Re: Refernces

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolás
Use Refworks to export your references as Bibtex. A .bib file should be generated. Then follow the intructions in LyX's User's Guide (Help->User's Guide, section 6.5.1) to insert your references in the document. Cheers, Nicolás Hesham Kamel wrote: Hello, I am writing my thesis now, and just

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 19:24, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Moreover, if you're editing by hand, you can use > > something that recognizes XML. > > of course it will work, but it will take x-times more time. > quite difference to write sed one-liner or start doing some > xslt

Re: How to make a clone of the Enumerate environment?

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 00:54, Dirk Markert wrote: > 2008/7/22 Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Günter (and everyone else), > > > > Your response contains one of the most useful LyX idioms I've ever seen, > > limiting my biggest objection to LyX. It will lead to vastly improved > >

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-23 Thread G. Milde
On 20.07.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: >> Anyway, I don't think you'll find a working example. As listings fails >> with multibyte glyphs, it will also fail when multibyte glyphs are used >> in ERT, no? > Not according to the documentation. You can define an "escape to

Re: how can i put a citation in an ert endnote?

2008-07-23 Thread G. Milde
On 21.07.08, Glen Whitehead wrote: > Dear all, > I'm using LyX 1.5.4 and ERT to insert endnotes. However, I do not seem > able to add citations to an ERT. Please send your suggestions :) Find out the latex code for your citation and insert it as ERT: 1. Open the Source View (View>View Source)

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-23 Thread G. Milde
On 23.07.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Dear LyXers, > I'm proud to announce that the LFUNs documentation project has been finished. Good news. Many thanks to you. > * HTML documentation was produced via doxygen. The file could be found here: >

Re: Life changing LyX idiom gives me new productivity

2008-07-23 Thread G. Milde
On 22.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > In a different thread, Gunter Milde penned these words: > > You need to clone both, LyX layout:: > > > > Style Questions > > CopyStyle Enumeration > > > That is THE most powerful LyX idiom I've ever seen. > When I have time I'll check

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 00:19:09 Pavel Sanda wrote: > by 'outside' i mean tweakings which i regularly do and watching users list > power users do that too _and_ are happy about the current simplicity of > format. > > tweaks like assembling of the whole file for various datasets, global > changes

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
> On Wednesday 23 July 2008 00:19:09 Pavel Sanda wrote: > > while you are right that xml could be better technology for internal > > lyx parsing (and i can understand your viewpoint as lyx2lyx fan:) > > this was not my mail about. > > > > > It is funny to see all this nostalgia around something

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 12:19:16 Pavel Sanda wrote: > i've done incorrect file, it's my fault if lyx crashes. i take my > responsibility, no problem. > trial method is the fastest if you want something quickly. If LyX crashes that is a bug. LyX should not ever crash, it can refused to load a

Re: replace text

2008-07-23 Thread Christopher Reeve
I don't know about you, but I find having lots of ERTs in my document distracting and a bit annoying! My solution is similar but instead I use the math mode - that way I see the actual symbol I typed... eg, include the following line in your Preamble \newcommand{\hho}{\text{H}_2\text{O}} Then

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Manveru
Guys, Have you even looked at TinyXML? I have a project once where we use XML as a message passing protocol and we were using XSLT as C++ code generator for classes handling XML and converting them to data structures handling all data we need. This freed us from portability problems (Litte

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 18:21, José Matos wrote: > Clearly you did not had to deal with the lyx file format like I did. :-) > If your idea of a parser is a set of regexp's that is so 80's. ;-) [clip] > It is funny to see all this nostalgia around something that is/was a > nightmare. If the syntax

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 07:00, José Matos wrote: > XML will not change the current status. > > grep

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 19:24, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Pavel Sanda wrote: > > Moreover, if you're editing by hand, you can use > > something that recognizes XML. > > of course it will work, but it will take x-times more time. > quite difference to write sed one-liner or start doing some > xslt

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Steve Litt wrote: Perhaps our best hope of continuing tweakability of native LyX is to create 1.5.x to XML and XML to 1.5.x converters. Then all the parsing/tweaking can continue to be done in the 1.5.x format. I'm presuming that the LyX developers will create the 1.5.x to XML converter so

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:33:16 Steve Litt wrote: > The trouble is, XML tags can be anywhere -- spacing and linefeeds are > immaterial. That means you can no longer parse based on position, such as: > > /^begin_layout/ > > because technically the whole XML file could be in a single line. Or a >

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:20:59 Steve Litt wrote: > When the discussion reverts to "your thingamabob is from another > decade/century so it must not be good by today's standards", you know that > thingamabob is pretty darn good, or else there would have been a more > powerful argument against

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
G. Milde wrote: On 20.07.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Anyway, I don't think you'll find a working example. As listings fails with multibyte glyphs, it will also fail when multibyte glyphs are used in ERT, no? Not according to the documentation. You can define an

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:58:56 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi Pavel, > > Perhaps our best hope of continuing tweakability of native LyX is to create > 1.5.x to XML and XML to 1.5.x converters. Then all the parsing/tweaking can > continue to be done in the 1.5.x format. I will advise against such

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 14:49:12 Manveru wrote: > Guys, > > Have you even looked at TinyXML? Thanks for the link. :-) -- José Abílio

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-23 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: I'm proud to announce that the LFUNs documentation project has been finished. Great work! If you are interested in mastering LyX this documentation could be useful for your needs. Should we put this in a page on the wiki site? It could just be a

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul A. Rubin wrote: I'm attaching a small proof-of-concept example that shows three things: Let me rephrase that: once I wake up, I'll be attaching ... listingsExample.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Why 2 bibliographies?

2008-07-23 Thread H
NEVERMIND. There was no problem, it was just 2nd page. I'm an idiot... Sorry for your time spent reading this. :blush: H wrote: > > Hello, I use LyX 1.5.5 with Inlinebib and Koma-script book with in-line > full citations style (working almost perfect). > The problem is the final bibliography

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > > I'm attaching a small proof-of-concept example that shows three things: > > Let me rephrase that:  once I wake up, I'll be attaching ... The example compiles fine in 1.6svn. It's probably too tricky to backport the changes to 1.5. Jürgen

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 11:21, José Matos wrote: > > There may be things wrong with awking, seding and perling data into > > submission, but the age of these tools is not one of them. > > If you add there the coreutils, like tail, cut, paste, merge and so on we > can do things that spreadsheet

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 11:05, José Matos wrote: > On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:33:16 Steve Litt wrote: > > The trouble is, XML tags can be anywhere -- spacing and linefeeds are > > immaterial. That means you can no longer parse based on position, such > > as: > > > > /^begin_layout/ > > > >

two sided woes and ragged2e use

2008-07-23 Thread Zan
Greetings List, Finishing up the layout on my masters thesis written with Bean ---> LyX a terrific combo for OS X. Thanks to everybody involved in improving and developing this wonderful program. running LyX 1.5.5 on PPC Mac OS X 10.5.4 Problem: When two sided document is chosen

hypertarget in LyX

2008-07-23 Thread Christopher Reeve
I read all of my PDFs on the computer now, rather than print them out. Hence I always like it when people use internal referencing within their PDFs. Other than a basic reference to a figure number or external URL it is sometime handy to link a word in your document to a particular section so that

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Perhaps our best hope of continuing tweakability of native LyX is to create > 1.5.x to XML and XML to 1.5.x converters. Then all the parsing/tweaking can > continue to be done in the 1.5.x format. as have written others 1.6 is still ok. for lyx files assembly you can still make what you want

We could really use search-for-environment and search-for-charstyle

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, One feature I think would be really helpful in LyX would be search-for-environment and search-for-character-style. That way I wouldn't need to go into Vim every time I wanted to locate a specific character style. Thanks SteeveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
> The next question is why do we need to manipulate lyx files with awk and > friends? Is not there something that can should be done by lyx? search and replace is one of the weak lyx parts and even if we get Tommaso one day to put his stuff in there are so many place where its of no help. just

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
>> If you are interested in mastering LyX this documentation could be useful >> for your needs. > > Should we put this in a page on the wiki site? It could just be a copy of > your announcement that's put in a page in the development group, e.g. > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/LFUN > > Then

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
> This html page is HUGE. It would be helpfull (especially for people on > slower net connections and not so powerfull machines) to have the lfuns > section in a separate html document. (Of course I can use the pdf as well, > but the active links in the html are an added bonus.) you can play with

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:33:16AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 23 July 2008 07:00, José Matos wrote: > > > XML will not change the current status. > > > > grep

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Pavel Sanda schrieb: i have already put the section here, so from my point of view its finished. when 1.6 is out we can replace the whole page by the current version. Yes, please do so. or we can put the .lyx file into LyX help menu. dont know if others think its good idea. I don't know

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Yes, please do so. > >> or we can put the .lyx file into LyX help menu. dont know if others think >> its good idea. > > I don't know if this is a good idea as this are informations for > specialists and developers. you are probably right, help menu is overpopulated even now. > I could >

Re: Inconsistent indentation behaviour after LyX-Code and Program Listing Inset

2008-07-23 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: I'm attaching a small proof-of-concept example that shows three things: Let me rephrase that: once I wake up, I'll be attaching ... The example compiles fine in 1.6svn. It's probably too tricky to backport the changes to 1.5. No reason to

Re: support arabic in lyx

2008-07-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
hatim ali schrieb: Dear lyx team The po-updates mailing list is only to send there .po file updates. To get help from the community. please write to the lyx-users or the lyx-devel mailing list. i can't use arabic in lyx, and i don't know why i can't. and when i import any "arabic tex" file

Problem with Lyx 1.5.5 (Windows, Miktex) when converting to PS

2008-07-23 Thread Michael Logies
Hello, I have a 5 years old Lyx-file, a bit complicated, 50 pages. Converting with Lyx 1.5.5 (Windows XP Prof., Miktex, AFPL GS 8.54) to PS results in the error message below. And Lyx is rather slow. I have Lyx 1.4.5 on the same machine and it converts the Lyx-file (and is faster). If have

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Richard heck
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2008 07:00, José Matos wrote: XML will not change the current status. grep

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Richard heck
Steve Litt wrote: Perhaps our best hope of continuing tweakability of native LyX is to create 1.5.x to XML and XML to 1.5.x converters. Then all the parsing/tweaking can continue to be done in the 1.5.x format. As always, LyX will have such converters, so old formats can be

Re: Problem with Lyx 1.5.5 (Windows, Miktex) when converting to PS

2008-07-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 20:56, Michael Logies wrote: > Hello, > 2. Can I work in Lyx 1.5.5 and continue working on the document in Lyx > 1.4.5 or Lyx 1.5.3? Has the file format remained the same? No. 1.5.x is a different format from 1.4.x, and once you go 1.5.x, you can't go back. I use

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Richard heck
José Matos wrote: That is also the reason why lyx2lyx is nowadays mostly a python library (LyX.py) and the script lyx2lyx is just a wrapper around the library. And let me add that anyone who wants to process LyX files on a regular basis using external scripts would be well served to learn

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

2008-07-23 Thread Richard heck
Steve Litt wrote: At first I'll do them in Ruby because Ruby has all that stuff built in and easy to do. Later, depending on performance and the percent of people who have Ruby installed, I can convert them to C. There's a C implementation of the same YAML parser/emitter that Ruby uses --

The "\DeclareMathOperator"command in my lyx doesn't work,please help!

2008-07-23 Thread LittleNew
Hello I'm new to Lyx. I wanted to add a "\arccot" self-defined function in my document, and I followed the help's instruction to add "\DeclareMathOperator{\arccot}{arccot}" in "Document->settings...->LaTeX Preamble", but after I did it, nothing happened. When I typed "\arccot", it still does

Re: Problem with Lyx 1.5.5 (Windows, Miktex) when converting to PS

2008-07-23 Thread Michael Logies
At 24.07.2008 03:17 Steve Litt wrote: > No. 1.5.x is a different format from 1.4.x, and once you go 1.5.x, > you can't go back. Steve, thanks for clarification. > I use 1.5.3 and haven't noticed anything all that slow on my 300 page > books. Where is it slow for you, and how slow? The 58

Re: The "\DeclareMathOperator"command in my lyx doesn't work,please help!

2008-07-23 Thread Richard heck
LittleNew wrote: Hello I'm new to Lyx. I wanted to add a "\arccot" self-defined function in my document, and I followed the help's instruction to add "\DeclareMathOperator{\arccot}{arccot}" in "Document->settings...->LaTeX Preamble", but after I did it, nothing happened. When I typed

Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)

2008-07-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Pavel Sanda wrote: > or we can put the .lyx file into LyX help menu. dont know if others think > its good idea. I think it's a good idea, this is useful information. Maybe as an appendix to Customization? Jürgen

Re: two sided woes and ragged2e use

2008-07-23 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Zan wrote: > Problem: >     When two sided document is chosen (koma-script Book Class, or Book > Class)  alternating Right Left pages fails when  \pagenumbering{roman} > goes to \pagenumbering{arabic}. Problem does not occur when using all > {arabic}.  I tried \frontmatter and \mainmatter first

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