Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Me, on the contrary, I do not know a single publisher who accepts TeX as an input format (this is in the humanities field). Generally, they want camera ready PDF for monographs (which then can be of course done with TeX), or MS Word documents for journals and proceedings. I have experienced that some of these journals and proceedings were in fact produced with TeX in the end, but even then they have not accepted TeX file as input from me, simply because the editors and reviewers don't know how to deal with that format. Jürgen
display fonts in Lyx 2.0.2
I just installed Lyx on my new machine (Windows 7) and noticed that compared with Lyx 2.0.0 on my old machine (also Windows 7) the display fonts don't look as nice. Its hard to describe except to say that they look somewhat "faded" or the characters somehow look like they were printed with a printer that was low on ink! I checked and all the settings are the same on the two Lyx's. Any ideas? cheers
Re: How to force tex2lyx to read unicode (from within Lyx)?
On 02/13/2012 05:41 PM, stefano franchi wrote: I have been helping Eric Weir with his Scrivener-->LaTeX-->Lyx import and we have narrowed down the problem to Lyx not importing a Unicode-encoded file as Unicode. I'm glad to hear someone was able to help with this. Thanks for your efforts on behalf of the LyX community. So tex2lyx is the culprit. Wasn't this solved some time ago, however?I mean: automatic recognition of the imported file encoding? Well, that's a complicated issue. They may have tried to do a better job, but recognizing the file encoding completely reliably is not in general possible. There's some famous example of this. Try out the enclosed minimal lyx file. 1. exporting to latex and reimporting into lyx from FIle>>Import>>Latex(plain) produces garbage characters for the dashes 2. However, calling>tex2lyx -e UTF8 from the command line produces the correct file. Still, it's surprising we fail in this particular case, so I'd guess it is indeed a bug. I'll cross-post to devel. Richard
Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Jens Nöckel wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >>> Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: >>> >>> Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. >>> >>> >>> I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Also most of the >>> humanity-linked publishers are using it in the background. They sometimes >>> even require MS Word format but transform the word file to TeX to be able to >>> layout the text properly. So just ask you publisher. >> >> Sorry Uwe, but this is not true---at least not in the US. Most >> publishers in my field (Humanities) do not use latex at all. When >> they ask for Word is because they use inDesign or Quark Xpress (this >> one less and less true). And smaller presses--or not so small >> presses, like Rodopi---just go for PDF+print-on demand. I hear from >> colleagues that the social sciences are the same. Latex dominates in >> CS and Math only. Even some (and, I hear, more and more) hard >> scientists (i.e. physicists) now use word. >> > Sorry, Stefano - but LaTeX is undoubtedly the main physics publication > vehicle. > Glad to hear it! The day MS Word goes out of existence I will be a happy camper. > And LyX has gotten orders of magnitude better at decoupling the user > experience from the LaTeX source in the past decade, so I would agree that > you no longer need to know LaTeX to use it in a standard way. There are still > the occasional LaTeX errors, but I can't recall any specific recent example, > and that just proves that things have improved a lot… Here we disagree. I have been helping another user with a conversion issue just today---and I would not have gone anywhere without knowing (a bit of) LaTex. Lyx may well have reach the poitn where 80% or 90% of what you need to do is Latex-free. Even 95%. Still, it is not 100% (and, in my opinion, it never will. Latex certainly isn't). This is not meant to be a criticism of the great job of the Lyx developers. I think Lyx is a great program that would deserves a much greater user base than it has. I am certainly glad I use it---and I don't use it anything else. I'll shut up now---we are veering dangerously close to pure philosophy---and that's work ;-) Cheers, Stefano -- __ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.
On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:53:27 -0800 Colin Williams wrote: > I'm writing a book. I would like to consider the possibility that I > will do a small print run of 1000-5000 copies. I am certain I'm going > to publish it as an ebook. I would expect the printed book would be > in paperback form. I would like the lyx-users to tell me if they > think its the right tool for the job. I know lyx is nice for making > mathematics papers,but is it good for making a book which you want to > reformat for displays and printed pages of varying sizes? Are there > other programs I should consider? Hi Colin, Now that we're all discussing document classes and details, and it looks like you actually might use LyX, I think it's time for me to repeat my twice-annual advice. LITT'S TWICE ANNUAL ADVICE: In your book's main matter, use styles and nothing but styles. Never apply an appearance directly, but instead apply appearances through styles that match the usage in the document (Chapter, section, subsection, Quote, tip, warning, etc). BUT, in the front matter, feel free to apply appearances directly, and DO NOT use the document class's facilities for title, author, etc, and just write them with proper appearances and spacing. I've done it both ways, and it's much easier and less frustrating to do it the way I discussed in the preceding paragraph. SteveT
Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.
On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:58 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: >> >> >>> Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the >>> typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. >> >> >> I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Also most of the >> humanity-linked publishers are using it in the background. They sometimes >> even require MS Word format but transform the word file to TeX to be able to >> layout the text properly. So just ask you publisher. > > Sorry Uwe, but this is not true---at least not in the US. Most > publishers in my field (Humanities) do not use latex at all. When > they ask for Word is because they use inDesign or Quark Xpress (this > one less and less true). And smaller presses--or not so small > presses, like Rodopi---just go for PDF+print-on demand. I hear from > colleagues that the social sciences are the same. Latex dominates in > CS and Math only. Even some (and, I hear, more and more) hard > scientists (i.e. physicists) now use word. > Sorry, Stefano - but LaTeX is undoubtedly the main physics publication vehicle. And LyX has gotten orders of magnitude better at decoupling the user experience from the LaTeX source in the past decade, so I would agree that you no longer need to know LaTeX to use it in a standard way. There are still the occasional LaTeX errors, but I can't recall any specific recent example, and that just proves that things have improved a lot… Jens
Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: > > >> Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the >> typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. > > > I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Also most of the > humanity-linked publishers are using it in the background. They sometimes > even require MS Word format but transform the word file to TeX to be able to > layout the text properly. So just ask you publisher. Sorry Uwe, but this is not true---at least not in the US. Most publishers in my field (Humanities) do not use latex at all. When they ask for Word is because they use inDesign or Quark Xpress (this one less and less true). And smaller presses--or not so small presses, like Rodopi---just go for PDF+print-on demand. I hear from colleagues that the social sciences are the same. Latex dominates in CS and Math only. Even some (and, I hear, more and more) hard scientists (i.e. physicists) now use word. >> However, know your typesetting fate before you start to write and >> choose the right options (including whther to buy a LaTeX book or >> not)---it will make everything simpler later on. > > > I still cannot agree to this. If you need a special LaTeX book, then I > failed my goal. I invested countless hours for the LyX documentation to > overcome the need of learning LaTeX. (When I started TeXing it frustrated me > a lot and the LaTeX books even more.) > > What is of course helpful is to look into the documentation of the document > class you are using. So in case you prefer memoir or KOMA-script, look at > its documentation file, but first after you finished your first chapter. > Then you already have a feeling how writing with LyX works. Document class > options can be added and removed at any time later. This is a matter of preference. Personally, I think the content/format separation that LateX (and therefore lyx) is built upon is far from perfect. It is a great "regulative idea" but it doesn't always work---witness the counteless pieces of advice on this list to use ERT code (which is often TeX code). I prefer to like to know my destiny beforehand. Then again, I am a pessimist by nature. Cheers, Stefano -- __ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.
Am 13.02.2012 23:35, schrieb stefano franchi: Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. I don't know any scientific publisher who is not using TeX. Also most of the humanity-linked publishers are using it in the background. They sometimes even require MS Word format but transform the word file to TeX to be able to layout the text properly. So just ask you publisher. However, know your typesetting fate before you start to write and choose the right options (including whther to buy a LaTeX book or not)---it will make everything simpler later on. I still cannot agree to this. If you need a special LaTeX book, then I failed my goal. I invested countless hours for the LyX documentation to overcome the need of learning LaTeX. (When I started TeXing it frustrated me a lot and the LaTeX books even more.) What is of course helpful is to look into the documentation of the document class you are using. So in case you prefer memoir or KOMA-script, look at its documentation file, but first after you finished your first chapter. Then you already have a feeling how writing with LyX works. Document class options can be added and removed at any time later. regards Uwe
Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, Steve Litt wrote: Memoir is cool, but be very careful, because Memoir screws up with certain other packages, most notably hyperref, for which you'll need the memhfixc package, and a lot of rain dances to get it to work. Or at least that's how I remember it. My thought is if you use Memoir, use it every time so you get to know Memoir like the back of your hand, and you can fix hyperref problems in minutes instead of days. Some years ago I settled on the KOMA-Script classes as my defaults. Learned how to tweak them to my specifications and stuck with them ever since. Like many applications (and linux/*BSD in general) there are multiple tools to accomplish any task. It's better to pick one and learn it well than to switch from one to another. I've done the same with R: I use the lattice package for plotting while others use the base plot package and still others prefer ggplot2. By the same token, I've adopted the Palatino typeface as the default for all my LyX documents and PSTricks for all vector plotting. Makes life simpler and more productive. Rich
How to force tex2lyx to read unicode (from within Lyx)?
I have been helping Eric Weir with his Scrivener-->LaTeX-->Lyx import and we have narrowed down the problem to Lyx not importing a Unicode-encoded file as Unicode. So tex2lyx is the culprit. Wasn't this solved some time ago, however?I mean: automatic recognition of the imported file encoding? Try out the enclosed minimal lyx file. 1. exporting to latex and reimporting into lyx from FIle>>Import>>Latex(plain) produces garbage characters for the dashes 2. However, calling >tex2lyx -e UTF8 from the command line produces the correct file. Is this a bug? Or a feature? Cheers, Stefano -- __ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org em-dash-test.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 13.02.2012 15:28, schrieb stefano franchi: > I don't agree, LyX is designed that you don't need to learn LaTeX and that > is why I designed the thesis template. You see there that you cann do almost > all you need the LyX way. For very special things I wrote LyX's > EmbeddedObjects manual. So in case you have troubles you should find always > a quick answer in the LyX manuals. The only thing one needs to learn is to > concentrate o writing the text and not to look frequently how it will look. > The typical beginner's mistake is to try to fine-tune everything at the > beginning also if not even the first chapter is ready. The final formatting > can be changed at every time easily for the whole document. > (When you publish a book you have anyway to fulfill the publisher's > guidelines. In most cases the publisher will do the final layout for you, if > you like this or not.) Well, that's exactly the issue. IF your publisher does the typesetting, THEN you can forget about LaTeX. What happens more and more frequently, though, is that your publisher will give you a set of guidelines set up for Microsoft Word and will want a pdf back. At that point getting to know LaTex is inevitable. I do agree with you, Uwe: concentrate on writing, not on typesetting. However, know your typesetting fate before you start to write and choose the right options (including whther to buy a LaTeX book or not)---it will make everything simpler later on. Cheers, Stefano > > regards Uwe -- __ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.
Am 13.02.2012 15:28, schrieb stefano franchi: Another option (and one I recently used) for writing books with Lyx is to use the memoir class. This is one option, the other one is the KOMA-script book class. This is used for most LyX manuals and it is my opinion a bit more flexible. But this is of course a matter of taste. Let me add one comment to the great response from Steve: I don't think you can become a fast writer in Lyx (as Steve says) unless you get at least an idea of how Latex works and thinks. I don't agree, LyX is designed that you don't need to learn LaTeX and that is why I designed the thesis template. You see there that you cann do almost all you need the LyX way. For very special things I wrote LyX's EmbeddedObjects manual. So in case you have troubles you should find always a quick answer in the LyX manuals. The only thing one needs to learn is to concentrate o writing the text and not to look frequently how it will look. The typical beginner's mistake is to try to fine-tune everything at the beginning also if not even the first chapter is ready. The final formatting can be changed at every time easily for the whole document. (When you publish a book you have anyway to fulfill the publisher's guidelines. In most cases the publisher will do the final layout for you, if you like this or not.) regards Uwe
Re: Customizing stdmenus.inc to use git
On 02/13/2012 03:29 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I would ike to use git and it was mentioned here that one can customize the stdmenus.inc file so that the VC commands use git. Not so far as I know. LyX does not have native support for git. It could be added, but last time I asked there were some issues that would need resolving. E.g., what "check-in" means in git is very different from what it means in svn. Richard
Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.
> > To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis > > template files. You find them in LyX's installation folder under > > \Resources\templates\thesis. > > Another option (and one I recently used) for writing books with Lyx is > to use the memoir class. It is probably the most flexible class ever > produced for LateX and it allows tweaking of most, if not all, aspects > of a publications. It also has a comprehensive, very well written > manual (a book, really). It will require you to learn some LaTeX, > though. I am using koma-script book class and I recommended it. So far I did not need to write my own environment. Marcelo
Re: program listing of child documents with accents
Following Richard advice, below posted source code of a small document. With the current lyx configuration I can insert a child document with the program listing input. The document is saved utf8. I can see accents on the pdf output, but the breaklines of the listings package does not seem to work and I do not why. A long line does not break at any place, despite breaklines=true param is set. Any help welcomed Thanks again. >> % Preview source code %% LyX 1.6.7 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/. %% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing. \documentclass[11pt,catalan]{report} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \usepackage{listings} \usepackage[a4paper]{geometry} \geometry{verbose,tmargin=3cm,bmargin=2cm,lmargin=3.5cm,rmargin=2.5cm,headheight=2cm,headsep=1cm,footskip=1.5cm} \setlength{\parskip}{\bigskipamount} \setlength{\parindent}{0pt} \usepackage{calc} \usepackage{amsthm} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{esint} \makeatletter %% Textclass specific LaTeX commands. \numberwithin{equation}{section} \numberwithin{figure}{section} %% User specified LaTeX commands. \usepackage{verbatim} \usepackage{varioref} \usepackage{ucs} \usepackage{framed} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{ucs} \usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} \makeatother \usepackage{babel} \begin{document} Document d'exemple. document;settings;language;català document;settings;language;other utf8x No problem with accents on main document: áéíóú % \framebox{\begin{minipage}[t]{1\columnwidth}% Inserted child document with accents stored utf-8. Program listing input selected \scriptsize \lstinputlisting[breaklines=true,extendedchars=false]{childdoc-utf8} \scriptsize% \end{minipage}} \nocite{*} \end{document} < Child document. Stored UTF8. Áéíóúàèáéíóúàèáéíóúàèáéíóúàèáéíóúàèáéíóúàèáéíóúàèáéíóúàèá éíóúàèáéíóúàèáéíóúàèáéíóúàèáéíóúàèáéíóúàèáéíóúàèáéíóúàèáéí
Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:28:30 -0600 stefano franchi wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Am 12.02.2012 14:53, schrieb Colin Williams: > > To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis > > template files. You find them in LyX's installation folder under > > \Resources\templates\thesis. > > Another option (and one I recently used) for writing books with Lyx is > to use the memoir class. It is probably the most flexible class ever > produced for LateX and it allows tweaking of most, if not all, aspects > of a publications. It also has a comprehensive, very well written > manual (a book, really). It will require you to learn some LaTeX, > though. Memoir is cool, but be very careful, because Memoir screws up with certain other packages, most notably hyperref, for which you'll need the memhfixc package, and a lot of rain dances to get it to work. Or at least that's how I remember it. My thought is if you use Memoir, use it every time so you get to know Memoir like the back of your hand, and you can fix hyperref problems in minutes instead of days. > > Let me add one comment to the great response from Steve: I don't think > you can become a fast writer in Lyx (as Steve says) unless you get at > least an idea of how Latex works and thinks. You need to learn a bit > about environments (paragraph styles), how fonts are used in LaTeX, > about the various components of a page, about compilation, etcetera. > Lyx does a marvelous job at hiding most of the complexity of Latex, > but when push comes to show and things go wrong (i.e. the file does > not compile, your output does not look th way it should, etcetera), > knowing a bit of the language Lyx uses to produce output becomes > precious. If, and when, you decide to start using Lyx, I would buy a > copy of The Latex Companion [1] and start reading at least the first > few chapters. IIRC I bought both The Latex Companion and Guide to LaTeX and downloaded the Memoir doc class documentation and read it all, because yeah, if you ever want to create or change a style, you're going to need a good knowledge of LaTeX. Stefano makes an excellent point that lack of LaTeX knowledge slows you down, as it does for me to this day, 11 years after I came to LyX. One way I like to minimize the slowing is, when I create a new style, do a minimal job of it so it's recognizable as a different style on both output and the LyX environment. So I take 5 or 10 minutes to make the style and then start pounding out content again. Then, every once in a while, I take a technical day and make the styles look how I want them to look. Thanks SteveT
Re: Errors on publishing [to pdf]
On Feb 13, 2012, at 9:16 AM, stefano franchi wrote: > you may have to check the encoding of your lyx file. If you use XeTeX > compilation (or LuaTeX, for that mater) the file should be in Unicode. > It looks like it isn't. Be sure: > > 1. that Scrivener-generated LateX code is in Unicode encoding (it may > be an option---LaTex was unable to read unicode until recently. Thanks, Stefano. I'm still waiting on a response from the Scrivener listserv. > 2. That Lyx properly treats the file as Unicode-encoded. IT should do > so automatically, but just to be on the safe side,go to > Document>>Settings>>Language under "Encoding" select the radio button > "Other" and from the drop-down list next to it choose *Unicode (XeTeX) > (UTF8)" I made this change and tried compiling with XeTeX and LuaTeX. Still getting the weird substitutions. Tried quitting LyX and compiling again with the same result. Is it possible that I will need to reimport the tex output from Scrivener? Sincerely, -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net "Imagining the other is a powerful antidote to fanaticism and hatred." - Amos Oz
Re: is lyx really appropriate for my book.
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 12.02.2012 14:53, schrieb Colin Williams: > To start writing a book I suggest to start with LyX's thesis template files. > You find them in LyX's installation folder under > \Resources\templates\thesis. Another option (and one I recently used) for writing books with Lyx is to use the memoir class. It is probably the most flexible class ever produced for LateX and it allows tweaking of most, if not all, aspects of a publications. It also has a comprehensive, very well written manual (a book, really). It will require you to learn some LaTeX, though. Let me add one comment to the great response from Steve: I don't think you can become a fast writer in Lyx (as Steve says) unless you get at least an idea of how Latex works and thinks. You need to learn a bit about environments (paragraph styles), how fonts are used in LaTeX, about the various components of a page, about compilation, etcetera. Lyx does a marvelous job at hiding most of the complexity of Latex, but when push comes to show and things go wrong (i.e. the file does not compile, your output does not look th way it should, etcetera), knowing a bit of the language Lyx uses to produce output becomes precious. If, and when, you decide to start using Lyx, I would buy a copy of The Latex Companion [1] and start reading at least the first few chapters. Cheers, Stefano [1] http://tinyurl.com/7vr4hzk -- __ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
Re: Errors on publishing [to pdf]
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Eric Weir wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > > Once you have the file in LyX, just try: View>PDF(XeTeX), e.g. That said, > I'm definitely not an expert on this encoding stuff. If you could produce a > really simple example file---create it in Scrivener and export it as > usual---that exhibits the problem, that will definitely help. > > > Thanks again, Richard. I thought the XeTeX/LuaTeX suggestion would involve > an additional compiling step. I see that it does not. Both compile, but > instead of giving error messages they substitute weird characters for the > problemmatic characters, e.g., an em-dash becomes âĂT. Sometimes it does > the same for en-dashes, sometimes not. Sometimes with the apostrophe, > sometimes not. Also with accented characters. > Eric, you may have to check the encoding of your lyx file. If you use XeTeX compilation (or LuaTeX, for that mater) the file should be in Unicode. It looks like it isn't. Be sure: 1. that Scrivener-generated LateX code is in Unicode encoding (it may be an option---LaTex was unable to read unicode until recently. 2. That Lyx properly treats the file as Unicode-encoded. IT should do so automatically, but just to be on the safe side,go to Document>>Settings>>Language under "Encoding" select the radio button "Other" and from the drop-down list next to it choose *Unicode (XeTeX) (UTF8)" Hope it helps, Stefano > The file I'm working on is not that complicated: 12 pages with bibliography > and footnotes; title, author, and section headings formatted KOMA-Script > default. > > Assuming that the problem is Unicode characters, I'm also gonna check with > the Scrivener forum to see if there's a way to stop that. > > Sincerely, > -- > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA USA > eew...@bellsouth.net > > > > -- __ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
Re: Errors on publishing [to pdf]
On Feb 12, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > Once you have the file in LyX, just try: View>PDF(XeTeX), e.g. That said, I'm > definitely not an expert on this encoding stuff. If you could produce a > really simple example file---create it in Scrivener and export it as > usual---that exhibits the problem, that will definitely help. Thanks again, Richard. I thought the XeTeX/LuaTeX suggestion would involve an additional compiling step. I see that it does not. Both compile, but instead of giving error messages they substitute weird characters for the problemmatic characters, e.g., an em-dash becomes âĂT. Sometimes it does the same for en-dashes, sometimes not. Sometimes with the apostrophe, sometimes not. Also with accented characters. The file I'm working on is not that complicated: 12 pages with bibliography and footnotes; title, author, and section headings formatted KOMA-Script default. Assuming that the problem is Unicode characters, I'm also gonna check with the Scrivener forum to see if there's a way to stop that. Sincerely, -- Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA eew...@bellsouth.net
Re: Initials Module
Uwe Stöhr web.de> writes: > Have you had a look at sec. 6.3 "Initials" of the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's Help > menu? You know, uh, duh, I am embarassed to say, that actually I remember passing over a loose reference to it somewhere, (not sure why I ignored it perhaps because the reference was couched in someone's techspeak I didn't understand) in the midst of a long fruitless google search that turned up nothing but a skimpy reference to the fact that somebody named Uw...uh...hmm...had added support for it and a longwinded discussion purportedly about it but really aimed at developers, god bless 'em...but now I see that it is carefully clearly and meticulously spelled out in the EmbeddedObjects (what does that mean? Sounds like something to do with graphics or something? Why is there no space in the middle? Why should I be looking there?) manual even though the user's guide doesn't mention it. In other words, I am a fool, thanks for adding support for it, it is cool, you are da bomb, and now I see how it works. yippie. :-) ps why does gmane balk at lines over 80 characters? I mean who writes paragraphs with less that 80 characters?
Re: Lyx und svn (or git)
On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 17:00 +0100, Uwe Ade wrote: > Hello, > > I thing about the problem to manage the Lyx-files from my lectures. I heard > that is possible to use svn or git to manage the lyx documente direct from > Lyx. The last two evenings i searched with google to find a good describtion > who this works but im not succesfull. Some on the list how know a good link? I haven't dug through the manual parts, and I only use a small part of the functionality. What works well for me is: Create, checkout from an svn repo in terminal. Then, when using lyx, commiting changes to the lyx file works trivially (from the menu). When adding graphics is involved or anything else that goes beyond the lyx file itself, I commit from terminal again. I have no experience with what lyx does in case of collaboration and conflicts since I'm the only committer to my documents. Anyway, for my use case, lyx's ability is sufficient and easy to use.
Customizing stdmenus.inc to use git
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I would ike to use git and it was mentioned here that one can customize the stdmenus.inc file so that the VC commands use git. I looked into the file, but could not gather how to change the following section so that git is used: Menu "file_vc" OptItem "Register...|R" "vc-register" OptItem "Check In Changes...|I" "vc-check-in" OptItem "Check Out for Edit|O" "vc-check-out" OptItem "Update Local Directory From Repository|d" "vc-repo-upd$ OptItem "Revert to Repository Version|v" "vc-revert" OptItem "Undo Last Check In|U" "vc-undo-last" OptItem "Compare with Older Revision...|C" "vc-compare" OptItem "Show History...|H" "dialog-show vclog" OptItem "Use Locking Property|L" "vc-locking-toggle" Could someone please provide an example? Also: can I put a custom version into .lyx so that the customized version is read, to avoid overwriting when updating? Thanks, Rainer - -- 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 : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk84ydkACgkQoYgNqgF2egriDgCcDJ2FnSF+X17esB3Yum/yhdnr sY4AoIAei6EMzZOInYSTU1pRwzLy9sMh =LCji -END PGP SIGNATURE-