Re: A question
On Friday 17 April 2009 11:36:30 pm Adrian Diaz wrote: > Friends of Lyx > > i am writting my thesis and several times i have to set up some > list. Lyx by default has the option by point or number, but i would like > to use symbols or letter and only in certains points of my thesis. > > any advice? > > Greetings Adrián Hi Adrián, I'll bet there's a package to do that on CTAN (www.ctan.org). Also, see this article: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/ownlists.htm The referenced article tells how to to it in LaTeX. To use a special list environment with LyX, you need to tell the LyX environment code to use a LatexType of Item_Environment instead of Environment. See Help->Customization document, especially the section titled "Specific Paragraph Layouts" If you're writing a thesis, I'd suggest you subscribe to the LyX list. All the LyX geniuses are there. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
A question
Friends of Lyx i am writting my thesis and several times i have to set up some list. Lyx by default has the option by point or number, but i would like to use symbols or letter and only in certains points of my thesis. any advice? Greetings Adrián
Re: Page numbers and the book class
Do you know what's Google?.
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-138.html
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Subject: Page numbers and the book class
Hi,
Please, I am using the book more fonts class.
Everything is fine, except I am using the* \pagestyle{empty}*
to suppress printing the header.
However, this also causes printing the page number *ONLY* for the first
page
on each chapter.
*Is there a way to print page numbers for all pages, and in the same time
suppressing the headers?*
Thank you,
H
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Re: Error converting to loadable format
Eliseu Filho schrieb: I get the name of the .eps file and below it the message: Error converting to loadable format Some system configuration info: Ghostscript 8.61 ImageMagick 6.5.1-3 Q16 (2009-05-01) What you see is a problem that ImageMagick is either misconfigured or cannot find Ghostscript. ImageMagick 6.5.1-3 was released 5 days ago, so it seems that you have installed it manually. Perhaps while doing this something went wrong, perhaps the ImageMagick version that is installed with LyX still has some registry entries. But this is hard to say from here, so I propose to - uninstall ImageMagick - then uninstall Ghostscript - then uninstall LyX _completely_ (leave Aspell as it is) - finally reinstall LyX It should then work. regards Uwe
Re: [announce] LyX web available in Spanish
Marcelo Acuña escribió: Hello LyXers! From now on, most of the LyX web pages is translated into Spanish. If you want you can have a look at http://www.lyx.org/WebEs.Home or clicking on the Spanish flag on top. Suggestions or error corrections will always be welcome here. Thanks! Best regards Ignacio García ¡Qué buena noticia! ¡Me alegro muchísimo! Saludos Marcelo Yahoo! Cocina Recetas prácticas y comida saludable http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/ Excelente noticia. Espero que con esto stenga mayor difusión en el mundo hispano este útil programa. Saludos desde Argentina Sergio
Re: Citation order wrong in table
One (primitive) idea, which I don't know will work or not, is to use a \nocite command with the authors in the order you want the citations to appear.
Page numbers and the book class
Hi,
Please, I am using the book more fonts class.
Everything is fine, except I am using the* \pagestyle{empty}*
to suppress printing the header.
However, this also causes printing the page number *ONLY* for the first page
on each chapter.
*Is there a way to print page numbers for all pages, and in the same time
suppressing the headers?*
Thank you,
H
Citation order wrong in table
Hello everyone! I am in the situation where I have a table of previous work (articles) with numerical references, as below: | Author [ref]| Year | Description | However, the citations are ordered as they are in the subsequent text, not in the table, even through the table comes first, which makes it look like: | Author [3]| Year | Description | | Author [1]| Year | Description | | Author [2]| Year | Description | Text about [1] Text about [2] Text about [3] Is there anyway to number the references according to the order they are in the table? I am using natbib with the "sort&compress" option. Thanks in advance! Alex -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Citation-order-wrong-in-table-tp2651743p2651743.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Change default unit for column width
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >> > You've got more courage than I have. I see that the Universities in the >> > U.S. use A4 for convention papers, etc. that need to be exchanged with >> > universities in the real - oops, ISO world. Ideally, those users need >> > both. >> >> We had to choose something, actually. But the current solution will >> probably be replaced by a Metric/Imperial toggle pref. > > Aren't there some locale settings we can use? There is LC_PAPER and LC_MEASUREMENT, but I do not know how to use them. Also, since Qt 4.4, QLocale has a measurementSystem() method. We could maybe use that when available. JMarc
Re: Change default unit for column width
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > You've got more courage than I have. I see that the Universities in the > > U.S. use A4 for convention papers, etc. that need to be exchanged with > > universities in the real - oops, ISO world. Ideally, those users need > > both. > > We had to choose something, actually. But the current solution will > probably be replaced by a Metric/Imperial toggle pref. Aren't there some locale settings we can use? Jürgen
Re: [announce] LyX web available in Spanish
> Hello LyXers! > > From now on, most of the LyX web pages is translated into > Spanish. > > If you want you can have a look at > > http://www.lyx.org/WebEs.Home > > or clicking on the Spanish flag on top. > > Suggestions or error corrections will always be welcome > here. Thanks! > > Best regards > Ignacio García ¡Qué buena noticia! ¡Me alegro muchísimo! Saludos Marcelo Yahoo! Cocina Recetas prácticas y comida saludable http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/
Re: Change default unit for column width
Doug Laidlaw writes: > You've got more courage than I have. I see that the Universities in the U.S. > use A4 for convention papers, etc. that need to be exchanged with > universities in the real - oops, ISO world. Ideally, those users need both. We had to choose something, actually. But the current solution will probably be replaced by a Metric/Imperial toggle pref. > I thhought that you might be saying that if I choose US letter, I will get > inches. It didn't happen -at least, not without exiting the program, which I > didn't try. Actually I was wrong. It depends on the default paper size that one selects in Preferences. JMarc
Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > > 1) I like the lyx format as it is BECAUSE it is not compressed, so I > would definitely not change the default format. > Ok, maybe I didn't make myself clear: you can have self-contained archives with no compression at all on OSX. It works like this: you make a directory and in that directory you dump a special file that tells finder to display the directory as a package. But from the command line, it is still a directory. And in finder, you can look into the package by choosing "Show Package Contents" from the pop up menu. Now Pages files for example come as such "packages", you can copy that directory around, send it through email (yea, email clients handle it surprisingly well), and it still works. Now, other operating systems see a directory and not a package. People using something other than OSX would have to be reminded to copy the directory around the .lyx file around, which would be managed by lyx. The file would still be accessible, no performance penalty, but complete send-aroundability, and while it might feel a little alien on other OS's, on OSX it's the standard way to do such things, so OSX users will cheer. cheers, niko
Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:26:26AM +0200, A B wrote: > suggested. But basically everything in one place. Reason? If you need > lyxa format, you are either archiving it for backup or sending it to > someone. The recipient are never going to have the same directory > structure as you. That will only mean failure to try to achieve. The > easier way is to just loose the exact location if you are going for a > lyxa file. You have this problem anyway, because LyX depends on LaTeX and all the various LaTeX packages people have installed. It's really quite a bit more complicated than a Word or OOo installation. I've no idea what to do about this short of limiting the power of LyX by shipping its own LaTeX with "standard" extensions. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com Shinkuro, Inc.
Re: Change default unit for column width
On Friday 17 April 2009 6:27:37 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > A B writes: > > Hi. > > Is it possible to change the default unit for column width from inch > > to mm (or something else?) > > The default width is cm if you use a 'metric' paper size and inch if you > use a paper size from weird countries, like usletter or legal. > > JMarc You've got more courage than I have. I see that the Universities in the U.S. use A4 for convention papers, etc. that need to be exchanged with universities in the real - oops, ISO world. Ideally, those users need both. I thhought that you might be saying that if I choose US letter, I will get inches. It didn't happen -at least, not without exiting the program, which I didn't try. Doug.
Re: Change default unit for column width
A B writes: > Hi. > Is it possible to change the default unit for column width from inch > to mm (or something else?) The default width is cm if you use a 'metric' paper size and inch if you use a paper size from weird countries, like usletter or legal. JMarc
Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:26 AM, A B wrote: > First I wish to come clean with one thing: I'd like to see LyX being > used by the ms word people in the industry, so my take is: do not > trust files someone send to you (see earlier discussions on > collaboration) > >> 1) I like the lyx format as it is BECAUSE it is not compressed, so I >> would definitely not change the default format. > > Yes, that is very nice. Easy to generate lyx files from scripts, etc. > Very nice and worth saving. Exactly. > >> 2) I like the idea of an export format, which effectively compresses >> all files necessary into a single file. This is very nice for >> archiving final documents (lets call it .lyxa for lyx Archive). > > lyxa sounds like a nice idea, and there seems to allready be code for this. > There are two things though. lyxa should, as I see it, keep everything > in one place, all original paths will be removed, and it will be > "everything in one directory" or possible one subdirectory for images, > one for lyx files, one for bibtex stuff, one for and so on, as > suggested. But basically everything in one place. Reason? If you need > lyxa format, you are either archiving it for backup or sending it to > someone. The recipient are never going to have the same directory > structure as you. That will only mean failure to try to achieve. The > easier way is to just loose the exact location if you are going for a > lyxa file. > The only time I can see that the exact location is important is when > the images are changed and you don't want to update them manually in > the lyxa file, but hey, then you are probably not receiving new lyxa > versions back in collaboration with someone, so just keep your > original structure and generate a new lyxa file if you need to send it > to someone. > I hope I've managed to make my point clear about that keeping the > exact structure in a lyxa format is futile. > > >> 5) .lyxa should contain information of the original location of the >> foles on the system where it was created, to be able to update the >> files not in the subdirectory. > I say no. You do not want to trust someone on this, either sending > your paths or receiving paths from someone else. If you trust your > coworkers, set up subversion, use the same account, make it world > readable... etc. > > >> 6) One should be able to open a .lyxa file (which would modify the >> files in the .lyxa but not the original location information (from 5)) >> or imported (showing the differences of the files in the .lyxa and the >> original files and update the files when confirmed from the ones in >> the .lyxa) >> >> In this way, the .lyxa could be used as a colaborative tool (original >> author exports, sends .lyxa to other authors, they open it, save it, >> send it back, oroginal author imports it and confirms the files which >> should be overwritten) and as an archive tool of finalised documents. > > As I said no to replacing existing files with files from a lyxa file, > I say no to that, but I say yes to colaboration. > I don't want to start another flamewar about collaboration, but from > my viewpoint, don't trust your enemies lyxa files, add a "diff this > new lyxa file against this lyxa file that I have currently open and > display differences so I can accept or reject them"-button :-) > This will work also when you are working with total trust. I probably did not make myself clear: I definitely do NOT want that it is automatically replacing the original files, only AFTER confirmation, which could be done after showing the differences. > > If someone includes an eps file that generates fractals and overload > your cpu, well that is kind of hard to detect and I guess you'll have > to live with it. > > IMHO: > The lyxa format is what Lyx misses, if you have to send more than one agreed. > file to send text and image, you are alienating 99% of the population. > Then comes the question... should .lyx be available as a file format > or an internal hidden format and everything is saved in lyxa format? > But that can probably be decided in the future. > Just one idea to make the conversion easier: what about offering the option of creating the file structure automatically, when a graph or bibtex is inserted? Under Linux, this could be done via links, under Windows probably as well (.lnk files?)? i.e. when I include a file outside the ./graphs directory, a link to the original location is created? Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Re: Change default unit for column width
What is your locale set at? My /etc/sysconfig/i18n has the line LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8 You should be able to set your locale with administrative tools, or with KDE. If you are in the States, and want to keep inches for everything else, I don't know what you could do. You may need to compile Lyx (or Latex) specially. Doug. On Friday 17 April 2009 5:27:09 pm A B wrote: > I use Linux. > > 2009/4/17 Doug Laidlaw : > > On Friday 17 April 2009 4:53:12 pm A B wrote: > >> Hi. > >> Is it possible to change the default unit for column width from inch > >> to mm (or something else?) > > > > You don't say what OS. I am running Mandriva Linux in Australia, which > > is metric. My paper is A4 and my measurements (all defaults at the > > moment) are shown in cm. You may have whatever is the default for your > > computer. Under Windows, it is "Regional Settings." > > > > HTH, > > > > Doug.
Re: Change default unit for column width
I use Linux. 2009/4/17 Doug Laidlaw : > On Friday 17 April 2009 4:53:12 pm A B wrote: >> Hi. >> Is it possible to change the default unit for column width from inch >> to mm (or something else?) > > You don't say what OS. I am running Mandriva Linux in Australia, which is > metric. My paper is A4 and my measurements (all defaults at the moment) are > shown in cm. You may have whatever is the default for your computer. Under > Windows, it is "Regional Settings." > > HTH, > > Doug. > > >
Re: [Figure embedding] An easy way to share lyx documents
First I wish to come clean with one thing: I'd like to see LyX being used by the ms word people in the industry, so my take is: do not trust files someone send to you (see earlier discussions on collaboration) > 1) I like the lyx format as it is BECAUSE it is not compressed, so I > would definitely not change the default format. Yes, that is very nice. Easy to generate lyx files from scripts, etc. Very nice and worth saving. > 2) I like the idea of an export format, which effectively compresses > all files necessary into a single file. This is very nice for > archiving final documents (lets call it .lyxa for lyx Archive). lyxa sounds like a nice idea, and there seems to allready be code for this. There are two things though. lyxa should, as I see it, keep everything in one place, all original paths will be removed, and it will be "everything in one directory" or possible one subdirectory for images, one for lyx files, one for bibtex stuff, one for and so on, as suggested. But basically everything in one place. Reason? If you need lyxa format, you are either archiving it for backup or sending it to someone. The recipient are never going to have the same directory structure as you. That will only mean failure to try to achieve. The easier way is to just loose the exact location if you are going for a lyxa file. The only time I can see that the exact location is important is when the images are changed and you don't want to update them manually in the lyxa file, but hey, then you are probably not receiving new lyxa versions back in collaboration with someone, so just keep your original structure and generate a new lyxa file if you need to send it to someone. I hope I've managed to make my point clear about that keeping the exact structure in a lyxa format is futile. > 5) .lyxa should contain information of the original location of the > foles on the system where it was created, to be able to update the > files not in the subdirectory. I say no. You do not want to trust someone on this, either sending your paths or receiving paths from someone else. If you trust your coworkers, set up subversion, use the same account, make it world readable... etc. > 6) One should be able to open a .lyxa file (which would modify the > files in the .lyxa but not the original location information (from 5)) > or imported (showing the differences of the files in the .lyxa and the > original files and update the files when confirmed from the ones in > the .lyxa) > > In this way, the .lyxa could be used as a colaborative tool (original > author exports, sends .lyxa to other authors, they open it, save it, > send it back, oroginal author imports it and confirms the files which > should be overwritten) and as an archive tool of finalised documents. As I said no to replacing existing files with files from a lyxa file, I say no to that, but I say yes to colaboration. I don't want to start another flamewar about collaboration, but from my viewpoint, don't trust your enemies lyxa files, add a "diff this new lyxa file against this lyxa file that I have currently open and display differences so I can accept or reject them"-button :-) This will work also when you are working with total trust. If someone includes an eps file that generates fractals and overload your cpu, well that is kind of hard to detect and I guess you'll have to live with it. IMHO: The lyxa format is what Lyx misses, if you have to send more than one file to send text and image, you are alienating 99% of the population. Then comes the question... should .lyx be available as a file format or an internal hidden format and everything is saved in lyxa format? But that can probably be decided in the future.
Re: Change default unit for column width
On Friday 17 April 2009 4:53:12 pm A B wrote: > Hi. > Is it possible to change the default unit for column width from inch > to mm (or something else?) You don't say what OS. I am running Mandriva Linux in Australia, which is metric. My paper is A4 and my measurements (all defaults at the moment) are shown in cm. You may have whatever is the default for your computer. Under Windows, it is "Regional Settings." HTH, Doug.
[announce] LyX web available in Spanish
Hello LyXers! >From now on, most of the LyX web pages is translated into Spanish. If you want you can have a look at http://www.lyx.org/WebEs.Home or clicking on the Spanish flag on top. Suggestions or error corrections will always be welcome here. Thanks! Best regards Ignacio García
