Re: help - some questions

[Olivier Ripoll]

rgheck wrote:

On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:

* Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29:
  

Sam Liddicott wrote:


(I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the
same way that it supports adding Latex commands in the preamble)
   

Isn't that what layout modules are for ?
 

Sure, but as you can't embed a layout module in the lyx document, ERT
can sometimes be easier and more portable, and for small chunks of text
is already clearly delineated in the Lyx document by the red box.

   
Actually, LyX does support embedded layout. But it's an Advanced Feature 
because it is somewhat dangerous, so it is not widely advertised. There 
is also, at the moment, no GUI for it.


Have a look at the file Customization.lyx in your favorite text editor. 
Some way down you will find these lines:


\begin_local_layout
Format 7
InsetLayout CharStyle:MenuItem
LyxType   charstyle
LabelString   menu
LatexType command
LatexName menuitem
Font
Family  Sans
EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand*{\menuitem}[1]{{\sffamily #1}}
EndPreamble
End
\end_local_layout

If you want to include local layout in your document, you can open it in 
a text editor and add similar lines. Make sure they are well tested 
first, and be real careful about the first and last line. Unpredictable 
things might happen otherwise.


I hope to add a GUI for this in the next LyX release (now looking like 
1.7). I'd be really, really happy if someone else wanted to jump in and 
do it. It should actually be quite easy. (More or less just copy the GUI 
for the preamble.)


Richard



Hi,

Wouldn't it make sense to have some option somewhere to include external 
modules to the .lyx file this way? I mean, the ones that are included at 
present from the GUI.


Best regards,

Olivier

abntcite

[Beny Spira]

Hi
I am using abntcite to format my bibliography, but it does not really comply
with the citing rules used at my university. For example, it shows the URL
and date of publication. I would like to eliminate these fields, but don't
know how. Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Beny

Re: help - some questions

[rgheck]

On 08/23/2009 05:49 AM, Olivier Ripoll wrote:

rgheck wrote:

On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:

* Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29:

Sam Liddicott wrote:

(I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the
same way that it supports adding Latex commands in the preamble)

Isn't that what layout modules are for ?

Sure, but as you can't embed a layout module in the lyx document, ERT
can sometimes be easier and more portable, and for small chunks of text
is already clearly delineated in the Lyx document by the red box.

Actually, LyX does support embedded layout. But it's an Advanced 
Feature because it is somewhat dangerous, so it is not widely 
advertised. There is also, at the moment, no GUI for it.


Have a look at the file Customization.lyx in your favorite text 
editor. Some way down you will find these lines:


\begin_local_layout
Format 7
InsetLayout CharStyle:MenuItem
LyxType   charstyle
LabelString   menu
LatexType command
LatexName menuitem
Font
Family  Sans
EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand*{\menuitem}[1]{{\sffamily #1}}
EndPreamble
End
\end_local_layout

If you want to include local layout in your document, you can open it 
in a text editor and add similar lines. Make sure they are well 
tested first, and be real careful about the first and last line. 
Unpredictable things might happen otherwise.


I hope to add a GUI for this in the next LyX release (now looking 
like 1.7). I'd be really, really happy if someone else wanted to jump 
in and do it. It should actually be quite easy. (More or less just 
copy the GUI for the preamble.)


Richard



Hi,

Wouldn't it make sense to have some option somewhere to include 
external modules to the .lyx file this way? I mean, the ones that are 
included at present from the GUI.


Do you mean an option to embed the content of the external module as 
local layout?


rh

Re: abntcite

[rgheck]

On 08/23/2009 07:57 AM, Beny Spira wrote:

Hi
I am using abntcite to format my bibliography, but it does not really comply
with the citing rules used at my university. For example, it shows the URL
and date of publication. I would like to eliminate these fields, but don't
know how. Any help would be appreciated.

   
The only way to do this is to hack the bst file itself. Or else you can 
use the makebst program just to generate one from scratch that might 
conform better to what you need.


rh

Re: format conversion

[Pol]

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
 lyx -e lyx14x file.lyx
 

Thank you. That allowed me to write down a zsh script to convert files into
*.lyx14 then to move them into a special directory, after having been
renamed *.lyx again. 

---P
- enc
#!/bin/zsh
 (lyx-e lyx14x *lyx   \
  for i in *.lyx14; do mv -- $i lyx-1.4/${i:r}.lyx; done
) 
---

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

[Marcelo Acuña]

 Hi,
 
 What are the best fonts fdor readability. I'm not too fond
 of the CM 
 fonts. However, if they are really the best I may stick to
 them. I've 
 heard that Palatino is good too. I think I also heard Luxi
 mentioned 
 (lucida?) but I'm not sure.

 Garamond Condensed, but I can´t get for Lyx.
 
Marcelo


  Yahoo! Cocina

Encontra las mejores recetas con Yahoo! Cocina.


http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/

Re: A feature you really need

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote:
 On 08/21/2009 07:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or
  three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional:
 
  * Insert
  * Delete
  * Maybe Insert Subservient

 Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will
 implement it.

:-)   What is a trac, and how do I add it?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: A feature you really need

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:
 On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote:
 Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will
 implement it.

 :-)   What is a trac, and how do I add it?

http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki

To add it, login and the click New Ticket and follow the instructions.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

[Wolfgang Keller]

Hello,

 What are the best fonts fdor readability.

It depends. ;-

On the output medium, the output process, the specific application...

If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. 
And Syntax (Next) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart to Sabon.

Among the free fonts available for LaTeX, Garamond is probably the one with the 
best reputation for readability.

Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

-- 
NO Courtesy Copies PLEASE!

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

Wolfgang Keller wrote:

 Hello,
 
 What are the best fonts fdor readability.
 
 [...]
 If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as
 book font.

There is also a free clone called Bitstream Classical Garamond which can
be found on old Corel-Draw-CDs (4 and 8, AFAIK; I have Corel Draw 4).
These old CDs can be purchased at Ebay, for instance. The font metrics
needed for use with LaTeX can be found at http://www.gaehrken.de/tex/.

Of course this is just a clone of the 'old' Sabon and not of Sabon Next.

Regards,
Dominik.-

Installing LyX 1.6.4

[Hal Kierstead]

When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences..  
are greyed out.  How do I fix this?  In particular, how do I use  
Preferences?


Hal

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Is this new version official? Have I missed the annoucement of its
release? In the FTP site there are only two binaries.

Murat

2009/8/23 Hal Kierstead kierst...@asu.edu:
 When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences.. are
 greyed out.  How do I fix this?  In particular, how do I use Preferences?

 Hal




--
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Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3)
GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579)
Centre de la Vieille Charité
2, rue de la Charité
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Bureau 320
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau)
Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27

e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr
www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html
http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu
__



-- 
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Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3)
GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579)
Centre de la Vieille Charité
2, rue de la Charité
13236 Marseille cedex 02

Bureau 320
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau)
Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27

e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr
www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html
http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu
__

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Hal Kierstead schreef:
When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences.. 
are greyed out.  How do I fix this?  In particular, how do I use 
Preferences?


Hal


We know about this problem and it has our full attention.

Luckily, the shortcut still works, which is the Cmd key I believe.

Vincent

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Murat Yildizoglu schreef:

Is this new version official? Have I missed the annoucement of its
release? In the FTP site there are only two binaries.
  


No, you have missed nothing. Let's say we're in the midst of the release 
process (which might get delayed due to this problem for Mac).


Vincent

Babel and hyphenation in Spanish

[Julio Rojas]

Dear @ll. I'm working on a book(Memoir) document in Spanish and the
hyphenation seems to be broken (bad hyphenation points in fairly
simple cases are used). When I check the LaTeX log I can see the
following messages related to Babel:

Babel v3.8l and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman, ngerman, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, french, loaded.

Package blindtext Warning: You are not using babel.sty - Language by random
(blindtext)Kein babel.sty verwendet - Zufallssprache on input
line 243.

Package: babel 2008/07/06 v3.8l The Babel package
*
* Local config file bblopts.cfg used
*
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\00miktex\bblopts.cfg
File: bblopts.cfg 2006/07/31 v1.0 MiKTeX 'babel' configuration
) (C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\babel\english.ldf
Language: english 2005/03/30 v3.3o English support from the babel system
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\babel\babel.def
File: babel.def 2008/07/06 v3.8l Babel common definitions

C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\babel\spanish.ldf
Language: spanish.ldf 2008/07/06 v5.0e Spanish support from the babel system

Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)the language `Spanish'
(babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

\...@spanish = a dialect from \language0


End of messages**

What seems to be the problem? In the document, language is set to
Spanish and encoding is set to Language Default

Thanks for your help.

-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: Babel and hyphenation in Spanish

[Julio Rojas]

Seems that this is the solution:
http://osdir.com/ml/tex.miktex/2004-11/msg00096.html

RTFM :P
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Julio Rojasjcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\00miktex\

how tell which installer?

[Murray Eisenberg]

When I'm ready to upgrade (to LyX 1.6.4, say), how do I tell which 
installer I used -- the standard one or the alternate one?


I'm working in Windows XP, and I see in the main LyX directory the file 
LyXWinUninstall.exe.  Does that help to answer the question?


--
Murray Eisenberg mur...@math.umass.edu
Mathematics  Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower  phone 413 549-1020 (H)
University of Massachusetts413 545-2859 (W)
710 North Pleasant Streetfax   413 545-1801
Amherst, MA 01003-9305

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 23 August 2009 14:08:26 Wolfgang Keller wrote:
 Hello,

  What are the best fonts fdor readability.

 It depends. ;-

 On the output medium, the output process, the specific application...

 If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book
 font. And Syntax (Next) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart
 to Sabon.

 Among the free fonts available for LaTeX, Garamond is probably the one with
 the best reputation for readability.

 Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur.

The Century Schoolbook that comes with LyX works very well for me.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: A feature you really need

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 23 August 2009 11:39:17 John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
 On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com 
wrote:
  On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote:
  Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will
  implement it.
 
  :-)   What is a trac, and how do I add it?

 http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki

 To add it, login and the click New Ticket and follow the instructions.

Thanks John. I just added the ticket.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

shifting a table outside margins?

[Kenward Vaughan]

Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal
margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size
any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be
that wide on letter paper.

The other way I see attacking this would be to rotate the table, but
then I'd want to rotate the whole page.  I tried the package rotating
(or rotate?..) but couldn't get it to work on the page with the table.

:(

TIA!


Kenward
-- 
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be
learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the
last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Document title in Footer

[bart]

Hi,
I would like to have the document title appear in the footer on every 
page. I have set the headings style to fancy but i can't find a command 
to put the document title in the footer. Would it be possible also to 
have a frame around the footer?

Thanks
Bart

how to see what LyX is thinking?

[G. Jay Kerns]

Dear LyX-Users,

I am on Ubuntu Linux.  If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with
the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking
when it generates PDFs, etc.  This is a very useful debugging tool,
but I only need it a relatively small fraction of the time I am using
LyX.

On the other hand, I can never predict when I am going to need it.
And if I run LyX from the Desktop icon, say, then I don't get the
terminal showing LyX's thought processes.  If I get to someplace where
I need the terminal (especially when I am doing something with
Sweave), the only solution I have found is to close LyX and open it up
again with a terminal.

Is there some Linux trick, where I can open LyX, say, from the Desktop
without a terminal, but on-the-fly open up a terminal (or is there
even some other mechanism) to see what LyX is thinking?

Thanks for any help you may have,
Jay



-- 
***
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Youngstown State University
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Re: shifting a table outside margins?

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
 Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal
 margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size
 any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be
 that wide on letter paper.

You can adjust tables to % of page.  This has worked for me, but it
took a great deal of fiddling. 

A


-- 
Andrew Sullivan
a...@shinkuro.com
Shinkuro, Inc.

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 22:54 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
 On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
  Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal
  margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size
  any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be
  that wide on letter paper.
 
 You can adjust tables to % of page.  This has worked for me, but it
 took a great deal of fiddling. 

OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the
table settings which addresses this.


Kenward
-- 
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be
learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the
last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
 
 OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the
 table settings which addresses this.

In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table, and get a
menu.  It has Settings… at the bottom.  The option is underneath
that.

A

-- 
Andrew Sullivan
a...@shinkuro.com
Shinkuro, Inc.

Re: Document title in Footer

[rgheck]

On 08/23/2009 06:32 PM, bart wrote:

Hi,
I would like to have the document title appear in the footer on every 
page. I have set the headings style to fancy but i can't find a 
command to put the document title in the footer. Would it be possible 
also to have a frame around the footer?


You can do pretty much what you like with fancyhdr. See section 3.3 of 
the Additional Features manual for some more info on fancyhdr, and 
better yet see the fancyhdr docs.


Depending upon where you want the title, what you need is something like 
this:

\cfoo...@title}
If you want to do something special with the font, etc, just add that.

rh

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

[rgheck]

On 08/23/2009 08:48 PM, G. Jay Kerns wrote:

Dear LyX-Users,

I am on Ubuntu Linux.  If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with
the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking
when it generates PDFs, etc.  This is a very useful debugging tool,
but I only need it a relatively small fraction of the time I am using
LyX.

On the other hand, I can never predict when I am going to need it.
And if I run LyX from the Desktop icon, say, then I don't get the
terminal showing LyX's thought processes.  If I get to someplace where
I need the terminal (especially when I am doing something with
Sweave), the only solution I have found is to close LyX and open it up
again with a terminal.

Is there some Linux trick, where I can open LyX, say, from the Desktop
without a terminal, but on-the-fly open up a terminal (or is there
even some other mechanism) to see what LyX is thinking?

   
Someone else might have a better answer, but the only thing I know to do 
here is to attach a debugger, such as gdb, to the running process, and 
then you can see the output there. This seems overkill, however, and it 
will slow LyX down.


Another option would be to run LyX from a script that redirected stderr 
to a file, and then you could always look at that file if you needed to 
do so. E.g.:


#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/lyx $@ 21 /tmp/lyx-output

Put that into /usr/local/bin/lyx, say, and it will get run instead of 
/usr/bin/lyx (assuming your PATH says so). Then if you want to see the 
terminal output, you can do:


u...@host tail -f /tmp/lyx-output

And you can of course look back at anything that went by before this 
way, too.


rh


Thanks for any help you may have,
Jay



   

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 23:13 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
 On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
  
  OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the
  table settings which addresses this.
 
 In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table, and get a
 menu.  It has Settings… at the bottom.  The option is underneath
 that.

What I find I can do is to set each column to a % width. That's fine,
and equivalent to figuring out a number of cm.  The table does not
center itself on the page, though. It slides off to the right...


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

Re: help - some questions

[Olivier Ripoll]

rgheck wrote:

On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:

* Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29:
  

Sam Liddicott wrote:


(I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the
same way that it supports adding Latex commands in the preamble)
   

Isn't that what layout modules are for ?
 

Sure, but as you can't embed a layout module in the lyx document, ERT
can sometimes be easier and more portable, and for small chunks of text
is already clearly delineated in the Lyx document by the red box.

   
Actually, LyX does support embedded layout. But it's an Advanced Feature 
because it is somewhat dangerous, so it is not widely advertised. There 
is also, at the moment, no GUI for it.


Have a look at the file Customization.lyx in your favorite text editor. 
Some way down you will find these lines:


\begin_local_layout
Format 7
InsetLayout CharStyle:MenuItem
LyxType   charstyle
LabelString   menu
LatexType command
LatexName menuitem
Font
Family  Sans
EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand*{\menuitem}[1]{{\sffamily #1}}
EndPreamble
End
\end_local_layout

If you want to include local layout in your document, you can open it in 
a text editor and add similar lines. Make sure they are well tested 
first, and be real careful about the first and last line. Unpredictable 
things might happen otherwise.


I hope to add a GUI for this in the next LyX release (now looking like 
1.7). I'd be really, really happy if someone else wanted to jump in and 
do it. It should actually be quite easy. (More or less just copy the GUI 
for the preamble.)


Richard



Hi,

Wouldn't it make sense to have some option somewhere to include external 
modules to the .lyx file this way? I mean, the ones that are included at 
present from the GUI.


Best regards,

Olivier

abntcite

[Beny Spira]

Hi
I am using abntcite to format my bibliography, but it does not really comply
with the citing rules used at my university. For example, it shows the URL
and date of publication. I would like to eliminate these fields, but don't
know how. Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Beny

Re: help - some questions

[rgheck]

On 08/23/2009 05:49 AM, Olivier Ripoll wrote:

rgheck wrote:

On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:

* Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29:

Sam Liddicott wrote:

(I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the
same way that it supports adding Latex commands in the preamble)

Isn't that what layout modules are for ?

Sure, but as you can't embed a layout module in the lyx document, ERT
can sometimes be easier and more portable, and for small chunks of text
is already clearly delineated in the Lyx document by the red box.

Actually, LyX does support embedded layout. But it's an Advanced 
Feature because it is somewhat dangerous, so it is not widely 
advertised. There is also, at the moment, no GUI for it.


Have a look at the file Customization.lyx in your favorite text 
editor. Some way down you will find these lines:


\begin_local_layout
Format 7
InsetLayout CharStyle:MenuItem
LyxType   charstyle
LabelString   menu
LatexType command
LatexName menuitem
Font
Family  Sans
EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand*{\menuitem}[1]{{\sffamily #1}}
EndPreamble
End
\end_local_layout

If you want to include local layout in your document, you can open it 
in a text editor and add similar lines. Make sure they are well 
tested first, and be real careful about the first and last line. 
Unpredictable things might happen otherwise.


I hope to add a GUI for this in the next LyX release (now looking 
like 1.7). I'd be really, really happy if someone else wanted to jump 
in and do it. It should actually be quite easy. (More or less just 
copy the GUI for the preamble.)


Richard



Hi,

Wouldn't it make sense to have some option somewhere to include 
external modules to the .lyx file this way? I mean, the ones that are 
included at present from the GUI.


Do you mean an option to embed the content of the external module as 
local layout?


rh

Re: abntcite

[rgheck]

On 08/23/2009 07:57 AM, Beny Spira wrote:

Hi
I am using abntcite to format my bibliography, but it does not really comply
with the citing rules used at my university. For example, it shows the URL
and date of publication. I would like to eliminate these fields, but don't
know how. Any help would be appreciated.

   
The only way to do this is to hack the bst file itself. Or else you can 
use the makebst program just to generate one from scratch that might 
conform better to what you need.


rh

Re: format conversion

[Pol]

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
 lyx -e lyx14x file.lyx
 

Thank you. That allowed me to write down a zsh script to convert files into
*.lyx14 then to move them into a special directory, after having been
renamed *.lyx again. 

---P
- enc
#!/bin/zsh
 (lyx-e lyx14x *lyx   \
  for i in *.lyx14; do mv -- $i lyx-1.4/${i:r}.lyx; done
) 
---

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

[Marcelo Acuña]

 Hi,
 
 What are the best fonts fdor readability. I'm not too fond
 of the CM 
 fonts. However, if they are really the best I may stick to
 them. I've 
 heard that Palatino is good too. I think I also heard Luxi
 mentioned 
 (lucida?) but I'm not sure.

 Garamond Condensed, but I can´t get for Lyx.
 
Marcelo


  Yahoo! Cocina

Encontra las mejores recetas con Yahoo! Cocina.


http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/

Re: A feature you really need

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote:
 On 08/21/2009 07:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or
  three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional:
 
  * Insert
  * Delete
  * Maybe Insert Subservient

 Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will
 implement it.

:-)   What is a trac, and how do I add it?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: A feature you really need

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com wrote:
 On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote:
 Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will
 implement it.

 :-)   What is a trac, and how do I add it?

http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki

To add it, login and the click New Ticket and follow the instructions.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

[Wolfgang Keller]

Hello,

 What are the best fonts fdor readability.

It depends. ;-

On the output medium, the output process, the specific application...

If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. 
And Syntax (Next) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart to Sabon.

Among the free fonts available for LaTeX, Garamond is probably the one with the 
best reputation for readability.

Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

-- 
NO Courtesy Copies PLEASE!

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

Wolfgang Keller wrote:

 Hello,
 
 What are the best fonts fdor readability.
 
 [...]
 If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as
 book font.

There is also a free clone called Bitstream Classical Garamond which can
be found on old Corel-Draw-CDs (4 and 8, AFAIK; I have Corel Draw 4).
These old CDs can be purchased at Ebay, for instance. The font metrics
needed for use with LaTeX can be found at http://www.gaehrken.de/tex/.

Of course this is just a clone of the 'old' Sabon and not of Sabon Next.

Regards,
Dominik.-

Installing LyX 1.6.4

[Hal Kierstead]

When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences..  
are greyed out.  How do I fix this?  In particular, how do I use  
Preferences?


Hal

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Is this new version official? Have I missed the annoucement of its
release? In the FTP site there are only two binaries.

Murat

2009/8/23 Hal Kierstead kierst...@asu.edu:
 When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences.. are
 greyed out.  How do I fix this?  In particular, how do I use Preferences?

 Hal




--
Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3)
GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579)
Centre de la Vieille Charité
2, rue de la Charité
13236 Marseille cedex 02

Bureau 320
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau)
Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27

e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr
www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html
http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu
__



-- 
Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3)
GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579)
Centre de la Vieille Charité
2, rue de la Charité
13236 Marseille cedex 02

Bureau 320
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat)
Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau)
Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27

e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr
www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html
http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu
__

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Hal Kierstead schreef:
When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyXAbout LyX and LyXPreferences.. 
are greyed out.  How do I fix this?  In particular, how do I use 
Preferences?


Hal


We know about this problem and it has our full attention.

Luckily, the shortcut still works, which is the Cmd key I believe.

Vincent

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Murat Yildizoglu schreef:

Is this new version official? Have I missed the annoucement of its
release? In the FTP site there are only two binaries.
  


No, you have missed nothing. Let's say we're in the midst of the release 
process (which might get delayed due to this problem for Mac).


Vincent

Babel and hyphenation in Spanish

[Julio Rojas]

Dear @ll. I'm working on a book(Memoir) document in Spanish and the
hyphenation seems to be broken (bad hyphenation points in fairly
simple cases are used). When I check the LaTeX log I can see the
following messages related to Babel:

Babel v3.8l and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman, ngerman, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, french, loaded.

Package blindtext Warning: You are not using babel.sty - Language by random
(blindtext)Kein babel.sty verwendet - Zufallssprache on input
line 243.

Package: babel 2008/07/06 v3.8l The Babel package
*
* Local config file bblopts.cfg used
*
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\00miktex\bblopts.cfg
File: bblopts.cfg 2006/07/31 v1.0 MiKTeX 'babel' configuration
) (C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\babel\english.ldf
Language: english 2005/03/30 v3.3o English support from the babel system
(C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\babel\babel.def
File: babel.def 2008/07/06 v3.8l Babel common definitions

C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\babel\spanish.ldf
Language: spanish.ldf 2008/07/06 v5.0e Spanish support from the babel system

Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)the language `Spanish'
(babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

\...@spanish = a dialect from \language0


End of messages**

What seems to be the problem? In the document, language is set to
Spanish and encoding is set to Language Default

Thanks for your help.

-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: Babel and hyphenation in Spanish

[Julio Rojas]

Seems that this is the solution:
http://osdir.com/ml/tex.miktex/2004-11/msg00096.html

RTFM :P
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Julio Rojasjcredbe...@gmail.com wrote:
 C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\00miktex\

how tell which installer?

[Murray Eisenberg]

When I'm ready to upgrade (to LyX 1.6.4, say), how do I tell which 
installer I used -- the standard one or the alternate one?


I'm working in Windows XP, and I see in the main LyX directory the file 
LyXWinUninstall.exe.  Does that help to answer the question?


--
Murray Eisenberg mur...@math.umass.edu
Mathematics  Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower  phone 413 549-1020 (H)
University of Massachusetts413 545-2859 (W)
710 North Pleasant Streetfax   413 545-1801
Amherst, MA 01003-9305

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 23 August 2009 14:08:26 Wolfgang Keller wrote:
 Hello,

  What are the best fonts fdor readability.

 It depends. ;-

 On the output medium, the output process, the specific application...

 If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book
 font. And Syntax (Next) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart
 to Sabon.

 Among the free fonts available for LaTeX, Garamond is probably the one with
 the best reputation for readability.

 Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur.

The Century Schoolbook that comes with LyX works very well for me.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: A feature you really need

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 23 August 2009 11:39:17 John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
 On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com 
wrote:
  On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote:
  Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will
  implement it.
 
  :-)   What is a trac, and how do I add it?

 http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki

 To add it, login and the click New Ticket and follow the instructions.

Thanks John. I just added the ticket.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

shifting a table outside margins?

[Kenward Vaughan]

Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal
margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size
any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be
that wide on letter paper.

The other way I see attacking this would be to rotate the table, but
then I'd want to rotate the whole page.  I tried the package rotating
(or rotate?..) but couldn't get it to work on the page with the table.

:(

TIA!


Kenward
-- 
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be
learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the
last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Document title in Footer

[bart]

Hi,
I would like to have the document title appear in the footer on every 
page. I have set the headings style to fancy but i can't find a command 
to put the document title in the footer. Would it be possible also to 
have a frame around the footer?

Thanks
Bart

how to see what LyX is thinking?

[G. Jay Kerns]

Dear LyX-Users,

I am on Ubuntu Linux.  If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with
the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking
when it generates PDFs, etc.  This is a very useful debugging tool,
but I only need it a relatively small fraction of the time I am using
LyX.

On the other hand, I can never predict when I am going to need it.
And if I run LyX from the Desktop icon, say, then I don't get the
terminal showing LyX's thought processes.  If I get to someplace where
I need the terminal (especially when I am doing something with
Sweave), the only solution I have found is to close LyX and open it up
again with a terminal.

Is there some Linux trick, where I can open LyX, say, from the Desktop
without a terminal, but on-the-fly open up a terminal (or is there
even some other mechanism) to see what LyX is thinking?

Thanks for any help you may have,
Jay



-- 
***
G. Jay Kerns, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics  Statistics
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555-0002 USA
Office: 1035 Cushwa Hall
Phone: (330) 941-3310 Office (voice mail)
-3302 Department
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VoIP: gjke...@ekiga.net
E-mail: gke...@ysu.edu
http://www.cc.ysu.edu/~gjkerns/

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
 Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal
 margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size
 any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be
 that wide on letter paper.

You can adjust tables to % of page.  This has worked for me, but it
took a great deal of fiddling. 

A


-- 
Andrew Sullivan
a...@shinkuro.com
Shinkuro, Inc.

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 22:54 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
 On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
  Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal
  margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size
  any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be
  that wide on letter paper.
 
 You can adjust tables to % of page.  This has worked for me, but it
 took a great deal of fiddling. 

OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the
table settings which addresses this.


Kenward
-- 
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be
learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the
last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
 
 OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the
 table settings which addresses this.

In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table, and get a
menu.  It has Settings… at the bottom.  The option is underneath
that.

A

-- 
Andrew Sullivan
a...@shinkuro.com
Shinkuro, Inc.

Re: Document title in Footer

[rgheck]

On 08/23/2009 06:32 PM, bart wrote:

Hi,
I would like to have the document title appear in the footer on every 
page. I have set the headings style to fancy but i can't find a 
command to put the document title in the footer. Would it be possible 
also to have a frame around the footer?


You can do pretty much what you like with fancyhdr. See section 3.3 of 
the Additional Features manual for some more info on fancyhdr, and 
better yet see the fancyhdr docs.


Depending upon where you want the title, what you need is something like 
this:

\cfoo...@title}
If you want to do something special with the font, etc, just add that.

rh

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

[rgheck]

On 08/23/2009 08:48 PM, G. Jay Kerns wrote:

Dear LyX-Users,

I am on Ubuntu Linux.  If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with
the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking
when it generates PDFs, etc.  This is a very useful debugging tool,
but I only need it a relatively small fraction of the time I am using
LyX.

On the other hand, I can never predict when I am going to need it.
And if I run LyX from the Desktop icon, say, then I don't get the
terminal showing LyX's thought processes.  If I get to someplace where
I need the terminal (especially when I am doing something with
Sweave), the only solution I have found is to close LyX and open it up
again with a terminal.

Is there some Linux trick, where I can open LyX, say, from the Desktop
without a terminal, but on-the-fly open up a terminal (or is there
even some other mechanism) to see what LyX is thinking?

   
Someone else might have a better answer, but the only thing I know to do 
here is to attach a debugger, such as gdb, to the running process, and 
then you can see the output there. This seems overkill, however, and it 
will slow LyX down.


Another option would be to run LyX from a script that redirected stderr 
to a file, and then you could always look at that file if you needed to 
do so. E.g.:


#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/lyx $@ 21 /tmp/lyx-output

Put that into /usr/local/bin/lyx, say, and it will get run instead of 
/usr/bin/lyx (assuming your PATH says so). Then if you want to see the 
terminal output, you can do:


u...@host tail -f /tmp/lyx-output

And you can of course look back at anything that went by before this 
way, too.


rh


Thanks for any help you may have,
Jay



   

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 23:13 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
 On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
  
  OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the
  table settings which addresses this.
 
 In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table, and get a
 menu.  It has Settings… at the bottom.  The option is underneath
 that.

What I find I can do is to set each column to a % width. That's fine,
and equivalent to figuring out a number of cm.  The table does not
center itself on the page, though. It slides off to the right...


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

Re: help - some questions

[Olivier Ripoll]

rgheck wrote:

On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:

* Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29:
  

Sam Liddicott wrote:


(I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the
same way that it supports adding Latex commands in the preamble)
   

Isn't that what layout modules are for ?
 

Sure, but as you can't embed a layout module in the lyx document, ERT
can sometimes be easier and more portable, and for small chunks of text
is already clearly delineated in the Lyx document by the red box.

   
Actually, LyX does support embedded layout. But it's an Advanced Feature 
because it is somewhat dangerous, so it is not widely advertised. There 
is also, at the moment, no GUI for it.


Have a look at the file Customization.lyx in your favorite text editor. 
Some way down you will find these lines:


\begin_local_layout
Format 7
InsetLayout CharStyle:MenuItem
LyxType   charstyle
LabelString   menu
LatexType command
LatexName menuitem
Font
Family  Sans
EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand*{\menuitem}[1]{{\sffamily #1}}
EndPreamble
End
\end_local_layout

If you want to include local layout in your document, you can open it in 
a text editor and add similar lines. Make sure they are well tested 
first, and be real careful about the first and last line. Unpredictable 
things might happen otherwise.


I hope to add a GUI for this in the next LyX release (now looking like 
1.7). I'd be really, really happy if someone else wanted to jump in and 
do it. It should actually be quite easy. (More or less just copy the GUI 
for the preamble.)


Richard



Hi,

Wouldn't it make sense to have some option somewhere to include external 
modules to the .lyx file this way? I mean, the ones that are included at 
present from the GUI.


Best regards,

Olivier

abntcite

[Beny Spira]

Hi
I am using abntcite to format my bibliography, but it does not really comply
with the citing rules used at my university. For example, it shows the URL
and date of publication. I would like to eliminate these fields, but don't
know how. Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Beny

Re: help - some questions

[rgheck]

On 08/23/2009 05:49 AM, Olivier Ripoll wrote:

rgheck wrote:

On 08/21/2009 06:08 AM, Sam Liddicott wrote:

* Olivier Ripoll wrote, On 21/08/09 10:29:

Sam Liddicott wrote:

(I wish Lyx supported adding per-document layouts and elements in the
same way that it supports adding Latex commands in the preamble)

Isn't that what layout modules are for ?

Sure, but as you can't embed a layout module in the lyx document, ERT
can sometimes be easier and more portable, and for small chunks of text
is already clearly delineated in the Lyx document by the red box.

Actually, LyX does support embedded layout. But it's an Advanced 
Feature because it is somewhat dangerous, so it is not widely 
advertised. There is also, at the moment, no GUI for it.


Have a look at the file Customization.lyx in your favorite text 
editor. Some way down you will find these lines:


\begin_local_layout
Format 7
InsetLayout CharStyle:MenuItem
LyxType   charstyle
LabelString   menu
LatexType command
LatexName menuitem
Font
Family  Sans
EndFont
Preamble
\newcommand*{\menuitem}[1]{{\sffamily #1}}
EndPreamble
End
\end_local_layout

If you want to include local layout in your document, you can open it 
in a text editor and add similar lines. Make sure they are well 
tested first, and be real careful about the first and last line. 
Unpredictable things might happen otherwise.


I hope to add a GUI for this in the next LyX release (now looking 
like 1.7). I'd be really, really happy if someone else wanted to jump 
in and do it. It should actually be quite easy. (More or less just 
copy the GUI for the preamble.)


Richard



Hi,

Wouldn't it make sense to have some option somewhere to include 
external modules to the .lyx file this way? I mean, the ones that are 
included at present from the GUI.


Do you mean an option to embed the content of the external module as 
local layout?


rh

Re: abntcite

[rgheck]

On 08/23/2009 07:57 AM, Beny Spira wrote:

Hi
I am using abntcite to format my bibliography, but it does not really comply
with the citing rules used at my university. For example, it shows the URL
and date of publication. I would like to eliminate these fields, but don't
know how. Any help would be appreciated.

   
The only way to do this is to hack the bst file itself. Or else you can 
use the makebst program just to generate one from scratch that might 
conform better to what you need.


rh

Re: format conversion

[Pol]

Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
> lyx -e lyx14x file.lyx
> 

Thank you. That allowed me to write down a zsh script to convert files into
*.lyx14 then to move them into a special directory, after having been
renamed *.lyx again. 

---P
- enc
#!/bin/zsh
 (lyx-e lyx14x *lyx &&  \
  for i in *.lyx14; do mv -- "$i" lyx-1.4/"${i:r}.lyx"; done
) 
---

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

[Marcelo Acuña]

> Hi,
> 
> What are the best fonts fdor readability. I'm not too fond
> of the CM 
> fonts. However, if they are really the best I may stick to
> them. I've 
> heard that Palatino is good too. I think I also heard Luxi
> mentioned 
> (lucida?) but I'm not sure.

 Garamond Condensed, but I can´t get for Lyx.
 
Marcelo


  Yahoo! Cocina

Encontra las mejores recetas con Yahoo! Cocina.


http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/

Re: A feature you really need

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote:
> On 08/21/2009 07:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thank you so much for the outline view on LyX 1.6.x. You need two or
> > three more buttons to make the outline view fully functional:
> >
> > * Insert
> > * Delete
> > * Maybe "Insert Subservient"
>
> Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will
> implement it.

:-)   What is a trac, and how do I add it?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: A feature you really need

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote:
>> Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will
>> implement it.
>
> :-)   What is a trac, and how do I add it?

http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki

To add it, login and the click "New Ticket" and follow the instructions.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

[Wolfgang Keller]

Hello,

> What are the best fonts fdor readability.

It depends. >;->

On the output medium, the output process, the specific application...

If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font. 
And Syntax (Next) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart to Sabon.

Among the free fonts available for LaTeX, Garamond is probably the one with the 
best reputation for readability.

Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur.

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

-- 
NO "Courtesy Copies" PLEASE!

Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

Wolfgang Keller wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>> What are the best fonts fdor readability.
> 
> [...]
> If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as
> book font.

There is also a free clone called Bitstream Classical Garamond which can
be found on old Corel-Draw-CDs (4 and 8, AFAIK; I have Corel Draw 4).
These old CDs can be purchased at Ebay, for instance. The font metrics
needed for use with LaTeX can be found at http://www.gaehrken.de/tex/.

Of course this is just a clone of the 'old' Sabon and not of Sabon Next.

Regards,
Dominik.-

Installing LyX 1.6.4

[Hal Kierstead]

When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyX>About LyX and LyX>Preferences..  
are greyed out.  How do I fix this?  In particular, how do I use  
Preferences?


Hal

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Is this new version official? Have I missed the annoucement of its
release? In the FTP site there are only two binaries.

Murat

2009/8/23 Hal Kierstead :
> When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyX>About LyX and LyX>Preferences.. are
> greyed out.  How do I fix this?  In particular, how do I use Preferences?
>
> Hal
>



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Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Hal Kierstead schreef:
When I install LyX 1.6.4 on my Mac LyX>About LyX and LyX>Preferences.. 
are greyed out.  How do I fix this?  In particular, how do I use 
Preferences?


Hal


We know about this problem and it has our full attention.

Luckily, the shortcut still works, which is the Cmd key I believe.

Vincent

Re: Installing LyX 1.6.4

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Murat Yildizoglu schreef:

Is this new version official? Have I missed the annoucement of its
release? In the FTP site there are only two binaries.
  


No, you have missed nothing. Let's say we're in the midst of the release 
process (which might get delayed due to this problem for Mac).


Vincent

Babel and hyphenation in Spanish

[Julio Rojas]

Dear @ll. I'm working on a book(Memoir) document in Spanish and the
hyphenation seems to be broken (bad hyphenation points in fairly
simple cases are used). When I check the LaTeX log I can see the
following messages related to Babel:

Babel  and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ge
rman, ngerman, german-x-2008-06-18, ngerman-x-2008-06-18, french, loaded.

Package blindtext Warning: You are not using babel.sty -> Language by random
(blindtext)Kein babel.sty verwendet -> Zufallssprache on input
line 243.

Package: babel 2008/07/06 v3.8l The Babel package
*
* Local config file bblopts.cfg used
*
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\00miktex\bblopts.cfg"
File: bblopts.cfg 2006/07/31 v1.0 MiKTeX 'babel' configuration
) ("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\babel\english.ldf"
Language: english 2005/03/30 v3.3o English support from the babel system
("C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\babel\babel.def"
File: babel.def 2008/07/06 v3.8l Babel common definitions

"C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\generic\babel\spanish.ldf"
Language: spanish.ldf 2008/07/06 v5.0e Spanish support from the babel system

Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)the language `Spanish'
(babel)I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0 instead.

\...@spanish = a dialect from \language0


End of messages**

What seems to be the problem? In the document, language is set to
"Spanish" and encoding is set to "Language Default"

Thanks for your help.

-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Re: Babel and hyphenation in Spanish

[Julio Rojas]

Seems that this is the solution:
http://osdir.com/ml/tex.miktex/2004-11/msg00096.html

RTFM :P
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Julio Rojas wrote:
> C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\00miktex\

how tell which installer?

[Murray Eisenberg]

When I'm ready to upgrade (to LyX 1.6.4, say), how do I tell which 
installer I used -- the standard one or the alternate one?


I'm working in Windows XP, and I see in the main LyX directory the file 
LyXWinUninstall.exe.  Does that help to answer the question?


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Re: Best fonts for printed material (booklet, book)?

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 23 August 2009 14:08:26 Wolfgang Keller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > What are the best fonts fdor readability.
>
> It depends. >;->
>
> On the output medium, the output process, the specific application...
>
> If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book
> font. And Syntax (Next) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart
> to Sabon.
>
> Among the free fonts available for LaTeX, Garamond is probably the one with
> the best reputation for readability.
>
> Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur.

The Century Schoolbook that comes with LyX works very well for me.

SteveT

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Re: A feature you really need

[Steve Litt]

On Sunday 23 August 2009 11:39:17 John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Steve Litt 
wrote:
> > On Friday 21 August 2009 20:28:30 rgheck wrote:
> >> Add this to trac, Steve. It's a good idea, and I'm sure someone will
> >> implement it.
> >>
> > :-)   What is a trac, and how do I add it?
>
> http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki
>
> To add it, login and the click "New Ticket" and follow the instructions.

Thanks John. I just added the ticket.

SteveT

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shifting a table outside margins?

[Kenward Vaughan]

Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal
margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size
any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be
that wide on letter paper.

The other way I see attacking this would be to rotate the table, but
then I'd want to rotate the whole page.  I tried the package rotating
(or rotate?..) but couldn't get it to work on the page with the table.

:(

TIA!


Kenward
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whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be
learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the
last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Document title in Footer

[bart]

Hi,
I would like to have the document title appear in the footer on every 
page. I have set the headings style to fancy but i can't find a command 
to put the document title in the footer. Would it be possible also to 
have a frame around the footer?

Thanks
Bart

how to see what LyX is thinking?

[G. Jay Kerns]

Dear LyX-Users,

I am on Ubuntu Linux.  If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with
the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking
when it generates PDFs, etc.  This is a very useful debugging tool,
but I only need it a relatively small fraction of the time I am using
LyX.

On the other hand, I can never predict when I am going to need it.
And if I run LyX from the Desktop icon, say, then I don't get the
terminal showing LyX's thought processes.  If I get to someplace where
I need the terminal (especially when I am doing something with
Sweave), the only solution I have found is to close LyX and open it up
again with a terminal.

Is there some Linux trick, where I can open LyX, say, from the Desktop
without a terminal, but on-the-fly open up a terminal (or is there
even some other mechanism) to see what LyX is thinking?

Thanks for any help you may have,
Jay



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Re: shifting a table outside margins?

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal
> margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size
> any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be
> that wide on letter paper.

You can adjust tables to "% of page".  This has worked for me, but it
took a great deal of fiddling. 

A


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Re: shifting a table outside margins?

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 22:54 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal
> > margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size
> > any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be
> > that wide on letter paper.
> 
> You can adjust tables to "% of page".  This has worked for me, but it
> took a great deal of fiddling. 

OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the
table settings which addresses this.


Kenward
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be
learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the
last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

Thomas Henry Huxley

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> 
> OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the
> table settings which addresses this.

In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table, and get a
menu.  It has "Settings…" at the bottom.  The option is underneath
that.

A

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a...@shinkuro.com
Shinkuro, Inc.

Re: Document title in Footer

[rgheck]

On 08/23/2009 06:32 PM, bart wrote:

Hi,
I would like to have the document title appear in the footer on every 
page. I have set the headings style to fancy but i can't find a 
command to put the document title in the footer. Would it be possible 
also to have a frame around the footer?


You can do pretty much what you like with fancyhdr. See section 3.3 of 
the Additional Features manual for some more info on fancyhdr, and 
better yet see the fancyhdr docs.


Depending upon where you want the title, what you need is something like 
this:

\cfoo...@title}
If you want to do something special with the font, etc, just add that.

rh

Re: how to see what LyX is thinking?

[rgheck]

On 08/23/2009 08:48 PM, G. Jay Kerns wrote:

Dear LyX-Users,

I am on Ubuntu Linux.  If I run lyx from a terminal, then along with
the LyX window I get a terminal where I can see what LyX is thinking
when it generates PDFs, etc.  This is a very useful debugging tool,
but I only need it a relatively small fraction of the time I am using
LyX.

On the other hand, I can never predict when I am going to need it.
And if I run LyX from the Desktop icon, say, then I don't get the
terminal showing LyX's thought processes.  If I get to someplace where
I need the terminal (especially when I am doing something with
Sweave), the only solution I have found is to close LyX and open it up
again with a terminal.

Is there some Linux trick, where I can open LyX, say, from the Desktop
without a terminal, but on-the-fly open up a terminal (or is there
even some other mechanism) to see what LyX is thinking?

   
Someone else might have a better answer, but the only thing I know to do 
here is to attach a debugger, such as gdb, to the running process, and 
then you can see the output there. This seems overkill, however, and it 
will slow LyX down.


Another option would be to run LyX from a script that redirected stderr 
to a file, and then you could always look at that file if you needed to 
do so. E.g.:


#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/lyx $@ 2>&1 >/tmp/lyx-output

Put that into /usr/local/bin/lyx, say, and it will get run instead of 
/usr/bin/lyx (assuming your PATH says so). Then if you want to see the 
terminal output, you can do:


u...@host> tail -f /tmp/lyx-output

And you can of course look back at anything that went by before this 
way, too.


rh


Thanks for any help you may have,
Jay



   

Re: shifting a table outside margins?

[Kenward Vaughan]

On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 23:13 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > 
> > OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the
> > table settings which addresses this.
> 
> In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table, and get a
> menu.  It has "Settings…" at the bottom.  The option is underneath
> that.

What I find I can do is to set each column to a % width. That's fine,
and equivalent to figuring out a number of cm.  The table does not
center itself on the page, though. It slides off to the right...


Kenward
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