Re: Another lyx-produced book

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:21 PM, stefano franchi
stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
 Boy, do I know that drill! I am lucky that it never rains in Texas, as I
 needed all the sunlight I could get. For a few days I had several pages of
 the actual book I was using as a  design reference permanently taped to my
 kitchen's windows, so I could easily check my latex output against them.

I'm getting curious about this. Did you actually have to tear down the
pages of a book to obtain the proper measurements? Wouldn't a simple
inquiry to the publisher help?

Liviu

Re: LyX-Produced Book

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 29/11/11 22:07, Richard Heck a écrit :


My book, /Frege's Theorem/, which was both written with and typeset from
LyX, has just recently been published by Oxford University Press. You
can have a look at the pages, if you wish, from its page on Amazon:
 http://www.amazon.com/Freges-Theorem-Richard-G-Heck/dp/0199695644/
LyX gets mentioned on p. xii, which seems currently to be part of the
preview. The font is just New Century Schoolbook. The document class
was written by me to OUP's specifications and will go up on CTAN when I
get some time.


Congratulation Richard!

JMarc

Re: LyX-Produced Book

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 01/12/11 05:44, BH a écrit :

In any case, another testament to LyX/LaTeX. Thanks again to the developers, to 
whom I'm
grateful every day.


Hmm, you are one of them, aren't you?

JMarc

Re: help with running title in the right up of the pdf page

[Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci]

Hi again,

I was wondering if the the text that is in \spacedlowsmallcaps style then
could not be also in \emph one? I mean, can not be together in the same
word...
Am I right?

Cheers,

Gian



On 20 November 2011 16:31, PhilipPirrip p...@net.hr wrote:

 On 11/19/2011 09:55 PM, Gian Maria Niccolň Benucci wrote:

 Anyway, I could not believe that classicthesis do not have the
 possibility to use emph style with capital letters in chapter titles, or
 headers...



 You can always try to fix it yourself, you know. It's a free software,
 using some hacks to get more than LaTeX provides.

 an excerpt from classicthesis.sty (note the \spacedlowsmallcaps command)




 % 

 % headlines
 % 
 \PassOptionsToPackage{**automark}{scrpage2}
\RequirePackage{scrpage2} % provides headers and footers (KOMA
 Script)
\clearscrheadings
\setheadsepline{0pt}
\ifthenelse{\boolean{@**nochapters}}%
{\relax}%

 {\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[**1]{\markboth{\**spacedlowsmallcaps{#1}}{\**
 spacedlowsmallcaps{#1

 \renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]**{\markright{\thesection\**
 enspace\spacedlowsmallcaps{#1}**}}
\lehead{\mbox{\llap{\small\**thepage\kern2em}\headmark\**hfil}}
\rohead{\mbox{\hfil{\headmark}**\rlap{\small\kern2em\thepage}}**}
\renewcommand{\headfont}{\**small}
%\DeclareRobustCommand{\**fixBothHeadlines}[1]{} % --- ToDo
% hack to get the content headlines right (thanks, Lorenzo!)
\def\toc@heading{%
\ifthenelse{\boolean{@**nochapters}}%
{\section*{\contentsname}}%**nochapters
{\chapter*{\contentsname}}%**chapters
 \@mkboth{\spacedlowsmallcaps{\**contentsname}}{\**
 spacedlowsmallcaps{\**contentsname}}}

Re: pdf dimensions

[Csikos Bela]

Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci gian.benu...@gmail.com írta:
Hi everyone,Is it possible to reduce the dimension of the compiled pdf in LyX 
2.0???Thanks a lot,-- Gian 


Do you mean the page size of the produced page?
It can be set easily under DocumentSettingsPage layoutPaper formatFormat.

bcsikos

Re: pdf dimensions

[Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci]

On 1 December 2011 13:09, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu wrote:

 Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci gian.benu...@gmail.com írta:
 Hi everyone,Is it possible to reduce the dimension of the compiled pdf in
 LyX 2.0???Thanks a lot,-- Gian 


 Do you mean the page size of the produced page?
 It can be set easily under DocumentSettingsPage layoutPaper
 formatFormat.

 bcsikos




Nope. I meant the dimesion of the produced file.pdf
My thesis has 60 figures and 230 pages so the output is of 70 Mb... very
big! How to reduce it?

Thanks a lot,

Gian

Re: pdf dimensions

[Rainer M Krug]

2011/12/1 Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci gian.benu...@gmail.com



 On 1 December 2011 13:09, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu wrote:

 Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci gian.benu...@gmail.com írta:
 Hi everyone,Is it possible to reduce the dimension of the compiled pdf
 in LyX 2.0???Thanks a lot,-- Gian 


 Do you mean the page size of the produced page?
 It can be set easily under DocumentSettingsPage layoutPaper
 formatFormat.

 bcsikos




 Nope. I meant the dimesion of the produced file.pdf
 My thesis has 60 figures and 230 pages so the output is of 70 Mb... very
 big! How to reduce it?


Reduce the size of the images. You can use e.g. imagemagik to do this.

This brings us more or less back to an ever re-occurring discussion: could
this be done automatically? It shuld be possible to include this in the
copier, so that the re-sampling is done automatically.

If you have vector graphs (e.g. eps or pdf created by R) which are big, you
could convert them to png at the required resolutions.

Cheers,

Rainer




 Thanks a lot,

 Gian







-- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax (F):   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

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Skype:  RMkrug

Re: pdf dimensions

[PhilipPirrip]

On 12/01/2011 01:24 PM, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote:

My thesis has 60 figures and 230 pages so the output is of 70 Mb... very
big! How to reduce it?


Well, how big are those 60 figures? You should work on reducing their 
size first (by reducing dimensions, resolution/dpi, using better 
compression in jpg's)

Re: LyX-Produced Book

[BH]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote:
 Le 01/12/11 05:44, BH a écrit :

 In any case, another testament to LyX/LaTeX. Thanks again to the
 developers, to whom I'm
 grateful every day.


 Hmm, you are one of them, aren't you?

You mean philosophers writing books with LyX? Yes. ;)

(Congratulations, Stefano!)

BH

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Richard Heck]

On 11/30/2011 09:48 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
 This is excellent news and I look forward to the improvements.

 Is there a recommended procedure for updating from 2.0.0? I have made
 some customizations (shortcuts, added modules, etc.) that I would like
 to retain if possible.

Platform, etc?

rh

Re: PDF won't generate

[zara]

I get exactly the same error message as the one reported by curtis osterhoudt.
Lyx says that it can't find the tex-file even though I can see that the
tex-file is produced in working directory.

I'm using Lyx 2.0.2 on a windows 7 computer with very limited user privileges.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Thank you very much!

 I hope that the bug that was blocking the Sage module has been corrected.

Best regards,

Murat

2011/12/1 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net

 On 11/30/2011 09:48 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
  This is excellent news and I look forward to the improvements.
 
  Is there a recommended procedure for updating from 2.0.0? I have made
  some customizations (shortcuts, added modules, etc.) that I would like
  to retain if possible.
 
 Platform, etc?

 rh




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http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu

Re: LyX-Produced Book

[Jacob Bishop]

Richard,

Congratulations on finishing the book. I took a look at it on Amazon, and
it looks very nice.

Jacob

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
appreciate advice as well.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Bert Lloyd wrote:


But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
appreciate advice as well.


  I've been building and installing LyX with the SlackBuild script for about
8 years. Just upgraded from -2.0.1 to -2.0.2 on Slackware-13.1 with no
problems.

Rich

Re: Shaded boxes

[Louis Turk]

On 11/30/2011 06:40 PM, Louis Turk wrote:
 Hi Lyx users,

 Using the Memoir class with a two-column document, and inserting a box
 (simple frame, page breaks), how can the background of the box be made
 shaded?

 Lou

It was suggested on comp.text.tex that I use the mdframed package, but
I've not been able to figure out how to use it with Lyx.

I've already finished a book, using simple framed boxes with page breaks many 
times to emphasize
special text, so I'm hoping for something to put in the preamble to shade the 
background of all of these boxes for further emphasis. 

Lou

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Richard Heck]

On 12/01/2011 12:30 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
 Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

 But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
 appreciate advice as well.

Well, on Linux, it's just not an issue. You install it, and it works out
of the box. I don't know about Windows. The question is just: Does LyX
2.0.2 use the same user directory as 2.0.0 did? If not, then copy the
old one over the new one.

Richard

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:
 On 12/01/2011 12:30 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
 Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

 But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
 appreciate advice as well.

 Well, on Linux, it's just not an issue. You install it, and it works out
 of the box. I don't know about Windows. The question is just: Does LyX
 2.0.2 use the same user directory as 2.0.0 did?

I believe the answer to this question is yes, since the user directory is
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0
which does not appear to be specific to 2.0.0.

 If not, then copy the
 old one over the new one.


So if the answer to the above is yes, what do you (or others) recommend?

Many thanks again.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:
 On 12/01/2011 12:30 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
 Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

 But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
 appreciate advice as well.

 Well, on Linux, it's just not an issue. You install it, and it works out
 of the box. I don't know about Windows. The question is just: Does LyX
 2.0.2 use the same user directory as 2.0.0 did?

 I believe the answer to this question is yes, since the user directory is
 C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0
 which does not appear to be specific to 2.0.0.

 If not, then copy the
 old one over the new one.


 So if the answer to the above is yes, what do you (or others) recommend?

Make a backup of your profile dir, upgrade LyX, then figure out where
to put your old config, if at all needed. (Linux user.)

Regards
Liviu


 Many thanks again.






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Re: Another lyx-produced book

[stefano franchi]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:21 PM, stefano franchi
 stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
  Boy, do I know that drill! I am lucky that it never rains in Texas, as I
  needed all the sunlight I could get. For a few days I had several pages
 of
  the actual book I was using as a  design reference permanently taped to
 my
  kitchen's windows, so I could easily check my latex output against them.
 
 I'm getting curious about this. Did you actually have to tear down the
 pages of a book to obtain the proper measurements? Wouldn't a simple
 inquiry to the publisher help?

 Liviu


Ahh Liviu, you wan the dirty details...

Here is a very short version:

The book is published by Rodopi in their VIBS series. This is philosophy
series (VIBS stands for Value Inquiry Book Series) created and almost
completely managed by a US philosophy professor, not by Rodopi. All aspects
of book production, from stylesheets to book design came in the form of a
thick set of Word documents and with Word instructions. That's where the
buck stopped, so to speak.
I first tried to replicate the effects of Word commands in latex, and I
quickly realized:
1. it was extremely time-consuming, because I had no clear idea of the
expected result. For instance, I could not get a clear understanding of how
many lines per page I was supposed to have. I only had fixed numbers for
the textblock size and a font size. Since the textblock height was not a
integer multiple of (what I took to be) the standard leading for that point
size, the number of lines was fractional and tended to vary from page to
page.
2. It was unreliable (I could not always get the same results on different
runs), even when I substituted my guesses when the data was insufficient
3. The resulting typography was less than satisfactory.

So here is what I did: I got a bunch of VIBS from my library, picked the
one I thought was the best laid-out, bought a copy, tore off pages, and
started to measure everything.
Then I replicated the design in memoir (whose author, Peter Wilson should
enter the (La)TeX Hall of Fame, especially for the beautifully
comprehensive documetation. The current maintaner, Lars Madsen, was been
very helpful too).
Then I measured again using the window trick...

It was fun.


Cheers,

Stefano


-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

Re: Shaded boxes

[Paul A . Rubin]

Louis Turk lou at dayspringpublisher.com writes:

Maybe use this? http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ShadedBox

Paul
   

Re: PDF won't generate

[Paul A . Rubin]

zara e.studerus at gmx.ch writes:

 
 I get exactly the same error message as the one reported by curtis osterhoudt.
 Lyx says that it can't find the tex-file even though I can see that the
 tex-file is produced in working directory.
 
 I'm using Lyx 2.0.2 on a windows 7 computer with very limited user privileges.
 
 Any help is highly appreciated.
 
 

Are you sure the message is that the TeX file cannot be found?  Usually it's the
final result (PDF or DVI) that cannot be found.

Paul

Enumerate in table with no additional packages?

[stefano franchi]

Dear All:

Is it possible to enumerate the rows of a table, without using external
packages? I vaguely remember seeing a solution to this problem, perhaps in
a Latex list or perhaps here, but I cannot find it anymore.

Thanks in advance,

S.



-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

Re: Lyx 2.0 to 1.62

[Richard Heck]

On 12/01/2011 06:32 PM,  Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك
نورونيا  wrote:
 Could someone pls give me a tip of how I could convert a Lyx 2.0 file
 to read in Lyx 1.67?

 Lyx2Lyx isn't working for me.

Is it giving an error? If so, that is a bug.

 If I send across the file, could you help? Please reply me personally
 too (as cc). Very grateful for all the other help. FN

Send me the file. I'll be happy to have a look.

Richard

Re: Yet another book using LyX

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday, December 01, 2011 11:17:54 PM Les Denham wrote:
 Four years ago I accompanied my brother driving across Australia
 (and visiting some unusual spots). For his birthday last month I
 wrote up an account of the trip and had a copy printed (using
 Lulu.com). It is a substantial document: 164 pages (letter size),
 about 50,000 words, and approximately 220 figures.
 
 After he opened the gift, the book was passed around among those at
 the party, and many of the guests asked where they could get a
 copy. Among those asking was the assistant manager of a bookshop.
 I have sent her three copies to see how they sell.
 
 The book is not properly published yet, but it looks as if there
 will be enough demand to at least publish it on Lulu.com.

From my viewpoint it's the most properly published book there can be. 
A few books printed and you're already profitable. You never signed a 
contract with an indemnification, a noncompete, and one of those things 
that if your royalties don't exceed your advance, you have to pay it 
back on the next book.

From what I hear, the average properly published nonfiction book 
sells about 3K copies. At that sales quantity, the author fails to 
make minimum wage on his advance/royalties, and the publisher doesn't 
make a lot of money either. And from what I hear, these days 
publishers are actually charging authors for indexing and editing. And 
then, for a royalty of a buck a book which will probably never exceed 
the advance (and from what I hear advances are down in the mid four 
figures now), the publisher expects the author to drive and fly hither 
and yon promoting the book while the publisher does no sales at all.

After my first properly published book (Samba Unleashed, published in 
2000), I decided to give self-publishing a try. I'm still doing self-
publishing.

From what I understand, publishers do a crappy job of selling. And in 
this day and age, with LyX and Inkscape and Gimp and LuLu and eBooks, 
you don't need their typesetting or printing services. With eBooks and 
the Internet, you can do an end-run around that entire 
printer/warehouse/wholesaler/bookstore supply chain, and sell directly 
to the reader. Is it easy? Hell no. But at least you get every penny 
of the profit (if you do it directly off your own website), or up to 70% 
if you do it off Kindle or iPad.

I have the highest confidence in the propriety of your state of 
publication. Keep up the good work!

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

LyX and Kindle books

[Steve Litt]

Alex Fernandez, you have your work cut out for you!

Before telling you way, let me just say you did a real good deed 
creating eLyXer. You made styles-based HTML authoring, and therefore 
eBook authoring, much easier. And I notices when I use LyX's own HTML 
converter, I get eLyXer messages :-)

But to those whom much has been given, much is expected, so you're not 
done yet.

LyX plus eLyXer plus a few other tools can make the PERFECT PERFECT 
PERFECT authoring tool for flowable text eBooks (Kindle, iPad, etc). I 
just tested my soon to be released Kindle book, Rules of the 
Happiness Highway, on Kindle's Kindle Previewer, and it worked 
perfectly except for the features I didn't put in (TOC, Index, 
chapters, frontmatter -- it's a short book). The book was authored in 
LyX and converted with eLyXer and Kindlized with Kindlegen.

There needs to be a way to insert all info needed by Kindle into the 
LyX file, and having eLyXer or other similar executables do things like 
split out the chapters, split out the table of contents and index, 
make the .opf file and the .ncx file. It might require a special layout 
file -- I can create that. Or maybe just layout modules.

I'm sure Rob Oakes and I can provide plenty of info for what is needed 
to create a Kindle book, and lots of feedback and testing. I might be 
able to write some of the code.

LyX is the fastest and most enjoyable authoring environment. With a 
few additions to eLyXer, that fastest and most enjoyable authoring 
environment can be used to write flowing-text eBooks.

Alex, you've got your work cut out for you. I'll try to help.

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Another lyx-produced book

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:21 PM, stefano franchi
stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
 Boy, do I know that drill! I am lucky that it never rains in Texas, as I
 needed all the sunlight I could get. For a few days I had several pages of
 the actual book I was using as a  design reference permanently taped to my
 kitchen's windows, so I could easily check my latex output against them.

I'm getting curious about this. Did you actually have to tear down the
pages of a book to obtain the proper measurements? Wouldn't a simple
inquiry to the publisher help?

Liviu

Re: LyX-Produced Book

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 29/11/11 22:07, Richard Heck a écrit :


My book, /Frege's Theorem/, which was both written with and typeset from
LyX, has just recently been published by Oxford University Press. You
can have a look at the pages, if you wish, from its page on Amazon:
 http://www.amazon.com/Freges-Theorem-Richard-G-Heck/dp/0199695644/
LyX gets mentioned on p. xii, which seems currently to be part of the
preview. The font is just New Century Schoolbook. The document class
was written by me to OUP's specifications and will go up on CTAN when I
get some time.


Congratulation Richard!

JMarc

Re: LyX-Produced Book

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 01/12/11 05:44, BH a écrit :

In any case, another testament to LyX/LaTeX. Thanks again to the developers, to 
whom I'm
grateful every day.


Hmm, you are one of them, aren't you?

JMarc

Re: help with running title in the right up of the pdf page

[Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci]

Hi again,

I was wondering if the the text that is in \spacedlowsmallcaps style then
could not be also in \emph one? I mean, can not be together in the same
word...
Am I right?

Cheers,

Gian



On 20 November 2011 16:31, PhilipPirrip p...@net.hr wrote:

 On 11/19/2011 09:55 PM, Gian Maria Niccolň Benucci wrote:

 Anyway, I could not believe that classicthesis do not have the
 possibility to use emph style with capital letters in chapter titles, or
 headers...



 You can always try to fix it yourself, you know. It's a free software,
 using some hacks to get more than LaTeX provides.

 an excerpt from classicthesis.sty (note the \spacedlowsmallcaps command)




 % 

 % headlines
 % 
 \PassOptionsToPackage{**automark}{scrpage2}
\RequirePackage{scrpage2} % provides headers and footers (KOMA
 Script)
\clearscrheadings
\setheadsepline{0pt}
\ifthenelse{\boolean{@**nochapters}}%
{\relax}%

 {\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[**1]{\markboth{\**spacedlowsmallcaps{#1}}{\**
 spacedlowsmallcaps{#1

 \renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]**{\markright{\thesection\**
 enspace\spacedlowsmallcaps{#1}**}}
\lehead{\mbox{\llap{\small\**thepage\kern2em}\headmark\**hfil}}
\rohead{\mbox{\hfil{\headmark}**\rlap{\small\kern2em\thepage}}**}
\renewcommand{\headfont}{\**small}
%\DeclareRobustCommand{\**fixBothHeadlines}[1]{} % --- ToDo
% hack to get the content headlines right (thanks, Lorenzo!)
\def\toc@heading{%
\ifthenelse{\boolean{@**nochapters}}%
{\section*{\contentsname}}%**nochapters
{\chapter*{\contentsname}}%**chapters
 \@mkboth{\spacedlowsmallcaps{\**contentsname}}{\**
 spacedlowsmallcaps{\**contentsname}}}

Re: pdf dimensions

[Csikos Bela]

Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci gian.benu...@gmail.com írta:
Hi everyone,Is it possible to reduce the dimension of the compiled pdf in LyX 
2.0???Thanks a lot,-- Gian 


Do you mean the page size of the produced page?
It can be set easily under DocumentSettingsPage layoutPaper formatFormat.

bcsikos

Re: pdf dimensions

[Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci]

On 1 December 2011 13:09, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu wrote:

 Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci gian.benu...@gmail.com írta:
 Hi everyone,Is it possible to reduce the dimension of the compiled pdf in
 LyX 2.0???Thanks a lot,-- Gian 


 Do you mean the page size of the produced page?
 It can be set easily under DocumentSettingsPage layoutPaper
 formatFormat.

 bcsikos




Nope. I meant the dimesion of the produced file.pdf
My thesis has 60 figures and 230 pages so the output is of 70 Mb... very
big! How to reduce it?

Thanks a lot,

Gian

Re: pdf dimensions

[Rainer M Krug]

2011/12/1 Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci gian.benu...@gmail.com



 On 1 December 2011 13:09, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu wrote:

 Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci gian.benu...@gmail.com írta:
 Hi everyone,Is it possible to reduce the dimension of the compiled pdf
 in LyX 2.0???Thanks a lot,-- Gian 


 Do you mean the page size of the produced page?
 It can be set easily under DocumentSettingsPage layoutPaper
 formatFormat.

 bcsikos




 Nope. I meant the dimesion of the produced file.pdf
 My thesis has 60 figures and 230 pages so the output is of 70 Mb... very
 big! How to reduce it?


Reduce the size of the images. You can use e.g. imagemagik to do this.

This brings us more or less back to an ever re-occurring discussion: could
this be done automatically? It shuld be possible to include this in the
copier, so that the re-sampling is done automatically.

If you have vector graphs (e.g. eps or pdf created by R) which are big, you
could convert them to png at the required resolutions.

Cheers,

Rainer




 Thanks a lot,

 Gian







-- 
Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology,
UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
Fax (F):   +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44

Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44

email:  rai...@krugs.de

Skype:  RMkrug

Re: pdf dimensions

[PhilipPirrip]

On 12/01/2011 01:24 PM, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote:

My thesis has 60 figures and 230 pages so the output is of 70 Mb... very
big! How to reduce it?


Well, how big are those 60 figures? You should work on reducing their 
size first (by reducing dimensions, resolution/dpi, using better 
compression in jpg's)

Re: LyX-Produced Book

[BH]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org wrote:
 Le 01/12/11 05:44, BH a écrit :

 In any case, another testament to LyX/LaTeX. Thanks again to the
 developers, to whom I'm
 grateful every day.


 Hmm, you are one of them, aren't you?

You mean philosophers writing books with LyX? Yes. ;)

(Congratulations, Stefano!)

BH

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Richard Heck]

On 11/30/2011 09:48 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
 This is excellent news and I look forward to the improvements.

 Is there a recommended procedure for updating from 2.0.0? I have made
 some customizations (shortcuts, added modules, etc.) that I would like
 to retain if possible.

Platform, etc?

rh

Re: PDF won't generate

[zara]

I get exactly the same error message as the one reported by curtis osterhoudt.
Lyx says that it can't find the tex-file even though I can see that the
tex-file is produced in working directory.

I'm using Lyx 2.0.2 on a windows 7 computer with very limited user privileges.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Thank you very much!

 I hope that the bug that was blocking the Sage module has been corrected.

Best regards,

Murat

2011/12/1 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net

 On 11/30/2011 09:48 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
  This is excellent news and I look forward to the improvements.
 
  Is there a recommended procedure for updating from 2.0.0? I have made
  some customizations (shortcuts, added modules, etc.) that I would like
  to retain if possible.
 
 Platform, etc?

 rh




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Re: LyX-Produced Book

[Jacob Bishop]

Richard,

Congratulations on finishing the book. I took a look at it on Amazon, and
it looks very nice.

Jacob

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
appreciate advice as well.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Bert Lloyd wrote:


But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
appreciate advice as well.


  I've been building and installing LyX with the SlackBuild script for about
8 years. Just upgraded from -2.0.1 to -2.0.2 on Slackware-13.1 with no
problems.

Rich

Re: Shaded boxes

[Louis Turk]

On 11/30/2011 06:40 PM, Louis Turk wrote:
 Hi Lyx users,

 Using the Memoir class with a two-column document, and inserting a box
 (simple frame, page breaks), how can the background of the box be made
 shaded?

 Lou

It was suggested on comp.text.tex that I use the mdframed package, but
I've not been able to figure out how to use it with Lyx.

I've already finished a book, using simple framed boxes with page breaks many 
times to emphasize
special text, so I'm hoping for something to put in the preamble to shade the 
background of all of these boxes for further emphasis. 

Lou

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Richard Heck]

On 12/01/2011 12:30 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
 Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

 But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
 appreciate advice as well.

Well, on Linux, it's just not an issue. You install it, and it works out
of the box. I don't know about Windows. The question is just: Does LyX
2.0.2 use the same user directory as 2.0.0 did? If not, then copy the
old one over the new one.

Richard

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:
 On 12/01/2011 12:30 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
 Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

 But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
 appreciate advice as well.

 Well, on Linux, it's just not an issue. You install it, and it works out
 of the box. I don't know about Windows. The question is just: Does LyX
 2.0.2 use the same user directory as 2.0.0 did?

I believe the answer to this question is yes, since the user directory is
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0
which does not appear to be specific to 2.0.0.

 If not, then copy the
 old one over the new one.


So if the answer to the above is yes, what do you (or others) recommend?

Many thanks again.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Bert Lloyd bert.lloyd...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:
 On 12/01/2011 12:30 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
 Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

 But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
 appreciate advice as well.

 Well, on Linux, it's just not an issue. You install it, and it works out
 of the box. I don't know about Windows. The question is just: Does LyX
 2.0.2 use the same user directory as 2.0.0 did?

 I believe the answer to this question is yes, since the user directory is
 C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0
 which does not appear to be specific to 2.0.0.

 If not, then copy the
 old one over the new one.


 So if the answer to the above is yes, what do you (or others) recommend?

Make a backup of your profile dir, upgrade LyX, then figure out where
to put your old config, if at all needed. (Linux user.)

Regards
Liviu


 Many thanks again.






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Re: Another lyx-produced book

[stefano franchi]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:21 PM, stefano franchi
 stefano.fran...@gmail.com wrote:
  Boy, do I know that drill! I am lucky that it never rains in Texas, as I
  needed all the sunlight I could get. For a few days I had several pages
 of
  the actual book I was using as a  design reference permanently taped to
 my
  kitchen's windows, so I could easily check my latex output against them.
 
 I'm getting curious about this. Did you actually have to tear down the
 pages of a book to obtain the proper measurements? Wouldn't a simple
 inquiry to the publisher help?

 Liviu


Ahh Liviu, you wan the dirty details...

Here is a very short version:

The book is published by Rodopi in their VIBS series. This is philosophy
series (VIBS stands for Value Inquiry Book Series) created and almost
completely managed by a US philosophy professor, not by Rodopi. All aspects
of book production, from stylesheets to book design came in the form of a
thick set of Word documents and with Word instructions. That's where the
buck stopped, so to speak.
I first tried to replicate the effects of Word commands in latex, and I
quickly realized:
1. it was extremely time-consuming, because I had no clear idea of the
expected result. For instance, I could not get a clear understanding of how
many lines per page I was supposed to have. I only had fixed numbers for
the textblock size and a font size. Since the textblock height was not a
integer multiple of (what I took to be) the standard leading for that point
size, the number of lines was fractional and tended to vary from page to
page.
2. It was unreliable (I could not always get the same results on different
runs), even when I substituted my guesses when the data was insufficient
3. The resulting typography was less than satisfactory.

So here is what I did: I got a bunch of VIBS from my library, picked the
one I thought was the best laid-out, bought a copy, tore off pages, and
started to measure everything.
Then I replicated the design in memoir (whose author, Peter Wilson should
enter the (La)TeX Hall of Fame, especially for the beautifully
comprehensive documetation. The current maintaner, Lars Madsen, was been
very helpful too).
Then I measured again using the window trick...

It was fun.


Cheers,

Stefano


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Re: Shaded boxes

[Paul A . Rubin]

Louis Turk lou at dayspringpublisher.com writes:

Maybe use this? http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ShadedBox

Paul
   

Re: PDF won't generate

[Paul A . Rubin]

zara e.studerus at gmx.ch writes:

 
 I get exactly the same error message as the one reported by curtis osterhoudt.
 Lyx says that it can't find the tex-file even though I can see that the
 tex-file is produced in working directory.
 
 I'm using Lyx 2.0.2 on a windows 7 computer with very limited user privileges.
 
 Any help is highly appreciated.
 
 

Are you sure the message is that the TeX file cannot be found?  Usually it's the
final result (PDF or DVI) that cannot be found.

Paul

Enumerate in table with no additional packages?

[stefano franchi]

Dear All:

Is it possible to enumerate the rows of a table, without using external
packages? I vaguely remember seeing a solution to this problem, perhaps in
a Latex list or perhaps here, but I cannot find it anymore.

Thanks in advance,

S.



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Re: Lyx 2.0 to 1.62

[Richard Heck]

On 12/01/2011 06:32 PM,  Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك
نورونيا  wrote:
 Could someone pls give me a tip of how I could convert a Lyx 2.0 file
 to read in Lyx 1.67?

 Lyx2Lyx isn't working for me.

Is it giving an error? If so, that is a bug.

 If I send across the file, could you help? Please reply me personally
 too (as cc). Very grateful for all the other help. FN

Send me the file. I'll be happy to have a look.

Richard

Re: Yet another book using LyX

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday, December 01, 2011 11:17:54 PM Les Denham wrote:
 Four years ago I accompanied my brother driving across Australia
 (and visiting some unusual spots). For his birthday last month I
 wrote up an account of the trip and had a copy printed (using
 Lulu.com). It is a substantial document: 164 pages (letter size),
 about 50,000 words, and approximately 220 figures.
 
 After he opened the gift, the book was passed around among those at
 the party, and many of the guests asked where they could get a
 copy. Among those asking was the assistant manager of a bookshop.
 I have sent her three copies to see how they sell.
 
 The book is not properly published yet, but it looks as if there
 will be enough demand to at least publish it on Lulu.com.

From my viewpoint it's the most properly published book there can be. 
A few books printed and you're already profitable. You never signed a 
contract with an indemnification, a noncompete, and one of those things 
that if your royalties don't exceed your advance, you have to pay it 
back on the next book.

From what I hear, the average properly published nonfiction book 
sells about 3K copies. At that sales quantity, the author fails to 
make minimum wage on his advance/royalties, and the publisher doesn't 
make a lot of money either. And from what I hear, these days 
publishers are actually charging authors for indexing and editing. And 
then, for a royalty of a buck a book which will probably never exceed 
the advance (and from what I hear advances are down in the mid four 
figures now), the publisher expects the author to drive and fly hither 
and yon promoting the book while the publisher does no sales at all.

After my first properly published book (Samba Unleashed, published in 
2000), I decided to give self-publishing a try. I'm still doing self-
publishing.

From what I understand, publishers do a crappy job of selling. And in 
this day and age, with LyX and Inkscape and Gimp and LuLu and eBooks, 
you don't need their typesetting or printing services. With eBooks and 
the Internet, you can do an end-run around that entire 
printer/warehouse/wholesaler/bookstore supply chain, and sell directly 
to the reader. Is it easy? Hell no. But at least you get every penny 
of the profit (if you do it directly off your own website), or up to 70% 
if you do it off Kindle or iPad.

I have the highest confidence in the propriety of your state of 
publication. Keep up the good work!

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

LyX and Kindle books

[Steve Litt]

Alex Fernandez, you have your work cut out for you!

Before telling you way, let me just say you did a real good deed 
creating eLyXer. You made styles-based HTML authoring, and therefore 
eBook authoring, much easier. And I notices when I use LyX's own HTML 
converter, I get eLyXer messages :-)

But to those whom much has been given, much is expected, so you're not 
done yet.

LyX plus eLyXer plus a few other tools can make the PERFECT PERFECT 
PERFECT authoring tool for flowable text eBooks (Kindle, iPad, etc). I 
just tested my soon to be released Kindle book, Rules of the 
Happiness Highway, on Kindle's Kindle Previewer, and it worked 
perfectly except for the features I didn't put in (TOC, Index, 
chapters, frontmatter -- it's a short book). The book was authored in 
LyX and converted with eLyXer and Kindlized with Kindlegen.

There needs to be a way to insert all info needed by Kindle into the 
LyX file, and having eLyXer or other similar executables do things like 
split out the chapters, split out the table of contents and index, 
make the .opf file and the .ncx file. It might require a special layout 
file -- I can create that. Or maybe just layout modules.

I'm sure Rob Oakes and I can provide plenty of info for what is needed 
to create a Kindle book, and lots of feedback and testing. I might be 
able to write some of the code.

LyX is the fastest and most enjoyable authoring environment. With a 
few additions to eLyXer, that fastest and most enjoyable authoring 
environment can be used to write flowing-text eBooks.

Alex, you've got your work cut out for you. I'll try to help.

SteveT

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Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/bookstore/key_excellence.htm
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Another lyx-produced book

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:21 PM, stefano franchi
 wrote:
> Boy, do I know that drill! I am lucky that it never rains in Texas, as I
> needed all the sunlight I could get. For a few days I had several pages of
> the actual book I was using as a  design reference permanently taped to my
> kitchen's windows, so I could easily check my latex output against them.
>
I'm getting curious about this. Did you actually have to tear down the
pages of a book to obtain the proper measurements? Wouldn't a simple
inquiry to the publisher help?

Liviu

Re: LyX-Produced Book

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 29/11/11 22:07, Richard Heck a écrit :


My book, /Frege's Theorem/, which was both written with and typeset from
LyX, has just recently been published by Oxford University Press. You
can have a look at the pages, if you wish, from its page on Amazon:
 http://www.amazon.com/Freges-Theorem-Richard-G-Heck/dp/0199695644/
LyX gets mentioned on p. xii, which seems currently to be part of the
"preview". The font is just New Century Schoolbook. The document class
was written by me to OUP's specifications and will go up on CTAN when I
get some time.


Congratulation Richard!

JMarc

Re: LyX-Produced Book

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 01/12/11 05:44, BH a écrit :

In any case, another testament to LyX/LaTeX. Thanks again to the developers, to 
whom I'm
grateful every day.


Hmm, you are one of them, aren't you?

JMarc

Re: help with running title in the right up of the pdf page

[Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci]

Hi again,

I was wondering if the the text that is in \spacedlowsmallcaps style then
could not be also in \emph one? I mean, can not be together in the same
word...
Am I right?

Cheers,

Gian



On 20 November 2011 16:31, PhilipPirrip  wrote:

> On 11/19/2011 09:55 PM, Gian Maria Niccolň Benucci wrote:
>
>> Anyway, I could not believe that classicthesis do not have the
>> possibility to use emph style with capital letters in chapter titles, or
>> headers...
>>
>
>
> You can always try to fix it yourself, you know. It's a free software,
> using some hacks to get more than LaTeX provides.
>
> an excerpt from classicthesis.sty (note the \spacedlowsmallcaps command)
>
>
>
>
> % 
>
> % headlines
> % 
> \PassOptionsToPackage{**automark}{scrpage2}
>\RequirePackage{scrpage2} % provides headers and footers (KOMA
> Script)
>\clearscrheadings
>\setheadsepline{0pt}
>\ifthenelse{\boolean{@**nochapters}}%
>{\relax}%
>
> {\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[**1]{\markboth{\**spacedlowsmallcaps{#1}}{\**
> spacedlowsmallcaps{#1
>
> \renewcommand{\sectionmark}[1]**{\markright{\thesection\**
> enspace\spacedlowsmallcaps{#1}**}}
>\lehead{\mbox{\llap{\small\**thepage\kern2em}\headmark\**hfil}}
>\rohead{\mbox{\hfil{\headmark}**\rlap{\small\kern2em\thepage}}**}
>\renewcommand{\headfont}{\**small}
>%\DeclareRobustCommand{\**fixBothHeadlines}[1]{} % <--- ToDo
>% hack to get the content headlines right (thanks, Lorenzo!)
>\def\toc@heading{%
>\ifthenelse{\boolean{@**nochapters}}%
>{\section*{\contentsname}}%**nochapters
>{\chapter*{\contentsname}}%**chapters
> \@mkboth{\spacedlowsmallcaps{\**contentsname}}{\**
> spacedlowsmallcaps{\**contentsname}}}
>
>
>

Re: pdf dimensions

[Csikos Bela]

"Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci"  írta:
>Hi everyone,Is it possible to reduce the dimension of the compiled pdf in LyX 
>2.0???Thanks a lot,-- Gian >


Do you mean the page size of the produced page?
It can be set easily under Document>Settings>Page layout>Paper format>Format.

bcsikos

Re: pdf dimensions

[Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci]

On 1 December 2011 13:09, Csikos Bela  wrote:

> "Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci"  írta:
> >Hi everyone,Is it possible to reduce the dimension of the compiled pdf in
> LyX 2.0???Thanks a lot,-- Gian >
>
>
> Do you mean the page size of the produced page?
> It can be set easily under Document>Settings>Page layout>Paper
> format>Format.
>
> bcsikos
>
>
>
>
Nope. I meant the dimesion of the produced file.pdf
My thesis has 60 figures and 230 pages so the output is of 70 Mb... very
big! How to reduce it?

Thanks a lot,

Gian

Re: pdf dimensions

[Rainer M Krug]

2011/12/1 Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci 

>
>
> On 1 December 2011 13:09, Csikos Bela  wrote:
>
>> "Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci"  írta:
>> >Hi everyone,Is it possible to reduce the dimension of the compiled pdf
>> in LyX 2.0???Thanks a lot,-- Gian >
>>
>>
>> Do you mean the page size of the produced page?
>> It can be set easily under Document>Settings>Page layout>Paper
>> format>Format.
>>
>> bcsikos
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Nope. I meant the dimesion of the produced file.pdf
> My thesis has 60 figures and 230 pages so the output is of 70 Mb... very
> big! How to reduce it?
>

Reduce the size of the images. You can use e.g. imagemagik to do this.

This brings us more or less back to an ever re-occurring discussion: could
this be done automatically? It shuld be possible to include this in the
copier, so that the re-sampling is done automatically.

If you have vector graphs (e.g. eps or pdf created by R) which are big, you
could convert them to png at the required resolutions.

Cheers,

Rainer



>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Gian
>
>
>
>
>


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Re: pdf dimensions

[PhilipPirrip]

On 12/01/2011 01:24 PM, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote:

My thesis has 60 figures and 230 pages so the output is of 70 Mb... very
big! How to reduce it?


Well, how big are those 60 figures? You should work on reducing their 
size first (by reducing dimensions, resolution/dpi, using better 
compression in jpg's)

Re: LyX-Produced Book

[BH]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:10 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes  wrote:
> Le 01/12/11 05:44, BH a écrit :
>>
>> In any case, another testament to LyX/LaTeX. Thanks again to the
>> developers, to whom I'm
>> grateful every day.
>
>
> Hmm, you are one of them, aren't you?

You mean philosophers writing books with LyX? Yes. ;)

(Congratulations, Stefano!)

BH

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Richard Heck]

On 11/30/2011 09:48 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
> This is excellent news and I look forward to the improvements.
>
> Is there a recommended procedure for updating from 2.0.0? I have made
> some customizations (shortcuts, added modules, etc.) that I would like
> to retain if possible.
>
Platform, etc?

rh

Re: PDF won't generate

[zara]

I get exactly the same error message as the one reported by curtis osterhoudt.
Lyx says that it can't find the tex-file even though I can see that the
tex-file is produced in working directory.

I'm using Lyx 2.0.2 on a windows 7 computer with very limited user privileges.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Murat Yildizoglu]

Thank you very much!

 I hope that the bug that was blocking the Sage module has been corrected.

Best regards,

Murat

2011/12/1 Richard Heck 

> On 11/30/2011 09:48 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
> > This is excellent news and I look forward to the improvements.
> >
> > Is there a recommended procedure for updating from 2.0.0? I have made
> > some customizations (shortcuts, added modules, etc.) that I would like
> > to retain if possible.
> >
> Platform, etc?
>
> rh
>
>


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Re: LyX-Produced Book

[Jacob Bishop]

Richard,

Congratulations on finishing the book. I took a look at it on Amazon, and
it looks very nice.

Jacob

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.

But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
appreciate advice as well.

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Bert Lloyd wrote:


But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
appreciate advice as well.


  I've been building and installing LyX with the SlackBuild script for about
8 years. Just upgraded from -2.0.1 to -2.0.2 on Slackware-13.1 with no
problems.

Rich

Re: Shaded boxes

[Louis Turk]

On 11/30/2011 06:40 PM, Louis Turk wrote:
> Hi Lyx users,
>
> Using the Memoir class with a two-column document, and inserting a box
> (simple frame, page breaks), how can the background of the box be made
> shaded?
>
> Lou

It was suggested on comp.text.tex that I use the mdframed package, but
I've not been able to figure out how to use it with Lyx.

I've already finished a book, using simple framed boxes with page breaks many 
times to emphasize
special text, so I'm hoping for something to put in the preamble to shade the 
background of all of these boxes for further emphasis. 

Lou

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Richard Heck]

On 12/01/2011 12:30 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
> Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.
>
> But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
> appreciate advice as well.
>
Well, on Linux, it's just not an issue. You install it, and it works out
of the box. I don't know about Windows. The question is just: Does LyX
2.0.2 use the same user directory as 2.0.0 did? If not, then copy the
old one over the new one.

Richard

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Bert Lloyd]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:
> On 12/01/2011 12:30 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
>> Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.
>>
>> But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
>> appreciate advice as well.
>>
> Well, on Linux, it's just not an issue. You install it, and it works out
> of the box. I don't know about Windows. The question is just: Does LyX
> 2.0.2 use the same user directory as 2.0.0 did?

I believe the answer to this question is "yes", since the user directory is
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0
which does not appear to be specific to 2.0.0.

> If not, then copy the
> old one over the new one.
>

So if the answer to the above is "yes", what do you (or others) recommend?

Many thanks again.


>

Re: LyX 2.0.2 Released

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Bert Lloyd  wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:
>> On 12/01/2011 12:30 PM, Bert Lloyd wrote:
>>> Windows 7 (64-bit), using MikTeX 2.9, upgrading from LyX 2.0.0.
>>>
>>> But I am sure that there are others on different OSs, etc, who would
>>> appreciate advice as well.
>>>
>> Well, on Linux, it's just not an issue. You install it, and it works out
>> of the box. I don't know about Windows. The question is just: Does LyX
>> 2.0.2 use the same user directory as 2.0.0 did?
>
> I believe the answer to this question is "yes", since the user directory is
> C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.0
> which does not appear to be specific to 2.0.0.
>
>> If not, then copy the
>> old one over the new one.
>>
>
> So if the answer to the above is "yes", what do you (or others) recommend?
>
Make a backup of your profile dir, upgrade LyX, then figure out where
to put your old config, if at all needed. (Linux user.)

Regards
Liviu


> Many thanks again.
>
>
>>



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Re: Another lyx-produced book

[stefano franchi]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:21 PM, stefano franchi
>  wrote:
> > Boy, do I know that drill! I am lucky that it never rains in Texas, as I
> > needed all the sunlight I could get. For a few days I had several pages
> of
> > the actual book I was using as a  design reference permanently taped to
> my
> > kitchen's windows, so I could easily check my latex output against them.
> >
> I'm getting curious about this. Did you actually have to tear down the
> pages of a book to obtain the proper measurements? Wouldn't a simple
> inquiry to the publisher help?
>
> Liviu
>

Ahh Liviu, you wan the dirty details...

Here is a very short version:

The book is published by Rodopi in their VIBS series. This is philosophy
series (VIBS stands for Value Inquiry Book Series) created and almost
completely managed by a US philosophy professor, not by Rodopi. All aspects
of book production, from stylesheets to book design came in the form of a
thick set of Word documents and with Word instructions. That's where the
buck stopped, so to speak.
I first tried to replicate the effects of Word commands in latex, and I
quickly realized:
1. it was extremely time-consuming, because I had no clear idea of the
expected result. For instance, I could not get a clear understanding of how
many lines per page I was supposed to have. I only had fixed numbers for
the textblock size and a font size. Since the textblock height was not a
integer multiple of (what I took to be) the standard leading for that point
size, the number of lines was fractional and tended to vary from page to
page.
2. It was unreliable (I could not always get the same results on different
runs), even when I substituted my guesses when the data was insufficient
3. The resulting typography was less than satisfactory.

So here is what I did: I got a bunch of VIBS from my library, picked the
one I thought was the best laid-out, bought a copy, tore off pages, and
started to measure everything.
Then I replicated the design in memoir (whose author, Peter Wilson should
enter the (La)TeX Hall of Fame, especially for the beautifully
comprehensive documetation. The current maintaner, Lars Madsen, was been
very helpful too).
Then I measured again using the window trick...

It was fun.


Cheers,

Stefano


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Re: Shaded boxes

[Paul A . Rubin]

Louis Turk  dayspringpublisher.com> writes:

Maybe use this? http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ShadedBox

Paul
   

Re: PDF won't generate

[Paul A . Rubin]

zara  gmx.ch> writes:

> 
> I get exactly the same error message as the one reported by curtis osterhoudt.
> Lyx says that it can't find the tex-file even though I can see that the
> tex-file is produced in working directory.
> 
> I'm using Lyx 2.0.2 on a windows 7 computer with very limited user privileges.
> 
> Any help is highly appreciated.
> 
> 

Are you sure the message is that the TeX file cannot be found?  Usually it's the
final result (PDF or DVI) that cannot be found.

Paul

Enumerate in table with no additional packages?

[stefano franchi]

Dear All:

Is it possible to enumerate the rows of a table, without using external
packages? I vaguely remember seeing a solution to this problem, perhaps in
a Latex list or perhaps here, but I cannot find it anymore.

Thanks in advance,

S.



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Re: Lyx 2.0 to 1.62

[Richard Heck]

On 12/01/2011 06:32 PM,  Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेडरिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك
نورونيا  wrote:
> Could someone pls give me a tip of how I could convert a Lyx 2.0 file
> to read in Lyx 1.67?
>
> Lyx2Lyx isn't working for me.
>
Is it giving an error? If so, that is a bug.

> If I send across the file, could you help? Please reply me personally
> too (as cc). Very grateful for all the other help. FN
>
Send me the file. I'll be happy to have a look.

Richard

Re: Yet another book using LyX

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday, December 01, 2011 11:17:54 PM Les Denham wrote:
> Four years ago I accompanied my brother driving across Australia
> (and visiting some unusual spots). For his birthday last month I
> wrote up an account of the trip and had a copy printed (using
> Lulu.com). It is a substantial document: 164 pages (letter size),
> about 50,000 words, and approximately 220 figures.
> 
> After he opened the gift, the book was passed around among those at
> the party, and many of the guests asked where they could get a
> copy. Among those asking was the assistant manager of a bookshop.
> I have sent her three copies to see how they sell.
> 
> The book is not properly published yet, but it looks as if there
> will be enough demand to at least publish it on Lulu.com.

From my viewpoint it's the most properly published book there can be. 
A few books printed and you're already profitable. You never signed a 
contract with an indemnification, a noncompete, and one of those things 
that if your royalties don't exceed your advance, you have to pay it 
back on the next book.

From what I hear, the average "properly published" nonfiction book 
sells about 3K copies. At that sales quantity, the author fails to 
make minimum wage on his advance/royalties, and the publisher doesn't 
make a lot of money either. And from what I hear, these days 
publishers are actually charging authors for indexing and editing. And 
then, for a royalty of a buck a book which will probably never exceed 
the advance (and from what I hear advances are down in the mid four 
figures now), the publisher expects the author to drive and fly hither 
and yon promoting the book while the publisher does no sales at all.

After my first properly published book (Samba Unleashed, published in 
2000), I decided to give self-publishing a try. I'm still doing self-
publishing.

From what I understand, publishers do a crappy job of selling. And in 
this day and age, with LyX and Inkscape and Gimp and LuLu and eBooks, 
you don't need their typesetting or printing services. With eBooks and 
the Internet, you can do an end-run around that entire 
printer/warehouse/wholesaler/bookstore supply chain, and sell directly 
to the reader. Is it easy? Hell no. But at least you get every penny 
of the profit (if you do it directly off your own website), or up to 70% 
if you do it off Kindle or iPad.

I have the highest confidence in the propriety of your state of 
publication. Keep up the good work!

SteveT

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LyX and Kindle books

[Steve Litt]

Alex Fernandez, you have your work cut out for you!

Before telling you way, let me just say you did a real good deed 
creating eLyXer. You made styles-based HTML authoring, and therefore 
eBook authoring, much easier. And I notices when I use LyX's own HTML 
converter, I get eLyXer messages :-)

But to those whom much has been given, much is expected, so you're not 
done yet.

LyX plus eLyXer plus a few other tools can make the PERFECT PERFECT 
PERFECT authoring tool for flowable text eBooks (Kindle, iPad, etc). I 
just tested my soon to be released Kindle book, "Rules of the 
Happiness Highway", on Kindle's Kindle Previewer, and it worked 
perfectly except for the features I didn't put in (TOC, Index, 
chapters, frontmatter -- it's a short book). The book was authored in 
LyX and converted with eLyXer and Kindlized with Kindlegen.

There needs to be a way to insert all info needed by Kindle into the 
LyX file, and having eLyXer or other similar executables do things like 
split out the chapters, split out the table of contents and index, 
make the .opf file and the .ncx file. It might require a special layout 
file -- I can create that. Or maybe just layout modules.

I'm sure Rob Oakes and I can provide plenty of info for what is needed 
to create a Kindle book, and lots of feedback and testing. I might be 
able to write some of the code.

LyX is the fastest and most enjoyable authoring environment. With a 
few additions to eLyXer, that fastest and most enjoyable authoring 
environment can be used to write flowing-text eBooks.

Alex, you've got your work cut out for you. I'll try to help.

SteveT

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