Re: LyX 1.5.6 1.6.0rc2 Theorem redefinition

2008-09-12 Thread G. Milde
On 11.09.08, rgheck wrote: Atlas wrote: Background: * CLS file == www.stacs-conf.org/for_authors/stacs.cls (note: stacs.cls is based on amsart.cls) ... * Conference-supplied TEX file (note: this file does not import correctly nor compile in LyX 1.5.6 nor 1.6.0):

Re: newbie question: output and get lyxpipe, and extra field codes

2008-09-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Russell J. Wilson wrote: Just in first days of trying to learn to use JabRef/Lyx on Windows Vista with Word 2007. Trying to output and I get the error message that says ensure lyx is running (it is) and that the lyxpipe is valid (don't know how to do that). The lyxpipe doesn't work on Windows.

Re: Sure-fire LyX layout files

2008-09-12 Thread G. Milde
On 11.09.08, rgheck wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I think part of what Steve wants, which other people have also wanted, is to be able to keep the layout file with the document ... Yes, I want to have additional styles for personal use but at the same

Re: Automatically inserting the current filename into the document

2008-09-12 Thread Rudi van der Linde
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: In 1.6: M-x info-inset buffer path and M-x info-inset buffer name (where M-x opens the minibuffer) Many thanks for the information. It should not take too long for 1.6 to become stable - so not too long to wait. Hurray! :) -- Rudi van der Linde [EMAIL

Siunitx

2008-09-12 Thread Robbie Scott
Hello, I have Lyx 1.56 running on OSX10.4 and would like to use 'siunitx' as this seems to be the only way to get the degrees symbol. I have downloaded this but there doesn't seem to be any documentation on where to put the files or how to make lyx/latex use them. Has anyone used this that could

Re: Siunitx

2008-09-12 Thread James Sutherland
I use ^\circ to get a degree symbol. James On Sep 12, 2008, at 4:39 AM, Robbie Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have Lyx 1.56 running on OSX10.4 and would like to use 'siunitx' as this seems to be the only way to get the degrees symbol. I have downloaded this but there doesn't seem

Full colour book

2008-09-12 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi Everybody I have written a large technical report with LyX and now the project sponsor wants to publish it as a book. The format they are thinking about should be very visual with a lot of photos as backdrop to the pages and things like that. I have approached a publisher that wants to do it in

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread William Adams
On Sep 11, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Ernesto Posse wrote: No, it still doesn't work (either through pdflatex or dvips + ps2pdf or dvips + distiller). Did you use the PDF/A-1b:2005 (CMYK) setting in Acrobat Distiller? I tried this w/ a .ps from dvips and it opened in PDF/A mode. If I follow your

Re: Full colour book

2008-09-12 Thread William Adams
On Sep 12, 2008, at 7:23 AM, christiaan pauw wrote: I have written a large technical report with LyX and now the project sponsor wants to publish it as a book. The format they are thinking about should be very visual with a lot of photos as backdrop to the pages and things like that.

Re: using lyx in batch mode

2008-09-12 Thread rgheck
Travis wrote: I am well aware of lyx -e, but I've found that it chooses a convertor in some manner but I don't know how (the one it chooses is suboptimal). Furthermore, I don't understand the filename.lyxConv convention. Therefore, I've been avoiding it. I could try to answer any specific

Re: LyX 1.5.6 1.6.0rc2 Theorem redefinition

2008-09-12 Thread rgheck
G. Milde wrote: I would rather start with a new file and include amsart.layout: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass{article (stacs)} input amsart.layout Now you can add, overwrite, and disable layouts to adapt to the stacs class. Yes,

Re: Sure-fire LyX layout files

2008-09-12 Thread rgheck
G. Milde wrote: LyX 1.6 includes a facility that can also be used for this purpose. I call it local layout. ..., this is just layout information, embedded directly into the document. LyX reads it, if it's there, and uses it. There is, as yet, no UI for this, because it is really quite

Re: LyX not finding installed .sty files

2008-09-12 Thread rgheck
Sebastian Wild wrote: Nigel Ross wrote: I have installed some .sty files as required for my LyX document using MiKTeX but when I try to create a DVI to view the output I receive an error advising me of a Latex error. This error being that the .sty files could not be found. It would seem

Re: Unknown software exception (1.6.0rc2)

2008-09-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Máté Salát wrote: Hello, I tried to use LyX 1.6.0rc2, but it break down after mostly every usage of copy and cut even it is performed by short key or by the toolbar button. Before the shut down of LyX the attached window turns up, always with the same numbers. I'm in a trouble now, because it

Re: Siunitx

2008-09-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, James Sutherland wrote: I use ^\circ to get a degree symbol. Isn't there some keyboard combination that can be used? Perhaps something using the Compose-key? /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Siunitx

2008-09-12 Thread curtis osterhoudt
If you're OK with using $\textdegree$ (some people complain about its typography in various fonts), then you may be able to get it to work with no additional packages, except perhaps 'textcomp'. Cheers, C.O. / Down with

Re: Bug 1.5.6 + 1.6.0rc1: Wrong indentation after increased depth

2008-09-12 Thread lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, as expected it also happens in 1.6.0rc2, so here is the example file created in 1.6.0rc2. This is actually due to the code we output for environments. There is a paragraph break before but not after. To be frank, I know we did/discussed something about this bug

Re: using lyx in batch mode

2008-09-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 11 September 2008 08:02:34 pm Travis wrote: So I really like lyx for writing; I'm using it in a book which you may view here: http://www.subspacefield.org/security/security_concepts.html In any case, I want to be able to use lyx for editing, but have a script or Makefile for

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 11.09.2008, at 15:55, Ernesto Posse wrote: PS: I'm not sure how the hyperref package could help, as the document doesn't have any hyperrefs; even the minimal file I posted earlier fails... Besides dealing with hyperlinks, the hyperref package provides an interface for many other aspects

Re: Bug 1.5.6 + 1.6.0rc1: Wrong indentation after increased depth

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, as expected it also happens in 1.6.0rc2, so here is the example file created in 1.6.0rc2. This is actually due to the code we output for environments. There is a paragraph break before but not after. To be frank, I know we

Re: using lyx in batch mode

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: Anyway, the following is a script I use to compile a LyX book. It erases all the intermediate files, exports to LaTeX, runs latex on that, then runs dvips and ps2pdf to create the PDF. It also checks for compile errors by means of checking the length of one of the

Re: Bug 1.5.6 + 1.6.0rc1: Wrong indentation after increased depth

2008-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess we need to discuss this again at some point and make some kind of principled decision. The difficulty seems to be that sometimes you might want the blank line and other times not, even in cases where paragraph depth isn't a relevant issue. But

Re: moderncv and bib as publications

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
B. Bogart wrote: Hello all, I've started converting my CV over to moderncv. I see a few hacks on the wiki which I will play with, but I'm stuck on using a bibtex database as a publications section. I tried the using code from the moderncv example using ERT: \nocite{*}

Re: moderncv and bib as publications

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
Richard Heck wrote: B. Bogart wrote: I managed to get output by including only \nocite{*} as ERT, and adding the bib in the normal lyx way beneath. Now this works, but does not appear to fit with the rest of the moderncv text, the line wrap is much wider and the font looks too small (see

Re: Bug 1.5.6 + 1.6.0rc1: Wrong indentation after increased depth

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess we need to discuss this again at some point and make some kind of principled decision. The difficulty seems to be that sometimes you might want the blank line and other times not, even in cases where paragraph depth

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread Ernesto Posse
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:30 AM, William Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 11, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Ernesto Posse wrote: No, it still doesn't work (either through pdflatex or dvips + ps2pdf or dvips + distiller). Did you use the PDF/A-1b:2005 (CMYK) setting in Acrobat Distiller? I tried

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread Ernesto Posse
Thanks, but it didn't work either. I tried \usepackaga{hyperref}, then latex + dvips + distiller, and then Acrobat preflight gives me these errors: Author mismatch between Document Info and XMP Metadata Keyword mismatch between Document Info and XMP Metadata Subject mismatch between Document

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread William Adams
On Sep 12, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Ernesto Posse wrote: The files do open in PDF/A mode, but when I run preflight on them I get this: Preflight errors from Untitled-ps.pdf Syntax problem: Stream dictionary improperly formatted Width information for glyphs is inconsistent (1 match on 1 page)

Re: using lyx in batch mode

2008-09-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 12 September 2008 10:46:04 am you wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Anyway, the following is a script I use to compile a LyX book. It erases all the intermediate files, exports to LaTeX, runs latex on that, then runs dvips and ps2pdf to create the PDF. It also checks for compile errors

Re: Unknown software exception (1.6.0rc2)

2008-09-12 Thread Máté Salát
Hi Paul, It happens in every document. I did that you said. I executed lyx.exe -dbg any, opened a new document, typed a letter m, selected it and copied it. Look at the results attached and on this snapshot http://screencast.com/t/yTT8amgh. Máté - Original Message - From: Paul A.

Re: LyX 1.6rc2 crashes when navigating in the outline panel (MAC OS X)

2008-09-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
Hi there, I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.6rc2 repeatedly crashes when trying to open child documents from a master document by clicking in the toggle outline panel (see details from the Apple's crash reporter in the attached file). if nobody answers best to put it into bugzilla.

Re: LyX 1.5.6 1.6.0rc2 Theorem redefinition

2008-09-12 Thread G. Milde
On 11.09.08, rgheck wrote: Atlas wrote: Background: * CLS file == www.stacs-conf.org/for_authors/stacs.cls (note: stacs.cls is based on amsart.cls) ... * Conference-supplied TEX file (note: this file does not import correctly nor compile in LyX 1.5.6 nor 1.6.0):

Re: newbie question: output and get lyxpipe, and extra field codes

2008-09-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Russell J. Wilson wrote: Just in first days of trying to learn to use JabRef/Lyx on Windows Vista with Word 2007. Trying to output and I get the error message that says ensure lyx is running (it is) and that the lyxpipe is valid (don't know how to do that). The lyxpipe doesn't work on Windows.

Re: Sure-fire LyX layout files

2008-09-12 Thread G. Milde
On 11.09.08, rgheck wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Steve Litt wrote: I think part of what Steve wants, which other people have also wanted, is to be able to keep the layout file with the document ... Yes, I want to have additional styles for personal use but at the same

Re: Automatically inserting the current filename into the document

2008-09-12 Thread Rudi van der Linde
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: In 1.6: M-x info-inset buffer path and M-x info-inset buffer name (where M-x opens the minibuffer) Many thanks for the information. It should not take too long for 1.6 to become stable - so not too long to wait. Hurray! :) -- Rudi van der Linde [EMAIL

Siunitx

2008-09-12 Thread Robbie Scott
Hello, I have Lyx 1.56 running on OSX10.4 and would like to use 'siunitx' as this seems to be the only way to get the degrees symbol. I have downloaded this but there doesn't seem to be any documentation on where to put the files or how to make lyx/latex use them. Has anyone used this that could

Re: Siunitx

2008-09-12 Thread James Sutherland
I use ^\circ to get a degree symbol. James On Sep 12, 2008, at 4:39 AM, Robbie Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have Lyx 1.56 running on OSX10.4 and would like to use 'siunitx' as this seems to be the only way to get the degrees symbol. I have downloaded this but there doesn't seem

Full colour book

2008-09-12 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi Everybody I have written a large technical report with LyX and now the project sponsor wants to publish it as a book. The format they are thinking about should be very visual with a lot of photos as backdrop to the pages and things like that. I have approached a publisher that wants to do it in

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread William Adams
On Sep 11, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Ernesto Posse wrote: No, it still doesn't work (either through pdflatex or dvips + ps2pdf or dvips + distiller). Did you use the PDF/A-1b:2005 (CMYK) setting in Acrobat Distiller? I tried this w/ a .ps from dvips and it opened in PDF/A mode. If I follow your

Re: Full colour book

2008-09-12 Thread William Adams
On Sep 12, 2008, at 7:23 AM, christiaan pauw wrote: I have written a large technical report with LyX and now the project sponsor wants to publish it as a book. The format they are thinking about should be very visual with a lot of photos as backdrop to the pages and things like that.

Re: using lyx in batch mode

2008-09-12 Thread rgheck
Travis wrote: I am well aware of lyx -e, but I've found that it chooses a convertor in some manner but I don't know how (the one it chooses is suboptimal). Furthermore, I don't understand the filename.lyxConv convention. Therefore, I've been avoiding it. I could try to answer any specific

Re: LyX 1.5.6 1.6.0rc2 Theorem redefinition

2008-09-12 Thread rgheck
G. Milde wrote: I would rather start with a new file and include amsart.layout: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass{article (stacs)} input amsart.layout Now you can add, overwrite, and disable layouts to adapt to the stacs class. Yes,

Re: Sure-fire LyX layout files

2008-09-12 Thread rgheck
G. Milde wrote: LyX 1.6 includes a facility that can also be used for this purpose. I call it local layout. ..., this is just layout information, embedded directly into the document. LyX reads it, if it's there, and uses it. There is, as yet, no UI for this, because it is really quite

Re: LyX not finding installed .sty files

2008-09-12 Thread rgheck
Sebastian Wild wrote: Nigel Ross wrote: I have installed some .sty files as required for my LyX document using MiKTeX but when I try to create a DVI to view the output I receive an error advising me of a Latex error. This error being that the .sty files could not be found. It would seem

Re: Unknown software exception (1.6.0rc2)

2008-09-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Máté Salát wrote: Hello, I tried to use LyX 1.6.0rc2, but it break down after mostly every usage of copy and cut even it is performed by short key or by the toolbar button. Before the shut down of LyX the attached window turns up, always with the same numbers. I'm in a trouble now, because it

Re: Siunitx

2008-09-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, James Sutherland wrote: I use ^\circ to get a degree symbol. Isn't there some keyboard combination that can be used? Perhaps something using the Compose-key? /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Siunitx

2008-09-12 Thread curtis osterhoudt
If you're OK with using $\textdegree$ (some people complain about its typography in various fonts), then you may be able to get it to work with no additional packages, except perhaps 'textcomp'. Cheers, C.O. / Down with

Re: Bug 1.5.6 + 1.6.0rc1: Wrong indentation after increased depth

2008-09-12 Thread lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, as expected it also happens in 1.6.0rc2, so here is the example file created in 1.6.0rc2. This is actually due to the code we output for environments. There is a paragraph break before but not after. To be frank, I know we did/discussed something about this bug

Re: using lyx in batch mode

2008-09-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 11 September 2008 08:02:34 pm Travis wrote: So I really like lyx for writing; I'm using it in a book which you may view here: http://www.subspacefield.org/security/security_concepts.html In any case, I want to be able to use lyx for editing, but have a script or Makefile for

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 11.09.2008, at 15:55, Ernesto Posse wrote: PS: I'm not sure how the hyperref package could help, as the document doesn't have any hyperrefs; even the minimal file I posted earlier fails... Besides dealing with hyperlinks, the hyperref package provides an interface for many other aspects

Re: Bug 1.5.6 + 1.6.0rc1: Wrong indentation after increased depth

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, as expected it also happens in 1.6.0rc2, so here is the example file created in 1.6.0rc2. This is actually due to the code we output for environments. There is a paragraph break before but not after. To be frank, I know we

Re: using lyx in batch mode

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: Anyway, the following is a script I use to compile a LyX book. It erases all the intermediate files, exports to LaTeX, runs latex on that, then runs dvips and ps2pdf to create the PDF. It also checks for compile errors by means of checking the length of one of the

Re: Bug 1.5.6 + 1.6.0rc1: Wrong indentation after increased depth

2008-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess we need to discuss this again at some point and make some kind of principled decision. The difficulty seems to be that sometimes you might want the blank line and other times not, even in cases where paragraph depth isn't a relevant issue. But

Re: moderncv and bib as publications

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
B. Bogart wrote: Hello all, I've started converting my CV over to moderncv. I see a few hacks on the wiki which I will play with, but I'm stuck on using a bibtex database as a publications section. I tried the using code from the moderncv example using ERT: \nocite{*}

Re: moderncv and bib as publications

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
Richard Heck wrote: B. Bogart wrote: I managed to get output by including only \nocite{*} as ERT, and adding the bib in the normal lyx way beneath. Now this works, but does not appear to fit with the rest of the moderncv text, the line wrap is much wider and the font looks too small (see

Re: Bug 1.5.6 + 1.6.0rc1: Wrong indentation after increased depth

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I guess we need to discuss this again at some point and make some kind of principled decision. The difficulty seems to be that sometimes you might want the blank line and other times not, even in cases where paragraph depth

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread Ernesto Posse
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:30 AM, William Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 11, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Ernesto Posse wrote: No, it still doesn't work (either through pdflatex or dvips + ps2pdf or dvips + distiller). Did you use the PDF/A-1b:2005 (CMYK) setting in Acrobat Distiller? I tried

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread Ernesto Posse
Thanks, but it didn't work either. I tried \usepackaga{hyperref}, then latex + dvips + distiller, and then Acrobat preflight gives me these errors: Author mismatch between Document Info and XMP Metadata Keyword mismatch between Document Info and XMP Metadata Subject mismatch between Document

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread William Adams
On Sep 12, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Ernesto Posse wrote: The files do open in PDF/A mode, but when I run preflight on them I get this: Preflight errors from Untitled-ps.pdf Syntax problem: Stream dictionary improperly formatted Width information for glyphs is inconsistent (1 match on 1 page)

Re: using lyx in batch mode

2008-09-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 12 September 2008 10:46:04 am you wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Anyway, the following is a script I use to compile a LyX book. It erases all the intermediate files, exports to LaTeX, runs latex on that, then runs dvips and ps2pdf to create the PDF. It also checks for compile errors

Re: Unknown software exception (1.6.0rc2)

2008-09-12 Thread Máté Salát
Hi Paul, It happens in every document. I did that you said. I executed lyx.exe -dbg any, opened a new document, typed a letter m, selected it and copied it. Look at the results attached and on this snapshot http://screencast.com/t/yTT8amgh. Máté - Original Message - From: Paul A.

Re: LyX 1.6rc2 crashes when navigating in the outline panel (MAC OS X)

2008-09-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
Hi there, I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.6rc2 repeatedly crashes when trying to open child documents from a master document by clicking in the toggle outline panel (see details from the Apple's crash reporter in the attached file). if nobody answers best to put it into bugzilla.

Re: LyX 1.5.6 & 1.6.0rc2 Theorem redefinition

2008-09-12 Thread G. Milde
On 11.09.08, rgheck wrote: > Atlas wrote: >> Background: * CLS file ==> www.stacs-conf.org/for_authors/stacs.cls >> (note: stacs.cls >> is based on amsart.cls) ... >> * Conference-supplied TEX file (note: this file does not import correctly >> nor compile in LyX 1.5.6 nor 1.6.0): >>

Re: newbie question: output and get lyxpipe, and extra field codes

2008-09-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Russell J. Wilson wrote: Just in first days of trying to learn to use JabRef/Lyx on Windows Vista with Word 2007. Trying to output and I get the error message that says ensure lyx is running (it is) and that the lyxpipe is valid (don't know how to do that). The lyxpipe doesn't work on Windows.

Re: Sure-fire LyX layout files

2008-09-12 Thread G. Milde
On 11.09.08, rgheck wrote: > Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > I think part of what Steve wants, which other people have also wanted, > is to be able to keep the layout file with the document ... Yes, I want to have additional styles for personal use but at the

Re: Automatically inserting the current filename into the document

2008-09-12 Thread Rudi van der Linde
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: In 1.6: M-x info-inset buffer path and M-x info-inset buffer name (where M-x opens the "minibuffer") Many thanks for the information. It should not take too long for 1.6 to become stable - so not too long to wait. Hurray! :) -- Rudi van der Linde [EMAIL

Siunitx

2008-09-12 Thread Robbie Scott
Hello, I have Lyx 1.56 running on OSX10.4 and would like to use 'siunitx' as this seems to be the only way to get the degrees symbol. I have downloaded this but there doesn't seem to be any documentation on where to put the files or how to make lyx/latex use them. Has anyone used this that could

Re: Siunitx

2008-09-12 Thread James Sutherland
I use ^\circ to get a degree symbol. James On Sep 12, 2008, at 4:39 AM, Robbie Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have Lyx 1.56 running on OSX10.4 and would like to use 'siunitx' as this seems to be the only way to get the degrees symbol. I have downloaded this but there doesn't

Full colour book

2008-09-12 Thread christiaan pauw
Hi Everybody I have written a large technical report with LyX and now the project sponsor wants to publish it as a book. The format they are thinking about should be very visual with a lot of photos as backdrop to the pages and things like that. I have approached a publisher that wants to do it in

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread William Adams
On Sep 11, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Ernesto Posse wrote: No, it still doesn't work (either through pdflatex or dvips + ps2pdf or dvips + distiller). Did you use the PDF/A-1b:2005 (CMYK) setting in Acrobat Distiller? I tried this w/ a .ps from dvips and it opened in PDF/A mode. If I follow your

Re: Full colour book

2008-09-12 Thread William Adams
On Sep 12, 2008, at 7:23 AM, christiaan pauw wrote: I have written a large technical report with LyX and now the project sponsor wants to publish it as a book. The format they are thinking about should be very visual with a lot of photos as backdrop to the pages and things like that.

Re: using lyx in batch mode

2008-09-12 Thread rgheck
Travis wrote: I am well aware of lyx -e, but I've found that it chooses a convertor in some manner but I don't know how (the one it chooses is suboptimal). Furthermore, I don't understand the filename.lyxConv convention. Therefore, I've been avoiding it. I could try to answer any specific

Re: LyX 1.5.6 & 1.6.0rc2 Theorem redefinition

2008-09-12 Thread rgheck
G. Milde wrote: I would rather start with a new file and include amsart.layout: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass{article (stacs)} input amsart.layout Now you can add, overwrite, and disable layouts to adapt to the stacs class. Yes,

Re: Sure-fire LyX layout files

2008-09-12 Thread rgheck
G. Milde wrote: LyX 1.6 includes a facility that can also be used for this purpose. I call it "local layout". ..., this is just layout information, embedded directly into the document. LyX reads it, if it's there, and uses it. There is, as yet, no UI for this, because it is really quite

Re: LyX not finding installed .sty files

2008-09-12 Thread rgheck
Sebastian Wild wrote: Nigel Ross wrote: I have installed some .sty files as required for my LyX document using MiKTeX but when I try to create a DVI to view the output I receive an error advising me of a Latex error. This error being that the .sty files could not be found. It would seem

Re: Unknown software exception (1.6.0rc2)

2008-09-12 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Máté Salát wrote: Hello, I tried to use LyX 1.6.0rc2, but it break down after mostly every usage of copy and cut even it is performed by short key or by the toolbar button. Before the shut down of LyX the attached window turns up, always with the same numbers. I'm in a trouble now, because it

Re: Siunitx

2008-09-12 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, James Sutherland wrote: I use ^\circ to get a degree symbol. Isn't there some keyboard combination that can be used? Perhaps something using the -key? /C -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: Siunitx

2008-09-12 Thread curtis osterhoudt
If you're OK with using $\textdegree$ (some people complain about its typography in various fonts), then you may be able to get it to work with no additional packages, except perhaps 'textcomp'. Cheers, C.O. / Down with

Re: Bug 1.5.6 + 1.6.0rc1: Wrong indentation after increased depth

2008-09-12 Thread lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Well, as expected it also happens in 1.6.0rc2, so here is the > example file created in 1.6.0rc2. This is actually due to the code we output for environments. There is a paragraph break before but not after. To be frank, I know we did/discussed something about this bug

Re: using lyx in batch mode

2008-09-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday 11 September 2008 08:02:34 pm Travis wrote: > So I really like lyx for writing; I'm using it in a book which you may view > here: > > http://www.subspacefield.org/security/security_concepts.html > > In any case, I want to be able to use lyx for editing, but have a script > or Makefile

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread Daniel Lohmann
On 11.09.2008, at 15:55, Ernesto Posse wrote: PS: I'm not sure how the hyperref package could help, as the document doesn't have any hyperrefs; even the minimal file I posted earlier fails... Besides dealing with hyperlinks, the hyperref package provides an interface for many other aspects

Re: Bug 1.5.6 + 1.6.0rc1: Wrong indentation after increased depth

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, as expected it also happens in 1.6.0rc2, so here is the example file created in 1.6.0rc2. This is actually due to the code we output for environments. There is a paragraph break before but not after. To be frank, I know we

Re: using lyx in batch mode

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: Anyway, the following is a script I use to compile a LyX book. It erases all the intermediate files, exports to LaTeX, runs latex on that, then runs dvips and ps2pdf to create the PDF. It also checks for compile errors by means of checking the length of one of the

Re: Bug 1.5.6 + 1.6.0rc1: Wrong indentation after increased depth

2008-09-12 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess we need to discuss this again at some point and make some kind > of principled decision. The difficulty seems to be that sometimes you > might want the blank line and other times not, even in cases where > paragraph depth isn't a relevant issue.

Re: moderncv and bib as "publications"

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
B. Bogart wrote: Hello all, I've started converting my CV over to moderncv. I see a few hacks on the wiki which I will play with, but I'm stuck on using a bibtex database as a "publications" section. I tried the using code from the moderncv example using ERT: \nocite{*}

Re: moderncv and bib as "publications"

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
Richard Heck wrote: B. Bogart wrote: I managed to get output by including only \nocite{*} as ERT, and adding the bib in the normal lyx way beneath. Now this works, but does not appear to fit with the rest of the moderncv text, the line wrap is much wider and the font looks too small (see

Re: Bug 1.5.6 + 1.6.0rc1: Wrong indentation after increased depth

2008-09-12 Thread Richard Heck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I guess we need to discuss this again at some point and make some kind of principled decision. The difficulty seems to be that sometimes you might want the blank line and other times not, even in cases where paragraph depth

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread Ernesto Posse
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 7:30 AM, William Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 11, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Ernesto Posse wrote: > >> No, it still doesn't work (either through pdflatex or dvips + ps2pdf >> or dvips + distiller). > > Did you use the PDF/A-1b:2005 (CMYK) setting in Acrobat Distiller? I

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread Ernesto Posse
Thanks, but it didn't work either. I tried \usepackaga{hyperref}, then latex + dvips + distiller, and then Acrobat preflight gives me these errors: Author mismatch between Document Info and XMP Metadata Keyword mismatch between Document Info and XMP Metadata Subject mismatch between Document

Re: Generating PDF/A from LyX/LaTeX

2008-09-12 Thread William Adams
On Sep 12, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Ernesto Posse wrote: The files do open in PDF/A mode, but when I run preflight on them I get this: Preflight errors from Untitled-ps.pdf Syntax problem: Stream dictionary improperly formatted Width information for glyphs is inconsistent (1 match on 1 page)

Re: using lyx in batch mode

2008-09-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Friday 12 September 2008 10:46:04 am you wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Anyway, the following is a script I use to compile a LyX book. It erases > > all the intermediate files, exports to LaTeX, runs latex on that, then > > runs dvips and ps2pdf to create the PDF. It also checks for compile > >

Re: Unknown software exception (1.6.0rc2)

2008-09-12 Thread Máté Salát
Hi Paul, It happens in every document. I did that you said. I executed "lyx.exe -dbg any", opened a new document, typed a letter m, selected it and copied it. Look at the results attached and on this snapshot http://screencast.com/t/yTT8amgh. Máté - Original Message - From: Paul

Re: LyX 1.6rc2 crashes when navigating in the outline panel (MAC OS X)

2008-09-12 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Hi there, > > I'd just like to report that LyX version 1.6rc2 repeatedly crashes when > trying to open child documents from a master document by clicking in > the toggle outline panel (see details from the Apple's crash reporter in > the attached file). if nobody answers best to put it into