I cannot compile to a pdf

[NinaNutz]

Hello all,

I have a big problem... My thesis is finished and I cannot compile the complete
pdf. When I export to pdf (any option) I only export 52 pages. My thesis is 350
pages more or less... but I cannot compile the complete one. The list of
contents, figures and tables doesn't appears either.

What can I do? Lyx doesn't show any mistake, every works ok apparently, but I
only can export 52 pages...

The version of lyx that I'm using is lyx 1.6.1

Please, I need help... 

Re: Problem reading (import) Mathcad html file:XML input

[Hubert Christiaen]

If the Mathcad proram can output XML, there might be a chance to use that. I 
found a lot of texts about using TeX for outputting XML, but very few for 
inputting XML in TeX. The best references are:

Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
xmltex: A non validating (and not 100% conforming) namespace aware XML parser 
implemented in TeX
http://www.dcarlisle.demon.co.uk/xmltex/manual.html
Available from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xmltex/base/

For Python programmers: http://www.pytex.org/#XML

And an unevaluated link: 
http://www.elml.ch/website/en/html/output_latex.html : From XML to PDF via 
LaTeX

Sincerely,
Hubert

-- 
Hubert Christiaen
Bloesemlaan 17
3360 Korbeek-Lo
Belgium   

Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[NinaNutz]

NinaNutz lamari...@... writes:

I tried to uninstall and reinstall the previous version 1.5.6 and it happens the
same...

I really don't know what to do...

RE: Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

NinaNutz lamari...@... writes:

I tried to uninstall and reinstall the previous version 1.5.6 and it
happens the same...

I really don't know what to do...


Isn't there something strange at the 53th page. Look for possible
sources of error there.

Otherwise try to compile the document from the command line and look for
error messages (Export-Latex plain and then run latex).

Vincent

Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[Konrad Hofbauer]

NinaNutz wrote:

I have a big problem... My thesis is finished and I cannot compile the complete
pdf. When I export to pdf (any option) I only export 52 pages. My thesis is 350
pages more or less... but I cannot compile the complete one. The list of
contents, figures and tables doesn't appears either.


Is there anything suspicious (warnings or errors) in Document-Latex Log 
(there probably is)?


Make a copy of your LyX file, and then in that copy, delete big parts of 
 the document, export to PDF, see if it works, put the part back in 
(undo), delete a smaller part, ... Thus, trying to narrow down where the 
problem comes from.


Usually within half an hour or so (or much shorter), you know what the 
offending part is.


HTH,
Konrad

Re: How to get a modified Enumerate style?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-24, Laser Yuan wrote:

 I need to write an description for an algorithm in my paper, which includes
 several steps . Basically the Enumerate style will fit my purpose. Except
 that I want a sequence like this:

 Step 1 ...
...
 Step 2
...

 instead of

 1. .
 ...
 2. .
 ...

 Any method could achieve this style? Thanks in advance!

Have a look at the customization possibilities of the enumitem package:
http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/enumitem.html
available for LyX with the enumitem module:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Enumitem

Günter

Re: listings package problem

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-23, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
 On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 08:12 +, Guenter Milde wrote:
 On 2009-02-22, Nikos Alexandris wrote:

  I guess it's a font-specific issue. Too bad because Bera looks great.

 Txtt:
 Set the typewriter font to Default in the GUI and write in the preamble
 \renewcommand{\ttdefault}{txtt}

 Not bad (the font in general). Yet:

 i. the backticks still look like ticks

How do they look like in the first place? A minimal example file might help.

 ii. I loose the scale option which is there in the gui (I suppose I
 can scale all typewriter fonts through the preamble as well)

Yes and No, 

* you can scale all fonts, if you read and understand fntguide.pdf and write
  the cumbersome medium-level latex code in the preamble.
  
* you can only scale fonts with a simple option if the font package supports
  this (in the LyX GUI, the scale box will grey out if the package does not
  support scaling).  

Günter

Re: English appearing backwards

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-23, Dotan Cohen wrote:
 For LyX (or LaTeX) it is important to know in what language you are
 writing. Not only the directionality, but also font encoding (while LyX
 uses Unicode by now, LaTeX does not) and hyphenation depend on this.

 I see, I did not realize that LaTeX does not support unicode. I
 suppose that it never will, from what I've been reading the past few
 days it looks like there will be no new features added.

The TeX descendant XeTeX fully supports Unicode and OpenFont fonts. It is
currently not directly supported by LyX (but workarounds exist, search
wiki.lyx.org).


 Still, a keyboard switch hotkey could also be programmed to send a
 language changing command to lyx via the lyxserver.

 I would very much like to know how to do that.

This depends on your OS and Desktop. Some desktops allow keybindings to
start a specified command: now this command could be a script performing
both tasks. 

* The lyxserver is described in the LyX documentation.
  I use it from Python with my PyLyX package
  (http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/PyClient).
* I do not know anything about keyboard layout switching except that
  there are programms/commands doing this.

 I remember that one Israeli user reported to use an English keyboard
 setting on the system level together with the hebrew kmap in LyX, so
 this might be a starting point...

 Would you happen to know his name, email address, or a text snippet
 that I could google to find his post?

If I remember right, it was Dekel Tsur responding to my suggestion to
drop support of kmaps in LyX some years ago.

But looking in HelpConfiguration for kmaps and in the LYXDIR for
hebrew.kmap will help.

Günter

Re: Removing languages

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-23, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
 On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 07:27 +, Guenter Milde wrote:

 IMO, there is room for a better UI than hiding language switching
 under EditText-StyleCustom. 

 Also, the apply last style button would become more useful if it would
 not mix change of font size (or family) with change of language.

 How about a separate toggle-language button? In most cases, a document
 switches between at most 2 languages (native language and English, say). 

 Günter


 +1 (from an end-user) for a separate _language_ button.

So who is going to file an enhancement request to bugzilla.lyx.org?

GM

Re: English appearing backwards

[Dotan Cohen]

Thanks, Gunter. I will put some time into this.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il

א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي
А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я
а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я
ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Re: Removing languages

[Dotan Cohen]

 +1 (from an end-user) for a separate _language_ button.

 So who is going to file an enhancement request to bugzilla.lyx.org?


Give me a few minutes...


-- 
Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il

א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي
А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я
а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я
ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

RE: Removing languages

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 


 +1 (from an end-user) for a separate _language_ button.

 So who is going to file an enhancement request to bugzilla.lyx.org?


Give me a few minutes...


Please, explain exactly how you see this.. 

..then implementing this would me much faster.

Where do you set the languages used in toggling ? 
Should this be stored in the LyX file ?

Vincent

Minitoc and book (KOMA-Script) under LyX

[Nikos Alexandris]

Hi all!

[Using LyX 1.6.1 under Ubuntu II/ 64-bit, book(KOMA-Script)]

I've decided to use the minitoc package. I would like to have (as many
others would like to have :-) a _SectionToC_ for each Chapter (except
the 1st) in the beginning, of course, of each Chapter, listing Sections
(x.x) and Subsections (x.x.x). 

I have read a lot of stuff [1] [2] [3] but I would like to have
beforehand a more complex example implemented with LyX (more complex
than the example given in [4]) in order to get going.


Currently I use:

   * \usepackage{minitoc} in the Preamble

   * \dominitoc somewhere in the beginning of my document

   * \minitoc in the Introduction (note: Introduction is Addchap and
all of its Sections are Addsec), in Chapter 2, in Chapter 3 and in
Chapter 4.


The result is that:

   * the minitoc does not appear in the Introduction (probably it has
to do with the Add* commands)

   * it does not appear in the 2nd Chapter.

   * it does appear in Chapter 3. _But_ it does not correspond to
Chapter 2. Instead it lists the Sections of the Introduction!

   * it doeas appear in Chapter 4, but as above, it shows the Sections
of the previous Chapter, that is Chapter 3.


Would be nice to have an option in LyX for that.
Kind regards, Nikos
---

[1]
ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/minitoc.pdf

[2] Several posts in the LyX-mailing list archive (search-keyword:
minitoc)

[3] (In German, almost in the end of the page)
http://www.matthiaspospiech.de/latex/vorlagen/allgemein/preambel/13/#toc-verzeichnisse

[4] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Minitoc

Re: listings package problem

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 11:20 +0100, Manveru wrote:
 2009/2/22 Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de:
  [ I am posting a listing-related problem here instead of starting a new
  thread. ]
 
  I now realise how powerful is the listing package. I used some R code
  and setting the fonts to BeraMono gives a very nice and highlighted code
  in the output.
 
  There is only one *important* problem though: usually the _backticks_
  (used in *nix-like OSes to execute a command within, let's say, from
  another command) appear as to have a top-left to bottom-right direction.
  With my current setting (Typewriter font set to BeraMono and language
  set to _bash_) the _backticks_ look very similar to the... well, the
  _ticks_!
 
  I guess it's a font-specific issue. Too bad because Bera looks great.
 
  Any other recommendation? Kind regards, Nikos
 
 If you use bash, there is another form of commands substitution other
 than `backticks`. It is $(command) form. It may solve problems with
 formatting and become more recognizable in your code examples.
 

Manveru, thanks for the tip. However, I insist in using the backticks.
It's easy and gives a bettwe overview in a command like...

NEWNAME=MOD${YEAR}_${RESOLUTION}_`echo ${i} | cut -d':' -f5
   | cut -d_ -f1,2,3 | sed 's+\_1++g' | sed 's+\_250m++g' |
sed 's+\_500m++g'`

Cheers, Nikos

Re: listings package problem

[Nikos Alexandris]

Nikos:
I guess it's a font-specific issue. Too bad because Bera looks great.


Guenter:
  Txtt:
  Set the typewriter font to Default in the GUI and write in the preamble
  \renewcommand{\ttdefault}{txtt}


Nikos:
  Not bad (the font in general). Yet:
  i. the backticks still look like ticks


Guenter:
 How do they look like in the first place? A minimal example file might help.


Nikos:
No need for an example here I think. It' simple: a backtick is _`_, a
tick (or a single-quote!?) is _'_. The backtick is usually below the Esc
key in most keyboards. The single wuote is well, usually in the same key
where the double quote lies. They should appear in the pdf like here in
this e-mail. Instead one cannot tell their difference in the output when
I use Bera as a typewriter font. Courier shows them better but, again, I
can't scale the font (I think...).

[ Sorry if I messed-up the terms a bit (tick ~ single-quote) ]

Any experiences for using long bash-like commands with LyX, KOMA-Script?
Kind regards, Nikos

Re: Removing languages

[Dotan Cohen]

 Please, explain exactly how you see this..

 ..then implementing this would me much faster.

 Where do you set the languages used in toggling ?
 Should this be stored in the LyX file ?

 Vincent


I would imagine a button on the toolbar, that would toggle between
preconfigured input languages. Somewhere in the options these
languages would be configured.

Anyone with a language bar on their task bar will be familiar with the concept.

In any case, I am not getting the confirmation mail from bugzilla. Who
can troubleshoot this? It's not my spam filters.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il

א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي
А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я
а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я
ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Re: Minitoc and book (KOMA-Script) under LyX

[Nikos Alexandris]

I am testing the \mtcaddchapter command. I'll probably figure this out.
If not I will _bump_ :-p

Sorry the for the mail-traffic, Nikos

Re: Program Listing

[Graham]

Paul A. Rubin ru...@... writes:

Thanks Paul, that works fine.

I was using float.

Graham

Problem compiling IEEEtran Standard Template (bare_jrnl.tex)

[Bob McKay]

My apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find anything
directly relevant in the archives. I'm hitting a problem with IEEEtran and
LyX; it would be great if anyone could help to work out whether it is a
problem in what I'm doing, or perhaps a bug. I should add that I'm
reasonably familiar with TeX/LaTeX, but new to LyX, so apologies if I'm
missing something obvious.
Versions:
LyX 1.6.1 (linux and Mac OSX versions both show the problem)
pdfTeX pi-1.40.9-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.7) from the TeXLive distribution
IEEEtran bare_jrnl.tex V1.3
IEEEtran.cls V1.7a
IEEEtran.layout - no version number that I can find, but the one included
with LyX 1.6.1

I downloaded the most recent version of the IEEEtran template document from
the IEEE website, imported it into LyX, and tried to typeset it (unchanged)
using ps2pdf. Result:
Error popup from LyX / LaTeX: Paragraph ended before \markboth was complete.

An error also appears on standard error (I'm launching LyX from a terminal):

Error in latexParagraphs: You should not mix title layouts with normal ones.

On the other hand, typesetting bare_jrnl.tex with LaTeX works fine.

I think the problem might lie in the importing. Once imported into LyX, only
the first argument to \markboth shows as having markboth style (the second
argument just shows as standard), but I'm not certain how the styles of a
two-argument macro are normally treated in LyX.

I realise there have been previously reported bugs relating IEEEtran, LyX
and babel, but my understanding is that those were fixed in LyX 1.5.

It's not an urgent problem for me (I just deleted the whole markboth
section, since I'm just using it for a class demo, and markboth isn't
relevant - this fixed the problem), but I thought I should report it.

Thanks for any feedback.

Bob

Re: xy-pic oddities

[Paul A. Rubin]

Pol wrote:

While the single arrow in command
\xymatrix{A \ar[r] B}
is displayed by lyx, three arrow graph in command
\xymatrix{   p,a  \\ p \ar[r] \ar[ur] \ar[dr]   p,n  \\   p,e  }
is undisplayed (yet correctly printed out)

Any ideas?
Any matrix or array specifications needed in the preamble?

thank you
---P




FWIW, I pasted your three arrow code into a new document in LyX (with 
\usepackage[all]{xy} in the preamble), and instant preview displayed it 
with three arrow heads but only one arrow (the middle one).  I also 
threw in another math inset with an integral, and instant preview did 
not display the integral sign.


Then I saved and closed the document and reopened it (without leaving 
LyX) and IP got everything right.  I've had other adventures like this 
with IP -- not sure what goes on.


This is LyX 1.6.1 + MiKTeX 2.7 + Windows XP.

/Paul

Re: Printing is weird... funny hash lines

[Paul A. Rubin]

Kenward Vaughan wrote:

Sorry, I don't know whether this is LyX or LaTeX.  When I print out
documents generated by LyX, I see weird marks on the paper not seen in
the screen copy. They are horizontal, very small, and seem to mark the
heights of (some of) the characters on the page. Those capitals which
have it are most apparent, but some other lowercase letters have this
line as well.

Now all the lowercase t's now have cute forward hat visors on them
(for lack of a better way to describe it). 


I've narrowed the problem down to the use of the default font.  If I
choose Roman or Sans Serif for the font family it goes away.

???  What's messed up?  Who should I complain to?  This is Debian Sid
(behaving appropriately at the moment... ;-)

Thanks for any help!




Can you post a small example (LyX file plus DVI or PDF showing the 
spurious lines)?


/Paul

Re: Removing languages

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-24, Dotan Cohen wrote:
 Please, explain exactly how you see this..

 ..then implementing this would me much faster.

 Where do you set the languages used in toggling ?
 Should this be stored in the LyX file ?

 I would imagine a button on the toolbar, that would toggle between
 preconfigured input languages. Somewhere in the options these
 languages would be configured.

 Anyone with a language bar on their task bar will be familiar with the
 concept.

I'd rather outsource the Language setting from EditText StyleCustom
to a separate menu item or dialogue and toggle between the document
language (Revert in the current dialogue) and the last-used Language
from the new widget. First time use of the button would pop-up the
Language selector.

Günter

Re: Minitoc and book (KOMA-Script) under LyX

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 09:06:47 am Nikos Alexandris wrote:
 Hi all!

 [Using LyX 1.6.1 under Ubuntu II/ 64-bit, book(KOMA-Script)]

 I've decided to use the minitoc package. I would like to have (as many
 others would like to have :-) a _SectionToC_ for each Chapter (except
 the 1st) in the beginning, of course, of each Chapter, listing Sections
 (x.x) and Subsections (x.x.x).


   * *
\ o /
 \|/ 
  |   C O O L
 / \  _  
/   \/
   /
  -

I've been looking for a way to put a list of sections on the chapter start 
page for years. Minitoc package, huh? I'll have to try it.

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

Re: Minitoc and book (KOMA-Script) under LyX

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 11:17 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
 On Tuesday 24 February 2009 09:06:47 am Nikos Alexandris wrote:
  Hi all!
 
  [Using LyX 1.6.1 under Ubuntu II/ 64-bit, book(KOMA-Script)]
 
  I've decided to use the minitoc package. I would like to have (as many
  others would like to have :-) a _SectionToC_ for each Chapter (except
  the 1st) in the beginning, of course, of each Chapter, listing Sections
  (x.x) and Subsections (x.x.x).
 
 
* *
 \ o /
  \|/ 
   |   C O O L
  / \  _  
 /   \/
/
   -
 
 I've been looking for a way to put a list of sections on the chapter start 
 page for years. Minitoc package, huh? I'll have to try it.
 
 Thanks
 
 SteveT


It works... finally :D

I needed to add the \mtcaddchapter command in the Introduction (since
my Introduction was defined with \Addchap) just before the \minitoc
command.

It really looks nice. I am playing around with it since I don't want the
page number to appear... just the structure.

Cheers, Nikos
---

BTW: SteveT, thanks for your valuable experience you offer in the list
from time to time.

Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 06:04:36 am NinaNutz wrote:
 Hello all,

 I have a big problem... My thesis is finished and I cannot compile the
 complete pdf. When I export to pdf (any option) I only export 52 pages. My
 thesis is 350 pages more or less... but I cannot compile the complete one.
 The list of contents, figures and tables doesn't appears either.

 What can I do? Lyx doesn't show any mistake, every works ok apparently, but
 I only can export 52 pages...

 The version of lyx that I'm using is lyx 1.6.1

 Please, I need help...

OK, first take a deep breath, stretch, and calm down. It's just a technical 
problem, you'll solve it.

First things first: Back up your existing file so if you screw it up farther 
you can get back to where you are now. Once backed up, continue...

In addition to the other suggestions you've received, I'd like you to try 
export to .dvi, using the following:

lyx -e dvi myfile.lyx
dvisee myfile.dvi

or

xdvi myfile.dvi

or if you use Windows, whatever dvi viewer you have.

Either you'll get 350 pages, 52 pages, no result, or something else. If you 
get 52 pages, it's not specific to PDF -- there's something else going on. 
More on that later.

If it's 350 pages, there's something different about the way you're exporting 
to PDF. Take the next step and convert the dvi to postscript like this:

dvips -o myfile.ps myfile.dvi

Does it still have 350 pages? If so, convert from there to PDF:

ps2pdf myfile.ps

Does it still have 350?

The preceding procedure will help you figure out where in the 
lyx-dvi-ps-pdf conversion chain the problem is happening. If that doesn't 
yield good results, don't worry, there are many other diagnostic tests you 
can perform to get to the root of the problem.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

Re: includeonly

[Rudi Gaelzer]

On Friday 17 October 2008 04:57:07 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Guenter Milde wrote:
  none of e.g.
 
  \includeonly{thermisch}
 
  or
 
  \includeonly{Thermisch/thermisch}
 
  seems to work.

 Yes. This doesn't work with LyX, unfortunately.

  Is there some kind of filename mangling when the tex files are generated
  in the temporary dir?

 Yes, this is the reason.

 Jürgen

What is the alternative for LyX 1.6.1?

I mean, if one wants to process a single chapter in the middle of a multi-
chapter document, but needs to retain all the previous information, such as 
page/chapter numbering, cross-references, etc, how can this be accomplished by 
LyX?

Thanks.
-- 
Rudi Gaelzer
Department of Physics
Institute of Physics and Mathematics
Federal University of Pelotas
BRAZIL
Registered linux user # 153741

Package manager

[Ehud Kaplan]

I realize that this is not a specific Lyx question, but someone here 
might know the answer.
My main problem in running Lyx (or Latex) on Linux is the lack of a nice 
package manager like Miktex is on Windows.
I heard that TexLive has a package manager, but I have not been able to 
find it.

Can anyone help?
Thanks,

--
Ehud Kaplan

Re: Package manager

[Stefano Franchi]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 10:38:50 Ehud Kaplan wrote:
 I realize that this is not a specific Lyx question, but someone here
 might know the answer.
 My main problem in running Lyx (or Latex) on Linux is the lack of a nice
 package manager like Miktex is on Windows.
 I heard that TexLive has a package manager, but I have not been able to
 find it.
 Can anyone help?
 Thanks,

I believe the latest TexLive (2008) has a package manager. However, many Linux 
distribution (like (K)Ubuntu) are still stuck withTexLive 2007---hence no 
package manager. One option is  to download the TexLive 2008 DVD and install 
it manually. Another option is to wait for the next version of (K)Ubuntu which 
should have TeXLive 2008.

See here for TeXlive package manager and various caveats:

http://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html

the DVD download canbe reached from here:  

http://www.tug.org/texlive/index.html


Cheers,

S.
__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy          Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: Package manager

[Ehud Kaplan]

By the way-- if I chose to install texlive from the ISO image, do I need 
to uninstall the previous version?


Stefano Franchi wrote:

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 10:38:50 Ehud Kaplan wrote:
  

I realize that this is not a specific Lyx question, but someone here
might know the answer.
My main problem in running Lyx (or Latex) on Linux is the lack of a nice
package manager like Miktex is on Windows.
I heard that TexLive has a package manager, but I have not been able to
find it.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,



I believe the latest TexLive (2008) has a package manager. However, many Linux 
distribution (like (K)Ubuntu) are still stuck withTexLive 2007---hence no 
package manager. One option is  to download the TexLive 2008 DVD and install 
it manually. Another option is to wait for the next version of (K)Ubuntu which 
should have TeXLive 2008.


See here for TeXlive package manager and various caveats:

http://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html

the DVD download canbe reached from here:  


http://www.tug.org/texlive/index.html


Cheers,

S.
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Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237


  


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Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Stefano Franchi]

I am starting to work on the final editing of  a long manuscript and I would 
very much appreciate the option to click on a page in the pdf viewer app and 
jump directly to the corresponding block of text in the source file.

I do not think this is possible with LyX, presently---am I  wrong?

If not, does anyone know of a similar facility for LaTeX? I vaguely remember 
something along this line as (perhaps) an Emacs mode plus a specific pdf (or 
dvi, I am not sure) reader. I tried googling, but I am not sure how this 
option would be called, so my results were meagre.

Thanks for  the help,
S.


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Department of Philosophy          Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Pavel Sanda]

Stefano Franchi wrote:
 I am starting to work on the final editing of  a long manuscript and I would 
 very much appreciate the option to click on a page in the pdf viewer app and 
 jump directly to the corresponding block of text in the source file.
 
 I do not think this is possible with LyX, presently---am I  wrong?

http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94

pavel

Re: Minitoc and book (KOMA-Script) under LyX

[Nikos Alexandris]

Just reporting that I use the following in the Preamble which gives nice
mini-tables:

% Mini Table of Contents
% package: minitoc (aka mini-table)
\usepackage{minitoc}

% title of minitoc
% e.g. for Overview use \mtcsettitle{minitoc}{Overview}

% for empty title
\mtcsettitle{minitoc}{}

% turn off rules before and after the minitoc's
\mtcsetrules{minitoc}{off}

% turn off page numbering in minitoc's
\mtcsetpagenumbers{minitoc}{off}


Don't forget:

   * In the beginning of the document use an \dominitoc ERT
   * For each chapter a \minitoc ERT is required.
   * For \Add* commands an extra \mtcadd* is required


Kind regards, Nikos

Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Stefano Franchi]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 11:42:30 Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Stefano Franchi wrote:
  I am starting to work on the final editing of  a long manuscript and I
  would very much appreciate the option to click on a page in the pdf
  viewer app and jump directly to the corresponding block of text in the
  source file.
 
  I do not think this is possible with LyX, presently---am I  wrong?

 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94

 pavel


Thanks Pavel.

If I understood the bugzilla exchange correctly, the situation is:

1. Reverse seaerching (I guess that's the term) works from kdvi to a Latex file 
opened in a standard editor

2. Georg Baum provided a patch that would  make it work from kdvi to LyX, but 
the patch never made into released version of Lyx, for reasons unknown (as of 
2/24/09)


So there is a workaround, and there is hope!

Cheers,

S.


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Department of Philosophy          Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Pavel Sanda]

Stefano Franchi wrote:
 On Tuesday 24 February 2009 11:42:30 Pavel Sanda wrote:
  Stefano Franchi wrote:
   I am starting to work on the final editing of  a long manuscript and I
   would very much appreciate the option to click on a page in the pdf
   viewer app and jump directly to the corresponding block of text in the
   source file.
  
   I do not think this is possible with LyX, presently---am I  wrong?
 
  http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94
 
  pavel
 
 
 Thanks Pavel.
 
 If I understood the bugzilla exchange correctly, the situation is:

there was very lenghty discussion
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg87046.html
from which is seems everybody wanted it in the tree so it seems like
a mystery its not already there :)


 
 1. Reverse seaerching (I guess that's the term) works from kdvi to a Latex 
 file 
 opened in a standard editor

 2. Georg Baum provided a patch that would  make it work from kdvi to LyX, but 
 the patch never made into released version of Lyx, for reasons unknown (as of 
 2/24/09)
 
 
 So there is a workaround, and there is hope!

i just tried to use this patch, unfortunately most of the code moved around
so its not easy to patch it again. on the other hand, the changes which are 
needed look like more of mechanical work then some actual rewrite...

CC-ing to Georg, Joao and lyx-devel.
may be somebody knows what was the problem.

pavel

Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Nina,
you might have solved your problem in the meantime. If not, just one thought: 
What happens, if you take out the Bibliography at the end of you document and 
run it again? If a reference is the offending part, it should run. Are you 
incidently using koma-script and two column page style? I have often problems 
with it, but do get a latex-log output of this kind
pdftex error
\pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pd

The error is not easy to find, have a look at:

http://ftp.tug.org/mail-archives/pdftex/2002-February/002216.html

and read the remedy below

latex log: 
fstartlink.
to be read again 
   \endgroup \...@typeset@protect 
l.3087 


remedy:
add 'draft' option to hyperref:
\usepackage[draft]{hyperref}
recompile document
pdf output
citation whose latter half begins the page where pdflatex aborted
rearrange text to avoid linebrake
remove draft option

Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Stefano Franchi wrote:

If I understood the bugzilla exchange correctly, the situation is:

1. Reverse seaerching (I guess that's the term) works from kdvi to a Latex file 
opened in a standard editor


It works on the Mac using Skim as pdf-viewer and pdfsync (no 
synctex-support as of now in LyX).


Skim simply calls
  lyxeditor @file @line

The same should be possible with any other better DVI/PDF viewer. So in 
LyX the necessary infrastructure is there (at least on Mac and Linux).


/Konrad

Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Pavel Sanda]

Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
 Stefano Franchi wrote:
 If I understood the bugzilla exchange correctly, the situation is:
 1. Reverse seaerching (I guess that's the term) works from kdvi to a Latex 
 file opened in a standard editor

 It works on the Mac using Skim as pdf-viewer and pdfsync (no 
 synctex-support as of now in LyX).

 Skim simply calls
   lyxeditor @file @line

 The same should be possible with any other better DVI/PDF viewer. So in LyX 
 the necessary infrastructure is there (at least on Mac and Linux).

you claim this works out of the box? havent you changed your convertor scripts
/ document header or so?

where does this 'lyxeditor' points to?
pavel

Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Pavel Sanda]

Pavel Sanda wrote:
lyxeditor @file @line
 
  The same should be possible with any other better DVI/PDF viewer. So in LyX 
  the necessary infrastructure is there (at least on Mac and Linux).
 
 you claim this works out of the box? havent you changed your convertor scripts
 / document header or so?
 
 where does this 'lyxeditor' points to?

now i see we distribute in our tarball :) it seems to be mac-related script
and also looking http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc11 seems other things need to
be done.

anyway the same seems to be doable in linux as well with some kind of tweaking
around. one need to use xdvi and pass some external script which sends
proper server-goto-file-row lfun to lyx.

i have even found some old reference to cygwin solution
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg63984.html

pavel

Figure Numbering Error

[Makhoma]

 I don't think this has been answered before, but I am running into an 'error
undefined' problem when trying to export to pdf. I have placed the
\counterwithin{figure}{section} to the preamble and selected the AMS package
as I should, I was able to get \numberwithin{equation}{section} to work that
way. When I have it in the preamble it gives me the error, when I take it
out it exports normally, but all my figures are numbered sequentially
throughout.

 Perhaps I am missing a file, and if so: what file is it and where do I put
it so this works?

 If this is needed, I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and am using Lyx version 1.5.3
-- 
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Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Pavel Sanda]

Pavel Sanda wrote:
 anyway the same seems to be doable in linux as well with some kind of tweaking
 around. one need to use xdvi and pass some external script which sends
 proper server-goto-file-row lfun to lyx.

or even simpler: lyxclient -g file line
pavel

Re: Figure Numbering Error

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Makhoma j.d.woo...@gmail.com wrote:

  I don't think this has been answered before, but I am running into an 'error
 undefined' problem when trying to export to pdf. I have placed the
 \counterwithin{figure}{section} to the preamble and selected the AMS package
 as I should, I was able to get \numberwithin{equation}{section} to work that
 way. When I have it in the preamble it gives me the error, when I take it
 out it exports normally, but all my figures are numbered sequentially
 throughout.

  Perhaps I am missing a file, and if so: what file is it and where do I put
 it so this works?

  If this is needed, I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and am using Lyx version 1.5.3
 --
 View this message in context: 
 http://n2.nabble.com/Figure-Numbering-Error-tp2380764p2380764.html
 Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.



Isn't it:
\numberwithin{figure}{section}
not:
\counterwithin{figure}{section}

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[NinaNutz]

Thank you everyone. I found the error. Really I needed a deep breath. The
problem was in the figures. When I inserted the figures (I had a lot of pair of
figures (subfigures) like floating) I used the lyx 1.44 and I couldn't center
all the figures editing the preamble, so I marked every pairs of figures and I
centered with the corresponding button.

Then I installed the new versions and in the version 1.6.1 it appeared a latex
command before and after these figures. I don't know exactly why, some of these
figures didn't work and the export to pdf stopped without any mistake. I suspect
that the problem was in how I selected the figures to center it, because a few
of them worked and other one didn't...

Re: Package manager

[Neal Becker]

Stefano Franchi wrote:

 On Tuesday 24 February 2009 10:38:50 Ehud Kaplan wrote:
 I realize that this is not a specific Lyx question, but someone here
 might know the answer.
 My main problem in running Lyx (or Latex) on Linux is the lack of a nice
 package manager like Miktex is on Windows.
 I heard that TexLive has a package manager, but I have not been able to
 find it.
 Can anyone help?
 Thanks,
 
 I believe the latest TexLive (2008) has a package manager. However, many
 Linux distribution (like (K)Ubuntu) are still stuck withTexLive
 2007---hence no
 package manager. One option is  to download the TexLive 2008 DVD and
 install it manually. Another option is to wait for the next version of
 (K)Ubuntu which should have TeXLive 2008.
 
 See here for TeXlive package manager and various caveats:
 
 http://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html
 
 the DVD download canbe reached from here:
 
 http://www.tug.org/texlive/index.html
 

1. What's wrong with yum as package manager?

2. You can install tl2008.  I have been using it on fedora f10 with good 
results.

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

[Typhoon]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:06:09 +0100
Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de wrote:

 On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 21:48 -0500, rgheck wrote:
  Nikos Alexandris wrote:
   On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 09:10 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
 
   Yes, I have installed the tex4ht package long ago. And never
   had luck nor for odt export neither for html export.
  
   Nikos
  
   I am in Ubuntu 8.04, I just know from this forum that LyX can
   export to 
   OpenDocument, with the help of LaTeX package tex4ht. I then
   installed text4ht from Synaptic and it requires the dependent
   text4ht-common. Perhaps you need to double check whether you
   installed  this common file, not only tex4ht.
   Now It works for me (after reconfigure LyX).. I can see File 
   Export  OpenDocument. I tested ... yes it creates odt file
   which I can open in OpenOffice 3.
   ---
   was
   
  
   Hi was!
  
   Both tex4ht and -common installed. Also the entry OpenDocument is
   there since long ago. Nothing works unfortunately. I don't have
   the time to try tracing the problem currently.
  
 
  And you're sure it's in your path? Basically, the short version
  here is: Make sure it works from the command line; if not, it won't
  work in LyX; if yes, it should.
  
  rh
 
 Richard,
 
 # /usr/bin is in $PATH (...imagine a linux-box without /usr/bin in
 $PATH :-O).
 
 and
 
 $ whereis tex4ht
 tex4ht: /usr/bin/tex4ht /etc/tex4ht /usr/share/tex4ht 
 /usr/share/man/man1/tex4ht.1.gz
 
 So, it's not that. I am still learning LyX and LaTeX so it's not easy
 to recognize where I should start searching. And, as I already said,
 my time is limited (like every-one's of course :-).

LyX uses the oolatex script to export to open document. On my Debian
Lenny, tex4ht is in the path, but oolatex is
in /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex, which is NOT on the path. Since Ubuntu is
a Debian rip-off :-) it may be the same there.

Fix with a symbolic link: 
ln -s /usr/local/bin/oolatex /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex

Cheers,
Alan
 
 Thanks for your concern, Nikos
 
 

html footnotes

[jf7]

Hi, My footnotes are all coming out in italics when I export to html.  
This does not happen with DVI or PDF. But I use html export a lot so  
am looking for a solution.


In Preferences  File Handling  Converters  LaTeX - HTML  I've been  
successfully using htlatex to export html files. And it works great.  
But,...


My original problem was that footnotes were all placed in  
separately-linked html files. I didn't like that. So I searched and  
found an addition to the parameters that solved that --- by adding  
,fn-in to the parameters.


htlatex $$i xhtml,fn-in

I've failed to find the parameter change or addition to format the  
footnotes normally. Does anyone here know the secret?


thanks much,

jamie faunt

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-25, Typhoon wrote:

  And you're sure it's in your path? Basically, the short version
  here is: Make sure it works from the command line; if not, it won't
  work in LyX; if yes, it should.

 LyX uses the oolatex script to export to open document. On my Debian
 Lenny, tex4ht is in the path, but oolatex is
 in /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex, which is NOT on the path. Since Ubuntu is
 a Debian rip-off :-) it may be the same there.

 Fix with a symbolic link: 
 ln -s /usr/local/bin/oolatex /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex

Or with the converter entry as in Debian:

  mk4ht oolatex $$i
  
as mk4ht is a perl wrapper script around oolatex which is in the path.

However, exporting a doc with the single line hello world produced a
corrupted file (ooffice asked whether to repair it and showed an empty
file then, while abiword displayed some garbage: 
pk???...@y:¤ŸíMF???S???

Debian/testing with tex4ht.c (2007-11-07-16:08 kpathsea)

Günter

Re: Printing is weird... funny hash lines

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 Kenward Vaughan wrote:
  Sorry, I don't know whether this is LyX or LaTeX.  When I print out
  documents generated by LyX, I see weird marks on the paper not seen
  in the screen copy. They are horizontal, very small, and seem to
...
 Can you post a small example (LyX file plus DVI or PDF showing the
 spurious lines)?

 /Paul

That's what was weird.  It happened with the printed version, not the 
screen version.  I'm thinking it may have been an issue outside of LyX, 
unless LyX provides the default fonts used (which I know it doesn't).

The reason for using past tense is that I can no longer reproduce it.  
Having been concentrating on that one document for the time being, and 
then grading in the interim, I hadn't experienced anything new until 
your response... ;-)

Now it won't come up.  I've upgraded the system at least once, and know 
texlive was part of that, so I think it was a font issue within the 
package.  Hope so, at least.  For the moment, a non-problem.

I appreciate your response, though, Paul.  Thank you!


Kenward
-- 
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be 
_teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, 
because passing civilization along from one generation to the next 
ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone 
could have. - Lee Iacocca

Re: includeonly

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-24, Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
 On Friday 17 October 2008 04:57:07 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Guenter Milde wrote:
  none of e.g.
 
  \includeonly{thermisch}
 
  or
 
  \includeonly{Thermisch/thermisch}
 
  seems to work.

 Yes. This doesn't work with LyX, unfortunately.

  Is there some kind of filename mangling when the tex files are generated
  in the temporary dir?

 Yes, this is the reason.

 What is the alternative for LyX 1.6.1?

 I mean, if one wants to process a single chapter in the middle of a
 multi- chapter document, but needs to retain all the previous
 information, such as page/chapter numbering, cross-references, etc, how
 can this be accomplished by LyX?

It works, if you have all the sub-documents in the same directory.

You can also try to disable the use temporary directory option (this
was in pre 1.6 maybe you get this by leaving the DocumentSettingsPaths:
Temp setting empty now.)

You could search in the temporary dir (/tmp/lyx_tmpdir*/ on my Debian
system) for the given filename. But this is likely to change with every
re-opening of LyX.

Otherwise you really need to process the whole document and then select
the appropriate pages in the viewer.

Last but not least: File an enhancement request to bugzilla or vote for
it if it is already there.

Günter

I cannot compile to a pdf

[NinaNutz]

Hello all,

I have a big problem... My thesis is finished and I cannot compile the complete
pdf. When I export to pdf (any option) I only export 52 pages. My thesis is 350
pages more or less... but I cannot compile the complete one. The list of
contents, figures and tables doesn't appears either.

What can I do? Lyx doesn't show any mistake, every works ok apparently, but I
only can export 52 pages...

The version of lyx that I'm using is lyx 1.6.1

Please, I need help... 

Re: Problem reading (import) Mathcad html file:XML input

[Hubert Christiaen]

If the Mathcad proram can output XML, there might be a chance to use that. I 
found a lot of texts about using TeX for outputting XML, but very few for 
inputting XML in TeX. The best references are:

Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
xmltex: A non validating (and not 100% conforming) namespace aware XML parser 
implemented in TeX
http://www.dcarlisle.demon.co.uk/xmltex/manual.html
Available from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xmltex/base/

For Python programmers: http://www.pytex.org/#XML

And an unevaluated link: 
http://www.elml.ch/website/en/html/output_latex.html : From XML to PDF via 
LaTeX

Sincerely,
Hubert

-- 
Hubert Christiaen
Bloesemlaan 17
3360 Korbeek-Lo
Belgium   

Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[NinaNutz]

NinaNutz lamari...@... writes:

I tried to uninstall and reinstall the previous version 1.5.6 and it happens the
same...

I really don't know what to do...

RE: Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

NinaNutz lamari...@... writes:

I tried to uninstall and reinstall the previous version 1.5.6 and it
happens the same...

I really don't know what to do...


Isn't there something strange at the 53th page. Look for possible
sources of error there.

Otherwise try to compile the document from the command line and look for
error messages (Export-Latex plain and then run latex).

Vincent

Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[Konrad Hofbauer]

NinaNutz wrote:

I have a big problem... My thesis is finished and I cannot compile the complete
pdf. When I export to pdf (any option) I only export 52 pages. My thesis is 350
pages more or less... but I cannot compile the complete one. The list of
contents, figures and tables doesn't appears either.


Is there anything suspicious (warnings or errors) in Document-Latex Log 
(there probably is)?


Make a copy of your LyX file, and then in that copy, delete big parts of 
 the document, export to PDF, see if it works, put the part back in 
(undo), delete a smaller part, ... Thus, trying to narrow down where the 
problem comes from.


Usually within half an hour or so (or much shorter), you know what the 
offending part is.


HTH,
Konrad

Re: How to get a modified Enumerate style?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-24, Laser Yuan wrote:

 I need to write an description for an algorithm in my paper, which includes
 several steps . Basically the Enumerate style will fit my purpose. Except
 that I want a sequence like this:

 Step 1 ...
...
 Step 2
...

 instead of

 1. .
 ...
 2. .
 ...

 Any method could achieve this style? Thanks in advance!

Have a look at the customization possibilities of the enumitem package:
http://dante.ctan.org/CTAN/help/Catalogue/entries/enumitem.html
available for LyX with the enumitem module:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Enumitem

Günter

Re: listings package problem

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-23, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
 On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 08:12 +, Guenter Milde wrote:
 On 2009-02-22, Nikos Alexandris wrote:

  I guess it's a font-specific issue. Too bad because Bera looks great.

 Txtt:
 Set the typewriter font to Default in the GUI and write in the preamble
 \renewcommand{\ttdefault}{txtt}

 Not bad (the font in general). Yet:

 i. the backticks still look like ticks

How do they look like in the first place? A minimal example file might help.

 ii. I loose the scale option which is there in the gui (I suppose I
 can scale all typewriter fonts through the preamble as well)

Yes and No, 

* you can scale all fonts, if you read and understand fntguide.pdf and write
  the cumbersome medium-level latex code in the preamble.
  
* you can only scale fonts with a simple option if the font package supports
  this (in the LyX GUI, the scale box will grey out if the package does not
  support scaling).  

Günter

Re: English appearing backwards

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-23, Dotan Cohen wrote:
 For LyX (or LaTeX) it is important to know in what language you are
 writing. Not only the directionality, but also font encoding (while LyX
 uses Unicode by now, LaTeX does not) and hyphenation depend on this.

 I see, I did not realize that LaTeX does not support unicode. I
 suppose that it never will, from what I've been reading the past few
 days it looks like there will be no new features added.

The TeX descendant XeTeX fully supports Unicode and OpenFont fonts. It is
currently not directly supported by LyX (but workarounds exist, search
wiki.lyx.org).


 Still, a keyboard switch hotkey could also be programmed to send a
 language changing command to lyx via the lyxserver.

 I would very much like to know how to do that.

This depends on your OS and Desktop. Some desktops allow keybindings to
start a specified command: now this command could be a script performing
both tasks. 

* The lyxserver is described in the LyX documentation.
  I use it from Python with my PyLyX package
  (http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/PyClient).
* I do not know anything about keyboard layout switching except that
  there are programms/commands doing this.

 I remember that one Israeli user reported to use an English keyboard
 setting on the system level together with the hebrew kmap in LyX, so
 this might be a starting point...

 Would you happen to know his name, email address, or a text snippet
 that I could google to find his post?

If I remember right, it was Dekel Tsur responding to my suggestion to
drop support of kmaps in LyX some years ago.

But looking in HelpConfiguration for kmaps and in the LYXDIR for
hebrew.kmap will help.

Günter

Re: Removing languages

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-23, Nikos Alexandris wrote:
 On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 07:27 +, Guenter Milde wrote:

 IMO, there is room for a better UI than hiding language switching
 under EditText-StyleCustom. 

 Also, the apply last style button would become more useful if it would
 not mix change of font size (or family) with change of language.

 How about a separate toggle-language button? In most cases, a document
 switches between at most 2 languages (native language and English, say). 

 Günter


 +1 (from an end-user) for a separate _language_ button.

So who is going to file an enhancement request to bugzilla.lyx.org?

GM

Re: English appearing backwards

[Dotan Cohen]

Thanks, Gunter. I will put some time into this.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il

א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي
А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я
а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я
ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Re: Removing languages

[Dotan Cohen]

 +1 (from an end-user) for a separate _language_ button.

 So who is going to file an enhancement request to bugzilla.lyx.org?


Give me a few minutes...


-- 
Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il

א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي
А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я
а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я
ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

RE: Removing languages

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 


 +1 (from an end-user) for a separate _language_ button.

 So who is going to file an enhancement request to bugzilla.lyx.org?


Give me a few minutes...


Please, explain exactly how you see this.. 

..then implementing this would me much faster.

Where do you set the languages used in toggling ? 
Should this be stored in the LyX file ?

Vincent

Minitoc and book (KOMA-Script) under LyX

[Nikos Alexandris]

Hi all!

[Using LyX 1.6.1 under Ubuntu II/ 64-bit, book(KOMA-Script)]

I've decided to use the minitoc package. I would like to have (as many
others would like to have :-) a _SectionToC_ for each Chapter (except
the 1st) in the beginning, of course, of each Chapter, listing Sections
(x.x) and Subsections (x.x.x). 

I have read a lot of stuff [1] [2] [3] but I would like to have
beforehand a more complex example implemented with LyX (more complex
than the example given in [4]) in order to get going.


Currently I use:

   * \usepackage{minitoc} in the Preamble

   * \dominitoc somewhere in the beginning of my document

   * \minitoc in the Introduction (note: Introduction is Addchap and
all of its Sections are Addsec), in Chapter 2, in Chapter 3 and in
Chapter 4.


The result is that:

   * the minitoc does not appear in the Introduction (probably it has
to do with the Add* commands)

   * it does not appear in the 2nd Chapter.

   * it does appear in Chapter 3. _But_ it does not correspond to
Chapter 2. Instead it lists the Sections of the Introduction!

   * it doeas appear in Chapter 4, but as above, it shows the Sections
of the previous Chapter, that is Chapter 3.


Would be nice to have an option in LyX for that.
Kind regards, Nikos
---

[1]
ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minitoc/minitoc.pdf

[2] Several posts in the LyX-mailing list archive (search-keyword:
minitoc)

[3] (In German, almost in the end of the page)
http://www.matthiaspospiech.de/latex/vorlagen/allgemein/preambel/13/#toc-verzeichnisse

[4] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Minitoc

Re: listings package problem

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 11:20 +0100, Manveru wrote:
 2009/2/22 Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de:
  [ I am posting a listing-related problem here instead of starting a new
  thread. ]
 
  I now realise how powerful is the listing package. I used some R code
  and setting the fonts to BeraMono gives a very nice and highlighted code
  in the output.
 
  There is only one *important* problem though: usually the _backticks_
  (used in *nix-like OSes to execute a command within, let's say, from
  another command) appear as to have a top-left to bottom-right direction.
  With my current setting (Typewriter font set to BeraMono and language
  set to _bash_) the _backticks_ look very similar to the... well, the
  _ticks_!
 
  I guess it's a font-specific issue. Too bad because Bera looks great.
 
  Any other recommendation? Kind regards, Nikos
 
 If you use bash, there is another form of commands substitution other
 than `backticks`. It is $(command) form. It may solve problems with
 formatting and become more recognizable in your code examples.
 

Manveru, thanks for the tip. However, I insist in using the backticks.
It's easy and gives a bettwe overview in a command like...

NEWNAME=MOD${YEAR}_${RESOLUTION}_`echo ${i} | cut -d':' -f5
   | cut -d_ -f1,2,3 | sed 's+\_1++g' | sed 's+\_250m++g' |
sed 's+\_500m++g'`

Cheers, Nikos

Re: listings package problem

[Nikos Alexandris]

Nikos:
I guess it's a font-specific issue. Too bad because Bera looks great.


Guenter:
  Txtt:
  Set the typewriter font to Default in the GUI and write in the preamble
  \renewcommand{\ttdefault}{txtt}


Nikos:
  Not bad (the font in general). Yet:
  i. the backticks still look like ticks


Guenter:
 How do they look like in the first place? A minimal example file might help.


Nikos:
No need for an example here I think. It' simple: a backtick is _`_, a
tick (or a single-quote!?) is _'_. The backtick is usually below the Esc
key in most keyboards. The single wuote is well, usually in the same key
where the double quote lies. They should appear in the pdf like here in
this e-mail. Instead one cannot tell their difference in the output when
I use Bera as a typewriter font. Courier shows them better but, again, I
can't scale the font (I think...).

[ Sorry if I messed-up the terms a bit (tick ~ single-quote) ]

Any experiences for using long bash-like commands with LyX, KOMA-Script?
Kind regards, Nikos

Re: Removing languages

[Dotan Cohen]

 Please, explain exactly how you see this..

 ..then implementing this would me much faster.

 Where do you set the languages used in toggling ?
 Should this be stored in the LyX file ?

 Vincent


I would imagine a button on the toolbar, that would toggle between
preconfigured input languages. Somewhere in the options these
languages would be configured.

Anyone with a language bar on their task bar will be familiar with the concept.

In any case, I am not getting the confirmation mail from bugzilla. Who
can troubleshoot this? It's not my spam filters.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il

א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي
А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я
а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я
ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Re: Minitoc and book (KOMA-Script) under LyX

[Nikos Alexandris]

I am testing the \mtcaddchapter command. I'll probably figure this out.
If not I will _bump_ :-p

Sorry the for the mail-traffic, Nikos

Re: Program Listing

[Graham]

Paul A. Rubin ru...@... writes:

Thanks Paul, that works fine.

I was using float.

Graham

Problem compiling IEEEtran Standard Template (bare_jrnl.tex)

[Bob McKay]

My apologies if this has been asked before, but I couldn't find anything
directly relevant in the archives. I'm hitting a problem with IEEEtran and
LyX; it would be great if anyone could help to work out whether it is a
problem in what I'm doing, or perhaps a bug. I should add that I'm
reasonably familiar with TeX/LaTeX, but new to LyX, so apologies if I'm
missing something obvious.
Versions:
LyX 1.6.1 (linux and Mac OSX versions both show the problem)
pdfTeX pi-1.40.9-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.7) from the TeXLive distribution
IEEEtran bare_jrnl.tex V1.3
IEEEtran.cls V1.7a
IEEEtran.layout - no version number that I can find, but the one included
with LyX 1.6.1

I downloaded the most recent version of the IEEEtran template document from
the IEEE website, imported it into LyX, and tried to typeset it (unchanged)
using ps2pdf. Result:
Error popup from LyX / LaTeX: Paragraph ended before \markboth was complete.

An error also appears on standard error (I'm launching LyX from a terminal):

Error in latexParagraphs: You should not mix title layouts with normal ones.

On the other hand, typesetting bare_jrnl.tex with LaTeX works fine.

I think the problem might lie in the importing. Once imported into LyX, only
the first argument to \markboth shows as having markboth style (the second
argument just shows as standard), but I'm not certain how the styles of a
two-argument macro are normally treated in LyX.

I realise there have been previously reported bugs relating IEEEtran, LyX
and babel, but my understanding is that those were fixed in LyX 1.5.

It's not an urgent problem for me (I just deleted the whole markboth
section, since I'm just using it for a class demo, and markboth isn't
relevant - this fixed the problem), but I thought I should report it.

Thanks for any feedback.

Bob

Re: xy-pic oddities

[Paul A. Rubin]

Pol wrote:

While the single arrow in command
\xymatrix{A \ar[r] B}
is displayed by lyx, three arrow graph in command
\xymatrix{   p,a  \\ p \ar[r] \ar[ur] \ar[dr]   p,n  \\   p,e  }
is undisplayed (yet correctly printed out)

Any ideas?
Any matrix or array specifications needed in the preamble?

thank you
---P




FWIW, I pasted your three arrow code into a new document in LyX (with 
\usepackage[all]{xy} in the preamble), and instant preview displayed it 
with three arrow heads but only one arrow (the middle one).  I also 
threw in another math inset with an integral, and instant preview did 
not display the integral sign.


Then I saved and closed the document and reopened it (without leaving 
LyX) and IP got everything right.  I've had other adventures like this 
with IP -- not sure what goes on.


This is LyX 1.6.1 + MiKTeX 2.7 + Windows XP.

/Paul

Re: Printing is weird... funny hash lines

[Paul A. Rubin]

Kenward Vaughan wrote:

Sorry, I don't know whether this is LyX or LaTeX.  When I print out
documents generated by LyX, I see weird marks on the paper not seen in
the screen copy. They are horizontal, very small, and seem to mark the
heights of (some of) the characters on the page. Those capitals which
have it are most apparent, but some other lowercase letters have this
line as well.

Now all the lowercase t's now have cute forward hat visors on them
(for lack of a better way to describe it). 


I've narrowed the problem down to the use of the default font.  If I
choose Roman or Sans Serif for the font family it goes away.

???  What's messed up?  Who should I complain to?  This is Debian Sid
(behaving appropriately at the moment... ;-)

Thanks for any help!




Can you post a small example (LyX file plus DVI or PDF showing the 
spurious lines)?


/Paul

Re: Removing languages

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-24, Dotan Cohen wrote:
 Please, explain exactly how you see this..

 ..then implementing this would me much faster.

 Where do you set the languages used in toggling ?
 Should this be stored in the LyX file ?

 I would imagine a button on the toolbar, that would toggle between
 preconfigured input languages. Somewhere in the options these
 languages would be configured.

 Anyone with a language bar on their task bar will be familiar with the
 concept.

I'd rather outsource the Language setting from EditText StyleCustom
to a separate menu item or dialogue and toggle between the document
language (Revert in the current dialogue) and the last-used Language
from the new widget. First time use of the button would pop-up the
Language selector.

Günter

Re: Minitoc and book (KOMA-Script) under LyX

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 09:06:47 am Nikos Alexandris wrote:
 Hi all!

 [Using LyX 1.6.1 under Ubuntu II/ 64-bit, book(KOMA-Script)]

 I've decided to use the minitoc package. I would like to have (as many
 others would like to have :-) a _SectionToC_ for each Chapter (except
 the 1st) in the beginning, of course, of each Chapter, listing Sections
 (x.x) and Subsections (x.x.x).


   * *
\ o /
 \|/ 
  |   C O O L
 / \  _  
/   \/
   /
  -

I've been looking for a way to put a list of sections on the chapter start 
page for years. Minitoc package, huh? I'll have to try it.

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

Re: Minitoc and book (KOMA-Script) under LyX

[Nikos Alexandris]

On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 11:17 -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
 On Tuesday 24 February 2009 09:06:47 am Nikos Alexandris wrote:
  Hi all!
 
  [Using LyX 1.6.1 under Ubuntu II/ 64-bit, book(KOMA-Script)]
 
  I've decided to use the minitoc package. I would like to have (as many
  others would like to have :-) a _SectionToC_ for each Chapter (except
  the 1st) in the beginning, of course, of each Chapter, listing Sections
  (x.x) and Subsections (x.x.x).
 
 
* *
 \ o /
  \|/ 
   |   C O O L
  / \  _  
 /   \/
/
   -
 
 I've been looking for a way to put a list of sections on the chapter start 
 page for years. Minitoc package, huh? I'll have to try it.
 
 Thanks
 
 SteveT


It works... finally :D

I needed to add the \mtcaddchapter command in the Introduction (since
my Introduction was defined with \Addchap) just before the \minitoc
command.

It really looks nice. I am playing around with it since I don't want the
page number to appear... just the structure.

Cheers, Nikos
---

BTW: SteveT, thanks for your valuable experience you offer in the list
from time to time.

Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 06:04:36 am NinaNutz wrote:
 Hello all,

 I have a big problem... My thesis is finished and I cannot compile the
 complete pdf. When I export to pdf (any option) I only export 52 pages. My
 thesis is 350 pages more or less... but I cannot compile the complete one.
 The list of contents, figures and tables doesn't appears either.

 What can I do? Lyx doesn't show any mistake, every works ok apparently, but
 I only can export 52 pages...

 The version of lyx that I'm using is lyx 1.6.1

 Please, I need help...

OK, first take a deep breath, stretch, and calm down. It's just a technical 
problem, you'll solve it.

First things first: Back up your existing file so if you screw it up farther 
you can get back to where you are now. Once backed up, continue...

In addition to the other suggestions you've received, I'd like you to try 
export to .dvi, using the following:

lyx -e dvi myfile.lyx
dvisee myfile.dvi

or

xdvi myfile.dvi

or if you use Windows, whatever dvi viewer you have.

Either you'll get 350 pages, 52 pages, no result, or something else. If you 
get 52 pages, it's not specific to PDF -- there's something else going on. 
More on that later.

If it's 350 pages, there's something different about the way you're exporting 
to PDF. Take the next step and convert the dvi to postscript like this:

dvips -o myfile.ps myfile.dvi

Does it still have 350 pages? If so, convert from there to PDF:

ps2pdf myfile.ps

Does it still have 350?

The preceding procedure will help you figure out where in the 
lyx-dvi-ps-pdf conversion chain the problem is happening. If that doesn't 
yield good results, don't worry, there are many other diagnostic tests you 
can perform to get to the root of the problem.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

Re: includeonly

[Rudi Gaelzer]

On Friday 17 October 2008 04:57:07 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Guenter Milde wrote:
  none of e.g.
 
  \includeonly{thermisch}
 
  or
 
  \includeonly{Thermisch/thermisch}
 
  seems to work.

 Yes. This doesn't work with LyX, unfortunately.

  Is there some kind of filename mangling when the tex files are generated
  in the temporary dir?

 Yes, this is the reason.

 Jürgen

What is the alternative for LyX 1.6.1?

I mean, if one wants to process a single chapter in the middle of a multi-
chapter document, but needs to retain all the previous information, such as 
page/chapter numbering, cross-references, etc, how can this be accomplished by 
LyX?

Thanks.
-- 
Rudi Gaelzer
Department of Physics
Institute of Physics and Mathematics
Federal University of Pelotas
BRAZIL
Registered linux user # 153741

Package manager

[Ehud Kaplan]

I realize that this is not a specific Lyx question, but someone here 
might know the answer.
My main problem in running Lyx (or Latex) on Linux is the lack of a nice 
package manager like Miktex is on Windows.
I heard that TexLive has a package manager, but I have not been able to 
find it.

Can anyone help?
Thanks,

--
Ehud Kaplan

Re: Package manager

[Stefano Franchi]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 10:38:50 Ehud Kaplan wrote:
 I realize that this is not a specific Lyx question, but someone here
 might know the answer.
 My main problem in running Lyx (or Latex) on Linux is the lack of a nice
 package manager like Miktex is on Windows.
 I heard that TexLive has a package manager, but I have not been able to
 find it.
 Can anyone help?
 Thanks,

I believe the latest TexLive (2008) has a package manager. However, many Linux 
distribution (like (K)Ubuntu) are still stuck withTexLive 2007---hence no 
package manager. One option is  to download the TexLive 2008 DVD and install 
it manually. Another option is to wait for the next version of (K)Ubuntu which 
should have TeXLive 2008.

See here for TeXlive package manager and various caveats:

http://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html

the DVD download canbe reached from here:  

http://www.tug.org/texlive/index.html


Cheers,

S.
__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy          Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: Package manager

[Ehud Kaplan]

By the way-- if I chose to install texlive from the ISO image, do I need 
to uninstall the previous version?


Stefano Franchi wrote:

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 10:38:50 Ehud Kaplan wrote:
  

I realize that this is not a specific Lyx question, but someone here
might know the answer.
My main problem in running Lyx (or Latex) on Linux is the lack of a nice
package manager like Miktex is on Windows.
I heard that TexLive has a package manager, but I have not been able to
find it.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,



I believe the latest TexLive (2008) has a package manager. However, many Linux 
distribution (like (K)Ubuntu) are still stuck withTexLive 2007---hence no 
package manager. One option is  to download the TexLive 2008 DVD and install 
it manually. Another option is to wait for the next version of (K)Ubuntu which 
should have TeXLive 2008.


See here for TeXlive package manager and various caveats:

http://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html

the DVD download canbe reached from here:  


http://www.tug.org/texlive/index.html


Cheers,

S.
__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy  Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237


  


--
Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor
Director, The laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural  Chemical Biology,
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave Levy Place
NY, NY, 10029 

Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Stefano Franchi]

I am starting to work on the final editing of  a long manuscript and I would 
very much appreciate the option to click on a page in the pdf viewer app and 
jump directly to the corresponding block of text in the source file.

I do not think this is possible with LyX, presently---am I  wrong?

If not, does anyone know of a similar facility for LaTeX? I vaguely remember 
something along this line as (perhaps) an Emacs mode plus a specific pdf (or 
dvi, I am not sure) reader. I tried googling, but I am not sure how this 
option would be called, so my results were meagre.

Thanks for  the help,
S.


__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy          Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Pavel Sanda]

Stefano Franchi wrote:
 I am starting to work on the final editing of  a long manuscript and I would 
 very much appreciate the option to click on a page in the pdf viewer app and 
 jump directly to the corresponding block of text in the source file.
 
 I do not think this is possible with LyX, presently---am I  wrong?

http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94

pavel

Re: Minitoc and book (KOMA-Script) under LyX

[Nikos Alexandris]

Just reporting that I use the following in the Preamble which gives nice
mini-tables:

% Mini Table of Contents
% package: minitoc (aka mini-table)
\usepackage{minitoc}

% title of minitoc
% e.g. for Overview use \mtcsettitle{minitoc}{Overview}

% for empty title
\mtcsettitle{minitoc}{}

% turn off rules before and after the minitoc's
\mtcsetrules{minitoc}{off}

% turn off page numbering in minitoc's
\mtcsetpagenumbers{minitoc}{off}


Don't forget:

   * In the beginning of the document use an \dominitoc ERT
   * For each chapter a \minitoc ERT is required.
   * For \Add* commands an extra \mtcadd* is required


Kind regards, Nikos

Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Stefano Franchi]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 11:42:30 Pavel Sanda wrote:
 Stefano Franchi wrote:
  I am starting to work on the final editing of  a long manuscript and I
  would very much appreciate the option to click on a page in the pdf
  viewer app and jump directly to the corresponding block of text in the
  source file.
 
  I do not think this is possible with LyX, presently---am I  wrong?

 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94

 pavel


Thanks Pavel.

If I understood the bugzilla exchange correctly, the situation is:

1. Reverse seaerching (I guess that's the term) works from kdvi to a Latex file 
opened in a standard editor

2. Georg Baum provided a patch that would  make it work from kdvi to LyX, but 
the patch never made into released version of Lyx, for reasons unknown (as of 
2/24/09)


So there is a workaround, and there is hope!

Cheers,

S.


__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy          Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Pavel Sanda]

Stefano Franchi wrote:
 On Tuesday 24 February 2009 11:42:30 Pavel Sanda wrote:
  Stefano Franchi wrote:
   I am starting to work on the final editing of  a long manuscript and I
   would very much appreciate the option to click on a page in the pdf
   viewer app and jump directly to the corresponding block of text in the
   source file.
  
   I do not think this is possible with LyX, presently---am I  wrong?
 
  http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94
 
  pavel
 
 
 Thanks Pavel.
 
 If I understood the bugzilla exchange correctly, the situation is:

there was very lenghty discussion
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg87046.html
from which is seems everybody wanted it in the tree so it seems like
a mystery its not already there :)


 
 1. Reverse seaerching (I guess that's the term) works from kdvi to a Latex 
 file 
 opened in a standard editor

 2. Georg Baum provided a patch that would  make it work from kdvi to LyX, but 
 the patch never made into released version of Lyx, for reasons unknown (as of 
 2/24/09)
 
 
 So there is a workaround, and there is hope!

i just tried to use this patch, unfortunately most of the code moved around
so its not easy to patch it again. on the other hand, the changes which are 
needed look like more of mechanical work then some actual rewrite...

CC-ing to Georg, Joao and lyx-devel.
may be somebody knows what was the problem.

pavel

Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Nina,
you might have solved your problem in the meantime. If not, just one thought: 
What happens, if you take out the Bibliography at the end of you document and 
run it again? If a reference is the offending part, it should run. Are you 
incidently using koma-script and two column page style? I have often problems 
with it, but do get a latex-log output of this kind
pdftex error
\pdfendlink ended up in different nesting level than \pd

The error is not easy to find, have a look at:

http://ftp.tug.org/mail-archives/pdftex/2002-February/002216.html

and read the remedy below

latex log: 
fstartlink.
to be read again 
   \endgroup \...@typeset@protect 
l.3087 


remedy:
add 'draft' option to hyperref:
\usepackage[draft]{hyperref}
recompile document
pdf output
citation whose latter half begins the page where pdflatex aborted
rearrange text to avoid linebrake
remove draft option

Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Konrad Hofbauer]

Stefano Franchi wrote:

If I understood the bugzilla exchange correctly, the situation is:

1. Reverse seaerching (I guess that's the term) works from kdvi to a Latex file 
opened in a standard editor


It works on the Mac using Skim as pdf-viewer and pdfsync (no 
synctex-support as of now in LyX).


Skim simply calls
  lyxeditor @file @line

The same should be possible with any other better DVI/PDF viewer. So in 
LyX the necessary infrastructure is there (at least on Mac and Linux).


/Konrad

Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Pavel Sanda]

Konrad Hofbauer wrote:
 Stefano Franchi wrote:
 If I understood the bugzilla exchange correctly, the situation is:
 1. Reverse seaerching (I guess that's the term) works from kdvi to a Latex 
 file opened in a standard editor

 It works on the Mac using Skim as pdf-viewer and pdfsync (no 
 synctex-support as of now in LyX).

 Skim simply calls
   lyxeditor @file @line

 The same should be possible with any other better DVI/PDF viewer. So in LyX 
 the necessary infrastructure is there (at least on Mac and Linux).

you claim this works out of the box? havent you changed your convertor scripts
/ document header or so?

where does this 'lyxeditor' points to?
pavel

Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Pavel Sanda]

Pavel Sanda wrote:
lyxeditor @file @line
 
  The same should be possible with any other better DVI/PDF viewer. So in LyX 
  the necessary infrastructure is there (at least on Mac and Linux).
 
 you claim this works out of the box? havent you changed your convertor scripts
 / document header or so?
 
 where does this 'lyxeditor' points to?

now i see we distribute in our tarball :) it seems to be mac-related script
and also looking http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac#toc11 seems other things need to
be done.

anyway the same seems to be doable in linux as well with some kind of tweaking
around. one need to use xdvi and pass some external script which sends
proper server-goto-file-row lfun to lyx.

i have even found some old reference to cygwin solution
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg63984.html

pavel

Figure Numbering Error

[Makhoma]

 I don't think this has been answered before, but I am running into an 'error
undefined' problem when trying to export to pdf. I have placed the
\counterwithin{figure}{section} to the preamble and selected the AMS package
as I should, I was able to get \numberwithin{equation}{section} to work that
way. When I have it in the preamble it gives me the error, when I take it
out it exports normally, but all my figures are numbered sequentially
throughout.

 Perhaps I am missing a file, and if so: what file is it and where do I put
it so this works?

 If this is needed, I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and am using Lyx version 1.5.3
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Re: Jumping back from Pdf file to LyX (Latex) source?

[Pavel Sanda]

Pavel Sanda wrote:
 anyway the same seems to be doable in linux as well with some kind of tweaking
 around. one need to use xdvi and pass some external script which sends
 proper server-goto-file-row lfun to lyx.

or even simpler: lyxclient -g file line
pavel

Re: Figure Numbering Error

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Makhoma j.d.woo...@gmail.com wrote:

  I don't think this has been answered before, but I am running into an 'error
 undefined' problem when trying to export to pdf. I have placed the
 \counterwithin{figure}{section} to the preamble and selected the AMS package
 as I should, I was able to get \numberwithin{equation}{section} to work that
 way. When I have it in the preamble it gives me the error, when I take it
 out it exports normally, but all my figures are numbered sequentially
 throughout.

  Perhaps I am missing a file, and if so: what file is it and where do I put
 it so this works?

  If this is needed, I am running Ubuntu 8.04 and am using Lyx version 1.5.3
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Isn't it:
\numberwithin{figure}{section}
not:
\counterwithin{figure}{section}

Cheers,
/Bob

Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[NinaNutz]

Thank you everyone. I found the error. Really I needed a deep breath. The
problem was in the figures. When I inserted the figures (I had a lot of pair of
figures (subfigures) like floating) I used the lyx 1.44 and I couldn't center
all the figures editing the preamble, so I marked every pairs of figures and I
centered with the corresponding button.

Then I installed the new versions and in the version 1.6.1 it appeared a latex
command before and after these figures. I don't know exactly why, some of these
figures didn't work and the export to pdf stopped without any mistake. I suspect
that the problem was in how I selected the figures to center it, because a few
of them worked and other one didn't...

Re: Package manager

[Neal Becker]

Stefano Franchi wrote:

 On Tuesday 24 February 2009 10:38:50 Ehud Kaplan wrote:
 I realize that this is not a specific Lyx question, but someone here
 might know the answer.
 My main problem in running Lyx (or Latex) on Linux is the lack of a nice
 package manager like Miktex is on Windows.
 I heard that TexLive has a package manager, but I have not been able to
 find it.
 Can anyone help?
 Thanks,
 
 I believe the latest TexLive (2008) has a package manager. However, many
 Linux distribution (like (K)Ubuntu) are still stuck withTexLive
 2007---hence no
 package manager. One option is  to download the TexLive 2008 DVD and
 install it manually. Another option is to wait for the next version of
 (K)Ubuntu which should have TeXLive 2008.
 
 See here for TeXlive package manager and various caveats:
 
 http://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html
 
 the DVD download canbe reached from here:
 
 http://www.tug.org/texlive/index.html
 

1. What's wrong with yum as package manager?

2. You can install tl2008.  I have been using it on fedora f10 with good 
results.

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

[Typhoon]

On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:06:09 +0100
Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexand...@felis.uni-freiburg.de wrote:

 On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 21:48 -0500, rgheck wrote:
  Nikos Alexandris wrote:
   On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 09:10 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
 
   Yes, I have installed the tex4ht package long ago. And never
   had luck nor for odt export neither for html export.
  
   Nikos
  
   I am in Ubuntu 8.04, I just know from this forum that LyX can
   export to 
   OpenDocument, with the help of LaTeX package tex4ht. I then
   installed text4ht from Synaptic and it requires the dependent
   text4ht-common. Perhaps you need to double check whether you
   installed  this common file, not only tex4ht.
   Now It works for me (after reconfigure LyX).. I can see File 
   Export  OpenDocument. I tested ... yes it creates odt file
   which I can open in OpenOffice 3.
   ---
   was
   
  
   Hi was!
  
   Both tex4ht and -common installed. Also the entry OpenDocument is
   there since long ago. Nothing works unfortunately. I don't have
   the time to try tracing the problem currently.
  
 
  And you're sure it's in your path? Basically, the short version
  here is: Make sure it works from the command line; if not, it won't
  work in LyX; if yes, it should.
  
  rh
 
 Richard,
 
 # /usr/bin is in $PATH (...imagine a linux-box without /usr/bin in
 $PATH :-O).
 
 and
 
 $ whereis tex4ht
 tex4ht: /usr/bin/tex4ht /etc/tex4ht /usr/share/tex4ht 
 /usr/share/man/man1/tex4ht.1.gz
 
 So, it's not that. I am still learning LyX and LaTeX so it's not easy
 to recognize where I should start searching. And, as I already said,
 my time is limited (like every-one's of course :-).

LyX uses the oolatex script to export to open document. On my Debian
Lenny, tex4ht is in the path, but oolatex is
in /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex, which is NOT on the path. Since Ubuntu is
a Debian rip-off :-) it may be the same there.

Fix with a symbolic link: 
ln -s /usr/local/bin/oolatex /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex

Cheers,
Alan
 
 Thanks for your concern, Nikos
 
 

html footnotes

[jf7]

Hi, My footnotes are all coming out in italics when I export to html.  
This does not happen with DVI or PDF. But I use html export a lot so  
am looking for a solution.


In Preferences  File Handling  Converters  LaTeX - HTML  I've been  
successfully using htlatex to export html files. And it works great.  
But,...


My original problem was that footnotes were all placed in  
separately-linked html files. I didn't like that. So I searched and  
found an addition to the parameters that solved that --- by adding  
,fn-in to the parameters.


htlatex $$i xhtml,fn-in

I've failed to find the parameter change or addition to format the  
footnotes normally. Does anyone here know the secret?


thanks much,

jamie faunt

Re: Exporting to DOC or RTF

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-25, Typhoon wrote:

  And you're sure it's in your path? Basically, the short version
  here is: Make sure it works from the command line; if not, it won't
  work in LyX; if yes, it should.

 LyX uses the oolatex script to export to open document. On my Debian
 Lenny, tex4ht is in the path, but oolatex is
 in /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex, which is NOT on the path. Since Ubuntu is
 a Debian rip-off :-) it may be the same there.

 Fix with a symbolic link: 
 ln -s /usr/local/bin/oolatex /usr/share/tex4ht/oolatex

Or with the converter entry as in Debian:

  mk4ht oolatex $$i
  
as mk4ht is a perl wrapper script around oolatex which is in the path.

However, exporting a doc with the single line hello world produced a
corrupted file (ooffice asked whether to repair it and showed an empty
file then, while abiword displayed some garbage: 
pk???...@y:¤ŸíMF???S???

Debian/testing with tex4ht.c (2007-11-07-16:08 kpathsea)

Günter

Re: Printing is weird... funny hash lines

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 Kenward Vaughan wrote:
  Sorry, I don't know whether this is LyX or LaTeX.  When I print out
  documents generated by LyX, I see weird marks on the paper not seen
  in the screen copy. They are horizontal, very small, and seem to
...
 Can you post a small example (LyX file plus DVI or PDF showing the
 spurious lines)?

 /Paul

That's what was weird.  It happened with the printed version, not the 
screen version.  I'm thinking it may have been an issue outside of LyX, 
unless LyX provides the default fonts used (which I know it doesn't).

The reason for using past tense is that I can no longer reproduce it.  
Having been concentrating on that one document for the time being, and 
then grading in the interim, I hadn't experienced anything new until 
your response... ;-)

Now it won't come up.  I've upgraded the system at least once, and know 
texlive was part of that, so I think it was a font issue within the 
package.  Hope so, at least.  For the moment, a non-problem.

I appreciate your response, though, Paul.  Thank you!


Kenward
-- 
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be 
_teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, 
because passing civilization along from one generation to the next 
ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone 
could have. - Lee Iacocca

Re: includeonly

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-02-24, Rudi Gaelzer wrote:
 On Friday 17 October 2008 04:57:07 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Guenter Milde wrote:
  none of e.g.
 
  \includeonly{thermisch}
 
  or
 
  \includeonly{Thermisch/thermisch}
 
  seems to work.

 Yes. This doesn't work with LyX, unfortunately.

  Is there some kind of filename mangling when the tex files are generated
  in the temporary dir?

 Yes, this is the reason.

 What is the alternative for LyX 1.6.1?

 I mean, if one wants to process a single chapter in the middle of a
 multi- chapter document, but needs to retain all the previous
 information, such as page/chapter numbering, cross-references, etc, how
 can this be accomplished by LyX?

It works, if you have all the sub-documents in the same directory.

You can also try to disable the use temporary directory option (this
was in pre 1.6 maybe you get this by leaving the DocumentSettingsPaths:
Temp setting empty now.)

You could search in the temporary dir (/tmp/lyx_tmpdir*/ on my Debian
system) for the given filename. But this is likely to change with every
re-opening of LyX.

Otherwise you really need to process the whole document and then select
the appropriate pages in the viewer.

Last but not least: File an enhancement request to bugzilla or vote for
it if it is already there.

Günter

I cannot compile to a pdf

[NinaNutz]

Hello all,

I have a big problem... My thesis is finished and I cannot compile the complete
pdf. When I export to pdf (any option) I only export 52 pages. My thesis is 350
pages more or less... but I cannot compile the complete one. The list of
contents, figures and tables doesn't appears either.

What can I do? Lyx doesn't show any mistake, every works ok apparently, but I
only can export 52 pages...

The version of lyx that I'm using is lyx 1.6.1

Please, I need help... 

Re: Problem reading (import) Mathcad html file:XML input

[Hubert Christiaen]

If the Mathcad proram can output XML, there might be a chance to use that. I 
found a lot of texts about using TeX for outputting XML, but very few for 
inputting XML in TeX. The best references are:

Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
xmltex: A non validating (and not 100% conforming) namespace aware XML parser 
implemented in TeX
http://www.dcarlisle.demon.co.uk/xmltex/manual.html
Available from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xmltex/base/

For Python programmers: http://www.pytex.org/#XML

And an unevaluated link: 
http://www.elml.ch/website/en/html/output_latex.html : From XML to PDF via 
LaTeX

Sincerely,
Hubert

-- 
Hubert Christiaen
Bloesemlaan 17
3360 Korbeek-Lo
Belgium   

Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[NinaNutz]

NinaNutz  writes:

I tried to uninstall and reinstall the previous version 1.5.6 and it happens the
same...

I really don't know what to do...

RE: Re: I cannot compile to a pdf

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

>NinaNutz  writes:
>
>I tried to uninstall and reinstall the previous version 1.5.6 and it
happens the same...
>
>I really don't know what to do...
>

Isn't there something strange at the 53th page. Look for possible
sources of error there.

Otherwise try to compile the document from the command line and look for
error messages (Export->Latex plain and then run latex).

Vincent