Line spacing in headings

[Matts Lindström]

Hello,
 When I set line spacing to 1.5 (using the settings dialog) this also
changes the line spacing of the document headings (section, subsection etc).
This looks really bad. Can I avoid this somehow?

Regards,
Matts Lindström

Figure key

[Manolo Martí­nez]

Hi,

Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add 
explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as the pointed 
line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah...


The figure box in the float is too small for that -and everything you 
put in there appears in the figure index. I could do it in the main 
text, but I'd rather make sure that it is just beside the float.


Thanks
Manolo

RE: Figure key

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place
to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things
such as the pointed line means blah, and the blue square
stands for blah...

The figure box in the float is too small for that 

How can it be too small ? I can put a work by Shakespeare in it.

-and everything you put in there appears in the figure index.

Then you should try Insert-Short Title in the caption of the float. Only the 
text within this opt inset will be put in the figure index. In this way, you 
can have a brief description in the figure index (list).

I could do it in the main text, but I'd rather make sure that
it is just beside the float.

So, I would put everything you need to understand the figure in the caption. 
Any explanation, reasoning, conclusions, remarks, details etc. in the main text.

Thanks
Manolo

Vincent

spellchecker

[Jaime A. Millan - UCL]

Hi, I'm new using Lyx and Tex basis programs. Unfortunately when I'm  
trying to use the spellchecker i found the following error:


The spellchecker could not be started
LyX: Failed to start ispell!

I just install the basic MacTex and Lyx because when i tried to use i- 
Installer it does not work, i get the following error:


Cannot read remote table of contents.
The most probable cause is a download problem.

What can I do? I download ispell but I don't know how to set it up and  
make it work in Lyx.


Thanks in advance.

Jaime A. Millán
PhD in Economics Student
University College of London
London, UK

Re: spellchecker

[BH]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Jaime A. Millan -
UCLj.quij...@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
 Hi, I'm new using Lyx and Tex basis programs. Unfortunately when I'm trying
 to use the spellchecker i found the following error:

 The spellchecker could not be started
 LyX: Failed to start ispell!

 I just install the basic MacTex and Lyx because when i tried to use
 i-Installer it does not work, i get the following error:

 Cannot read remote table of contents.
 The most probable cause is a download problem.

 What can I do? I download ispell but I don't know how to set it up and make
 it work in Lyx.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling

BH

Re: Figure key

[Uwe Stöhr]

Manolo Martí­nez schrieb:

Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add 
explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as the pointed 
line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah...


The figure box in the float is too small for that -and everything you 
put in there appears in the figure index. I could do it in the main 
text, but I'd rather make sure that it is just beside the float.


That depends on your topic. For example in physics everything is written to the caption of the 
figure. The result are figures with huge captions. For engineers it is quite the opposite: the 
caption only contains a short description of the image, all explanations and details are given in 
the main text of the document.


regards Uwe

Turning off autosave

[V. Martini]

Hello,

I'm using LyX 1.6.1 with Snow Leopard. As discussed by other users,  
LyX has false crashes every 5 minutes. This false crashes consists  
in the opening of a windows, indicating a crash, while the software  
keeps working regularly.


As this is possibly related to the autosave function, could you please  
suggest me a simple way of disabling it?


Many thanks,

Vinicio

Re: Turning off autosave

[Liviu Andronic]

On 9/9/09, V. Martini vinm...@hotmail.com wrote:
  As this is possibly related to the autosave function, could you please
 suggest me a simple way of disabling it?

Tools  Preferences (uncheck Backup documents..)
Liviu

Re: [Lyx] explicit mail subject

[Helge Hafting]

Murray Eisenberg wrote:
I agree with the O.P. on this. This is something that, surely, is easily 
fixed at the server end, so that each message going out from the server 
has, say, [LyX] prepended to the subject.


But we don't want that, so please don't wreck it on the server.
If you want to see [LyX], set up your own mail software to
add this to the mail that gets delivered to you.


Many other mailing lists do this. There should be no need for the 
subscribers to have to filter.


And many other mailing lists don't mess with the subject. There
should be no need for users to suffer the messed-up headers.
Nobody _has_ to filter. If they want the mail in a single folder,
they can have that. Those of us who subscribe to several lists with some
volume, usually set up filtering to avoid a huge mess. And it'd be a 
huge mess even if the subject fields were abused.


This list was created without subject manipulation, please just respect 
that. I subscribe to some lists that do mangle the subject. I don't like 
it, but I don't request a change. It is the list maintainter's choice to 
make.


Helge Hafting

Re: Simulate update dvi behaviour in update pdflatex

[Christian Ridderström]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


I cannot reproduce this. What program is your default PDF viewer? (I


I've also found that Acrobat starts over on the first page, very 
annoying:-(




/Christian

mean is Acrobat opened when you double-click on a PDF in the file 
explorer?) If Acrobat is indeed the default viewer, how was LyX 
installed (what installer (alternative or the standard one), was logged 
in with admin priviledges when installing LyX)?


regards Uwe





--
Christian Ridderström   Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44

Re: Simulate update dvi behaviour in update pdflatex

[Christian Ridderström]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


Sharma, Vivek schrieb:


 I am using lyx 1.6.4 with Miktex and adobe acrobat.
 When we View -  update - dvi after the latex runs the dvi window goes to
 the page I was viewing last with the updated view, whereas with update
 pdflatex the updated file just opens at the first page of the pdf
 document.


I cannot reproduce this. What program is your default PDF viewer? (I mean is 
Acrobat opened when you double-click on a PDF in the file explorer?)
If Acrobat is indeed the default viewer, how was LyX installed (what 
installer (alternative or the standard one), was logged in with admin 
priviledges when installing LyX)?


I forgot to say: I started Acrobat (or possibly reader, I can't say to be 
honest) from within LyX.


I don't know how it was installed either, it's a company laptop.

/Christian


regards Uwe





--
Christian Ridderström   Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44

Re: problems with pdf-creation

[rgheck]

On 09/08/2009 08:18 PM, Timm Döbert wrote:

Hi there, I would like to get some advice on the following problem encountered 
when trying to create a pdf file:

Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fou
Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 9.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not foun

I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\fontsame font id=substitute font name'.

It appears as if copying from a word document into lyx causes this problem?

   
My guess would be that some funky character from the Word document has 
gotten into your LyX file, and you don't have the font needed to display 
that character. You can try to find out which character it is by 
deleting half the document, etc, etc.


Richard

Re: View menu customization

[rgheck]

On 09/08/2009 09:44 PM, Myriam Abramson wrote:

I just got 1.5.3 installed with Ubuntu Hardy. To view a pdf in the
view menu, I see dvipdfm and pdflatex. How do I get in the menu the
capability to view a pdf with ps2pdf? This option is listed in the
preferences formats but how do I get it in the View menu?

   
First, you should upgrade to 1.6.4. The version you have is very old, 
and lots of bugs have been fixed since then, as well as lots of new 
features that have been added.


As for the specific issue, LyX must not be finding ps2pdf. Make sure you 
have that on your system and that it is in your path. (Try: which 
ps2pdf.) If it's there, then try doing a ToolsReconfigure, closing LyX 
and restarting. If that doesn't work, then post the configure.log file 
that will turn up in $HOME/.lyx/, and we'll have a look.


Richard

Re: change appendix

[rgheck]

On 09/08/2009 11:03 PM, Ricardo Perrone wrote:

Hi,

how can i change the default alignment of appendix (book.cls)? I need to put it 
at the center.

   

Do you mean of the heading Appendix (or its translation)? Or what?

rh

Re: Line spacing in headings

[rgheck]

On 09/09/2009 06:01 AM, Matts Lindström wrote:

Hello,
  When I set line spacing to 1.5 (using the settings dialog) this also
changes the line spacing of the document headings (section, subsection etc).
This looks really bad. Can I avoid this somehow?

   
I think so, but I'm guessing it is not trivial. Setting the line spacing 
just does set the line spacing, and LaTeX then uses that spacing 
everywhere it needs it. If you use fancy headers, you might be able to 
put the \singlespacing macro first in whatever you have there. If that 
doesn't work, or you can't use it, then I think you have to redefine 
whatever macro it is that prints the header to call \singlespacing 
first. I don't have my LaTeX Companion with me, though, to look up which 
macro that is.


rh

beamer handouts: how to delete/suppress frames?

[Erez Yerushalmi]

Hi all,

I'm writing a presentation using beamer, lyx 1.63, window...

I would like to have a handout, where some frames will be automatically
deleted (suppress frames).

What I would like to do in TEX, or internally in LyX, is the following:

\begin{frame}handout:0
\frametitle{A title bla bla bla}
*Some content. bla bla bla
*\end{frame}


Some times it works, some times it doesn't, and I get the ERROR
file does not exist:  c:/document and
settings/.../temp/lyx_tempdir.Hp3316/lyx_tempbuf0/filename.pdf

Can anyone give me a hint ??

Best Regards,  Erez



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

Re: Rotating tables with URLs

[Uwe Stöhr]

John Coppens schrieb:


I have a (rather wide) table with cross-references in it. When I rotate
the table to fit it on a page, the table rotates fine, but the (red) boxes
around the references stay unrotated.


You can turn off the boxes in the document settings in the section of the PDF 
properties.

regards Uwe

Re: beamer handouts: how to delete/suppress frames?

[KYokota]

Hi Erez,

You can use handout option of Beamer, but it sometimes fails to
exclude overlays. So, what I usually do is to use PDFjam
(http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam) after creating PDF. It includes
an executable called pdfnup which should be called something like:

pdfnup --nup 3x3 --paper a4paper --orient landscape \
 --trim -5mm -5mm -5mm -5mm --tidy true (source PDF file)

If you want to pick up some frames, you can specify an option, e.g.
--pages 1-10,15,19-20.

# The author of PDFjam is in Warwick :)

Koji

Re: beamer handouts: how to delete/suppress frames?

[KYokota]

Uh, it seems not to work on Windows. So, you may want to install
Cygwin to do the above procedure.

Koji

More indexing bogosity

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

I'm deep in the middle of indexing my new book and found yet another problem, 
and this one can't be worked around by setting Tools-preferences-output-
latex-Tex_encoding to T1.

This time, when inserting see and seealso records, I'm forced to use ERT for 
each of the curly braces or else part of the seealso text doesn't show up and 
an erroneous page number is shown. This is a huge time sink.

As a workaround, is there a way I can have all my see and seealso entries in 
an external file and import it? I seem to remember that can be done, and 
hopefully it would work around this time sink.

Thanks

SteveT

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

Re: change appendix

[Ricardo Perrone]

Hi,

sorry, i forgot it ... is the heading Appendix that in book.cls is capture 
from \chapter. But I would like to change it only on appendix without change 
the default chapter alignment that was applied in the rest of document

Thanks
Ricardo




- Original Message 
 From: rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com
 To: Ricardo Perrone perr...@rocketmail.com
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 12:14:21 PM
 Subject: Re: change appendix
 
 On 09/08/2009 11:03 PM, Ricardo Perrone wrote:
  Hi,
 
  how can i change the default alignment of appendix (book.cls)? I need to 
  put 
 it at the center.
 
 
 Do you mean of the heading Appendix (or its translation)? Or what?
 
 rh



  

Re: More indexing bogosity WORKED AROUND

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 15:05:17 Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,

 I'm deep in the middle of indexing my new book and found yet another
 problem, and this one can't be worked around by setting
 Tools-preferences-output-

 latex-Tex_encoding to T1.

 This time, when inserting see and seealso records, I'm forced to use ERT
 for each of the curly braces or else part of the seealso text doesn't show
 up and an erroneous page number is shown. This is a huge time sink.

 As a workaround, is there a way I can have all my see and seealso entries
 in an external file and import it? I seem to remember that can be done, and
 hopefully it would work around this time sink.

 Thanks

 SteveT

OK, I found it. You can put all see and seealso index records in a separate 
file. For instance, I put it in ./seealso.inc. So ./seealso.inc has lots 
records like this:

\index{Joneses|see{keeping up with the Joneses}}

Then, in the document preamble, I place the following line:

\input{./seealso.inc}

That does the trick, and I don't have to do any ERT maneuvers.

SteveT

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

list of figures off the page

[Evan Mason]

Hi,

I am using book koma-script.  When I compile my document with pdflatex
everything is fine, but with dvipdfm or ps2pdf the list of figures and
tables are not correct.  They don't wrap, so that each caption just goes off
the page.

I can't be the only one this happens to, but haven't found any other post on
this.

Any help much appreciated,

Evan

Re: change appendix

[rgheck]

On 09/09/2009 03:33 PM, Ricardo Perrone wrote:

Hi,

sorry, i forgot it ... is the heading Appendix that in book.cls is capture 
from \chapter. But I would like to change it only on appendix without change the default 
chapter alignment that was applied in the rest of document

   
Right. Well, in that case, I think you need to redefine part of the 
chapter thing. The part you want is this, which I've just copied from 
book.cls:


\d...@schapter#1{\typeout{#1}%
\l...@secnumber\@empty
\d...@toclevel{0}%
\ifx\chaptername\appendixname \...@tocwriteb\tocappendix{chapter}{#1}%
\else \...@tocwriteb\tocchapter{chapter}{#1}\fi
\chaptermark{#1}%
\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\addvspace{1...@}}%
\addtocontents{lot}{\protect\addvspace{1...@}}%
\...@makeschapterhead{#1}\@afterheading}

You can put this, with your changes, into ERT right before the appendix 
starts. If you just enclose the \typeout{#1} part in whatever you want 
to use to center it, that should do.


rh

Line spacing in headings

[Matts Lindström]

Hello,
 When I set line spacing to 1.5 (using the settings dialog) this also
changes the line spacing of the document headings (section, subsection etc).
This looks really bad. Can I avoid this somehow?

Regards,
Matts Lindström

Figure key

[Manolo Martí­nez]

Hi,

Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add 
explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as the pointed 
line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah...


The figure box in the float is too small for that -and everything you 
put in there appears in the figure index. I could do it in the main 
text, but I'd rather make sure that it is just beside the float.


Thanks
Manolo

RE: Figure key

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place
to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things
such as the pointed line means blah, and the blue square
stands for blah...

The figure box in the float is too small for that 

How can it be too small ? I can put a work by Shakespeare in it.

-and everything you put in there appears in the figure index.

Then you should try Insert-Short Title in the caption of the float. Only the 
text within this opt inset will be put in the figure index. In this way, you 
can have a brief description in the figure index (list).

I could do it in the main text, but I'd rather make sure that
it is just beside the float.

So, I would put everything you need to understand the figure in the caption. 
Any explanation, reasoning, conclusions, remarks, details etc. in the main text.

Thanks
Manolo

Vincent

spellchecker

[Jaime A. Millan - UCL]

Hi, I'm new using Lyx and Tex basis programs. Unfortunately when I'm  
trying to use the spellchecker i found the following error:


The spellchecker could not be started
LyX: Failed to start ispell!

I just install the basic MacTex and Lyx because when i tried to use i- 
Installer it does not work, i get the following error:


Cannot read remote table of contents.
The most probable cause is a download problem.

What can I do? I download ispell but I don't know how to set it up and  
make it work in Lyx.


Thanks in advance.

Jaime A. Millán
PhD in Economics Student
University College of London
London, UK

Re: spellchecker

[BH]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Jaime A. Millan -
UCLj.quij...@ucl.ac.uk wrote:
 Hi, I'm new using Lyx and Tex basis programs. Unfortunately when I'm trying
 to use the spellchecker i found the following error:

 The spellchecker could not be started
 LyX: Failed to start ispell!

 I just install the basic MacTex and Lyx because when i tried to use
 i-Installer it does not work, i get the following error:

 Cannot read remote table of contents.
 The most probable cause is a download problem.

 What can I do? I download ispell but I don't know how to set it up and make
 it work in Lyx.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling

BH

Re: Figure key

[Uwe Stöhr]

Manolo Martí­nez schrieb:

Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add 
explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as the pointed 
line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah...


The figure box in the float is too small for that -and everything you 
put in there appears in the figure index. I could do it in the main 
text, but I'd rather make sure that it is just beside the float.


That depends on your topic. For example in physics everything is written to the caption of the 
figure. The result are figures with huge captions. For engineers it is quite the opposite: the 
caption only contains a short description of the image, all explanations and details are given in 
the main text of the document.


regards Uwe

Turning off autosave

[V. Martini]

Hello,

I'm using LyX 1.6.1 with Snow Leopard. As discussed by other users,  
LyX has false crashes every 5 minutes. This false crashes consists  
in the opening of a windows, indicating a crash, while the software  
keeps working regularly.


As this is possibly related to the autosave function, could you please  
suggest me a simple way of disabling it?


Many thanks,

Vinicio

Re: Turning off autosave

[Liviu Andronic]

On 9/9/09, V. Martini vinm...@hotmail.com wrote:
  As this is possibly related to the autosave function, could you please
 suggest me a simple way of disabling it?

Tools  Preferences (uncheck Backup documents..)
Liviu

Re: [Lyx] explicit mail subject

[Helge Hafting]

Murray Eisenberg wrote:
I agree with the O.P. on this. This is something that, surely, is easily 
fixed at the server end, so that each message going out from the server 
has, say, [LyX] prepended to the subject.


But we don't want that, so please don't wreck it on the server.
If you want to see [LyX], set up your own mail software to
add this to the mail that gets delivered to you.


Many other mailing lists do this. There should be no need for the 
subscribers to have to filter.


And many other mailing lists don't mess with the subject. There
should be no need for users to suffer the messed-up headers.
Nobody _has_ to filter. If they want the mail in a single folder,
they can have that. Those of us who subscribe to several lists with some
volume, usually set up filtering to avoid a huge mess. And it'd be a 
huge mess even if the subject fields were abused.


This list was created without subject manipulation, please just respect 
that. I subscribe to some lists that do mangle the subject. I don't like 
it, but I don't request a change. It is the list maintainter's choice to 
make.


Helge Hafting

Re: Simulate update dvi behaviour in update pdflatex

[Christian Ridderström]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


I cannot reproduce this. What program is your default PDF viewer? (I


I've also found that Acrobat starts over on the first page, very 
annoying:-(




/Christian

mean is Acrobat opened when you double-click on a PDF in the file 
explorer?) If Acrobat is indeed the default viewer, how was LyX 
installed (what installer (alternative or the standard one), was logged 
in with admin priviledges when installing LyX)?


regards Uwe





--
Christian Ridderström   Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44

Re: Simulate update dvi behaviour in update pdflatex

[Christian Ridderström]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


Sharma, Vivek schrieb:


 I am using lyx 1.6.4 with Miktex and adobe acrobat.
 When we View -  update - dvi after the latex runs the dvi window goes to
 the page I was viewing last with the updated view, whereas with update
 pdflatex the updated file just opens at the first page of the pdf
 document.


I cannot reproduce this. What program is your default PDF viewer? (I mean is 
Acrobat opened when you double-click on a PDF in the file explorer?)
If Acrobat is indeed the default viewer, how was LyX installed (what 
installer (alternative or the standard one), was logged in with admin 
priviledges when installing LyX)?


I forgot to say: I started Acrobat (or possibly reader, I can't say to be 
honest) from within LyX.


I don't know how it was installed either, it's a company laptop.

/Christian


regards Uwe





--
Christian Ridderström   Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44

Re: problems with pdf-creation

[rgheck]

On 09/08/2009 08:18 PM, Timm Döbert wrote:

Hi there, I would like to get some advice on the following problem encountered 
when trying to create a pdf file:

Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fou
Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 9.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not foun

I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\fontsame font id=substitute font name'.

It appears as if copying from a word document into lyx causes this problem?

   
My guess would be that some funky character from the Word document has 
gotten into your LyX file, and you don't have the font needed to display 
that character. You can try to find out which character it is by 
deleting half the document, etc, etc.


Richard

Re: View menu customization

[rgheck]

On 09/08/2009 09:44 PM, Myriam Abramson wrote:

I just got 1.5.3 installed with Ubuntu Hardy. To view a pdf in the
view menu, I see dvipdfm and pdflatex. How do I get in the menu the
capability to view a pdf with ps2pdf? This option is listed in the
preferences formats but how do I get it in the View menu?

   
First, you should upgrade to 1.6.4. The version you have is very old, 
and lots of bugs have been fixed since then, as well as lots of new 
features that have been added.


As for the specific issue, LyX must not be finding ps2pdf. Make sure you 
have that on your system and that it is in your path. (Try: which 
ps2pdf.) If it's there, then try doing a ToolsReconfigure, closing LyX 
and restarting. If that doesn't work, then post the configure.log file 
that will turn up in $HOME/.lyx/, and we'll have a look.


Richard

Re: change appendix

[rgheck]

On 09/08/2009 11:03 PM, Ricardo Perrone wrote:

Hi,

how can i change the default alignment of appendix (book.cls)? I need to put it 
at the center.

   

Do you mean of the heading Appendix (or its translation)? Or what?

rh

Re: Line spacing in headings

[rgheck]

On 09/09/2009 06:01 AM, Matts Lindström wrote:

Hello,
  When I set line spacing to 1.5 (using the settings dialog) this also
changes the line spacing of the document headings (section, subsection etc).
This looks really bad. Can I avoid this somehow?

   
I think so, but I'm guessing it is not trivial. Setting the line spacing 
just does set the line spacing, and LaTeX then uses that spacing 
everywhere it needs it. If you use fancy headers, you might be able to 
put the \singlespacing macro first in whatever you have there. If that 
doesn't work, or you can't use it, then I think you have to redefine 
whatever macro it is that prints the header to call \singlespacing 
first. I don't have my LaTeX Companion with me, though, to look up which 
macro that is.


rh

beamer handouts: how to delete/suppress frames?

[Erez Yerushalmi]

Hi all,

I'm writing a presentation using beamer, lyx 1.63, window...

I would like to have a handout, where some frames will be automatically
deleted (suppress frames).

What I would like to do in TEX, or internally in LyX, is the following:

\begin{frame}handout:0
\frametitle{A title bla bla bla}
*Some content. bla bla bla
*\end{frame}


Some times it works, some times it doesn't, and I get the ERROR
file does not exist:  c:/document and
settings/.../temp/lyx_tempdir.Hp3316/lyx_tempbuf0/filename.pdf

Can anyone give me a hint ??

Best Regards,  Erez



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

Re: Rotating tables with URLs

[Uwe Stöhr]

John Coppens schrieb:


I have a (rather wide) table with cross-references in it. When I rotate
the table to fit it on a page, the table rotates fine, but the (red) boxes
around the references stay unrotated.


You can turn off the boxes in the document settings in the section of the PDF 
properties.

regards Uwe

Re: beamer handouts: how to delete/suppress frames?

[KYokota]

Hi Erez,

You can use handout option of Beamer, but it sometimes fails to
exclude overlays. So, what I usually do is to use PDFjam
(http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam) after creating PDF. It includes
an executable called pdfnup which should be called something like:

pdfnup --nup 3x3 --paper a4paper --orient landscape \
 --trim -5mm -5mm -5mm -5mm --tidy true (source PDF file)

If you want to pick up some frames, you can specify an option, e.g.
--pages 1-10,15,19-20.

# The author of PDFjam is in Warwick :)

Koji

Re: beamer handouts: how to delete/suppress frames?

[KYokota]

Uh, it seems not to work on Windows. So, you may want to install
Cygwin to do the above procedure.

Koji

More indexing bogosity

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

I'm deep in the middle of indexing my new book and found yet another problem, 
and this one can't be worked around by setting Tools-preferences-output-
latex-Tex_encoding to T1.

This time, when inserting see and seealso records, I'm forced to use ERT for 
each of the curly braces or else part of the seealso text doesn't show up and 
an erroneous page number is shown. This is a huge time sink.

As a workaround, is there a way I can have all my see and seealso entries in 
an external file and import it? I seem to remember that can be done, and 
hopefully it would work around this time sink.

Thanks

SteveT

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

Re: change appendix

[Ricardo Perrone]

Hi,

sorry, i forgot it ... is the heading Appendix that in book.cls is capture 
from \chapter. But I would like to change it only on appendix without change 
the default chapter alignment that was applied in the rest of document

Thanks
Ricardo




- Original Message 
 From: rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com
 To: Ricardo Perrone perr...@rocketmail.com
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 12:14:21 PM
 Subject: Re: change appendix
 
 On 09/08/2009 11:03 PM, Ricardo Perrone wrote:
  Hi,
 
  how can i change the default alignment of appendix (book.cls)? I need to 
  put 
 it at the center.
 
 
 Do you mean of the heading Appendix (or its translation)? Or what?
 
 rh



  

Re: More indexing bogosity WORKED AROUND

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 15:05:17 Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,

 I'm deep in the middle of indexing my new book and found yet another
 problem, and this one can't be worked around by setting
 Tools-preferences-output-

 latex-Tex_encoding to T1.

 This time, when inserting see and seealso records, I'm forced to use ERT
 for each of the curly braces or else part of the seealso text doesn't show
 up and an erroneous page number is shown. This is a huge time sink.

 As a workaround, is there a way I can have all my see and seealso entries
 in an external file and import it? I seem to remember that can be done, and
 hopefully it would work around this time sink.

 Thanks

 SteveT

OK, I found it. You can put all see and seealso index records in a separate 
file. For instance, I put it in ./seealso.inc. So ./seealso.inc has lots 
records like this:

\index{Joneses|see{keeping up with the Joneses}}

Then, in the document preamble, I place the following line:

\input{./seealso.inc}

That does the trick, and I don't have to do any ERT maneuvers.

SteveT

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

list of figures off the page

[Evan Mason]

Hi,

I am using book koma-script.  When I compile my document with pdflatex
everything is fine, but with dvipdfm or ps2pdf the list of figures and
tables are not correct.  They don't wrap, so that each caption just goes off
the page.

I can't be the only one this happens to, but haven't found any other post on
this.

Any help much appreciated,

Evan

Re: change appendix

[rgheck]

On 09/09/2009 03:33 PM, Ricardo Perrone wrote:

Hi,

sorry, i forgot it ... is the heading Appendix that in book.cls is capture 
from \chapter. But I would like to change it only on appendix without change the default 
chapter alignment that was applied in the rest of document

   
Right. Well, in that case, I think you need to redefine part of the 
chapter thing. The part you want is this, which I've just copied from 
book.cls:


\d...@schapter#1{\typeout{#1}%
\l...@secnumber\@empty
\d...@toclevel{0}%
\ifx\chaptername\appendixname \...@tocwriteb\tocappendix{chapter}{#1}%
\else \...@tocwriteb\tocchapter{chapter}{#1}\fi
\chaptermark{#1}%
\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\addvspace{1...@}}%
\addtocontents{lot}{\protect\addvspace{1...@}}%
\...@makeschapterhead{#1}\@afterheading}

You can put this, with your changes, into ERT right before the appendix 
starts. If you just enclose the \typeout{#1} part in whatever you want 
to use to center it, that should do.


rh

Line spacing in headings

[Matts Lindström]

Hello,
 When I set line spacing to 1.5 (using the settings dialog) this also
changes the line spacing of the document headings (section, subsection etc).
This looks really bad. Can I avoid this somehow?

Regards,
Matts Lindström

Figure key

[Manolo Martí­nez]

Hi,

Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add 
explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as "the pointed 
line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah"...


The "figure" box in the float is too small for that -and everything you 
put in there appears in the figure index. I could do it in the main 
text, but I'd rather make sure that it is just beside the float.


Thanks
Manolo

RE: Figure key

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
>Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place
>to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things
>such as "the pointed line means blah, and the blue square
>stands for blah"...
>
>The "figure" box in the float is too small for that 

How can it be too small ? I can put a work by Shakespeare in it.

>-and everything you put in there appears in the figure index.

Then you should try "Insert->Short Title" in the caption of the float. Only the 
text within this "opt" inset will be put in the figure index. In this way, you 
can have a brief description in the figure index (list).

>I could do it in the main text, but I'd rather make sure that
>it is just beside the float.

So, I would put everything you need to understand the figure in the caption. 
Any explanation, reasoning, conclusions, remarks, details etc. in the main text.

>Thanks
>Manolo

Vincent

spellchecker

[Jaime A. Millan - UCL]

Hi, I'm new using Lyx and Tex basis programs. Unfortunately when I'm  
trying to use the spellchecker i found the following error:


The spellchecker could not be started
LyX: Failed to start ispell!

I just install the basic MacTex and Lyx because when i tried to use i- 
Installer it does not work, i get the following error:


Cannot read remote table of contents.
The most probable cause is a download problem.

What can I do? I download ispell but I don't know how to set it up and  
make it work in Lyx.


Thanks in advance.

Jaime A. Millán
PhD in Economics Student
University College of London
London, UK

Re: spellchecker

[BH]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Jaime A. Millan -
UCL wrote:
> Hi, I'm new using Lyx and Tex basis programs. Unfortunately when I'm trying
> to use the spellchecker i found the following error:
>
> The spellchecker could not be started
> LyX: Failed to start ispell!
>
> I just install the basic MacTex and Lyx because when i tried to use
> i-Installer it does not work, i get the following error:
>
> Cannot read remote table of contents.
> The most probable cause is a download problem.
>
> What can I do? I download ispell but I don't know how to set it up and make
> it work in Lyx.

http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling

BH

Re: Figure key

[Uwe Stöhr]

Manolo Martí­nez schrieb:

Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add 
explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as "the pointed 
line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah"...


The "figure" box in the float is too small for that -and everything you 
put in there appears in the figure index. I could do it in the main 
text, but I'd rather make sure that it is just beside the float.


That depends on your topic. For example in physics everything is written to the caption of the 
figure. The result are figures with huge captions. For engineers it is quite the opposite: the 
caption only contains a short description of the image, all explanations and details are given in 
the main text of the document.


regards Uwe

Turning off autosave

[V. Martini]

Hello,

I'm using LyX 1.6.1 with Snow Leopard. As discussed by other users,  
LyX has "false" crashes every 5 minutes. This "false" crashes consists  
in the opening of a windows, indicating a crash, while the software  
keeps working regularly.


As this is possibly related to the autosave function, could you please  
suggest me a simple way of disabling it?


Many thanks,

Vinicio

Re: Turning off autosave

[Liviu Andronic]

On 9/9/09, V. Martini  wrote:
>  As this is possibly related to the autosave function, could you please
> suggest me a simple way of disabling it?
>
Tools > Preferences (uncheck "Backup documents..")
Liviu

Re: [Lyx] explicit mail subject

[Helge Hafting]

Murray Eisenberg wrote:
I agree with the O.P. on this. This is something that, surely, is easily 
fixed at the server end, so that each message going out from the server 
has, say, "[LyX]" prepended to the subject.


But we don't want that, so please don't wreck it on the server.
If you want to see "[LyX]", set up your own mail software to
add this to the mail that gets delivered to you.


Many other mailing lists do this. There should be no need for the 
subscribers to have to filter.


And many other mailing lists don't mess with the subject. There
should be no need for users to suffer the messed-up headers.
Nobody _has_ to filter. If they want the mail in a single folder,
they can have that. Those of us who subscribe to several lists with some
volume, usually set up filtering to avoid a huge mess. And it'd be a 
huge mess even if the subject fields were abused.


This list was created without subject manipulation, please just respect 
that. I subscribe to some lists that do mangle the subject. I don't like 
it, but I don't request a change. It is the list maintainter's choice to 
make.


Helge Hafting

Re: Simulate update dvi behaviour in update pdflatex

[Christian Ridderström]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


I cannot reproduce this. What program is your default PDF viewer? (I


I've also found that Acrobat starts over on the first page, very 
annoying:-(




/Christian

mean is Acrobat opened when you double-click on a PDF in the file 
explorer?) If Acrobat is indeed the default viewer, how was LyX 
installed (what installer (alternative or the standard one), was logged 
in with admin priviledges when installing LyX)?


regards Uwe





--
Christian Ridderström   Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44

Re: Simulate update dvi behaviour in update pdflatex

[Christian Ridderström]

On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


Sharma, Vivek schrieb:


 I am using lyx 1.6.4 with Miktex and adobe acrobat.
 When we View - > update -> dvi after the latex runs the dvi window goes to
 the page I was viewing last with the updated view, whereas with update
 pdflatex the updated file just opens at the first page of the pdf
 document.


I cannot reproduce this. What program is your default PDF viewer? (I mean is 
Acrobat opened when you double-click on a PDF in the file explorer?)
If Acrobat is indeed the default viewer, how was LyX installed (what 
installer (alternative or the standard one), was logged in with admin 
priviledges when installing LyX)?


I forgot to say: I started Acrobat (or possibly reader, I can't say to be 
honest) from within LyX.


I don't know how it was installed either, it's a company laptop.

/Christian


regards Uwe





--
Christian Ridderström   Mobile: +46-8 768 39 44

Re: problems with pdf-creation

[rgheck]

On 09/08/2009 08:18 PM, "Timm Döbert" wrote:

Hi there, I would like to get some advice on the following problem encountered 
when trying to create a pdf file:

Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 12.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not fou
Font \csname\endcsname=psyr at 9.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not foun

I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\font='.

It appears as if copying from a word document into lyx causes this problem?

   
My guess would be that some funky character from the Word document has 
gotten into your LyX file, and you don't have the font needed to display 
that character. You can try to find out which character it is by 
deleting half the document, etc, etc.


Richard

Re: View menu customization

[rgheck]

On 09/08/2009 09:44 PM, Myriam Abramson wrote:

I just got 1.5.3 installed with Ubuntu Hardy. To view a pdf in the
view menu, I see dvipdfm and pdflatex. How do I get in the menu the
capability to view a pdf with ps2pdf? This option is listed in the
preferences formats but how do I get it in the View menu?

   
First, you should upgrade to 1.6.4. The version you have is very old, 
and lots of bugs have been fixed since then, as well as lots of new 
features that have been added.


As for the specific issue, LyX must not be finding ps2pdf. Make sure you 
have that on your system and that it is in your path. (Try: which 
ps2pdf.) If it's there, then try doing a Tools>Reconfigure, closing LyX 
and restarting. If that doesn't work, then post the configure.log file 
that will turn up in $HOME/.lyx/, and we'll have a look.


Richard

Re: change appendix

[rgheck]

On 09/08/2009 11:03 PM, Ricardo Perrone wrote:

Hi,

how can i change the default alignment of appendix (book.cls)? I need to put it 
at the center.

   

Do you mean of the heading "Appendix" (or its translation)? Or what?

rh

Re: Line spacing in headings

[rgheck]

On 09/09/2009 06:01 AM, Matts Lindström wrote:

Hello,
  When I set line spacing to 1.5 (using the settings dialog) this also
changes the line spacing of the document headings (section, subsection etc).
This looks really bad. Can I avoid this somehow?

   
I think so, but I'm guessing it is not trivial. Setting the line spacing 
just does set the line spacing, and LaTeX then uses that spacing 
everywhere it needs it. If you use fancy headers, you might be able to 
put the \singlespacing macro first in whatever you have there. If that 
doesn't work, or you can't use it, then I think you have to redefine 
whatever macro it is that prints the header to call \singlespacing 
first. I don't have my LaTeX Companion with me, though, to look up which 
macro that is.


rh

beamer handouts: how to delete/suppress frames?

[Erez Yerushalmi]

Hi all,

I'm writing a presentation using beamer, lyx 1.63, window...

I would like to have a handout, where some frames will be automatically
deleted (suppress frames).

What I would like to do in TEX, or internally in LyX, is the following:

\begin{frame}
\frametitle{A title bla bla bla}
*Some content. bla bla bla
*\end{frame}


Some times it works, some times it doesn't, and I get the ERROR
file does not exist:  c:/document and
settings/.../temp/lyx_tempdir.Hp3316/lyx_tempbuf0/filename.pdf

Can anyone give me a hint ??

Best Regards,  Erez



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

Re: Rotating tables with URLs

[Uwe Stöhr]

John Coppens schrieb:


I have a (rather wide) table with cross-references in it. When I rotate
the table to fit it on a page, the table rotates fine, but the (red) boxes
around the references stay unrotated.


You can turn off the boxes in the document settings in the section of the PDF 
properties.

regards Uwe

Re: beamer handouts: how to delete/suppress frames?

[KYokota]

Hi Erez,

You can use "handout" option of Beamer, but it sometimes fails to
exclude overlays. So, what I usually do is to use PDFjam
(http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam) after creating PDF. It includes
an executable called "pdfnup" which should be called something like:

pdfnup --nup 3x3 --paper a4paper --orient landscape \
 --trim "-5mm -5mm -5mm -5mm" --tidy true (source PDF file)

If you want to pick up some frames, you can specify an option, e.g.
"--pages 1-10,15,19-20".

# The author of PDFjam is in Warwick :)

Koji

Re: beamer handouts: how to delete/suppress frames?

[KYokota]

Uh, it seems not to work on Windows. So, you may want to install
Cygwin to do the above procedure.

Koji

More indexing bogosity

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

I'm deep in the middle of indexing my new book and found yet another problem, 
and this one can't be worked around by setting Tools->preferences->output-
>latex->Tex_encoding to T1.

This time, when inserting see and seealso records, I'm forced to use ERT for 
each of the curly braces or else part of the seealso text doesn't show up and 
an erroneous page number is shown. This is a huge time sink.

As a workaround, is there a way I can have all my see and seealso entries in 
an external file and import it? I seem to remember that can be done, and 
hopefully it would work around this time sink.

Thanks

SteveT

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

Re: change appendix

[Ricardo Perrone]

Hi,

sorry, i forgot it ... is the heading "Appendix" that in book.cls is capture 
from \chapter. But I would like to change it only on appendix without change 
the default chapter alignment that was applied in the rest of document

Thanks
Ricardo




- Original Message 
> From: rgheck 
> To: Ricardo Perrone 
> Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 12:14:21 PM
> Subject: Re: change appendix
> 
> On 09/08/2009 11:03 PM, Ricardo Perrone wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > how can i change the default alignment of appendix (book.cls)? I need to 
> > put 
> it at the center.
> >
> >
> Do you mean of the heading "Appendix" (or its translation)? Or what?
> 
> rh



  

Re: More indexing bogosity

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 09 September 2009 15:05:17 Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm deep in the middle of indexing my new book and found yet another
> problem, and this one can't be worked around by setting
> Tools->preferences->output-
>
> >latex->Tex_encoding to T1.
>
> This time, when inserting see and seealso records, I'm forced to use ERT
> for each of the curly braces or else part of the seealso text doesn't show
> up and an erroneous page number is shown. This is a huge time sink.
>
> As a workaround, is there a way I can have all my see and seealso entries
> in an external file and import it? I seem to remember that can be done, and
> hopefully it would work around this time sink.
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT

OK, I found it. You can put all see and seealso index records in a separate 
file. For instance, I put it in ./seealso.inc. So ./seealso.inc has lots 
records like this:

\index{Joneses|see{keeping up with the Joneses}}

Then, in the document preamble, I place the following line:

\input{./seealso.inc}

That does the trick, and I don't have to do any ERT maneuvers.

SteveT

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

list of figures off the page

[Evan Mason]

Hi,

I am using book koma-script.  When I compile my document with pdflatex
everything is fine, but with dvipdfm or ps2pdf the list of figures and
tables are not correct.  They don't wrap, so that each caption just goes off
the page.

I can't be the only one this happens to, but haven't found any other post on
this.

Any help much appreciated,

Evan

Re: change appendix

[rgheck]

On 09/09/2009 03:33 PM, Ricardo Perrone wrote:

Hi,

sorry, i forgot it ... is the heading "Appendix" that in book.cls is capture 
from \chapter. But I would like to change it only on appendix without change the default 
chapter alignment that was applied in the rest of document

   
Right. Well, in that case, I think you need to redefine part of the 
chapter thing. The part you want is this, which I've just copied from 
book.cls:


\d...@schapter#1{\typeout{#1}%
\l...@secnumber\@empty
\d...@toclevel{0}%
\ifx\chaptername\appendixname \...@tocwriteb\tocappendix{chapter}{#1}%
\else \...@tocwriteb\tocchapter{chapter}{#1}\fi
\chaptermark{#1}%
\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\addvspace{1...@}}%
\addtocontents{lot}{\protect\addvspace{1...@}}%
\...@makeschapterhead{#1}\@afterheading}

You can put this, with your changes, into ERT right before the appendix 
starts. If you just enclose the \typeout{#1} part in whatever you want 
to use to center it, that should do.


rh