Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Livingstone
I think you meant LifeLines at http://lifelines.sourceforge.net ? On 14 July 2011 10:46, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Stephen George steve_...@optusnet.com.au wrote: GEDCOM? There's an example in an early edition of Michael Kay's book on

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote: So that is the problem. The 'View' button was disabled because the converter associated with the Sweave module does not exist. I am not sure about the reason why these converters are not there. Possibly an old profile folder

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Mark Livingstone livingstonem...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 July 2011 10:46, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: Alternatively you might want to consider using LifeLifes (open source so provided you have a C compiler can be run pretty much on many

Re: Lyx 2.0 problems with PDF in Windows

2011-07-14 Thread Mariano Llamedo Soria
Finally I solved this problem when trying to fix another problem related to SVG graphics. The problem is related to the temporal path used by Lyx. I am usign Lyx in spanish, where the temp path by default has characters not supported by Lyx, as Configuración Local (local configuration). I think

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 14/07/2011 02:08, Stephen George wrote: On 13/07/2011 12:31 PM, steve_...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I am wondering if it is conceivable to generate (with a script) Lyx files, that can be later opened in Lyx to perform final editing/touch-ups before generating my final book? Is their some

Re: Lyx 2.0 problems with PDF in Windows

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Mariano Llamedo Soria llame...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is related to the temporal path used by Lyx. I am usign  Lyx in spanish, where the temp path by default has characters not supported by Lyx, as Configuración Local (local configuration). I think this

File - control version

2011-07-14 Thread Mariano Llamedo Soria
Which is the idea and how can I use the control version features in the file menu ? I looked for some documentation and I found nothing. I am interesting in usgin SVN with my documents but I dont know if Lyx has some feature integrated. Now I am doing it with TortoiseSVN outside Lyx. Some

Re: formatted cross-reference to subsection broken

2011-07-14 Thread Sebastian Rockel
Am 09.07.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Richard Heck: On 07/09/2011 10:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: Hi, I am using Lyx-2.0 with KOMA-book class (pdflatex) on Mac OSX 10.6.8. I am often using the cross-reference option 'Formatted reference' as it is quite convenient to have automatic addition

Re: File - control version

2011-07-14 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 14.07.2011 um 12:58 schrieb Mariano Llamedo Soria: Which is the idea and how can I use the control version features in the file menu ? I looked for some documentation and I found nothing. Please read the Additional manual - Section 7.2 Version Control in LyX. I am interesting in usgin

Re: File - control version

2011-07-14 Thread Mariano Llamedo Soria
Thanks Stephan. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 14.07.2011 um 12:58 schrieb Mariano Llamedo Soria: Which is the idea and how can I use the control version features in the file menu ? I looked for some documentation and I found nothing. Please read

RE: use of \citet (with natbib numeric) gives (author?) error

2011-07-14 Thread Matthias Hunstig
Hello Richard, thanks for the answer. I do not think it is a Unicode problem because I generate the bibtex file from Zotero using IS0-8859-15 which has worked before. Also, all author names appear fine in the bibliography itself. Even those with special characters such as ï. Any other ideas?

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
I've found the LyX layouts folder. In /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. How do I make use of them? Through documents settings? If so, where exactly? Through documents settings document class I see a collection of document classes. Many are identified as unavailable. Through tools

Re: Chapter numbers disappear

2011-07-14 Thread Louis Turk
On 07/13/2011 09:36 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 07/13/2011 05:49 AM, Louis Turk wrote: Hi fellow Lyxers, We are using Lyx 2.0, the book (Memoir) document class, and the bianchi chapter style. All was well until we finished the body of the book, and inserted the frontmatter. Now in the PDF

Re: formatted cross-reference to subsection broken

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/14/2011 07:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: Am 09.07.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Richard Heck: On 07/09/2011 10:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: Hi, I am using Lyx-2.0 with KOMA-book class (pdflatex) on Mac OSX 10.6.8. I am often using the cross-reference option 'Formatted reference' as it is

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: I've found the LyX layouts folder. In /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. How do I make use of them? Through documents settings? If so, where exactly? Through documents settings document class I see a

Re: use of \citet (with natbib numeric) gives (author?) error

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/14/2011 07:37 AM, Matthias Hunstig wrote: Hello Richard, thanks for the answer. I do not think it is a Unicode problem because I generate the bibtex file from Zotero using IS0-8859-15 which has worked before. Also, all author names appear fine in the bibliography itself. Even those

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 14.07.2011 um 15:18 schrieb Eric Weir: I've found the LyX layouts folder. In /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. Are you sure? It should be /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/layouts. How do I make use of them? Through documents settings? If so, where exactly? Through

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Most of your questions should already be answered in either of these three documents in Help: Intro, Tutorial and User's Guide. (For example, User's Guide Section 3.1.2.2 explains why some classes would be tagged as 'unavailable'.) If you

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/13/2011 08:58 PM, Eric Weir wrote: The sort of thing you want to do would probably be quite easy with the memoir class, or perhaps with one of the koma-script classes (probably the article one, since it looks as if you do not need chapters here), all of which provide hooks for

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much less so. Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class author

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 14.07.2011 um 15:18 schrieb Eric Weir: I've found the LyX layouts folder. In /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. Are you sure? It should be /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/layouts. Thanks, Stephan. I was careless.

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/14/2011 11:42 AM, Eric Weir wrote: Through documents settings document class I see a collection of document classes. Many are identified as unavailable. Through tools tex information latex classes I see a huge list of classes. Are these available for use in LyX? If not, how do I

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:42:09 AM Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much less so. Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much less so. Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Richard Heck wrote: n 07/13/2011 08:58 PM, Eric Weir wrote: I'm intrigued by both memoir and koma. And maybe the standard classes are as good a place to start? The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much less so. The

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Richard Heck wrote: Reconfigure seems to have helped. I now have five koma classes. And many other new ones. However -- and I don't if this matters -- in the huge list revealed in tools tex information latex classes koma is still missing. These classes

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:42:09 AM Trevor Jenkins wrote: Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class author themselves. Other users especially those trying

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: :-) That's why the documentation on Troubleshooters.Com is so important. It assumes few prerequisites. I do recall there being significant content at your site related

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:19:31 PM you wrote: On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:42:09 AM Trevor Jenkins wrote: Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:23:36 PM Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: :-) That's why the documentation on Troubleshooters.Com is so : important. It assumes few prerequisites.

Re: use of \citet (with natbib numeric) gives (author?) error

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 14/07/2011 7:37 AM, Matthias Hunstig wrote: Hello Richard, thanks for the answer. I do not think it is a Unicode problem because I generate the bibtex file from Zotero using IS0-8859-15 which has worked before.. Also, all author names appear fine in the bibliography itself. Even those with

Re: formatted cross-reference to subsection broken

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 14/07/2011 7:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: Am 09.07.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Richard Heck: On 07/09/2011 10:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: Hi, I am using Lyx-2.0 with KOMA-book class (pdflatex) on Mac OSX 10.6.8. I am often using the cross-reference option 'Formatted reference' as it is

Re: Lyx 2.0 problems with PDF in Windows

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 14/07/2011 5:18 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Mariano Llamedo Soria llame...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is related to the temporal path used by Lyx. I am usign Lyx in spanish, where the temp path by default has characters not supported by Lyx, as

Re: Captionsetup in preamble

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 13/07/2011 5:23 AM, Karl Linek wrote: Hallo, I tried to use this captionsetup in the preamble: \captionsetup{figurename=Abb.,tablename=Tab.,font={footnotesize,sf},justification=RaggedRight,labelfont=bf,singlelinecheck=false,labelsep=colonenskip} It didn't do its job. Using the same line in

Re: Bibliography

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 07/07/2011 10:55 AM, Hamid Badi wrote: Hello, I'd like to have a bibliography at the end of each chapter of a report. What package must I use (chapterbib, bibunits...), how can I use it in LyX. Best regards. Have you tried Document Settings Bibliography Sectioned bibliography ?? --

Re: Centered text just under the part title

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 10/07/2011 5:46 PM, Harold Mouras wrote: Dear List, writting a book under Lyx under the memoir class, I have part title in this document. For these part, I'd like to add a little descriptive text for the part centered on the page. I've read that this would possible with this memoir class, but

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: Reconfigure seems to have helped. I now have five koma classes. And many other new ones. However -- and I don't if this matters -- in the huge list revealed in tools tex information latex classes koma is still missing.

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: I think I'm gonna go with koma, Trevor. For one, the documentation strikes me as excellent. Certainly compared to memoir. Another source of documentation may be the templates and examples folders shipped with LyX. They will

Re: Captionsetup in preamble

2011-07-14 Thread Karl Linek
Am Donnerstag, den 14.07.2011, 13:55 -0400 schrieb Julien Rioux: On 13/07/2011 5:23 AM, Karl Linek wrote: Hallo, I tried to use this captionsetup in the preamble:

Re: font question

2011-07-14 Thread Csikos Bela
Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com írta: 2011/7/8 Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu: Hello: I have a question related to latex fonts, xetex and unicode. In lyx2 under document settings fonts I can set Use non-TeX fonts (via XeTeX/LuaTeX). If I want to use unicode encoding I have to

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: Reconfigure seems to have helped. I now have five koma classes. And many other new ones. However -- and I don't if this matters -- in the huge list revealed in tools

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Another source of documentation may be the templates and examples folders shipped with LyX. They will often contain templates for the various document classes available. Start with File New from template. Yes, I noticed that about the

epsdice package.

2011-07-14 Thread Michael Joyner
I am trying to use the epsdice package from inside LyX, and when I switch to using xelatex as the formatting engine, the package malfunctions. Instead of drawing a single die, it draws all 12 possible combinations of dice on two lines. :( Is there a working dice or dominoes or grouped dots

Re: cover page?

2011-07-14 Thread Ignacio Martinez
That is perfect :-) thanks a lot On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Ignacio Martinez igna...@virginia.edu wrote: Hi everyone, Is there a way to create a cover in lyx that looks like this? Does the attached

Re: cover page?

2011-07-14 Thread Ignacio Martinez
That is perfect :-) thanks a lot On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Ignacio Martinez igna...@virginia.edu wrote: Hi everyone, Is there a way to create a cover in lyx that looks like this? Does the attached

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Livingstone
I think you meant LifeLines at http://lifelines.sourceforge.net ? On 14 July 2011 10:46, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Stephen George steve_...@optusnet.com.au wrote: GEDCOM? There's an example in an early edition of Michael Kay's book on

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote: So that is the problem. The 'View' button was disabled because the converter associated with the Sweave module does not exist. I am not sure about the reason why these converters are not there. Possibly an old profile folder

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Mark Livingstone livingstonem...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 July 2011 10:46, Trevor Jenkins bslwann...@gmail.com wrote: Alternatively you might want to consider using LifeLifes (open source so provided you have a C compiler can be run pretty much on many

Re: Lyx 2.0 problems with PDF in Windows

2011-07-14 Thread Mariano Llamedo Soria
Finally I solved this problem when trying to fix another problem related to SVG graphics. The problem is related to the temporal path used by Lyx. I am usign Lyx in spanish, where the temp path by default has characters not supported by Lyx, as Configuración Local (local configuration). I think

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 14/07/2011 02:08, Stephen George wrote: On 13/07/2011 12:31 PM, steve_...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I am wondering if it is conceivable to generate (with a script) Lyx files, that can be later opened in Lyx to perform final editing/touch-ups before generating my final book? Is their some

Re: Lyx 2.0 problems with PDF in Windows

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Mariano Llamedo Soria llame...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is related to the temporal path used by Lyx. I am usign  Lyx in spanish, where the temp path by default has characters not supported by Lyx, as Configuración Local (local configuration). I think this

File - control version

2011-07-14 Thread Mariano Llamedo Soria
Which is the idea and how can I use the control version features in the file menu ? I looked for some documentation and I found nothing. I am interesting in usgin SVN with my documents but I dont know if Lyx has some feature integrated. Now I am doing it with TortoiseSVN outside Lyx. Some

Re: formatted cross-reference to subsection broken

2011-07-14 Thread Sebastian Rockel
Am 09.07.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Richard Heck: On 07/09/2011 10:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: Hi, I am using Lyx-2.0 with KOMA-book class (pdflatex) on Mac OSX 10.6.8. I am often using the cross-reference option 'Formatted reference' as it is quite convenient to have automatic addition

Re: File - control version

2011-07-14 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 14.07.2011 um 12:58 schrieb Mariano Llamedo Soria: Which is the idea and how can I use the control version features in the file menu ? I looked for some documentation and I found nothing. Please read the Additional manual - Section 7.2 Version Control in LyX. I am interesting in usgin

Re: File - control version

2011-07-14 Thread Mariano Llamedo Soria
Thanks Stephan. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Stephan Witt st.w...@gmx.net wrote: Am 14.07.2011 um 12:58 schrieb Mariano Llamedo Soria: Which is the idea and how can I use the control version features in the file menu ? I looked for some documentation and I found nothing. Please read

RE: use of \citet (with natbib numeric) gives (author?) error

2011-07-14 Thread Matthias Hunstig
Hello Richard, thanks for the answer. I do not think it is a Unicode problem because I generate the bibtex file from Zotero using IS0-8859-15 which has worked before. Also, all author names appear fine in the bibliography itself. Even those with special characters such as ï. Any other ideas?

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
I've found the LyX layouts folder. In /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. How do I make use of them? Through documents settings? If so, where exactly? Through documents settings document class I see a collection of document classes. Many are identified as unavailable. Through tools

Re: Chapter numbers disappear

2011-07-14 Thread Louis Turk
On 07/13/2011 09:36 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 07/13/2011 05:49 AM, Louis Turk wrote: Hi fellow Lyxers, We are using Lyx 2.0, the book (Memoir) document class, and the bianchi chapter style. All was well until we finished the body of the book, and inserted the frontmatter. Now in the PDF

Re: formatted cross-reference to subsection broken

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/14/2011 07:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: Am 09.07.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Richard Heck: On 07/09/2011 10:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: Hi, I am using Lyx-2.0 with KOMA-book class (pdflatex) on Mac OSX 10.6.8. I am often using the cross-reference option 'Formatted reference' as it is

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: I've found the LyX layouts folder. In /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. How do I make use of them? Through documents settings? If so, where exactly? Through documents settings document class I see a

Re: use of \citet (with natbib numeric) gives (author?) error

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/14/2011 07:37 AM, Matthias Hunstig wrote: Hello Richard, thanks for the answer. I do not think it is a Unicode problem because I generate the bibtex file from Zotero using IS0-8859-15 which has worked before. Also, all author names appear fine in the bibliography itself. Even those

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 14.07.2011 um 15:18 schrieb Eric Weir: I've found the LyX layouts folder. In /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. Are you sure? It should be /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/layouts. How do I make use of them? Through documents settings? If so, where exactly? Through

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:47 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Most of your questions should already be answered in either of these three documents in Help: Intro, Tutorial and User's Guide. (For example, User's Guide Section 3.1.2.2 explains why some classes would be tagged as 'unavailable'.) If you

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/13/2011 08:58 PM, Eric Weir wrote: The sort of thing you want to do would probably be quite easy with the memoir class, or perhaps with one of the koma-script classes (probably the article one, since it looks as if you do not need chapters here), all of which provide hooks for

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much less so. Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class author

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 14.07.2011 um 15:18 schrieb Eric Weir: I've found the LyX layouts folder. In /applications/lyx.app/resources/layouts. Are you sure? It should be /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/layouts. Thanks, Stephan. I was careless.

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/14/2011 11:42 AM, Eric Weir wrote: Through documents settings document class I see a collection of document classes. Many are identified as unavailable. Through tools tex information latex classes I see a huge list of classes. Are these available for use in LyX? If not, how do I

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:42:09 AM Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much less so. Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:58 AM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much less so. Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Richard Heck wrote: n 07/13/2011 08:58 PM, Eric Weir wrote: I'm intrigued by both memoir and koma. And maybe the standard classes are as good a place to start? The documentation for memoir [memman] is forbidding, for koma [scrguien] much less so. The

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Richard Heck wrote: Reconfigure seems to have helped. I now have five koma classes. And many other new ones. However -- and I don't if this matters -- in the huge list revealed in tools tex information latex classes koma is still missing. These classes

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:42:09 AM Trevor Jenkins wrote: Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class author themselves. Other users especially those trying

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: :-) That's why the documentation on Troubleshooters.Com is so important. It assumes few prerequisites. I do recall there being significant content at your site related

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:19:31 PM you wrote: On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:42:09 AM Trevor Jenkins wrote: Sadly this seems to be the modern tradition. Documentation, if it even exists, is targeted to the advanced user or the class

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Thursday, July 14, 2011 12:23:36 PM Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: On Jul 14, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: :-) That's why the documentation on Troubleshooters.Com is so : important. It assumes few prerequisites.

Re: use of \citet (with natbib numeric) gives (author?) error

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 14/07/2011 7:37 AM, Matthias Hunstig wrote: Hello Richard, thanks for the answer. I do not think it is a Unicode problem because I generate the bibtex file from Zotero using IS0-8859-15 which has worked before.. Also, all author names appear fine in the bibliography itself. Even those with

Re: formatted cross-reference to subsection broken

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 14/07/2011 7:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: Am 09.07.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Richard Heck: On 07/09/2011 10:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: Hi, I am using Lyx-2.0 with KOMA-book class (pdflatex) on Mac OSX 10.6.8. I am often using the cross-reference option 'Formatted reference' as it is

Re: Lyx 2.0 problems with PDF in Windows

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 14/07/2011 5:18 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Mariano Llamedo Soria llame...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is related to the temporal path used by Lyx. I am usign Lyx in spanish, where the temp path by default has characters not supported by Lyx, as

Re: Captionsetup in preamble

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 13/07/2011 5:23 AM, Karl Linek wrote: Hallo, I tried to use this captionsetup in the preamble: \captionsetup{figurename=Abb.,tablename=Tab.,font={footnotesize,sf},justification=RaggedRight,labelfont=bf,singlelinecheck=false,labelsep=colonenskip} It didn't do its job. Using the same line in

Re: Bibliography

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 07/07/2011 10:55 AM, Hamid Badi wrote: Hello, I'd like to have a bibliography at the end of each chapter of a report. What package must I use (chapterbib, bibunits...), how can I use it in LyX. Best regards. Have you tried Document Settings Bibliography Sectioned bibliography ?? --

Re: Centered text just under the part title

2011-07-14 Thread Julien Rioux
On 10/07/2011 5:46 PM, Harold Mouras wrote: Dear List, writting a book under Lyx under the memoir class, I have part title in this document. For these part, I'd like to add a little descriptive text for the part centered on the page. I've read that this would possible with this memoir class, but

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: Reconfigure seems to have helped. I now have five koma classes. And many other new ones. However -- and I don't if this matters -- in the huge list revealed in tools tex information latex classes koma is still missing.

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: I think I'm gonna go with koma, Trevor. For one, the documentation strikes me as excellent. Certainly compared to memoir. Another source of documentation may be the templates and examples folders shipped with LyX. They will

Re: Captionsetup in preamble

2011-07-14 Thread Karl Linek
Am Donnerstag, den 14.07.2011, 13:55 -0400 schrieb Julien Rioux: On 13/07/2011 5:23 AM, Karl Linek wrote: Hallo, I tried to use this captionsetup in the preamble:

Re: font question

2011-07-14 Thread Csikos Bela
Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com írta: 2011/7/8 Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu: Hello: I have a question related to latex fonts, xetex and unicode. In lyx2 under document settings fonts I can set Use non-TeX fonts (via XeTeX/LuaTeX). If I want to use unicode encoding I have to

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Eric Weir eew...@bellsouth.net wrote: Reconfigure seems to have helped. I now have five koma classes. And many other new ones. However -- and I don't if this matters -- in the huge list revealed in tools

Re: Guidance in starting to use LyX/LaTex

2011-07-14 Thread Eric Weir
On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Another source of documentation may be the templates and examples folders shipped with LyX. They will often contain templates for the various document classes available. Start with File New from template. Yes, I noticed that about the

epsdice package.

2011-07-14 Thread Michael Joyner
I am trying to use the epsdice package from inside LyX, and when I switch to using xelatex as the formatting engine, the package malfunctions. Instead of drawing a single die, it draws all 12 possible combinations of dice on two lines. :( Is there a working dice or dominoes or grouped dots

Re: cover page?

2011-07-14 Thread Ignacio Martinez
That is perfect :-) thanks a lot On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Ignacio Martinez igna...@virginia.edu wrote: Hi everyone, Is there a way to create a cover in lyx that looks like this? Does the attached

Re: cover page?

2011-07-14 Thread Ignacio Martinez
That is perfect :-) thanks a lot On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Ignacio Martinez igna...@virginia.edu wrote: Hi everyone, Is there a way to create a cover in lyx that looks like this? Does the attached

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Livingstone
I think you meant LifeLines at http://lifelines.sourceforge.net ? On 14 July 2011 10:46, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:08 AM, Stephen George > wrote: > > GEDCOM? There's an example in an early edition of Michael Kay's book

Re: Question on using Lyx 2.0 with Sweave for R 2.13.0

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:18 AM, Yihui Xie wrote: > So that is the problem. The 'View' button was disabled because the > converter associated with the Sweave module does not exist. > > I am not sure about the reason why these converters are not there. > Possibly an old profile

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Mark Livingstone wrote: On 14 July 2011 10:46, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > > Alternatively you might want to consider using LifeLifes (open source so >> provided you have a C compiler can be run pretty much on many

Re: Lyx 2.0 problems with PDF in Windows

2011-07-14 Thread Mariano Llamedo Soria
Finally I solved this problem when trying to fix another problem related to SVG graphics. The problem is related to the temporal path used by Lyx. I am usign Lyx in spanish, where the temp path by default has characters not supported by Lyx, as "Configuración Local" (local configuration). I

Re: Lyx file format ?

2011-07-14 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 14/07/2011 02:08, Stephen George wrote: On 13/07/2011 12:31 PM, steve_...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Hi, I am wondering if it is conceivable to generate (with a script) Lyx files, that can be later opened in Lyx to perform final editing/touch-ups before generating my final book? Is their some

Re: Lyx 2.0 problems with PDF in Windows

2011-07-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Mariano Llamedo Soria wrote: > The problem is related to the temporal path used by Lyx. I am usign  Lyx in > spanish, where the temp path by default has characters not supported by Lyx, > as "Configuración Local" (local configuration). I think

File -> control version

2011-07-14 Thread Mariano Llamedo Soria
Which is the idea and how can I use the control version features in the file menu ? I looked for some documentation and I found nothing. I am interesting in usgin SVN with my documents but I dont know if Lyx has some feature integrated. Now I am doing it with TortoiseSVN outside Lyx. Some

Re: formatted cross-reference to subsection broken

2011-07-14 Thread Sebastian Rockel
Am 09.07.2011 um 16:49 schrieb Richard Heck: > On 07/09/2011 10:08 AM, Sebastian Rockel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am using Lyx-2.0 with KOMA-book class (pdflatex) on Mac OSX 10.6.8. >> >> I am often using the cross-reference option 'Formatted reference' as it is >> quite convenient to have

Re: File -> control version

2011-07-14 Thread Stephan Witt
Am 14.07.2011 um 12:58 schrieb Mariano Llamedo Soria: > Which is the idea and how can I use the control version features in the file > menu ? I looked for some documentation and I found nothing. Please read the "Additional" manual - Section "7.2 Version Control in LyX". > I am interesting in

Re: File -> control version

2011-07-14 Thread Mariano Llamedo Soria
Thanks Stephan. On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 14.07.2011 um 12:58 schrieb Mariano Llamedo Soria: > > > Which is the idea and how can I use the control version features in the > file menu ? I looked for some documentation and I found nothing. > >

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