Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>  1.) How do I insert the letterhead at the top of the page (presumably
> using the logo environment)?

In the preamble of the template, uncomment the line "fromlogo=true", then 
insert a paragraph style "logo" after sender name and insert an image via 
Insert->Graphics (as usual).

The positioning of the logo depends on the value of fromalign (see scrguien, 
sec. 6.2.6.

>    2.) How do I align the inside address with the rest of the letter's
> content? It's too far to the left

Preamble
\makeatletter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\makeatother

but I wouldn't change this, since it should fit the address window of the 
envelope.

>  (or everything else is too far to the right.)

just adjust the left margin (in document->settings->margins). However, I 
wouldn't do that either. Else your customers are going to punch into the 
text.

>    3.) Can I have the date printed before the inside address?

To move the date up/down, play with these values in preamble:

\makeatletter
% vertical position of ref line (date)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
% space between ref line and letter text
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\makeatother

>    4.) What ERT will move the closing and my title to the left margin?

Preamble:
\renewcommand*{\raggedsignature}{}

HTH,
Jürgen

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> Has it become any easier to install a new typeface in several fonts?

With classic LaTeX, it's still rather tricky. But there's a useful guide here:
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/

Jürgen

Re: Reference Order and figure position problems

[Christopher Reeve]

Your second problem is a common feature of LaTeX when you have lots  
of pictures and not many words. Basically it found there was not a  
neat way of displaying the pictures amongst the text without either  
having a title in an odd looking place or a mostly empty page in the  
middle of a chapter.


I suggest you try a couple of things. If you really want the pictures  
to be with the text try changing ALL of the pictures to be placed  
"Here if possible". I Don't recommend using "Here definitely" unless  
it is a last option and note you might get some empty looking pages  
appear at the slightest modification of any text.


Otherwise give into LaTeX and admit it is right. Insert a clear page  
at a convenient place. This will prevent it being used by text so  
some of your pictures will collect on it.. ie they'll catch up with  
your text.


Note you can always refer to the page number the figures are on  
automatically (on the reference pop-up box select the option  
" on page ")


Chris.

Re: lyx2lyx failure

[G. Jay Kerns]

Dear Paul,

Thanks!  As it turns out, when I copied the file from my removable
SanDisk to follow your advice, then LyX read it perfectly, no lyx2lyx
failure.

I have other LyX files on the removable disk (created with 1.5.3 on
Ubuntu) which open with no problems.  I don't quite follow the details
of what is happening, but if I copy the files from the removable disk
to the Linux desktop then the problems disappear.

In any case, I have now regained over 2 years worth of work.  Thanks again!

Best,
Jay



Guessing blind here, but maybe an encoding problem?  You might try
running iconv against one of them, converting to utf8 (with a new file
name so as not to overwrite the original), then see if LyX can open the
converted copy.

Otherwise, maybe you could post a small example that doesn't open in 1.5.3.

/Paul


On Feb 11, 2008 8:35 PM, G. Jay Kerns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear LyX users,
>
> I am in the process of graduating from Windows to Linux.  I installed
> LyX 1.5.3 on an Ubuntu Gutsy using the Synaptic Package Manager.
>
> Now it seems that I cannot open any of my old LyX files (<= 1.5.2).
> It says that "(Myfile) came from an earlier version of LyX, but
> lyx2lyx failed to convert the file."   I found an earlier post from
> December that suggested changing
>
> \language default
>
> to
>
> \language english
>
> but this doesn't work for me because my file already has \language
> english.  I checked the top of my file and it says
>
> #LyX 1.4.3-5 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
>
> \lyxformat 245
>
> Can anyone please help me?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jay
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ***
> G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor / Statistics Coordinator
> Department of Mathematics & Statistics
> Youngstown State University
> Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA
> Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall
> Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail)
> -3302 Department
> -3170 FAX
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/
>



-- 



***
G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor / Statistics Coordinator
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA
Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall
Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail)
-3302 Department
-3170 FAX
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/

Re: lyx2lyx failure

[Paul A. Rubin]

G. Jay Kerns wrote:

Dear LyX users,

I am in the process of graduating from Windows to Linux.  I installed
LyX 1.5.3 on an Ubuntu Gutsy using the Synaptic Package Manager.

Now it seems that I cannot open any of my old LyX files (<= 1.5.2).
It says that "(Myfile) came from an earlier version of LyX, but
lyx2lyx failed to convert the file."   I found an earlier post from
December that suggested changing

\language default

to

\language english

but this doesn't work for me because my file already has \language
english.  I checked the top of my file and it says

#LyX 1.4.3-5 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/

\lyxformat 245

Can anyone please help me?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Jay



Guessing blind here, but maybe an encoding problem?  You might try 
running iconv against one of them, converting to utf8 (with a new file 
name so as not to overwrite the original), then see if LyX can open the 
converted copy.


Otherwise, maybe you could post a small example that doesn't open in 1.5.3.

/Paul

Creating Logotype Letterhead

[Rich Shepard]

  It turns out that the logotype letterhead I use with OO.o Writer is not
usable within LyX. The pdf is not accepted by LyX (I apparently lost ps4pdf
during an upgrade somewhere), and I cannot translate the file to .eps
because OO.o's pdf generator is not Adobe compliant.

  Years ago I started the long, painful process of adding an additional
Type1 typeface to LaTeX. Gave up when the process took too much time,
effort, and re-reading of multiple docs.

  The typeface is Baker Signet. I've used it for the company for about 15
years now, and I'd like to use it in LyX documents. The company name is
written in small caps, the rest in upper and lower case.

  Has it become any easier to install a new typeface in several fonts? If
not, what are my options for preparing it as an EPS file for inclusion in a
document? That typeface is not available within the GIMP, and that's more of
a raster-based drawing tool than it is a vector-based tool. Xfig also does
not have Baker Signet available.

Rich

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Re: Unable to launch Lyx 1.5.3 on Vista

[Laurent Duperval]

Laurent Duperval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> For some reason, launching Lyx 1.5.3 on Vista fails, completely and utterly. I
> get a message window saying the program requested the Runtime to terminate it
> for an unknown reason.

Ok, never mind. Seems to be some sort of hardware issue.

L

Unable to launch Lyx 1.5.3 on Vista

[Laurent Duperval]

Hi,

For some reason, launching Lyx 1.5.3 on Vista fails, completely and utterly. I
get a message window saying the program requested the Runtime to terminate it
for an unknown reason.

It was working fine last week. Heck, it was working fine yesterday. The only
difference between yesterday and today is that I installed AVG Anti-virus on my
machine.

Is that the cause? Has anyone ever seen this?

L

lyx2lyx failure

[G. Jay Kerns]

Dear LyX users,

I am in the process of graduating from Windows to Linux.  I installed
LyX 1.5.3 on an Ubuntu Gutsy using the Synaptic Package Manager.

Now it seems that I cannot open any of my old LyX files (<= 1.5.2).
It says that "(Myfile) came from an earlier version of LyX, but
lyx2lyx failed to convert the file."   I found an earlier post from
December that suggested changing

\language default

to

\language english

but this doesn't work for me because my file already has \language
english.  I checked the top of my file and it says

#LyX 1.4.3-5 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/

\lyxformat 245

Can anyone please help me?  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,
Jay






***
G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor / Statistics Coordinator
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA
Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall
Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail)
-3302 Department
-3170 FAX
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3? (fwd)

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Yes, we support the koma-script letter calss version 2. Have a look in the 
template folder of LyX.


Uwe, et al.:

  Using the template as a guide (D'oh! What else does one do with a
template, eh?), I've started a letter. See the attached PDF. My specific
questions are:

  1.) How do I insert the letterhead at the top of the page (presumably
using the logo environment)?

  2.) How do I align the inside address with the rest of the letter's
content? It's too far to the left (or everything else is too far to the
right.)

  3.) Can I have the date printed before the inside address?

  4.) What ERT will move the closing and my title to the left margin?

  Once I learn these, I'll probably have questions on implementing the
header on continuation pages.

Thanks for the pointer to the template file,

Rich

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doi-nepa-comments.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Yes, we support the koma-script letter calss version 2. Have a look in the 
template folder of LyX.


Uwe, et al.:

  Using the template as a guide (D'oh! What else does one do with a
template, eh?), I've started a letter. See the attached PDF. My specific
questions are:

  1.) How do I insert the letterhead at the top of the page (presumably
using the logo environment)?

  2.) How do I align the inside address with the rest of the letter's
content? It's too far to the left (or everything else is too far to the
right.)

  3.) Can I have the date printed before the inside address?

  4.) What ERT will move the closing and my title to the left margin?

  Once I learn these, I'll probably have questions on implementing the
header on continuation pages.

Thanks for the pointer to the template file,

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:


We have a layout (and a template) for scrlttr2. But it does not natively
support all the newest bleeding-edge features (that would force everybody
to upgrade their TeX distributions). What features do you have in mind?


Jürgen,

  I don't know if I need bleeding edge features. Here's what I want to do:

  1.) Insert my company letterhead (a .pdf file) as the logo across the top
of the first page. Ignore the fromname, fromaddress, etc. because that's
included in the letterhead.

  2.) On continuation pages, have the left-aligned header consist of

toname
date
page number

  Other than this, it should be simple. I don't know what to do right now
when I specify the Logo environment at the beginning of the document, what
needs to be placed in the preamble, nor the sequence in which letter
components should be entered. I know it's different from a few years ago.

  I'll look in the LyX docs and examples to see what I can learn. It's time
for me to learn to produce letters, proposals, and similar docs in LyX
rather than OO.o's Writer.

Thanks,

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


Yes, we support the koma-script letter calss version 2. Have a look in the
template folder of LyX. (This template file has a bug that has been fixed
for LyX 1.5.4 that will be released in about 2 weeks. A fixed version is
available here:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_5_X/lib/templates/koma-letter2.lyx?format=raw
)


  Thank you, Uwe. I'll grab that.

In LyX 1.5.4 we also support the serial letter capabilities of the 
koma-script letter class. You'll find them in the examples folder of LyX.


  I've no need for this within the foreseeable future.

  I've read Chapter 3 in the latest Koma-Script doc, and see how to specify
most things in straight LaTeX. Doing them in LyX is the learning curve I
want to climb now.

Rich

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 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> Does LyX-1.5.3 support the December 2007 features of Koma-Script 2? I'm
> specifically interested in the New! Improved! Whiter! letter class.

We have a layout (and a template) for scrlttr2. But it does not natively 
support all the newest bleeding-edge features (that would force everybody to 
upgrade their TeX distributions). What features do you have in mind?

Jürgen

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Rich Shepard schrieb:


  Does LyX-1.5.3 support the December 2007 features of Koma-Script 2? I'm
specifically interested in the New! Improved! Whiter! letter class.


Yes, we support the koma-script letter calss version 2. Have a look in the template folder of LyX. 
(This template file has a bug that has been fixed for LyX 1.5.4 that will be released in about 2 
weeks. A fixed version is available here:

http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_5_X/lib/templates/koma-letter2.lyx?format=raw
)
In LyX 1.5.4 we also support the serial letter capabilities of the koma-script letter class. You'll 
find them in the examples folder of LyX.


regards Uwe

Re: Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Rich Shepard wrote:


 Does LyX-1.5.3 support the December 2007 features of Koma-Script 2? I'm
specifically interested in the New! Improved! Whiter! letter class.


  Let me expand by asking if anyone's used the new letter class for a
US-style business letter. I'm trying to figure out how to add a logo on the
top of the first page (when the Logo: environment is selected), and the
order in which letter elements should be placed.

Rich

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Koma-Script Letters 2 in LyX-1.5.3?

[Rich Shepard]

  Does LyX-1.5.3 support the December 2007 features of Koma-Script 2? I'm
specifically interested in the New! Improved! Whiter! letter class.

Thanks,

Rich

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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Incorrect Headers

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Dear Lyx people,

I have a problem I hope you can help me with. I am writing a thesis in 
Lyx version 1.5.2 in windows. Most of it is working brilliantly but I am 
having some trouble with the headers at the beginning of the document. 
In my "abstract" section the headers on the second and subsequent pages 
say "list of figures" instead of "abstract". i would like to be able to 
change them to say "abstract" or to leave them blank but I cant seem to 
do it. I can remove the header but only if I also remove the horizontal 
line under the header and the page number at the bottom of the page both 
of which I would like to keep. If I try to remove the header and the 
horizontal line but keep the page number I get an error in compiling but 
it does compile eventually.


Any help would be much apprieciated!

Jean



I think we would need to know what document class you are using, whether 
you are using the fancyheader package, etc.  The best bet might be to 
post a minimal example (enough to demonstrate the problem but not the 
whole thesis).  Feel free to convert any sensitive material to 'blah 
blah blah' or your favorite (preferably ribald) limerick.


/Paul

Re: Harvard style referencing

[Paul A. Rubin]

Jennifer Brookes wrote:
It don't think that was it, and thanks to Brian too for his help and I 
am sorry for still not getting it! I think the problem is I don't 
actually have the agsm style, as I got this error in the .bgl file


I couldn't open style file agsm.bst
---line 148 of file FlexDraft14.aux
: \bibstyle{agsm
:   }


So I tried the style plainnat (with natbib) and also harvard (the .bst I 
got of the web) and both seemed to work ok, i.e. I get the references 
alphabetical, but in the text references are still refered to 
numerically instead of (author, year) which is the citation style I 
selected. Please can anyone help?




I'm not sure what OS and LaTeX distro you are using, so I'll try to be 
as generic as possible.  First, open a shell/command window and run 
'kpsewhich agsm.bst'.  If it displays a path, then you have style and 
something else is wrong, but I'm pretty sure you'll get a null response. 
 In that case, you need to install the harvard-latex package.  With 
MiKTeX, use the package manager to install the package named 'harvard'. 
 The package manager will automatically update the file database.  With 
TeXLive, install the texlive-bibtex-extra package (using your Linux 
distro's package manager, such as Synaptic).  I'm pretty sure the 
installation script will automatically update the file name database. 
All else failing, you can download the harvard-latex package from CTAN 
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/harvard/), install 
it yourself, then manually update the file database (by running 
texhash).  Run 'kpsewhich agsm.bst' again just to be sure things went 
well, then retry compiling your document.


HTH,
Paul

[Lyx 1.5.3] Page number suddenly on top right

[Singul4r1ty Matrix]

I have added a list of tables and now suddenly on the second page of the
introduction this appears on the top:
"*LIST OF TABLES   2*"
how do i get rid of this?

Incorrect Headers

[jean . wyer]

Dear Lyx people,

I have a problem I hope you can help me with. I am writing a thesis in Lyx 
version 1.5.2 in windows. Most of it is working brilliantly but I am having 
some trouble with the headers at the beginning of the document. In my 
"abstract" section the headers on the second and subsequent pages say "list 
of figures" instead of "abstract". i would like to be able to change them 
to say "abstract" or to leave them blank but I cant seem to do it. I can 
remove the header but only if I also remove the horizontal line under the 
header and the page number at the bottom of the page both of which I would 
like to keep. If I try to remove the header and the horizontal line but 
keep the page number I get an error in compiling but it does compile 
eventually.


Any help would be much apprieciated!

Jean

Re: Harvard style referencing

[Jennifer Brookes]

It don't think that was it, and thanks to Brian too for his help and I 
am sorry for still not getting it! I think the problem is I don't 
actually have the agsm style, as I got this error in the .bgl file


I couldn't open style file agsm.bst
---line 148 of file FlexDraft14.aux
: \bibstyle{agsm
:   }


So I tried the style plainnat (with natbib) and also harvard (the .bst I 
got of the web) and both seemed to work ok, i.e. I get the references 
alphabetical, but in the text references are still refered to 
numerically instead of (author, year) which is the citation style I 
selected. Please can anyone help?


thanks
Jenny


Anders Ekberg wrote:
The same thing happened to me yesterday using BibTeX (through 
BibDesk). It turned out to simply be that LyX had (for some reason) 
lost the path to the library. Simply re-including the library solved it.

Hope it's something as simple as that for you too...
/Anders



Jennifer Brookes
Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:51:47 -0800
Hi,

I am having difficulty figuring out how to convert my references to 
alphabetical (Harvard style) in preparation of an article. I have 
been using lyx version 1.4.4, with document class article (REVTeX4), 
citation style natbib (Author-year) and bibliography style agsm. When 
I compile however, no references appear and there are question marks 
where I would like the references to be. Before I was using natbib 
(numerical) and bibliography style apsrev, which worked fine, can 
anyone tell me the problem?


Many thanks
Jenny