xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Angus Leeming
If you use xfig to create your figures and would like to ensure that
the pstex_t file is typeset with the same font as the rest of your
document, then here is a little tip.

xfig exports each figure with a preamble that defines a \SetFigFont
macro:

\begingroup\makeatletter\ifx\SetFigFont\undefined%
\gdef\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{%
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  \fontfamily{#3}\fontseries{#4}\fontshape{#5}%
  \selectfont}%
\fi\endgroup%

And uses it, so:
\put(2791,74){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\smash{{\SetFigFont{12}{14.4}{\familydefault}{\
mddefault}{\updefault}$y$

Personally, I tend to use the default 10pt font size, but rather than
edit all my xfig figures it is sufficient to preempt the definition
of \SetFigFont in the lyx document's preamble.

Here I use:

%% Preempt the definition of \SetFigFont in the
%% xfig-generated pstex_t files by setting it to do nothing.
\gdef\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{}

But, of course, you could choose to ignore some or all of the
arguments by defining \SetFigFont appropriately.

-- 
Angus



EndNote in Lyx Win32

2004-04-07 Thread Tom Tsuchiya
Hi, just a quick question. How can I use endnote in Lyx WIn32. Is it 
possible? (The reason I need to do this is that I have all my references 
stored in endnote files and I just cannot start all over again to rebuild 
similar database.)

Many thanks

Tom

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Re: EndNote in Lyx Win32

2004-04-07 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 12:19, Tom Tsuchiya wrote:
 Hi, just a quick question. How can I use endnote in Lyx WIn32. Is it
 possible? (The reason I need to do this is that I have all my references
 stored in endnote files and I just cannot start all over again to rebuild
 similar database.)

You can not use endnote directly with LyX, you need to use BibTeX. It is a 
long time since I last used endnote, and then you could not export the 
endnote-database to BibTeX. However, there are other applications that can 
import endnote and export BibTeX. Some of them even works in windows :). Try:
http://www.santafe.edu/~dirk/sixpack/
There are even instruction how to convert from endnote to BibTeX.

Ingar


Re: Special Characters

2004-04-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:02:19AM -0400, robin wrote:
 This might be a misunderstanding...  One way to do it is to write
 
   '\usepackage{textcomp}'
 
 This isn't necessary in LyX, at least not in the latest version.

Ah... interesting. I wonder what magic figures out that the textcomp
package is needed...

Andre'


Re: EndNote in Lyx Win32

2004-04-07 Thread Ronald Florence
Tom Tsuchiya wrote:

How can I use endnote in Lyx WIn32. Is it 
possible? (The reason I need to do this is that I have all my references 
stored in endnote files and I just cannot start all over again to 
rebuild similar database.)
http://www.unc.edu/~nghoffma/resources/useEndnote.pdf has some scripts 
that convert Endnotes citations to LaTeX citations.
--

Ronald Florencewww.18james.com



Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 10:44, Angus Leeming wrote:
 If you use xfig to create your figures and would like to ensure that
 the pstex_t file is typeset with the same font as the rest of your
 document, then here is a little tip.
[...]

  Could you add this to the wiki, please. :-)
-- 
José Abílio

LyX and docbook, a perfect match. :-)


lyx and fig2eps

2004-04-07 Thread Ralph Boland
I frequently use figures with mathematics and use  xfig for this using
the combined ps/latex  format in  xfig.
This works well, but I would like the capability of using macros within 
xfig.

I recently discoverd  fig2eps  (a script on top of fig2dev) which allows 
me to use macros in
an xfig file.  This program has the added advantage of outputting an 
.eps file which can then
(as far as I know) be used like any other .eps file loaded into  a lyx file.
In order to use a macro it must be defined in a file called 
macros.tex.   On my system this
file behaves oddly but I won't go into that here.

While I like the fig2eps script I would prefer that I not need a 
macros.tex file but that
instead Lyx somehow made all latex macros defined in a given  .lyx file 
available
as if they were defined in the macros.tex file.

 The simple way to do this would be some kind of script that a lyx user 
can use
that extracts all the macros in the lyx file and placed them in the 
macros.tex file. 
This is a crude and problematic solution for sure but it's a start.
Preferable would be some method that was invisible or nearly invisible 
to the user.

By the way,  is there any kind of mailing list or user group for  xfig?
I have not found one.
Ralph Boland


Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose' Matos wrote:

 On Wednesday 07 April 2004 10:44, Angus Leeming wrote:
 If you use xfig to create your figures and would like to ensure
 that the pstex_t file is typeset with the same font as the rest of
 your document, then here is a little tip.
 [...]
 
   Could you add this to the wiki, please. :-)

I'm no wiki-spert. Maybe someone could do it for me?

-- 
Angus



Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
 I'm no wiki-spert. Maybe someone could do it for me?

The point of wikis is that you don't have to be an expert. There isn't
really much to learn. Try it.

-- 
http://rrt.sc3d.org/
C++, n.  an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog (Anon)


Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Reuben Thomas wrote:
 I'm no wiki-spert. Maybe someone could do it for me?
 The point of wikis is that you don't have to be an expert. There
 isn't really much to learn. Try it.

Oh, I know how to use it. I'm just busy. And lazy.

-- 
Angus



Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
 Oh, I know how to use it. I'm just busy. And lazy.

Again, with this wiki as with most, it's as quick to cut-and-paste
whatever you have than to ask someone else to do it. Since it's informal,
you can just dump an email into the wiki if you're particularly busy;
someone with more time (perhaps someone who benefits from the info) can
clean it up later.

-- 
http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | impatience, n.  the urge to do nothing


beamer class problems

2004-04-07 Thread Uwe Sthr
Hello LyXers,

I want to use the beamer package for a presentation. The beamer class 
provides a special layout file and a template LyX-file. I installed the 
layout file with success but when running pdflatex or latex over the 
template LyX-file, I get 16 errors.
Most of the error messages are LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
When looking in the logfile, I see that the LaTex errors occurs while 
the package xcolor redefine some stuff. (The beamer package requires the 
packages pgf and xcolor). So it seems to be a xcolor problem.
I got also an error LaTeX Error: Command \boldsymbol already defined.
When I delete the line:
\usepackage{beamerthemeshadow}
only 6 errors will remain.

I've installed
- beamer 2004/03/10 v2.10
- pgf2003/12/02 v0.60
- xcolor 2004/03/27 v1.10
and use LyX 1.3.3.
Has anybody tested the beamer layout or could somebody send me a 
presentation lyx-file that was made with beamer?
Could someone, who can run pdflatex successfully over the beamer 
template, please tell me which versions of beamer and xcolor was used?

Thanks a lot in advance.
Uwe
p.s. What other LaTeX package could be used together with LyX for 
presentations? I found in the list archive something about the package 
pdfscreen. Has anybody some experiences (or example LyX-files) with 
prosper, slide etc.?


Re: beamer class problems

2004-04-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I want to use the beamer package for a presentation. The beamer class 
provides a special layout file and a template LyX-file. I installed the 
layout file with success but when running pdflatex or latex over the 
template LyX-file, I get 16 errors.
Most of the error messages are LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
When looking in the logfile, I see that the LaTex errors occurs while 
the package xcolor redefine some stuff. (The beamer package requires the 
packages pgf and xcolor). So it seems to be a xcolor problem.
Yes this is a xcolor problem. Beamer v2.10 is incompatible with xcolor 
v1.10 (xcolor v1.09 works), see
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=600660aid=930199group_id=92412

I got also an error LaTeX Error: Command \boldsymbol already defined.
After downgrading to xcolor 1.09 this problem remains. When I export the 
template into LaTeX, I see that LyX adds the following:

%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Bold symbol macro for standard LaTeX users
\newcommand{\boldsymbol}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath $#1$}}
But beamer also defines a command \boldsymbold, so I want to disable 
LyX's \boldsymbol as a short workaround. How could this be done?
(I'll inform the author of beamer, that he shouldn't use this command.)

p.s. What other LaTeX package could be used together with LyX for 
presentations? I found in the list archive something about the package 
pdfscreen. Has anybody some experiences (or example LyX-files) with 
prosper, slide etc.?
Nevertheless this would be interesting.

regards Uwe


Re: beamer class problems

2004-04-07 Thread Robert Orr
 Has anybody some experiences (or
 example LyX-files) with prosper, slide etc.?
 
Check under the tips and tricks.   There are a number
of links there for prosper where you can get examples.



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xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Angus Leeming
If you use xfig to create your figures and would like to ensure that
the pstex_t file is typeset with the same font as the rest of your
document, then here is a little tip.

xfig exports each figure with a preamble that defines a \SetFigFont
macro:

\begingroup\makeatletter\ifx\SetFigFont\undefined%
\gdef\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{%
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  \fontfamily{#3}\fontseries{#4}\fontshape{#5}%
  \selectfont}%
\fi\endgroup%

And uses it, so:
\put(2791,74){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\smash{{\SetFigFont{12}{14.4}{\familydefault}{\
mddefault}{\updefault}$y$

Personally, I tend to use the default 10pt font size, but rather than
edit all my xfig figures it is sufficient to preempt the definition
of \SetFigFont in the lyx document's preamble.

Here I use:

%% Preempt the definition of \SetFigFont in the
%% xfig-generated pstex_t files by setting it to do nothing.
\gdef\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{}

But, of course, you could choose to ignore some or all of the
arguments by defining \SetFigFont appropriately.

-- 
Angus



EndNote in Lyx Win32

2004-04-07 Thread Tom Tsuchiya
Hi, just a quick question. How can I use endnote in Lyx WIn32. Is it 
possible? (The reason I need to do this is that I have all my references 
stored in endnote files and I just cannot start all over again to rebuild 
similar database.)

Many thanks

Tom

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Re: EndNote in Lyx Win32

2004-04-07 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 12:19, Tom Tsuchiya wrote:
 Hi, just a quick question. How can I use endnote in Lyx WIn32. Is it
 possible? (The reason I need to do this is that I have all my references
 stored in endnote files and I just cannot start all over again to rebuild
 similar database.)

You can not use endnote directly with LyX, you need to use BibTeX. It is a 
long time since I last used endnote, and then you could not export the 
endnote-database to BibTeX. However, there are other applications that can 
import endnote and export BibTeX. Some of them even works in windows :). Try:
http://www.santafe.edu/~dirk/sixpack/
There are even instruction how to convert from endnote to BibTeX.

Ingar


Re: Special Characters

2004-04-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:02:19AM -0400, robin wrote:
 This might be a misunderstanding...  One way to do it is to write
 
   '\usepackage{textcomp}'
 
 This isn't necessary in LyX, at least not in the latest version.

Ah... interesting. I wonder what magic figures out that the textcomp
package is needed...

Andre'


Re: EndNote in Lyx Win32

2004-04-07 Thread Ronald Florence
Tom Tsuchiya wrote:

How can I use endnote in Lyx WIn32. Is it 
possible? (The reason I need to do this is that I have all my references 
stored in endnote files and I just cannot start all over again to 
rebuild similar database.)
http://www.unc.edu/~nghoffma/resources/useEndnote.pdf has some scripts 
that convert Endnotes citations to LaTeX citations.
--

Ronald Florencewww.18james.com



Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 10:44, Angus Leeming wrote:
 If you use xfig to create your figures and would like to ensure that
 the pstex_t file is typeset with the same font as the rest of your
 document, then here is a little tip.
[...]

  Could you add this to the wiki, please. :-)
-- 
José Abílio

LyX and docbook, a perfect match. :-)


lyx and fig2eps

2004-04-07 Thread Ralph Boland
I frequently use figures with mathematics and use  xfig for this using
the combined ps/latex  format in  xfig.
This works well, but I would like the capability of using macros within 
xfig.

I recently discoverd  fig2eps  (a script on top of fig2dev) which allows 
me to use macros in
an xfig file.  This program has the added advantage of outputting an 
.eps file which can then
(as far as I know) be used like any other .eps file loaded into  a lyx file.
In order to use a macro it must be defined in a file called 
macros.tex.   On my system this
file behaves oddly but I won't go into that here.

While I like the fig2eps script I would prefer that I not need a 
macros.tex file but that
instead Lyx somehow made all latex macros defined in a given  .lyx file 
available
as if they were defined in the macros.tex file.

 The simple way to do this would be some kind of script that a lyx user 
can use
that extracts all the macros in the lyx file and placed them in the 
macros.tex file. 
This is a crude and problematic solution for sure but it's a start.
Preferable would be some method that was invisible or nearly invisible 
to the user.

By the way,  is there any kind of mailing list or user group for  xfig?
I have not found one.
Ralph Boland


Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose' Matos wrote:

 On Wednesday 07 April 2004 10:44, Angus Leeming wrote:
 If you use xfig to create your figures and would like to ensure
 that the pstex_t file is typeset with the same font as the rest of
 your document, then here is a little tip.
 [...]
 
   Could you add this to the wiki, please. :-)

I'm no wiki-spert. Maybe someone could do it for me?

-- 
Angus



Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
 I'm no wiki-spert. Maybe someone could do it for me?

The point of wikis is that you don't have to be an expert. There isn't
really much to learn. Try it.

-- 
http://rrt.sc3d.org/
C++, n.  an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog (Anon)


Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Reuben Thomas wrote:
 I'm no wiki-spert. Maybe someone could do it for me?
 The point of wikis is that you don't have to be an expert. There
 isn't really much to learn. Try it.

Oh, I know how to use it. I'm just busy. And lazy.

-- 
Angus



Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
 Oh, I know how to use it. I'm just busy. And lazy.

Again, with this wiki as with most, it's as quick to cut-and-paste
whatever you have than to ask someone else to do it. Since it's informal,
you can just dump an email into the wiki if you're particularly busy;
someone with more time (perhaps someone who benefits from the info) can
clean it up later.

-- 
http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | impatience, n.  the urge to do nothing


beamer class problems

2004-04-07 Thread Uwe Sthr
Hello LyXers,

I want to use the beamer package for a presentation. The beamer class 
provides a special layout file and a template LyX-file. I installed the 
layout file with success but when running pdflatex or latex over the 
template LyX-file, I get 16 errors.
Most of the error messages are LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
When looking in the logfile, I see that the LaTex errors occurs while 
the package xcolor redefine some stuff. (The beamer package requires the 
packages pgf and xcolor). So it seems to be a xcolor problem.
I got also an error LaTeX Error: Command \boldsymbol already defined.
When I delete the line:
\usepackage{beamerthemeshadow}
only 6 errors will remain.

I've installed
- beamer 2004/03/10 v2.10
- pgf2003/12/02 v0.60
- xcolor 2004/03/27 v1.10
and use LyX 1.3.3.
Has anybody tested the beamer layout or could somebody send me a 
presentation lyx-file that was made with beamer?
Could someone, who can run pdflatex successfully over the beamer 
template, please tell me which versions of beamer and xcolor was used?

Thanks a lot in advance.
Uwe
p.s. What other LaTeX package could be used together with LyX for 
presentations? I found in the list archive something about the package 
pdfscreen. Has anybody some experiences (or example LyX-files) with 
prosper, slide etc.?


Re: beamer class problems

2004-04-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I want to use the beamer package for a presentation. The beamer class 
provides a special layout file and a template LyX-file. I installed the 
layout file with success but when running pdflatex or latex over the 
template LyX-file, I get 16 errors.
Most of the error messages are LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}.
When looking in the logfile, I see that the LaTex errors occurs while 
the package xcolor redefine some stuff. (The beamer package requires the 
packages pgf and xcolor). So it seems to be a xcolor problem.
Yes this is a xcolor problem. Beamer v2.10 is incompatible with xcolor 
v1.10 (xcolor v1.09 works), see
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=600660aid=930199group_id=92412

I got also an error LaTeX Error: Command \boldsymbol already defined.
After downgrading to xcolor 1.09 this problem remains. When I export the 
template into LaTeX, I see that LyX adds the following:

%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Bold symbol macro for standard LaTeX users
\newcommand{\boldsymbol}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath $#1$}}
But beamer also defines a command \boldsymbold, so I want to disable 
LyX's \boldsymbol as a short workaround. How could this be done?
(I'll inform the author of beamer, that he shouldn't use this command.)

p.s. What other LaTeX package could be used together with LyX for 
presentations? I found in the list archive something about the package 
pdfscreen. Has anybody some experiences (or example LyX-files) with 
prosper, slide etc.?
Nevertheless this would be interesting.

regards Uwe


Re: beamer class problems

2004-04-07 Thread Robert Orr
 Has anybody some experiences (or
 example LyX-files) with prosper, slide etc.?
 
Check under the tips and tricks.   There are a number
of links there for prosper where you can get examples.



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xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Angus Leeming
If you use xfig to create your figures and would like to ensure that
the pstex_t file is typeset with the same font as the rest of your
document, then here is a little tip.

xfig exports each figure with a preamble that defines a \SetFigFont
macro:

\begingroup\makeatletter\ifx\SetFigFont\undefined%
\gdef\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{%
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  \fontfamily{#3}\fontseries{#4}\fontshape{#5}%
  \selectfont}%
\fi\endgroup%

And uses it, so:
\put(2791,74){\makebox(0,0)[lb]{\smash{{\SetFigFont{12}{14.4}{\familydefault}{\
mddefault}{\updefault}$y$

Personally, I tend to use the default 10pt font size, but rather than
edit all my xfig figures it is sufficient to preempt the definition
of \SetFigFont in the lyx document's preamble.

Here I use:

%% Preempt the definition of \SetFigFont in the
%% xfig-generated pstex_t files by setting it to "do nothing".
\gdef\SetFigFont#1#2#3#4#5{}

But, of course, you could choose to ignore some or all of the
arguments by defining \SetFigFont appropriately.

-- 
Angus



EndNote in Lyx Win32

2004-04-07 Thread Tom Tsuchiya
Hi, just a quick question. How can I use endnote in Lyx WIn32. Is it 
possible? (The reason I need to do this is that I have all my references 
stored in endnote files and I just cannot start all over again to rebuild 
similar database.)

Many thanks

Tom

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Re: EndNote in Lyx Win32

2004-04-07 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 12:19, Tom Tsuchiya wrote:
> Hi, just a quick question. How can I use endnote in Lyx WIn32. Is it
> possible? (The reason I need to do this is that I have all my references
> stored in endnote files and I just cannot start all over again to rebuild
> similar database.)

You can not use endnote directly with LyX, you need to use BibTeX. It is a 
long time since I last used endnote, and then you could not export the 
endnote-database to BibTeX. However, there are other applications that can 
import endnote and export BibTeX. Some of them even works in windows :). Try:
http://www.santafe.edu/~dirk/sixpack/
There are even instruction how to convert from endnote to BibTeX.

Ingar


Re: Special Characters

2004-04-07 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:02:19AM -0400, robin wrote:
> >This might be a misunderstanding...  One way to do it is to write
> >
> >  '\usepackage{textcomp}'
> 
> This isn't necessary in LyX, at least not in the latest version.

Ah... interesting. I wonder what magic figures out that the textcomp
package is needed...

Andre'


Re: EndNote in Lyx Win32

2004-04-07 Thread Ronald Florence
Tom Tsuchiya wrote:

How can I use endnote in Lyx WIn32. Is it 
possible? (The reason I need to do this is that I have all my references 
stored in endnote files and I just cannot start all over again to 
rebuild similar database.)
http://www.unc.edu/~nghoffma/resources/useEndnote.pdf has some scripts 
that convert Endnotes citations to LaTeX citations.
--

Ronald Florencewww.18james.com



Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Jose' Matos
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 10:44, Angus Leeming wrote:
> If you use xfig to create your figures and would like to ensure that
> the pstex_t file is typeset with the same font as the rest of your
> document, then here is a little tip.
[...]

  Could you add this to the wiki, please. :-)
-- 
José Abílio

LyX and docbook, a perfect match. :-)


lyx and fig2eps

2004-04-07 Thread Ralph Boland
I frequently use figures with mathematics and use  xfig for this using
the combined ps/latex  format in  xfig.
This works well, but I would like the capability of using macros within 
xfig.

I recently discoverd  fig2eps  (a script on top of fig2dev) which allows 
me to use macros in
an xfig file.  This program has the added advantage of outputting an 
.eps file which can then
(as far as I know) be used like any other .eps file loaded into  a lyx file.
In order to use a macro it must be defined in a file called 
macros.tex.   On my system this
file behaves oddly but I won't go into that here.

While I like the fig2eps script I would prefer that I not need a 
macros.tex file but that
instead Lyx somehow made all latex macros defined in a given  .lyx file 
available
as if they were defined in the macros.tex file.

 The simple way to do this would be some kind of script that a lyx user 
can use
that extracts all the macros in the lyx file and placed them in the 
macros.tex file. 
This is a crude and problematic solution for sure but it's a start.
Preferable would be some method that was invisible or nearly invisible 
to the user.

By the way,  is there any kind of mailing list or user group for  xfig?
I have not found one.
Ralph Boland


Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Jose' Matos wrote:

> On Wednesday 07 April 2004 10:44, Angus Leeming wrote:
>> If you use xfig to create your figures and would like to ensure
>> that the pstex_t file is typeset with the same font as the rest of
>> your document, then here is a little tip.
> [...]
> 
>   Could you add this to the wiki, please. :-)

I'm no wiki-spert. Maybe someone could do it for me?

-- 
Angus



Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
> I'm no wiki-spert. Maybe someone could do it for me?

The point of wikis is that you don't have to be an expert. There isn't
really much to learn. Try it.

-- 
http://rrt.sc3d.org/
C++, n.  an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog (Anon)


Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Angus Leeming
Reuben Thomas wrote:
>> I'm no wiki-spert. Maybe someone could do it for me?
> The point of wikis is that you don't have to be an expert. There
> isn't really much to learn. Try it.

Oh, I know how to use it. I'm just busy. And lazy.

-- 
Angus



Re: xfig tip

2004-04-07 Thread Reuben Thomas
> Oh, I know how to use it. I'm just busy. And lazy.

Again, with this wiki as with most, it's as quick to cut-and-paste
whatever you have than to ask someone else to do it. Since it's informal,
you can just dump an email into the wiki if you're particularly busy;
someone with more time (perhaps someone who benefits from the info) can
clean it up later.

-- 
http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | impatience, n.  the urge to do nothing


beamer class problems

2004-04-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hello LyXers,

I want to use the beamer package for a presentation. The beamer class 
provides a special layout file and a template LyX-file. I installed the 
layout file with success but when running pdflatex or latex over the 
template LyX-file, I get 16 errors.
Most of the error messages are "LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}."
When looking in the logfile, I see that the LaTex errors occurs while 
the package xcolor redefine some stuff. (The beamer package requires the 
packages pgf and xcolor). So it seems to be a xcolor problem.
I got also an error "LaTeX Error: Command \boldsymbol already defined."
When I delete the line:
"\usepackage{beamerthemeshadow}"
only 6 errors will remain.

I've installed
- beamer 2004/03/10 v2.10
- pgf2003/12/02 v0.60
- xcolor 2004/03/27 v1.10
and use LyX 1.3.3.
Has anybody tested the beamer layout or could somebody send me a 
presentation lyx-file that was made with beamer?
Could someone, who can run pdflatex successfully over the beamer 
template, please tell me which versions of beamer and xcolor was used?

Thanks a lot in advance.
Uwe
p.s. What other LaTeX package could be used together with LyX for 
presentations? I found in the list archive something about the package 
pdfscreen. Has anybody some experiences (or example LyX-files) with 
prosper, slide etc.?


Re: beamer class problems

2004-04-07 Thread Uwe Stöhr
I want to use the beamer package for a presentation. The beamer class 
provides a special layout file and a template LyX-file. I installed the 
layout file with success but when running pdflatex or latex over the 
template LyX-file, I get 16 errors.
Most of the error messages are "LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}."
When looking in the logfile, I see that the LaTex errors occurs while 
the package xcolor redefine some stuff. (The beamer package requires the 
packages pgf and xcolor). So it seems to be a xcolor problem.
Yes this is a xcolor problem. Beamer v2.10 is incompatible with xcolor 
v1.10 (xcolor v1.09 works), see
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail=600660=930199_id=92412

I got also an error "LaTeX Error: Command \boldsymbol already defined."
After downgrading to xcolor 1.09 this problem remains. When I export the 
template into LaTeX, I see that LyX adds the following:

%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Bold symbol macro for standard LaTeX users
\newcommand{\boldsymbol}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath $#1$}}
But beamer also defines a command \boldsymbold, so I want to disable 
LyX's \boldsymbol as a short workaround. How could this be done?
(I'll inform the author of beamer, that he shouldn't use this command.)

p.s. What other LaTeX package could be used together with LyX for 
presentations? I found in the list archive something about the package 
pdfscreen. Has anybody some experiences (or example LyX-files) with 
prosper, slide etc.?
Nevertheless this would be interesting.

regards Uwe


Re: beamer class problems

2004-04-07 Thread Robert Orr
> Has anybody some experiences (or
> example LyX-files) with prosper, slide etc.?
 
Check under the tips and tricks.   There are a number
of links there for prosper where you can get examples.



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