Re: Borders in multi-row Table Elements

[Francesco Menoncin]

Dear Tim,

I had the very same problem and I already notified it (it is now in the 
to do list for the next version of LyX).


The only way to solve the problem is to use the command multirow in 
ERT environmente as you can see in the attached file (do not forget to 
call the package multirow in the preamble).


Francesco

Il 19/10/2011 01:24, Tim Wescott ha scritto:

See the attached document in Lyx.

Then see it in pdf.

The two places on the right where rows are combined lose the border in
the transition.

What's wrong?

How can I fix this?




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Via S. Faustino, 74/B
25122 Brescia (Italy)
Tel: 0039-030-2988806
Fax: 0039-030-2988837
E-mail: menon...@eco.unibs.it
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test-new.lyx
Description: application/lyx

British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

[Graham Smith]

I'm not exactly sure where the problem lies with this, but if I include a
£ symbol in an graph legend, I get £ in the PDF.

I am on Snow Leopard and Lyx 2.0.0.

It doesn't happen when I generate graphs from R and save as PDF, so it seems
to be a Lyx/Latex/Sweave thing.

As so often is the case searching for an answer has proved fruitless,as a I
can't come up with meaningful search terms.

But I am sure this has cropped up before.

Any help much appreciated.

Graham

Re: British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

[Graham Smith]

Ok, to reply to myself, I have just realised that the first time I compiled
this file I got a dialog box asking about encoding, and I chose the default
UTF -8 encoding. Could this be where the problem lies and, if it does, how
do i now sort it.

Which encoding should I have chosen, if that is the issues.

Graham

On 19 October 2011 10:45, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'm not exactly sure where the problem lies with this, but if I include a
 £ symbol in an graph legend, I get £ in the PDF.

 I am on Snow Leopard and Lyx 2.0.0.

 It doesn't happen when I generate graphs from R and save as PDF, so it
 seems to be a Lyx/Latex/Sweave thing.

 As so often is the case searching for an answer has proved fruitless,as a I
 can't come up with meaningful search terms.

 But I am sure this has cropped up before.

 Any help much appreciated.

 Graham

Re: British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm not exactly sure where the problem lies with this, but if I include a
 £ symbol in an graph legend, I get £ in the PDF.
 I am on Snow Leopard and Lyx 2.0.0.
 It doesn't happen when I generate graphs from R and save as PDF, so it seems
 to be a Lyx/Latex/Sweave thing.
 As so often is the case searching for an answer has proved fruitless,as a I
 can't come up with meaningful search terms.
 But I am sure this has cropped up before.
 Any help much appreciated.

Have you tried to switch Doc Setting  Language  Encoding to
something other than Default? Experiment with the various 'utf8'
flavours, and also try compiling with XeTeX.

Liviu

Re: Arial fonts LyX Windows

[Olivier Ripoll]

On 19.10.2011 07:31, Kenedy Torcatt wrote:

Hello, first of all, I'm a windows user. I've installed LyX 2.0 recently
and I saw that now we can use the windows fonts selecting them in a drop
down menu after tick No tex typography.
My problem is that when i do that I always get an LyX error saying:

  \char_make_active:n

{20}%

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 don't know why is this happening... please help me, I just need Arial
font and that's it!


Hi,

I've seen this recently on 2.0.1 and there was someone with that issue 
recently on the list (thread problem with xetex-option, end of September).
I think that it's due to some recent xetex breakage (the l3* packages, 
IIRC), which may be fixed by now (I do not have the bug any more). If 
you are using miktex, you may try to update the packages (try to update 
the l3* packages only at first), then reconfigure LyX.


This seems confirmed by some googling:
http://cfc.kizzx2.com/index.php/miktex-xetex-char_make_activen-20-problem-and-the-solution/

Best regards,

Olivier




Thankyou  in advance...

Need LyX 1.6.10 Configuration file for Windows 32 bit

[Keith Roberts]

Greetings all.

I have trashed my Lyx Converter preferences, and cannot View 
DVI or Postscript files now.


Does anyone have a working LyX 1.6.10 windows config file I 
can use please? Or is there some way to restore the 
preferences to the originsl default values please?


Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Virgil Arrington]

When using the Quote environment with several consecutive paragraphs, I notice 
that the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs is narrower than the 
paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs and the surrounding Standard 
paragraphs.

I’d like to widen the spacing between successive Quote paragraphs to make it 
the same as the spacing between Standard paragraphs and Quote paragraphs.

Any ideas?

Virgil

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

[Helge Hafting]

On 18. okt. 2011 13:04, Hannu Vuolasaho wrote:





Hi!

I'm also writing my thesis with Lyx. My biggest problem is .doc
template. If I open it on Libreoffice, OpenOffice or MS Office with
different versions I get subtle changes in printout.


If these programs produce some differences, then the standard is
loosely specified. For surely they won't reject the _formatting_
of a thesis using their own template?


For example vertical space before image might change little and lines
length differ. Then there is the typesetting in Lyx. Lyx' fonts are
generally more readable than Office programs due proper kerning.

Now the problem comes. What is the right layout and how I reproduce
it with Lyx. If there is trick please tell to list also.


For the document, just use the same font and text size as their
template uses.

All word processors have some differences in
line breaking, page breaking and spacing between figures. This
should not matter to a university, as long as your thesis
isn't _very_ different from the rest.

They may be more strict about the front page. Try to match the
layout closely, use insert-formatting and vertical spacing
or horizontal spacing as needed. Boxes are also sometimes useful for
positioning stuff. Experiment with font sizes to match what
they want.

Make a test printout, and ask the professor if the layout is ok.
If he find the question strange, just explain that you use a
different word processor so you can't use their .doc template directly.


Also references are different. I never learned bibtext enough to give
right style of reference list. Now I have page which is list of my
references and then I cross-reference to them. It is also irritating
that you can't cross reference to say Fig 1 without labeling it. Or
have I missed something?


To cross-reference a figure, it must have a label. It is the
label that generates the referencable number. Also - how should people
find figure 5 in the printed document, if the figure isn't captioned 
with the text figure 5 ?  (It is possible to reference the page

number, but there can be several small figures on the same page.)

It is possible to have page references to something without a caption,
if you really want that. you can insert a label anywhere in text, and
refer to that. But there is no guarantee that the document won't have
a page break between the figure and the label. A caption does not have 
that problem.


If entering figures is too much work, consider other ways of doing it.
I normally copy+paste some existing figure, then I change the filename
in the new figure. That way, I get a figure inside a float with a
caption - without having to enter everything through the menu system.


And last thing. I'm not professional with Lyx and I still learn a lot
with it. And problems that I mentionned might not be real problems. I
haven't just found solutions yet.


Well, just ask here when you get problems. People are usually helpful.
Also ask if something seems very cumbersome. There may be an easier way.
Many menu choices have hotkeys, for example. That can save a lot
of work for stuff you do often.

Helge Hafting

Re: About the tikz/pgf in lyx

[Helge Hafting]

On 18. okt. 2011 18:39, Wei-Dong Lian wrote:

hi everyone,

I am adapting the tikz figures into lyx. I can generate tikz codes in
a separated file, name with *.tikz.
The idea is to generate tikz codes for drawing in each file but control
their styles globally. The line width, font size, colors or other styles
will be consistent throughout the whole document. Even if in several
generated tikz files you want special style, you can just modify that
file and suppress the global style options.

Now if in latex, we can replace 'includegraphics' with 'input' in the
following tex code. it works well.
***
\begin{figure}[h]
   \centering
   \includegraphics{}
   \caption{caption}
   \label{waiting for reftex-label call...}
\end{figure}
***
But in lyx, we need to add ERT code 'input{*.tikz}' for each figure.
This is not consistent with the Insert Graphics of Lyx. So I want still
use the Insert Graphics in lyx to treat tikz as a image file as *.eps,
*.png.


Tikz files can be included without ERT - at least files made with qtikz.


I wonder if we could redefine the \includegraphics{*.tikz} to
input{*.tikz} for the specific extension file, Or  from the FileFormat
Settings for tikz in the preference dialog, does it exist some possible
solutions for tikz?



In LyX:
First, add tikz support to the document preamble:
Document-settings-LaTeX Preamble
Type this in the box:
\usepackage{tikz}
Also add any \usetikzlibrary stuff you need.

Then, to insert a tikz file in the main window:
Insert-File-Child Document

You will get a dialog. This can be used to insert lyx or tex files. And 
a tikz file is really a tex file. So:

Type in the filename of your tikz file. e.g. filename.tikz
Use the include type input to get the tikz figure right there, or
the include type include to get the tikz figure on a new page.

This works for me, at least for tikz files like this one:
\begin{tikzpicture}
grow=down

\node (test) [shape=circle,draw] {
  test
}
child {node [shape=circle,draw] {b}}
child {node [shape=rectangle,draw] {a}};

\end{tikzpicture}

tikz code can also be written directly into an ERT box, if you
want to have the image embedded in the LyX file instead of
in a file of its own.

Helge Hafting

Re: Beamer and greyed-out items

[Julio Rojas]

Thanks Paul. It worked like a charm. Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Paul Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote:
 Julio Rojas jcredberry at gmail.com writes:


 Dear all. In a beamer presentation I would like to have greyed-out
 items after a pause environment. Right now they do not appear until it
 is their turn to appear. For me it is easier to know in advance what
 are the items I'm going to talk about in each slide, so I don't start
 wandering around, possibly going ahead in my presentation.

 I hope it is clear what I want. Thanks in advance.


 Try \setbeamercovered{transparent} in the preamble.  You can adjust how dark 
 the
 hidden text is by setting a value between 0 and 100 for transparent, e.g.
 \setbeamercovered{transparent=25}.

 Paul

Removing Biblatex?

[Lastalda Felina]

I'm trying to find a citation style for my thesis that works for me.
To do that, I've tried out various things, including Biblatex. The
attempt showed me I would rather not use this. But now there seems no
way back?

I have included biblatex according to the guide here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex
And now there seems no way of letting Lyx forget about biblatex. I've
deleted the module-file, removed the module in Document settings and
removed every latex header part involved, then reconfigured. I've even
rebooted the computer.

Still, when I now add a normal bibtex bibliography, I get a number of
errors, including LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble.
pointing to  \bibliography. So I think Lyx still thinks that
biblatex is active.

Does that mean I cannot avoid using biblatex anymore except maybe by
re-installing Lyx (which takes several hours, I'd really rather not do
this!)?

Can anybody please help me? Any advice at all?

Lastalda

Re: Removing Biblatex?

[Julio Rojas]

Dear Lastalda, check at the end of the document, because you might
have a \printbibliography command that you haven't eliminated.
Obviously, I guess you have already remove the \usepackage{biblatex}
used to declare your intention on using biblatex.

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Lastalda Felina
lasta...@googlemail.com wrote:
 I'm trying to find a citation style for my thesis that works for me.
 To do that, I've tried out various things, including Biblatex. The
 attempt showed me I would rather not use this. But now there seems no
 way back?

 I have included biblatex according to the guide here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex
 And now there seems no way of letting Lyx forget about biblatex. I've
 deleted the module-file, removed the module in Document settings and
 removed every latex header part involved, then reconfigured. I've even
 rebooted the computer.

 Still, when I now add a normal bibtex bibliography, I get a number of
 errors, including LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble.
 pointing to  \bibliography. So I think Lyx still thinks that
 biblatex is active.

 Does that mean I cannot avoid using biblatex anymore except maybe by
 re-installing Lyx (which takes several hours, I'd really rather not do
 this!)?

 Can anybody please help me? Any advice at all?

 Lastalda

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Richard Heck]

On 10/19/2011 08:39 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
When using the Quote environment with several consecutive paragraphs, 
I notice that the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs is 
narrower than the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs and 
the surrounding Standard paragraphs.
I'd like to widen the spacing between successive Quote paragraphs to 
make it the same as the spacing between Standard paragraphs and Quote 
paragraphs.

Any ideas?
To do this, you will need to modify the quote environment itself. 
Exactly how to do this will depend upon what document class you are 
using, but quote is generally defined as a list with only one item, 
e.g., in article.cls:


\newenvironment{quote}
   {\list{}{\rightmargin\leftmargin}%
\item\relax}
   {\endlist}

Inter-paragraph spacing within the quote is therefore controlled, as you 
can see here:

http://latex.computersci.org/Reference/ListEnvironments
by the \parsep length. So, if you are using article (or book, which has 
the same declaration), you could try doing something like:


\renewenvironment{quote}
   {\list{}{%
 \rightmargin\leftmargin%
 \parsep\parskip}%
\item\relax}
   {\endlist}

I think that will set \parsep to be whatever \parskip is (where that is 
what controls paragraph spacing in normal text), but if not, then try: 
\parsep\mediumskip, or whatever you have set \parskip to be.


Richard

Re: Borders in multi-row Table Elements

[Tim Wescott]

Thanks Francesco.

It's not the worlds prettiest work-around, but at least its a work
around.

On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 11:26 +0200, Francesco Menoncin wrote:
 Dear Tim,
 
 I had the very same problem and I already notified it (it is now in
 the to do list for the next version of LyX).
 
 The only way to solve the problem is to use the command multirow in
 ERT environmente as you can see in the attached file (do not forget to
 call the package multirow in the preamble).
 
 Francesco
 
 Il 19/10/2011 01:24, Tim Wescott ha scritto: 
  See the attached document in Lyx.
  
  Then see it in pdf.
  
  The two places on the right where rows are combined lose the border in
  the transition.
  
  What's wrong?
  
  How can I fix this?
  
 
 
 -- 
 
 Francesco Menoncin
 Università degli Studi di Brescia
 Facoltà di Economia
 Via S. Faustino, 74/B
 25122 Brescia (Italy)
 Tel: 0039-030-2988806
 Fax: 0039-030-2988837
 E-mail: menon...@eco.unibs.it
 web: www.eco.unibs.it/~menoncin/
 

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www.wescottdesign.com
Control  Communications systems, circuit  software design.

Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

[Keith Roberts]

Hello Jens.

Thanks for that link. I will check that out ASAP.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Jens Nöckel wrote:


To: Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net
From: Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu
Subject: Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

Here is one that I point people to - there may be newer ones I'm not aware of, 
but this should give you the flavor:

Introduction to Latex and Lyx
http://youtu.be/m4cEAVmLegg

Jens

On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:


Hi. Thanks for LyX which I think is an awesome piece of software!

Are there any introductory screencast tutorials that will show a complete 
beginner how to use LyX to do some basic eiting tasks, and then how to generate 
the appropriate DVI and PDF output for the edited document please?

Something that will also show how LyX can generate the contents page, and 
update that as the user edits the .lyx source file would be handy.

I think the tutorial on the website is far too technical and maths related, for 
a LyX newbie that just wants to create a nice PDF text document.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

[Keith Roberts]

Thanks Liviu.

Will take a look at that soon.

Keith


On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Liviu Andronic wrote:


To: Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net
From: Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net wrote:

Hi. Thanks for LyX which I think is an awesome piece of software!

Are there any introductory screencast tutorials that will show a complete
beginner how to use LyX to do some basic eiting tasks, and then how to
generate the appropriate DVI and PDF output for the edited document please?

Something that will also show how LyX can generate the contents page, and
update that as the user edits the .lyx source file would be handy.

I think the tutorial on the website is far too technical and maths related,
for a LyX newbie that just wants to create a nice PDF text document.


Not a screencast, but try LyX Essentials [1], including the .zip that
contains the corresponding .lyx file, and Help  Tutorial. Otherwise,
once you get at a minimum familiar with LyX, go to File  New from
Template and try these out. Also look into the Examples dir.

Regards
Liviu

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/tsewiki/resources/latex



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Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Virgil Arrington]

Richard,

Thanks for the tip.

The line \parsep\parskip% didn’t work. It removed all spacing between my quote 
paragraphs.

But, I combined your suggestion with some other things I’ve tried and came up 
with the following that worked:

\renewenvironment{quote}
{\list{}{%
\rightmargin\leftmargin%
\setlength{\parsep}{1em}}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist}

Thanks again.

Virgil

(I really should get a good LaTeX manual)


From: Richard Heck 
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:52 AM
To: Virgil Arrington 
Cc: lyx-users-group 
Subject: Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

On 10/19/2011 08:39 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: 
  When using the Quote environment with several consecutive paragraphs, I 
notice that the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs is narrower than 
the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs and the surrounding Standard 
paragraphs.

  I’d like to widen the spacing between successive Quote paragraphs to make it 
the same as the spacing between Standard paragraphs and Quote paragraphs.

  Any ideas?

To do this, you will need to modify the quote environment itself. Exactly how 
to do this will depend upon what document class you are using, but quote is 
generally defined as a list with only one item, e.g., in article.cls:

\newenvironment{quote}
   {\list{}{\rightmargin\leftmargin}%
\item\relax}
   {\endlist}

Inter-paragraph spacing within the quote is therefore controlled, as you can 
see here:
http://latex.computersci.org/Reference/ListEnvironments
by the \parsep length. So, if you are using article (or book, which has the 
same declaration), you could try doing something like:

\renewenvironment{quote}
   {\list{}{%
 \rightmargin\leftmargin%
 \parsep\parskip}%
\item\relax}
   {\endlist}

I think that will set \parsep to be whatever \parskip is (where that is what 
controls paragraph spacing in normal text), but if not, then try: 
\parsep\mediumskip, or whatever you have set \parskip to be.

Richard

Lyx crash OS X with Dragon Dictate

[Steven Daniel]

 hello,
Firstly, thank you for all the work done on Lyx I have been using
 from the beginning a great program.

 I am having continual issues with Lyx  LyX-2.0.1+qt4  crashing. 
This most often occurs when utilizing 
Dragon Dictate to dictate into LYX.
 As I have broken one of my hands, this is become a real issue for me.
 It is also crashed as I was descending through directory structures to find a 
file.

Yesterday, I reinstalled the LYX.  
This fixed the problem for several hours but now I'm having repeated 
problems again. 

 Thanks in advance for any suggestions.  Mac OS X  version 10.7.2  build 11 C 74

Re: Removing Biblatex?

[Lastalda Felina]

Huh. Ok, I just restarted it to check, and now it works. Weird.
Thanks for your suggestion, though. :)

2011/10/19 Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com:
 Dear Lastalda, check at the end of the document, because you might
 have a \printbibliography command that you haven't eliminated.
 Obviously, I guess you have already remove the \usepackage{biblatex}
 used to declare your intention on using biblatex.

 Regards.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com



 On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Lastalda Felina
 lasta...@googlemail.com wrote:
 I'm trying to find a citation style for my thesis that works for me.
 To do that, I've tried out various things, including Biblatex. The
 attempt showed me I would rather not use this. But now there seems no
 way back?

 I have included biblatex according to the guide here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex
 And now there seems no way of letting Lyx forget about biblatex. I've
 deleted the module-file, removed the module in Document settings and
 removed every latex header part involved, then reconfigured. I've even
 rebooted the computer.

 Still, when I now add a normal bibtex bibliography, I get a number of
 errors, including LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble.
 pointing to  \bibliography. So I think Lyx still thinks that
 biblatex is active.

 Does that mean I cannot avoid using biblatex anymore except maybe by
 re-installing Lyx (which takes several hours, I'd really rather not do
 this!)?

 Can anybody please help me? Any advice at all?

 Lastalda





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Re: Lyx crash OS X with Dragon Dictate

[Stephan Witt]

Am 19.10.2011 um 19:29 schrieb Steven Daniel:

 hello,
 Firstly, thank you for all the work done on Lyx I have been using
 from the beginning a great program.
 
 I am having continual issues with Lyx  LyX-2.0.1+qt4  crashing. 
 This most often occurs when utilizing 
 Dragon Dictate to dictate into LYX.
 As I have broken one of my hands, this is become a real issue for me.
 It is also crashed as I was descending through directory structures to find a 
 file.
 
 Yesterday, I reinstalled the LYX.  
 This fixed the problem for several hours but now I'm having repeated 
 problems again. 
 
 Thanks in advance for any suggestions.  Mac OS X  version 10.7.2  build 11 C 
 74

Did you install from LyX-2.0.1+qt4-cocoa.dmg or LyX-2.0.1+qt4.dmg?
If you've used the latter, can you try the former, please.

Stephan 

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Richard Heck]

On 10/19/2011 01:14 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:

Richard,
Thanks for the tip.
The line \parsep\parskip% didn't work. It removed all spacing between 
my quote paragraphs.
But, I combined your suggestion with some other things I've tried and 
came up with the following that worked:

\renewenvironment{quote}
{\list{}{%
\rightmargin\leftmargin%
\setlength{\parsep}{1em}}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist}
The only downside to this is that it will do the wrong thing if you have 
quotes in footnotes: The skip will be too big. But if it works for now, 
that's fine.


Richard


(I really should get a good LaTeX manual)


http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/
http://makingtexwork.sourceforge.net/mtw/

There are other good online things, too.

Richard

Re: Lyx crash OS X with Dragon Dictate

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Dragon Dictate does not work very well with LyX. I had to dictate into
AlphaX and import from there into LyX.

el

On 10/19/11 9:29 PM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 19.10.2011 um 19:29 schrieb Steven Daniel:
 
 hello,
 Firstly, thank you for all the work done on Lyx I have been using
 from the beginning a great program.

 I am having continual issues with Lyx  LyX-2.0.1+qt4  crashing. 
 This most often occurs when utilizing 
 Dragon Dictate to dictate into LYX.
 As I have broken one of my hands, this is become a real issue for me.
 It is also crashed as I was descending through directory structures to find 
 a file.

 Yesterday, I reinstalled the LYX.  
 This fixed the problem for several hours but now I'm having repeated 
 problems again. 

 Thanks in advance for any suggestions.  Mac OS X  version 10.7.2  build 11 C 
 74
 
 Did you install from LyX-2.0.1+qt4-cocoa.dmg or LyX-2.0.1+qt4.dmg?
 If you've used the latter, can you try the former, please.
 
 Stephan 

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Virgil Arrington]

Thanks for the caution.

I rarely use footnotes, and can’t imagine putting a quote in one, so I think 
I’m okay.

Virgil

From: Richard Heck 
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:41 PM
To: Virgil Arrington 
Cc: lyx-users-group 
Subject: Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

On 10/19/2011 01:14 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: 
  Richard,

  Thanks for the tip.

  The line \parsep\parskip% didn’t work. It removed all spacing between my 
quote paragraphs.

  But, I combined your suggestion with some other things I’ve tried and came up 
with the following that worked:

  \renewenvironment{quote}
  {\list{}{%
  \rightmargin\leftmargin%
  \setlength{\parsep}{1em}}%
  \item\relax}
  {\endlist}

The only downside to this is that it will do the wrong thing if you have quotes 
in footnotes: The skip will be too big. But if it works for now, that's fine.

Richard


  (I really should get a good LaTeX manual)


http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/
http://makingtexwork.sourceforge.net/mtw/

There are other good online things, too.

Richard

Re: Need LyX 1.6.10 Configuration file for Windows 32 bit

[Julien Rioux]

On 19/10/2011 2:09 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:

Greetings all.

I have trashed my Lyx Converter preferences, and cannot View DVI or
Postscript files now.

Does anyone have a working LyX 1.6.10 windows config file I can use
please? Or is there some way to restore the preferences to the originsl
default values please?

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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Hi,
Did you already try the menu Tools  Reconfigure, then restarting LyX? 
Does that saves you?


Cheers,
Julien

Re: mathdots.sty not found in Math-Help-file

[Guenter Milde]

On 2011-10-16, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
 On Sunday 16 October 2011 06:06:02 Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Am 14.10.2011 08:19, schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:


 mhchem.sty not found
 and:
  \usepackage
 [unicode=true,^^M
 *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)

 I searched for
 mhchem.sty
 in the preamble with no success

It's auto-loaded by LyX, not in the custom preamble.
You should see it in ViewSource with view complete document checked.

 I see at the begin of the math file
 Eine Ausnahme ist mhchem; wenn es nicht installiert ist, kann dieses 
 Dokument nicht exportiert werden.

That is exactly what you experienced: without the package, the document does
not compile.

 Not sure what this means exactly: does lyx not find the mhchem or is it 
 completely missing. I thought texlive 2010 takes care of the package.

Other than MikTeX, texlive does not auto-install missing packages. On my
Debian system, mhchem is in texlive-science. On a recent,
non-Linux-distribution-based TeXLive installation, you should start tlmgr
and search/install the package.

Günter

Windows Binaries Wiki Page

[Phil Fong]

The Windows Binaries Wiki page linked from the main downloads page, 
http://www.lyx.org/Download, still shows 1.6.9 as the stable version for 
Windows. Is this intentional?
I know that there is no official 2.0.1 Windows binary but I have been using the 
official 2.0.0 build.

Phil

Re: Borders in multi-row Table Elements

[Francesco Menoncin]

Dear Tim,

I had the very same problem and I already notified it (it is now in the 
to do list for the next version of LyX).


The only way to solve the problem is to use the command multirow in 
ERT environmente as you can see in the attached file (do not forget to 
call the package multirow in the preamble).


Francesco

Il 19/10/2011 01:24, Tim Wescott ha scritto:

See the attached document in Lyx.

Then see it in pdf.

The two places on the right where rows are combined lose the border in
the transition.

What's wrong?

How can I fix this?




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Università degli Studi di Brescia
Facoltà di Economia
Via S. Faustino, 74/B
25122 Brescia (Italy)
Tel: 0039-030-2988806
Fax: 0039-030-2988837
E-mail: menon...@eco.unibs.it
web: www.eco.unibs.it/~menoncin/




test-new.lyx
Description: application/lyx

British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

[Graham Smith]

I'm not exactly sure where the problem lies with this, but if I include a
£ symbol in an graph legend, I get £ in the PDF.

I am on Snow Leopard and Lyx 2.0.0.

It doesn't happen when I generate graphs from R and save as PDF, so it seems
to be a Lyx/Latex/Sweave thing.

As so often is the case searching for an answer has proved fruitless,as a I
can't come up with meaningful search terms.

But I am sure this has cropped up before.

Any help much appreciated.

Graham

Re: British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

[Graham Smith]

Ok, to reply to myself, I have just realised that the first time I compiled
this file I got a dialog box asking about encoding, and I chose the default
UTF -8 encoding. Could this be where the problem lies and, if it does, how
do i now sort it.

Which encoding should I have chosen, if that is the issues.

Graham

On 19 October 2011 10:45, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'm not exactly sure where the problem lies with this, but if I include a
 £ symbol in an graph legend, I get £ in the PDF.

 I am on Snow Leopard and Lyx 2.0.0.

 It doesn't happen when I generate graphs from R and save as PDF, so it
 seems to be a Lyx/Latex/Sweave thing.

 As so often is the case searching for an answer has proved fruitless,as a I
 can't come up with meaningful search terms.

 But I am sure this has cropped up before.

 Any help much appreciated.

 Graham

Re: British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
 I'm not exactly sure where the problem lies with this, but if I include a
 £ symbol in an graph legend, I get £ in the PDF.
 I am on Snow Leopard and Lyx 2.0.0.
 It doesn't happen when I generate graphs from R and save as PDF, so it seems
 to be a Lyx/Latex/Sweave thing.
 As so often is the case searching for an answer has proved fruitless,as a I
 can't come up with meaningful search terms.
 But I am sure this has cropped up before.
 Any help much appreciated.

Have you tried to switch Doc Setting  Language  Encoding to
something other than Default? Experiment with the various 'utf8'
flavours, and also try compiling with XeTeX.

Liviu

Re: Arial fonts LyX Windows

[Olivier Ripoll]

On 19.10.2011 07:31, Kenedy Torcatt wrote:

Hello, first of all, I'm a windows user. I've installed LyX 2.0 recently
and I saw that now we can use the windows fonts selecting them in a drop
down menu after tick No tex typography.
My problem is that when i do that I always get an LyX error saying:

  \char_make_active:n

{20}%

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 don't know why is this happening... please help me, I just need Arial
font and that's it!


Hi,

I've seen this recently on 2.0.1 and there was someone with that issue 
recently on the list (thread problem with xetex-option, end of September).
I think that it's due to some recent xetex breakage (the l3* packages, 
IIRC), which may be fixed by now (I do not have the bug any more). If 
you are using miktex, you may try to update the packages (try to update 
the l3* packages only at first), then reconfigure LyX.


This seems confirmed by some googling:
http://cfc.kizzx2.com/index.php/miktex-xetex-char_make_activen-20-problem-and-the-solution/

Best regards,

Olivier




Thankyou  in advance...

Need LyX 1.6.10 Configuration file for Windows 32 bit

[Keith Roberts]

Greetings all.

I have trashed my Lyx Converter preferences, and cannot View 
DVI or Postscript files now.


Does anyone have a working LyX 1.6.10 windows config file I 
can use please? Or is there some way to restore the 
preferences to the originsl default values please?


Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Virgil Arrington]

When using the Quote environment with several consecutive paragraphs, I notice 
that the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs is narrower than the 
paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs and the surrounding Standard 
paragraphs.

I’d like to widen the spacing between successive Quote paragraphs to make it 
the same as the spacing between Standard paragraphs and Quote paragraphs.

Any ideas?

Virgil

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

[Helge Hafting]

On 18. okt. 2011 13:04, Hannu Vuolasaho wrote:





Hi!

I'm also writing my thesis with Lyx. My biggest problem is .doc
template. If I open it on Libreoffice, OpenOffice or MS Office with
different versions I get subtle changes in printout.


If these programs produce some differences, then the standard is
loosely specified. For surely they won't reject the _formatting_
of a thesis using their own template?


For example vertical space before image might change little and lines
length differ. Then there is the typesetting in Lyx. Lyx' fonts are
generally more readable than Office programs due proper kerning.

Now the problem comes. What is the right layout and how I reproduce
it with Lyx. If there is trick please tell to list also.


For the document, just use the same font and text size as their
template uses.

All word processors have some differences in
line breaking, page breaking and spacing between figures. This
should not matter to a university, as long as your thesis
isn't _very_ different from the rest.

They may be more strict about the front page. Try to match the
layout closely, use insert-formatting and vertical spacing
or horizontal spacing as needed. Boxes are also sometimes useful for
positioning stuff. Experiment with font sizes to match what
they want.

Make a test printout, and ask the professor if the layout is ok.
If he find the question strange, just explain that you use a
different word processor so you can't use their .doc template directly.


Also references are different. I never learned bibtext enough to give
right style of reference list. Now I have page which is list of my
references and then I cross-reference to them. It is also irritating
that you can't cross reference to say Fig 1 without labeling it. Or
have I missed something?


To cross-reference a figure, it must have a label. It is the
label that generates the referencable number. Also - how should people
find figure 5 in the printed document, if the figure isn't captioned 
with the text figure 5 ?  (It is possible to reference the page

number, but there can be several small figures on the same page.)

It is possible to have page references to something without a caption,
if you really want that. you can insert a label anywhere in text, and
refer to that. But there is no guarantee that the document won't have
a page break between the figure and the label. A caption does not have 
that problem.


If entering figures is too much work, consider other ways of doing it.
I normally copy+paste some existing figure, then I change the filename
in the new figure. That way, I get a figure inside a float with a
caption - without having to enter everything through the menu system.


And last thing. I'm not professional with Lyx and I still learn a lot
with it. And problems that I mentionned might not be real problems. I
haven't just found solutions yet.


Well, just ask here when you get problems. People are usually helpful.
Also ask if something seems very cumbersome. There may be an easier way.
Many menu choices have hotkeys, for example. That can save a lot
of work for stuff you do often.

Helge Hafting

Re: About the tikz/pgf in lyx

[Helge Hafting]

On 18. okt. 2011 18:39, Wei-Dong Lian wrote:

hi everyone,

I am adapting the tikz figures into lyx. I can generate tikz codes in
a separated file, name with *.tikz.
The idea is to generate tikz codes for drawing in each file but control
their styles globally. The line width, font size, colors or other styles
will be consistent throughout the whole document. Even if in several
generated tikz files you want special style, you can just modify that
file and suppress the global style options.

Now if in latex, we can replace 'includegraphics' with 'input' in the
following tex code. it works well.
***
\begin{figure}[h]
   \centering
   \includegraphics{}
   \caption{caption}
   \label{waiting for reftex-label call...}
\end{figure}
***
But in lyx, we need to add ERT code 'input{*.tikz}' for each figure.
This is not consistent with the Insert Graphics of Lyx. So I want still
use the Insert Graphics in lyx to treat tikz as a image file as *.eps,
*.png.


Tikz files can be included without ERT - at least files made with qtikz.


I wonder if we could redefine the \includegraphics{*.tikz} to
input{*.tikz} for the specific extension file, Or  from the FileFormat
Settings for tikz in the preference dialog, does it exist some possible
solutions for tikz?



In LyX:
First, add tikz support to the document preamble:
Document-settings-LaTeX Preamble
Type this in the box:
\usepackage{tikz}
Also add any \usetikzlibrary stuff you need.

Then, to insert a tikz file in the main window:
Insert-File-Child Document

You will get a dialog. This can be used to insert lyx or tex files. And 
a tikz file is really a tex file. So:

Type in the filename of your tikz file. e.g. filename.tikz
Use the include type input to get the tikz figure right there, or
the include type include to get the tikz figure on a new page.

This works for me, at least for tikz files like this one:
\begin{tikzpicture}
grow=down

\node (test) [shape=circle,draw] {
  test
}
child {node [shape=circle,draw] {b}}
child {node [shape=rectangle,draw] {a}};

\end{tikzpicture}

tikz code can also be written directly into an ERT box, if you
want to have the image embedded in the LyX file instead of
in a file of its own.

Helge Hafting

Re: Beamer and greyed-out items

[Julio Rojas]

Thanks Paul. It worked like a charm. Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Paul Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote:
 Julio Rojas jcredberry at gmail.com writes:


 Dear all. In a beamer presentation I would like to have greyed-out
 items after a pause environment. Right now they do not appear until it
 is their turn to appear. For me it is easier to know in advance what
 are the items I'm going to talk about in each slide, so I don't start
 wandering around, possibly going ahead in my presentation.

 I hope it is clear what I want. Thanks in advance.


 Try \setbeamercovered{transparent} in the preamble.  You can adjust how dark 
 the
 hidden text is by setting a value between 0 and 100 for transparent, e.g.
 \setbeamercovered{transparent=25}.

 Paul

Removing Biblatex?

[Lastalda Felina]

I'm trying to find a citation style for my thesis that works for me.
To do that, I've tried out various things, including Biblatex. The
attempt showed me I would rather not use this. But now there seems no
way back?

I have included biblatex according to the guide here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex
And now there seems no way of letting Lyx forget about biblatex. I've
deleted the module-file, removed the module in Document settings and
removed every latex header part involved, then reconfigured. I've even
rebooted the computer.

Still, when I now add a normal bibtex bibliography, I get a number of
errors, including LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble.
pointing to  \bibliography. So I think Lyx still thinks that
biblatex is active.

Does that mean I cannot avoid using biblatex anymore except maybe by
re-installing Lyx (which takes several hours, I'd really rather not do
this!)?

Can anybody please help me? Any advice at all?

Lastalda

Re: Removing Biblatex?

[Julio Rojas]

Dear Lastalda, check at the end of the document, because you might
have a \printbibliography command that you haven't eliminated.
Obviously, I guess you have already remove the \usepackage{biblatex}
used to declare your intention on using biblatex.

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Lastalda Felina
lasta...@googlemail.com wrote:
 I'm trying to find a citation style for my thesis that works for me.
 To do that, I've tried out various things, including Biblatex. The
 attempt showed me I would rather not use this. But now there seems no
 way back?

 I have included biblatex according to the guide here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex
 And now there seems no way of letting Lyx forget about biblatex. I've
 deleted the module-file, removed the module in Document settings and
 removed every latex header part involved, then reconfigured. I've even
 rebooted the computer.

 Still, when I now add a normal bibtex bibliography, I get a number of
 errors, including LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble.
 pointing to  \bibliography. So I think Lyx still thinks that
 biblatex is active.

 Does that mean I cannot avoid using biblatex anymore except maybe by
 re-installing Lyx (which takes several hours, I'd really rather not do
 this!)?

 Can anybody please help me? Any advice at all?

 Lastalda

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Richard Heck]

On 10/19/2011 08:39 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
When using the Quote environment with several consecutive paragraphs, 
I notice that the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs is 
narrower than the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs and 
the surrounding Standard paragraphs.
I'd like to widen the spacing between successive Quote paragraphs to 
make it the same as the spacing between Standard paragraphs and Quote 
paragraphs.

Any ideas?
To do this, you will need to modify the quote environment itself. 
Exactly how to do this will depend upon what document class you are 
using, but quote is generally defined as a list with only one item, 
e.g., in article.cls:


\newenvironment{quote}
   {\list{}{\rightmargin\leftmargin}%
\item\relax}
   {\endlist}

Inter-paragraph spacing within the quote is therefore controlled, as you 
can see here:

http://latex.computersci.org/Reference/ListEnvironments
by the \parsep length. So, if you are using article (or book, which has 
the same declaration), you could try doing something like:


\renewenvironment{quote}
   {\list{}{%
 \rightmargin\leftmargin%
 \parsep\parskip}%
\item\relax}
   {\endlist}

I think that will set \parsep to be whatever \parskip is (where that is 
what controls paragraph spacing in normal text), but if not, then try: 
\parsep\mediumskip, or whatever you have set \parskip to be.


Richard

Re: Borders in multi-row Table Elements

[Tim Wescott]

Thanks Francesco.

It's not the worlds prettiest work-around, but at least its a work
around.

On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 11:26 +0200, Francesco Menoncin wrote:
 Dear Tim,
 
 I had the very same problem and I already notified it (it is now in
 the to do list for the next version of LyX).
 
 The only way to solve the problem is to use the command multirow in
 ERT environmente as you can see in the attached file (do not forget to
 call the package multirow in the preamble).
 
 Francesco
 
 Il 19/10/2011 01:24, Tim Wescott ha scritto: 
  See the attached document in Lyx.
  
  Then see it in pdf.
  
  The two places on the right where rows are combined lose the border in
  the transition.
  
  What's wrong?
  
  How can I fix this?
  
 
 
 -- 
 
 Francesco Menoncin
 Università degli Studi di Brescia
 Facoltà di Economia
 Via S. Faustino, 74/B
 25122 Brescia (Italy)
 Tel: 0039-030-2988806
 Fax: 0039-030-2988837
 E-mail: menon...@eco.unibs.it
 web: www.eco.unibs.it/~menoncin/
 

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www.wescottdesign.com
Control  Communications systems, circuit  software design.

Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

[Keith Roberts]

Hello Jens.

Thanks for that link. I will check that out ASAP.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Jens Nöckel wrote:


To: Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net
From: Jens Nöckel noec...@uoregon.edu
Subject: Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

Here is one that I point people to - there may be newer ones I'm not aware of, 
but this should give you the flavor:

Introduction to Latex and Lyx
http://youtu.be/m4cEAVmLegg

Jens

On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:


Hi. Thanks for LyX which I think is an awesome piece of software!

Are there any introductory screencast tutorials that will show a complete 
beginner how to use LyX to do some basic eiting tasks, and then how to generate 
the appropriate DVI and PDF output for the edited document please?

Something that will also show how LyX can generate the contents page, and 
update that as the user edits the .lyx source file would be handy.

I think the tutorial on the website is far too technical and maths related, for 
a LyX newbie that just wants to create a nice PDF text document.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

[Keith Roberts]

Thanks Liviu.

Will take a look at that soon.

Keith


On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Liviu Andronic wrote:


To: Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net
From: Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net wrote:

Hi. Thanks for LyX which I think is an awesome piece of software!

Are there any introductory screencast tutorials that will show a complete
beginner how to use LyX to do some basic eiting tasks, and then how to
generate the appropriate DVI and PDF output for the edited document please?

Something that will also show how LyX can generate the contents page, and
update that as the user edits the .lyx source file would be handy.

I think the tutorial on the website is far too technical and maths related,
for a LyX newbie that just wants to create a nice PDF text document.


Not a screencast, but try LyX Essentials [1], including the .zip that
contains the corresponding .lyx file, and Help  Tutorial. Otherwise,
once you get at a minimum familiar with LyX, go to File  New from
Template and try these out. Also look into the Examples dir.

Regards
Liviu

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/tsewiki/resources/latex



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Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Virgil Arrington]

Richard,

Thanks for the tip.

The line \parsep\parskip% didn’t work. It removed all spacing between my quote 
paragraphs.

But, I combined your suggestion with some other things I’ve tried and came up 
with the following that worked:

\renewenvironment{quote}
{\list{}{%
\rightmargin\leftmargin%
\setlength{\parsep}{1em}}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist}

Thanks again.

Virgil

(I really should get a good LaTeX manual)


From: Richard Heck 
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:52 AM
To: Virgil Arrington 
Cc: lyx-users-group 
Subject: Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

On 10/19/2011 08:39 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: 
  When using the Quote environment with several consecutive paragraphs, I 
notice that the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs is narrower than 
the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs and the surrounding Standard 
paragraphs.

  I’d like to widen the spacing between successive Quote paragraphs to make it 
the same as the spacing between Standard paragraphs and Quote paragraphs.

  Any ideas?

To do this, you will need to modify the quote environment itself. Exactly how 
to do this will depend upon what document class you are using, but quote is 
generally defined as a list with only one item, e.g., in article.cls:

\newenvironment{quote}
   {\list{}{\rightmargin\leftmargin}%
\item\relax}
   {\endlist}

Inter-paragraph spacing within the quote is therefore controlled, as you can 
see here:
http://latex.computersci.org/Reference/ListEnvironments
by the \parsep length. So, if you are using article (or book, which has the 
same declaration), you could try doing something like:

\renewenvironment{quote}
   {\list{}{%
 \rightmargin\leftmargin%
 \parsep\parskip}%
\item\relax}
   {\endlist}

I think that will set \parsep to be whatever \parskip is (where that is what 
controls paragraph spacing in normal text), but if not, then try: 
\parsep\mediumskip, or whatever you have set \parskip to be.

Richard

Lyx crash OS X with Dragon Dictate

[Steven Daniel]

 hello,
Firstly, thank you for all the work done on Lyx I have been using
 from the beginning a great program.

 I am having continual issues with Lyx  LyX-2.0.1+qt4  crashing. 
This most often occurs when utilizing 
Dragon Dictate to dictate into LYX.
 As I have broken one of my hands, this is become a real issue for me.
 It is also crashed as I was descending through directory structures to find a 
file.

Yesterday, I reinstalled the LYX.  
This fixed the problem for several hours but now I'm having repeated 
problems again. 

 Thanks in advance for any suggestions.  Mac OS X  version 10.7.2  build 11 C 74

Re: Removing Biblatex?

[Lastalda Felina]

Huh. Ok, I just restarted it to check, and now it works. Weird.
Thanks for your suggestion, though. :)

2011/10/19 Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com:
 Dear Lastalda, check at the end of the document, because you might
 have a \printbibliography command that you haven't eliminated.
 Obviously, I guess you have already remove the \usepackage{biblatex}
 used to declare your intention on using biblatex.

 Regards.
 -
 Julio Rojas
 jcredbe...@gmail.com



 On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Lastalda Felina
 lasta...@googlemail.com wrote:
 I'm trying to find a citation style for my thesis that works for me.
 To do that, I've tried out various things, including Biblatex. The
 attempt showed me I would rather not use this. But now there seems no
 way back?

 I have included biblatex according to the guide here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex
 And now there seems no way of letting Lyx forget about biblatex. I've
 deleted the module-file, removed the module in Document settings and
 removed every latex header part involved, then reconfigured. I've even
 rebooted the computer.

 Still, when I now add a normal bibtex bibliography, I get a number of
 errors, including LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble.
 pointing to  \bibliography. So I think Lyx still thinks that
 biblatex is active.

 Does that mean I cannot avoid using biblatex anymore except maybe by
 re-installing Lyx (which takes several hours, I'd really rather not do
 this!)?

 Can anybody please help me? Any advice at all?

 Lastalda





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Re: Lyx crash OS X with Dragon Dictate

[Stephan Witt]

Am 19.10.2011 um 19:29 schrieb Steven Daniel:

 hello,
 Firstly, thank you for all the work done on Lyx I have been using
 from the beginning a great program.
 
 I am having continual issues with Lyx  LyX-2.0.1+qt4  crashing. 
 This most often occurs when utilizing 
 Dragon Dictate to dictate into LYX.
 As I have broken one of my hands, this is become a real issue for me.
 It is also crashed as I was descending through directory structures to find a 
 file.
 
 Yesterday, I reinstalled the LYX.  
 This fixed the problem for several hours but now I'm having repeated 
 problems again. 
 
 Thanks in advance for any suggestions.  Mac OS X  version 10.7.2  build 11 C 
 74

Did you install from LyX-2.0.1+qt4-cocoa.dmg or LyX-2.0.1+qt4.dmg?
If you've used the latter, can you try the former, please.

Stephan 

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Richard Heck]

On 10/19/2011 01:14 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:

Richard,
Thanks for the tip.
The line \parsep\parskip% didn't work. It removed all spacing between 
my quote paragraphs.
But, I combined your suggestion with some other things I've tried and 
came up with the following that worked:

\renewenvironment{quote}
{\list{}{%
\rightmargin\leftmargin%
\setlength{\parsep}{1em}}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist}
The only downside to this is that it will do the wrong thing if you have 
quotes in footnotes: The skip will be too big. But if it works for now, 
that's fine.


Richard


(I really should get a good LaTeX manual)


http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/
http://makingtexwork.sourceforge.net/mtw/

There are other good online things, too.

Richard

Re: Lyx crash OS X with Dragon Dictate

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Dragon Dictate does not work very well with LyX. I had to dictate into
AlphaX and import from there into LyX.

el

On 10/19/11 9:29 PM, Stephan Witt wrote:
 Am 19.10.2011 um 19:29 schrieb Steven Daniel:
 
 hello,
 Firstly, thank you for all the work done on Lyx I have been using
 from the beginning a great program.

 I am having continual issues with Lyx  LyX-2.0.1+qt4  crashing. 
 This most often occurs when utilizing 
 Dragon Dictate to dictate into LYX.
 As I have broken one of my hands, this is become a real issue for me.
 It is also crashed as I was descending through directory structures to find 
 a file.

 Yesterday, I reinstalled the LYX.  
 This fixed the problem for several hours but now I'm having repeated 
 problems again. 

 Thanks in advance for any suggestions.  Mac OS X  version 10.7.2  build 11 C 
 74
 
 Did you install from LyX-2.0.1+qt4-cocoa.dmg or LyX-2.0.1+qt4.dmg?
 If you've used the latter, can you try the former, please.
 
 Stephan 

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Virgil Arrington]

Thanks for the caution.

I rarely use footnotes, and can’t imagine putting a quote in one, so I think 
I’m okay.

Virgil

From: Richard Heck 
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:41 PM
To: Virgil Arrington 
Cc: lyx-users-group 
Subject: Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

On 10/19/2011 01:14 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: 
  Richard,

  Thanks for the tip.

  The line \parsep\parskip% didn’t work. It removed all spacing between my 
quote paragraphs.

  But, I combined your suggestion with some other things I’ve tried and came up 
with the following that worked:

  \renewenvironment{quote}
  {\list{}{%
  \rightmargin\leftmargin%
  \setlength{\parsep}{1em}}%
  \item\relax}
  {\endlist}

The only downside to this is that it will do the wrong thing if you have quotes 
in footnotes: The skip will be too big. But if it works for now, that's fine.

Richard


  (I really should get a good LaTeX manual)


http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/
http://makingtexwork.sourceforge.net/mtw/

There are other good online things, too.

Richard

Re: Need LyX 1.6.10 Configuration file for Windows 32 bit

[Julien Rioux]

On 19/10/2011 2:09 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:

Greetings all.

I have trashed my Lyx Converter preferences, and cannot View DVI or
Postscript files now.

Does anyone have a working LyX 1.6.10 windows config file I can use
please? Or is there some way to restore the preferences to the originsl
default values please?

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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Hi,
Did you already try the menu Tools  Reconfigure, then restarting LyX? 
Does that saves you?


Cheers,
Julien

Re: mathdots.sty not found in Math-Help-file

[Guenter Milde]

On 2011-10-16, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
 On Sunday 16 October 2011 06:06:02 Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Am 14.10.2011 08:19, schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:


 mhchem.sty not found
 and:
  \usepackage
 [unicode=true,^^M
 *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)

 I searched for
 mhchem.sty
 in the preamble with no success

It's auto-loaded by LyX, not in the custom preamble.
You should see it in ViewSource with view complete document checked.

 I see at the begin of the math file
 Eine Ausnahme ist mhchem; wenn es nicht installiert ist, kann dieses 
 Dokument nicht exportiert werden.

That is exactly what you experienced: without the package, the document does
not compile.

 Not sure what this means exactly: does lyx not find the mhchem or is it 
 completely missing. I thought texlive 2010 takes care of the package.

Other than MikTeX, texlive does not auto-install missing packages. On my
Debian system, mhchem is in texlive-science. On a recent,
non-Linux-distribution-based TeXLive installation, you should start tlmgr
and search/install the package.

Günter

Windows Binaries Wiki Page

[Phil Fong]

The Windows Binaries Wiki page linked from the main downloads page, 
http://www.lyx.org/Download, still shows 1.6.9 as the stable version for 
Windows. Is this intentional?
I know that there is no official 2.0.1 Windows binary but I have been using the 
official 2.0.0 build.

Phil

Re: Borders in "multi-row" Table Elements

[Francesco Menoncin]

Dear Tim,

I had the very same problem and I already notified it (it is now in the 
"to do" list for the next version of LyX).


The only way to solve the problem is to use the command "multirow" in 
ERT environmente as you can see in the attached file (do not forget to 
call the package "multirow" in the preamble).


Francesco

Il 19/10/2011 01:24, Tim Wescott ha scritto:

See the attached document in Lyx.

Then see it in pdf.

The two places on the right where rows are combined lose the border in
the transition.

What's wrong?

How can I fix this?




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Università degli Studi di Brescia
Facoltà di Economia
Via S. Faustino, 74/B
25122 Brescia (Italy)
Tel: 0039-030-2988806
Fax: 0039-030-2988837
E-mail: menon...@eco.unibs.it
web: www.eco.unibs.it/~menoncin/




test-new.lyx
Description: application/lyx

British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

[Graham Smith]

I'm not exactly sure where the problem lies with this, but if I include a
"£" symbol in an graph legend, I get "£" in the PDF.

I am on Snow Leopard and Lyx 2.0.0.

It doesn't happen when I generate graphs from R and save as PDF, so it seems
to be a Lyx/Latex/Sweave thing.

As so often is the case searching for an answer has proved fruitless,as a I
can't come up with meaningful search terms.

But I am sure this has cropped up before.

Any help much appreciated.

Graham

Re: British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

[Graham Smith]

Ok, to reply to myself, I have just realised that the first time I compiled
this file I got a dialog box asking about encoding, and I chose the default
UTF -8 encoding. Could this be where the problem lies and, if it does, how
do i now sort it.

Which encoding should I have chosen, if that is the issues.

Graham

On 19 October 2011 10:45, Graham Smith  wrote:

> I'm not exactly sure where the problem lies with this, but if I include a
> "£" symbol in an graph legend, I get "£" in the PDF.
>
> I am on Snow Leopard and Lyx 2.0.0.
>
> It doesn't happen when I generate graphs from R and save as PDF, so it
> seems to be a Lyx/Latex/Sweave thing.
>
> As so often is the case searching for an answer has proved fruitless,as a I
> can't come up with meaningful search terms.
>
> But I am sure this has cropped up before.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Graham
>

Re: British Pound symbol problem in Sweave PDF output

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Graham Smith  wrote:
> I'm not exactly sure where the problem lies with this, but if I include a
> "£" symbol in an graph legend, I get "£" in the PDF.
> I am on Snow Leopard and Lyx 2.0.0.
> It doesn't happen when I generate graphs from R and save as PDF, so it seems
> to be a Lyx/Latex/Sweave thing.
> As so often is the case searching for an answer has proved fruitless,as a I
> can't come up with meaningful search terms.
> But I am sure this has cropped up before.
> Any help much appreciated.
>
Have you tried to switch Doc Setting > Language > Encoding to
something other than Default? Experiment with the various 'utf8'
flavours, and also try compiling with XeTeX.

Liviu

Re: Arial fonts LyX Windows

[Olivier Ripoll]

On 19.10.2011 07:31, Kenedy Torcatt wrote:

Hello, first of all, I'm a windows user. I've installed LyX 2.0 recently
and I saw that now we can use the windows fonts selecting them in a drop
down menu after tick No tex typography.
My problem is that when i do that I always get an LyX error saying:

  \char_make_active:n

{"20}%

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 don't know why is this happening... please help me, I just need Arial
font and that's it!


Hi,

I've seen this recently on 2.0.1 and there was someone with that issue 
recently on the list (thread "problem with xetex-option", end of September).
I think that it's due to some recent xetex breakage (the l3* packages, 
IIRC), which may be fixed by now (I do not have the bug any more). If 
you are using miktex, you may try to update the packages (try to update 
the l3* packages only at first), then reconfigure LyX.


This seems confirmed by some googling:
http://cfc.kizzx2.com/index.php/miktex-xetex-char_make_activen-20-problem-and-the-solution/

Best regards,

Olivier




Thankyou  in advance...

Need LyX 1.6.10 Configuration file for Windows 32 bit

[Keith Roberts]

Greetings all.

I have trashed my Lyx Converter preferences, and cannot View 
DVI or Postscript files now.


Does anyone have a working LyX 1.6.10 windows config file I 
can use please? Or is there some way to restore the 
preferences to the originsl default values please?


Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Virgil Arrington]

When using the Quote environment with several consecutive paragraphs, I notice 
that the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs is narrower than the 
paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs and the surrounding Standard 
paragraphs.

I’d like to widen the spacing between successive Quote paragraphs to make it 
the same as the spacing between Standard paragraphs and Quote paragraphs.

Any ideas?

Virgil

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

[Helge Hafting]

On 18. okt. 2011 13:04, Hannu Vuolasaho wrote:





Hi!

I'm also writing my thesis with Lyx. My biggest problem is .doc
template. If I open it on Libreoffice, OpenOffice or MS Office with
different versions I get subtle changes in printout.


If these programs produce some differences, then the standard is
loosely specified. For surely they won't reject the _formatting_
of a thesis using their own template?


For example vertical space before image might change little and lines
length differ. Then there is the typesetting in Lyx. Lyx' fonts are
generally more readable than Office programs due proper kerning.

Now the problem comes. What is the right layout and how I reproduce
it with Lyx. If there is trick please tell to list also.


For the document, just use the same font and text size as their
template uses.

All word processors have some differences in
line breaking, page breaking and spacing between figures. This
should not matter to a university, as long as your thesis
isn't _very_ different from the rest.

They may be more strict about the front page. Try to match the
layout closely, use "insert->formatting" and vertical spacing
or horizontal spacing as needed. Boxes are also sometimes useful for
positioning stuff. Experiment with font sizes to match what
they want.

Make a test printout, and ask the professor if the layout is ok.
If he find the question strange, just explain that you use a
different word processor so you can't use their .doc template directly.


Also references are different. I never learned bibtext enough to give
right style of reference list. Now I have page which is list of my
references and then I cross-reference to them. It is also irritating
that you can't cross reference to say Fig 1 without labeling it. Or
have I missed something?


To cross-reference a figure, it must have a label. It is the
label that generates the referencable number. Also - how should people
find "figure 5" in the printed document, if the figure isn't captioned 
with the text "figure 5" ?  (It is possible to reference the page

number, but there can be several small figures on the same page.)

It is possible to have page references to something without a caption,
if you really want that. you can insert a label anywhere in text, and
refer to that. But there is no guarantee that the document won't have
a page break between the figure and the label. A caption does not have 
that problem.


If entering figures is too much work, consider other ways of doing it.
I normally copy+paste some existing figure, then I change the filename
in the new figure. That way, I get a figure inside a float with a
caption - without having to enter everything through the menu system.


And last thing. I'm not professional with Lyx and I still learn a lot
with it. And problems that I mentionned might not be real problems. I
haven't just found solutions yet.


Well, just ask here when you get problems. People are usually helpful.
Also ask if something seems very cumbersome. There may be an easier way.
Many menu choices have hotkeys, for example. That can save a lot
of work for stuff you do often.

Helge Hafting

Re: About the tikz/pgf in lyx

[Helge Hafting]

On 18. okt. 2011 18:39, Wei-Dong Lian wrote:

hi everyone,

I am adapting the tikz figures into lyx. I can generate tikz codes in
a separated file, name with *.tikz.
The idea is to generate tikz codes for drawing in each file but control
their styles globally. The line width, font size, colors or other styles
will be consistent throughout the whole document. Even if in several
generated tikz files you want special style, you can just modify that
file and suppress the global style options.

Now if in latex, we can replace 'includegraphics' with 'input' in the
following tex code. it works well.
***
\begin{figure}[h]
   \centering
   \includegraphics{}
   \caption{caption}
   \label{"waiting for reftex-label call..."}
\end{figure}
***
But in lyx, we need to add ERT code 'input{*.tikz}' for each figure.
This is not consistent with the Insert Graphics of Lyx. So I want still
use the Insert Graphics in lyx to treat tikz as a image file as *.eps,
*.png.


Tikz files can be included without ERT - at least files made with qtikz.


I wonder if we could redefine the \includegraphics{*.tikz} to
input{*.tikz} for the specific extension file, Or  from the FileFormat
Settings for tikz in the preference dialog, does it exist some possible
solutions for tikz?



In LyX:
First, add tikz support to the document preamble:
Document->settings->LaTeX Preamble
Type this in the box:
\usepackage{tikz}
Also add any \usetikzlibrary stuff you need.

Then, to insert a tikz file in the main window:
Insert->File->Child Document

You will get a dialog. This can be used to insert lyx or tex files. And 
a tikz file is really a tex file. So:

Type in the filename of your tikz file. e.g. filename.tikz
Use the include type "input" to get the tikz figure right there, or
the include type "include" to get the tikz figure on a new page.

This works for me, at least for tikz files like this one:
\begin{tikzpicture}
grow=down

\node (test) [shape=circle,draw] {
  test
}
child {node [shape=circle,draw] {b}}
child {node [shape=rectangle,draw] {a}};

\end{tikzpicture}

tikz code can also be written directly into an ERT box, if you
want to have the image embedded in the LyX file instead of
in a file of its own.

Helge Hafting

Re: Beamer and greyed-out items

[Julio Rojas]

Thanks Paul. It worked like a charm. Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:35 AM, Paul Rubin  wrote:
> Julio Rojas  gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> Dear all. In a beamer presentation I would like to have greyed-out
>> items after a pause environment. Right now they do not appear until it
>> is their turn to appear. For me it is easier to know in advance what
>> are the items I'm going to talk about in each slide, so I don't start
>> wandering around, possibly going ahead in my presentation.
>>
>> I hope it is clear what I want. Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> Try \setbeamercovered{transparent} in the preamble.  You can adjust how dark 
> the
> "hidden" text is by setting a value between 0 and 100 for "transparent", e.g.
> \setbeamercovered{transparent=25}.
>
> Paul
>
>

Removing Biblatex?

[Lastalda Felina]

I'm trying to find a citation style for my thesis that works for me.
To do that, I've tried out various things, including Biblatex. The
attempt showed me I would rather not use this. But now there seems no
way back?

I have included biblatex according to the guide here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex
And now there seems no way of letting Lyx forget about biblatex. I've
deleted the module-file, removed the module in Document settings and
removed every latex header part involved, then reconfigured. I've even
rebooted the computer.

Still, when I now add a normal bibtex bibliography, I get a number of
errors, including "LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble."
pointing to " \bibliography". So I think Lyx still thinks that
biblatex is active.

Does that mean I cannot avoid using biblatex anymore except maybe by
re-installing Lyx (which takes several hours, I'd really rather not do
this!)?

Can anybody please help me? Any advice at all?

Lastalda

Re: Removing Biblatex?

[Julio Rojas]

Dear Lastalda, check at the end of the document, because you might
have a "\printbibliography" command that you haven't eliminated.
Obviously, I guess you have already remove the \usepackage{biblatex}
used to declare your intention on using biblatex.

Regards.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Lastalda Felina
 wrote:
> I'm trying to find a citation style for my thesis that works for me.
> To do that, I've tried out various things, including Biblatex. The
> attempt showed me I would rather not use this. But now there seems no
> way back?
>
> I have included biblatex according to the guide here:
> http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex
> And now there seems no way of letting Lyx forget about biblatex. I've
> deleted the module-file, removed the module in Document settings and
> removed every latex header part involved, then reconfigured. I've even
> rebooted the computer.
>
> Still, when I now add a normal bibtex bibliography, I get a number of
> errors, including "LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble."
> pointing to " \bibliography". So I think Lyx still thinks that
> biblatex is active.
>
> Does that mean I cannot avoid using biblatex anymore except maybe by
> re-installing Lyx (which takes several hours, I'd really rather not do
> this!)?
>
> Can anybody please help me? Any advice at all?
>
> Lastalda
>

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Richard Heck]

On 10/19/2011 08:39 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
When using the Quote environment with several consecutive paragraphs, 
I notice that the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs is 
narrower than the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs and 
the surrounding Standard paragraphs.
I'd like to widen the spacing between successive Quote paragraphs to 
make it the same as the spacing between Standard paragraphs and Quote 
paragraphs.

Any ideas?
To do this, you will need to modify the quote environment itself. 
Exactly how to do this will depend upon what document class you are 
using, but quote is generally defined as a list with only one item, 
e.g., in article.cls:


\newenvironment{quote}
   {\list{}{\rightmargin\leftmargin}%
\item\relax}
   {\endlist}

Inter-paragraph spacing within the quote is therefore controlled, as you 
can see here:

http://latex.computersci.org/Reference/ListEnvironments
by the \parsep length. So, if you are using article (or book, which has 
the same declaration), you could try doing something like:


\renewenvironment{quote}
   {\list{}{%
 \rightmargin\leftmargin%
 \parsep\parskip}%
\item\relax}
   {\endlist}

I think that will set \parsep to be whatever \parskip is (where that is 
what controls paragraph spacing in normal text), but if not, then try: 
\parsep\mediumskip, or whatever you have set \parskip to be.


Richard

Re: Borders in "multi-row" Table Elements

[Tim Wescott]

Thanks Francesco.

It's not the worlds prettiest work-around, but at least its a work
around.

On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 11:26 +0200, Francesco Menoncin wrote:
> Dear Tim,
> 
> I had the very same problem and I already notified it (it is now in
> the "to do" list for the next version of LyX).
> 
> The only way to solve the problem is to use the command "multirow" in
> ERT environmente as you can see in the attached file (do not forget to
> call the package "multirow" in the preamble).
> 
> Francesco
> 
> Il 19/10/2011 01:24, Tim Wescott ha scritto: 
> > See the attached document in Lyx.
> > 
> > Then see it in pdf.
> > 
> > The two places on the right where rows are combined lose the border in
> > the transition.
> > 
> > What's wrong?
> > 
> > How can I fix this?
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Francesco Menoncin
> Università degli Studi di Brescia
> Facoltà di Economia
> Via S. Faustino, 74/B
> 25122 Brescia (Italy)
> Tel: 0039-030-2988806
> Fax: 0039-030-2988837
> E-mail: menon...@eco.unibs.it
> web: www.eco.unibs.it/~menoncin/
> 

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www.wescottdesign.com
Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design.

Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

[Keith Roberts]

Hello Jens.

Thanks for that link. I will check that out ASAP.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Jens Nöckel wrote:


To: Keith Roberts 
From: Jens Nöckel 
Subject: Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

Here is one that I point people to - there may be newer ones I'm not aware of, 
but this should give you the flavor:

"Introduction to Latex and Lyx"
http://youtu.be/m4cEAVmLegg

Jens

On Oct 17, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:


Hi. Thanks for LyX which I think is an awesome piece of software!

Are there any introductory screencast tutorials that will show a complete 
beginner how to use LyX to do some basic eiting tasks, and then how to generate 
the appropriate DVI and PDF output for the edited document please?

Something that will also show how LyX can generate the contents page, and 
update that as the user edits the .lyx source file would be handy.

I think the tutorial on the website is far too technical and maths related, for 
a LyX newbie that just wants to create a nice PDF text document.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

[Keith Roberts]

Thanks Liviu.

Will take a look at that soon.

Keith


On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Liviu Andronic wrote:


To: Keith Roberts 
From: Liviu Andronic 
Subject: Re: Beginners introductory tutorials?

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Keith Roberts  wrote:

Hi. Thanks for LyX which I think is an awesome piece of software!

Are there any introductory screencast tutorials that will show a complete
beginner how to use LyX to do some basic eiting tasks, and then how to
generate the appropriate DVI and PDF output for the edited document please?

Something that will also show how LyX can generate the contents page, and
update that as the user edits the .lyx source file would be handy.

I think the tutorial on the website is far too technical and maths related,
for a LyX newbie that just wants to create a nice PDF text document.


Not a screencast, but try LyX Essentials [1], including the .zip that
contains the corresponding .lyx file, and Help > Tutorial. Otherwise,
once you get at a minimum familiar with LyX, go to File > New from
Template and try these out. Also look into the Examples dir.

Regards
Liviu

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/tsewiki/resources/latex



Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Virgil Arrington]

Richard,

Thanks for the tip.

The line \parsep\parskip% didn’t work. It removed all spacing between my quote 
paragraphs.

But, I combined your suggestion with some other things I’ve tried and came up 
with the following that worked:

\renewenvironment{quote}
{\list{}{%
\rightmargin\leftmargin%
\setlength{\parsep}{1em}}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist}

Thanks again.

Virgil

(I really should get a good LaTeX manual)


From: Richard Heck 
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 11:52 AM
To: Virgil Arrington 
Cc: lyx-users-group 
Subject: Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

On 10/19/2011 08:39 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote: 
  When using the Quote environment with several consecutive paragraphs, I 
notice that the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs is narrower than 
the paragraph spacing between the Quote paragraphs and the surrounding Standard 
paragraphs.

  I’d like to widen the spacing between successive Quote paragraphs to make it 
the same as the spacing between Standard paragraphs and Quote paragraphs.

  Any ideas?

To do this, you will need to modify the quote environment itself. Exactly how 
to do this will depend upon what document class you are using, but quote is 
generally defined as a list with only one item, e.g., in article.cls:

\newenvironment{quote}
   {\list{}{\rightmargin\leftmargin}%
\item\relax}
   {\endlist}

Inter-paragraph spacing within the quote is therefore controlled, as you can 
see here:
http://latex.computersci.org/Reference/ListEnvironments
by the \parsep length. So, if you are using article (or book, which has the 
same declaration), you could try doing something like:

\renewenvironment{quote}
   {\list{}{%
 \rightmargin\leftmargin%
 \parsep\parskip}%
\item\relax}
   {\endlist}

I think that will set \parsep to be whatever \parskip is (where that is what 
controls paragraph spacing in normal text), but if not, then try: 
\parsep\mediumskip, or whatever you have set \parskip to be.

Richard

Lyx crash OS X with Dragon Dictate

[Steven Daniel]

 hello,
Firstly, thank you for all the work done on Lyx I have been using
 from the beginning a great program.

 I am having continual issues with Lyx  LyX-2.0.1+qt4  crashing. 
This most often occurs when utilizing 
Dragon Dictate to dictate into LYX.
 As I have broken one of my hands, this is become a real issue for me.
 It is also crashed as I was descending through directory structures to find a 
file.

Yesterday, I reinstalled the LYX.  
This fixed the problem for several hours but now I'm having repeated 
problems again. 

 Thanks in advance for any suggestions.  Mac OS X  version 10.7.2  build 11 C 74

Re: Removing Biblatex?

[Lastalda Felina]

Huh. Ok, I just restarted it to check, and now it works. Weird.
Thanks for your suggestion, though. :)

2011/10/19 Julio Rojas :
> Dear Lastalda, check at the end of the document, because you might
> have a "\printbibliography" command that you haven't eliminated.
> Obviously, I guess you have already remove the \usepackage{biblatex}
> used to declare your intention on using biblatex.
>
> Regards.
> -
> Julio Rojas
> jcredbe...@gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Lastalda Felina
>  wrote:
>> I'm trying to find a citation style for my thesis that works for me.
>> To do that, I've tried out various things, including Biblatex. The
>> attempt showed me I would rather not use this. But now there seems no
>> way back?
>>
>> I have included biblatex according to the guide here:
>> http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex
>> And now there seems no way of letting Lyx forget about biblatex. I've
>> deleted the module-file, removed the module in Document settings and
>> removed every latex header part involved, then reconfigured. I've even
>> rebooted the computer.
>>
>> Still, when I now add a normal bibtex bibliography, I get a number of
>> errors, including "LaTeX Error: Can be used only in preamble."
>> pointing to " \bibliography". So I think Lyx still thinks that
>> biblatex is active.
>>
>> Does that mean I cannot avoid using biblatex anymore except maybe by
>> re-installing Lyx (which takes several hours, I'd really rather not do
>> this!)?
>>
>> Can anybody please help me? Any advice at all?
>>
>> Lastalda
>>
>



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Re: Lyx crash OS X with Dragon Dictate

[Stephan Witt]

Am 19.10.2011 um 19:29 schrieb Steven Daniel:

> hello,
> Firstly, thank you for all the work done on Lyx I have been using
> from the beginning a great program.
> 
> I am having continual issues with Lyx  LyX-2.0.1+qt4  crashing. 
> This most often occurs when utilizing 
> Dragon Dictate to dictate into LYX.
> As I have broken one of my hands, this is become a real issue for me.
> It is also crashed as I was descending through directory structures to find a 
> file.
> 
> Yesterday, I reinstalled the LYX.  
> This fixed the problem for several hours but now I'm having repeated 
> problems again. 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.  Mac OS X  version 10.7.2  build 11 C 
> 74

Did you install from LyX-2.0.1+qt4-cocoa.dmg or LyX-2.0.1+qt4.dmg?
If you've used the latter, can you try the former, please.

Stephan 

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Richard Heck]

On 10/19/2011 01:14 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:

Richard,
Thanks for the tip.
The line \parsep\parskip% didn't work. It removed all spacing between 
my quote paragraphs.
But, I combined your suggestion with some other things I've tried and 
came up with the following that worked:

\renewenvironment{quote}
{\list{}{%
\rightmargin\leftmargin%
\setlength{\parsep}{1em}}%
\item\relax}
{\endlist}
The only downside to this is that it will do the wrong thing if you have 
quotes in footnotes: The skip will be too big. But if it works for now, 
that's fine.


Richard


(I really should get a good LaTeX manual)


http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/
http://makingtexwork.sourceforge.net/mtw/

There are other good online things, too.

Richard

Re: Lyx crash OS X with Dragon Dictate

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Dragon Dictate does not work very well with LyX. I had to dictate into
AlphaX and import from there into LyX.

el

On 10/19/11 9:29 PM, Stephan Witt wrote:
> Am 19.10.2011 um 19:29 schrieb Steven Daniel:
> 
>> hello,
>> Firstly, thank you for all the work done on Lyx I have been using
>> from the beginning a great program.
>>
>> I am having continual issues with Lyx  LyX-2.0.1+qt4  crashing. 
>> This most often occurs when utilizing 
>> Dragon Dictate to dictate into LYX.
>> As I have broken one of my hands, this is become a real issue for me.
>> It is also crashed as I was descending through directory structures to find 
>> a file.
>>
>> Yesterday, I reinstalled the LYX.  
>> This fixed the problem for several hours but now I'm having repeated 
>> problems again. 
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.  Mac OS X  version 10.7.2  build 11 C 
>> 74
> 
> Did you install from LyX-2.0.1+qt4-cocoa.dmg or LyX-2.0.1+qt4.dmg?
> If you've used the latter, can you try the former, please.
> 
> Stephan 

Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

[Virgil Arrington]

Thanks for the caution.

I rarely use footnotes, and can’t imagine putting a quote in one, so I think 
I’m okay.

Virgil

From: Richard Heck 
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:41 PM
To: Virgil Arrington 
Cc: lyx-users-group 
Subject: Re: Paragraph spacing in Quote environment

On 10/19/2011 01:14 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: 
  Richard,

  Thanks for the tip.

  The line \parsep\parskip% didn’t work. It removed all spacing between my 
quote paragraphs.

  But, I combined your suggestion with some other things I’ve tried and came up 
with the following that worked:

  \renewenvironment{quote}
  {\list{}{%
  \rightmargin\leftmargin%
  \setlength{\parsep}{1em}}%
  \item\relax}
  {\endlist}

The only downside to this is that it will do the wrong thing if you have quotes 
in footnotes: The skip will be too big. But if it works for now, that's fine.

Richard


  (I really should get a good LaTeX manual)


http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/latex/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html
http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/
http://makingtexwork.sourceforge.net/mtw/

There are other good online things, too.

Richard

Re: Need LyX 1.6.10 Configuration file for Windows 32 bit

[Julien Rioux]

On 19/10/2011 2:09 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:

Greetings all.

I have trashed my Lyx Converter preferences, and cannot View DVI or
Postscript files now.

Does anyone have a working LyX 1.6.10 windows config file I can use
please? Or is there some way to restore the preferences to the originsl
default values please?

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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Hi,
Did you already try the menu Tools > Reconfigure, then restarting LyX? 
Does that saves you?


Cheers,
Julien

Re: mathdots.sty not found in Math-Help-file

[Guenter Milde]

On 2011-10-16, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> On Sunday 16 October 2011 06:06:02 Uwe Stöhr wrote:
>> Am 14.10.2011 08:19, schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann:


> mhchem.sty not found
> and:
>  \usepackage
> [unicode=true,^^M
> *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)

> I searched for
> mhchem.sty
> in the preamble with no success

It's auto-loaded by LyX, not in the custom preamble.
You should see it in View>Source with "view complete document" checked.

> I see at the begin of the math file
> Eine Ausnahme ist mhchem; wenn es nicht installiert ist, kann dieses 
> Dokument nicht exportiert werden.

That is exactly what you experienced: without the package, the document does
not compile.

> Not sure what this means exactly: does lyx not find the mhchem or is it 
> completely missing. I thought texlive 2010 takes care of the package.

Other than MikTeX, texlive does not auto-install missing packages. On my
Debian system, mhchem is in "texlive-science". On a recent,
non-Linux-distribution-based TeXLive installation, you should start tlmgr
and search/install the package.

Günter

Windows Binaries Wiki Page

[Phil Fong]

The Windows Binaries Wiki page linked from the main downloads page, 
http://www.lyx.org/Download, still shows 1.6.9 as the stable version for 
Windows. Is this intentional?
I know that there is no official 2.0.1 Windows binary but I have been using the 
official 2.0.0 build.

Phil