Saving Preferences

[Barak Sh]

Hello fellow LyX users,

I would like to save a backup of my preferences (especially keyboard
shortcuts), so that I can instantly load them when (re)installing or
upgrading.
How can this be done?
I'm using LyX 1.6.4 on Windows 7.

Thanks,
Barak Shoshani

Re: Saving Preferences

[rgheck]

On 02/04/2010 04:30 AM, Barak Sh wrote:

Hello fellow LyX users,

I would like to save a backup of my preferences (especially keyboard
shortcuts), so that I can instantly load them when (re)installing or
upgrading.
How can this be done?
I'm using LyX 1.6.4 on Windows 7.

   
Find you LyX user directory by looking at HelpAbout. Copy the entire 
directory somewhere else. This will include the preferences file and 
lots of other things.


Richard

Re: Missing *.sty and/or *.cls files?

[Ignacio Garcia]

Virgil Stokes v...@... writes:

 
 First, I am trying to get started with LyX (vers. 1.6.4) on a Ubuntu 
 (vers. 9.10) platform. I am also very new with Ubuntu trying to migrate 
 from Windows.
 
 Second, your work on this package is impressive. It downloaded and 
 installed very easily.
 
 Third, I started by looking at some of your templates. Many of these 
 would not compile --- gave a rather long error message in a window 
 that was labeled
 
LyX: Document class not available

This means that the needed packages are not installed.

Installing LyX on Ubuntu only install by default a set of basic packages

You can have a look at SystemAdminstrationSynaptic
search for texlive-... and you see many packages uninstalled.

They give support for many several document classes.
E.g., the elsevier class is included in the package: texlive-publishers
Install it and reconfigure LyX: elsevier should be available now.

 Uwe: The problem is that Ubuntu still installs by default an old version of 
the LaTeX distribution

Right, but it's still usable for the most document classes, and installing
manually texlive 2009 can be a bit hard for newbies in linux/LyX.

I. García

 

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

[Marcelo Acuña]

  I need to make many changes in the size of the
 letters, and also to put bold or normal, in texts in which I
 must emphasize certain parts.
    It would help me much to have buttons
 such as those of emphasized and noum.
    How I can add them to the tool bar?
 
 Toggling bold can be done withe the shortcut Ctrl+B. The
 toolbar button named Font (with the small arrow below) can
 be used to apply changes multiple times. It takes the last
 settings of the text style dialog. So when you e.g. have to
 make 50 words bold, italic, green, highlight one word and
 use the text style dialog to apply the changes.l For all
 further words, highlight them and press the Font button.
 
 In case this method is not what you need, you can add
 toolbar buttons by creating PNG-images (size 24x24 Pixels or
 smaller). Name the image by the LyX-function it stands for
 (e.g. font-bold.png). In the text file stdtoolbars.inc
 add the toolbar button where you like it.
 Finally reconfigure LyX.

 Thanks Uwe, Olivier!
 I could put all the buttons who I need since the system to apply the last 
style was not to me useful.
 The unique problem that I could not solve is to have icons adapted for those 
buttons, since, I don´t know in which directory I must put them and whereupon 
name so that it takes them to Lyx.
 Regards.
Marcelo


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Re: Saving Preferences

[Barak Sh]

Oh, it's simpler than I thought. Thanks!
Barak

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:25 PM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote:

 On 02/04/2010 04:30 AM, Barak Sh wrote:

 Hello fellow LyX users,

 I would like to save a backup of my preferences (especially keyboard
 shortcuts), so that I can instantly load them when (re)installing or
 upgrading.
 How can this be done?
 I'm using LyX 1.6.4 on Windows 7.



 Find you LyX user directory by looking at HelpAbout. Copy the entire
 directory somewhere else. This will include the preferences file and lots of
 other things.

 Richard

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Marcelo Acuña schrieb:


 The unique problem that I could not solve is to have

  icons adapted for those buttons, since, I don´t know in which
  directory I must put them and whereupon name so that it
  takes them to Lyx.

You only need to replace the existing icons in the LyX installation 
subfolder lib/images with the ones of Olivier's Zip-package.

Then restart LyX and that's it.

regards Uwe

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

[Marcelo Acuña]

   The unique problem that I could not solve is to
 have
   icons adapted for those buttons, since, I don´t
 know in which
   directory I must put them and whereupon name so
 that it
   takes them to Lyx.
 
 You only need to replace the existing icons in the LyX
 installation subfolder lib/images with the ones of
 Olivier's Zip-package.
 Then restart LyX and that's it.
 
 regards Uwe

 lib/images, Ok, but, in /home/marcelo or /usr/share?
 I put buttons for language Spanish and English, this are new icons, What names 
I must put to them to these icons?
Marcelo


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Memoir ruled headers

[Louis A. Turk]

I'm trying to use the ruled pagestyle. The memoir manual describes it
like this:

ruled: The footer contains the folio at the outside. The header on verso
pages contains the chapter number and title in small caps at the
outside; on recto pages the section title is typeset at the outside
using the normal font. A line is drawn underneath the header.

The problem I'm having is that the section title is not appearing on the
recto pages. The header is just a rule, with nothing over it. Any idea
why the section title is not there?

Louis

PS I'm using Lyx 1.6.4. When will Ubuntu make 1.6.5 available?

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Marcelo Acuña mv...@yahoo.com.ar writes:
  lib/images, Ok, but, in /home/marcelo or /usr/share?

In /home/marcelo/.lyx/images

(maybe the .lyx is something else). The files there override the ones
from /usr/share/lyx/images).

JMarc

RE: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

[Helge Hafting]

-Original Message-
From: Tim Hutt [mailto:tdh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Mon 2/1/2010 7:54 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.
 
Hi, I've searched but I can't find an answer: Is it possible to edit
the source latex code of equations rather than edit the equations in a
graphical way? I much prefer this method for equations and in my mind
it is one of the things that makes latex superior to for example, MS
Word.

If this isn't a feature I'd suggest something like CTRL-clicking on an
equation (also accessible by right-click-Edit Source) shows you the
source of the equation and lets you edit it.

Others have shown you ways of converting a lyx equation to latex.

However, if you prefer to keep your math in tex form all the time, 
just use the ERT inset. Into it you can write any valid latex, including
latex math. And unlike the math inset, it will stay latex code forever.
Except in the output, where it obviously will be rendered. 

Two ways to test the validity of such latex code:
1. view-pdf. Simple, but slow if you have a big document
2. Put the cursor first in the tex-box, hit delete to dissolve it.
   The latex code becomes normal text. Mark it, and hit ctrl+M to
   see if it turns out right. Afterwards, hit undo a few times
   so you get your ERT inset back exactly as it was.

You don't need to use the LyX math editor if you don't want to,
even if you write math in LyX.

Helge Hafting

Removing Copyright information from the bottom of a layout file

[John Adams]

Hi,

I was trying to use the siggraph layout to prepare a report for my class. I
am trying to remove the Copyright information present at the bottom of the
generated pdf but can't find any associated text in the editor. Can someone
please tell me how to achieve this?

Thanks,
John

Saving Preferences

[Barak Sh]

Hello fellow LyX users,

I would like to save a backup of my preferences (especially keyboard
shortcuts), so that I can instantly load them when (re)installing or
upgrading.
How can this be done?
I'm using LyX 1.6.4 on Windows 7.

Thanks,
Barak Shoshani

Re: Saving Preferences

[rgheck]

On 02/04/2010 04:30 AM, Barak Sh wrote:

Hello fellow LyX users,

I would like to save a backup of my preferences (especially keyboard
shortcuts), so that I can instantly load them when (re)installing or
upgrading.
How can this be done?
I'm using LyX 1.6.4 on Windows 7.

   
Find you LyX user directory by looking at HelpAbout. Copy the entire 
directory somewhere else. This will include the preferences file and 
lots of other things.


Richard

Re: Missing *.sty and/or *.cls files?

[Ignacio Garcia]

Virgil Stokes v...@... writes:

 
 First, I am trying to get started with LyX (vers. 1.6.4) on a Ubuntu 
 (vers. 9.10) platform. I am also very new with Ubuntu trying to migrate 
 from Windows.
 
 Second, your work on this package is impressive. It downloaded and 
 installed very easily.
 
 Third, I started by looking at some of your templates. Many of these 
 would not compile --- gave a rather long error message in a window 
 that was labeled
 
LyX: Document class not available

This means that the needed packages are not installed.

Installing LyX on Ubuntu only install by default a set of basic packages

You can have a look at SystemAdminstrationSynaptic
search for texlive-... and you see many packages uninstalled.

They give support for many several document classes.
E.g., the elsevier class is included in the package: texlive-publishers
Install it and reconfigure LyX: elsevier should be available now.

 Uwe: The problem is that Ubuntu still installs by default an old version of 
the LaTeX distribution

Right, but it's still usable for the most document classes, and installing
manually texlive 2009 can be a bit hard for newbies in linux/LyX.

I. García

 

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

[Marcelo Acuña]

  I need to make many changes in the size of the
 letters, and also to put bold or normal, in texts in which I
 must emphasize certain parts.
    It would help me much to have buttons
 such as those of emphasized and noum.
    How I can add them to the tool bar?
 
 Toggling bold can be done withe the shortcut Ctrl+B. The
 toolbar button named Font (with the small arrow below) can
 be used to apply changes multiple times. It takes the last
 settings of the text style dialog. So when you e.g. have to
 make 50 words bold, italic, green, highlight one word and
 use the text style dialog to apply the changes.l For all
 further words, highlight them and press the Font button.
 
 In case this method is not what you need, you can add
 toolbar buttons by creating PNG-images (size 24x24 Pixels or
 smaller). Name the image by the LyX-function it stands for
 (e.g. font-bold.png). In the text file stdtoolbars.inc
 add the toolbar button where you like it.
 Finally reconfigure LyX.

 Thanks Uwe, Olivier!
 I could put all the buttons who I need since the system to apply the last 
style was not to me useful.
 The unique problem that I could not solve is to have icons adapted for those 
buttons, since, I don´t know in which directory I must put them and whereupon 
name so that it takes them to Lyx.
 Regards.
Marcelo


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Re: Saving Preferences

[Barak Sh]

Oh, it's simpler than I thought. Thanks!
Barak

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:25 PM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote:

 On 02/04/2010 04:30 AM, Barak Sh wrote:

 Hello fellow LyX users,

 I would like to save a backup of my preferences (especially keyboard
 shortcuts), so that I can instantly load them when (re)installing or
 upgrading.
 How can this be done?
 I'm using LyX 1.6.4 on Windows 7.



 Find you LyX user directory by looking at HelpAbout. Copy the entire
 directory somewhere else. This will include the preferences file and lots of
 other things.

 Richard

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Marcelo Acuña schrieb:


 The unique problem that I could not solve is to have

  icons adapted for those buttons, since, I don´t know in which
  directory I must put them and whereupon name so that it
  takes them to Lyx.

You only need to replace the existing icons in the LyX installation 
subfolder lib/images with the ones of Olivier's Zip-package.

Then restart LyX and that's it.

regards Uwe

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

[Marcelo Acuña]

   The unique problem that I could not solve is to
 have
   icons adapted for those buttons, since, I don´t
 know in which
   directory I must put them and whereupon name so
 that it
   takes them to Lyx.
 
 You only need to replace the existing icons in the LyX
 installation subfolder lib/images with the ones of
 Olivier's Zip-package.
 Then restart LyX and that's it.
 
 regards Uwe

 lib/images, Ok, but, in /home/marcelo or /usr/share?
 I put buttons for language Spanish and English, this are new icons, What names 
I must put to them to these icons?
Marcelo


  Yahoo! Cocina

Encontra las mejores recetas con Yahoo! Cocina.


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

Memoir ruled headers

[Louis A. Turk]

I'm trying to use the ruled pagestyle. The memoir manual describes it
like this:

ruled: The footer contains the folio at the outside. The header on verso
pages contains the chapter number and title in small caps at the
outside; on recto pages the section title is typeset at the outside
using the normal font. A line is drawn underneath the header.

The problem I'm having is that the section title is not appearing on the
recto pages. The header is just a rule, with nothing over it. Any idea
why the section title is not there?

Louis

PS I'm using Lyx 1.6.4. When will Ubuntu make 1.6.5 available?

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Marcelo Acuña mv...@yahoo.com.ar writes:
  lib/images, Ok, but, in /home/marcelo or /usr/share?

In /home/marcelo/.lyx/images

(maybe the .lyx is something else). The files there override the ones
from /usr/share/lyx/images).

JMarc

RE: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

[Helge Hafting]

-Original Message-
From: Tim Hutt [mailto:tdh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Mon 2/1/2010 7:54 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.
 
Hi, I've searched but I can't find an answer: Is it possible to edit
the source latex code of equations rather than edit the equations in a
graphical way? I much prefer this method for equations and in my mind
it is one of the things that makes latex superior to for example, MS
Word.

If this isn't a feature I'd suggest something like CTRL-clicking on an
equation (also accessible by right-click-Edit Source) shows you the
source of the equation and lets you edit it.

Others have shown you ways of converting a lyx equation to latex.

However, if you prefer to keep your math in tex form all the time, 
just use the ERT inset. Into it you can write any valid latex, including
latex math. And unlike the math inset, it will stay latex code forever.
Except in the output, where it obviously will be rendered. 

Two ways to test the validity of such latex code:
1. view-pdf. Simple, but slow if you have a big document
2. Put the cursor first in the tex-box, hit delete to dissolve it.
   The latex code becomes normal text. Mark it, and hit ctrl+M to
   see if it turns out right. Afterwards, hit undo a few times
   so you get your ERT inset back exactly as it was.

You don't need to use the LyX math editor if you don't want to,
even if you write math in LyX.

Helge Hafting

Removing Copyright information from the bottom of a layout file

[John Adams]

Hi,

I was trying to use the siggraph layout to prepare a report for my class. I
am trying to remove the Copyright information present at the bottom of the
generated pdf but can't find any associated text in the editor. Can someone
please tell me how to achieve this?

Thanks,
John

Saving Preferences

[Barak Sh]

Hello fellow LyX users,

I would like to save a backup of my preferences (especially keyboard
shortcuts), so that I can instantly load them when (re)installing or
upgrading.
How can this be done?
I'm using LyX 1.6.4 on Windows 7.

Thanks,
Barak Shoshani

Re: Saving Preferences

[rgheck]

On 02/04/2010 04:30 AM, Barak Sh wrote:

Hello fellow LyX users,

I would like to save a backup of my preferences (especially keyboard
shortcuts), so that I can instantly load them when (re)installing or
upgrading.
How can this be done?
I'm using LyX 1.6.4 on Windows 7.

   
Find you LyX user directory by looking at Help>About. Copy the entire 
directory somewhere else. This will include the preferences file and 
lots of other things.


Richard

Re: Missing *.sty and/or *.cls files?

[Ignacio Garcia]

Virgil Stokes  writes:

> 
> First, I am trying to get started with LyX (vers. 1.6.4) on a Ubuntu 
> (vers. 9.10) platform. I am also very new with Ubuntu trying to migrate 
> from Windows.
> 
> Second, your work on this package is impressive. It downloaded and 
> installed very easily.
> 
> Third, I started by looking at some of your templates. Many of these 
> would not "compile" --- gave a rather long error message in a window 
> that was labeled
> 
>LyX: Document class not available

This means that the needed packages are not installed.

Installing LyX on Ubuntu only install by default a set of basic packages

You can have a look at System>Adminstration>Synaptic
search for "texlive-..." and you see many packages uninstalled.

They give support for many several document classes.
E.g., the "elsevier" class is included in the package: "texlive-publishers"
Install it and reconfigure LyX: elsevier should be available now.

> Uwe: The problem is that Ubuntu still installs by default an old version of 
the LaTeX distribution

Right, but it's still usable for the most document classes, and installing
manually texlive 2009 can be a bit hard for newbies in linux/LyX.

I. García

 

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

[Marcelo Acuña]

> > I need to make many changes in the size of the
> letters, and also to put bold or normal, in texts in which I
> must emphasize certain parts.
> >   It would help me much to have buttons
> such as those of emphasized and noum.
> >   How I can add them to the tool bar?
> 
> Toggling bold can be done withe the shortcut "Ctrl+B". The
> toolbar button named "Font" (with the small arrow below) can
> be used to apply changes multiple times. It takes the last
> settings of the text style dialog. So when you e.g. have to
> make 50 words bold, italic, green, highlight one word and
> use the text style dialog to apply the changes.l For all
> further words, highlight them and press the "Font" button.
> 
> In case this method is not what you need, you can add
> toolbar buttons by creating PNG-images (size 24x24 Pixels or
> smaller). Name the image by the LyX-function it stands for
> (e.g. "font-bold.png"). In the text file "stdtoolbars.inc"
> add the toolbar button where you like it.
> Finally reconfigure LyX.

 Thanks Uwe, Olivier!
 I could put all the buttons who I need since the system to apply the last 
style was not to me useful.
 The unique problem that I could not solve is to have icons adapted for those 
buttons, since, I don´t know in which directory I must put them and whereupon 
name so that it takes them to Lyx.
 Regards.
Marcelo


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Re: Saving Preferences

[Barak Sh]

Oh, it's simpler than I thought. Thanks!
Barak

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:25 PM, rgheck  wrote:

> On 02/04/2010 04:30 AM, Barak Sh wrote:
>
>> Hello fellow LyX users,
>>
>> I would like to save a backup of my preferences (especially keyboard
>> shortcuts), so that I can instantly load them when (re)installing or
>> upgrading.
>> How can this be done?
>> I'm using LyX 1.6.4 on Windows 7.
>>
>>
>>
> Find you LyX user directory by looking at Help>About. Copy the entire
> directory somewhere else. This will include the preferences file and lots of
> other things.
>
> Richard
>
>

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Marcelo Acuña schrieb:


 The unique problem that I could not solve is to have

>  icons adapted for those buttons, since, I don´t know in which
>  directory I must put them and whereupon name so that it
>  takes them to Lyx.

You only need to replace the existing icons in the LyX installation 
subfolder "lib/images" with the ones of Olivier's Zip-package.

Then restart LyX and that's it.

regards Uwe

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

[Marcelo Acuña]

> >  The unique problem that I could not solve is to
> have
> >  icons adapted for those buttons, since, I don´t
> know in which
> >  directory I must put them and whereupon name so
> that it
> >  takes them to Lyx.
> 
> You only need to replace the existing icons in the LyX
> installation subfolder "lib/images" with the ones of
> Olivier's Zip-package.
> Then restart LyX and that's it.
> 
> regards Uwe

 lib/images, Ok, but, in /home/marcelo or /usr/share?
 I put buttons for language Spanish and English, this are new icons, What names 
I must put to them to these icons?
Marcelo


  Yahoo! Cocina

Encontra las mejores recetas con Yahoo! Cocina.


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

Memoir ruled headers

[Louis A. Turk]

I'm trying to use the ruled pagestyle. The memoir manual describes it
like this:

ruled: The footer contains the folio at the outside. The header on verso
pages contains the chapter number and title in small caps at the
outside; on recto pages the section title is typeset at the outside
using the normal font. A line is drawn underneath the header.

The problem I'm having is that the section title is not appearing on the
recto pages. The header is just a rule, with nothing over it. Any idea
why the section title is not there?

Louis

PS I'm using Lyx 1.6.4. When will Ubuntu make 1.6.5 available?

Re: How I can add a new button to the tool bar?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Marcelo Acuña  writes:
>  lib/images, Ok, but, in /home/marcelo or /usr/share?

In /home/marcelo/.lyx/images

(maybe the ".lyx" is something else). The files there override the ones
from /usr/share/lyx/images).

JMarc

RE: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

[Helge Hafting]

-Original Message-
From: Tim Hutt [mailto:tdh...@gmail.com]
Sent: Mon 2/1/2010 7:54 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.
 
>Hi, I've searched but I can't find an answer: Is it possible to edit
>the source latex code of equations rather than edit the equations in a
>graphical way? I much prefer this method for equations and in my mind
>it is one of the things that makes latex superior to for example, MS
>Word.
>
>If this isn't a feature I'd suggest something like CTRL-clicking on an
>equation (also accessible by right-click->Edit Source) shows you the
>source of the equation and lets you edit it.

Others have shown you ways of converting a lyx equation to latex.

However, if you prefer to keep your math in tex form all the time, 
just use the ERT inset. Into it you can write any valid latex, including
latex math. And unlike the math inset, it will stay latex code forever.
Except in the output, where it obviously will be rendered. 

Two ways to test the validity of such latex code:
1. view->pdf. Simple, but slow if you have a big document
2. Put the cursor first in the tex-box, hit delete to dissolve it.
   The latex code becomes normal text. Mark it, and hit ctrl+M to
   see if it turns out right. Afterwards, hit "undo" a few times
   so you get your ERT inset back exactly as it was.

You don't need to use the LyX math editor if you don't want to,
even if you write math in LyX.

Helge Hafting

Removing Copyright information from the bottom of a layout file

[John Adams]

Hi,

I was trying to use the siggraph layout to prepare a report for my class. I
am trying to remove the Copyright information present at the bottom of the
generated pdf but can't find any associated text in the editor. Can someone
please tell me how to achieve this?

Thanks,
John