RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution
OK. So I tried the suggested mechanism, using the Windows installer for the complete product; a total of about 109MBytes of download. All was properly installed. Yet, when I try to configure a new document, the list of document classes shows that article(Springer LNCS) is unavailable. Haven't had time to try some of the other suggestions given by other respondents. I will get to this later this day - about ten to twelve hours. Thanks for all the suggestions. wrb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:33 AM To: William R. Buckley Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution William R. Buckley schrieb: What is less clear is the use of texhash, as it is not part of the LyX distribution. You don't need to use this cind of command line commands. The best and easiest way of getting a full featured LyX/LaTeX system on WIndows is to reinstall your current LaTeX distribution and LyX. Then reinstall LyX using the complete variant of this installer while you have an open internet connection: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller LyX will install all needed packages to MiKTeX, also LNCS. Try it out and post when it doesn't work for you. regards Uwe
Languages British vs English
Hey all, Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! Thanks pdf
RE: Latex template on 1.5.4
Paul, Thank you very much. Your instructions were clear, to the point and exactly what I was looking for. Should I worry about the ert highlights in the document? There are a few around the equations and within the bos that is in the figure? Since lyx handles these anutomatically, can I just delete them and insert graphics as normal? What are the purpose of the boxes? I don't see any effect on the end document? Are they used to scale the figures into the correct column widths? What I was trying to attempt was to create a document class within lyx that duplicated spconf.sty. I suspect this will happen again with various papers I am submitting so I had hoped that I would be able to find a systematic way of using latex .sty and .cls files in lyx. What I was trying to do previously was modify the article.layout file to use the spconf.sty and so creating a spconf.layout that is selectable in the document classes of lyx. Thanks again Pdf p.s. I really think a few developers should look at a import application. With the amount of latex templates going about I am surprised there isn't a more streamlined option in lyx to accommodate these, but then again I wouldn't have had the fun I've had trying to figure this out! -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin Sent: 09 March 2008 20:19 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Latex template on 1.5.4 Phillip Ferguson wrote: It has now boiled down to a layout file. At this point in time there is a document class unavailable to use. I have the orginal spconf.sty, and the layout file which is a derivative of the article class. What I needs is the spconf package, where can I get it? Like Bob, I got a bit lost here. Assuming you are just going to use this package to submit to this one conference (and not use it on a regular basis), you really don't need a layout file at all. Since I'm not sure what you've done to date, I'll rewind to the beginning and show one way to get it in production. 1. Open the MiKTeX Settings application, click on the Roots tab, and find the path to the directory described as UserConfig. If you left-click it and hover over it, you'll see the full path. Leave this application open, you'll need it again. 2. Find that directory in Windows Explorer and drill down to UserConfig\tex\latex (which should already be there). Unzip fpl08.zip there, which should create a subfolder named fpl08. 3. Return to the MiKTeX Settings application, click on the General tab, and click Refresh FNDB. Sit back and watch your hard drive spin. When that's done, you can click either Ok or Cancel and exit the application. 4. [Optional] You might want to create a shortcut someplace to the UserConfig\tex\latex\fpl08 folder. Alternatively, you might want to copy the two .bib files and .eps file to a more convenient folder (i.e., one buried less deeply in the rubble). 5. Paste the attached LyX file into whatever directory has the .eps and .bib files. This is basically the sample proceedings document (which contains formatting instructions) converted to LyX. I put in the bare minimum formatting (page size, margins, Times Roman 10 pt. as the base font), but you may need to do more fiddling to pacify the conference gods. Also, I trimmed out some of the less informative comments and put the others in bright yellow LyX Notes. The author, affiliation and acknowledgment stuff is in the preamble (Document - Settings... - LaTeX Preamble), which you'll need to edit in your own documents unless you want someone else to take the blame. :-) 6. Open fpl08.lyx in LyX either by double-clicking the file icon or using File - Open. Try View - DVI to make sure things work correctly. 7. To create a new proceedings, just do File - Save As to create a new copy (with a different name, obviously), and then hack out the current contents and insert your own. (You can open the original with File - New from Template as an insurance policy against overwriting it.) Hope this helps, Paul
Subscription
Hi, I am a mac user of Lyx and I have differents problems with Lyx, like bibliography style, latex exportation of document ( in french the accents é and è are not included in the tex document) and picture incorporation problem (only png are supported, not eps). Thanks for helping me, -- Andréas LYBERIS 154 rue de Tolbiac 75013 PARIS FRANCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: + 33 679603975
Export to plain text garbled
Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 on Ubuntu 6.06. (I've never used LaTeX or LyX before.) I'm trying to export a LyX document to plain text and it's coming out garbled. I've also tried using all three PDF export options (dvipdfm, pdflatex, ps2pdf), opening the result in Acrobat Reader, and saving as text. They each come out garbled as well, in their own unique ways. So far the best way I've found of exporting to a text file is selecting all in the LyX display, then copying and pasting into a text editor like gedit, adding manually editing any references to section numbers and stripping out any latex formatting. There must be a better way to do this, right? Do I have to do some special character encoding voodoo or something? (I've tried searching for a solution, but apparently I haven't come up with the magic phrase that will cause Google to produce results relevant to my needs.) Is this something that will be fixed in 1.6 and I should just suck it up and wait? -Mel
Re: Export to plain text garbled
All is discovered--flee at once! wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 on Ubuntu 6.06. (I've never used LaTeX or LyX before.) I'm trying to export a LyX document to plain text and it's coming out garbled. I've also tried using all three PDF export options (dvipdfm, pdflatex, ps2pdf), opening the result in Acrobat Reader, and saving as text. They each come out garbled as well, in their own unique ways. So far the best way I've found of exporting to a text file is selecting all in the LyX display, then copying and pasting into a text editor like gedit, adding manually editing any references to section numbers and stripping out any latex formatting. There must be a better way to do this, right? Do I have to do some special character encoding voodoo or something? (I've tried searching for a solution, but apparently I haven't come up with the magic phrase that will cause Google to produce results relevant to my needs.) Is this something that will be fixed in 1.6 and I should just suck it up and wait? -Mel The plain text that LyX exports is UTF-8 encoded. You have to change in your editor the encoding to ungarble it. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. I always close a document without saving if I come across such warnings. With just one saving, the backup copy (mybook.lyx~) will still contain the custom environments. So a `cp mybook.lyx~ mybook.lyx` saves you the tedious hand-reverting. Shame on me, my last backup was 5 days old. But still, it would have been nice for LyX to say hey, your layout file just became bad. Do you REALLY want me to revert your document class to article, or would you like to save as (the broken) whatever document class so you can fix the problem without losing content? I also vote for a more save handling of such automatic conversions that can indeed delete lots of information from the document. A simple solution might be for LyX to automatically treat the document as if it were a template it decides the layout is broken -- change to article or whatever, but in read-only mode, so that you can only save the modified document under a new name. That would leave the original (now presumably broken) version intact. This is a nice idea, I hope it is easy to implement and look forward to see it in the next version. Günter
Re: Languages British vs English
On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for the American language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. No more than my EUR 00.02. Liviu
Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac
On 8.03.08, Darren Hardy wrote: Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would very much like Mac standard shortcuts, especially for editing text. I would like LyX for Mac to follow the design guidelines for Aqua as far as keyboard shortcuts go I'm afraid there is no pre-defined Mac bindings file yet. You can generate your own keybinding file. See HelpCustomizing and have a look at the two pre-defined layout variants LYXDIR/bind/cua.bind and LYXDIR/bind/emacs.bind which you can copy and modify or (if the modifications are rather small) import into your custom bindings. You can publish the result at http://wiki.lyx.org or mail it to the list. GM
Re: Languages British vs English
Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Hyphenation rules are different in British English and in American English and the formatting of the date (used in the macro \today) is not the same. Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! I guess British think that American English is just English with mistakes... What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for the American language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. For LaTeX, Austrian is also a dialect of German and Flemish a dialect of Dutch. Time to start a revolution ;-) Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Languages British vs English
On 10.03.08, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for the American language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. Well, for me the names of the English variants were always British English and American English. My suggestion for the DocumentSettingsLanguaes list would be English (American) # or English (US) English (British) in a similar way to e.g. Chinese (new spelling) Chinese (traditional) This way, the English variants are close to another in the alphabetical listing which facilitates the choice by offering alternatives in one place. It would also make sufficiently clear that American English is - not *the* English dialect - not *the* language of the american continent Günter
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Monday 10 March 2008 12:30, G. Milde wrote: On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: A simple solution might be for LyX to automatically treat the document as if it were a template it decides the layout is broken -- change to article or whatever, but in read-only mode, so that you can only save the modified document under a new name. That would leave the original (now presumably broken) version intact. This is a nice idea, I hope it is easy to implement and look forward to see it in the next version. Doesn't version control already let you revert to an earlier version? (If it's turned on.) -Mel
Re: Export to plain text garbled
On Monday 10 March 2008 12:24, Charles de Miramon wrote: The plain text that LyX exports is UTF-8 encoded. You have to change in your editor the encoding to ungarble it. Thanks, that was what I needed. Mel
short title
Hello, Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? When I am on the book title, the short title button is disabled. The class I work with has been built from book and it puts the book title in the top margin of even pages instead of the chapter name. Jean
Re: Languages British vs English
I would concur and weigh in in favor English (US) since British English is more likely the official language of the English-speaking Caribbean. David Romano On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.03.08, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for the American language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. Well, for me the names of the English variants were always British English and American English. My suggestion for the DocumentSettingsLanguaes list would be English (American) # or English (US) English (British) in a similar way to e.g. Chinese (new spelling) Chinese (traditional) This way, the English variants are close to another in the alphabetical listing which facilitates the choice by offering alternatives in one place. It would also make sufficiently clear that American English is - not *the* English dialect - not *the* language of the american continent Günter
Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac
On Mar 10, 2008, at 7:20 AM, G. Milde wrote: On 8.03.08, Darren Hardy wrote: Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would very much like Mac standard shortcuts, especially for editing text. I would like LyX for Mac to follow the design guidelines for Aqua as far as keyboard shortcuts go I'm afraid there is no pre-defined Mac bindings file yet. Yes there is -- mac.bind. Bennett
Re: short title
jean beney wrote: Hello, Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? When I am on the book title, the short title button is disabled. The class I work with has been built from book and it puts the book title in the top margin of even pages instead of the chapter name. Another option would be to make your title shorter and make use of subtitle. Abdel.
Re: Languages British vs English
I'd agree with English (US) since it is not the normal spelling that is used in Canada. Of course we don't use the UK spelling either. :) --- David Romano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would concur and weigh in in favor English (US) since British English is more likely the official language of the English-speaking Caribbean. David Romano On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.03.08, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for the American language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. Well, for me the names of the English variants were always British English and American English. My suggestion for the DocumentSettingsLanguaes list would be English (American) # or English (US) English (British) in a similar way to e.g. Chinese (new spelling) Chinese (traditional) This way, the English variants are close to another in the alphabetical listing which facilitates the choice by offering alternatives in one place. It would also make sufficiently clear that American English is - not *the* English dialect - not *the* language of the american continent Günter Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/
Box around program listings?
Does anyone know a way to get a box around a program listing? Putting it inside a box (minipage) environment doesn¹t seem to work... James
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Monday 10 March 2008 07:30, G. Milde wrote: On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. I always close a document without saving if I come across such warnings. With just one saving, the backup copy (mybook.lyx~) will still contain the custom environments. So a `cp mybook.lyx~ mybook.lyx` saves you the tedious hand-reverting. By the time I knew of the problem, I'd made and saved several changes. If I'm already given warning messages, perhaps they could be made much more forceful, like this. DANGER ACHTUNG PELEGRO!!! Your document class has changed, and environments not supported by the new document class will revert to body text. Save this version UNDER A NEW FILENAME, and then resolve the problems. Shame on me, my last backup was 5 days old. But still, it would have been nice for LyX to say hey, your layout file just became bad. Do you REALLY want me to revert your document class to article, or would you like to save as (the broken) whatever document class so you can fix the problem without losing content? I also vote for a more save handling of such automatic conversions that can indeed delete lots of information from the document. Yeah, I got lucky this time, next time (if I'm silly enough to wait 5 days to back up) could be much worse. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Monday 10 March 2008 15:23, you wrote: On Monday 10 March 2008 08:25, All is discovered--flee at once! wrote: On Monday 10 March 2008 12:30, G. Milde wrote: On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: A simple solution might be for LyX to automatically treat the document as if it were a template it decides the layout is broken -- change to article or whatever, but in read-only mode, so that you can only save the modified document under a new name. That would leave the original (now presumably broken) version intact. This is a nice idea, I hope it is easy to implement and look forward to see it in the next version. Doesn't version control already let you revert to an earlier version? (If it's turned on.) -Mel I never knew LyX had version control. How do I turn it on? SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts Hey Steve. I was at your website this morning! I think it was when I was reading about classes. (Didn't find what I was looking for, but I bookmarked it anyway. Lots of stuff there.) I just had to install GNU RCS to make version control work. It's accessible from my File menu. I made an RCS folder and symlinked it from my assorted working directories (Articles, Reviews, etc.) to keep all the version control information in one place. (I'm using LyX 1.5.3 (with the default.ui) on Ubuntu 6.06.) There's a section on version control in the Extended Features manual. Basically I did: ~$sudo apt-get install rcs ~$mkdir writing/RCS and then some symlinks like: ~$ ln -s /home/fs/writing/RCS /home/fs/RCS ~$ ln -s /home/fs/writing/RCS /home/fs/writing/articles/RCS Without the symlink to your designated RCS directory, the version control information file will be placed in the same working directory as the .lyx file you have entered in version control. It works without the symlinks, but I'm one of those people that gets compulsive about organization and backups. I haven't found a way to specify a default path for RCS. I read some assorted documents on setting it up and they all seem to do the symlink thing. Hope that helps. -Mel
Re: Box around program listings?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM, James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a way to get a box around a program listing? Putting it inside a box (minipage) environment doesn¹t seem to work... You want a frame, right? Use the frame option of the listings package should work. Bo
Re: Latex template on 1.5.4
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Phillip Ferguson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I was trying to do previously was modify the article.layout file to
use
the spconf.sty and so creating a spconf.layout that is selectable in the
document classes of lyx.
Ok, why didn't you say so? :-}
Copy the article.layout from:
C:\Program Files\LyX15\Resources\layouts
to:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\lyx15\layouts
then you can rename the file to spconf.layout and then open it in a text
editor and edit the declare latex line to:
\DeclareLaTeXClass[article,spconf.sty]{article (spconf)}
You can change article (spconf) to any name you like. Then reconfigure LyX
and in the document settings 'article (spconf)' should show up.
Even though you prefer Paul's approach to placing your spconf.sty file
within the MiKTeX default locations, I still recommend setting up your own
personal latex hierarchy to store these custom .sty or .bst files. So that,
in the future if you had to reinstall Windoze (for some strange reason, God
forbid :-}). You know exactly where your custom files are and you don't have
to go searching through the bowels of MiKTeX to find them.
Just my 0.02.
Cheers,
/Bob
Re: Box around program listings?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM, James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a way to get a box around a program listing? Putting it inside a box (minipage) environment doesn¹t seem to work... You want a frame, right? Use the frame option of the listings package should work. Bo If you 'right-click' on the 'Box (Minipage)' icon you get a 'LyX:Box Settings' dialog box. Under 'Decoration' you can change it to: Rectangular box Oval box, thin Oval box, thick Shadow box Double box Is this not what your looking for? Cheers, /Bob
How do you do an appendix the right way?
Hi all, How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say Appendix A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example. What environment to I use for the Appendix title? Do I need to use some ERT commands? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say Appendix A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example. What environment to I use for the Appendix title? Do I need to use some ERT commands? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts It took me quite a while to figure out this package when I was writing my thesis. I used the 'appendix' package and I've attached a simple example, but you can refer to the documentation for further instructions (as I don't have a copy of my thesis at present to refer to). Cheers, /Bob appendix.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Box around program listings?
On 3/10/08 8:09 AM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM, James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a way to get a box around a program listing? Putting it inside a box (minipage) environment doesn¹t seem to work... You want a frame, right? Use the frame option of the listings package should work. Bo If you 'right-click' on the 'Box (Minipage)' icon you get a 'LyX:Box Settings' dialog box. Under 'Decoration' you can change it to: Rectangular box Oval box, thin Oval box, thick Shadow box Double box Is this not what your looking for? Cheers, /Bob Actually, Bo's answer was the one I was looking for. The Box(minipage) does not work if a Listing is inside of it. Supplying the frame=... option to the listing did the trick. Thanks! James
Re: Box around program listings?
Actually, Bo's answer was the one I was looking for. The Box(minipage) does not work if a Listing is inside of it. Supplying the frame=... option to the listing did the trick. There are options to customize the frame, and if you want to use frame for all your listings, you can set global listings parameter in document-settings. Cheers, Bo
Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say Appendix A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example. What environment to I use for the Appendix title? Do I need to use some ERT commands? Try menu Document-Start Appendix Here just before Chapter 13, it will convert automatically to Appendix A. This is explained in section 6.4 Appendices. Abdel.
Bibliography
Hi, I have a problem with the bibliography of my report. I have Lyx on mac os X. To type it, I have been using Bibdesk, it has been ordered in alphabetic order and I don't like to begin a document with a 5 as the first reference. I can't either put the name and the year of the citation. Has anyone been confronted to the problem before? Thanks, -- Andréas LYBERIS 154 rue de Tolbiac 75013 Paris France mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +33 679603975
line characters and reverse video characters ?
Can anyone share examples for both printing line characters and reverse video characters? Or point to some docs about this? Here is an example of line characters. But my xterm doesn't show it (probably wrong font), but maybe your console will. ??? ? Which would you like to do? ? ? ? ? a: Edit the MBR partition table ? ?b: Use the entire disk ? ??? Note that is special characters for vertical and horizontal lines and four different corners. I'd like to do that in LaTeX or LyX instead of using screenshot. I guess I could use some parbox, makebox or framebox instead but haven't tried that. (I realized that because I also want to use a box around entire area which would measure about 80 characters by 24 characters.) As for reverse video, here is an example using ANSI codes: printf \e[7m this is reverse \e[0m\n How to do that with LyX? (white on black)? I have several text console screenshots where I also captured the text. I think my book would look better if I let TeX format the text versus using PNG images. Jeremy C. Reed
Re: Bibliography
On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Andras LYBERIS wrote: Hi, I have a problem with the bibliography of my report. I have Lyx on mac os X. To type it, I have been using Bibdesk, it has been ordered in alphabetic order and I don't like to begin a document with a 5 as the first reference. I can't either put the name and the year of the citation. Has anyone been confronted to the problem before? I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. It sounds like you are getting numerical style references when you want author-date. Are you using the default (numerical) citation style (in Document Settings Bibliography)? To get author-date, you should probably use Natbib, and then select Author-year as the natbib style. You will then need to select a bibliography style from the BibTeX Bibliography you've inserted for use with natbib, but which one depends on how you want the bibliography to be sorted. For details, see §6.5 of the User's Guide. Bennett
Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?
Steve Litt ha scritto:
Hi all,
Hi, Steve,
How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same
level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say Appendix
A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example.
In LyX-1.5.4 you simply click on Document | Appendices start here,
or something - I'm using the Italian version of LyX.
It works great if your last chapters are appendices. In TOC it is
inserted an item like A SSH Example.
If you want to insert some extra non-appendix chapters after the
appendices, or you want TOC entries like Appendix A SSH Example,
then you'll need appendix.sty and:
ERT [\begin{appendices}]
...
ERT [\end{appendices}]
Additional Chapters (though I doubt you'll want to :-))
Best regards.
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Re: Bibliography
Bennett Helm wrote: On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Andras LYBERIS wrote: Hi, I have a problem with the bibliography of my report. I have Lyx on mac os X. To type it, I have been using Bibdesk, it has been ordered in alphabetic order and I don't like to begin a document with a 5 as the first reference. I can't either put the name and the year of the citation. Has anyone been confronted to the problem before? I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. It sounds like you are getting numerical style references when you want author-date. Maybe explain your problem in French on the French speaking mailing list : http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InternetResources Charles
Use pdf figures without converting.
Hi, I am using PDF figures. Lyx does convert them to png before and chops them incorrectly. I would like to use the pdf figures directly, is it possible? How? I have not been able to figure this out with the documentation, sorry if it has been posted before. - Klaus
Re: Use pdf figures without converting.
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Klaus Unger wrote: I am using PDF figures. Lyx does convert them to png before and chops them incorrectly. I would like to use the pdf figures directly, is it possible? How? Klaus, I regularly include .pdf files. Just insert them as you would any graphical format. But, use pdflatex to view the results and produce a final file. You cannot use plain latex because the image will not display in xdvi. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?
On Monday 10 March 2008 17:41, Filippo Zangheri wrote:
Steve Litt ha scritto:
Hi all,
Hi, Steve,
How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the
same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say
Appendix A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH
Example.
In LyX-1.5.4 you simply click on Document | Appendices start here,
or something - I'm using the Italian version of LyX.
It works great if your last chapters are appendices. In TOC it is
inserted an item like A SSH Example.
If you want to insert some extra non-appendix chapters after the
appendices, or you want TOC entries like Appendix A SSH Example,
then you'll need appendix.sty and:
ERT [\begin{appendices}]
...
ERT [\end{appendices}]
Additional Chapters (though I doubt you'll want to :-))
Best regards.
Thanks Filippo,
This time I want no more chapters after the appendix, but it's very good to
know how to do it -- sometimes my books require wierd stuff.
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution
OK. So I tried the suggested mechanism, using the Windows installer for the complete product; a total of about 109MBytes of download. All was properly installed. Yet, when I try to configure a new document, the list of document classes shows that article(Springer LNCS) is unavailable. Haven't had time to try some of the other suggestions given by other respondents. I will get to this later this day - about ten to twelve hours. Thanks for all the suggestions. wrb -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:33 AM To: William R. Buckley Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution William R. Buckley schrieb: What is less clear is the use of texhash, as it is not part of the LyX distribution. You don't need to use this cind of command line commands. The best and easiest way of getting a full featured LyX/LaTeX system on WIndows is to reinstall your current LaTeX distribution and LyX. Then reinstall LyX using the complete variant of this installer while you have an open internet connection: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller LyX will install all needed packages to MiKTeX, also LNCS. Try it out and post when it doesn't work for you. regards Uwe
Languages British vs English
Hey all, Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! Thanks pdf
RE: Latex template on 1.5.4
Paul, Thank you very much. Your instructions were clear, to the point and exactly what I was looking for. Should I worry about the ert highlights in the document? There are a few around the equations and within the bos that is in the figure? Since lyx handles these anutomatically, can I just delete them and insert graphics as normal? What are the purpose of the boxes? I don't see any effect on the end document? Are they used to scale the figures into the correct column widths? What I was trying to attempt was to create a document class within lyx that duplicated spconf.sty. I suspect this will happen again with various papers I am submitting so I had hoped that I would be able to find a systematic way of using latex .sty and .cls files in lyx. What I was trying to do previously was modify the article.layout file to use the spconf.sty and so creating a spconf.layout that is selectable in the document classes of lyx. Thanks again Pdf p.s. I really think a few developers should look at a import application. With the amount of latex templates going about I am surprised there isn't a more streamlined option in lyx to accommodate these, but then again I wouldn't have had the fun I've had trying to figure this out! -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin Sent: 09 March 2008 20:19 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Latex template on 1.5.4 Phillip Ferguson wrote: It has now boiled down to a layout file. At this point in time there is a document class unavailable to use. I have the orginal spconf.sty, and the layout file which is a derivative of the article class. What I needs is the spconf package, where can I get it? Like Bob, I got a bit lost here. Assuming you are just going to use this package to submit to this one conference (and not use it on a regular basis), you really don't need a layout file at all. Since I'm not sure what you've done to date, I'll rewind to the beginning and show one way to get it in production. 1. Open the MiKTeX Settings application, click on the Roots tab, and find the path to the directory described as UserConfig. If you left-click it and hover over it, you'll see the full path. Leave this application open, you'll need it again. 2. Find that directory in Windows Explorer and drill down to UserConfig\tex\latex (which should already be there). Unzip fpl08.zip there, which should create a subfolder named fpl08. 3. Return to the MiKTeX Settings application, click on the General tab, and click Refresh FNDB. Sit back and watch your hard drive spin. When that's done, you can click either Ok or Cancel and exit the application. 4. [Optional] You might want to create a shortcut someplace to the UserConfig\tex\latex\fpl08 folder. Alternatively, you might want to copy the two .bib files and .eps file to a more convenient folder (i.e., one buried less deeply in the rubble). 5. Paste the attached LyX file into whatever directory has the .eps and .bib files. This is basically the sample proceedings document (which contains formatting instructions) converted to LyX. I put in the bare minimum formatting (page size, margins, Times Roman 10 pt. as the base font), but you may need to do more fiddling to pacify the conference gods. Also, I trimmed out some of the less informative comments and put the others in bright yellow LyX Notes. The author, affiliation and acknowledgment stuff is in the preamble (Document - Settings... - LaTeX Preamble), which you'll need to edit in your own documents unless you want someone else to take the blame. :-) 6. Open fpl08.lyx in LyX either by double-clicking the file icon or using File - Open. Try View - DVI to make sure things work correctly. 7. To create a new proceedings, just do File - Save As to create a new copy (with a different name, obviously), and then hack out the current contents and insert your own. (You can open the original with File - New from Template as an insurance policy against overwriting it.) Hope this helps, Paul
Subscription
Hi, I am a mac user of Lyx and I have differents problems with Lyx, like bibliography style, latex exportation of document ( in french the accents é and è are not included in the tex document) and picture incorporation problem (only png are supported, not eps). Thanks for helping me, -- Andréas LYBERIS 154 rue de Tolbiac 75013 PARIS FRANCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: + 33 679603975
Export to plain text garbled
Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 on Ubuntu 6.06. (I've never used LaTeX or LyX before.) I'm trying to export a LyX document to plain text and it's coming out garbled. I've also tried using all three PDF export options (dvipdfm, pdflatex, ps2pdf), opening the result in Acrobat Reader, and saving as text. They each come out garbled as well, in their own unique ways. So far the best way I've found of exporting to a text file is selecting all in the LyX display, then copying and pasting into a text editor like gedit, adding manually editing any references to section numbers and stripping out any latex formatting. There must be a better way to do this, right? Do I have to do some special character encoding voodoo or something? (I've tried searching for a solution, but apparently I haven't come up with the magic phrase that will cause Google to produce results relevant to my needs.) Is this something that will be fixed in 1.6 and I should just suck it up and wait? -Mel
Re: Export to plain text garbled
All is discovered--flee at once! wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 on Ubuntu 6.06. (I've never used LaTeX or LyX before.) I'm trying to export a LyX document to plain text and it's coming out garbled. I've also tried using all three PDF export options (dvipdfm, pdflatex, ps2pdf), opening the result in Acrobat Reader, and saving as text. They each come out garbled as well, in their own unique ways. So far the best way I've found of exporting to a text file is selecting all in the LyX display, then copying and pasting into a text editor like gedit, adding manually editing any references to section numbers and stripping out any latex formatting. There must be a better way to do this, right? Do I have to do some special character encoding voodoo or something? (I've tried searching for a solution, but apparently I haven't come up with the magic phrase that will cause Google to produce results relevant to my needs.) Is this something that will be fixed in 1.6 and I should just suck it up and wait? -Mel The plain text that LyX exports is UTF-8 encoded. You have to change in your editor the encoding to ungarble it. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. I always close a document without saving if I come across such warnings. With just one saving, the backup copy (mybook.lyx~) will still contain the custom environments. So a `cp mybook.lyx~ mybook.lyx` saves you the tedious hand-reverting. Shame on me, my last backup was 5 days old. But still, it would have been nice for LyX to say hey, your layout file just became bad. Do you REALLY want me to revert your document class to article, or would you like to save as (the broken) whatever document class so you can fix the problem without losing content? I also vote for a more save handling of such automatic conversions that can indeed delete lots of information from the document. A simple solution might be for LyX to automatically treat the document as if it were a template it decides the layout is broken -- change to article or whatever, but in read-only mode, so that you can only save the modified document under a new name. That would leave the original (now presumably broken) version intact. This is a nice idea, I hope it is easy to implement and look forward to see it in the next version. Günter
Re: Languages British vs English
On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for the American language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. No more than my EUR 00.02. Liviu
Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac
On 8.03.08, Darren Hardy wrote: Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would very much like Mac standard shortcuts, especially for editing text. I would like LyX for Mac to follow the design guidelines for Aqua as far as keyboard shortcuts go I'm afraid there is no pre-defined Mac bindings file yet. You can generate your own keybinding file. See HelpCustomizing and have a look at the two pre-defined layout variants LYXDIR/bind/cua.bind and LYXDIR/bind/emacs.bind which you can copy and modify or (if the modifications are rather small) import into your custom bindings. You can publish the result at http://wiki.lyx.org or mail it to the list. GM
Re: Languages British vs English
Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Hyphenation rules are different in British English and in American English and the formatting of the date (used in the macro \today) is not the same. Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! I guess British think that American English is just English with mistakes... What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for the American language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. For LaTeX, Austrian is also a dialect of German and Flemish a dialect of Dutch. Time to start a revolution ;-) Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Languages British vs English
On 10.03.08, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for the American language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. Well, for me the names of the English variants were always British English and American English. My suggestion for the DocumentSettingsLanguaes list would be English (American) # or English (US) English (British) in a similar way to e.g. Chinese (new spelling) Chinese (traditional) This way, the English variants are close to another in the alphabetical listing which facilitates the choice by offering alternatives in one place. It would also make sufficiently clear that American English is - not *the* English dialect - not *the* language of the american continent Günter
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Monday 10 March 2008 12:30, G. Milde wrote: On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: A simple solution might be for LyX to automatically treat the document as if it were a template it decides the layout is broken -- change to article or whatever, but in read-only mode, so that you can only save the modified document under a new name. That would leave the original (now presumably broken) version intact. This is a nice idea, I hope it is easy to implement and look forward to see it in the next version. Doesn't version control already let you revert to an earlier version? (If it's turned on.) -Mel
Re: Export to plain text garbled
On Monday 10 March 2008 12:24, Charles de Miramon wrote: The plain text that LyX exports is UTF-8 encoded. You have to change in your editor the encoding to ungarble it. Thanks, that was what I needed. Mel
short title
Hello, Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? When I am on the book title, the short title button is disabled. The class I work with has been built from book and it puts the book title in the top margin of even pages instead of the chapter name. Jean
Re: Languages British vs English
I would concur and weigh in in favor English (US) since British English is more likely the official language of the English-speaking Caribbean. David Romano On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.03.08, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for the American language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. Well, for me the names of the English variants were always British English and American English. My suggestion for the DocumentSettingsLanguaes list would be English (American) # or English (US) English (British) in a similar way to e.g. Chinese (new spelling) Chinese (traditional) This way, the English variants are close to another in the alphabetical listing which facilitates the choice by offering alternatives in one place. It would also make sufficiently clear that American English is - not *the* English dialect - not *the* language of the american continent Günter
Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac
On Mar 10, 2008, at 7:20 AM, G. Milde wrote: On 8.03.08, Darren Hardy wrote: Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would very much like Mac standard shortcuts, especially for editing text. I would like LyX for Mac to follow the design guidelines for Aqua as far as keyboard shortcuts go I'm afraid there is no pre-defined Mac bindings file yet. Yes there is -- mac.bind. Bennett
Re: short title
jean beney wrote: Hello, Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? When I am on the book title, the short title button is disabled. The class I work with has been built from book and it puts the book title in the top margin of even pages instead of the chapter name. Another option would be to make your title shorter and make use of subtitle. Abdel.
Re: Languages British vs English
I'd agree with English (US) since it is not the normal spelling that is used in Canada. Of course we don't use the UK spelling either. :) --- David Romano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would concur and weigh in in favor English (US) since British English is more likely the official language of the English-speaking Caribbean. David Romano On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.03.08, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for the American language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. Well, for me the names of the English variants were always British English and American English. My suggestion for the DocumentSettingsLanguaes list would be English (American) # or English (US) English (British) in a similar way to e.g. Chinese (new spelling) Chinese (traditional) This way, the English variants are close to another in the alphabetical listing which facilitates the choice by offering alternatives in one place. It would also make sufficiently clear that American English is - not *the* English dialect - not *the* language of the american continent Günter Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/
Box around program listings?
Does anyone know a way to get a box around a program listing? Putting it inside a box (minipage) environment doesn¹t seem to work... James
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Monday 10 March 2008 07:30, G. Milde wrote: On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. I always close a document without saving if I come across such warnings. With just one saving, the backup copy (mybook.lyx~) will still contain the custom environments. So a `cp mybook.lyx~ mybook.lyx` saves you the tedious hand-reverting. By the time I knew of the problem, I'd made and saved several changes. If I'm already given warning messages, perhaps they could be made much more forceful, like this. DANGER ACHTUNG PELEGRO!!! Your document class has changed, and environments not supported by the new document class will revert to body text. Save this version UNDER A NEW FILENAME, and then resolve the problems. Shame on me, my last backup was 5 days old. But still, it would have been nice for LyX to say hey, your layout file just became bad. Do you REALLY want me to revert your document class to article, or would you like to save as (the broken) whatever document class so you can fix the problem without losing content? I also vote for a more save handling of such automatic conversions that can indeed delete lots of information from the document. Yeah, I got lucky this time, next time (if I'm silly enough to wait 5 days to back up) could be much worse. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Monday 10 March 2008 15:23, you wrote: On Monday 10 March 2008 08:25, All is discovered--flee at once! wrote: On Monday 10 March 2008 12:30, G. Milde wrote: On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: A simple solution might be for LyX to automatically treat the document as if it were a template it decides the layout is broken -- change to article or whatever, but in read-only mode, so that you can only save the modified document under a new name. That would leave the original (now presumably broken) version intact. This is a nice idea, I hope it is easy to implement and look forward to see it in the next version. Doesn't version control already let you revert to an earlier version? (If it's turned on.) -Mel I never knew LyX had version control. How do I turn it on? SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts Hey Steve. I was at your website this morning! I think it was when I was reading about classes. (Didn't find what I was looking for, but I bookmarked it anyway. Lots of stuff there.) I just had to install GNU RCS to make version control work. It's accessible from my File menu. I made an RCS folder and symlinked it from my assorted working directories (Articles, Reviews, etc.) to keep all the version control information in one place. (I'm using LyX 1.5.3 (with the default.ui) on Ubuntu 6.06.) There's a section on version control in the Extended Features manual. Basically I did: ~$sudo apt-get install rcs ~$mkdir writing/RCS and then some symlinks like: ~$ ln -s /home/fs/writing/RCS /home/fs/RCS ~$ ln -s /home/fs/writing/RCS /home/fs/writing/articles/RCS Without the symlink to your designated RCS directory, the version control information file will be placed in the same working directory as the .lyx file you have entered in version control. It works without the symlinks, but I'm one of those people that gets compulsive about organization and backups. I haven't found a way to specify a default path for RCS. I read some assorted documents on setting it up and they all seem to do the symlink thing. Hope that helps. -Mel
Re: Box around program listings?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM, James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a way to get a box around a program listing? Putting it inside a box (minipage) environment doesn¹t seem to work... You want a frame, right? Use the frame option of the listings package should work. Bo
Re: Latex template on 1.5.4
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Phillip Ferguson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I was trying to do previously was modify the article.layout file to
use
the spconf.sty and so creating a spconf.layout that is selectable in the
document classes of lyx.
Ok, why didn't you say so? :-}
Copy the article.layout from:
C:\Program Files\LyX15\Resources\layouts
to:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\lyx15\layouts
then you can rename the file to spconf.layout and then open it in a text
editor and edit the declare latex line to:
\DeclareLaTeXClass[article,spconf.sty]{article (spconf)}
You can change article (spconf) to any name you like. Then reconfigure LyX
and in the document settings 'article (spconf)' should show up.
Even though you prefer Paul's approach to placing your spconf.sty file
within the MiKTeX default locations, I still recommend setting up your own
personal latex hierarchy to store these custom .sty or .bst files. So that,
in the future if you had to reinstall Windoze (for some strange reason, God
forbid :-}). You know exactly where your custom files are and you don't have
to go searching through the bowels of MiKTeX to find them.
Just my 0.02.
Cheers,
/Bob
Re: Box around program listings?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM, James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a way to get a box around a program listing? Putting it inside a box (minipage) environment doesn¹t seem to work... You want a frame, right? Use the frame option of the listings package should work. Bo If you 'right-click' on the 'Box (Minipage)' icon you get a 'LyX:Box Settings' dialog box. Under 'Decoration' you can change it to: Rectangular box Oval box, thin Oval box, thick Shadow box Double box Is this not what your looking for? Cheers, /Bob
How do you do an appendix the right way?
Hi all, How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say Appendix A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example. What environment to I use for the Appendix title? Do I need to use some ERT commands? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say Appendix A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example. What environment to I use for the Appendix title? Do I need to use some ERT commands? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts It took me quite a while to figure out this package when I was writing my thesis. I used the 'appendix' package and I've attached a simple example, but you can refer to the documentation for further instructions (as I don't have a copy of my thesis at present to refer to). Cheers, /Bob appendix.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Box around program listings?
On 3/10/08 8:09 AM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM, James Sutherland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know a way to get a box around a program listing? Putting it inside a box (minipage) environment doesn¹t seem to work... You want a frame, right? Use the frame option of the listings package should work. Bo If you 'right-click' on the 'Box (Minipage)' icon you get a 'LyX:Box Settings' dialog box. Under 'Decoration' you can change it to: Rectangular box Oval box, thin Oval box, thick Shadow box Double box Is this not what your looking for? Cheers, /Bob Actually, Bo's answer was the one I was looking for. The Box(minipage) does not work if a Listing is inside of it. Supplying the frame=... option to the listing did the trick. Thanks! James
Re: Box around program listings?
Actually, Bo's answer was the one I was looking for. The Box(minipage) does not work if a Listing is inside of it. Supplying the frame=... option to the listing did the trick. There are options to customize the frame, and if you want to use frame for all your listings, you can set global listings parameter in document-settings. Cheers, Bo
Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say Appendix A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example. What environment to I use for the Appendix title? Do I need to use some ERT commands? Try menu Document-Start Appendix Here just before Chapter 13, it will convert automatically to Appendix A. This is explained in section 6.4 Appendices. Abdel.
Bibliography
Hi, I have a problem with the bibliography of my report. I have Lyx on mac os X. To type it, I have been using Bibdesk, it has been ordered in alphabetic order and I don't like to begin a document with a 5 as the first reference. I can't either put the name and the year of the citation. Has anyone been confronted to the problem before? Thanks, -- Andréas LYBERIS 154 rue de Tolbiac 75013 Paris France mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +33 679603975
line characters and reverse video characters ?
Can anyone share examples for both printing line characters and reverse video characters? Or point to some docs about this? Here is an example of line characters. But my xterm doesn't show it (probably wrong font), but maybe your console will. ??? ? Which would you like to do? ? ? ? ? a: Edit the MBR partition table ? ?b: Use the entire disk ? ??? Note that is special characters for vertical and horizontal lines and four different corners. I'd like to do that in LaTeX or LyX instead of using screenshot. I guess I could use some parbox, makebox or framebox instead but haven't tried that. (I realized that because I also want to use a box around entire area which would measure about 80 characters by 24 characters.) As for reverse video, here is an example using ANSI codes: printf \e[7m this is reverse \e[0m\n How to do that with LyX? (white on black)? I have several text console screenshots where I also captured the text. I think my book would look better if I let TeX format the text versus using PNG images. Jeremy C. Reed
Re: Bibliography
On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Andras LYBERIS wrote: Hi, I have a problem with the bibliography of my report. I have Lyx on mac os X. To type it, I have been using Bibdesk, it has been ordered in alphabetic order and I don't like to begin a document with a 5 as the first reference. I can't either put the name and the year of the citation. Has anyone been confronted to the problem before? I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. It sounds like you are getting numerical style references when you want author-date. Are you using the default (numerical) citation style (in Document Settings Bibliography)? To get author-date, you should probably use Natbib, and then select Author-year as the natbib style. You will then need to select a bibliography style from the BibTeX Bibliography you've inserted for use with natbib, but which one depends on how you want the bibliography to be sorted. For details, see §6.5 of the User's Guide. Bennett
Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?
Steve Litt ha scritto:
Hi all,
Hi, Steve,
How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same
level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say Appendix
A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example.
In LyX-1.5.4 you simply click on Document | Appendices start here,
or something - I'm using the Italian version of LyX.
It works great if your last chapters are appendices. In TOC it is
inserted an item like A SSH Example.
If you want to insert some extra non-appendix chapters after the
appendices, or you want TOC entries like Appendix A SSH Example,
then you'll need appendix.sty and:
ERT [\begin{appendices}]
...
ERT [\end{appendices}]
Additional Chapters (though I doubt you'll want to :-))
Best regards.
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Re: Bibliography
Bennett Helm wrote: On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Andras LYBERIS wrote: Hi, I have a problem with the bibliography of my report. I have Lyx on mac os X. To type it, I have been using Bibdesk, it has been ordered in alphabetic order and I don't like to begin a document with a 5 as the first reference. I can't either put the name and the year of the citation. Has anyone been confronted to the problem before? I'm not sure I understand what the problem is. It sounds like you are getting numerical style references when you want author-date. Maybe explain your problem in French on the French speaking mailing list : http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InternetResources Charles
Use pdf figures without converting.
Hi, I am using PDF figures. Lyx does convert them to png before and chops them incorrectly. I would like to use the pdf figures directly, is it possible? How? I have not been able to figure this out with the documentation, sorry if it has been posted before. - Klaus
Re: Use pdf figures without converting.
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008, Klaus Unger wrote: I am using PDF figures. Lyx does convert them to png before and chops them incorrectly. I would like to use the pdf figures directly, is it possible? How? Klaus, I regularly include .pdf files. Just insert them as you would any graphical format. But, use pdflatex to view the results and produce a final file. You cannot use plain latex because the image will not display in xdvi. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?
On Monday 10 March 2008 17:41, Filippo Zangheri wrote:
Steve Litt ha scritto:
Hi all,
Hi, Steve,
How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the
same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say
Appendix A: SSH Example rather than Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH
Example.
In LyX-1.5.4 you simply click on Document | Appendices start here,
or something - I'm using the Italian version of LyX.
It works great if your last chapters are appendices. In TOC it is
inserted an item like A SSH Example.
If you want to insert some extra non-appendix chapters after the
appendices, or you want TOC entries like Appendix A SSH Example,
then you'll need appendix.sty and:
ERT [\begin{appendices}]
...
ERT [\end{appendices}]
Additional Chapters (though I doubt you'll want to :-))
Best regards.
Thanks Filippo,
This time I want no more chapters after the appendix, but it's very good to
know how to do it -- sometimes my books require wierd stuff.
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
RE: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution
OK. So I tried the suggested mechanism, using the Windows installer for the complete product; a total of about 109MBytes of download. All was properly installed. Yet, when I try to configure a new document, the list of document classes shows that article(Springer LNCS) is unavailable. Haven't had time to try some of the other suggestions given by other respondents. I will get to this later this day - about ten to twelve hours. Thanks for all the suggestions. wrb > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:33 AM > To: William R. Buckley > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Subject: Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution > > William R. Buckley schrieb: > > > What is less clear is the use of texhash, as it is not part > of the LyX > > distribution. > > You don't need to use this cind of command line commands. The > best and easiest way of getting a full featured LyX/LaTeX > system on WIndows is to reinstall your current LaTeX > distribution and LyX. Then reinstall LyX using the complete > variant of this installer while you have an open internet connection: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller > > LyX will install all needed packages to MiKTeX, also LNCS. > > Try it out and post when it doesn't work for you. > > regards Uwe > >
Languages British vs English
Hey all, Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! Thanks pdf
RE: Latex template on 1.5.4
Paul, Thank you very much. Your instructions were clear, to the point and exactly what I was looking for. Should I worry about the ert highlights in the document? There are a few around the equations and within the bos that is in the figure? Since lyx handles these anutomatically, can I just delete them and insert graphics as normal? What are the purpose of the boxes? I don't see any effect on the end document? Are they used to scale the figures into the correct column widths? What I was trying to attempt was to create a document class within lyx that duplicated spconf.sty. I suspect this will happen again with various papers I am submitting so I had hoped that I would be able to find a systematic way of using latex .sty and .cls files in lyx. What I was trying to do previously was modify the article.layout file to use the spconf.sty and so creating a spconf.layout that is selectable in the document classes of lyx. Thanks again Pdf p.s. I really think a few developers should look at a import application. With the amount of latex templates going about I am surprised there isn't a more streamlined option in lyx to accommodate these, but then again I wouldn't have had the fun I've had trying to figure this out! -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin Sent: 09 March 2008 20:19 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Latex template on 1.5.4 Phillip Ferguson wrote: > > It has now boiled down to a layout file. At this point in time there is a > document class unavailable to use. > > I have the orginal spconf.sty, and the layout file which is a derivative of > the article class. > > What I needs is the spconf package, where can I get it? > Like Bob, I got a bit lost here. Assuming you are just going to use this package to submit to this one conference (and not use it on a regular basis), you really don't need a layout file at all. Since I'm not sure what you've done to date, I'll rewind to the beginning and show one way to get it in production. 1. Open the MiKTeX Settings application, click on the Roots tab, and find the path to the directory described as "UserConfig". If you left-click it and hover over it, you'll see the full path. Leave this application open, you'll need it again. 2. Find that directory in Windows Explorer and drill down to \tex\latex (which should already be there). Unzip fpl08.zip there, which should create a subfolder named fpl08. 3. Return to the MiKTeX Settings application, click on the General tab, and click Refresh FNDB. Sit back and watch your hard drive spin. When that's done, you can click either Ok or Cancel and exit the application. 4. [Optional] You might want to create a shortcut someplace to the \tex\latex\fpl08 folder. Alternatively, you might want to copy the two .bib files and .eps file to a more convenient folder (i.e., one buried less deeply in the rubble). 5. Paste the attached LyX file into whatever directory has the .eps and .bib files. This is basically the sample proceedings document (which contains formatting instructions) converted to LyX. I put in the bare minimum formatting (page size, margins, Times Roman 10 pt. as the base font), but you may need to do more fiddling to pacify the conference gods. Also, I trimmed out some of the less informative comments and put the others in bright yellow LyX Notes. The author, affiliation and acknowledgment stuff is in the preamble (Document -> Settings... -> LaTeX Preamble), which you'll need to edit in your own documents unless you want someone else to take the blame. :-) 6. Open fpl08.lyx in LyX either by double-clicking the file icon or using File -> Open. Try View -> DVI to make sure things work correctly. 7. To create a new proceedings, just do File -> Save As to create a new copy (with a different name, obviously), and then hack out the current contents and insert your own. (You can open the original with File -> New from Template as an insurance policy against overwriting it.) Hope this helps, Paul
Subscription
Hi, I am a mac user of Lyx and I have differents problems with Lyx, like bibliography style, latex exportation of document ( in french the accents é and è are not included in the tex document) and picture incorporation problem (only png are supported, not eps). Thanks for helping me, -- Andréas LYBERIS 154 rue de Tolbiac 75013 PARIS FRANCE [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: + 33 679603975
Export to plain text garbled
Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 on Ubuntu 6.06. (I've never used LaTeX or LyX before.) I'm trying to export a LyX document to plain text and it's coming out garbled. I've also tried using all three PDF export options (dvipdfm, pdflatex, ps2pdf), opening the result in Acrobat Reader, and saving as text. They each come out garbled as well, in their own unique ways. So far the best way I've found of exporting to a text file is selecting all in the LyX display, then copying and pasting into a text editor like gedit, adding manually editing any references to section numbers and stripping out any latex formatting. There must be a better way to do this, right? Do I have to do some special character encoding voodoo or something? (I've tried searching for a solution, but apparently I haven't come up with the magic phrase that will cause Google to produce results relevant to my needs.) Is this something that will be fixed in 1.6 and I should just suck it up and wait? -Mel
Re: Export to plain text garbled
All is discovered--flee at once! wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using LyX 1.5.3 on Ubuntu 6.06. (I've never used LaTeX or LyX > before.) I'm trying to export a LyX document to plain text and it's coming > out garbled. I've also tried using all three PDF export options (dvipdfm, > pdflatex, ps2pdf), opening the result in Acrobat Reader, and saving as > text. > They each come out garbled as well, in their own unique ways. So far the > best way I've found of exporting to a text file is selecting all in the > LyX display, then copying and pasting into a text editor like gedit, > adding manually editing any references to section numbers and stripping > out any latex formatting. > > There must be a better way to do this, right? Do I have to do some > special > character encoding voodoo or something? (I've tried searching for a > solution, but apparently I haven't come up with the magic phrase that will > cause Google to produce results relevant to my needs.) > > Is this something that will be fixed in 1.6 and I should just suck it up > and wait? > > -Mel The plain text that LyX exports is UTF-8 encoded. You have to change in your editor the encoding to ungarble it. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: >> Hi all, >> I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my >> layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the >> book's document class from my custom "rjustbook" to "article", removing >> all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. I always close a document without saving if I come across such warnings. With just one saving, the backup copy (mybook.lyx~) will still contain the custom environments. So a `cp mybook.lyx~ mybook.lyx` saves you the tedious hand-reverting. >> Shame on me, my last backup was 5 days old. But still, it would have >> been nice for LyX to say "hey, your layout file just became bad. Do you >> REALLY want me to revert your document class to "article", or would you >> like to save as (the broken) "whatever" document class so you can fix >> the problem without losing content?" I also vote for a more save handling of such automatic conversions that can indeed delete lots of information from the document. > A simple solution might be for LyX to automatically treat the document > as if it were a template it decides the layout is broken -- change to > article or whatever, but in read-only mode, so that you can only save > the modified document under a new name. That would leave the original > (now presumably broken) version intact. This is a nice idea, I hope it is easy to implement and look forward to see it in the next version. Günter
Re: Languages British vs English
On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is > the difference? Is this an American vs English English? > > Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far > as I know there is no British language! What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for the "American" language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. No more than my EUR 00.02. Liviu
Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac
On 8.03.08, Darren Hardy wrote: > Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would very much like Mac standard shortcuts, especially for editing text. > I would like LyX for Mac to follow the design guidelines for Aqua as far as > keyboard shortcuts go I'm afraid there is no pre-defined Mac bindings file yet. You can generate your own keybinding file. See Help>Customizing and have a look at the two pre-defined layout variants /bind/cua.bind and /bind/emacs.bind which you can copy and modify or (if the modifications are rather small) import into your custom bindings. You can publish the result at http://wiki.lyx.org or mail it to the list. GM
Re: Languages British vs English
Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Why is there an English language option and British language option? >> What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Hyphenation rules are different in British English and in American English and the formatting of the date (used in the macro \today) is not the same. >> >> Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as >> far as I know there is no British language! I guess British think that American English is just English with mistakes... > > What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for > the "American" language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. > English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. For LaTeX, Austrian is also a dialect of German and Flemish a dialect of Dutch. Time to start a revolution ;-) Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Languages British vs English
On 10.03.08, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is there an English language option and British language option? > > What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? > > > > Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, > > as far as I know there is no British language! > What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for > the "American" language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. > English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. Well, for me the names of the English variants were always "British English" and "American English". My suggestion for the Document>Settings>Languaes list would be English (American) # or English (US) English (British) in a similar way to e.g. Chinese (new spelling) Chinese (traditional) This way, the English variants are close to another in the alphabetical listing which facilitates the choice by offering alternatives in one place. It would also make sufficiently clear that American English is - not *the* English dialect - not *the* language of the american continent Günter
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Monday 10 March 2008 12:30, G. Milde wrote: > On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > A simple solution might be for LyX to automatically treat the document > > as if it were a template it decides the layout is broken -- change to > > article or whatever, but in read-only mode, so that you can only save > > the modified document under a new name. That would leave the original > > (now presumably broken) version intact. > > This is a nice idea, I hope it is easy to implement and look forward to > see it in the next version. Doesn't version control already let you revert to an earlier version? (If it's turned on.) -Mel
Re: Export to plain text garbled
On Monday 10 March 2008 12:24, Charles de Miramon wrote: > The plain text that LyX exports is UTF-8 encoded. You have to change in your > editor the encoding to ungarble it. Thanks, that was what I needed. Mel
short title
Hello, Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? When I am on the book title, the "short title" button is disabled. The class I work with has been built from book and it puts the book title in the top margin of even pages instead of the chapter name. Jean
Re: Languages British vs English
I would concur and weigh in in favor "English (US)" since British English is more likely the official language of the English-speaking Caribbean. David Romano On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote: On 10.03.08, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why is there an English language option and British language option? What is the difference? Is this an American vs English English? Could shouldn't these be label correctly as this is very confusing, as far as I know there is no British language! What always perturbed me is that LyX actually contains an entry for the "American" language. Politically correct formulations (e.g. English (the US); English (the UK)) would look much nicer. Well, for me the names of the English variants were always "British English" and "American English". My suggestion for the Document>Settings>Languaes list would be English (American) # or English (US) English (British) in a similar way to e.g. Chinese (new spelling) Chinese (traditional) This way, the English variants are close to another in the alphabetical listing which facilitates the choice by offering alternatives in one place. It would also make sufficiently clear that American English is - not *the* English dialect - not *the* language of the american continent Günter
Re: Lyx keyboard shortcuts on mac
On Mar 10, 2008, at 7:20 AM, G. Milde wrote: On 8.03.08, Darren Hardy wrote: Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I would very much like Mac standard shortcuts, especially for editing text. I would like LyX for Mac to follow the design guidelines for Aqua as far as keyboard shortcuts go I'm afraid there is no pre-defined Mac bindings file yet. Yes there is -- mac.bind. Bennett
Re: short title
jean beney wrote: Hello, Is it possible in LyX to define a short book title? When I am on the book title, the "short title" button is disabled. The class I work with has been built from book and it puts the book title in the top margin of even pages instead of the chapter name. Another option would be to make your title shorter and make use of subtitle. Abdel.
Re: Languages British vs English
I'd agree with English (US) since it is not the normal spelling that is used in Canada. Of course we don't use the UK spelling either. :) --- David Romano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would concur and weigh in in favor "English (US)" > since British English > is more likely the official language of the > English-speaking Caribbean. > > David Romano > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, G. Milde wrote: > > > On 10.03.08, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> On 3/10/08, Phillip Ferguson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Why is there an English language option and > British language option? > >>> What is the difference? Is this an American vs > English English? > >>> > >>> Could shouldn't these be label correctly as > this is very confusing, > >>> as far as I know there is no British language! > > > >> What always perturbed me is that LyX actually > contains an entry for > >> the "American" language. Politically correct > formulations (e.g. > >> English (the US); English (the UK)) would look > much nicer. > > > > Well, for me the names of the English variants > were always > > "British English" and "American English". > > > > My suggestion for the Document>Settings>Languaes > list would be > > > > English (American) # or English (US) > > English (British) > > > > in a similar way to e.g. > > > > Chinese (new spelling) > > Chinese (traditional) > > > > This way, the English variants are close to > another in the > > alphabetical listing which facilitates the choice > by offering > > alternatives in one place. > > > > It would also make sufficiently clear that > American English is > > > > - not *the* English dialect > > - not *the* language of the american continent > > > > > > Günter > > > > > > Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/
Box around program listings?
Does anyone know a way to get a box around a program listing? Putting it inside a box (minipage) environment doesn¹t seem to work... James
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Monday 10 March 2008 07:30, G. Milde wrote: > On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > Steve Litt wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my > >> layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the > >> book's document class from my custom "rjustbook" to "article", removing > >> all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. > > I always close a document without saving if I come across such warnings. > > With just one saving, the backup copy (mybook.lyx~) will still contain the > custom environments. So a `cp mybook.lyx~ mybook.lyx` saves you the tedious > hand-reverting. By the time I knew of the problem, I'd made and saved several changes. If I'm already given warning messages, perhaps they could be made much more forceful, like this. DANGER ACHTUNG PELEGRO!!! Your document class has changed, and environments not supported by the new document class will revert to body text. Save this version UNDER A NEW FILENAME, and then resolve the problems. > > >> Shame on me, my last backup was 5 days old. But still, it would have > >> been nice for LyX to say "hey, your layout file just became bad. Do you > >> REALLY want me to revert your document class to "article", or would you > >> like to save as (the broken) "whatever" document class so you can fix > >> the problem without losing content?" > > I also vote for a more save handling of such automatic conversions > that can indeed delete lots of information from the document. Yeah, I got lucky this time, next time (if I'm silly enough to wait 5 days to back up) could be much worse. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Monday 10 March 2008 15:23, you wrote: > On Monday 10 March 2008 08:25, All is discovered--flee at once! wrote: > > On Monday 10 March 2008 12:30, G. Milde wrote: > > > On 9.03.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > > > A simple solution might be for LyX to automatically treat the document > > > > as if it were a template it decides the layout is broken -- change to > > > > article or whatever, but in read-only mode, so that you can only save > > > > the modified document under a new name. That would leave the original > > > > (now presumably broken) version intact. > > > > > > This is a nice idea, I hope it is easy to implement and look forward to > > > see it in the next version. > > > > Doesn't version control already let you revert to an earlier version? (If > > it's turned on.) > > > > -Mel > > I never knew LyX had version control. How do I turn it on? > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Books written in LyX: > Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist > Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting > Troubleshooting: Just the Facts > Hey Steve. I was at your website this morning! I think it was when I was reading about classes. (Didn't find what I was looking for, but I bookmarked it anyway. Lots of stuff there.) I just had to install GNU RCS to make version control work. It's accessible from my File menu. I made an RCS folder and symlinked it from my assorted working directories (Articles, Reviews, etc.) to keep all the version control information in one place. (I'm using LyX 1.5.3 (with the default.ui) on Ubuntu 6.06.) There's a section on version control in the Extended Features manual. Basically I did: ~$sudo apt-get install rcs ~$mkdir writing/RCS and then some symlinks like: ~$ ln -s /home/fs/writing/RCS /home/fs/RCS ~$ ln -s /home/fs/writing/RCS /home/fs/writing/articles/RCS Without the symlink to your designated RCS directory, the version control information file will be placed in the same working directory as the .lyx file you have entered in version control. It works without the symlinks, but I'm one of those people that gets compulsive about organization and backups. I haven't found a way to specify a default path for RCS. I read some assorted documents on setting it up and they all seem to do the symlink thing. Hope that helps. -Mel
Re: Box around program listings?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM, James Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know a way to get a box around a program listing? Putting it > inside a box (minipage) environment doesn¹t seem to work... You want a frame, right? Use the frame option of the listings package should work. Bo
Re: Latex template on 1.5.4
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:52 AM, Phillip Ferguson <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What I was trying to do previously was modify the article.layout file to
> use
> the spconf.sty and so creating a spconf.layout that is selectable in the
> document classes of lyx.
>
Ok, why didn't you say so? :-}
Copy the article.layout from:
C:\Program Files\LyX15\Resources\layouts
to:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\lyx15\layouts
then you can rename the file to spconf.layout and then open it in a text
editor and edit the declare latex line to:
\DeclareLaTeXClass[article,spconf.sty]{article (spconf)}
You can change article (spconf) to any name you like. Then reconfigure LyX
and in the document settings 'article (spconf)' should show up.
Even though you prefer Paul's approach to placing your spconf.sty file
within the MiKTeX default locations, I still recommend setting up your own
personal latex hierarchy to store these custom .sty or .bst files. So that,
in the future if you had to reinstall Windoze (for some strange reason, God
forbid :-}). You know exactly where your custom files are and you don't have
to go searching through the bowels of MiKTeX to find them.
Just my 0.02.
Cheers,
/Bob
Re: Box around program listings?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:41 AM, James Sutherland > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone know a way to get a box around a program listing? Putting > it > > inside a box (minipage) environment doesn¹t seem to work... > > You want a frame, right? Use the frame option of the listings package > should work. > > Bo > If you 'right-click' on the 'Box (Minipage)' icon you get a 'LyX:Box Settings' dialog box. Under 'Decoration' you can change it to: Rectangular box Oval box, thin Oval box, thick Shadow box Double box Is this not what your looking for? Cheers, /Bob
How do you do an appendix the right way?
Hi all, How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say "Appendix A: SSH Example" rather than "Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example". What environment to I use for the Appendix title? Do I need to use some ERT commands? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: How do you do an appendix the right way?
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > How does one do an appendix the right way. I want it to show up, at the same > level as chapters, in the table of contents. But I want it to say "Appendix > A: SSH Example" rather than "Chapter 13: Appendix A: SSH Example". > > What environment to I use for the Appendix title? Do I need to use some ERT > commands? > > Thanks > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Books written in LyX: >Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist >Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting >Troubleshooting: Just the Facts It took me quite a while to figure out this package when I was writing my thesis. I used the 'appendix' package and I've attached a simple example, but you can refer to the documentation for further instructions (as I don't have a copy of my thesis at present to refer to). Cheers, /Bob appendix.lyx Description: application/lyx
