Re: Recommended third-party tools

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:45:52 -0800 Russell D Brunelle rdb...@uw.edu wrote: Here's the draft I have so far, which builds on something I mentioned on this list a while ago: http://russellb.livejournal.com/1335718.html I'm sure everyone has different preferences, but here are some of my

Re: Recommended third-party tools

On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:45:52 -0800 Russell D Brunelle wrote: > Here's the draft I have so far, which builds on something I mentioned > on this list a while ago: http://russellb.livejournal.com/1335718.html I'm sure everyone has different preferences, but here are some of my

Problem with Change tracking

I seem to have found an undocumented feature of LyX 2.02. If I have Track Changes turned on AND have Show Changes in Output turned on AND have an embedded Gnumeric spreadsheet deleted in the current changes awaiting acceptance or rejection THEN PDFLaTeX dies every time. The solution for me

Problem with Change tracking

I seem to have found an undocumented feature of LyX 2.02. If I have Track Changes turned on AND have Show Changes in Output turned on AND have an embedded Gnumeric spreadsheet deleted in the current changes awaiting acceptance or rejection THEN PDFLaTeX dies every time. The solution for me

Problem with Change tracking

I seem to have found an undocumented "feature" of LyX 2.02. If I have Track Changes turned on AND have Show Changes in Output turned on AND have an embedded Gnumeric spreadsheet deleted in the current changes awaiting acceptance or rejection THEN PDFLaTeX dies every time. The solution for

Re: Many huge pictures - Memory problems?

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:04:48 +0100 Peter Baumgartner peter.baumgart...@donau-uni.ac.at wrote: My assumption is that there is a memory problem: 1. I can compile every part of the book as long as I'm not compiling the whole book at once. 2. I can compile the whole book without problems in

Re: Many huge pictures - Memory problems?

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:04:48 +0100 Peter Baumgartner peter.baumgart...@donau-uni.ac.at wrote: My assumption is that there is a memory problem: 1. I can compile every part of the book as long as I'm not compiling the whole book at once. 2. I can compile the whole book without problems in

Re: Many huge pictures - Memory problems?

On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:04:48 +0100 Peter Baumgartner wrote: > My assumption is that there is a memory problem: > > 1. I can compile every part of the book as long as I'm not compiling > the whole book at once. > 2. I can compile the whole book without problems

Re: Greek pdf(LaTeX) bookmarks within from LyX

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 23:26:00 + (UTC) Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net wrote: On 2012-02-09, Nikos Alexandris wrote: Finally it works! Un-Ticked the Tools Preferences Language Settings (or Language) Set languages globally option and used the LyX code attached below. This is

Re: Greek pdf(LaTeX) bookmarks within from LyX

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 23:26:00 + (UTC) Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net wrote: On 2012-02-09, Nikos Alexandris wrote: Finally it works! Un-Ticked the Tools Preferences Language Settings (or Language) Set languages globally option and used the LyX code attached below. This is

Re: Greek pdf(LaTeX) bookmarks within from LyX

On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 23:26:00 + (UTC) Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2012-02-09, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > > >> Finally it works! Un-Ticked the "Tools > Preferences > Language > >> Settings (or Language) > Set languages globally" option and used > >> the "LyX" code attached

Re: Import into LyX

On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:59:33 -0700 Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote: Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. One thing you do not mention is handling figures. The documents I work with tend to be very heavily illustrated, and I like LyX because it handles figures so much better than

Re: Import into LyX

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:50:05 -0700 Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote: In the meantime, hearing about what features should be supported would be very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only docx support) would also be very helpful. I would be quite happy with only .docx

Re: Import into LyX

On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:59:33 -0700 Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote: Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. One thing you do not mention is handling figures. The documents I work with tend to be very heavily illustrated, and I like LyX because it handles figures so much better than

Re: Import into LyX

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:50:05 -0700 Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote: In the meantime, hearing about what features should be supported would be very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only docx support) would also be very helpful. I would be quite happy with only .docx

Re: Import into LyX

On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:59:33 -0700 Rob Oakes wrote: > Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. One thing you do not mention is handling figures. The documents I work with tend to be very heavily illustrated, and I like LyX because it handles figures so much better than

Re: Import into LyX

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:50:05 -0700 Rob Oakes wrote: > In the meantime, hearing about what features should be supported > would be very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus > only docx support) would also be very helpful. I would be quite happy with only

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

easy with LyX. Today I finished a 33-page report with 30 figures. My total time for completing the report was about eight hours, of which 75% was spent extracting figures from PowerPoint presentations made by my collaborators and editing them to look decent. -- Les Denham Interactive

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

easy with LyX. Today I finished a 33-page report with 30 figures. My total time for completing the report was about eight hours, of which 75% was spent extracting figures from PowerPoint presentations made by my collaborators and editing them to look decent. -- Les Denham Interactive

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

ory final PDF using Word, but it was relatively easy with LyX. Today I finished a 33-page report with 30 figures. My total time for completing the report was about eight hours, of which 75% was spent extracting figures from PowerPoint presentations made by my collaborators and editing them to look decent. --

Re: Can I use lyx for a shopping list

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:08:39 -0700 Monty Zukowski mo...@codetransform.com wrote: I'd like to lay out a 3x5 card shopping list in 3 columns. I'm not sure what document class to use for something so basic, everything I tried likes to have a lot of space at the top. Thanks for any pointers,

Re: Can I use lyx for a shopping list

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:08:39 -0700 Monty Zukowski mo...@codetransform.com wrote: I'd like to lay out a 3x5 card shopping list in 3 columns. I'm not sure what document class to use for something so basic, everything I tried likes to have a lot of space at the top. Thanks for any pointers,

Re: Can I use lyx for a shopping list

On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:08:39 -0700 Monty Zukowski wrote: > I'd like to lay out a 3x5 card shopping list in 3 columns. I'm not > sure what document class to use for something so basic, everything I > tried likes to have a lot of space at the top. > > Thanks for any

Re: Printing full size pages

On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:57:22 -0500 Bob Smither smit...@c-c-i.com wrote: I have a LyX document and I want to include some master forms in an appendix. The forms were created in OO.o and converted to letter sized PDFs. Is there a way in LyX to have these pages, when printed from the PDF

Re: Printing full size pages

On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:57:22 -0500 Bob Smither smit...@c-c-i.com wrote: I have a LyX document and I want to include some master forms in an appendix. The forms were created in OO.o and converted to letter sized PDFs. Is there a way in LyX to have these pages, when printed from the PDF

Re: Printing full size pages

On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:57:22 -0500 Bob Smither wrote: > I have a LyX document and I want to include some master forms in an > appendix. The forms were created in OO.o and converted to letter > sized PDFs. Is there a way in LyX to have these pages, when printed > from the

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R can make a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as PostScript (.ps). When I view the document, the figure is properly

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R can make a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as PostScript (.ps). When I view the document, the figure is properly

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard wrote: >I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R > can make a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as > PostScript (.ps). When I view the document, the figure is properly

Re: Most suitable image format

smaller than PNG, so there is an argument for using it for online distribution. But in general PNG is a very good universal format. If the PNG file is still too big, reduce the image resolution for online distribution. -- Les Denham

Re: Most suitable image format

smaller than PNG, so there is an argument for using it for online distribution. But in general PNG is a very good universal format. If the PNG file is still too big, reduce the image resolution for online distribution. -- Les Denham

Re: Most suitable image format

ve unacceptably slow loading over some internet connections. JPEG is usually smaller than PNG, so there is an argument for using it for online distribution. But in general PNG is a very good universal format. If the PNG file is still too big, reduce the image resolution for online distribution. -- Les Denham

Re: line breaks in chapter title show up in TOC

a line break. Problem is, now I've got a line break in the TOC. Is there any way to have my line break and normal-looking TOC, too? Richard Opheim Richard, You can use Short Title (Insert-Short Title) to define a different title for the Table of Contents. See attached. Les -- Les Denham

Re: line breaks in chapter title show up in TOC

a line break. Problem is, now I've got a line break in the TOC. Is there any way to have my line break and normal-looking TOC, too? Richard Opheim Richard, You can use Short Title (Insert-Short Title) to define a different title for the Table of Contents. See attached. Les -- Les Denham

Re: line breaks in chapter title show up in TOC

. So I inserted a line break. > Problem is, now I've got a line break in the TOC. Is there any way to have > my line break and normal-looking TOC, too? > > Richard Opheim Richard, You can use Short Title (Insert->Short Title) to define a different title for the Table of Conten

Re: lyx presentation

On Saturday, May 21, 2011 07:50:33 am tania kallab wrote: Hello again, i am using lyx version 1.6is there a way that i can create presentation slides using lyx since i dont actually know how to do it on latexthank you The simplest is to use Beamer. Look at some of the examples at

Re: lyx presentation

On Saturday, May 21, 2011 07:50:33 am tania kallab wrote: Hello again, i am using lyx version 1.6is there a way that i can create presentation slides using lyx since i dont actually know how to do it on latexthank you The simplest is to use Beamer. Look at some of the examples at

Re: lyx presentation

On Saturday, May 21, 2011 07:50:33 am tania kallab wrote: > Hello again, > i am using lyx version 1.6is there a way that i can create presentation > slides using lyx since i dont actually know how to do it on latexthank you The simplest is to use Beamer. Look at some of the examples at

Re: Timeline generation

is in Javascript not HTML. I'm not aware of a way of getting Javascript into something LyX might be able to handle. Les -- Les Denham

Re: Timeline generation

is in Javascript not HTML. I'm not aware of a way of getting Javascript into something LyX might be able to handle. Les -- Les Denham

Re: Timeline generation

HTML to LyX is (at least in principle) doable. The big problem with SIMILE is that the guts of the output is in Javascript not HTML. I'm not aware of a way of getting Javascript into something LyX might be able to handle. Les -- Les Denham

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

for the one which will be of most use to LyX as a community for the longest time. That must surely be Oxygen. See: http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?page_id=2 -- Les Denham

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

for the one which will be of most use to LyX as a community for the longest time. That must surely be Oxygen. See: http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?page_id=2 -- Les Denham

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

On balance, as I don't have strong feelings as a user, I should vote for the one which will be of most use to LyX as a community for the longest time. That must surely be Oxygen. See: http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?page_id=2 -- Les Denham

Re: Export image to PDF as JPG, not as EPS

what you're presenting, perhaps using an overview with additional slides to show detail. -- Les Denham

Re: Export image to PDF as JPG, not as EPS

what you're presenting, perhaps using an overview with additional slides to show detail. -- Les Denham

Re: Export image to PDF as JPG, not as EPS

entation, you will have to reconsider what you're presenting, perhaps using an overview with additional slides to show detail. -- Les Denham

Re: Making paragraphs stick together

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 15:15 +0200, Barak Shoshany wrote: Hello, Sometimes I want to force two paragraphs to be on the same page. This may be done with Ctrl+Enter and the end of the first paragraph, but then the spacing between them is too small. How can I make two paragraphs (or maybe

Re: Making paragraphs stick together

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 15:15 +0200, Barak Shoshany wrote: Hello, Sometimes I want to force two paragraphs to be on the same page. This may be done with Ctrl+Enter and the end of the first paragraph, but then the spacing between them is too small. How can I make two paragraphs (or maybe

Re: Making paragraphs stick together

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 15:15 +0200, Barak Shoshany wrote: > Hello, > > > Sometimes I want to force two paragraphs to be on the same page. This > may be done with Ctrl+Enter and the end of the first paragraph, but > then the spacing between them is too small. How can I make two > paragraphs (or

Re: more on collaboration

. Writing of any kind is so rare I can't imagine there being any demand for collaborative writing. -- .. Les Denham

Re: more on collaboration

. Writing of any kind is so rare I can't imagine there being any demand for collaborative writing. -- .. Les Denham

Re: more on collaboration

y of a four-year-old. Writing of any kind is so rare I can't imagine there being any demand for collaborative writing. -- .. Les Denham

Re: Different page sizes in one document (eng/ger)

-- .. Les Denham

Re: Different page sizes in one document (eng/ger)

-- .. Les Denham

Re: Different page sizes in one document (eng/ger)

chapters into a single file using PDFTK. Les -- .. Les Denham

LyX success story

. Especially with cross-references and citations on nearly every page. And this was put together by one person in about three weeks. -- .. Les Denham

LyX success story

. Especially with cross-references and citations on nearly every page. And this was put together by one person in about three weeks. -- .. Les Denham

LyX success story

. Especially with cross-references and citations on nearly every page. And this was put together by one person in about three weeks. -- .. Les Denham

Re: First impressions of Beamer

to remember is it does not work with pdflatex. I've received quite a few compliments on my presentations from people who have never seen anything but Powerpoint (though admittedly that's a pretty low standard to exceed). -- .. Les Denham

Re: First impressions of Beamer

), and putting the text in one and the figure in the other. I imagine this would work in beamer too. Les -- .. Les Denham

Re: First impressions of Beamer

to remember is it does not work with pdflatex. I've received quite a few compliments on my presentations from people who have never seen anything but Powerpoint (though admittedly that's a pretty low standard to exceed). -- .. Les Denham

Re: First impressions of Beamer

), and putting the text in one and the figure in the other. I imagine this would work in beamer too. Les -- .. Les Denham

Re: First impressions of Beamer

really need to remember is it does not work with pdflatex. I've received quite a few compliments on my presentations from people who have never seen anything but Powerpoint (though admittedly that's a pretty low standard to exceed). -- .. Les Denham

Re: First impressions of Beamer

in powerdot is to put two boxes side by side on the slide (easily done simply by setting their widths to a total of about 99% of text width), and putting the text in one and the figure in the other. I imagine this would work in beamer too. Les -- .. Les Denham

Re: LyX on Windows 7

Reader 9 first so it would be found by LyX, and it works as expected for View PDF. -- .. Les Denham

Re: LyX on Windows 7

Reader 9 first so it would be found by LyX, and it works as expected for View PDF. -- .. Les Denham

Re: LyX on Windows 7

with it yet. I did install Acrobat Reader 9 first so it would be found by LyX, and it works as expected for View PDF. -- .. Les Denham

Re: Realistic Size Limit in LyX

versions back for LyX, and I think I was still using a fairly ancient version of TeTeX. Les -- Les Denham --- http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham --- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint

Re: Realistic Size Limit in LyX

versions back for LyX, and I think I was still using a fairly ancient version of TeTeX. Les -- Les Denham --- http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham --- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint

Re: Realistic Size Limit in LyX

ut \clearpage (in ERT) at the end of each of 12 chapters. That's all it took. I did this over two years ago, when I was a few versions back for LyX, and I think I was still using a fairly ancient version of TeTeX. Les -- Les Denham --- http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham -

Freeze followed by St9bad_alloc

with texlive-2008-r4. Has anyone else run across this problem? -- .. Les Denham

Re: Freeze followed by St9bad_alloc

) which was fixed by the recompiling and relinking in the upgrade. Les -- .. Les Denham

Freeze followed by St9bad_alloc

with texlive-2008-r4. Has anyone else run across this problem? -- .. Les Denham

Re: Freeze followed by St9bad_alloc

) which was fixed by the recompiling and relinking in the upgrade. Les -- .. Les Denham

Freeze followed by St9bad_alloc

ntoo Linux with texlive-2008-r4. Has anyone else run across this problem? -- .. Les Denham

Re: Freeze followed by St9bad_alloc

n the target machine) which was fixed by the recompiling and relinking in the upgrade. Les -- .. Les Denham

Re: Page numbering for subpages

, and just uncompressing them. Les -- Les Denham --- http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham --- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word

Re: Page numbering for subpages

, and just uncompressing them. Les -- Les Denham --- http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham --- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word

Re: Page numbering for subpages

m by using PDFTK to extract the pages to be edited individually, and just uncompressing them. Les -- Les Denham --- http://www.hal-pc.org/~ldenham --- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerP

Re: plotting with LyX

usually use Grace (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/). It produces very nice results, is very flexible once you learn it, and is supported transparently by LyX: if you install LyX on a computer with Grace installed, you can use Grace project files as figures directly. Les -- Les Denham

Re: plotting with LyX

usually use Grace (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/). It produces very nice results, is very flexible once you learn it, and is supported transparently by LyX: if you install LyX on a computer with Grace installed, you can use Grace project files as figures directly. Les -- Les Denham

Re: plotting with LyX

anks a lot, > Yoel > I usually use Grace (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/). It produces very nice results, is very flexible once you learn it, and is supported transparently by LyX: if you install LyX on a computer with Grace installed, you can use Grace project files as figures

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

with: article, report, book, memoir, a couple of Komascript classes, and powerdot. Suggestions or recommendations for using particular classes for specific purposes would be very welcome. Les -- .. Les Denham

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

with: article, report, book, memoir, a couple of Komascript classes, and powerdot. Suggestions or recommendations for using particular classes for specific purposes would be very welcome. Les -- .. Les Denham

Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book

;Reports" in my installation of LyX. I've been using LyX since 2001, and I find myself just using the few classes I'm familiar with: article, report, book, memoir, a couple of Komascript classes, and powerdot. Suggestions or recommendations for using particular classes for specific purposes would be very welcome. Les -- .. Les Denham

Re: problem with two languages in a thesis

child document is set to Spanish in the Document Settings, and the second child document is set to English in the Document Settings. In the pdflatex output, the table in the first child is labeled Cuadro not Table, and the figure in the second is Figure not Figura. LyX 1.5.7 -- .. Les

Re: problem with two languages in a thesis

child document is set to Spanish in the Document Settings, and the second child document is set to English in the Document Settings. In the pdflatex output, the table in the first child is labeled Cuadro not Table, and the figure in the second is Figure not Figura. LyX 1.5.7 -- .. Les

Re: problem with two languages in a thesis

e first child is labeled "Cuadro" not "Table", and the figure in the second is "Figure" not "Figura". LyX 1.5.7 -- .. Les Denham langtest.lyx Description: application/lyx test.lyx Description: application/lyx test1.lyx Description: application/lyx langtest.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Small poll about svn

them to open on new releases without any problems. Les -- .. Les Denham

Re: Small poll about svn

them to open on new releases without any problems. Les -- .. Les Denham

Re: Small poll about svn

ly earlier. I'd certainly like them to open on new releases without any problems. Les -- .. Les Denham

Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

options using \pdsetup. -- .. Les Denham

Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

On Monday 28 September 2009 05:59:54 pm Kenward Vaughan wrote: I still am led to believe that something in LyX's script must have options in it which cause the failure to create this. Kenward, Have you tried the sample file? It is /usr/share/lyx/examples/powerdot-example.lyx on the system

Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

options using \pdsetup. -- .. Les Denham

Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

On Monday 28 September 2009 05:59:54 pm Kenward Vaughan wrote: I still am led to believe that something in LyX's script must have options in it which cause the failure to create this. Kenward, Have you tried the sample file? It is /usr/share/lyx/examples/powerdot-example.lyx on the system

Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

can be any of the other Powerdot styles. Everything else in Document Settings I leave at whatever is the default, except for the Preamble. Here I fill in the PDF options using \pdsetup. -- .. Les Denham

Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?

On Monday 28 September 2009 05:59:54 pm Kenward Vaughan wrote: > I still am led to believe that something in LyX's script must have > options in it which cause the failure to create this. Kenward, Have you tried the sample file? It is /usr/share/lyx/examples/powerdot-example.lyx on the system

Re: How many are left handed

to the left side of the keyboard. Les -- .. Les Denham

Re: How many are left handed

to the left side of the keyboard. Les -- .. Les Denham

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