Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 03:10:14PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Shouldn't FeeLyX be FeLyX? LyXandra sounds a bit stand-off-ish. How about LyXiE/LyXie? Enough! Mate. Ralph. Herman. Occam. Pick one. 'Pick' is nice indeed. SCNR Andre'
Some urgent questions
HI I trouble with lyx (see picture attached) 1) If there's an float image with wrap text around it at the end of the page, the picture is at the bottom of the page but the gap is on the next page 2) Is the way to wrap a minipage across two pages? 3) Sometimes the are pretty large gaps between a float image and the text after Any idea how to solve this? Furthermore I have some other question: 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? thx a lot steff http://www.nabble.com/file/p16771327/prob1.jpg prob1.jpg http://www.nabble.com/file/p16771327/prob2.jpg prob2.jpg http://www.nabble.com/file/p16771327/prob3.jpg prob3.jpg -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Some-urgent-questions-tp16771327p16771327.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Graphics in LyX 1.5.4 on MacOS X cause strange error
Peter Kämpf wrote: I just made the test: Placing the graphic inside the caption makes no difference to the error message. I wonder if I have something strange in my LyX preamble - this document had been started in LyX 1.3 days, and the conversion to 1.5 needed some manual tweaking. The newly created document (which I now use for testing, since it is much shorter) has the same preamble, making me wonder if maybe my defaults are screwed up and I need to wipe the LyX installation and start from scratch ... would that be worth a try? I don't think so. You can send me the document offlist, and I'll have a look. Jürgen
lyx2lyx convert failed
Dear all I wrote my lyx file in 1.4.2 lyx version but when i try to open it in 1.4.3 version i got the following error message lyx2lyx failed to convert. Find attach the file. Thanks Carlos Sosa Paz setofcost.lyx Description: setofcost.lyx
LyX badges?
Hi, Are there any I use LyX or Powered by LyX kind of logos available to put on a website? Thanks, Philip
Re: lyx2lyx convert failed
Carlos Sosa Paz wrote: I wrote my lyx file in 1.4.2 lyx version but when i try to open it in 1.4.3 version i got the following error message lyx2lyx failed to convert. Find attach the file. LyX 1.4.3 is very old. Anyway, the file opens fine in LyX 1.5.4. Jürgen
Re: lyx2lyx convert failed
On Saturday 19 April 2008 11:36:19 Carlos Sosa Paz wrote: Dear all I wrote my lyx file in 1.4.2 lyx version but when i try to open it in 1.4.3 version i got the following error message lyx2lyx failed to convert. Find attach the file. Correction, your lyx files says that you created it with 1.5.2 and not with 1.4.2. :-) The attached file works OK with 1.5.4. The easier solution could be to update the 1.4 to 1.5, but I can understand that it is not always possible. One solution is to save the file in 1.5 as lyx-1.4 (File-Export as lyx 1.4). I send the resulting file attached. Thanks Carlos Sosa Paz -- José Abílio setofcost.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Some urgent questions
PackElend schrieb: 1) If there's an float image with wrap text around it at the end of the page, the picture is at the bottom of the page but the gap is on the next page With LyX 1.5.4 a better LaTeX-package is used for wrap floats, so you coould update your LyX. But in your case you simply should move the wrap float to the section Nicht statische Methoden. 3) Sometimes the are pretty large gaps between a float image and the text after This can only appear when you have used new page commands around the floats or have set the float placement to Here definetively or similar. 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? Yes. regards Uwe
Re: LyX badges?
Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, Are there any I use LyX or Powered by LyX kind of logos available to put on a website? Not as far as I know, but it'd be great to have one. rh
Re: Some urgent questions
PackElend wrote: 2) Is the way to wrap a minipage across two pages? I don't believe so. rh
Re: LyX badges?
On April 19, 2008 07:53:50 Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, Are there any I use LyX or Powered by LyX kind of logos available to put on a website? Well, there are some nice icons here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Icons They would be a good starting point anyway -- William Seager University of Toronto Scarborough www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager
Re: Some urgent questions
Thanks for your quick response :) I do already have Version 1.5.4, it's I gotta play a bit with the images, back word style :(. 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? Yes. HOW thx stefan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Some-urgent-questions-tp16771327p16784909.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Some urgent questions
PackElend wrote: Thanks for your quick response :) I do already have Version 1.5.4, it's I gotta play a bit with the images, back word style :(. 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? Yes. HOW I think maybe Uwe was playing with you. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer myself. rh
Re: Some urgent questions
rgheck schrieb: 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? HOW I think maybe Uwe was playing with you. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer myself. Yes I was ;-). It is not very easy to do. I would insert the nomenclature and tables as usual to the different files. Then create a master file where you ring the three files together, see the section child documents of the UserGuide. This could work, but I expect that there are some LaTeX tricks needed to get this to work. When it doesn't work for you, ask on the comp.text.tex newsgroup, the people there know the LaTeX details that are needed. regards Uwe
Re: Some urgent questions
Uwe Stöhr wrote: rgheck schrieb: 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? HOW I think maybe Uwe was playing with you. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer myself. Yes I was ;-). It is not very easy to do. I would insert the nomenclature and tables as usual to the different files. Then create a master file where you ring the three files together, see the section child documents of the UserGuide. This could work, but I expect that there are some LaTeX tricks needed to get this to work. When it doesn't work for you, ask on the comp.text.tex newsgroup, the people there know the LaTeX details that are needed. Aren't there some toc by section packages available? Or will these not do the trick? rh
Re: Some urgent questions
rgheck schrieb: Aren't there some toc by section packages available? Or will these not do the trick? There is the package minitoc, but for the nomenclature I don't know a similar one. regards Uwe
Re: Missing fonts
Salát Máté wrote: Hi, I've installed some new fonts in Windows XP. As a result of it, some characters in math boxes in LyX disappeared, as you can see here: http://screencast.com/t/S07G2GyCE7r What shell I do to fix it? Cheers, Máté Try reinstalling the Bakoma4LyX fonts. You can download them at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX-1.1.zip. Unzip them somewhere and make note of the names. (IIRC there are eight font files in the archive.) Use the Windows font applet to delete those eight fonts, if they're already installed, then use it to reinstall from the unzipped copies. HTH, Paul
Problems with abstract in IEEETran class
Hello, I am unfortunately converting from Lyx 1.5 (work) to Lyx 1.4 (home) through TeX files. Anyway, I am having a problem now with the abstract repeating twice. I'm attaching a LyX file (1.4.3) and a TeX file. How do I fix that strange behavior? TIA -- myriam test.tex Description: test.tex test.lyx Description: test.lyx
Re: Drawing graphs in lyx
I'm entering this conversation late, but another way to generate graphs is with octave, a numerical package very similar to MATLAB. I've used octave to generate eps files directly, or to generate files in xfig format which can also be translated to fig so that they can be incorporated into LaTeX (i.;e., LyX) with similar fonts. A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar On Apr 13, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Ola Vestad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a simpler way to do this? More specifically; is it possible to draw graphs directly in lyx? Dia [1] may suit your needs: Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. Liviu [1] http://live.gnome.org/Dia
Preamble order and LyX layouts
I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a "switch" in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions).What I've attempted to do is to put the command\def\notestype{teacher}in the Document -> Settings -> LaTeX preamblewindow of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed after the Documents -> Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do.Yours, A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar myTextBook.layout Description: Binary data
Re: Problems with abstract in IEEETran class
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hello, I am unfortunately converting from Lyx 1.5 (work) to Lyx 1.4 (home) through TeX files. Anyway, I am having a problem now with the abstract repeating twice. I'm attaching a LyX file (1.4.3) and a TeX file. How do I fix that strange behavior? TIA Highlight the text of the abstract and use the text style dialog (Edit - Text style or ab button) to reset the size. When you specify the size explicitly, LyX emits LaTeX with the text enclosed in braces. Apparently the braces give the IEEETran class major heartburn. Don't know why, but I'm sure it's something intrinsic to the way the class file is written and thus out of your (or at least my) control. Tested on LyX 1.4.4 and 1.5.4 (I don't have 1.4.3 anymore). /Paul
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a switch in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions). What I've attempted to do is to put the command \def\notestype{teacher} in the Document - Settings - LaTeX preamble window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents - Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do. At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you really need to do so. Can't you just do something like this: \ifequal\notestype in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!) The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for precisely this sort of use. rh
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:33 PM, rgheck wrote: A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a switch in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions). What I've attempted to do is to put the command \def\notestype{teacher} in the Document - Settings - LaTeX preamble window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents - Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do. At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you really need to do so. Can't you just do something like this: \ifequal\notestype in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!) The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for precisely this sort of use. rh Thanks. I've tried a number of \ifthenelse environment definitions in the LaTeX version, including the use of xcomment, but so far nothing that works cleanly. My current workaround (temporary) is to just edit the layout and then reconfigure LyX when I want to change version. Since I won't be changing edition that often, that's fine for me, but not really appropriate for general use. I think I may be able to isolate the offending commands to fall in the LyX preamble by themselves, but I'll work on that later. The layout file is in my original note as an attachment, but for convenience I'm including it at the end of this email as well. (Unix style end of lines.) I'm adding an example LyX file that shows the use of Example and Question (homework) environments with solutions. (For whatever reason, I want to use the same environment for each.) I've not used branches in LyX yet; I'll look into that. Thanks! A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar TextbookExample.lyx Description: Binary data myTextBook.layout Description: Binary data LyX file: verison 1.5.4, on a mac myTextBook.layout: Unix style end of line marker.
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:33 PM, rgheck wrote: A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a switch in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions). What I've attempted to do is to put the command \def\notestype{teacher} in the Document - Settings - LaTeX preamble window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents - Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do. At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you really need to do so. Can't you just do something like this: \ifequal\notestype in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!) The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for precisely this sort of use. rh Thanks. I've tried a number of \ifthenelse environment definitions in the LaTeX version, including the use of xcomment, but so far nothing that works cleanly. My current workaround (temporary) is to just edit the layout and then reconfigure LyX when I want to change version. Since I won't be changing edition that often, that's fine for me, but not really appropriate for general use. I think I may be able to isolate the offending commands to fall in the LyX preamble by themselves, but I'll work on that later. I'd have to think about this for a while, but my idea was to define a LaTeX command that either (a) just repeated its argument or (b) basically ate its argument, and then to make the solution environment wrap the command. But I'm not absolutely sure how to do that. Basically, I want \begin{solution}stuff here\end{solution} to turn into something like: \solutioncmd{\par\noindent{\bf Solution}stuff here} and then we have: \newcommand\solutioncmd{% \ifthenelse{\equal{\notestype}{teacher}}% {#1}{}} So either we get \par\noindent{\bf Solution}stuff here or we get nothing. But I'm not sure how to do the environment definition. Probably we need some group business. Uwe, if you're reading this, do you have an idea? (Uwe is our resident expert on the user list.) Richard
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:33 PM, rgheck wrote: A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a switch in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions). What I've attempted to do is to put the command \def\notestype{teacher} in the Document - Settings - LaTeX preamble window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents - Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do. At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you really need to do so. Can't you just do something like this: \ifequal\notestype in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!) The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for precisely this sort of use. rh Thanks. I've tried a number of \ifthenelse environment definitions in the LaTeX version, including the use of xcomment, but so far nothing that works cleanly. My current workaround (temporary) is to just edit the layout and then reconfigure LyX when I want to change version. Since I won't be changing edition that often, that's fine for me, but not really appropriate for general use. I think I may be able to isolate the offending commands to fall in the LyX preamble by themselves, but I'll work on that later. Another possibility is just a nearly identical layout, and then you can switch between them on the fly. In 1.6.x, you can probably do this more naturally using a module. rh
Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 03:10:14PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Shouldn't FeeLyX be FeLyX? LyXandra sounds a bit stand-off-ish. How about LyXiE/LyXie? Enough! Mate. Ralph. Herman. Occam. Pick one. 'Pick' is nice indeed. SCNR Andre'
Some urgent questions
HI I trouble with lyx (see picture attached) 1) If there's an float image with wrap text around it at the end of the page, the picture is at the bottom of the page but the gap is on the next page 2) Is the way to wrap a minipage across two pages? 3) Sometimes the are pretty large gaps between a float image and the text after Any idea how to solve this? Furthermore I have some other question: 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? thx a lot steff http://www.nabble.com/file/p16771327/prob1.jpg prob1.jpg http://www.nabble.com/file/p16771327/prob2.jpg prob2.jpg http://www.nabble.com/file/p16771327/prob3.jpg prob3.jpg -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Some-urgent-questions-tp16771327p16771327.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Graphics in LyX 1.5.4 on MacOS X cause strange error
Peter Kämpf wrote: I just made the test: Placing the graphic inside the caption makes no difference to the error message. I wonder if I have something strange in my LyX preamble - this document had been started in LyX 1.3 days, and the conversion to 1.5 needed some manual tweaking. The newly created document (which I now use for testing, since it is much shorter) has the same preamble, making me wonder if maybe my defaults are screwed up and I need to wipe the LyX installation and start from scratch ... would that be worth a try? I don't think so. You can send me the document offlist, and I'll have a look. Jürgen
lyx2lyx convert failed
Dear all I wrote my lyx file in 1.4.2 lyx version but when i try to open it in 1.4.3 version i got the following error message lyx2lyx failed to convert. Find attach the file. Thanks Carlos Sosa Paz setofcost.lyx Description: setofcost.lyx
LyX badges?
Hi, Are there any I use LyX or Powered by LyX kind of logos available to put on a website? Thanks, Philip
Re: lyx2lyx convert failed
Carlos Sosa Paz wrote: I wrote my lyx file in 1.4.2 lyx version but when i try to open it in 1.4.3 version i got the following error message lyx2lyx failed to convert. Find attach the file. LyX 1.4.3 is very old. Anyway, the file opens fine in LyX 1.5.4. Jürgen
Re: lyx2lyx convert failed
On Saturday 19 April 2008 11:36:19 Carlos Sosa Paz wrote: Dear all I wrote my lyx file in 1.4.2 lyx version but when i try to open it in 1.4.3 version i got the following error message lyx2lyx failed to convert. Find attach the file. Correction, your lyx files says that you created it with 1.5.2 and not with 1.4.2. :-) The attached file works OK with 1.5.4. The easier solution could be to update the 1.4 to 1.5, but I can understand that it is not always possible. One solution is to save the file in 1.5 as lyx-1.4 (File-Export as lyx 1.4). I send the resulting file attached. Thanks Carlos Sosa Paz -- José Abílio setofcost.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Some urgent questions
PackElend schrieb: 1) If there's an float image with wrap text around it at the end of the page, the picture is at the bottom of the page but the gap is on the next page With LyX 1.5.4 a better LaTeX-package is used for wrap floats, so you coould update your LyX. But in your case you simply should move the wrap float to the section Nicht statische Methoden. 3) Sometimes the are pretty large gaps between a float image and the text after This can only appear when you have used new page commands around the floats or have set the float placement to Here definetively or similar. 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? Yes. regards Uwe
Re: LyX badges?
Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, Are there any I use LyX or Powered by LyX kind of logos available to put on a website? Not as far as I know, but it'd be great to have one. rh
Re: Some urgent questions
PackElend wrote: 2) Is the way to wrap a minipage across two pages? I don't believe so. rh
Re: LyX badges?
On April 19, 2008 07:53:50 Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, Are there any I use LyX or Powered by LyX kind of logos available to put on a website? Well, there are some nice icons here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Icons They would be a good starting point anyway -- William Seager University of Toronto Scarborough www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager
Re: Some urgent questions
Thanks for your quick response :) I do already have Version 1.5.4, it's I gotta play a bit with the images, back word style :(. 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? Yes. HOW thx stefan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Some-urgent-questions-tp16771327p16784909.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Some urgent questions
PackElend wrote: Thanks for your quick response :) I do already have Version 1.5.4, it's I gotta play a bit with the images, back word style :(. 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? Yes. HOW I think maybe Uwe was playing with you. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer myself. rh
Re: Some urgent questions
rgheck schrieb: 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? HOW I think maybe Uwe was playing with you. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer myself. Yes I was ;-). It is not very easy to do. I would insert the nomenclature and tables as usual to the different files. Then create a master file where you ring the three files together, see the section child documents of the UserGuide. This could work, but I expect that there are some LaTeX tricks needed to get this to work. When it doesn't work for you, ask on the comp.text.tex newsgroup, the people there know the LaTeX details that are needed. regards Uwe
Re: Some urgent questions
Uwe Stöhr wrote: rgheck schrieb: 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? HOW I think maybe Uwe was playing with you. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer myself. Yes I was ;-). It is not very easy to do. I would insert the nomenclature and tables as usual to the different files. Then create a master file where you ring the three files together, see the section child documents of the UserGuide. This could work, but I expect that there are some LaTeX tricks needed to get this to work. When it doesn't work for you, ask on the comp.text.tex newsgroup, the people there know the LaTeX details that are needed. Aren't there some toc by section packages available? Or will these not do the trick? rh
Re: Some urgent questions
rgheck schrieb: Aren't there some toc by section packages available? Or will these not do the trick? There is the package minitoc, but for the nomenclature I don't know a similar one. regards Uwe
Re: Missing fonts
Salát Máté wrote: Hi, I've installed some new fonts in Windows XP. As a result of it, some characters in math boxes in LyX disappeared, as you can see here: http://screencast.com/t/S07G2GyCE7r What shell I do to fix it? Cheers, Máté Try reinstalling the Bakoma4LyX fonts. You can download them at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX-1.1.zip. Unzip them somewhere and make note of the names. (IIRC there are eight font files in the archive.) Use the Windows font applet to delete those eight fonts, if they're already installed, then use it to reinstall from the unzipped copies. HTH, Paul
Problems with abstract in IEEETran class
Hello, I am unfortunately converting from Lyx 1.5 (work) to Lyx 1.4 (home) through TeX files. Anyway, I am having a problem now with the abstract repeating twice. I'm attaching a LyX file (1.4.3) and a TeX file. How do I fix that strange behavior? TIA -- myriam test.tex Description: test.tex test.lyx Description: test.lyx
Re: Drawing graphs in lyx
I'm entering this conversation late, but another way to generate graphs is with octave, a numerical package very similar to MATLAB. I've used octave to generate eps files directly, or to generate files in xfig format which can also be translated to fig so that they can be incorporated into LaTeX (i.;e., LyX) with similar fonts. A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar On Apr 13, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Ola Vestad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a simpler way to do this? More specifically; is it possible to draw graphs directly in lyx? Dia [1] may suit your needs: Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. Liviu [1] http://live.gnome.org/Dia
Preamble order and LyX layouts
I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a "switch" in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions).What I've attempted to do is to put the command\def\notestype{teacher}in the Document -> Settings -> LaTeX preamblewindow of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed after the Documents -> Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do.Yours, A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar myTextBook.layout Description: Binary data
Re: Problems with abstract in IEEETran class
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hello, I am unfortunately converting from Lyx 1.5 (work) to Lyx 1.4 (home) through TeX files. Anyway, I am having a problem now with the abstract repeating twice. I'm attaching a LyX file (1.4.3) and a TeX file. How do I fix that strange behavior? TIA Highlight the text of the abstract and use the text style dialog (Edit - Text style or ab button) to reset the size. When you specify the size explicitly, LyX emits LaTeX with the text enclosed in braces. Apparently the braces give the IEEETran class major heartburn. Don't know why, but I'm sure it's something intrinsic to the way the class file is written and thus out of your (or at least my) control. Tested on LyX 1.4.4 and 1.5.4 (I don't have 1.4.3 anymore). /Paul
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a switch in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions). What I've attempted to do is to put the command \def\notestype{teacher} in the Document - Settings - LaTeX preamble window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents - Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do. At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you really need to do so. Can't you just do something like this: \ifequal\notestype in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!) The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for precisely this sort of use. rh
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:33 PM, rgheck wrote: A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a switch in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions). What I've attempted to do is to put the command \def\notestype{teacher} in the Document - Settings - LaTeX preamble window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents - Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do. At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you really need to do so. Can't you just do something like this: \ifequal\notestype in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!) The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for precisely this sort of use. rh Thanks. I've tried a number of \ifthenelse environment definitions in the LaTeX version, including the use of xcomment, but so far nothing that works cleanly. My current workaround (temporary) is to just edit the layout and then reconfigure LyX when I want to change version. Since I won't be changing edition that often, that's fine for me, but not really appropriate for general use. I think I may be able to isolate the offending commands to fall in the LyX preamble by themselves, but I'll work on that later. The layout file is in my original note as an attachment, but for convenience I'm including it at the end of this email as well. (Unix style end of lines.) I'm adding an example LyX file that shows the use of Example and Question (homework) environments with solutions. (For whatever reason, I want to use the same environment for each.) I've not used branches in LyX yet; I'll look into that. Thanks! A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar TextbookExample.lyx Description: Binary data myTextBook.layout Description: Binary data LyX file: verison 1.5.4, on a mac myTextBook.layout: Unix style end of line marker.
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:33 PM, rgheck wrote: A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a switch in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions). What I've attempted to do is to put the command \def\notestype{teacher} in the Document - Settings - LaTeX preamble window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents - Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do. At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you really need to do so. Can't you just do something like this: \ifequal\notestype in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!) The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for precisely this sort of use. rh Thanks. I've tried a number of \ifthenelse environment definitions in the LaTeX version, including the use of xcomment, but so far nothing that works cleanly. My current workaround (temporary) is to just edit the layout and then reconfigure LyX when I want to change version. Since I won't be changing edition that often, that's fine for me, but not really appropriate for general use. I think I may be able to isolate the offending commands to fall in the LyX preamble by themselves, but I'll work on that later. I'd have to think about this for a while, but my idea was to define a LaTeX command that either (a) just repeated its argument or (b) basically ate its argument, and then to make the solution environment wrap the command. But I'm not absolutely sure how to do that. Basically, I want \begin{solution}stuff here\end{solution} to turn into something like: \solutioncmd{\par\noindent{\bf Solution}stuff here} and then we have: \newcommand\solutioncmd{% \ifthenelse{\equal{\notestype}{teacher}}% {#1}{}} So either we get \par\noindent{\bf Solution}stuff here or we get nothing. But I'm not sure how to do the environment definition. Probably we need some group business. Uwe, if you're reading this, do you have an idea? (Uwe is our resident expert on the user list.) Richard
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:33 PM, rgheck wrote: A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a switch in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions). What I've attempted to do is to put the command \def\notestype{teacher} in the Document - Settings - LaTeX preamble window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents - Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do. At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you really need to do so. Can't you just do something like this: \ifequal\notestype in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!) The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for precisely this sort of use. rh Thanks. I've tried a number of \ifthenelse environment definitions in the LaTeX version, including the use of xcomment, but so far nothing that works cleanly. My current workaround (temporary) is to just edit the layout and then reconfigure LyX when I want to change version. Since I won't be changing edition that often, that's fine for me, but not really appropriate for general use. I think I may be able to isolate the offending commands to fall in the LyX preamble by themselves, but I'll work on that later. Another possibility is just a nearly identical layout, and then you can switch between them on the fly. In 1.6.x, you can probably do this more naturally using a module. rh
Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 03:10:14PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > >> Shouldn't FeeLyX be FeLyX? LyXandra sounds a bit stand-off-ish. How about >> LyXiE/LyXie? > > Enough! Mate. Ralph. Herman. Occam. Pick one. 'Pick' is nice indeed. SCNR Andre'
Some urgent questions
HI I trouble with lyx (see picture attached) 1) If there's an float image with wrap text around it at the end of the page, the picture is at the bottom of the page but the gap is on the next page 2) Is the way to wrap a minipage across two pages? 3) Sometimes the are pretty large gaps between a float image and the text after Any idea how to solve this? Furthermore I have some other question: 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? thx a lot steff http://www.nabble.com/file/p16771327/prob1.jpg prob1.jpg http://www.nabble.com/file/p16771327/prob2.jpg prob2.jpg http://www.nabble.com/file/p16771327/prob3.jpg prob3.jpg -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Some-urgent-questions-tp16771327p16771327.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Graphics in LyX 1.5.4 on MacOS X cause strange error
Peter Kämpf wrote: > I just made the test: Placing the graphic inside the caption makes no > difference to the error message. > > I wonder if I have something strange in my LyX preamble - this > document had been started in LyX 1.3 days, and the conversion to 1.5 > needed some manual tweaking. The newly created document (which I now > use for testing, since it is much shorter) has the same preamble, > making me wonder if maybe my defaults are screwed up and I need to > wipe the LyX installation and start from scratch ... would that be > worth a try? I don't think so. You can send me the document offlist, and I'll have a look. Jürgen
lyx2lyx convert failed
Dear all I wrote my lyx file in 1.4.2 lyx version but when i try to open it in 1.4.3 version i got the following error message lyx2lyx failed to convert. Find attach the file. Thanks Carlos Sosa Paz setofcost.lyx Description: setofcost.lyx
LyX badges?
Hi, Are there any "I use LyX" or "Powered by LyX" kind of logos available to put on a website? Thanks, Philip
Re: lyx2lyx convert failed
Carlos Sosa Paz wrote: > I wrote my lyx file in 1.4.2 lyx version but when i try to open it in 1.4.3 > version i got the following error message lyx2lyx failed to convert. Find > attach the file. LyX 1.4.3 is very old. Anyway, the file opens fine in LyX 1.5.4. Jürgen
Re: lyx2lyx convert failed
On Saturday 19 April 2008 11:36:19 Carlos Sosa Paz wrote: > Dear all > > I wrote my lyx file in 1.4.2 lyx version but when i try to open it in 1.4.3 > version i got the following error message lyx2lyx failed to convert. Find > attach the file. Correction, your lyx files says that you created it with 1.5.2 and not with 1.4.2. :-) The attached file works OK with 1.5.4. The easier solution could be to update the 1.4 to 1.5, but I can understand that it is not always possible. One solution is to save the file in 1.5 as lyx-1.4 (File->Export as lyx 1.4). I send the resulting file attached. > Thanks > Carlos Sosa Paz -- José Abílio setofcost.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Some urgent questions
PackElend schrieb: 1) If there's an float image with wrap text around it at the end of the page, the picture is at the bottom of the page but the gap is on the next page With LyX 1.5.4 a better LaTeX-package is used for wrap floats, so you coould update your LyX. But in your case you simply should move the wrap float to the section "Nicht statische Methoden". 3) Sometimes the are pretty large gaps between a float image and the text after This can only appear when you have used new page commands around the floats or have set the float placement to "Here definetively" or similar. 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? Yes. regards Uwe
Re: LyX badges?
Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, Are there any "I use LyX" or "Powered by LyX" kind of logos available to put on a website? Not as far as I know, but it'd be great to have one. rh
Re: Some urgent questions
PackElend wrote: 2) Is the way to wrap a minipage across two pages? I don't believe so. rh
Re: LyX badges?
On April 19, 2008 07:53:50 Geevarghese Philip wrote: > Hi, >Are there any "I use LyX" or "Powered by LyX" kind of logos available > to put on a website? Well, there are some nice icons here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Icons They would be a good starting point anyway -- William Seager University of Toronto Scarborough www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager
Re: Some urgent questions
Thanks for your quick response :) I do already have Version 1.5.4, it's I gotta play a bit with the images, back word style :(. >> 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, >> Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and >> maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? >Yes. HOW thx stefan -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Some-urgent-questions-tp16771327p16784909.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Some urgent questions
PackElend wrote: Thanks for your quick response :) I do already have Version 1.5.4, it's I gotta play a bit with the images, back word style :(. 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? Yes. HOW I think maybe Uwe was playing with you. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer myself. rh
Re: Some urgent questions
rgheck schrieb: 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? HOW I think maybe Uwe was playing with you. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer myself. Yes I was ;-). It is not very easy to do. I would insert the nomenclature and tables as usual to the different files. Then create a master file where you ring the three files together, see the section "child documents" of the UserGuide". This could work, but I expect that there are some LaTeX tricks needed to get this to work. When it doesn't work for you, ask on the comp.text.tex newsgroup, the people there know the LaTeX details that are needed. regards Uwe
Re: Some urgent questions
Uwe Stöhr wrote: rgheck schrieb: 4) I have an document (my thesis) with 3 different parts (Introduction, Theory, Praxis) and I want an separate table of figures, nomenclature and maybe attachment and index for each of them. It's that possible? HOW I think maybe Uwe was playing with you. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer myself. Yes I was ;-). It is not very easy to do. I would insert the nomenclature and tables as usual to the different files. Then create a master file where you ring the three files together, see the section "child documents" of the UserGuide". This could work, but I expect that there are some LaTeX tricks needed to get this to work. When it doesn't work for you, ask on the comp.text.tex newsgroup, the people there know the LaTeX details that are needed. Aren't there some "toc by section" packages available? Or will these not do the trick? rh
Re: Some urgent questions
rgheck schrieb: Aren't there some "toc by section" packages available? Or will these not do the trick? There is the package "minitoc", but for the nomenclature I don't know a similar one. regards Uwe
Re: Missing fonts
Salát Máté wrote: Hi, I've installed some new fonts in Windows XP. As a result of it, some characters in math boxes in LyX disappeared, as you can see here: http://screencast.com/t/S07G2GyCE7r What shell I do to fix it? Cheers, Máté Try reinstalling the Bakoma4LyX fonts. You can download them at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX-1.1.zip. Unzip them somewhere and make note of the names. (IIRC there are eight font files in the archive.) Use the Windows font applet to delete those eight fonts, if they're already installed, then use it to reinstall from the unzipped copies. HTH, Paul
Problems with abstract in IEEETran class
Hello, I am unfortunately converting from Lyx 1.5 (work) to Lyx 1.4 (home) through TeX files. Anyway, I am having a problem now with the abstract repeating twice. I'm attaching a LyX file (1.4.3) and a TeX file. How do I fix that strange behavior? TIA -- myriam test.tex Description: test.tex test.lyx Description: test.lyx
Re: Drawing graphs in lyx
I'm entering this conversation late, but another way to generate graphs is with octave, a numerical package very similar to MATLAB. I've used octave to generate eps files directly, or to generate files in xfig format which can also be translated to fig so that they can be incorporated into LaTeX (i.;e., LyX) with similar fonts. A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar On Apr 13, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Ola Vestad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a simpler way to do this? More specifically; is it possible to draw graphs directly in lyx? Dia [1] may suit your needs: "Dia is roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. " Liviu [1] http://live.gnome.org/Dia
Preamble order and LyX layouts
I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a "switch" in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions).What I've attempted to do is to put the command\def\notestype{teacher}in the Document -> Settings -> LaTeX preamblewindow of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed after the Documents -> Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do.Yours, A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar myTextBook.layout Description: Binary data
Re: Problems with abstract in IEEETran class
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hello, I am unfortunately converting from Lyx 1.5 (work) to Lyx 1.4 (home) through TeX files. Anyway, I am having a problem now with the abstract repeating twice. I'm attaching a LyX file (1.4.3) and a TeX file. How do I fix that strange behavior? TIA Highlight the text of the abstract and use the text style dialog (Edit -> Text style or "ab" button) to reset the size. When you specify the size explicitly, LyX emits LaTeX with the text enclosed in braces. Apparently the braces give the IEEETran class major heartburn. Don't know why, but I'm sure it's something intrinsic to the way the class file is written and thus out of your (or at least my) control. Tested on LyX 1.4.4 and 1.5.4 (I don't have 1.4.3 anymore). /Paul
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a "switch" in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions). What I've attempted to do is to put the command \def\notestype{teacher} in the Document -> Settings -> LaTeX preamble window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents -> Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do. At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you really need to do so. Can't you just do something like this: \ifequal\notestype in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!) The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for precisely this sort of use. rh
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:33 PM, rgheck wrote: A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a "switch" in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions). What I've attempted to do is to put the command \def\notestype{teacher} in the Document -> Settings -> LaTeX preamble window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents -> Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do. At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you really need to do so. Can't you just do something like this: \ifequal\notestype in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!) The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for precisely this sort of use. rh Thanks. I've tried a number of \ifthenelse environment definitions in the LaTeX version, including the use of xcomment, but so far nothing that works "cleanly." My current workaround (temporary) is to just edit the layout and then reconfigure LyX when I want to change version. Since I won't be changing edition that often, that's fine for me, but not really appropriate for general use. I think I may be able to isolate the "offending" commands to fall in the LyX preamble by themselves, but I'll work on that later. The layout file is in my original note as an attachment, but for convenience I'm including it at the end of this email as well. (Unix style end of lines.) I'm adding an example LyX file that shows the use of Example and Question (homework) environments with solutions. (For whatever reason, I want to use the same environment for each.) I've not used branches in LyX yet; I'll look into that. Thanks! A. Scottedward Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/hodelas/tar TextbookExample.lyx Description: Binary data myTextBook.layout Description: Binary data LyX file: verison 1.5.4, on a mac myTextBook.layout: Unix style end of line marker.
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:33 PM, rgheck wrote: A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a "switch" in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions). What I've attempted to do is to put the command \def\notestype{teacher} in the Document -> Settings -> LaTeX preamble window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents -> Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do. At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you really need to do so. Can't you just do something like this: \ifequal\notestype in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!) The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for precisely this sort of use. rh Thanks. I've tried a number of \ifthenelse environment definitions in the LaTeX version, including the use of xcomment, but so far nothing that works "cleanly." My current workaround (temporary) is to just edit the layout and then reconfigure LyX when I want to change version. Since I won't be changing edition that often, that's fine for me, but not really appropriate for general use. I think I may be able to isolate the "offending" commands to fall in the LyX preamble by themselves, but I'll work on that later. I'd have to think about this for a while, but my idea was to define a LaTeX command that either (a) just repeated its argument or (b) basically ate its argument, and then to make the solution environment wrap the command. But I'm not absolutely sure how to do that. Basically, I want \begin{solution}stuff here\end{solution} to turn into something like: \solutioncmd{\par\noindent{\bf Solution}stuff here} and then we have: \newcommand\solutioncmd{% \ifthenelse{\equal{\notestype}{teacher}}% {#1}{}} So either we get \par\noindent{\bf Solution}stuff here or we get nothing. But I'm not sure how to do the environment definition. Probably we need some "group" business. Uwe, if you're reading this, do you have an idea? (Uwe is our resident expert on the user list.) Richard
Re: Preamble order and LyX layouts
A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:33 PM, rgheck wrote: A. Scottedward Hodel wrote: I am trying to write a textbook layout file (current version is attached) that will let me set a "switch" in the preamble of my LyX file so that I can easily generate both a teacher's version (with solutions) and a student version (without homework solutions). What I've attempted to do is to put the command \def\notestype{teacher} in the Document -> Settings -> LaTeX preamble window of LyX. However, this seems to be loaded after the layout preamble is set. Is there a way for me to have at least a part of the layout preamble processed /after/ the Documents -> Settings preamble? If I can do this, then I will be able to work within LyX rather than LaTeX, which I would like to do. At present, no, you can't do that, but I'm not sure why you really need to do so. Can't you just do something like this: \ifequal\notestype in the environments (or commands) themselves? Then it doesn't matter what gets loaded first. (If this isn't clear, post your layout, and we can work on it together. All of us!!) The other possibility is to use branches, which are designed for precisely this sort of use. rh Thanks. I've tried a number of \ifthenelse environment definitions in the LaTeX version, including the use of xcomment, but so far nothing that works "cleanly." My current workaround (temporary) is to just edit the layout and then reconfigure LyX when I want to change version. Since I won't be changing edition that often, that's fine for me, but not really appropriate for general use. I think I may be able to isolate the "offending" commands to fall in the LyX preamble by themselves, but I'll work on that later. Another possibility is just a nearly identical layout, and then you can switch between them on the fly. In 1.6.x, you can probably do this more naturally using a "module". rh