Re: Include a PDF file containing 3D object
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:32 PM, joaquin wrote: > I have a PDF file, containing a 3D object. I try to include this into a LyX > document. > How can I include the 3D image? > If the 3D image is already in an existing PDF, likely the easiest would be to extract that given page from PDF document using pdftk (or PDFMod or PDF Chain, etc.) and then include it into your LyX document via 'PDFPages'. See wiki and Help > Embedded Objects > Section 7.1. Liviu > Will it be interactive once I compile the document? > I need help, thank you so much. > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
Re: cross-references sometimes spill past column boundary
Justin Wood gmail.com> writes:
> At the moment I'm using:
> \renewcommand{\figureautorefname}{Figure~\negthinspace}
>
> I've tried replacing '~' with a simple space, with '\,' and '\ ' but it still
> doesn't break between 'Figure' and the ref label. Shouldn't that be possible?
>
Ahh, found the source of the problem. The thesis template includes
\AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand{\ref}[1]{\mbox{\autoref{#1
And \mbox prevents line breaks within the reference itself. Removing that
resolves the problem, and even hyphenates 'Figure'. Of course it was no doubt
added for good reason so I'll have to see what other consequences there are...
Re: cross-references sometimes spill past column boundary
Guenter Milde users.sf.net> writes:
>
> It is standard TeX behaviour to let unbreakable words stick into the margin.
> The LaTeX log shows warnings for every such line (often just tiny incursions
> that can be ignored).
Thanks Günter. I've looked through the log and can't find any warnings that
indicate this.
>
> To find out whether it is a wrapping problem or a problem of the command,
> you might experiment with giving the output of the \cite command directly in
> place of it and see if this wraps well.
Good suggestion. It seems that components of the citation (using \citet) are
broken over the line as one would hope, but individual full words are not
hyphenated. So for example, 'Ramanathan and Feng (2008)' is broken after
Ramanathan, but that word/name itself is not hyphenated and hence spills over
into the margin a little.
I suppose my question is how the cross reference can be specified so that it
breaks between the label and the numerical identifier, which would largely fix
the problem?
At the moment I'm using:
\renewcommand{\figureautorefname}{Figure~\negthinspace}
I've tried replacing '~' with a simple space, with '\,' and '\ ' but it still
doesn't break between 'Figure' and the ref label. Shouldn't that be possible?
>
> > Is this something of a known trap? Any suggestions much appreciated. I
> > realise a sample .lyx file may also help, but these are pretty large and
> > linked to a number of custom modules, plus a parent document, so I haven't
> > attached one (yet). I'm hoping it's more of a general issue...
>
> Try creating a "minimal working example" from the file, i.e. a test document
> that has everyting that is not needed to reproduce the bug removed. Often
> creating this example already helps towards a solution. In other cases it
> allows interested people to experiment.
Yep, very much understood. I was hoping I could find a solution without having
to go quite that far... :)
Don't make the mistake I made
Hi all, All of a sudden, my new book's sections stopped being numbered chapter#.section#, and stopped restarting at the start of each chapter. Ugh! Luckily, I'd done only a few things since the problem happened. One was I messed with the slider in the outline view, but nothing I could do with the slider could fix the symptom. The other thing I'd done was to create a new layout and set the book to that document class. Going into the layout, I noticed the line saying "Input book.layout" was commented out. So I uncommented it, and bang, the symptom went away. If you experience a problem with section numbering on a document class derived from class Book, make sure the layout file includes "Input book.layout". Thanks SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
Re: Problem with overlay and beamer
As to why the right hand box is so large, I believe it is because Beamer cannot
tell how much vertical space is required. The overprint environments seem to
throw off its space calculation.
One way around this is to make the right hand block a minipage with an
explicitly declared height (75% of slide height seems to work for your example)
and put the overprints inside the minipage. Your test file, suitably modified,
is attached below. As a side note, I had to put a hard space to the right of the
table; otherwise the hfill on that side was ignored.
Paul
#LyX 2.0 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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% or ...
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\index Index
\shortcut idx
\color #008000
\end_index
\secnumdepth 2
\tocdepth 2
\paragraph_separation indent
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\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
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\html_css_as_file 0
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\begin_body
\begin_layout Title
Title As It Is In the Proceedings
\end_layout
\begin_layout Subtitle
Include Only If Paper Has a Subtitle
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F.
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\end_inset
Author
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
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and
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S.
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Another
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2
\end_layout
\end_inset
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1
\end_layout
\end_inset
Department of Computer Science
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\end_inset
University of Somewhere
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\backslash
and
\end_layout
\end_inset
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status collapsed
\begin_layout Plain Layout
2
\end_layout
\end_inset
Department of Theoretical Philosophy
\begin_inset Newline newline
\end_inset
University of Elsewhere
\end_layout
\begin_layout Date
Conference on Fabulous Presentations, 2003
\end_layout
\begin_layout BeginFrame
The Agents
\end_layout
\begin_layout ColumnsTopAligned
\end_layout
\begin_deeper
\begin_layout Column
5cm
\end_layout
\begin_layout Block
\begin_inset ERT
status open
\begin_layout Plain Layout
<1->
\end_layout
\end_inset
\begin_inset ERT
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\begin_layout Plain Layout
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\backslash
emph{Erytenna consputa}}
\end_layout
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\end_layout
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\begin_layout Itemize
Young Follicle Feeder
\end_layout
\begin_layout Itemize
some
\end_layout
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Include a PDF file containing 3D object
I have a PDF file, containing a 3D object. I try to include this into a LyX document. How can I include the 3D image? Will it be interactive once I compile the document? I need help, thank you so much.
Re: Thank You!
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: > PDFMod is a very good program to manipulate and split PDF-files. Very useful > to extract each paper when sending the papers back to authors. > I like PDF Chain [1] for such tasks. Liviu [1] http://pdfchain.sourceforge.net/
Re: Thank You!
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:12:22 +0200 Påvel Nicklasson wrote: > My wishlist includes an Adobe Distiller type of program for Linux and > that more printing houses would learn about LaTeX/LyX and offer > support and advice. Påvel, One of my problems has been that most printing companies insist on "if providing a PDF it must be distilled using Adobe" for PDF files. That's a quote from Lulu.com, and while they do accept other PDF files for private printing, if you want it published by them you have to comply. Other publishers have similar wording. I have heard that Lulu.com will accept a PostScript file, though they do not say so on their website. So if you want to use Linux only for writing a book to be published, you pretty much have the choice of finding a publisher who will accept PostScript, or paying for Adobe's online service (I think they accept PostScript). Some publishers will accept other graphics files, such as JPEG or PDF for covers, and if they will do this Scribus is quite good for putting a cover together (with some of the graphic bits produced by Gimp). But I certainly join you in wishing for more LaTeX support among publishers. I don't worry so much about LyX support: if a publisher will accept LaTeX it is quite easy to generate that from LyX. Les
Help with command sequence
Hello, I want to create a shortcut for a minipage with a drop shadw box and line width. After reading the page about command sequences on the wiki ( http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/CommandSequences) I down to this: "command-sequence box-insert Shadowbox" I just need to set the box width, from columnwidth to linewidth, is this possible? Cheers, Fabio.
Re: Thank You!
2012/6/21 Pavel Sanda > P?vel Nicklasson wrote: > > I want to thank the LyX developers and the users on the list for making a > > superb program and helping me using it! > > You may want to put it here: > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProducedPublications > > Cheers, > Pavel > Yes, that would be very nice and I hope could give some promotion for LyX. I have produced another book in LyX before and that one could perhaps go there as well. LyX and the mailing list are of course mentioned in the acknowledgements in both books. The books are (mostly) in Swedish but I can write short introductions in English. How do I place the books on the page? Regards Påvel
Re: Thank You!
2012/6/21 Rainer M Krug > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > The editorial work was done with free software in Linux Kubuntu. > > > > Very nice - could you possibly elaborate a bit which programs you used for > what? > > > > Of course he usual suspects: GIMP for image manipulation, LibreOffice for recieving and communicating with the authors early on, none of them used LaTeX/LyX. In the humanities it is common to recieve papers written in 20+ year old word processors and LibO is very good to open and convert such nasty things. I converted all files to plain text and imported them to LyX. I tested some conversion tools from LibO to LaTeX, but I think it is faster to use plain .txt. Of course this depends on the kind of papers, quality of the text, kind of publication and so on. PDFMod is a very good program to manipulate and split PDF-files. Very useful to extract each paper when sending the papers back to authors. KDE may be somewhat heavy and perhaps not my favourite desktop environment, but it has several very useful scripts for Dolphin accessible from the right click menu. The scripts handle manipulating PDF:s, conversion of images and textfiles. Very useful things when producing a book and as a scholar in the humanities I am able to remember just a limited number of terminal commands. These scripts have saved me many hours and I do recommend KDE for heavy work. In the end I had to make a Postscript file and this was the only hickup. I could not produce the ps file in Linux but everything worked perfectly in Windows. I still don't know what went wrong in Linux, but I'll have another look on it now when I have no dead line and send a bug report if applicable. The ps file was converted to PDF in Adobe Distiller (another Windows victory) with the settings of the printing house. The printing house had never heard about LaTeX and is heavily entrenched in Adobes software. Still they accepted my PDF right off and our cooperation was very smooth. I think that they were surprised and impressed when I told them that the book had been made in Linux with free software that doesn't cost a single krona (Swedish coin). The cover was made by a specialist in InDesign and thus not produced in Linux. I think it is hard to replace InDesign for this, since the printing house expects an open InDesign file for final adjustments. I have typeset several academic books in InDesign before, but I must say that the process is simpler and with fewer hurdles in LaTeX and especially in LyX, despite the fact that I am still learning the program. This was my second book project in LyX. Nowadays I do all my writing in LyX and only use LibO Writer when I have to submit papers in word processor format. My wishlist includes an Adobe Distiller type of program for Linux and that more printing houses would learn about LaTeX/LyX and offer support and advice.
Way to do unsorted multiple bibliography
Dear Lyx users, I am writting my PhD thesis with this great software that is Lyx. Compared to a well-known WYSIWYG program, the benefits are just outstanding. However, i have an unsolved problem concerning the bibliography of my thesis. I want to make a separate bibliography for each chapter (placed at the end of them), without overall bibliography. I want this bibliography to be unsorted, i.e. numbered in the order of citation. Unfortunately, the native package included with Lyx for multiple bibliography, bibtopic, does not support unsorted bibliographies. I had a look on this page to solve my problem: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#secbib My knowledge in Latex being very poor, those procedures are perhaps not detailled enough for me and i am still not able to buid my multiple unsorted bibliography. First of all, i would like to know if there is one favoured package for my purpose between bibunits, chapterbib or biblatex? Then, do you know where i could find a detailled procedure for the installation and use of the best package in Lyx? I tried to use biblatex and chapterbib; i used this procedure to build bibtexall: http://logix4u.net/component/content/article/27-tutorials/44-how-to-create-windows-executable-exe-from-python-script Is it correct to proceed like this? I placed the as-made bibtexall.exe in the .bin folder of MikteX, but i don't know if this first step is already not correct or if i am not including the references and bibliography correctly (because it is of course not working)... To summarize, i am totally lost and i would greatly appreciate any help! Thanks a lot Julien
Why not Windows 2000?
Hello, I'd like to use LyX under Windows 2000, but installer says LyX requires at least Windows XP. Why? Are there any technical issues which enforce reject of Windows 2000? -- Oleg Parashchenko olpa@ http://uucode.com/ http://uucode.com/blog/ XML, TeX, Python, Mac, Chess
AW: article.cls and others
Hello Jakob, are you working in a network environment? In this case, the problem could be related to this and may be solved in the next version: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8098 Apparently, Windows 7 with network users can be configured to either use the local profile folders (c:\users\...) or a profile folder on the network. In the first case (my current situation), LyX works. In the second (my previous situation), you get problems as described. Unfortunately, I cannot tell you how to change this setting, but you network admins may be able to do that. Regards Matthias Von: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] Im Auftrag von Jakob Neitzel Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2012 22:20 An: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Betreff: article.cls and others Hi, I am having a problem that seems to have been around in different versions for a while. However, I have not been able to get lyx running even after searching through the mailing list archives. For example this : http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/64576 I installed Lyx 2.0.3 and Miktex 2.9 on a Windows 7 system today and every time I open a document I get the error message: "The selected document class .. requires external files that are not available. The class can be used, but not compiled until following prerequisites are installed: ... .cls . See Section Class Availability of the User's Guide for more information" I tried all steps of advice from the discussion above and it is still not running. I have also tried to re-install lyx in case that was the problem. Do you have any ideas what I need to do? Thanks for your help. Jakob Neitzel -- NEU: FreePhone 3-fach-Flat mit kostenlosem Smartphone! Jetzt informieren: http://mobile.1und1.de/?ac=OM.PW.PW003K20328T7073a
Re: Thank You!
P?vel Nicklasson wrote: > I want to thank the LyX developers and the users on the list for making a > superb program and helping me using it! You may want to put it here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ProducedPublications Cheers, Pavel
Re: Fwd: Create my own class of documents
On 2012-06-19, Ignacio García wrote:
>> I've suscribed to this list because I've already looked for information
>> about creating class of document for Lyx. I know that there are some of
>> them such as book, article, broadway and so on. But It's not clear what
>> is the proper way to do make a .cls file from scratch without depending
>> on any else of default classes.
> The .cls and .sty files are LaTeX files, they are not LyX files.
> Making LaTeX files from scratch is a difficult task, I think.
Just like making LyX .layout files it requires reading an applying the
documentation. For LaTeX classes and styles the starting point is the
"clsguide" (on modern systems, the command `texdoc clsguide` should open
clsguide.pdf).
> The specific LyX files are .layout, .inc or .module. (see you in folder
> /usr/share/lyx/layouts). They allow to use in Lyx the .cls/.sty LaTeX
> files.
Creating LyX suport for custom TeX classes and styles is described in
Help>Customizing LyX.
>> I'm doing my thesis and It requires some specific parameters for the
>> layout, margins, paper size and other features,
> Possibly, the easiest way to start is trying to write a module.
> All this is explained in detail in the chapter 5 of the Customization
> manual.
The easiest way is a template document with custom settings and latex
preamble.
Somewhat more generic is a latex preambel in a separate file which the
documents latex preamble includes with \input{myfinepreamble.tex}.
This way, addings and changes will be used by all existing documents, too.
A custom module extends this to custom Styles and Insets. The advantage of a
module is that you can combine it with several documentclasses.
If you want your settings and styles to be available also for .tex files
outside LyX, the equivalent to the LyX module is a LaTeX package (.sty file).
Creation of these is also described in the "clsguide".
Günter
Re: article.cls and others
On 2012-06-20, Jakob Neitzel wrote: > I am having a problem that seems to have been around in different versions > for a while. However, I have not been able to get lyx running even after > searching through the mailing list archives. > For example this : > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/64576 > I installed Lyx 2.0.3 and Miktex 2.9 on a Windows 7 system today and every > time I open a document I get the error message: > "The selected document class .. requires external files that are not > available. The class can be used, but not compiled until following > prerequisites are installed: ... .cls . See Section Class Availability of > the User's Guide for more information" If this message appears for any of the standard documentclasses (article, book, report), it shows a general problem with your setup. * Try to create a simple sample document, * export to latex (File>Export>pdflatex) * compile from the command line (DOS box): pdflatex example.tex If this works, latex works but LyX does not know. Reconfigure LyX and write again if this does not help. If pdflatex fails, write the error message(s). If this message appears for "exotic" documentclasses only, you may have a partial lyx installation. MikTeX can, AFAIK, auto-install required packages, so this may be a warning you can ignore. Günter
Re: cross-references sometimes spill past column boundary
On 2012-06-21, Justin Wood wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: quoted-printable --] > Hi all. I have a small problem when using the LyX 2 inbuilt thesis > templates (KOMA-Script scrbook): in some instances, text lines that happen > to finish with cross-references when paginated (justified text) are > spilling past the normal column boundary. I've fiddled around with > \renewcommand used to override the *autorefname, including reverting to > default, but can't seem to resolve it. Offending cross-references are > default \ref style, and I have not checked the Document Settings box to use > refstyle over prettyref. Output is in XeTeX, although it was happening with > LaTeX and inbuilt fonts as well (I think). Attached is a PDF extract > showing the problem (second last paragraph). It is standard TeX behaviour to let unbreakable words stick into the margin. The LaTeX log shows warnings for every such line (often just tiny incursions that can be ignored). To find out whether it is a wrapping problem or a problem of the command, you might experiment with giving the output of the \cite command directly in place of it and see if this wraps well. > Is this something of a known trap? Any suggestions much appreciated. I > realise a sample .lyx file may also help, but these are pretty large and > linked to a number of custom modules, plus a parent document, so I haven't > attached one (yet). I'm hoping it's more of a general issue... Try creating a "minimal working example" from the file, i.e. a test document that has everyting that is not needed to reproduce the bug removed. Often creating this example already helps towards a solution. In other cases it allows interested people to experiment. Günter
Re: Thank You!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/06/12 08:51, Påvel Nicklasson wrote: > Thank You all! > > > I have just finished an edited volume on the History of Archaeology in > Scandinavia with myself > and a colleague as editors. I used LyX for the layout (and to write my own > contribution of > course). It was a major project with some 20 papers and the book has nearly > 400 pages. > Congratulations - it is always nice to hear that ones favorite programs are used for substantially larger projects then I am using them for. > > The editorial work was done with free software in Linux Kubuntu. > Very nice - could you possibly elaborate a bit which programs you used for what? > > I want to thank the LyX developers and the users on the list for making a > superb program and > helping me using it! > I can only second that - in my case a PhD thesis and some papers. Cheers, Rainer > > Best Regards > > > Påvel Nicklasson > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/izzAACgkQoYgNqgF2egrBeQCeOv40Nffxx8iT9ooXfvxWC7SW 8xUAnjy/rt48uOzo5/NKsxLSgbtrJpUC =/YDf -END PGP SIGNATURE-
