Chapter format/spacing
Greetings all, I'm trying to condense a big report to make it as small as possible without taking out too many words. I noticed that the Chapter format tends to waste heaps of room on a page. Can someone please let me know how to reduce the length from the top of the page to Chapter X, the length to the Chapter title and the length to the first bit of text. Thanks heaps Simon
Re: Full width tables
On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote:
Nicholas Piper wrote:
I don't understand your last line. Could you give me an example or
point me to where I might find one ?
the following all in tex (red)
\noindent\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|c|X|c|}\hline
one two three \\
1 2 3 \\
a b c \\ \hline
\end{tabularx}
Ah, so it is still not possible to do this using the LyX table editor?
I suppose I can pass my file through a filter that converts tablular
to tabularx afterwards.
Cheers,
Nick
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Re: Full width tables
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Nicholas Piper wrote:
I don't understand your last line. Could you give me an example or
point me to where I might find one ?
the following all in tex (red)
\noindent\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|c|X|c|}\hline
one two three \\
1 2 3 \\
a b c \\ \hline
\end{tabularx}
Ah, so it is still not possible to do this using the LyX table editor?
I suppose I can pass my file through a filter that converts tablular
to tabularx afterwards.
latest cvs seems to be buggy, but 1.1.6 and ealier should
do the trick. with \renewenvironment{tabular}
Herbert
Rendering of EPS files
Hello All, I wish to insert some photographs into my LyX document. I have the photos as .jpeg originally and I have converted them to .eps (level 2) using the Convert package that is part of image magick ie. convert filename.jpg eps2:filename.eps When I insert the .eps files into LyX, the image quality is very poor, and they look very grainy. In fact the .eps files look very poor in most of the image viewers I have on my system. Except for the Display package (part of image magick again). (It doesn't seem to be a problem with figures ie plots, just with photograpghs) I realise that the images will print perfectly but I was looking for a way to make them look better 'on screen'. I guess LyX relies on ghostscript to render the images on screen ? Is it possible to make LyX use another image rendering 'engine', for example the one that Display uses (I have no idea what this is). Display seems to render the images much faster also. Maybe this is a development issue ? Thanks in advance Nick Nick Burgan Postgraduate Student Active Noise and Vibration Control Group Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Adelaide SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 (0)8 8303 6385 Fax: +61 (0)8 8303 4367
More than 12pt ?
Hi !
This is more or less a latex question but I suppose I can find an
answer here. I prepare some exams or exercices for 11 to 16y old
students using Lyx and the article class.
However, 12pt is still too small for them. The solution I use is to
select the whole document text and to increase the size via the
character window.
This solution has one major problem : the section numbers stay in 12pt,
regular size (which is very small compared to the title, in some case).
Here are my two questions :
1. Is there a way to increase also the size of these numbers (I thought
about \Large{ at the begining of the document, and } at the end, in
latex mode, but I didn't try since it seemed hugly to me).
2. Is there any other class I could use ?
Thanks in advance,
--
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LIMSI-CNRS, BP133, 91403 Orsay, France
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/nico
Re: More than 12pt ?
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:41:53 +0200
From: Nicolas SABOURET [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: More than 12pt ?
Hi !
This is more or less a latex question but I suppose I can find an
answer here. I prepare some exams or exercices for 11 to 16y old
students using Lyx and the article class.
However, 12pt is still too small for them. The solution I use is to
select the whole document text and to increase the size via the
character window.
This solution has one major problem : the section numbers stay in 12pt,
regular size (which is very small compared to the title, in some case).
Here are my two questions :
1. Is there a way to increase also the size of these numbers (I thought
about \Large{ at the begining of the document, and } at the end, in
latex mode, but I didn't try since it seemed hugly to me).
2. Is there any other class I could use ?
Thanks in advance,
--
An « external » way is to use the magnification option of dvips,
wich can produce en enlarged image of the document (starting with
big margins of course).
The first time you call it with a mag coefficient different from 1000
(yes it's in thousandths), it will take some time for font calculation,
but otherwise I used it with success to build up 11.5 pt sized docs...
--
Jean-Pierre
Re: More than 12pt ?
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: 2. Is there any other class I could use ? There is a package extsizes that should let you use more font sizes. Haven't tried it myself though...
Re: More than 12pt ?
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Nicolas SABOURET wrote:
This is more or less a latex question but I suppose I can find an
answer here. I prepare some exams or exercices for 11 to 16y old
students using Lyx and the article class.
However, 12pt is still too small for them. The solution I use is to
select the whole document text and to increase the size via the
character window.
This solution has one major problem : the section numbers stay in 12pt,
regular size (which is very small compared to the title, in some case).
Here are my two questions :
1. Is there a way to increase also the size of these numbers (I thought
about \Large{ at the begining of the document, and } at the end, in
latex mode, but I didn't try since it seemed hugly to me).
2. Is there any other class I could use ?
have a look at
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts/extsizes.html
these classes are part of the latest cvs and maybe 1.1.6fix3
is it right, Jean-Marc??
Herbert
Re: More than 12pt ?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Herbert == Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Herbert these classes are part of the latest cvs and maybe 1.1.6fix3 Herbert is it right, Jean-Marc?? Yes, they are part of 1.1.6fix3. JMarc Thanks for your answers. This looks good to me. Nico. -- Nicolas SABOURET LIMSI-CNRS, BP133, 91403 Orsay, France http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/nico
Unable to print roman numbered pages
Hi!
The first part of my text is "Roman" numbered, the
second "arabic". All looks fine on the screen, but the problem is: How can I
tell my printer to print the roman pages?
If I put e.g. "VII" in the printing menu I get an
error message like "unable to print ("Es konnte nicht gedruckt
werden").
If I put arabic numbers in the printing menu I get
of course the arabic numbered pages printed.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
Detlev
Re: Hypertext and PDF
Hello Jean-Pierre, Running tex2pdf -r to change the toc option from yes to no produced en error: pdfTeX error (ext4): link annotations can't be nested. The option linktocpage is doing nothing else than putting 'linktocpage' in the the hyperref parameters. Works here ... A much better solution than 'linktocpage' is using a newer pdfTeX version, as it can now handle nested links! See also this page from the hyperref mantainer http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2000-August/006924.html I tried it, and it works. I send you an example if you want. Grüße, Marcus _ Dipl.-Inform. Marcus Beyer [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Abt. Medizinische Informatik - Universitätsklinikum Stefan-Meier-Straße 26 D-79104 Freiburg Tel. +49/761/203-6698 Fax +49/761/203-6711 _ http://www.Stormlight.de __
Re: Why LyX?
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 16:09, you wrote: John Levon writes: I've turned tens of normal students onto lyx instead of word (even unix-hating students) entirely as a result of the output. Yes, but ... My two bits: The effect on my students has been the same. Two years ago we started pushing them to LaTeX/LyX. At first they were rather reluctant, but they learned that they can write rather large documents WITHOUT: 1) Getting ridiculously large .doc files 2) Losing all formatting because W*rd gets suddenly insane. 3) Losing pictures, references, numbering, etc due to the same reasons. 4) blah-blah-blah: all bugs that W*rd has. In fact, one year ago just one work (out of 20) was written in LyX, a rather bad record. This year, there were 8 out of 12. Next year we plan to crush the W*rd users, as people are learning that the effort to learn a new editor completely pays itself. Our price to have such results: we had to provide .cls and .layout files for our written works (took a few days to adapt from report.cls) and support them. Not such a terrible job. Our advantage: all written works using such a format seem alike, and there are NO formatting wars: everyone gets the same results and nobody cares about making it more beautiful than the others or such a crap. Gluing them all together to produce a volume is simple. The students notice that they do not have to format their documents for hours, or produce title pages by themselves, or many other things that are done automatically. They notice that they are free to concentrate on the thinking part of their texts. This is all referent to LyX, but there is a point that specifically refers to LaTeX: one CAN write programs that automatically produce LaTeX files as output. I have already done that in my thesis long ago, and it is a \HUGE satisfaction to have a program that runs and produces TeX output automatically, formatted and ready to be included into another document. There is no copy and paste, no nothing. I have been using this to produce random exercise lists, so that every student gets different tasks. You just need a lot of tasks, a program to produce a .tex context around the task to be done, and run LaTeX automatically. Couldn't be smoother, and in three minutes I get 50 high-quality documents ready for distribution. Yes, in this list we have all those little formatting problems: How do I enlarge this, or reduce that, or insert this other, or change all of about this, there are two things that may be said: -- Solving such things is fun, and one learns a lot from them. -- There are such discussions because LaTeX allows us to make such special demands (and we are free to try it), although a typical user does not need to care about it. Thousands of LyX users don't care. To sum it up, the best thing is to see a formerly reluctant student come proudly to you to show the document he has produced, and saying This is so much better to work with, and results are better too. I think this is the joy of doing it all. jb
Re: Coping and pasting tables from SPSS
* Giovanni Tummarello [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001-09-04 19:26] wrote: Hello people, i am a student in engeneering trying to use lyx to write my master thesis. Although entusiast at the beginning of the journey (leaving Word behind seemed so attractive) i am now loosing entusiasm over the inability to import objects (tables, graphs etc..) from other applications as well as the apparent impossibility to really decide where things should go. Needless to say i am working on a windows 2000 environment. this is not lyx's fault ;) Example.. i am using SPSS (very advanced statistical program) and it produces graphs and tables. Graphs i can export to EPS and therefore have them in my lyx document, no problems about that. but what about tables?? tables dont offer the export to eps option and there seem to be no way to include them in lyx without COMPLETELY REWRITING THEM (which is not an option since i have several tables filled with values). Of course if i open Word .. all i have to do is a copy/paste sequence and the table appairs in that environmanent as well. .ready to be nicely included. if you can export to excel (or copypaste to excel) you can use xl2latex from ctan -- ronny
Re: More than 12pt ?
Le Jeudi 6 Septembre 2001 12:28, vous avez écrit : Herbert == Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Herbert these classes are part of the latest cvs and maybe 1.1.6fix3 Herbert is it right, Jean-Marc?? Yes, they are part of 1.1.6fix3. Installed extsizes and reconfigured LyX and it work, but the only sizes avaible from the document dialog are 8 9 14 17 20, this is too few, there should be also at least 11 and 12 (perhaps every size from 8 to 20 should be there), could this be modified for the next release of LyX (I will do it for my personnal use). -- Eternellement la science des maîtres passera dans le coeur des disciples, dans un grand silence attentif, comme cette huile rousse de mes collines qui coule du pressoir dans la jarre par un long fil d'or immobile, sans faire de bulles, sans faire de bruit. Marcel Pagnol. Renaud MICHEL
Re: Unable to print roman numbered pages
Le Jeudi 6 Septembre 2001 12:57, vous avez écrit : Hi! The first part of my text is Roman numbered, the second arabic. All looks fine on the screen, but the problem is: How can I tell my printer to print the roman pages? If I put e.g. VII in the printing menu I get an error message like unable to print (Es konnte nicht gedruckt werden). If I put arabic numbers in the printing menu I get of course the arabic numbered pages printed. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance! Detlev You can try to preview with ghostview and from there to select all the pages you want to print and send them to you printer from gv itself, to do so gv will ask for the command it should use to print this is generally lpr and you must use the -PNameOfPrinter option (note that there are no spaces between the name of the printer and the -P, for me this gives lpr -PHP660c). -- |ZeNon| je suis vraiment content car normalement j'allais sur le chan linux-fr et persone ne m'aidait! |ZeNon| merci a tous - #linuxfr Renaud MICHEL
Re: More than 12pt ?
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:28:06PM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: Installed extsizes and reconfigured LyX and it work, but the only sizes avaible from the document dialog are 8 9 14 17 20, this is too few, there should be also at least 11 and 12 (perhaps every size from 8 to 20 should be there), could this be modified for the next release of LyX (I will do it for my personnal use). 11 and 12 are available without extra packages... Andre' -- André Pönitz . [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More than 12pt ?
Le Jeudi 6 Septembre 2001 13:51, vous avez écrit : On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:28:06PM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: Installed extsizes and reconfigured LyX and it work, but the only sizes avaible from the document dialog are 8 9 14 17 20, this is too few, there should be also at least 11 and 12 (perhaps every size from 8 to 20 should be there), could this be modified for the next release of LyX (I will do it for my personnal use). 11 and 12 are available without extra packages... Sure, but this would be more consistant if you can access it also from the extra packages (for example if you need to make two different versions of the document, one that is normal size and one that is bigger). I have modified it to 8 9 11 12 14 16 18 20 for more fine tuning (but this is personnal opinion). -- Virginité, comme ballons de baudruche: une piqûre, pfffuit, envolés. Confucius Renaud MICHEL
Re: Underlined 16
Lars Reineke wrote: Whenever I open a previously saved LyX-Dokument, a blue underlined 16 has been appended on the first line. What does that mean? And how do I get rid of it? I had the same problem and I solved it. One of the first lines in the lyx saved file is: \lyxformat 2,16 (Notice the 16!) If you manually change it in 2.16 each time it will work. It's boring but it's so. I think it's due to the fact that in some languages (like italian, and, I guess, german) you write 0,5 to mean one half, instead of the english use 0.5. Bye, Alessandro __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
Re: Unable to print roman numbered pages
Detlev Humann wrote: The first part of my text is Roman numbered, the second arabic. All looks fine on the screen, but the problem is: How can I tell my printer to print the roman pages? If I put e.g. VII in the printing menu I get an error message like unable to print (Es konnte nicht gedruckt werden). If I put arabic numbers in the printing menu I get of course the arabic numbered pages printed. What am I doing wrong? pagenumbering and counting the pages are two different things: - pagenumbering may vary in the doc - counting of the pages begins always at 1 and than increases in the printmenu insert the numbers how the pages are counted, for example 2 to 4 are the second to the forth, independent from your pagenumberstyle Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Rendering of EPS files
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:58:41PM +0930, Nick Burgan wrote: I guess LyX relies on ghostscript to render the images on screen ? that's correct. Is it possible to make LyX use another image rendering 'engine', for example the one that Display uses (I have no idea what this is). Display seems to render the images much faster also. Maybe this is a development issue ? the forthcoming 1.2.0 release uses ImageMagick (Display) to convert and display the variety of image formats. regards john -- This is mindless pedantism up with which I will not put. - Donald Knuth on Pascal's lack of default: case statement
Re: Rendering of EPS files
Hi Nick, As I remember, when you convert to .eps you get a chance to declare a preview, which is a sort of thumbnail of the image in a different format. Perhaps you could use that to accomplish what you need. Try saving a .eps in Gimp, and notice the preview checkbox and preview size field. Steve -- Steve Litt Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com http://www.troubleshooters.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk. On Thursday 06 September 2001 05:28, Nick Burgan wrote: Hello All, I wish to insert some photographs into my LyX document. I have the photos as .jpeg originally and I have converted them to .eps (level 2) using the Convert package that is part of image magick ie. convert filename.jpg eps2:filename.eps When I insert the .eps files into LyX, the image quality is very poor, and they look very grainy. In fact the .eps files look very poor in most of the image viewers I have on my system. Except for the Display package (part of image magick again). (It doesn't seem to be a problem with figures ie plots, just with photograpghs) I realise that the images will print perfectly but I was looking for a way to make them look better 'on screen'. I guess LyX relies on ghostscript to render the images on screen ? Is it possible to make LyX use another image rendering 'engine', for example the one that Display uses (I have no idea what this is). Display seems to render the images much faster also. Maybe this is a development issue ? Thanks in advance Nick Nick Burgan Postgraduate Student Active Noise and Vibration Control Group Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Adelaide SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 (0)8 8303 6385 Fax: +61 (0)8 8303 4367
Re: Unable to print roman numbered pages
Thanks, Michel! Thanks, Herbert!It's O.K. Now I
see the difference between counting and numbering the pages.I should have
told that I have twice pages numbered 1-14, once roman andonce arabic
(because of \setcounter{1} after the first part)So the economic way of
printing only the roman pages is using gv.Detlev
Re: Underlined 16
Lars Reineke wrote: Whenever I open a previously saved LyX-Dokument, a blue underlined 16 has been appended on the first line. What does that mean? And how do I get rid of it? Alessandro Cafarella wrote: I had the same problem and I solved it. One of the first lines in the lyx saved file is: \lyxformat 2,16 (Notice the 16!) If you manually change it in 2.16 each time it will work. It's boring but it's so. I think it's due to the fact that in some languages (like italian, and, I guess, german) you write 0,5 to mean one half, instead of the english use 0.5. Bye, Alessandro In my humble opinion the easiest way is to put a % in ERT (the comment out command) just in front of the 16. So it won't appear again in your printed doc. Detlev
Letterhead?
Hi all, Can someone provide a pointer to me as to how I can create letterhead with a logo on it? I know I seen this documented somewhere, I just can't seem to remeber where. Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul ...we don't need to be perfect to be the best around, and we never stop trying to be better. Tom Clancy, The Bear and The Dragon If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
Re: Letterhead?
Hi all, Can someone provide a pointer to me as to how I can create letterhead with a logo on it? I know I seen this documented somewhere, I just can't seem to remeber where. Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul We are a lyx positive company, or at least a lyx positive beachhead in a company. Try looking here: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/%7evoss/lyx/titlepage/background.html Rick -- -- Rick Angell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mission Critical Linux Tel. (978) 446-9166 100 Foot of John Street Fax. (978) 446-9470 Lowell, MA 01852
Re: Chapter format/spacing
Simon G Hill wrote: I'm trying to condense a big report to make it as small as possible without taking out too many words. I noticed that the Chapter format tends to waste heaps of room on a page. Can someone please let me know how to reduce the length from the top of the page to Chapter X, the length to the Chapter title and the length to the first bit of text. have a look at package secsty HErbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
I need to make a new character style
Hi all, I need to make a new character style to represent steps in a 10 step Troubleshooting method. It must be a distinct style, not an additional use of a different character style such as noun style. That way I can find them all, and change their appearance en masse if need be. How do you do that? If anyone has an example of a character style (not a paragraph style) they've created, could you email me an example? Herbert, do you have a good example on your website? Thanks Steve -- Steve Litt Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com http://www.troubleshooters.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk.
Re: I need to make a new character style
Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I need to make a new character style to represent steps in a 10 step
Troubleshooting method. It must be a distinct style, not an additional use of
a different character style such as noun style. That way I can find them all,
and change their appearance en masse if need be.
\newfont{\myFont}{pzdr at 30pt} % expand cmr10 to 30pt
\myFont only a fonttest, which only works if you have the
font pzdr (Zapf Dingbats) installed. otherwise choose
anotherone
How do you do that? If anyone has an example of a character style (not a
paragraph style) they've created, could you email me an example? Herbert, do
you have a good example on your website?
sure. ;-)
Herbert
--
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Underlined 16
I had the same problem and I solved it. One of the first lines in the lyx saved file is: \lyxformat 2,16 (Notice the 16!) If you manually change it in 2.16 each time it will work. It's boring but it's so. I think it's due to the fact that in some languages (like italian, and, I guess, german) you write 0,5 to mean one half, instead of the english use 0.5. While upgrading to SuSE 7.2 I installed 1.1.6fix2, too, so the problem is solved now. Anyway, thank you very much for your effort. Bye Lars
Re: More than 12pt ?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Renaud == Renaud MICHEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Renaud Installed extsizes and reconfigured LyX and it work, but the Renaud only sizes avaible from the document dialog are 8 9 14 17 20, Renaud this is too few, there should be also at least 11 and 12 Renaud (perhaps every size from 8 to 20 should be there), could this Renaud be modified for the next release of LyX (I will do it for my Renaud personnal use). In fact, the extsizes classes should really support the normal sizes too. Do they? The sizes available are 8pt, 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 14pt, 17pt, and 20pt. but using one of the standard sizes must not be the same output like the one from the standard classes. Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: More than 12pt ?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Herbert == Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In fact, the extsizes classes should really support the normal sizes too. Do they? Herbert The sizes available are 8pt, 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 14pt, Herbert 17pt, and 20pt. Herbert but using one of the standard sizes must not be the same Herbert output like the one from the standard classes. So why are the 10|11|12 sizes not available in the layout files? to prevent questions like: why does ... works in article and not in extarticle? but it's no problem to make these sizes available, too. Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Underlined 16
Lars Reineke wrote: Whenever I open a previously saved LyX-Dokument, a blue underlined 16 has been appended on the first line. What does that mean? And how do I get rid of it? Alessandro Cafarella wrote: I had the same problem and I solved it. One of the first lines in the lyx saved file is: \lyxformat 2,16 (Notice the 16!) If you manually change it in 2.16 each time it will work. It's boring but it's so. I think it's due to the fact that in some languages (like italian, and, I guess, german) you write 0,5 to mean one half, instead of the english use 0.5. Bye, Alessandro Detlev In my humble opinion the easiest way is to put a % in ERT (the Detlev comment out command) just in front of the 16. So it won't Detlev appear again in your printed doc. Detlev Yes, but the risk is that a new one appears when relaoding the document. Another solution is to upgrade to 1.1.6fix3 which fixes this problems (but is not very stable wrt tables). JMarc O.K. But the new one appears after the older one. In my doc there are dozens of 16s on the screen but never on the paper. And I'm glad about the very, very stable version lyx 1.1.5fix1. Great! So I won't change my running system. :-) Detlev
Re: More than 12pt ?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Herbert == Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So why are the 10|11|12 sizes not available in the layout files? Herbert to prevent questions like: why does ... works in article and Herbert not in extarticle? Are there so many differences between the two classes? I have to admit that I do not understand how this could mislead people. the differences are in titlepage, in part, bibliography. But I can't tell more, because it's some time ago when I used extsizes. maybe that these differences are not important ... Herbert but it's no problem to make these sizes available, too. I let you decide what you prefer to do. let it be ... Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Why Lyx?
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why Lyx? On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:30:14AM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why features does lyx offer that word doesnt? (the contrary isnt really to be asked :) ) . I mean.. all the manual is boasting about has (internal references, footnotes etc etc.. ) are all things that have existed for at least 5 years in Word, and the equation editor its the same (if not plain better) than the one offered in Lyx. existing isn't the same as works well or plays well with others. (Warning: Tale of Woe follows) I wish I could use Lyx at work. Unfortunately the manual for the software I work on is required (by the client) to be in Word-readable format. My colleagues come across this kind of request often, frankly I find it hard to understand. Does the client want to edit the manuals ? If the answer is yes, OK, but if it is no, PDF or HTML are much better from the point of view of navigation or indexation on the electronic support, anf PDF is equivalent for the paper support. Do I miss someting there ? The customer is always right. They want the manual in electronic format so that they can print it out themselves. They've always had it in Word, word is everywhere in their workplace, they aren't going to install Acrobat Reader just for us. End of story. Persuading people to change is hard. Persuading clients to change is impossible. Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Leia: Could be worse. (ominous noise) Han: It's worse.(Star Wars) -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \| http://www.katspace.com \_.--.*/| v | #include standard/disclaimer.h | Melbourne - Victoria - Australia - Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | - Earth - Sol - Milky Way Galaxy - Universe
Re: Why Lyx?
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to improve? what do you mean here ? I wouldn't want to make assumptions about what Kathryn meant, but what _I_ would mean by being bad at fonts is: Thanks for not assuming, but you hit the nail on the head. 1. You only get a few fonts pre-installed with your standard TeX/LaTeX distribution (not necessarily a bad thing, though). Agreed. After leaving the world of hundreds of TrueType fonts, it's a rather a letdown. 2. Although there are some very nice TeXable fonts out there, installing them is about as intuitive as quantum physics. Say it again, man! Even with some nice tools like vfontinst, you still have to mess around in the bowels... 3. Even if you actually manage to get a new font installed, LyX won't recognise it. Evil Red Text is required -- that or making your own Style (which is what I ended up doing). As I've said before, a very nice feature/plugin for LyX would be a font-installer. My dream would be something that would connect to my nearest CTAN mirror, download the fonts I want, integrate them in my TeX system and add them to the LyX default font popup. Or simply something that would allow me to use all of my existing TrueType fonts as easily as I can now use them in X-Windows. Oh yes, and although I normally decry it as bad typesetting, occasionally it would be nice to have more than one font in the same document. Agreed. What I've used LyX for, a fanzine, I had two main styles of body font -- one for prose, and another for poetry. I used a script-style font for the poetry. Obviously most people won't need to do that, and I agree that less is beautiful and logical markup is King, but even so... LyX wasn't actually free -- it cost me $72 (the price of Lamport's LaTeX book). Oddly enough, I found the book catalogued under programming languages. Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Why do you have two hearts? Because I'm the anomaly, the spanner in the works, the fly in the ointment, the cheese grater in the goldfish bowl. -- Kadiatu the Doctor (Doctor Who - the New Adventures: Transit by Ben Aaronovitch) -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \| http://www.katspace.com \_.--.*/| v | #include standard/disclaimer.h | Melbourne - Victoria - Australia - Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | - Earth - Sol - Milky Way Galaxy - Universe
Lamport's book
On Thursday 06 September 2001 18:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote: LyX wasn't actually free -- it cost me $72 (the price of Lamport's LaTeX book). Oddly enough, I found the book catalogued under programming languages. Kathryn Andersen Kathryn, Would you recommend Lamport's book to someone who is writing a book in Lyx and needs lots of custom Environments and character styles? Is it understandable for someone who, let's put it this way -- doesn't have the world's best attention span? Is it well organized? Is there a way to get it for less than $72.00? I don't live in a technical metropolis -- where can I get it? Thanks Steve -- Steve Litt Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com http://www.troubleshooters.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk.
Re: Lamport's book
Steve Litt wrote: Would you recommend Lamport's book to someone who is writing a book in Lyx and needs lots of custom Environments and character styles? Is it understandable for someone who, let's put it this way -- doesn't have the world's best attention span? Is it well organized? Is there a way to get it for less than $72.00? I don't live in a technical metropolis -- where can I get it? take the one from Goossens, Mittelbach, Samarin: The Latex Companion much more better (from my point of view) Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Chapter format/spacing
Greetings all, I'm trying to condense a big report to make it as small as possible without taking out too many words. I noticed that the Chapter format tends to waste heaps of room on a page. Can someone please let me know how to reduce the length from the top of the page to Chapter X, the length to the Chapter title and the length to the first bit of text. Thanks heaps Simon
Re: Full width tables
On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote:
Nicholas Piper wrote:
I don't understand your last line. Could you give me an example or
point me to where I might find one ?
the following all in tex (red)
\noindent\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|c|X|c|}\hline
one two three \\
1 2 3 \\
a b c \\ \hline
\end{tabularx}
Ah, so it is still not possible to do this using the LyX table editor?
I suppose I can pass my file through a filter that converts tablular
to tabularx afterwards.
Cheers,
Nick
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Re: Full width tables
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Nicholas Piper wrote:
I don't understand your last line. Could you give me an example or
point me to where I might find one ?
the following all in tex (red)
\noindent\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|c|X|c|}\hline
one two three \\
1 2 3 \\
a b c \\ \hline
\end{tabularx}
Ah, so it is still not possible to do this using the LyX table editor?
I suppose I can pass my file through a filter that converts tablular
to tabularx afterwards.
latest cvs seems to be buggy, but 1.1.6 and ealier should
do the trick. with \renewenvironment{tabular}
Herbert
Rendering of EPS files
Hello All, I wish to insert some photographs into my LyX document. I have the photos as .jpeg originally and I have converted them to .eps (level 2) using the Convert package that is part of image magick ie. convert filename.jpg eps2:filename.eps When I insert the .eps files into LyX, the image quality is very poor, and they look very grainy. In fact the .eps files look very poor in most of the image viewers I have on my system. Except for the Display package (part of image magick again). (It doesn't seem to be a problem with figures ie plots, just with photograpghs) I realise that the images will print perfectly but I was looking for a way to make them look better 'on screen'. I guess LyX relies on ghostscript to render the images on screen ? Is it possible to make LyX use another image rendering 'engine', for example the one that Display uses (I have no idea what this is). Display seems to render the images much faster also. Maybe this is a development issue ? Thanks in advance Nick Nick Burgan Postgraduate Student Active Noise and Vibration Control Group Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Adelaide SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 (0)8 8303 6385 Fax: +61 (0)8 8303 4367
More than 12pt ?
Hi !
This is more or less a latex question but I suppose I can find an
answer here. I prepare some exams or exercices for 11 to 16y old
students using Lyx and the article class.
However, 12pt is still too small for them. The solution I use is to
select the whole document text and to increase the size via the
character window.
This solution has one major problem : the section numbers stay in 12pt,
regular size (which is very small compared to the title, in some case).
Here are my two questions :
1. Is there a way to increase also the size of these numbers (I thought
about \Large{ at the begining of the document, and } at the end, in
latex mode, but I didn't try since it seemed hugly to me).
2. Is there any other class I could use ?
Thanks in advance,
--
Nicolas SABOURET
LIMSI-CNRS, BP133, 91403 Orsay, France
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/nico
Re: More than 12pt ?
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:41:53 +0200
From: Nicolas SABOURET [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: More than 12pt ?
Hi !
This is more or less a latex question but I suppose I can find an
answer here. I prepare some exams or exercices for 11 to 16y old
students using Lyx and the article class.
However, 12pt is still too small for them. The solution I use is to
select the whole document text and to increase the size via the
character window.
This solution has one major problem : the section numbers stay in 12pt,
regular size (which is very small compared to the title, in some case).
Here are my two questions :
1. Is there a way to increase also the size of these numbers (I thought
about \Large{ at the begining of the document, and } at the end, in
latex mode, but I didn't try since it seemed hugly to me).
2. Is there any other class I could use ?
Thanks in advance,
--
An « external » way is to use the magnification option of dvips,
wich can produce en enlarged image of the document (starting with
big margins of course).
The first time you call it with a mag coefficient different from 1000
(yes it's in thousandths), it will take some time for font calculation,
but otherwise I used it with success to build up 11.5 pt sized docs...
--
Jean-Pierre
Re: More than 12pt ?
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: 2. Is there any other class I could use ? There is a package extsizes that should let you use more font sizes. Haven't tried it myself though...
Re: More than 12pt ?
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Nicolas SABOURET wrote:
This is more or less a latex question but I suppose I can find an
answer here. I prepare some exams or exercices for 11 to 16y old
students using Lyx and the article class.
However, 12pt is still too small for them. The solution I use is to
select the whole document text and to increase the size via the
character window.
This solution has one major problem : the section numbers stay in 12pt,
regular size (which is very small compared to the title, in some case).
Here are my two questions :
1. Is there a way to increase also the size of these numbers (I thought
about \Large{ at the begining of the document, and } at the end, in
latex mode, but I didn't try since it seemed hugly to me).
2. Is there any other class I could use ?
have a look at
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts/extsizes.html
these classes are part of the latest cvs and maybe 1.1.6fix3
is it right, Jean-Marc??
Herbert
Re: More than 12pt ?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Herbert == Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Herbert these classes are part of the latest cvs and maybe 1.1.6fix3 Herbert is it right, Jean-Marc?? Yes, they are part of 1.1.6fix3. JMarc Thanks for your answers. This looks good to me. Nico. -- Nicolas SABOURET LIMSI-CNRS, BP133, 91403 Orsay, France http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/nico
Unable to print roman numbered pages
Hi!
The first part of my text is "Roman" numbered, the
second "arabic". All looks fine on the screen, but the problem is: How can I
tell my printer to print the roman pages?
If I put e.g. "VII" in the printing menu I get an
error message like "unable to print ("Es konnte nicht gedruckt
werden").
If I put arabic numbers in the printing menu I get
of course the arabic numbered pages printed.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
Detlev
Re: Hypertext and PDF
Hello Jean-Pierre, Running tex2pdf -r to change the toc option from yes to no produced en error: pdfTeX error (ext4): link annotations can't be nested. The option linktocpage is doing nothing else than putting 'linktocpage' in the the hyperref parameters. Works here ... A much better solution than 'linktocpage' is using a newer pdfTeX version, as it can now handle nested links! See also this page from the hyperref mantainer http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2000-August/006924.html I tried it, and it works. I send you an example if you want. Grüße, Marcus _ Dipl.-Inform. Marcus Beyer [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Abt. Medizinische Informatik - Universitätsklinikum Stefan-Meier-Straße 26 D-79104 Freiburg Tel. +49/761/203-6698 Fax +49/761/203-6711 _ http://www.Stormlight.de __
Re: Why LyX?
On Wednesday 05 September 2001 16:09, you wrote: John Levon writes: I've turned tens of normal students onto lyx instead of word (even unix-hating students) entirely as a result of the output. Yes, but ... My two bits: The effect on my students has been the same. Two years ago we started pushing them to LaTeX/LyX. At first they were rather reluctant, but they learned that they can write rather large documents WITHOUT: 1) Getting ridiculously large .doc files 2) Losing all formatting because W*rd gets suddenly insane. 3) Losing pictures, references, numbering, etc due to the same reasons. 4) blah-blah-blah: all bugs that W*rd has. In fact, one year ago just one work (out of 20) was written in LyX, a rather bad record. This year, there were 8 out of 12. Next year we plan to crush the W*rd users, as people are learning that the effort to learn a new editor completely pays itself. Our price to have such results: we had to provide .cls and .layout files for our written works (took a few days to adapt from report.cls) and support them. Not such a terrible job. Our advantage: all written works using such a format seem alike, and there are NO formatting wars: everyone gets the same results and nobody cares about making it more beautiful than the others or such a crap. Gluing them all together to produce a volume is simple. The students notice that they do not have to format their documents for hours, or produce title pages by themselves, or many other things that are done automatically. They notice that they are free to concentrate on the thinking part of their texts. This is all referent to LyX, but there is a point that specifically refers to LaTeX: one CAN write programs that automatically produce LaTeX files as output. I have already done that in my thesis long ago, and it is a \HUGE satisfaction to have a program that runs and produces TeX output automatically, formatted and ready to be included into another document. There is no copy and paste, no nothing. I have been using this to produce random exercise lists, so that every student gets different tasks. You just need a lot of tasks, a program to produce a .tex context around the task to be done, and run LaTeX automatically. Couldn't be smoother, and in three minutes I get 50 high-quality documents ready for distribution. Yes, in this list we have all those little formatting problems: How do I enlarge this, or reduce that, or insert this other, or change all of about this, there are two things that may be said: -- Solving such things is fun, and one learns a lot from them. -- There are such discussions because LaTeX allows us to make such special demands (and we are free to try it), although a typical user does not need to care about it. Thousands of LyX users don't care. To sum it up, the best thing is to see a formerly reluctant student come proudly to you to show the document he has produced, and saying This is so much better to work with, and results are better too. I think this is the joy of doing it all. jb
Re: Coping and pasting tables from SPSS
* Giovanni Tummarello [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001-09-04 19:26] wrote: Hello people, i am a student in engeneering trying to use lyx to write my master thesis. Although entusiast at the beginning of the journey (leaving Word behind seemed so attractive) i am now loosing entusiasm over the inability to import objects (tables, graphs etc..) from other applications as well as the apparent impossibility to really decide where things should go. Needless to say i am working on a windows 2000 environment. this is not lyx's fault ;) Example.. i am using SPSS (very advanced statistical program) and it produces graphs and tables. Graphs i can export to EPS and therefore have them in my lyx document, no problems about that. but what about tables?? tables dont offer the export to eps option and there seem to be no way to include them in lyx without COMPLETELY REWRITING THEM (which is not an option since i have several tables filled with values). Of course if i open Word .. all i have to do is a copy/paste sequence and the table appairs in that environmanent as well. .ready to be nicely included. if you can export to excel (or copypaste to excel) you can use xl2latex from ctan -- ronny
Re: More than 12pt ?
Le Jeudi 6 Septembre 2001 12:28, vous avez écrit : Herbert == Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Herbert these classes are part of the latest cvs and maybe 1.1.6fix3 Herbert is it right, Jean-Marc?? Yes, they are part of 1.1.6fix3. Installed extsizes and reconfigured LyX and it work, but the only sizes avaible from the document dialog are 8 9 14 17 20, this is too few, there should be also at least 11 and 12 (perhaps every size from 8 to 20 should be there), could this be modified for the next release of LyX (I will do it for my personnal use). -- Eternellement la science des maîtres passera dans le coeur des disciples, dans un grand silence attentif, comme cette huile rousse de mes collines qui coule du pressoir dans la jarre par un long fil d'or immobile, sans faire de bulles, sans faire de bruit. Marcel Pagnol. Renaud MICHEL
Re: Unable to print roman numbered pages
Le Jeudi 6 Septembre 2001 12:57, vous avez écrit : Hi! The first part of my text is Roman numbered, the second arabic. All looks fine on the screen, but the problem is: How can I tell my printer to print the roman pages? If I put e.g. VII in the printing menu I get an error message like unable to print (Es konnte nicht gedruckt werden). If I put arabic numbers in the printing menu I get of course the arabic numbered pages printed. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance! Detlev You can try to preview with ghostview and from there to select all the pages you want to print and send them to you printer from gv itself, to do so gv will ask for the command it should use to print this is generally lpr and you must use the -PNameOfPrinter option (note that there are no spaces between the name of the printer and the -P, for me this gives lpr -PHP660c). -- |ZeNon| je suis vraiment content car normalement j'allais sur le chan linux-fr et persone ne m'aidait! |ZeNon| merci a tous - #linuxfr Renaud MICHEL
Re: More than 12pt ?
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:28:06PM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: Installed extsizes and reconfigured LyX and it work, but the only sizes avaible from the document dialog are 8 9 14 17 20, this is too few, there should be also at least 11 and 12 (perhaps every size from 8 to 20 should be there), could this be modified for the next release of LyX (I will do it for my personnal use). 11 and 12 are available without extra packages... Andre' -- André Pönitz . [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More than 12pt ?
Le Jeudi 6 Septembre 2001 13:51, vous avez écrit : On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:28:06PM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: Installed extsizes and reconfigured LyX and it work, but the only sizes avaible from the document dialog are 8 9 14 17 20, this is too few, there should be also at least 11 and 12 (perhaps every size from 8 to 20 should be there), could this be modified for the next release of LyX (I will do it for my personnal use). 11 and 12 are available without extra packages... Sure, but this would be more consistant if you can access it also from the extra packages (for example if you need to make two different versions of the document, one that is normal size and one that is bigger). I have modified it to 8 9 11 12 14 16 18 20 for more fine tuning (but this is personnal opinion). -- Virginité, comme ballons de baudruche: une piqûre, pfffuit, envolés. Confucius Renaud MICHEL
Re: Underlined 16
Lars Reineke wrote: Whenever I open a previously saved LyX-Dokument, a blue underlined 16 has been appended on the first line. What does that mean? And how do I get rid of it? I had the same problem and I solved it. One of the first lines in the lyx saved file is: \lyxformat 2,16 (Notice the 16!) If you manually change it in 2.16 each time it will work. It's boring but it's so. I think it's due to the fact that in some languages (like italian, and, I guess, german) you write 0,5 to mean one half, instead of the english use 0.5. Bye, Alessandro __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
Re: Unable to print roman numbered pages
Detlev Humann wrote: The first part of my text is Roman numbered, the second arabic. All looks fine on the screen, but the problem is: How can I tell my printer to print the roman pages? If I put e.g. VII in the printing menu I get an error message like unable to print (Es konnte nicht gedruckt werden). If I put arabic numbers in the printing menu I get of course the arabic numbered pages printed. What am I doing wrong? pagenumbering and counting the pages are two different things: - pagenumbering may vary in the doc - counting of the pages begins always at 1 and than increases in the printmenu insert the numbers how the pages are counted, for example 2 to 4 are the second to the forth, independent from your pagenumberstyle Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Rendering of EPS files
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:58:41PM +0930, Nick Burgan wrote: I guess LyX relies on ghostscript to render the images on screen ? that's correct. Is it possible to make LyX use another image rendering 'engine', for example the one that Display uses (I have no idea what this is). Display seems to render the images much faster also. Maybe this is a development issue ? the forthcoming 1.2.0 release uses ImageMagick (Display) to convert and display the variety of image formats. regards john -- This is mindless pedantism up with which I will not put. - Donald Knuth on Pascal's lack of default: case statement
Re: Rendering of EPS files
Hi Nick, As I remember, when you convert to .eps you get a chance to declare a preview, which is a sort of thumbnail of the image in a different format. Perhaps you could use that to accomplish what you need. Try saving a .eps in Gimp, and notice the preview checkbox and preview size field. Steve -- Steve Litt Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com http://www.troubleshooters.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk. On Thursday 06 September 2001 05:28, Nick Burgan wrote: Hello All, I wish to insert some photographs into my LyX document. I have the photos as .jpeg originally and I have converted them to .eps (level 2) using the Convert package that is part of image magick ie. convert filename.jpg eps2:filename.eps When I insert the .eps files into LyX, the image quality is very poor, and they look very grainy. In fact the .eps files look very poor in most of the image viewers I have on my system. Except for the Display package (part of image magick again). (It doesn't seem to be a problem with figures ie plots, just with photograpghs) I realise that the images will print perfectly but I was looking for a way to make them look better 'on screen'. I guess LyX relies on ghostscript to render the images on screen ? Is it possible to make LyX use another image rendering 'engine', for example the one that Display uses (I have no idea what this is). Display seems to render the images much faster also. Maybe this is a development issue ? Thanks in advance Nick Nick Burgan Postgraduate Student Active Noise and Vibration Control Group Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Adelaide SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 (0)8 8303 6385 Fax: +61 (0)8 8303 4367
Re: Unable to print roman numbered pages
Thanks, Michel! Thanks, Herbert!It's O.K. Now I
see the difference between counting and numbering the pages.I should have
told that I have twice pages numbered 1-14, once roman andonce arabic
(because of \setcounter{1} after the first part)So the economic way of
printing only the roman pages is using gv.Detlev
Re: Underlined 16
Lars Reineke wrote: Whenever I open a previously saved LyX-Dokument, a blue underlined 16 has been appended on the first line. What does that mean? And how do I get rid of it? Alessandro Cafarella wrote: I had the same problem and I solved it. One of the first lines in the lyx saved file is: \lyxformat 2,16 (Notice the 16!) If you manually change it in 2.16 each time it will work. It's boring but it's so. I think it's due to the fact that in some languages (like italian, and, I guess, german) you write 0,5 to mean one half, instead of the english use 0.5. Bye, Alessandro In my humble opinion the easiest way is to put a % in ERT (the comment out command) just in front of the 16. So it won't appear again in your printed doc. Detlev
Letterhead?
Hi all, Can someone provide a pointer to me as to how I can create letterhead with a logo on it? I know I seen this documented somewhere, I just can't seem to remeber where. Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul ...we don't need to be perfect to be the best around, and we never stop trying to be better. Tom Clancy, The Bear and The Dragon If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
Re: Letterhead?
Hi all, Can someone provide a pointer to me as to how I can create letterhead with a logo on it? I know I seen this documented somewhere, I just can't seem to remeber where. Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul We are a lyx positive company, or at least a lyx positive beachhead in a company. Try looking here: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/%7evoss/lyx/titlepage/background.html Rick -- -- Rick Angell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mission Critical Linux Tel. (978) 446-9166 100 Foot of John Street Fax. (978) 446-9470 Lowell, MA 01852
Re: Chapter format/spacing
Simon G Hill wrote: I'm trying to condense a big report to make it as small as possible without taking out too many words. I noticed that the Chapter format tends to waste heaps of room on a page. Can someone please let me know how to reduce the length from the top of the page to Chapter X, the length to the Chapter title and the length to the first bit of text. have a look at package secsty HErbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
I need to make a new character style
Hi all, I need to make a new character style to represent steps in a 10 step Troubleshooting method. It must be a distinct style, not an additional use of a different character style such as noun style. That way I can find them all, and change their appearance en masse if need be. How do you do that? If anyone has an example of a character style (not a paragraph style) they've created, could you email me an example? Herbert, do you have a good example on your website? Thanks Steve -- Steve Litt Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com http://www.troubleshooters.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk.
Re: I need to make a new character style
Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I need to make a new character style to represent steps in a 10 step
Troubleshooting method. It must be a distinct style, not an additional use of
a different character style such as noun style. That way I can find them all,
and change their appearance en masse if need be.
\newfont{\myFont}{pzdr at 30pt} % expand cmr10 to 30pt
\myFont only a fonttest, which only works if you have the
font pzdr (Zapf Dingbats) installed. otherwise choose
anotherone
How do you do that? If anyone has an example of a character style (not a
paragraph style) they've created, could you email me an example? Herbert, do
you have a good example on your website?
sure. ;-)
Herbert
--
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Underlined 16
I had the same problem and I solved it. One of the first lines in the lyx saved file is: \lyxformat 2,16 (Notice the 16!) If you manually change it in 2.16 each time it will work. It's boring but it's so. I think it's due to the fact that in some languages (like italian, and, I guess, german) you write 0,5 to mean one half, instead of the english use 0.5. While upgrading to SuSE 7.2 I installed 1.1.6fix2, too, so the problem is solved now. Anyway, thank you very much for your effort. Bye Lars
Re: More than 12pt ?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Renaud == Renaud MICHEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Renaud Installed extsizes and reconfigured LyX and it work, but the Renaud only sizes avaible from the document dialog are 8 9 14 17 20, Renaud this is too few, there should be also at least 11 and 12 Renaud (perhaps every size from 8 to 20 should be there), could this Renaud be modified for the next release of LyX (I will do it for my Renaud personnal use). In fact, the extsizes classes should really support the normal sizes too. Do they? The sizes available are 8pt, 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 14pt, 17pt, and 20pt. but using one of the standard sizes must not be the same output like the one from the standard classes. Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: More than 12pt ?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Herbert == Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In fact, the extsizes classes should really support the normal sizes too. Do they? Herbert The sizes available are 8pt, 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 14pt, Herbert 17pt, and 20pt. Herbert but using one of the standard sizes must not be the same Herbert output like the one from the standard classes. So why are the 10|11|12 sizes not available in the layout files? to prevent questions like: why does ... works in article and not in extarticle? but it's no problem to make these sizes available, too. Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Underlined 16
Lars Reineke wrote: Whenever I open a previously saved LyX-Dokument, a blue underlined 16 has been appended on the first line. What does that mean? And how do I get rid of it? Alessandro Cafarella wrote: I had the same problem and I solved it. One of the first lines in the lyx saved file is: \lyxformat 2,16 (Notice the 16!) If you manually change it in 2.16 each time it will work. It's boring but it's so. I think it's due to the fact that in some languages (like italian, and, I guess, german) you write 0,5 to mean one half, instead of the english use 0.5. Bye, Alessandro Detlev In my humble opinion the easiest way is to put a % in ERT (the Detlev comment out command) just in front of the 16. So it won't Detlev appear again in your printed doc. Detlev Yes, but the risk is that a new one appears when relaoding the document. Another solution is to upgrade to 1.1.6fix3 which fixes this problems (but is not very stable wrt tables). JMarc O.K. But the new one appears after the older one. In my doc there are dozens of 16s on the screen but never on the paper. And I'm glad about the very, very stable version lyx 1.1.5fix1. Great! So I won't change my running system. :-) Detlev
Re: More than 12pt ?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Herbert == Herbert Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So why are the 10|11|12 sizes not available in the layout files? Herbert to prevent questions like: why does ... works in article and Herbert not in extarticle? Are there so many differences between the two classes? I have to admit that I do not understand how this could mislead people. the differences are in titlepage, in part, bibliography. But I can't tell more, because it's some time ago when I used extsizes. maybe that these differences are not important ... Herbert but it's no problem to make these sizes available, too. I let you decide what you prefer to do. let it be ... Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Re: Why Lyx?
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:45:44PM +0200, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 22:08:24 +1000 From: Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Why Lyx? On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 02:30:14AM +0200, Giovanni Tummarello wrote: This opens up a question: if you leave alone the fact that lyx is free.. and that the underlying latex is supposely bug free. why features does lyx offer that word doesnt? (the contrary isnt really to be asked :) ) . I mean.. all the manual is boasting about has (internal references, footnotes etc etc.. ) are all things that have existed for at least 5 years in Word, and the equation editor its the same (if not plain better) than the one offered in Lyx. existing isn't the same as works well or plays well with others. (Warning: Tale of Woe follows) I wish I could use Lyx at work. Unfortunately the manual for the software I work on is required (by the client) to be in Word-readable format. My colleagues come across this kind of request often, frankly I find it hard to understand. Does the client want to edit the manuals ? If the answer is yes, OK, but if it is no, PDF or HTML are much better from the point of view of navigation or indexation on the electronic support, anf PDF is equivalent for the paper support. Do I miss someting there ? The customer is always right. They want the manual in electronic format so that they can print it out themselves. They've always had it in Word, word is everywhere in their workplace, they aren't going to install Acrobat Reader just for us. End of story. Persuading people to change is hard. Persuading clients to change is impossible. Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Leia: Could be worse. (ominous noise) Han: It's worse.(Star Wars) -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \| http://www.katspace.com \_.--.*/| v | #include standard/disclaimer.h | Melbourne - Victoria - Australia - Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | - Earth - Sol - Milky Way Galaxy - Universe
Re: Why Lyx?
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 05:46:55PM +0300, Robin Turner wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2001 17:24, John Levon wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:08:24PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote: One thing that LyX definitely does worse is fonts -- but that's because of the limitations of TeX. Does anyone know if that's ever likely to improve? what do you mean here ? I wouldn't want to make assumptions about what Kathryn meant, but what _I_ would mean by being bad at fonts is: Thanks for not assuming, but you hit the nail on the head. 1. You only get a few fonts pre-installed with your standard TeX/LaTeX distribution (not necessarily a bad thing, though). Agreed. After leaving the world of hundreds of TrueType fonts, it's a rather a letdown. 2. Although there are some very nice TeXable fonts out there, installing them is about as intuitive as quantum physics. Say it again, man! Even with some nice tools like vfontinst, you still have to mess around in the bowels... 3. Even if you actually manage to get a new font installed, LyX won't recognise it. Evil Red Text is required -- that or making your own Style (which is what I ended up doing). As I've said before, a very nice feature/plugin for LyX would be a font-installer. My dream would be something that would connect to my nearest CTAN mirror, download the fonts I want, integrate them in my TeX system and add them to the LyX default font popup. Or simply something that would allow me to use all of my existing TrueType fonts as easily as I can now use them in X-Windows. Oh yes, and although I normally decry it as bad typesetting, occasionally it would be nice to have more than one font in the same document. Agreed. What I've used LyX for, a fanzine, I had two main styles of body font -- one for prose, and another for poetry. I used a script-style font for the poetry. Obviously most people won't need to do that, and I agree that less is beautiful and logical markup is King, but even so... LyX wasn't actually free -- it cost me $72 (the price of Lamport's LaTeX book). Oddly enough, I found the book catalogued under programming languages. Kathryn Andersen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Why do you have two hearts? Because I'm the anomaly, the spanner in the works, the fly in the ointment, the cheese grater in the goldfish bowl. -- Kadiatu the Doctor (Doctor Who - the New Adventures: Transit by Ben Aaronovitch) -- _--_|\ | Kathryn Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \| http://www.katspace.com \_.--.*/| v | #include standard/disclaimer.h | Melbourne - Victoria - Australia - Southern Hemisphere Maranatha! | - Earth - Sol - Milky Way Galaxy - Universe
Lamport's book
On Thursday 06 September 2001 18:51, Kathryn Andersen wrote: LyX wasn't actually free -- it cost me $72 (the price of Lamport's LaTeX book). Oddly enough, I found the book catalogued under programming languages. Kathryn Andersen Kathryn, Would you recommend Lamport's book to someone who is writing a book in Lyx and needs lots of custom Environments and character styles? Is it understandable for someone who, let's put it this way -- doesn't have the world's best attention span? Is it well organized? Is there a way to get it for less than $72.00? I don't live in a technical metropolis -- where can I get it? Thanks Steve -- Steve Litt Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com http://www.troubleshooters.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk.
Re: Lamport's book
Steve Litt wrote: Would you recommend Lamport's book to someone who is writing a book in Lyx and needs lots of custom Environments and character styles? Is it understandable for someone who, let's put it this way -- doesn't have the world's best attention span? Is it well organized? Is there a way to get it for less than $72.00? I don't live in a technical metropolis -- where can I get it? take the one from Goossens, Mittelbach, Samarin: The Latex Companion much more better (from my point of view) Herbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
Chapter format/spacing
Greetings all, I'm trying to condense a big report to make it as small as possible without taking out too many words. I noticed that the Chapter format tends to waste heaps of room on a page. Can someone please let me know how to reduce the length from the top of the page to Chapter X, the length to the Chapter title and the length to the first bit of text. Thanks heaps Simon
Re: Full width tables
On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Nicholas Piper wrote:
> > I don't understand your last line. Could you give me an example or
> > point me to where I might find one ?
> the following all in tex (red)
> \noindent\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|c|X|c|}\hline
> one & two & three \\
> 1 & 2 & 3 \\
> a & b & c \\ \hline
> \end{tabularx}
Ah, so it is still not possible to do this using the LyX table editor?
I suppose I can pass my file through a filter that converts tablular
to tabularx afterwards.
Cheers,
Nick
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Re: Full width tables
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Nicholas Piper wrote:
> > > I don't understand your last line. Could you give me an example or
> > > point me to where I might find one ?
>
> > the following all in tex (red)
>
> > \noindent\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|c|X|c|}\hline
> > one & two & three \\
> > 1 & 2 & 3 \\
> > a & b & c \\ \hline
> > \end{tabularx}
>
> Ah, so it is still not possible to do this using the LyX table editor?
> I suppose I can pass my file through a filter that converts tablular
> to tabularx afterwards.
latest cvs seems to be buggy, but 1.1.6 and ealier should
do the trick. with \renewenvironment{tabular}
Herbert
Rendering of EPS files
Hello All, I wish to insert some photographs into my LyX document. I have the photos as .jpeg originally and I have converted them to .eps (level 2) using the Convert package that is part of image magick ie. convert filename.jpg eps2:filename.eps When I insert the .eps files into LyX, the image quality is very poor, and they look very grainy. In fact the .eps files look very poor in most of the image viewers I have on my system. Except for the Display package (part of image magick again). (It doesn't seem to be a problem with figures ie plots, just with photograpghs) I realise that the images will print perfectly but I was looking for a way to make them look better 'on screen'. I guess LyX relies on ghostscript to render the images on screen ? Is it possible to make LyX use another image rendering 'engine', for example the one that Display uses (I have no idea what this is). Display seems to render the images much faster also. Maybe this is a development issue ? Thanks in advance Nick Nick Burgan Postgraduate Student Active Noise and Vibration Control Group Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Adelaide SA 5005 AUSTRALIA Phone: +61 (0)8 8303 6385 Fax: +61 (0)8 8303 4367
More than 12pt ?
Hi !
This is more or less a "latex" question but I suppose I can find an
answer here. I prepare some exams or exercices for 11 to 16y old
students using Lyx and the "article" class.
However, 12pt is still too small for them. The solution I use is to
select the whole document text and to increase the size via the
character window.
This solution has one major problem : the section numbers stay in 12pt,
regular size (which is very small compared to the title, in some case).
Here are my two questions :
1. Is there a way to increase also the size of these numbers (I thought
about \Large{ at the begining of the document, and } at the end, in
latex mode, but I didn't try since it seemed hugly to me).
2. Is there any other class I could use ?
Thanks in advance,
--
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http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/nico
Re: More than 12pt ?
>>Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:41:53 +0200
>>From: Nicolas SABOURET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: More than 12pt ?
>>
>>Hi !
>>
>>This is more or less a "latex" question but I suppose I can find an
>>answer here. I prepare some exams or exercices for 11 to 16y old
>>students using Lyx and the "article" class.
>>
>>However, 12pt is still too small for them. The solution I use is to
>>select the whole document text and to increase the size via the
>>character window.
>>This solution has one major problem : the section numbers stay in 12pt,
>>regular size (which is very small compared to the title, in some case).
>>
>>Here are my two questions :
>>1. Is there a way to increase also the size of these numbers (I thought
>>about \Large{ at the begining of the document, and } at the end, in
>>latex mode, but I didn't try since it seemed hugly to me).
>>
>>2. Is there any other class I could use ?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>--
An « external » way is to use the magnification option of dvips,
wich can produce en enlarged image of the document (starting with
big margins of course).
The first time you call it with a mag coefficient different from 1000
(yes it's in thousandths), it will take some time for font calculation,
but otherwise I used it with success to build up 11.5 pt sized docs...
--
Jean-Pierre
Re: More than 12pt ?
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: > 2. Is there any other class I could use ? There is a package "extsizes" that should let you use more font sizes. Haven't tried it myself though...
Re: More than 12pt ?
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Nicolas SABOURET wrote:
> This is more or less a "latex" question but I suppose I can find an
> answer here. I prepare some exams or exercices for 11 to 16y old
> students using Lyx and the "article" class.
>
> However, 12pt is still too small for them. The solution I use is to
> select the whole document text and to increase the size via the
> character window.
> This solution has one major problem : the section numbers stay in 12pt,
> regular size (which is very small compared to the title, in some case).
>
> Here are my two questions :
> 1. Is there a way to increase also the size of these numbers (I thought
> about \Large{ at the begining of the document, and } at the end, in
> latex mode, but I didn't try since it seemed hugly to me).
>
> 2. Is there any other class I could use ?
have a look at
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/fonts/extsizes.html
these classes are part of the latest cvs and maybe 1.1.6fix3
is it right, Jean-Marc??
Herbert
Re: More than 12pt ?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > "Herbert" == Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Herbert> these classes are part of the latest cvs and maybe 1.1.6fix3 > > Herbert> is it right, Jean-Marc?? > > Yes, they are part of 1.1.6fix3. > > JMarc Thanks for your answers. This looks good to me. Nico. -- Nicolas SABOURET LIMSI-CNRS, BP133, 91403 Orsay, France http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/nico
Unable to print roman numbered pages
Hi!
The first part of my text is "Roman" numbered, the
second "arabic". All looks fine on the screen, but the problem is: How can I
tell my printer to print the roman pages?
If I put e.g. "VII" in the printing menu I get an
error message like "unable to print ("Es konnte nicht gedruckt
werden").
If I put arabic numbers in the printing menu I get
of course the arabic numbered pages printed.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
Detlev
Re: Hypertext and PDF
Hello Jean-Pierre, > > Running tex2pdf -r to change the toc > > option from yes to no produced en error: > > pdfTeX error (ext4): link annotations can't be nested. > > The option linktocpage is doing nothing else than putting 'linktocpage' > in the the hyperref parameters. Works here ... A much better solution than 'linktocpage' is using a newer pdfTeX version, as it can now handle nested links! See also this page from the hyperref mantainer http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2000-August/006924.html I tried it, and it works. I send you an example if you want. Grüße, Marcus _ Dipl.-Inform. Marcus Beyer [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Abt. Medizinische Informatik - Universitätsklinikum Stefan-Meier-Straße 26 D-79104 Freiburg Tel. +49/761/203-6698 Fax +49/761/203-6711 _ http://www.Stormlight.de __
Re: Why LyX?
> On Wednesday 05 September 2001 16:09, you wrote: > > John Levon writes: > > > > I've turned tens of normal students onto lyx instead > > of word (even unix-hating students) entirely as a result of the output. > > > > Yes, but ... My two bits: The effect on my students has been the same. Two years ago we started pushing them to LaTeX/LyX. At first they were rather reluctant, but they learned that they can write rather large documents WITHOUT: 1) Getting ridiculously large .doc files 2) Losing all formatting because W*rd gets suddenly insane. 3) Losing pictures, references, numbering, etc due to the same reasons. 4) blah-blah-blah: all bugs that W*rd has. In fact, one year ago just one work (out of 20) was written in LyX, a rather bad record. This year, there were 8 out of 12. Next year we plan to crush the W*rd users, as people are learning that the effort to learn a new editor completely pays itself. Our price to have such results: we had to provide .cls and .layout files for our written works (took a few days to adapt from report.cls) and support them. Not such a terrible job. Our advantage: all written works using such a format seem alike, and there are NO formatting wars: everyone gets the same results and nobody cares about "making it more beautiful than the others" or such a crap. Gluing them all together to produce a volume is simple. The students notice that they do not have to format their documents for hours, or produce title pages by themselves, or many other things that are done automatically. They notice that they are free to concentrate on the thinking part of their texts. This is all referent to LyX, but there is a point that specifically refers to LaTeX: one CAN write programs that automatically produce LaTeX files as output. I have already done that in my thesis long ago, and it is a \HUGE satisfaction to have a program that runs and produces TeX output automatically, formatted and ready to be included into another document. There is no copy and paste, no nothing. I have been using this to produce random exercise lists, so that every student gets different tasks. You just need a lot of tasks, a program to produce a .tex context around the task to be done, and run LaTeX automatically. Couldn't be smoother, and in three minutes I get 50 high-quality documents ready for distribution. Yes, in this list we have all those little formatting problems: How do I enlarge this, or reduce that, or insert this other, or change all of about this, there are two things that may be said: -- Solving such things is fun, and one learns a lot from them. -- There are such discussions because LaTeX allows us to make such special demands (and we are free to try it), although a typical user does not need to care about it. Thousands of LyX users don't care. To sum it up, the best thing is to see a formerly reluctant student come proudly to you to show the document he has produced, and saying "This is so much better to work with, and results are better too." I think this is the joy of doing it all. jb
Re: Coping and pasting tables from SPSS
* Giovanni Tummarello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-09-04 19:26] wrote: > Hello people, i am a student in engeneering trying to use lyx to write my > master thesis. > Although entusiast at the beginning of the journey (leaving "Word" behind > seemed so attractive) i am now loosing entusiasm over the inability to import > objects (tables, graphs etc..) from other applications as well as the apparent > impossibility to really decide where things should go. > > Needless to say i am working on a windows 2000 environment. this is not lyx's fault ;) > > Example.. i am using SPSS (very advanced statistical program) and it produces > graphs and tables. Graphs i can export to EPS and therefore have them in my lyx > document, no problems about that. but what about tables?? tables dont offer the > "export to eps" option and there seem to be no way to include them in lyx > without COMPLETELY REWRITING THEM (which is not an option since i have several > tables filled with values). Of course if i open Word .. all i have to do is a > copy/paste sequence and the table appairs in that environmanent as well. .ready > to be nicely included. if you can export to excel (or copy to excel) you can use xl2latex from ctan -- ronny
Re: More than 12pt ?
Le Jeudi 6 Septembre 2001 12:28, vous avez écrit : > > "Herbert" == Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Herbert> these classes are part of the latest cvs and maybe 1.1.6fix3 > > Herbert> is it right, Jean-Marc?? > > Yes, they are part of 1.1.6fix3. Installed extsizes and reconfigured LyX and it work, but the only sizes avaible from the document dialog are 8 9 14 17 20, this is too few, there should be also at least 11 and 12 (perhaps every size from 8 to 20 should be there), could this be modified for the next release of LyX (I will do it for my personnal use). -- Eternellement la science des maîtres passera dans le coeur des disciples, dans un grand silence attentif, comme cette huile rousse de mes collines qui coule du pressoir dans la jarre par un long fil d'or immobile, sans faire de bulles, sans faire de bruit. Marcel Pagnol. Renaud MICHEL
Re: Unable to print roman numbered pages
Le Jeudi 6 Septembre 2001 12:57, vous avez écrit :
> Hi!
> The first part of my text is "Roman" numbered, the second "arabic". All
> looks fine on the screen, but the problem is: How can I tell my printer to
> print the roman pages? If I put e.g. "VII" in the printing menu I get an
> error message like "unable to print ("Es konnte nicht gedruckt werden"). If
> I put arabic numbers in the printing menu I get of course the arabic
> numbered pages printed. What am I doing wrong?
> Thanks in advance!
> Detlev
You can try to preview with ghostview and from there to select all the pages
you want to print and send them to you printer from gv itself, to do so gv
will ask for the command it should use to print this is generally lpr and you
must use the -PNameOfPrinter option (note that there are no spaces between
the name of the printer and the -P, for me this gives lpr -PHP660c).
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Re: More than 12pt ?
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:28:06PM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: > Installed extsizes and reconfigured LyX and it work, but the only sizes > avaible from the document dialog are 8 9 14 17 20, this is too few, there > should be also at least 11 and 12 (perhaps every size from 8 to 20 should be > there), could this be modified for the next release of LyX (I will do it for > my personnal use). 11 and 12 are available without extra packages... Andre' -- André Pönitz . [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: More than 12pt ?
Le Jeudi 6 Septembre 2001 13:51, vous avez écrit : > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:28:06PM +0200, Renaud MICHEL wrote: > > Installed extsizes and reconfigured LyX and it work, but the only sizes > > avaible from the document dialog are 8 9 14 17 20, this is too few, there > > should be also at least 11 and 12 (perhaps every size from 8 to 20 should > > be there), could this be modified for the next release of LyX (I will do > > it for my personnal use). > > 11 and 12 are available without extra packages... Sure, but this would be more consistant if you can access it also from the extra packages (for example if you need to make two different versions of the document, one that is normal size and one that is bigger). I have modified it to 8 9 11 12 14 16 18 20 for more fine tuning (but this is personnal opinion). -- Virginité, comme ballons de baudruche: une piqûre, pfffuit, envolés. Confucius Renaud MICHEL
Re: Underlined "16"
Lars Reineke wrote: > Whenever I open a previously saved LyX-Dokument, a > > blue underlined "16" has > been appended on the first line. > What does that mean? And how do I get rid of it? I had the same problem and I solved it. One of the first lines in the lyx saved file is: \lyxformat 2,16 (Notice the 16!) If you manually change it in 2.16 each time it will work. It's boring but it's so. I think it's due to the fact that in some languages (like italian, and, I guess, german) you write 0,5 to mean one half, instead of the english use 0.5. Bye, Alessandro __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per sempre @yahoo.it su http://mail.yahoo.it
Re: Unable to print roman numbered pages
> Detlev Humann wrote:
>
> The first part of my text is "Roman" numbered, the second "arabic".
> All looks fine on the screen, but the problem is: How can I tell my
> printer to print the roman pages?
> If I put e.g. "VII" in the printing menu I get an error message like
> "unable to print ("Es konnte nicht gedruckt werden").
> If I put arabic numbers in the printing menu I get of course the
> arabic numbered pages printed.
> What am I doing wrong?
pagenumbering and counting the pages are two different things:
- pagenumbering may vary in the doc
- counting of the pages begins always at 1 and than increases
in the printmenu insert the numbers how the pages are
counted, for example 2 to 4 are the second to the forth,
independent from your pagenumberstyle
Herbert
--
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Re: Rendering of EPS files
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:58:41PM +0930, Nick Burgan wrote: > I guess LyX relies on ghostscript to render the images on screen ? that's correct. > Is it possible to make LyX use another image rendering 'engine', for example > the one that Display uses (I have no idea what this is). Display seems to > render the images much faster also. > > Maybe this is a development issue ? the forthcoming 1.2.0 release uses ImageMagick (Display) to convert and display the variety of image formats. regards john -- "This is mindless pedantism up with which I will not put." - Donald Knuth on Pascal's lack of default: case statement
Re: Rendering of EPS files
Hi Nick, As I remember, when you convert to .eps you get a chance to declare a preview, which is a sort of thumbnail of the image in a different format. Perhaps you could use that to accomplish what you need. Try saving a .eps in Gimp, and notice the preview checkbox and preview size field. Steve -- Steve Litt Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com http://www.troubleshooters.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk. On Thursday 06 September 2001 05:28, Nick Burgan wrote: > Hello All, > > I wish to insert some photographs into my LyX document. I have the photos > as .jpeg originally and I have converted them to .eps (level 2) using the > Convert package that is part of image magick > ie. convert filename.jpg eps2:filename.eps > > When I insert the .eps files into LyX, the image quality is very poor, and > they look very grainy. In fact the .eps files look very poor in most of the > image viewers I have on my system. Except for the Display package (part of > image magick again). > > (It doesn't seem to be a problem with figures ie plots, just with > photograpghs) > > I realise that the images will print perfectly but I was looking for a way > to make them look better 'on screen'. > > I guess LyX relies on ghostscript to render the images on screen ? > > Is it possible to make LyX use another image rendering 'engine', for > example the one that Display uses (I have no idea what this is). Display > seems to render the images much faster also. > > Maybe this is a development issue ? > > Thanks in advance > Nick > > Nick Burgan > Postgraduate Student > > Active Noise and Vibration Control Group > Department of Mechanical Engineering > University of Adelaide > SA 5005 > AUSTRALIA > > Phone: +61 (0)8 8303 6385 > Fax: +61 (0)8 8303 4367 >
Re: Unable to print roman numbered pages
Thanks, Michel! Thanks, Herbert!It's O.K. Now I
see the difference between counting and numbering the pages.I should have
told that I have twice pages numbered 1-14, once roman andonce arabic
(because of \setcounter{1} after the first part)So the economic way of
printing only the roman pages is using gv.Detlev
Re: Underlined "16"
> > Lars Reineke wrote: > > Whenever I open a previously saved LyX-Dokument, a > > > blue underlined "16" has > > been appended on the first line. > > What does that mean? And how do I get rid of it? > > > Alessandro Cafarella wrote: > I had the same problem and I solved it. > One of the first lines in the lyx saved file is: > \lyxformat 2,16 > (Notice the 16!) > If you manually change it in 2.16 each time it will > work. It's boring but it's so. > I think it's due to the fact that in some languages > (like italian, and, I guess, german) you write 0,5 to > mean one half, instead of the english use 0.5. > > Bye, Alessandro In my humble opinion the easiest way is to put a % in ERT (the "comment out" command) just in front of the "16". So it won't appear again in your printed doc. Detlev
Letterhead?
Hi all, Can someone provide a pointer to me as to how I can create letterhead with a logo on it? I know I seen this documented somewhere, I just can't seem to remeber where. Thanks, -- Seeya, Paul ...we don't need to be perfect to be the best around, and we never stop trying to be better. Tom Clancy, The Bear and The Dragon If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
Re: Letterhead?
> > Hi all, > > Can someone provide a pointer to me as to how I can create letterhead > with a logo on it? I know I seen this documented somewhere, I just > can't seem to remeber where. > > Thanks, > > > -- > > Seeya, > Paul We are a lyx positive company, or at least a lyx positive beachhead in a company. Try looking here: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/%7evoss/lyx/titlepage/background.html Rick -- -- Rick Angell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mission Critical Linux Tel. (978) 446-9166 100 Foot of John Street Fax. (978) 446-9470 Lowell, MA 01852
Re: Chapter format/spacing
Simon G Hill wrote: > > I'm trying to condense a big report to make it as small as possible without > taking out too many words. I noticed that the Chapter format tends to waste > heaps of room on a page. > > Can someone please let me know how to reduce > the length from the top of the page to Chapter X, > the length to the Chapter title > and the length to the first bit of text. have a look at package secsty HErbert -- http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/
