Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

 We need more female users, ...

   So, having a platypus with a female name is going to attract more female
 users? Interesting thesis. :-)

Do you know of more reliable ways to attract females?

Andre'

Re: BibLaTeX blues

[Maksi]

On 2008-03-26 20:20:54 +0100, Julio Rojas 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:



Don't worry Max. I solved the problems and BibLaTeX is running. The
last problem is the original one that got me looking into BibLaTeX. I
need a citation style that fully suits BibLaTeX (ibid., ibidem,
op.cit) but I need a bibliography style that looks like the APA style
used in apalike. The problem is I don't have any clue on how to
create bibliographic styles using BibLaTeX.


Sorry, nor do I. On CTAN there already is a location for biblatex 
contributions 
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/), 
but no APA style has been contributed yet.
So far, I never had to come up with my own style, but probably using 
author-year in biblatex (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex#toc6) is 
already enough for you. If not, you can surely play around with it 
after reading the author guide of the biblatex manual :)




Also, is there any possibility to change the default cite command
into footcite? I tried with \def\cite{\footcite} and LyX gets
hung.


That is a LyX issue (as far as I can see). Simply put all citations 
into footnotes first and you should not have any problems.




Thx for all the help guys!!!


You're welcome.

Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


  We should call our mascot Lydia.

 I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning.


We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should at 
least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was first 
proposed in bug 135.


Sounds slightly sexist, we should hope for more female users and 
developers instead :-) Anyway, Lydia isn't bad, but inspires me to suggest 
Lyxia ... However, that bug seems resolved to 'The LyX' ?


http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135

I put together some notes (and a photo of a real platypus!) here

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Mascot

The page could useful if we start a discussion/vote on a new name.

/C

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

Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[Geevarghese Philip]

Hi,

  I am trying to use the following layout file, which rgheck kindly 
provided me,  to typeset my document.




#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport}

Format 4

Input stdclass.inc
Input amsdefs.inc
Input numreport.inc

Style Bibliography
TopSep4
LabelString   Bibliography
LabelFont
  Series  Bold
  SizeHuge
EndFont
End



The problem with this layout is that it prepends the number of the 
relevant subsection to the number of each theorem, definition, etc. I 
want to get sequential numbering for theorem etc., without the 
subsection numbers.


For this I changed Input amsdefs.inc to Input amsmaths-seq.inc (as 
suggested by rgheck), after which I got an error saying \theoremstyle is 
not defined. When I checked the tex file exported by LyX, I saw that 
indeed \theoremstyle is being used without any package that defines it 
being imported.


So I added the following lines after the Format line and before the 
Input lines:


---

Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem{buha}{Buha}
EndPreamble

---

(I added the invocations to \theoremstyle and \newtheorem just for 
testing).


When I reconfigure, restart LyX and generate a tex file from my 
document, the tex file does not contain the contents of this preamble 
anywhere -- the Preamble...EndPreamble block is completely being ignored 
by LyX.


Please help me fix this : I want to have \usepackage{amsthm} included 
somewhere near the very beginning of the output tex file, so that it is 
present before the first invocation of \theoremstyle --- puting 
\usepackage{amsthm} in the document preamble doesn't help, so I guess 
it must be somewhere withing the layout file.


Thanks,
Philip

Spacing after definition/theorem/remark-environments

[Dominik Böhm]

Hello,

I am writing my thesis with a line spread of 1.3. After the
mathematical environments, LaTeX usually puts some spacing. When I
change the general line spread from 1 to 1.3, the spacing after the
mathemaical environments like definition/theorem/etc. doesn't get
adjusted. How can I do this manually? My problem is, that it's not
possible to see where a definition ends and where the
standard-environment starts as the line spacing is nearly everywhere
the same.

Dominik

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[rgheck]

Geevarghese Philip wrote:

Hi,

  I am trying to use the following layout file, which rgheck kindly 
provided me,  to typeset my document.




#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport}

Format 4

Input stdclass.inc
Input amsdefs.inc
Input numreport.inc

Style Bibliography
TopSep4
LabelString   Bibliography
LabelFont
  Series  Bold
  SizeHuge
EndFont
End



The problem with this layout is that it prepends the number of the 
relevant subsection to the number of each theorem, definition, etc. I 
want to get sequential numbering for theorem etc., without the 
subsection numbers.


For this I changed Input amsdefs.inc to Input amsmaths-seq.inc (as 
suggested by rgheck), after which I got an error saying \theoremstyle 
is not defined. When I checked the tex file exported by LyX, I saw 
that indeed \theoremstyle is being used without any package that 
defines it being imported.


So I added the following lines after the Format line and before the 
Input lines:


---

Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem{buha}{Buha}
EndPreamble

---

(I added the invocations to \theoremstyle and \newtheorem just for 
testing).


When I reconfigure, restart LyX and generate a tex file from my 
document, the tex file does not contain the contents of this preamble 
anywhere -- the Preamble...EndPreamble block is completely being 
ignored by LyX.


Please help me fix this : I want to have \usepackage{amsthm} 
included somewhere near the very beginning of the output tex file, so 
that it is present before the first invocation of \theoremstyle --- 
puting \usepackage{amsthm} in the document preamble doesn't help, so 
I guess it must be somewhere withing the layout file.


This is a bug of sorts in the 1.5 layout system, I expect. The problem 
is that the preamble later gets redefined and your bit gets 
over-written. Try adding this at the end:

Style Theorem
   Preamble
 \usepackage{amsthm}
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
   EndPreamble
End
I think that'll work.

rh

RE: WRB - More Observations

[William R. Buckley]

 -Original Message-
 From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:35 PM
 To: LyX User
 Subject: Re: WRB - More Observations
 
  I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single 
 overscore bar 
  to span more than one character.  For instance, I would like to 
  represent the regular expression
  1(01)*  in the form reminiscent of the mathematical mark of 
  repetition.  When I use 1\bar{01} the mark has width of one 
 character, 
  and spans the space between zero and one, not the space from outer 
  edges of both characters.
 
 A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user.  For 
 an under-bar, use \underline in math mode.  \overline gives 
 an over-bar.

Looking for all such information.  Can't really afford to buy the book by
Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I
guess I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of
minutia* that seems concomitant with TeXspeak and TeXpublishing.

I appreciate receiving these gems.

  It is possible for me to select a stretch of text, and to 
 assign some 
  kind of special character, such as italic, bold, etc.  Why 
 can I not 
  also add the character of underline, overscore, strike-through?
  
 See the ab button or Edit-Text Style

Thanks but, no cigar.  No overscore or strike-through by this method.
At least, not on the Windows version of LyX.

  It is not always clear from the user interface when I 
 should use ERT, 
  insert math directly, use TeX commands, and the like.  
 Experience will 
  likely ease this uncertainty but, I wonder about finding 
 means to ease 
  the utility of TeX and LaTeX knowledge, such as to zero.  
 Some things 
  are already handled in this fashion, like emboldening text, or 
  centering it.  My suspicion is that many more such knobs 
 can be added.  
  The one knob of ERT, as desirable as it may be to forever 
 retain it, 
  should be a mechanism of last resort; is this not a goal of 
 the team, 
  that ERT be a last resort?
 
 ERT is the nuclear option.  Use LyX constructs where possible 
 for more readable documents.  LyX's math mode is particularly 
 nice, and supports most any LaTeX math construct.
 
 Also, see Document-Settings Latex Preamble for a spot 
 where you can include more LaTeX packages...
 
 James
 
 

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[Marc J. Driftmeyer]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


  We should call our mascot Lydia.

 I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning.


We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should 
at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was 
first proposed in bug 135.


Sounds slightly sexist, we should hope for more female users and 
developers instead :-) Anyway, Lydia isn't bad, but inspires me to 
suggest Lyxia ... However, that bug seems resolved to 'The LyX' ?


http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135

I put together some notes (and a photo of a real platypus!) here

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Mascot

The page could useful if we start a discussion/vote on a new name.

/C

Lyxia sounds oddly oral as in cunnilingus. Lydia sounds like a cross 
between LyX and Apple Lisa.


``The LyX'' sounds like one is entering a Rave or a Comedy Club.

Lydia would work if it's actually an Acronym for this LaTeX WYSIWYM 
Environment.


LyM - LaTeX You Mean vs. LaTeX You eXecute?

- Marc

--
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Email :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web :: http://www.reanimality.com
Cell :: (509) 435-5212

Re: Need help re '(.sty' file problem

[Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL]

You don't have to alter the preamble of this document. If you can't 
visualize a PDF output of this manual, it's because you don't have the 
LaTeX hyperref package in your LaTeX installation. I don't know what's 
your configuration, but you must have a way to add a package.

If you use windows and Miktex, you can use the package manager to do this.

Hope it helps,
Siegfried.

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[Geevarghese Philip]

rgheck wrote:

This is a bug of sorts in the 1.5 layout system, I expect. The problem 
is that the preamble later gets redefined and your bit gets 
over-written. Try adding this at the end:

Style Theorem
   Preamble
 \usepackage{amsthm}
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
   EndPreamble
End
I think that'll work.



Thanks, but unfortunately it doesn't work. I added this snippet to the 
end of the amsreport layout file, but the error persists.


One thing I noticed in the output tex file was that the very first lines 
are like the following:


\documentclass[english]{report}
...
...
...
\usepackage{amssymb}

The corresponding lines in the .lyx file are:

\lyxformat 276
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass amsreport


How does this \usepackage{amssymb} invocation get included in the tex 
preamble right at the top? I didn't include this in the preamble of the 
document. It is not mentioned in the amsreport.layout file, nor in the 
three files that this file Inputs : stdclass.inc, amsmaths-seq.inc, 
and numreport.inc. How does LyX know to include this invocation then? 
Perhaps I can modify the file which causes this line to be included to 
serve my purpose?


Thanks,
Philip

Re: WRB - More Observations

[James Sutherland]

 A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user.  For
 an under-bar, use \underline in math mode.  \overline gives
 an over-bar.
 
 Looking for all such information.  Can't really afford to buy the book by
 Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I
 guess I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of
 minutia* that seems concomitant with TeXspeak and TeXpublishing.
 
 I appreciate receiving these gems.
 

There are many web resources as well.  For example, if you type latex math
tips into google, you will get many resources that may be helpful.

 It is possible for me to select a stretch of text, and to
 assign some 
 kind of special character, such as italic, bold, etc.  Why
 can I not 
 also add the character of underline, overscore, strike-through?
  
 See the ab button or Edit-Text Style
 
 Thanks but, no cigar.  No overscore or strike-through by this method.
 At least, not on the Windows version of LyX.
 

You can get underline from this method.  If you want underscore, try math
mode.  Within math mode you can insert plain text via \textrm or \mathrm
(which will automatically escape when you insert a space).  You can get
superscript/subscript easily this way.  I am not sure if this is what you
are looking for or not...

James

RE: WRB - More Observations

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote:


Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by
Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I guess
I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of minutia*
that seems concomitant with TeXspeak and TeXpublishing.


  I just bought a copy of the TeXbook via amazon. Very low price.

  Regardless, a functional desk holds: Guide to LaTeX, 4th Ed. by Kopka
and Daly, The LaTeX Companion, 2nd Ed. by Mittlebach and Goosens, and The
LaTeX Grahics Companion, 2nd Ed. by Goosens, Mittlebach, Rahtz, Rogel, and
Voss.

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: Spacing after definition/theorem/remark-environments

[Alan G Isaac]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm apparently wrote:
 I am writing my thesis with a line spread of 1.3. After the 
 mathematical environments, LaTeX usually puts some spacing. When I 
 change the general line spread from 1 to 1.3, the spacing after the 
 mathemaical environments like definition/theorem/etc. doesn't get 
 adjusted. How can I do this manually? My problem is, that it's not 
 possible to see where a definition ends and where the 
 standard-environment starts as the line spacing is nearly everywhere 
 the same. 

Not sure, but may want to try the hooks provided by thmtools 
package.  Surely you should NOT adjust this manually each 
time.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac

Fwd: character encoding issue with pdf production..

[Eitan Suez]

oops.  didn't realize reply didn't default to reply to list.
see my reply below..

-- Forwarded message --
From: Eitan Suez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: character encoding issue with pdf production..
To: rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED]


 Please post a minimal example file.

so i started writing a minimal lyx file to show the issue
and noticed that the problem went away.
i tracked it down to this preamble directive:

\usepackage[scaled=0.75]{beramono}

which points then to a font issue.

now on another machine i don't have this problem.
i'm guessing the difference is the specific package that supplies
this font.

i'll be looking for the right package..

/ eitan



On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:53 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Eitan Suez wrote:
  hello,
 
in lyx-code sections that contain angle brackets () ,
when i generate the pdf using pdflatex (or a .dvi file
for that matter), i am noticing
that the angle brackets get mangled, and end up
displaying as upside down question marks and
exclamation points.
 
i have no clue how to fix this.  i want the characters
to render as i've typed them.  i'm using the default
language (english).  in the lyx word processor, the characters
appear correctly.  in the .lyx file, they do as well.
 
i have no idea how to resolve this issue.  i've gone through
the document settings several times already and nothing
jumps at me.
 
 
 Please post a minimal example file.

 rh

Fwd: character encoding issue with pdf production..

[Eitan Suez]

and another..

-- Forwarded message --
From: Eitan Suez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: character encoding issue with pdf production..
To: rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED]


so the package i have installed which supplies the beramono font
is texlive-fonts-extra
i don't see an alternative package in the ubuntu repositories.
any idea why this font is not properly rendering inequality characters?
   ?

i've attached screenshots of the text i entered in a lyx editor
and of the resulting dvi file.

any idea how to fix this?

thanks,
/ eitan



On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Eitan Suez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Please post a minimal example file.

 so i started writing a minimal lyx file to show the issue
 and noticed that the problem went away.
 i tracked it down to this preamble directive:

 \usepackage[scaled=0.75]{beramono}

 which points then to a font issue.

 now on another machine i don't have this problem.
 i'm guessing the difference is the specific package that supplies
 this font.

 i'll be looking for the right package..

 / eitan



 On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:53 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Eitan Suez wrote:
   hello,
  
 in lyx-code sections that contain angle brackets () ,
 when i generate the pdf using pdflatex (or a .dvi file
 for that matter), i am noticing
 that the angle brackets get mangled, and end up
 displaying as upside down question marks and
 exclamation points.
  
 i have no clue how to fix this.  i want the characters
 to render as i've typed them.  i'm using the default
 language (english).  in the lyx word processor, the characters
 appear correctly.  in the .lyx file, they do as well.
  
 i have no idea how to resolve this issue.  i've gone through
 the document settings several times already and nothing
 jumps at me.
  
  
  Please post a minimal example file.
 
  rh
 
 

attachment: inlyx.pngattachment: output_dvi.png

Re: WRB - More Observations

[rgheck]

William R. Buckley wrote:
A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user.  For 
an under-bar, use \underline in math mode.  \overline gives 
an over-bar.



Looking for all such information.  Can't really afford to buy the book by
Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I
guess I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of
minutia* that seems concomitant with TeXspeak and TeXpublishing.

  

You don't really need to read the TeX book, though there is this:
ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf
and
http://www.eijkhout.net/tbt/
and
http://www.ctan.org/get/info/gentle/gentle.pdf
and
http://makingtexwork.sourceforge.net/mtw/
LaTeX is really what you want, and there you have:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/ltx-tar.html
and all of this:
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/
including:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
and maybe especially this:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/latex4wp/latex4wp.pdf
and, if you do what I do,
http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/Smith/LaTeX/
And at least on my system, /usr/share/texmf/doc/ is just FILLED with 
information, all of it indexed at

/usr/share/texmf/doc/helpindex.html
on my system, again. You probably have something similar. But if you get 
serious about LaTeX, then you really will want to find a way to get 
ahold of the /Guide to LaTeX/ and /The LaTeX Companion/.


rh

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[rgheck]

Geevarghese Philip wrote:

rgheck wrote:

This is a bug of sorts in the 1.5 layout system, I expect. The 
problem is that the preamble later gets redefined and your bit gets 
over-written. Try adding this at the end:

Style Theorem
   Preamble
 \usepackage{amsthm}
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
   EndPreamble
End
I think that'll work.



Thanks, but unfortunately it doesn't work. [snip]


Well, I'm not sure what the problem is. The attached files work for me.

rh

#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport}

Format 4

Input stdclass.inc
Input amsdefs.inc
Input numreport.inc

Style Bibliography
TopSep4
LabelString   Bibliography
LabelFont
  Series  Bold
  SizeHuge
EndFont
End

Style Theorem
   Preamble
 \usepackage{amsthm}
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
   EndPreamble
End



amsreport.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

[Uwe Stöhr]

Andre Poenitz schrieb:


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


We need more female users, ...

  So, having a platypus with a female name is going to attract more female
users? Interesting thesis. :-)


Do you know of more reliable ways to attract females?


No, because I'm a nerd having pimpled skin, never seeing the sunrise and love to work in neon light 
having the jalousies closed. Computing is for me what are parties for others - so what could I do 
better ;-)


regards Uwe

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

[Uwe Stöhr]

Joost Verburg schrieb:


The version string can of course also be prefixed with the word version.


Would be nice to have.

regards Uwe

Re: WRB - More Observations

[Uwe Stöhr]

I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single
overscore bar to span more than one character.  For
instance, I would like to represent the regular expression
1(01)*  in the form reminiscent of the mathematical mark
of repetition.


How this can be done is explained in the math manual that comes with LyX 1.5.4.


It is possible for me to select a stretch of text, and to
assign some kind of special character, such as italic,
bold, etc.  Why can I not also add the character of
underline, overscore, strike-through?


I don't want to be impolits, but William, please read the Tutorial and have a look at the User's 
Guide before proceeding. Most of your qestions are answered there.


regards Uwe

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

[José Matos]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 01:49:50 Rich Shepard wrote:
    Regardless, naming the mascot Lydia is a great idea: no other FOSS
 application has such a name. Perhaps we could mate Lydia and Tux, sell the
 off-spring to zoos (once they hatch, of course) and fund development that
 way.

Oh, it would be a joy it were that simple that the pandas as an example:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/03/sex_workout_for_pandas.html

 Rich

-- 
José Abílio

disable tilde backup-on-save files

[Dennis Nezic]

Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a
filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to
disable this?

Re: WRB - More Observations

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 05:00, William R. Buckley wrote:
  -Original Message-
  From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

  A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user.  For
  an under-bar, use \underline in math mode.  \overline gives
  an over-bar.

 Looking for all such information.  Can't really afford to buy the book by
 Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I

Knuth wrote about TeX, not LaTeX. If you want excellent free information on 
TeX, read TeX for the Impatient. It's an excellent free Ebook. It changed 
my life.

To learn the relationships and distinctions between TeX, LaTeX and LyX, go 
here:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm

SteveT
 
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: LyX logo

[José Matos]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:06:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Ah, and I guess it's no coincidence that there's a platypus in the users'
 guide?  Is there a story behind this particular animal, e.g. something
 like that it's a hybrid animal, like LyX?

  I am not sure, the platypus figure made its appearance in the 0.10 code 
base. So other than the usual suspects, Jean-Marc, Lars, Jürgen Vigna, Alan 
Rae or Asger, someone that may know what is the meaning of the platypus is 
David L. Johnson.

If I am allowed to guess I would conjecture that the association of a platypus 
to lyx is related with the C++ roots of LyX.

In objected oriented text/books the platypus is sometimes associated with the 
concept of polymorphism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphism_in_object-oriented_programming

Is enough to search the web for examples of
polymorphism platypus c++ to see the plethora of positive outcomes. Using 
google two top examples are:
http://classes.engr.oregonstate.edu/eecs/winter2004/cs582/slides/chap11/all.htm
http://accu.org/index.php/journals/255

 /Christian

-- 
José Abílio

Re: WRB - More Observations

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 09:26, Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote:
  Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by
  Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I guess
  I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of minutia*
  that seems concomitant with TeXspeak and TeXpublishing.

I just bought a copy of the TeXbook via amazon. Very low price.

Regardless, a functional desk holds: Guide to LaTeX, 4th Ed. by Kopka
 and Daly, The LaTeX Companion, 2nd Ed. by Mittlebach and Goosens, and
 The LaTeX Grahics Companion, 2nd Ed. by Goosens, Mittlebach, Rahtz,
 Rogel, and Voss.

Hi Rich,

I think the above list costs a couple hundred bucks. For someone like you or 
me, whose career depends on LaTeX, that's no big deal, but the person just 
getting his or her feet wet might not want to take such a big plunge.

A few free Ebook classics like LaTeX2E by Lamport, The Not So Short 
Introduction to LaTeX2E by Oetiker, Partl, Hyna and Schlegl (especially 
good), can get one started until the committment to purchase books can be 
raised.

Once again, my experience is that learning TeX before learning LaTeX is a 
*must*. TeX is easy to learn, and once the learner knows TeX, LaTeX will make 
much more sense.

SteveT
 
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Dennis Nezic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a
  filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to
  disable this?

Tools-Preferences-Look and feel-User interface. Uncheck to backup documents.

Alternatively, you could change the backup path so you just don't see
the backup file (this way you still have a backup, just in case :-}),
Tools-Preferences-Paths. Then specify any location you would like to
save the backup to.

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dennis Nezic wrote:
 Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a
 filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to
 disable this?

Try Tools-Preferences-User interface

and uncheck the Backup documents.

-- 
Les

~~
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

Re: WRB - More Observations

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote:


I think the above list costs a couple hundred bucks.


  Used from Amazon: about $125.00 plus shipping/handling.


For someone like you or me, whose career depends on LaTeX, that's no big
deal, but the person just getting his or her feet wet might not want to
take such a big plunge.


  If you're going to be using the software extensively, then it's an
investment, not a cost. In William's case, VP has been dead for about 6
years, so it's time to move on. Besides, the rational thing to do is buy
the books one at a time: GTL4 first, then TCL2, and finally (if at all),
TLGC2. Makes it much more affordable.

  My career doesn't depend on LaTeX; I could get by with AbiWord or OO.o's
Writer.


A few free Ebook classics like LaTeX2E by Lamport, The Not So Short
Introduction to LaTeX2E by Oetiker, Partl, Hyna and Schlegl (especially
good), can get one started until the committment to purchase books can be
raised.


  As Richard pointed out with his extensive Web-based bibliography, there
are abundant resources available for the price of a 'Net connection.


Once again, my experience is that learning TeX before learning LaTeX is a
*must*. TeX is easy to learn, and once the learner knows TeX, LaTeX will
*make much more sense.


  My experience is different. When I get the time I'll read Knuth's The
TeXbook, but I've been learning LaTeX (to supplement what LyX doesn't
automatically include and to produce documents that LyX cannot) for a
half-dozen years or so. Finally getting serious about it.

  And what can't LyX do, but LaTeX does exceptionally well, you ask? One
thing is precision forms. With Herbert's always-patient help, I created an
OMR (Optical Mark Reader) form in LaTeX. The timing marks, data blocks, and
overall placement on the page must be precise to the nearest millimeter in
order to be correctly read by the OMR scanner. Gotta' know LaTeX for this.

Rich

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Beamer and columns problem (bug?)

[Graeme]

I am using LyX1.5.4-1 on WinXP, with the Beamer document class.

When I select the style ColumnsTopAligned within a frame, Lyx inserts

\begin{topcolumns}%{}

\end{topcolumns}%{}

as can easily be checked with the View Source window.

However, it seems impossible to enter any text between these \begin{} 
and \end{} statements.


If I simply hit Return on the line that says Columns (top aligned), then 
try to style the next line with the Column style, Lyx takes me 
completely outside the topcolumns environment, again as can be seen from 
the View Source window.


I get the same problems with the ColumnsCenterAligned and the simple 
Columns styles.


Am I missing something really obvious, or is this a bug with Lyx 1.5.4?

Graeme
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WRB - No More Questions, For Now

[William R. Buckley]

To all of you, I must say that I get lots of good advice,
even from you Uwe.

Two problems I have in the short term.  One is time,
and the other is eyesight problems.  I need the quick
answers now in order to meet the submission deadline.
Turn-around from journal rejection to conference
acceptance is, in this case, exceptionally short.  So,
my time to learn is quite limited.  This is compounded
by a current issue of cataracts, which does somewhat
limit my eyesight.  Hence, my leaning a bit on your
knowledgeable shoulders.  My hope is that in return the
group has gotten a different perspective than the usual
encounter with a LyX/La/TeX newbie.

LyX is a wonderful product.  I now understand how to
properly crop and place figures, how to control the page
of their printing, how they are anchored to text, think
that a visual cropping tool is needed, etc.  Sometimes
the TeXcode works, and sometimes it doesn't.  Don't
really understand the meta relationship between plain
TeX and the TeXmath, and only somewhat get the
hierarchical relationship between TeX and LaTeX, and
by extension, LyX.  However, all that will come, and
I will indeed be more diligent in reading the
documentation, just as soon as the paper is out.

One more week, maybe two.  I think that I can finish
with what I know, and ask the journal editor (he's
running the conference as well) to do any tweaking
when I have problems.

I have learned a lot y'all.  Thanks.

wrb

PS - Though reading is difficult, I am a touch typist.

Need Urgent Help.

[Ankur Verma]

Hello.

I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files.
I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently.

*The problem I am facing is*: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or
Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I delete
some contents of .lyx file, and then click on these (e.g. View pdf), the pdf
document opens up. By this way, I have to delete some content from .lyx file
which I dont want to do!

I would be very glad if somebody could help me out of this problem urgently.

Hoping for a quick reply.

Thanking You,
Ankur Verma

Need Urgent Help

[Ankur Verma]

Hello.

I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files.
I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently.

The problem I am facing is: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or
Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I delete
some contents of .lyx file, and then click on these (e.g. View pdf), the pdf
document opens up. By this way, I have to delete some content from .lyx file
which I dont want to do!

I would be very glad if somebody could help me out of this problem urgently.

Hoping for a quick reply.

Thanking You,
Ankur Verma

Re: Need Urgent Help.

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Ankur Verma wrote:


*The problem I am facing is*: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf
or Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I
delete some contents of .lyx file, and then click on these (e.g. View
pdf), the pdf document opens up. By this way, I have to delete some
content from .lyx file which I dont want to do!


  What does the log file contain? It will be in /tmp/lyx...somethings.

  If deleting text from the file solves your problem then the problem is in
the deleted text.

Rich

--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Need Urgent Help.

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 16:40, Ankur Verma wrote:
 Hello.

 I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex
 files. I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently.

 *The problem I am facing is*: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or
 Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. 

That probably has to do with the converters you have defined. Also, from the 
GUI conversion can be iffy once in a while.

While you're waiting for an authoritative answer to your question, I suggest 
you do this:

lyx --export pdf myfile.lyx
acroread myfile.pdf

HTH

SteveT
 
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[Michael Thompson]

I dont know what the name of the mascot 
critter is, but its species was
identified by Donn Ingle 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/45224/
It is an ERT-eater

best, Michael T, 
ERT- and ERROR-maker

Re: BibLaTeX blues

[Julio Rojas]

Guys, BibLaTeX rules!!! I'm working my way thru the files and up until now,
I have been able to mimic the format APA uses for the article records. It's
hard, but not as hard as BibTeX.

If someone is interested on an APAlike style in BibLaTeX, please, let me
know.

Best regards.

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Maksi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 On 2008-03-26 20:20:54 +0100, Julio Rojas
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

  Don't worry Max. I solved the problems and BibLaTeX is running. The
  last problem is the original one that got me looking into BibLaTeX. I
  need a citation style that fully suits BibLaTeX (ibid., ibidem,
  op.cit) but I need a bibliography style that looks like the APA style
  used in apalike. The problem is I don't have any clue on how to
  create bibliographic styles using BibLaTeX.

 Sorry, nor do I. On CTAN there already is a location for biblatex
 contributions
 (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/),
 but no APA style has been contributed yet.
 So far, I never had to come up with my own style, but probably using
 author-year in biblatex (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex#toc6) is
 already enough for you. If not, you can surely play around with it
 after reading the author guide of the biblatex manual :)

 
  Also, is there any possibility to change the default cite command
  into footcite? I tried with \def\cite{\footcite} and LyX gets
  hung.

 That is a LyX issue (as far as I can see). Simply put all citations
 into footnotes first and you should not have any problems.

 
  Thx for all the help guys!!!

 You're welcome.





-- 
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need Urgent Help

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Ankur Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files.
  I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently.

  The problem I am facing is: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or
  Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I delete
  some contents of .lyx file, and then click on these (e.g. View pdf), the pdf
  document opens up. By this way, I have to delete some content from .lyx file
  which I dont want to do!

  I would be very glad if somebody could help me out of this problem urgently.

Difficult to judge. Let's start with the obvious: what platform, LyX
version, TeX distribution do you use? Can you post somewhere on the
net the problematic file? What document class do you use? Is there
anything specific about the text you delete? Do you have the same
problem when you simply File  Export and then manually open the
resulting, say, .pdf with a PDF viewer?
Liviu

Re: Problem with Lyx User List

[Uwe Stöhr]

Derek Ward schrieb:

I have tried three times without success starting 23rd March to get a 
message onto the Lyx User list.


Have you sent a subscription email according to
http://www.lyx.org/mailing.php
and also replied to the confirmation message yo got per Email?

The standard doc class 'article' provides a text class 'subparagraph' 
that has its left margin indented with respect to the left margin of 
the 'paragraph' text class.

 ...
Changing the LeftMargin parameter produces the expected changes on the 
screen.  When output is viewed 'subparagraph' text is not indented. 
That is so whether the ouput is viewed via DVI, PDF or PS. Is this the 
result of a bug causing a standard feature to fail, or is 
'subparagraph' incorrectly defined?


This is because you only changed the indentation within LyX. The concept of LyX is WYSIWYM, so the 
layout within LyX is not exactly what you get in the output. The existing layout files are designed 
to follow this rule, but to give you the best possible impression of how it would look in the output.

But what do you want? To omit for example the indentation, add this command 
line to your preamble:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
.2ex}{-1em}{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}


to get an insentation, use this command instead:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
.2ex}{-1em}{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}


Attached is an example LyX-file.

regards Uwe


newfile4.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[Maria Gouskova]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Michael Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I dont know what the name of the mascot
  critter is, but its species was
  identified by Donn Ingle
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/45224/
  It is an ERT-eater

  best, Michael T,
  ERT- and ERROR-maker

How about Ertie, then?

Rhymes with birdie (at least in American English)--

Maria

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[curtis osterhoudt]

I don't see that LyXia engenders oral thoughts, though I'd be more strongly 
inclined to give the program a try if it did! Besides, would this mean that 
Word users suffer from dysLyXia?

   C.O.


- Original Message 
From: Marc J. Driftmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:49:22 AM
Subject: Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

   We should call our mascot Lydia.

  I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning.

 We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should 
 at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was 
 first proposed in bug 135.

 Sounds slightly sexist, we should hope for more female users and 
 developers instead :-) Anyway, Lydia isn't bad, but inspires me to 
 suggest Lyxia ... However, that bug seems resolved to 'The LyX' ?

 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135

 I put together some notes (and a photo of a real platypus!) here

 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Mascot

 The page could useful if we start a discussion/vote on a new name.

 /C

Lyxia sounds oddly oral as in cunnilingus. Lydia sounds like a cross 
between LyX and Apple Lisa.

``The LyX'' sounds like one is entering a Rave or a Comedy Club.

Lydia would work if it's actually an Acronym for this LaTeX WYSIWYM 
Environment.

LyM - LaTeX You Mean vs. LaTeX You eXecute?

- Marc

-- 
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Email :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web :: http://www.reanimality.com
Cell :: (509) 435-5212






  

Never miss a thing.  Make Yahoo your home page. 
http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

[Rich Shepard]

  I think this whole thread started with Steve's provocative statement that
LyX isn't WYSIWYG, and he wished that it was. And, WYSIWYM is too obtuse and
confusing. So, I have a suggestion:

  Why not adapt Leslie Lamport's LaTeX description: A Document Preparation
System? That removes all ambiguity and acronyms. We could be even more
specific and write that LyX is a GUI front end to the premier document
preparation system that makes you even more productive.

So there,

Rich (WYSIAYG)1

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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

[1] What You See Is All You Get

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[Paul A. Rubin]

Maria Gouskova wrote:

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Michael Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I dont know what the name of the mascot
 critter is, but its species was
 identified by Donn Ingle
 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/45224/
 It is an ERT-eater

 best, Michael T,
 ERT- and ERROR-maker


How about Ertie, then?

Rhymes with birdie (at least in American English)--

Maria



Given it's prominent front feature, I was thinking Bill, but the 
Microsofties might sue.  I wonder if he has mother issues.  Platypus 
Rex maybe?


/Paul

Re: Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

[Julio Rojas]

Guys, don't you believe your investing way too much time in this line of
problems? :)

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

   I think this whole thread started with Steve's provocative statement
 that
 LyX isn't WYSIWYG, and he wished that it was. And, WYSIWYM is too obtuse
 and
 confusing. So, I have a suggestion:

   Why not adapt Leslie Lamport's LaTeX description: A Document
 Preparation
 System? That removes all ambiguity and acronyms. We could be even more
 specific and write that LyX is a GUI front end to the premier document
 preparation system that makes you even more productive.

 So there,

 Rich (WYSIAYG)1

 --
 Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  Integrity
  Credibility
 Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax:
 503-667-8863

 [1] What You See Is All You Get




-- 
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[Geevarghese Philip]

rgheck wrote:


Well, I'm not sure what the problem is. The attached files work for me.


There is no problem when including amsdefs.inc, as you have done in the 
layout file that you attached. The problem is when I replace this with 
Input amsmaths-seq.inc in the layout file, so that I may get 
sequentially numbered theorems and such.


Could you try replacing Input amsdefs.inc with Input 
amsmaths-seq.inc in the very same layout file that you had attached, 
and see if you get the error saying \theoremstyle is not defined?


Thanks a lot for your patience and help.

-- Philip

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[Geevarghese Philip]

Geevarghese Philip wrote:

rgheck wrote:


Well, I'm not sure what the problem is. The attached files work for me.


There is no problem when including amsdefs.inc, as you have done in the 
layout file that you attached. The problem is when I replace this with 
Input amsmaths-seq.inc in the layout file, so that I may get 
sequentially numbered theorems and such.


Sorry for my hasty mail, I see your point now: the layout file you 
attached solves my problem of getting sequential theorems, without any 
modification. Thanks a /lot/ for your help.


--Philip

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[Geevarghese Philip]

Geevarghese Philip wrote:

Geevarghese Philip wrote:
the layout file you 
attached solves my problem of getting sequential theorems,


This works as intended for the dvi/ps/pdf versions. I guess I am being 
greedy, but if only I could make LyX display the theorems with a 
sequential numbering, instead of prepending the subsection number to the 
theorem


--Philip

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

 We need more female users, ...

   So, having a platypus with a female name is going to attract more female
 users? Interesting thesis. :-)

Do you know of more reliable ways to attract females?

Andre'

Re: BibLaTeX blues

[Maksi]

On 2008-03-26 20:20:54 +0100, Julio Rojas 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:



Don't worry Max. I solved the problems and BibLaTeX is running. The
last problem is the original one that got me looking into BibLaTeX. I
need a citation style that fully suits BibLaTeX (ibid., ibidem,
op.cit) but I need a bibliography style that looks like the APA style
used in apalike. The problem is I don't have any clue on how to
create bibliographic styles using BibLaTeX.


Sorry, nor do I. On CTAN there already is a location for biblatex 
contributions 
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/), 
but no APA style has been contributed yet.
So far, I never had to come up with my own style, but probably using 
author-year in biblatex (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex#toc6) is 
already enough for you. If not, you can surely play around with it 
after reading the author guide of the biblatex manual :)




Also, is there any possibility to change the default cite command
into footcite? I tried with \def\cite{\footcite} and LyX gets
hung.


That is a LyX issue (as far as I can see). Simply put all citations 
into footnotes first and you should not have any problems.




Thx for all the help guys!!!


You're welcome.

Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


  We should call our mascot Lydia.

 I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning.


We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should at 
least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was first 
proposed in bug 135.


Sounds slightly sexist, we should hope for more female users and 
developers instead :-) Anyway, Lydia isn't bad, but inspires me to suggest 
Lyxia ... However, that bug seems resolved to 'The LyX' ?


http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135

I put together some notes (and a photo of a real platypus!) here

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Mascot

The page could useful if we start a discussion/vote on a new name.

/C

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

Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[Geevarghese Philip]

Hi,

  I am trying to use the following layout file, which rgheck kindly 
provided me,  to typeset my document.




#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport}

Format 4

Input stdclass.inc
Input amsdefs.inc
Input numreport.inc

Style Bibliography
TopSep4
LabelString   Bibliography
LabelFont
  Series  Bold
  SizeHuge
EndFont
End



The problem with this layout is that it prepends the number of the 
relevant subsection to the number of each theorem, definition, etc. I 
want to get sequential numbering for theorem etc., without the 
subsection numbers.


For this I changed Input amsdefs.inc to Input amsmaths-seq.inc (as 
suggested by rgheck), after which I got an error saying \theoremstyle is 
not defined. When I checked the tex file exported by LyX, I saw that 
indeed \theoremstyle is being used without any package that defines it 
being imported.


So I added the following lines after the Format line and before the 
Input lines:


---

Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem{buha}{Buha}
EndPreamble

---

(I added the invocations to \theoremstyle and \newtheorem just for 
testing).


When I reconfigure, restart LyX and generate a tex file from my 
document, the tex file does not contain the contents of this preamble 
anywhere -- the Preamble...EndPreamble block is completely being ignored 
by LyX.


Please help me fix this : I want to have \usepackage{amsthm} included 
somewhere near the very beginning of the output tex file, so that it is 
present before the first invocation of \theoremstyle --- puting 
\usepackage{amsthm} in the document preamble doesn't help, so I guess 
it must be somewhere withing the layout file.


Thanks,
Philip

Spacing after definition/theorem/remark-environments

[Dominik Böhm]

Hello,

I am writing my thesis with a line spread of 1.3. After the
mathematical environments, LaTeX usually puts some spacing. When I
change the general line spread from 1 to 1.3, the spacing after the
mathemaical environments like definition/theorem/etc. doesn't get
adjusted. How can I do this manually? My problem is, that it's not
possible to see where a definition ends and where the
standard-environment starts as the line spacing is nearly everywhere
the same.

Dominik

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[rgheck]

Geevarghese Philip wrote:

Hi,

  I am trying to use the following layout file, which rgheck kindly 
provided me,  to typeset my document.




#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport}

Format 4

Input stdclass.inc
Input amsdefs.inc
Input numreport.inc

Style Bibliography
TopSep4
LabelString   Bibliography
LabelFont
  Series  Bold
  SizeHuge
EndFont
End



The problem with this layout is that it prepends the number of the 
relevant subsection to the number of each theorem, definition, etc. I 
want to get sequential numbering for theorem etc., without the 
subsection numbers.


For this I changed Input amsdefs.inc to Input amsmaths-seq.inc (as 
suggested by rgheck), after which I got an error saying \theoremstyle 
is not defined. When I checked the tex file exported by LyX, I saw 
that indeed \theoremstyle is being used without any package that 
defines it being imported.


So I added the following lines after the Format line and before the 
Input lines:


---

Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem{buha}{Buha}
EndPreamble

---

(I added the invocations to \theoremstyle and \newtheorem just for 
testing).


When I reconfigure, restart LyX and generate a tex file from my 
document, the tex file does not contain the contents of this preamble 
anywhere -- the Preamble...EndPreamble block is completely being 
ignored by LyX.


Please help me fix this : I want to have \usepackage{amsthm} 
included somewhere near the very beginning of the output tex file, so 
that it is present before the first invocation of \theoremstyle --- 
puting \usepackage{amsthm} in the document preamble doesn't help, so 
I guess it must be somewhere withing the layout file.


This is a bug of sorts in the 1.5 layout system, I expect. The problem 
is that the preamble later gets redefined and your bit gets 
over-written. Try adding this at the end:

Style Theorem
   Preamble
 \usepackage{amsthm}
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
   EndPreamble
End
I think that'll work.

rh

RE: WRB - More Observations

[William R. Buckley]

 -Original Message-
 From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:35 PM
 To: LyX User
 Subject: Re: WRB - More Observations
 
  I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single 
 overscore bar 
  to span more than one character.  For instance, I would like to 
  represent the regular expression
  1(01)*  in the form reminiscent of the mathematical mark of 
  repetition.  When I use 1\bar{01} the mark has width of one 
 character, 
  and spans the space between zero and one, not the space from outer 
  edges of both characters.
 
 A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user.  For 
 an under-bar, use \underline in math mode.  \overline gives 
 an over-bar.

Looking for all such information.  Can't really afford to buy the book by
Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I
guess I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of
minutia* that seems concomitant with TeXspeak and TeXpublishing.

I appreciate receiving these gems.

  It is possible for me to select a stretch of text, and to 
 assign some 
  kind of special character, such as italic, bold, etc.  Why 
 can I not 
  also add the character of underline, overscore, strike-through?
  
 See the ab button or Edit-Text Style

Thanks but, no cigar.  No overscore or strike-through by this method.
At least, not on the Windows version of LyX.

  It is not always clear from the user interface when I 
 should use ERT, 
  insert math directly, use TeX commands, and the like.  
 Experience will 
  likely ease this uncertainty but, I wonder about finding 
 means to ease 
  the utility of TeX and LaTeX knowledge, such as to zero.  
 Some things 
  are already handled in this fashion, like emboldening text, or 
  centering it.  My suspicion is that many more such knobs 
 can be added.  
  The one knob of ERT, as desirable as it may be to forever 
 retain it, 
  should be a mechanism of last resort; is this not a goal of 
 the team, 
  that ERT be a last resort?
 
 ERT is the nuclear option.  Use LyX constructs where possible 
 for more readable documents.  LyX's math mode is particularly 
 nice, and supports most any LaTeX math construct.
 
 Also, see Document-Settings Latex Preamble for a spot 
 where you can include more LaTeX packages...
 
 James
 
 

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[Marc J. Driftmeyer]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


  We should call our mascot Lydia.

 I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning.


We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should 
at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was 
first proposed in bug 135.


Sounds slightly sexist, we should hope for more female users and 
developers instead :-) Anyway, Lydia isn't bad, but inspires me to 
suggest Lyxia ... However, that bug seems resolved to 'The LyX' ?


http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135

I put together some notes (and a photo of a real platypus!) here

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Mascot

The page could useful if we start a discussion/vote on a new name.

/C

Lyxia sounds oddly oral as in cunnilingus. Lydia sounds like a cross 
between LyX and Apple Lisa.


``The LyX'' sounds like one is entering a Rave or a Comedy Club.

Lydia would work if it's actually an Acronym for this LaTeX WYSIWYM 
Environment.


LyM - LaTeX You Mean vs. LaTeX You eXecute?

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Re: Need help re '(.sty' file problem

[Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL]

You don't have to alter the preamble of this document. If you can't 
visualize a PDF output of this manual, it's because you don't have the 
LaTeX hyperref package in your LaTeX installation. I don't know what's 
your configuration, but you must have a way to add a package.

If you use windows and Miktex, you can use the package manager to do this.

Hope it helps,
Siegfried.

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[Geevarghese Philip]

rgheck wrote:

This is a bug of sorts in the 1.5 layout system, I expect. The problem 
is that the preamble later gets redefined and your bit gets 
over-written. Try adding this at the end:

Style Theorem
   Preamble
 \usepackage{amsthm}
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
   EndPreamble
End
I think that'll work.



Thanks, but unfortunately it doesn't work. I added this snippet to the 
end of the amsreport layout file, but the error persists.


One thing I noticed in the output tex file was that the very first lines 
are like the following:


\documentclass[english]{report}
...
...
...
\usepackage{amssymb}

The corresponding lines in the .lyx file are:

\lyxformat 276
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass amsreport


How does this \usepackage{amssymb} invocation get included in the tex 
preamble right at the top? I didn't include this in the preamble of the 
document. It is not mentioned in the amsreport.layout file, nor in the 
three files that this file Inputs : stdclass.inc, amsmaths-seq.inc, 
and numreport.inc. How does LyX know to include this invocation then? 
Perhaps I can modify the file which causes this line to be included to 
serve my purpose?


Thanks,
Philip

Re: WRB - More Observations

[James Sutherland]

 A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user.  For
 an under-bar, use \underline in math mode.  \overline gives
 an over-bar.
 
 Looking for all such information.  Can't really afford to buy the book by
 Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I
 guess I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of
 minutia* that seems concomitant with TeXspeak and TeXpublishing.
 
 I appreciate receiving these gems.
 

There are many web resources as well.  For example, if you type latex math
tips into google, you will get many resources that may be helpful.

 It is possible for me to select a stretch of text, and to
 assign some 
 kind of special character, such as italic, bold, etc.  Why
 can I not 
 also add the character of underline, overscore, strike-through?
  
 See the ab button or Edit-Text Style
 
 Thanks but, no cigar.  No overscore or strike-through by this method.
 At least, not on the Windows version of LyX.
 

You can get underline from this method.  If you want underscore, try math
mode.  Within math mode you can insert plain text via \textrm or \mathrm
(which will automatically escape when you insert a space).  You can get
superscript/subscript easily this way.  I am not sure if this is what you
are looking for or not...

James

RE: WRB - More Observations

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote:


Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by
Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I guess
I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of minutia*
that seems concomitant with TeXspeak and TeXpublishing.


  I just bought a copy of the TeXbook via amazon. Very low price.

  Regardless, a functional desk holds: Guide to LaTeX, 4th Ed. by Kopka
and Daly, The LaTeX Companion, 2nd Ed. by Mittlebach and Goosens, and The
LaTeX Grahics Companion, 2nd Ed. by Goosens, Mittlebach, Rahtz, Rogel, and
Voss.

Rich

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Re: Spacing after definition/theorem/remark-environments

[Alan G Isaac]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Dominik Böhm apparently wrote:
 I am writing my thesis with a line spread of 1.3. After the 
 mathematical environments, LaTeX usually puts some spacing. When I 
 change the general line spread from 1 to 1.3, the spacing after the 
 mathemaical environments like definition/theorem/etc. doesn't get 
 adjusted. How can I do this manually? My problem is, that it's not 
 possible to see where a definition ends and where the 
 standard-environment starts as the line spacing is nearly everywhere 
 the same. 

Not sure, but may want to try the hooks provided by thmtools 
package.  Surely you should NOT adjust this manually each 
time.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac

Fwd: character encoding issue with pdf production..

[Eitan Suez]

oops.  didn't realize reply didn't default to reply to list.
see my reply below..

-- Forwarded message --
From: Eitan Suez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: character encoding issue with pdf production..
To: rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED]


 Please post a minimal example file.

so i started writing a minimal lyx file to show the issue
and noticed that the problem went away.
i tracked it down to this preamble directive:

\usepackage[scaled=0.75]{beramono}

which points then to a font issue.

now on another machine i don't have this problem.
i'm guessing the difference is the specific package that supplies
this font.

i'll be looking for the right package..

/ eitan



On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:53 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Eitan Suez wrote:
  hello,
 
in lyx-code sections that contain angle brackets () ,
when i generate the pdf using pdflatex (or a .dvi file
for that matter), i am noticing
that the angle brackets get mangled, and end up
displaying as upside down question marks and
exclamation points.
 
i have no clue how to fix this.  i want the characters
to render as i've typed them.  i'm using the default
language (english).  in the lyx word processor, the characters
appear correctly.  in the .lyx file, they do as well.
 
i have no idea how to resolve this issue.  i've gone through
the document settings several times already and nothing
jumps at me.
 
 
 Please post a minimal example file.

 rh

Fwd: character encoding issue with pdf production..

[Eitan Suez]

and another..

-- Forwarded message --
From: Eitan Suez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:31 AM
Subject: Re: character encoding issue with pdf production..
To: rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED]


so the package i have installed which supplies the beramono font
is texlive-fonts-extra
i don't see an alternative package in the ubuntu repositories.
any idea why this font is not properly rendering inequality characters?
   ?

i've attached screenshots of the text i entered in a lyx editor
and of the resulting dvi file.

any idea how to fix this?

thanks,
/ eitan



On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Eitan Suez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Please post a minimal example file.

 so i started writing a minimal lyx file to show the issue
 and noticed that the problem went away.
 i tracked it down to this preamble directive:

 \usepackage[scaled=0.75]{beramono}

 which points then to a font issue.

 now on another machine i don't have this problem.
 i'm guessing the difference is the specific package that supplies
 this font.

 i'll be looking for the right package..

 / eitan



 On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:53 PM, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Eitan Suez wrote:
   hello,
  
 in lyx-code sections that contain angle brackets () ,
 when i generate the pdf using pdflatex (or a .dvi file
 for that matter), i am noticing
 that the angle brackets get mangled, and end up
 displaying as upside down question marks and
 exclamation points.
  
 i have no clue how to fix this.  i want the characters
 to render as i've typed them.  i'm using the default
 language (english).  in the lyx word processor, the characters
 appear correctly.  in the .lyx file, they do as well.
  
 i have no idea how to resolve this issue.  i've gone through
 the document settings several times already and nothing
 jumps at me.
  
  
  Please post a minimal example file.
 
  rh
 
 

attachment: inlyx.pngattachment: output_dvi.png

Re: WRB - More Observations

[rgheck]

William R. Buckley wrote:
A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user.  For 
an under-bar, use \underline in math mode.  \overline gives 
an over-bar.



Looking for all such information.  Can't really afford to buy the book by
Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I
guess I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of
minutia* that seems concomitant with TeXspeak and TeXpublishing.

  

You don't really need to read the TeX book, though there is this:
ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/info/impatient/book.pdf
and
http://www.eijkhout.net/tbt/
and
http://www.ctan.org/get/info/gentle/gentle.pdf
and
http://makingtexwork.sourceforge.net/mtw/
LaTeX is really what you want, and there you have:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/ltx-tar.html
and all of this:
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/
including:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/english/lshort.pdf
and maybe especially this:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/latex4wp/latex4wp.pdf
and, if you do what I do,
http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/Smith/LaTeX/
And at least on my system, /usr/share/texmf/doc/ is just FILLED with 
information, all of it indexed at

/usr/share/texmf/doc/helpindex.html
on my system, again. You probably have something similar. But if you get 
serious about LaTeX, then you really will want to find a way to get 
ahold of the /Guide to LaTeX/ and /The LaTeX Companion/.


rh

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[rgheck]

Geevarghese Philip wrote:

rgheck wrote:

This is a bug of sorts in the 1.5 layout system, I expect. The 
problem is that the preamble later gets redefined and your bit gets 
over-written. Try adding this at the end:

Style Theorem
   Preamble
 \usepackage{amsthm}
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
   EndPreamble
End
I think that'll work.



Thanks, but unfortunately it doesn't work. [snip]


Well, I'm not sure what the problem is. The attached files work for me.

rh

#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport}

Format 4

Input stdclass.inc
Input amsdefs.inc
Input numreport.inc

Style Bibliography
TopSep4
LabelString   Bibliography
LabelFont
  Series  Bold
  SizeHuge
EndFont
End

Style Theorem
   Preamble
 \usepackage{amsthm}
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
   EndPreamble
End



amsreport.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

[Uwe Stöhr]

Andre Poenitz schrieb:


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


We need more female users, ...

  So, having a platypus with a female name is going to attract more female
users? Interesting thesis. :-)


Do you know of more reliable ways to attract females?


No, because I'm a nerd having pimpled skin, never seeing the sunrise and love to work in neon light 
having the jalousies closed. Computing is for me what are parties for others - so what could I do 
better ;-)


regards Uwe

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

[Uwe Stöhr]

Joost Verburg schrieb:


The version string can of course also be prefixed with the word version.


Would be nice to have.

regards Uwe

Re: WRB - More Observations

[Uwe Stöhr]

I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single
overscore bar to span more than one character.  For
instance, I would like to represent the regular expression
1(01)*  in the form reminiscent of the mathematical mark
of repetition.


How this can be done is explained in the math manual that comes with LyX 1.5.4.


It is possible for me to select a stretch of text, and to
assign some kind of special character, such as italic,
bold, etc.  Why can I not also add the character of
underline, overscore, strike-through?


I don't want to be impolits, but William, please read the Tutorial and have a look at the User's 
Guide before proceeding. Most of your qestions are answered there.


regards Uwe

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

[José Matos]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 01:49:50 Rich Shepard wrote:
    Regardless, naming the mascot Lydia is a great idea: no other FOSS
 application has such a name. Perhaps we could mate Lydia and Tux, sell the
 off-spring to zoos (once they hatch, of course) and fund development that
 way.

Oh, it would be a joy it were that simple that the pandas as an example:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2008/03/sex_workout_for_pandas.html

 Rich

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disable tilde backup-on-save files

[Dennis Nezic]

Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a
filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to
disable this?

Re: WRB - More Observations

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 05:00, William R. Buckley wrote:
  -Original Message-
  From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

  A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user.  For
  an under-bar, use \underline in math mode.  \overline gives
  an over-bar.

 Looking for all such information.  Can't really afford to buy the book by
 Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I

Knuth wrote about TeX, not LaTeX. If you want excellent free information on 
TeX, read TeX for the Impatient. It's an excellent free Ebook. It changed 
my life.

To learn the relationships and distinctions between TeX, LaTeX and LyX, go 
here:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm

SteveT
 
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: LyX logo

[José Matos]

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 20:06:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Ah, and I guess it's no coincidence that there's a platypus in the users'
 guide?  Is there a story behind this particular animal, e.g. something
 like that it's a hybrid animal, like LyX?

  I am not sure, the platypus figure made its appearance in the 0.10 code 
base. So other than the usual suspects, Jean-Marc, Lars, Jürgen Vigna, Alan 
Rae or Asger, someone that may know what is the meaning of the platypus is 
David L. Johnson.

If I am allowed to guess I would conjecture that the association of a platypus 
to lyx is related with the C++ roots of LyX.

In objected oriented text/books the platypus is sometimes associated with the 
concept of polymorphism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphism_in_object-oriented_programming

Is enough to search the web for examples of
polymorphism platypus c++ to see the plethora of positive outcomes. Using 
google two top examples are:
http://classes.engr.oregonstate.edu/eecs/winter2004/cs582/slides/chap11/all.htm
http://accu.org/index.php/journals/255

 /Christian

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Re: WRB - More Observations

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 09:26, Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, William R. Buckley wrote:
  Looking for all such information. Can't really afford to buy the book by
  Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I guess
  I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of minutia*
  that seems concomitant with TeXspeak and TeXpublishing.

I just bought a copy of the TeXbook via amazon. Very low price.

Regardless, a functional desk holds: Guide to LaTeX, 4th Ed. by Kopka
 and Daly, The LaTeX Companion, 2nd Ed. by Mittlebach and Goosens, and
 The LaTeX Grahics Companion, 2nd Ed. by Goosens, Mittlebach, Rahtz,
 Rogel, and Voss.

Hi Rich,

I think the above list costs a couple hundred bucks. For someone like you or 
me, whose career depends on LaTeX, that's no big deal, but the person just 
getting his or her feet wet might not want to take such a big plunge.

A few free Ebook classics like LaTeX2E by Lamport, The Not So Short 
Introduction to LaTeX2E by Oetiker, Partl, Hyna and Schlegl (especially 
good), can get one started until the committment to purchase books can be 
raised.

Once again, my experience is that learning TeX before learning LaTeX is a 
*must*. TeX is easy to learn, and once the learner knows TeX, LaTeX will make 
much more sense.

SteveT
 
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Dennis Nezic
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a
  filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to
  disable this?

Tools-Preferences-Look and feel-User interface. Uncheck to backup documents.

Alternatively, you could change the backup path so you just don't see
the backup file (this way you still have a backup, just in case :-}),
Tools-Preferences-Paths. Then specify any location you would like to
save the backup to.

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dennis Nezic wrote:
 Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a
 filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to
 disable this?

Try Tools-Preferences-User interface

and uncheck the Backup documents.

-- 
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Re: WRB - More Observations

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Steve Litt wrote:


I think the above list costs a couple hundred bucks.


  Used from Amazon: about $125.00 plus shipping/handling.


For someone like you or me, whose career depends on LaTeX, that's no big
deal, but the person just getting his or her feet wet might not want to
take such a big plunge.


  If you're going to be using the software extensively, then it's an
investment, not a cost. In William's case, VP has been dead for about 6
years, so it's time to move on. Besides, the rational thing to do is buy
the books one at a time: GTL4 first, then TCL2, and finally (if at all),
TLGC2. Makes it much more affordable.

  My career doesn't depend on LaTeX; I could get by with AbiWord or OO.o's
Writer.


A few free Ebook classics like LaTeX2E by Lamport, The Not So Short
Introduction to LaTeX2E by Oetiker, Partl, Hyna and Schlegl (especially
good), can get one started until the committment to purchase books can be
raised.


  As Richard pointed out with his extensive Web-based bibliography, there
are abundant resources available for the price of a 'Net connection.


Once again, my experience is that learning TeX before learning LaTeX is a
*must*. TeX is easy to learn, and once the learner knows TeX, LaTeX will
*make much more sense.


  My experience is different. When I get the time I'll read Knuth's The
TeXbook, but I've been learning LaTeX (to supplement what LyX doesn't
automatically include and to produce documents that LyX cannot) for a
half-dozen years or so. Finally getting serious about it.

  And what can't LyX do, but LaTeX does exceptionally well, you ask? One
thing is precision forms. With Herbert's always-patient help, I created an
OMR (Optical Mark Reader) form in LaTeX. The timing marks, data blocks, and
overall placement on the page must be precise to the nearest millimeter in
order to be correctly read by the OMR scanner. Gotta' know LaTeX for this.

Rich

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Beamer and columns problem (bug?)

[Graeme]

I am using LyX1.5.4-1 on WinXP, with the Beamer document class.

When I select the style ColumnsTopAligned within a frame, Lyx inserts

\begin{topcolumns}%{}

\end{topcolumns}%{}

as can easily be checked with the View Source window.

However, it seems impossible to enter any text between these \begin{} 
and \end{} statements.


If I simply hit Return on the line that says Columns (top aligned), then 
try to style the next line with the Column style, Lyx takes me 
completely outside the topcolumns environment, again as can be seen from 
the View Source window.


I get the same problems with the ColumnsCenterAligned and the simple 
Columns styles.


Am I missing something really obvious, or is this a bug with Lyx 1.5.4?

Graeme
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WRB - No More Questions, For Now

[William R. Buckley]

To all of you, I must say that I get lots of good advice,
even from you Uwe.

Two problems I have in the short term.  One is time,
and the other is eyesight problems.  I need the quick
answers now in order to meet the submission deadline.
Turn-around from journal rejection to conference
acceptance is, in this case, exceptionally short.  So,
my time to learn is quite limited.  This is compounded
by a current issue of cataracts, which does somewhat
limit my eyesight.  Hence, my leaning a bit on your
knowledgeable shoulders.  My hope is that in return the
group has gotten a different perspective than the usual
encounter with a LyX/La/TeX newbie.

LyX is a wonderful product.  I now understand how to
properly crop and place figures, how to control the page
of their printing, how they are anchored to text, think
that a visual cropping tool is needed, etc.  Sometimes
the TeXcode works, and sometimes it doesn't.  Don't
really understand the meta relationship between plain
TeX and the TeXmath, and only somewhat get the
hierarchical relationship between TeX and LaTeX, and
by extension, LyX.  However, all that will come, and
I will indeed be more diligent in reading the
documentation, just as soon as the paper is out.

One more week, maybe two.  I think that I can finish
with what I know, and ask the journal editor (he's
running the conference as well) to do any tweaking
when I have problems.

I have learned a lot y'all.  Thanks.

wrb

PS - Though reading is difficult, I am a touch typist.

Need Urgent Help.

[Ankur Verma]

Hello.

I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files.
I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently.

*The problem I am facing is*: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or
Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I delete
some contents of .lyx file, and then click on these (e.g. View pdf), the pdf
document opens up. By this way, I have to delete some content from .lyx file
which I dont want to do!

I would be very glad if somebody could help me out of this problem urgently.

Hoping for a quick reply.

Thanking You,
Ankur Verma

Need Urgent Help

[Ankur Verma]

Hello.

I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files.
I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently.

The problem I am facing is: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or
Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I delete
some contents of .lyx file, and then click on these (e.g. View pdf), the pdf
document opens up. By this way, I have to delete some content from .lyx file
which I dont want to do!

I would be very glad if somebody could help me out of this problem urgently.

Hoping for a quick reply.

Thanking You,
Ankur Verma

Re: Need Urgent Help.

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Ankur Verma wrote:


*The problem I am facing is*: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf
or Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I
delete some contents of .lyx file, and then click on these (e.g. View
pdf), the pdf document opens up. By this way, I have to delete some
content from .lyx file which I dont want to do!


  What does the log file contain? It will be in /tmp/lyx...somethings.

  If deleting text from the file solves your problem then the problem is in
the deleted text.

Rich

--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Need Urgent Help.

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 16:40, Ankur Verma wrote:
 Hello.

 I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex
 files. I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently.

 *The problem I am facing is*: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or
 Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. 

That probably has to do with the converters you have defined. Also, from the 
GUI conversion can be iffy once in a while.

While you're waiting for an authoritative answer to your question, I suggest 
you do this:

lyx --export pdf myfile.lyx
acroread myfile.pdf

HTH

SteveT
 
Steve Litt
Books written in LyX:
Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting: Just the Facts

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[Michael Thompson]

I dont know what the name of the mascot 
critter is, but its species was
identified by Donn Ingle 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/45224/
It is an ERT-eater

best, Michael T, 
ERT- and ERROR-maker

Re: BibLaTeX blues

[Julio Rojas]

Guys, BibLaTeX rules!!! I'm working my way thru the files and up until now,
I have been able to mimic the format APA uses for the article records. It's
hard, but not as hard as BibTeX.

If someone is interested on an APAlike style in BibLaTeX, please, let me
know.

Best regards.

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Maksi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 On 2008-03-26 20:20:54 +0100, Julio Rojas
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

  Don't worry Max. I solved the problems and BibLaTeX is running. The
  last problem is the original one that got me looking into BibLaTeX. I
  need a citation style that fully suits BibLaTeX (ibid., ibidem,
  op.cit) but I need a bibliography style that looks like the APA style
  used in apalike. The problem is I don't have any clue on how to
  create bibliographic styles using BibLaTeX.

 Sorry, nor do I. On CTAN there already is a location for biblatex
 contributions
 (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/),
 but no APA style has been contributed yet.
 So far, I never had to come up with my own style, but probably using
 author-year in biblatex (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex#toc6) is
 already enough for you. If not, you can surely play around with it
 after reading the author guide of the biblatex manual :)

 
  Also, is there any possibility to change the default cite command
  into footcite? I tried with \def\cite{\footcite} and LyX gets
  hung.

 That is a LyX issue (as far as I can see). Simply put all citations
 into footnotes first and you should not have any problems.

 
  Thx for all the help guys!!!

 You're welcome.





-- 
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need Urgent Help

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Ankur Verma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I just started working on Lyx and found it very helpful in making tex files.
  I am making a report which I have to submit very urgently.

  The problem I am facing is: There is no effect by clicking on View pdf or
  Update pdf (or either dvi and ps) buttons. Nothing opens up. When I delete
  some contents of .lyx file, and then click on these (e.g. View pdf), the pdf
  document opens up. By this way, I have to delete some content from .lyx file
  which I dont want to do!

  I would be very glad if somebody could help me out of this problem urgently.

Difficult to judge. Let's start with the obvious: what platform, LyX
version, TeX distribution do you use? Can you post somewhere on the
net the problematic file? What document class do you use? Is there
anything specific about the text you delete? Do you have the same
problem when you simply File  Export and then manually open the
resulting, say, .pdf with a PDF viewer?
Liviu

Re: Problem with Lyx User List

[Uwe Stöhr]

Derek Ward schrieb:

I have tried three times without success starting 23rd March to get a 
message onto the Lyx User list.


Have you sent a subscription email according to
http://www.lyx.org/mailing.php
and also replied to the confirmation message yo got per Email?

The standard doc class 'article' provides a text class 'subparagraph' 
that has its left margin indented with respect to the left margin of 
the 'paragraph' text class.

 ...
Changing the LeftMargin parameter produces the expected changes on the 
screen.  When output is viewed 'subparagraph' text is not indented. 
That is so whether the ouput is viewed via DVI, PDF or PS. Is this the 
result of a bug causing a standard feature to fail, or is 
'subparagraph' incorrectly defined?


This is because you only changed the indentation within LyX. The concept of LyX is WYSIWYM, so the 
layout within LyX is not exactly what you get in the output. The existing layout files are designed 
to follow this rule, but to give you the best possible impression of how it would look in the output.

But what do you want? To omit for example the indentation, add this command 
line to your preamble:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
.2ex}{-1em}{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}


to get an insentation, use this command instead:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
.2ex}{-1em}{\normalfont\normalsize\bfseries}}


Attached is an example LyX-file.

regards Uwe


newfile4.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[Maria Gouskova]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Michael Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I dont know what the name of the mascot
  critter is, but its species was
  identified by Donn Ingle
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/45224/
  It is an ERT-eater

  best, Michael T,
  ERT- and ERROR-maker

How about Ertie, then?

Rhymes with birdie (at least in American English)--

Maria

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[curtis osterhoudt]

I don't see that LyXia engenders oral thoughts, though I'd be more strongly 
inclined to give the program a try if it did! Besides, would this mean that 
Word users suffer from dysLyXia?

   C.O.


- Original Message 
From: Marc J. Driftmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:49:22 AM
Subject: Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

   We should call our mascot Lydia.

  I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning.

 We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should 
 at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was 
 first proposed in bug 135.

 Sounds slightly sexist, we should hope for more female users and 
 developers instead :-) Anyway, Lydia isn't bad, but inspires me to 
 suggest Lyxia ... However, that bug seems resolved to 'The LyX' ?

 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135

 I put together some notes (and a photo of a real platypus!) here

 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Mascot

 The page could useful if we start a discussion/vote on a new name.

 /C

Lyxia sounds oddly oral as in cunnilingus. Lydia sounds like a cross 
between LyX and Apple Lisa.

``The LyX'' sounds like one is entering a Rave or a Comedy Club.

Lydia would work if it's actually an Acronym for this LaTeX WYSIWYM 
Environment.

LyM - LaTeX You Mean vs. LaTeX You eXecute?

- Marc

-- 
Marc J. Driftmeyer
Email :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web :: http://www.reanimality.com
Cell :: (509) 435-5212






  

Never miss a thing.  Make Yahoo your home page. 
http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

[Rich Shepard]

  I think this whole thread started with Steve's provocative statement that
LyX isn't WYSIWYG, and he wished that it was. And, WYSIWYM is too obtuse and
confusing. So, I have a suggestion:

  Why not adapt Leslie Lamport's LaTeX description: A Document Preparation
System? That removes all ambiguity and acronyms. We could be even more
specific and write that LyX is a GUI front end to the premier document
preparation system that makes you even more productive.

So there,

Rich (WYSIAYG)1

--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

[1] What You See Is All You Get

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[Paul A. Rubin]

Maria Gouskova wrote:

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Michael Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I dont know what the name of the mascot
 critter is, but its species was
 identified by Donn Ingle
 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/45224/
 It is an ERT-eater

 best, Michael T,
 ERT- and ERROR-maker


How about Ertie, then?

Rhymes with birdie (at least in American English)--

Maria



Given it's prominent front feature, I was thinking Bill, but the 
Microsofties might sue.  I wonder if he has mother issues.  Platypus 
Rex maybe?


/Paul

Re: Banner, Splash Screen, Logo, Mascot, Name, oh my!

[Julio Rojas]

Guys, don't you believe your investing way too much time in this line of
problems? :)

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

   I think this whole thread started with Steve's provocative statement
 that
 LyX isn't WYSIWYG, and he wished that it was. And, WYSIWYM is too obtuse
 and
 confusing. So, I have a suggestion:

   Why not adapt Leslie Lamport's LaTeX description: A Document
 Preparation
 System? That removes all ambiguity and acronyms. We could be even more
 specific and write that LyX is a GUI front end to the premier document
 preparation system that makes you even more productive.

 So there,

 Rich (WYSIAYG)1

 --
 Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  Integrity
  Credibility
 Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax:
 503-667-8863

 [1] What You See Is All You Get




-- 
-
Julio Rojas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[Geevarghese Philip]

rgheck wrote:


Well, I'm not sure what the problem is. The attached files work for me.


There is no problem when including amsdefs.inc, as you have done in the 
layout file that you attached. The problem is when I replace this with 
Input amsmaths-seq.inc in the layout file, so that I may get 
sequentially numbered theorems and such.


Could you try replacing Input amsdefs.inc with Input 
amsmaths-seq.inc in the very same layout file that you had attached, 
and see if you get the error saying \theoremstyle is not defined?


Thanks a lot for your patience and help.

-- Philip

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[Geevarghese Philip]

Geevarghese Philip wrote:

rgheck wrote:


Well, I'm not sure what the problem is. The attached files work for me.


There is no problem when including amsdefs.inc, as you have done in the 
layout file that you attached. The problem is when I replace this with 
Input amsmaths-seq.inc in the layout file, so that I may get 
sequentially numbered theorems and such.


Sorry for my hasty mail, I see your point now: the layout file you 
attached solves my problem of getting sequential theorems, without any 
modification. Thanks a /lot/ for your help.


--Philip

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[Geevarghese Philip]

Geevarghese Philip wrote:

Geevarghese Philip wrote:
the layout file you 
attached solves my problem of getting sequential theorems,


This works as intended for the dvi/ps/pdf versions. I guess I am being 
greedy, but if only I could make LyX display the theorems with a 
sequential numbering, instead of prepending the subsection number to the 
theorem


--Philip

Re: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo)

[Andre Poenitz]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 06:49:50PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
>
>> We need more female users, ...
>
>   So, having a platypus with a female name is going to attract more female
> users? Interesting thesis. :-)

Do you know of more reliable ways to attract females?

Andre'

Re: BibLaTeX blues

[Maksi]

On 2008-03-26 20:20:54 +0100, "Julio Rojas" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:



Don't worry Max. I solved the problems and BibLaTeX is running. The
last problem is the original one that got me looking into BibLaTeX. I
need a citation style that fully suits BibLaTeX (ibid., ibidem,
op.cit) but I need a bibliography style that looks like the APA style
used in "apalike". The problem is I don't have any clue on how to
create bibliographic styles using BibLaTeX.


Sorry, nor do I. On CTAN there already is a location for biblatex 
contributions 
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/), 
but no APA style has been contributed yet.
So far, I never had to come up with my own style, but probably using 
author-year in biblatex (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex#toc6) is 
already enough for you. If not, you can surely play around with it 
after reading the author guide of the biblatex manual :)




Also, is there any possibility to change the default "cite" command
into "footcite"? I tried with "\def\cite{\footcite}" and LyX gets
hung.


That is a LyX issue (as far as I can see). Simply put all citations 
into footnotes first and you should not have any problems.




Thx for all the help guys!!!


You're welcome.

Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


>  We should call our mascot "Lydia".

 I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning.


We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should at 
least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was first 
proposed in bug 135.


Sounds slightly sexist, we should hope for more female users and 
developers instead :-) Anyway, Lydia isn't bad, but inspires me to suggest 
Lyxia ... However, that bug seems "resolved" to 'The LyX' ?


http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135

I put together some notes (and a photo of a real platypus!) here

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Mascot

The page could useful if we start a discussion/vote on a new name.

/C

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

Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[Geevarghese Philip]

Hi,

  I am trying to use the following layout file, which rgheck kindly 
provided me,  to typeset my document.




#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport}

Format 4

Input stdclass.inc
Input amsdefs.inc
Input numreport.inc

Style Bibliography
TopSep4
LabelString   "Bibliography"
LabelFont
  Series  Bold
  SizeHuge
EndFont
End



The problem with this layout is that it prepends the number of the 
relevant subsection to the number of each theorem, definition, etc. I 
want to get sequential numbering for theorem etc., without the 
subsection numbers.


For this I changed "Input amsdefs.inc" to "Input amsmaths-seq.inc" (as 
suggested by rgheck), after which I got an error saying \theoremstyle is 
not defined. When I checked the tex file exported by LyX, I saw that 
indeed \theoremstyle is being used without any package that defines it 
being imported.


So I added the following lines after the Format line and before the 
Input lines:


---

Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem{buha}{Buha}
EndPreamble

---

(I added the invocations to \theoremstyle and \newtheorem just for 
testing).


When I reconfigure, restart LyX and generate a tex file from my 
document, the tex file does not contain the contents of this preamble 
anywhere -- the Preamble...EndPreamble block is completely being ignored 
by LyX.


Please help me fix this : I want to have "\usepackage{amsthm}" included 
somewhere near the very beginning of the output tex file, so that it is 
present before the first invocation of \theoremstyle --- puting 
"\usepackage{amsthm}" in the document preamble doesn't help, so I guess 
it must be somewhere withing the layout file.


Thanks,
Philip

Spacing after definition/theorem/remark-environments

[Dominik Böhm]

Hello,

I am writing my thesis with a line spread of 1.3. After the
mathematical environments, LaTeX usually puts some spacing. When I
change the general line spread from 1 to 1.3, the spacing after the
mathemaical environments like definition/theorem/etc. doesn't get
adjusted. How can I do this manually? My problem is, that it's not
possible to see where a definition ends and where the
"standard"-environment starts as the line spacing is nearly everywhere
the same.

Dominik

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

[rgheck]

Geevarghese Philip wrote:

Hi,

  I am trying to use the following layout file, which rgheck kindly 
provided me,  to typeset my document.




#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport}

Format 4

Input stdclass.inc
Input amsdefs.inc
Input numreport.inc

Style Bibliography
TopSep4
LabelString   "Bibliography"
LabelFont
  Series  Bold
  SizeHuge
EndFont
End



The problem with this layout is that it prepends the number of the 
relevant subsection to the number of each theorem, definition, etc. I 
want to get sequential numbering for theorem etc., without the 
subsection numbers.


For this I changed "Input amsdefs.inc" to "Input amsmaths-seq.inc" (as 
suggested by rgheck), after which I got an error saying \theoremstyle 
is not defined. When I checked the tex file exported by LyX, I saw 
that indeed \theoremstyle is being used without any package that 
defines it being imported.


So I added the following lines after the Format line and before the 
Input lines:


---

Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem{buha}{Buha}
EndPreamble

---

(I added the invocations to \theoremstyle and \newtheorem just for 
testing).


When I reconfigure, restart LyX and generate a tex file from my 
document, the tex file does not contain the contents of this preamble 
anywhere -- the Preamble...EndPreamble block is completely being 
ignored by LyX.


Please help me fix this : I want to have "\usepackage{amsthm}" 
included somewhere near the very beginning of the output tex file, so 
that it is present before the first invocation of \theoremstyle --- 
puting "\usepackage{amsthm}" in the document preamble doesn't help, so 
I guess it must be somewhere withing the layout file.


This is a bug of sorts in the 1.5 layout system, I expect. The problem 
is that the preamble later gets redefined and your bit gets 
over-written. Try adding this at the end:

Style Theorem
   Preamble
 \usepackage{amsthm}
 \theoremstyle{plain}
 \newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}
   EndPreamble
End
I think that'll work.

rh

RE: WRB - More Observations

[William R. Buckley]

> -Original Message-
> From: James Sutherland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 7:35 PM
> To: LyX User
> Subject: Re: WRB - More Observations
> 
> > I do not seem to be able to find means to cause a single 
> overscore bar 
> > to span more than one character.  For instance, I would like to 
> > represent the regular expression
> > 1(01)*  in the form reminiscent of the mathematical mark of 
> > repetition.  When I use 1\bar{01} the mark has width of one 
> character, 
> > and spans the space between zero and one, not the space from outer 
> > edges of both characters.
> 
> A good LaTeX resource is helpful for a serious LyX user.  For 
> an under-bar, use \underline in math mode.  \overline gives 
> an over-bar.

Looking for all such information.  Can't really afford to buy the book by
Knuth, and since he won't allow one to process the public source, I
guess I have to find alternative means to acquire the *knowledge of
minutia* that seems concomitant with TeXspeak and TeXpublishing.

I appreciate receiving these gems.

> > It is possible for me to select a stretch of text, and to 
> assign some 
> > kind of special character, such as italic, bold, etc.  Why 
> can I not 
> > also add the character of underline, overscore, strike-through?
>  
> See the "ab" button or "Edit->Text Style"

Thanks but, no cigar.  No overscore or strike-through by this method.
At least, not on the Windows version of LyX.

> > It is not always clear from the user interface when I 
> should use ERT, 
> > insert math directly, use TeX commands, and the like.  
> Experience will 
> > likely ease this uncertainty but, I wonder about finding 
> means to ease 
> > the utility of TeX and LaTeX knowledge, such as to zero.  
> Some things 
> > are already handled in this fashion, like emboldening text, or 
> > centering it.  My suspicion is that many more such knobs 
> can be added.  
> > The one knob of ERT, as desirable as it may be to forever 
> retain it, 
> > should be a mechanism of last resort; is this not a goal of 
> the team, 
> > that ERT be a last resort?
> 
> ERT is the nuclear option.  Use LyX constructs where possible 
> for more readable documents.  LyX's math mode is particularly 
> nice, and supports most any LaTeX math construct.
> 
> Also, see Document->Settings "Latex Preamble" for a spot 
> where you can include more LaTeX packages...
> 
> James
> 
> 

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

[Marc J. Driftmeyer]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


>  We should call our mascot "Lydia".

 I'm not against it, but I'm curious about the reasoning.


We need more female users, as the developers are only male, we should 
at least have a femal mascot ;-). I simply like the name that was 
first proposed in bug 135.


Sounds slightly sexist, we should hope for more female users and 
developers instead :-) Anyway, Lydia isn't bad, but inspires me to 
suggest Lyxia ... However, that bug seems "resolved" to 'The LyX' ?


http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135

I put together some notes (and a photo of a real platypus!) here

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Mascot

The page could useful if we start a discussion/vote on a new name.

/C

Lyxia sounds oddly oral as in cunnilingus. Lydia sounds like a cross 
between LyX and Apple Lisa.


``The LyX'' sounds like one is entering a Rave or a Comedy Club.

Lydia would work if it's actually an Acronym for this LaTeX WYSIWYM 
Environment.


LyM - LaTeX You Mean vs. LaTeX You eXecute?

- Marc

--
Marc J. Driftmeyer
Email :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Web :: http://www.reanimality.com
Cell :: (509) 435-5212