Who manages the Ubuntu repository for LyX? (Was: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?))

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Nikos Alexandris wrote: With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. I think it should read: LyX is a WYSIWYM document processor. Anybody know's who should be contacted about that (if, of course, you _also_ disagree with the current

Re: custom fields in documents

Burak Arslan wrote: hi, i used to use makefiles for compiling tex files into pdf. before invoking pdflatex et al, those makefiles incorporated various information from its context like current svn revision number, user who invokes the operation etc. i did this by writing the output of the

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

Pavel Sanda wrote: do you intend to put these into the tree? Eventually perhaps. But not now, since both packages are very new, and the modules are not very much tested (I just hacked them together rather quickly). But I thought about setting up a module site next to the existing layouts site

Re: custom fields in documents

In 1.6, we also have the info inset (InsetInfo) that can be easily extended to do what you want. Please open a bugzilla enhancement entry for this (bugzilla.lyx.org). A feature that would be greatly useful to our business is the ability to include the current document's filename in the text

RE: custom fields in documents

In 1.6, we also have the info inset (InsetInfo) that can be easily extended to do what you want. Please open a bugzilla enhancement entry for this (bugzilla.lyx.org). A feature that would be greatly useful to our business is the ability to include the current document's filename in the

Re: custom fields in documents

Burak Arslan wrote: Thanks everyone for your replies, much appreciated :) You're welcome. That's the way LyX community works ;-) Abdelrazak Younes wrote: You can also of course \input a latex or text file in LyX. So your current solution would still work the same. It would, to a

Re: custom fields in documents

Rudi van der Linde wrote: In 1.6, we also have the info inset (InsetInfo) that can be easily extended to do what you want. Please open a bugzilla enhancement entry for this (bugzilla.lyx.org). A feature that would be greatly useful to our business is the ability to include the current

Re: custom fields in documents

Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: You can execute the following commands in the command buffer: info-insert buffer path info-insert buffer name See for more info: Help-LyX Functions-LFUN_INFO_INSERT Many thanks, this will definately help a lot. Were still using 1.5.4 at the moment, so

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

On 2009-01-27, Nikos Alexandris wrote: With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. This seems to be taken from the package description in Debian: Document Processor LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX. It makes the power and typesetting quality of

Big document

Hello fellow LyX users, I have to take a decision: wether to split my doctoral thesis in different files or not. Some people told me a thesis is HUGE and I should split the file into chapters or parts, but I'm afraid that something goes wrong at any time during the writing. It will be around

Re: Corss reference and math functions shortkey.

On 2009-01-27, rgheck wrote: Jens Noeckel wrote: On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Jens Noeckel noec...@... writes: Yes, I think what's happening is that I see these shortcuts in the LyX preferences on my Mac, precisely because I have already defined shortcuts

solved: lyx2lyx fails: OS X 10.4.11 + Texlive2008 (MacTex) + LyX 1.6.1

Dear lyx users, with OS X 10.4.11 + Texlive2008 (MacTex) + LyX 1.6.1 opening lyx files from 1.5 I got lyx2lyx failures, and invoking lyx2lyx at the command line results in: /Applications/TeX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx being classylyx.lyx Traceback (most recent call

Re: Big document

My PhD is 190-ish pages in English, with tables, algorithms, figures, and a nice juicy bibliography. I have it divided into 8 included child documents (basically one per chapter), some of which are broken up logically into a few input child documents. DVI generation takes around 50 seconds, but

Re: custom fields in documents

As Vincent mentionned, this feature already exists :-) Great - coudn't test it so just wanted to confirm my understanding thereof :-D Many thanks for all the inforation. I will revisit this when we've upgraded to the next version and when I get more support at work. Most people still

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 11:29 +, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-01-27, Nikos Alexandris wrote: With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. This seems to be taken from the package description in Debian: Document Processor LyX is an almost

Re: Hi Lyx Users

Guven Yuceturk wrote: I have question. I am kind of new in using Lyx. I am PhD student in math and I really loved Lyx. It is very useful for me. I am using the version 1.6.1 (latest) I have two computer, one in my office installed Ubuntu, the other one is my laptop has Windows vista. My

RE: Hi Lyx Users

Guven Yuceturk wrote: I have question. I am kind of new in using Lyx. I am PhD student in math and I really loved Lyx. It is very useful for me. I am using the version 1.6.1 (latest) I have two computer, one in my office installed Ubuntu, the other one is my laptop has Windows vista. My

Re: Big document

Cameron Stone wrote: One more tip: create subdirectories for your embedded figures. I didn't and I wish I had (but I'm not spending the time to re-organise now that it's finished) In case you don't know .lyx file is plain text; so you can find and replace the graphics links quite easily

Re: Big document

Cameron Stone wrote: My PhD is 190-ish pages in English, with tables, algorithms, figures, and a nice juicy bibliography. I have it divided into 8 included child documents (basically one per chapter), some of which are broken up logically into a few input child documents. Same size here, but

Re: Big document

Piero Faustini wrote: Hello fellow LyX users, I have to take a decision: wether to split my doctoral thesis in different files or not. Some people told me a thesis is HUGE and I should split the file into chapters or parts, but I'm afraid that something goes wrong at any time during the

Re: Big document

Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org writes: If you are not in one of those two cases, I'd suggest to stay with one big document because it's simpler to manage. Just remember to backup often or better, use a source control system (git is great for local purpose). And remember that you can always

Re: solved: lyx2lyx fails: OS X 10.4.11 + Texlive2008 (MacTex) + LyX 1.6.1

Samuel Russell wrote: ImportError: No module named zlib I had the same problem with a macports-installed python 2.5. The problem is that the basic macports-python packeage misses a lot of things. In this particular case, you also need to install py25-zlib from macports. HTH, Konrad

Re: Big document

And remember that you can always split the document if you feel that one big document is not suitable anymore. ...and is the reverse operation always possible? Anyway, thanks to all, your opinions are very useful for me!

Re: custom fields in documents

Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: In 1.6, we also have the info inset (InsetInfo) that can be easily extended to do what you want. Please open a bugzilla enhancement entry for this (bugzilla.lyx.org). A feature that would be greatly useful to our business is the ability to include

Re: custom fields in documents

Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Burak Arslan wrote: hi, i used to use makefiles for compiling tex files into pdf. before invoking pdflatex et al, those makefiles incorporated various information from its context like current svn revision number, user who invokes the operation etc. i did this by

Re: Big document

Piero Faustini pierofaust...@hotmail.com writes: And remember that you can always split the document if you feel that one big document is not suitable anymore. ...and is the reverse operation always possible? As far as I know, yes. JMarc

Re: custom fields in documents

Pavel Sanda wrote: i remember some bug that our cache managment stores output of 'date' script... http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3257

Re: Hi Lyx Users

Richard Heck wrote: An error occurred whilst running python -tt C:/Program Files/Lyx/bin/../Resource I will appreciate your help. I'm not sure, but I expect that whatever program LyX uses to convert fig files into a form that LaTeX can use doesn't exist on your Windows machine. we

Re: Big document

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 06:29:48 am Piero Faustini wrote: Hello fellow LyX users, I have to take a decision: wether to split my doctoral thesis in different files or not. Some people told me a thesis is HUGE and I should split the file into chapters or parts, but I'm afraid that something

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 06:29:38 am Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-01-27, Nikos Alexandris wrote: With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. This seems to be taken from the package description in Debian: Document Processor LyX is an almost

Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

Hi all, Very soon I'll need to be able to change the Chapter environment on the fly. Specifically, I'll need to change the word Chapter to Tool, and I'll need to change counters. So it would look something like this: Chapter 1: The Brave New World Chapter 2: How to Use this Book Chapter 3:

Re: Hi Lyx Users

Pavel Sanda wrote: Richard Heck wrote: An error occurred whilst running python -tt C:/Program Files/Lyx/bin/../Resource I will appreciate your help. I'm not sure, but I expect that whatever program LyX uses to convert fig files into a form that LaTeX can use doesn't exist on

Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Any ideas how to do this? Steve, I don't remember the details, but I believe this kind of manipulation is covered in the Memoir manual (http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf and probably also somewhere

Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

Steve Litt wrote: it just seems easier to me to change the word Chapter to Tool \renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tool} and back again, and to change the counter and then change it back again. http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-3.html Both untested,

Re: watching dvi/pdf under Mac

You can view dvi directly by setting your dvi viewer to be 'xdvi' on mac. Just type 'xdvi' in the preference options Eric Cavalcanti-3 wrote: Hello LyX users, I used LyX on Linux for a while and using kpdf I had the good feature that whenever I updated a DVI/PDF file, it would

Re: MS Word to LyX

Richard Heck rgh...@... writes: There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if it runs on Windows. See here: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux. I looked vwLatex. They refer to AbiWord, But I couldn't make

Re: MS Word to LyX

Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Richard Heck rgh...@... writes: There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if it runs on Windows. See here: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux. I looked vwLatex. They refer

Request for svn test on Windows

hi, i started implementing another badly missing feature for svn cooperation, which is automatical locking of files so there is possibility how to avoid merge conflicts. i need one confirmation from the windows side of the pond - please is can anybody report to me whether the following works in

Word wrapping in tables

How do I get text to wrap inside table cells so the table fits within the width of a page? Thanks,

Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

Steve Litt schrieb: Very soon I'll need to be able to change the Chapter environment on the fly. Specifically, I'll need to change the word Chapter to Tool, and I'll need to change counters. So it would look something like this: Chapter 1: The Brave New World Chapter 2: Introduction Tool 1:

Re: Word wrapping in tables

Ehud Kaplan schrieb: How do I get text to wrap inside table cells so the table fits within the width of a page? See the sec. 2.8 of the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in the Help menu of LyX. regards Uwe

Re: Index Flash Card Template

Josiah schrieb: I am trying to create a template for printing school notes on index cards. I would like the notes to be two-sided like flash cards and be able to print 4 note cards on a sheet letter size paper (Avery Index Cards #3381). I am currently doing this using Word, but it is a big

Re: Hi Lyx Users

rgheck wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: Richard Heck wrote: An error occurred whilst running python -tt C:/Program Files/Lyx/bin/../Resource I will appreciate your help. I'm not sure, but I expect that whatever program LyX uses to convert fig files into a form that LaTeX can use

Who manages the Ubuntu repository for LyX? (Was: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?))

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Nikos Alexandris wrote: With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. I think it should read: LyX is a WYSIWYM document processor. Anybody know's who should be contacted about that (if, of course, you _also_ disagree with the current

Re: custom fields in documents

Burak Arslan wrote: hi, i used to use makefiles for compiling tex files into pdf. before invoking pdflatex et al, those makefiles incorporated various information from its context like current svn revision number, user who invokes the operation etc. i did this by writing the output of the

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

Pavel Sanda wrote: do you intend to put these into the tree? Eventually perhaps. But not now, since both packages are very new, and the modules are not very much tested (I just hacked them together rather quickly). But I thought about setting up a module site next to the existing layouts site

Re: custom fields in documents

In 1.6, we also have the info inset (InsetInfo) that can be easily extended to do what you want. Please open a bugzilla enhancement entry for this (bugzilla.lyx.org). A feature that would be greatly useful to our business is the ability to include the current document's filename in the text

RE: custom fields in documents

In 1.6, we also have the info inset (InsetInfo) that can be easily extended to do what you want. Please open a bugzilla enhancement entry for this (bugzilla.lyx.org). A feature that would be greatly useful to our business is the ability to include the current document's filename in the

Re: custom fields in documents

Burak Arslan wrote: Thanks everyone for your replies, much appreciated :) You're welcome. That's the way LyX community works ;-) Abdelrazak Younes wrote: You can also of course \input a latex or text file in LyX. So your current solution would still work the same. It would, to a

Re: custom fields in documents

Rudi van der Linde wrote: In 1.6, we also have the info inset (InsetInfo) that can be easily extended to do what you want. Please open a bugzilla enhancement entry for this (bugzilla.lyx.org). A feature that would be greatly useful to our business is the ability to include the current

Re: custom fields in documents

Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: You can execute the following commands in the command buffer: info-insert buffer path info-insert buffer name See for more info: Help-LyX Functions-LFUN_INFO_INSERT Many thanks, this will definately help a lot. Were still using 1.5.4 at the moment, so

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

On 2009-01-27, Nikos Alexandris wrote: With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. This seems to be taken from the package description in Debian: Document Processor LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX. It makes the power and typesetting quality of

Big document

Hello fellow LyX users, I have to take a decision: wether to split my doctoral thesis in different files or not. Some people told me a thesis is HUGE and I should split the file into chapters or parts, but I'm afraid that something goes wrong at any time during the writing. It will be around

Re: Corss reference and math functions shortkey.

On 2009-01-27, rgheck wrote: Jens Noeckel wrote: On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Jens Noeckel noec...@... writes: Yes, I think what's happening is that I see these shortcuts in the LyX preferences on my Mac, precisely because I have already defined shortcuts

solved: lyx2lyx fails: OS X 10.4.11 + Texlive2008 (MacTex) + LyX 1.6.1

Dear lyx users, with OS X 10.4.11 + Texlive2008 (MacTex) + LyX 1.6.1 opening lyx files from 1.5 I got lyx2lyx failures, and invoking lyx2lyx at the command line results in: /Applications/TeX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx being classylyx.lyx Traceback (most recent call

Re: Big document

My PhD is 190-ish pages in English, with tables, algorithms, figures, and a nice juicy bibliography. I have it divided into 8 included child documents (basically one per chapter), some of which are broken up logically into a few input child documents. DVI generation takes around 50 seconds, but

Re: custom fields in documents

As Vincent mentionned, this feature already exists :-) Great - coudn't test it so just wanted to confirm my understanding thereof :-D Many thanks for all the inforation. I will revisit this when we've upgraded to the next version and when I get more support at work. Most people still

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 11:29 +, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-01-27, Nikos Alexandris wrote: With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. This seems to be taken from the package description in Debian: Document Processor LyX is an almost

Re: Hi Lyx Users

Guven Yuceturk wrote: I have question. I am kind of new in using Lyx. I am PhD student in math and I really loved Lyx. It is very useful for me. I am using the version 1.6.1 (latest) I have two computer, one in my office installed Ubuntu, the other one is my laptop has Windows vista. My

RE: Hi Lyx Users

Guven Yuceturk wrote: I have question. I am kind of new in using Lyx. I am PhD student in math and I really loved Lyx. It is very useful for me. I am using the version 1.6.1 (latest) I have two computer, one in my office installed Ubuntu, the other one is my laptop has Windows vista. My

Re: Big document

Cameron Stone wrote: One more tip: create subdirectories for your embedded figures. I didn't and I wish I had (but I'm not spending the time to re-organise now that it's finished) In case you don't know .lyx file is plain text; so you can find and replace the graphics links quite easily

Re: Big document

Cameron Stone wrote: My PhD is 190-ish pages in English, with tables, algorithms, figures, and a nice juicy bibliography. I have it divided into 8 included child documents (basically one per chapter), some of which are broken up logically into a few input child documents. Same size here, but

Re: Big document

Piero Faustini wrote: Hello fellow LyX users, I have to take a decision: wether to split my doctoral thesis in different files or not. Some people told me a thesis is HUGE and I should split the file into chapters or parts, but I'm afraid that something goes wrong at any time during the

Re: Big document

Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org writes: If you are not in one of those two cases, I'd suggest to stay with one big document because it's simpler to manage. Just remember to backup often or better, use a source control system (git is great for local purpose). And remember that you can always

Re: solved: lyx2lyx fails: OS X 10.4.11 + Texlive2008 (MacTex) + LyX 1.6.1

Samuel Russell wrote: ImportError: No module named zlib I had the same problem with a macports-installed python 2.5. The problem is that the basic macports-python packeage misses a lot of things. In this particular case, you also need to install py25-zlib from macports. HTH, Konrad

Re: Big document

And remember that you can always split the document if you feel that one big document is not suitable anymore. ...and is the reverse operation always possible? Anyway, thanks to all, your opinions are very useful for me!

Re: custom fields in documents

Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: In 1.6, we also have the info inset (InsetInfo) that can be easily extended to do what you want. Please open a bugzilla enhancement entry for this (bugzilla.lyx.org). A feature that would be greatly useful to our business is the ability to include

Re: custom fields in documents

Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Burak Arslan wrote: hi, i used to use makefiles for compiling tex files into pdf. before invoking pdflatex et al, those makefiles incorporated various information from its context like current svn revision number, user who invokes the operation etc. i did this by

Re: Big document

Piero Faustini pierofaust...@hotmail.com writes: And remember that you can always split the document if you feel that one big document is not suitable anymore. ...and is the reverse operation always possible? As far as I know, yes. JMarc

Re: custom fields in documents

Pavel Sanda wrote: i remember some bug that our cache managment stores output of 'date' script... http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3257

Re: Hi Lyx Users

Richard Heck wrote: An error occurred whilst running python -tt C:/Program Files/Lyx/bin/../Resource I will appreciate your help. I'm not sure, but I expect that whatever program LyX uses to convert fig files into a form that LaTeX can use doesn't exist on your Windows machine. we

Re: Big document

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 06:29:48 am Piero Faustini wrote: Hello fellow LyX users, I have to take a decision: wether to split my doctoral thesis in different files or not. Some people told me a thesis is HUGE and I should split the file into chapters or parts, but I'm afraid that something

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 06:29:38 am Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-01-27, Nikos Alexandris wrote: With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. This seems to be taken from the package description in Debian: Document Processor LyX is an almost

Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

Hi all, Very soon I'll need to be able to change the Chapter environment on the fly. Specifically, I'll need to change the word Chapter to Tool, and I'll need to change counters. So it would look something like this: Chapter 1: The Brave New World Chapter 2: How to Use this Book Chapter 3:

Re: Hi Lyx Users

Pavel Sanda wrote: Richard Heck wrote: An error occurred whilst running python -tt C:/Program Files/Lyx/bin/../Resource I will appreciate your help. I'm not sure, but I expect that whatever program LyX uses to convert fig files into a form that LaTeX can use doesn't exist on

Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Any ideas how to do this? Steve, I don't remember the details, but I believe this kind of manipulation is covered in the Memoir manual (http://www.tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/texmf-dist/doc/latex/memoir/memman.pdf and probably also somewhere

Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

Steve Litt wrote: it just seems easier to me to change the word Chapter to Tool \renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tool} and back again, and to change the counter and then change it back again. http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-3.html Both untested,

Re: watching dvi/pdf under Mac

You can view dvi directly by setting your dvi viewer to be 'xdvi' on mac. Just type 'xdvi' in the preference options Eric Cavalcanti-3 wrote: Hello LyX users, I used LyX on Linux for a while and using kpdf I had the good feature that whenever I updated a DVI/PDF file, it would

Re: MS Word to LyX

Richard Heck rgh...@... writes: There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if it runs on Windows. See here: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux. I looked vwLatex. They refer to AbiWord, But I couldn't make

Re: MS Word to LyX

Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Richard Heck rgh...@... writes: There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if it runs on Windows. See here: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux. I looked vwLatex. They refer

Request for svn test on Windows

hi, i started implementing another badly missing feature for svn cooperation, which is automatical locking of files so there is possibility how to avoid merge conflicts. i need one confirmation from the windows side of the pond - please is can anybody report to me whether the following works in

Word wrapping in tables

How do I get text to wrap inside table cells so the table fits within the width of a page? Thanks,

Re: Changing the Chapter environment on the fly?

Steve Litt schrieb: Very soon I'll need to be able to change the Chapter environment on the fly. Specifically, I'll need to change the word Chapter to Tool, and I'll need to change counters. So it would look something like this: Chapter 1: The Brave New World Chapter 2: Introduction Tool 1:

Re: Word wrapping in tables

Ehud Kaplan schrieb: How do I get text to wrap inside table cells so the table fits within the width of a page? See the sec. 2.8 of the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in the Help menu of LyX. regards Uwe

Re: Index Flash Card Template

Josiah schrieb: I am trying to create a template for printing school notes on index cards. I would like the notes to be two-sided like flash cards and be able to print 4 note cards on a sheet letter size paper (Avery Index Cards #3381). I am currently doing this using Word, but it is a big

Re: Hi Lyx Users

rgheck wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: Richard Heck wrote: An error occurred whilst running python -tt C:/Program Files/Lyx/bin/../Resource I will appreciate your help. I'm not sure, but I expect that whatever program LyX uses to convert fig files into a form that LaTeX can use

Who manages the Ubuntu repository for LyX? (Was: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?))

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, Nikos Alexandris wrote: With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. I think it should read: LyX is a WYSIWYM document processor. Anybody know's who should be contacted about that (if, of course, you _also_ disagree with the current

Re: custom fields in documents

Burak Arslan wrote: hi, i used to use makefiles for compiling tex files into pdf. before invoking pdflatex et al, those makefiles incorporated various information from its context like current svn revision number, user who invokes the operation etc. i did this by writing the output of the

Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?

Pavel Sanda wrote: > do you intend to put these into the tree? Eventually perhaps. But not now, since both packages are very new, and the modules are not very much tested (I just hacked them together rather quickly). But I thought about setting up a "module" site next to the existing "layouts"

Re: custom fields in documents

In 1.6, we also have the info inset (InsetInfo) that can be easily extended to do what you want. Please open a bugzilla enhancement entry for this (bugzilla.lyx.org). A feature that would be greatly useful to our business is the ability to include the current document's filename in the text

RE: custom fields in documents

>> In 1.6, we also have the info inset (InsetInfo) that can be easily >> extended to do what you want. Please open a bugzilla enhancement entry >> for this (bugzilla.lyx.org). >A feature that would be greatly useful to our business is the ability >to include the current document's filename

Re: custom fields in documents

Burak Arslan wrote: Thanks everyone for your replies, much appreciated :) You're welcome. That's the way LyX community works ;-) Abdelrazak Younes wrote: You can also of course \input a latex or text file in LyX. So your current solution would still work the same. It would, to a

Re: custom fields in documents

Rudi van der Linde wrote: In 1.6, we also have the info inset (InsetInfo) that can be easily extended to do what you want. Please open a bugzilla enhancement entry for this (bugzilla.lyx.org). A feature that would be greatly useful to our business is the ability to include the current

Re: custom fields in documents

Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: You can execute the following commands in the command buffer: info-insert buffer path info-insert buffer name See for more info: Help->LyX Functions->LFUN_INFO_INSERT Many thanks, this will definately help a lot. Were still using 1.5.4 at the moment,

Re: LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX (?)

On 2009-01-27, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > With this phrase starts the description of LyX in Ubuntu's repositories. This seems to be taken from the package description in Debian: Document Processor LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX. It makes the power and typesetting quality of

Big document

Hello fellow LyX users, I have to take a decision: wether to split my doctoral thesis in different files or not. Some people told me a thesis is HUGE and I should split the file into chapters or parts, but I'm afraid that something goes wrong at any time during the writing. It will be around

Re: Corss reference and math functions shortkey.

On 2009-01-27, rgheck wrote: > Jens Noeckel wrote: >> On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: >>> Jens Noeckel writes: > > Yes, I think what's happening is that I see these shortcuts in the LyX > > preferences on my Mac, precisely because I have already defined >

solved: lyx2lyx fails: OS X 10.4.11 + Texlive2008 (MacTex) + LyX 1.6.1

Dear lyx users, with OS X 10.4.11 + Texlive2008 (MacTex) + LyX 1.6.1 opening lyx files from 1.5 I got lyx2lyx failures, and invoking lyx2lyx at the command line results in: /Applications/TeX/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx "being classylyx.lyx" Traceback (most recent call

Re: Big document

My PhD is 190-ish pages in English, with tables, algorithms, figures, and a nice juicy bibliography. I have it divided into 8 included child documents (basically one per chapter), some of which are broken up logically into a few input child documents. DVI generation takes around 50 seconds, but

Re: custom fields in documents

As Vincent mentionned, this feature already exists :-) Great - coudn't test it so just wanted to confirm my understanding thereof :-D Many thanks for all the inforation. I will revisit this when we've upgraded to the next version and when I get more support at work. Most people still

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