date:20050426

Kris Kaido wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I'm using the 'report' document type to write classic documentation
 for some project at work, bu I'd like to completely custom the first
 page (logo, placement, etc.) which is for the moment with a black on
 white text in the center ...
 I can't find anything related to this on the web, is there somebody
 who could help me on this ? Do you know an interesting website
 discussing this and other tricks ?
 Do I have to get deeply into pure LaTeX documentation for this ?

Yes -- get your hand on

@book{kopka:daly:1997,
Publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
Author = {Kopka, H., Daly, P.},
Title = {A Guide to \LaTeX2e{}},
Year = 2003,
Edition = {fourth}
}

or

http://www.informit.com/title/0321173856?aid=c9e80f0c-fab1-42b1-a79e-79453cba4ad1

Matj

-- 
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sands for nothing, beware the fury of the legions...
  -- Centurion in a letter home from North Africa
 3rd Century

Re: Custom 1st Page ?

2005-04-26 Thread Todd Denniston

Kris Kaido wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 I'm using the 'report' document type to write classic documentation
 for some project at work, bu I'd like to completely custom the first
 page (logo, placement, etc.) which is for the moment with a black on
 white text in the center ...
 I can't find anything related to this on the web, is there somebody
 who could help me on this ? Do you know an interesting website
 discussing this and other tricks ?
 Do I have to get deeply into pure LaTeX documentation for this ?
 
 Any help will be greatly appreciated,
SNIP
I had a similar problem making documents match our required format.
Understanding the LaTeX documentation would probably have made this easier
for me, but I came up with a kludge which worked.
My kludge follows:

The first part of the trick is do not use the Author, Title or Date
field types on the first page, and be careful if you want to use Abstract
field type.  These field types basically require themselves to be on a page
by themselves, so no logos or other text.

The second trick, if you want text side by side with you logo[1], is to use
minipages.
For one of my logos, the logo minipage has 25% of the column, and the text
portion has 50% of the column. I don't know why but for them to be side by
side the total has to be strictly less than 100% of the column width.

Then set the font sizes and characteristics for your Author, Title, and
Dates to match what you want.

[1] especially if you want several lines of text side by side with your
logo.
-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) 
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter

Re: bibtex / Bugzilla

2005-04-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller

Tim Michelsen wrote:

 * when will Lyx be able to insert text before a citation in the citation
 dialog?

LyX 1.4 will support this.

 * when will the choice between  \cite and \footcite etc. for jurabib
 supported? Including the ability to insert citations in footnotes when
 useing \footcite with jurabib (from the workaround at

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg27785.html)

LyX 1.4 will have some jurabib support, but \footcite (and
\citefield/\citetitle, for that matter) is not yet supported.

 The second question is where I file these wishes. Bugzilla seems only be
 querable for real bugs.

You can certainly also file an enhancement report (Severity: enhancement).

Jürgen

looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
latex-beamer.sf.net.

I reconfigured lyx and have the Beamer presentation layout.

I started looking at documentation in the latex-beamer download.

But I am looking for lyx examples.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer appears empty.

Does anyone have any simple lyx examples for beamer to share?

Before I was using prosper to have around ten slides with a few bullet
points on each slide. My system is setup to do US Paper by default and
prosper was doing A4. And my prosper presentation in PDF only used up
about 1/4 of my screen.

As I had spent a lot of time on prosper and had heard good things about
beamer, I decided to give it a try.

My presentation looks nice. But I am not sure how to get it to use my
available screen space.

Now I have a gv window displaying the PDF. It says y792x612 as the paper
size and it is in portrait mode (by default).

My presentation is in the bottom left corner of the entire white page.

How can I get it to use the entire 792x612? Or how can I get it to use
entire US Letter size? (The paper size doesn't matter since I will be
not be printing?)

When exporting to PDF, I get:
  dvips: note: -t selected paper may be too large

I tried setting Layout  Document  Layout  Paper  Orientation to
Landscape, but then viewing PDF did:

  dvips: both landscape and papersize specified:  ignoring landscape

And gv said the papersize was now y272.13x362.83

This was too small, but at least my presentation used by the entire paper
size.

How can I do landscape mode using a larger paper size while using the
entire paper?

And is there is documentation that briefly and quickly explains each of
the beamer choices in the lyx drop-down menu? (Reading the 200+ page
beamer guide helps, but is slow.)

 Jeremy C. Reed

 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

2005-04-26 Thread Jose' Matos

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:15, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
 I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
 latex-beamer.sf.net.

  I have done this recently and I have used as example the one that comes 
with beamer, I found it in the documentation for the package.

-- 
José Abílio

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

 I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
 latex-beamer.sf.net.
 
 I reconfigured lyx and have the Beamer presentation layout.
 
 I started looking at documentation in the latex-beamer download.
 
 But I am looking for lyx examples.
 
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer appears empty.

It is empty, waiting for people to upload examples (hint, hint).

/Christian

PS. If you have problems uploading them, just ask me how to do it. 

-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44   http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

I am replying to two emails below:

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jose' Matos wrote:

 On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:15, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
  I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
  latex-beamer.sf.net.

   I have done this recently and I have used as example the one that comes
 with beamer, I found it in the documentation for the package.

I forgot to mention I already looked briefly at
lyx/examples/beamerlyxexample1.lyx (although I didn't know it was in same
download). But you encouraged me to look and I found several examples,
including solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx which
looks good.

Thanks!

I still need to figure out how to use a larger paper size though.

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Angus Leeming wrote:

 I understand that recent versions of latex-beamer can be used to create
 pdf files using the latex-dvi-ps-pdf conversion route, but historically
 we've always had to use the pdflatex compiler, creating a pdf direct from
 the latex file. Is the output different/better if you use this way to
 create your pdf?

Using pdflatex does work better for
solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx -- it still is
small, but uses up entire paper size.

Using it for my document create a PDF that is unusable by xpdf and gv.
xpdf says:

 Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
 Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
 Error: Couldn't read xref table

dvipdfm did work for me when reading with gv though. With xpdf it showed
garbage fonts.

The output size is y272x363 though. Way too small.

Here is an example screenshot of page 2 of
solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx using normal
export to PDF (dvips first).

http://pilchuck.reedmedia.net/jeremy/tmp-lcy84o3ubgkucw365p/beamer.png
(22997 bytes)

When I use pdflatex or dvipdfm, it is still same small size, but papersize
is small too.

I will see if I can integrate my presentation over to one of the examples
templates.

Any suggestions on how to get bigger than 272x363? I guess it doesn't
matter since using zoom works fine.

 Jeremy C. Reed

 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

 I am replying to two emails below:
 
 On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jose' Matos wrote:
 
  On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:15, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
   I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
   latex-beamer.sf.net.
 
I have done this recently and I have used as example the one that comes
  with beamer, I found it in the documentation for the package.
 
 I forgot to mention I already looked briefly at
 lyx/examples/beamerlyxexample1.lyx (although I didn't know it was in same
 download). But you encouraged me to look and I found several examples,
 including solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx which
 looks good.

Maybe you could at this info to 
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer

(I'm not quite clear about exactly where you found the examples, and I
haven't got beamer installed)

regards
/Christian

PS. The secret pasword is simply
LyXers
and that's both for editing pages and uploading files.


-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44   http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

lyx bugfix releases (was: Re: bibtex / Bugzilla)

2005-04-26 Thread Sven Schreiber

Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

 
 LyX 1.4 will support this.

Ok, I will restrain myself and _not_ ask when this will be released -- I
understand it has to be ready etc. etc.

But what about regular small bugfixes, the last version was released
more than half a year ago, surely at least some of the quirks we
lyx-users are working around (more or less often) have been fixed by now?

I have been loosely following the devel-list to get a clue on this, but
frankly don't understand the development process enough to make sense of
what the buzzing there means in terms of new versions.

Thanks of course for all the effort that is being put into lyx, it's
just that regular updates would somehow make me feel more ... thinks
about how to put it ... convinced that choosing lyx was the right decision.

cheers,
sven

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

2005-04-26 Thread Rich Drewes

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

 Does anyone have any simple lyx examples for beamer to share?

I just completed my thesis defense using a Lyx-generated LaTex-Beamer
presentation not 20 minutes ago!  Here is the lyx doc:

http://www.interstice.com/drewes/brain/thesispres.lyx

which generates this lovely pdf:

http://www.interstice.com/drewes/brain/thesispres.pdf

I don't claim that my Lyx usage of Beamer is anything great.  But it
looked nice and it worked (I got my MS :).  My committee advisor asked me
what I used to generate the presentation, since he thought it looked so 
nice and like the integrated outlining.

Note that I haven't included the figures that the Lyx doc needs to 
generate the .pdf.  You can look at the .pdf to see what the whole thing 
looked like.

Also, there is a sample Lyx/Beamer presentation in the Beamer 
distribution.  Look for

/beamer/solutions/generic-talks/generic-ornate-15min-45min.en.lyx

for example.

Rich

Templates for questionnaire?

2005-04-26 Thread christiaan johannes pauw

Hi everyone
I have found a Latex class for a n exam paper but now I am looking for a 
questionnaire. Typing a questionnaire is very time consuming van 
difficult so I assume that someone has developed some kind of latex 
class or templet for it. I just haven't been able to find ons on the net

Can anyone help
Thanks
Christiaan

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Maybe you could at this info to
   http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer

I don't understand. I don't see any example there.

 (I'm not quite clear about exactly where you found the examples, and I
 haven't got beamer installed)

I found LyX examples in the lyx/examples/, solutions/conference-talks,
solutions/generic-talks and solutions/short-talks directories in the
latex-beamer-3.01 tarball.

 Jeremy C. Reed

 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

Re: lyx bugfix releases (was: Re: bibtex / Bugzilla)

2005-04-26 Thread Angus Leeming

Sven Schreiber wrote:
LyX 1.4 will support this.

Ok, I will restrain myself and _not_ ask when this will be released -- I
understand it has to be ready etc. etc.

But what about regular small bugfixes, the last version was released
more than half a year ago, surely at least some of the quirks we
lyx-users are working around (more or less often) have been fixed by now?

We're slowly putting together LyX 1.3.6. It will of course contain many
little bug fixes. You can see the current list of such changes here:

http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/Attic/status.13x?rev=1.1.2.244only_with_tag=BRANCH_1_3_Xcontent-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
Equivalent URL: http://tinyurl.com/bpcfh

However, LyX 1.3.6 will actually be a *big* patch on LyX 1.3.5 because I
decided to merge Ruurd's LyX/Win port into the official sources and
Jean-Marc agreed to let me do so to the LyX 1.3.x code base. (Ruurd's port
was based on the official LyX 1.3.x code.) This merger hasn't just been a
cut-and-paste job. Instead, I've tried to do the right thing with each
piece of changed code.

I'd like to think that LyX/Unix and LyX/Mac users won't be affected at all
by this work because much of the new code is compiled only under Windows,
however, only time will tell.

So, if you want someone to blame for the slow release of LyX 1.3.6, then
blame me :) Of course, I'll have a vast army of LyX/Win users to protect
me because they'll find LyX/Win 1.3.6 is much better than anything they've
had before. I hope.

I have been loosely following the devel-list to get a clue on this, but
frankly don't understand the development process enough to make sense of
what the buzzing there means in terms of new versions.

LyX 1.4.x is in feature freeze. If you listen to most everybody else on
that list other than me, you'll find that they're all busy fixing bugs in
the LyX 1.4.x code base.

Helge Hafting has made it over from the user-side and is busy
supplying us with bug reports of things that go wrong with LyX 1.4.x.
That's a great way for you or anybody else to help too. Of course, this is
not bug-free code, so please back up your files first. It does seem to be
pretty stable however.

Thanks of course for all the effort that is being put into lyx, it's
just that regular updates would somehow make me feel more ... thinks
about how to put it ... convinced that choosing lyx was the right
decision.

I hope this info doesn't dissuade you.

cheers,
sven

--
Angus

Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

2005-04-26 Thread Janus Sandsgaard

Hi there

I m writing a thesis in LyX, but have a problem with bibliography: I would 
like to use the build reference manager in LyX (instead of relying on 
BibTeX), but I prefer references in the format of (author, year) instead of 
[autohor, year] as the build in bibliography features does by default. Is 
there a way to change this?

Janus

-- 
Roskilde University, Denmark.
Department of Technology and Social Science.
International Development Studies.
ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
latex-beamer.sf.net.
I reconfigured lyx and have the Beamer presentation layout.
I started looking at documentation in the latex-beamer download.
But I am looking for lyx examples.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer appears empty.
Does anyone have any simple lyx examples for beamer to share?
Before I was using prosper to have around ten slides with a few bullet
points on each slide. My system is setup to do US Paper by default and
prosper was doing A4. And my prosper presentation in PDF only used up
about 1/4 of my screen.
As I had spent a lot of time on prosper and had heard good things about
beamer, I decided to give it a try.
My presentation looks nice. But I am not sure how to get it to use my
available screen space.
Now I have a gv window displaying the PDF. It says y792x612 as the paper
size and it is in portrait mode (by default).
My presentation is in the bottom left corner of the entire white page.
How can I get it to use the entire 792x612? Or how can I get it to use
entire US Letter size? (The paper size doesn't matter since I will be
not be printing?)
When exporting to PDF, I get:
  dvips: note: -t selected paper may be too large
I tried setting Layout  Document  Layout  Paper  Orientation to
Landscape, but then viewing PDF did:
  dvips: both landscape and papersize specified:  ignoring landscape
And gv said the papersize was now y272.13x362.83
This was too small, but at least my presentation used by the entire paper
size.
How can I do landscape mode using a larger paper size while using the
entire paper?
And is there is documentation that briefly and quickly explains each of
the beamer choices in the lyx drop-down menu? (Reading the 200+ page
beamer guide helps, but is slow.)
 Jeremy C. Reed
 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

I use beamer a fair bit (great package!), but I'm not an expert.  So the 
following is offered with no warranty:

1.  As far as I know, page dimensions are hard-wired into beamer.  I 
think it's something like 120mm by 90mm, but you'll find it in the 
manual.  Any resizing to fit screen or paper is left to the PDF display 
utility you use (Acrobat Reader in my case).

2.  The official method of compiling a beamer presentation is 
pdflatex, and I'm not sure dvipdfm or dvips/pstopdf are supported at 
all.  I've tried them once or twice (usually by accident -- meant to 
click Export-pdflatex but missed high) and the results were unusable.

HTH,
-- Paul

Re: Error Resulting file is empty

Wang Xiangqi wrote:
I am trying to compile a presentation file in lyx with beamer. It works  
great previously, but failed now. the error report is printed as:  
Resulting file is empty. The operation resulted in an empty file. I 
am  trying to search in the maillist, but cannot get what I want. Anyone 
could  help me on it? Appreciate it.
(:( sorry for my poor English)

More thanks.
What error messages do you get in the xterm window?  Can you post a 
version of the document (stripped down as much as possible) that fails, 
along with any images etc. necessary to compile the document?

-- Paul

Re: Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
 I m writing a thesis in LyX, but have a problem with bibliography: I would
 like to use the build reference manager in LyX (instead of relying on
 BibTeX), but I prefer references in the format of (author, year) instead
 of
 [autohor, year] as the build in bibliography features does by default. Is
 there a way to change this?

put round in Layout/Document/Layout/options (without quotes), and then
switch on NatBiB in Layout/Document/Bibliography/Use Natbib.

Is it what you want?

Matj

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GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB  25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
 
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be
a completely unintentional side effect.
  -- Linus Torvalds
 New York Times, 28 Sept 03

Re: Error Resulting file is empty

2005-04-26 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd

Not sure if this is any help but i find i get this problem if i try to 
produce output with Acrobat Reader open.

If it is open.  Close it and try again.
- Original Message - 
From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Error Resulting file is empty

Wang Xiangqi wrote:
I am trying to compile a presentation file in lyx with beamer. It works 
great previously, but failed now. the error report is printed as: 
Resulting file is empty. The operation resulted in an empty file. I am 
trying to search in the maillist, but cannot get what I want. Anyone 
could  help me on it? Appreciate it.
(:( sorry for my poor English)

More thanks.
What error messages do you get in the xterm window?  Can you post a 
version of the document (stripped down as much as possible) that fails, 
along with any images etc. necessary to compile the document?

-- Paul

Re: Templates for questionnaire?

2005-04-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr

christiaan johannes pauw schrieb:
I have found a Latex class for a n exam paper but now I am looking for a 
questionnaire. Typing a questionnaire is very time consuming van 
difficult so I assume that someone has developed some kind of latex 
class or templet for it. I just haven't been able to find ons on the net
Iy you search in the LaTeX catalog:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html#exams
you can find this page:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html
regards Uwe

Re: Error Resulting file is empty

Interesting.  I get file not found rather than file is empty when I 
already have Acrobat Reader open.

-- Paul
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
Not sure if this is any help but i find i get this problem if i try to 
produce output with Acrobat Reader open.

If it is open.  Close it and try again.
- Original Message - From: Paul A. Rubin 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Error Resulting file is empty


Wang Xiangqi wrote:
I am trying to compile a presentation file in lyx with beamer. It 
works great previously, but failed now. the error report is printed 
as: Resulting file is empty. The operation resulted in an empty 
file. I am trying to search in the maillist, but cannot get what I 
want. Anyone could  help me on it? Appreciate it.
(:( sorry for my poor English)

Re: Error Resulting file is empty

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
 Not sure if this is any help but i find i get this problem if i try to
 produce output with Acrobat Reader open.

There is a long standing bug in all versions of Adobe Reader, that it opens
file for writing, so no other program can write to it. Enters LyX, where
angry shouts of pdflatex or ps2pdf are lost somewhere, and you get a
nightmare. If you need to work with PDF files a lot, I would strongly
suggest to try kghostview/gv or gsview (if you are on Windows) -- these
open file just for reading, so other programs can write to it, and they are
smart enough to refresh display whenever they get focus.

matj

-- 
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GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB  25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
 
Always make new mistakes
   -- Esther Dyson

Custom 1st Page ?

2005-04-26 Thread Kris Kaido

Hi,

I'm using the 'report' document type to write classic documentation
for some project at work, bu I'd like to completely custom the first
page (logo, placement, etc.) which is for the moment with a black on
white text in the center ...
I can't find anything related to this on the web, is there somebody
who could help me on this ? Do you know an interesting website
discussing this and other tricks ?
Do I have to get deeply into pure LaTeX documentation for this ?

Any help will be greatly appreciated,

thanks,

Kris.

Re: LyX/Mac

2005-04-26 Thread Rob Davies

Hi James,
Not to sure how you got their but, I use the i-Installer path as it 
does not require fink and it loads all relevant packages with a upgrade 
path. Only Problem is it can be a hefty download for a dial-up.

Then the only issue after i-Installer has loaded all relevant files is 
to run LyX installer, then set up Aspell which again instructions are 
in the URL and BibTex or other for bibliography. Neither necessary but 
might be for some?

HTH
On 25 Apr 2005, at 11:30 PM, James Nicolson wrote:
I have installed the LyX/Mac Package and have messed it mucking around 
with the tetex installation somehow...

I think... how that messed LyX up I dont know
but my View  pdf options have disappeared as have the other View  
formats and now I have nothing

it says I should add the PATH of my Tex binaries to my 
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist as below (on the wiki.lyx.org Mac/Lyx 
Page) but I don't know how to do this as it does not say... I assume 
it is keyPATH/keystring/usr/bin/string

How can I fix this problem, I have tried all sorts to get the Lyx View 
 Options back!!

   Prerequisites
For Gerben Wierdas teTeX http://www.rna.nl/tex.html implementation, 
use his convenient i-Installer (halfway down the page under TeX 
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/TeXTeX http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/TeX, 
ghostscript, Freetype2, WMF and iconv conversion support, ImageMagick 
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ImageMagick, and (optional) CM Super 
packages. Or use the fink http://fink.sourceforge.net/ package 
management system to install tetex, ghostscript, and imagemagick. To 
use other implementations of teTeX which do not install the binaries 
in /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current, /sw/bin, or 
/usr/local/bin, either link the teTeX binaries to one of those 
directories, or configure the PATH of your teTeX binaries in 
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist 
http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html. Installation and 
Configuration Products) to install the

James Nicolson

Cheers!
Rob Davies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
It is the world which makes known to us our belonging to a 
subject-communtiy, especially the existence in the world of the 
manufactured objects. Sartre.

Re: Custom 1st Page ?

Kris Kaido wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I'm using the 'report' document type to write classic documentation
 for some project at work, bu I'd like to completely custom the first
 page (logo, placement, etc.) which is for the moment with a black on
 white text in the center ...
 I can't find anything related to this on the web, is there somebody
 who could help me on this ? Do you know an interesting website
 discussing this and other tricks ?
 Do I have to get deeply into pure LaTeX documentation for this ?

Yes -- get your hand on

@book{kopka:daly:1997,
Publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
Author = {Kopka, H., Daly, P.},
Title = {A Guide to \LaTeX2e{}},
Year = 2003,
Edition = {fourth}
}

or

http://www.informit.com/title/0321173856?aid=c9e80f0c-fab1-42b1-a79e-79453cba4ad1

Matj

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sands for nothing, beware the fury of the legions...
  -- Centurion in a letter home from North Africa
 3rd Century

Re: Custom 1st Page ?

2005-04-26 Thread Todd Denniston

Kris Kaido wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 I'm using the 'report' document type to write classic documentation
 for some project at work, bu I'd like to completely custom the first
 page (logo, placement, etc.) which is for the moment with a black on
 white text in the center ...
 I can't find anything related to this on the web, is there somebody
 who could help me on this ? Do you know an interesting website
 discussing this and other tricks ?
 Do I have to get deeply into pure LaTeX documentation for this ?
 
 Any help will be greatly appreciated,
SNIP
I had a similar problem making documents match our required format.
Understanding the LaTeX documentation would probably have made this easier
for me, but I came up with a kludge which worked.
My kludge follows:

The first part of the trick is do not use the Author, Title or Date
field types on the first page, and be careful if you want to use Abstract
field type.  These field types basically require themselves to be on a page
by themselves, so no logos or other text.

The second trick, if you want text side by side with you logo[1], is to use
minipages.
For one of my logos, the logo minipage has 25% of the column, and the text
portion has 50% of the column. I don't know why but for them to be side by
side the total has to be strictly less than 100% of the column width.

Then set the font sizes and characteristics for your Author, Title, and
Dates to match what you want.

[1] especially if you want several lines of text side by side with your
logo.
-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) 
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter

Re: bibtex / Bugzilla

2005-04-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller

Tim Michelsen wrote:

 * when will Lyx be able to insert text before a citation in the citation
 dialog?

LyX 1.4 will support this.

 * when will the choice between  \cite and \footcite etc. for jurabib
 supported? Including the ability to insert citations in footnotes when
 useing \footcite with jurabib (from the workaround at

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg27785.html)

LyX 1.4 will have some jurabib support, but \footcite (and
\citefield/\citetitle, for that matter) is not yet supported.

 The second question is where I file these wishes. Bugzilla seems only be
 querable for real bugs.

You can certainly also file an enhancement report (Severity: enhancement).

Jürgen

looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
latex-beamer.sf.net.

I reconfigured lyx and have the Beamer presentation layout.

I started looking at documentation in the latex-beamer download.

But I am looking for lyx examples.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer appears empty.

Does anyone have any simple lyx examples for beamer to share?

Before I was using prosper to have around ten slides with a few bullet
points on each slide. My system is setup to do US Paper by default and
prosper was doing A4. And my prosper presentation in PDF only used up
about 1/4 of my screen.

As I had spent a lot of time on prosper and had heard good things about
beamer, I decided to give it a try.

My presentation looks nice. But I am not sure how to get it to use my
available screen space.

Now I have a gv window displaying the PDF. It says y792x612 as the paper
size and it is in portrait mode (by default).

My presentation is in the bottom left corner of the entire white page.

How can I get it to use the entire 792x612? Or how can I get it to use
entire US Letter size? (The paper size doesn't matter since I will be
not be printing?)

When exporting to PDF, I get:
  dvips: note: -t selected paper may be too large

I tried setting Layout  Document  Layout  Paper  Orientation to
Landscape, but then viewing PDF did:

  dvips: both landscape and papersize specified:  ignoring landscape

And gv said the papersize was now y272.13x362.83

This was too small, but at least my presentation used by the entire paper
size.

How can I do landscape mode using a larger paper size while using the
entire paper?

And is there is documentation that briefly and quickly explains each of
the beamer choices in the lyx drop-down menu? (Reading the 200+ page
beamer guide helps, but is slow.)

 Jeremy C. Reed

 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

2005-04-26 Thread Jose' Matos

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:15, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
 I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
 latex-beamer.sf.net.

  I have done this recently and I have used as example the one that comes 
with beamer, I found it in the documentation for the package.

-- 
José Abílio

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

 I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
 latex-beamer.sf.net.
 
 I reconfigured lyx and have the Beamer presentation layout.
 
 I started looking at documentation in the latex-beamer download.
 
 But I am looking for lyx examples.
 
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer appears empty.

It is empty, waiting for people to upload examples (hint, hint).

/Christian

PS. If you have problems uploading them, just ask me how to do it. 

-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44   http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

I am replying to two emails below:

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jose' Matos wrote:

 On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:15, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
  I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
  latex-beamer.sf.net.

   I have done this recently and I have used as example the one that comes
 with beamer, I found it in the documentation for the package.

I forgot to mention I already looked briefly at
lyx/examples/beamerlyxexample1.lyx (although I didn't know it was in same
download). But you encouraged me to look and I found several examples,
including solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx which
looks good.

Thanks!

I still need to figure out how to use a larger paper size though.

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Angus Leeming wrote:

 I understand that recent versions of latex-beamer can be used to create
 pdf files using the latex-dvi-ps-pdf conversion route, but historically
 we've always had to use the pdflatex compiler, creating a pdf direct from
 the latex file. Is the output different/better if you use this way to
 create your pdf?

Using pdflatex does work better for
solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx -- it still is
small, but uses up entire paper size.

Using it for my document create a PDF that is unusable by xpdf and gv.
xpdf says:

 Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
 Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
 Error: Couldn't read xref table

dvipdfm did work for me when reading with gv though. With xpdf it showed
garbage fonts.

The output size is y272x363 though. Way too small.

Here is an example screenshot of page 2 of
solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx using normal
export to PDF (dvips first).

http://pilchuck.reedmedia.net/jeremy/tmp-lcy84o3ubgkucw365p/beamer.png
(22997 bytes)

When I use pdflatex or dvipdfm, it is still same small size, but papersize
is small too.

I will see if I can integrate my presentation over to one of the examples
templates.

Any suggestions on how to get bigger than 272x363? I guess it doesn't
matter since using zoom works fine.

 Jeremy C. Reed

 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

 I am replying to two emails below:
 
 On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jose' Matos wrote:
 
  On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:15, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
   I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
   latex-beamer.sf.net.
 
I have done this recently and I have used as example the one that comes
  with beamer, I found it in the documentation for the package.
 
 I forgot to mention I already looked briefly at
 lyx/examples/beamerlyxexample1.lyx (although I didn't know it was in same
 download). But you encouraged me to look and I found several examples,
 including solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx which
 looks good.

Maybe you could at this info to 
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer

(I'm not quite clear about exactly where you found the examples, and I
haven't got beamer installed)

regards
/Christian

PS. The secret pasword is simply
LyXers
and that's both for editing pages and uploading files.


-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44   http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

lyx bugfix releases (was: Re: bibtex / Bugzilla)

2005-04-26 Thread Sven Schreiber

Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

 
 LyX 1.4 will support this.

Ok, I will restrain myself and _not_ ask when this will be released -- I
understand it has to be ready etc. etc.

But what about regular small bugfixes, the last version was released
more than half a year ago, surely at least some of the quirks we
lyx-users are working around (more or less often) have been fixed by now?

I have been loosely following the devel-list to get a clue on this, but
frankly don't understand the development process enough to make sense of
what the buzzing there means in terms of new versions.

Thanks of course for all the effort that is being put into lyx, it's
just that regular updates would somehow make me feel more ... thinks
about how to put it ... convinced that choosing lyx was the right decision.

cheers,
sven

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

2005-04-26 Thread Rich Drewes

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

 Does anyone have any simple lyx examples for beamer to share?

I just completed my thesis defense using a Lyx-generated LaTex-Beamer
presentation not 20 minutes ago!  Here is the lyx doc:

http://www.interstice.com/drewes/brain/thesispres.lyx

which generates this lovely pdf:

http://www.interstice.com/drewes/brain/thesispres.pdf

I don't claim that my Lyx usage of Beamer is anything great.  But it
looked nice and it worked (I got my MS :).  My committee advisor asked me
what I used to generate the presentation, since he thought it looked so 
nice and like the integrated outlining.

Note that I haven't included the figures that the Lyx doc needs to 
generate the .pdf.  You can look at the .pdf to see what the whole thing 
looked like.

Also, there is a sample Lyx/Beamer presentation in the Beamer 
distribution.  Look for

/beamer/solutions/generic-talks/generic-ornate-15min-45min.en.lyx

for example.

Rich

Templates for questionnaire?

2005-04-26 Thread christiaan johannes pauw

Hi everyone
I have found a Latex class for a n exam paper but now I am looking for a 
questionnaire. Typing a questionnaire is very time consuming van 
difficult so I assume that someone has developed some kind of latex 
class or templet for it. I just haven't been able to find ons on the net

Can anyone help
Thanks
Christiaan

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Maybe you could at this info to
   http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer

I don't understand. I don't see any example there.

 (I'm not quite clear about exactly where you found the examples, and I
 haven't got beamer installed)

I found LyX examples in the lyx/examples/, solutions/conference-talks,
solutions/generic-talks and solutions/short-talks directories in the
latex-beamer-3.01 tarball.

 Jeremy C. Reed

 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

Re: lyx bugfix releases (was: Re: bibtex / Bugzilla)

2005-04-26 Thread Angus Leeming

Sven Schreiber wrote:
LyX 1.4 will support this.

Ok, I will restrain myself and _not_ ask when this will be released -- I
understand it has to be ready etc. etc.

We're slowly putting together LyX 1.3.6. It will of course contain many
little bug fixes. You can see the current list of such changes here:

http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/Attic/status.13x?rev=1.1.2.244only_with_tag=BRANCH_1_3_Xcontent-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
Equivalent URL: http://tinyurl.com/bpcfh

I'd like to think that LyX/Unix and LyX/Mac users won't be affected at all
by this work because much of the new code is compiled only under Windows,
however, only time will tell.

I have been loosely following the devel-list to get a clue on this, but
frankly don't understand the development process enough to make sense of
what the buzzing there means in terms of new versions.

LyX 1.4.x is in feature freeze. If you listen to most everybody else on
that list other than me, you'll find that they're all busy fixing bugs in
the LyX 1.4.x code base.

I hope this info doesn't dissuade you.

cheers,
sven

--
Angus

Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

2005-04-26 Thread Janus Sandsgaard

Hi there

I m writing a thesis in LyX, but have a problem with bibliography: I would 
like to use the build reference manager in LyX (instead of relying on 
BibTeX), but I prefer references in the format of (author, year) instead of 
[autohor, year] as the build in bibliography features does by default. Is 
there a way to change this?

Janus

-- 
Roskilde University, Denmark.
Department of Technology and Social Science.
International Development Studies.
ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
latex-beamer.sf.net.
I reconfigured lyx and have the Beamer presentation layout.
I started looking at documentation in the latex-beamer download.
But I am looking for lyx examples.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer appears empty.
Does anyone have any simple lyx examples for beamer to share?
Before I was using prosper to have around ten slides with a few bullet
points on each slide. My system is setup to do US Paper by default and
prosper was doing A4. And my prosper presentation in PDF only used up
about 1/4 of my screen.
As I had spent a lot of time on prosper and had heard good things about
beamer, I decided to give it a try.
My presentation looks nice. But I am not sure how to get it to use my
available screen space.
Now I have a gv window displaying the PDF. It says y792x612 as the paper
size and it is in portrait mode (by default).
My presentation is in the bottom left corner of the entire white page.
How can I get it to use the entire 792x612? Or how can I get it to use
entire US Letter size? (The paper size doesn't matter since I will be
not be printing?)
When exporting to PDF, I get:
  dvips: note: -t selected paper may be too large
I tried setting Layout  Document  Layout  Paper  Orientation to
Landscape, but then viewing PDF did:
  dvips: both landscape and papersize specified:  ignoring landscape
And gv said the papersize was now y272.13x362.83
This was too small, but at least my presentation used by the entire paper
size.
How can I do landscape mode using a larger paper size while using the
entire paper?
And is there is documentation that briefly and quickly explains each of
the beamer choices in the lyx drop-down menu? (Reading the 200+ page
beamer guide helps, but is slow.)
 Jeremy C. Reed
 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

I use beamer a fair bit (great package!), but I'm not an expert.  So the 
following is offered with no warranty:

1.  As far as I know, page dimensions are hard-wired into beamer.  I 
think it's something like 120mm by 90mm, but you'll find it in the 
manual.  Any resizing to fit screen or paper is left to the PDF display 
utility you use (Acrobat Reader in my case).

2.  The official method of compiling a beamer presentation is 
pdflatex, and I'm not sure dvipdfm or dvips/pstopdf are supported at 
all.  I've tried them once or twice (usually by accident -- meant to 
click Export-pdflatex but missed high) and the results were unusable.

HTH,
-- Paul

Re: Error Resulting file is empty

Wang Xiangqi wrote:
I am trying to compile a presentation file in lyx with beamer. It works  
great previously, but failed now. the error report is printed as:  
Resulting file is empty. The operation resulted in an empty file. I 
am  trying to search in the maillist, but cannot get what I want. Anyone 
could  help me on it? Appreciate it.
(:( sorry for my poor English)

More thanks.
What error messages do you get in the xterm window?  Can you post a 
version of the document (stripped down as much as possible) that fails, 
along with any images etc. necessary to compile the document?

-- Paul

Re: Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
 I m writing a thesis in LyX, but have a problem with bibliography: I would
 like to use the build reference manager in LyX (instead of relying on
 BibTeX), but I prefer references in the format of (author, year) instead
 of
 [autohor, year] as the build in bibliography features does by default. Is
 there a way to change this?

put round in Layout/Document/Layout/options (without quotes), and then
switch on NatBiB in Layout/Document/Bibliography/Use Natbib.

Is it what you want?

Matj

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138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
 
Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be
a completely unintentional side effect.
  -- Linus Torvalds
 New York Times, 28 Sept 03

Re: Error Resulting file is empty

2005-04-26 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd

Not sure if this is any help but i find i get this problem if i try to 
produce output with Acrobat Reader open.

If it is open.  Close it and try again.
- Original Message - 
From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Error Resulting file is empty

Wang Xiangqi wrote:
I am trying to compile a presentation file in lyx with beamer. It works 
great previously, but failed now. the error report is printed as: 
Resulting file is empty. The operation resulted in an empty file. I am 
trying to search in the maillist, but cannot get what I want. Anyone 
could  help me on it? Appreciate it.
(:( sorry for my poor English)

More thanks.
What error messages do you get in the xterm window?  Can you post a 
version of the document (stripped down as much as possible) that fails, 
along with any images etc. necessary to compile the document?

-- Paul

Re: Templates for questionnaire?

2005-04-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr

christiaan johannes pauw schrieb:
I have found a Latex class for a n exam paper but now I am looking for a 
questionnaire. Typing a questionnaire is very time consuming van 
difficult so I assume that someone has developed some kind of latex 
class or templet for it. I just haven't been able to find ons on the net
Iy you search in the LaTeX catalog:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html#exams
you can find this page:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html
regards Uwe

Re: Error Resulting file is empty

Interesting.  I get file not found rather than file is empty when I 
already have Acrobat Reader open.

-- Paul
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
Not sure if this is any help but i find i get this problem if i try to 
produce output with Acrobat Reader open.

If it is open.  Close it and try again.
- Original Message - From: Paul A. Rubin 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Error Resulting file is empty


Wang Xiangqi wrote:
I am trying to compile a presentation file in lyx with beamer. It 
works great previously, but failed now. the error report is printed 
as: Resulting file is empty. The operation resulted in an empty 
file. I am trying to search in the maillist, but cannot get what I 
want. Anyone could  help me on it? Appreciate it.
(:( sorry for my poor English)

Re: Error Resulting file is empty

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
 Not sure if this is any help but i find i get this problem if i try to
 produce output with Acrobat Reader open.

There is a long standing bug in all versions of Adobe Reader, that it opens
file for writing, so no other program can write to it. Enters LyX, where
angry shouts of pdflatex or ps2pdf are lost somewhere, and you get a
nightmare. If you need to work with PDF files a lot, I would strongly
suggest to try kghostview/gv or gsview (if you are on Windows) -- these
open file just for reading, so other programs can write to it, and they are
smart enough to refresh display whenever they get focus.

matj

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Always make new mistakes
   -- Esther Dyson

Custom 1st Page ?

2005-04-26 Thread Kris Kaido

Hi,

I'm using the 'report' document type to write classic documentation
for some project at work, bu I'd like to completely custom the first
page (logo, placement, etc.) which is for the moment with a black on
white text in the center ...
I can't find anything related to this on the web, is there somebody
who could help me on this ? Do you know an interesting website
discussing this and other tricks ?
Do I have to get deeply into pure LaTeX documentation for this ?

Any help will be greatly appreciated,

thanks,

Kris.

Re: LyX/Mac

2005-04-26 Thread Rob Davies

Hi James,
Not to sure how you got their but, I use the i-Installer path as it 
does not require fink and it loads all relevant packages with a upgrade 
path. Only Problem is it can be a hefty download for a dial-up.

Then the only issue after i-Installer has loaded all relevant files is 
to run LyX installer, then set up Aspell which again instructions are 
in the URL and BibTex or other for bibliography. Neither necessary but 
might be for some?

HTH
On 25 Apr 2005, at 11:30 PM, James Nicolson wrote:
I have installed the LyX/Mac Package and have messed it mucking around 
with the tetex installation somehow...

I think... how that messed LyX up I dont know
but my View > pdf options have disappeared as have the other View > 
formats and now I have nothing

it says I should add the PATH of my Tex binaries to my 
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist as below (on the wiki.lyx.org Mac/Lyx 
Page) but I don't know how to do this as it does not say... I assume 
it is PATH/usr/bin

How can I fix this problem, I have tried all sorts to get the Lyx View 
> Options back!!

   Prerequisites
For Gerben Wierda’s teTeX  implementation, 
use his convenient i-Installer (halfway down the page under TeX 
TeX , 
ghostscript, Freetype2, WMF and iconv conversion support, ImageMagick 
, and (optional) CM Super 
packages. Or use the fink  package 
management system to install tetex, ghostscript, and imagemagick. To 
use other implementations of teTeX which do not install the binaries 
in /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current, /sw/bin, or 
/usr/local/bin, either link the teTeX binaries to one of those 
directories, or configure the PATH of your teTeX binaries in 
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist 
. Installation and 
Configuration Products) to install the

James Nicolson

Cheers!
Rob Davies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"It is the world which makes known to us our belonging to a 
subject-communtiy, especially the existence in the world of the 
manufactured objects." Sartre.

Re: Custom 1st Page ?

Kris Kaido wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the 'report' document type to write classic documentation
> for some project at work, bu I'd like to completely custom the first
> page (logo, placement, etc.) which is for the moment with a black on
> white text in the center ...
> I can't find anything related to this on the web, is there somebody
> who could help me on this ? Do you know an interesting website
> discussing this and other tricks ?
> Do I have to get deeply into pure LaTeX documentation for this ?

Yes -- get your hand on

@book{kopka:daly:1997,
Publisher = {Addison-Wesley},
Author = {Kopka, H., Daly, P.},
Title = {A Guide to \LaTeX2e{}},
Year = 2003,
Edition = {fourth}
}

or

http://www.informit.com/title/0321173856?aid=c9e80f0c-fab1-42b1-a79e-79453cba4ad1

Matěj

-- 
Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej
GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB  25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC
138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
 
But if we find we have left our bones to bleach in these desert
sands for nothing, beware the fury of the legions...
  -- Centurion in a letter home from North Africa
 3rd Century

Re: Custom 1st Page ?

2005-04-26 Thread Todd Denniston

Kris Kaido wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using the 'report' document type to write classic documentation
> for some project at work, bu I'd like to completely custom the first
> page (logo, placement, etc.) which is for the moment with a black on
> white text in the center ...
> I can't find anything related to this on the web, is there somebody
> who could help me on this ? Do you know an interesting website
> discussing this and other tricks ?
> Do I have to get deeply into pure LaTeX documentation for this ?
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated,

I had a similar problem making documents match our required format.
Understanding the LaTeX documentation would probably have made this easier
for me, but I came up with a kludge which worked.
My kludge follows:

The first part of the trick is do not use the "Author", "Title" or "Date"
field types on the first page, and be careful if you want to use "Abstract"
field type.  These field types basically require themselves to be on a page
by themselves, so no logos or other text.

The second trick, if you want text side by side with you logo[1], is to use
minipages.
For one of my logos, the logo minipage has 25% of the column, and the text
portion has 50% of the column. I don't know why but for them to be side by
side the total has to be strictly less than 100% of the column width.

Then set the font sizes and characteristics for your Author, Title, and
Dates to match what you want.

[1] especially if you want several lines of text side by side with your
logo.
-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) 
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter

Re: bibtex / Bugzilla

2005-04-26 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller

Tim Michelsen wrote:

> * when will Lyx be able to insert text before a citation in the citation
> dialog?

LyX 1.4 will support this.

> * when will the choice between  \cite and \footcite etc. for jurabib
> supported? Including the ability to insert citations in footnotes when
> useing \footcite with jurabib (from the workaround at
>
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg27785.html)

LyX 1.4 will have some jurabib support, but \footcite (and
\citefield/\citetitle, for that matter) is not yet supported.

> The second question is where I file these wishes. Bugzilla seems only be
> querable for real bugs.

You can certainly also file an enhancement report ("Severity: enhancement").

Jürgen

looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
latex-beamer.sf.net.

I reconfigured lyx and have the Beamer presentation layout.

I started looking at documentation in the latex-beamer download.

But I am looking for lyx examples.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer appears empty.

Does anyone have any simple lyx examples for beamer to share?

Before I was using prosper to have around ten slides with a few bullet
points on each slide. My system is setup to do "US Paper" by default and
prosper was doing A4. And my prosper presentation in PDF only used up
about 1/4 of my screen.

As I had spent a lot of time on prosper and had heard good things about
beamer, I decided to give it a try.

My presentation looks nice. But I am not sure how to get it to use my
available screen space.

Now I have a gv window displaying the PDF. It says "y792x612" as the paper
size and it is in portrait mode (by default).

My presentation is in the bottom left corner of the entire white page.

How can I get it to use the entire 792x612? Or how can I get it to use
entire US Letter size? (The paper size doesn't matter since I will be
not be printing?)

When exporting to PDF, I get:
  dvips: note: -t selected paper may be too large

I tried setting Layout > Document > Layout > Paper > Orientation to
Landscape, but then viewing PDF did:

  dvips: both landscape and papersize specified:  ignoring landscape

And gv said the papersize was now y272.13x362.83

This was too small, but at least my presentation used by the entire paper
size.

How can I do landscape mode using a larger paper size while using the
entire paper?

And is there is documentation that briefly and quickly explains each of
the "beamer" choices in the lyx drop-down menu? (Reading the 200+ page
beamer guide helps, but is slow.)

 Jeremy C. Reed

 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

2005-04-26 Thread Jose' Matos

On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:15, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
> latex-beamer.sf.net.

  I have done this recently and I have used as example the one that comes 
with beamer, I found it in the documentation for the package.

-- 
José Abílio

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
> latex-beamer.sf.net.
> 
> I reconfigured lyx and have the Beamer presentation layout.
> 
> I started looking at documentation in the latex-beamer download.
> 
> But I am looking for lyx examples.
> 
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer appears empty.

It is empty, waiting for people to upload examples (hint, hint).

/Christian

PS. If you have problems uploading them, just ask me how to do it. 

-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44   http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

I am replying to two emails below:

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jose' Matos wrote:

> On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:15, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
> > latex-beamer.sf.net.
>
>   I have done this recently and I have used as example the one that comes
> with beamer, I found it in the documentation for the package.

I forgot to mention I already looked briefly at
lyx/examples/beamerlyxexample1.lyx (although I didn't know it was in same
download). But you encouraged me to look and I found several examples,
including solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx which
looks good.

Thanks!

I still need to figure out how to use a larger paper size though.

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Angus Leeming wrote:

> I understand that recent versions of latex-beamer can be used to create
> pdf files using the latex->dvi->ps->pdf conversion route, but historically
> we've always had to use the pdflatex compiler, creating a pdf direct from
> the latex file. Is the output different/better if you use this way to
> create your pdf?

Using pdflatex does work better for
solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx -- it still is
small, but uses up entire paper size.

Using it for my document create a PDF that is unusable by xpdf and gv.
xpdf says:

 Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table...
 Error: Couldn't find trailer dictionary
 Error: Couldn't read xref table

dvipdfm did work for me when reading with gv though. With xpdf it showed
garbage fonts.

The output size is y272x363 though. Way too small.

Here is an example screenshot of page 2 of
solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx using normal
export to PDF (dvips first).

http://pilchuck.reedmedia.net/jeremy/tmp-lcy84o3ubgkucw365p/beamer.png
(22997 bytes)

When I use pdflatex or dvipdfm, it is still same small size, but papersize
is small too.

I will see if I can integrate my presentation over to one of the examples
templates.

Any suggestions on how to get bigger than 272x363? I guess it doesn't
matter since using zoom works fine.

 Jeremy C. Reed

 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I am replying to two emails below:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jose' Matos wrote:
> 
> > On Tuesday 26 April 2005 17:15, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
> > > latex-beamer.sf.net.
> >
> >   I have done this recently and I have used as example the one that comes
> > with beamer, I found it in the documentation for the package.
> 
> I forgot to mention I already looked briefly at
> lyx/examples/beamerlyxexample1.lyx (although I didn't know it was in same
> download). But you encouraged me to look and I found several examples,
> including solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx which
> looks good.

Maybe you could at this info to 
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer

(I'm not quite clear about exactly where you found the examples, and I
haven't got beamer installed)

regards
/Christian

PS. The "secret" pasword is simply
LyXers
and that's both for editing pages and uploading files.


-- 
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44   http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

lyx bugfix releases (was: Re: bibtex / Bugzilla)

2005-04-26 Thread Sven Schreiber

Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

> 
> LyX 1.4 will support this.

Ok, I will restrain myself and _not_ ask when this will be released -- I
understand it has to be ready etc. etc.

But what about regular small bugfixes, the last version was released
more than half a year ago, surely at least some of the quirks we
lyx-users are working around (more or less often) have been fixed by now?

I have been loosely following the devel-list to get a clue on this, but
frankly don't understand the development process enough to make sense of
what the buzzing there means in terms of new versions.

Thanks of course for all the effort that is being put into lyx, it's
just that regular updates would somehow make me feel more ...  ... convinced that choosing lyx was the right decision.

cheers,
sven

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

2005-04-26 Thread Rich Drewes

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> Does anyone have any simple lyx examples for beamer to share?

I just completed my thesis defense using a Lyx-generated LaTex-Beamer
presentation not 20 minutes ago!  Here is the lyx doc:

http://www.interstice.com/drewes/brain/thesispres.lyx

which generates this lovely pdf:

http://www.interstice.com/drewes/brain/thesispres.pdf

I don't claim that my Lyx usage of Beamer is anything great.  But it
looked nice and it worked (I got my MS :).  My committee advisor asked me
what I used to generate the presentation, since he thought it looked so 
nice and like the integrated outlining.

Note that I haven't included the figures that the Lyx doc needs to 
generate the .pdf.  You can look at the .pdf to see what the whole thing 
looked like.

Also, there is a sample Lyx/Beamer presentation in the Beamer 
distribution.  Look for

/beamer/solutions/generic-talks/generic-ornate-15min-45min.en.lyx

for example.

Rich

Templates for questionnaire?

2005-04-26 Thread christiaan johannes pauw

Hi everyone
I have found a Latex class for a n exam paper but now I am looking for a 
questionnaire. Typing a questionnaire is very time consuming van 
difficult so I assume that someone has developed some kind of latex 
class or templet for it. I just haven't been able to find ons on the net

Can anyone help
Thanks
Christiaan

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Maybe you could at this info to
>   http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer

I don't understand. I don't see any example there.

> (I'm not quite clear about exactly where you found the examples, and I
> haven't got beamer installed)

I found LyX examples in the lyx/examples/, solutions/conference-talks,
solutions/generic-talks and solutions/short-talks directories in the
latex-beamer-3.01 tarball.

 Jeremy C. Reed

 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

Re: lyx bugfix releases (was: Re: bibtex / Bugzilla)

2005-04-26 Thread Angus Leeming

Sven Schreiber wrote:
>> LyX 1.4 will support this.
> 
> Ok, I will restrain myself and _not_ ask when this will be released -- I
> understand it has to be ready etc. etc.
> 
> But what about regular small bugfixes, the last version was released
> more than half a year ago, surely at least some of the quirks we
> lyx-users are working around (more or less often) have been fixed by now?

We're slowly putting together LyX 1.3.6. It will of course contain many 
little bug fixes. You can see the current list of such changes here:

http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/Attic/status.13x?rev=1.1.2.244_with_tag=BRANCH_1_3_X=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
Equivalent URL: http://tinyurl.com/bpcfh

However, LyX 1.3.6 will actually be a *big* patch on LyX 1.3.5 because I 
decided to merge Ruurd's LyX/Win port into the official sources and 
Jean-Marc agreed to let me do so to the LyX 1.3.x code base. (Ruurd's port 
was based on the official LyX 1.3.x code.) This merger hasn't just been a 
cut-and-paste job. Instead, I've tried to "do the right thing" with each 
piece of changed code.

I'd like to think that LyX/Unix and LyX/Mac users won't be affected at all 
by this work because much of the new code is compiled only under Windows, 
however, only time will tell.

So, if you want someone to blame for the slow release of LyX 1.3.6, then 
blame me :) Of course, I'll have a vast army of LyX/Win users to protect 
me because they'll find LyX/Win 1.3.6 is much better than anything they've 
had before. I hope.

> I have been loosely following the devel-list to get a clue on this, but
> frankly don't understand the development process enough to make sense of
> what the buzzing there means in terms of new versions.

LyX 1.4.x is in feature freeze. If you listen to most everybody else on 
that list other than me, you'll find that they're all busy fixing bugs in 
the LyX 1.4.x code base.

Helge Hafting has made it over from the user-side and is busy 
supplying us with bug reports of things that go wrong with LyX 1.4.x. 
That's a great way for you or anybody else to help too. Of course, this is 
not bug-free code, so please back up your files first. It does seem to be 
pretty stable however.

> Thanks of course for all the effort that is being put into lyx, it's
> just that regular updates would somehow make me feel more ...  about how to put it> ... convinced that choosing lyx was the right
> decision.

I hope this info doesn't dissuade you.

> cheers,
> sven

-- 
Angus

Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

2005-04-26 Thread Janus Sandsgaard

Hi there

I m writing a thesis in LyX, but have a problem with bibliography: I would 
like to use the build reference manager in LyX (instead of relying on 
BibTeX), but I prefer references in the format of (author, year) instead of 
[autohor, year] as the build in bibliography features does by default. Is 
there a way to change this?

Janus

-- 
Roskilde University, Denmark.
Department of Technology and Social Science.
International Development Studies.
ESST - Society, Science and Technology in Europe.

Re: looking for lyx examples of beamer and choosing page size/layout

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I installed xcolor 2.00 and pgf-0.65 and latex-beamer-3.01 from
latex-beamer.sf.net.
I reconfigured lyx and have the Beamer presentation layout.
I started looking at documentation in the latex-beamer download.
But I am looking for lyx examples.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer appears empty.
Does anyone have any simple lyx examples for beamer to share?
Before I was using prosper to have around ten slides with a few bullet
points on each slide. My system is setup to do "US Paper" by default and
prosper was doing A4. And my prosper presentation in PDF only used up
about 1/4 of my screen.
As I had spent a lot of time on prosper and had heard good things about
beamer, I decided to give it a try.
My presentation looks nice. But I am not sure how to get it to use my
available screen space.
Now I have a gv window displaying the PDF. It says "y792x612" as the paper
size and it is in portrait mode (by default).
My presentation is in the bottom left corner of the entire white page.
How can I get it to use the entire 792x612? Or how can I get it to use
entire US Letter size? (The paper size doesn't matter since I will be
not be printing?)
When exporting to PDF, I get:
  dvips: note: -t selected paper may be too large
I tried setting Layout > Document > Layout > Paper > Orientation to
Landscape, but then viewing PDF did:
  dvips: both landscape and papersize specified:  ignoring landscape
And gv said the papersize was now y272.13x362.83
This was too small, but at least my presentation used by the entire paper
size.
How can I do landscape mode using a larger paper size while using the
entire paper?
And is there is documentation that briefly and quickly explains each of
the "beamer" choices in the lyx drop-down menu? (Reading the 200+ page
beamer guide helps, but is slow.)
 Jeremy C. Reed
 BSD News, BSD tutorials, BSD links
 http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/

I use beamer a fair bit (great package!), but I'm not an expert.  So the 
following is offered with no warranty:

1.  As far as I know, page dimensions are "hard-wired" into beamer.  I 
think it's something like 120mm by 90mm, but you'll find it in the 
manual.  Any resizing to fit screen or paper is left to the PDF display 
utility you use (Acrobat Reader in my case).

2.  The "official" method of compiling a beamer presentation is 
pdflatex, and I'm not sure dvipdfm or dvips/pstopdf are supported at 
all.  I've tried them once or twice (usually by accident -- meant to 
click Export->pdflatex but missed high) and the results were unusable.

HTH,
-- Paul

Re: Error "Resulting file is empty"

Wang Xiangqi wrote:
I am trying to compile a presentation file in lyx with beamer. It works  
great previously, but failed now. the error report is printed as:  
"Resulting file is empty. The operation resulted in an empty file". I 
am  trying to search in the maillist, but cannot get what I want. Anyone 
could  help me on it? Appreciate it.
(:( sorry for my poor English)

More thanks.
What error messages do you get in the xterm window?  Can you post a 
version of the document (stripped down as much as possible) that fails, 
along with any images etc. necessary to compile the document?

-- Paul

Re: Change layout of the build in bibliography manager (autor, year)

Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
> I m writing a thesis in LyX, but have a problem with bibliography: I would
> like to use the build reference manager in LyX (instead of relying on
> BibTeX), but I prefer references in the format of (author, year) instead
> of
> [autohor, year] as the build in bibliography features does by default. Is
> there a way to change this?

put "round" in Layout/Document/Layout/options (without quotes), and then
switch on NatBiB in Layout/Document/Bibliography/Use Natbib.

Is it what you want?

Matěj

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Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be
a completely unintentional side effect.
  -- Linus Torvalds
 New York Times, 28 Sept 03

Re: Error "Resulting file is empty"

2005-04-26 Thread Geoffrey Lloyd

Not sure if this is any help but i find i get this problem if i try to 
produce output with Acrobat Reader open.

If it is open.  Close it and try again.
- Original Message - 
From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Error "Resulting file is empty"

Wang Xiangqi wrote:
I am trying to compile a presentation file in lyx with beamer. It works 
great previously, but failed now. the error report is printed as: 
"Resulting file is empty. The operation resulted in an empty file". I am 
trying to search in the maillist, but cannot get what I want. Anyone 
could  help me on it? Appreciate it.
(:( sorry for my poor English)

More thanks.
What error messages do you get in the xterm window?  Can you post a 
version of the document (stripped down as much as possible) that fails, 
along with any images etc. necessary to compile the document?

-- Paul

Re: Templates for questionnaire?

2005-04-26 Thread Uwe Stöhr

christiaan johannes pauw schrieb:
I have found a Latex class for a n exam paper but now I am looking for a 
questionnaire. Typing a questionnaire is very time consuming van 
difficult so I assume that someone has developed some kind of latex 
class or templet for it. I just haven't been able to find ons on the net
Iy you search in the LaTeX catalog:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html#exams
you can find this page:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/bytopic.html
regards Uwe

Re: Error "Resulting file is empty"

Interesting.  I get "file not found" rather than "file is empty" when I 
already have Acrobat Reader open.

-- Paul
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
Not sure if this is any help but i find i get this problem if i try to 
produce output with Acrobat Reader open.

If it is open.  Close it and try again.
- Original Message - From: "Paul A. Rubin" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: Error "Resulting file is empty"


Wang Xiangqi wrote:
I am trying to compile a presentation file in lyx with beamer. It 
works great previously, but failed now. the error report is printed 
as: "Resulting file is empty. The operation resulted in an empty 
file". I am trying to search in the maillist, but cannot get what I 
want. Anyone could  help me on it? Appreciate it.
(:( sorry for my poor English)

Re: Error "Resulting file is empty"