Re: Non-Latin font in document

Walter walter.stanish at gmail.com writes: I have found XeTeX the best for foreign font output. I use the following under Document|Settings|LaTeX preamble: % required for xelatex \usepackage{doc} % defines \bibtex macro \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{xunicode} \usepackage{xltxtra}

Re: Graphics Tools

On 2012-07-16, Steve Litt wrote: I use dia for diagrams (kind of what Windows guys use Visio for), Inkscape for vector drawing, and Gimp for raster drawing. dia exports to .png, which can import directly into LyX. However, this means exporting a vector drawing to a raster bitmap. Dia can

Re: Graphics Tools

Can you please make a few suggestions. Depends on what you need. Some that haven't been mentioned yet: - yEd www.yworks.com - sK1 sk1project.org - Xara www.xaraxtreme.org - On MacOS X: Omnigraffle, of course Wikipedia is very helpful when searching for (especially free open-source-)software.

Re: Graphics Tools

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote: Wikipedia is very helpful when searching for (especially free open-source-)software. I like alternativeTo for this. :) Liviu

RE: Graphics Tools

Thank you all for the list of tools. As my need was urgent, I tried IPE, and it works well, though is a bit clunky. Will try the others, and return a quick sense of utility for each. wrb -Original Message- From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of

Re: Unable to export to OpenDocument ODF

On 07/12/2012 11:52 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: On 13 July 2012 05:09, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote: On 07/12/2012 02:45 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: I'm trying to export my entire document to a format which can be edited in conventional word processing software (OpenOffice, MS Word). As RTF does not

Re: Graphics Tools

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:35:55 + (UTC), Guenter Milde said: On 2012-07-16, Steve Litt wrote: I use dia for diagrams (kind of what Windows guys use Visio for), Inkscape for vector drawing, and Gimp for raster drawing. dia exports to .png, which can import directly into LyX.

Re: Graphics Tools

Hi WIlliam, Ipe's logic is somewhat peculiar, but very powerful when you get used to it. I have also observed that it generates very small and clean pdf files. Jpicedt is very powerful if you use with the option PSTricks (in the Menu Edit/Format). Then you get access to the full potential of

Re: Graphics Tools

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:44:55 -0700 William R. Buckley w...@wrbuckley.com wrote: Working with TeX is a bit of a challenge, since it seems not to include much support for abstract drawing. I have need for figures to appear in a paper, and am not familiar with the toolset usually employed

RE: Graphics Tools

From: Steve Litt [sl...@troubleshooters.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:23 PM I'd **LOVE** for LyX to use SVG images as vector graphics. SVG images are standard, and very small byteswize, and they're the native format of Inkscape. If anyone knows a way to get LyX to use SVG images as vector

Re: Graphics Tools

I limited my suggestions to drawing programs. For plotting like Grace, we have a lot of choices. I now only use R-Project with ggplot2 for plotting data and Sage for plotting functions (and other mathematical computations), but I was a Maple user. 2012/7/17 Les Denham lden...@hal-pc.org On

Re: Graphics Tools

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:53:53 +, Scott Kostyshak said: From: Steve Litt [sl...@troubleshooters.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:23 PM I'd **LOVE** for LyX to use SVG images as vector graphics. SVG images are standard, and very small byteswize, and they're the native format of

Re: Knitr chunks, how to insert them?

Thanks Yihui, That indeed solves my problem. A strange observation: I was reading the knitter documentation page and clicked by error on a tikzdevice and observed a sad message on CRAN: Package ‘tikzDevice’ was removed from the CRAN repository. Formerly available versions can be obtained from

Re: Knitr chunks, how to insert them?

Well, that is a sad story. CRAN has been killing R packages which do not pass R CMD check. They have much less tolerance to such packages now. Unfortunately the author of tikzDevice was unable to update his package in time

Re: Knitr chunks, how to insert them?

Ok, reading the tikz discussion list, I have discovered that the perspectives do not seem so gloom, the developer is preparing a new release for August that would comply with the constraints of CRAN. In the mean time the RForge road stays available. Le mardi 17 juillet 2012, Yihui Xie a écrit :

Re: Knitr chunks, how to insert them?

You are right. It will come back eventually. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Murat Yildizoglu myi...@gmail.com wrote: Ok,

configure.py exiting prematurely

i'm installing LyX 2.0.4-3 on a windows7 machine and when it finishes, all the document classes are unavailable. i have MiKTeX 2.9 installed in a separate folder, but intact with all the standard .cls and .sty files. At first, looking at tools-TeX information it showed that it found all the

Re: Graphics Tools

Steve Litt wrote: You've convinced me that, whenever humanly possible, I'll use .svg graphics with LyX. The bad news is that there are cases when the conversion svg-pdf(/eps) doesn't work well and you are dependent on external tools (either inkscape or rsvg-convert) which can change any moment

Re: configure.py exiting prematurely

Erik Hammel hammyz.pub at gmail.com writes: i'm installing LyX 2.0.4-3 on a windows7 machine and when it finishes, all the document classes are unavailable. i have MiKTeX 2.9 installed in a separate folder, but intact with all the standard .cls and .sty files. At first, looking at

Re: configure.py exiting prematurely

Erik Hammel hammyz.pub at gmail.com writes: Erik Hammel hammyz.pub at gmail.com writes: i'm installing LyX 2.0.4-3 on a windows7 machine and when it finishes, all the document classes are unavailable. i have MiKTeX 2.9 installed in a separate folder, but intact with all the

Re: Graphics Tools

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:26:37 +0200, Pavel Sanda said: Steve Litt wrote: You've convinced me that, whenever humanly possible, I'll use .svg graphics with LyX. The bad news is that there are cases when the conversion svg-pdf(/eps) doesn't work well and you are dependent on external tools

Re: Non-Latin font in document

Walter walter.stanish at gmail.com writes: I have found XeTeX the best for foreign font output. I use the following under Document|Settings|LaTeX preamble: % required for xelatex \usepackage{doc} % defines \bibtex macro \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{xunicode} \usepackage{xltxtra}

Re: Graphics Tools

On 2012-07-16, Steve Litt wrote: I use dia for diagrams (kind of what Windows guys use Visio for), Inkscape for vector drawing, and Gimp for raster drawing. dia exports to .png, which can import directly into LyX. However, this means exporting a vector drawing to a raster bitmap. Dia can

Re: Graphics Tools

Can you please make a few suggestions. Depends on what you need. Some that haven't been mentioned yet: - yEd www.yworks.com - sK1 sk1project.org - Xara www.xaraxtreme.org - On MacOS X: Omnigraffle, of course Wikipedia is very helpful when searching for (especially free open-source-)software.

Re: Graphics Tools

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Wolfgang Keller felip...@gmx.net wrote: Wikipedia is very helpful when searching for (especially free open-source-)software. I like alternativeTo for this. :) Liviu

RE: Graphics Tools

Thank you all for the list of tools. As my need was urgent, I tried IPE, and it works well, though is a bit clunky. Will try the others, and return a quick sense of utility for each. wrb -Original Message- From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of

Re: Unable to export to OpenDocument ODF

On 07/12/2012 11:52 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: On 13 July 2012 05:09, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote: On 07/12/2012 02:45 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: I'm trying to export my entire document to a format which can be edited in conventional word processing software (OpenOffice, MS Word). As RTF does not

Re: Graphics Tools

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:35:55 + (UTC), Guenter Milde said: On 2012-07-16, Steve Litt wrote: I use dia for diagrams (kind of what Windows guys use Visio for), Inkscape for vector drawing, and Gimp for raster drawing. dia exports to .png, which can import directly into LyX.

Re: Graphics Tools

Hi WIlliam, Ipe's logic is somewhat peculiar, but very powerful when you get used to it. I have also observed that it generates very small and clean pdf files. Jpicedt is very powerful if you use with the option PSTricks (in the Menu Edit/Format). Then you get access to the full potential of

Re: Graphics Tools

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:44:55 -0700 William R. Buckley w...@wrbuckley.com wrote: Working with TeX is a bit of a challenge, since it seems not to include much support for abstract drawing. I have need for figures to appear in a paper, and am not familiar with the toolset usually employed

RE: Graphics Tools

From: Steve Litt [sl...@troubleshooters.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:23 PM I'd **LOVE** for LyX to use SVG images as vector graphics. SVG images are standard, and very small byteswize, and they're the native format of Inkscape. If anyone knows a way to get LyX to use SVG images as vector

Re: Graphics Tools

I limited my suggestions to drawing programs. For plotting like Grace, we have a lot of choices. I now only use R-Project with ggplot2 for plotting data and Sage for plotting functions (and other mathematical computations), but I was a Maple user. 2012/7/17 Les Denham lden...@hal-pc.org On

Re: Graphics Tools

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:53:53 +, Scott Kostyshak said: From: Steve Litt [sl...@troubleshooters.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:23 PM I'd **LOVE** for LyX to use SVG images as vector graphics. SVG images are standard, and very small byteswize, and they're the native format of

Re: Knitr chunks, how to insert them?

Thanks Yihui, That indeed solves my problem. A strange observation: I was reading the knitter documentation page and clicked by error on a tikzdevice and observed a sad message on CRAN: Package ‘tikzDevice’ was removed from the CRAN repository. Formerly available versions can be obtained from

Re: Knitr chunks, how to insert them?

Well, that is a sad story. CRAN has been killing R packages which do not pass R CMD check. They have much less tolerance to such packages now. Unfortunately the author of tikzDevice was unable to update his package in time

Re: Knitr chunks, how to insert them?

Ok, reading the tikz discussion list, I have discovered that the perspectives do not seem so gloom, the developer is preparing a new release for August that would comply with the constraints of CRAN. In the mean time the RForge road stays available. Le mardi 17 juillet 2012, Yihui Xie a écrit :

Re: Knitr chunks, how to insert them?

You are right. It will come back eventually. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie xieyi...@gmail.com Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Murat Yildizoglu myi...@gmail.com wrote: Ok,

configure.py exiting prematurely

i'm installing LyX 2.0.4-3 on a windows7 machine and when it finishes, all the document classes are unavailable. i have MiKTeX 2.9 installed in a separate folder, but intact with all the standard .cls and .sty files. At first, looking at tools-TeX information it showed that it found all the

Re: Graphics Tools

Steve Litt wrote: You've convinced me that, whenever humanly possible, I'll use .svg graphics with LyX. The bad news is that there are cases when the conversion svg-pdf(/eps) doesn't work well and you are dependent on external tools (either inkscape or rsvg-convert) which can change any moment

Re: configure.py exiting prematurely

Erik Hammel hammyz.pub at gmail.com writes: i'm installing LyX 2.0.4-3 on a windows7 machine and when it finishes, all the document classes are unavailable. i have MiKTeX 2.9 installed in a separate folder, but intact with all the standard .cls and .sty files. At first, looking at

Re: configure.py exiting prematurely

Erik Hammel hammyz.pub at gmail.com writes: Erik Hammel hammyz.pub at gmail.com writes: i'm installing LyX 2.0.4-3 on a windows7 machine and when it finishes, all the document classes are unavailable. i have MiKTeX 2.9 installed in a separate folder, but intact with all the

Re: Graphics Tools

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:26:37 +0200, Pavel Sanda said: Steve Litt wrote: You've convinced me that, whenever humanly possible, I'll use .svg graphics with LyX. The bad news is that there are cases when the conversion svg-pdf(/eps) doesn't work well and you are dependent on external tools

Re: Non-Latin font in document

Walter gmail.com> writes: > > I have found XeTeX the best for foreign font output. > > I use the following under Document|Settings|LaTeX preamble: > > % required for xelatex > \usepackage{doc} % defines \bibtex macro > \usepackage{fontspec} > \usepackage{xunicode} > \usepackage{xltxtra} > >

Re: Graphics Tools

On 2012-07-16, Steve Litt wrote: > I use dia for diagrams (kind of what Windows guys use Visio for), > Inkscape for vector drawing, and Gimp for raster drawing. > dia exports to .png, which can import directly into LyX. However, this means exporting a vector drawing to a raster bitmap. Dia can

Re: Graphics Tools

> Can you please make a few suggestions. Depends on what you need. Some that haven't been mentioned yet: - yEd www.yworks.com - sK1 sk1project.org - Xara www.xaraxtreme.org - On MacOS X: Omnigraffle, of course Wikipedia is very helpful when searching for (especially free open-source-)software.

Re: Graphics Tools

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > Wikipedia is very helpful when searching for (especially > free open-source-)software. > I like alternativeTo for this. :) Liviu

RE: Graphics Tools

Thank you all for the list of tools. As my need was urgent, I tried IPE, and it works well, though is a bit clunky. Will try the others, and return a quick sense of utility for each. wrb > -Original Message- > From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On > Behalf

Re: Unable to export to OpenDocument ODF

On 07/12/2012 11:52 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: On 13 July 2012 05:09, Richard Heck wrote: On 07/12/2012 02:45 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: I'm trying to export my entire document to a format which can be edited in conventional word processing software (OpenOffice, MS Word). As RTF does

Re: Graphics Tools

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:35:55 + (UTC), Guenter Milde said: > On 2012-07-16, Steve Litt wrote: > > > I use dia for diagrams (kind of what Windows guys use Visio for), > > Inkscape for vector drawing, and Gimp for raster drawing. > > > dia exports to .png, which can import directly into LyX. >

Re: Graphics Tools

Hi WIlliam, Ipe's logic is somewhat peculiar, but very powerful when you get used to it. I have also observed that it generates very small and clean pdf files. Jpicedt is very powerful if you use with the option PSTricks (in the Menu Edit/Format). Then you get access to the full potential of

Re: Graphics Tools

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:44:55 -0700 "William R. Buckley" wrote: > Working with TeX is a bit of a challenge, since it seems not to > include much support for abstract drawing. I have need for figures > to appear in a paper, and am not familiar with the toolset usually >

RE: Graphics Tools

From: Steve Litt [sl...@troubleshooters.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:23 PM >I'd **LOVE** for LyX to use SVG images as vector graphics. SVG images >are standard, and very small byteswize, and they're the native format >of Inkscape. If anyone knows a way to get LyX to use SVG images as

Re: Graphics Tools

I limited my suggestions to drawing programs. For plotting like Grace, we have a lot of choices. I now only use R-Project with ggplot2 for plotting data and Sage for plotting functions (and other mathematical computations), but I was a Maple user. 2012/7/17 Les Denham >

Re: Graphics Tools

On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:53:53 +, Scott Kostyshak said: > From: Steve Litt [sl...@troubleshooters.com] > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 1:23 PM > > >I'd **LOVE** for LyX to use SVG images as vector graphics. SVG images > >are standard, and very small byteswize, and they're the native format > >of

Re: Knitr chunks, how to insert them?

Thanks Yihui, That indeed solves my problem. A strange observation: I was reading the knitter documentation page and clicked by error on a tikzdevice and observed a sad message on CRAN: Package ‘tikzDevice’ was removed from the CRAN repository. Formerly available versions can be obtained from

Re: Knitr chunks, how to insert them?

Well, that is a sad story. CRAN has been "killing" R packages which do not pass R CMD check. They have much less tolerance to such packages now. Unfortunately the author of tikzDevice was unable to update his package in time

Re: Knitr chunks, how to insert them?

Ok, reading the tikz discussion list, I have discovered that the perspectives do not seem so gloom, the developer is preparing a new release for August that would comply with the constraints of CRAN. In the mean time the RForge road stays available. Le mardi 17 juillet 2012, Yihui Xie a écrit :

Re: Knitr chunks, how to insert them?

You are right. It will come back eventually. Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > Ok,

configure.py exiting prematurely

i'm installing LyX 2.0.4-3 on a windows7 machine and when it finishes, all the document classes are "unavailable". i have MiKTeX 2.9 installed in a separate folder, but intact with all the standard .cls and .sty files. At first, looking at tools->TeX information it showed that it found all the

Re: Graphics Tools

Steve Litt wrote: > You've convinced me that, whenever humanly possible, I'll use .svg > graphics with LyX. The bad news is that there are cases when the conversion svg->pdf(/eps) doesn't work well and you are dependent on external tools (either inkscape or rsvg-convert) which can change any

Re: configure.py exiting prematurely

Erik Hammel gmail.com> writes: > > i'm installing LyX 2.0.4-3 on a windows7 machine and when it finishes, all > the > document classes are "unavailable". i have MiKTeX 2.9 installed in a separate > folder, but intact with all the standard .cls and .sty files. At first, looking > at

Re: configure.py exiting prematurely

Erik Hammel gmail.com> writes: > > Erik Hammel gmail.com> writes: > > > > > i'm installing LyX 2.0.4-3 on a windows7 machine and when it finishes, all the > > document classes are "unavailable". i have MiKTeX 2.9 installed in a separate > > folder, but intact with all the standard .cls

Re: Graphics Tools

On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:26:37 +0200, Pavel Sanda said: > Steve Litt wrote: > > You've convinced me that, whenever humanly possible, I'll use .svg > > graphics with LyX. > > The bad news is that there are cases when the conversion > svg->pdf(/eps) doesn't work well and you are dependent on external