Re: xmgrace and lyx 1.4
iprmaster wrote: > Hello LyXers > I have started to use the new LyX version and I am very impressed about > the new interface. Unfortunately, some old (1.3.5) lyx files does not work > properly. In particular some xmgrace floats (extension .agr.gz) are not > recognized: This is probably this bug: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2231 Until this is fixed, unzip the file, and it should work. Georg
xmgrace and lyx 1.4
Hello LyXers I have started to use the new LyX version and I am very impressed about the new interface. Unfortunately, some old (1.3.5) lyx files does not work properly. In particular some xmgrace floats (extension .agr.gz) are not recognized: ...ts_FRC_zeroD_HydrogenAir_base\lyxdot agr} \par\end{centering} The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, and I'll forget about whatever was undefined. for the inserted file Plots/FRC/zeroD/HydrogenAir/base.agr.gz I have tried to play with the configuration ("File Formats" and "Converters") but I could not get any working setting. I had no problem with the previous versions (up to 1.3.6). Any idea? Thanks Max
Installing of LyX-win 1.4.1 on windows xp
I can successfully install LyX-win 1.4.1 on my office computer under Windows xp. However, when I tried it on my notebook, it freezed when running the configuration during installing. When "+checking for "/Resources/../src/tex2lyx/tex2lyx"...", there are no any reponses. Note that the Tex environment is fine. I have used LyX 1.3.7 for a long time and it works nice. Can anyone give me some hints to pass through it? More thanks. -- Wang Xiangqi Mechanical Engineering National University of Singapore
Re: LyX 1.4: "Comment" paragraph style missing?
Andreas Busch wrote: > By the way, is there any way the word count could exclude counting > the words in comments? Most people, I assume, don't want them counted. I don't think so, but it would be a sensible enhancement (->bugzilla). Jürgen
Re: floatflt
Lee Yeoh wrote: > indeed... For some reason, my copy didn't come with the manual for floatflt, but I managed to track one down... The problem I described *is* a known bug, and the work around *is* to use ERT: \fltitem{text } instead of \item text I suppose I can fix this up as some kind of default or something using a macro (which I know nothing about yet), but otherwise it's going to be a real pain to have to type this ERT in every time and forgo any of the GUI capabilities of LyX within these items! Any quick and easy suggestions that will allow me to keep the rest of LyX happening? I think we can rule out both "quick" and "easy". :-( I'm shooting from the hip here -- haven't tried this, don't plan to -- but it might be possible to create a new environment type to replace the itemize environment, using \fltitem in place of \item. You might define the environment so that it temporarily redefines the \item command to \fltitem and then invokes \begin{itemize} at the outset, and invokes \end{itemize} followed by reverting \item to its original definition at the end. (I'm fuzzy on how exactly to do this in LaTeX, but perhaps a LaTeX guru could help.) Assuming you can get the LaTeX code to work, the next step would be to hack the stdlists.inc file in the LyX layouts directory. Clone the itemize environment, rename the clone appropriately, change its LatexName to match your new command, and stuff your LaTeX code in the preamble section. With any kind of luck, that puts your new environment on the environment list in most if not all document classes, and you invoke it in lieu of itemize when you're in the mood to use floatflt nearby. (You might also have to clone the enumerate environment similarly.) /Paul
LyX and XFig: brilliant
Dear LyXers, Perhaps this would be better posted on the devel list, but I just want to give a big THANK YOU to the coders of LyX, and the feature in the latest release to allow direct insertion of XFig figures with embedded LaTeX text. Not horribly long ago, I got used to inserting the text (in XFig), using the "special" flag, etc. But the ability to simply shove the .fig file into LyX directly, AND have rotation and scaling work correctly is GREAT. Can you tell I'm excited? Again, thank you. LyX is one open-source project I've donated (money, if not time) to, and will happily do so in the future. Sincerely, Curtis Osterhoudt
Re: importing graphics (format question)
Well I'm hoping it will be the answer anyways! I'll know for sure when I have a little more time to test some things, http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FiguresInLyX was where I found additional the information that I think will help me sort this out. I think I will just need to work out what should be doing conversions on my system. (OSX) But for now the pdflatex output option seems to handle .png's just fine. So I'll just convert my graphics files for now until I have time to investigate furthur. No images are currently being displayed in my lyx window, but that's not a big deal to me. -Jesse On Apr 2, 2006, at 6:30 PM, Robert Orr wrote: where is the ans. on the Wiki?? --- jesse mejia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: sorry, found it in the wiki. it seems to be a problem with my install that I'll sort out later...in the meantime .png is working! -Jesse On Apr 2, 2006, at 5:47 PM, jesse mejia wrote: I'm getting the message: "error converting into a loadable format" when trying to insert .pict, .tiff, or .eps graphics. Are these all the wrong formats to be trying? What works best? Thanks, Jesse __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
no double empty page between appendice chapters
Dear list members, how can it be done that (koma script, book, German) between appendice chapters there are no double empty pages? I thought about something like "\openany" but how can this related _just_ to the appendix, for the rest of the book it is ok as it is and no changes are required. My preambel also contains (which I need): [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you very much, leo gürtler
Re: importing graphics (format question)
where is the ans. on the Wiki?? --- jesse mejia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry, found it in the wiki. it seems to be a > problem with my install > that I'll sort out later...in the meantime .png is > working! > > -Jesse > On Apr 2, 2006, at 5:47 PM, jesse mejia wrote: > > > I'm getting the message: "error converting into a > loadable format" > > when trying to insert .pict, .tiff, or .eps > graphics. Are these all > > the wrong formats to be trying? What works best? > > > > Thanks, > > Jesse > > > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Arrows linking different tables
pstricks package allows this. First load pstricks pkg and experiment a little to get used to what you can do. In the final doc. What I do is follow these steps. 1. overlay a psgrid i.e. put an ert \psgrid somewhere at the bottom of the page 2. produce the pdf and look at the output to see the coordinates. 3. based on the coordinates in step 2, add the ert pstricks command to produce the lines in the appropriate locations. 4. remove the grid command Good luck. --- Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All > > I have a few tables in the same page, and I would > like to add some > arrows linking certain cells between different > tables. Is that > possible with LyX/LaTeX? > > Thanks in advance, > > Paul > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
[announce] testversion 1.9 of LyXWinInstaller with LyX 1.4.1svn
Hello LyXers, under http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117&release_id=9632 you can find a testversion of the LyX installer for Windows (version 1.9), the first one that comes with LyX 1.4. To learn more about the LyX installer for Windows, have a look at http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller +++ Warning! This is a testrelease, not ready for normal usage! +++ It installs a development snapshot from march 19 2006 (LyX 1.4.1svn). As soon as possible I'll provide a new installer version that will install the next stable LyX version 1.4.1. You can install LyX 1.4.1svn aditionally to LyX 1.3.7, that means you can test it with having a stable working LyX 1.3 release on your system. These problems are known: - LyX's menus are not localized (english is used) - all toolbar buttons are disabled after you opened a dialog, they are deactivated when you click in the text (see LyX's bug 2423) Here's the changelog: - this installer comes with the unstable LyX 1.4.1svn - LyX 1.4.1svn can be installed additionally to LyX 1.3.x - updated to aspell 0.60-4 - updated to imagemagick 6.2.6-8 - pdf images are now displayed in Lyx as in Adobe Reader (for more details see LyX's bug 2418) - LaTeX packages needed by beamer and powerdot will now automatically be installed when LyX is first configured -- LyX 1.4 needs aspell 0.60.4 for spellchecking, that means you have to install new dictionaries after you installed LyX 1.4. You can download them from http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Aspell6 LyXWinInstaller comes with these additional features in comparison to the official release: - layout files for beamer and powerdot - slightly different toolbar, see http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UserInterface Please report every bug you found to the lyx-users list or directly to me. Thanks. best regards Uwe
Arrows linking different tables
Dear All I have a few tables in the same page, and I would like to add some arrows linking certain cells between different tables. Is that possible with LyX/LaTeX? Thanks in advance, Paul
Re: importing graphics (format question)
sorry, found it in the wiki. it seems to be a problem with my install that I'll sort out later...in the meantime .png is working! -Jesse On Apr 2, 2006, at 5:47 PM, jesse mejia wrote: I'm getting the message: "error converting into a loadable format" when trying to insert .pict, .tiff, or .eps graphics. Are these all the wrong formats to be trying? What works best? Thanks, Jesse
Re: LyX 1.4: "Comment" paragraph style missing?
Thanks! I had read it in the notes when I upgraded, but had forgotten about it. I do see the advantage. By the way, is there any way the word count could exclude counting the words in comments? Most people, I assume, don't want them counted. Thanks again for the quick help, Andreas -- Dr. Andreas Busch[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reader in European Politics, and Course Director, MPhil in European Politics and Society, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in PoliticsTel. +44-(0)1865-279 451 (direct) Hertford CollegeFax +44-(0)1865-279 437 Oxford OX1 3BW, United Kingdom Homepage: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~busch Weblog: http://politicsofprivacy.blogspot.com
importing graphics (format question)
I'm getting the message: "error converting into a loadable format" when trying to insert .pict, .tiff, or .eps graphics. Are these all the wrong formats to be trying? What works best? Thanks, Jesse
Re: LyX 1.4: "Comment" paragraph style missing?
Andreas Busch wrote: > However, I just discovered that the Comment paragraph style is > missing from the article (koma-script) document class. Is there a > reason for this, or did something go wrong in my installation? (I am > running this on Mac OS X). This is now a real inset. Look at Insert->Note->Comment. The advantage of this is that it can contain now other than standard paragraph styles. HTH, Jürgen
Re: floatflt
On 02/04/2006, at 10:19 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: You'll notice that even when the image appears (and by the way, where did you get a picture of my ex-girlfriend?), the bullet text overwrites it. This is a known bug/feature of floatflt, for which there is a work-around (section 3.1 of the floatflt manual) that requires you to replace \item commands with a customized version -- which I think effectively requires you to set the bullet list in ERT . I'm not positive, but I think what you're encountering (which I reproduced here with LyX 1.4.1 on Win XP) is another aspect of the same bug. You might want to report it to the package author. The manual (a DVI file in the docs/latex/floatflt folder under your main TeX installation) has contact info. indeed... For some reason, my copy didn't come with the manual for floatflt, but I managed to track one down... The problem I described *is* a known bug, and the work around *is* to use ERT: \fltitem{text } instead of \item text I suppose I can fix this up as some kind of default or something using a macro (which I know nothing about yet), but otherwise it's going to be a real pain to have to type this ERT in every time and forgo any of the GUI capabilities of LyX within these items! Any quick and easy suggestions that will allow me to keep the rest of LyX happening? Thanks again, Lee. -- Lee Yeoh
Re: Reducing size of LaTeX pictures
On 4/2/06, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, John, but I do not observe any size reduction with \scalebox. > > (Please, see the attached example.) > > Scalebox does not work with DVI preview, but should work once you > convert the document to PS or PDF. Thanks, John. That is it! Paul
\bind not working on 1.4.0
Hi every body, I ve just check the 1.4.0 version, there are a lot diff than 1.3.4 and bugs too. I wnat to switch with F12 to another language, say arabic, so I uncomment the arabic part in lyxrc.example and I copied it to lyxrc (I used to do it without problem since 1.1.6 versiion), it is working on 1.3.4 but not 1.4.0, the \bind is not recognized. First I have to fix this pb before continue and check other things best regards bela thank for help __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Reducing size of LaTeX pictures
n Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 01:54:25PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > Thanks, John, but I do not observe any size reduction with \scalebox. > (Please, see the attached example.) Scalebox does not work with DVI preview, but should work once you convert the document to PS or PDF. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted Masters Student
Re: Reducing size of LaTeX pictures
On 4/2/06, john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ! Undefined control sequence. > > l.81 \scalebox > > {0.5}{ > > You'll need to put > > \usepackage{graphicx} > > in your preamble to be able to use scalebox. Thanks, John, but I do not observe any size reduction with \scalebox. (Please, see the attached example.) Paul scale.lyx Description: application/lyx
LyX 1.4: "Comment" paragraph style missing?
Hi, I have been using LyX 1.4 for several weeks now, and find it a huge improvement. However, I just discovered that the Comment paragraph style is missing from the article (koma-script) document class. Is there a reason for this, or did something go wrong in my installation? (I am running this on Mac OS X). I did have a brief look at the layouts directory, but since I found nothing obvious and was afraid to mess things up, I thought I'd ask here for advice. Any help greatly appreciated! Andreas -- Dr. Andreas Busch[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reader in European Politics, and Course Director, MPhil in European Politics and Society, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford Fellow and Tutor in PoliticsTel. +44-(0)1865-279 451 (direct) Hertford CollegeFax +44-(0)1865-279 437 Oxford OX1 3BW, United Kingdom Homepage: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~busch Weblog: http://politicsofprivacy.blogspot.com
Re: Reducing size of LaTeX pictures
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 01:21:01PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > ! Undefined control sequence. > l.81 \scalebox > {0.5}{ You'll need to put \usepackage{graphicx} in your preamble to be able to use scalebox. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted Masters Student
Re: Reducing size of LaTeX pictures
On 4/2/06, Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I reduce to 50% of its size, say, without having to redraw the > > whole picture? > > > \unitlength 1mm > > shouldn't \unitlength 0.5mm do the trick? Otherwise use \scalebox{0.5}{...} \unitlength 0.5mm does not work, as my picture has got text and the text is not resized. I tried \scalebox{0.5}{ \unitlength 1mm \begin{picture}(80,40)(0,0) \linethickness{0.2mm} \put(0,0){\line(1,0){30}} [snip] \end{picture} } but getting ! Undefined control sequence. l.81 \scalebox {0.5}{ Paul
Re: Reducing size of LaTeX pictures
Paul Smith schrieb: How can I reduce to 50% of its size, say, without having to redraw the whole picture? \unitlength 1mm shouldn't \unitlength 0.5mm do the trick? Otherwise use \scalebox{0.5}{...} \begin{picture}(80,40)(0,0) \linethickness{0.2mm} \put(0,0){\line(1,0){30}} [snip] \end{picture} Yours, Karsten
Reducing size of LaTeX pictures
Dear All I have the following picture inserted in a figure float: \unitlength 1mm \begin{picture}(80,40)(0,0) \linethickness{0.2mm} \put(0,0){\line(1,0){30}} [snip] \end{picture} How can I reduce to 50% of its size, say, without having to redraw the whole picture? Thanks in advance, Paul
Re: Simpler than beamer?
On 4/2/06, Mael Hilléreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Ingar. After having thought a bit deeper, I speculate whether > > beamer can make presentations without all those beautiful ornaments; I > > just want a white sheet to lay down my presentations. Am I right that > > beamer can do that? If so, what would be the sty file to use? > > If you were using powerdot, you'd just have to use the default style > ("style=simple" class option) which doesn't use any ornament. Thanks to all. I am going to ponder on all your suggestions. Paul
Spellchecker of non-English idioms fails to start
Dear All Yes, the spellchecker fails to start for a non-English language. Running LyX 1.4 on FC5 and getting on the command line $ Dialog "spellchecker" failed to translate the data string passed to show() Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul
beamer-article layout
Hi Based on the beamer.layout i have made a beamer-article layout for LyX. The new layout makes a continuous text from your slides and saves on the number of pages needed to be printed. I put it in the wiki so that people can use it if they want to. http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/LaTeX-beamer Ingar --
Re: Simpler than beamer?
Thanks, Ingar. After having thought a bit deeper, I speculate whether beamer can make presentations without all those beautiful ornaments; I just want a white sheet to lay down my presentations. Am I right that beamer can do that? If so, what would be the sty file to use? If you were using powerdot, you'd just have to use the default style ("style=simple" class option) which doesn't use any ornament. Cheers, Mael. -- Mael Hilléreau