date:20130902

Re: The tyranny of the APA Manual (more or less on topic)

2013-09-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes


26/08/2013 18:41, John Kane:

This is very amusing indeed. Do they describe this particular obsession
in their catalog of mental illnesses? At least they dropped the
'underscore instead of emphasize' madness some time ago.


They don't have acatalog of mental illnesses. That's the American
Psychiatric Association you're thinking of.


I stand corrected. I plead a trauma after trying to format a paper for a 
cognitive psychology journal on behalf of my wife :)


JMarc

Re: error in LyX with Turkish language using knitr

2013-09-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes


30/08/2013 18:26, Yihui Xie:

I can reproduce the problem after I enable babel in the document.
Normally I disable it because it often causes me trouble for unknown
reasons. To disable it globally: Preferences--Language
Settings--Language package--None. Or disable it only for this
document: Document--Settings--Language--Language package--None.

Without babel, it compiles fine.


From the top of my head, problems with turkish include

1/ in Turkish locale, `I' is not the uppercase of `i', because dotted 
and dotless versions of this letter exist.


2/ there is a common problem with babel due to the fact that the = 
character is made active. This breaks in particular the keyval package. 
See bug 2005 for background.

http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2005

JMarc

off topic: Is there a lyx user in Lund, Sweden?

2013-09-02 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann

Hello, Lyx-users,

I wonder whether there is a lyx user in Lund, Sweden, who could perhaps 
help a colleague at the university there to acquire Lyx for Mac?

Wolfgang

Re: The tyranny of the APA Manual (more or less on topic)

2013-09-02 Thread John Kane

 From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org
To: John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca 
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 3:41:36 AM
Subject: Re: The tyranny of the APA Manual (more or less on topic)

26/08/2013 18:41, John Kane:
 This is very amusing indeed. Do they describe this particular obsession
 in their catalog of mental illnesses? At least they dropped the
 'underscore instead of emphasize' madness some time ago.

 They don't have acatalog of mental illnesses. That's the American
 Psychiatric Association you're thinking of.

I stand corrected. I plead a trauma after trying to format a paper for a 
cognitive psychology journal on behalf of my wife :)

JMarc

Perfectly understandable. It is possible that the diagnostic manual (DSM-5) was 
written just to deal with APA Style trauma.

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

2013-09-02 Thread Richard Heck


On 09/02/2013 01:02 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote:

Ken Springer writes:


On 9/1/13 11:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200
Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:

snip

It sounds as if Lyx/LaTeX has a higher learning curve than I was hoping for.

But it intrigues me.   :-)  I've got some simple help documents I want
to create, and I want them to look as best as I can.  So, I think, in
about a month when I'm out of work again, I'll download LaTeX and work
with it, then get into LyX.

FWIW, I don't agree with this. You can become productive with LyX *very*
quickly without knowing anything about LaTeX. You can produce nice
looking standardised documents. It's magic.

Of course, you will eventually want to customise. THAT is the time to
start looking at LaTeX IMHO.


I agree. We have LyX developers who know almost no LaTeX, and who use 
LyX extensively

in their own work.

The question is exactly how much customization you want to do. If the 
standard classes work
for you, and in many cases they will, then you do not need to know any 
LaTeX to use LyX.
Even the unexpected compilation errors should be rare. These are usually 
due to precisely

the kind of customization you don't really have to do.

Richard

Pasting graphics in LyX 2.1 beta on Mac

2013-09-02 Thread Anders Ekberg

I noticed when I had to paste some graphics with a lot of text that LyX (or rather the libraries used by LyX) seem to reduce the resolution of the pasted graphics (copied selection from Preview and pasted as a png-file in LyX). Anyone else experienced it, or could it be a setting somewhere in my environment? If so, does anyone have an idea of how to solve it (save the cropped file as a png in Preview of course works, but is several additional steps).All the best!Anders

Re: Pasting graphics in LyX 2.1 beta on Mac

2013-09-02 Thread Alex Vergara Gil


  - Original Message - 

  I noticed when I had to paste some graphics with a lot of text that LyX (or 
rather the libraries used by LyX) seem to reduce the resolution of the pasted 
graphics (copied selection from Preview and pasted as a png-file in LyX). 
Anyone else experienced it, or could it be a setting somewhere in my 
environment? If so, does anyone have an idea of how to solve it (save the 
cropped file as a png in Preview of course works, but is several additional 
steps).

  All the best!
  Anders

The best you can do in these cases is save the graphic in svg format whenever 
posible. Otherwise you must edit your graphic on inkscape to add the text 
manually and then export it as svg. If you doesn´t go into vectorial graphics 
you will definetively lose resolution and then the text will look awful.

regards!
Alex

\reversemarginpar places notes too far out

2013-09-02 Thread Anthony Campbell

I'm writing a book (book class) in which I want to have marginal notes
containing symbols, rather like the Dummies series. As it's a book I'm
using the two-sided layout.

This works OK using the marginal note command, but after I put a blank
page at the beginning (needed to make the title page etc. appear on the
correct side), the marginal notes come out on the wrong sides of the
pages in the body of the text. 

I found the command \reversemarginpar, which corrects the error except
that the notes are now too far away from the text, right at the edge of
the page. 

Any way to fix this? I tried adding width arguments, e.g. [width=12pt]
and [width=0.5in] without effect.

Anthony

-- 
Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk 
http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk 
http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

Error converting to loadable format + updating Lyx

2013-09-02 Thread Bob Alvarez

I am getting the dreaded ImageMagick Studio library and utility 
programs has stopped working followed by Error converting to loadable 
format with my LyX Version 2.0.5.1 on a Windows 7 64 bit system. FWIW, 
this has happened to me in past Lyx versions  and seems to start when I 
edit a copy of a Lyx file. Lyx seems to work OK on files I created 
previously.


I searched here and the only solution seems to be to re-install Lyx. I 
have found that approach does work. That's OK because it is time to 
upgrade anyway although it would be good to have a better workaround.


Questions:
1. Are there any improved ways for dealing with the errors?
2. I want to install from a Windows binary. I found the list of files at 
the end of the email on the binaries page but no explanation on what 
they are.
Could someone explain what they are or point me to the proper one to use 
with my computer (Windows 7 64 bit)?
I never know whether to uninstall the previous version. IIRC, in the 
past I have not and the update seems to work OK. What is the suggested 
thing to do?


TIA

Bob

Index of ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.6/

Up to higher level directory
Name Size Last Modified
File:LyX-2.0.6+qt4.dmg 127478 KB 5/6/13 11:41:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6+qt4.dmg.sig 1 KB 5/7/13 4:32:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-1.exe 202662 KB 5/3/13 9:55:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-1.exe.sig 1 KB 5/4/13 3:01:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-2.exe 203706 KB 5/19/13 7:32:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-2.exe.sig 1 KB 5/22/13 7:12:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Installer-1.exe 34286 KB 5/3/13 9:21:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Installer-1.exe.sig 1 KB 5/4/13 3:01:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Installer-2.exe 35326 KB 5/19/13 6:52:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Installer-2.exe.sig 1 KB 5/22/13 7:13:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-cygwin.tar.gz 23975 KB 5/7/13 11:07:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-cygwin.tar.gz.sig 1 KB 5/8/13 11:24:00 PM

formatted cross-reference language

2013-09-02 Thread Michael Bach

Dear LyX Users and Developers,

I am using LyX 2.0.5.1 on OSX 10.8.

I am working on a document that has Document  Settings  Language set
to `German' and the custom class option `german' as well.

The LyX GUI is English as is the OS language setting.

As indicated in the subject, formatted cross-references are set in
English instead of German. I read up on the web regarding i18n issues
and made sure that LyX uses the refstyle package for cross-referencing
(Document  Settings  Document Class).

FWIW, nomenclatures commands, e.g. \nomrefeq, are set in German.

Could you give me a hint on where to look next for a solution?

Best Regards,
Michael

Re: Error converting to loadable format + updating Lyx

2013-09-02 Thread Richard Heck


On 09/02/2013 12:58 PM, Bob Alvarez wrote:
I am getting the dreaded ImageMagick Studio library and utility 
programs has stopped working followed by Error converting to 
loadable format with my LyX Version 2.0.5.1 on a Windows 7 64 bit 
system. FWIW, this has happened to me in past Lyx versions  and seems 
to start when I edit a copy of a Lyx file. Lyx seems to work OK on 
files I created previously.


I searched here and the only solution seems to be to re-install Lyx. I 
have found that approach does work. That's OK because it is time to 
upgrade anyway although it would be good to have a better workaround.


Perhaps one of the Windows people can explain why this happens. 
Unfortunately, I'm not on Windows, so I'm not going to be any help.



Questions:
2. I want to install from a Windows binary. I found the list of files 
at the end of the email on the binaries page but no explanation on 
what they are.
Could someone explain what they are or point me to the proper one to 
use with my computer (Windows 7 64 bit)?


The exe files are the ones you want, and the later ones are updates. So, 
e.g., in this case, you'd want either LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-2.exe or 
LyX-2.0.6-Installer-2.exe. I believe the former contains everything you 
need to run LyX, whereas the latter downloads what it needs? I'm not sure.


I never know whether to uninstall the previous version. IIRC, in the 
past I have not and the update seems to work OK. What is the suggested 
thing to do?


For what it's worth, my sense is that, on Windows, you're best off 
uninstalling and re-installing.


Richard

Re: formatted cross-reference language

2013-09-02 Thread Richard Heck


On 09/02/2013 01:19 PM, Michael Bach wrote:

Dear LyX Users and Developers,

I am using LyX 2.0.5.1 on OSX 10.8.

I am working on a document that has Document  Settings  Language set
to `German' and the custom class option `german' as well.

The LyX GUI is English as is the OS language setting.

As indicated in the subject, formatted cross-references are set in
English instead of German. I read up on the web regarding i18n issues
and made sure that LyX uses the refstyle package for cross-referencing
(Document  Settings  Document Class).

FWIW, nomenclatures commands, e.g. \nomrefeq, are set in German.

Could you give me a hint on where to look next for a solution?


I guess I'd start by looking at the generated LaTeX, and see if 
something is wrong there.


Richard

A question about SAS output in lyx

2013-09-02 Thread Zhan Joyce

Dear all:

I've a problem inserting the SAS output into my lyx file. I use ODS system in 
SAS and get a tex file. Then I try to use the program listing to add it into 
lys file but failed. What should I do with it? Thank you very much. I'm so 
frustrated with this problem for googling one day!


Joyce

Re: The tyranny of the APA Manual (more or less on topic)

2013-09-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes


26/08/2013 18:41, John Kane:

This is very amusing indeed. Do they describe this particular obsession
in their catalog of mental illnesses? At least they dropped the
'underscore instead of emphasize' madness some time ago.


They don't have acatalog of mental illnesses. That's the American
Psychiatric Association you're thinking of.


I stand corrected. I plead a trauma after trying to format a paper for a 
cognitive psychology journal on behalf of my wife :)


JMarc

Re: error in LyX with Turkish language using knitr

2013-09-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes


30/08/2013 18:26, Yihui Xie:

I can reproduce the problem after I enable babel in the document.
Normally I disable it because it often causes me trouble for unknown
reasons. To disable it globally: Preferences--Language
Settings--Language package--None. Or disable it only for this
document: Document--Settings--Language--Language package--None.

Without babel, it compiles fine.


From the top of my head, problems with turkish include

1/ in Turkish locale, `I' is not the uppercase of `i', because dotted 
and dotless versions of this letter exist.


2/ there is a common problem with babel due to the fact that the = 
character is made active. This breaks in particular the keyval package. 
See bug 2005 for background.

http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2005

JMarc

off topic: Is there a lyx user in Lund, Sweden?

2013-09-02 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann

Hello, Lyx-users,

I wonder whether there is a lyx user in Lund, Sweden, who could perhaps 
help a colleague at the university there to acquire Lyx for Mac?

Wolfgang

Re: The tyranny of the APA Manual (more or less on topic)

2013-09-02 Thread John Kane

 From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.org
To: John Kane jrkrid...@yahoo.ca 
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 3:41:36 AM
Subject: Re: The tyranny of the APA Manual (more or less on topic)

26/08/2013 18:41, John Kane:
 This is very amusing indeed. Do they describe this particular obsession
 in their catalog of mental illnesses? At least they dropped the
 'underscore instead of emphasize' madness some time ago.

 They don't have acatalog of mental illnesses. That's the American
 Psychiatric Association you're thinking of.

I stand corrected. I plead a trauma after trying to format a paper for a 
cognitive psychology journal on behalf of my wife :)

JMarc

Perfectly understandable. It is possible that the diagnostic manual (DSM-5) was 
written just to deal with APA Style trauma.

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

2013-09-02 Thread Richard Heck


On 09/02/2013 01:02 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote:

Ken Springer writes:


On 9/1/13 11:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200
Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote:

snip

It sounds as if Lyx/LaTeX has a higher learning curve than I was hoping for.

But it intrigues me.   :-)  I've got some simple help documents I want
to create, and I want them to look as best as I can.  So, I think, in
about a month when I'm out of work again, I'll download LaTeX and work
with it, then get into LyX.

FWIW, I don't agree with this. You can become productive with LyX *very*
quickly without knowing anything about LaTeX. You can produce nice
looking standardised documents. It's magic.

Of course, you will eventually want to customise. THAT is the time to
start looking at LaTeX IMHO.


I agree. We have LyX developers who know almost no LaTeX, and who use 
LyX extensively

in their own work.

The question is exactly how much customization you want to do. If the 
standard classes work
for you, and in many cases they will, then you do not need to know any 
LaTeX to use LyX.
Even the unexpected compilation errors should be rare. These are usually 
due to precisely

the kind of customization you don't really have to do.

Richard

Pasting graphics in LyX 2.1 beta on Mac

2013-09-02 Thread Anders Ekberg

I noticed when I had to paste some graphics with a lot of text that LyX (or rather the libraries used by LyX) seem to reduce the resolution of the pasted graphics (copied selection from Preview and pasted as a png-file in LyX). Anyone else experienced it, or could it be a setting somewhere in my environment? If so, does anyone have an idea of how to solve it (save the cropped file as a png in Preview of course works, but is several additional steps).All the best!Anders

Re: Pasting graphics in LyX 2.1 beta on Mac

2013-09-02 Thread Alex Vergara Gil


  - Original Message - 

  I noticed when I had to paste some graphics with a lot of text that LyX (or 
rather the libraries used by LyX) seem to reduce the resolution of the pasted 
graphics (copied selection from Preview and pasted as a png-file in LyX). 
Anyone else experienced it, or could it be a setting somewhere in my 
environment? If so, does anyone have an idea of how to solve it (save the 
cropped file as a png in Preview of course works, but is several additional 
steps).

  All the best!
  Anders

The best you can do in these cases is save the graphic in svg format whenever 
posible. Otherwise you must edit your graphic on inkscape to add the text 
manually and then export it as svg. If you doesn´t go into vectorial graphics 
you will definetively lose resolution and then the text will look awful.

regards!
Alex

\reversemarginpar places notes too far out

2013-09-02 Thread Anthony Campbell

I'm writing a book (book class) in which I want to have marginal notes
containing symbols, rather like the Dummies series. As it's a book I'm
using the two-sided layout.

This works OK using the marginal note command, but after I put a blank
page at the beginning (needed to make the title page etc. appear on the
correct side), the marginal notes come out on the wrong sides of the
pages in the body of the text. 

I found the command \reversemarginpar, which corrects the error except
that the notes are now too far away from the text, right at the edge of
the page. 

Any way to fix this? I tried adding width arguments, e.g. [width=12pt]
and [width=0.5in] without effect.

Anthony

-- 
Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk 
http://www.acupuncturecourse.org.uk 
http://www.smashwords.com/profile.view/acampbell
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/anthony-campbell/id73235412

Error converting to loadable format + updating Lyx

2013-09-02 Thread Bob Alvarez

I am getting the dreaded ImageMagick Studio library and utility 
programs has stopped working followed by Error converting to loadable 
format with my LyX Version 2.0.5.1 on a Windows 7 64 bit system. FWIW, 
this has happened to me in past Lyx versions  and seems to start when I 
edit a copy of a Lyx file. Lyx seems to work OK on files I created 
previously.


I searched here and the only solution seems to be to re-install Lyx. I 
have found that approach does work. That's OK because it is time to 
upgrade anyway although it would be good to have a better workaround.


Questions:
1. Are there any improved ways for dealing with the errors?
2. I want to install from a Windows binary. I found the list of files at 
the end of the email on the binaries page but no explanation on what 
they are.
Could someone explain what they are or point me to the proper one to use 
with my computer (Windows 7 64 bit)?
I never know whether to uninstall the previous version. IIRC, in the 
past I have not and the update seems to work OK. What is the suggested 
thing to do?


TIA

Bob

Index of ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.6/

Up to higher level directory
Name Size Last Modified
File:LyX-2.0.6+qt4.dmg 127478 KB 5/6/13 11:41:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6+qt4.dmg.sig 1 KB 5/7/13 4:32:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-1.exe 202662 KB 5/3/13 9:55:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-1.exe.sig 1 KB 5/4/13 3:01:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-2.exe 203706 KB 5/19/13 7:32:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-2.exe.sig 1 KB 5/22/13 7:12:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Installer-1.exe 34286 KB 5/3/13 9:21:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Installer-1.exe.sig 1 KB 5/4/13 3:01:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Installer-2.exe 35326 KB 5/19/13 6:52:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Installer-2.exe.sig 1 KB 5/22/13 7:13:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-cygwin.tar.gz 23975 KB 5/7/13 11:07:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-cygwin.tar.gz.sig 1 KB 5/8/13 11:24:00 PM

formatted cross-reference language

2013-09-02 Thread Michael Bach

Dear LyX Users and Developers,

I am using LyX 2.0.5.1 on OSX 10.8.

I am working on a document that has Document  Settings  Language set
to `German' and the custom class option `german' as well.

The LyX GUI is English as is the OS language setting.

As indicated in the subject, formatted cross-references are set in
English instead of German. I read up on the web regarding i18n issues
and made sure that LyX uses the refstyle package for cross-referencing
(Document  Settings  Document Class).

FWIW, nomenclatures commands, e.g. \nomrefeq, are set in German.

Could you give me a hint on where to look next for a solution?

Best Regards,
Michael

Re: Error converting to loadable format + updating Lyx

2013-09-02 Thread Richard Heck


On 09/02/2013 12:58 PM, Bob Alvarez wrote:
I am getting the dreaded ImageMagick Studio library and utility 
programs has stopped working followed by Error converting to 
loadable format with my LyX Version 2.0.5.1 on a Windows 7 64 bit 
system. FWIW, this has happened to me in past Lyx versions  and seems 
to start when I edit a copy of a Lyx file. Lyx seems to work OK on 
files I created previously.


I searched here and the only solution seems to be to re-install Lyx. I 
have found that approach does work. That's OK because it is time to 
upgrade anyway although it would be good to have a better workaround.


Perhaps one of the Windows people can explain why this happens. 
Unfortunately, I'm not on Windows, so I'm not going to be any help.



Questions:
2. I want to install from a Windows binary. I found the list of files 
at the end of the email on the binaries page but no explanation on 
what they are.
Could someone explain what they are or point me to the proper one to 
use with my computer (Windows 7 64 bit)?


The exe files are the ones you want, and the later ones are updates. So, 
e.g., in this case, you'd want either LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-2.exe or 
LyX-2.0.6-Installer-2.exe. I believe the former contains everything you 
need to run LyX, whereas the latter downloads what it needs? I'm not sure.


I never know whether to uninstall the previous version. IIRC, in the 
past I have not and the update seems to work OK. What is the suggested 
thing to do?


For what it's worth, my sense is that, on Windows, you're best off 
uninstalling and re-installing.


Richard

Re: formatted cross-reference language

2013-09-02 Thread Richard Heck


On 09/02/2013 01:19 PM, Michael Bach wrote:

Dear LyX Users and Developers,

I am using LyX 2.0.5.1 on OSX 10.8.

I am working on a document that has Document  Settings  Language set
to `German' and the custom class option `german' as well.

The LyX GUI is English as is the OS language setting.

As indicated in the subject, formatted cross-references are set in
English instead of German. I read up on the web regarding i18n issues
and made sure that LyX uses the refstyle package for cross-referencing
(Document  Settings  Document Class).

FWIW, nomenclatures commands, e.g. \nomrefeq, are set in German.

Could you give me a hint on where to look next for a solution?


I guess I'd start by looking at the generated LaTeX, and see if 
something is wrong there.


Richard

A question about SAS output in lyx

2013-09-02 Thread Zhan Joyce

Dear all:

I've a problem inserting the SAS output into my lyx file. I use ODS system in 
SAS and get a tex file. Then I try to use the program listing to add it into 
lys file but failed. What should I do with it? Thank you very much. I'm so 
frustrated with this problem for googling one day!


Joyce

Re: The tyranny of the APA Manual (more or less on topic)

2013-09-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes


26/08/2013 18:41, John Kane:

This is very amusing indeed. Do they describe this particular obsession
in their catalog of mental illnesses? At least they dropped the
'underscore instead of emphasize' madness some time ago.


They don't have acatalog of mental illnesses. That's the American
Psychiatric Association you're thinking of.


I stand corrected. I plead a trauma after trying to format a paper for a 
cognitive psychology journal on behalf of my wife :)


JMarc

Re: error in LyX with Turkish language using knitr

2013-09-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes


30/08/2013 18:26, Yihui Xie:

I can reproduce the problem after I enable babel in the document.
Normally I disable it because it often causes me trouble for unknown
reasons. To disable it globally: Preferences-->Language
Settings-->Language package-->None. Or disable it only for this
document: Document-->Settings-->Language-->Language package-->None.

Without babel, it compiles fine.


From the top of my head, problems with turkish include

1/ in Turkish locale, `I' is not the uppercase of `i', because dotted 
and dotless versions of this letter exist.


2/ there is a common problem with babel due to the fact that the = 
character is made active. This breaks in particular the keyval package. 
See bug 2005 for background.

http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2005

JMarc

off topic: Is there a lyx user in Lund, Sweden?

2013-09-02 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann

Hello, Lyx-users,

I wonder whether there is a lyx user in Lund, Sweden, who could perhaps 
help a colleague at the university there to acquire Lyx for Mac?

Wolfgang

Re: The tyranny of the APA Manual (more or less on topic)

2013-09-02 Thread John Kane

 From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes 
To: John Kane  
Cc: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org"  
Sent: Monday, September 2, 2013 3:41:36 AM
Subject: Re: The tyranny of the APA Manual (more or less on topic)

26/08/2013 18:41, John Kane:
>> This is very amusing indeed. Do they describe this particular obsession
>> in their catalog of mental illnesses? At least they dropped the
>> 'underscore instead of emphasize' madness some time ago.
>
> They don't have acatalog of mental illnesses. That's the American
> Psychiatric Association you're thinking of.

I stand corrected. I plead a trauma after trying to format a paper for a 
cognitive psychology journal on behalf of my wife :)

JMarc

Perfectly understandable. It is possible that the diagnostic manual (DSM-5) was 
written just to deal with APA Style trauma.

Re: Question #3: LyX and LaTeX and TeX

2013-09-02 Thread Richard Heck


On 09/02/2013 01:02 AM, Alan L Tyree wrote:

Ken Springer writes:


On 9/1/13 11:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

On Sun, 1 Sep 2013 08:29:23 +0200
Liviu Andronic  wrote:



It sounds as if Lyx/LaTeX has a higher learning curve than I was hoping for.

But it intrigues me.   :-)  I've got some simple help documents I want
to create, and I want them to look as best as I can.  So, I think, in
about a month when I'm out of work again, I'll download LaTeX and work
with it, then get into LyX.

FWIW, I don't agree with this. You can become productive with LyX *very*
quickly without knowing anything about LaTeX. You can produce nice
looking standardised documents. It's magic.

Of course, you will eventually want to customise. THAT is the time to
start looking at LaTeX IMHO.


I agree. We have LyX developers who know almost no LaTeX, and who use 
LyX extensively

in their own work.

The question is exactly how much customization you want to do. If the 
standard classes work
for you, and in many cases they will, then you do not need to know any 
LaTeX to use LyX.
Even the unexpected compilation errors should be rare. These are usually 
due to precisely

the kind of customization you don't really have to do.

Richard

Pasting graphics in LyX 2.1 beta on Mac

2013-09-02 Thread Anders Ekberg

I noticed when I had to paste some graphics with a lot of text that LyX (or rather the libraries used by LyX) seem to reduce the resolution of the pasted graphics (copied selection from Preview and pasted as a png-file in LyX). Anyone else experienced it, or could it be a setting somewhere in my environment? If so, does anyone have an idea of how to solve it (save the cropped file as a png in Preview of course works, but is several additional steps).All the best!Anders

Re: Pasting graphics in LyX 2.1 beta on Mac

2013-09-02 Thread Alex Vergara Gil


  - Original Message - 

  I noticed when I had to paste some graphics with a lot of text that LyX (or 
rather the libraries used by LyX) seem to reduce the resolution of the pasted 
graphics (copied selection from Preview and pasted as a png-file in LyX). 
Anyone else experienced it, or could it be a setting somewhere in my 
environment? If so, does anyone have an idea of how to solve it (save the 
cropped file as a png in Preview of course works, but is several additional 
steps).

  All the best!
  Anders

The best you can do in these cases is save the graphic in svg format whenever 
posible. Otherwise you must edit your graphic on inkscape to add the text 
manually and then export it as svg. If you doesn´t go into vectorial graphics 
you will definetively lose resolution and then the text will look awful.

regards!
Alex

\reversemarginpar places notes too far out

2013-09-02 Thread Anthony Campbell

I'm writing a book (book class) in which I want to have marginal notes
containing symbols, rather like the Dummies series. As it's a book I'm
using the two-sided layout.

This works OK using the marginal note command, but after I put a blank
page at the beginning (needed to make the title page etc. appear on the
correct side), the marginal notes come out on the wrong sides of the
pages in the body of the text. 

I found the command \reversemarginpar, which corrects the error except
that the notes are now too far away from the text, right at the edge of
the page. 

Any way to fix this? I tried adding width arguments, e.g. [width=12pt]
and [width=0.5in] without effect.

Anthony

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"Error converting to loadable format" + updating Lyx

2013-09-02 Thread Bob Alvarez

I am getting the dreaded "ImageMagick Studio library and utility 
programs has stopped working" followed by "Error converting to loadable 
format" with my LyX Version 2.0.5.1 on a Windows 7 64 bit system. FWIW, 
this has happened to me in past Lyx versions  and seems to start when I 
edit a copy of a Lyx file. Lyx seems to work OK on files I created 
previously.


I searched here and the only solution seems to be to re-install Lyx. I 
have found that approach does work. That's OK because it is time to 
upgrade anyway although it would be good to have a better workaround.


Questions:
1. Are there any improved ways for dealing with the errors?
2. I want to install from a Windows binary. I found the list of files at 
the end of the email on the binaries page but no explanation on what 
they are.
Could someone explain what they are or point me to the proper one to use 
with my computer (Windows 7 64 bit)?
I never know whether to uninstall the previous version. IIRC, in the 
past I have not and the update seems to work OK. What is the suggested 
thing to do?


TIA

Bob

Index of ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/2.0.6/

Up to higher level directory
Name Size Last Modified
File:LyX-2.0.6+qt4.dmg 127478 KB 5/6/13 11:41:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6+qt4.dmg.sig 1 KB 5/7/13 4:32:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-1.exe 202662 KB 5/3/13 9:55:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-1.exe.sig 1 KB 5/4/13 3:01:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-2.exe 203706 KB 5/19/13 7:32:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-2.exe.sig 1 KB 5/22/13 7:12:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Installer-1.exe 34286 KB 5/3/13 9:21:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Installer-1.exe.sig 1 KB 5/4/13 3:01:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Installer-2.exe 35326 KB 5/19/13 6:52:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-Installer-2.exe.sig 1 KB 5/22/13 7:13:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-cygwin.tar.gz 23975 KB 5/7/13 11:07:00 PM
File:LyX-2.0.6-cygwin.tar.gz.sig 1 KB 5/8/13 11:24:00 PM

formatted cross-reference language

2013-09-02 Thread Michael Bach

Dear LyX Users and Developers,

I am using LyX 2.0.5.1 on OSX 10.8.

I am working on a document that has Document > Settings > Language set
to `German' and the custom class option `german' as well.

The LyX GUI is English as is the OS language setting.

As indicated in the subject, formatted cross-references are set in
English instead of German. I read up on the web regarding i18n issues
and made sure that LyX uses the refstyle package for cross-referencing
(Document > Settings > Document Class).

FWIW, nomenclatures commands, e.g. \nomrefeq, are set in German.

Could you give me a hint on where to look next for a solution?

Best Regards,
Michael

Re: "Error converting to loadable format" + updating Lyx

2013-09-02 Thread Richard Heck


On 09/02/2013 12:58 PM, Bob Alvarez wrote:
I am getting the dreaded "ImageMagick Studio library and utility 
programs has stopped working" followed by "Error converting to 
loadable format" with my LyX Version 2.0.5.1 on a Windows 7 64 bit 
system. FWIW, this has happened to me in past Lyx versions  and seems 
to start when I edit a copy of a Lyx file. Lyx seems to work OK on 
files I created previously.


I searched here and the only solution seems to be to re-install Lyx. I 
have found that approach does work. That's OK because it is time to 
upgrade anyway although it would be good to have a better workaround.


Perhaps one of the Windows people can explain why this happens. 
Unfortunately, I'm not on Windows, so I'm not going to be any help.



Questions:
2. I want to install from a Windows binary. I found the list of files 
at the end of the email on the binaries page but no explanation on 
what they are.
Could someone explain what they are or point me to the proper one to 
use with my computer (Windows 7 64 bit)?


The exe files are the ones you want, and the later ones are updates. So, 
e.g., in this case, you'd want either LyX-2.0.6-Bundle-2.exe or 
LyX-2.0.6-Installer-2.exe. I believe the former contains everything you 
need to run LyX, whereas the latter downloads what it needs? I'm not sure.


I never know whether to uninstall the previous version. IIRC, in the 
past I have not and the update seems to work OK. What is the suggested 
thing to do?


For what it's worth, my sense is that, on Windows, you're best off 
uninstalling and re-installing.


Richard

Re: formatted cross-reference language

2013-09-02 Thread Richard Heck


On 09/02/2013 01:19 PM, Michael Bach wrote:

Dear LyX Users and Developers,

I am using LyX 2.0.5.1 on OSX 10.8.

I am working on a document that has Document > Settings > Language set
to `German' and the custom class option `german' as well.

The LyX GUI is English as is the OS language setting.

As indicated in the subject, formatted cross-references are set in
English instead of German. I read up on the web regarding i18n issues
and made sure that LyX uses the refstyle package for cross-referencing
(Document > Settings > Document Class).

FWIW, nomenclatures commands, e.g. \nomrefeq, are set in German.

Could you give me a hint on where to look next for a solution?


I guess I'd start by looking at the generated LaTeX, and see if 
something is wrong there.


Richard

A question about SAS output in lyx

2013-09-02 Thread Zhan Joyce

Dear all:

I've a problem inserting the SAS output into my lyx file. I use ODS system in 
SAS and get a tex file. Then I try to use the program listing to add it into 
lys file but failed. What should I do with it? Thank you very much. I'm so 
frustrated with this problem for googling one day!


Joyce

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