trouble with margins and saving (strange behaviours)

[Matthew.Kelly]

I am really not sure what is going wrong here. I have my thesis in Lyx and have 
suddenly noticed the following strange behaviour and am not really sure where to start 
sorting it out.

I cannot seem to save my master document after changing the margins. If I set them to 
very wide or wide, I can produce a pdf file that is fine. However if I save the file 
and close lyx, when I reopen the file the changes to the margin are gone. In its place 
I end up with a "0" in the file and if I look at the console behind lyx It has the 
following message.
Lyx:unknown argument '\use_geometry' [around line 21  of file.


Any suggestions, it is getting a bit frustrating having to set the margins every time 
I want to produce a PDF. Also I am a bit concerned that more important changes may be 
lost

Lyx version is 1.3.3 running on redhat 9

Matthew

RE: Re: \hyphenation

[peter.may]

Hello,

> > actually I do have numerous hyphenation mistakes - caused by the
automatic
> > tex algorithm - in my german-lyx-document.
> 
> THis is a strong indication that you don\'t have German hyphenation
> patterns loaded. Although TeX in not perfect in this area, it almost is.
> 
> Are you sure you mentioned \"german\" at some suitable place (like
> language setting) in you document?

Yes the language is set to \"german\" in the document setting.
I also tried a \\usepackage[ngerman]{babel} in the preamble with no
diffrence.

I do have a set of problems: first \"political corrected\" person-
definitions:
eg. instead of \"Probanden\" -> \"ProbandInnen\" 
This is a common method to change male-\"endings\" of a word into a
\"plural-femal\" version... -> I have manually set the hyphenation points
for these words as TeX tried to break them at \"ProbandInn-en\" which
sounds really awful ;-) (especially as this would also cause new
\"political correctness\" issues...

The other problem concerns breaking up small words like \"also\": while it
might be logically correct -> it is not a good way to break something like
\" bla bla (also bla bla).\" into \"bla bla (al- *newline* so bla bla).

Is there a way to stop hypenathion for those small words?

And what about all names and surnames? Its a mess to see \"Pe-ter\" instead
of \"Peter\" ;-)

Do i really have to add all this stuff into the preamble?
Isn\'t there an easier way to do this??

Especially as I do have a \"master\" document with front-,main- and
backmatter as \"inculdes\" of other lyx-files -> it is no good way alway to
switch back to the \"master\" document to open its Document settings,
scroll down to Preamble and so on...

It would be more easy to paste all these special hyphenations into a stupid
textfile...

And wouldn\'t this be a nice idea to exchange those files for re-usage?

Again: HOW are you solving those problems inside of Lyx? Always adding
hyphenations to the preamble???

Have I missed something? 

Thanks!

Re: LyX kills X

[Marc Jeffrey Driftmeyer]

On Monday 07 June 2004 01:23 pm, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
You mentioned you are using XFree86 4.4.0.

What is your display driver?

Have you checked the XFree86.log for Warnings/Errors?

Did it work well with XFree86 4.3.0 drivers?

What X Extensions do you have enabled (xfb, xrandr,)

-Marc

> On stardate Mon, 7 Jun 2004, the wise Jean-Marc Lasgouttes entered:
> >> "Marco" == Marco Beishuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>>
> >>>  What is the depth of your screen? That is, how many colors?
> >
> > Marco> 24 bit colors, and the resolution is 1280x960 on an 21"
> > Marco> monitor.
> >
> > This should be OK.
> >
> > What version of xforms is it?
>
> Xforms is version 1.0.
>
> Marco

Re: LyX kills X

[Marco Beishuizen]

On stardate Mon, 7 Jun 2004, the wise Jean-Marc Lasgouttes entered:
"Marco" == Marco Beishuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 What is the depth of your screen? That is, how many colors?
Marco> 24 bit colors, and the resolution is 1280x960 on an 21"
Marco> monitor.
This should be OK.
What version of xforms is it?
Xforms is version 1.0.
Marco
--
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering:
Don't worry if it doesn't work right.  If everything did, you'd
be out of a job.

Re: lyx compatibility with other w-processors

[Andre Poenitz]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 10:16:20PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Desktop Media wrote:
> > Moreover, i had noticed before that latex files are not always
> > imported flawlessly by lyx. So, specific filters lyx2writer and
> > writer2lyx could make sense...
> 
> This last point will be much less serious when lyx 1.4 is released. It
> will ship with 'tex2lyx', a replacement for 'reLyX'. tex2lyx is built
> on top of a proper latex parser and is *much* more powerful and
> capable than reLyX could ever hope to be.

'proper' is a bit strong. Call it 'better than reLyX's pattern
matching'...

Andre'

Re: LyX kills X

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Marco" == Marco Beishuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>>  What is the depth of your screen? That is, how many colors?

Marco> 24 bit colors, and the resolution is 1280x960 on an 21"
Marco> monitor.

This should be OK.

What version of xforms is it?

JMarc

Re: LyX kills X

[Marco Beishuizen]

On stardate Mon, 7 Jun 2004, the wise Jean-Marc Lasgouttes entered:
"Marco" == Marco Beishuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Marco> The standard XForms. I'm running FreeBSD/alpha 4.10-RELEASE and
Marco> installed LyX from the ports. The version of XFree86 is 4.4.0.
What is the depth of your screen? That is, how many colors?
24 bit colors, and the resolution is 1280x960 on an 21" monitor.
Marco
--
Accident, n.:
A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of
body is better.

Re: LyX kills X

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Marco" == Marco Beishuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Marco> The standard XForms. I'm running FreeBSD/alpha 4.10-RELEASE and
Marco> installed LyX from the ports. The version of XFree86 is 4.4.0.

What is the depth of your screen? That is, how many colors?

JMarc

Re: LyX kills X

[Marco Beishuizen]

On stardate Mon, 7 Jun 2004, the wise Jose' Matos entered:
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:10, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
Hi,
I recently installed LyX 1.3.4 on my DEC PWS 600au running XFce4 as
windowmanager.
Problem is that LyX kills the X server when I try to open a document in
the help section of the menu bar, like the tutorial or the user's guide.
 Which frontend are you using, xforms or qt?
The standard XForms. I'm running FreeBSD/alpha 4.10-RELEASE and installed 
LyX from the ports. The version of XFree86 is 4.4.0.

Marco
--
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analyze all situations, anticipate all problems prior to their
occurrence, have answers for these problems, and move swiftly to solve
these problems when called upon.
However, When you are up to your ass in alligators it is difficult to
remind yourself your initial objective was to drain the swamp.

Re: resolution of figures

[John Coppens]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:01:41 +0200
Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If I try to print a pnm or eps figure in lyx at the highest reasonable 
> solution with a 600*600dpi printer, it shows only a fourth of the figure
> on the printpage. It is as if one pixel is printed in 4 pixels. gif
> seems to work alright. 
> 
> Can somebody give me a hint, please?
> 
> Wolfgang

I suspect the eps file to have 300 dpi coded inside. Right click on the
image, and put 'Outpt at 50%', and you should be ok. (Mind - not 'Show at
50%')

John

two parameter command

[Stefan van der Walt]

Hello everyone
I am trying to include acronym functionality in my .layout, but do not 
quite know how to handle the following situation:

An acronym is defined with
\begin{acronym}
...
\acro{WIAF}{Word In Acronym Form}
...
\end{acronym}
and thus \acro needs two parameters.  How would one incorporate this 
into a layout?

Regards
Stéfan

Re: SSlightly OT: ghostscript error when trying to print

[Rich Shepard]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Russell W. Behne wrote:

> This is /etc/printcap, even though I don't think that's the problem:
>
>   # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
>   # /etc/cups/printers.conf file.  All changes to this file
>   # will be lost.
>   HPPSC750|HPPSC750:rm=behne.us:rp=HPPSC750:

Russ,

  Is that your printer? I see that the server doesn't have a host name, only
the domain.

> If I'm typesetting a document in LyX, and choose to preview it,
> ghostscript crashes with the same error as when II try to start
> ghostscript from the command line.  When I try to use kspread to preeview
> or print a spreadsheet I get the same error.

  I recall having fits with the version of gs that came with cups when I
switched to that from the default lpr installed with RH 7.3. I found updated
.src.rpm for a newer version of gs than came with the system and that's been
working just fine for me.

  Other than suggesting a different build of ghostscript, I'm out of ideas.

Rich

-- 
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)

Re: Typing oe ligatures in French

[Angus Leeming]

Charles de Miramon wrote:

> Reuben Thomas wrote:
> 
>> What's the easiest way to type oe ligatures in French? I was a bit
>> surprised to find this wasn't an automatic ligature in LaTeX when
>> using French given it's almost always what you want.
>> 
> You have to do it in a manual fashion with the \oe macro because in
> French, the ligature oe is not automatic and depends on the
> pronunciation. For example :
> oeuf (with ligature) but coexistence (without ligature). The number
> of words using the oe ligature in French is rather limited but some
> are used a lot. It would be nice to have a script adding the
> ligature for this limited set (oeil, oeuvre, soeur, boeuf,
> manoeuvre, coeur, choeur, voeu, moeurs, noeud)

Write a wrapper 'my_latex' and re-define the latex -> dvi converter to
use it. For example, something like:

#! /bin/sh

test #$ -gt 1 || exit 1

tmp=tmp$$

sed 's/oeil/\oe{}il/g;
s/oeuvre/\oe{}uvre/g;
s/soeur/s\oe{}ur/g;
s/boeuf/b\oe{}uf/g
' $1 > $tmp

cmp -s $1 $tmp && rm -f $tmp || mv -f $tmp $1

latex "$@"

-- 
Angus

Re: Typing oe ligatures in French

[Charles de Miramon]

Reuben Thomas wrote:

> What's the easiest way to type oe ligatures in French? I was a bit
> surprised to find this wasn't an automatic ligature in LaTeX when
> using French given it's almost always what you want.
> 
You have to do it in a manual fashion with the \oe macro because in French,
the ligature oe is not automatic and depends on the pronunciation. For
example :
oeuf (with ligature) but coexistence (without ligature). The number of words
using the oe ligature in French is rather limited but some are used a lot.
It would be nice to have a script adding the ligature for this limited set
(oeil, oeuvre, soeur, boeuf, manoeuvre, coeur, choeur, voeu, moeurs, noeud)

Cheers,
Charlmes

Re: LyX kills X

[Jose' Matos]

On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:10, Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently installed LyX 1.3.4 on my DEC PWS 600au running XFce4 as
> windowmanager.
>
> Problem is that LyX kills the X server when I try to open a document in
> the help section of the menu bar, like the tutorial or the user's guide.
>

  Which frontend are you using, xforms or qt?

> Does anyone know why this happens?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marco

-- 
José Abílio

resolution of figures

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

If I try to print a pnm or eps figure in lyx at the highest reasonable 
solution with a 600*600dpi printer, it shows only a fourth of the figure on 
the printpage. It is as if one pixel is printed in 4 pixels. gif seems to 
work alright. 

Can somebody give me a hint, please?

Wolfgang

Re: page sharing between figure floats and text

[Charlls Quarra]

 --- "G. Milde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
>
> Did you try not using a float at all? (as a float is
> something that is
> floating but you want it at a special place). What
> happens if you put the
> eps graphic inset directly into the title paragraph?
> 
> layout title:  insert>Graphik logo.eps 
> [Ctrl-Return]
>University of my Town
> 
> layout author: Me
> ...

Yes i tried it, it still sends further text to the
next page, with the added bonus of not being centered
anymore (im using the book documentclass so it
automatically center-aligns everything on figures)


> 
> It looks like you are using the Title, Author, ...
> commands that create a
> TeX-formatted titlepage. These are very sensitive to
> all non-compatible
> commands --- these will push the titlepage to the
> second page :-(
> 
> If the first approach fails, you could try to use
> the "freeform titlepage"
> environment with ERT: \begin{titlepage}
>  Uni
>Name
>...
>ERT: \end{titlepage}
> 
> and format with visual markup according to the
> regulations.
> 

 I google for "titlepage latex" and i esentially found
one useful link: 

 http://www.ce.cmu.edu/~kijoo/thesis.html

 what should i looks for getting more details of these
regulations? still the titlepage example in that link
doesnt use/format specifically an image


 




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Re: "Find and replace" with ERTs

[Paul Smith]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
I would like to know whether it is possible to use "find and replace" 
for replacing some pieces of a LyX document with ERTs?
Not within LyX. But you can do it with almost every text editor on the
raw .lyx file. Backup recommended...
Thanks, Andre'!
Paul