Re: How do you comment out content?
Steve Litt wrote: I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output? Never mind, I found it. It's an evironment called Comment in the standard Book document class. I suggest that you don't use this in LyX. You'll lose all nested environments. Use the note inset instead. -- Angus
Re: How do you comment out content?
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:33:18 +
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to
temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make
this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as
Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output?
Never mind, I found it. It's an evironment called Comment in the
standard Book document class.
I suggest that you don't use this in LyX. You'll lose all nested
environments. Use the note inset instead.
Whats the note inset?
I use a dirtier trick using ert.
I define a new command in the preamble:
\newcommand{\ignore}[1]{}
and then before the start of the part I want to remove in at ert block
\ignore{
and after it in another ert block
}
--
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Re: How do you comment out content?
Micha Feigin wrote: Whats the note inset? Insert-Note -- Angus
Re: why lyx when there's word?
Rich Drewes wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually paid their LOC in gold. (LOC?) Another problem is the quite frequent instabillity derived by overloading word with such bells and whistles. I can't tell anything about EndNote since I haven't used it, but ReferenceManager in its days had blown up in my face more than once. Yes, I agree that stability can be an issue with Word addons. I have actually had rare Lyx crashes occur for me that appear to be related to the pipe communication between Pybliographic and Lyx, and I have also had some issues with Pybliographic importing reference files from major journals. (The Pybliographic problems seem to be related to those journals putting out reference keys that Pybliographic didn't consider standard format. However, when I tried to import the same file in EndNote it just worked. From a user's perspective, just working with a warning message perhaps would be prefereble to failure plus an obscure error message which is what I got in Pybliographic.) I have never lost data with Lyx. Thanks, Lyx team. Please keep in mind that you can rather easily change formatting of the references anytime you please while still not messing (and thus loosing time) with the actual archive. This is a rather routine capability actually. Word+EndNote can do it too. Further, I have seen a live demonstration of some features of EndNote and RefViz that are pretty cool; there is nothing comparable in BibTex+Pybliographic or addons as far as I can find. It turns out I don't need those capabilities but I can see their usefulness. You can also SQL-query for references if your university library offers such service. I for one, consider the TexMed web interface a god send. Again, pretty routine stuff. EndNote can do it. OO.org's bibliography is far better than whatever hack you can get with the native MS Word endnotes. I'm not sure we are on the same page . . . EndNote isn't a native Word package of course, it is an add on software package. I tried OO's built in bibliographic support and found it pretty useless for now. Latex+pybliographic was much better than OO's built in stuff for bibliographic management. I would put Latex+pybliographic as in the same class as Word+Endote. Word+Endnote have a few more features for bibliographic management, but the basics are there in both. As I said there are some advanced features that Word+EndNote+RefViz can do that have no counterpart in open source AFAIK (unfortunately). Rich Hi, My 5 cents ... One of the major feature with LyX/LaTeX is the text file. How many documents do you have in Word 2 that can not be opened anymore ? And how many more do you expect to loose with the evolution of Word file format ? With text files you know that it will allways be possible to recover the information, even if LateX or LyX disapear. Another major feature is the size of the files. Producing a simple paper for a scientific journal with a few equations and figures can result in a word file of several MB while in LaTeX/LyX it will be a few k, even including the size of the ps files for figures. And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of pybliographic. I would say your comparing pybliographic with EndNote and not really LyX with Word ... Anyway, take a look at JabRef (http://jabref.sf.net). I was using pyblio and after trying JabRef I was so impressed I changed on the same day. Give it a try, its a great sofware. Regards EJ
Re: Background image in Beamer
Eugenio wrote:
After some help from Till Tantau, and consulting every related document I
could find, including de Lyx page, I developed an approach that works (?)
for me including the following commands in the preamble:
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[1]{%
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill \hfill
\includegraphics[width=0.8\paperwidth,height=0.8\paperheight]{#1}
\hfill \vfill
}}}
and using the command
\BackgroundPicture{image}
before the slide I need the background in.
I did the image processing with ImageMagick 1.6.9 tools, in order to
reduce the intensity of the image in the background (dissolving an image
onto a white background of the same size)
Any more contributions are accepted
Thanks
Eugenio Guevara
- Original Message -
From: samar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Eugenio Guevara [EMAIL PROTECTED];
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: Background image in Beamer
Hi Eugenio
I have been looking for an answer to this myself so I waited hoping
someone would answer your query.
The nearest I have got is putting a grid in according to the manual on
page 59 which also mentions that one can put a picture in using the
\setbeamertemplate{background}
For putting a grid in one just goes:
\setbeamertemplate{background}[grid]
according to the manual one can put in a background picture the same way
but it gives no example how and all my attempts have not been very
successful.
Perhaps someone more adroit at interpreting the manual will be kind
enough to explain.
samar
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From: Eugenio Guevara [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:04 AM
Subject: Background image in Beamer
I am using Beamer with Lyx 1.3.5 on a Windows XP platform. I am
preparing
a
presentation and can't find a way to put a background image on any frame
and
change it as needed.
Can anyone give some light on this matter?
Thanks in advance
Eugenio Guevara
Eugenio
Thanks for the persistence. That was great. Works like a dream.
A few thoughts:
1. Depending on the size of your background bitmap you may need to adjust
the 0.8 factor in the preamble.
2. if like me you are using a dark background and find your
text becoming invisible the simple solution I use is to put in the preamble:
\usecolortheme{albatross}
Gives a great effect with a nearly black background
3. Is there any chance you or someone else can explain the logic of the
preamble code?
4. As a beamer user I am indebted to Till Tantau and his team for a great
product that really fills a void
and for documentation which is probably as good as it ever gets. For me, its
goodbye powerpoint which I abhorred
and mostly used Flash instead. That was hard work. Beamer is a dream by
contrast.
samar
Re: How do you comment out content?
Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 21 April 2005 07:14 pm, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output? Never mind, I found it. It's an evironment called Comment in the standard Book document class. it is better to use in ERT \iffalse and at the end of your part also in ERT \fi Herbert
Re: Background image in Beamer
On Friday 22 April 2005 12:28, samar wrote:
Eugenio wrote:
After some help from Till Tantau, and consulting every related document I
could find, including de Lyx page, I developed an approach that works (?)
for me including the following commands in the preamble:
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[1]{%
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill \hfill
\includegraphics[width=0.8\paperwidth,height=0.8\paperheight]{#1}
\hfill \vfill
}}}
and using the command
\BackgroundPicture{image}
before the slide I need the background in.
I did the image processing with ImageMagick 1.6.9 tools, in order to
reduce the intensity of the image in the background (dissolving an
image onto a white background of the same size)
Any more contributions are accepted
Thanks
Eugenio Guevara
Eugenio
Thanks for the persistence. That was great. Works like a dream.
A few thoughts:
1. Depending on the size of your background bitmap you may need to adjust
the 0.8 factor in the preamble.
I think a better approach would be to define the scale on a per image basis,
i.e. in the form of \BackgroundPicture{image, desiredscale}. This can be
rather easily done, by not declaring a fixed value on the preamble but rather
defining a variable. This would allow different images with different
dimensions for different slides.
Thus:
In the preamble:
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[3]{%
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill \hfill
\includegraphics[width=#2\paperwidth,height=#3\paperheight]{#1}
\hfill \vfill
}}}
In the document body:
\BackgroundPicture{image, width factor, height factor}
I have not tried it yet, but I think it should work
2. if like me you are using a dark background and find your
text becoming invisible the simple solution I use is to put in the
preamble:
\usecolortheme{albatross}
Gives a great effect with a nearly black background
You can also define colors explicitly, but this rather defies the ease-of-use
and rapid-deployment points of the beamer class.
3. Is there any chance you or someone else can explain the logic of the
preamble code?
Ok, let's see if I can get this:
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[3]{%
%define a new command for later use (so that we don't have to write down this
%all of this each time we need to do the same thing)
%The command will be \BackgroundPicture and it takes 3 arguments (Eugenio's
%code took only one instead - [1] - the image file path)
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
%define the background beamer template as a:
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
%paragraph style box with the papersize dimensions
% ([\paperheight]{\paperwidth}) and its contents centered ([c])
\vfill \hfill
%expand both vertically and horizontally
\includegraphics[width=#2\paperwidth,height=#3\paperheight]{#1}
%instead of entering some text as is usually the case with \parbox
%insert an image whose path will be given as the first argument (#1)
%of the \BackgroundPicture command, width proportional to paperwidth
%at a scale factor given as the 2nd argument (#2) and height proportional
%to paperheight at a scale factor given as the 3rd argument (#3)
\hfill \vfill
%again, expand both horizontal and vertical so that the end result is nicelly
%centered and fills up the hole page
}
%closing the \parbox definition
}
%closing the background beamertemplate definition
}
%closing the BackgroundPicture newcommand definition
4. As a beamer user I am indebted to Till Tantau and his team for a great
product that really fills a void
and for documentation which is probably as good as it ever gets. For me,
its goodbye powerpoint which I abhorred
and mostly used Flash instead. That was hard work. Beamer is a dream by
contrast.
PowerPoint (or any other of its contenders like OO.org's Impress) is nowhere
near the class of this product. After discovering beamer, I never looked
back:
- Graphical quality others never dreamed of. I'm very fond of the rounded
inner theme with shadows enabled that invariably leaves people
speechless. :-)
- Unmatched ease of use and productivity speed. Try embedding complex tables
and/or footnotes on any office-suite presentation app just for an example of
exercise in futility.
- Portability. No need to bring along the whole computer or HOPE that the one
provided by the organizers is compatible as in not only providing the
necessary software (and thus practically LOCKING you on PowerPoint and NOT
the latest version if you want to play it safely) but also configured
appropriately for your presentation to work at 100%. Nah, the only need is
for Acrobat Reader or almost any other pdf viewer app: a standard tool even
for computers 10 years old.
The only case I will not use beamer is for special cases calling for
MagicPoint, i.e. incorporating fully functional
Re: How do you comment out content?
On 22.04.05, Micha Feigin wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:33:18 +
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to
temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make
this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as
Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output?
Never mind, I found it. It's an evironment called Comment in the
standard Book document class.
I suggest that you don't use this in LyX. You'll lose all nested
environments. Use the note inset instead.
I use a dirtier trick using ert.
I define a new command in the preamble:
\newcommand{\ignore}[1]{}
and then before the start of the part I want to remove in at ert block
\ignore{
and after it in another ert block
}
But why don't you just put \begin{comment} and \end{comment} as ERT around
the to-be-commented text? (Or Herberts tex commands)
Once I look at this, the LyXish solution would be to open a Comment
paragraph and nest the to-be-commented text in it.
If the first line of the to-be-commented text is a Standard paragraph, this
can be converted to comment, if not, you need to insert some stuff so the
Comment paragraph is not removed before you are able to nest something in it.
Developers:
---
* could the Comment Style get a KeepEmpty 1 tag?
* What would be a command-sequence to open a Comment and nest the
selection in it (as opposed to setting all selected paragraphs to
Comment Style)?
Or do we need a new lyx function for this.
Günter
--
G.Milde web.de
Re: How do you comment out content?
G == G Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G Once I look at this, the LyXish solution would be to open a Comment G paragraph and nest the to-be-commented text in it. No. Select the text, press InsertNote. What's so wrong with that that? Comment was a stop-gap measure, and it should go. Actually, LyX 1.4.0 will have support for different types of Notes, including Comment-like. JMarc
Sections
Hi, When I use, in my document, class article, and 2 environments, section and subsection. There are more than 20 sectons each with aprox. 5-10 subsections. I get corrupted output ( exporting it to latex, I can see Underfull \hbox (badness 1590) in paragraph error messages). However when using amsart as a base class for the document, and even though error messages persist, produced output looks fine and is printable. AFAIK it has to do with hyphenation. I went on Dante and found few answers and possible solution, however none has helped solving this problem. Any ideas? I attempted to create my own layout based on amsart ( since this one works fine ). I seem not to be able to ie. get section headers align left (setting, in my.layout, Align Right outputs section header aligned right in dvi, but setting it to Left outputs it centered). Any tips how to get it right?
Re: why lyx when there's word?
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: (snip) Although Lyx provides another language layer over LaTeX (which works over plain TeX) its files still maintain a rather simple structure that becomes life-saving over crashes and glitches both Lyx-related and system-wide. (snip) True. (-: It'd be nice if the structure were documented somewhere, though - whenever I want to write software that generates LyX files, I have to reverse-engineer the format by inspecting various LyX files. At least, if I'm using software that's a version or two behind, a later LyX will generally happily read an older format LyX file with just a few warnings. -- Mark
Re: why lyx when there's word?
On Friday 22 April 2005 14:36, Mark Carroll wrote: True. (-: It'd be nice if the structure were documented somewhere, though - whenever I want to write software that generates LyX files, I have to reverse-engineer the format by inspecting various LyX files. At least, if I'm using software that's a version or two behind, a later LyX will generally happily read an older format LyX file with just a few warnings. Take a look to lyx2lyx comes with lyx. It is able to convert old files to the more recent format, so you shouldn't need to take care of that anymore. :-) Also all the changes after 1.3 are documented there. -- Mark -- José Abílio
Re: How to insert a new line into an array cell?
Patrick Gelin wrote: Hi, I can't use a CTRL + return into an array cell in order to add a new line. Could you tell me if it's possible to get much more one line into an array cell? Thanks. Not entirely sure what you mean. If you're trying to get something like this | b a | | c - d | e in an array, you can just insert a 2x1 array in the upper right cell of a 2x2 array. -- Paul Another possibility is to make the tabular array of fixed dimension, then you can use your return key. samar
Re: How do you comment out content?
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:14:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output? '\iffalse ' in ERT at the beginning and '\fi' in ERT at the end should do the trick. Andre'
Re: why lyx when there's word?
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote: And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of pybliographic. That was the best free open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and also launch a reference's local .pdf file with a click. Anyway, take a look at JabRef (http://jabref.sf.net). I was using pyblio and after trying JabRef I was so impressed I changed on the same day. Give it a try, its a great sofware. I just gave it a try and may keep using it. Functionally, it looks about the same as Pybliographic as far as I can tell. It is prettier though. Thanks for the tip. On the downside, it is written in Java :) Rich
Re: TOC headache
Hi Paul,
The \usepackage{tocbibind} did put the TOC in the TOC as desired, and it
numbered it in the TOC properly with the number of the first page of the
two-page TOC.
However, the Bibliography then appeared in the TOC *twice* at the end. I
unclicked the include bibliography in TOC option in the Lyx Bib widget
and that fixed that problem.
Thanks!
Rich
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Paul Medwell wrote:
Rich Drewes wrote:
I have a TOC that is two pages long. I must number my abstract, TOC, list
of figures, and other frontmatter with roman numerals and that's working.
Also, the TOC itself must appear as an entry in the TOC.
Here's the problem: If I put my
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table of Contents}
before the Lyx TOC widget, then the number that appears for the TOC in the
TOC is the page *before* the TOC actually starts. If I put my
\addcontentsline{toc} *after* the Lyx TOC widget, the page number that
appears for the TOC in the TOC is the *second* page of the TOC!
In both cases the pages themselves are numbered correctly. It's just the
page number in the TOC listing that is wrong.
Hi Rich,
Try adding to your preamble;
\usepackage{tocbibind}
Hope this helps.
Lata,
Paul
Re: why lyx when there's word?
Rich Drewes wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote: And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of pybliographic. That was the best free open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and also launch a reference's local .pdf file with a click. Anyway, take a look at JabRef (http://jabref.sf.net). I was using pyblio and after trying JabRef I was so impressed I changed on the same day. Give it a try, its a great sofware. I just gave it a try and may keep using it. Functionally, it looks about the same as Pybliographic as far as I can tell. It is prettier though. Thanks for the tip. On the downside, it is written in Java :) Rich Hmmm, it has a lot of nice features like accessing web databases and download records, like medline, etc. Import/export from more formats like ISI, JStor, medline, EndNote, etc. It also uses lyxpipe like pyblio. Searching is easier. A nice feature is to produce a BiBTeX file from a aux file, which I find quite nice if you keep your references in a big file and want to write a paper in colaboration with someone. The java part is the worst, I agree, being prettier helps but it's not decisive. Regards EJ
Re: How to insert a new line into an array cell?
Patrick Gelin wrote: Hi, I can't use a CTRL + return into an array cell in order to add a new line. Could you tell me if it's possible to get much more one line into an array cell? Thanks. Not entirely sure what you mean. If you're trying to get something like this | b a | | c - d | e in an array, you can just insert a 2x1 array in the upper right cell of a 2x2 array. -- Paul
Re: How do you make a bibliography?
Steve Litt wrote:
What is a site key, and what should I put in there? A number? A letter? A
cite ???
Actually, there is actually a semi-standard (not widely used though -- but I
like it), which is in $TEXMF/doc/bibtex/base/bibshare.
Should the author be Lastname, Firstname MiddleInitial?
Doesn't have to ($TEXMF/doc/bibtex/base/btxdoc.*), but it seems to be the
most robust if you want to export to non-BibTeX databases.
Why is there no provision to state a page number or chapter number?
page and chapter record.
If it's a website, what reference type do I use. tkbibtex has all sorts of
reference types, but Website isn't one of them?
When referencing a website, do I put its URL in the URL field?
natbib supports record url, so for example I have this in my dbase:
@misc{abreu:ESR-2001,
author = {Dilip Abreu and Rajiv Sethi},
title = {Evolutionary Stability in a Reputational Model of
Bargaining},
institution = {Princeton University and Barnard College, Columbia
University},
url = {http://ssrn.com/abstract=260652},
}
What are CROSSREF, CODE, ANNOTE and ABSTRACT for, and do I need to use
those just to give credit to the original source of the material?
see $TEXMF/doc/bibtex/base/btxdoc.*
@incollection{coase:PSC-1960,
author = {Ronald H. Coase},
title = {The Problem of Social Cost},
pages = {95--156},
note = {First published in \emph{Journal of Law and Economics}
3:1-44.},
crossref = {coase:FML-1998},
}
@book{coase:FML-1998,
publisher = pub-ucp,
year = {1998},
author = {Ronald H. Coase},
address = addr-chi,
booktitle = {The Firm, the Market, and the Law},
}
Sometimes I reference a whole book, and sometimes I reference a tiny piece
of text out of the book (within the bounds of fair use). How do these
differ as far as the bibiliaography?
see @incollection.
Matj
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Re: Sections
Peter Pieczora wrote: I get corrupted output ( exporting it to latex, I can see Underfull \hbox (badness 1590) in paragraph error messages). Underfull \hbox is a warning not error and it can be silently ignored in most of the cases. Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Q: Is vi an easy editor to learn, is it intuitive? A: Yes, some of us think so. But most people think that we are crazy. -- vi FAQ
Re: How do you comment out content?
Steve Litt wrote: I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output? Never mind, I found it. It's an evironment called Comment in the standard Book document class. I suggest that you don't use this in LyX. You'll lose all nested environments. Use the note inset instead. -- Angus
Re: How do you comment out content?
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:33:18 +
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to
temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make
this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as
Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output?
Never mind, I found it. It's an evironment called Comment in the
standard Book document class.
I suggest that you don't use this in LyX. You'll lose all nested
environments. Use the note inset instead.
Whats the note inset?
I use a dirtier trick using ert.
I define a new command in the preamble:
\newcommand{\ignore}[1]{}
and then before the start of the part I want to remove in at ert block
\ignore{
and after it in another ert block
}
--
Angus
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Re: How do you comment out content?
Micha Feigin wrote: Whats the note inset? Insert-Note -- Angus
Re: why lyx when there's word?
Rich Drewes wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually paid their LOC in gold. (LOC?) Another problem is the quite frequent instabillity derived by overloading word with such bells and whistles. I can't tell anything about EndNote since I haven't used it, but ReferenceManager in its days had blown up in my face more than once. Yes, I agree that stability can be an issue with Word addons. I have actually had rare Lyx crashes occur for me that appear to be related to the pipe communication between Pybliographic and Lyx, and I have also had some issues with Pybliographic importing reference files from major journals. (The Pybliographic problems seem to be related to those journals putting out reference keys that Pybliographic didn't consider standard format. However, when I tried to import the same file in EndNote it just worked. From a user's perspective, just working with a warning message perhaps would be prefereble to failure plus an obscure error message which is what I got in Pybliographic.) I have never lost data with Lyx. Thanks, Lyx team. Please keep in mind that you can rather easily change formatting of the references anytime you please while still not messing (and thus loosing time) with the actual archive. This is a rather routine capability actually. Word+EndNote can do it too. Further, I have seen a live demonstration of some features of EndNote and RefViz that are pretty cool; there is nothing comparable in BibTex+Pybliographic or addons as far as I can find. It turns out I don't need those capabilities but I can see their usefulness. You can also SQL-query for references if your university library offers such service. I for one, consider the TexMed web interface a god send. Again, pretty routine stuff. EndNote can do it. OO.org's bibliography is far better than whatever hack you can get with the native MS Word endnotes. I'm not sure we are on the same page . . . EndNote isn't a native Word package of course, it is an add on software package. I tried OO's built in bibliographic support and found it pretty useless for now. Latex+pybliographic was much better than OO's built in stuff for bibliographic management. I would put Latex+pybliographic as in the same class as Word+Endote. Word+Endnote have a few more features for bibliographic management, but the basics are there in both. As I said there are some advanced features that Word+EndNote+RefViz can do that have no counterpart in open source AFAIK (unfortunately). Rich Hi, My 5 cents ... One of the major feature with LyX/LaTeX is the text file. How many documents do you have in Word 2 that can not be opened anymore ? And how many more do you expect to loose with the evolution of Word file format ? With text files you know that it will allways be possible to recover the information, even if LateX or LyX disapear. Another major feature is the size of the files. Producing a simple paper for a scientific journal with a few equations and figures can result in a word file of several MB while in LaTeX/LyX it will be a few k, even including the size of the ps files for figures. And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of pybliographic. I would say your comparing pybliographic with EndNote and not really LyX with Word ... Anyway, take a look at JabRef (http://jabref.sf.net). I was using pyblio and after trying JabRef I was so impressed I changed on the same day. Give it a try, its a great sofware. Regards EJ
Re: Background image in Beamer
Eugenio wrote:
After some help from Till Tantau, and consulting every related document I
could find, including de Lyx page, I developed an approach that works (?)
for me including the following commands in the preamble:
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[1]{%
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill \hfill
\includegraphics[width=0.8\paperwidth,height=0.8\paperheight]{#1}
\hfill \vfill
}}}
and using the command
\BackgroundPicture{image}
before the slide I need the background in.
I did the image processing with ImageMagick 1.6.9 tools, in order to
reduce the intensity of the image in the background (dissolving an image
onto a white background of the same size)
Any more contributions are accepted
Thanks
Eugenio Guevara
- Original Message -
From: samar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Eugenio Guevara [EMAIL PROTECTED];
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: Background image in Beamer
Hi Eugenio
I have been looking for an answer to this myself so I waited hoping
someone would answer your query.
The nearest I have got is putting a grid in according to the manual on
page 59 which also mentions that one can put a picture in using the
\setbeamertemplate{background}
For putting a grid in one just goes:
\setbeamertemplate{background}[grid]
according to the manual one can put in a background picture the same way
but it gives no example how and all my attempts have not been very
successful.
Perhaps someone more adroit at interpreting the manual will be kind
enough to explain.
samar
- Original Message -
From: Eugenio Guevara [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:04 AM
Subject: Background image in Beamer
I am using Beamer with Lyx 1.3.5 on a Windows XP platform. I am
preparing
a
presentation and can't find a way to put a background image on any frame
and
change it as needed.
Can anyone give some light on this matter?
Thanks in advance
Eugenio Guevara
Eugenio
Thanks for the persistence. That was great. Works like a dream.
A few thoughts:
1. Depending on the size of your background bitmap you may need to adjust
the 0.8 factor in the preamble.
2. if like me you are using a dark background and find your
text becoming invisible the simple solution I use is to put in the preamble:
\usecolortheme{albatross}
Gives a great effect with a nearly black background
3. Is there any chance you or someone else can explain the logic of the
preamble code?
4. As a beamer user I am indebted to Till Tantau and his team for a great
product that really fills a void
and for documentation which is probably as good as it ever gets. For me, its
goodbye powerpoint which I abhorred
and mostly used Flash instead. That was hard work. Beamer is a dream by
contrast.
samar
Re: How do you comment out content?
Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 21 April 2005 07:14 pm, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output? Never mind, I found it. It's an evironment called Comment in the standard Book document class. it is better to use in ERT \iffalse and at the end of your part also in ERT \fi Herbert
Re: Background image in Beamer
On Friday 22 April 2005 12:28, samar wrote:
Eugenio wrote:
After some help from Till Tantau, and consulting every related document I
could find, including de Lyx page, I developed an approach that works (?)
for me including the following commands in the preamble:
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[1]{%
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill \hfill
\includegraphics[width=0.8\paperwidth,height=0.8\paperheight]{#1}
\hfill \vfill
}}}
and using the command
\BackgroundPicture{image}
before the slide I need the background in.
I did the image processing with ImageMagick 1.6.9 tools, in order to
reduce the intensity of the image in the background (dissolving an
image onto a white background of the same size)
Any more contributions are accepted
Thanks
Eugenio Guevara
Eugenio
Thanks for the persistence. That was great. Works like a dream.
A few thoughts:
1. Depending on the size of your background bitmap you may need to adjust
the 0.8 factor in the preamble.
I think a better approach would be to define the scale on a per image basis,
i.e. in the form of \BackgroundPicture{image, desiredscale}. This can be
rather easily done, by not declaring a fixed value on the preamble but rather
defining a variable. This would allow different images with different
dimensions for different slides.
Thus:
In the preamble:
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[3]{%
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill \hfill
\includegraphics[width=#2\paperwidth,height=#3\paperheight]{#1}
\hfill \vfill
}}}
In the document body:
\BackgroundPicture{image, width factor, height factor}
I have not tried it yet, but I think it should work
2. if like me you are using a dark background and find your
text becoming invisible the simple solution I use is to put in the
preamble:
\usecolortheme{albatross}
Gives a great effect with a nearly black background
You can also define colors explicitly, but this rather defies the ease-of-use
and rapid-deployment points of the beamer class.
3. Is there any chance you or someone else can explain the logic of the
preamble code?
Ok, let's see if I can get this:
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[3]{%
%define a new command for later use (so that we don't have to write down this
%all of this each time we need to do the same thing)
%The command will be \BackgroundPicture and it takes 3 arguments (Eugenio's
%code took only one instead - [1] - the image file path)
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
%define the background beamer template as a:
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
%paragraph style box with the papersize dimensions
% ([\paperheight]{\paperwidth}) and its contents centered ([c])
\vfill \hfill
%expand both vertically and horizontally
\includegraphics[width=#2\paperwidth,height=#3\paperheight]{#1}
%instead of entering some text as is usually the case with \parbox
%insert an image whose path will be given as the first argument (#1)
%of the \BackgroundPicture command, width proportional to paperwidth
%at a scale factor given as the 2nd argument (#2) and height proportional
%to paperheight at a scale factor given as the 3rd argument (#3)
\hfill \vfill
%again, expand both horizontal and vertical so that the end result is nicelly
%centered and fills up the hole page
}
%closing the \parbox definition
}
%closing the background beamertemplate definition
}
%closing the BackgroundPicture newcommand definition
4. As a beamer user I am indebted to Till Tantau and his team for a great
product that really fills a void
and for documentation which is probably as good as it ever gets. For me,
its goodbye powerpoint which I abhorred
and mostly used Flash instead. That was hard work. Beamer is a dream by
contrast.
PowerPoint (or any other of its contenders like OO.org's Impress) is nowhere
near the class of this product. After discovering beamer, I never looked
back:
- Graphical quality others never dreamed of. I'm very fond of the rounded
inner theme with shadows enabled that invariably leaves people
speechless. :-)
- Unmatched ease of use and productivity speed. Try embedding complex tables
and/or footnotes on any office-suite presentation app just for an example of
exercise in futility.
- Portability. No need to bring along the whole computer or HOPE that the one
provided by the organizers is compatible as in not only providing the
necessary software (and thus practically LOCKING you on PowerPoint and NOT
the latest version if you want to play it safely) but also configured
appropriately for your presentation to work at 100%. Nah, the only need is
for Acrobat Reader or almost any other pdf viewer app: a standard tool even
for computers 10 years old.
The only case I will not use beamer is for special cases calling for
MagicPoint, i.e. incorporating fully functional
Re: How do you comment out content?
On 22.04.05, Micha Feigin wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:33:18 +
Angus Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to
temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make
this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as
Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output?
Never mind, I found it. It's an evironment called Comment in the
standard Book document class.
I suggest that you don't use this in LyX. You'll lose all nested
environments. Use the note inset instead.
I use a dirtier trick using ert.
I define a new command in the preamble:
\newcommand{\ignore}[1]{}
and then before the start of the part I want to remove in at ert block
\ignore{
and after it in another ert block
}
But why don't you just put \begin{comment} and \end{comment} as ERT around
the to-be-commented text? (Or Herberts tex commands)
Once I look at this, the LyXish solution would be to open a Comment
paragraph and nest the to-be-commented text in it.
If the first line of the to-be-commented text is a Standard paragraph, this
can be converted to comment, if not, you need to insert some stuff so the
Comment paragraph is not removed before you are able to nest something in it.
Developers:
---
* could the Comment Style get a KeepEmpty 1 tag?
* What would be a command-sequence to open a Comment and nest the
selection in it (as opposed to setting all selected paragraphs to
Comment Style)?
Or do we need a new lyx function for this.
Günter
--
G.Milde web.de
Re: How do you comment out content?
G == G Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: G Once I look at this, the LyXish solution would be to open a Comment G paragraph and nest the to-be-commented text in it. No. Select the text, press InsertNote. What's so wrong with that that? Comment was a stop-gap measure, and it should go. Actually, LyX 1.4.0 will have support for different types of Notes, including Comment-like. JMarc
Sections
Hi, When I use, in my document, class article, and 2 environments, section and subsection. There are more than 20 sectons each with aprox. 5-10 subsections. I get corrupted output ( exporting it to latex, I can see Underfull \hbox (badness 1590) in paragraph error messages). However when using amsart as a base class for the document, and even though error messages persist, produced output looks fine and is printable. AFAIK it has to do with hyphenation. I went on Dante and found few answers and possible solution, however none has helped solving this problem. Any ideas? I attempted to create my own layout based on amsart ( since this one works fine ). I seem not to be able to ie. get section headers align left (setting, in my.layout, Align Right outputs section header aligned right in dvi, but setting it to Left outputs it centered). Any tips how to get it right?
Re: why lyx when there's word?
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: (snip) Although Lyx provides another language layer over LaTeX (which works over plain TeX) its files still maintain a rather simple structure that becomes life-saving over crashes and glitches both Lyx-related and system-wide. (snip) True. (-: It'd be nice if the structure were documented somewhere, though - whenever I want to write software that generates LyX files, I have to reverse-engineer the format by inspecting various LyX files. At least, if I'm using software that's a version or two behind, a later LyX will generally happily read an older format LyX file with just a few warnings. -- Mark
Re: why lyx when there's word?
On Friday 22 April 2005 14:36, Mark Carroll wrote: True. (-: It'd be nice if the structure were documented somewhere, though - whenever I want to write software that generates LyX files, I have to reverse-engineer the format by inspecting various LyX files. At least, if I'm using software that's a version or two behind, a later LyX will generally happily read an older format LyX file with just a few warnings. Take a look to lyx2lyx comes with lyx. It is able to convert old files to the more recent format, so you shouldn't need to take care of that anymore. :-) Also all the changes after 1.3 are documented there. -- Mark -- José Abílio
Re: How to insert a new line into an array cell?
Patrick Gelin wrote: Hi, I can't use a CTRL + return into an array cell in order to add a new line. Could you tell me if it's possible to get much more one line into an array cell? Thanks. Not entirely sure what you mean. If you're trying to get something like this | b a | | c - d | e in an array, you can just insert a 2x1 array in the upper right cell of a 2x2 array. -- Paul Another possibility is to make the tabular array of fixed dimension, then you can use your return key. samar
Re: How do you comment out content?
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:14:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a small ( 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output? '\iffalse ' in ERT at the beginning and '\fi' in ERT at the end should do the trick. Andre'
Re: why lyx when there's word?
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote: And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of pybliographic. That was the best free open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and also launch a reference's local .pdf file with a click. Anyway, take a look at JabRef (http://jabref.sf.net). I was using pyblio and after trying JabRef I was so impressed I changed on the same day. Give it a try, its a great sofware. I just gave it a try and may keep using it. Functionally, it looks about the same as Pybliographic as far as I can tell. It is prettier though. Thanks for the tip. On the downside, it is written in Java :) Rich
Re: TOC headache
Hi Paul,
The \usepackage{tocbibind} did put the TOC in the TOC as desired, and it
numbered it in the TOC properly with the number of the first page of the
two-page TOC.
However, the Bibliography then appeared in the TOC *twice* at the end. I
unclicked the include bibliography in TOC option in the Lyx Bib widget
and that fixed that problem.
Thanks!
Rich
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Paul Medwell wrote:
Rich Drewes wrote:
I have a TOC that is two pages long. I must number my abstract, TOC, list
of figures, and other frontmatter with roman numerals and that's working.
Also, the TOC itself must appear as an entry in the TOC.
Here's the problem: If I put my
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table of Contents}
before the Lyx TOC widget, then the number that appears for the TOC in the
TOC is the page *before* the TOC actually starts. If I put my
\addcontentsline{toc} *after* the Lyx TOC widget, the page number that
appears for the TOC in the TOC is the *second* page of the TOC!
In both cases the pages themselves are numbered correctly. It's just the
page number in the TOC listing that is wrong.
Hi Rich,
Try adding to your preamble;
\usepackage{tocbibind}
Hope this helps.
Lata,
Paul
Re: why lyx when there's word?
Rich Drewes wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote: And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of pybliographic. That was the best free open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and also launch a reference's local .pdf file with a click. Anyway, take a look at JabRef (http://jabref.sf.net). I was using pyblio and after trying JabRef I was so impressed I changed on the same day. Give it a try, its a great sofware. I just gave it a try and may keep using it. Functionally, it looks about the same as Pybliographic as far as I can tell. It is prettier though. Thanks for the tip. On the downside, it is written in Java :) Rich Hmmm, it has a lot of nice features like accessing web databases and download records, like medline, etc. Import/export from more formats like ISI, JStor, medline, EndNote, etc. It also uses lyxpipe like pyblio. Searching is easier. A nice feature is to produce a BiBTeX file from a aux file, which I find quite nice if you keep your references in a big file and want to write a paper in colaboration with someone. The java part is the worst, I agree, being prettier helps but it's not decisive. Regards EJ
Re: How to insert a new line into an array cell?
Patrick Gelin wrote: Hi, I can't use a CTRL + return into an array cell in order to add a new line. Could you tell me if it's possible to get much more one line into an array cell? Thanks. Not entirely sure what you mean. If you're trying to get something like this | b a | | c - d | e in an array, you can just insert a 2x1 array in the upper right cell of a 2x2 array. -- Paul
Re: How do you make a bibliography?
Steve Litt wrote:
What is a site key, and what should I put in there? A number? A letter? A
cite ???
Actually, there is actually a semi-standard (not widely used though -- but I
like it), which is in $TEXMF/doc/bibtex/base/bibshare.
Should the author be Lastname, Firstname MiddleInitial?
Doesn't have to ($TEXMF/doc/bibtex/base/btxdoc.*), but it seems to be the
most robust if you want to export to non-BibTeX databases.
Why is there no provision to state a page number or chapter number?
page and chapter record.
If it's a website, what reference type do I use. tkbibtex has all sorts of
reference types, but Website isn't one of them?
When referencing a website, do I put its URL in the URL field?
natbib supports record url, so for example I have this in my dbase:
@misc{abreu:ESR-2001,
author = {Dilip Abreu and Rajiv Sethi},
title = {Evolutionary Stability in a Reputational Model of
Bargaining},
institution = {Princeton University and Barnard College, Columbia
University},
url = {http://ssrn.com/abstract=260652},
}
What are CROSSREF, CODE, ANNOTE and ABSTRACT for, and do I need to use
those just to give credit to the original source of the material?
see $TEXMF/doc/bibtex/base/btxdoc.*
@incollection{coase:PSC-1960,
author = {Ronald H. Coase},
title = {The Problem of Social Cost},
pages = {95--156},
note = {First published in \emph{Journal of Law and Economics}
3:1-44.},
crossref = {coase:FML-1998},
}
@book{coase:FML-1998,
publisher = pub-ucp,
year = {1998},
author = {Ronald H. Coase},
address = addr-chi,
booktitle = {The Firm, the Market, and the Law},
}
Sometimes I reference a whole book, and sometimes I reference a tiny piece
of text out of the book (within the bounds of fair use). How do these
differ as far as the bibiliaography?
see @incollection.
Matj
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Re: Sections
Peter Pieczora wrote: I get corrupted output ( exporting it to latex, I can see Underfull \hbox (badness 1590) in paragraph error messages). Underfull \hbox is a warning not error and it can be silently ignored in most of the cases. Matj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Q: Is vi an easy editor to learn, is it intuitive? A: Yes, some of us think so. But most people think that we are crazy. -- vi FAQ
Re: How do you "comment out" content?
Steve Litt wrote: >> I have a small (< 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to >> temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make >> this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as >> Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output? > Never mind, I found it. It's an evironment called "Comment" in the > standard Book document class. I suggest that you don't use this in LyX. You'll lose all nested environments. Use the "note" inset instead. -- Angus
Re: How do you "comment out" content?
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:33:18 +
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> >> I have a small (< 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to
> >> temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make
> >> this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as
> >> Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output?
>
> > Never mind, I found it. It's an evironment called "Comment" in the
> > standard Book document class.
>
> I suggest that you don't use this in LyX. You'll lose all nested
> environments. Use the "note" inset instead.
>
Whats the note inset?
I use a dirtier trick using ert.
I define a new command in the preamble:
\newcommand{\ignore}[1]{}
and then before the start of the part I want to remove in at ert block
\ignore{
and after it in another ert block
}
> --
> Angus
>
>
> +++
> This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System
> at the Tel-Aviv University CC.
>
+++
This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System
at the Tel-Aviv University CC.
Re: How do you "comment out" content?
Micha Feigin wrote: > Whats the note inset? Insert->Note -- Angus
Re: "why lyx when there's word?"
Rich Drewes wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually paid their LOC in gold. (LOC?) Another problem is the quite frequent instabillity derived by "overloading" word with such bells and whistles. I can't tell anything about EndNote since I haven't used it, but ReferenceManager in its days had blown up in my face more than once. Yes, I agree that stability can be an issue with Word addons. I have actually had rare Lyx crashes occur for me that appear to be related to the pipe communication between Pybliographic and Lyx, and I have also had some issues with Pybliographic importing reference files from major journals. (The Pybliographic problems seem to be related to those journals putting out reference keys that Pybliographic didn't consider standard format. However, when I tried to import the same file in EndNote it "just worked". From a user's perspective, "just working" with a warning message perhaps would be prefereble to failure plus an obscure error message which is what I got in Pybliographic.) I have never lost data with Lyx. Thanks, Lyx team. Please keep in mind that you can rather easily change "formatting" of the references anytime you please while still not messing (and thus loosing time) with the actual archive. This is a rather routine capability actually. Word+EndNote can do it too. Further, I have seen a live demonstration of some features of EndNote and RefViz that are pretty cool; there is nothing comparable in BibTex+Pybliographic or addons as far as I can find. It turns out I don't need those capabilities but I can see their usefulness. You can also SQL-query for references if your university library offers such service. I for one, consider the TexMed web interface a god send. Again, pretty routine stuff. EndNote can do it. OO.org's bibliography is far better than whatever "hack" you can get with the native MS Word endnotes. I'm not sure we are on the same page . . . EndNote isn't a native Word package of course, it is an add on software package. I tried OO's built in bibliographic support and found it pretty useless for now. Latex+pybliographic was much better than OO's built in stuff for bibliographic management. I would put Latex+pybliographic as in the same class as Word+Endote. Word+Endnote have a few more features for bibliographic management, but the basics are there in both. As I said there are some advanced features that Word+EndNote+RefViz can do that have no counterpart in open source AFAIK (unfortunately). Rich Hi, My 5 cents ... One of the major feature with LyX/LaTeX is the text file. How many documents do you have in Word 2 that can not be opened anymore ? And how many more do you expect to loose with the evolution of Word file format ? With text files you know that it will allways be possible to recover the information, even if LateX or LyX disapear. Another major feature is the size of the files. Producing a simple paper for a scientific journal with a few equations and figures can result in a word file of several MB while in LaTeX/LyX it will be a few k, even including the size of the ps files for figures. And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of pybliographic. I would say your comparing pybliographic with EndNote and not really LyX with Word ... Anyway, take a look at JabRef (http://jabref.sf.net). I was using pyblio and after trying JabRef I was so impressed I changed on the same day. Give it a try, its a great sofware. Regards EJ
Re: Background image in Beamer
Eugenio wrote:
After some help from Till Tantau, and consulting every related document I
could find, including de Lyx page, I developed an approach that works (?)
for me including the following commands in the preamble:
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[1]{%
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill \hfill
\includegraphics[width=0.8\paperwidth,height=0.8\paperheight]{#1}
\hfill \vfill
}}}
and using the command
\BackgroundPicture{image}
before the slide I need the background in.
I did the image processing with ImageMagick 1.6.9 tools, in order to
"reduce" the intensity of the image in the background (dissolving an image
onto a white background of the same size)
Any more contributions are accepted
Thanks
Eugenio Guevara
- Original Message -
From: "samar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Eugenio Guevara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 7:17 AM
Subject: Re: Background image in Beamer
Hi Eugenio
I have been looking for an answer to this myself so I waited hoping
someone would answer your query.
The nearest I have got is putting a grid in according to the manual on
page 59 which also mentions that one can put a picture in using the
\setbeamertemplate{background}
For putting a grid in one just goes:
\setbeamertemplate{background}[grid]
according to the manual one can put in a background picture the same way
but it gives no example how and all my attempts have not been very
successful.
Perhaps someone more adroit at interpreting the manual will be kind
enough to explain.
samar
- Original Message -
From: "Eugenio Guevara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 11:04 AM
Subject: Background image in Beamer
I am using Beamer with Lyx 1.3.5 on a Windows XP platform. I am
preparing
a
presentation and can't find a way to put a background image on any frame
and
change it as needed.
Can anyone give some light on this matter?
Thanks in advance
Eugenio Guevara
Eugenio
Thanks for the persistence. That was great. Works like a dream.
A few thoughts:
1. Depending on the size of your background bitmap you may need to adjust
the 0.8 factor in the preamble.
2. if like me you are using a dark background and find your
text becoming invisible the simple solution I use is to put in the preamble:
\usecolortheme{albatross}
Gives a great effect with a nearly black background
3. Is there any chance you or someone else can explain the logic of the
preamble code?
4. As a beamer user I am indebted to Till Tantau and his team for a great
product that really fills a void
and for documentation which is probably as good as it ever gets. For me, its
goodbye powerpoint which I abhorred
and mostly used Flash instead. That was hard work. Beamer is a dream by
contrast.
samar
Re: How do you "comment out" content?
Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 21 April 2005 07:14 pm, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I have a small (< 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output? Never mind, I found it. It's an evironment called "Comment" in the standard Book document class. it is better to use in ERT \iffalse and at the end of your part also in ERT \fi Herbert
Re: Background image in Beamer
On Friday 22 April 2005 12:28, samar wrote:
> Eugenio wrote:
> > After some help from Till Tantau, and consulting every related document I
> > could find, including de Lyx page, I developed an approach that works (?)
> > for me including the following commands in the preamble:
> >
> > \newcommand\BackgroundPicture[1]{%
> >\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
> >\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
> >\vfill \hfill
> > \includegraphics[width=0.8\paperwidth,height=0.8\paperheight]{#1}
> > \hfill \vfill
> > }}}
> >
> > and using the command
> >
> > \BackgroundPicture{image}
> >
> > before the slide I need the background in.
> >
> > I did the image processing with ImageMagick 1.6.9 tools, in order to
> > "reduce" the intensity of the image in the background (dissolving an
> > image onto a white background of the same size)
> >
> > Any more contributions are accepted
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Eugenio Guevara
> >
>
> Eugenio
>
> Thanks for the persistence. That was great. Works like a dream.
>
> A few thoughts:
>
> 1. Depending on the size of your background bitmap you may need to adjust
> the 0.8 factor in the preamble.
I think a better approach would be to define the scale on a per image basis,
i.e. in the form of \BackgroundPicture{, }. This can be
rather easily done, by not declaring a fixed value on the preamble but rather
defining a variable. This would allow different images with different
dimensions for different slides.
Thus:
In the preamble:
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[3]{%
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill \hfill
\includegraphics[width=#2\paperwidth,height=#3\paperheight]{#1}
\hfill \vfill
}}}
In the document body:
\BackgroundPicture{, , }
I have not tried it yet, but I think it should work
> 2. if like me you are using a dark background and find your
> text becoming invisible the simple solution I use is to put in the
> preamble:
>
> \usecolortheme{albatross}
>
> Gives a great effect with a nearly black background
You can also define colors explicitly, but this rather defies the ease-of-use
and rapid-deployment points of the beamer class.
> 3. Is there any chance you or someone else can explain the logic of the
> preamble code?
Ok, let's see if I can get this:
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[3]{%
%define a new command for later use (so that we don't have to write down this
%all of this each time we need to do the same thing)
%The command will be "\BackgroundPicture" and it takes 3 arguments (Eugenio's
%code took only one instead - [1] - the image file path)
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
%define the background beamer template as a:
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
%"paragraph style box" with the papersize dimensions
% ([\paperheight]{\paperwidth}) and its contents centered ([c])
\vfill \hfill
%expand both vertically and horizontally
\includegraphics[width=#2\paperwidth,height=#3\paperheight]{#1}
%instead of entering some text as is usually the case with \parbox
%insert an image whose path will be given as the first argument (#1)
%of the \BackgroundPicture command, width proportional to paperwidth
%at a scale factor given as the 2nd argument (#2) and height proportional
%to paperheight at a scale factor given as the 3rd argument (#3)
\hfill \vfill
%again, expand both horizontal and vertical so that the end result is nicelly
%centered and fills up the hole page
}
%closing the \parbox definition
}
%closing the background beamertemplate definition
}
%closing the BackgroundPicture newcommand definition
> 4. As a beamer user I am indebted to Till Tantau and his team for a great
> product that really fills a void
> and for documentation which is probably as good as it ever gets. For me,
> its goodbye powerpoint which I abhorred
> and mostly used Flash instead. That was hard work. Beamer is a dream by
> contrast.
PowerPoint (or any other of its contenders like OO.org's Impress) is nowhere
near the class of this product. After discovering beamer, I never looked
back:
- Graphical quality others never dreamed of. I'm very fond of the "rounded"
inner theme with shadows enabled that invariably leaves people
speechless. :-)
- Unmatched ease of use and productivity speed. Try embedding complex tables
and/or footnotes on any office-suite presentation app just for an example of
exercise in futility.
- Portability. No need to bring along the whole computer or HOPE that the one
provided by the organizers is compatible as in not only providing the
necessary software (and thus practically LOCKING you on PowerPoint and NOT
the latest version if you want to play it safely) but also configured
appropriately for your presentation to work at 100%. Nah, the only need is
for Acrobat Reader or almost any other pdf viewer app: a standard tool even
for computers 10 years old.
The only case I will not use beamer is for "special cases" calling for
Re: How do you "comment out" content?
On 22.04.05, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:33:18 +
> Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Steve Litt wrote:
> > >> I have a small (< 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to
> > >> temporarily comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make
> > >> this text into a comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as
> > >> Standard environment, but for now not be visible in the output?
> >
> > > Never mind, I found it. It's an evironment called "Comment" in the
> > > standard Book document class.
> >
> > I suggest that you don't use this in LyX. You'll lose all nested
> > environments. Use the "note" inset instead.
> I use a dirtier trick using ert.
>
> I define a new command in the preamble:
> \newcommand{\ignore}[1]{}
>
> and then before the start of the part I want to remove in at ert block
> \ignore{
> and after it in another ert block
> }
But why don't you just put \begin{comment} and \end{comment} as ERT around
the to-be-commented text? (Or Herberts tex commands)
Once I look at this, the LyXish solution would be to open a Comment
paragraph and nest the to-be-commented text in it.
If the first line of the to-be-commented text is a Standard paragraph, this
can be converted to comment, if not, you need to insert some stuff so the
Comment paragraph is not removed before you are able to nest something in it.
Developers:
---
* could the Comment Style get a KeepEmpty 1 tag?
* What would be a command-sequence to open a Comment and nest the
selection in it (as opposed to setting all selected paragraphs to
Comment Style)?
Or do we need a new lyx function for this.
Günter
--
G.Milde web.de
Re: How do you "comment out" content?
> "G" == G Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: G> Once I look at this, the LyXish solution would be to open a Comment G> paragraph and nest the to-be-commented text in it. No. Select the text, press Insert>Note. What's so wrong with that that? Comment was a stop-gap measure, and it should go. Actually, LyX 1.4.0 will have support for different types of Notes, including Comment-like. JMarc
Sections
Hi, When I use, in my document, class article, and 2 environments, section and subsection. There are more than 20 sectons each with aprox. 5-10 subsections. I get corrupted output ( exporting it to latex, I can see "Underfull \hbox (badness 1590) in paragraph" error messages). However when using amsart as a base class for the document, and even though error messages persist, produced output looks fine and is printable. AFAIK it has to do with hyphenation. I went on Dante and found few answers and possible solution, however none has helped solving this problem. Any ideas? I attempted to create my own layout based on amsart ( since this one works fine ). I seem not to be able to ie. get section headers align left (setting, in my.layout, Align Right outputs section header aligned right in dvi, but setting it to Left outputs it centered). Any tips how to get it right?
Re: "why lyx when there's word?"
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote: (snip) > Although Lyx provides another language layer over LaTeX (which works over > plain TeX) its files still maintain a rather simple structure that becomes > life-saving over crashes and glitches both Lyx-related and system-wide. (snip) True. (-: It'd be nice if the structure were documented somewhere, though - whenever I want to write software that generates LyX files, I have to reverse-engineer the format by inspecting various LyX files. At least, if I'm using software that's a version or two behind, a later LyX will generally happily read an "older format" LyX file with just a few warnings. -- Mark
Re: "why lyx when there's word?"
On Friday 22 April 2005 14:36, Mark Carroll wrote: > > True. (-: It'd be nice if the structure were documented somewhere, though > - whenever I want to write software that generates LyX files, I have to > reverse-engineer the format by inspecting various LyX files. At least, if > I'm using software that's a version or two behind, a later LyX will > generally happily read an "older format" LyX file with just a few > warnings. Take a look to lyx2lyx comes with lyx. It is able to convert old files to the more recent format, so you shouldn't need to take care of that anymore. :-) Also all the changes after 1.3 are documented there. > -- Mark -- José Abílio
Re: How to insert a new line into an array cell?
Patrick Gelin wrote: Hi, I can't use a CTRL + return into an array cell in order to add a new line. Could you tell me if it's possible to get much more one line into an array cell? Thanks. Not entirely sure what you mean. If you're trying to get something like this | b a | | c - d | e in an array, you can just insert a 2x1 array in the upper right cell of a 2x2 array. -- Paul Another possibility is to make the tabular array of fixed dimension, then you can use your return key. samar
Re: How do you "comment out" content?
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:14:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a small (< 1 page) section of my book which I'd like to temporarily > comment out. Is there an environment with which I can make this text into a > comment, so it can later easily be reincorporated as Standard environment, > but for now not be visible in the output? '\iffalse ' in ERT at the beginning and '\fi' in ERT at the end should do the trick. Andre'
Re: "why lyx when there's word?"
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote: > And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of > pybliographic. That was the best free & open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and also launch a reference's local .pdf file with a click. > Anyway, take a look at JabRef > (http://jabref.sf.net). I was using pyblio and after trying JabRef I was > so impressed I changed on the same day. Give it a try, its a great sofware. I just gave it a try and may keep using it. Functionally, it looks about the same as Pybliographic as far as I can tell. It is prettier though. Thanks for the tip. On the downside, it is written in Java :) Rich
Re: TOC headache
Hi Paul,
The \usepackage{tocbibind} did put the TOC in the TOC as desired, and it
numbered it in the TOC properly with the number of the first page of the
two-page TOC.
However, the Bibliography then appeared in the TOC *twice* at the end. I
unclicked the "include bibliography in TOC" option in the Lyx Bib widget
and that fixed that problem.
Thanks!
Rich
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Paul Medwell wrote:
> Rich Drewes wrote:
> > I have a TOC that is two pages long. I must number my abstract, TOC, list
> > of figures, and other frontmatter with roman numerals and that's working.
> > Also, the TOC itself must appear as an entry in the TOC.
> >
> > Here's the problem: If I put my
> >
> > \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Table of Contents}
> >
> > before the Lyx TOC widget, then the number that appears for the TOC in the
> > TOC is the page *before* the TOC actually starts. If I put my
> > \addcontentsline{toc} *after* the Lyx TOC widget, the page number that
> > appears for the TOC in the TOC is the *second* page of the TOC!
> >
> > In both cases the pages themselves are numbered correctly. It's just the
> > page number in the TOC listing that is wrong.
>
>
> Hi Rich,
>
> Try adding to your preamble;
> \usepackage{tocbibind}
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Lata,
> Paul
>
Re: "why lyx when there's word?"
Rich Drewes wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Ernesto Jardim wrote: And for last, your arguments are very much depending on the use of pybliographic. That was the best free & open source GUI bibliographic manager I had found at the time that could insert references into a Lyx doc with a click and also launch a reference's local .pdf file with a click. Anyway, take a look at JabRef (http://jabref.sf.net). I was using pyblio and after trying JabRef I was so impressed I changed on the same day. Give it a try, its a great sofware. I just gave it a try and may keep using it. Functionally, it looks about the same as Pybliographic as far as I can tell. It is prettier though. Thanks for the tip. On the downside, it is written in Java :) Rich Hmmm, it has a lot of nice features like accessing web databases and download records, like medline, etc. Import/export from more formats like ISI, JStor, medline, EndNote, etc. It also uses lyxpipe like pyblio. Searching is easier. A nice feature is to produce a BiBTeX file from a aux file, which I find quite nice if you keep your references in a big file and want to write a paper in colaboration with someone. The java part is the worst, I agree, being prettier helps but it's not decisive. Regards EJ
Re: How to insert a new line into an array cell?
Patrick Gelin wrote: Hi, I can't use a CTRL + return into an array cell in order to add a new line. Could you tell me if it's possible to get much more one line into an array cell? Thanks. Not entirely sure what you mean. If you're trying to get something like this | b a | | c - d | e in an array, you can just insert a 2x1 array in the upper right cell of a 2x2 array. -- Paul
Re: How do you make a bibliography?
Steve Litt wrote:
> What is a site key, and what should I put in there? A number? A letter? A
cite ???
Actually, there is actually a semi-standard (not widely used though -- but I
like it), which is in $TEXMF/doc/bibtex/base/bibshare.
> Should the author be Lastname, Firstname MiddleInitial?
Doesn't have to ($TEXMF/doc/bibtex/base/btxdoc.*), but it seems to be the
most robust if you want to export to non-BibTeX databases.
> Why is there no provision to state a page number or chapter number?
page and chapter record.
> If it's a website, what reference type do I use. tkbibtex has all sorts of
> reference types, but "Website" isn't one of them?
>
> When referencing a website, do I put its URL in the URL field?
natbib supports record url, so for example I have this in my dbase:
@misc{abreu:ESR-2001,
author = {Dilip Abreu and Rajiv Sethi},
title = {Evolutionary Stability in a Reputational Model of
Bargaining},
institution = {Princeton University and Barnard College, Columbia
University},
url = {http://ssrn.com/abstract=260652},
}
> What are CROSSREF, CODE, ANNOTE and ABSTRACT for, and do I need to use
> those just to give credit to the original source of the material?
see $TEXMF/doc/bibtex/base/btxdoc.*
@incollection{coase:PSC-1960,
author = {Ronald H. Coase},
title = {The Problem of Social Cost},
pages = {95--156},
note = {First published in \emph{Journal of Law and Economics}
3:1-44.},
crossref = {coase:FML-1998},
}
@book{coase:FML-1998,
publisher = pub-ucp,
year = {1998},
author = {Ronald H. Coase},
address = addr-chi,
booktitle = {The Firm, the Market, and the Law},
}
> Sometimes I reference a whole book, and sometimes I reference a tiny piece
> of text out of the book (within the bounds of fair use). How do these
> differ as far as the bibiliaography?
see @incollection.
Matěj
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Re: Sections
Peter Pieczora wrote: > I get corrupted output ( exporting it to latex, I can see "Underfull > \hbox (badness 1590) in paragraph" error messages). Underfull \hbox is a warning not error and it can be silently ignored in most of the cases. Matěj -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 Q: Is vi an easy editor to learn, is it intuitive? A: Yes, some of us think so. But most people think that we are crazy. -- vi FAQ
