Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?
Todd Flaming wrote:
BTW, if you're not caught up in formalities and want a cheat, I've figured
out a way to do the *** for section breaks. Just hit ENTER and insert ERT
(click on the TeX) button and put the
following command in it:
\makebox[\textwidth][c]{* * *}
Then make sure that paragraph is flush left and adjust the paragraph
spacing as needed. E.g., add a bigskip before --
Layout-Paragraph-Vertical Space-bigskip
That won't create a logical section break, but you don't really need one
for a novel becuase the section divided by a *** is not indexed and not
reflected in the headers. Diehards may tell me I'm wrong, but remember
I'm just an author armed with a little knowledge.
There may be other reasons for using a real section break though.
It seems to me that latex consider section breaks when breaking the
pages. A page break may happen inside some long paragraph or
between two paragraphs, it will _not_ happen between
a section header and the first paragraph in the section.
A simulated section header using bigger letters will suffer from this
though.
So consider wether it is okay to get the * * * at the top
or bottom of a page.
Helge Hafting
Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?
Davor Cengija wrote: I see many people are using (or at least, trying to use) qt version of LyX. What are the qt version's advantages over the xforms one? [...] Some killer feature? :-) No killers, but several small ones. Here are some not yet mentioned: * Free resizing. Xforms won't let you resize lyx smaller than the initial size. * The widget used for selecting paragraph type standard,bullet,section,chapter,... is much faster. With xforms you click it, get a drop list with a scrollbar and navigate that. With qt3 you click it and keep the button pressed, and get a pulldown menu with everything in view. No scrollbar. Just move the mouse to the type you want and release the button. Selecting paragraph types is less work this way. Helge Hafting
Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?
Helge Hafting wrote: Davor Cengija wrote: I see many people are using (or at least, trying to use) qt version of LyX. What are the qt version's advantages over the xforms one? [...] Some killer feature? :-) No killers, but several small ones. Here are some not yet mentioned: * Free resizing. Xforms won't let you resize lyx smaller than the initial size. True. But since I didn't know about that I guess I never needed lyx window smaller that the initial size. * The widget used for selecting paragraph type standard,bullet,section,chapter,... is much faster. With xforms you click it, get a drop list with a scrollbar and navigate that. With qt3 you click it and keep the button pressed, and get a pulldown menu with everything in view. No scrollbar. Just move the mouse to the type you want and release the button. Selecting paragraph types is less work this way. But pressing Alt+P+key is even lesser work. The main advantage (yes, advantage) with xforms is that it supports latin2 characters out of the box, while with qt I have to chase some package around. And I really want to work using computer, not to work on computer. Thanks Davor -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: parenthesis around cross referenced equation.
Dekel Tsur wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:53:58PM +0900, Jorgen Johansson wrote: Is there a way of automatically getting parenthesis around cross referenced equation number? I.e. not typing the left and right parenthesis around the cross reference. Use a label beginning with eq: for the equation, and then choose Prettyref/Formatted ref in the insert reference dialog. Thanks for the quick answer. Is there a manual for these type of small details and other ones as well or is there development of LyX going faster than its manuals? I don't like to bother busy people with small details but some times one get frustrated when small things do not work (especially coming from the MS WORD side). The big things of course are the real reason for using LyX: Nice typesetting, automatic sorting of references, equation numbering, cross references etc. Thanks for the help jorgen
Re: parenthesis around cross referenced equation.
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Jorgen Johansson wrote: Thanks for the quick answer. Is there a manual for these type of small details and other ones as well or is there development of LyX going faster than its manuals? I don't like to bother busy people with small details but some times one get frustrated when small things do not work (especially coming from the MS WORD side). The big things of course are the real reason for using LyX: Nice typesetting, automatic sorting of references, equation numbering, cross references etc. See the links on this page (Herbert's Tips and Tricks is the best place) http://ev-en.org/wiki/moin.cgi/LyxLinks (pity we can't just download Dekel's knowledge into a database ;-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Merging two ps files
Hi, I have two ps files, one generated by LyX (the core of my thesis) and another one generated by LaTeX (the title page). Since the title page has to respect a convention and the laTeX template cannot be imported in lyX, I have to work with these files. How can I merge the two files? Thanks. -- Ir Pascal Francq Researcher Université Libre de Bruxelles CAD/CAM Department Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 165/14 B-1050 Brussels BELGIUM Tel. +32-2-650 47 65 Fax +32-2-650 47 24 ICQ: 91206668
Re: Merging two ps files
Pascal Francq wrote: Hi, I have two ps files, one generated by LyX (the core of my thesis) and another one generated by LaTeX (the title page). Since the title page has to respect a convention and the laTeX template cannot be imported in lyX, I have to work with these files. How can I merge the two files? Thanks. man psmerge might help. -- Angus
Re: No section numbers?
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:17:28PM +0100, Gunnar wrote: Hello.. again. With LyX 1.3.1 I can't see the section numbers in the LyX window. The postscript preview shows them correctly. Why aren't they there in LyX? You probably created your own .layout files in the ~/.lyx directory. Starting from LyX 1.3.0, these file need to contain Input stdlayouts.inc Input stdfloats.inc
Re: Some problems with Arabic (Dekel Tsur?)
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:20:33AM +0300, Munzir Taha wrote:
Thanks a lot for your reply I thought you've got bored with Arabic support
questions you decided not to reply any more ;-)
I follow your instructions more carefully this time and I still face a
problem. Actually I got these two errors:
LaTeX Error: \begin{arabtext} on input line 12 ended by \end{document}.
\end{document}
Your command was ignored.
Type I command return to replace it with another command,
or return to continue without it.
-
LaTeX Error: Arabic mode: Environment arabtext undefined.
\begin{arabtext}
Send your LyX file
Re: Over-wide graphics
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:32:54PM -0500, Dominick Layfield wrote:
Quick question:
If I have a centered graphic (inside a float environment) whose width is
greater than the text width, it seems that the centering mechanism
breaks down.
What happens is that the left edge of the graphic gets aligned with with
the left text margin, while the right edge sticks out beyond the right
margin.
What I want to happen, and what I think should happen, is that the
graphic should extend equally beyond both margins.
Can anyone offer advice on how to achieve this?
Change the paragraph layout to the default (Justified).
Add in Latex mode '\centerline{' before the image, and
'}' after it.
Having lyx build problems
Is this the right place to post inquiry for build problems? I don't want to burden the list with it if not. Thx. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com
Re: Merging two ps files
On April 4, 2003 10:53 am, Pascal Francq wrote: Hi, I have two ps files, one generated by LyX (the core of my thesis) and another one generated by LaTeX (the title page). Since the title page has to respect a convention and the laTeX template cannot be imported in lyX, I have to work with these files. How can I merge the two files? Thanks. I was able to get LyX to create a title page, approval page, etc. for my thesis by modifying the thesis.layout textclass file. I've modified a template for a University of Calgary thesis that allows you to type in all the pertinent info and a title page is automatically generated. If you like I can send you the relevent files. They should be easy to modify to your formatting requirements. Cheers, Johnathan -- Johnathan K. Burchill, Ph.D. candidate Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Calgary 2500 University Drive N.W. Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada (403) 217-4286 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: renaming bibligraphy title - not working
Try
\usepackage{babel}
\AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\refname{REFERENCES}}
Thanks Jurgen.. this worked!
Maybe something else renames it after your .sty-file?
Have you been able to make it work by itself? (i.e. just renaming it in
Christian.. I tried putting \renewcommand{\refname}{REFERENCES} in the preamble
directly but that didn't work.. nothing else renamed it after the sty file
either.. unless the .bst file had something to do with it since I used the bst
file provided by the organizers...
Thanks,
nirmal
Re: How to make the index appear with letters (A, B, C, ...)
Solving the problem w/ the index is straightforward. I hope so Here're the steps to get to a page which covers customizing the index in LyX: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/index/indexstyle.phtml Here written: the first one: use the stylefile Letter.ist and run manualy: The link to the file Letter.ist is broken!! Even ctan.org doesn't contain a link to this virtual file!! I tried to search my system for any other .ist file and did it like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ latex test This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (test.tex LaTeX2e 2001/06/01 Babel v3.7h and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b asque, italian, portuges, russian, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/makeidx.sty) Writing index file test.idx No file test.aux. No file test.ind. [1] (test.aux) ) Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 236 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ latex test This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (test.tex LaTeX2e 2001/06/01 Babel v3.7h and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b asque, italian, portuges, russian, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/makeidx.sty) Writing index file test.idx (test.aux) No file test.ind. [1] (test.aux) ) Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 236 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ makeindex -s /usr/share/texmf/makeindex/bbind.ist test This is makeindex, version 2.13 [07-Mar-1997] (using kpathsea). Scanning style file /usr/share/texmf/makeindex/bbind.ist..done (14 attributes redefined, 3 ignored). Scanning input file test.idxdone (2 entries accepted, 0 rejected). Sorting entriesdone (2 comparisons). Generating output file test.inddone (13 lines written, 0 warnings). Output written in test.ind. Transcript written in test.ilg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ latex test This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (test.tex LaTeX2e 2001/06/01 Babel v3.7h and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b asque, italian, portuges, russian, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/makeidx.sty) Writing index file test.idx (test.aux) (test.ind [1] ! Undefined control sequence. l.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? ! Undefined control sequence. l.6 \item is\pfill 1 ? ! Undefined control sequence. l.11 \item This\pfill 1 ? [2]) (test.aux) ) Output written on test.dvi (2 pages, 500 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. --- My file just contain the sentence This is a test with This and is as text entries. I don't know why I got the above errors but it works! The problem is the comma that separates the index entry from the page number has disappeared which render the index table somewhat ugly. I mean in the index written This1 instead of This, 1 Will you please help me resolve it? -- Munzir Taha, Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer, Certified Internet Webmaster, (CIW), Microsoft Office User Specialist, (MOUS), New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?
Todd Flaming wrote:
BTW, if you're not caught up in formalities and want a cheat, I've figured
out a way to do the *** for section breaks. Just hit ENTER and insert ERT
(click on the TeX) button and put the
following command in it:
\makebox[\textwidth][c]{* * *}
Then make sure that paragraph is flush left and adjust the paragraph
spacing as needed. E.g., add a bigskip before --
Layout-Paragraph-Vertical Space-bigskip
That won't create a logical section break, but you don't really need one
for a novel becuase the section divided by a *** is not indexed and not
reflected in the headers. Diehards may tell me I'm wrong, but remember
I'm just an author armed with a little knowledge.
There may be other reasons for using a real section break though.
It seems to me that latex consider section breaks when breaking the
pages. A page break may happen inside some long paragraph or
between two paragraphs, it will _not_ happen between
a section header and the first paragraph in the section.
A simulated section header using bigger letters will suffer from this
though.
So consider wether it is okay to get the * * * at the top
or bottom of a page.
Helge Hafting
Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?
Davor Cengija wrote: I see many people are using (or at least, trying to use) qt version of LyX. What are the qt version's advantages over the xforms one? [...] Some killer feature? :-) No killers, but several small ones. Here are some not yet mentioned: * Free resizing. Xforms won't let you resize lyx smaller than the initial size. * The widget used for selecting paragraph type standard,bullet,section,chapter,... is much faster. With xforms you click it, get a drop list with a scrollbar and navigate that. With qt3 you click it and keep the button pressed, and get a pulldown menu with everything in view. No scrollbar. Just move the mouse to the type you want and release the button. Selecting paragraph types is less work this way. Helge Hafting
Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?
Helge Hafting wrote: Davor Cengija wrote: I see many people are using (or at least, trying to use) qt version of LyX. What are the qt version's advantages over the xforms one? [...] Some killer feature? :-) No killers, but several small ones. Here are some not yet mentioned: * Free resizing. Xforms won't let you resize lyx smaller than the initial size. True. But since I didn't know about that I guess I never needed lyx window smaller that the initial size. * The widget used for selecting paragraph type standard,bullet,section,chapter,... is much faster. With xforms you click it, get a drop list with a scrollbar and navigate that. With qt3 you click it and keep the button pressed, and get a pulldown menu with everything in view. No scrollbar. Just move the mouse to the type you want and release the button. Selecting paragraph types is less work this way. But pressing Alt+P+key is even lesser work. The main advantage (yes, advantage) with xforms is that it supports latin2 characters out of the box, while with qt I have to chase some package around. And I really want to work using computer, not to work on computer. Thanks Davor -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: parenthesis around cross referenced equation.
Dekel Tsur wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:53:58PM +0900, Jorgen Johansson wrote: Is there a way of automatically getting parenthesis around cross referenced equation number? I.e. not typing the left and right parenthesis around the cross reference. Use a label beginning with eq: for the equation, and then choose Prettyref/Formatted ref in the insert reference dialog. Thanks for the quick answer. Is there a manual for these type of small details and other ones as well or is there development of LyX going faster than its manuals? I don't like to bother busy people with small details but some times one get frustrated when small things do not work (especially coming from the MS WORD side). The big things of course are the real reason for using LyX: Nice typesetting, automatic sorting of references, equation numbering, cross references etc. Thanks for the help jorgen
Re: parenthesis around cross referenced equation.
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Jorgen Johansson wrote: Thanks for the quick answer. Is there a manual for these type of small details and other ones as well or is there development of LyX going faster than its manuals? I don't like to bother busy people with small details but some times one get frustrated when small things do not work (especially coming from the MS WORD side). The big things of course are the real reason for using LyX: Nice typesetting, automatic sorting of references, equation numbering, cross references etc. See the links on this page (Herbert's Tips and Tricks is the best place) http://ev-en.org/wiki/moin.cgi/LyxLinks (pity we can't just download Dekel's knowledge into a database ;-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Merging two ps files
Hi, I have two ps files, one generated by LyX (the core of my thesis) and another one generated by LaTeX (the title page). Since the title page has to respect a convention and the laTeX template cannot be imported in lyX, I have to work with these files. How can I merge the two files? Thanks. -- Ir Pascal Francq Researcher Université Libre de Bruxelles CAD/CAM Department Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 165/14 B-1050 Brussels BELGIUM Tel. +32-2-650 47 65 Fax +32-2-650 47 24 ICQ: 91206668
Re: Merging two ps files
Pascal Francq wrote: Hi, I have two ps files, one generated by LyX (the core of my thesis) and another one generated by LaTeX (the title page). Since the title page has to respect a convention and the laTeX template cannot be imported in lyX, I have to work with these files. How can I merge the two files? Thanks. man psmerge might help. -- Angus
Re: No section numbers?
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:17:28PM +0100, Gunnar wrote: Hello.. again. With LyX 1.3.1 I can't see the section numbers in the LyX window. The postscript preview shows them correctly. Why aren't they there in LyX? You probably created your own .layout files in the ~/.lyx directory. Starting from LyX 1.3.0, these file need to contain Input stdlayouts.inc Input stdfloats.inc
Re: Some problems with Arabic (Dekel Tsur?)
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:20:33AM +0300, Munzir Taha wrote:
Thanks a lot for your reply I thought you've got bored with Arabic support
questions you decided not to reply any more ;-)
I follow your instructions more carefully this time and I still face a
problem. Actually I got these two errors:
LaTeX Error: \begin{arabtext} on input line 12 ended by \end{document}.
\end{document}
Your command was ignored.
Type I command return to replace it with another command,
or return to continue without it.
-
LaTeX Error: Arabic mode: Environment arabtext undefined.
\begin{arabtext}
Send your LyX file
Re: Over-wide graphics
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:32:54PM -0500, Dominick Layfield wrote:
Quick question:
If I have a centered graphic (inside a float environment) whose width is
greater than the text width, it seems that the centering mechanism
breaks down.
What happens is that the left edge of the graphic gets aligned with with
the left text margin, while the right edge sticks out beyond the right
margin.
What I want to happen, and what I think should happen, is that the
graphic should extend equally beyond both margins.
Can anyone offer advice on how to achieve this?
Change the paragraph layout to the default (Justified).
Add in Latex mode '\centerline{' before the image, and
'}' after it.
Having lyx build problems
Is this the right place to post inquiry for build problems? I don't want to burden the list with it if not. Thx. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com
Re: Merging two ps files
On April 4, 2003 10:53 am, Pascal Francq wrote: Hi, I have two ps files, one generated by LyX (the core of my thesis) and another one generated by LaTeX (the title page). Since the title page has to respect a convention and the laTeX template cannot be imported in lyX, I have to work with these files. How can I merge the two files? Thanks. I was able to get LyX to create a title page, approval page, etc. for my thesis by modifying the thesis.layout textclass file. I've modified a template for a University of Calgary thesis that allows you to type in all the pertinent info and a title page is automatically generated. If you like I can send you the relevent files. They should be easy to modify to your formatting requirements. Cheers, Johnathan -- Johnathan K. Burchill, Ph.D. candidate Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Calgary 2500 University Drive N.W. Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada (403) 217-4286 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: renaming bibligraphy title - not working
Try
\usepackage{babel}
\AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\refname{REFERENCES}}
Thanks Jurgen.. this worked!
Maybe something else renames it after your .sty-file?
Have you been able to make it work by itself? (i.e. just renaming it in
Christian.. I tried putting \renewcommand{\refname}{REFERENCES} in the preamble
directly but that didn't work.. nothing else renamed it after the sty file
either.. unless the .bst file had something to do with it since I used the bst
file provided by the organizers...
Thanks,
nirmal
Re: How to make the index appear with letters (A, B, C, ...)
Solving the problem w/ the index is straightforward. I hope so Here're the steps to get to a page which covers customizing the index in LyX: http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/index/indexstyle.phtml Here written: the first one: use the stylefile Letter.ist and run manualy: The link to the file Letter.ist is broken!! Even ctan.org doesn't contain a link to this virtual file!! I tried to search my system for any other .ist file and did it like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ latex test This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (test.tex LaTeX2e 2001/06/01 Babel v3.7h and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b asque, italian, portuges, russian, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/makeidx.sty) Writing index file test.idx No file test.aux. No file test.ind. [1] (test.aux) ) Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 236 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ latex test This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (test.tex LaTeX2e 2001/06/01 Babel v3.7h and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b asque, italian, portuges, russian, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/makeidx.sty) Writing index file test.idx (test.aux) No file test.ind. [1] (test.aux) ) Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 236 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ makeindex -s /usr/share/texmf/makeindex/bbind.ist test This is makeindex, version 2.13 [07-Mar-1997] (using kpathsea). Scanning style file /usr/share/texmf/makeindex/bbind.ist..done (14 attributes redefined, 3 ignored). Scanning input file test.idxdone (2 entries accepted, 0 rejected). Sorting entriesdone (2 comparisons). Generating output file test.inddone (13 lines written, 0 warnings). Output written in test.ind. Transcript written in test.ilg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ latex test This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (test.tex LaTeX2e 2001/06/01 Babel v3.7h and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b asque, italian, portuges, russian, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/makeidx.sty) Writing index file test.idx (test.aux) (test.ind [1] ! Undefined control sequence. l.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? ! Undefined control sequence. l.6 \item is\pfill 1 ? ! Undefined control sequence. l.11 \item This\pfill 1 ? [2]) (test.aux) ) Output written on test.dvi (2 pages, 500 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. --- My file just contain the sentence This is a test with This and is as text entries. I don't know why I got the above errors but it works! The problem is the comma that separates the index entry from the page number has disappeared which render the index table somewhat ugly. I mean in the index written This1 instead of This, 1 Will you please help me resolve it? -- Munzir Taha, Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer, Certified Internet Webmaster, (CIW), Microsoft Office User Specialist, (MOUS), New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Re: Writing a Novel with LyX?
Todd Flaming wrote:
BTW, if you're not caught up in formalities and want a cheat, I've figured
out a way to do the *** for section breaks. Just hit ENTER and insert ERT
(click on the TeX) button and put the
following command in it:
\makebox[\textwidth][c]{* * *}
Then make sure that paragraph is flush left and adjust the paragraph
spacing as needed. E.g., add a bigskip before --
Layout->Paragraph->Vertical Space->bigskip
That won't create a logical section break, but you don't really need one
for a novel becuase the section divided by a *** is not indexed and not
reflected in the headers. Diehards may tell me I'm wrong, but remember
I'm just an author armed with a little knowledge.
There may be other reasons for using a real section break though.
It seems to me that latex consider section breaks when breaking the
pages. A page break may happen inside some long paragraph or
between two paragraphs, it will _not_ happen between
a section header and the first paragraph in the section.
A simulated section header using bigger letters will suffer from this
though.
So consider wether it is okay to get the " * * * " at the top
or bottom of a page.
Helge Hafting
Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?
Davor Cengija wrote: I see many people are using (or at least, trying to use) qt version of LyX. What are the qt version's advantages over the xforms one? [...] Some killer feature? :-) No killers, but several small ones. Here are some not yet mentioned: * Free resizing. Xforms won't let you resize lyx smaller than the initial size. * The widget used for selecting paragraph type "standard,bullet,section,chapter,..." is much faster. With xforms you click it, get a drop list with a scrollbar and navigate that. With qt3 you click it and keep the button pressed, and get a pulldown menu with everything in view. No scrollbar. Just move the mouse to the type you want and release the button. Selecting paragraph types is less work this way. Helge Hafting
Re: Advantages of qt over xforms?
Helge Hafting wrote: > Davor Cengija wrote: >> I see many people are using (or at least, trying to use) qt version of >> LyX. What are the qt version's advantages over the xforms one? > [...] >> Some killer feature? :-) > > No killers, but several small ones. Here are some not yet mentioned: > > * Free resizing. Xforms won't let you resize lyx smaller than the > initial size. True. But since I didn't know about that I guess I never needed lyx window smaller that the initial size. > > * The widget used for selecting paragraph type > "standard,bullet,section,chapter,..." >is much faster. With xforms you click it, get a drop list with a > scrollbar >and navigate that. With qt3 you click it and keep the button pressed, >and get a pulldown menu with everything in view. No scrollbar. Just >move the mouse to the type you want and release the button. >Selecting paragraph types is less work this way. But pressing Alt+P+ is even lesser work. The main advantage (yes, advantage) with xforms is that it supports latin2 characters out of the box, while with qt I have to chase some package around. And I really want to work using computer, not to work on computer. Thanks Davor -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: parenthesis around cross referenced equation.
Dekel Tsur wrote: On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 08:53:58PM +0900, Jorgen Johansson wrote: Is there a way of automatically getting parenthesis around cross referenced equation number? I.e. not typing the left and right parenthesis around the cross reference. Use a label beginning with eq: for the equation, and then choose Prettyref/Formatted ref in the insert reference dialog. Thanks for the quick answer. Is there a manual for these type of small details and other ones as well or is there development of LyX going faster than its manuals? I don't like to bother busy people with small details but some times one get frustrated when small things do not work (especially coming from the MS WORD side). The big things of course are the real reason for using LyX: Nice typesetting, automatic sorting of references, equation numbering, cross references etc. Thanks for the help jorgen
Re: parenthesis around cross referenced equation.
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Jorgen Johansson wrote: > Thanks for the quick answer. Is there a manual for these type of small > details and other ones as well or is there development of LyX going > faster than its manuals? I don't like to bother busy people with small > details but some times one get frustrated when small things do not work > (especially coming from the MS WORD side). The big things of course are > the real reason for using LyX: Nice typesetting, automatic sorting of > references, equation numbering, cross references etc. > See the links on this page (Herbert's Tips and Tricks is the best place) http://ev-en.org/wiki/moin.cgi/LyxLinks (pity we can't just download Dekel's knowledge into a database ;-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Merging two ps files
Hi, I have two ps files, one generated by LyX (the core of my thesis) and another one generated by LaTeX (the title page). Since the title page has to respect a convention and the laTeX template cannot be imported in lyX, I have to work with these files. How can I merge the two files? Thanks. -- Ir Pascal Francq Researcher Université Libre de Bruxelles CAD/CAM Department Avenue F.D. Roosevelt, 50 CP 165/14 B-1050 Brussels BELGIUM Tel. +32-2-650 47 65 Fax +32-2-650 47 24 ICQ: 91206668
Re: Merging two ps files
Pascal Francq wrote: > Hi, > I have two ps files, one generated by LyX (the core of my thesis) and > another one generated by LaTeX (the title page). Since the title page has > to respect a convention and the laTeX template cannot be imported in lyX, > I have to work with these files. How can I merge the two files? > Thanks. "man psmerge" might help. -- Angus
Re: No section numbers?
On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 10:17:28PM +0100, Gunnar wrote: > Hello.. again. > With LyX 1.3.1 I can't see the section numbers in the LyX window. > The postscript preview shows them correctly. > > Why aren't they there in LyX? You probably created your own .layout files in the ~/.lyx directory. Starting from LyX 1.3.0, these file need to contain Input stdlayouts.inc Input stdfloats.inc
Re: Some problems with Arabic (Dekel Tsur?)
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:20:33AM +0300, Munzir Taha wrote:
>
> Thanks a lot for your reply I thought you've got bored with Arabic support
> questions you decided not to reply any more ;-)
>
> I follow your instructions more carefully this time and I still face a
> problem. Actually I got these two errors:
>
>
> LaTeX Error: \begin{arabtext} on input line 12 ended by \end{document}.
> \end{document}
>
> Your command was ignored.
> Type Ito replace it with another command,
> orto continue without it.
> -
> LaTeX Error: Arabic mode: Environment arabtext undefined.
> \begin{arabtext}
Send your LyX file
Re: Over-wide graphics
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 04:32:54PM -0500, Dominick Layfield wrote:
> Quick question:
>
> If I have a centered graphic (inside a float environment) whose width is
> greater than the text width, it seems that the centering mechanism
> breaks down.
>
> What happens is that the left edge of the graphic gets aligned with with
> the left text margin, while the right edge sticks out beyond the right
> margin.
>
> What I want to happen, and what I think should happen, is that the
> graphic should extend equally beyond both margins.
>
> Can anyone offer advice on how to achieve this?
Change the paragraph layout to the default (Justified).
Add in Latex mode '\centerline{' before the image, and
'}' after it.
Having lyx build problems
Is this the right place to post inquiry for build problems? I don't want to burden the list with it if not. Thx. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com
Re: Merging two ps files
On April 4, 2003 10:53 am, Pascal Francq wrote: > Hi, > I have two ps files, one generated by LyX (the core of my thesis) and > another one generated by LaTeX (the title page). Since the title page > has to respect a convention and the laTeX template cannot be imported in > lyX, I have to work with these files. How can I merge the two files? > Thanks. I was able to get LyX to create a title page, approval page, etc. for my thesis by modifying the thesis.layout textclass file. I've modified a template for a University of Calgary thesis that allows you to type in all the pertinent info and a title page is automatically generated. If you like I can send you the relevent files. They should be easy to modify to your formatting requirements. Cheers, Johnathan -- Johnathan K. Burchill, Ph.D. candidate Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Calgary 2500 University Drive N.W. Calgary, AB T2N 1N4 Canada (403) 217-4286 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: renaming bibligraphy title - not working
> Try
> \usepackage{babel}
> \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand\refname{REFERENCES}}
>
Thanks Jurgen.. this worked!
> Maybe something else renames it after your .sty-file?
>
> Have you been able to make it work by itself? (i.e. just renaming it in
Christian.. I tried putting \renewcommand{\refname}{REFERENCES} in the preamble
directly but that didn't work.. nothing else renamed it after the sty file
either.. unless the .bst file had something to do with it since I used the bst
file provided by the organizers...
Thanks,
nirmal
Re: How to make the index appear with letters (A, B, C, ...)
> Solving the problem w/ the index is straightforward. I hope so > Here're the steps to get to a page which covers customizing the index > in LyX: > > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/index/indexstyle.phtml Here written: the first one: use the stylefile Letter.ist and run manualy: The link to the file Letter.ist is broken!! Even ctan.org doesn't contain a link to this virtual file!! I tried to search my system for any other .ist file and did it like this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ latex test This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (test.tex LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b asque, italian, portuges, russian, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/makeidx.sty) Writing index file test.idx No file test.aux. No file test.ind. [1] (test.aux) ) Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 236 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ latex test This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (test.tex LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b asque, italian, portuges, russian, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/makeidx.sty) Writing index file test.idx (test.aux) No file test.ind. [1] (test.aux) ) Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 236 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ makeindex -s /usr/share/texmf/makeindex/bbind.ist test This is makeindex, version 2.13 [07-Mar-1997] (using kpathsea). Scanning style file /usr/share/texmf/makeindex/bbind.ist..done (14 attributes redefined, 3 ignored). Scanning input file test.idxdone (2 entries accepted, 0 rejected). Sorting entriesdone (2 comparisons). Generating output file test.inddone (13 lines written, 0 warnings). Output written in test.ind. Transcript written in test.ilg. [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ latex test This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (test.tex LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b asque, italian, portuges, russian, spanish, swedish, nohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def)) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/makeidx.sty) Writing index file test.idx (test.aux) (test.ind [1] ! Undefined control sequence. l.3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? ! Undefined control sequence. l.6 \item is\pfill 1 ? ! Undefined control sequence. l.11 \item This\pfill 1 ? [2]) (test.aux) ) Output written on test.dvi (2 pages, 500 bytes). Transcript written on test.log. --- My file just contain the sentence "This is a test" with "This" and "is" as text entries. I don't know why I got the above errors but it works! The problem is the comma that separates the index entry from the page number has disappeared which render the index table somewhat ugly. I mean in the index written This1 instead of This, 1 Will you please help me resolve it? -- Munzir Taha, Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer, Certified Internet Webmaster, (CIW), Microsoft Office User Specialist, (MOUS), New Horizons Computer Learning Centers, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
