Fw: lyx and tabout

Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:05:04 + (UTC) From: Joseph anonimo1...@gmail.com To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: lyx and tabout \multicolumn{...@{}l}{\footnotesize{\emph{source:} C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Mis documentos\My Dropbox\UCL\Dis

Re: Fw: lyx and tabout

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com writes: I'm not very good at LaTeX debuggin, but isn't this a typo? Assuming the code came through correctly, shouldn't it be \Dissertation instead of \Dis sertation? For pure LaTeX errors it might also make sense to ask for help on

Re: lyx and tabout

Joseph anonimo1...@gmail.com writes: \multicolumn{...@{}l}{\footnotesize{\emph{source:} C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Mis documentos\My Dropbox\UCL\Dissertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}} The problem is in the Source: comment above. It contains \ characters that mark macros for LaTeX.

Re: lyx and tabout

Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES lasgouttes at lyx.org writes: Joseph anonimo1357 at gmail.com writes: \multicolumn{...@{}l}{\footnotesize{\emph{source:} C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Mis documentos\My Dropbox\UCL\Dissertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}} The problem is in the Source: comment

more problems with tables

hello again. My last question had a simple answer, but with other tables im having a different issue. Help again please! for instance this (generated by excel2latex) \begin{table}[htbp] \centering \caption{Add caption} \begin{tabular}{r} \addlinespace \toprule

Re: more problems with tables

Joseph anonimo1...@gmail.com writes: then I get 4 undefined control sequence, with addline space, toprule, midrule and bottomrule Try to add \usepackage{bootabs} in the preamble. JMarc

Re: more problems with tables

thanks! I almost got it this time... I had gone all the way to check if booktabs was in the tex directory, but didnt think about that!

defintionen

Hallo, ich hab da mal ne Frage. Habe gestern angefangen Lyx für meine Seminararbeit in Mathe zu benutzen. Tolles Programm, zumal ich bisher immer formale Abzüge bekommen habe. Als Dokumentklasse habe ich article(Ams) genommen. Vorkenntnisse in LaTex habe ich keine. Also mein Problem: Wie kriege

Re: defintionen

On 08/11/2010 10:49 AM, Timm Richter wrote: Hallo, ich hab da mal ne Frage. Habe gestern angefangen Lyx für meine Seminararbeit in Mathe zu benutzen. Tolles Programm, zumal ich bisher immer formale Abzüge bekommen habe. Als Dokumentklasse habe ich article(Ams) genommen. Vorkenntnisse in LaTex

writing my Thesis with lyx

Dear Lyx users, I'm stressed by time (lack of it) because I need to write my thesis. However, due to the fact that Lyx produces nice quality documents I really want to do this. I'm new to Lyx and I therefore don't want to fiddle with too low level details.   My thesis will be simple, a

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010/8/11 Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com [...] I need to do to get this working, makes me thinkis it all worthwile the hassle? It depends whether you esteem elegant look of your document... however I would not expect fireworks with graphics from OpenOffice... -- Manveru jabber:

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

Dino Vliet wrote: Which Document class do you recommend? A) report or B) Book? If you want your chapters to start a new page, use book. Else, use report. I'd recommend KOMA book/report, since it comes with sensible default, but is nevertheless very flexible, if you need it. What other

Re: What are your favorite packages?

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:11:30 -0400 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: To the wiki! And then people can/should add descriptions of what all these packages do, and how they should be used. rh That was my thought exactly - I just saw a lot of package names hinting at useful things, and

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

On Wednesday 11 August 2010 11:23:56 Dino Vliet wrote: Dear Lyx users, I'm stressed by time (lack of it) because I need to write my thesis. However, due to the fact that Lyx produces nice quality documents I really want to do this. I'm new to Lyx and I therefore don't want to fiddle with

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com wrote: graphics from excel or openoffice Unfortunately I can only echo Manveru, Excel and OOo graphs are not the way to go. But if you're in a hurry, it should be fine; just beware of bitmap graphics. Personally I prefer R.

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:19:43 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: This is a minority opinion and a lot don't subscribe to it, but in my opinion you save time by fingerpainting your front matter. In other words, use embedded LaTeX, historically called ERT in the LyX community, to

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

I also, couldn't agree more. I tend to hide my modifications as new document classes ... but front-matter should be finger painted. After that, though, I don't want to see or think about ERT. On 08/11/2010 12:40 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:19:43 -0400 Steve

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

I'm writing mine as we speak. I have chosen memoir and never turned back. Basic stuff is basic, works perfectly with LyX and its layout is very nice. A big library on chapter title styles is a plus. I have tried Koma before, but never liked it completely. R is a must for nice plots, as well as

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

Since this discussion is turning to matters of taste, what do you think about the font choices? The default font is obviously dated, if elegant. What do you people use? Yours, Morten On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:23:55 +0200 Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: I'm writing mine as we speak. I have

Re: defintionen

Hello Timm! Welcome to the LyX-Users mailing list. At first I would like to recommend you to write your mails in english. The language for this mailing list is english due to its international audience. Of course there are german people here, but you will reach many many more people when writing

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

I have chosen Mathpazo. You can check some sample at http://www.mengensatz.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/mathpazo.png CTAN's page: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/mathpazo.html - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:30:00 -0400 Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér mj...@syntaktisk.dk wrote: Since this discussion is turning to matters of taste, what do you think about the font choices? The default font is obviously dated, if elegant. What do you people use? Personally I've settled with

Re: lyx: Font derail (with semi-related ranting)

Hi Morten, Since this discussion is turning to matters of taste, what do you think about the font choices? The default font is obviously dated, if elegant. What do you people use? Take care with calling Computer Modern dated. I personally don't like it, but a lot of people do. I'd use

Automatically open docs at start up

Hi, how to config LyX to make it open all documents at start up which were opened at last shut down? I think this could be done with one of the last versions, but now it does not do it anymore on my machine. Using LyX 1.6.7 on WinVista. Thanks for your help. Best wishes, J.

Fw: lyx and tabout

Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:05:04 + (UTC) From: Joseph anonimo1...@gmail.com To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: lyx and tabout \multicolumn{...@{}l}{\footnotesize{\emph{source:} C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Mis documentos\My Dropbox\UCL\Dis

Re: Fw: lyx and tabout

Liviu Andronic landronimirc at gmail.com writes: I'm not very good at LaTeX debuggin, but isn't this a typo? Assuming the code came through correctly, shouldn't it be \Dissertation instead of \Dis sertation? For pure LaTeX errors it might also make sense to ask for help on

Re: lyx and tabout

Joseph anonimo1...@gmail.com writes: \multicolumn{...@{}l}{\footnotesize{\emph{source:} C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Mis documentos\My Dropbox\UCL\Dissertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}} The problem is in the Source: comment above. It contains \ characters that mark macros for LaTeX.

Re: lyx and tabout

Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES lasgouttes at lyx.org writes: Joseph anonimo1357 at gmail.com writes: \multicolumn{...@{}l}{\footnotesize{\emph{source:} C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Mis documentos\My Dropbox\UCL\Dissertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}} The problem is in the Source: comment

more problems with tables

hello again. My last question had a simple answer, but with other tables im having a different issue. Help again please! for instance this (generated by excel2latex) \begin{table}[htbp] \centering \caption{Add caption} \begin{tabular}{r} \addlinespace \toprule

Re: more problems with tables

Joseph anonimo1...@gmail.com writes: then I get 4 undefined control sequence, with addline space, toprule, midrule and bottomrule Try to add \usepackage{bootabs} in the preamble. JMarc

Re: more problems with tables

thanks! I almost got it this time... I had gone all the way to check if booktabs was in the tex directory, but didnt think about that!

defintionen

Hallo, ich hab da mal ne Frage. Habe gestern angefangen Lyx für meine Seminararbeit in Mathe zu benutzen. Tolles Programm, zumal ich bisher immer formale Abzüge bekommen habe. Als Dokumentklasse habe ich article(Ams) genommen. Vorkenntnisse in LaTex habe ich keine. Also mein Problem: Wie kriege

Re: defintionen

On 08/11/2010 10:49 AM, Timm Richter wrote: Hallo, ich hab da mal ne Frage. Habe gestern angefangen Lyx für meine Seminararbeit in Mathe zu benutzen. Tolles Programm, zumal ich bisher immer formale Abzüge bekommen habe. Als Dokumentklasse habe ich article(Ams) genommen. Vorkenntnisse in LaTex

writing my Thesis with lyx

Dear Lyx users, I'm stressed by time (lack of it) because I need to write my thesis. However, due to the fact that Lyx produces nice quality documents I really want to do this. I'm new to Lyx and I therefore don't want to fiddle with too low level details.   My thesis will be simple, a

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010/8/11 Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com [...] I need to do to get this working, makes me thinkis it all worthwile the hassle? It depends whether you esteem elegant look of your document... however I would not expect fireworks with graphics from OpenOffice... -- Manveru jabber:

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

Dino Vliet wrote: Which Document class do you recommend? A) report or B) Book? If you want your chapters to start a new page, use book. Else, use report. I'd recommend KOMA book/report, since it comes with sensible default, but is nevertheless very flexible, if you need it. What other

Re: What are your favorite packages?

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:11:30 -0400 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote: To the wiki! And then people can/should add descriptions of what all these packages do, and how they should be used. rh That was my thought exactly - I just saw a lot of package names hinting at useful things, and

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

On Wednesday 11 August 2010 11:23:56 Dino Vliet wrote: Dear Lyx users, I'm stressed by time (lack of it) because I need to write my thesis. However, due to the fact that Lyx produces nice quality documents I really want to do this. I'm new to Lyx and I therefore don't want to fiddle with

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com wrote: graphics from excel or openoffice Unfortunately I can only echo Manveru, Excel and OOo graphs are not the way to go. But if you're in a hurry, it should be fine; just beware of bitmap graphics. Personally I prefer R.

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:19:43 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: This is a minority opinion and a lot don't subscribe to it, but in my opinion you save time by fingerpainting your front matter. In other words, use embedded LaTeX, historically called ERT in the LyX community, to

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

I also, couldn't agree more. I tend to hide my modifications as new document classes ... but front-matter should be finger painted. After that, though, I don't want to see or think about ERT. On 08/11/2010 12:40 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:19:43 -0400 Steve

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

I'm writing mine as we speak. I have chosen memoir and never turned back. Basic stuff is basic, works perfectly with LyX and its layout is very nice. A big library on chapter title styles is a plus. I have tried Koma before, but never liked it completely. R is a must for nice plots, as well as

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

Since this discussion is turning to matters of taste, what do you think about the font choices? The default font is obviously dated, if elegant. What do you people use? Yours, Morten On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:23:55 +0200 Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: I'm writing mine as we speak. I have

Re: defintionen

Hello Timm! Welcome to the LyX-Users mailing list. At first I would like to recommend you to write your mails in english. The language for this mailing list is english due to its international audience. Of course there are german people here, but you will reach many many more people when writing

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

I have chosen Mathpazo. You can check some sample at http://www.mengensatz.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/mathpazo.png CTAN's page: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/mathpazo.html - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:30:00 -0400 Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér mj...@syntaktisk.dk wrote: Since this discussion is turning to matters of taste, what do you think about the font choices? The default font is obviously dated, if elegant. What do you people use? Personally I've settled with

Re: lyx: Font derail (with semi-related ranting)

Hi Morten, Since this discussion is turning to matters of taste, what do you think about the font choices? The default font is obviously dated, if elegant. What do you people use? Take care with calling Computer Modern dated. I personally don't like it, but a lot of people do. I'd use

Automatically open docs at start up

Hi, how to config LyX to make it open all documents at start up which were opened at last shut down? I think this could be done with one of the last versions, but now it does not do it anymore on my machine. Using LyX 1.6.7 on WinVista. Thanks for your help. Best wishes, J.

Fw: lyx and tabout

Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:05:04 + (UTC) From: Joseph To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: lyx and tabout \multicolumn{...@{}l}{\footnotesize{\emph{source:} C:\Documents and Settings\Administrador\Mis documentos\My Dropbox\UCL\Dis >

Re: Fw: lyx and tabout

Liviu Andronic gmail.com> writes: > > > I'm not very good at LaTeX debuggin, but isn't this a typo? Assuming > the code came through correctly, shouldn't it be "\Dissertation" > instead of "\Dis> sertation"? > > For pure LaTeX errors it might also make sense to ask for help on >

Re: lyx and tabout

Joseph writes: > \multicolumn{...@{}l}{\footnotesize{\emph{source:} C:\Documents and > Settings\Administrador\Mis documentos\My > Dropbox\UCL\Dissertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}} The problem is in the "Source:" comment above. It contains \ characters that mark macros for

Re: lyx and tabout

Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES lyx.org> writes: > > Joseph gmail.com> writes: > > \multicolumn{...@{}l}{\footnotesize{\emph{source:} C:\Documents and > > Settings\Administrador\Mis documentos\My Dropbox\UCL\Dissertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}} > > The problem is in the "Source:" comment above. It

more problems with tables

hello again. My last question had a simple answer, but with other tables im having a different issue. Help again please! for instance this (generated by excel2latex) \begin{table}[htbp] \centering \caption{Add caption} \begin{tabular}{r} \addlinespace \toprule

Re: more problems with tables

Joseph writes: > then I get 4 "undefined control sequence", with addline space, toprule, > midrule > and bottomrule Try to add "\usepackage{bootabs}" in the preamble. JMarc

Re: more problems with tables

thanks! I almost got it this time... I had gone all the way to check if booktabs was in the tex directory, but didnt think about that!

defintionen

Hallo, ich hab da mal ne Frage. Habe gestern angefangen Lyx für meine Seminararbeit in Mathe zu benutzen. Tolles Programm, zumal ich bisher immer formale Abzüge bekommen habe. Als Dokumentklasse habe ich article(Ams) genommen. Vorkenntnisse in LaTex habe ich keine. Also mein Problem: Wie kriege

Re: defintionen

On 08/11/2010 10:49 AM, Timm Richter wrote: Hallo, ich hab da mal ne Frage. Habe gestern angefangen Lyx für meine Seminararbeit in Mathe zu benutzen. Tolles Programm, zumal ich bisher immer formale Abzüge bekommen habe. Als Dokumentklasse habe ich article(Ams) genommen. Vorkenntnisse in LaTex

writing my Thesis with lyx

Dear Lyx users, I'm stressed by time (lack of it) because I need to write my thesis. However, due to the fact that Lyx produces nice quality documents I really want to do this. I'm new to Lyx and I therefore don't want to fiddle with too low level details.   My thesis will be simple, a

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010/8/11 Dino Vliet > [...] > I need to do to get this working, makes me thinkis it all worthwile > the hassle? > > > It depends whether you esteem elegant look of your document... however I would not expect fireworks with graphics from OpenOffice... -- Manveru

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

Dino Vliet wrote: > Which Document class do you recommend? > > A) report or B) Book? If you want your chapters to start a new page, use book. Else, use report. I'd recommend KOMA book/report, since it comes with sensible default, but is nevertheless very flexible, if you need it. > What

Re: What are your favorite packages?

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 10:11:30 -0400 Richard Heck wrote: > To the wiki! And then people can/should add descriptions of what all > these packages do, > and how they should be used. > > rh > That was my thought exactly - I just saw a lot of package names hinting at useful

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

On Wednesday 11 August 2010 11:23:56 Dino Vliet wrote: > Dear Lyx users, > I'm stressed by time (lack of it) because I need to write my thesis. > However, due to the fact that Lyx produces nice quality documents I really > want to do this. I'm new to Lyx and I therefore don't want to fiddle with

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:23:56 -0700 (PDT) Dino Vliet wrote: > graphics from excel or openoffice > Unfortunately I can only echo Manveru, Excel and OOo graphs are not the way to go. But if you're in a hurry, it should be fine; just beware of bitmap graphics. Personally I

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:19:43 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > This is a minority opinion and a lot don't subscribe to it, but in my > opinion you save time by fingerpainting your front matter. In other > words, use embedded LaTeX, historically called ERT in the LyX >

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

I also, couldn't agree more. I tend to hide my modifications as new document classes ... but front-matter should be finger painted. After that, though, I don't want to see or think about ERT. On 08/11/2010 12:40 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:19:43 -0400 Steve

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

I'm writing mine as we speak. I have chosen memoir and never turned back. Basic stuff is basic, works perfectly with LyX and its layout is very nice. A big library on chapter title styles is a plus. I have tried Koma before, but never liked it completely. R is a must for nice plots, as well as

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

Since this discussion is turning to matters of taste, what do you think about the font choices? The default font is obviously dated, if elegant. What do you people use? Yours, Morten On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:23:55 +0200 Julio Rojas wrote: > I'm writing mine as we speak. I

Re: defintionen

Hello Timm! Welcome to the LyX-Users mailing list. At first I would like to recommend you to write your mails in english. The language for this mailing list is english due to its international audience. Of course there are german people here, but you will reach many many more people when writing

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

I have chosen Mathpazo. You can check some sample at http://www.mengensatz.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/mathpazo.png CTAN's page: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/mathpazo.html - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Wed, Aug

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:30:00 -0400 Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote: > Since this discussion is turning to matters of taste, what do you > think about the font choices? The default font is obviously dated, if > elegant. > What do you people use? > Personally I've

Re: lyx: Font derail (with semi-related ranting)

Hi Morten, << Since this discussion is turning to matters of taste, what do you think about the font choices? The default font is obviously dated, if elegant. What do you people use? >> Take care with calling Computer Modern dated. I personally don't like it, but a lot of people do. I'd

Automatically open docs at start up

Hi, how to config LyX to make it open all documents at start up which were opened at last shut down? I think this could be done with one of the last versions, but now it does not do it anymore on my machine. Using LyX 1.6.7 on WinVista. Thanks for your help. Best wishes, J.