Re: Short titles

2021-10-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I don't think the KOMA-Script Report class directly supports a short title for the title. In LyX, the short title entry on the Insert menu is there when you are in a chapter or section heading but not when you are in the document title. I searched the

Re: Preamble header issues

2021-10-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Your last \usepackage has an opening parenthesis that should be an opening brace. Paul, Ah, they are difficult to distinguish with the light typeface stroke on a white background. It was the \usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage}; fixing that did not resolve

Re: Short titles

2021-10-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rich: What class are you using? Paul, KOMA-Script Report Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Short titles

2021-10-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Actually, yes and no. I just tried a small test document (article class). In a section heading, the insert menu has the item. In the article title, though, it does not (but formerly did). This is on 2.3.6.1. I suspect this is a bug. Paul, Aha! The

Re: Short titles

2021-10-08 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: It's still there, but only when the cursor is on a heading environment. Put your cursor on the same paragraph of a title and you'll see the entry under the Insert menu (the shortcut is Alt-A, then 1). Ricardo, I had the cursor at the head of the

Preamble header issues

2021-10-08 Thread Rich Shepard
Running lyx-3.6.2.1 on Slackware-14.2/x86_64. The document is KOMA-Scipt Report; page layout style is 'default'. I want to define custom headings for all reports and I'm reading the KOMA-Secipt doc. My current preamble is: \date{} \usepackage{palatino} \usepackage{mathpazo}

Short titles

2021-10-08 Thread Rich Shepard
I used to find an entry in the Insert menu for short titles. It's not there in version 2.6.3.1. Looking in the Users Guide I see that it should be there. Has anyone a thought why it's not being presented? TIA, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: KOMA-Script Report: page numbers not displaying

2021-10-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 8 Oct 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: I think, if you use one of these you must make appropriate definitions for the headers/footers lest nothing is being the default. However, when using Koma Script I set Document -> Settings... -> Page Layout -> Page Style: Default and in

KOMA-Script Report: page numbers not displaying

2021-10-07 Thread Rich Shepard
I must have broken something and haven't identified what broke. In Settings -> Page layout I've changed the page style from 'default' to 'header' and 'fancy' and none has the pages numbered when I compile the document using pdflatex. My web search finds help on removing page numbers and the

Re: Permanence of strange .tex file

2021-08-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Stephan Witt wrote: Ok, I mentioned it because you said you’ve killed LyX. If you’ve quit LyX regularly then the temporary files are removed and you cannot find them anymore. The running process has this open and therefore you can see it. It’s on disk present until you kill

Re: Permanence of strange .tex file

2021-08-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Stephan Witt wrote: on quit LyX removes it’s temporary files and directories. This doesn’t happen on sudden death of LyX. The question now is: is /tmp the location for temporary files and directories? On MacOS it’s not /tmp if you don’t set the path explicitly to /tmp.

Re: Permanence of strange .tex file

2021-08-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 27 Aug 2021, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Do you by any chance have instant preview turned on in Tools > Preferences > Look & Feel > Display. Paul, Huh! It was turned on, but I've no recollection of ever doing this. And, as I wrote, it's never before been an issue. So I turned it off. The

Permanence of strange .tex file

2021-08-26 Thread Rich Shepard
Here's another new experience for me. When I kill the lyx process there remains a file, for example lyxpreviewN17596.tex, which shows up in the process list as 'latex lyxpreviewN17596.tex' and consumes 100% of the CPUs most of the time. Root cannot find this file anywhere, and it persists after

Re: Installed module not found; page style not accepted [FIXED]

2021-08-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, Herbert Voss wrote: However, try \usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage} instead of \usepackage{scrpage2} Herbert, That did the trick. Thanks, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Installed module not found; page style not accepted

2021-08-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, Herbert Voss wrote: Write it into document->setting->preamble Herbert, Sigh. I should have remembered that. Thanks, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Installed module not found; page style not accepted

2021-08-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Aug 2021, Herbert Voss wrote: Why do you have for lwarp /texmf-dist and for scrpage2 not? Herbert, A) Probably because that's where texlive-2020.200608-x86_64-2_SBo or texlive-extra-2020.200608-x86_64-1_SBo put it, and B) I've no idea what lwarp is. However, try

Installed module not found; page style not accepted

2021-08-26 Thread Rich Shepard
This is a new one for me and I'd like suggestions on how to fix it. Running lyx-2.3.6.1-x86_64-1_SBo on Slackwere-14.2/x86_64. Document class is KOMA-Script Letter (Version 2). Page style is default. When I try to compile the letter using pdflatex a message box pops up telling me that LyX

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 16 Jun 2021, Paul Smith wrote: You can use R for that, Rich. Just open your .md file in R and preview it in PDF. I have just tested this approach and it works. Paul, How interesting! Thanks for the insight. Regards, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Converting markdown to PDF

2021-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
I've an .md file that I want to convert to .pdf. Using pandoc I get a .pdf that's all in html. Can lyx help me convert the .md to a clean text (with code) .pdf? Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Pasting latex in a lyx file

2021-04-07 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 7 Apr 2021, Mario D wrote: sometime I need to paste some latex code inside a lyx file. When I do this, I lose all the formatting and, in particular, I lose all new lines: this means that what I end up with in my red box in lyx is a complete mess which requires a lot of editing. This is

Re: Bibliography

2021-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Just to be clear: It is entirely possible to mix and match here. Riki, Of course. I use JabRef's push function sometimes and the dialog other times, which I typically access as Alt-I + C. You can navigate around that dialog, too, with the

Re: Bibliography

2021-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Doug Martin wrote: I'm guessing that you don't use that dialog and somehow when you insert a citation using the Jabref external link, you choose directly from JabRef? An example of how you do the initial insert would be helpful. Doug, I've never used that dialog; wasn't

Re: Bibliography

2021-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Doug Martin wrote: I also use Jabref and have a very large bibliography that I would like to be able to draw on for other papers, and would think about using that large bibliography (with enhancements) as my master bibliography. Doug, I suppose that if you're

Re: Bibliography

2021-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Doug Martin wrote: I also use Jabref and have a very large bibliography that I would like to be able to draw on for other papers, and would think about using that large bibliography (with enhancements) as my master bibliography. Doug, I suppose that if you're

Re: Bibliography

2021-03-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Perhaps I explained badly: I have two relatively large bib files. The first one contains (among many others) most of the needed references for my book. The second one (among many others) those which are missing in the first one. I would like to get

Re: Biblatex issues [RESOLVED]

2021-03-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: You know the JabRef quality>find duplicates, I assume Also: quality>check integrity is helpful Wolfgang, Yes, I've used those tools in the past. The last few times I used JabRef I had no issues so it didn't occur to me to look for duplicates

Re: Biblatex issues [RESOLVED]

2021-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: Well, this last one stymies me. The displayed LyX error is attached. The jabref.bib file entry follows: Paul, Mea culpa! I removed the duplicate Millard1988 from the JabRef display, but not from the .bib text file I had open. Realizing the text file

Re: Biblatex issues

2021-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm getting different errors in the whole file. Will explore that error log before asking for fresh eyeballs. Paul, Well, this last one stymies me. The displayed LyX error is attached. The jabref.bib file entry follows: --8<- @arti

Re: Parent-child book questions

2021-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: That button is for finding a *layout file* other than the ones that ship with LyX. You need to click the button "Select default master document" and then hit "Browse". Riki, Ah, I missed that. The best way to do this would be to define a

Re: Biblatex issues

2021-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Your MWE does not include a .bib file, so it's not possible to diagnose the exact problem. That said, your log's first encoding error looks as if pdflatex gagged on the dash(es) separating two page numbers in a reference. Paul, Yes, the van den Berg

Biblatex issues

2021-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
It's been a long time since I last wrote a document with a bibliography. I have compilation issues on this one and cannot find a saved thread with the solution. I switched from bibtex to biblatex last year (or earlier) and want to use the author-date format for citations. Since I upgraded to

Parent-child book questions

2021-03-25 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm writing a book (KOMA-Script book class) which I expect to be long so I want to learn how to use the Parent-Child multi-source documents capabilities of LyX. In the parent doc I've set each child to have its own bibliography (references). I want a single index, but that's well in the future.

Setting pointer color

2021-03-24 Thread Rich Shepard
Running lyx-2.3.6.1 on Slackware64-14.2. When the trackball/mouse pointer (a thin 'I') is on the last modified text position (the emacs 'point') its color is red. But, when it's being moved its color is black. Quite often my eyeballs (with many millions of miles on them) lose track of the

Beamer doc: graphics error

2021-03-16 Thread Rich Shepard
Running lyx-2.3.6.1 on Slackware-14.2. Imported a .png image to a beamer class frame. Compiling to pdf using pdflatex throws an error, but does produce the output .pdf. The error log is attached and the error is shown on line 739, but I don't see what's causing it. This is a new one for me as

Re: Increase base font size

2021-03-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Try in Document -> Settings... -> Custom: 14pt el, Huh! That hadn't occurred to me. Thanks! Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Increase base font size

2021-03-09 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: \renamecommand{paperfontsize}{14}? Oops! I think it's \renewcommand{paperfontsize}{14} Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Increase base font size

2021-03-09 Thread Rich Shepard
Using lyx-2.3.6.1 and KOMA-Script Article class. I'm preparing speaker's notes for a forthcoming video presentation and I want the body text larger than 12pt. In Settings->Fonts the choice is limited to 12pt. What's the LaTeX for changing paperfontsize 12 to paperfontsize 14? Is it

Re: Failure bilding 2.3.6.1 [FIXED]

2021-02-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 22 Feb 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: Slackware-14.2/x86_64. I've reinstalled all packages that were in the system before I borked it, but I must still be missing one. The newest gzipped build log is attached. I don't see what's missing. My apologies to all; I think my brain hasn't thawed

Re: Failure bilding 2.3.6.1

2021-02-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Can you tell me again what system this is? You should make sure that you have all tools for building qt5 apps. JMarc, Slackware-14.2/x86_64. I've reinstalled all packages that were in the system before I borked it, but I must still be missing

Re: Failure bilding 2.3.6.1

2021-02-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Can you tell me again what system this is? You should make sure that you have all tools for building qt5 apps. J-Marc, Slackware-14.2/x86_64. Do you have a command named moc5, for example? (BTW moc is a helper program used by Qt to

Re: Failure bilding 2.3.6.1

2021-02-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021, Scott Kostyshak wrote: Just to try something different, do you feel like trying the cmake build? Let us know if you want instructions for how to use cmake. Scott, I can try that. Since I switched from Red Hat-7 to Slackware-8.0 in 2003 I've built Lyx using the SlackBuild

Re: Failure bilding 2.3.6.1

2021-02-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021, Rich Shepard wrote: Did that and had the same result. I don't see a different issue in the build log with --enable=qt5 in the config options. That build log is attached. Rich lyx-build.log.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users

Re: Failure bilding 2.3.6.1

2021-02-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: The build log says: == The found moc compiler is for Qt 4.8.7 but the Qt library version is 5.12.8. You might want to use --enable-qt5 as configure option. JMarc, Did that and had the same result. More thoughts and suggestions needed.

Re: Failure bilding 2.3.6.1

2021-02-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: The build log says: == The found moc compiler is for Qt 4.8.7 but the Qt library version is 5.12.8. JMarc, Yes, I saw that and have no idea what 'moc' is. Also, I run Python3 here and have both qt-4.8.7-x86_64-4 and qt5-5.12.8-x86_64-1_SBo

Re: Failure bilding 2.3.6.1

2021-02-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021, Hartmut Haase wrote: what does configure say? Hartmut, The SlackBuild script calls for: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr \ --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --localstatedir=/var \ --mandir=/usr/man \ --docdir=/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION \

Failure bilding 2.3.6.1

2021-02-17 Thread Rich Shepard
I've had to rebuild lyx-2.3.6.1 and not before have I had a problem like this. There's apparently a missing library or other dependency and I don't see what it is when I look at the build log (attached). Please let me know what's missing. Rich lyx-build.log.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed

Re: Frame Control in LYX Beamer Slides

2021-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 14 Feb 2021, Doug Martin wrote: I also found that it is helpful to always create right away the separator to end the Frame, which is not in the main Dropdown menu for Standard, etc., as I had seen in a tutorial, but in the Insert drop down menu. Doug, If you put the cursor at the

Re: Document tab blank

2021-02-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Is there anything different about the filenames? Spaces, eg? Riki, Still not an issue. And, ... I just started a beamer class document and the tabs on the graphics insert dialog box have the same behavior: The tab with focus has a blank tab

Re: Koma-script Book Figure/Table numbering.

2021-02-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021, Norman Dunbar wrote: * Lyx 2.2.4 (From the Mint distro, not downloaded.) Norman, Could be an issue fixed since then. The current version is 2.3.6.1. I have a test case if anyone is interested, but I doubt I'd be allowed to attach it to a list posting, especially as a

Re: Document tab blank

2021-01-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 30 Jan 2021, Hal Kierstead wrote: I do not normally use tabs, but sometimes I get them accidentally, and have seen this behavior. Hal, In the decades I've used LyX I don't recall documents not having tabs with the document's name. I am using LyX 2.3.6 on MacOS 11.1. I just reset my

Re: Document tab blank

2021-01-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 30 Jan 2021, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Do you use Wayland? One of the two changes in 2.3.6.1 involved it. Riki, Nope. The X Window System. Still on Slackware-14.2 waiting for Pat to release 15.0. Regards, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: Document tab blank

2021-01-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: It's possible that the foreground text color is the same as the background text color. Riki, Looking in Tools -> Preferences -> Look and feel -> Colors I find only options for everything within the document window, not the tabs. This tab

Re: Document tab blank

2021-01-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Is there anything different about the filenames? Spaces, eg? Riki, The document settings are the same as another doc loaded into the application. But, here's a really interesting observation: the document tab blanks when it's the currently

Re: Document tab blank

2021-01-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Is there anything different about the filenames? Spaces, eg? Riki, Not here; don't do spaces in file names. :-) It's a long name and a copy of the same file in another directory that I'm modifying for a different presentation. Very strange.

Document tab blank

2021-01-28 Thread Rich Shepard
This is one I've not seen before. I'm using lyx-2.3.6.1. I opened a .lyx document in a new tab and the title does not display in the tab. It's plain white (see attached screenshot.) Closing and reloading lyx makes no difference. Ideas? Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: Setting LyX window font size [RESOLVED]

2021-01-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I'm not sure about Slackware, but on Mint (and Ubuntu) there is a utility named qt5ct (Qt5 Configuration Tool). On Mint (and presumably Ubuntu) it's available from the system menu by searching "qt5". If you install it and run it, you should get a

Setting LyX window font size

2021-01-27 Thread Rich Shepard
Running lyx-2.3.6.1 on Slackware-14.2/x86_64 with Xfce4-4.12.1. This upgrade changed the font size on the window's menu, outline panel, and other non-text-body elements. They're now too small for me to comfortably read. See attached screenshot. Using Preferences -> Display I can set the document

Re: Flawed 2.3.6.1 upgrade

2021-01-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 26 Jan 2021, José Abílio Matos wrote: If so could you sent it to me privately to find why this is failing with python2? FWIW the code should work with python2 and python3. José, While I've used the 'classic.ui' for years it is apparently now broken. I removed that file from

Re: Flawed 2.3.6.1 upgrade

2021-01-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: It looks as if you have a customized version of classic.ui here. Try deleting (or moving) it. It seems as if it must have some strange characters in it. Riki, It used to work but apparently no longer. And, ... removing ~/.lyx/ui/classic.ui

Re: Flawed 2.3.6.1 upgrade

2021-01-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: That is very odd. Assuming you had 2.3.6 installed before, the changes were very minimal. Maybe there's been a change to the Qt version that the build pulled in. Riki, Yes, it is. Installed here is qt5-5.12.8; I don't recall when that was

Flawed 2.3.6.1 upgrade

2021-01-25 Thread Rich Shepard
While the sub-minor upgrade to .1 apparently had no benefits for me I allowed my weekly SlackBuilds.org upgrades to install it. Today I fired it up and discovered some changes had been made and I've not found how to fix them. First, the fonts on the menu, toolbar, outline pane and other main

Re: Lyx-2.3.6 build failure [FIXED]

2020-12-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Wild guess: moc_FileMonitor.cpp:13:2: error: #error "This file was generated using the moc from 4.8.7. It" #error "This file was generated using the moc from 4.8.7. It" ^ The "moc" binary that you have in the path is from Qt 4.8.7, and the Qt

Lyx-2.3.6 build failure

2020-11-30 Thread Rich Shepard
Somehow, at some time since 3.5.3.2 was released I managed to lose by lyx build directory on my Slackware-14.2/x86_64 workstation. I restored it and downloaded lyx-2.3.6.tar.xz but trying to build it fails when a 'build-all' command cannot be found. The complete output is attached. I've looked

Re: Ellipsis [FIXED]

2020-11-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Have you offended any gremlins recently? Perhaps you could post a MWE that generates error messages. Paul, I must have. Yesterday I tried multiple times with \ldots and \textellipsis and each refused to compile. This morning I made a MWE with both

Re: Ellipsis [FIXED]

2020-11-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Nov 2020, Paul A. Rubin wrote: LyX translates an ellipsis (entered with Alt + . or via the Insert menu) to \ldots. (Note the final s -- not sure if your "\ldot" was a typo or whether you are not remembering the command correctly.) AFAIK, \ldots is defined in the LaTeX kernel and does

Ellipsis

2020-11-10 Thread Rich Shepard
Here lyx-2.3.5.2-x86_64-1_SBo is running on Slackware-14.2/x86_64. In the past I've used both \textellipsis and \ldot to typeset an ellipsis but neither is installed with TeXLive-2020. However, ellipsis.sty is installed and its use specified in the document's preamble. But, pdflatex complains

Re: Aw: Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020, Virgil Arrington wrote: For what it's worth, Palatino was designed in such a way that it doesn't need "f" ligatures. Ligatures are used because the "f" clashes with the next letter. When Hermann Zapf designed Palatino, he designed the "f" in such a way that it doesn't clash

Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Oct 2020, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: If you are talking about the basic ff, fi, etc. ligatures, I am surprised that you do not get them automatically. If so, could you send a short example file that shows the issue? JMarc, The URL I posted mentions that automatic ligatures depend

Re: Ligatures in the text

2020-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020, Andreas Plihal wrote: I'm producing a KOMA-script-book with LyX (V 2.3.5.2, on Windows 10) and want create ligatures. The LyX-documentation says: ...   My document has it not! Andreas,   You need to add them yourself using LaTeX (i.e, the ERT box). There are several

Re: Changes to LaTeX

2020-10-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: The quick fix is to roll back tlmgr restore latex 53958 which implies that tlmgr should have been configured to keep a number of backups :-)-O. ... because I didn't keep enough backups but you want to look for a backup from 2020-10-08 or

Printing ToC

2020-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
Running lyx-2.3.5.2-x86_64-1_SBo on Slackware-14.2 here. I'm drafting a KOMA-Script article and have the ToC written using Sections, Subsections, and Subsubsections. When I compile it using pdflatex the first page has the title, the second page is blank, and the third page shows 6 of the 8

Re: Changing from bibtex to biblatex

2020-09-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 18 Sep 2020, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Biblatex has many fields that BibTeX typically doesn't have, and some fileds have a different syntax. E.g., address takes and "and"-separated list (Berlin and New York and Boston). However, Biblatex can deal with all BibTeX fields and handle

Changing from bibtex to biblatex

2020-09-17 Thread Rich Shepard
I reconfigured LyX to use biblatex rather than bibtex. Are there any differences in the structure of the *.bib file between the two? For the time being I'm sticking with JabRef-5.1 because I've been using it for years and I need to work with the contents rather than learning a new tool. And,

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-15 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020, Pavel Sanda wrote: Apart from other options mentioned in this thread, what about staying with 4.x? You might by even lucky that snap/flatpack package already exists for 4.x and you could likely stay with that solution for quite a long time... Pavel, My response

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 13 Sep 2020, Neal Becker wrote: I'll just warn you that last time I tried biblatex with ieee the spacing looked wrong, bibliography took to much space Neal, My skimmed reading of the manual suggests that's adjustable. Also, any document I produce for a project that contains

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 12 Sep 2020, V K wrote: I'm historian, so never used this style – I need verbose ones (and even heavily modified one of them). So can said nothing about this style. Biblatex uses biber, so I think this is correct. Valdemaras, The biblatex.pdf says it's tied to biber, but also

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: I think I've found a solution, and it might work for you, too: pubs <https://github.com/pubs/pubs>. Will report after I read the docs and take it for a test drive. Since there's so much wildland fire smoke here I'm staying indoors (except to c

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, V K wrote: I'm using Zotero with two extensions: Betterbib(la)tex https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/ to work with biblatex. You can configure almost everything, for example, export to biblatex options – see

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, Chris Menzel wrote: The Better BibTeX Zotero plug-in (https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/) beautifully integrates Zotero and BibTeX. I did an initial import of my (very large) BibTeX file into Zotero and now use Zotero exclusively, relying on the plug-in to update my

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I haven't used it (I'm sticking with JabRef), but Mendeley ... Thanks, Paul. When I looked at their web site I got the impression that the database is stored in their server, not mine. That's likely highly useful for multiple users of the same

Re: bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 11 Sep 2020, Maria Gouskova wrote: I used JabRef and BibDesk (Mac OS) for years, and then KDE's KBibTeX, but lately I just open my .bib file in Vim. I found that KBibTeX screwed up the syntax of my file (which has something like 6000 references now, so it was painful to debug). In Vim,

bibliographic software (linux only)

2020-09-11 Thread Rich Shepard
I've used JabRef for years but 5.x frustrates me to no end. They've lost the emacs keyboard chords that were present from 1.x through 4.x so to edit an abstract, for example, I need to use the arrow and Del keys. And, they've changed the UI so some data entry tabs have their widgets on the left

Re: Beamer error on Lyx 2.3.5.2

2020-08-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 24 Aug 2020, jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: When I manually changed the encoding to UTF-8, it worked flawlessly. Julio, Rather than futzing seeking the source consider this: change encoding to UTF-8. Open on you Mac. Save it. Open it again and check the encoding and whether this

RE: Installing new class. cls files

2020-07-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 28 Jul 2020, Mike Reeks wrote: Can anyone help me out here? I’m trying to install a class file for ASME journals using Miktex console. Mike, Last time I used windoze was 1997 and NT4. I know nothing about it. Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: pdflatex not finding bibliography format

2020-07-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Just to be clear, you removed not just the bibliography but also all the citations? Paul, Oops! Some but not all. Now all are removed and the issue's resolved. Mea culpa! Stay well, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

pdflatex not finding bibliography format

2020-07-27 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm converting a publication with references and a bibliography to a slide presentation. In the Settings the document class is KOMA-Script article and I leave the bibliography choices at their defaults. I've removed the bibliography from the end of the document. Yet, when I compile it lyx

Re: ot again: gnuplot> how to get decimal hour exported

2020-06-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Start using R :-)-O el, I thought of suggesting this, but R would require the same two steps: calculate decimal minutes into a fourth vector in the dataframe, then plot what's needed. Regards, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list

Re: ot again: gnuplot> how to get decimal hour exported

2020-06-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: the minutes (3rd column) are divided by 60 and added to the hour (2nd column). They are plotted against time (1st column) and I get a correct graph. How can I obtain the column of data with the hours and decimalized minutes, e.g. 00 30 > 00.50 ?

Re: Beamer presentation PDF resolution [RESOLVED]

2020-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Giovanni wrote: glad to know it worked. I've found it a while ago as a stackexchange question (here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14336/latex-beamer-presentation-package-169-aspect-ratio ), but it seems is in the beamer user guide too:

Re: Beamer presentation PDF resolution [RESOLVED]

2020-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Giovanni wrote: It should go in Class Options -> Custom Without quote, btw. In the source view it should be like this: \documentclass[italian,aspectratio=169]{beamer} Giovanni, I must have mis-typed something the first time I tried it as a class option (of course no

Re: Beamer presentation PDF resolution

2020-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Giovanni wrote: Use "aspectratio=169" in beamer options Giovanni, Where in the Settings should this go? It doesn't work in class options -> Custom nor in Locay Layout (cannot be validated.) Regards, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org

Re: Beamer presentation PDF resolution

2020-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Giovanni wrote: Use "aspectratio=169" in beamer options HTH Giovanni, It certainly does help! Thanks very much. Stay well, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Beamer presentation PDF resolution [RESOLVED]

2020-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: However, videos for uploading to YouTube need to be in a 16:9 wide screen ratio. How can I set the PDF output to a 16:9 ratio using either 1920x1080 or 1280x720 resolution? I found the tool, now I need to learn the proper command line. Turns out

Re: ot: converting minutes in hour-decimals

2020-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: yes, thats clear, but how to do that one >>> You can use python for this on the command line. The aim is, to produce a second column with the hours-minutes in decimals, something like $1/60. Wolfgang, Oh. I'd use awk; a one-line script. Off

Beamer presentation PDF resolution

2020-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
I've used LyX (and LaTeX before this) for a very long time to prepare the slides (visuals) for presentations. They're always produced in a 4:3 resolution ratio and that's how both xpdf and mupdf display them. This works fine for in-person presentations projected on a screen by an lcd projector.

Re: ot: converting minutes in hour-decimals

2020-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: off topic: How could I convert minutes in hour-decimals in a column such as 00:01 00:04 00:07 00:11 00:12 00:13 00:13 00:18 00:19 00:21 00:23 00:32 00:32 and more so that e.g. 00:30 becomes 00.50 h either by a unix terminal command or by

Re: Same figure entered twice [FIXED]

2020-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Daniel wrote: Looks like the snipped is not well-formed lyx code (e.g. has a stray \begin_layout tag). Can you reproduce a minimal example as a lyx-file? Daniel, I discovered out how I entered the same figure twice: I had entered it last week when I wrote the document.

Same figure entered twice

2020-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
I've no idea how I managed to enter the same figure twice, but I did. LyX finds the same place when I search for both Figure 1 and Figure 2 using the Navigate -> Figures menu. Looking at the .lyx file in emacs I think the following encompasses both instances: \begin_layout Standard The

Re: Beamer class: question and comment

2020-05-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 16 May 2020, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Re your question, I believe all you need to do is click File > Save As, click the "Templates" button in the dialog to steer you to your templates directory, and finish the save operation (giving it a suitable name). Paul, Ah, I missed that. Re your

Beamer class: question and comment

2020-05-16 Thread Rich Shepard
I hope you're all healthy, productive, and safe and you stay this way. Question: After years of beamer presentations with different looks I've decided on one that I'll use for all future presentations. How do I save this format and structure (stripped of presentation-specific content) as a

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