date:20100811

Fw: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Liviu Andronic

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
 sertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}}

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 
http://tex.stackexchange.com/

Regards
Liviu

and the error it gives me:

 ...\Dis  sertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}}
   \end{tabular}
 \end{table} 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.

I hope that helps!

Re: Fw: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Joseph

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 
 http://tex.stackexchange.com/
 
 Regards
 Liviu


thanks!
that wasn't the problem, but close. I think it was the slashed in that line, I
took them away and it works!

Re: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES

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. I do not know where this comes from and
whether it can be changed, but outputing such LaTeX cod eis a bug and we
cannot do anything about it.

JMarc

Re: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Joseph

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 above. It contains \ characters
 that mark macros for LaTeX. I do not know where this comes from and
 whether it can be changed, but outputing such LaTeX cod eis a bug and we
 cannot do anything about it.
 
 JMarc
 
 

right, thanks! I had just realized it, I hope it was the same problem I had with
tables generated by other programs.

Joseph

Re: more problems with tables

2010-08-11 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES

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

2010-08-11 Thread Joseph

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

2010-08-11 Thread Timm Richter


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 ich das hin, dass, wenn ich zwei Definitionen oder Theoreme usw 
hintereinander schreibe, auch bei dem zweiten 
Definition 2 steht? Bei mir steht da nämlcih gar nichts, wenn  ich meine zweite 
Definition als Definition setze.
Wenn jetzt ein Lemma oder so käme, wäre es kein Problem, dann wird anscheinend 
weiter nummeriert.

Danke im Vorraus ,
Timm

Re: defintionen

2010-08-11 Thread Richard Heck


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 habe ich keine.
Also mein Problem:
Wie kriege ich das hin, dass, wenn ich zwei Definitionen oder Theoreme 
usw hintereinander schreibe, auch bei dem zweiten
Definition 2 steht? Bei mir steht da nämlcih gar nichts, wenn  ich 
meine zweite Definition als Definition setze.
Wenn jetzt ein Lemma oder so käme, wäre es kein Problem, dann wird 
anscheinend weiter nummeriert.



Hi, this list uses English. No offense intended.

The answer to your question is: Between the two definitions, put a 
---Separator--- environment (--Trenner--). It is for precisely this 
case.


rh

writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Dino Vliet






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 front page with the logo's  of my university and my 
employer, TOC, Chapters with mixed text, graphics from excel or openoffice and 
ocassionally some mathematical functions and a bibliography.
 
Which Document class do you recommend?
 
A) report or B) Book?
 
What other types of tips can you give me regarding these choices which will 
save me time?
 
For instances I have found, http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis and like André 
Miede's Classic Thesis ported to LyX and downloaded it from 
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/.  However, all 
the steps I need to do to get this working, makes me thinkis it all 
worthwile the hassle?
 
 
Brgds
Dino

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Manveru

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: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller

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 types of tips can you give me regarding these choices which will
 save me time? 

Just go with the details and concentrate on the content.

 For instances I have found, http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis and like
 André Miede's Classic Thesis ported to LyX and downloaded it from
 http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/.  However,
 all the steps I need to do to get this working, makes me thinkis it
 all worthwile the hassle?

Classic Thesis produces a very elegant layout, but it's a bit too stylish for 
a thesis, IMHO.

Jürgen

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-11 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér

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 it would be great to have a list of tips.

Yours,
Morten

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Steve Litt

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
  too low level details. 
 My thesis will be simple, a front page with the logo's  of my university
  and my employer, TOC, Chapters with mixed text, graphics from excel or
  openoffice and ocassionally some mathematical functions and a
  bibliography. 

[clip]

 What other types of tips can you give me regarding these choices which will
  save me time? 

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 insert your 
logo and employer and line them up exactly how you want them and page break 
where you want and make fonts exactly how you want them to look.

The opposite is true with the main matter, where my advice would be to never 
use ERT.

If you find you need to create your own Paragraph styles (called 
Environments in LyX Land) or character styles, the quickest way to do that 
is to use LyX's CopyStyle keyword in your style definition, and later, when 
you're not pounding out content, you can make that style look how you want, or 
perhaps have a more LaTeX aware person help you with it.

I make my new styles in layout files, and I've documented a lot of it here:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm

Since you're under a time crunch, try to get by with LyX's default styles, but 
if you need to modify a LyX default style or make a brand new one, it's very 
doable.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Liviu Andronic

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. 

 some mathematical functions and a bibliography. Which Document class
 do you recommend? A) report or B) Book? 

I wrote mine (master's) in article. As for the first page (logo and
stuff), stole it from the wiki. 

 What other types of tips can you give me regarding these choices
 which will save me time? 

If you are debuting with LaTeX, this might be the
simplest choice. 

Regards
Liviu

 For instances I have found, http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis and
 like André Miede's Classic Thesis ported to LyX and downloaded it
 from http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/.
 However, all the steps I need to do to get this working, makes me
 thinkis it all worthwile the hassle? Brgds Dino

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Liviu Andronic

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 insert your logo and employer and line them up exactly
 how you want them and page break where you want and make fonts
 exactly how you want them to look.
 
I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it: if in 
need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX. All below
should (mostly) be LyX. 
Liviu

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Oakes

 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 Littsl...@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 insert your logo and employer and line them up exactly
how you want them and page break where you want and make fonts
exactly how you want them to look.


I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it: if in
need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX. All below
should (mostly) be LyX.
Liviu

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Julio Rojas

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 Inkscape for fingerpainting. Biblatex is another
nice addition. Please, feel free to ask any question you have. Best
regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:
  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 Littsl...@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 insert your logo and employer and line them up exactly
 how you want them and page break where you want and make fonts
 exactly how you want them to look.

 I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it: if in
 need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX. All below
 should (mostly) be LyX.
 Liviu

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

2010-08-11 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér

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 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 Inkscape for fingerpainting. Biblatex is another
 nice addition. Please, feel free to ask any question you have. Best
 regards.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com
 
 
 
 On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us
 wrote:
   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 Littsl...@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 insert your logo and employer and line them
  up exactly how you want them and page break where you want and
  make fonts exactly how you want them to look.
 
  I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it:
  if in need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX.
  All below should (mostly) be LyX.
  Liviu

Re: defintionen

2010-08-11 Thread David Muelheims

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 english.

Now to your problem:
It is possible to have two definitions or theorems without text between
them, if you use an environment seperator. So you start your first
definition/theorem, insert a seperator and then start the second
definition/theorem. You insert the seperator with the drop down box in the
upper left corner where you also select theorem environments etc. In the
german LyX version, the seperator is called --Trenner--. For me, it's the
fifth entry in the list (you may have to scroll up the list to see it).
In LyX you will see a blue text: --- Umgebung trennen ---.
This results in two disjunct definitions/theorems.

I hope this solves your problem.


Cheers

David


Am 11. August 2010 16:49 schrieb Timm Richter timm31...@msn.com:

  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 ich das hin, dass, wenn ich zwei Definitionen oder Theoreme usw
 hintereinander schreibe, auch bei dem zweiten
 Definition 2 steht? Bei mir steht da nämlcih gar nichts, wenn  ich meine
 zweite Definition als Definition setze.
 Wenn jetzt ein Lemma oder so käme, wäre es kein Problem, dann wird
 anscheinend weiter nummeriert.

 Danke im Vorraus ,
 Timm

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

2010-08-11 Thread Julio Rojas

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 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, 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?

 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 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 Inkscape for fingerpainting. Biblatex is another
 nice addition. Please, feel free to ask any question you have. Best
 regards.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com



 On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us
 wrote:
   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 Littsl...@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 insert your logo and employer and line them
  up exactly how you want them and page break where you want and
  make fonts exactly how you want them to look.
 
  I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it:
  if in need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX.
  All below should (mostly) be LyX.
  Liviu

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

2010-08-11 Thread Liviu Andronic

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 Palatino  Optima (or TeX Gyre Pagella
and URW Classico in free speech), with LM Typewriter or Courier where
needed for code. I've once ranted on this on the mailing list. Search
the archives. 
Liviu

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

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Oakes


 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 stronger language -- such as 
calling it rigid, pompous or and ghastly -- but that got me in trouble 
last time.  So I'll refrain.  There's no reason to start forest 
unnecessary forest fires.)  It works very nicely for mathematics and it 
has a cult following.


Beside, fonts never really become dated.  Look at Helvetica, or Gill 
Sans.  They've been around for 60 and 80 years, respectively, and are 
not going anywhere.  Helvetica is everywhere and Gill Sans is (more or 
less) the default Sans Serif for Mac computers.  Not bad for old timers.


As far as my personal preferences go, I'm a big fan of Minion and Myriad 
Pro fonts.  I use Minion for body text and Myriad as a sans serif.  I 
haven't quite found a mono spaced font that I like.  Yet.  Courier Std 
works in a pinch.  (If anyone has any other ideas, I would love to hear 
them.)  I leave Latin Modern for math.  Customizing math fonts in 
xelatex is a pain that no one should suffer willingly, so I don't bother.


Regarding files, I use the OpenType variants available with xelatex.  
There is also a MinionPro package that can be used with other tex 
variants 
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/minionpro/MinionPro.pdf).  It 
will even customize the math fonts for you.


Re: Palatino.  I absolutely love Palatino and second Liviu's 
recommendations.


The letter forms of Palatino may be the most refined ever created.  But, 
I've never really been able to find a sans-serif and mono-spaced font 
that matches well.  (At least not per my aesthetic taste.)  For that 
reason, I don't use it often.  A good designer friend says that Univers 
(or if you really need to go there, Helvetica) are appropriate 
pairings.  I think he consumed too many magic mushrooms in his youth.  
(I actually agree with the Univers pairing.  It offers good 
typographical contrast and the final effect really is quite nice, just 
not for really long texts.)


Re: Margins and Details

If you're using Minion, be sure to set appropriate margins.  Minion is 
slightly narrower than Palatino and related fonts, and your margins 
should be adjusted accordingly.


Re: General Advice

However ... I'd worry about fonts and appearance until the end.  The 
choice of font should complement the subject of your thesis, and it is 
usually impossible to choose before it has been written.  Book design 
follows the writing of the book, not before.


(I'm speaking from experience, rather than trying to be preachy.  I've 
been working on a book about Open Source writing and I've wasted 
inordinate amounts of time fretting about fonts, margins, and headings.  
This is why authors should also not be their own book designers.)


With the disclaimer, I would start looking at every book you see.  Spend 
time in the bookstore browsing titles that are similar to your thesis 
and look at how they lay things out.  In the frontmatter, it will 
usually say who designed the book and what typefaces were used.  If you 
find a pairing that you really like, by all means, steal it.  There is 
no reason to re-invent wheels if you don't have to.  Also, note how wide 
the margins are and whether they use fully justified text, or ragged 
right.  (These things really do matter, a lot.  Designer types have done 
lots of research about these things.)


With all that said, the default package pairings in LaTeX are really 
quite good.  Consider using one of those.  The LaTeX companion has an 
overview and I would highly recommend you take a look.


Just wait until you are finished, though, and know what type of effect 
you want to achieve.  It will save you hours of tinkering.  For working 
drafts, use Latin Modern.


Cheers,

Rob

Automatically open docs at start up

2010-08-11 Thread Jannick Asmus

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

2010-08-11 Thread Liviu Andronic

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
 sertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}}

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 
http://tex.stackexchange.com/

Regards
Liviu

and the error it gives me:

 ...\Dis  sertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}}
   \end{tabular}
 \end{table} 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.

I hope that helps!

Re: Fw: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Joseph

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 
 http://tex.stackexchange.com/
 
 Regards
 Liviu


thanks!
that wasn't the problem, but close. I think it was the slashed in that line, I
took them away and it works!

Re: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES

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. I do not know where this comes from and
whether it can be changed, but outputing such LaTeX cod eis a bug and we
cannot do anything about it.

JMarc

Re: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Joseph

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 above. It contains \ characters
 that mark macros for LaTeX. I do not know where this comes from and
 whether it can be changed, but outputing such LaTeX cod eis a bug and we
 cannot do anything about it.
 
 JMarc
 
 

right, thanks! I had just realized it, I hope it was the same problem I had with
tables generated by other programs.

Joseph

Re: more problems with tables

2010-08-11 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES

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

2010-08-11 Thread Joseph

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

2010-08-11 Thread Timm Richter


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 ich das hin, dass, wenn ich zwei Definitionen oder Theoreme usw 
hintereinander schreibe, auch bei dem zweiten 
Definition 2 steht? Bei mir steht da nämlcih gar nichts, wenn  ich meine zweite 
Definition als Definition setze.
Wenn jetzt ein Lemma oder so käme, wäre es kein Problem, dann wird anscheinend 
weiter nummeriert.

Danke im Vorraus ,
Timm

Re: defintionen

2010-08-11 Thread Richard Heck


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 habe ich keine.
Also mein Problem:
Wie kriege ich das hin, dass, wenn ich zwei Definitionen oder Theoreme 
usw hintereinander schreibe, auch bei dem zweiten
Definition 2 steht? Bei mir steht da nämlcih gar nichts, wenn  ich 
meine zweite Definition als Definition setze.
Wenn jetzt ein Lemma oder so käme, wäre es kein Problem, dann wird 
anscheinend weiter nummeriert.



Hi, this list uses English. No offense intended.

The answer to your question is: Between the two definitions, put a 
---Separator--- environment (--Trenner--). It is for precisely this 
case.


rh

writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Dino Vliet






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 front page with the logo's  of my university and my 
employer, TOC, Chapters with mixed text, graphics from excel or openoffice and 
ocassionally some mathematical functions and a bibliography.
 
Which Document class do you recommend?
 
A) report or B) Book?
 
What other types of tips can you give me regarding these choices which will 
save me time?
 
For instances I have found, http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis and like André 
Miede's Classic Thesis ported to LyX and downloaded it from 
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/.  However, all 
the steps I need to do to get this working, makes me thinkis it all 
worthwile the hassle?
 
 
Brgds
Dino

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Manveru

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: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller

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 types of tips can you give me regarding these choices which will
 save me time? 

Just go with the details and concentrate on the content.

 For instances I have found, http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis and like
 André Miede's Classic Thesis ported to LyX and downloaded it from
 http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/.  However,
 all the steps I need to do to get this working, makes me thinkis it
 all worthwile the hassle?

Classic Thesis produces a very elegant layout, but it's a bit too stylish for 
a thesis, IMHO.

Jürgen

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-11 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér

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 it would be great to have a list of tips.

Yours,
Morten

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Steve Litt

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
  too low level details. 
 My thesis will be simple, a front page with the logo's  of my university
  and my employer, TOC, Chapters with mixed text, graphics from excel or
  openoffice and ocassionally some mathematical functions and a
  bibliography. 

[clip]

 What other types of tips can you give me regarding these choices which will
  save me time? 

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 insert your 
logo and employer and line them up exactly how you want them and page break 
where you want and make fonts exactly how you want them to look.

The opposite is true with the main matter, where my advice would be to never 
use ERT.

If you find you need to create your own Paragraph styles (called 
Environments in LyX Land) or character styles, the quickest way to do that 
is to use LyX's CopyStyle keyword in your style definition, and later, when 
you're not pounding out content, you can make that style look how you want, or 
perhaps have a more LaTeX aware person help you with it.

I make my new styles in layout files, and I've documented a lot of it here:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm

Since you're under a time crunch, try to get by with LyX's default styles, but 
if you need to modify a LyX default style or make a brand new one, it's very 
doable.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Liviu Andronic

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. 

 some mathematical functions and a bibliography. Which Document class
 do you recommend? A) report or B) Book? 

I wrote mine (master's) in article. As for the first page (logo and
stuff), stole it from the wiki. 

 What other types of tips can you give me regarding these choices
 which will save me time? 

If you are debuting with LaTeX, this might be the
simplest choice. 

Regards
Liviu

 For instances I have found, http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis and
 like André Miede's Classic Thesis ported to LyX and downloaded it
 from http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/.
 However, all the steps I need to do to get this working, makes me
 thinkis it all worthwile the hassle? Brgds Dino

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Liviu Andronic

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 insert your logo and employer and line them up exactly
 how you want them and page break where you want and make fonts
 exactly how you want them to look.
 
I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it: if in 
need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX. All below
should (mostly) be LyX. 
Liviu

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Oakes

 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 Littsl...@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 insert your logo and employer and line them up exactly
how you want them and page break where you want and make fonts
exactly how you want them to look.


I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it: if in
need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX. All below
should (mostly) be LyX.
Liviu

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Julio Rojas

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 Inkscape for fingerpainting. Biblatex is another
nice addition. Please, feel free to ask any question you have. Best
regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote:
  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 Littsl...@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 insert your logo and employer and line them up exactly
 how you want them and page break where you want and make fonts
 exactly how you want them to look.

 I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it: if in
 need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX. All below
 should (mostly) be LyX.
 Liviu

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

2010-08-11 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér

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 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 Inkscape for fingerpainting. Biblatex is another
 nice addition. Please, feel free to ask any question you have. Best
 regards.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com
 
 
 
 On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us
 wrote:
   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 Littsl...@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 insert your logo and employer and line them
  up exactly how you want them and page break where you want and
  make fonts exactly how you want them to look.
 
  I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it:
  if in need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX.
  All below should (mostly) be LyX.
  Liviu

Re: defintionen

2010-08-11 Thread David Muelheims

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 english.

Now to your problem:
It is possible to have two definitions or theorems without text between
them, if you use an environment seperator. So you start your first
definition/theorem, insert a seperator and then start the second
definition/theorem. You insert the seperator with the drop down box in the
upper left corner where you also select theorem environments etc. In the
german LyX version, the seperator is called --Trenner--. For me, it's the
fifth entry in the list (you may have to scroll up the list to see it).
In LyX you will see a blue text: --- Umgebung trennen ---.
This results in two disjunct definitions/theorems.

I hope this solves your problem.


Cheers

David


Am 11. August 2010 16:49 schrieb Timm Richter timm31...@msn.com:

  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 ich das hin, dass, wenn ich zwei Definitionen oder Theoreme usw
 hintereinander schreibe, auch bei dem zweiten
 Definition 2 steht? Bei mir steht da nämlcih gar nichts, wenn  ich meine
 zweite Definition als Definition setze.
 Wenn jetzt ein Lemma oder so käme, wäre es kein Problem, dann wird
 anscheinend weiter nummeriert.

 Danke im Vorraus ,
 Timm

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

2010-08-11 Thread Julio Rojas

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 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, 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?

 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 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 Inkscape for fingerpainting. Biblatex is another
 nice addition. Please, feel free to ask any question you have. Best
 regards.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com



 On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us
 wrote:
   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 Littsl...@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 insert your logo and employer and line them
  up exactly how you want them and page break where you want and
  make fonts exactly how you want them to look.
 
  I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it:
  if in need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX.
  All below should (mostly) be LyX.
  Liviu

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

2010-08-11 Thread Liviu Andronic

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 Palatino  Optima (or TeX Gyre Pagella
and URW Classico in free speech), with LM Typewriter or Courier where
needed for code. I've once ranted on this on the mailing list. Search
the archives. 
Liviu

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

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Oakes


 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 stronger language -- such as 
calling it rigid, pompous or and ghastly -- but that got me in trouble 
last time.  So I'll refrain.  There's no reason to start forest 
unnecessary forest fires.)  It works very nicely for mathematics and it 
has a cult following.


Beside, fonts never really become dated.  Look at Helvetica, or Gill 
Sans.  They've been around for 60 and 80 years, respectively, and are 
not going anywhere.  Helvetica is everywhere and Gill Sans is (more or 
less) the default Sans Serif for Mac computers.  Not bad for old timers.


As far as my personal preferences go, I'm a big fan of Minion and Myriad 
Pro fonts.  I use Minion for body text and Myriad as a sans serif.  I 
haven't quite found a mono spaced font that I like.  Yet.  Courier Std 
works in a pinch.  (If anyone has any other ideas, I would love to hear 
them.)  I leave Latin Modern for math.  Customizing math fonts in 
xelatex is a pain that no one should suffer willingly, so I don't bother.


Regarding files, I use the OpenType variants available with xelatex.  
There is also a MinionPro package that can be used with other tex 
variants 
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/minionpro/MinionPro.pdf).  It 
will even customize the math fonts for you.


Re: Palatino.  I absolutely love Palatino and second Liviu's 
recommendations.


The letter forms of Palatino may be the most refined ever created.  But, 
I've never really been able to find a sans-serif and mono-spaced font 
that matches well.  (At least not per my aesthetic taste.)  For that 
reason, I don't use it often.  A good designer friend says that Univers 
(or if you really need to go there, Helvetica) are appropriate 
pairings.  I think he consumed too many magic mushrooms in his youth.  
(I actually agree with the Univers pairing.  It offers good 
typographical contrast and the final effect really is quite nice, just 
not for really long texts.)


Re: Margins and Details

If you're using Minion, be sure to set appropriate margins.  Minion is 
slightly narrower than Palatino and related fonts, and your margins 
should be adjusted accordingly.


Re: General Advice

However ... I'd worry about fonts and appearance until the end.  The 
choice of font should complement the subject of your thesis, and it is 
usually impossible to choose before it has been written.  Book design 
follows the writing of the book, not before.


(I'm speaking from experience, rather than trying to be preachy.  I've 
been working on a book about Open Source writing and I've wasted 
inordinate amounts of time fretting about fonts, margins, and headings.  
This is why authors should also not be their own book designers.)


With the disclaimer, I would start looking at every book you see.  Spend 
time in the bookstore browsing titles that are similar to your thesis 
and look at how they lay things out.  In the frontmatter, it will 
usually say who designed the book and what typefaces were used.  If you 
find a pairing that you really like, by all means, steal it.  There is 
no reason to re-invent wheels if you don't have to.  Also, note how wide 
the margins are and whether they use fully justified text, or ragged 
right.  (These things really do matter, a lot.  Designer types have done 
lots of research about these things.)


With all that said, the default package pairings in LaTeX are really 
quite good.  Consider using one of those.  The LaTeX companion has an 
overview and I would highly recommend you take a look.


Just wait until you are finished, though, and know what type of effect 
you want to achieve.  It will save you hours of tinkering.  For working 
drafts, use Latin Modern.


Cheers,

Rob

Automatically open docs at start up

2010-08-11 Thread Jannick Asmus

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

2010-08-11 Thread Liviu Andronic

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
> sertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}}

>
>
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 
http://tex.stackexchange.com/

Regards
Liviu

and the error it gives me:

 ...\Dis > sertation\Data\GSS\data\1987.dta}}
   \end{tabular}
 \end{table} 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.

I hope that helps!

Re: Fw: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Joseph

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 
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/
> 
> Regards
> Liviu

thanks!
that wasn't the problem, but close. I think it was the slashed in that line, I
took them away and it works!

Re: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES

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 LaTeX. I do not know where this comes from and
whether it can be changed, but outputing such LaTeX cod eis a bug and we
cannot do anything about it.

JMarc

Re: lyx and tabout

2010-08-11 Thread Joseph

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 contains \ characters
> that mark macros for LaTeX. I do not know where this comes from and
> whether it can be changed, but outputing such LaTeX cod eis a bug and we
> cannot do anything about it.
> 
> JMarc
> 
> 

right, thanks! I had just realized it, I hope it was the same problem I had with
tables generated by other programs.

Joseph

Re: more problems with tables

2010-08-11 Thread Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES

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

2010-08-11 Thread Joseph

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

2010-08-11 Thread Timm Richter


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 ich das hin, dass, wenn ich zwei Definitionen oder Theoreme usw 
hintereinander schreibe, auch bei dem zweiten 
Definition 2 steht? Bei mir steht da nämlcih gar nichts, wenn  ich meine zweite 
Definition als Definition setze.
Wenn jetzt ein Lemma oder so käme, wäre es kein Problem, dann wird anscheinend 
weiter nummeriert.

Danke im Vorraus ,
Timm

Re: defintionen

2010-08-11 Thread Richard Heck


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 habe ich keine.
Also mein Problem:
Wie kriege ich das hin, dass, wenn ich zwei Definitionen oder Theoreme 
usw hintereinander schreibe, auch bei dem zweiten
Definition 2 steht? Bei mir steht da nämlcih gar nichts, wenn  ich 
meine zweite Definition als Definition setze.
Wenn jetzt ein Lemma oder so käme, wäre es kein Problem, dann wird 
anscheinend weiter nummeriert.



Hi, this list uses English. No offense intended.

The answer to your question is: Between the two definitions, put a 
"---Separator---" environment ("--Trenner--"). It is for precisely this 
case.


rh

writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Dino Vliet






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 front page with the logo's  of my university and my 
employer, TOC, Chapters with mixed text, graphics from excel or openoffice and 
ocassionally some mathematical functions and a bibliography.
 
Which Document class do you recommend?
 
A) report or B) Book?
 
What other types of tips can you give me regarding these choices which will 
save me time?
 
For instances I have found, http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis and like André 
Miede's Classic Thesis ported to LyX and downloaded it from 
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/.  However, all 
the steps I need to do to get this working, makes me thinkis it all 
worthwile the hassle?
 
 
Brgds
Dino

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Manveru

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
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller

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 types of tips can you give me regarding these choices which will
> save me time? 

Just go with the details and concentrate on the content.

> For instances I have found, http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis and like
> André Miede's Classic Thesis ported to LyX and downloaded it from
> http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/.  However,
> all the steps I need to do to get this working, makes me thinkis it
> all worthwile the hassle?

Classic Thesis produces a very elegant layout, but it's a bit too stylish for 
a thesis, IMHO.

Jürgen

Re: What are your favorite packages?

2010-08-11 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér

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 things, and it would be great to have a list of tips.

Yours,
Morten

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Steve Litt

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
>  too low level details. 
> My thesis will be simple, a front page with the logo's  of my university
>  and my employer, TOC, Chapters with mixed text, graphics from excel or
>  openoffice and ocassionally some mathematical functions and a
>  bibliography. 

[clip]

> What other types of tips can you give me regarding these choices which will
>  save me time? 

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 insert your 
logo and employer and line them up exactly how you want them and page break 
where you want and make fonts exactly how you want them to look.

The opposite is true with the main matter, where my advice would be to never 
use ERT.

If you find you need to create your own Paragraph styles (called 
"Environments" in LyX Land) or character styles, the quickest way to do that 
is to use LyX's CopyStyle keyword in your style definition, and later, when 
you're not pounding out content, you can make that style look how you want, or 
perhaps have a more LaTeX aware person help you with it.

I make my new styles in layout files, and I've documented a lot of it here:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm

Since you're under a time crunch, try to get by with LyX's default styles, but 
if you need to modify a LyX default style or make a brand new one, it's very 
doable.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Liviu Andronic

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 prefer R. 

> some mathematical functions and a bibliography. Which Document class
> do you recommend? A) report or B) Book? 
>
I wrote mine (master's) in article. As for the first page (logo and
stuff), stole it from the wiki. 

> What other types of tips can you give me regarding these choices
> which will save me time? 
>
If you are debuting with LaTeX, this might be the
simplest choice. 

Regards
Liviu

> For instances I have found, http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis and
> like André Miede's Classic Thesis ported to LyX and downloaded it
> from http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/.
> However, all the steps I need to do to get this working, makes me
> thinkis it all worthwile the hassle? Brgds Dino
> 
> 
>

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Liviu Andronic

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
> community, to insert your logo and employer and line them up exactly
> how you want them and page break where you want and make fonts
> exactly how you want them to look.
> 
I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it: if in 
need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX. All below
should (mostly) be LyX. 
Liviu

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Oakes

 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 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
community, to insert your logo and employer and line them up exactly
how you want them and page break where you want and make fonts
exactly how you want them to look.


I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it: if in
need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX. All below
should (mostly) be LyX.
Liviu

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx

2010-08-11 Thread Julio Rojas

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 Inkscape for fingerpainting. Biblatex is another
nice addition. Please, feel free to ask any question you have. Best
regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Rob Oakes  wrote:
>  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 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
>>> community, to insert your logo and employer and line them up exactly
>>> how you want them and page break where you want and make fonts
>>> exactly how you want them to look.
>>>
>> I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it: if in
>> need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX. All below
>> should (mostly) be LyX.
>> Liviu
>
>

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

2010-08-11 Thread Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér

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 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 Inkscape for fingerpainting. Biblatex is another
> nice addition. Please, feel free to ask any question you have. Best
> regards.
> -
> Julio Rojas
> jcredbe...@gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Rob Oakes 
> wrote:
> >  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 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 community, to insert your logo and employer and line them
> >>> up exactly how you want them and page break where you want and
> >>> make fonts exactly how you want them to look.
> >>>
> >> I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it:
> >> if in need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX.
> >> All below should (mostly) be LyX.
> >> Liviu
> >
> >

Re: defintionen

2010-08-11 Thread David Muelheims

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 english.

Now to your problem:
It is possible to have two definitions or theorems without text between
them, if you use an environment seperator. So you start your first
definition/theorem, insert a seperator and then start the second
definition/theorem. You insert the seperator with the drop down box in the
upper left corner where you also select theorem environments etc. In the
german LyX version, the seperator is called "--Trenner--". For me, it's the
fifth entry in the list (you may have to scroll up the list to see it).
In LyX you will see a blue text: "--- Umgebung trennen ---".
This results in two disjunct definitions/theorems.

I hope this solves your problem.


Cheers

David


Am 11. August 2010 16:49 schrieb Timm Richter :

>  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 ich das hin, dass, wenn ich zwei Definitionen oder Theoreme usw
> hintereinander schreibe, auch bei dem zweiten
> Definition 2 steht? Bei mir steht da nämlcih gar nichts, wenn  ich meine
> zweite Definition als Definition setze.
> Wenn jetzt ein Lemma oder so käme, wäre es kein Problem, dann wird
> anscheinend weiter nummeriert.
>
> Danke im Vorraus ,
> Timm
>

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

2010-08-11 Thread Julio Rojas

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 11, 2010 at 9:30 PM, 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?
>
> Yours,
> Morten
>
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:23:55 +0200
> Julio Rojas  wrote:
>
>> 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 Inkscape for fingerpainting. Biblatex is another
>> nice addition. Please, feel free to ask any question you have. Best
>> regards.
>> -
>> Julio Rojas
>> jcredbe...@gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Rob Oakes 
>> wrote:
>> >  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 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 community, to insert your logo and employer and line them
>> >>> up exactly how you want them and page break where you want and
>> >>> make fonts exactly how you want them to look.
>> >>>
>> >> I'm not sure that this is minority.. At least I subscribe to it:
>> >> if in need for anything fancy, first page should be pure LaTeX.
>> >> All below should (mostly) be LyX.
>> >> Liviu
>> >
>> >
>
>

Re: writing my Thesis with lyx: Font derail

2010-08-11 Thread Liviu Andronic

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 settled with Palatino & Optima (or TeX Gyre Pagella
and URW Classico in free speech), with LM Typewriter or Courier where
needed for code. I've once ranted on this on the mailing list. Search
the archives. 
Liviu

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

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Oakes


 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 stronger language -- such as 
calling it rigid, pompous or and ghastly -- but that got me in trouble 
last time.  So I'll refrain.  There's no reason to start forest 
unnecessary forest fires.)  It works very nicely for mathematics and it 
has a cult following.


Beside, fonts never really become "dated".  Look at Helvetica, or Gill 
Sans.  They've been around for 60 and 80 years, respectively, and are 
not going anywhere.  Helvetica is everywhere and Gill Sans is (more or 
less) the default Sans Serif for Mac computers.  Not bad for old timers.


As far as my personal preferences go, I'm a big fan of Minion and Myriad 
Pro fonts.  I use Minion for body text and Myriad as a sans serif.  I 
haven't quite found a mono spaced font that I like.  Yet.  Courier Std 
works in a pinch.  (If anyone has any other ideas, I would love to hear 
them.)  I leave Latin Modern for math.  Customizing math fonts in 
xelatex is a pain that no one should suffer willingly, so I don't bother.


Regarding files, I use the OpenType variants available with xelatex.  
There is also a MinionPro package that can be used with other tex 
variants 
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/minionpro/MinionPro.pdf).  It 
will even customize the math fonts for you.


Re: Palatino.  I absolutely love Palatino and second Liviu's 
recommendations.


The letter forms of Palatino may be the most refined ever created.  But, 
I've never really been able to find a sans-serif and mono-spaced font 
that matches well.  (At least not per my aesthetic taste.)  For that 
reason, I don't use it often.  A good designer friend says that Univers 
(or if you really need to go there, Helvetica) are appropriate 
pairings.  I think he consumed too many magic mushrooms in his youth.  
(I actually agree with the Univers pairing.  It offers good 
typographical contrast and the final effect really is quite nice, just 
not for really long texts.)


Re: Margins and Details

If you're using Minion, be sure to set appropriate margins.  Minion is 
slightly narrower than Palatino and related fonts, and your margins 
should be adjusted accordingly.


Re: General Advice

However ... I'd worry about fonts and appearance until the end.  The 
choice of font should complement the subject of your thesis, and it is 
usually impossible to choose before it has been written.  Book design 
follows the writing of the book, not before.


(I'm speaking from experience, rather than trying to be preachy.  I've 
been working on a book about Open Source writing and I've wasted 
inordinate amounts of time fretting about fonts, margins, and headings.  
This is why authors should also not be their own book designers.)


With the disclaimer, I would start looking at every book you see.  Spend 
time in the bookstore browsing titles that are similar to your thesis 
and look at how they lay things out.  In the frontmatter, it will 
usually say who designed the book and what typefaces were used.  If you 
find a pairing that you really like, by all means, steal it.  There is 
no reason to re-invent wheels if you don't have to.  Also, note how wide 
the margins are and whether they use fully justified text, or ragged 
right.  (These things really do matter, a lot.  Designer types have done 
lots of research about these things.)


With all that said, the default package pairings in LaTeX are really 
quite good.  Consider using one of those.  The LaTeX companion has an 
overview and I would highly recommend you take a look.


Just wait until you are finished, though, and know what type of effect 
you want to achieve.  It will save you hours of tinkering.  For working 
drafts, use Latin Modern.


Cheers,

Rob

Automatically open docs at start up

2010-08-11 Thread Jannick Asmus

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.

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