Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

On Friday 01 May 2009 02:23:04 pm Thomas Løcke wrote: 2009/4/29 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com: Now I'm going to give you some very controversial advice, and many will argue with it. DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your frontmatter -- instead use custom styles

Re: Typewriter, Bold is indistinguishable from plain Typewriter

tedc wrote: I'm writing an instruction document and want to use Typewriter family for stuff that appears in an xterm--bold to indicate what the user should enter via the keyboard, and plain (medium) Typewriter for stuff printed by the computer. These look different on screen in LyX, but the

Re: Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

On Fri, 1 May 2009 13:10:08 -0700 Kleanthes Koniaris k...@koniaris.com wrote: I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in some English, along with a few Chinese characters. Everything displays very nicely in LyX. Yeah, well, that can be confusing. Always

Re: references and coding

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:03:51 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: [unicode characters, bibtex and sorting] Bibtex8 does this specific case right, because the latin1 glyphs have the same code points in unicode. However, bibtex8 will scream and bail out at the first multibyte character

Re: references and coding

Kosta Welke wrote: I asked about this on the XeTeX mailing list[0] and they think biber[1] should do it right. Sure, but biber is beta software, and it only works with biblatex. Jürgen

inputenc error

a reference in my document gives me Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined and describes it as ...Physiol.Plantarum}, 112:\penalty0 119 does it mean, I am missing the inputenc software or is there an undefined keyboard character? And what should I do in either case? I tried

Source code highlighting and indentation

Hey again, Now that I've decided on using LyX for my manual, I've started wondering how to go about getting the source code examples highlighted and indented. Most of the code examples will be in Ada, with a little bit of C here and there. Is there a way to automate this, or should I just do it

Re: export to pdflatex

I have the same problem. Text and equations (displayed, starting with \begin) are running together in line within one paragraph, sometimes several such equations. This makes the export file very difficult to read by my 'Latex' coauthors, so I have to insert new lines by hand to have equations

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

On Sat, 2 May 2009, Thomas L?cke wrote: Now that I've decided on using LyX for my manual, I've started wondering how to go about getting the source code examples highlighted and indented. Most of the code examples will be in Ada, with a little bit of C here and there. Thomas, There is a

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

I have used the listings package. It probably knows ada. (I haven't used it with lyx though, just with latex.)

Re: inputenc error

Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: a reference in my document gives me Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined and describes it as ...Physiol.Plantarum}, 112:\penalty0 119 does it mean, I am missing the inputenc software or is there an undefined keyboard character? inputenc is

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have used the listings package. It probably knows ada. (I haven't used it with lyx though, just with latex.) There is support for listings in LyX. Use the InsertProgram Listing environment. Ada is available. rh

Query about formatting reverse-line text

Dear all on this very helpful Lyx list: I'm trying to format some information with alternative lines reverse, as follows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/3495151790/sizes/o/ The above was done in Inkscape, since I couldn't get the desired result in Lyx (don't know coding). Could anyone help

Chapter styles...

Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones below, which I find vey useful in creating books: http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Thanks in advance! FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P

OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

Dear Lyxers, I realize this is way off-topic, but there is so much expertise on this list, I thought I could ask anyway. I need to create a few idiosyncratic symbols (three, to be exact) and my efforts to produce them by superimposing existing glyphs with TeX low level commands have produced

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:31 PM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have used the listings package. It probably knows ada. (I haven't used it with lyx though, just with latex.) There is support for listings in LyX. Use the InsertProgram Listing environment. Ada is

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

Thomas Løcke wrote: This works a charm. The syntax highlighting is very good, and it supports Ada 2005. It doesn't do proper indentation though, but it's very easy for me to do that manually. Check all the listings options:

Re: Chapter styles...

Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones below, which I find vey useful in creating books: http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Try the koma-script classes, which make it very easy to configure the

Re: OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

Stefano Franchi wrote: Dear Lyxers, I realize this is way off-topic, but there is so much expertise on this list, I thought I could ask anyway. I need to create a few idiosyncratic symbols (three, to be exact) and my efforts to produce them by superimposing existing glyphs with TeX low

Re: Query about formatting reverse-line text

Frederick Noronha [??? ???] wrote: Dear all on this very helpful Lyx list: I'm trying to format some information with alternative lines reverse, as follows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/3495151790/sizes/o/ The above was done in Inkscape, since I couldn't get the desired

Re: OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

On Sat, 2 May 2009, rgheck wrote: That said, my sense is that MetaFont is a bit of a black art. There are excellent chapters on MetaFont and MetaPost (that produces PS output directly; an extended version of MF) in The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2nd Edition. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard,

Logo Not Displaying ... Still

Last Wednesday I posted a message to the beamer-linux-users mail list on sourceforge.net and have not seen a response to it, or any other post to that mail list. I'm back in the grove using the beamer class but still cannot get the logo to display on each slide. (It doesn't display on the

LyX, biblatex and refsections; or latexmk

Hi, I'm relatively new to LyX, so please excuse me if this is trivial; I haven't found a solution to this: I've used biblatex with LaTeX and used the possibility to create reference lists per section via the refsection environment. Doing this in LyX causes some trouble as biblatex creates

Problem Indonesian spell checker

I use 1.6.3svn (id UI menu) in Ubuntu 8.10 The preference settings and document setting have been set in Indonesian language. I was going to try using Indonesian Spell Checker but it did not work and a message appeared Error: The file /usr/lib/aspell/bahasa can not be opened for reading. I

Re: export to pdflatex

JanR, A friend of mine who is a computer whiz wrote a script for reformatting the Latex file. I haven't tried it yet, but I expect it will work fine. I use a Mac, and I think the script works using the underlying Unix. I am pretty sure the same can be done on a pc since the Latex file

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

On Friday 01 May 2009 02:23:04 pm Thomas Løcke wrote: 2009/4/29 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com: Now I'm going to give you some very controversial advice, and many will argue with it. DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your frontmatter -- instead use custom styles

Re: Typewriter, Bold is indistinguishable from plain Typewriter

tedc wrote: I'm writing an instruction document and want to use Typewriter family for stuff that appears in an xterm--bold to indicate what the user should enter via the keyboard, and plain (medium) Typewriter for stuff printed by the computer. These look different on screen in LyX, but the

Re: Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

On Fri, 1 May 2009 13:10:08 -0700 Kleanthes Koniaris k...@koniaris.com wrote: I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in some English, along with a few Chinese characters. Everything displays very nicely in LyX. Yeah, well, that can be confusing. Always

Re: references and coding

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:03:51 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: [unicode characters, bibtex and sorting] Bibtex8 does this specific case right, because the latin1 glyphs have the same code points in unicode. However, bibtex8 will scream and bail out at the first multibyte character

Re: references and coding

Kosta Welke wrote: I asked about this on the XeTeX mailing list[0] and they think biber[1] should do it right. Sure, but biber is beta software, and it only works with biblatex. Jürgen

inputenc error

a reference in my document gives me Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined and describes it as ...Physiol.Plantarum}, 112:\penalty0 119 does it mean, I am missing the inputenc software or is there an undefined keyboard character? And what should I do in either case? I tried

Source code highlighting and indentation

Hey again, Now that I've decided on using LyX for my manual, I've started wondering how to go about getting the source code examples highlighted and indented. Most of the code examples will be in Ada, with a little bit of C here and there. Is there a way to automate this, or should I just do it

Re: export to pdflatex

I have the same problem. Text and equations (displayed, starting with \begin) are running together in line within one paragraph, sometimes several such equations. This makes the export file very difficult to read by my 'Latex' coauthors, so I have to insert new lines by hand to have equations

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

On Sat, 2 May 2009, Thomas L?cke wrote: Now that I've decided on using LyX for my manual, I've started wondering how to go about getting the source code examples highlighted and indented. Most of the code examples will be in Ada, with a little bit of C here and there. Thomas, There is a

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

I have used the listings package. It probably knows ada. (I haven't used it with lyx though, just with latex.)

Re: inputenc error

Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: a reference in my document gives me Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined and describes it as ...Physiol.Plantarum}, 112:\penalty0 119 does it mean, I am missing the inputenc software or is there an undefined keyboard character? inputenc is

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have used the listings package. It probably knows ada. (I haven't used it with lyx though, just with latex.) There is support for listings in LyX. Use the InsertProgram Listing environment. Ada is available. rh

Query about formatting reverse-line text

Dear all on this very helpful Lyx list: I'm trying to format some information with alternative lines reverse, as follows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/3495151790/sizes/o/ The above was done in Inkscape, since I couldn't get the desired result in Lyx (don't know coding). Could anyone help

Chapter styles...

Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones below, which I find vey useful in creating books: http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Thanks in advance! FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P

OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

Dear Lyxers, I realize this is way off-topic, but there is so much expertise on this list, I thought I could ask anyway. I need to create a few idiosyncratic symbols (three, to be exact) and my efforts to produce them by superimposing existing glyphs with TeX low level commands have produced

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:31 PM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote: Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have used the listings package. It probably knows ada. (I haven't used it with lyx though, just with latex.) There is support for listings in LyX. Use the InsertProgram Listing environment. Ada is

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

Thomas Løcke wrote: This works a charm. The syntax highlighting is very good, and it supports Ada 2005. It doesn't do proper indentation though, but it's very easy for me to do that manually. Check all the listings options:

Re: Chapter styles...

Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones below, which I find vey useful in creating books: http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Try the koma-script classes, which make it very easy to configure the

Re: OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

Stefano Franchi wrote: Dear Lyxers, I realize this is way off-topic, but there is so much expertise on this list, I thought I could ask anyway. I need to create a few idiosyncratic symbols (three, to be exact) and my efforts to produce them by superimposing existing glyphs with TeX low

Re: Query about formatting reverse-line text

Frederick Noronha [??? ???] wrote: Dear all on this very helpful Lyx list: I'm trying to format some information with alternative lines reverse, as follows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/3495151790/sizes/o/ The above was done in Inkscape, since I couldn't get the desired

Re: OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

On Sat, 2 May 2009, rgheck wrote: That said, my sense is that MetaFont is a bit of a black art. There are excellent chapters on MetaFont and MetaPost (that produces PS output directly; an extended version of MF) in The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2nd Edition. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard,

Logo Not Displaying ... Still

Last Wednesday I posted a message to the beamer-linux-users mail list on sourceforge.net and have not seen a response to it, or any other post to that mail list. I'm back in the grove using the beamer class but still cannot get the logo to display on each slide. (It doesn't display on the

LyX, biblatex and refsections; or latexmk

Hi, I'm relatively new to LyX, so please excuse me if this is trivial; I haven't found a solution to this: I've used biblatex with LaTeX and used the possibility to create reference lists per section via the refsection environment. Doing this in LyX causes some trouble as biblatex creates

Problem Indonesian spell checker

I use 1.6.3svn (id UI menu) in Ubuntu 8.10 The preference settings and document setting have been set in Indonesian language. I was going to try using Indonesian Spell Checker but it did not work and a message appeared Error: The file /usr/lib/aspell/bahasa can not be opened for reading. I

Re: export to pdflatex

JanR, A friend of mine who is a computer whiz wrote a script for reformatting the Latex file. I haven't tried it yet, but I expect it will work fine. I use a Mac, and I think the script works using the underlying Unix. I am pretty sure the same can be done on a pc since the Latex file

Re: Using LyX for writing a very long manual

On Friday 01 May 2009 02:23:04 pm Thomas Løcke wrote: > 2009/4/29 Steve Litt : > > Now I'm going to give you some very controversial advice, and many will > > argue with it. DO NOT use the facilities of your document class for your > > frontmatter -- instead use custom

Re: Typewriter, Bold is indistinguishable from plain Typewriter

tedc wrote: > I'm writing an instruction document and want to use Typewriter family for > stuff that appears in an xterm--bold to indicate what the user should enter > via the keyboard, and plain ("medium") Typewriter for stuff printed by the > computer. These look different on screen in LyX, but

Re: Trying to use some Chinese characters in Lyx 1.6.2 for Mac

On Fri, 1 May 2009 13:10:08 -0700 Kleanthes Koniaris wrote: > I just installed MacTeX and Lyx 1.6.2 on my Mac, and then I typed in > some English, along with a few Chinese characters. Everything > displays very nicely in LyX. Yeah, well, that can be confusing. Always

Re: references and coding

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:03:51 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: [unicode characters, bibtex and sorting] > Bibtex8 does this specific case right, because the latin1 glyphs have > the same code points in unicode. However, bibtex8 will scream and > bail out at the first multibyte

Re: references and coding

Kosta Welke wrote: > I asked about this on the XeTeX mailing list[0] and they think biber[1] > should do it right. Sure, but biber is beta software, and it only works with biblatex. Jürgen

inputenc error

a reference in my document gives me Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined and describes it as ...Physiol.Plantarum}, 112:\penalty0 119 does it mean, I am missing the inputenc software or is there an undefined keyboard character? And what should I do in either case? I tried

Source code highlighting and indentation

Hey again, Now that I've decided on using LyX for my manual, I've started wondering how to go about getting the source code examples highlighted and indented. Most of the code examples will be in Ada, with a little bit of C here and there. Is there a way to "automate" this, or should I just do

Re: export to pdflatex

I have the same problem. Text and equations (displayed, starting with \begin) are running together in line within one paragraph, sometimes several such equations. This makes the export file very difficult to read by my 'Latex' coauthors, so I have to insert new lines by hand to have equations

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

On Sat, 2 May 2009, Thomas L?cke wrote: Now that I've decided on using LyX for my manual, I've started wondering how to go about getting the source code examples highlighted and indented. Most of the code examples will be in Ada, with a little bit of C here and there. Thomas, There is a

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

I have used the "listings" package. It probably knows ada. (I haven't used it with lyx though, just with latex.)

Re: inputenc error

Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: a reference in my document gives me Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined and describes it as ...Physiol.Plantarum}, 112:\penalty0 119 does it mean, I am missing the inputenc software or is there an undefined keyboard character? inputenc is

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I have used the "listings" package. It probably knows ada. (I haven't used it with lyx though, just with latex.) There is support for listings in LyX. Use the Insert>Program Listing environment. Ada is available. rh

Query about formatting reverse-line text

Dear all on this very helpful Lyx list: I'm trying to format some information with alternative lines reverse, as follows: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/3495151790/sizes/o/ The above was done in Inkscape, since I couldn't get the desired result in Lyx (don't know coding). Could anyone help

Chapter styles...

Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones below, which I find vey useful in creating books: http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Thanks in advance! FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com http://twitter.com/fn M +91-9822122436 P

OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

Dear Lyxers, I realize this is way off-topic, but there is so much expertise on this list, I thought I could ask anyway. I need to create a few idiosyncratic symbols (three, to be exact) and my efforts to produce them by superimposing existing glyphs with TeX low level commands have produced

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 9:31 PM, rgheck wrote: > Jeremy C. Reed wrote: >> >> I have used the "listings" package. It probably knows ada. (I haven't used >> it with lyx though, just with latex.) >> > > There is support for listings in LyX. Use the Insert>Program Listing >

Re: Source code highlighting and indentation

Thomas Løcke wrote: This works a charm. The syntax highlighting is very good, and it supports Ada 2005. It doesn't do proper indentation though, but it's very easy for me to do that manually. Check all the listings options:

Re: Chapter styles...

Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: Could someone point me to any Latex chapter styles, like the ones below, which I find vey useful in creating books: http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Try the koma-script classes, which make it very easy to configure the

Re: OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

Stefano Franchi wrote: Dear Lyxers, I realize this is way off-topic, but there is so much expertise on this list, I thought I could ask anyway. I need to create a few idiosyncratic symbols (three, to be exact) and my efforts to produce them by superimposing existing glyphs with TeX low

Re: Query about formatting reverse-line text

Frederick Noronha [??? ???] wrote: > Dear all on this very helpful Lyx list: > > I'm trying to format some information with alternative lines reverse, > as follows: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/3495151790/sizes/o/ > > The above was done in Inkscape, since I couldn't get the

Re: OT: Pointers on how to create symbols

On Sat, 2 May 2009, rgheck wrote: That said, my sense is that MetaFont is a bit of a black art. There are excellent chapters on MetaFont and MetaPost (that produces PS output directly; an extended version of MF) in The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2nd Edition. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard,

Logo Not Displaying ... Still

Last Wednesday I posted a message to the beamer-linux-users mail list on sourceforge.net and have not seen a response to it, or any other post to that mail list. I'm back in the grove using the beamer class but still cannot get the logo to display on each slide. (It doesn't display on the

LyX, biblatex and refsections; or latexmk

Hi, I'm relatively new to LyX, so please excuse me if this is trivial; I haven't found a solution to this: I've used biblatex with LaTeX and used the possibility to create reference lists per section via the refsection environment. Doing this in LyX causes some trouble as biblatex creates

Problem Indonesian spell checker

I use 1.6.3svn (id UI menu) in Ubuntu 8.10 The preference settings and document setting have been set in Indonesian language. I was going to try using Indonesian Spell Checker but it did not work and a message appeared "Error: The file "/usr/lib/aspell/bahasa" can not be opened for reading." I

Re: export to pdflatex

JanR, A friend of mine who is a computer whiz wrote a "script" for reformatting the Latex file. I haven't tried it yet, but I expect it will work fine. I use a Mac, and I think the script works using the underlying Unix. I am pretty sure the same can be done on a pc since the Latex