the resource you need.
In fact digging around the texfm documentation often reveals little
treasures that aren't always covered (or are covered only briefly) in
the LyX documentation.
Robin
--
"Never mind the quality, feel the bandwidth."
Robin Turner
IDMYO, Bilke
ill be
independent for MyDefinition and MyExample (which should show up in
the menu).
Robin
--
"Never mind the quality, feel the bandwidth."
Robin Turner
IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
You've been using "Section*", not "Section". The environments with an
asterisk are unnumbered.
Robin
On Monday 18 February 2002 13:57, Ian Truelsen wrote:
> I am working my way through the tutorial for LyX (1.1.6.4 for
> Linux) and I am getting some odd output
e can someone help me on
> this. I am beginner in this so if possible please be comprehensive.
Have you reconfigured LyX?
Robin
--
"Never mind the quality, feel the bandwidth."
Robin Turner
IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
rt->Special
character->hfill. This way you can do
recipient's name \hfill your name
and so on; one will be flush left and the other flush right.
Robin
eX or LaTeX _MACROS_.
Yep, you want the heavy stuff. AFAIK, there's no good online stuff for that
-- read Leslie Lamport and Donald Knuth. LaTeX is in any case a set of macros
for TeX, so you need to learn TeX well. This is worth doing if you really
need it, but it's a project on the scale of learning, say, C++.
Robin
hich also has some nice tips on
not-exactly-latex stuff, like pstricks. If you want to get into heavy TeX
stuff, then _Making TeX Work_ (I forget the author) is good. If you want to
get into _really_ heavy TeX stuff, then Donald Knuth's _The TeXBook_ is still
the Bible.
Robin
to Kayvan for making life
easier for us lazy types who can't be bothered with CVS!
Robin
--
"Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted."
Robin Turner
IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
ecuting
> reLyX -f 'resume.tex'"
Rather obvious question, but is res.sty installed in your TeX
distribution?
Robin
--
"Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted."
Robin Turner
IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
d
> them?
CTAN has a host of stuff for (La)TeX, which can usually be used by LyX
(albeit with a little Evil Red Text sometimes). CTAN mirrors are all over
the place - your nearest university should have one, probably in something
like /pub/tex/ctan.
Check out Help->Customization, Chapter 6.
Robin
fondly for helping
me out with the boxes). Without templates I would have gone out of my mind.
Robin
swer is to put something in the LaTeX preamble along the
lines of
\usepackage{mla}
Robin
you can kludge it using a layout file if you really want to, but
it's not exactly an elegant solution. A better one might be to edit
stdclass.inc, rename it as something like myclass.inc then put "Input
myclass.inc" in your layout file.
Robin
ample,
lyx -i ps foo.lyx
will export foo as PostScript (can't seem to get it to work with
regular expressions, though - seems to be "non-greedy" and just
processes the first file that matches).
Robin
--
"Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted.&q
://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~fast/term.lyx , but please don't
redistribute without permission - this is copyrighted to my
university).
Robin
--
"Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted."
Robin Turner
IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
ex foo.tex gives error message "Could not write
term.aux".
I mean, if latex can't write the .aux file, how does LyX manage to
get the bibliography in .dvi?
Robin
--
"Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted."
Robin Turner
IDMYO, Bilkent Uni
On Saturday 02 February 2002 20:51, Paul Johnson wrote:
> In my output from lyx, a long web address goes through the margin and
> off the edge.
>
> What to do?
> pj
Have you tried Insert -> URL?
Robin
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 17:53, Wayan wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Robin Turner wrote:
> > I've finally managed to install html2latex, but when I
> > reconfigure LyX it doesn't show. Any ideas?
>
> add this command in Preference, section File Convert (I don&#x
I've finally managed to install html2latex, but when I reconfigure
LyX it doesn't show. Any ideas?
Robin
--
"Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted."
Robin Turner
IDMYO, Bilkent Universitesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin
On Monday 28 January 2002 18:32, Remzi Seker wrote:
> Hi
> I am writing an article that has to be double column. I am using
> Koma-Script, Article class.
> Is there any way I can change the space between the columns?
For example, to give a 2cm space,
\setlength{\columnsep}
You bet. I've just been trying to work out how to edit apalike so
when I put page numbers after citation references, they come out
like (Jones, 1998:35) not (Jones, 1998, 35). BTW, I'm not using APA
out of choice -- in a perfect world all academic publications would
use BibTeX plain!
On Monday 28 January 2002 02:22, Aide Florent wrote:
> I am pleased to annouce a Slackware Package containing a French
> Letter Layout for LyX that is based on a French Lettre Class
> (latex)
Sounds good, but I'd change the name to avoid sniggers from
Anglo-Saxon read
[Apologies to Herbert for first mistakingly sending this to his
personal address rather than the list. This list server could do with
a "Reply to:" field!]
On Wednesday 23 January 2002 17:09, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Robin Turner wrote:
> > How can I get LyX to handle embed
machine is Win2000 and I have Hummingbird installed. Thanks in
> advance!
It flashes??
Anyway, for a Windows installation,
http://www.fh-hannover.de/mbau/tim/hentschel/lyx/index.htm#Files
Robin
--
"Someone who re-invents the wheel will not take driving for granted."
Robin Tur
a job as can be expected. The whole point is that the user should
need to think as little as possible about details of formatting, and
for most normal formatting that works pretty well. I enjoy fiddling
around with LaTeX occasionally, but I really can't be bothered most
of the time - whe
There is a resume class written by one of the contributors to this list
some time back (something like cv.cls or cv.sty - I forget). Trawl the
archives and you'll find it. Even without a specific class, LyX is fine
for resumes - I wrote mine with LyX. You may need some LaTeX coding
(ERT) like \hdotfill.
Robin
On Thursday 10 January 2002 18:15, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Robin Turner wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 January 2002 22:17, Dupas Stéphane wrote:
> >>Dear all,
> >>Is there a way to show the number of the lines in the PDF or DVI
> >>outputs ? Stéphane
> >
>
On Thursday 10 January 2002 22:17, Dupas Stéphane wrote:
> Dear all,
> Is there a way to show the number of the lines in the PDF or DVI
> outputs ? Stéphane
A related question - is there a way to get LyX to print, say, every
tenth line number as a margin note?
Robin
--
"One pin
there any plan about when these features are planned to "born"?
>
I'm not a developer, so I'm not sure, but would expect features wlike this
will need to wait for 1.3. 1.2 is basically a nicer version of 1.* Graphics
import, for example, is much better. The .lyx file format h
I would have thought it would make it easier to include if
anyone wanted it hard enough.
Robin
.6.
Yes, I enjoyed that feature when I was using KLyX. On the bright side, LyX
1.2 should have a KDE version, so eventually there will be no difference
between LyX and KLyX.
Robin
tes
>and fonts as well, it would sincerely be appreciated.
>
To get an idea of what LyX can do typesetting-wise, just print out some
of the Help pages (e.g. Chapter 5 of Extended Features). One of the
virtues of LyX, though, is that even the simplest document will look
"really professional" when printed out (even if it looks pig-ugly on the
screen!).
Robin
Very good tips - thanks, Kat!
Robin
Kathryn Andersen wrote:
>Folks may remember a while back that I posted my experiences trying to
>use LyX to create my fanzine. Well, I've finally gotten around to
>putting that up on the web. The URL is <http://www.katspace.com/lyx>
Oscar Acosta wrote:
>How can i make the orthographic correction on-line?
>with the words bolded or with the specific markers, when there is an
>error.
>
You could just block the word then go to Layout->Character and change
the colour. Alternatively, underline with Ctrl-u.
Robin
x-docs@lists.lyx.org/msg00396.html
Unfortunately the .lyx file comes out in the message body, so
you'll have to do a bit of cut and pasting to get it back into
.lyx format. Oh yes, and it's in 1.2 format, which might confuse
things even more.
Robin
I've experienced this problem when viewing with Adobe Acrobat (on
Windows), but never with GhostView or Konqueror. Try using
pslatex as the base font, and pdflatex to export.
Robin
Harry Mangalam wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> As a Lyx newbie (second paper using Lyx, 1st on my
"Dr. Louis A. Turk" wrote:
>
> Is there any way to interface tth with lyx so that tth shows up on the
> File/Export menu?
As far as I remember, LyX detects tth automatically and runs it
in preference to later2html. Try reconfiguring LyX.
Robin
ill look in the same directory as your .lyx file.
Robin
e's
> been able to come up with a solution all week.
To risk asking a very obvious question, are you sure you have the
fonts installed in all the right places in your TeX directory?
It could be that GS is capable of reading them OK, but TeX isn't
giving them to it.
BTW, I sent a guide on using/installing fonts to lyx-docs a while
back.
Robin
i file that way. If you do, then
Ghostscript may be looking in the wrong directory; if you don't,
your TeX distro is buggered.
Robin
e the box, your screen is clean (except of a
>small label). Of course that has nothing to do with functionality, it's just a way to
>hide ERT.
This is in version 1.2.
Robin
type a non-breaking space
> (Control-Space).
This question comes up so much, it might be worth making a
dateless title a feature! Maybe modify the article class and
make the new class the default.
Robin
de when I used to use KLyX - not an
essential feature but a nice one. Should be possible to
incorporate and mordify the KLyX code, I would have thought.
Maybe something to think about after the stable 1.2 comes out.
Robin
t set the width of the column, and then use ctrl+enter to enter line
> breaks.
Yes, this works, but it would be so nice if in the next version
we could just hit C-Enter and get a line break in a normal
column!
Robin
On Tuesday 02 October 2001 14:28, Robin Turner wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 October 2001 13:42, Myriam Abramson wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm trying to put a box around a description (describing an
> > algorithm with keywords) but I get errors even in the tex file!
>
usebox{\@tempboxa}}}\\%
\vspace{4mm}
}%
This is adapted a little from one of Herbert's bits of LaTeX wizardry -
you'll probably want to play with it to get your box the right size and in
the right position.
Robin
The offending file is at
http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin/Chinese_texts.lyx
(I would have attached it, but it's rather long).
This may be a 1.2 issue. 1.2 is generally yummy, but, as you would
expect from a beta, does strange things occasionally -- the version on
my office computer ch
page.
> Does it enable me to place a heading for the figure
> and a figure number?
Yes. Whether and how it's numbered depends on the document class, I
think.
Robin
nt, but I had
encountered it before (kludged it by printing all pages up to the danger
point, then all pages after).
Robin
ok at the log file from the LaTeX run on both computers and compare
> the differences.
>
> ---Kayvan
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:48:53AM +0300, robin wrote:
> > Should be the same version, since they're both the same distro.
> >
&g
Should be the same version, since they're both the same distro.
"Kayvan A. Sylvan" wrote:
>
> Version of tetex is mismatched?
>
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 02:25:56AM +0300, robin wrote:
> > I have a document on my office machine which will print out normally in
any idea why this is happening?
Robin
t). "fi"
is TeX for the ligature character fi (can't reproduce it here for obvious
reasons).
Can you send me a copy of the offending file?
Robin
n occasionally produce garbage
(something to do with encoding - there was a thread on this some time back).
If you install it and reconfigure LyX, you can then just do
File->Import->Word.
Robin
gt; (my mistake was to tell in advance the editor that I would produce the
> book chapter in tex only...)
I export as HTML, import into Word, tidy it up if necessary, and save as
Word, adding macro viruses as required ;-)
Robin
new class.
> Any ideas
> mo
Dumb question, but did you run texhash?
Robin
iss.
2. Does anyone know how to get shadow and outline effects? I assume these
are raw TeX commands, as I can't find any LaTeX command to do this.
Robin
able and
select Lontable.
2. Set the column width -- right click, click the Column/row tab and
enter your desired width in the Width box. Remember you need to specify
the units, e.g. "3cm".
Robin
On Friday 07 September 2001 01:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > > > One
ments from LyX to
Word. If the recipient wants to edit it, they can turn it into a Word
document or whatever they want.
Robin
ller. My dream would be something that would connect to my nearest
CTAN mirror, download the fonts I want, integrate them in my TeX system and
add them to the LyX "default font" popup.
Oh yes, and although I normally decry it as bad typesetting, occasionally it
would be nice to have more than one font in the same document.
Robin
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 15:02, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:53:57PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote:
> > Well, that goes for most formats other than the notorious .doc.
>
> That does not even hold for most .ps files. Having a format using ASCII
> char do
question - does anyone remember a WP called Wordwriter (used to be
popular on the Atari) and have any idea how to convert its files to something
more current?
Robin
to be true.
Oh yes, and there's the pretty PS/PDF output as well. An untutored eye may
not immediately pick up on the difference between the same document in
LyX->LaTeX->PS and a standard word-processor, but I think there's a
subliminal effect ;-)
Robin
it _is_ possible to mimic logical formatting with Word et al.,
but it took me as long to get all the styles set up as it would have done to
have typed everything manually, and then some other office user went and
wiped them off a few weeks later anyway.
Robin
rnet.
When the rules determining patterns become complex enough, the result is
sufficiently chaotic to resemble a rule-less state. Look at the pattern
-ough, for example.
>
> > Basically it is not worth persuing this debate much further.
Probably, but it's like an itch you just can't stop scratching.
Robin
On Thursday 09 August 2001 09:54, Herbert Voss wrote:
> robin wrote:
> > but URLs don't
> > show up. I can get a URL to come up by using a different field, but the
> > effect is ugly. Is there any way to force this (MLA style is not the
> > only culprit, BTW)?
o cope with another weird pronunciation!
Oh well, at least it isn't yet another word-processor that has "word"
somewhere in the name.
Robin
27;m not too fond of
either. What I'm looking for is a style that is unobtrusive (like APA is
-- not!) and good for electronic sources. Anyone have any favourites?
Robin
uments (with the
command "-t") but chokes on LyX commands. Running a spellcheck within
LyX should give you a word count anyway.
Robin
.bst and get that installed.
Sorry, I meant to say "mla.bst" not "mla.sty"! What I need to know is
what else I need to do other than sticking it in the tree.
Tried texhash, but all I got was a bunch of error messages caused by LyX
interpreting my citations as LaTeX commands.
Robin
, I get
no bibliography at all. Is there something else I should be doing?
Thanks,
Robin
Oh yeah, I've just remembered another alternative. Open your text document
in an editor like Gedit or KWrite. Copy everything to the clipboard. Open
KLyX and choose (assuming it's the same as LyX) Edit -> Paste primary
selection -> as paragraphs
Robin
versions behind. Why not download the
latest LyX, which handles imports (even Word documents!) pretty well?
Alternatively, you could hand-edit your text document to turn it into a basic
LaTeX document, rename it with a .tex extension and import it, then do the
formatting in LyX.
Robin
The installation of lyx-1.1.6fix3 succeded
with potato (debian), the first time without
any problem.
A lot of tanks for this wonderful work.
--
Gerard
On Thursday 19 July 2001 00:57, ben wrote:
> Robin Turner a écrit :
> > Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that
> > ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated
> > (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too m
m for HTML.
Thanks
Robin
resolution
set too low for your system, or it could be that you have "Allow scalable
fonts" checked. Depending on your system, scalable fonts can come out badly.
Robin
p a poor newbie who wants to check his spelling in
the right language, get correct hyphenation in his French
documents... and still use these professional looking lists
that LyX generates.
Thanks in advance,
Robin
__
Boîte aux lettres - Caramail - http://www.caramail.com
, you can try exporting it as LaTeX,
opening it in Abiword and saving it as a Word document. This works in
theory, but the only time I tried it on my box, it choked.
Robin
e wants, though I believe few peoples will really bother doing
> it :-)
It's normally not worth it for pages with clean HTML and standard fonts, but
it's a great way to tidy up crappy web pages (of course www.lyx.org doesn't
come into this category!).
Robin
alphabet
to change it to something like "Aardvark"!
Robin
pretty
well, but some things can make it choke. See Help->Extended_Features
(section 3.4) for a detailed description.
You can also run reLyX from the command line.
Robin
, but wv works well enough. If you have it on
your system, LyX will use it as the default.
Robin
Herbert Voss wrote:
>
> Robin Turner wrote:
> >
> > Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command
> > summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ...
> >
> > 1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash f
Alberto Vecchiato wrote:
>
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Robin Turner wrote:
>
> > Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command
> > summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ...
> >
> > 1. Type a fraction as an
Well, I've looked through the Tutorial, the User Guide and a LaTeX command
summary, and I still can't find how to do the following ...
1. Type a fraction as an ordinary slash fraction rather than a math fraction;
2. Type a degree sign (as in "a 90 degree arc").
Am I stupid or what?
Robin
As for X-servers, Cygwin's is
free, though I don't know if that's as in beer or speech - they seem to have
been incorporated into RedHat. See http://cygwin.com/xfree/
Robin
MS Word, changed the fonts to things like MS Comic Sans and put
in some unnecessary borders. They got the point!
Robin
External Material -> Rasterimage?
Robin
ks, but doesn't look as good
Running ps2pdf on the graphic first did the trick for me.
Robin
nsation for an
extreme piece of stupidity, when not only did I forget that I was in my home
directory rather than /mnt/floppy, but also that "?" means any single
character, so typed
rm -Rf ?*
Just needed to confess that to someone!
Robin
Robin
G setting from the LANG environment
> variable.
>
> The variable LANG on my system is set as en_US and exported to all apps
> (e.g. StarOffice and mutt works well with compose), do I need something
> else to obtain compose work under LyX?
Jean-Marc's solution to my Turkish keyboard problem might do the trick - set
the LC_COLLATE variable to en_US or C
robin
message.
How does the Mandrake version differ from the RedHat RPM?
Robin
ument they come out in white on black,
and skewed across the screen. This doesn't happen when I view the
converted figure on its own, only in the exported pdflatex document.
Any ideas? (this is with 1.1.6fix2, PDF output viewed with gv and
xpdf).
Robin
I can make it work though, thanks!
Robin
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 16:18, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> On 23-May-2001 Niklas Werner wrote:
> > this would allow for importing database-records as well, since dumping
> > them cvs-split is fairly easy.
> > I'd like to add that to the 2.0-wishlist!
>
> I already told here that this IS already possib
On Wednesday 23 May 2001 18:17, Allan Rae wrote:
> On 23 May 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> > What is .cvs?
>
> csv
>
> comma separated values
Yup, that's what I meant. My tendency to reverse keys is one reason I never
got very far with Prel scripting ;-)
> Allan. (ARRae)
> Why is it takin
I find ReLyX is choking on .tex files generated from GChtml2latex (I'm using
this rather than the standard html2latex as it suits my perl setup). Is this
a problem just with this script, or have others had the same experience with
.tex files (this is on fix2).
Robin
do you configure it? In the menu I see how to change the
converters LyX uses for various formats, but nothing to add a format - I
could really do with .cvs there.
BTW, the External feature seems to work better with fix2 - I have had no
problems with JPGs etc.
Robin
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