Re: Another Lyx Error Detected
Am 09.02.2010 01:56, schrieb Uwe Stöhr: > Another problem I am having is with too many floating figures. I have a > large document with anywhere from 3-100 figures within each chapter. > I keep getting the error regarding too many floats. This is not a LyX bug but a restriction of LaTeX. LaTeX's floating algorithm works perfectly for a few floats but will fail for too many floats. The limit of currently unprocessed floats is therefore set to 18. Couldn't this be handled by the package placeins, with the command \FloatBarrier? Placing that command every now and then? Just my first thought...
Newbie questions: templates -> Document Settings -> ?
Hi, As a newbie to Lyx, I'm almost there in understanding how to use LyX and have a few basic questions. Here's what I think I know: 1. Templates are just LyX documents saved in the place where templates live. 2. Document classes are types of documents (books, articles, etc.) 3. But document classes are not just types of documents. They also can come in multiple versions for each document type. (E.g., there can be a dozen or more versions of an "article.") The distinction between the different versions are largely stylistic, although they also can reflect content. For example, a Springer article has a "Conjecture" style, but most other article styles do not make conjectures. 4. Modules yet a lower level of granularity, and individual modules may correspond to individual styles. I hope this understanding is correct. Even so, I still can't completely connect the dots. Here are two things I still don't understand. 1. I'm writing a conference paper. LyX has a few conference/proceedings templates, but none suit my needs. Several document classes could work for me, but they're not complete. For example, a conference paper should list the conference, location, etc., and most likely this information should have a distinct style. How should one handle this? By adding a style to the document class? (How?) By manually adjusting the appearance of text? 2. I'd like to design a template for a working paper series. The cover page would have a few graphics, a title, author, date, institutional affiliation, and contact information. The first following right page would have a title, abstract, and keywords. The second even page would start the actual paper. It would have a title, abstract, and author, followed by the text itself. What's the best way to do this? 3. How do the various templates and document classes know when to insert a page break? In other words, how do they control front and back matter? Can the user customize or override this? Thanks for your help. Marsh Feldman
Re: Another Lyx Error Detected
> Another problem I am having is with too many floating figures. I have a > large document with anywhere from 3-100 figures within each chapter. > I keep getting the error regarding too many floats. This is not a LyX bug but a restriction of LaTeX. LaTeX's floating algorithm works perfectly for a few floats but will fail for too many floats. The limit of currently unprocessed floats is therefore set to 18. There is a way to increase this limit to 36 floats but this only cures the symptom. It can be that LaTeX cannot process one particular float and therefore runs into the limit. Fixing this is not trivial. The best is to cut parts of your document beginning from the end. After every cutting try to compile it as PDF. When it compiles, you know that the problematic float is within the recently deleted part of your document. Either a float setting is not correct (like rotation settings), or there are too many floats for the page. In this case adopt the float placement options as described in sec. 3.5 of the EmbededObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help menu. If you have many pages without text, you should use the "page of floats" option. > I worked around this issue by placing /clearpage every so often to make it produce a PDF. If you are using a book document class, you need to use \cleardoublepage. But you should nevertheless only use clearpage if it is really necessary because the resulting whitespace cannot be avoided easily. Important note: The "too many floats" error can also occur when having too many margin notes. Therefore also check this. regards Uwe p.s. Such problems are better reported at the lyx-users mailing list I'm forwarding this mail to.
Re: LyX Beamer Sweave: makebeamertitle not being defined?
Daniel E. Weeks writes:
>
> I am using LyX to make Beamer slides while supporting the use of R
> statistical commands via the Sweave package.
>
> If I follow the instructions found here
>
> http://ggorjan.blogspot.com/2008/09/using-beamer-with-lyx-sweave.html
>
> LyX/Sweave/Beamer works just fine. But as soon as I try to put in
> Title or Author information at the beginning, LyX refuses to typeset
> the presentation, returning instead this error message:
>
> Undefined control sequence.
>
> \makebeamertitle
> The control sequence at the end of the top line
> of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
> misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
> spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>
> This is mystifying to me, as the 'makebeamertitle' is defined in the
> included beamer.layout now packaged with LyX.
>
[ Original posting shortened ]
> LyX Version 1.6.4.1
> Platform: Mac OS X Versoni 10.5.8 on an Intel machine.
>
>
The solution to the "LyX Beamer Sweave: makebeamertitle not being defined"
problem was to put this:
\newcommand\makebeamertitle{\frame{\maketitle}}%
in the LaTeX Preamble box, which is accessed via the Document -> Settings dialog
box.
inserting external files: templates question
Hello. In the embedded objects manual, and in other places in documentation, I find it written that I can include files in my lyx document by using Insert > File> External Material and then choosing a template. But all of the documentation says that available templates are chess, date, lilypond, raster images, and pdf. On my installation I don't have a template option for pdf: why would that be, and how can I remedy it? I get allof the others, but no pdf
Re: switching between two open lyx files
On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, John White wrote: Ctrl + Tab works, at least in 1.6.5 running in slackware linux (Vector Linux 6.0 standard. Thanks! I have been using lyx for years but did not know how to do this. Looks like I would have made a type and discovered it on my own. I, too, have lyx-1.6.5 on slackware (-12.2). My bindings (emacs based) use ctrl-pgup for previous buffer and ctrl-pgdn for next buffer. So, for anyone else reading this thread, don't assume keystrokes. :-) Rich
Re: switching between two open lyx files
Ctrl + Tab works, at least in 1.6.5 running in slackware linux (Vector Linux 6.0 standard. Thanks! I have been using lyx for years but did not know how to do this. Looks like I would have made a type and discovered it on my own. Thanks again. John White Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: Is there a way to switch between two open lyx files, without using the mouse? Thx John Ctrl + Tab, Ctrl + PgUp, Ctrl + Shift + F6.. Pick your choice. If this does not work, type in the command buffer (View->Toolbars->Command Buffer) "buffer-previous" and see what appears in the statusbar as the shortcut. Vincent -- EMAIL WARNING. Though fast and convenient, email is not a secure way to send confidential information: (1) any e-mail that is sent to you or by you may be copied and held by various computers it passes through as it goes from me to you or vice versa, (2) persons not participating in our communication may intercept our communications by improperly accessing your computer or my computer or even some computer unconnected to either of us through which the e-mail has passed. Confidentiality is enhanced if the confidential information is contained in an attachment. If you want future communications to be sent in a different fashion, please let me know.
RE: switching between two open lyx files
>Is there a way to switch between two open lyx files, without using the mouse? > >Thx > >John > Ctrl + Tab, Ctrl + PgUp, Ctrl + Shift + F6.. Pick your choice. If this does not work, type in the command buffer (View->Toolbars->Command Buffer) "buffer-previous" and see what appears in the statusbar as the shortcut. Vincent
switching between two open lyx files
Is there a way to switch between two open lyx files, without using the mouse? Thx John
Re: Help Vampires (fwd)
Rich Shepard wrote: Passed on without implications. Thanks, Rich. I haven't seen any significant vampirism here (although a few users may be insufficiently appreciative of the extensive documentation that comes with LyX), but I read some technical forums where there are a few alpha vampires, one or two of whom have been rather tiring lately.
Re: uiucthesis layout help
On 02/08/2010 10:26 AM, Stephen Anthony wrote:
rgheck wrote:
On 02/07/2010 02:14 PM, Stephen Anthony wrote:
I am new to LATEX/LYX, and I am interested in trying it out for my
thesis. I have found the LATEX style and class for my thesis
(http://physics.illinois.edu/grad/thesis-templates.asp). They appear
to be appropriately installed, I can see them both in MiKTeX 2.8 and
they also appear in LYX in Tools:TeX Information.
Where I seem to be running into problems is with the Layout file. I
have tried following the instructions in Help:Customization
regarding creating a new layout file, and haven't managed to get it
to work. When I go to Document:Settings:Document Class, uiucthesis
does not appear. When I try "Local Layout" there, it tells me
"Unable to read local layout file". Can someone either generate a
layout for me from the uiucthesis2009 class/style provided, or help
me figure out how to do that properly myself?
Can you post the layout file you have so far?
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLATEXClass[uiucthesis,book]{uiucthesis}
I'd do just:
# \DeclareLATEXClass[book]{UIUC Thesis Class}
to start. You can add the other back if you need to do so. It may also
need to be:
# \DeclareLATEXClass[book,uiucthesis]{UIUC Thesis Class}
in that order. I'm not sure.
# UIUC Thesis textclass definition file.
# Author :
# Transposed by
# Heavily modifed and enhanced by serveral developers.
Preamble
\usepackage{uiucthesis}
EndPreamble
Format 11
The format line MUST be the first non-empty, non-comment line.
Input stdclass.inc
Input numreport.inc
Sides 2
PageStyle Headings
NoStyle Abstract
Style Bibliography
TopSep 4
LabelString "Bibliography"
LabelFont
Series Bold
Size Huge
EndFont
End
The rest looks as if it should be OK. Make sure you have put this in the
right place, namely, in the layouts/ subdirectory of your user
directory, whose location you can find in Help>About LyX. Then do
Tools>Reconfigure.
Richard
Re: uiucthesis layout help
rgheck wrote:
On 02/07/2010 02:14 PM, Stephen Anthony wrote:
I am new to LATEX/LYX, and I am interested in trying it out for my
thesis. I have found the LATEX style and class for my thesis
(http://physics.illinois.edu/grad/thesis-templates.asp). They appear
to be appropriately installed, I can see them both in MiKTeX 2.8 and
they also appear in LYX in Tools:TeX Information.
Where I seem to be running into problems is with the Layout file. I
have tried following the instructions in Help:Customization regarding
creating a new layout file, and haven't managed to get it to work.
When I go to Document:Settings:Document Class, uiucthesis does not
appear. When I try "Local Layout" there, it tells me "Unable to read
local layout file". Can someone either generate a layout for me from
the uiucthesis2009 class/style provided, or help me figure out how to
do that properly myself?
Can you post the layout file you have so far?
rh
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLATEXClass[uiucthesis,book]{uiucthesis}
# UIUC Thesis textclass definition file.
# Author :
# Transposed by
# Heavily modifed and enhanced by serveral developers.
Preamble
\usepackage{uiucthesis}
EndPreamble
Format 11
Input stdclass.inc
Input numreport.inc
Sides 2
PageStyle Headings
NoStyle Abstract
Style Bibliography
TopSep 4
LabelString "Bibliography"
LabelFont
Series Bold
Size Huge
EndFont
End
Help Vampires (fwd)
Passed on without implications. Rich -- Forwarded message -- Help Vampires: A Spotter?s Guide http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/
Re: Problem with Palatino font
Thanks Liviu and Uwe, At this moment I have some problem installing packages cause of my particular internet connection settings. I will try as soon as possible. Best regards, Marco
Re: Off-topic biblatex question
Thx Jurgen. I'll try them and get back latter.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Julio Rojas wrote:
>> Dear all, I have been using biblatex for my bibliography for the last
>> year. Now, for a paper, I need to use some references that I have in
>> this bibliography but a problem arises. In some papers that have
>> colons in the title, I had to substitute them for "\addcolon\addspace"
>> and when I try to use these records with bibtex an error is presented.
>> I would like to be able to define, in the preamble of my lyx document,
>> both "\addcolon" and "\addspace" to do exactly what they say, so I
>> don't have to go back and do a search and replace for them.
>
> Replacing them with exactly what they do is difficult, since biblatex has a
> smart punctuation tracker.
>
> The most easy substitute is the following. Maybe this is sufficient.
>
> \providecommand\addcolon{:}
> \providecommand\addspace{\ }
>
> Jürgen
>
Re: Language detection [was: offtopic blog]
Hellmut Weber wrote: > Would you mind to explain how you use this bindings? > Do you have to mark the relevant paragraph(s) and then use the key binding? > What does a key binding of this kind look like? In Tools > Preferences > Edit > Shortcuts, I have defined the following bindings: Alt + L E: language english Alt + L A: language german Alt + L D: language ngerman Alt + L F: language french You can either change the language of a phrase by marking it and using one of the key bindings, or just hit the key binding and type on in the new language. Jürgen
Re: Language detection [was: offtopic blog]
Am 08.02.2010 08:26, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: Guenter Milde wrote: I think the spellchecker should not do any guessing and switching. As long as we are using LaTeX, languages simply need be marked properly. Agreed. However, currently language switching is far too cumbersome: a) Edit>Text-style>Custom>...>select from an "endless" list, or b) M-x language ... (where you need to know the correct name of the desired language) I could not agree more. Personally, I have defined shortcuts for the languages I need most frequently. Would you mind to explain how you use this bindings? Do you have to mark the relevant paragraph(s) and then use the key binding? What does a key binding of this kind look like? I had the following idea for an UI: add a (context) menu item "Set language" that lists the currently used languages and an accelerator for the character dialog. I.e., if your document uses German, English and French, the menu would look ... Set Language> English French German More Languages ... ... Jürgen Hi Jürgen, that's quite close to what I'm hoping for ;-) Greetings from Munich Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber m...@hellmutweber.de Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
