Re: Accessing style menu from keyboard
Neil McLeod schrieb: Hello, Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut, just as one would access the File menu with Alt-F? I know there are individual keybindings for the various styles, but I'd love to be able to select the drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut and then type in the first few letters of the style I want to type, and press enter. (This second step seems to work already.) Neil Check out Changing the paragraph environment on http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/FrequentlyUsedShortcuts Is that what you want? BTW, the letter p in there seems to be locale-specific, IIRC. (In German I think it's a for Absatz.) I should update the wiki page... -Sven
Re: Accessing style menu from keyboard
Neil == Neil McLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neil Hello, Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with Neil a keyboard shortcut, just as one would access the File menu Neil with Alt-F? I know there are individual keybindings for the Neil various styles, but I'd love to be able to select the drop-down Neil menu with a keyboard shortcut and then type in the first few Neil letters of the style I want to type, and press enter. (This Neil second step seems to work already.) Alt-P space JMarc
Re: [update] Re: fancyhdr! It's working. BUT 3 questions ...
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: That makes sense I guess. But all I want to do is to learn to use LyX instead of Ooffice for most of my writing. I'm not really planing on becoming a LaTeX expert. Still I suppose I might use google to find an online manual I could look at for clues now and then. No need to become an expert. A manual will contain the easy stuff too - feel free to skip the hard parts. Often-used stuff, like page number, chapter number/name and so on tends to be easy enough. If you don't find a handy list anywhere, make your own as you collect tips. :-) Now, if you want some specific thing in your header, such as date, filename, or the page number in roman numerals - just ask. Actually I wanted the list of possibles to see if it gave me any ideas. Well - anything goes. Some things may be harder than others, buit there are few limits on what you _can_ get somehow. Anything you can refer to, anything that is automatically numbered or named can be brought out in the headers if you wish. That's why I suggest that you ask - if you miss something your previous word processor could put in the header for you. Speaking of which you just gave me one. At least I think you did grin. When you say filename, do you mean the full pathname of the .lyx file such as /home/jtwdyp/com/lyxSTUFF/ToJim.lyx or just ToJim.lyx??? Wait let me guess, there is probably a latex command form for both the simple filename and the pathname, right? Unfortunately, you can only get the name of the latex file. Now, this is the same as the name of the lyx file, except that it ends in .tex instead of .lyx. So it is still useful. The way lyx manages files means that the path only is the path to the temporary directory lyx uses for conversions and processing. It is done this way because latex makes tons of little files while running - it is nice not having to clean up all of them in a careful way. The entire temporary directory is deleted when you close lyx, which is easier to do. Adding a filename reference to lyx might be useful - but it can't happen until 1.6 as version 1.5 is in feature freeze right now. Helge Hafting
Re: texlive as support for lyx
abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex. [ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ?? I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now. This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff worked when I added it to /usr/local. Helge Hafting
Fonts and math fonts
I am a little confused over which is best method for changing the document font and the font used in mathematical equations. I don't want any particularly unusual fonts: Times, Helvetica and Courier and about all I need really. Can anyone let me know what the easiest method of changing the font for both text and equations is? _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters
Re: Fonts and math fonts
John Hughes wrote:
I am a little confused over which is best method for changing the document
font and the font used in mathematical equations. I don't want any
particularly unusual fonts: Times, Helvetica and Courier and about all I
need really. Can anyone let me know what the easiest method of changing the
font for both text and equations is?
\usepackage{mathptmx}
in preamble.
Jürgen
Re: texlive as support for lyx
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100 Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex. [ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ?? I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now. This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff worked when I added it to /usr/local. Heck, I haven't even noticed that. LyX works fine with texlive, in fact I went to texlive as suggested here about 6 months ago to get rid of a tetex bug (as packaged in debian etch, at least). Absolutely no issues with texlive and lyx. In what sense is tetex required for lyx? -- David L. Johnson __o | Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can _`\(,_ | assure you that mine are all greater. -- A. Einstein (_)/ (_) |
Re: texlive as support for lyx
David L. Johnson wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100 Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex. [ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ?? I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now. This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff worked when I added it to /usr/local. Heck, I haven't even noticed that. LyX works fine with texlive, in fact I went to texlive as suggested here about 6 months ago to get rid of a tetex bug (as packaged in debian etch, at least). Absolutely no issues with texlive and lyx. In what sense is tetex required for lyx? Tetex is not required in any way, and never was required. LyX needs latex - no matter how it is provided. Linux distro packagings of lyx may have used a dependency on tetex, on distros where tetex was the main way of distributing latex. This don't mean that lyx has a preference for tetex. Also, tetex and texlive doesn't come with exactly the same set of latex packages. texlive generally has much more, but there are a few thing in tetex that isn't in texlive too. If you don't happen to use such packages already, then you won't see a problem. I believe all latex features used directly by lyx is supported in texlive, problems will only happen if you add your own latex code in a lyx document and that code uses some package that isn't in texlive. Helge Hafting
Re: Consecutive math environments
Marc Vinyals wrote: Hi, I want to have two instances of the same math environment without separation. Eg: Definition 1.3 (foo) Definition 1.4 (foo2) However, the two definitions merge into a single one. This can be very handy in some situations, but it's not what I'm looking for. I googled and found this was already a problem in LyX 1.1's days, and it can be solved by inserting some dummy environment (LyX-Note) between. Has any better solution been developed? I think enhancement requests have been filed along these lines, but I don't know their status. Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://bobjweil.com/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Missing report and slides
Under Document class, I can choose article, book and letter but report and slides are missing. How do I get them to appear there? John _ Find Love This New Year With match.com! http://msnuk.match.com
Re: Consecutive math environments
This is handled in the beamer class with a separator. I haven't looked at the structure of this command to see how it works; I ought to, though, because I've had the same frustration as you. One workaround: put a \par command in ERT in a Standard environment between the two definitions. I don't know how that will change spacing between the environments in the printed document, but it should achieve the desired effect. Yours, A S Hodel On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Richard Heck wrote: Marc Vinyals wrote: Hi, I want to have two instances of the same math environment without separation. Eg: Definition 1.3 (foo) Definition 1.4 (foo2) However, the two definitions merge into a single one. This can be very handy in some situations, but it's not what I'm looking for. I googled and found this was already a problem in LyX 1.1's days, and it can be solved by inserting some dummy environment (LyX-Note) between. Has any better solution been developed? I think enhancement requests have been filed along these lines, but I don't know their status. Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://bobjweil.com/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: texlive as support for lyx
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 17:05 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: David L. Johnson wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100 Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex. [ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ?? I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now. This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff worked when I added it to /usr/local. Heck, I haven't even noticed that. LyX works fine with texlive, in fact I went to texlive as suggested here about 6 months ago to get rid of a tetex bug (as packaged in debian etch, at least). Absolutely no issues with texlive and lyx. In what sense is tetex required for lyx? Tetex is not required in any way, and never was required. LyX needs latex - no matter how it is provided. Linux distro packagings of lyx may have used a dependency on tetex, on distros where tetex was the main way of distributing latex. This don't mean that lyx has a preference for tetex. Also, tetex and texlive doesn't come with exactly the same set of latex packages. texlive generally has much more, but there are a few thing in tetex that isn't in texlive too. If you don't happen to use such packages already, then you won't see a problem. I believe all latex features used directly by lyx is supported in texlive, problems will only happen if you add your own latex code in a lyx document and that code uses some package that isn't in texlive. What is the difference between the two for most of us users out here, and is there a reason to switch outside of a package's dependency (which I saw for one I was interested in, FWIW)? It doesn't sound like any from the above. David--what was the switch like under Debian? Do you recall any issues/problems? I thought about switching for that package, but was uncertain about what havoc I might create on my system... :-) Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: [update] Re: fancyhdr! It's working. BUT 3 questions ...
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Wait let me guess, there is probably a latex command form for both the
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Now, this is the same as the name of the lyx file, except
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Re: Consecutive math environments
A S Hodel wrote: One workaround: put a \par command in ERT in a Standard environment between the two definitions. I don't know how that will change spacing between the environments in the printed document, but it should achieve the desired effect. If you leave the ERT box empty, you get the separation effect without changing spacing. /Paul
Re: Accessing style menu from keyboard
Neil McLeod wrote: Hello, Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut, just as one would access the File menu with Alt-F? I know there are individual keybindings for the various styles, but I'd love to be able to select the drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut and then type in the first few letters of the style I want to type, and press enter. (This second step seems to work already.) Neil If by style menu you mean the list of environments (Standard, Title, ...), then yes. I'm not trying to be picky here; I just want to be sure you are referring to environments rather than text styles (italic etc.). Alt-p followed by an appropriate character or characters selects a particular environment. For instance, Alt-p *3 gets you an unnumbered subsection (assuming your document class supports that environment). Alt-p followed by a space opens the drop-down list, after which, as you note, typing a few letters of your environment works (or typing the first letter repeatedly cycles through environments beginning with that letter). Cheers, /Paul
Re: Missing report and slides
John Hughes wrote: Under Document class, I can choose article, book and letter but report and slides are missing. How do I get them to appear there? Either LyX does not see the layout files for them or LyX cannot find the LaTeX document classes for them. Since layouts for report and a few variants of slides come with LyX, my money is on the latter. Do you have the necessary classes installed? /Paul
Re: Fonts and math fonts
John Hughes wrote: I am a little confused over which is best method for changing the document font and the font used in mathematical equations. I don't want any particularly unusual fonts: Times, Helvetica and Courier and about all I need really. Can anyone let me know what the easiest method of changing the font for both text and equations is? Recommended reading: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Fonts. I have to admit though that I don't understand exactly what is wrong with LyX's font selection mechanism. I routinely use Document-Settings...-Text layout-Document font to change font and size, and it seems to work ok for me. (I usually restrict myself to ae or pslatex, and I don't lose any sleep over the precise font used for math insets, so maybe I've just led a charmed life so far.) To switch the math font, you'll want to load an appropriate package in the preamble (as demonstrated in the wiki citation above). /Paul
Re: texlive as support for lyx
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:58:13 -0800 Kenward Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference between the two for most of us users out here, and is there a reason to switch outside of a package's dependency (which I saw for one I was interested in, FWIW)? It doesn't sound like any from the above. The reason I switched was (as I discussed here some time ago) that I kept getting the documnent language name (I seem to be bilingual in english and american) prepended to the running header in AMS-* documents. It was Jean-Marc, I think, who explained to me that this came from a version mismatch between the babel and latex packages that were included in debian etch. It had been this way for over a year, through various updates of the OS. I could produce acceptable output by commenting out the babel package in the tex file, but the problem was unaffected by simply unchecking the babel option in LyX. After the suggestion that I switch to texlive, the problem went away. Also, texlive certainly was faster than tetex in compiling dvi files, possibly because more of the fonts were pre-built (this is a guess. I am not certain why it is faster, but it definitely is). Other than that there was no noticable difference. David--what was the switch like under Debian? Do you recall any issues/problems? I thought about switching for that package, but was uncertain about what havoc I might create on my system... :-) Well, for me it was simply a matter of removing the tetex package and installing the texlive package. Everything worked perfectly after that. I don't recall whether I had to remove/reinstall any other packages, but if I did, it was nothing that caused any pain. I did not even have to reconfigure LyX, as I recall, though maybe I did that as a precaution. This, by the way, was with debian etch. I have since upgraded the distribution several times, with no problem appearing. -- David L. Johnson __o | You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but _`\(,_ | what canst thou say? -- George Fox. (_)/ (_) |
Re: Accessing style menu from keyboard
Alt+P space is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the helpful replies! Neil On 1/15/07, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil McLeod wrote: Hello, Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut, just as one would access the File menu with Alt-F? I know there are individual keybindings for the various styles, but I'd love to be able to select the drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut and then type in the first few letters of the style I want to type, and press enter. (This second step seems to work already.) Neil If by style menu you mean the list of environments (Standard, Title, ...), then yes. I'm not trying to be picky here; I just want to be sure you are referring to environments rather than text styles (italic etc.). Alt-p followed by an appropriate character or characters selects a particular environment. For instance, Alt-p *3 gets you an unnumbered subsection (assuming your document class supports that environment). Alt-p followed by a space opens the drop-down list, after which, as you note, typing a few letters of your environment works (or typing the first letter repeatedly cycles through environments beginning with that letter). Cheers, /Paul -- Ubuntu Linux 6.06 (Dapper Drake)
Figure float wrapfig caption
Cheers, all,This is an almost purely theoretical question, so feel free to ignore.In my preamble, I have a command to change the font for figures and tables. It works fine on regular floats (the captions are of smaller font and single-spaced, whereas the regular text is double-spaced). However, on floating wrapped figures, although their font is smaller than the regular text, their captions are not single-spaced. Is there an easy way to fix this? ( I understand that wrapped floats are tricky, and often recommended against. That's why this is a theoretical question.) Thanks! C.O. _ Get the Live.com Holiday Page for recipes, gift-giving ideas, and more. www.live.com/?addtemplate=holiday
Wiki: New notification function enabled
I've enabled a recipe so that normal users can setup the wiki so that they are notified via email when a certain page, or a page in a group, is modified. It's not trivial, but it's not that hard either. If you for instance are interested in being notified when a page in the group Windows/ is changed, you could add this line [EMAIL PROTECTED] group=Windows (no spaces before 'notiy...' though). The line should be added to this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/NotifyList See http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Notify for more details about this functionality. best regards /Christian PS. To avoid abuse, that page requires a password to edit it. The password is the same as for uploading files to the wiki. Just ask me for the password and I'll give it to you. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Consecutive math environments
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: A S Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Consecutive math environments Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:28:51 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Brightmail-Tracker: AA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes This is handled in the beamer class with a separator. I haven't looked at the structure of this command to see how it works; I ought to, though, because I've had the same frustration as you. As far as I understand the layout dialect, it offers exactly the workaround below: cite # Separator style definition Style Separator LatexType Paragraph LatexName dummy ParIndent MM ParSkip 0.4 Align Left AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center MarginFirst_Dynamic TopSep0 BottomSep 0 ParSep0 LabelType Static LabelBottomSep0 LabelString ___ KeepEmpty 1 LabelFont Series Medium SizeNormal Color latex EndFont End /cite One workaround: put a \par command in ERT in a Standard environment between the two definitions. I don't know how that will change spacing between the environments in the printed document, but it should achieve the desired effect. Could be added to the basic styles, until this separation problem is solved (1.5 ?) -- Jean-Pierre
Re: Accessing style menu from keyboard
Neil McLeod schrieb: Hello, Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut, just as one would access the File menu with Alt-F? I know there are individual keybindings for the various styles, but I'd love to be able to select the drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut and then type in the first few letters of the style I want to type, and press enter. (This second step seems to work already.) Neil Check out Changing the paragraph environment on http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/FrequentlyUsedShortcuts Is that what you want? BTW, the letter p in there seems to be locale-specific, IIRC. (In German I think it's a for Absatz.) I should update the wiki page... -Sven
Re: Accessing style menu from keyboard
Neil == Neil McLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neil Hello, Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with Neil a keyboard shortcut, just as one would access the File menu Neil with Alt-F? I know there are individual keybindings for the Neil various styles, but I'd love to be able to select the drop-down Neil menu with a keyboard shortcut and then type in the first few Neil letters of the style I want to type, and press enter. (This Neil second step seems to work already.) Alt-P space JMarc
Re: [update] Re: fancyhdr! It's working. BUT 3 questions ...
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: That makes sense I guess. But all I want to do is to learn to use LyX instead of Ooffice for most of my writing. I'm not really planing on becoming a LaTeX expert. Still I suppose I might use google to find an online manual I could look at for clues now and then. No need to become an expert. A manual will contain the easy stuff too - feel free to skip the hard parts. Often-used stuff, like page number, chapter number/name and so on tends to be easy enough. If you don't find a handy list anywhere, make your own as you collect tips. :-) Now, if you want some specific thing in your header, such as date, filename, or the page number in roman numerals - just ask. Actually I wanted the list of possibles to see if it gave me any ideas. Well - anything goes. Some things may be harder than others, buit there are few limits on what you _can_ get somehow. Anything you can refer to, anything that is automatically numbered or named can be brought out in the headers if you wish. That's why I suggest that you ask - if you miss something your previous word processor could put in the header for you. Speaking of which you just gave me one. At least I think you did grin. When you say filename, do you mean the full pathname of the .lyx file such as /home/jtwdyp/com/lyxSTUFF/ToJim.lyx or just ToJim.lyx??? Wait let me guess, there is probably a latex command form for both the simple filename and the pathname, right? Unfortunately, you can only get the name of the latex file. Now, this is the same as the name of the lyx file, except that it ends in .tex instead of .lyx. So it is still useful. The way lyx manages files means that the path only is the path to the temporary directory lyx uses for conversions and processing. It is done this way because latex makes tons of little files while running - it is nice not having to clean up all of them in a careful way. The entire temporary directory is deleted when you close lyx, which is easier to do. Adding a filename reference to lyx might be useful - but it can't happen until 1.6 as version 1.5 is in feature freeze right now. Helge Hafting
Re: texlive as support for lyx
abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex. [ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ?? I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now. This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff worked when I added it to /usr/local. Helge Hafting
Fonts and math fonts
I am a little confused over which is best method for changing the document font and the font used in mathematical equations. I don't want any particularly unusual fonts: Times, Helvetica and Courier and about all I need really. Can anyone let me know what the easiest method of changing the font for both text and equations is? _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters
Re: Fonts and math fonts
John Hughes wrote:
I am a little confused over which is best method for changing the document
font and the font used in mathematical equations. I don't want any
particularly unusual fonts: Times, Helvetica and Courier and about all I
need really. Can anyone let me know what the easiest method of changing the
font for both text and equations is?
\usepackage{mathptmx}
in preamble.
Jürgen
Re: texlive as support for lyx
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100 Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex. [ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ?? I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now. This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff worked when I added it to /usr/local. Heck, I haven't even noticed that. LyX works fine with texlive, in fact I went to texlive as suggested here about 6 months ago to get rid of a tetex bug (as packaged in debian etch, at least). Absolutely no issues with texlive and lyx. In what sense is tetex required for lyx? -- David L. Johnson __o | Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can _`\(,_ | assure you that mine are all greater. -- A. Einstein (_)/ (_) |
Re: texlive as support for lyx
David L. Johnson wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100 Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex. [ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ?? I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now. This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff worked when I added it to /usr/local. Heck, I haven't even noticed that. LyX works fine with texlive, in fact I went to texlive as suggested here about 6 months ago to get rid of a tetex bug (as packaged in debian etch, at least). Absolutely no issues with texlive and lyx. In what sense is tetex required for lyx? Tetex is not required in any way, and never was required. LyX needs latex - no matter how it is provided. Linux distro packagings of lyx may have used a dependency on tetex, on distros where tetex was the main way of distributing latex. This don't mean that lyx has a preference for tetex. Also, tetex and texlive doesn't come with exactly the same set of latex packages. texlive generally has much more, but there are a few thing in tetex that isn't in texlive too. If you don't happen to use such packages already, then you won't see a problem. I believe all latex features used directly by lyx is supported in texlive, problems will only happen if you add your own latex code in a lyx document and that code uses some package that isn't in texlive. Helge Hafting
Re: Consecutive math environments
Marc Vinyals wrote: Hi, I want to have two instances of the same math environment without separation. Eg: Definition 1.3 (foo) Definition 1.4 (foo2) However, the two definitions merge into a single one. This can be very handy in some situations, but it's not what I'm looking for. I googled and found this was already a problem in LyX 1.1's days, and it can be solved by inserting some dummy environment (LyX-Note) between. Has any better solution been developed? I think enhancement requests have been filed along these lines, but I don't know their status. Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://bobjweil.com/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Missing report and slides
Under Document class, I can choose article, book and letter but report and slides are missing. How do I get them to appear there? John _ Find Love This New Year With match.com! http://msnuk.match.com
Re: Consecutive math environments
This is handled in the beamer class with a separator. I haven't looked at the structure of this command to see how it works; I ought to, though, because I've had the same frustration as you. One workaround: put a \par command in ERT in a Standard environment between the two definitions. I don't know how that will change spacing between the environments in the printed document, but it should achieve the desired effect. Yours, A S Hodel On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Richard Heck wrote: Marc Vinyals wrote: Hi, I want to have two instances of the same math environment without separation. Eg: Definition 1.3 (foo) Definition 1.4 (foo2) However, the two definitions merge into a single one. This can be very handy in some situations, but it's not what I'm looking for. I googled and found this was already a problem in LyX 1.1's days, and it can be solved by inserting some dummy environment (LyX-Note) between. Has any better solution been developed? I think enhancement requests have been filed along these lines, but I don't know their status. Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://bobjweil.com/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: texlive as support for lyx
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 17:05 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: David L. Johnson wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100 Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex. [ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ?? I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now. This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff worked when I added it to /usr/local. Heck, I haven't even noticed that. LyX works fine with texlive, in fact I went to texlive as suggested here about 6 months ago to get rid of a tetex bug (as packaged in debian etch, at least). Absolutely no issues with texlive and lyx. In what sense is tetex required for lyx? Tetex is not required in any way, and never was required. LyX needs latex - no matter how it is provided. Linux distro packagings of lyx may have used a dependency on tetex, on distros where tetex was the main way of distributing latex. This don't mean that lyx has a preference for tetex. Also, tetex and texlive doesn't come with exactly the same set of latex packages. texlive generally has much more, but there are a few thing in tetex that isn't in texlive too. If you don't happen to use such packages already, then you won't see a problem. I believe all latex features used directly by lyx is supported in texlive, problems will only happen if you add your own latex code in a lyx document and that code uses some package that isn't in texlive. What is the difference between the two for most of us users out here, and is there a reason to switch outside of a package's dependency (which I saw for one I was interested in, FWIW)? It doesn't sound like any from the above. David--what was the switch like under Debian? Do you recall any issues/problems? I thought about switching for that package, but was uncertain about what havoc I might create on my system... :-) Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: [update] Re: fancyhdr! It's working. BUT 3 questions ...
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Unfortunately, you can only get the name of the latex file.
Now, this is the same as the name of the lyx file, except
that it ends in .tex instead of .lyx. So it is still useful.
Well for the simple file name WhatEver.tex is just as good as
WhatEver.lyx... And I suppose that if I really want a file's actual
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Re: Consecutive math environments
A S Hodel wrote: One workaround: put a \par command in ERT in a Standard environment between the two definitions. I don't know how that will change spacing between the environments in the printed document, but it should achieve the desired effect. If you leave the ERT box empty, you get the separation effect without changing spacing. /Paul
Re: Accessing style menu from keyboard
Neil McLeod wrote: Hello, Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut, just as one would access the File menu with Alt-F? I know there are individual keybindings for the various styles, but I'd love to be able to select the drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut and then type in the first few letters of the style I want to type, and press enter. (This second step seems to work already.) Neil If by style menu you mean the list of environments (Standard, Title, ...), then yes. I'm not trying to be picky here; I just want to be sure you are referring to environments rather than text styles (italic etc.). Alt-p followed by an appropriate character or characters selects a particular environment. For instance, Alt-p *3 gets you an unnumbered subsection (assuming your document class supports that environment). Alt-p followed by a space opens the drop-down list, after which, as you note, typing a few letters of your environment works (or typing the first letter repeatedly cycles through environments beginning with that letter). Cheers, /Paul
Re: Missing report and slides
John Hughes wrote: Under Document class, I can choose article, book and letter but report and slides are missing. How do I get them to appear there? Either LyX does not see the layout files for them or LyX cannot find the LaTeX document classes for them. Since layouts for report and a few variants of slides come with LyX, my money is on the latter. Do you have the necessary classes installed? /Paul
Re: Fonts and math fonts
John Hughes wrote: I am a little confused over which is best method for changing the document font and the font used in mathematical equations. I don't want any particularly unusual fonts: Times, Helvetica and Courier and about all I need really. Can anyone let me know what the easiest method of changing the font for both text and equations is? Recommended reading: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Fonts. I have to admit though that I don't understand exactly what is wrong with LyX's font selection mechanism. I routinely use Document-Settings...-Text layout-Document font to change font and size, and it seems to work ok for me. (I usually restrict myself to ae or pslatex, and I don't lose any sleep over the precise font used for math insets, so maybe I've just led a charmed life so far.) To switch the math font, you'll want to load an appropriate package in the preamble (as demonstrated in the wiki citation above). /Paul
Re: texlive as support for lyx
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:58:13 -0800 Kenward Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference between the two for most of us users out here, and is there a reason to switch outside of a package's dependency (which I saw for one I was interested in, FWIW)? It doesn't sound like any from the above. The reason I switched was (as I discussed here some time ago) that I kept getting the documnent language name (I seem to be bilingual in english and american) prepended to the running header in AMS-* documents. It was Jean-Marc, I think, who explained to me that this came from a version mismatch between the babel and latex packages that were included in debian etch. It had been this way for over a year, through various updates of the OS. I could produce acceptable output by commenting out the babel package in the tex file, but the problem was unaffected by simply unchecking the babel option in LyX. After the suggestion that I switch to texlive, the problem went away. Also, texlive certainly was faster than tetex in compiling dvi files, possibly because more of the fonts were pre-built (this is a guess. I am not certain why it is faster, but it definitely is). Other than that there was no noticable difference. David--what was the switch like under Debian? Do you recall any issues/problems? I thought about switching for that package, but was uncertain about what havoc I might create on my system... :-) Well, for me it was simply a matter of removing the tetex package and installing the texlive package. Everything worked perfectly after that. I don't recall whether I had to remove/reinstall any other packages, but if I did, it was nothing that caused any pain. I did not even have to reconfigure LyX, as I recall, though maybe I did that as a precaution. This, by the way, was with debian etch. I have since upgraded the distribution several times, with no problem appearing. -- David L. Johnson __o | You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but _`\(,_ | what canst thou say? -- George Fox. (_)/ (_) |
Re: Accessing style menu from keyboard
Alt+P space is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the helpful replies! Neil On 1/15/07, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil McLeod wrote: Hello, Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut, just as one would access the File menu with Alt-F? I know there are individual keybindings for the various styles, but I'd love to be able to select the drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut and then type in the first few letters of the style I want to type, and press enter. (This second step seems to work already.) Neil If by style menu you mean the list of environments (Standard, Title, ...), then yes. I'm not trying to be picky here; I just want to be sure you are referring to environments rather than text styles (italic etc.). Alt-p followed by an appropriate character or characters selects a particular environment. For instance, Alt-p *3 gets you an unnumbered subsection (assuming your document class supports that environment). Alt-p followed by a space opens the drop-down list, after which, as you note, typing a few letters of your environment works (or typing the first letter repeatedly cycles through environments beginning with that letter). Cheers, /Paul -- Ubuntu Linux 6.06 (Dapper Drake)
Figure float wrapfig caption
Cheers, all,This is an almost purely theoretical question, so feel free to ignore.In my preamble, I have a command to change the font for figures and tables. It works fine on regular floats (the captions are of smaller font and single-spaced, whereas the regular text is double-spaced). However, on floating wrapped figures, although their font is smaller than the regular text, their captions are not single-spaced. Is there an easy way to fix this? ( I understand that wrapped floats are tricky, and often recommended against. That's why this is a theoretical question.) Thanks! C.O. _ Get the Live.com Holiday Page for recipes, gift-giving ideas, and more. www.live.com/?addtemplate=holiday
Wiki: New notification function enabled
I've enabled a recipe so that normal users can setup the wiki so that they are notified via email when a certain page, or a page in a group, is modified. It's not trivial, but it's not that hard either. If you for instance are interested in being notified when a page in the group Windows/ is changed, you could add this line [EMAIL PROTECTED] group=Windows (no spaces before 'notiy...' though). The line should be added to this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/NotifyList See http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Notify for more details about this functionality. best regards /Christian PS. To avoid abuse, that page requires a password to edit it. The password is the same as for uploading files to the wiki. Just ask me for the password and I'll give it to you. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Consecutive math environments
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: A S Hodel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Consecutive math environments Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:28:51 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Brightmail-Tracker: AA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes This is handled in the beamer class with a separator. I haven't looked at the structure of this command to see how it works; I ought to, though, because I've had the same frustration as you. As far as I understand the layout dialect, it offers exactly the workaround below: cite # Separator style definition Style Separator LatexType Paragraph LatexName dummy ParIndent MM ParSkip 0.4 Align Left AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center MarginFirst_Dynamic TopSep0 BottomSep 0 ParSep0 LabelType Static LabelBottomSep0 LabelString ___ KeepEmpty 1 LabelFont Series Medium SizeNormal Color latex EndFont End /cite One workaround: put a \par command in ERT in a Standard environment between the two definitions. I don't know how that will change spacing between the environments in the printed document, but it should achieve the desired effect. Could be added to the basic styles, until this separation problem is solved (1.5 ?) -- Jean-Pierre
Re: Accessing style menu from keyboard
Neil McLeod schrieb: > Hello, > > Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with a keyboard > shortcut, just as one would access the "File" menu with Alt-F? I know there > are individual keybindings for the various styles, but I'd love to be able > to select the drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut and then type in the > first few letters of the style I want to type, and press enter. (This > second > step seems to work already.) > > Neil > Check out "Changing the paragraph environment" on http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/FrequentlyUsedShortcuts Is that what you want? BTW, the letter "p" in there seems to be locale-specific, IIRC. (In German I think it's "a" for "Absatz".) I should update the wiki page... -Sven
Re: Accessing style menu from keyboard
> "Neil" == Neil McLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Neil> Hello, Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with Neil> a keyboard shortcut, just as one would access the "File" menu Neil> with Alt-F? I know there are individual keybindings for the Neil> various styles, but I'd love to be able to select the drop-down Neil> menu with a keyboard shortcut and then type in the first few Neil> letters of the style I want to type, and press enter. (This Neil> second step seems to work already.) Alt-P JMarc
Re: [update] Re: fancyhdr! It's working. BUT 3 questions ...
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: That makes sense I guess. But all I want to do is to learn to use LyX instead of Ooffice for most of my writing. I'm not really planing on becoming a LaTeX expert. Still I suppose I might use google to find an online manual I could look at for clues now and then. No need to become an expert. A manual will contain the easy stuff too - feel free to skip the hard parts. Often-used stuff, like page number, chapter number/name and so on tends to be easy enough. If you don't find a handy list anywhere, make your own as you collect tips. :-) Now, if you want some specific thing in your header, such as date, filename, or the page number in roman numerals - just ask. Actually I wanted the list of possibles to see if it gave me any ideas. Well - anything goes. Some things may be harder than others, buit there are few limits on what you _can_ get somehow. Anything you can refer to, anything that is automatically numbered or named can be brought out in the headers if you wish. That's why I suggest that you ask - if you miss something your previous word processor could put in the header for you. Speaking of which you just gave me one. At least I think you did . When you say filename, do you mean the full pathname of the .lyx file such as "/home/jtwdyp/com/lyxSTUFF/ToJim.lyx" or just "ToJim.lyx"??? Wait let me guess, there is probably a latex command form for both the simple filename and the pathname, right? Unfortunately, you can only get the name of the latex file. Now, this is the same as the name of the lyx file, except that it ends in .tex instead of .lyx. So it is still useful. The way lyx manages files means that the path only is the path to the temporary directory lyx uses for conversions and processing. It is done this way because latex makes tons of little files while running - it is nice not having to clean up all of them in a careful way. The entire temporary directory is deleted when you close lyx, which is easier to do. Adding a filename reference to lyx might be useful - but it can't happen until 1.6 as version 1.5 is in feature freeze right now. Helge Hafting
Re: texlive as support for lyx
abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex. [ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ?? I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now. This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff worked when I added it to /usr/local. Helge Hafting
Fonts and math fonts
I am a little confused over which is best method for changing the document font and the font used in mathematical equations. I don't want any particularly unusual fonts: Times, Helvetica and Courier and about all I need really. Can anyone let me know what the easiest method of changing the font for both text and equations is? _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters
Re: Fonts and math fonts
John Hughes wrote:
> I am a little confused over which is best method for changing the document
> font and the font used in mathematical equations. I don't want any
> particularly unusual fonts: Times, Helvetica and Courier and about all I
> need really. Can anyone let me know what the easiest method of changing the
> font for both text and equations is?
\usepackage{mathptmx}
in preamble.
Jürgen
Re: texlive as support for lyx
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100 Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > Hi, > > since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of > > tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex. > > [ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ?? > I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now. > This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen > is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package > I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only > happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff > worked when I added it to /usr/local. Heck, I haven't even noticed that. LyX works fine with texlive, in fact I went to texlive as suggested here about 6 months ago to get rid of a tetex bug (as packaged in debian etch, at least). Absolutely no issues with texlive and lyx. In what sense is tetex required for lyx? -- David L. Johnson __o | Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can _`\(,_ | assure you that mine are all greater. -- A. Einstein (_)/ (_) |
Re: texlive as support for lyx
David L. Johnson wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100 Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex. [ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ?? I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now. This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff worked when I added it to /usr/local. Heck, I haven't even noticed that. LyX works fine with texlive, in fact I went to texlive as suggested here about 6 months ago to get rid of a tetex bug (as packaged in debian etch, at least). Absolutely no issues with texlive and lyx. In what sense is tetex required for lyx? Tetex is not required in any way, and never was required. LyX needs latex - no matter how it is provided. Linux distro packagings of lyx may have used a dependency on tetex, on distros where tetex was the main way of distributing latex. This don't mean that lyx has a preference for tetex. Also, tetex and texlive doesn't come with exactly the same set of latex packages. texlive generally has much more, but there are a few thing in tetex that isn't in texlive too. If you don't happen to use such packages already, then you won't see a problem. I believe all latex features used directly by lyx is supported in texlive, problems will only happen if you add your own latex code in a lyx document and that code uses some package that isn't in texlive. Helge Hafting
Re: Consecutive math environments
Marc Vinyals wrote: > Hi, > > I want to have two instances of the same math environment without > separation. Eg: > > Definition 1.3 (foo) > Definition 1.4 (foo2) > > However, the two definitions merge into a single one. This can be very > handy in some situations, but it's not what I'm looking for. I googled > and found this was already a problem in LyX 1.1's days, and it can be > solved by inserting some dummy environment (LyX-Note) between. > > Has any better solution been developed? I think enhancement requests have been filed along these lines, but I don't know their status. Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://bobjweil.com/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Missing report and slides
Under "Document class", I can choose article, book and letter but report and slides are missing. How do I get them to appear there? John _ Find Love This New Year With match.com! http://msnuk.match.com
Re: Consecutive math environments
This is handled in the beamer class with a "separator." I haven't looked at the structure of this command to see how it works; I ought to, though, because I've had the same frustration as you. One workaround: put a "\par" command in ERT in a "Standard" environment between the two definitions. I don't know how that will change spacing between the environments in the printed document, but it should achieve the desired effect. Yours, A S Hodel On Jan 15, 2007, at 10:09 AM, Richard Heck wrote: Marc Vinyals wrote: Hi, I want to have two instances of the same math environment without separation. Eg: Definition 1.3 (foo) Definition 1.4 (foo2) However, the two definitions merge into a single one. This can be very handy in some situations, but it's not what I'm looking for. I googled and found this was already a problem in LyX 1.1's days, and it can be solved by inserting some dummy environment (LyX-Note) between. Has any better solution been developed? I think enhancement requests have been filed along these lines, but I don't know their status. Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://bobjweil.com/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: texlive as support for lyx
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 17:05 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: > David L. Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:59:57 +0100 > > Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> abdelkader belahcene wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, > >>> since the new available latex on linux, will be texlive instead of > >>> tetex, I think it 's time to support the texlive instead of tetex. > >>> [ Now the required latex for lyx 1.4.2 (is tetex) ] or I am wrong ?? > >>> > >> I have been using LyX with texlive for half a year now. > >> This works fine. The only minor problems I have seen > >> is when the debian-packaged texlive lacks some package > >> I want, that was distributed with debian's tetex. This have only > >> happened a couple of times, and of course the missing stuff > >> worked when I added it to /usr/local. > >> > > > > Heck, I haven't even noticed that. LyX works fine with texlive, in fact I > > went to texlive as suggested here about 6 months ago to get rid of a tetex > > bug (as packaged in debian etch, at least). Absolutely no issues with > > texlive and lyx. In what sense is tetex required for lyx? > > > Tetex is not required in any way, and never was required. > LyX needs latex - no matter how it is provided. > > Linux distro packagings of lyx may have used a dependency on > tetex, on distros where tetex was the main way of distributing latex. > This don't mean that lyx has a preference for tetex. > > Also, tetex and texlive doesn't come with exactly the same set of > latex packages. texlive generally has much more, but there > are a few thing in tetex that isn't in texlive too. If you don't happen > to use such packages already, then you won't see a problem. > > I believe all latex features used directly by lyx is supported in texlive, > problems will only happen if you add your own latex code in a lyx document > and that code uses some package that isn't in texlive. What is the difference between the two for most of us users out here, and is there a reason to switch outside of a package's dependency (which I saw for one I was interested in, FWIW)? It doesn't sound like any from the above. David--what was the switch like under Debian? Do you recall any issues/problems? I thought about switching for that package, but was uncertain about what havoc I might create on my system... :-) Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: [update] Re: fancyhdr! It's working. BUT 3 questions ...
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> Unfortunately, you can only get the name of the latex file.
> Now, this is the same as the name of the lyx file, except
> that it ends in .tex instead of .lyx. So it is still useful.
Well for the simple file name "WhatEver.tex" is just as good as
"WhatEver.lyx"... And I suppose that if I really want a file's actual
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Re: Consecutive math environments
A S Hodel wrote: One workaround: put a "\par" command in ERT in a "Standard" environment between the two definitions. I don't know how that will change spacing between the environments in the printed document, but it should achieve the desired effect. If you leave the ERT box empty, you get the separation effect without changing spacing. /Paul
Re: Accessing style menu from keyboard
Neil McLeod wrote: Hello, Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut, just as one would access the "File" menu with Alt-F? I know there are individual keybindings for the various styles, but I'd love to be able to select the drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut and then type in the first few letters of the style I want to type, and press enter. (This second step seems to work already.) Neil If by "style menu" you mean the list of environments (Standard, Title, ...), then yes. I'm not trying to be picky here; I just want to be sure you are referring to environments rather than text styles (italic etc.). Alt-p followed by an appropriate character or characters selects a particular environment. For instance, Alt-p *3 gets you an unnumbered subsection (assuming your document class supports that environment). Alt-p followed by a space opens the drop-down list, after which, as you note, typing a few letters of your environment works (or typing the first letter repeatedly cycles through environments beginning with that letter). Cheers, /Paul
Re: Missing report and slides
John Hughes wrote: Under "Document class", I can choose article, book and letter but report and slides are missing. How do I get them to appear there? Either LyX does not see the layout files for them or LyX cannot find the LaTeX document classes for them. Since layouts for report and a few variants of slides come with LyX, my money is on the latter. Do you have the necessary classes installed? /Paul
Re: Fonts and math fonts
John Hughes wrote: I am a little confused over which is best method for changing the document font and the font used in mathematical equations. I don't want any particularly unusual fonts: Times, Helvetica and Courier and about all I need really. Can anyone let me know what the easiest method of changing the font for both text and equations is? Recommended reading: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Fonts. I have to admit though that I don't understand exactly what is wrong with LyX's font selection mechanism. I routinely use Document->Settings...->Text layout->Document font to change font and size, and it seems to work ok for me. (I usually restrict myself to ae or pslatex, and I don't lose any sleep over the precise font used for math insets, so maybe I've just led a charmed life so far.) To switch the math font, you'll want to load an appropriate package in the preamble (as demonstrated in the wiki citation above). /Paul
Re: texlive as support for lyx
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:58:13 -0800 Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the difference between the two for most of us users out here, > and is there a reason to switch outside of a package's dependency (which > I saw for one I was interested in, FWIW)? It doesn't sound like any > from the above. The reason I switched was (as I discussed here some time ago) that I kept getting the documnent language name (I seem to be bilingual in "english" and "american") prepended to the running header in AMS-* documents. It was Jean-Marc, I think, who explained to me that this came from a version mismatch between the babel and latex packages that were included in debian etch. It had been this way for over a year, through various updates of the OS. I could produce acceptable output by commenting out the babel package in the tex file, but the problem was unaffected by simply unchecking the babel option in LyX. After the suggestion that I switch to texlive, the problem went away. Also, texlive certainly was faster than tetex in compiling dvi files, possibly because more of the fonts were pre-built (this is a guess. I am not certain why it is faster, but it definitely is). Other than that there was no noticable difference. > > David--what was the switch like under Debian? Do you recall any > issues/problems? I thought about switching for that package, but was > uncertain about what havoc I might create on my system... :-) Well, for me it was simply a matter of removing the tetex package and installing the texlive package. Everything worked perfectly after that. I don't recall whether I had to remove/reinstall any other packages, but if I did, it was nothing that caused any pain. I did not even have to reconfigure LyX, as I recall, though maybe I did that as a precaution. This, by the way, was with debian etch. I have since upgraded the distribution several times, with no problem appearing. -- David L. Johnson __o | You will say Christ saith this and the apostles say this; but _`\(,_ | what canst thou say? -- George Fox. (_)/ (_) |
Re: Accessing style menu from keyboard
Alt+P is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the helpful replies! Neil On 1/15/07, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Neil McLeod wrote: > Hello, > > Is there any way to select the style drop-down menu with a keyboard > shortcut, just as one would access the "File" menu with Alt-F? I know there > are individual keybindings for the various styles, but I'd love to be able > to select the drop-down menu with a keyboard shortcut and then type in the > first few letters of the style I want to type, and press enter. (This > second > step seems to work already.) > > Neil > If by "style menu" you mean the list of environments (Standard, Title, ...), then yes. I'm not trying to be picky here; I just want to be sure you are referring to environments rather than text styles (italic etc.). Alt-p followed by an appropriate character or characters selects a particular environment. For instance, Alt-p *3 gets you an unnumbered subsection (assuming your document class supports that environment). Alt-p followed by a space opens the drop-down list, after which, as you note, typing a few letters of your environment works (or typing the first letter repeatedly cycles through environments beginning with that letter). Cheers, /Paul -- Ubuntu Linux 6.06 (Dapper Drake)
Figure float wrapfig caption
Cheers, all,This is an almost purely theoretical question, so feel free to ignore.In my preamble, I have a command to change the font for figures and tables. It works fine on "regular" floats (the captions are of smaller font and single-spaced, whereas the regular text is double-spaced). However, on floating "wrapped" figures, although their font is smaller than the regular text, their captions are not single-spaced. Is there an easy way to fix this? ( I understand that wrapped floats are tricky, and often recommended against. That's why this is a "theoretical" question.) Thanks! C.O. _ Get the Live.com Holiday Page for recipes, gift-giving ideas, and more. www.live.com/?addtemplate=holiday
Wiki: New notification function enabled
I've enabled a recipe so that normal users can setup the wiki so that they are notified via email when a certain page, or a page in a group, is modified. It's not trivial, but it's not that hard either. If you for instance are interested in being notified when a page in the group Windows/ is changed, you could add this line [EMAIL PROTECTED] group=Windows (no spaces before 'notiy...' though). The line should be added to this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/NotifyList See http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Notify for more details about this functionality. best regards /Christian PS. To avoid abuse, that page requires a password to edit it. The password is the same as for uploading files to the wiki. Just ask me for the password and I'll give it to you. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Consecutive math environments
>>Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>From: A S Hodel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Consecutive math environments >>Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:28:51 -0600 >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>X-Brightmail-Tracker: AA== >>X-Brightmail-scanned: yes >> >>This is handled in the beamer class with a "separator." I haven't >>looked at the structure of this command to see how it works; I ought >>to, though, because I've had the same frustration as you. As far as I understand the layout dialect, it offers exactly the workaround below: # Separator style definition Style Separator LatexType Paragraph LatexName dummy ParIndent MM ParSkip 0.4 Align Left AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center MarginFirst_Dynamic TopSep0 BottomSep 0 ParSep0 LabelType Static LabelBottomSep0 LabelString "___" KeepEmpty 1 LabelFont Series Medium SizeNormal Color latex EndFont End >> >>One workaround: put a "\par" command in ERT in a "Standard" >>environment between the two definitions. I don't know how that will >>change spacing between the environments in the printed document, but >>it should achieve the desired effect. Could be added to the basic styles, until this separation problem is solved (1.5 ?) -- Jean-Pierre
