Re: Document Include mechanism

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 04:01:01 schrieb rgheck:
 That said, there probably is a bug here, especially now that we have
 this default master setting. A child should probably inherit the
 document class of its master, and its modules and such, too. I'm not
 sure how well we do with that.

Only if it is exported with the master-buffer-* lfuns. The default master is 
not supposed to exclude stand-alone usage.

Jürgen

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Monday 13 July 2009 05:44:23 schrieb Sebastian Stolzenberg:
 Hi rh, Hi All,

 Thanks for the reply; attached, please find my test files, that do not
 work now on my ubuntu machine with LyX 1.6.0.

 I found the command bibtex in test.lyx, so I manually ran bibtex on
 test.bib, with the error message that test.bib.aux is not found. I am
 not even close to the actual problem, am I? ;-)

should'nt it be 
test.aux
?

run 
bibtex test

and not 
bibtex test.bib

manually
Wolfgang


 Thank you
 Sebastian

 Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:
  Dear All,
 
  I installed the latest Lyx version 1.6.3 on my Mac 10.4.11
 
  Everything behaves normal, in particular, I can export pdfs and easily
  import a *.bib into my Bibliography section and LyX recognizes all the
  references in it.
 
  However, trying to export this document with references into pdf, the
  references do not appear and all my citation show question tags.
 
  Any help is much appreciated,
  Sebastian



-- 
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Wolfgang Engelmann
Schlossgartenstrasse 22
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Tel 07071 68325

Re: WinVista: Scrolling in LyX-window with mouse wheel?

[Manveru]

2009/7/11 Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org:
 Jannick Asmus wrote:
 Do you have any other ideas - or is it just a no-go on WinVista?

 may be mouse driver or qt issue, difficult to say.

Many non-standard laptop/notebook scrollers do not work with Qt under
Windows. This is an issue in my case, where ThinkPad's scrolling
functions works with Windows apps, with OpenOffice (they added such
support some time ago), but don't with Qt which is annoying as I like
TrackPoint a lot. It allows navigation without moving hands away from
keyboard.

-- 
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jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: WinVista: Scrolling in LyX-window with mouse wheel?

[Helge Hafting]

Manveru wrote:

2009/7/11 Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org:

Jannick Asmus wrote:

Do you have any other ideas - or is it just a no-go on WinVista?

may be mouse driver or qt issue, difficult to say.


Many non-standard laptop/notebook scrollers do not work with Qt under
Windows. 


Ah, a windows mouse driver fault then. Try complaining to the equipment
manufacturer, or microsoft. The manufacturer probably is the one
with most interest in making this work.

Helge Hafting

installation error towards mathematica 5.2 on ubuntu 8.02

[Jon]

At the final stage of the installation, it gives out four similar error
message as

[: 215: ==: unexpected operator
[: 215: ==: unexpected operator
[: 215: ==: unexpected operator
[: 215: ==: unexpected operator

but without indicating what causes them. The mathematica seems to work well,
but the white working area seems to be transparent. There is no display in
the working area. Thus, it seems there is some display issue with the
installation, anybody has any idea on this very odd issue with this or other
softwares? Thanks for sharing your information and help!

RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Luca De Marini]

Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new adventure
in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only fronted-side, not code or
LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual here in Italy
and my idea is that of trying to write it with an opensource software. Now,
of course I know that for typography the best tool is Scribus. BUT, I love
Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful thesis for my Architectural
studies with it. It was a 2 columns document with notes, pictures, etc.
An RPG manual is something way more elaborated. WAY MORE. Have a look at
white wolf's manuals to understand the extent of the graphical effort I'm
going to achieve. The problem is, many things cannot be done, from my point
of view, in Lyx to achieve this result. And maybe this is simply not the
tool intended for this kind of result. I need 2 columns pages (OK) with the
possibility to use a picture as a frame for the entire page, or as a
background if you prefer. This picture should be changeable from a section
or from a chapter to another. Say, this chapter has a picture frame of one
kind, then changng chapter I can change the background picture again, etc.
Not only that. I need to be able to put parts of a text, like a citation, a
small emphasized part of the text, something to be outlined, into a fancy
small picture used as a background for it. Fancy tables would be needed too,
but this could even be used with a work-around: I create the tables in Gimp
or something similar, save them as picture and import them into the Lyx
document in a Floating Table frame (for table indexing later).

Now, why I wanna do it in Lyx? Many reasons, the main reasons are:

1) I love Lyx
2) Lyx documents look incredible, very nice, very professional.
Everything is automated and done for good, it is NOT a WYSIWYG and this is
nice to keep focused on the contents.
3) I'm an opensource fan and leader of a GNU / LInux distro (OPenGEU) and
I'd like to show off to the world the powers of opensource software. Lyx is
in my opinion the best thing around in opensource documents managing.
4) Currently all of this is impossible to do in Lyx with normal tools and
GUI commands. Probably the result is achievable with complex code to be
inserted here and there. This is NOT the solution. People cannot use code,
you can't ask people to. So, probably this effort will help Lyx become more
powerful, many new small adjustements could be implemented with a work of
this kind.

Everybody, coders, users, everyone is invited in participating. I think this
is a great occasion to have a powerfuller Lyx, able of achieving even more
incredible results in many more fields of documents processing. Do you think
this is achievable? Anyone wanna help? Remember I'm not trying to do this
for my only personal achievement. It costs zero to me using Scribus instead
and living Lyx alone. It's just that I think this can be a nice fight to try
and win! :)

Greetings everyone,

Luca D.M.

http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com
http://www.opengeu.com

Datum auf der Titelseite

[geograffiti]

Hallo liebe Profis,

bin geade am Beenden meiner Diplomarbeit und kriege das verflixte, von lyx
auf die Titelseite gepackte Datum (unter dem Titel der Arbeit) nicht weg.

Kann mir da geholfen werden?

Vielen Dank schon mal!
Matze

Re: Datum auf der Titelseite

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

geograffiti wrote:
 bin geade am Beenden meiner Diplomarbeit und kriege das verflixte, von lyx
 auf die Titelseite gepackte Datum (unter dem Titel der Arbeit) nicht weg.

 Kann mir da geholfen werden?

See
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc23

Jürgen

Re: Datum auf der Titelseite

[Florian Rubach]

geograffiti schrieb:

Hallo liebe Profis,

bin geade am Beenden meiner Diplomarbeit und kriege das verflixte, von lyx
auf die Titelseite gepackte Datum (unter dem Titel der Arbeit) nicht weg.

Kann mir da geholfen werden?

Vielen Dank schon mal!
Matze
Probier's mal mit \date{} in ERT direkt hinter deinem Titel, ohne 
Leerzeichen oder Zeilenumbruch dazwischen.


For every list-member unable to read german:
The issue is that matze is unable to remove the date stamp from his 
titlepage, my suggested solution is to add \date{} in ERT right after 
the title.


Regards, Florian

Re: Multiple Language Quotation Problem

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Ben Allen wrote:
 Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

This is bug #5096.

A workaround is to add \selectlanguage{english} in ERT at the very beginning 
of the paragraph following the environments in question.

Jürgen 

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ]

Luca De Marini wrote:
 Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new adventure
 in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only fronted-side, not code or
 LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual here in Italy
 and my idea is that of trying to write it with an opensource software. Now,
 of course I know that for typography the best tool is Scribus. BUT, I love
 Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful thesis for my Architectural
 studies with it. It was a 2 columns document with notes, pictures, etc.
 An RPG manual is something way more elaborated. WAY MORE. Have a look at
 white wolf's manuals to understand the extent of the graphical effort I'm
 going to achieve. The problem is, many things cannot be done, from my point
 of view, in Lyx to achieve this result. And maybe this is simply not the
 tool intended for this kind of result. I need 2 columns pages (OK) with the
 possibility to use a picture as a frame for the entire page, or as a
 background if you prefer. This picture should be changeable from a section
 or from a chapter to another. Say, this chapter has a picture frame of one
 kind, then changng chapter I can change the background picture again, etc.
   
There is a package called 'wallpaper' that may do this very well with a
little bit of ERT.

 Not only that. I need to be able to put parts of a text, like a citation, a
 small emphasized part of the text, something to be outlined, into a fancy
 small picture used as a background for it. Fancy tables would be needed too,
 but this could even be used with a work-around: I create the tables in Gimp
 or something similar, save them as picture and import them into the Lyx
 document in a Floating Table frame (for table indexing later).

 Now, why I wanna do it in Lyx? Many reasons, the main reasons are:

 1) I love Lyx
 2) Lyx documents look incredible, very nice, very professional.
 Everything is automated and done for good, it is NOT a WYSIWYG and this is
 nice to keep focused on the contents.
 3) I'm an opensource fan and leader of a GNU / LInux distro (OPenGEU) and
 I'd like to show off to the world the powers of opensource software. Lyx is
 in my opinion the best thing around in opensource documents managing.
 4) Currently all of this is impossible to do in Lyx with normal tools and
 GUI commands. Probably the result is achievable with complex code to be
 inserted here and there. This is NOT the solution. People cannot use code,
 you can't ask people to. So, probably this effort will help Lyx become more
 powerful, many new small adjustements could be implemented with a work of
 this kind.

 Everybody, coders, users, everyone is invited in participating. I think this
 is a great occasion to have a powerfuller Lyx, able of achieving even more
 incredible results in many more fields of documents processing. Do you think
 this is achievable? Anyone wanna help? Remember I'm not trying to do this
 for my only personal achievement. It costs zero to me using Scribus instead
 and living Lyx alone. It's just that I think this can be a nice fight to try
 and win! :)

 Greetings everyone,

 Luca D.M.

 http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com
 http://www.opengeu.com

   


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LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/
Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/ Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/
GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ PDF: http://www.pdfforge.org/




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Biblatex and multiple bibliographies

[Antonio Díaz]

Hi all:

I'm writing a text about some artists i've working on. The structure is like
a catalog, a lot of chapters, each one with an artist. I want one
bibliography at the end of each chapter, but i'm using the bibliography
stile verbose-trad2 of biblatex package, because I need to use Ibid. or
Op. cit. when I repeat a citation.
The problem: i don't know how do that. There is a lot of packages like
bibunit or multibib, but I cant do it works.

Someone knows how can i do the multiple bibliographies with the biblatex
package?

regards

Antonio

Re: Biblatex and multiple bibliographies

[Charles de Miramon]

Antonio Díaz wrote:

 
 Someone knows how can i do the multiple bibliographies with the biblatex
 package?
 

Yes, it is possible. Read the biblatex manual. There are several options 
depending on your needs.

Cheers,
Charles
-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Luca De Marini]

 2009/7/13 Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ mjoy...@vbservices.net
 
 There is a package called 'wallpaper' that may do this very well with a
 little bit of ERT.


Thank you very much for your suggestion. Of course I can use it but the
question is: isn't it better to integrate it in Lyx so that people can use
wallpapers normally? In any case, I'll do it with ERT for now.

2009/7/13 Charles de Miramon cmira...@kde-france.org

 Luca De Marini wrote:

  Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new
  adventure in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only
 fronted-side,
  not code or LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual
  here in Italy and my idea is that of trying to write it with an
 opensource
  software. Now, of course I know that for typography the best tool is
  Scribus. BUT, I love Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful
  thesis for my Architectural studies with it.

 I don't know how you want to design your RPG manual. But if you have
 complex
 and very graphically oriented pages, scribus is a better tool.


Sure Charles, as I said, it is very graphically rich. Look at WhiteWolf's
kind of manual for an example, it costs you nothing, just visit the site or
have a screen of some pages in google! Vampire, Wherewolf, the style's that.

And as I said, of course I know Scribus is a better toy for this kind of
work. The interesting thing for me is pushing Lyx to the limit, see if it
can do this work, see if it will make the whole process of writing a manual
such a pain that using Scribus would be better instead :)
Greets,

Luca

Re: Document Include mechanism

[rgheck]

On 07/12/2009 12:57 PM, James Mansion wrote:

Richard Heck wrote:

On 07/12/2009 07:46 AM, James Mansion wrote:
I may be doing the wrong thing - but I stared trying to write a book 
with each Part in a separate document so I can edit (and version 
control) them in more manageable chunks.


This seems to be working though I find the inability to nest 
inclusions a bit disturbing.



What do you mean by this? You can have children of children of children.

No I can't.  When I got Ctrl-D I get a dialog that says:

LaTeX Error: \include cannot be nested.

and the Description is:

\include{0C__src_books_arch_test}

Your command was ignored.

Type I command return to replace it with another command,

or return to continue without it.


Use Input rather than Include. That should probably be the default.

What is more worrying is that I don't seem to be able to set the 
document class and LaTeX preamble on the master and have it 
inherited to new components --- I have to set the class of each one.


To some extent, this is a known issue, and there is a sense in which 
it can't be solved. If you treat the file as a file unto itself, then 
it needs its own document class, preamble, etc. And sometimes a file 
can be both a child of another document and a file unto itself. And 
for the same reason you do always have to set the document class.


I think that's a weak answer.  I don't *need* the children to be valid 
as self-contained documents. What I would like is to be able to set a 
docu class (optionally) but to have it ignored and defer to the parent 
in the case where its a child.


I understand what you want. What I was explaining is why LyX can't 
*just* work the way you want. We have had lengthy discussions about this 
both on this list and on the devel list, and there are a lot of people 
who need the facility I described. So we provide that as an option 
(which is how it originally worked, anyway), and people who don't need 
that facility---like you and me---have to make do. This is always the 
trade-off: Flexibility for the people who need it vs additional effort 
for the people who don't.


That said, there probably is room for improvement here. Especially now 
that we have this default master setting, a child should probably 
inherit the document class of its master, and its modules and such, too. 
I'm not sure how well we do with that, but I can't test it now, due to 
quite other problems. Of course, if you'd like to look into fixing this 
yourself, I'd be happy to provide some pointers.


Richard

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[rgheck]

On 07/12/2009 11:44 PM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Hi rh, Hi All,

Thanks for the reply; attached, please find my test files, that do not 
work now on my ubuntu machine with LyX 1.6.0.


I found the command bibtex in test.lyx, so I manually ran bibtex on 
test.bib, with the error message that test.bib.aux is not found. I 
am not even close to the actual problem, am I? ;-)


As someone else said, you have to run bibtex test, not bibtex 
test.bib. (You can also run latex test rather than latex test.tex, 
though you don't HAVE to do so.)


As far as these files go, there are no citations in the test file you 
sent. If I add one, it works for me. Try putting the files into /tmp and 
see if they work there.


rh


Thank you
Sebastian

Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Dear All,

I installed the latest Lyx version 1.6.3 on my Mac 10.4.11

Everything behaves normal, in particular, I can export pdfs and 
easily import a *.bib into my Bibliography section and LyX recognizes 
all the references in it.


However, trying to export this document with references into pdf, the 
references do not appear and all my citation show question tags.


Any help is much appreciated,
Sebastian

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Manveru]

2009/7/13 Luca De Marini luca.darkmas...@gmail.com:
 Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new adventure
 in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only fronted-side, not code or
 LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual here in Italy
 and my idea is that of trying to write it with an opensource software. Now,
 of course I know that for typography the best tool is Scribus. BUT, I love
 Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful thesis for my Architectural
 studies with it. It was a 2 columns document with notes, pictures, etc.
 An RPG manual is something way more elaborated. WAY MORE. Have a look at
 white wolf's manuals to understand the extent of the graphical effort I'm
 going to achieve. The problem is, many things cannot be done, from my point
 of view, in Lyx to achieve this result. And maybe this is simply not the
 tool intended for this kind of result. I need 2 columns pages (OK) with the
 possibility to use a picture as a frame for the entire page, or as a
 background if you prefer. This picture should be changeable from a section
 or from a chapter to another. Say, this chapter has a picture frame of one
 kind, then changng chapter I can change the background picture again, etc.
 Not only that. I need to be able to put parts of a text, like a citation, a
 small emphasized part of the text, something to be outlined, into a fancy
 small picture used as a background for it. Fancy tables would be needed too,
 but this could even be used with a work-around: I create the tables in Gimp
 or something similar, save them as picture and import them into the Lyx
 document in a Floating Table frame (for table indexing later).

 Now, why I wanna do it in Lyx? Many reasons, the main reasons are:

 1) I love Lyx
 2) Lyx documents look incredible, very nice, very professional.
 Everything is automated and done for good, it is NOT a WYSIWYG and this is
 nice to keep focused on the contents.
 3) I'm an opensource fan and leader of a GNU / LInux distro (OPenGEU) and
 I'd like to show off to the world the powers of opensource software. Lyx is
 in my opinion the best thing around in opensource documents managing.
 4) Currently all of this is impossible to do in Lyx with normal tools and
 GUI commands. Probably the result is achievable with complex code to be
 inserted here and there. This is NOT the solution. People cannot use code,
 you can't ask people to. So, probably this effort will help Lyx become more
 powerful, many new small adjustements could be implemented with a work of
 this kind.

 Everybody, coders, users, everyone is invited in participating. I think this
 is a great occasion to have a powerfuller Lyx, able of achieving even more
 incredible results in many more fields of documents processing. Do you think
 this is achievable? Anyone wanna help? Remember I'm not trying to do this
 for my only personal achievement. It costs zero to me using Scribus instead
 and living Lyx alone. It's just that I think this can be a nice fight to try
 and win! :)

 Greetings everyone,

 Luca D.M.

 http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com
 http://www.opengeu.com


You know... My answer to above is that you have to learn TeX and LaTeX
hard, and then design your own style for that with all fountains. Then
you have to prepare layout file for LyX. The example of Beamer shows
that LaTeX allows a lot, really.

If you choose Scribus (which is very professional open-source piece of
DTP software), please keep on mind the designers way of preparing such
documents. You have to write all your text content and prepare all the
graphics at first stage, then at the next step design your styles in
Scribus and then use the elements from both stages to design your
manual. If you start in Scribus and you will experiment with this, you
quickly do a real mess in you design and then you may need to start
from scratch with it.


-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: Document Include mechanism

[rgheck]

On 07/13/2009 02:07 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 04:01:01 schrieb rgheck:
   

That said, there probably is a bug here, especially now that we have
this default master setting. A child should probably inherit the
document class of its master, and its modules and such, too. I'm not
sure how well we do with that.
 


Only if it is exported with the master-buffer-* lfuns. The default master is
not supposed to exclude stand-alone usage.

   
Yes, I know: I use the master buffer thing all the time, for which thank 
you. What I meant was: Maybe there should be another setting, which 
would mean something like: Inherit the document class, preamble, etc, 
even when this is compiled on its own.


rh

Re: Document Include mechanism

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 15:30:46 schrieben Sie:
  Only if it is exported with the master-buffer-* lfuns. The default master
  is not supposed to exclude stand-alone usage.
 
 

 Yes, I know: I use the master buffer thing all the time, for which thank
 you. What I meant was: Maybe there should be another setting, which
 would mean something like: Inherit the document class, preamble, etc,
 even when this is compiled on its own.

Probably. Or just a button that lets you inherit the params from the master.

Jürgen

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[Sebastian Stolzenberg]

Hi rh, Hi Murat, Hi All,

let's define $tmp=/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ6542/lyx_tmpbuf2

There is 1 reference in the test.bib I attached, but looking into the 
$tmp/test.log file, I get this error message here:




LaTeX Warning: Empty `thebibliography' environment on input line 3.



since $tmp/test.bbl has no references. However, there exists 
$tmp/0_home_sebastian_test.bib, including my 1 reference.


The files test.aux, test.tex, and test.tex.dep-pdf (all in $tmp) refer 
to this bib file.


@rh: As a workaround, did you add a reference to a *.bib or a *.bbl file 
to make things work? If *.bbl, could you kindly send me the *.bbl file 
so that I can learn, how to these references manually?


@Murat: How can I set a Latex path in Lyx? Only through the 
Preference-PATH prefix line?


Thanks a zillion,
Sebastian


rgheck wrote:

On 07/12/2009 11:44 PM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Hi rh, Hi All,

Thanks for the reply; attached, please find my test files, that do 
not work now on my ubuntu machine with LyX 1.6.0.


I found the command bibtex in test.lyx, so I manually ran bibtex on 
test.bib, with the error message that test.bib.aux is not found. I 
am not even close to the actual problem, am I? ;-)


As someone else said, you have to run bibtex test, not bibtex 
test.bib. (You can also run latex test rather than latex 
test.tex, though you don't HAVE to do so.)


As far as these files go, there are no citations in the test file you 
sent. If I add one, it works for me. Try putting the files into /tmp 
and see if they work there.


rh


Thank you
Sebastian

Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Dear All,

I installed the latest Lyx version 1.6.3 on my Mac 10.4.11

Everything behaves normal, in particular, I can export pdfs and 
easily import a *.bib into my Bibliography section and LyX 
recognizes all the references in it.


However, trying to export this document with references into pdf, 
the references do not appear and all my citation show question tags.


Any help is much appreciated,
Sebastian

RE: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
 There is a package called 'wallpaper' that may do this very well with

 a little bit of ERT.


Thank you very much for your suggestion. Of course I
can use it but the question is: isn't it better to
integrate it in Lyx so that people can use wallpapers
normally? In any case, I'll do it with ERT for now.

We have an option to specify the page background color now, why not
adding a wallpaper option indeed ? I'll propose this to the other
developers. Let's see what happens ;-).

 I don't know how you want to design your RPG manual. But if you have 
 complex and very graphically oriented pages, scribus is a better tool.


I don't know scribus, but maybe it's a powerful combination to be able
to use scribus for the graphics part of your document and use LyX for
the text.

The interesting thing for me is pushing Lyx to the limit, see if it
can do this work, see if it will make the whole process of writing a 
manual such a pain that using Scribus would be better instead :)

It's nice to push LyX to the limit. I can think of a special editor in
LyX to design header-styles, chapter-styles etc. etc., but it will take
some time before this can be done within LyX. For now, one has to code
LaTeX.


I'm very open to hear good ideas, .. 

Greets,

Luca

Vincent

Re: Consolidating the bibliography for article submissions

[Manolo Martí­nez]

To clarify what I'm asking here, I'm interested in the easiest, shortest 
way to go from:


a) A Lyx file with a bibtex bibliography, to

b) Another Lyx (or a .tex) file, where this bibliography has been 
resolved into /bibitems, so that it can be shared with people without 
having to share the .bib file independently.


I would have thought many of you have gone through this problem before?

Thanks again.
Manolo

Manolo Martí­nez escribió:

Dear all,

Is there any easy way to convert a bibtex list of references in part 
of a .tex document? I know the roundabout way which consists of 
exporting the lyx document to LaTeX, and then copying back the list of 
references from the .bbl file.


A Lyx plugin to do this would be extremely useful. Many publishers 
accept LaTeX submissions but, I think, it is somewhat untidy to send 
the .tex file and the .bib files separately, while going through the 
.bbl route is a real pain in the neck.


Thanks. Cheers,
Manolo

Continuous spelling checker

[Erez Yerushalmi]

Dear Developers / Abdel,

I'm really excited to start using the continuous spelling checker.  Is there
any possibility to use it already now, before waiting for the next 2.0.0
version of LyX??

Can I do anything to add it to the current LyX 1.6.3, windows OS.

Thanks, Erez


-- 
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
homepage: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/ep/pg/ecrfaw

Re: Continuous spelling checker

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
 Dear Developers / Abdel,

 I'm really excited to start using the continuous spelling checker.  Is
 there any possibility to use it already now, before waiting for the next
 2.0.0 version of LyX??

 Can I do anything to add it to the current LyX 1.6.3, windows OS.

Probably not. This feature is too complex to get backported to the current 
stable branch.

Jürgen

RE: Continuous spelling checker

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

Dear Developers / Abdel,

Can I do anything to add it to the current LyX 1.6.3, windows OS.

Get the latest svn and compile :).

Vincent

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[William Adams]

Luca De Marini wrote:


An RPG manual is something way more elaborated.



Well, that depends on the manual.

FWIW, Columbia Games used to produce all of their books using TeX ---  
they had very high production values even using lovely textured stock  
and sepia coloured ink (until someone whined and they quit doing so).


William

--
William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Luca De Marini]

2009/7/13 William Adams will.ad...@frycomm.com

 Luca De Marini wrote:

  An RPG manual is something way more elaborated.



 Well, that depends on the manual.

 FWIW, Columbia Games used to produce all of their books using TeX --- they
 had very high production values even using lovely textured stock and sepia
 coloured ink (until someone whined and they quit doing so).


Ok then, let's say many modern RPGs nowadays :)
Greets,

Luca

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Charles de Miramon]

Luca De Marini wrote:


 And as I said, of course I know Scribus is a better toy for this kind of
 work. The interesting thing for me is pushing Lyx to the limit, see if it
 can do this work, see if it will make the whole process of writing a
 manual such a pain that using Scribus would be better instead :)
 Greets,


I had a look at the gory, satanic stuff ;-)

The problem with LaTeX and LyX is the positioning of images. You cannot 
position absolutely an image on a page in LaTeX. You don't have also the 
concept of layers. If you are a LaTeX expert, they are tricks, for example 
with tikz but you are going to suffer and too many LaTeX compilation errors 
will make you curse and turn you in a soulless ghoul.

Cheers,
Charles 


-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[Sebastian Stolzenberg]

Thanks guys for your help.

It turned out to be an encoding problem: BibTex does not support unicode 
yet.


Cheers,
Sebastian

rgheck wrote:

On 07/13/2009 10:22 AM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Hi rh, Hi Murat, Hi All,

let's define $tmp=/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ6542/lyx_tmpbuf2

There is 1 reference in the test.bib I attached, but looking into the 
$tmp/test.log file, I get this error message here:


LaTeX Warning: Empty `thebibliography' environment on input line 3.

since $tmp/test.bbl has no references. However, there exists 
$tmp/0_home_sebastian_test.bib, including my 1 reference.


The files test.aux, test.tex, and test.tex.dep-pdf (all in $tmp) 
refer to this bib file.


@rh: As a workaround, did you add a reference to a *.bib or a *.bbl 
file to make things work? If *.bbl, could you kindly send me the 
*.bbl file so that I can learn, how to these references manually?


No, I didn't do anything but add a footnote to your LyX file. Without 
it, of course there will be no references, since nothing is cited. 
Normally, LyX (and, for that matter, LaTeX) includes only cited 
material in the bibliography. This allows you to have a single, huge 
bib file that you use with all your documents, and only the ones you 
cite get output.


If you want to output everything in the bib file, then click on the 
bibliography inset and then, at the bottom, where it says Content, 
choose All references.


rh

Re: Label and againframe [Beamer]

[Christian Bustamante]

Any idea?
In plain code, you create the title slide with
\begin{frame}[label=firstframe]
\titlepage
\end{frame}
But in LyX, this process is automatic... Help please



On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Paul A. Rubinru...@msu.edu wrote:
 I'm afraid what you wrote does not make sense.  You start your presentation
 with title and authors.  Then you have your content, with the first slide of
 content started with a BeginFrame environment (the equivalent of the
 \begin{frame}[label=firstframe] LaTeX command you wrote below.

 Or are you saying you want to repeat the title slide at the end??

 /Paul

 Christian Bustamante wrote:

 Hi Paul,
 I understand the procedure to repeat a simple slide. My problem is
 whit the first one, because you don't use the BeginFrame environment
 at all. At the start of file, you simple put the title and authors,
 but not more how can I do it for the first slide??
 Bests



 On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Paul A. Rubinru...@msu.edu wrote:

 Christian Bustamante wrote:

 Hi all,

 I'm using the beamer class and I need to repeat the first slide at the
 end of presentation. In plain LaTeX one can do the following

 \documentclass{beamer}
 \title[Short title]{The title}
 \author[Authors]{Author 1 \and Author 2}
 \date{\today}
 \begin{document}
 \begin{frame}[label=firstframe]
 \titlepage
 \end{frame}
 ...
 \againframe{firstframe}
 \end{document}

 Which uses the againframe command. The thing is, how can I label the
 first slide for then use the againframe in LyX?

 Put the cursor in the BeginFrame environment for the slide to be
 repeated,
 directly to the left of the first letter of the title, and insert
 '[label=firstframe]' (including the brackets) in an ERT inset. At the
 point
 where you want to repeat the slide, use an AgainFrame environment and
 just
 type 'firstframe' as if it were a title.

 /Paul










-- 
CdeB

RE: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

   I'm very open to hear good ideas, ..
 
  Very nice to know :)
 
 What maybe someone is misunderstanding is I'm not asking for help 
 on how to create an RPG manual, I created some of them already 
 with Scribus and the result is more than interesting. 
 
Good, otherwise I'd have said not to use LyX :).
 
 When you have a goal to reach things can be seen in a much clearer
way. 
 If you are interested I can write down some sketches of what is needed

 when someone is designing this kind of document, with already created 
 examples, and what could be implemented in Lyx to achieve that goal. 
 So that we could analyze everything step by step and see if there's a
way 
 to implement this or that feature from Latex to Lyx.  
 
The easiest would be to write a module of such a feature. This doesn't
need any adjustments to LyX and you can share it with others. 


 If we go trough this adventure I'm sure at the end Lyx's gonna have
much 
 more potential than now with not so many added features! I mean,
surely 
 we can optimize the needed features for this kind of work. A single
new 
 thing can be used to achieve many different results. 
 
I just want to warn you that maybe not everything you want is easy to
accomplish. You can easily be frustrated by all LaTeX code that is
needed. Besides, there are infinite number of features to be added to
LyX, but there won't be support from developers for all. If you can
really indicate a few features that would be useful for a larger
community which do not deviate too much from LyX's philosophy, we
might end up with a better LyX.
 
 
Vincent 

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[rgheck]

On 07/13/2009 01:18 PM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Thanks guys for your help.

It turned out to be an encoding problem: BibTex does not support 
unicode yet.


This is a fairly common problem. You might try BibLaTeX if you really 
need unicode.


rh



Cheers,
Sebastian

rgheck wrote:

On 07/13/2009 10:22 AM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Hi rh, Hi Murat, Hi All,

let's define $tmp=/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ6542/lyx_tmpbuf2

There is 1 reference in the test.bib I attached, but looking into 
the $tmp/test.log file, I get this error message here:


LaTeX Warning: Empty `thebibliography' environment on input line 3.

since $tmp/test.bbl has no references. However, there exists 
$tmp/0_home_sebastian_test.bib, including my 1 reference.


The files test.aux, test.tex, and test.tex.dep-pdf (all in $tmp) 
refer to this bib file.


@rh: As a workaround, did you add a reference to a *.bib or a *.bbl 
file to make things work? If *.bbl, could you kindly send me the 
*.bbl file so that I can learn, how to these references manually?


No, I didn't do anything but add a footnote to your LyX file. Without 
it, of course there will be no references, since nothing is cited. 
Normally, LyX (and, for that matter, LaTeX) includes only cited 
material in the bibliography. This allows you to have a single, huge 
bib file that you use with all your documents, and only the ones you 
cite get output.


If you want to output everything in the bib file, then click on the 
bibliography inset and then, at the bottom, where it says Content, 
choose All references.


rh

multicol package

[Shirley]

I am trying to set up a book (8x10 - about 400 pages) with mostly 2 columns. 
I want the chapter titles and section headings to go across the page with the 
body text in 2 columsn.

I have set it up as follows:

Chapter Title
\begin{multicols}{2}

(body text)

\end{multicols}

or

Section Heading
\begin{multicols}{2}

(body text)
\end{multicols}

It seems to work OK until I'm about half way through the book, then when I try 
to view using DVI or PDF, I get an error message Dimension too large.

Is there a limit as to how many times you can changee from one to two columns? 
Is there a limit to how many words this setup can handle? Any help would be 
appreciated.

Re: Document Include mechanism

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 04:01:01 schrieb rgheck:
 That said, there probably is a bug here, especially now that we have
 this default master setting. A child should probably inherit the
 document class of its master, and its modules and such, too. I'm not
 sure how well we do with that.

Only if it is exported with the master-buffer-* lfuns. The default master is 
not supposed to exclude stand-alone usage.

Jürgen

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Monday 13 July 2009 05:44:23 schrieb Sebastian Stolzenberg:
 Hi rh, Hi All,

 Thanks for the reply; attached, please find my test files, that do not
 work now on my ubuntu machine with LyX 1.6.0.

 I found the command bibtex in test.lyx, so I manually ran bibtex on
 test.bib, with the error message that test.bib.aux is not found. I am
 not even close to the actual problem, am I? ;-)

should'nt it be 
test.aux
?

run 
bibtex test

and not 
bibtex test.bib

manually
Wolfgang


 Thank you
 Sebastian

 Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:
  Dear All,
 
  I installed the latest Lyx version 1.6.3 on my Mac 10.4.11
 
  Everything behaves normal, in particular, I can export pdfs and easily
  import a *.bib into my Bibliography section and LyX recognizes all the
  references in it.
 
  However, trying to export this document with references into pdf, the
  references do not appear and all my citation show question tags.
 
  Any help is much appreciated,
  Sebastian



-- 
-
Wolfgang Engelmann
Schlossgartenstrasse 22
D-72070 Tübingen
Tel 07071 68325

Re: WinVista: Scrolling in LyX-window with mouse wheel?

[Manveru]

2009/7/11 Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org:
 Jannick Asmus wrote:
 Do you have any other ideas - or is it just a no-go on WinVista?

 may be mouse driver or qt issue, difficult to say.

Many non-standard laptop/notebook scrollers do not work with Qt under
Windows. This is an issue in my case, where ThinkPad's scrolling
functions works with Windows apps, with OpenOffice (they added such
support some time ago), but don't with Qt which is annoying as I like
TrackPoint a lot. It allows navigation without moving hands away from
keyboard.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: WinVista: Scrolling in LyX-window with mouse wheel?

[Helge Hafting]

Manveru wrote:

2009/7/11 Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org:

Jannick Asmus wrote:

Do you have any other ideas - or is it just a no-go on WinVista?

may be mouse driver or qt issue, difficult to say.


Many non-standard laptop/notebook scrollers do not work with Qt under
Windows. 


Ah, a windows mouse driver fault then. Try complaining to the equipment
manufacturer, or microsoft. The manufacturer probably is the one
with most interest in making this work.

Helge Hafting

installation error towards mathematica 5.2 on ubuntu 8.02

[Jon]

At the final stage of the installation, it gives out four similar error
message as

[: 215: ==: unexpected operator
[: 215: ==: unexpected operator
[: 215: ==: unexpected operator
[: 215: ==: unexpected operator

but without indicating what causes them. The mathematica seems to work well,
but the white working area seems to be transparent. There is no display in
the working area. Thus, it seems there is some display issue with the
installation, anybody has any idea on this very odd issue with this or other
softwares? Thanks for sharing your information and help!

RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Luca De Marini]

Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new adventure
in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only fronted-side, not code or
LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual here in Italy
and my idea is that of trying to write it with an opensource software. Now,
of course I know that for typography the best tool is Scribus. BUT, I love
Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful thesis for my Architectural
studies with it. It was a 2 columns document with notes, pictures, etc.
An RPG manual is something way more elaborated. WAY MORE. Have a look at
white wolf's manuals to understand the extent of the graphical effort I'm
going to achieve. The problem is, many things cannot be done, from my point
of view, in Lyx to achieve this result. And maybe this is simply not the
tool intended for this kind of result. I need 2 columns pages (OK) with the
possibility to use a picture as a frame for the entire page, or as a
background if you prefer. This picture should be changeable from a section
or from a chapter to another. Say, this chapter has a picture frame of one
kind, then changng chapter I can change the background picture again, etc.
Not only that. I need to be able to put parts of a text, like a citation, a
small emphasized part of the text, something to be outlined, into a fancy
small picture used as a background for it. Fancy tables would be needed too,
but this could even be used with a work-around: I create the tables in Gimp
or something similar, save them as picture and import them into the Lyx
document in a Floating Table frame (for table indexing later).

Now, why I wanna do it in Lyx? Many reasons, the main reasons are:

1) I love Lyx
2) Lyx documents look incredible, very nice, very professional.
Everything is automated and done for good, it is NOT a WYSIWYG and this is
nice to keep focused on the contents.
3) I'm an opensource fan and leader of a GNU / LInux distro (OPenGEU) and
I'd like to show off to the world the powers of opensource software. Lyx is
in my opinion the best thing around in opensource documents managing.
4) Currently all of this is impossible to do in Lyx with normal tools and
GUI commands. Probably the result is achievable with complex code to be
inserted here and there. This is NOT the solution. People cannot use code,
you can't ask people to. So, probably this effort will help Lyx become more
powerful, many new small adjustements could be implemented with a work of
this kind.

Everybody, coders, users, everyone is invited in participating. I think this
is a great occasion to have a powerfuller Lyx, able of achieving even more
incredible results in many more fields of documents processing. Do you think
this is achievable? Anyone wanna help? Remember I'm not trying to do this
for my only personal achievement. It costs zero to me using Scribus instead
and living Lyx alone. It's just that I think this can be a nice fight to try
and win! :)

Greetings everyone,

Luca D.M.

http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com
http://www.opengeu.com

Datum auf der Titelseite

[geograffiti]

Hallo liebe Profis,

bin geade am Beenden meiner Diplomarbeit und kriege das verflixte, von lyx
auf die Titelseite gepackte Datum (unter dem Titel der Arbeit) nicht weg.

Kann mir da geholfen werden?

Vielen Dank schon mal!
Matze

Re: Datum auf der Titelseite

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

geograffiti wrote:
 bin geade am Beenden meiner Diplomarbeit und kriege das verflixte, von lyx
 auf die Titelseite gepackte Datum (unter dem Titel der Arbeit) nicht weg.

 Kann mir da geholfen werden?

See
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc23

Jürgen

Re: Datum auf der Titelseite

[Florian Rubach]

geograffiti schrieb:

Hallo liebe Profis,

bin geade am Beenden meiner Diplomarbeit und kriege das verflixte, von lyx
auf die Titelseite gepackte Datum (unter dem Titel der Arbeit) nicht weg.

Kann mir da geholfen werden?

Vielen Dank schon mal!
Matze
Probier's mal mit \date{} in ERT direkt hinter deinem Titel, ohne 
Leerzeichen oder Zeilenumbruch dazwischen.


For every list-member unable to read german:
The issue is that matze is unable to remove the date stamp from his 
titlepage, my suggested solution is to add \date{} in ERT right after 
the title.


Regards, Florian

Re: Multiple Language Quotation Problem

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Ben Allen wrote:
 Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

This is bug #5096.

A workaround is to add \selectlanguage{english} in ERT at the very beginning 
of the paragraph following the environments in question.

Jürgen 

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ]

Luca De Marini wrote:
 Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new adventure
 in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only fronted-side, not code or
 LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual here in Italy
 and my idea is that of trying to write it with an opensource software. Now,
 of course I know that for typography the best tool is Scribus. BUT, I love
 Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful thesis for my Architectural
 studies with it. It was a 2 columns document with notes, pictures, etc.
 An RPG manual is something way more elaborated. WAY MORE. Have a look at
 white wolf's manuals to understand the extent of the graphical effort I'm
 going to achieve. The problem is, many things cannot be done, from my point
 of view, in Lyx to achieve this result. And maybe this is simply not the
 tool intended for this kind of result. I need 2 columns pages (OK) with the
 possibility to use a picture as a frame for the entire page, or as a
 background if you prefer. This picture should be changeable from a section
 or from a chapter to another. Say, this chapter has a picture frame of one
 kind, then changng chapter I can change the background picture again, etc.
   
There is a package called 'wallpaper' that may do this very well with a
little bit of ERT.

 Not only that. I need to be able to put parts of a text, like a citation, a
 small emphasized part of the text, something to be outlined, into a fancy
 small picture used as a background for it. Fancy tables would be needed too,
 but this could even be used with a work-around: I create the tables in Gimp
 or something similar, save them as picture and import them into the Lyx
 document in a Floating Table frame (for table indexing later).

 Now, why I wanna do it in Lyx? Many reasons, the main reasons are:

 1) I love Lyx
 2) Lyx documents look incredible, very nice, very professional.
 Everything is automated and done for good, it is NOT a WYSIWYG and this is
 nice to keep focused on the contents.
 3) I'm an opensource fan and leader of a GNU / LInux distro (OPenGEU) and
 I'd like to show off to the world the powers of opensource software. Lyx is
 in my opinion the best thing around in opensource documents managing.
 4) Currently all of this is impossible to do in Lyx with normal tools and
 GUI commands. Probably the result is achievable with complex code to be
 inserted here and there. This is NOT the solution. People cannot use code,
 you can't ask people to. So, probably this effort will help Lyx become more
 powerful, many new small adjustements could be implemented with a work of
 this kind.

 Everybody, coders, users, everyone is invited in participating. I think this
 is a great occasion to have a powerfuller Lyx, able of achieving even more
 incredible results in many more fields of documents processing. Do you think
 this is achievable? Anyone wanna help? Remember I'm not trying to do this
 for my only personal achievement. It costs zero to me using Scribus instead
 and living Lyx alone. It's just that I think this can be a nice fight to try
 and win! :)

 Greetings everyone,

 Luca D.M.

 http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com
 http://www.opengeu.com

   


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Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/ Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/
GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ PDF: http://www.pdfforge.org/




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Biblatex and multiple bibliographies

[Antonio Díaz]

Hi all:

I'm writing a text about some artists i've working on. The structure is like
a catalog, a lot of chapters, each one with an artist. I want one
bibliography at the end of each chapter, but i'm using the bibliography
stile verbose-trad2 of biblatex package, because I need to use Ibid. or
Op. cit. when I repeat a citation.
The problem: i don't know how do that. There is a lot of packages like
bibunit or multibib, but I cant do it works.

Someone knows how can i do the multiple bibliographies with the biblatex
package?

regards

Antonio

Re: Biblatex and multiple bibliographies

[Charles de Miramon]

Antonio Díaz wrote:

 
 Someone knows how can i do the multiple bibliographies with the biblatex
 package?
 

Yes, it is possible. Read the biblatex manual. There are several options 
depending on your needs.

Cheers,
Charles
-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Luca De Marini]

 2009/7/13 Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ mjoy...@vbservices.net
 
 There is a package called 'wallpaper' that may do this very well with a
 little bit of ERT.


Thank you very much for your suggestion. Of course I can use it but the
question is: isn't it better to integrate it in Lyx so that people can use
wallpapers normally? In any case, I'll do it with ERT for now.

2009/7/13 Charles de Miramon cmira...@kde-france.org

 Luca De Marini wrote:

  Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new
  adventure in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only
 fronted-side,
  not code or LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual
  here in Italy and my idea is that of trying to write it with an
 opensource
  software. Now, of course I know that for typography the best tool is
  Scribus. BUT, I love Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful
  thesis for my Architectural studies with it.

 I don't know how you want to design your RPG manual. But if you have
 complex
 and very graphically oriented pages, scribus is a better tool.


Sure Charles, as I said, it is very graphically rich. Look at WhiteWolf's
kind of manual for an example, it costs you nothing, just visit the site or
have a screen of some pages in google! Vampire, Wherewolf, the style's that.

And as I said, of course I know Scribus is a better toy for this kind of
work. The interesting thing for me is pushing Lyx to the limit, see if it
can do this work, see if it will make the whole process of writing a manual
such a pain that using Scribus would be better instead :)
Greets,

Luca

Re: Document Include mechanism

[rgheck]

On 07/12/2009 12:57 PM, James Mansion wrote:

Richard Heck wrote:

On 07/12/2009 07:46 AM, James Mansion wrote:
I may be doing the wrong thing - but I stared trying to write a book 
with each Part in a separate document so I can edit (and version 
control) them in more manageable chunks.


This seems to be working though I find the inability to nest 
inclusions a bit disturbing.



What do you mean by this? You can have children of children of children.

No I can't.  When I got Ctrl-D I get a dialog that says:

LaTeX Error: \include cannot be nested.

and the Description is:

\include{0C__src_books_arch_test}

Your command was ignored.

Type I command return to replace it with another command,

or return to continue without it.


Use Input rather than Include. That should probably be the default.

What is more worrying is that I don't seem to be able to set the 
document class and LaTeX preamble on the master and have it 
inherited to new components --- I have to set the class of each one.


To some extent, this is a known issue, and there is a sense in which 
it can't be solved. If you treat the file as a file unto itself, then 
it needs its own document class, preamble, etc. And sometimes a file 
can be both a child of another document and a file unto itself. And 
for the same reason you do always have to set the document class.


I think that's a weak answer.  I don't *need* the children to be valid 
as self-contained documents. What I would like is to be able to set a 
docu class (optionally) but to have it ignored and defer to the parent 
in the case where its a child.


I understand what you want. What I was explaining is why LyX can't 
*just* work the way you want. We have had lengthy discussions about this 
both on this list and on the devel list, and there are a lot of people 
who need the facility I described. So we provide that as an option 
(which is how it originally worked, anyway), and people who don't need 
that facility---like you and me---have to make do. This is always the 
trade-off: Flexibility for the people who need it vs additional effort 
for the people who don't.


That said, there probably is room for improvement here. Especially now 
that we have this default master setting, a child should probably 
inherit the document class of its master, and its modules and such, too. 
I'm not sure how well we do with that, but I can't test it now, due to 
quite other problems. Of course, if you'd like to look into fixing this 
yourself, I'd be happy to provide some pointers.


Richard

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[rgheck]

On 07/12/2009 11:44 PM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Hi rh, Hi All,

Thanks for the reply; attached, please find my test files, that do not 
work now on my ubuntu machine with LyX 1.6.0.


I found the command bibtex in test.lyx, so I manually ran bibtex on 
test.bib, with the error message that test.bib.aux is not found. I 
am not even close to the actual problem, am I? ;-)


As someone else said, you have to run bibtex test, not bibtex 
test.bib. (You can also run latex test rather than latex test.tex, 
though you don't HAVE to do so.)


As far as these files go, there are no citations in the test file you 
sent. If I add one, it works for me. Try putting the files into /tmp and 
see if they work there.


rh


Thank you
Sebastian

Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Dear All,

I installed the latest Lyx version 1.6.3 on my Mac 10.4.11

Everything behaves normal, in particular, I can export pdfs and 
easily import a *.bib into my Bibliography section and LyX recognizes 
all the references in it.


However, trying to export this document with references into pdf, the 
references do not appear and all my citation show question tags.


Any help is much appreciated,
Sebastian

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Manveru]

2009/7/13 Luca De Marini luca.darkmas...@gmail.com:
 Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new adventure
 in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only fronted-side, not code or
 LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual here in Italy
 and my idea is that of trying to write it with an opensource software. Now,
 of course I know that for typography the best tool is Scribus. BUT, I love
 Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful thesis for my Architectural
 studies with it. It was a 2 columns document with notes, pictures, etc.
 An RPG manual is something way more elaborated. WAY MORE. Have a look at
 white wolf's manuals to understand the extent of the graphical effort I'm
 going to achieve. The problem is, many things cannot be done, from my point
 of view, in Lyx to achieve this result. And maybe this is simply not the
 tool intended for this kind of result. I need 2 columns pages (OK) with the
 possibility to use a picture as a frame for the entire page, or as a
 background if you prefer. This picture should be changeable from a section
 or from a chapter to another. Say, this chapter has a picture frame of one
 kind, then changng chapter I can change the background picture again, etc.
 Not only that. I need to be able to put parts of a text, like a citation, a
 small emphasized part of the text, something to be outlined, into a fancy
 small picture used as a background for it. Fancy tables would be needed too,
 but this could even be used with a work-around: I create the tables in Gimp
 or something similar, save them as picture and import them into the Lyx
 document in a Floating Table frame (for table indexing later).

 Now, why I wanna do it in Lyx? Many reasons, the main reasons are:

 1) I love Lyx
 2) Lyx documents look incredible, very nice, very professional.
 Everything is automated and done for good, it is NOT a WYSIWYG and this is
 nice to keep focused on the contents.
 3) I'm an opensource fan and leader of a GNU / LInux distro (OPenGEU) and
 I'd like to show off to the world the powers of opensource software. Lyx is
 in my opinion the best thing around in opensource documents managing.
 4) Currently all of this is impossible to do in Lyx with normal tools and
 GUI commands. Probably the result is achievable with complex code to be
 inserted here and there. This is NOT the solution. People cannot use code,
 you can't ask people to. So, probably this effort will help Lyx become more
 powerful, many new small adjustements could be implemented with a work of
 this kind.

 Everybody, coders, users, everyone is invited in participating. I think this
 is a great occasion to have a powerfuller Lyx, able of achieving even more
 incredible results in many more fields of documents processing. Do you think
 this is achievable? Anyone wanna help? Remember I'm not trying to do this
 for my only personal achievement. It costs zero to me using Scribus instead
 and living Lyx alone. It's just that I think this can be a nice fight to try
 and win! :)

 Greetings everyone,

 Luca D.M.

 http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com
 http://www.opengeu.com


You know... My answer to above is that you have to learn TeX and LaTeX
hard, and then design your own style for that with all fountains. Then
you have to prepare layout file for LyX. The example of Beamer shows
that LaTeX allows a lot, really.

If you choose Scribus (which is very professional open-source piece of
DTP software), please keep on mind the designers way of preparing such
documents. You have to write all your text content and prepare all the
graphics at first stage, then at the next step design your styles in
Scribus and then use the elements from both stages to design your
manual. If you start in Scribus and you will experiment with this, you
quickly do a real mess in you design and then you may need to start
from scratch with it.


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Re: Document Include mechanism

[rgheck]

On 07/13/2009 02:07 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 04:01:01 schrieb rgheck:
   

That said, there probably is a bug here, especially now that we have
this default master setting. A child should probably inherit the
document class of its master, and its modules and such, too. I'm not
sure how well we do with that.
 


Only if it is exported with the master-buffer-* lfuns. The default master is
not supposed to exclude stand-alone usage.

   
Yes, I know: I use the master buffer thing all the time, for which thank 
you. What I meant was: Maybe there should be another setting, which 
would mean something like: Inherit the document class, preamble, etc, 
even when this is compiled on its own.


rh

Re: Document Include mechanism

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 15:30:46 schrieben Sie:
  Only if it is exported with the master-buffer-* lfuns. The default master
  is not supposed to exclude stand-alone usage.
 
 

 Yes, I know: I use the master buffer thing all the time, for which thank
 you. What I meant was: Maybe there should be another setting, which
 would mean something like: Inherit the document class, preamble, etc,
 even when this is compiled on its own.

Probably. Or just a button that lets you inherit the params from the master.

Jürgen

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[Sebastian Stolzenberg]

Hi rh, Hi Murat, Hi All,

let's define $tmp=/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ6542/lyx_tmpbuf2

There is 1 reference in the test.bib I attached, but looking into the 
$tmp/test.log file, I get this error message here:




LaTeX Warning: Empty `thebibliography' environment on input line 3.



since $tmp/test.bbl has no references. However, there exists 
$tmp/0_home_sebastian_test.bib, including my 1 reference.


The files test.aux, test.tex, and test.tex.dep-pdf (all in $tmp) refer 
to this bib file.


@rh: As a workaround, did you add a reference to a *.bib or a *.bbl file 
to make things work? If *.bbl, could you kindly send me the *.bbl file 
so that I can learn, how to these references manually?


@Murat: How can I set a Latex path in Lyx? Only through the 
Preference-PATH prefix line?


Thanks a zillion,
Sebastian


rgheck wrote:

On 07/12/2009 11:44 PM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Hi rh, Hi All,

Thanks for the reply; attached, please find my test files, that do 
not work now on my ubuntu machine with LyX 1.6.0.


I found the command bibtex in test.lyx, so I manually ran bibtex on 
test.bib, with the error message that test.bib.aux is not found. I 
am not even close to the actual problem, am I? ;-)


As someone else said, you have to run bibtex test, not bibtex 
test.bib. (You can also run latex test rather than latex 
test.tex, though you don't HAVE to do so.)


As far as these files go, there are no citations in the test file you 
sent. If I add one, it works for me. Try putting the files into /tmp 
and see if they work there.


rh


Thank you
Sebastian

Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Dear All,

I installed the latest Lyx version 1.6.3 on my Mac 10.4.11

Everything behaves normal, in particular, I can export pdfs and 
easily import a *.bib into my Bibliography section and LyX 
recognizes all the references in it.


However, trying to export this document with references into pdf, 
the references do not appear and all my citation show question tags.


Any help is much appreciated,
Sebastian

RE: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
 There is a package called 'wallpaper' that may do this very well with

 a little bit of ERT.


Thank you very much for your suggestion. Of course I
can use it but the question is: isn't it better to
integrate it in Lyx so that people can use wallpapers
normally? In any case, I'll do it with ERT for now.

We have an option to specify the page background color now, why not
adding a wallpaper option indeed ? I'll propose this to the other
developers. Let's see what happens ;-).

 I don't know how you want to design your RPG manual. But if you have 
 complex and very graphically oriented pages, scribus is a better tool.


I don't know scribus, but maybe it's a powerful combination to be able
to use scribus for the graphics part of your document and use LyX for
the text.

The interesting thing for me is pushing Lyx to the limit, see if it
can do this work, see if it will make the whole process of writing a 
manual such a pain that using Scribus would be better instead :)

It's nice to push LyX to the limit. I can think of a special editor in
LyX to design header-styles, chapter-styles etc. etc., but it will take
some time before this can be done within LyX. For now, one has to code
LaTeX.


I'm very open to hear good ideas, .. 

Greets,

Luca

Vincent

Re: Consolidating the bibliography for article submissions

[Manolo Martí­nez]

To clarify what I'm asking here, I'm interested in the easiest, shortest 
way to go from:


a) A Lyx file with a bibtex bibliography, to

b) Another Lyx (or a .tex) file, where this bibliography has been 
resolved into /bibitems, so that it can be shared with people without 
having to share the .bib file independently.


I would have thought many of you have gone through this problem before?

Thanks again.
Manolo

Manolo Martí­nez escribió:

Dear all,

Is there any easy way to convert a bibtex list of references in part 
of a .tex document? I know the roundabout way which consists of 
exporting the lyx document to LaTeX, and then copying back the list of 
references from the .bbl file.


A Lyx plugin to do this would be extremely useful. Many publishers 
accept LaTeX submissions but, I think, it is somewhat untidy to send 
the .tex file and the .bib files separately, while going through the 
.bbl route is a real pain in the neck.


Thanks. Cheers,
Manolo

Continuous spelling checker

[Erez Yerushalmi]

Dear Developers / Abdel,

I'm really excited to start using the continuous spelling checker.  Is there
any possibility to use it already now, before waiting for the next 2.0.0
version of LyX??

Can I do anything to add it to the current LyX 1.6.3, windows OS.

Thanks, Erez


-- 
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
homepage: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/ep/pg/ecrfaw

Re: Continuous spelling checker

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
 Dear Developers / Abdel,

 I'm really excited to start using the continuous spelling checker.  Is
 there any possibility to use it already now, before waiting for the next
 2.0.0 version of LyX??

 Can I do anything to add it to the current LyX 1.6.3, windows OS.

Probably not. This feature is too complex to get backported to the current 
stable branch.

Jürgen

RE: Continuous spelling checker

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

Dear Developers / Abdel,

Can I do anything to add it to the current LyX 1.6.3, windows OS.

Get the latest svn and compile :).

Vincent

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[William Adams]

Luca De Marini wrote:


An RPG manual is something way more elaborated.



Well, that depends on the manual.

FWIW, Columbia Games used to produce all of their books using TeX ---  
they had very high production values even using lovely textured stock  
and sepia coloured ink (until someone whined and they quit doing so).


William

--
William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Luca De Marini]

2009/7/13 William Adams will.ad...@frycomm.com

 Luca De Marini wrote:

  An RPG manual is something way more elaborated.



 Well, that depends on the manual.

 FWIW, Columbia Games used to produce all of their books using TeX --- they
 had very high production values even using lovely textured stock and sepia
 coloured ink (until someone whined and they quit doing so).


Ok then, let's say many modern RPGs nowadays :)
Greets,

Luca

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Charles de Miramon]

Luca De Marini wrote:


 And as I said, of course I know Scribus is a better toy for this kind of
 work. The interesting thing for me is pushing Lyx to the limit, see if it
 can do this work, see if it will make the whole process of writing a
 manual such a pain that using Scribus would be better instead :)
 Greets,


I had a look at the gory, satanic stuff ;-)

The problem with LaTeX and LyX is the positioning of images. You cannot 
position absolutely an image on a page in LaTeX. You don't have also the 
concept of layers. If you are a LaTeX expert, they are tricks, for example 
with tikz but you are going to suffer and too many LaTeX compilation errors 
will make you curse and turn you in a soulless ghoul.

Cheers,
Charles 


-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[Sebastian Stolzenberg]

Thanks guys for your help.

It turned out to be an encoding problem: BibTex does not support unicode 
yet.


Cheers,
Sebastian

rgheck wrote:

On 07/13/2009 10:22 AM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Hi rh, Hi Murat, Hi All,

let's define $tmp=/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ6542/lyx_tmpbuf2

There is 1 reference in the test.bib I attached, but looking into the 
$tmp/test.log file, I get this error message here:


LaTeX Warning: Empty `thebibliography' environment on input line 3.

since $tmp/test.bbl has no references. However, there exists 
$tmp/0_home_sebastian_test.bib, including my 1 reference.


The files test.aux, test.tex, and test.tex.dep-pdf (all in $tmp) 
refer to this bib file.


@rh: As a workaround, did you add a reference to a *.bib or a *.bbl 
file to make things work? If *.bbl, could you kindly send me the 
*.bbl file so that I can learn, how to these references manually?


No, I didn't do anything but add a footnote to your LyX file. Without 
it, of course there will be no references, since nothing is cited. 
Normally, LyX (and, for that matter, LaTeX) includes only cited 
material in the bibliography. This allows you to have a single, huge 
bib file that you use with all your documents, and only the ones you 
cite get output.


If you want to output everything in the bib file, then click on the 
bibliography inset and then, at the bottom, where it says Content, 
choose All references.


rh

Re: Label and againframe [Beamer]

[Christian Bustamante]

Any idea?
In plain code, you create the title slide with
\begin{frame}[label=firstframe]
\titlepage
\end{frame}
But in LyX, this process is automatic... Help please



On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Paul A. Rubinru...@msu.edu wrote:
 I'm afraid what you wrote does not make sense.  You start your presentation
 with title and authors.  Then you have your content, with the first slide of
 content started with a BeginFrame environment (the equivalent of the
 \begin{frame}[label=firstframe] LaTeX command you wrote below.

 Or are you saying you want to repeat the title slide at the end??

 /Paul

 Christian Bustamante wrote:

 Hi Paul,
 I understand the procedure to repeat a simple slide. My problem is
 whit the first one, because you don't use the BeginFrame environment
 at all. At the start of file, you simple put the title and authors,
 but not more how can I do it for the first slide??
 Bests



 On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Paul A. Rubinru...@msu.edu wrote:

 Christian Bustamante wrote:

 Hi all,

 I'm using the beamer class and I need to repeat the first slide at the
 end of presentation. In plain LaTeX one can do the following

 \documentclass{beamer}
 \title[Short title]{The title}
 \author[Authors]{Author 1 \and Author 2}
 \date{\today}
 \begin{document}
 \begin{frame}[label=firstframe]
 \titlepage
 \end{frame}
 ...
 \againframe{firstframe}
 \end{document}

 Which uses the againframe command. The thing is, how can I label the
 first slide for then use the againframe in LyX?

 Put the cursor in the BeginFrame environment for the slide to be
 repeated,
 directly to the left of the first letter of the title, and insert
 '[label=firstframe]' (including the brackets) in an ERT inset. At the
 point
 where you want to repeat the slide, use an AgainFrame environment and
 just
 type 'firstframe' as if it were a title.

 /Paul










-- 
CdeB

RE: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

   I'm very open to hear good ideas, ..
 
  Very nice to know :)
 
 What maybe someone is misunderstanding is I'm not asking for help 
 on how to create an RPG manual, I created some of them already 
 with Scribus and the result is more than interesting. 
 
Good, otherwise I'd have said not to use LyX :).
 
 When you have a goal to reach things can be seen in a much clearer
way. 
 If you are interested I can write down some sketches of what is needed

 when someone is designing this kind of document, with already created 
 examples, and what could be implemented in Lyx to achieve that goal. 
 So that we could analyze everything step by step and see if there's a
way 
 to implement this or that feature from Latex to Lyx.  
 
The easiest would be to write a module of such a feature. This doesn't
need any adjustments to LyX and you can share it with others. 


 If we go trough this adventure I'm sure at the end Lyx's gonna have
much 
 more potential than now with not so many added features! I mean,
surely 
 we can optimize the needed features for this kind of work. A single
new 
 thing can be used to achieve many different results. 
 
I just want to warn you that maybe not everything you want is easy to
accomplish. You can easily be frustrated by all LaTeX code that is
needed. Besides, there are infinite number of features to be added to
LyX, but there won't be support from developers for all. If you can
really indicate a few features that would be useful for a larger
community which do not deviate too much from LyX's philosophy, we
might end up with a better LyX.
 
 
Vincent 

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[rgheck]

On 07/13/2009 01:18 PM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Thanks guys for your help.

It turned out to be an encoding problem: BibTex does not support 
unicode yet.


This is a fairly common problem. You might try BibLaTeX if you really 
need unicode.


rh



Cheers,
Sebastian

rgheck wrote:

On 07/13/2009 10:22 AM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Hi rh, Hi Murat, Hi All,

let's define $tmp=/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ6542/lyx_tmpbuf2

There is 1 reference in the test.bib I attached, but looking into 
the $tmp/test.log file, I get this error message here:


LaTeX Warning: Empty `thebibliography' environment on input line 3.

since $tmp/test.bbl has no references. However, there exists 
$tmp/0_home_sebastian_test.bib, including my 1 reference.


The files test.aux, test.tex, and test.tex.dep-pdf (all in $tmp) 
refer to this bib file.


@rh: As a workaround, did you add a reference to a *.bib or a *.bbl 
file to make things work? If *.bbl, could you kindly send me the 
*.bbl file so that I can learn, how to these references manually?


No, I didn't do anything but add a footnote to your LyX file. Without 
it, of course there will be no references, since nothing is cited. 
Normally, LyX (and, for that matter, LaTeX) includes only cited 
material in the bibliography. This allows you to have a single, huge 
bib file that you use with all your documents, and only the ones you 
cite get output.


If you want to output everything in the bib file, then click on the 
bibliography inset and then, at the bottom, where it says Content, 
choose All references.


rh

multicol package

[Shirley]

I am trying to set up a book (8x10 - about 400 pages) with mostly 2 columns. 
I want the chapter titles and section headings to go across the page with the 
body text in 2 columsn.

I have set it up as follows:

Chapter Title
\begin{multicols}{2}

(body text)

\end{multicols}

or

Section Heading
\begin{multicols}{2}

(body text)
\end{multicols}

It seems to work OK until I'm about half way through the book, then when I try 
to view using DVI or PDF, I get an error message Dimension too large.

Is there a limit as to how many times you can changee from one to two columns? 
Is there a limit to how many words this setup can handle? Any help would be 
appreciated.

Re: Document Include mechanism

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 04:01:01 schrieb rgheck:
> That said, there probably is a bug here, especially now that we have
> this "default master" setting. A child should probably inherit the
> document class of its master, and its modules and such, too. I'm not
> sure how well we do with that.

Only if it is exported with the master-buffer-* lfuns. The default master is 
not supposed to exclude stand-alone usage.

Jürgen

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Monday 13 July 2009 05:44:23 schrieb Sebastian Stolzenberg:
> Hi rh, Hi All,
>
> Thanks for the reply; attached, please find my test files, that do not
> work now on my ubuntu machine with LyX 1.6.0.
>
> I found the command "bibtex" in test.lyx, so I manually ran bibtex on
> test.bib, with the error message that "test.bib.aux" is not found. I am
> not even close to the actual problem, am I? ;-)

should'nt it be 
test.aux
?

run 
bibtex test

and not 
bibtex test.bib

manually
Wolfgang

>
> Thank you
> Sebastian
>
> Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I installed the latest Lyx version 1.6.3 on my Mac 10.4.11
> >
> > Everything behaves normal, in particular, I can export pdfs and easily
> > import a *.bib into my Bibliography section and LyX recognizes all the
> > references in it.
> >
> > However, trying to export this document with references into pdf, the
> > references do not appear and all my citation show question tags.
> >
> > Any help is much appreciated,
> > Sebastian



-- 
-
Wolfgang Engelmann
Schlossgartenstrasse 22
D-72070 Tübingen
Tel 07071 68325

Re: WinVista: Scrolling in LyX-window with mouse wheel?

[Manveru]

2009/7/11 Pavel Sanda :
> Jannick Asmus wrote:
>> Do you have any other ideas - or is it just a no-go on WinVista?
>
> may be mouse driver or qt issue, difficult to say.

Many non-standard laptop/notebook scrollers do not work with Qt under
Windows. This is an issue in my case, where ThinkPad's scrolling
functions works with Windows apps, with OpenOffice (they added such
support some time ago), but don't with Qt which is annoying as I like
TrackPoint a lot. It allows navigation without moving hands away from
keyboard.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
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   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: WinVista: Scrolling in LyX-window with mouse wheel?

[Helge Hafting]

Manveru wrote:

2009/7/11 Pavel Sanda :

Jannick Asmus wrote:

Do you have any other ideas - or is it just a no-go on WinVista?

may be mouse driver or qt issue, difficult to say.


Many non-standard laptop/notebook scrollers do not work with Qt under
Windows. 


Ah, a windows mouse driver fault then. Try complaining to the equipment
manufacturer, or microsoft. The manufacturer probably is the one
with most interest in making this work.

Helge Hafting

installation error towards mathematica 5.2 on ubuntu 8.02

[Jon]

At the final stage of the installation, it gives out four similar error
message as

[: 215: ==: unexpected operator
[: 215: ==: unexpected operator
[: 215: ==: unexpected operator
[: 215: ==: unexpected operator

but without indicating what causes them. The mathematica seems to work well,
but the white working area seems to be transparent. There is no display in
the working area. Thus, it seems there is some display issue with the
installation, anybody has any idea on this very odd issue with this or other
softwares? Thanks for sharing your information and help!

RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Luca De Marini]

Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new adventure
in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only fronted-side, not code or
LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual here in Italy
and my idea is that of trying to write it with an opensource software. Now,
of course I know that for typography the best tool is Scribus. BUT, I love
Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful thesis for my Architectural
studies with it. It was a 2 columns document with notes, pictures, etc.
An RPG manual is something way more elaborated. WAY MORE. Have a look at
white wolf's manuals to understand the extent of the graphical effort I'm
going to achieve. The problem is, many things cannot be done, from my point
of view, in Lyx to achieve this result. And maybe this is simply not the
tool intended for this kind of result. I need 2 columns pages (OK) with the
possibility to use a picture as a frame for the entire page, or as a
background if you prefer. This picture should be changeable from a section
or from a chapter to another. Say, this chapter has a picture frame of one
kind, then changng chapter I can change the background picture again, etc.
Not only that. I need to be able to put parts of a text, like a citation, a
small emphasized part of the text, something to be outlined, into a fancy
small picture used as a background for it. Fancy tables would be needed too,
but this could even be used with a work-around: I create the tables in Gimp
or something similar, save them as picture and import them into the Lyx
document in a Floating Table frame (for table indexing later).

Now, why I wanna do it in Lyx? Many reasons, the main reasons are:

1) I love Lyx
2) Lyx documents look incredible, very nice, very professional.
Everything is automated and done for good, it is NOT a WYSIWYG and this is
nice to keep focused on the contents.
3) I'm an opensource fan and leader of a GNU / LInux distro (OPenGEU) and
I'd like to show off to the world the powers of opensource software. Lyx is
in my opinion the best thing around in opensource documents managing.
4) Currently all of this is impossible to do in Lyx with normal tools and
GUI commands. Probably the result is achievable with complex code to be
inserted here and there. This is NOT the solution. People cannot use code,
you can't ask people to. So, probably this effort will help Lyx become more
powerful, many new small adjustements could be implemented with a work of
this kind.

Everybody, coders, users, everyone is invited in participating. I think this
is a great occasion to have a powerfuller Lyx, able of achieving even more
incredible results in many more fields of documents processing. Do you think
this is achievable? Anyone wanna help? Remember I'm not trying to do this
for my only personal achievement. It costs zero to me using Scribus instead
and living Lyx alone. It's just that I think this can be a nice fight to try
and win! :)

Greetings everyone,

Luca D.M.

http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com
http://www.opengeu.com

Datum auf der Titelseite

[geograffiti]

Hallo liebe Profis,

bin geade am Beenden meiner Diplomarbeit und kriege das verflixte, von lyx
auf die Titelseite gepackte Datum (unter dem Titel der Arbeit) nicht weg.

Kann mir da geholfen werden?

Vielen Dank schon mal!
Matze

Re: Datum auf der Titelseite

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

geograffiti wrote:
> bin geade am Beenden meiner Diplomarbeit und kriege das verflixte, von lyx
> auf die Titelseite gepackte Datum (unter dem Titel der Arbeit) nicht weg.
>
> Kann mir da geholfen werden?

See
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Unsorted#toc23

Jürgen

Re: Datum auf der Titelseite

[Florian Rubach]

geograffiti schrieb:

Hallo liebe Profis,

bin geade am Beenden meiner Diplomarbeit und kriege das verflixte, von lyx
auf die Titelseite gepackte Datum (unter dem Titel der Arbeit) nicht weg.

Kann mir da geholfen werden?

Vielen Dank schon mal!
Matze
Probier's mal mit \date{} in ERT direkt hinter deinem Titel, ohne 
Leerzeichen oder Zeilenumbruch dazwischen.


For every list-member unable to read german:
The issue is that matze is unable to remove the date stamp from his 
titlepage, my suggested solution is to add \date{} in ERT right after 
the title.


Regards, Florian

Re: Multiple Language Quotation Problem

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Ben Allen wrote:
> Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

This is bug #5096.

A workaround is to add \selectlanguage{english} in ERT at the very beginning 
of the paragraph following the environments in question.

Jürgen 

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ]

Luca De Marini wrote:
> Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new adventure
> in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only fronted-side, not code or
> LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual here in Italy
> and my idea is that of trying to write it with an opensource software. Now,
> of course I know that for typography the best tool is Scribus. BUT, I love
> Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful thesis for my Architectural
> studies with it. It was a 2 columns document with notes, pictures, etc.
> An RPG manual is something way more elaborated. WAY MORE. Have a look at
> white wolf's manuals to understand the extent of the graphical effort I'm
> going to achieve. The problem is, many things cannot be done, from my point
> of view, in Lyx to achieve this result. And maybe this is simply not the
> tool intended for this kind of result. I need 2 columns pages (OK) with the
> possibility to use a picture as a frame for the entire page, or as a
> background if you prefer. This picture should be changeable from a section
> or from a chapter to another. Say, this chapter has a picture frame of one
> kind, then changng chapter I can change the background picture again, etc.
>   
There is a package called 'wallpaper' that may do this very well with a
little bit of ERT.

> Not only that. I need to be able to put parts of a text, like a citation, a
> small emphasized part of the text, something to be outlined, into a fancy
> small picture used as a background for it. Fancy tables would be needed too,
> but this could even be used with a work-around: I create the tables in Gimp
> or something similar, save them as picture and import them into the Lyx
> document in a Floating Table frame (for table indexing later).
>
> Now, why I wanna do it in Lyx? Many reasons, the main reasons are:
>
> 1) I love Lyx
> 2) Lyx documents look incredible, very nice, very professional.
> Everything is automated and done for good, it is NOT a WYSIWYG and this is
> nice to keep focused on the contents.
> 3) I'm an opensource fan and leader of a GNU / LInux distro (OPenGEU) and
> I'd like to show off to the world the powers of opensource software. Lyx is
> in my opinion the best thing around in opensource documents managing.
> 4) Currently all of this is impossible to do in Lyx with normal tools and
> GUI commands. Probably the result is achievable with complex code to be
> inserted here and there. This is NOT the solution. People cannot use code,
> you can't ask people to. So, probably this effort will help Lyx become more
> powerful, many new small adjustements could be implemented with a work of
> this kind.
>
> Everybody, coders, users, everyone is invited in participating. I think this
> is a great occasion to have a powerfuller Lyx, able of achieving even more
> incredible results in many more fields of documents processing. Do you think
> this is achievable? Anyone wanna help? Remember I'm not trying to do this
> for my only personal achievement. It costs zero to me using Scribus instead
> and living Lyx alone. It's just that I think this can be a nice fight to try
> and win! :)
>
> Greetings everyone,
>
> Luca D.M.
>
> http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com
> http://www.opengeu.com
>
>   


-- 
LyX: http://www.lyx.org/ OpenOffice: http://www.openoffice.org/
Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/ Scribus: http://www.scribus.net/
GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/ PDF: http://www.pdfforge.org/




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Biblatex and multiple bibliographies

[Antonio Díaz]

Hi all:

I'm writing a text about some artists i've working on. The structure is like
a catalog, a lot of chapters, each one with an artist. I want one
bibliography at the end of each chapter, but i'm using the bibliography
stile verbose-trad2 of biblatex package, because I need to use "Ibid." or
"Op. cit." when I repeat a citation.
The problem: i don't know how do that. There is a lot of packages like
bibunit or multibib, but I cant do it works.

Someone knows how can i do the multiple bibliographies with the biblatex
package?

regards

Antonio

Re: Biblatex and multiple bibliographies

[Charles de Miramon]

Antonio Díaz wrote:

 
> Someone knows how can i do the multiple bibliographies with the biblatex
> package?
> 

Yes, it is possible. Read the biblatex manual. There are several options 
depending on your needs.

Cheers,
Charles
-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Luca De Marini]

>
> 2009/7/13 Michael Joyner ᏩᏯ 
> >
> There is a package called 'wallpaper' that may do this very well with a
> little bit of ERT.


Thank you very much for your suggestion. Of course I can use it but the
question is: isn't it better to integrate it in Lyx so that people can use
wallpapers normally? In any case, I'll do it with ERT for now.

2009/7/13 Charles de Miramon 

> Luca De Marini wrote:
>
> > Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new
> > adventure in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only
> fronted-side,
> > not code or LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual
> > here in Italy and my idea is that of trying to write it with an
> opensource
> > software. Now, of course I know that for typography the best tool is
> > Scribus. BUT, I love Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful
> > thesis for my Architectural studies with it.
>
> I don't know how you want to design your RPG manual. But if you have
> complex
> and very graphically oriented pages, scribus is a better tool.
>

Sure Charles, as I said, it is very graphically rich. Look at WhiteWolf's
kind of manual for an example, it costs you nothing, just visit the site or
have a screen of some pages in google! Vampire, Wherewolf, the style's that.

And as I said, of course I know Scribus is a better toy for this kind of
work. The interesting thing for me is pushing Lyx to the limit, see if it
can do this work, see if it will make the whole process of writing a manual
such a pain that using Scribus would be better instead :)
Greets,

Luca

Re: Document Include mechanism

[rgheck]

On 07/12/2009 12:57 PM, James Mansion wrote:

Richard Heck wrote:

On 07/12/2009 07:46 AM, James Mansion wrote:
I may be doing the wrong thing - but I stared trying to write a book 
with each Part in a separate document so I can edit (and version 
control) them in more manageable chunks.


This seems to be working though I find the inability to nest 
inclusions a bit disturbing.



What do you mean by this? You can have children of children of children.

No I can't.  When I got Ctrl-D I get a dialog that says:

LaTeX Error: \include cannot be nested.

and the Description is:

\include{0C__src_books_arch_test}

Your command was ignored.

Type I   to replace it with another command,

or  to continue without it.


Use Input rather than Include. That should probably be the default.

What is more worrying is that I don't seem to be able to set the 
document class and LaTeX preamble on the master and have it 
inherited to new components --- I have to set the class of each one.


To some extent, this is a known issue, and there is a sense in which 
it can't be solved. If you treat the file as a file unto itself, then 
it needs its own document class, preamble, etc. And sometimes a file 
can be both a child of another document and a file unto itself. And 
for the same reason you do always have to set the document class.


I think that's a weak answer.  I don't *need* the children to be valid 
as self-contained documents. What I would like is to be able to set a 
docu class (optionally) but to have it ignored and defer to the parent 
in the case where its a child.


I understand what you want. What I was explaining is why LyX can't 
*just* work the way you want. We have had lengthy discussions about this 
both on this list and on the devel list, and there are a lot of people 
who need the facility I described. So we provide that as an option 
(which is how it originally worked, anyway), and people who don't need 
that facility---like you and me---have to make do. This is always the 
trade-off: Flexibility for the people who need it vs additional effort 
for the people who don't.


That said, there probably is room for improvement here. Especially now 
that we have this "default master" setting, a child should probably 
inherit the document class of its master, and its modules and such, too. 
I'm not sure how well we do with that, but I can't test it now, due to 
quite other problems. Of course, if you'd like to look into fixing this 
yourself, I'd be happy to provide some pointers.


Richard

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[rgheck]

On 07/12/2009 11:44 PM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Hi rh, Hi All,

Thanks for the reply; attached, please find my test files, that do not 
work now on my ubuntu machine with LyX 1.6.0.


I found the command "bibtex" in test.lyx, so I manually ran bibtex on 
test.bib, with the error message that "test.bib.aux" is not found. I 
am not even close to the actual problem, am I? ;-)


As someone else said, you have to run "bibtex test", not "bibtex 
test.bib". (You can also run "latex test" rather than "latex test.tex", 
though you don't HAVE to do so.)


As far as these files go, there are no citations in the test file you 
sent. If I add one, it works for me. Try putting the files into /tmp and 
see if they work there.


rh


Thank you
Sebastian

Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Dear All,

I installed the latest Lyx version 1.6.3 on my Mac 10.4.11

Everything behaves normal, in particular, I can export pdfs and 
easily import a *.bib into my Bibliography section and LyX recognizes 
all the references in it.


However, trying to export this document with references into pdf, the 
references do not appear and all my citation show question tags.


Any help is much appreciated,
Sebastian

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Manveru]

2009/7/13 Luca De Marini :
> Hallo everybody, I'm writing this because I'd like to start a new adventure
> in lyx now that I know a lot about this tool, only fronted-side, not code or
> LaTex side, sorry. So, I'm writing a Role Playing game manual here in Italy
> and my idea is that of trying to write it with an opensource software. Now,
> of course I know that for typography the best tool is Scribus. BUT, I love
> Lyx and I managed to create a fantastic colorful thesis for my Architectural
> studies with it. It was a 2 columns document with notes, pictures, etc.
> An RPG manual is something way more elaborated. WAY MORE. Have a look at
> white wolf's manuals to understand the extent of the graphical effort I'm
> going to achieve. The problem is, many things cannot be done, from my point
> of view, in Lyx to achieve this result. And maybe this is simply not the
> tool intended for this kind of result. I need 2 columns pages (OK) with the
> possibility to use a picture as a frame for the entire page, or as a
> background if you prefer. This picture should be changeable from a section
> or from a chapter to another. Say, this chapter has a picture frame of one
> kind, then changng chapter I can change the background picture again, etc.
> Not only that. I need to be able to put parts of a text, like a citation, a
> small emphasized part of the text, something to be outlined, into a fancy
> small picture used as a background for it. Fancy tables would be needed too,
> but this could even be used with a work-around: I create the tables in Gimp
> or something similar, save them as picture and import them into the Lyx
> document in a Floating Table frame (for table indexing later).
>
> Now, why I wanna do it in Lyx? Many reasons, the main reasons are:
>
> 1) I love Lyx
> 2) Lyx documents look incredible, very nice, very professional.
> Everything is automated and done for good, it is NOT a WYSIWYG and this is
> nice to keep focused on the contents.
> 3) I'm an opensource fan and leader of a GNU / LInux distro (OPenGEU) and
> I'd like to show off to the world the powers of opensource software. Lyx is
> in my opinion the best thing around in opensource documents managing.
> 4) Currently all of this is impossible to do in Lyx with normal tools and
> GUI commands. Probably the result is achievable with complex code to be
> inserted here and there. This is NOT the solution. People cannot use code,
> you can't ask people to. So, probably this effort will help Lyx become more
> powerful, many new small adjustements could be implemented with a work of
> this kind.
>
> Everybody, coders, users, everyone is invited in participating. I think this
> is a great occasion to have a powerfuller Lyx, able of achieving even more
> incredible results in many more fields of documents processing. Do you think
> this is achievable? Anyone wanna help? Remember I'm not trying to do this
> for my only personal achievement. It costs zero to me using Scribus instead
> and living Lyx alone. It's just that I think this can be a nice fight to try
> and win! :)
>
> Greetings everyone,
>
> Luca D.M.
>
> http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com
> http://www.opengeu.com
>

You know... My answer to above is that you have to learn TeX and LaTeX
hard, and then design your own style for that with all fountains. Then
you have to prepare layout file for LyX. The example of Beamer shows
that LaTeX allows a lot, really.

If you choose Scribus (which is very professional open-source piece of
DTP software), please keep on mind the designers way of preparing such
documents. You have to write all your text content and prepare all the
graphics at first stage, then at the next step design your styles in
Scribus and then use the elements from both stages to design your
manual. If you start in Scribus and you will experiment with this, you
quickly do a real mess in you design and then you may need to start
from scratch with it.


-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: Document Include mechanism

[rgheck]

On 07/13/2009 02:07 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 04:01:01 schrieb rgheck:
   

That said, there probably is a bug here, especially now that we have
this "default master" setting. A child should probably inherit the
document class of its master, and its modules and such, too. I'm not
sure how well we do with that.
 


Only if it is exported with the master-buffer-* lfuns. The default master is
not supposed to exclude stand-alone usage.

   
Yes, I know: I use the master buffer thing all the time, for which thank 
you. What I meant was: Maybe there should be another setting, which 
would mean something like: Inherit the document class, preamble, etc, 
even when this is compiled on its own.


rh

Re: Document Include mechanism

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Montag 13 Juli 2009 15:30:46 schrieben Sie:
> > Only if it is exported with the master-buffer-* lfuns. The default master
> > is not supposed to exclude stand-alone usage.
> >
> >
>
> Yes, I know: I use the master buffer thing all the time, for which thank
> you. What I meant was: Maybe there should be another setting, which
> would mean something like: Inherit the document class, preamble, etc,
> even when this is compiled on its own.

Probably. Or just a button that lets you inherit the params from the master.

Jürgen

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[Sebastian Stolzenberg]

Hi rh, Hi Murat, Hi All,

let's define $tmp=/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ6542/lyx_tmpbuf2

There is 1 reference in the test.bib I attached, but looking into the 
$tmp/test.log file, I get this error message here:




LaTeX Warning: Empty `thebibliography' environment on input line 3.



since $tmp/test.bbl has no references. However, there exists 
$tmp/0_home_sebastian_test.bib, including my 1 reference.


The files test.aux, test.tex, and test.tex.dep-pdf (all in $tmp) refer 
to this bib file.


@rh: As a workaround, did you add a reference to a *.bib or a *.bbl file 
to make things work? If *.bbl, could you kindly send me the *.bbl file 
so that I can learn, how to these references manually?


@Murat: How can I set a Latex path in Lyx? Only through the 
"Preference"->"PATH prefix" line?


Thanks a zillion,
Sebastian


rgheck wrote:

On 07/12/2009 11:44 PM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Hi rh, Hi All,

Thanks for the reply; attached, please find my test files, that do 
not work now on my ubuntu machine with LyX 1.6.0.


I found the command "bibtex" in test.lyx, so I manually ran bibtex on 
test.bib, with the error message that "test.bib.aux" is not found. I 
am not even close to the actual problem, am I? ;-)


As someone else said, you have to run "bibtex test", not "bibtex 
test.bib". (You can also run "latex test" rather than "latex 
test.tex", though you don't HAVE to do so.)


As far as these files go, there are no citations in the test file you 
sent. If I add one, it works for me. Try putting the files into /tmp 
and see if they work there.


rh


Thank you
Sebastian

Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Dear All,

I installed the latest Lyx version 1.6.3 on my Mac 10.4.11

Everything behaves normal, in particular, I can export pdfs and 
easily import a *.bib into my Bibliography section and LyX 
recognizes all the references in it.


However, trying to export this document with references into pdf, 
the references do not appear and all my citation show question tags.


Any help is much appreciated,
Sebastian

RE: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

>> >
>> There is a package called 'wallpaper' that may do this very well with

>> a little bit of ERT.
>
>
>Thank you very much for your suggestion. Of course I
>can use it but the question is: isn't it better to
>integrate it in Lyx so that people can use wallpapers
>normally? In any case, I'll do it with ERT for now.

We have an option to specify the page background color now, why not
adding a wallpaper option indeed ? I'll propose this to the other
developers. Let's see what happens ;-).

> I don't know how you want to design your RPG manual. But if you have 
> complex and very graphically oriented pages, scribus is a better tool.
>

I don't know scribus, but maybe it's a powerful combination to be able
to use scribus for the graphics part of your document and use LyX for
the text.

>The interesting thing for me is pushing Lyx to the limit, see if it
>can do this work, see if it will make the whole process of writing a 
>manual such a pain that using Scribus would be better instead :)

It's nice to push LyX to the limit. I can think of a special editor in
LyX to design header-styles, chapter-styles etc. etc., but it will take
some time before this can be done within LyX. For now, one has to code
LaTeX.


I'm very open to hear good ideas, .. 

>Greets,
>
>Luca

Vincent

Re: Consolidating the bibliography for article submissions

[Manolo Martí­nez]

To clarify what I'm asking here, I'm interested in the easiest, shortest 
way to go from:


a) A Lyx file with a bibtex bibliography, to

b) Another Lyx (or a .tex) file, where this bibliography has been 
resolved into /bibitems, so that it can be shared with people without 
having to share the .bib file independently.


I would have thought many of you have gone through this problem before?

Thanks again.
Manolo

Manolo Martí­nez escribió:

Dear all,

Is there any easy way to convert a bibtex list of references in part 
of a .tex document? I know the roundabout way which consists of 
exporting the lyx document to LaTeX, and then copying back the list of 
references from the .bbl file.


A Lyx plugin to do this would be extremely useful. Many publishers 
accept LaTeX submissions but, I think, it is somewhat untidy to send 
the .tex file and the .bib files separately, while going through the 
.bbl route is a real pain in the neck.


Thanks. Cheers,
Manolo

Continuous spelling checker

[Erez Yerushalmi]

Dear Developers / Abdel,

I'm really excited to start using the continuous spelling checker.  Is there
any possibility to use it already now, before waiting for the next 2.0.0
version of LyX??

Can I do anything to add it to the current LyX 1.6.3, windows OS.

Thanks, Erez


-- 
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
homepage: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/ep/pg/ecrfaw

Re: Continuous spelling checker

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Erez Yerushalmi wrote:
> Dear Developers / Abdel,
>
> I'm really excited to start using the continuous spelling checker.  Is
> there any possibility to use it already now, before waiting for the next
> 2.0.0 version of LyX??
>
> Can I do anything to add it to the current LyX 1.6.3, windows OS.

Probably not. This feature is too complex to get backported to the current 
stable branch.

Jürgen

RE: Continuous spelling checker

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

>Dear Developers / Abdel,
>
>Can I do anything to add it to the current LyX 1.6.3, windows OS.

Get the latest svn and compile :).

Vincent

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[William Adams]

Luca De Marini wrote:


An RPG manual is something way more elaborated.



Well, that depends on the manual.

FWIW, Columbia Games used to produce all of their books using TeX ---  
they had very high production values even using lovely textured stock  
and sepia coloured ink (until someone whined and they quit doing so).


William

--
William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Luca De Marini]

2009/7/13 William Adams 

> Luca De Marini wrote:
>
>  An RPG manual is something way more elaborated.
>>
>
>
> Well, that depends on the manual.
>
> FWIW, Columbia Games used to produce all of their books using TeX --- they
> had very high production values even using lovely textured stock and sepia
> coloured ink (until someone whined and they quit doing so).
>
>
Ok then, let's say many modern RPGs nowadays :)
Greets,

Luca

Re: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Charles de Miramon]

Luca De Marini wrote:


> And as I said, of course I know Scribus is a better toy for this kind of
> work. The interesting thing for me is pushing Lyx to the limit, see if it
> can do this work, see if it will make the whole process of writing a
> manual such a pain that using Scribus would be better instead :)
> Greets,


I had a look at the gory, satanic stuff ;-)

The problem with LaTeX and LyX is the positioning of images. You cannot 
position absolutely an image on a page in LaTeX. You don't have also the 
concept of layers. If you are a LaTeX expert, they are tricks, for example 
with tikz but you are going to suffer and too many LaTeX compilation errors 
will make you curse and turn you in a soulless ghoul.

Cheers,
Charles 


-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[Sebastian Stolzenberg]

Thanks guys for your help.

It turned out to be an encoding problem: BibTex does not support unicode 
yet.


Cheers,
Sebastian

rgheck wrote:

On 07/13/2009 10:22 AM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Hi rh, Hi Murat, Hi All,

let's define $tmp=/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ6542/lyx_tmpbuf2

There is 1 reference in the test.bib I attached, but looking into the 
$tmp/test.log file, I get this error message here:


LaTeX Warning: Empty `thebibliography' environment on input line 3.

since $tmp/test.bbl has no references. However, there exists 
$tmp/0_home_sebastian_test.bib, including my 1 reference.


The files test.aux, test.tex, and test.tex.dep-pdf (all in $tmp) 
refer to this bib file.


@rh: As a workaround, did you add a reference to a *.bib or a *.bbl 
file to make things work? If *.bbl, could you kindly send me the 
*.bbl file so that I can learn, how to these references manually?


No, I didn't do anything but add a footnote to your LyX file. Without 
it, of course there will be no references, since nothing is cited. 
Normally, LyX (and, for that matter, LaTeX) includes only cited 
material in the bibliography. This allows you to have a single, huge 
bib file that you use with all your documents, and only the ones you 
cite get output.


If you want to output everything in the bib file, then click on the 
bibliography inset and then, at the bottom, where it says "Content", 
choose "All references".


rh

Re: Label and againframe [Beamer]

[Christian Bustamante]

Any idea?
In plain code, you create the title slide with
\begin{frame}[label=firstframe]
\titlepage
\end{frame}
But in LyX, this process is automatic... Help please



On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> I'm afraid what you wrote does not make sense.  You start your presentation
> with title and authors.  Then you have your content, with the first slide of
> content started with a BeginFrame environment (the equivalent of the
> \begin{frame}[label=firstframe] LaTeX command you wrote below.
>
> Or are you saying you want to repeat the title slide at the end??
>
> /Paul
>
> Christian Bustamante wrote:
>>
>> Hi Paul,
>> I understand the procedure to repeat a simple slide. My problem is
>> whit the first one, because you don't use the BeginFrame environment
>> at all. At the start of file, you simple put the title and authors,
>> but not more how can I do it for the first slide??
>> Bests
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
>>>
>>> Christian Bustamante wrote:

 Hi all,

 I'm using the beamer class and I need to repeat the first slide at the
 end of presentation. In plain LaTeX one can do the following

 \documentclass{beamer}
 \title[Short title]{The title}
 \author[Authors]{Author 1 \and Author 2}
 \date{\today}
 \begin{document}
 \begin{frame}[label=firstframe]
 \titlepage
 \end{frame}
 ...
 \againframe{firstframe}
 \end{document}

 Which uses the againframe command. The thing is, how can I label the
 first slide for then use the againframe in LyX?

>>> Put the cursor in the BeginFrame environment for the slide to be
>>> repeated,
>>> directly to the left of the first letter of the title, and insert
>>> '[label=firstframe]' (including the brackets) in an ERT inset. At the
>>> point
>>> where you want to repeat the slide, use an AgainFrame environment and
>>> just
>>> type 'firstframe' as if it were a title.
>>>
>>> /Paul
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>



-- 
CdeB

RE: RPG Manual with Lyx?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

> >  I'm very open to hear good ideas, ..
> 
>  Very nice to know :)
> 
> What maybe someone is misunderstanding is I'm not asking for help 
> on how to create an RPG manual, I created some of them already 
> with Scribus and the result is more than interesting. 
 
Good, otherwise I'd have said not to use LyX :).
 
> When you have a goal to reach things can be seen in a much clearer
way. 
> If you are interested I can write down some sketches of what is needed

> when someone is designing this kind of document, with already created 
> examples, and what could be implemented in Lyx to achieve that goal. 
> So that we could analyze everything step by step and see if there's a
way 
> to implement this or that feature from Latex to Lyx.  
 
The easiest would be to write a module of such a feature. This doesn't
need any adjustments to LyX and you can share it with others. 


> If we go trough this adventure I'm sure at the end Lyx's gonna have
much 
> more potential than now with not so many added features! I mean,
surely 
> we can optimize the needed features for this kind of work. A single
new 
> thing can be used to achieve many different results. 
 
I just want to warn you that maybe not everything you want is easy to
accomplish. You can easily be frustrated by all LaTeX code that is
needed. Besides, there are infinite number of features to be added to
LyX, but there won't be support from developers for all. If you can
really indicate a few features that would be useful for a larger
community which do not deviate too much from "LyX's philosophy", we
might end up with a better LyX.
 
 
Vincent 

Re: import bib refs to show in pdf?

[rgheck]

On 07/13/2009 01:18 PM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Thanks guys for your help.

It turned out to be an encoding problem: BibTex does not support 
unicode yet.


This is a fairly common problem. You might try BibLaTeX if you really 
need unicode.


rh



Cheers,
Sebastian

rgheck wrote:

On 07/13/2009 10:22 AM, Sebastian Stolzenberg wrote:

Hi rh, Hi Murat, Hi All,

let's define $tmp=/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ6542/lyx_tmpbuf2

There is 1 reference in the test.bib I attached, but looking into 
the $tmp/test.log file, I get this error message here:


LaTeX Warning: Empty `thebibliography' environment on input line 3.

since $tmp/test.bbl has no references. However, there exists 
$tmp/0_home_sebastian_test.bib, including my 1 reference.


The files test.aux, test.tex, and test.tex.dep-pdf (all in $tmp) 
refer to this bib file.


@rh: As a workaround, did you add a reference to a *.bib or a *.bbl 
file to make things work? If *.bbl, could you kindly send me the 
*.bbl file so that I can learn, how to these references manually?


No, I didn't do anything but add a footnote to your LyX file. Without 
it, of course there will be no references, since nothing is cited. 
Normally, LyX (and, for that matter, LaTeX) includes only cited 
material in the bibliography. This allows you to have a single, huge 
bib file that you use with all your documents, and only the ones you 
cite get output.


If you want to output everything in the bib file, then click on the 
bibliography inset and then, at the bottom, where it says "Content", 
choose "All references".


rh

multicol package

[Shirley]

I am trying to set up a book (8"x10" - about 400 pages) with mostly 2 columns. 
I want the chapter titles and section headings to go across the page with the 
body text in 2 columsn.

I have set it up as follows:

Chapter Title
\begin{multicols}{2}

(body text)

\end{multicols}

or

Section Heading
\begin{multicols}{2}

(body text)
\end{multicols}

It seems to work OK until I'm about half way through the book, then when I try 
to view using DVI or PDF, I get an error message "Dimension too large."

Is there a limit as to how many times you can changee from one to two columns? 
Is there a limit to how many words this setup can handle? Any help would be 
appreciated.