Line spacing in headings
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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?
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?
Uh, it seems not to work on Windows. So, you may want to install Cygwin to do the above procedure. Koji
More indexing bogosity
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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?
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?
Uh, it seems not to work on Windows. So, you may want to install Cygwin to do the above procedure. Koji
More indexing bogosity
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
>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
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
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Jaime A. Millan - UCLwrote: > 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
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
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
On 9/9/09, V. Martiniwrote: > 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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?
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?
Uh, it seems not to work on Windows. So, you may want to install Cygwin to do the above procedure. Koji
More indexing bogosity
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
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
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
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
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