Thank You / Specific Examples?

[Rob Oakes]

Dear LyX-Users,

I wanted to take a moment and say thank you for the many fantastic ideas
that have been recommended.  The process of researching each and
thinking about how they will fit into the existing text has greatly
improved the overall outline.  It also makes me hope that it will be a
better reference for the community.

As I've been working through the suggestions, I realized that there is a
secondary question nearly as important as the first.  What types of
specific examples would be most beneficial?

As part of the book, I intend to create a number of high quality LyX
layouts and templates which make the creation of certain documents
easier.  What should these be?

As I went about responding to the first series of emails, some needs and
interests seemed to emerge.  These included:

- Presentations and Handouts based on Sweave
- Business and Professional Documents
- LaTeX Document classes that make exporting to other formats
easier.  (This might be thought of as a vanilla submission
template.  Double spaced, bland typed, but a formatted
bibliography using BibTeX.  When I work with Word, this is the
type of file I exchange most frequently.)

I am also planning to include examples which demonstrate how to use LyX
as a literate programming environment so that statistical and other
results can be generated on the fly and inserted into documents.  Are
there other types of examples that you would like to see?

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: Latex template to Lyx

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ale Jaimes schrieb:


For my company I have to write a report with its special template. I just
have the following file: template.tex. How can I make a lyx template so I
can use it??


The easiest way is to import your TeX file to LyX. When this fails, have a look at the document 
class that is used by your TeX file and tell us what it is.


regards Uwe

Re: tufte-handout.layout outdated

[Uwe Stöhr]

Joachim Osnabryg schrieb:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Tufte-handout - under Files that are now 
part of LyX

 But with this layout, the abstract environment of the
 tufte-handout.cls cannot be chosen by the LyX-GUI, it is not there.

This has been fixed two days ago. Please download the layout file again from this Wiki page to get 
the latest version.


regards Uwe

Fun With LyX Document Converters

[Rob Oakes]

Dear LyX Users,

I've spent most of today struggling with the question of, What is the
best way to convert a LyX/LaTeX document into a Word document?

I've looked separately at latex2rtf (which works, but makes it very
difficult to customize the output) and going through html (via a variety
of routes).  One option that has me particularly excited is going
through docbook.  I've been playing with the Export-LaTeX and then
transforming the resulting LaTeX into docbook using tex4ht. Once in
docbook, it's pretty easy to transform it to MS Word.  (For more detail,
see: http://www.explain.com.au/oss/docbook/).

This has been working *really* well with the different test documents
I've been using.  Figures, tables, and non-English characters appear to
survive and structure is largely preserved.  (I don't actually care
about formatting as much.  If I want to preserve formatting, I usually
send a PDF.)  What makes me more excited, however, is that the content
can be likely be transformed *back*.  I still need to experiment and see
how well this works.

The problem, as you might guess, is that it is involved.  If I had to do
this type of processing on more than just a files, it would be a
tremendous PITA.  So, I'm looking for ways to automate it.  The first
automation step, it would seem, is to try and create a DocBook file from
LaTeX.  For the life of me, however, I can't seem to figure out how to
do this.

I've tried creating a new document converter for LaTeX (plain) -
DocBook using tex4ht, and it appears to do something (I don't get any
errors); but it doesn't actually create any output files.  Does anyone
know why this might be?

(As a side question, LaTeX (plain) - OpenDocument is completely broken
on Ubuntu 9.10.  It will produce a file, but when loaded into OpenOffice
3.1, it's just a blank page.  Has anyone else had this problem?)

Here are my settings:

From format: LaTeX (plain)
To format: DocBook
Converter: mk4ht dblatex $$i
Extra flag: needaux

I've also experimented with leaving out the needaux, which results in
the same problem as described above.  I'm not getting any errors.

Any thoughts or ideas would be extremely appreciated.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: Fun With LyX Document Converters

[Typhoon]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:09:33 -0700
Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote:

 Dear LyX Users,
 
 I've spent most of today struggling with the question of, What is the
 best way to convert a LyX/LaTeX document into a Word document?
 
SNIP

 
 (As a side question, LaTeX (plain) - OpenDocument is completely
 broken on Ubuntu 9.10.  It will produce a file, but when loaded into
 OpenOffice 3.1, it's just a blank page.  Has anyone else had this
 problem?)

Not sure on Ubuntu, but on Debian Lenny there is a bug in the tex4ht
(oolatex) conversion. You MUST have the java alternative set to the Sun
version. It behaves as you describe if the java preference is set to
one of the free java libraries.

$ sudo update-alternatives --config java

HTH,
Alan

 
 Here are my settings:
 
 From format: LaTeX (plain)
 To format: DocBook
 Converter: mk4ht dblatex $$i
 Extra flag: needaux
 
 I've also experimented with leaving out the needaux, which results in
 the same problem as described above.  I'm not getting any errors.
 
 Any thoughts or ideas would be extremely appreciated.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Rob Oakes
 
 


-- 
Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan
Tel:  04 2748 6206

Re: Fun With LyX Document Converters

[Rob Oakes]

Thank you Alan,

That fixed the problem.  I hadn't realized that the Java run time was a
dependency of oolatex.  Export from LyX to OpenDocument now works.  From
there, it's an easy conversion to Word.

Cheers,

Rob

Formatdatei docbook.layout ist nicht verwendbar

[Ute Lobisch]

 Hallo
ich bekomme folgende Fehlermeldung beim Öffnen des Dokumentes:
die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Formatdatei docbook.layout ist nicht
verwendbar. Dies liegt daran dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil
Datei nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen sie in Anpassung.
Ich habe alles versucht, sogar die volle Miktex installiert, lyx
deinstalliert, wieder installiert, docbook layouts gesucht, ist auch
vorhanden. Was kann ich tun (Windows Vista Rechner)?
Vielen Dank für die Hilfe
Ute Lobisch

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Is the problem on screen only, or for the output.



It is about the screen display.
  


I don't know whether it's a bug. If you select a left alignment of a 
paragraph in LyX, LyX and LaTeX both don't indent the paragraph and thus 
ParIndent should also be ignored when it is defined in a layout.


VIncent

Re: tufte-handout.layout outdated

[John Kane]

--- On Thu, 11/5/09, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote:

 From: Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de
 Subject: Re: tufte-handout.layout outdated
 To: Joachim Osnabryg o...@jpberlin.de
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Received: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 2:53 PM
 Joachim Osnabryg schrieb:
 
  http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Tufte-handout
 - under Files that are now part of LyX
  But with this layout, the abstract environment of
 the
  tufte-handout.cls cannot be chosen by the LyX-GUI, it
 is not there.
 
 This has been fixed two days ago. Please download the
 layout file again from this Wiki page to get the latest
 version.
 
 regards Uwe

I just tried it and it seems to work okay for me.  Thanks.
 


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Re: Fun With LyX Document Converters

[Andrew Sullivan]

On 2009-11-05, at 16:32, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:


Thank you Alan,

That fixed the problem.  I hadn't realized that the Java run time  
was a
dependency of oolatex.  Export from LyX to OpenDocument now works.   
From

there, it's an easy conversion to Word.



One issue with export to oolatex in my experience is the loss of cross  
references. If you've found this works, please let us know, because  
it's a major blocker for my use. (Happily, where I work, circulating  
PDFs is ok. But not most places.)


--
Andrew Sullivan
a...@shinkuro.com

Re: Formatdatei docbook.layout ist nicht verwendbar

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ute Lobisch schrieb:


ich bekomme folgende Fehlermeldung beim Öffnen des Dokumentes:
die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Formatdatei docbook.layout ist nicht
verwendbar.


In this case docbook is not installed or LyX cannot find it.
Note that docbook is not a LaTeX class and can thus not be installed via MiKTeX.

You find here some information how to install docbook:
http://bgu.chez-alice.fr/doc/db4lyx/
and her some infos at the LyX Wiki:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Category/DocBook

It seems that docbook is not widely used because the informations on these pages refer to several 
years old LyX versions.


regards Uwe

p.s. this is an English speaking list

Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

[Christian Brodbeck]

I've been running it for a few hours and it works fine here, thanks!

It continually uses a few per mills CPU even when hidden, but not more  
than 1.6.4.1 .



Cheers!
Christian

Change page layout of ToC

[Ralf]

Hi group,

is there a simple way of changing the page layout of the ToC? Specifically I'd
like to have a slightly larger page.

If not, where is the script that generates the ToC? Couldn't find it ...

Cheers
-Ralf

Re: Change page layout of ToC

[Ralf]

Ralf rsc...@... writes:

 
 Hi group,
 
 is there a simple way of changing the page layout of the ToC? Specifically I'd
 like to have a slightly larger page.

This works:

\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\enlargethispage{2ex}}

I put it in the section which need to have a larger page in the ToC

Cheers
-Ralf

Re: Fun With LyX Document Converters

[rgheck]

On 11/05/2009 04:32 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:

Thank you Alan,

That fixed the problem.  I hadn't realized that the Java run time was a
dependency of oolatex.  Export from LyX to OpenDocument now works.  From
there, it's an easy conversion to Word.

   
I'm glad to hear this. Experience generally is that oolatex works pretty 
well on Linux, with issues on other platforms.


rh

Thank You / Specific Examples?

[Rob Oakes]

Dear LyX-Users,

I wanted to take a moment and say thank you for the many fantastic ideas
that have been recommended.  The process of researching each and
thinking about how they will fit into the existing text has greatly
improved the overall outline.  It also makes me hope that it will be a
better reference for the community.

As I've been working through the suggestions, I realized that there is a
secondary question nearly as important as the first.  What types of
specific examples would be most beneficial?

As part of the book, I intend to create a number of high quality LyX
layouts and templates which make the creation of certain documents
easier.  What should these be?

As I went about responding to the first series of emails, some needs and
interests seemed to emerge.  These included:

- Presentations and Handouts based on Sweave
- Business and Professional Documents
- LaTeX Document classes that make exporting to other formats
easier.  (This might be thought of as a vanilla submission
template.  Double spaced, bland typed, but a formatted
bibliography using BibTeX.  When I work with Word, this is the
type of file I exchange most frequently.)

I am also planning to include examples which demonstrate how to use LyX
as a literate programming environment so that statistical and other
results can be generated on the fly and inserted into documents.  Are
there other types of examples that you would like to see?

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

[Anders Host-Madsen]

This is great. Now I will finally upgrade to Snow Leopard. 

Re: Latex template to Lyx

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ale Jaimes schrieb:


For my company I have to write a report with its special template. I just
have the following file: template.tex. How can I make a lyx template so I
can use it??


The easiest way is to import your TeX file to LyX. When this fails, have a look at the document 
class that is used by your TeX file and tell us what it is.


regards Uwe

Re: tufte-handout.layout outdated

[Uwe Stöhr]

Joachim Osnabryg schrieb:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Tufte-handout - under Files that are now 
part of LyX

 But with this layout, the abstract environment of the
 tufte-handout.cls cannot be chosen by the LyX-GUI, it is not there.

This has been fixed two days ago. Please download the layout file again from this Wiki page to get 
the latest version.


regards Uwe

Fun With LyX Document Converters

[Rob Oakes]

Dear LyX Users,

I've spent most of today struggling with the question of, What is the
best way to convert a LyX/LaTeX document into a Word document?

I've looked separately at latex2rtf (which works, but makes it very
difficult to customize the output) and going through html (via a variety
of routes).  One option that has me particularly excited is going
through docbook.  I've been playing with the Export-LaTeX and then
transforming the resulting LaTeX into docbook using tex4ht. Once in
docbook, it's pretty easy to transform it to MS Word.  (For more detail,
see: http://www.explain.com.au/oss/docbook/).

This has been working *really* well with the different test documents
I've been using.  Figures, tables, and non-English characters appear to
survive and structure is largely preserved.  (I don't actually care
about formatting as much.  If I want to preserve formatting, I usually
send a PDF.)  What makes me more excited, however, is that the content
can be likely be transformed *back*.  I still need to experiment and see
how well this works.

The problem, as you might guess, is that it is involved.  If I had to do
this type of processing on more than just a files, it would be a
tremendous PITA.  So, I'm looking for ways to automate it.  The first
automation step, it would seem, is to try and create a DocBook file from
LaTeX.  For the life of me, however, I can't seem to figure out how to
do this.

I've tried creating a new document converter for LaTeX (plain) -
DocBook using tex4ht, and it appears to do something (I don't get any
errors); but it doesn't actually create any output files.  Does anyone
know why this might be?

(As a side question, LaTeX (plain) - OpenDocument is completely broken
on Ubuntu 9.10.  It will produce a file, but when loaded into OpenOffice
3.1, it's just a blank page.  Has anyone else had this problem?)

Here are my settings:

From format: LaTeX (plain)
To format: DocBook
Converter: mk4ht dblatex $$i
Extra flag: needaux

I've also experimented with leaving out the needaux, which results in
the same problem as described above.  I'm not getting any errors.

Any thoughts or ideas would be extremely appreciated.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: Fun With LyX Document Converters

[Typhoon]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:09:33 -0700
Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote:

 Dear LyX Users,
 
 I've spent most of today struggling with the question of, What is the
 best way to convert a LyX/LaTeX document into a Word document?
 
SNIP

 
 (As a side question, LaTeX (plain) - OpenDocument is completely
 broken on Ubuntu 9.10.  It will produce a file, but when loaded into
 OpenOffice 3.1, it's just a blank page.  Has anyone else had this
 problem?)

Not sure on Ubuntu, but on Debian Lenny there is a bug in the tex4ht
(oolatex) conversion. You MUST have the java alternative set to the Sun
version. It behaves as you describe if the java preference is set to
one of the free java libraries.

$ sudo update-alternatives --config java

HTH,
Alan

 
 Here are my settings:
 
 From format: LaTeX (plain)
 To format: DocBook
 Converter: mk4ht dblatex $$i
 Extra flag: needaux
 
 I've also experimented with leaving out the needaux, which results in
 the same problem as described above.  I'm not getting any errors.
 
 Any thoughts or ideas would be extremely appreciated.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Rob Oakes
 
 


-- 
Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan
Tel:  04 2748 6206

Re: Fun With LyX Document Converters

[Rob Oakes]

Thank you Alan,

That fixed the problem.  I hadn't realized that the Java run time was a
dependency of oolatex.  Export from LyX to OpenDocument now works.  From
there, it's an easy conversion to Word.

Cheers,

Rob

Formatdatei docbook.layout ist nicht verwendbar

[Ute Lobisch]

 Hallo
ich bekomme folgende Fehlermeldung beim Öffnen des Dokumentes:
die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Formatdatei docbook.layout ist nicht
verwendbar. Dies liegt daran dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil
Datei nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen sie in Anpassung.
Ich habe alles versucht, sogar die volle Miktex installiert, lyx
deinstalliert, wieder installiert, docbook layouts gesucht, ist auch
vorhanden. Was kann ich tun (Windows Vista Rechner)?
Vielen Dank für die Hilfe
Ute Lobisch

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Is the problem on screen only, or for the output.



It is about the screen display.
  


I don't know whether it's a bug. If you select a left alignment of a 
paragraph in LyX, LyX and LaTeX both don't indent the paragraph and thus 
ParIndent should also be ignored when it is defined in a layout.


VIncent

Re: tufte-handout.layout outdated

[John Kane]

--- On Thu, 11/5/09, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote:

 From: Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de
 Subject: Re: tufte-handout.layout outdated
 To: Joachim Osnabryg o...@jpberlin.de
 Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
 Received: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 2:53 PM
 Joachim Osnabryg schrieb:
 
  http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Tufte-handout
 - under Files that are now part of LyX
  But with this layout, the abstract environment of
 the
  tufte-handout.cls cannot be chosen by the LyX-GUI, it
 is not there.
 
 This has been fixed two days ago. Please download the
 layout file again from this Wiki page to get the latest
 version.
 
 regards Uwe

I just tried it and it seems to work okay for me.  Thanks.
 


  __
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Re: Fun With LyX Document Converters

[Andrew Sullivan]

On 2009-11-05, at 16:32, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:


Thank you Alan,

That fixed the problem.  I hadn't realized that the Java run time  
was a
dependency of oolatex.  Export from LyX to OpenDocument now works.   
From

there, it's an easy conversion to Word.



One issue with export to oolatex in my experience is the loss of cross  
references. If you've found this works, please let us know, because  
it's a major blocker for my use. (Happily, where I work, circulating  
PDFs is ok. But not most places.)


--
Andrew Sullivan
a...@shinkuro.com

Re: Formatdatei docbook.layout ist nicht verwendbar

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ute Lobisch schrieb:


ich bekomme folgende Fehlermeldung beim Öffnen des Dokumentes:
die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Formatdatei docbook.layout ist nicht
verwendbar.


In this case docbook is not installed or LyX cannot find it.
Note that docbook is not a LaTeX class and can thus not be installed via MiKTeX.

You find here some information how to install docbook:
http://bgu.chez-alice.fr/doc/db4lyx/
and her some infos at the LyX Wiki:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Category/DocBook

It seems that docbook is not widely used because the informations on these pages refer to several 
years old LyX versions.


regards Uwe

p.s. this is an English speaking list

Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

[Christian Brodbeck]

I've been running it for a few hours and it works fine here, thanks!

It continually uses a few per mills CPU even when hidden, but not more  
than 1.6.4.1 .



Cheers!
Christian

Change page layout of ToC

[Ralf]

Hi group,

is there a simple way of changing the page layout of the ToC? Specifically I'd
like to have a slightly larger page.

If not, where is the script that generates the ToC? Couldn't find it ...

Cheers
-Ralf

Re: Change page layout of ToC

[Ralf]

Ralf rsc...@... writes:

 
 Hi group,
 
 is there a simple way of changing the page layout of the ToC? Specifically I'd
 like to have a slightly larger page.

This works:

\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\enlargethispage{2ex}}

I put it in the section which need to have a larger page in the ToC

Cheers
-Ralf

Re: Fun With LyX Document Converters

[rgheck]

On 11/05/2009 04:32 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:

Thank you Alan,

That fixed the problem.  I hadn't realized that the Java run time was a
dependency of oolatex.  Export from LyX to OpenDocument now works.  From
there, it's an easy conversion to Word.

   
I'm glad to hear this. Experience generally is that oolatex works pretty 
well on Linux, with issues on other platforms.


rh

Thank You / Specific Examples?

[Rob Oakes]

Dear LyX-Users,

I wanted to take a moment and say thank you for the many fantastic ideas
that have been recommended.  The process of researching each and
thinking about how they will fit into the existing text has greatly
improved the overall outline.  It also makes me hope that it will be a
better reference for the community.

As I've been working through the suggestions, I realized that there is a
secondary question nearly as important as the first.  What types of
specific examples would be most beneficial?

As part of the book, I intend to create a number of high quality LyX
layouts and templates which make the creation of certain documents
easier.  What should these be?

As I went about responding to the first series of emails, some needs and
interests seemed to emerge.  These included:

- Presentations and Handouts based on Sweave
- Business and Professional Documents
- LaTeX Document classes that make exporting to other formats
easier.  (This might be thought of as a vanilla submission
template.  Double spaced, bland typed, but a formatted
bibliography using BibTeX.  When I work with Word, this is the
type of file I exchange most frequently.)

I am also planning to include examples which demonstrate how to use LyX
as a "literate programming environment" so that statistical and other
results can be generated "on the fly" and inserted into documents.  Are
there other types of examples that you would like to see?

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

[Anders Host-Madsen]

This is great. Now I will finally upgrade to Snow Leopard. 

Re: Latex template to Lyx

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ale Jaimes schrieb:


For my company I have to write a report with its special template. I just
have the following file: template.tex. How can I make a lyx template so I
can use it??


The easiest way is to import your TeX file to LyX. When this fails, have a look at the document 
class that is used by your TeX file and tell us what it is.


regards Uwe

Re: tufte-handout.layout outdated

[Uwe Stöhr]

Joachim Osnabryg schrieb:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Tufte-handout - under "Files that are now 
part of LyX"

> But with this layout, the "abstract" environment of the
> tufte-handout.cls cannot be chosen by the LyX-GUI, it is not there.

This has been fixed two days ago. Please download the layout file again from this Wiki page to get 
the latest version.


regards Uwe

Fun With LyX Document Converters

[Rob Oakes]

Dear LyX Users,

I've spent most of today struggling with the question of, "What is the
best way to convert a LyX/LaTeX document into a Word document?"

I've looked separately at latex2rtf (which works, but makes it very
difficult to customize the output) and going through html (via a variety
of routes).  One option that has me particularly excited is going
through docbook.  I've been playing with the Export->LaTeX and then
transforming the resulting LaTeX into docbook using tex4ht. Once in
docbook, it's pretty easy to transform it to MS Word.  (For more detail,
see: http://www.explain.com.au/oss/docbook/).

This has been working *really* well with the different test documents
I've been using.  Figures, tables, and non-English characters appear to
survive and structure is largely preserved.  (I don't actually care
about formatting as much.  If I want to preserve formatting, I usually
send a PDF.)  What makes me more excited, however, is that the content
can be likely be transformed *back*.  I still need to experiment and see
how well this works.

The problem, as you might guess, is that it is involved.  If I had to do
this type of processing on more than just a files, it would be a
tremendous PITA.  So, I'm looking for ways to automate it.  The first
automation step, it would seem, is to try and create a DocBook file from
LaTeX.  For the life of me, however, I can't seem to figure out how to
do this.

I've tried creating a new document converter for LaTeX (plain) ->
DocBook using tex4ht, and it appears to do something (I don't get any
errors); but it doesn't actually create any output files.  Does anyone
know why this might be?

(As a side question, LaTeX (plain) -> OpenDocument is completely broken
on Ubuntu 9.10.  It will produce a file, but when loaded into OpenOffice
3.1, it's just a blank page.  Has anyone else had this problem?)

Here are my settings:

>From format: LaTeX (plain)
To format: DocBook
Converter: mk4ht dblatex $$i
Extra flag: needaux

I've also experimented with leaving out the needaux, which results in
the same problem as described above.  I'm not getting any errors.

Any thoughts or ideas would be extremely appreciated.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Re: Fun With LyX Document Converters

[Typhoon]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:09:33 -0700
Rob Oakes  wrote:

> Dear LyX Users,
> 
> I've spent most of today struggling with the question of, "What is the
> best way to convert a LyX/LaTeX document into a Word document?"
> 


> 
> (As a side question, LaTeX (plain) -> OpenDocument is completely
> broken on Ubuntu 9.10.  It will produce a file, but when loaded into
> OpenOffice 3.1, it's just a blank page.  Has anyone else had this
> problem?)

Not sure on Ubuntu, but on Debian Lenny there is a bug in the tex4ht
(oolatex) conversion. You MUST have the java alternative set to the Sun
version. It behaves as you describe if the java preference is set to
one of the free java libraries.

$ sudo update-alternatives --config java

HTH,
Alan

> 
> Here are my settings:
> 
> >From format: LaTeX (plain)
> To format: DocBook
> Converter: mk4ht dblatex $$i
> Extra flag: needaux
> 
> I've also experimented with leaving out the needaux, which results in
> the same problem as described above.  I'm not getting any errors.
> 
> Any thoughts or ideas would be extremely appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rob Oakes
> 
> 


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Re: Fun With LyX Document Converters

[Rob Oakes]

Thank you Alan,

That fixed the problem.  I hadn't realized that the Java run time was a
dependency of oolatex.  Export from LyX to OpenDocument now works.  From
there, it's an easy conversion to Word.

Cheers,

Rob

Formatdatei docbook.layout ist nicht verwendbar

[Ute Lobisch]

 Hallo
ich bekomme folgende Fehlermeldung beim Öffnen des Dokumentes:
die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Formatdatei docbook.layout ist nicht
verwendbar. Dies liegt daran dass eine benötigte LaTeX-Klasse oder Stil
Datei nicht verfügbar ist. Bitte lesen sie in Anpassung.
Ich habe alles versucht, sogar die volle Miktex installiert, lyx
deinstalliert, wieder installiert, docbook layouts gesucht, ist auch
vorhanden. Was kann ich tun (Windows Vista Rechner)?
Vielen Dank für die Hilfe
Ute Lobisch

Re: Paragraph Indent Alignment in .layout file

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Is the problem on screen only, or for the output.



It is about the screen display.
  


I don't know whether it's a bug. If you select a left alignment of a 
paragraph in LyX, LyX and LaTeX both don't indent the paragraph and thus 
ParIndent should also be ignored when it is defined in a layout.


VIncent

Re: tufte-handout.layout outdated

[John Kane]

--- On Thu, 11/5/09, Uwe Stöhr  wrote:

> From: Uwe Stöhr 
> Subject: Re: tufte-handout.layout outdated
> To: "Joachim Osnabryg" 
> Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Received: Thursday, November 5, 2009, 2:53 PM
> Joachim Osnabryg schrieb:
> 
> > http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Tufte-handout
> - under "Files that are now part of LyX"
> > But with this layout, the "abstract" environment of
> the
> > tufte-handout.cls cannot be chosen by the LyX-GUI, it
> is not there.
> 
> This has been fixed two days ago. Please download the
> layout file again from this Wiki page to get the latest
> version.
> 
> regards Uwe

I just tried it and it seems to work okay for me.  Thanks.
> 


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Re: Fun With LyX Document Converters

[Andrew Sullivan]

On 2009-11-05, at 16:32, Rob Oakes  wrote:


Thank you Alan,

That fixed the problem.  I hadn't realized that the Java run time  
was a
dependency of oolatex.  Export from LyX to OpenDocument now works.   
From

there, it's an easy conversion to Word.



One issue with export to oolatex in my experience is the loss of cross  
references. If you've found this works, please let us know, because  
it's a major blocker for my use. (Happily, where I work, circulating  
PDFs is ok. But not most places.)


--
Andrew Sullivan

Re: Formatdatei docbook.layout ist nicht verwendbar

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ute Lobisch schrieb:


ich bekomme folgende Fehlermeldung beim Öffnen des Dokumentes:
die für dieses Dokument erforderliche Formatdatei docbook.layout ist nicht
verwendbar.


In this case docbook is not installed or LyX cannot find it.
Note that docbook is not a LaTeX class and can thus not be installed via MiKTeX.

You find here some information how to install docbook:
http://bgu.chez-alice.fr/doc/db4lyx/
and her some infos at the LyX Wiki:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Category/DocBook

It seems that docbook is not widely used because the informations on these pages refer to several 
years old LyX versions.


regards Uwe

p.s. this is an English speaking list

Re: Snow Leopard, Auto-save, Etc: Binary for Testing

[Christian Brodbeck]

I've been running it for a few hours and it works fine here, thanks!

It continually uses a few per mills CPU even when hidden, but not more  
than 1.6.4.1 .



Cheers!
Christian

Change page layout of ToC

[Ralf]

Hi group,

is there a simple way of changing the page layout of the ToC? Specifically I'd
like to have a slightly larger page.

If not, where is the script that generates the ToC? Couldn't find it ...

Cheers
-Ralf

Re: Change page layout of ToC

[Ralf]

Ralf  writes:

> 
> Hi group,
> 
> is there a simple way of changing the page layout of the ToC? Specifically I'd
> like to have a slightly larger page.

This works:

\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\enlargethispage{2ex}}

I put it in the section which need to have a larger page in the ToC

Cheers
-Ralf

Re: Fun With LyX Document Converters

[rgheck]

On 11/05/2009 04:32 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:

Thank you Alan,

That fixed the problem.  I hadn't realized that the Java run time was a
dependency of oolatex.  Export from LyX to OpenDocument now works.  From
there, it's an easy conversion to Word.

   
I'm glad to hear this. Experience generally is that oolatex works pretty 
well on Linux, with issues on other platforms.


rh