, and I really don't mean to cause any offence, but 1,4&5 are pretty vital features to me. What do you guys think? AFAIK they should all be able to be added without too much work (not that I've actually looked at the code myself, i don't have the experience, or the know-how). Some of them could be implemented without too much trouble; others, I think, would be require a lot of work. Some may not even be practical at all; for example, allowing users to fine tune *all* aspects of formatting really means being a front-end to TeX rather than LaTeX. It could be done, but you would then have a different program altogether, perhaps. I use LyX for most of my writing because it relieves me of the fine-tuning, and I'm fortunate enough to want to produce the kind of documents that LaTeX is designed to produce. When I need to fiddle with the details of physical (as opposed to logical) layout, I use OpenOffice. They are both valid ways of doing things, but I'm not sure how good it is to try and mix them. BTW, I'm sure that if a benevolent millionaire were to pay a team of LyX developers to implement every feature request anyone has come up with here or on Bugzilla, someone would write in to complain about LyX being bloated and say there is a need for a lightweight front-end to LaTeX ;-) Robin -- "Some guy breaking into a government computer system and wreaking havoc makes for a more interesting movie plot than some guy writing device drivers. It's hard to work in a good 10-minutes car chase scene with some guy who writes device drivers..." - tjc, post to LWN Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: General compat question
Kirk R. Wythers wrote: I would like to hear what lyx users (or latex users for that matter) do when a particular journal requires manuscripts be submitted as Microsoft Word documents. I have tried latex2rtf, but the result leaves so much additional re-formatting work (equations, figures, tables) to be done that I'm about to throw up my hands and say, "fine... it's a Word world, quit fighting it". However, before I do, I'd like to hear other's experiences in this area... as I can't believe that I am alone in this struggle. I had that - I'm sending them a hard copy. Sir Robin -- "There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them." - Blake's 7 Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: BibTeX-editor (GUI) for KDE
Janus Sandsgaard wrote: Does anyone know a QT based BibTeX editor for Linux? I am using Pybliographer, but since I am writing a book about doing academic writing in LyX (and OOo) I want to make sure I am recommending the right thing. I've been doing academic writing for some time using Pybliographic - works fine for me. No Qt version, though, which is a shame. It's a matter of taste, but I don't like Gtk much. Robin -- "There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them." - Blake's 7 Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: \renewcommand... (except inside a footnote)?
Ronald Florence wrote:
I use \renewcommand{\cite}{\footcite} in the preamble with jurabib to
get footnote citations, which endnote.sty puts at the end of the book.
For multiple citations, I need to put the citations inside a footnote,
but \footcite inside a footnote is unacceptable.
How do I define \renewcommand{\cite}{\footcite} to work only when it
is not inside a footnote? Thanks,
I tried this and couldn't find a workaround - I had to open a footnote
and put my citation inside it.
Robin
--
"There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them."
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: LyX 1.3.2
Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández wrote: Hi. I use LyX 1.2.3 on a MK 9.1, installed from the distro CD,s. I want to install LyX 1.3.2 with the file lyx-1.3.2-1mdk91-qt.i586.rpm, but I have the error: "qt=2.2.1 is required for LyX 1.3.2_qt". My KDE is the version 3.1.0 and I don't understand why it's necessary to return to KDE 2 for to install this last LyX version. Someone can to help me?. Thanks. It's a bug in the Mandrake RPM. Just do "rpm -ivh --nodeps" and it should work fine. Sir Robin -- "There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them." - Blake's 7 Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: parallel.sty
Michael Chabon wrote:
Pardon my ignorance... I have found this, but how do I install it to
use with Lyx? and once it's installed, how to I use it?
Thanks for the help.
MC
As with any package, the first thing you need to do is make it available
to LaTeX. Put it somewhere inside your LaTeX distribution (on my
computer this is /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/ but it could be different
on yours). Then run the command "texhash" (without the quotes) to update
LaTeX. Note: you may need to be logged in as root/admin to do this.
Using it in LyX depends on whether it's supported by LyX. If it is,
then all you have to do is click Edit->Reconfigure, then restart LyX and
you can use it just like any other document class. If it isn't, then you
will need to put LaTeX commands in your Preamble (in LyX 1.3.* you get
there from Layout->Document). If there's any documnetation with the
package, read it and see what it asks you to do. If not, try putting
\usepackage{parallel.sty}
in the preamble and see what happens.
Robin
--
"There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them."
- Blake's 7
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: parallel.sty
Michael Chabon wrote: Thanks for all the help, I got it installed and working, but it's just too much of a pain. I will have to spend money for software, I fear. Well, LyX isn't for everyone - I happen to think it's the best thing since sliced bread, but if you want something more point-and-clicky, I'd suggest checking out Scribus before you splash out on an expensive DTP program. It doesn't have all the functionality of its commercial cousins, but it's getting there slowly. I'd still recommend persisting for a while with LyX, though - it kind of grows on you. Robin -- "There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them." - Blake's 7 Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Single quotes
Rajil Saraswat wrote: On Tuesday 16 September 2003 09:05, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 08:52:50AM +0100, Rajil Saraswat wrote: My message got lost somewhere in the list, so here is my question again. What is the correct way of using single quotes in a text. Using the plain ' ' donot look right in the rendered postscript file. What do you expect it to look like? Andre' I want the first quote to point inside and not with its tail pointing outside and away from the word. Does this make sense? Yes, and the unpleasant truth is that you have to do it with raw LaTeX, as I found _after_ I'd sent my PostScript file to be printed. Robin -- "There are other rules, but you'll find out what those are when you break them." - Blake's 7 Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Once more: Bibtex
Kai Johannes Keller wrote: Hello List, the many postings and questions about bibtex in the last time made me curious. So now I started to learn what it is, and I'm building my own Bibtex-database. But I don't like the numbers ([1] in .dvi-output) for citing an entry of the bibtex-catalogue, I'd rather like to have something like [OLO] in the Text to take reference to a book written by Rainer Oloff. I know that it's possible with the "normal" Bibliography-environment, but is there a way to do this in Bibtex, too? You need to find (or write) a BibTeX style file that fits your purposes, then you can select it from the bibliography button. You can also sometimes use preamble commands to modify how the style is implemented - Jurabib has an impressive range. If you don't specify a style, you get BibeX Plain, which uses the bracketed numbers for references. Robin -- "I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have prepared it for you'; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct yourself. But I cannot say: 'Thank them because, look, how kind they are!'--since the next moment they may sting you. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Features Request and PDF/Acrobat question
Paul Jahshan wrote: 4. Finally, the PDF/Acrobat problem: I've read the help file on the poor quality of LyX to PDF output when displayed through Acrobat Reader and, despite my best attempts, couldn't understand how to fix this. Again, is there a "clear" 1-2-3 method to work around this rather irritating issue? (I'm using RH 9) Which part 'failed'? The part where the output is decent! in Acrobat, I get a below average quality, even if I zoom in. That's probably the font part. Try changing your font to "ae" or "pslatex". Robin -- "I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have prepared it for you'; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct yourself. But I cannot say: 'Thank them because, look, how kind they are!'--since the next moment they may sting you. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Pagination in book class
Rich Shepard wrote: [snip] If the book (or memoir) class had a style "Copyright" as does the Koma-Script book format, I would not be asking all these questions. Unfortunately, use of the latter class produces its own unintended consequences for me writing in the U.S. If I was really clever and knew LaTeX and LyX _very_ well, I could probably take the "Copyright" style from Koma-Script and add it to "book". Unfortunately, I'm not that clever with these applications. Nor can I find a LyX-class-writing-HOWTO. Help->Customisation has a section "Decalring a new text class" which is a good place to start. Basically you start by importing the main class you want to use, and add any new paragraph environments you want, or alter existing ones. So you could either start with the Book class and add aCopyright environment, or start with Book (Koma-script) and edit it to make it behave more like Book. Robin -- "I can say: 'Thank these bees for their honey as though they were kind people who have prepared it for you'; that is intelligible and describes how I should like you to conduct yourself. But I cannot say: 'Thank them because, look, how kind they are!'--since the next moment they may sting you. - Wittgenstein Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: apa style running head
mreavey wrote: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00495.html I'm running lyx 1.2. on Mandrake 9.0 gnome desktop Where should the above code be placed to recompile, and have it end up as a usable document class? Nothing needs recompiling, just put the file in your home directory, in .lyx/layouts, run Edit-Reconfigure and restart LyX . Alternatively, if you want to be available for all users, put it in /usr/share/lyx/layouts. Robin -- "Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia." - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: Theorem-like and personal environments
Alon Altman wrote:
Hi,
I've defined some of my own environments in the preamble of the document
(some theorem-like, some generic). I would like LyX to allow me to typeset
text in these environments without resorting to ERT to begin and end these
environments. How can I add my own environment types to the dropdown list?
You need to write a layout file. It's best to start by copying the
layout file you normally use from /usr/sharew/lyx/layouts (or the
equivalent directory on your system) to the .lyx/layouts directory in
your home directory, renaming it to whatever you want.
Then add your new environments or modify existing ones. Here's a rather
complicated example from one of my layout files:
# Box style definition
# Adapted from a style by Herbert Voss
Style Box
MarginStatic
LatexType Environment
LatexName myBox
NextNoIndent 1
LeftMarginm
RightMargin m
TopSep0.5
ParSep0.5
BottomSep 0.5
Align Block
AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center
LabelType No_Label
Font
color blue
EndFont
#define the environment myBox
Preamble
\newenvironment{myBox}{%
\noindent%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\columnwidth}%
}{%
\end{minipage}%
\end{lrbox}%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\vspace{0.5ex}
}%
EndPreamble
The kind of stuff LyX can handle, like margins and alignments, goes in
the first part, but if you want complex LaTeX stuff, it needs to be
defined in the Preamble section.
Run Edit->Reconfigure in LyX, and the next time you run LyX your new
layout should show up.
Robin
--
"Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia."
- Robert Anton Wilson
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: LyX -> html
Mark Carroll wrote: On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: Where can I find examples of tools used for converting a report or a manual from LyX -> HTML? I don't know, but FWIW I normally export to TeX then use a free latex2html Perl script. You can call latex2html from within LyX; in fact, if it's installed, LyX should detect it automatically. You may want to change some of the options, though - see the copious documentation that comes with latex2html. A simpler alternative is Hevea. Unfortunately the HTML produced by latex2html or Hevea is not up to the standards of HTML purists. I'd recommend getting Tidy (which you can download from www.w3.org) and running it on the output, especially if you want "strict" HTML or XHTML. Robin -- "Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia." - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: How to use Nomencl package with LyX to prepare a list of abbreviations and symbols
R S Ananda Murthy wrote:
Hello,
Nomencl is a LaTeX package to prepare list of symbols, abbreviations etc. But how to use this in LyX?
Thanks for all the help
I'm not familiar with this package, but the general procdure in LyX is
to go to Layout>Document>Preamble and add the line
\usepackage{name-of-your-package}
This will allow you to use any commands the package provides (though
this will require entering raw LaTeX). Some packages do not require any
extra commands (e.g. \usepackage{pandora} will automatically change your
fonts to the Pandora fonts).
Robin
--
"The Pseudo Politically Correct term that I would use to describe the
mind set
of postmodernism is 'epistemologically challenged'." - Chip Morningstar
Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: LyX scores with a publisher!
Tobias Hilbricht wrote: Am Dienstag, 17. Februar 2004 16:36 schrieb Ronald Florence: I've noted in the past that LyX is a frustration in dealing with trade publishers (like Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster) for books intended for the general public. Unlike some scientific publishers, trade publishers do not accept manuscripts in LaTeX, LyX or any format but ms-word or perhaps WordPerfect. Dear Ronald, I think that publishers want to format their publications themselves, the author has only to concentrate on the content and deliver a manuscript suitable for say TeX and its children or Framemaker or something else. In my experience publishers are happy with plain text files to feed their formatting-engines. Some jounals accept TeX-source-files, but this is a rare exemption when the formatting of contents is very standardized. The distinction between author and typesetter/printer has worked quite well so far, in general, I believe. So I am happy to hear that your publisher accepted your formatted proofs, but I would not be disappointed if the publisher did not accept the authors layout-ideas and want to typeset it himself. Just a side-note - in our first-year courses we produce our own books of readings which are photocopied and bound by the university print shop. Most people just include photocopies of articles or web pages that (at best) they've run through Word, but of course I use LyX (last semester I went over the top, combining all the citations from the various papers into one massive BibTeX file and writing a glossary and index!). While I was explaining how important it was that the odd-numbered pages came out on the right, the guy asked "How come you always give us such clean copy?" "It's not me, it's my software," I replied! Robin -- "Telling disgruntled employees that they are always free to leave their jobs seems no different in principle from telling political dissidents that they are free to emigrate." - Stephen Newman Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.3.4 is released
Paul Smith wrote: Prebuilt binaries (mainly rpms for linux distributions) should soon be available at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.4/ May I ask you whether you have an estimate of the date? I'm downloading the tarball now and will attempt to make a Mandrake RPM - I'll let you know if I get it working. Robin -- "Telling disgruntled employees that they are always free to leave their jobs seems no different in principle from telling political dissidents that they are free to emigrate." - Stephen Newman Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Installing fonts [was: Re: Specifying explicit point sizes]
> | Jim Osborn wrote: > | > > | > Hi LyX experts, > | > > | > Is there a way to make LyX use a specific font point size > | > in a selected portion of text, instead of the "larger"/"smaller" > | > sizes in the standard Layout->Character menu? > | > | > | have a look at > | http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts.html#newfont > Nice link, and nice links from it, which I followed, picking up a few new fonts on the way. However, how do I get Lyx to recognise fonts that I've installed in TeX? Robin
Re: spellchecker feature suggestion
Christopher Jones wrote: > > When I spell a word wrong, I tend to spell it consistently wrong. A 'correct > all' feature in the spellchecker would be nice. But dangerous ;-) Robin
Re: Helvetica.sty?
"Anna H.Pryor" wrote: > > For a conference that I am putting my paper in, I have the following: > > We discourage the use of LaTeX but if you must use this format please observe > the following instructions: Aside from the good practical advice other people have offered, I would also suggest that you chew their ears a bit. If this a conference, I assume it is at some academic institution, and LaTeX is _the_ format for academic publications. If they're at a university, they've got LaTeX; if they don't know how to use it, they should know someone who does. As for PDF, it's a useful fix for circulating printer-friendly documents, but haven't they thought that they might need to edit submissions? OK, it is possible to edit a PDF file, but it's probably easier to print it out, scan it as a text file and put back the formatting! As an aside, I was looking at the website of a local university in one of those "Maybe I should apply for a better-paid job" moods. The application form was a downloadable MS Word document. I hit my Back button. Robin
Yet another lyx guide
In case anyone's interested, I've just written a very basic guide to lyx, available at www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/lyxguide.pdf It's aimed at university students and staff, so doesn't have anything about letter class etc. - it's just something to get people started in the right direction and give a brief taste of some of the things that can be done with lyx. Feedback welcome! Robin
Re: What's happening with tabular in 1.1.6?
Herbert Voss wrote:
>
> German Poo Caaman~o wrote:
> >
> > > > Before LyX 1.1.6 the default behaviour for tabular was {\centering,
> > > > but it doesn't happen anymore. All my new tables are left aligned,
> > > > but doesn't happen with tables created before than 1.1.5.
> > > >
> > > > Is it a new feature or a mistake?
> > >
> > > It is a bug fix. Tables shouldn't be centred by default.
> >
> > I prefer the bug :-)
> > It coulb be nice choose the alignment for the table, because
> > now is necessary an ERT to solve it.
>
> cursor left or right the table and
> layout-paragraph-center
Is there a way to set this in, for example lyxrc? Personally, I also
find this "bug fix" annoying - in almost all publishing layouts, tables
are centred.
Robin
New layout problem
I have a small but irritating problem with a new layout I've written.
Everything works fine except for tables. I created a new environment
called "Header", and now all tables use this as a default instead of
"Standard".
The layout is attached.
Robin
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[article]{FAST}
# FAST document style
# Author : Robin Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Based loosely on the Article layout by Matthias Ettrich
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
# This layout was written for teachers at Bilkent University's
# Faculty Academic Support Team, for producing lesson materials.
# Input general definitions
Input stdclass.inc
# Get rid of some confusing environments ;-)
NoStyle LyX-Code
NoStyle Address
NoStyle Right_Address
NoStyle Verse
NoStyle Chapter
NoStyle Chapter*
NoStyle Title
NoStyle Paragraph
NoStyle Subparagraph
NoStyle Paragraph*
NoStyle Subparagraph*
MaxCounter Counter_Section
SecNumDepth 3
TocDepth3
# Heading style definition
Style Heading
CopyStyle Part*
Align Center
Font
SizeLarger
EndFont
End
# Change Part and Part* a little
Style Part
Align Left
AlignPossible Left Right Center
TopSep2
BottomSep 1.5
Font
SizeLarger
EndFont
End
Style Part*
Align Left
AlignPossible Left Center Right
TopSep2
BottomSep 1.5
Font
SizeLarger
EndFont
End
# Box style definition
# Adapted from a style by Herbert Voss
Style Box
MarginStatic
LatexType Environment
LatexName myBox
NextNoIndent 1
LeftMarginm
RightMargin m
TopSep0.5
ParSep0.5
BottomSep 0.5
Align Block
AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center
LabelType No_Label
Font
color blue
EndFont
#define the environment myBox
Preamble
\newenvironment{myBox}{%
\noindent%
\begin{lrbox}{\@tempboxa}%
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\columnwidth}%
}{%
\end{minipage}%
\end{lrbox}%
\fbox{\parbox{0.5\columnwidth}{\usebox{\@tempboxa}}}%
\vspace{0.5ex}
}%
EndPreamble
End
Re: Yet another lyx guide
George De Bruin wrote:
>
>
> Hi Robin,
>
> Just took a quick look at your LyX guide, and it's very nice. I do actually
> have a suggestion: Possibly add a quick ref to the templates available and
> how they correspond for different types of documents -- especially research
> papers. I'm certain that would grab a students attention ("What? All my
> papers are pre-formatted -- I just do the typing? Cool!").
>
> Also, on another topic well suited / related to student interests (but,
> admittedly on my list as well...) would be setting up BibTeX and a
> Bibliography database. That would be extra useful, and I could see students
> saying "what, I don't have to format all those references by hand" :)
>
Good points - will add them when I get a free moment (though I need to
revise my own BibTeX knowledge, which I've pretty much forgotten!).
Robin
Re: Yet another lyx guide
Marcus Beyer wrote: > > > In case anyone's interested, I've just written a very basic guide to > > lyx, available at > > > > www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/lyxguide.pdf > > > > It's aimed at university students and staff, so doesn't have anything > > about letter class etc. - it's just something to get people started in > > the right direction and give a brief taste of some of the things that > > can be done with lyx. Feedback welcome! > > I only had a quick look at it, but seems quite nice :-) Thanks! > > Comment regarding 3.3 Inserting figures: > You write that > "One drawback is that LyX can only handle images in PostScript > (or Encapsulated PostScript) format, [...]" > And on page 2 footnote 4 you explain the way > "LyX -> LaTeX -> TeX -> DVI -> PostScript" > > When you choose the way > "LyX -> pdfLaTeX -> pdfTeX -> PDF" > you can include PDF, PNG and JPG images. Is there a way I can do this in Postscript? I assume there is a pdf2ps program or the like somewhere, but I can't seem to find one on my system.
Re: Yet another lyx guide
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > When I open lyxguide.pdf with xpdf, it looks like mostly blank pages > > with dots scattered around and a few lines and rectangles. I don't > > xpdf doesn't seem to like bitmap fonts. The original author should use > outline fonts instead, or you should use gv/ghostview/mgv/acroread > instead of xpdf. Sure, but how do I set this? (Sorry Dekel, I didn't understand your explanation). Robin
Re: New layout problem
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 02:05:42AM +0200, robin wrote: > > I have a small but irritating problem with a new layout I've written. > > Everything works fine except for tables. I created a new environment > > called "Header", and now all tables use this as a default instead of > > "Standard". > > > > The layout is attached. > > I couldn't recreate the problem. Weird - I've just found out that it only happens with old documents that I change to the new document class, not to new documents. Robin
Re: New user, post RTFM
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:31:58PM -0800, DAve wrote: > > Can anyone give me clue as to what is going wrong with relyx, or am I doing the >completely wrong thing > > here. The files I downloaded did not come with 'res.layout' as the errors indicate. > > In order to use new document classes, LyX & reLyX requires a layout file, > and there is no such file for the class you are trying to use. > > Currently the only available resume layout file is not in the LyX distribution > (why??), but you can get it from > http://www-rocq.inria.fr/~lasgoutt/lyx/cv-1.3.tar.gz Nice layout following the KISS principle. I would take issue with this line, though: "If a topic does not have a subtitle, you have to put a protected space there. This is a shortcoming of LyX." Really? Looks more like a LaTeX feature to me, and a pretty unavoidable one in this kind of environment (which looks like a vaiation the List environment). To expect any program short of genuine AI to intuit when the first word you type is a list heading and when not would be too much to expect! Robin
Re: Yet another lyx guide
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:00:33AM +0200, robin wrote: > > Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > When I open lyxguide.pdf with xpdf, it looks like mostly blank pages > > > > with dots scattered around and a few lines and rectangles. I don't > > > > > > xpdf doesn't seem to like bitmap fonts. The original author should use > > > outline fonts instead, or you should use gv/ghostview/mgv/acroread > > > instead of xpdf. > > > > Sure, but how do I set this? (Sorry Dekel, I didn't understand your > > explanation). > > What exactly didn't you understand ? > > PS: The simplest way to get outline fonts is to select pslatex font in the > document dialog. Ah, this was what I needed to know. The lyxguide.pdf file is now xpdf-friendly! Robin
Possible bug
I was trying to revise the LyX guide I've been writing to explain how to get non-ps images into a LyX document. I went through the normal Insert - External Material - Rasterized image procedure. No problem - the ugly grey box came up as expected. However, when I the clicked on the box and clicked "View result", the program froze. I played around with this and found it does not happen all the time. Any ideas? BTW, IMHO this feature, while impressive, needs to be made a little more user-friendly. I'm trying to push LyX in a work-environment where some users only recently discovered the difference between the Delete and Backspace keys, so "Rasterized" is really going to throw them! Robin
Re: LyX(Latex) Tips
Herbert Voss wrote: > > Matej Cepl wrote: > > > > would it be possible to make %subj% somewhere available for download for off-topic >browsing. > > there is a tgz-file of all my lyx-pages at > > http://www.perce.de/lyx/lyx-faq.tgz > > it's about 2 MBytes! > But definitely worth it! Robin
Re: Latex2html author says it is LyX's fault.
Guenter Milde wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:38:54 -0600 Paul E Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I got this email from Ross Moore about the problem I had with my
> > regression notes and latex2html. He sys LyX is not outputting proper
> > TeX for my user-defined paragraph environment "myHangIndent". That
> > specific point is about 2/3 of the way down, but I leave the rest for
> > context. My part begins with >, the rest is from Ross Moore, who is
> > answing bug reports for latex2html today.
> >
> >
> > > I have a TeX document that latex2html cannot process, apparently
> > because
> > > it has this bit in the preamble:
> > >
> > > %% Textclass specific LaTeX commands.
> > > \newenvironment{HangIndent}
> > > {\list{}{%
> > > \setlength\leftmargin{1.5cm}% leftmargin
> > > \itemindent-\leftmargin}\item{}}
> > > {\endlist}
> > > \newcommand\myHangIndent[1]{
> > > \begin{HangIndent} #1
> > > \end{HangIndent}
> > > }
> >
> > The problem is that LaTeX2HTML wants you to give the definition as:
> >
> > \newcommand{\myHangIndent}[1]{... etc ...
> >
> > With that, everything processes smoothly;
> > though it doesn't necessarily do the best possible translation.
> > ...
>
> I remember that I once read about \newcommand in a LaTeX textbook that its
> arguments must not be spread across lines (may be this was a 2.09 feature
> that got solved in 2e). I.e. LaTeX2HTML behaves as I would expect.
>
> The same textbook offered a workaround using comment characters. One could do
>
> \newcommand\myHangIndent[1]{%
> \begin{HangIndent} #1%
> \end{HangIndent}
>
> as the % comments out everything until and including the EOL char.
>
> Would this work with LaTeX2HTML?
I found this fixed some problems in PS and PDF, but not latex2html.
Re: Cover sheet layout
Alexandre Gonçalves Jacarandá wrote: > > Hi, one more time I need help to format an cover sheet to my work. I need > to insert my name at top of sheet, title at middle, academic grade note > above in middle right and date at botton of page. > Help!!! A kludgy solution is to use VFills between centered paragraphs (and don't forget the page break at the bottom). I'm not sure what you mean by "above in middle right" - maybe you could use HFills to get the effect you want. An even kludgier solution, which I use sometimes for tricky cover pages, is to write that page in something different, e.g. KWord. Robin
Re: Help!
Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Wahyu Nugroho wrote: > > > I have download lyx-1.1.6fix1-1.i386.rpm from LyX ftp site. But when I try > > to install it to my machine (running RedHat 6.2) I got these message on my > > screen : > > error : failed dependencies : > > Xforms >= 0.88 is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix1-1 > > tetex is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix1-1 > > tetex-latex is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix1-1 > > libforms.so.0.88 is needed by lyx-1.1.6fix1-1 > > It looks like you don't have these packages. At least tetex should come > with redhat, i don't know about xforms. > > Insert the install CD, run a package manager (for example gnorpm), go to > the CD and search and install all packages that have "xforms" or > "tetex" in their names. 6.2 may not have new enough versions of these programs. tetex and latex don't change so frequently, but you'll probably need to download and install the latest versions of xforms and libforms. rpmfind.net is good for finding obscure libraries, or if you have a package manager that supports this (e.g. kpackage) just point it at an FTP site and install direct from there. Whatever you do, don't attempt to solve the problem by upgrading to RH 7.0 - it's the Windows ME of the Linux world! Robin
Re: Box environment
Herbert Voss wrote:
>
> Robin Turner wrote:
> >
> > I've been doing some work on a layout sheet for my workmates (assuming that I
> > can persuade them to start using LyX!) which involves a box environment - the
> > idea is that your text appears in a centred box (which is something we do a
> > lot). What I have so far works OK, but the next Standard paragraph comes out
> > on the same line as the box, so I need to kludge it by put in a blank line
> > with a protected space. Is there a more elegant way to do this?
>
> > \end{lrbox}%
> > \fbox{\parbox{0.5\columnwidth}{\usebox{\@tempboxa}}}\\% <--
> > \vspace{0.5ex}
>
> insert a linebreak \\
Thanks, that did the trick!
Robin
Graphics in pdflatex
I'm sorry if this has come up before ... I've just tried exporting a seminar presentation in pdflatex, as the fonts in a normal PDF export come out rather wobbly on the screen. To do this, I needed to convert my .eps figures to .pdf, which worked fine, except that in the exported document they come out in white on black, and skewed across the screen. This doesn't happen when I view the converted figure on its own, only in the exported pdflatex document. Any ideas? (this is with 1.1.6fix2, PDF output viewed with gv and xpdf). Robin
Simple bibtex question
I'm rewriting a booklet using bibtex for my bibliography. It comes out fine in the plain style (and also works with the other styles that come pre-installed) but I need it in MLA style. I've downloaded the mla.sty file into .../texmf/bibtex/bst/base but when I invoke it from LyX, I get no bibliography at all. Is there something else I should be doing? Thanks, Robin
Re: Simple bibtex question
"Christopher M. Jones" wrote:
>
> If I'm not mistaken, a sty would go in the latex, not the bibtex tree. But I
> doubt that makes a diff to your problem. The way I understand it, a sty would
> handle formatting the citations--author/date parenthetical, etc.--in the
> document itself. The sty is included in the preamble (\usepackage{mla}). But
> this doesn't get you a bibliography. A bst is required for creation of the
> bibliography, and is invoked from the \bibliographystyle{} command.
>
> So barring more informed advice, look for the mla.bst and get that installed.
Sorry, I meant to say "mla.bst" not "mla.sty"! What I need to know is
what else I need to do other than sticking it in the tree.
Tried texhash, but all I got was a bunch of error messages caused by LyX
interpreting my citations as LaTeX commands.
Robin
Re: wordcount
"Saalfeld, Christoph" wrote: > > Hi, > > a little bi off-topic but is there a possibility to get the number of words > of a lyx documents with ispell ? > All other methods (wc -> to much words; wordcount.sh -> no output) produced > no acceptable result. > Is there a command line option you can use with ispell to get the number of > words ? > I'm using Lyx 1.1.6fix3 for win32 and Cygwin. > Will there be a function to count words within LyX in future releases ? > (like in word ?) ispell will work from the command line on LaTeX documents (with the command "-t") but chokes on LyX commands. Running a spellcheck within LyX should give you a word count anyway. Robin
Another BibTeX/Pybliographic question
BibTeX seems to be the flavour of the month (maybe for version 2.0 Lyx will have its own BibTeX interface, and we'll be saved all these problems!). OK, I finally got MLA style working (thanks, Herbert!) but URLs don't show up. I can get a URL to come up by using a different field, but the effect is ugly. Is there any way to force this (MLA style is not the only culprit, BTW)? On the subject of bibliography styles, I'm revising a textbook on how to write term papers. To date I have advised students to use APA in social sciences and MLA in humanities, but to be honest, I'm not too fond of either. What I'm looking for is a style that is unobtrusive (like APA is -- not!) and good for electronic sources. Anyone have any favourites? Robin
Re: LyX [getting seriously off-topic]
Allan Rae wrote: > > Chomsky (notice the medial -m-) and Pink are grammarians, not > orthographers, so it would be quite unusual to hear either of these > gentlemen comment on the latter. The rules for English pronunciation are > like the British constitution - not written, but real and binding > nevertheless. A writer is simply not entitled to take a letter and declare > that he now wishes the rest of us to pronounce it a new way. Chomsky did in fact co-author a book on English phonology, _The Sound System of English_, if I remember rightly. It was, however, largely untrue, consisting as it did of an attempt to discover a systematic order in an essentially disorderly system. >It will be seen, then, that a very small set of rules handles the > correct pronunciation of all English words. As you say, these rules are > intimately tied to the history of the word, but this only highlights the > application of the rule-set, and hardly negates it. A small set? As someone who teaches non-native speakers, I can assure you that while there are rules, they are numerous and inconsistent. >Notwithstanding, final -x in words which are not directly borrowed from > other languages IS uniformly pronounced -ks, and hence the above > 'exceptions' turn out not to be exceptions at all, but ignorance of basic > guidelines. There I would agree, unless we count hackerese as a language which can be borrowed from ;-) > > There are probably no examples of a letter that is always uniformly > > pronounced in English. > > On the contrary, words are grouped in regular patterns which DETERMINE > their pronunciation; the only room for manoeuvre is regionalism, which > does not apply on the internet. When the rules determining patterns become complex enough, the result is sufficiently chaotic to resemble a rule-less state. Look at the pattern -ough, for example. > > > Basically it is not worth persuing this debate much further. Probably, but it's like an itch you just can't stop scratching. Robin
Re: LyX tables in a A4 document
Adolfo Pachón wrote: > > HI all!! > > How have I to make tables to keep it in the doc? My tables output the > paper. Two possible solutions. 1. If you want to keep your column widths the same and have the rest of the table printed below (usually ugly), right-click on your table and select Lontable. 2. Set the column width -- right click, click the Column/row tab and enter your desired width in the Width box. Remember you need to specify the units, e.g. "3cm". Robin
Re: adding classes
morten wrote: > > hi > This ought to be a simple question. > > I want to add a new class (prosper) to make slides. I copy the files to > /usr/shar/texmf/tex/latex/prosper and run mktexlsr > and then i "reconfigure" lyx. > > but it doesn't find the new class. > Any ideas > mo Dumb question, but did you run texhash? Robin
Confusing error message
I have a document on my office machine which will print out normally in
PostScript, but when I do the same at home, I get two error messages
saying:
1.
extra \endgroup.
\end{flushright}
2.
\begin{document}ended by \end{flushright}
Both systems use Mandrake 8.0 and LyX 1.2.
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
Robin
Re: Confusing error message
Should be the same version, since they're both the same distro.
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote:
>
> Version of tetex is mismatched?
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:25:56AM +0300, robin wrote:
> > I have a document on my office machine which will print out normally in
> > PostScript, but when I do the same at home, I get two error messages
> > saying:
> >
> >
> > 1.
> > extra \endgroup.
> > \end{flushright}
> >
> > 2.
> > \begin{document}ended by \end{flushright}
> >
> > Both systems use Mandrake 8.0 and LyX 1.2.
> >
> > Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
> >
> > Robin
>
> --
> Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids:
> Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89)
> http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
Re: Confusing error message
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote:
>
> There has to be a difference. Did you add any packages?
I would have thought so, but in both documents the LaTeX preamble is
blank. Only difference between the two systems is that one has mla.sty
installed, but I'm not using it.
>
> Look at the log file from the LaTeX run on both computers and compare
> the differences.
>
> ---Kayvan
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:48:53AM +0300, robin wrote:
> > Should be the same version, since they're both the same distro.
> >
> > "Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote:
> > >
> > > Version of tetex is mismatched?
> > >
> > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:25:56AM +0300, robin wrote:
> > > > I have a document on my office machine which will print out normally in
> > > > PostScript, but when I do the same at home, I get two error messages
> > > > saying:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 1.
> > > > extra \endgroup.
> > > > \end{flushright}
> > > >
> > > > 2.
> > > > \begin{document}ended by \end{flushright}
> > > >
> > > > Both systems use Mandrake 8.0 and LyX 1.2.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
> > > >
> > > > Robin
> > >
> > > --
> > > Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids:
> > > Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89)
> > > http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
>
> --
> Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids:
> Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89)
> http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
Re: Floats???
Steve Litt wrote: > > Haven't many of you talked of placing figures inside of floats? My figures > are simply inserted into the text. What is the advantage of placing my > figures inside floats? It means that LyX (well, LaTeX) works out the best position for the figure on the page. > Does it enable me to place a heading for the figure > and a figure number? Yes. Whether and how it's numbered depends on the document class, I think. Robin
Re: Confusing error message
The offending file is at
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/Chinese_texts.lyx
(I would have attached it, but it's rather long).
This may be a 1.2 issue. 1.2 is generally yummy, but, as you would
expect from a beta, does strange things occasionally -- the version on
my office computer changed itself into a TeX file today!
Robin
robin wrote:
>
> "Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote:
> >
> > There has to be a difference. Did you add any packages?
>
> I would have thought so, but in both documents the LaTeX preamble is
> blank. Only difference between the two systems is that one has mla.sty
> installed, but I'm not using it.
>
> >
> > Look at the log file from the LaTeX run on both computers and compare
> > the differences.
> >
> > ---Kayvan
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:48:53AM +0300, robin wrote:
> > > Should be the same version, since they're both the same distro.
> > >
> > > "Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Version of tetex is mismatched?
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:25:56AM +0300, robin wrote:
> > > > > I have a document on my office machine which will print out normally in
> > > > > PostScript, but when I do the same at home, I get two error messages
> > > > > saying:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > 1.
> > > > > extra \endgroup.
> > > > > \end{flushright}
> > > > >
> > > > > 2.
> > > > > \begin{document}ended by \end{flushright}
> > > > >
> > > > > Both systems use Mandrake 8.0 and LyX 1.2.
> > > > >
> > > > > Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
> > > > >
> > > > > Robin
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids:
> > > > Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89)
> > > > http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
> >
> > --
> > Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids:
> > Sylvan Associates, Inc. | Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena (8/8/89)
> > http://sylvan.com/~kayvan | "crown of her husband" | Robin Gregory (2/28/92)
Re: orthographic correction
Oscar Acosta wrote: >How can i make the orthographic correction on-line? >with the words bolded or with the specific markers, when there is an >error. > You could just block the word then go to Layout->Character and change the colour. Alternatively, underline with Ctrl-u. Robin
Re: LyX and DTP
Very good tips - thanks, Kat! Robin Kathryn Andersen wrote: >Folks may remember a while back that I posted my experiences trying to >use LyX to create my fanzine. Well, I've finally gotten around to >putting that up on the web. The URL is <http://www.katspace.com/lyx> > >Kathryn Andersen >-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >"Nothing at all really - a bit like your property when Vila's around - > suddenly it's somewhere else." > -- Roj Blake, describing teleportation > (Blake's 7: Cygnus Alpha [A3]) >
Re: Fonts in LyX, or fonts in X -- I have no idea...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello =) I have a few questions I'd like to ask. I'll start shooting.
>
>1) I just installed the cmpsfont port (Computer Modern PostScript Fonts (Adobe Type 1
>format)) hoping new and good looking fonts would appear in LyX. It doesn't seem like
>it though -- does anyone know what I could do?
>
Are you talking about the screen display here? LyX should be able to
handle any X fonts, assuming that the font in question has characters
for the face etc. that you have selected. Look at something like
xfontsel to check the parameters. Remember this has no effect on the
printed output.
>
>
>2) The previous question was an attempt to load better, more beautiful and
>more modern fonts into LyX than the ones already available. Why won't LyX
>recognize and allow me to use all of my X fonts? The same goes for GIMP by the
>way, not all are available.
>
If you're talking about the fonts used for printing, LyX only displays a
limited set of fonts in the Layout->Document menu (later versions may
give you more). However, since it's primarily a frontend to LaTeX, you
can tell it to use any font which is installed in TeX - you just have to
tell it to do so explicitly in LaTeX code. I posted a guide on this
subject on the lyx documentation list some time back, but unfortunately
it's unreadable unless you've upgraded to the (unstable) 1.2 version.
By default, LyX uses the Computer Modern fonts included in any standard
LaTeX distribution. IMHO, these look the best for most printing
purposes, though you should probably choose pslatex if you want to make
PDF documents (see long threads on this subject in the archives!). If
you want something really pretty, put \usepackage{pandora} in your preamble!
>
>
>3) Could anyone with a decent experience with LyX show me examples of really
>professional work? I'm really into this whole LyX thing, I believe it'll do
>wonders for me next semester in school. If anyone know of any hot templates
>and fonts as well, it would sincerely be appreciated.
>
To get an idea of what LyX can do typesetting-wise, just print out some
of the Help pages (e.g. Chapter 5 of Extended Features). One of the
virtues of LyX, though, is that even the simplest document will look
"really professional" when printed out (even if it looks pig-ugly on the
screen!).
Robin
charsets again
I downgraded to 1.1.6 after 1.2 started giving me the normal hassle with Latin5 characters (I've posted this on bugzilla - it seems to be a LyX/glibc mismatch). 1.1.6 displays Latin5 normally, but I noticed when I start it from the command line I see Unable to open character set file What and where is this file, and could it contain the secret of my charset problem? Thanks, Robin
Re: convert to rtf
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 17:05, thomas sch[nhoff wrote: > Hello, > > there is a little question about the "howto" convert a LyX-1.1.6 > generated html file, best quality and (sic!) of cause Word97 readable. > (Mailarchive and Herberts Website did not help at this point...) > What program is recommended to do this job quite well, especially when > dealing with large tables and figures/pictures!? They all do a reasonable job, though some Word setups will choke on the PNGs that latex2html uses for previous/next buttons, so make sure you export as one file (I think that's the default in 1.1.6, otherwise read man latex2html). You'll probably want to edit the stuff at the end as well. TTH also works fine in my experience. IMO, quality isn't really an issue in HTML - it either works or it doesn't. Robin
Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.2.0 is there!
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 19:31, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > You should have no problems upgrading from LyX versions 1.1.5 and 1.1.6. It is > nevertheless recommended that you keep backups of important documents. Most > documents will load in 1.2.0 without problems. Older versions of LyX cannot > read documents saved with LyX 1.2.0. Actually 1.1.6 can read 1.2 documents more-or-less - you just get a bunch of error messages and lose some formatting sometimes (found this out after I had to downgrade!). Robin
Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.2.0 is there!
On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 02:37, Matej Cepl wrote: > On 1 Jun, Robin wrote: > > sometimes (found this out after I had to downgrade!). > > Why did you do so? On my current system, LyX 1.2 won't produce Latin5 (iso-8859-9) characters. It's logged as bug 413, IIRC. Robin
Re: Lyx 1.2 printing
On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 11:38, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> John> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 08:20:39PM -0400, Chris Herrnberger
> John> wrote:
> >> Just finished compiling lyx from source and using cups/Krpint as
> >> the print mechanism. For some reason, C-p (printing) seems to be
> >> disabled now matter what I do. While Im new to Lyx im wondering if
> >> this is a bug or am I doing something incorrect. Any advise to
> >> enable printing would be greatly appreciated.
>
> John> If you have your print_command unset ("none") then printing will
> John> be disabled. Can you tell us what the relevant parts of your
> John> preferences are ?
>
> Might it be that with cups there is no lpr command?
AFAIK, CUPS uses the same print commands as LPD. If "spool command" is
set to lpr and "to printer" is set to -P, LyX should work fine with
CUPS, printinig to the default printer. If not, it's probably CUPS you
need to reconfigure, not LyX.
Robin
Problems compiling LyX 1.2
Every time I try to compile LyX 1.2, I get the following error message on running configure: ** Cannot find libXpm. Please check that the Xpm library is correctly installed on your system. ** Cannot find xpm.h. Please check that the Xpm library is correctly installed on your system. I have libxpm and libxpm-devel installed (this is on Mandrake 8.2). Does anyone have an idea what is causing this? Robin
Re: Problems compiling LyX 1.2
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>>>>>"robin" == robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> > >robin> Every time I try to compile LyX 1.2, I get the following error >robin> message on running configure: > >robin> ** Cannot find libXpm. Please check that the Xpm library is >robin> correctly installed on your system. > >robin> ** Cannot find xpm.h. Please check that the Xpm library is >robin> correctly installed on your system. > >robin> I have libxpm and libxpm-devel installed (this is on Mandrake >robin> 8.2). Does anyone have an idea what is causing this? > >Please look into your config.log file and search for the string xpm. >Then post the relevant command lines and error messages. > I assume it's configure:9562: checking for XpmCreateBufferFromImage in -lXpm configure:9584: g++ -o conftest -O -fno-exceptions -isystem /usr/X11R6/include conftest.C -lXpm -lSM -lICE -lc -lm -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 1>&5 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXpm Robin
Re: problem with libXpm
Marco Costanzo wrote: >Hi, >i am trying to install lyx but I encountered a problem istalling this lib >without Imake. > What kind of system do you have? If it can handle RPMs, then just install the lixpm4-devel package. Robin -- "It suits the poet himself to be dutifully chaste, his verses not necessarily so at all" - Catullus Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: General Book.cls question . . . .
tom poe wrote: > Hi: I'm venturing into writing a book land. I'm thinking there's > probably a lot of advantages with using Lyx1.2. My general question > is, does anyone have an idea about pitfalls for exporting to other > formats for different publishers? Is that a problem? And, what might > be the best way to ask? I skimmed the tips and tricks to see if there > was discussion about formats and publishers, but might have missed it. > I also took a brief look in the search results, but didn't see any > general discussion in this area. If it turns out, Lyx is really good > in the eyes of publishers, maybe that's a big highlight on the web > page [I'm going to be embarrassed if it turns out it already is!] Most publishers (as opposed to printers) will accept anything that is clearly laid out - if they're going to the trouble and expense of publishing your book, they're going to do their own typesetting anyway. Some writers still use manual typewriters, so they tend not to be too fussy. Academic and technical publishers tend to have their own stylesheets (many of which are supported by LyX/LaTeX). Best thing to do is contact the publisher(s) you're thinking of submitting to. Robin -- "We're clouds over the sea, or flecks of matter in the ocean when the ocean seems lit from within. I know I'm drunk when I start this ocean talk." - Rumi Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: General Book.cls question . . . .
tom poe wrote: > Hi: Thanks, and thanks to Robin. My book's all about choosing > lifestyles in the Digital Age, and successful business models. Neither > tolerates M$ .doc files, nor has much use for .pdf! So, that's good > to hear that publishers are fairly flexible. What I guess I'll do, is > see if there's one that has Lyx1.2 on board somewhere in their > facilities, and they can export to whatever they want, other than > .doc. If they don't have Lyx1.2 around, I'll deliver it to them! You should also ask if they can handle LaTeX. LyX is now rather more than a "GUI for LaTeX", LaTeX is still what it does best. Robin -- "We're clouds over the sea, or flecks of matter in the ocean when the ocean seems lit from within. I know I'm drunk when I start this ocean talk." - Rumi Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
Re: LyXTips
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: >Hi LyXers, > >maybe this question is off-topic, but I hope you can help me anyway: > >I have downloaded the LyXTips.tgz. The possibility to browse offline through >the tips is great! > >But I have a problem: neither Opera 6.0 nor Konqueror 3.0.0 can interpret the >php-files. They both have the following error: > >[Opera:] XML-Interpretation fehlgeschlagen syntax error (2:62) >[Konqueror:] XML-Lesefehler: unexpected character in Zeile [x], Spalte [y] > >Mozilla 1.0 can interpret the php3-files, but it does not show the php-files. >It works when I rename the php-files into php3, but then I have to change the >links in nearly every document, which would be a little bit too much work... >;-( > >Do I have to change some of my browser-settings or is there any other clue? >I work on a SuSE-Linux 7.3. > > > > Surely for a download version, it would make more sense to put them all in a LyX or DVI file. Robin -- "We're clouds over the sea, or flecks of matter in the ocean when the ocean seems lit from within. I know I'm drunk when I start this ocean talk." - Rumi Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
