Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi all, I'm also a great fan of outlining serious texts and have also made some experiences with kdissert (being a fan of MindMaps still much longer than of any advanced text system). OTOH I'm using LyX-1.5.3 now for quite a while and am VERY content for my (restricted) expectations. Using the outlining possibilities also to some degree. To answer Abdel's question on the functionality lacking (I just checked with 1.5.3 official release as of Dec 17th, 2007): +++ It is already very helpful to be able to move entire paragraphs using the keyboard when working in the text window. *** keyboard driven jump between the text window and the table of contents window . AFAIK this is not yet possible. The other direction seems to work simply with tab (and to my surprise with shift+tab too). Right, this should be fixed. What about shift tab for the lacking jump. Would be similar to other apps like e.g. thunderbird (to jump between folders panel and messages panel) Problems is that shift-tab might be used for editing inside tables and math. *** keyboard accessibility of the 5 buttons at the lower border of the toc window. Those were left out for lack of imagination. But you can of course define your own bindings in the bind file. We are open to ideas... This would mean that everything, i.e. writing and outlining could be done using only the keyboard. IMHO this is by far the most efficient way to produce texts. Agreed. Should I enter enhancement requests into bugzilla? If they are not already there please do. Thanks and happy new year to all, Abdel.
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: *** keyboard driven jump between the text window and the table of contents window . AFAIK this is not yet possible. The other direction seems to work simply with tab (and to my surprise with shift+tab too). Right, this should be fixed. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3871 *** keyboard accessibility of the 5 buttons at the lower border of the toc window. Those were left out for lack of imagination. But you can of course define your own bindings in the bind file. We are open to ideas... But you have to take care that the outliner pane does not eat bindings from the main window. This is very tricky: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3486 Jürgen
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 31 December 2007 05:11, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: So why don't you use LyX-1.5 directly then? Or more specifically what is missing in LyX outlining facilities? He Abdel, I haven't yet used 1.5, but when I do I'm pretty sure I'll find one thing missing in its outlining facilities: speed. VimOutliner (VO) was built for speed from the bottom up. 100% keyboard driven, no need to reach for a mouse. It uses the ultra touch-typist-friendly Vim as an engine, and adds ultra-quick ,, commands for managing the outline. I can compose and organize as fast as I can think -- a huge advantage when planning a book. I see. I can think of two: - section folding/unfolding: I don't really understand why this is so helpful for some. I couldn't live without folding (which in general outliner-speak is called expand/collapse. It allows you to view the big picture and then drill down. Well but you can view the big picture in the Outline dock. In there you can of course expand/collapse any node. You even have a slider to automatically open all nodes in the tree down to a given level. It's a way of impedance matching the work to the mind. It's not about navigation, it's about getting the optimal view of the work. Please try 1.5 to understand what I mean. IMO, the ability to jump from section to section by clicking in the outlining dock is enough. That sounds like an excellent feature. Perhaps it can be put into VimOutliner. - dragdrop sections in the outlining dock: right now you have to click one of the 4 outline buttons. Yes, it sounds like dragdrop section moving would speed things up. VimOutliner doesn't have it either. With VO, you collapse the section you want to move, delete with dd, move to its desired destination, and press p or P as appropriate. This sounds very Mickey Mouse when described, but it's not that bad. Agreed. Keyboard access is the main thing to fix in LyX WRT outlining. Both features are not too difficult to implement provided that you find a volunteer to implement them ;-) If you (and others) could describe what you would like to have in the Wiki, it would certainly be helpful. I'm not too good with a Wiki, so I'll describe VimOutliner's features right here: Promote/demote -- headlines or whole trees Action on whole trees is not yet implemented unfortunately. Expand/collapse (also called folding) Expand/collapse by headline, by tree, and outline wide Some of these are possible in the Outline dock, but not all. Body text that wraps (headlines don't wrap) In LyX the body text doesn't show of course in the dock, only headlines. Checkboxes with percentage completion Sounds interesting. Interoutline linking I don't understand that one... Executable lines -- any content can be viewed/executed from an outline Neither this one... Lightning quick interface for the touch typist This is missing. OK, thanks for sharing your thought. Maybe some developer will be interested in the challenge :-) Abdel.
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This message is mainly intended to LyX developers. A paper [1] by Gregor Gorjanc and due to appear in the near future on Rnews [2] describes into great detail all the steps needed to customize LyX so that it integrate nicely with Sweave [3] for creating reports using R. Hello, Please create a bug with all the relevant information if it is not yet done. JMarc
Re: importing a database
On 28.12.07, Pol wrote: I would like to import a whole database into a lyx table, to edit before printing. Specifically, i am using tellico as database, but any solution is welcome. I know i can export as bibtex, but how to import into a table? Try exporting as CSV (comma (or tab) separated values) in a text file. Import of tab-separated values into a table of the right size can be done via mouse-drop. The csv2lyx script creates also the LyX table for you - see http://tomi.gulino.org/OpenSource/csv2lyx/index.html GM
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Hi Abdel, thanks for your quick response ;-) Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: +++ It is already very helpful to be able to move entire paragraphs using the keyboard when working in the text window. *** keyboard driven jump between the text window and the table of contents window . AFAIK this is not yet possible. The other direction seems to work simply with tab (and to my surprise with shift+tab too). Right, this should be fixed. Hopefully soon What about shift tab for the lacking jump. Would be similar to other apps like e.g. thunderbird (to jump between folders panel and messages panel) Problems is that shift-tab might be used for editing inside tables and math. Any other keyboard combination would be good for me *** keyboard accessibility of the 5 buttons at the lower border of the toc window. Those were left out for lack of imagination. But you can of course define your own bindings in the bind file. We are open to ideas... What are the lfuns associated to those? I'like to give it a try (have been experimenting already with bindungs ;-) Should I enter enhancement requests into bugzilla? If they are not already there please do. Done #4456 Thanks and Happy New Year and happy LyXing in 2008 Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
On Thursday 03 January 2008 04:56, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Body text that wraps (headlines don't wrap) That's very acceptable in an outline mode of bookwriting software, because you have body text in normal mode. In LyX the body text doesn't show of course in the dock, only headlines. Checkboxes with percentage completion Sounds interesting. Yes, you could check a subtree when it's complete, and when you come to work in the morning you know what areas still need work. Interoutline linking I don't understand that one... Unnecessary in a bookwriter software, but just for fun I'll explain what it means. In VO, I have one outline called master.otl. It has links _tag_bicycles, _tag_clarinets, tag_family_tasks, and many more. Each has another outline (i.e. /data/otl/bicycles.otl, /data/music/instruments/clarinets.otl and the like). When the cursor is on a link, if you press Ctrl+K, you go right into the outline of the link. From there, pressing Ctrl+N gets you back to where you came from. This feature can be used to build an outline of outlines. So on my computer, my /data/otl/master.otl is the root of what I call a single knowledge tree. Every outline can be navigated to from master.otl. The only trouble with this single knowledge tree is it works only with outlines. But wait, there's more... Executable lines -- any content can be viewed/executed from an outline Neither this one... Remember my single knowledge tree, and how all outlines are in the tree, but unfortunately only outlines? I lied, you can place any content in the tree, using executable lines. Let's say you want to have carpicture.jpg in your outline. You'd put the following executable line in your outline: Car picture _exe_kuickshow /data/cars/images/carpicture.jpg. With your cursor on that line, you press the key sequence ,,e and shazam, you're in kuickshow viewing your car. I've had videos in my outlines. I can run LyX on the book from my outline. In other words, between interoutline linking and executable lines, you can have a single tree of knowledge for every piece of knowledge on your computer. You'd start at the top and drill down to what you needed. Lightning quick interface for the touch typist This is missing. Until LyX had this, I wouldn't dream of building the outline from scratch in LyX -- it would slow me down. A second reason I might continue to use VO to outline lyx-destined books is that VO is so darned familiar to me. I use VO hundreds of times a day. All my books. My todo list. The menu layout for my computer (I use UMENU instead of the start menu that comes with Mandriva 2007). My shopping list. My phone lists. When you're that familiar with a computer program, it often makes sense to use it even when, with equal experience in another program, the other program might make more sense. OK, thanks for sharing your thought. Maybe some developer will be interested in the challenge :-) Good luck on that. Vim is a modal editor, LyX is not (thank goodness), and therefore I don't think you could ever get as good a keyboard interface with LyX. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Beamer Problems
David Rosenberg wrote: Hi, I'm running LyX 1.5.3 on Windows, and am having trouble with compiling the Beamer Example (beamerlyxexample1.lyx). I'm pasting in part of my log below. I also have problems with one of my older beamer presentations I made with an earlier version of LyX. For that presentation, I get an error -- after exporting to Latex and trying to compile, I get the following: ERROR: Package mathptmx Error: The symbols \jmath, \amalg and \coprod --- TeX said --- (mathptmx)are not available with this package. See the mathptmx package documentation for explanation. Type H return for immediate help. ... l.290 \lyxframeend {}\section{Kernel Cotraining} Anyway, the first error in the compilation of the Beamer Example is the exact same as the error ERROR: Undefined control sequence. --- TeX said --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] #1#2#3#4-\pgfsincos {#3}\setlength [EMAIL PROTECTED] {#1}\addtolengt... l.1219 \lyxframeend {}\lyxagainframe{6hierarchy} --- HELP --- TeX encountered an unknown command name. You probably misspelled the name. If this message occurs when a LaTeX command is being processed, the command is probably in the wrong place---for example, the error can be produced by an \item command that's not inside a list-making environment. The error can also be caused by a missing \documentclass command. Thanks, David The beamer example has all sorts of problems. I think in part it may be a matter of beamer having been updated and the example document not having been updated (?). As to your document, the answer to the first error is simpler. Quoting section 6.4 of the psnfss2e manual (regarding known deficiencies of the mathptmx package): * The symbols \jmath, \coprod and \amalg are not available. I take that to mean that if you need those symbols, you'll have to change your font selection. Why this was not a problem when you originally built the presentation I can't say. I don't use mathptmx, so I don't know whether it throws this message even when you are not using those symbols, or whether it means all three symbols are present, or just one of them, or what. As to the second message, unfortunately all sorts of problems result in LaTeX deciding that \lyxframeend is undefined (when in fact it is defined). So that tells you something is broken, but not what. If fixing the font problem (or eliminating use of \jmath, \coprod and/or \amalg) does not solve it, the best I can suggest is a bisection search -- cut out half the slides and recompile to see which half of the presentation has the error, then iterate until you narrow down the source. If you can pin down the approximate location but not the exact cause, post a small but sufficient example here and perhaps someone can figure it out. /Paul
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Hi, While I have neither used VimOutliner, nor am I a professional book writer, I usually do outline my texts before starting the actual writing. I use the mind-mapping tool FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ ) to do the outlining, which supports links, keyboard navigation, folding/unfolding and so on. I then convert the FreeMind mindmap to LaTeX using a (slightly adopted) Ruby script (supposed to be available at http://www.duminil.info/doku.php?id=freemindtolatex, but currently down) and import the resulting LaTeX document into LyX. Daniel
Underlining and table cell width
Dear LyX users, I suspect this may be a LaTeX rather than a LyX issue, but perhaps some of you might know the answer. The usual solution for breaking lines in LaTeX tables is to set the table width to a fixed value, for example, 1 inch. This solution is clumsy (in my opinion, at least) but it produces the desired result, with some experimentation. It doesn't work, however, when the contents of the cell is underlined. The Is there any way to break up the contents of a table cell across lines with underlining? Maria
Re: Underlining and table cell width
As for breaking lines, I suspect you're looking for \linebreak. Check the attached document. Also, play close attention to the formatting, say: NameERT[\linebreak] Residence. For the underlining part, I can be of no help. Liviu On 1/3/08, Maria Gouskova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LyX users, I suspect this may be a LaTeX rather than a LyX issue, but perhaps some of you might know the answer. The usual solution for breaking lines in LaTeX tables is to set the table width to a fixed value, for example, 1 inch. This solution is clumsy (in my opinion, at least) but it produces the desired result, with some experimentation. It doesn't work, however, when the contents of the cell is underlined. The Is there any way to break up the contents of a table cell across lines with underlining? Maria linebreak1.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
On Thursday 03 January 2008 16:31, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, While I have neither used VimOutliner, nor am I a professional book writer, I usually do outline my texts before starting the actual writing. I use the mind-mapping tool FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ ) to do the outlining, which supports links, keyboard navigation, folding/unfolding and so on. I then convert the FreeMind mindmap to LaTeX using a (slightly adopted) Ruby script (supposed to be available at http://www.duminil.info/doku.php?id=freemindtolatex, but currently down) and import the resulting LaTeX document into LyX. Daniel This is roughly what I use too. :) The Ruby script I use to convert from FreeMind to LaTeX is mm2latex.rb, which I modified so as to give me headings and text if the node contained a new line. Mateo.
Re: Underlining and table cell width
Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users, I suspect this may be a LaTeX rather than a LyX issue, but perhaps some of you might know the answer. The usual solution for breaking lines in LaTeX tables is to set the table width to a fixed value, for example, 1 inch. This solution is clumsy (in my opinion, at least) but it produces the desired result, with some experimentation. It doesn't work, however, when the contents of the cell is underlined. The Is there any way to break up the contents of a table cell across lines with underlining? Maria Try the following: 1. In the preamble, '\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}'. 2. In ERT, inside the table cell at the start of the text to be underlined, '\uline{'. 3. In ERT, at the end of the underlined text, '}'. This of course presumes you've installed the ulem package. :-) The normalem option tells it not to convert emphasized text from italics to underlined (its default behavior). I'll note in passing that http://dillgroup.ucsf.edu/latex/texfaq_14.html, specifically the section Underlined text won't break, contains the following quote: Nevertheless, typographically illiterate people (such as those that specify double-spaced thesis styles) continue to require underlining of us ... My impression is that underlining was deprecated at about the same time that the IBM Selectric typewriter passed into history, other than for occasional funky uses (such as identifying keyboard input, say). I'm not a purist on these things, but I usually consider something like a monospaced font as a substitute for underlining. HTH, Paul
Re: How I could change the word _Chapter_ in a book-style document
El mié, 02-01-2008 a las 11:10 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller escribió: Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo wrote: Firstly... happy new year 2008, best wishes to everyone. Thanks. Same to you. I'd like to know if it would be possible to change the word Chapter (Capítulo in my local language) to another one. I usually write book-style documents, but I'd prefer to see another word at the beginning of each chapter, such as Tema or Lección (Lesson,...) instead, due the context. See this FAQ entry (the resp. macro is \chaptername): http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc16 Jürgen Thank you for your suggestion, the code -put in the Preamble- that finally did the trick was the following (already adapted): \AtBeginDocument{% \addto\captionsspanish{% \renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tema}% }} -- Daniel
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi all, I'm also a great fan of outlining serious texts and have also made some experiences with kdissert (being a fan of MindMaps still much longer than of any advanced text system). OTOH I'm using LyX-1.5.3 now for quite a while and am VERY content for my (restricted) expectations. Using the outlining possibilities also to some degree. To answer Abdel's question on the functionality lacking (I just checked with 1.5.3 official release as of Dec 17th, 2007): +++ It is already very helpful to be able to move entire paragraphs using the keyboard when working in the text window. *** keyboard driven jump between the text window and the table of contents window . AFAIK this is not yet possible. The other direction seems to work simply with tab (and to my surprise with shift+tab too). Right, this should be fixed. What about shift tab for the lacking jump. Would be similar to other apps like e.g. thunderbird (to jump between folders panel and messages panel) Problems is that shift-tab might be used for editing inside tables and math. *** keyboard accessibility of the 5 buttons at the lower border of the toc window. Those were left out for lack of imagination. But you can of course define your own bindings in the bind file. We are open to ideas... This would mean that everything, i.e. writing and outlining could be done using only the keyboard. IMHO this is by far the most efficient way to produce texts. Agreed. Should I enter enhancement requests into bugzilla? If they are not already there please do. Thanks and happy new year to all, Abdel.
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: *** keyboard driven jump between the text window and the table of contents window . AFAIK this is not yet possible. The other direction seems to work simply with tab (and to my surprise with shift+tab too). Right, this should be fixed. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3871 *** keyboard accessibility of the 5 buttons at the lower border of the toc window. Those were left out for lack of imagination. But you can of course define your own bindings in the bind file. We are open to ideas... But you have to take care that the outliner pane does not eat bindings from the main window. This is very tricky: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3486 Jürgen
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 31 December 2007 05:11, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: So why don't you use LyX-1.5 directly then? Or more specifically what is missing in LyX outlining facilities? He Abdel, I haven't yet used 1.5, but when I do I'm pretty sure I'll find one thing missing in its outlining facilities: speed. VimOutliner (VO) was built for speed from the bottom up. 100% keyboard driven, no need to reach for a mouse. It uses the ultra touch-typist-friendly Vim as an engine, and adds ultra-quick ,, commands for managing the outline. I can compose and organize as fast as I can think -- a huge advantage when planning a book. I see. I can think of two: - section folding/unfolding: I don't really understand why this is so helpful for some. I couldn't live without folding (which in general outliner-speak is called expand/collapse. It allows you to view the big picture and then drill down. Well but you can view the big picture in the Outline dock. In there you can of course expand/collapse any node. You even have a slider to automatically open all nodes in the tree down to a given level. It's a way of impedance matching the work to the mind. It's not about navigation, it's about getting the optimal view of the work. Please try 1.5 to understand what I mean. IMO, the ability to jump from section to section by clicking in the outlining dock is enough. That sounds like an excellent feature. Perhaps it can be put into VimOutliner. - dragdrop sections in the outlining dock: right now you have to click one of the 4 outline buttons. Yes, it sounds like dragdrop section moving would speed things up. VimOutliner doesn't have it either. With VO, you collapse the section you want to move, delete with dd, move to its desired destination, and press p or P as appropriate. This sounds very Mickey Mouse when described, but it's not that bad. Agreed. Keyboard access is the main thing to fix in LyX WRT outlining. Both features are not too difficult to implement provided that you find a volunteer to implement them ;-) If you (and others) could describe what you would like to have in the Wiki, it would certainly be helpful. I'm not too good with a Wiki, so I'll describe VimOutliner's features right here: Promote/demote -- headlines or whole trees Action on whole trees is not yet implemented unfortunately. Expand/collapse (also called folding) Expand/collapse by headline, by tree, and outline wide Some of these are possible in the Outline dock, but not all. Body text that wraps (headlines don't wrap) In LyX the body text doesn't show of course in the dock, only headlines. Checkboxes with percentage completion Sounds interesting. Interoutline linking I don't understand that one... Executable lines -- any content can be viewed/executed from an outline Neither this one... Lightning quick interface for the touch typist This is missing. OK, thanks for sharing your thought. Maybe some developer will be interested in the challenge :-) Abdel.
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - out of the box support for creating R reports
Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This message is mainly intended to LyX developers. A paper [1] by Gregor Gorjanc and due to appear in the near future on Rnews [2] describes into great detail all the steps needed to customize LyX so that it integrate nicely with Sweave [3] for creating reports using R. Hello, Please create a bug with all the relevant information if it is not yet done. JMarc
Re: importing a database
On 28.12.07, Pol wrote: I would like to import a whole database into a lyx table, to edit before printing. Specifically, i am using tellico as database, but any solution is welcome. I know i can export as bibtex, but how to import into a table? Try exporting as CSV (comma (or tab) separated values) in a text file. Import of tab-separated values into a table of the right size can be done via mouse-drop. The csv2lyx script creates also the LyX table for you - see http://tomi.gulino.org/OpenSource/csv2lyx/index.html GM
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Hi Abdel, thanks for your quick response ;-) Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: +++ It is already very helpful to be able to move entire paragraphs using the keyboard when working in the text window. *** keyboard driven jump between the text window and the table of contents window . AFAIK this is not yet possible. The other direction seems to work simply with tab (and to my surprise with shift+tab too). Right, this should be fixed. Hopefully soon What about shift tab for the lacking jump. Would be similar to other apps like e.g. thunderbird (to jump between folders panel and messages panel) Problems is that shift-tab might be used for editing inside tables and math. Any other keyboard combination would be good for me *** keyboard accessibility of the 5 buttons at the lower border of the toc window. Those were left out for lack of imagination. But you can of course define your own bindings in the bind file. We are open to ideas... What are the lfuns associated to those? I'like to give it a try (have been experimenting already with bindungs ;-) Should I enter enhancement requests into bugzilla? If they are not already there please do. Done #4456 Thanks and Happy New Year and happy LyXing in 2008 Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
On Thursday 03 January 2008 04:56, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Body text that wraps (headlines don't wrap) That's very acceptable in an outline mode of bookwriting software, because you have body text in normal mode. In LyX the body text doesn't show of course in the dock, only headlines. Checkboxes with percentage completion Sounds interesting. Yes, you could check a subtree when it's complete, and when you come to work in the morning you know what areas still need work. Interoutline linking I don't understand that one... Unnecessary in a bookwriter software, but just for fun I'll explain what it means. In VO, I have one outline called master.otl. It has links _tag_bicycles, _tag_clarinets, tag_family_tasks, and many more. Each has another outline (i.e. /data/otl/bicycles.otl, /data/music/instruments/clarinets.otl and the like). When the cursor is on a link, if you press Ctrl+K, you go right into the outline of the link. From there, pressing Ctrl+N gets you back to where you came from. This feature can be used to build an outline of outlines. So on my computer, my /data/otl/master.otl is the root of what I call a single knowledge tree. Every outline can be navigated to from master.otl. The only trouble with this single knowledge tree is it works only with outlines. But wait, there's more... Executable lines -- any content can be viewed/executed from an outline Neither this one... Remember my single knowledge tree, and how all outlines are in the tree, but unfortunately only outlines? I lied, you can place any content in the tree, using executable lines. Let's say you want to have carpicture.jpg in your outline. You'd put the following executable line in your outline: Car picture _exe_kuickshow /data/cars/images/carpicture.jpg. With your cursor on that line, you press the key sequence ,,e and shazam, you're in kuickshow viewing your car. I've had videos in my outlines. I can run LyX on the book from my outline. In other words, between interoutline linking and executable lines, you can have a single tree of knowledge for every piece of knowledge on your computer. You'd start at the top and drill down to what you needed. Lightning quick interface for the touch typist This is missing. Until LyX had this, I wouldn't dream of building the outline from scratch in LyX -- it would slow me down. A second reason I might continue to use VO to outline lyx-destined books is that VO is so darned familiar to me. I use VO hundreds of times a day. All my books. My todo list. The menu layout for my computer (I use UMENU instead of the start menu that comes with Mandriva 2007). My shopping list. My phone lists. When you're that familiar with a computer program, it often makes sense to use it even when, with equal experience in another program, the other program might make more sense. OK, thanks for sharing your thought. Maybe some developer will be interested in the challenge :-) Good luck on that. Vim is a modal editor, LyX is not (thank goodness), and therefore I don't think you could ever get as good a keyboard interface with LyX. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Beamer Problems
David Rosenberg wrote: Hi, I'm running LyX 1.5.3 on Windows, and am having trouble with compiling the Beamer Example (beamerlyxexample1.lyx). I'm pasting in part of my log below. I also have problems with one of my older beamer presentations I made with an earlier version of LyX. For that presentation, I get an error -- after exporting to Latex and trying to compile, I get the following: ERROR: Package mathptmx Error: The symbols \jmath, \amalg and \coprod --- TeX said --- (mathptmx)are not available with this package. See the mathptmx package documentation for explanation. Type H return for immediate help. ... l.290 \lyxframeend {}\section{Kernel Cotraining} Anyway, the first error in the compilation of the Beamer Example is the exact same as the error ERROR: Undefined control sequence. --- TeX said --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] #1#2#3#4-\pgfsincos {#3}\setlength [EMAIL PROTECTED] {#1}\addtolengt... l.1219 \lyxframeend {}\lyxagainframe{6hierarchy} --- HELP --- TeX encountered an unknown command name. You probably misspelled the name. If this message occurs when a LaTeX command is being processed, the command is probably in the wrong place---for example, the error can be produced by an \item command that's not inside a list-making environment. The error can also be caused by a missing \documentclass command. Thanks, David The beamer example has all sorts of problems. I think in part it may be a matter of beamer having been updated and the example document not having been updated (?). As to your document, the answer to the first error is simpler. Quoting section 6.4 of the psnfss2e manual (regarding known deficiencies of the mathptmx package): * The symbols \jmath, \coprod and \amalg are not available. I take that to mean that if you need those symbols, you'll have to change your font selection. Why this was not a problem when you originally built the presentation I can't say. I don't use mathptmx, so I don't know whether it throws this message even when you are not using those symbols, or whether it means all three symbols are present, or just one of them, or what. As to the second message, unfortunately all sorts of problems result in LaTeX deciding that \lyxframeend is undefined (when in fact it is defined). So that tells you something is broken, but not what. If fixing the font problem (or eliminating use of \jmath, \coprod and/or \amalg) does not solve it, the best I can suggest is a bisection search -- cut out half the slides and recompile to see which half of the presentation has the error, then iterate until you narrow down the source. If you can pin down the approximate location but not the exact cause, post a small but sufficient example here and perhaps someone can figure it out. /Paul
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Hi, While I have neither used VimOutliner, nor am I a professional book writer, I usually do outline my texts before starting the actual writing. I use the mind-mapping tool FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ ) to do the outlining, which supports links, keyboard navigation, folding/unfolding and so on. I then convert the FreeMind mindmap to LaTeX using a (slightly adopted) Ruby script (supposed to be available at http://www.duminil.info/doku.php?id=freemindtolatex, but currently down) and import the resulting LaTeX document into LyX. Daniel
Underlining and table cell width
Dear LyX users, I suspect this may be a LaTeX rather than a LyX issue, but perhaps some of you might know the answer. The usual solution for breaking lines in LaTeX tables is to set the table width to a fixed value, for example, 1 inch. This solution is clumsy (in my opinion, at least) but it produces the desired result, with some experimentation. It doesn't work, however, when the contents of the cell is underlined. The Is there any way to break up the contents of a table cell across lines with underlining? Maria
Re: Underlining and table cell width
As for breaking lines, I suspect you're looking for \linebreak. Check the attached document. Also, play close attention to the formatting, say: NameERT[\linebreak] Residence. For the underlining part, I can be of no help. Liviu On 1/3/08, Maria Gouskova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear LyX users, I suspect this may be a LaTeX rather than a LyX issue, but perhaps some of you might know the answer. The usual solution for breaking lines in LaTeX tables is to set the table width to a fixed value, for example, 1 inch. This solution is clumsy (in my opinion, at least) but it produces the desired result, with some experimentation. It doesn't work, however, when the contents of the cell is underlined. The Is there any way to break up the contents of a table cell across lines with underlining? Maria linebreak1.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
On Thursday 03 January 2008 16:31, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Hi, While I have neither used VimOutliner, nor am I a professional book writer, I usually do outline my texts before starting the actual writing. I use the mind-mapping tool FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ ) to do the outlining, which supports links, keyboard navigation, folding/unfolding and so on. I then convert the FreeMind mindmap to LaTeX using a (slightly adopted) Ruby script (supposed to be available at http://www.duminil.info/doku.php?id=freemindtolatex, but currently down) and import the resulting LaTeX document into LyX. Daniel This is roughly what I use too. :) The Ruby script I use to convert from FreeMind to LaTeX is mm2latex.rb, which I modified so as to give me headings and text if the node contained a new line. Mateo.
Re: Underlining and table cell width
Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users, I suspect this may be a LaTeX rather than a LyX issue, but perhaps some of you might know the answer. The usual solution for breaking lines in LaTeX tables is to set the table width to a fixed value, for example, 1 inch. This solution is clumsy (in my opinion, at least) but it produces the desired result, with some experimentation. It doesn't work, however, when the contents of the cell is underlined. The Is there any way to break up the contents of a table cell across lines with underlining? Maria Try the following: 1. In the preamble, '\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}'. 2. In ERT, inside the table cell at the start of the text to be underlined, '\uline{'. 3. In ERT, at the end of the underlined text, '}'. This of course presumes you've installed the ulem package. :-) The normalem option tells it not to convert emphasized text from italics to underlined (its default behavior). I'll note in passing that http://dillgroup.ucsf.edu/latex/texfaq_14.html, specifically the section Underlined text won't break, contains the following quote: Nevertheless, typographically illiterate people (such as those that specify double-spaced thesis styles) continue to require underlining of us ... My impression is that underlining was deprecated at about the same time that the IBM Selectric typewriter passed into history, other than for occasional funky uses (such as identifying keyboard input, say). I'm not a purist on these things, but I usually consider something like a monospaced font as a substitute for underlining. HTH, Paul
Re: How I could change the word _Chapter_ in a book-style document
El mié, 02-01-2008 a las 11:10 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller escribió: Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo wrote: Firstly... happy new year 2008, best wishes to everyone. Thanks. Same to you. I'd like to know if it would be possible to change the word Chapter (Capítulo in my local language) to another one. I usually write book-style documents, but I'd prefer to see another word at the beginning of each chapter, such as Tema or Lección (Lesson,...) instead, due the context. See this FAQ entry (the resp. macro is \chaptername): http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc16 Jürgen Thank you for your suggestion, the code -put in the Preamble- that finally did the trick was the following (already adapted): \AtBeginDocument{% \addto\captionsspanish{% \renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tema}% }} -- Daniel
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi all, I'm also a great fan of outlining serious texts and have also made some experiences with kdissert (being a fan of MindMaps still much longer than of any advanced text system). OTOH I'm using LyX-1.5.3 now for quite a while and am VERY content for my (restricted) expectations. Using the outlining possibilities also to some degree. To answer Abdel's question on the functionality lacking (I just checked with 1.5.3 official release as of Dec 17th, 2007): +++ It is already very helpful to be able to move entire paragraphs using the keyboard when working in the text window. *** keyboard driven jump between the text window and the table of contents window . AFAIK this is not yet possible. The other direction seems to work simply with tab (and to my surprise with shift+tab too). Right, this should be fixed. What about shift tab for the lacking jump. Would be similar to other apps like e.g. thunderbird (to jump between folders panel and messages panel) Problems is that shift-tab might be used for editing inside tables and math. *** keyboard accessibility of the 5 buttons at the lower border of the toc window. Those were left out for lack of imagination. But you can of course define your own bindings in the bind file. We are open to ideas... This would mean that everything, i.e. writing and outlining could be done using only the keyboard. IMHO this is by far the most efficient way to produce texts. Agreed. Should I enter enhancement requests into bugzilla? If they are not already there please do. Thanks and happy new year to all, Abdel.
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > *** keyboard driven jump between the text window and the table of > > contents window . AFAIK this is not yet possible. The other direction > > seems to work simply with tab (and to my surprise with shift+tab too). > > Right, this should be fixed. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3871 > > *** keyboard accessibility of the 5 buttons at the lower border of the > > toc window. > > Those were left out for lack of imagination. But you can of course > define your own bindings in the bind file. We are open to ideas... But you have to take care that the outliner pane does not eat bindings from the main window. This is very tricky: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3486 Jürgen
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 31 December 2007 05:11, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: So why don't you use LyX-1.5 directly then? Or more specifically what is missing in LyX outlining facilities? He Abdel, I haven't yet used 1.5, but when I do I'm pretty sure I'll find one thing missing in its outlining facilities: speed. VimOutliner (VO) was built for speed from the bottom up. 100% keyboard driven, no need to reach for a mouse. It uses the ultra touch-typist-friendly Vim as an engine, and adds ultra-quick ,, commands for managing the outline. I can compose and organize as fast as I can think -- a huge advantage when planning a book. I see. I can think of two: - section folding/unfolding: I don't really understand why this is so helpful for some. I couldn't live without folding (which in general outliner-speak is called expand/collapse. It allows you to view the big picture and then drill down. Well but you can view the big picture in the Outline dock. In there you can of course expand/collapse any node. You even have a slider to automatically open all nodes in the tree down to a given level. It's a way of impedance matching the work to the mind. It's not about navigation, it's about getting the optimal view of the work. Please try 1.5 to understand what I mean. IMO, the ability to jump from section to section by clicking in the outlining dock is enough. That sounds like an excellent feature. Perhaps it can be put into VimOutliner. - drag sections in the outlining dock: right now you have to click one of the 4 outline buttons. Yes, it sounds like dragdrop section moving would speed things up. VimOutliner doesn't have it either. With VO, you collapse the section you want to move, delete with dd, move to its desired destination, and press p or P as appropriate. This sounds very Mickey Mouse when described, but it's not that bad. Agreed. Keyboard access is the main thing to fix in LyX WRT outlining. Both features are not too difficult to implement provided that you find a volunteer to implement them ;-) If you (and others) could describe what you would like to have in the Wiki, it would certainly be helpful. I'm not too good with a Wiki, so I'll describe VimOutliner's features right here: Promote/demote -- headlines or whole trees Action on whole trees is not yet implemented unfortunately. Expand/collapse (also called folding) Expand/collapse by headline, by tree, and outline wide Some of these are possible in the Outline dock, but not all. Body text that wraps (headlines don't wrap) In LyX the body text doesn't show of course in the dock, only headlines. Checkboxes with percentage completion Sounds interesting. Interoutline linking I don't understand that one... Executable lines -- any content can be viewed/executed from an outline Neither this one... Lightning quick interface for the touch typist This is missing. OK, thanks for sharing your thought. Maybe some developer will be interested in the challenge :-) Abdel.
Re: [feature request] Using Sweave with LyX - "out of the box" support for creating R reports
"Liviu Andronic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This message is mainly intended to LyX developers. A paper [1] by > Gregor Gorjanc and due to appear in the near future on Rnews [2] > describes into great detail all the steps needed to customize LyX so > that it integrate nicely with Sweave [3] for creating reports using R. Hello, Please create a bug with all the relevant information if it is not yet done. JMarc
Re: importing a database
On 28.12.07, Pol wrote: > I would like to import a whole database into a lyx table, to edit before > printing. > Specifically, i am using tellico as database, but any solution is welcome. > I know i can export as bibtex, but how to import into a table? Try exporting as CSV (comma (or tab) separated values) in a text file. Import of tab-separated values into a table of the right size can be done via mouse-drop. The csv2lyx script creates also the LyX table for you - see http://tomi.gulino.org/OpenSource/csv2lyx/index.html GM
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Hi Abdel, thanks for your quick response ;-) Abdelrazak Younes schrieb: +++ It is already very helpful to be able to move entire paragraphs using the keyboard when working in the text window. *** keyboard driven jump between the text window and the table of contents window . AFAIK this is not yet possible. The other direction seems to work simply with tab (and to my surprise with shift+tab too). Right, this should be fixed. Hopefully soon What about shift tab for the lacking jump. Would be similar to other apps like e.g. thunderbird (to jump between folders panel and messages panel) Problems is that shift-tab might be used for editing inside tables and math. Any other keyboard combination would be good for me *** keyboard accessibility of the 5 buttons at the lower border of the toc window. Those were left out for lack of imagination. But you can of course define your own bindings in the bind file. We are open to ideas... What are the lfuns associated to those? I'like to give it a try (have been experimenting already with bindungs ;-) Should I enter enhancement requests into bugzilla? If they are not already there please do. Done #4456 Thanks and Happy New Year and happy LyXing in 2008 Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
On Thursday 03 January 2008 04:56, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Body text that wraps (headlines don't wrap) > That's very acceptable in an outline mode of bookwriting software, because you have body text in normal mode. > In LyX the body text doesn't show of course in the dock, only headlines. > > > Checkboxes with percentage completion > > Sounds interesting. Yes, you could check a subtree when it's complete, and when you come to work in the morning you know what areas still need work. > > > Interoutline linking > > I don't understand that one... Unnecessary in a bookwriter software, but just for fun I'll explain what it means. In VO, I have one outline called master.otl. It has links _tag_bicycles, _tag_clarinets, tag_family_tasks, and many more. Each has another outline (i.e. /data/otl/bicycles.otl, /data/music/instruments/clarinets.otl and the like). When the cursor is on a link, if you press Ctrl+K, you go right into the outline of the link. From there, pressing Ctrl+N gets you back to where you came from. This feature can be used to build an "outline of outlines". So on my computer, my /data/otl/master.otl is the root of what I call a "single knowledge tree". Every outline can be navigated to from master.otl. The only trouble with this single knowledge tree is it works only with outlines. But wait, there's more... > > > Executable lines -- any content can be viewed/executed from an outline > > Neither this one... Remember my single knowledge tree, and how all outlines are in the tree, but unfortunately only outlines? I lied, you can place any content in the tree, using executable lines. Let's say you want to have carpicture.jpg in your outline. You'd put the following executable line in your outline: Car picture _exe_kuickshow /data/cars/images/carpicture.jpg. With your cursor on that line, you press the key sequence ,,e and shazam, you're in kuickshow viewing your car. I've had videos in my outlines. I can run LyX on the book from my outline. In other words, between interoutline linking and executable lines, you can have a single tree of knowledge for every piece of knowledge on your computer. You'd start at the top and drill down to what you needed. > > > Lightning quick interface for the touch typist > > This is missing. Until LyX had this, I wouldn't dream of building the outline from scratch in LyX -- it would slow me down. A second reason I might continue to use VO to outline lyx-destined books is that VO is so darned familiar to me. I use VO hundreds of times a day. All my books. My todo list. The menu layout for my computer (I use UMENU instead of the start menu that comes with Mandriva 2007). My shopping list. My phone lists. When you're that familiar with a computer program, it often makes sense to use it even when, with equal experience in another program, the other program might make more sense. > > OK, thanks for sharing your thought. Maybe some developer will be > interested in the challenge :-) Good luck on that. Vim is a modal editor, LyX is not (thank goodness), and therefore I don't think you could ever get as good a keyboard interface with LyX. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Beamer Problems
David Rosenberg wrote: Hi, I'm running LyX 1.5.3 on Windows, and am having trouble with compiling the Beamer Example (beamerlyxexample1.lyx). I'm pasting in part of my log below. I also have problems with one of my older beamer presentations I made with an earlier version of LyX. For that presentation, I get an error -- after exporting to Latex and trying to compile, I get the following: ERROR: Package mathptmx Error: The symbols \jmath, \amalg and \coprod --- TeX said --- (mathptmx)are not available with this package. See the mathptmx package documentation for explanation. Type H for immediate help. ... l.290 \lyxframeend {}\section{Kernel Cotraining} Anyway, the first error in the compilation of the Beamer Example is the exact same as the error ERROR: Undefined control sequence. --- TeX said --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] #1#2#3#4->\pgfsincos {#3}\setlength [EMAIL PROTECTED] {#1}\addtolengt... l.1219 \lyxframeend {}\lyxagainframe{<6>hierarchy} --- HELP --- TeX encountered an unknown command name. You probably misspelled the name. If this message occurs when a LaTeX command is being processed, the command is probably in the wrong place---for example, the error can be produced by an \item command that's not inside a list-making environment. The error can also be caused by a missing \documentclass command. Thanks, David The beamer example has all sorts of problems. I think in part it may be a matter of beamer having been updated and the example document not having been updated (?). As to your document, the answer to the first error is simpler. Quoting section 6.4 of the psnfss2e manual (regarding known deficiencies of the mathptmx package): "* The symbols \jmath, \coprod and \amalg are not available." I take that to mean that if you need those symbols, you'll have to change your font selection. Why this was not a problem when you originally built the presentation I can't say. I don't use mathptmx, so I don't know whether it throws this message even when you are not using those symbols, or whether it means all three symbols are present, or just one of them, or what. As to the second message, unfortunately all sorts of problems result in LaTeX deciding that \lyxframeend is undefined (when in fact it is defined). So that tells you something is broken, but not what. If fixing the font problem (or eliminating use of \jmath, \coprod and/or \amalg) does not solve it, the best I can suggest is a bisection search -- cut out half the slides and recompile to see which half of the presentation has the error, then iterate until you narrow down the source. If you can pin down the approximate location but not the exact cause, post a small but sufficient example here and perhaps someone can figure it out. /Paul
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
Hi, While I have neither used VimOutliner, nor am I a professional book writer, I usually do outline my texts before starting the actual writing. I use the mind-mapping tool FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ ) to do the outlining, which supports links, keyboard navigation, folding/unfolding and so on. I then convert the FreeMind mindmap to LaTeX using a (slightly adopted) Ruby script (supposed to be available at http://www.duminil.info/doku.php?id=freemindtolatex, but currently down) and import the resulting LaTeX document into LyX. Daniel
Underlining and table cell width
Dear LyX users, I suspect this may be a LaTeX rather than a LyX issue, but perhaps some of you might know the answer. The usual solution for breaking lines in LaTeX tables is to set the table width to a fixed value, for example, 1 inch. This solution is clumsy (in my opinion, at least) but it produces the desired result, with some experimentation. It doesn't work, however, when the contents of the cell is underlined. The Is there any way to break up the contents of a table cell across lines with underlining? Maria
Re: Underlining and table cell width
As for breaking lines, I suspect you're looking for \linebreak. Check the attached document. Also, play close attention to the formatting, say: "NameERT[\linebreak] Residence". For the underlining part, I can be of no help. Liviu On 1/3/08, Maria Gouskova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear LyX users, > > I suspect this may be a LaTeX rather than a LyX issue, but perhaps > some of you might know the answer. The usual solution for breaking > lines in LaTeX tables is to set the table width to a fixed value, for > example, 1 inch. This solution is clumsy (in my opinion, at least) but > it produces the desired result, with some experimentation. It doesn't > work, however, when the contents of the cell is underlined. The Is > there any way to break up the contents of a table cell across lines > with underlining? > > Maria > linebreak1.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: I'm writing a book in VimOutliner
On Thursday 03 January 2008 16:31, Daniel Lohmann wrote: > Hi, > > While I have neither used VimOutliner, nor am I a professional book > writer, I usually do outline my texts before starting the actual > writing. I use the mind-mapping tool FreeMind > (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ ) to do the outlining, which supports > links, keyboard navigation, > folding/unfolding and so on. I then convert the FreeMind mindmap to > LaTeX using a (slightly adopted) Ruby script (supposed to be available > at http://www.duminil.info/doku.php?id=freemindtolatex, but currently > down) and import the resulting LaTeX document into LyX. > > Daniel This is roughly what I use too. :) The Ruby script I use to convert from FreeMind to LaTeX is mm2latex.rb, which I modified so as to give me headings and text if the node contained a new line. Mateo.
Re: Underlining and table cell width
Maria Gouskova wrote: Dear LyX users, I suspect this may be a LaTeX rather than a LyX issue, but perhaps some of you might know the answer. The usual solution for breaking lines in LaTeX tables is to set the table width to a fixed value, for example, 1 inch. This solution is clumsy (in my opinion, at least) but it produces the desired result, with some experimentation. It doesn't work, however, when the contents of the cell is underlined. The Is there any way to break up the contents of a table cell across lines with underlining? Maria Try the following: 1. In the preamble, '\usepackage[normalem]{ulem}'. 2. In ERT, inside the table cell at the start of the text to be underlined, '\uline{'. 3. In ERT, at the end of the underlined text, '}'. This of course presumes you've installed the ulem package. :-) The "normalem" option tells it not to convert emphasized text from italics to underlined (its default behavior). I'll note in passing that http://dillgroup.ucsf.edu/latex/texfaq_14.html, specifically the section "Underlined text won't break", contains the following quote: "Nevertheless, typographically illiterate people (such as those that specify double-spaced thesis styles) continue to require underlining of us ..." My impression is that underlining was "deprecated" at about the same time that the IBM Selectric typewriter passed into history, other than for occasional funky uses (such as identifying keyboard input, say). I'm not a purist on these things, but I usually consider something like a monospaced font as a substitute for underlining. HTH, Paul
Re: How I could change the word _Chapter_ in a book-style document
El mié, 02-01-2008 a las 11:10 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller escribió: > Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo wrote: > > Firstly... happy new year 2008, best wishes to everyone. > > Thanks. Same to you. > > > I'd like to know if it would be possible to change the word > > "Chapter" (Capítulo in my local language) to another one. I usually > > write book-style documents, but I'd prefer to see another word at the > > beginning of each chapter, such as "Tema" or "Lección" (Lesson,...) > > instead, due the context. > > See this FAQ entry (the resp. macro is \chaptername): > http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc16 > > Jürgen Thank you for your suggestion, the code -put in the Preamble- that finally did the trick was the following (already adapted): \AtBeginDocument{% \addto\captionsspanish{% \renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tema}% }} -- Daniel