Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution
Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2007 13:49 schrieb Nick Hopton: I've just installed Python 2.5, reconfigured everything and tried again, with the following results: =TERMINAL WINDOW OUTPUT= Traceback (most recent call last): File C:/Program Files/LyX 1.5svn-01-02-2007/Resources/./lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx, lin e 91, in module sys.exit(main(sys.argv)) File C:/Program Files/LyX 1.5svn-01-02-2007/Resources/./lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx, lin e 84, in main file.convert() File C:\Program Files\LyX 1.5svn-01-02-2007\Resources\lyx2lyx\LyX.py, line 3 80, in convert steps = getattr(__import__(lyx_ + step), mode) File C:\Program Files\LyX 1.5svn-01-02-2007\Resources\lyx2lyx\lyx_1_5.py, li ne 23, in module import unicodedata ImportError: No module named unicodedata This module is part of python since many years. If lyx2lyx cannot find it then there is still someting wrong with your installation. Maybe LyX still uses the old one? Georg
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] ImportError: No module named unicodedata This module is part of python since many years. If lyx2lyx cannot find it then there is still someting wrong with your installation. Maybe LyX still uses the old one? [...] This is very odd, Georg, I did an absolutely standard installation of Python25, using all of the defaults. I have the following two files installed, if this is any help: C:\Python25\DLLs\unicodedata.pyd C:\Python25\libs\unicodedata.lib Oh, I ought to mention that I had similar errors using Python24. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Re: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!]
Original Message Subject: Re: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:52:26 -0800 From: Ian Ralston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I am new to Lyx and got this error message on a new install of Lyx and all components. Windows XP. I did permit auto update during install, and all installed OK (except GSView failed). However, I read your helpful thread at lyx users and while doing so realized that what I had done was not wait long enough (ie about 10-15 mins despite a fast computer and high speed internet) for lyx to start up after installation was complete, and had clicked on the program shortcut to start it up... I noticed that latex was accessing the internet during start up. So, maybe what is needed is just to go for a quick cup of tea As I dont know how to post to the list,perhaps you could post this for me in case it is helpful. -- Best regards Ian - Ian Ralston TRAX Developments Ltd. Done! :-) Cheers, Nicolás
Re: cannot reqd an old lyx file
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Georg Baum wrote: Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2007 21:18 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: You use the LyX 1.5svn build. This is an alpha state and not ready for production use! Maybe it should have alpha in its name then? Not everybody knows what svn is. (Or they think it's short for _stable _versio_n... ;-) Why do I have this disclaimer in every announcement mail when nobody reads it?: Well, people who get the link directly from berlios don't see this disclaimer. IMHO putting alpha (and possibly snapshot - since this no release) in the name would not be a bad idea. Why not. We could even add a suffix like ...alpha-snapshot_Not_For_Serious_Work.zip to be extremely clear :-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution
Am Sonntag, 4. Februar 2007 12:35 schrieb Nick Hopton: This is very odd, Georg, I did an absolutely standard installation of Python25, using all of the defaults. I have the following two files installed, if this is any help: C:\Python25\DLLs\unicodedata.pyd C:\Python25\libs\unicodedata.lib I am on linux, and it works here with only this file named unicodedata.*: /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/unicodedata.so Therefore I guess that no further files are required. What happens if you run the python interpreter by hand and then type import unicodedata ? If it prints nothing, then your python installation is OK, and I would guess that LyX finds another (incomplete) python installation. If it prints an error message then something with your python installation is wrong. Georg
Re: float placement refinements
Em Sexta, 2 de Fevereiro de 2007 20:53, o Uwe Stöhr escreveu: Ramon Flores schrieb: Is there any way to say to LyX not to put more that one figure in a page with text?. Or alternatively, is there any way to say to LyX to set apart the two figures? This is a wide field to play on. The toys for this are explained in the Embedded Insets manual: http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X/lib/doc/Emb eddedObjects.lyx which is also available in Spanish: http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X/lib/doc/es_ EmbeddedObjects.lyx Where?. I have read several times the Float Placement section and I have not finded any clue of how to 1) forbid more than one figure per page, in a page with text, or 2) set the distance between figures. Thanks Ramon
Re: float placement refinements
Ramon Flores schrieb: I have read several times the Float Placement section and I have not finded any clue of how to 1) forbid more than one figure per page, in a page with text, or You can only force that LaTeX puts floats on a separate page without text. But you can for example set a \pagebreak in ERT or a pagebreak vie LyX's menu (note that they are different) directly before the float to force its appearace on the next page. You can also adjust the bottompagefraction within the document at the critical positions or globally. You can use LaTeX's default settings or ignore it, you can set the float placement order tbp, etc. as described. 2) set the distance between figures. This is not possible because you have floats and that means they can float to the position where LateX thinks it's the best or you adjusted with the parameters I listed above. If you really need a definite float place then use the here definetively placement option and insert a vertical space between two consecutive floats. regards Uwe
Re: How to have roman numerals in front matter?
On Saturday 03 February 2007 16:36, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
The frontmatter is numbered with Arabic numbers, not Roman numerals. How
do I get the frontmatter to have Roman numerals?
\pagenumbering{roman}
% ...
\chapter{First real chapter}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
Jeremy C. Reed
Thanks Jeremy,
That worked, and I didn't even need the \pagenumbering{arabic} because my
\mainmatter reset it to Arabic.
All -- be aware that placement of the \pagenumbering{arabic} is important. If
you place it before all text, it will have no effect. Instead, place it at
the end of the first paragraph (typically the title).
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Too many indices, LoT, LoF?
Hi, all,Upon compiling my LyX document, which contains lots of Includes, a
Table of Contents, Index, Lists of Figures and Tables, etc., the LyX frontend
reports that there's No room for a new \write (similarly, using pdflatex from
the command line on the .tex file fails). I've done a little searching online;
most if not all of the documents I've found reference the Memoir class (which
I'm not using; this happens to be a Koma-script Report master document), but it
seems that it's actually more of an underlying TeX problem, and I simply have
too many Indices, Lists, etc. As an attempt to remedy this, and get a nicely
compiled document, I've gone through each of the constituent files and deleted
the any Indexes or Bibliography[ies] which are in comment boxes (I put
them in originally to test indices and bibliographies for each individual
file). However, this does not solve the problem, and I *still* get No room for
a new \write and Bad number {16} as error messages from LyX. Has anyone
run into this, and solved it? The documentation for the Memoir class says I
have no recourse but to rearrange my document. How do people write books with
this TeX limitation? Would it help to switch to TeX Live or something?
Thanks! Curtis O.
_
3D maps are here! Get amazing views of major cities.
http://maps.live.com/?wip=51
TEXINFO on Mac
OK, this is undoubtedly in the RTFM/FAQ category, but I can't figure out how to set the TEXINFO environment variable on OS X when I run LyX. Specifically, I try to process a document (imported from a LaTeX file) that uses \epsffile to include a figure. When I try to process the file in LyX, it tells me that it can't find the target .eps files in my TEXINFO path. Trouble is, I have no idea (a) what that path is set to, or (b) how to change it. The target files are right there in the same directory that the main .lyx file is in , but it seems to be looking somewhere else. Can someone help out here? Thanks JEH
Re: float placement refinements
Ramon Flores writes:
I have read several times the Float Placement section and I have not
finded
any clue of how to
1) forbid more than one figure per page, in a page with text, or
2) set the distance between figures.
LaTeX is a quite sophisticated typesetting system and lets you fine tune a
large set of style parameters. Below you can find a list of parameters that
I think are of interest to you. Those not starting with a backslash are
counters and are to be set as \setcounter{topnumber}{1}, for example, the others
must changed using \renewcommand, such as \renewcommand{\topfraction}{0.4},
or \renewcommand{\floatsep}{15mm} for rubber lengths.
Changes made in the preamble apply from the first page on. Changes made
afterwards take effect on the next page, not the current one.
topnumber - A counter whose value is the maximum number of floats allowed
at the top of a page.
\topfraction - The maximum fraction of the page that can be occupied by
floats at the top of the page. Thus, the value 0.25 specifies that as
much as the top quarter of the page may be devoted to floats.
bottomnumber - Same as topnumber except for the bottom of the page.
\bottomfraction - Same as \topfraction except for the bottom of the page.
totalnumber - A counter whose value is the maximum number of floats that
can appear on a single page, irrespective of their positions.
\textfraction - The minimum fraction of a page that must be devoted to text.
The other 1-\textfraction fraction may be occupied by floats.
\floatsep - The vertical space added between floats that appear at the top
or bottom of a text page. It is a rubber length.
\textfloatsep - The vertical space added between the floats appearing at
the top or bottom of a page and the text on that page. Rubber length.
\intextsep - The vertical space placed above and below a float that is put
in the middle of the text with the h location option. Rubber length.
HTH
--
Enrico
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: - I can do a pdf with it fine, but the update does not work however my pdf viewer is Foxit 2.0, not Acrobat (which I do have installed, but not as default pdf reader), so it might be related to this. This should be fixed now in the installer version I plan to release today. Please test. regards Uwe
Missing textclass problem while installing LyX under Windows hopefully fixed
Hello LyXers, in the last weeks many users had the problem that after installing LyX on Windows, LyX couldn't be started, only the error message Missing textclass.lst is displayed. There was a bug in MIKTeX so that LyX's configuration script wasn't correctly finished when no internet connection was opened to install missing LaTeX-packages. This is now fixed in the latest MiKTeX version 2.5.2580. You can update your MiKTeX installation using MiKTeX's update manager which is accessible in the Start menu under Programs - MiKTeX 2.5. For new installations the next LyXWinInstaller version has the new MiKTeX version bundled. For existing installations the installer asks you to update MiKTeX before you start LyX the first time. Use this option and MiKTeX's update manager will be started by the installer. For explanation: LyX needs some LaTeX-packages for some of its features that are not delivered in the basic installation of MiKTeX. You can use LyX without having these packages installed but then you cannot use all LyX features. If you want to have all packages needed by LyX installed, install LyX while you have an open internet connection or open later an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. regards Uwe
Re: cannot reqd an old lyx file
on a new computer running windiws vista and the new lyx for windows. Harald The release that will come out hopefully today fixes you initial problem. Besides this, let me ask you if the installer runs fine on Vista and can you work with LyX on Vista as with LyX on XP? If yes, please let me know. (I was only able to test it out once on Vista releace candidate and it worked there.) thanks in advance and regards Uwe
Re: Using ACM and APA styles in LyX?
Hi Richard, I changed from tetex to texlive but I'm not seeing any change in the document classes I see in lyx. From tex info I can see the following classes I'm looking for: acmconf.cls acmtrans2e.cls apa.cls The document classes I can choose from document settings are: Article (APA) But no ACM. I don't see a good correlation between the list of document class and the text info list of classes. Any further suggestions? Thanks, B. Bogart Richard Heck wrote: LyX does have an APA layout, so you should be able to use it. Check to make sure you do have the APA document class installed and that LaTeX can see it (run texhash as root) and then reconfigure LyX (Tools Reconfigure). You can use Tools Tex Info to check what LyX thinks is there. I don't see an ACM layout. Anybody got one? It's unlikely it'd be hard to create one if not. As for references, natbib isn't a bibliography style but something more general. You can use apalike with it, to be sure. You can also use apacite by itself (and the apa.layout file seems to load apacite.sty, which you'd also want). Just choose default for your citation style and then, when you put the bibliography in its place (Insert List Bibliography), choose apacite as your style. Of course, you'll need to make sure that's installed, too. Richard B. Bogart wrote: Hello all, I'm new to tex/latex/lyx but need to write papers in ACM and APA formats. I see that the package texlive-publishers includes APA and ACM document classes, and I have the package installed, but lyx does not see those templates. How can I use lyx to write APA and ACM papers? I also need my citations and bibliographies to be in the proper APA format, but lyx seems to only give three types citation styles? (default,natbib,jurabib) FYI I'm using the ubuntu edgy packages of lyx/tex Thanks all. B. Bogart
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution
Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2007 13:49 schrieb Nick Hopton: I've just installed Python 2.5, reconfigured everything and tried again, with the following results: =TERMINAL WINDOW OUTPUT= Traceback (most recent call last): File C:/Program Files/LyX 1.5svn-01-02-2007/Resources/./lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx, lin e 91, in module sys.exit(main(sys.argv)) File C:/Program Files/LyX 1.5svn-01-02-2007/Resources/./lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx, lin e 84, in main file.convert() File C:\Program Files\LyX 1.5svn-01-02-2007\Resources\lyx2lyx\LyX.py, line 3 80, in convert steps = getattr(__import__(lyx_ + step), mode) File C:\Program Files\LyX 1.5svn-01-02-2007\Resources\lyx2lyx\lyx_1_5.py, li ne 23, in module import unicodedata ImportError: No module named unicodedata This module is part of python since many years. If lyx2lyx cannot find it then there is still someting wrong with your installation. Maybe LyX still uses the old one? Georg
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution
In a recent message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Georg Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. [...] ImportError: No module named unicodedata This module is part of python since many years. If lyx2lyx cannot find it then there is still someting wrong with your installation. Maybe LyX still uses the old one? [...] This is very odd, Georg, I did an absolutely standard installation of Python25, using all of the defaults. I have the following two files installed, if this is any help: C:\Python25\DLLs\unicodedata.pyd C:\Python25\libs\unicodedata.lib Oh, I ought to mention that I had similar errors using Python24. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Re: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!]
Original Message Subject: Re: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:52:26 -0800 From: Ian Ralston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I am new to Lyx and got this error message on a new install of Lyx and all components. Windows XP. I did permit auto update during install, and all installed OK (except GSView failed). However, I read your helpful thread at lyx users and while doing so realized that what I had done was not wait long enough (ie about 10-15 mins despite a fast computer and high speed internet) for lyx to start up after installation was complete, and had clicked on the program shortcut to start it up... I noticed that latex was accessing the internet during start up. So, maybe what is needed is just to go for a quick cup of tea As I dont know how to post to the list,perhaps you could post this for me in case it is helpful. -- Best regards Ian - Ian Ralston TRAX Developments Ltd. Done! :-) Cheers, Nicolás
Re: cannot reqd an old lyx file
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Georg Baum wrote: Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2007 21:18 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: You use the LyX 1.5svn build. This is an alpha state and not ready for production use! Maybe it should have alpha in its name then? Not everybody knows what svn is. (Or they think it's short for _stable _versio_n... ;-) Why do I have this disclaimer in every announcement mail when nobody reads it?: Well, people who get the link directly from berlios don't see this disclaimer. IMHO putting alpha (and possibly snapshot - since this no release) in the name would not be a bad idea. Why not. We could even add a suffix like ...alpha-snapshot_Not_For_Serious_Work.zip to be extremely clear :-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution
Am Sonntag, 4. Februar 2007 12:35 schrieb Nick Hopton: This is very odd, Georg, I did an absolutely standard installation of Python25, using all of the defaults. I have the following two files installed, if this is any help: C:\Python25\DLLs\unicodedata.pyd C:\Python25\libs\unicodedata.lib I am on linux, and it works here with only this file named unicodedata.*: /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/unicodedata.so Therefore I guess that no further files are required. What happens if you run the python interpreter by hand and then type import unicodedata ? If it prints nothing, then your python installation is OK, and I would guess that LyX finds another (incomplete) python installation. If it prints an error message then something with your python installation is wrong. Georg
Re: float placement refinements
Em Sexta, 2 de Fevereiro de 2007 20:53, o Uwe Stöhr escreveu: Ramon Flores schrieb: Is there any way to say to LyX not to put more that one figure in a page with text?. Or alternatively, is there any way to say to LyX to set apart the two figures? This is a wide field to play on. The toys for this are explained in the Embedded Insets manual: http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X/lib/doc/Emb eddedObjects.lyx which is also available in Spanish: http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X/lib/doc/es_ EmbeddedObjects.lyx Where?. I have read several times the Float Placement section and I have not finded any clue of how to 1) forbid more than one figure per page, in a page with text, or 2) set the distance between figures. Thanks Ramon
Re: float placement refinements
Ramon Flores schrieb: I have read several times the Float Placement section and I have not finded any clue of how to 1) forbid more than one figure per page, in a page with text, or You can only force that LaTeX puts floats on a separate page without text. But you can for example set a \pagebreak in ERT or a pagebreak vie LyX's menu (note that they are different) directly before the float to force its appearace on the next page. You can also adjust the bottompagefraction within the document at the critical positions or globally. You can use LaTeX's default settings or ignore it, you can set the float placement order tbp, etc. as described. 2) set the distance between figures. This is not possible because you have floats and that means they can float to the position where LateX thinks it's the best or you adjusted with the parameters I listed above. If you really need a definite float place then use the here definetively placement option and insert a vertical space between two consecutive floats. regards Uwe
Re: How to have roman numerals in front matter?
On Saturday 03 February 2007 16:36, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
The frontmatter is numbered with Arabic numbers, not Roman numerals. How
do I get the frontmatter to have Roman numerals?
\pagenumbering{roman}
% ...
\chapter{First real chapter}
\pagenumbering{arabic}
Jeremy C. Reed
Thanks Jeremy,
That worked, and I didn't even need the \pagenumbering{arabic} because my
\mainmatter reset it to Arabic.
All -- be aware that placement of the \pagenumbering{arabic} is important. If
you place it before all text, it will have no effect. Instead, place it at
the end of the first paragraph (typically the title).
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Too many indices, LoT, LoF?
Hi, all,Upon compiling my LyX document, which contains lots of Includes, a
Table of Contents, Index, Lists of Figures and Tables, etc., the LyX frontend
reports that there's No room for a new \write (similarly, using pdflatex from
the command line on the .tex file fails). I've done a little searching online;
most if not all of the documents I've found reference the Memoir class (which
I'm not using; this happens to be a Koma-script Report master document), but it
seems that it's actually more of an underlying TeX problem, and I simply have
too many Indices, Lists, etc. As an attempt to remedy this, and get a nicely
compiled document, I've gone through each of the constituent files and deleted
the any Indexes or Bibliography[ies] which are in comment boxes (I put
them in originally to test indices and bibliographies for each individual
file). However, this does not solve the problem, and I *still* get No room for
a new \write and Bad number {16} as error messages from LyX. Has anyone
run into this, and solved it? The documentation for the Memoir class says I
have no recourse but to rearrange my document. How do people write books with
this TeX limitation? Would it help to switch to TeX Live or something?
Thanks! Curtis O.
_
3D maps are here! Get amazing views of major cities.
http://maps.live.com/?wip=51
TEXINFO on Mac
OK, this is undoubtedly in the RTFM/FAQ category, but I can't figure out how to set the TEXINFO environment variable on OS X when I run LyX. Specifically, I try to process a document (imported from a LaTeX file) that uses \epsffile to include a figure. When I try to process the file in LyX, it tells me that it can't find the target .eps files in my TEXINFO path. Trouble is, I have no idea (a) what that path is set to, or (b) how to change it. The target files are right there in the same directory that the main .lyx file is in , but it seems to be looking somewhere else. Can someone help out here? Thanks JEH
Re: float placement refinements
Ramon Flores writes:
I have read several times the Float Placement section and I have not
finded
any clue of how to
1) forbid more than one figure per page, in a page with text, or
2) set the distance between figures.
LaTeX is a quite sophisticated typesetting system and lets you fine tune a
large set of style parameters. Below you can find a list of parameters that
I think are of interest to you. Those not starting with a backslash are
counters and are to be set as \setcounter{topnumber}{1}, for example, the others
must changed using \renewcommand, such as \renewcommand{\topfraction}{0.4},
or \renewcommand{\floatsep}{15mm} for rubber lengths.
Changes made in the preamble apply from the first page on. Changes made
afterwards take effect on the next page, not the current one.
topnumber - A counter whose value is the maximum number of floats allowed
at the top of a page.
\topfraction - The maximum fraction of the page that can be occupied by
floats at the top of the page. Thus, the value 0.25 specifies that as
much as the top quarter of the page may be devoted to floats.
bottomnumber - Same as topnumber except for the bottom of the page.
\bottomfraction - Same as \topfraction except for the bottom of the page.
totalnumber - A counter whose value is the maximum number of floats that
can appear on a single page, irrespective of their positions.
\textfraction - The minimum fraction of a page that must be devoted to text.
The other 1-\textfraction fraction may be occupied by floats.
\floatsep - The vertical space added between floats that appear at the top
or bottom of a text page. It is a rubber length.
\textfloatsep - The vertical space added between the floats appearing at
the top or bottom of a page and the text on that page. Rubber length.
\intextsep - The vertical space placed above and below a float that is put
in the middle of the text with the h location option. Rubber length.
HTH
--
Enrico
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: - I can do a pdf with it fine, but the update does not work however my pdf viewer is Foxit 2.0, not Acrobat (which I do have installed, but not as default pdf reader), so it might be related to this. This should be fixed now in the installer version I plan to release today. Please test. regards Uwe
Missing textclass problem while installing LyX under Windows hopefully fixed
Hello LyXers, in the last weeks many users had the problem that after installing LyX on Windows, LyX couldn't be started, only the error message Missing textclass.lst is displayed. There was a bug in MIKTeX so that LyX's configuration script wasn't correctly finished when no internet connection was opened to install missing LaTeX-packages. This is now fixed in the latest MiKTeX version 2.5.2580. You can update your MiKTeX installation using MiKTeX's update manager which is accessible in the Start menu under Programs - MiKTeX 2.5. For new installations the next LyXWinInstaller version has the new MiKTeX version bundled. For existing installations the installer asks you to update MiKTeX before you start LyX the first time. Use this option and MiKTeX's update manager will be started by the installer. For explanation: LyX needs some LaTeX-packages for some of its features that are not delivered in the basic installation of MiKTeX. You can use LyX without having these packages installed but then you cannot use all LyX features. If you want to have all packages needed by LyX installed, install LyX while you have an open internet connection or open later an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. regards Uwe
Re: cannot reqd an old lyx file
on a new computer running windiws vista and the new lyx for windows. Harald The release that will come out hopefully today fixes you initial problem. Besides this, let me ask you if the installer runs fine on Vista and can you work with LyX on Vista as with LyX on XP? If yes, please let me know. (I was only able to test it out once on Vista releace candidate and it worked there.) thanks in advance and regards Uwe
Re: Using ACM and APA styles in LyX?
Hi Richard, I changed from tetex to texlive but I'm not seeing any change in the document classes I see in lyx. From tex info I can see the following classes I'm looking for: acmconf.cls acmtrans2e.cls apa.cls The document classes I can choose from document settings are: Article (APA) But no ACM. I don't see a good correlation between the list of document class and the text info list of classes. Any further suggestions? Thanks, B. Bogart Richard Heck wrote: LyX does have an APA layout, so you should be able to use it. Check to make sure you do have the APA document class installed and that LaTeX can see it (run texhash as root) and then reconfigure LyX (Tools Reconfigure). You can use Tools Tex Info to check what LyX thinks is there. I don't see an ACM layout. Anybody got one? It's unlikely it'd be hard to create one if not. As for references, natbib isn't a bibliography style but something more general. You can use apalike with it, to be sure. You can also use apacite by itself (and the apa.layout file seems to load apacite.sty, which you'd also want). Just choose default for your citation style and then, when you put the bibliography in its place (Insert List Bibliography), choose apacite as your style. Of course, you'll need to make sure that's installed, too. Richard B. Bogart wrote: Hello all, I'm new to tex/latex/lyx but need to write papers in ACM and APA formats. I see that the package texlive-publishers includes APA and ACM document classes, and I have the package installed, but lyx does not see those templates. How can I use lyx to write APA and ACM papers? I also need my citations and bibliographies to be in the proper APA format, but lyx seems to only give three types citation styles? (default,natbib,jurabib) FYI I'm using the ubuntu edgy packages of lyx/tex Thanks all. B. Bogart
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution
Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2007 13:49 schrieb Nick Hopton:
> I've just installed Python 2.5, reconfigured everything and tried again,
> with the following results:
>
> =TERMINAL WINDOW OUTPUT=
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>File "C:/Program Files/LyX
> 1.5svn-01-02-2007/Resources/./lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", lin
> e 91, in
> sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
>File "C:/Program Files/LyX
> 1.5svn-01-02-2007/Resources/./lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx", lin
> e 84, in main
> file.convert()
>File "C:\Program Files\LyX
> 1.5svn-01-02-2007\Resources\lyx2lyx\LyX.py", line 3
> 80, in convert
> steps = getattr(__import__("lyx_" + step), mode)
>File "C:\Program Files\LyX
> 1.5svn-01-02-2007\Resources\lyx2lyx\lyx_1_5.py", li
> ne 23, in
> import unicodedata
> ImportError: No module named unicodedata
This module is part of python since many years. If lyx2lyx cannot find it
then there is still someting wrong with your installation. Maybe LyX still
uses the old one?
Georg
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution
In a recent message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote. [...] ImportError: No module named unicodedata This module is part of python since many years. If lyx2lyx cannot find it then there is still someting wrong with your installation. Maybe LyX still uses the old one? [...] This is very odd, Georg, I did an absolutely standard installation of Python25, using all of the defaults. I have the following two files installed, if this is any help: C:\Python25\DLLs\unicodedata.pyd C:\Python25\libs\unicodedata.lib Oh, I ought to mention that I had similar errors using Python24. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Fwd: Re: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!]
Original Message Subject: Re: LyXTextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 12:52:26 -0800 From: Ian Ralston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi I am new to Lyx and got this error message on a new install of Lyx and all components. Windows XP. I did permit auto update during install, and all installed OK (except GSView failed). However, I read your helpful thread at lyx users and while doing so realized that what I had done was not wait long enough (ie about 10-15 mins despite a fast computer and high speed internet) for lyx to start up after installation was complete, and had clicked on the program shortcut to start it up... I noticed that latex was accessing the internet during start up. So, maybe what is needed is just to go for a quick cup of tea As I dont know how to post to the list,perhaps you could post this for me in case it is helpful. -- Best regards Ian - Ian Ralston TRAX Developments Ltd. Done! :-) Cheers, Nicolás
Re: cannot reqd an old lyx file
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Georg Baum wrote: Am Samstag, 3. Februar 2007 21:18 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: >> You use the LyX 1.5svn build. This is an alpha state and not ready for >> production use! > > Maybe it should have "alpha" in its name then? Not everybody knows what > svn is. (Or they think it's short for _stable _versio_n... ;-) Why do I have this disclaimer in every announcement mail when nobody reads it?: Well, people who get the link directly from berlios don't see this disclaimer. IMHO putting alpha (and possibly snapshot - since this no release) in the name would not be a bad idea. Why not. We could even add a suffix like ...alpha-snapshot_Not_For_Serious_Work.zip to be extremely clear :-) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows - lyx2lyx solution
Am Sonntag, 4. Februar 2007 12:35 schrieb Nick Hopton: > This is very odd, Georg, I did an absolutely standard installation of > Python25, using all of the defaults. I have the following two files > installed, if this is any help: > > C:\Python25\DLLs\unicodedata.pyd > C:\Python25\libs\unicodedata.lib I am on linux, and it works here with only this file named unicodedata.*: /usr/lib/python2.3/lib-dynload/unicodedata.so Therefore I guess that no further files are required. What happens if you run the python interpreter by hand and then type import unicodedata ? If it prints nothing, then your python installation is OK, and I would guess that LyX finds another (incomplete) python installation. If it prints an error message then something with your python installation is wrong. Georg
Re: float placement refinements
Em Sexta, 2 de Fevereiro de 2007 20:53, o Uwe Stöhr escreveu: > Ramon Flores schrieb: > > Is there any way to say to LyX not to put more that one figure in a page > > with text?. > > Or alternatively, is there any way to say to LyX to set apart the two > > figures? > > This is a wide field to play on. The toys for this are explained in the > Embedded Insets manual: > http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X/lib/doc/Emb >eddedObjects.lyx which is also available in Spanish: > http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X/lib/doc/es_ >EmbeddedObjects.lyx Where?. I have read several times the "Float Placement" section and I have not finded any clue of how to 1) forbid more than one figure per page, in a page with text, or 2) set the distance between figures. Thanks Ramon
Re: float placement refinements
Ramon Flores schrieb: I have read several times the "Float Placement" section and I have not finded any clue of how to 1) forbid more than one figure per page, in a page with text, or You can only force that LaTeX puts floats on a separate page without text. But you can for example set a \pagebreak in ERT or a pagebreak vie LyX's menu (note that they are different) directly before the float to force its appearace on the next page. You can also adjust the bottompagefraction within the document at the critical positions or globally. You can use LaTeX's default settings or ignore it, you can set the float placement order tbp, etc. as described. 2) set the distance between figures. This is not possible because you have floats and that means they can float to the position where LateX thinks it's the best or you adjusted with the parameters I listed above. If you really need a definite float place then use the "here definetively " placement option and insert a vertical space between two consecutive floats. regards Uwe
Re: How to have roman numerals in front matter?
On Saturday 03 February 2007 16:36, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> > The frontmatter is numbered with Arabic numbers, not Roman numerals. How
> > do I get the frontmatter to have Roman numerals?
>
> \pagenumbering{roman}
>
> % ...
>
> \chapter{First real chapter}
> \pagenumbering{arabic}
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
Thanks Jeremy,
That worked, and I didn't even need the \pagenumbering{arabic} because my
\mainmatter reset it to Arabic.
All -- be aware that placement of the \pagenumbering{arabic} is important. If
you place it before all text, it will have no effect. Instead, place it at
the end of the first paragraph (typically the title).
Thanks
SteveT
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Too many indices, LoT, LoF?
Hi, all,Upon compiling my LyX document, which contains lots of Includes, a
Table of Contents, Index, Lists of Figures and Tables, etc., the LyX frontend
reports that there's "No room for a new \write" (similarly, using pdflatex from
the command line on the .tex file fails). I've done a little searching online;
most if not all of the documents I've found reference the Memoir class (which
I'm not using; this happens to be a Koma-script Report master document), but it
seems that it's actually more of an underlying TeX problem, and I simply have
too many Indices, Lists, etc. As an attempt to remedy this, and get a nicely
compiled document, I've gone through each of the constituent files and deleted
the any "Index"es or "Bibliography"[ies] which are in "comment" boxes (I put
them in originally to test indices and bibliographies for each individual
file). However, this does not solve the problem, and I *still* get "No room for
a new \write" and "Bad number {16}" as error messages from LyX. Has anyone
run into this, and solved it? The documentation for the Memoir class says I
have no recourse but to rearrange my document. How do people write books with
this TeX limitation? Would it help to switch to TeX Live or something?
Thanks! Curtis O.
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TEXINFO on Mac
OK, this is undoubtedly in the RTFM/FAQ category, but I can't figure out how to set the TEXINFO environment variable on OS X when I run LyX. Specifically, I try to process a document (imported from a LaTeX file) that uses \epsffile to include a figure. When I try to process the file in LyX, it tells me that it can't find the target .eps files in my TEXINFO path. Trouble is, I have no idea (a) what that path is set to, or (b) how to change it. The target files are right there in the same directory that the main .lyx file is in , but it seems to be looking somewhere else. Can someone help out here? Thanks JEH
Re: float placement refinements
Ramon Flores writes:
> I have read several times the "Float Placement" section and I have not
> finded
> any clue of how to
> 1) forbid more than one figure per page, in a page with text, or
> 2) set the distance between figures.
LaTeX is a quite sophisticated typesetting system and lets you fine tune a
large set of style parameters. Below you can find a list of parameters that
I think are of interest to you. Those not starting with a backslash are
counters and are to be set as \setcounter{topnumber}{1}, for example, the others
must changed using \renewcommand, such as \renewcommand{\topfraction}{0.4},
or \renewcommand{\floatsep}{15mm} for rubber lengths.
Changes made in the preamble apply from the first page on. Changes made
afterwards take effect on the next page, not the current one.
topnumber - A counter whose value is the maximum number of floats allowed
at the top of a page.
\topfraction - The maximum fraction of the page that can be occupied by
floats at the top of the page. Thus, the value 0.25 specifies that as
much as the top quarter of the page may be devoted to floats.
bottomnumber - Same as topnumber except for the bottom of the page.
\bottomfraction - Same as \topfraction except for the bottom of the page.
totalnumber - A counter whose value is the maximum number of floats that
can appear on a single page, irrespective of their positions.
\textfraction - The minimum fraction of a page that must be devoted to text.
The other 1-\textfraction fraction may be occupied by floats.
\floatsep - The vertical space added between floats that appear at the top
or bottom of a text page. It is a rubber length.
\textfloatsep - The vertical space added between the floats appearing at
the top or bottom of a page and the text on that page. Rubber length.
\intextsep - The vertical space placed above and below a float that is put
in the middle of the text with the "h" location option. Rubber length.
HTH
--
Enrico
Re: [announce] LyX150svn from 01-02-2007 for Windows
Uwe Stöhr schrieb: - I can do a pdf with it fine, but the update does not work however my pdf viewer is Foxit 2.0, not Acrobat (which I do have installed, but not as default pdf reader), so it might be related to this. This should be fixed now in the installer version I plan to release today. Please test. regards Uwe
Missing textclass problem while installing LyX under Windows hopefully fixed
Hello LyXers, in the last weeks many users had the problem that after installing LyX on Windows, LyX couldn't be started, only the error message "Missing textclass.lst" is displayed. There was a bug in MIKTeX so that LyX's configuration script wasn't correctly finished when no internet connection was opened to install missing LaTeX-packages. This is now fixed in the latest MiKTeX version 2.5.2580. You can update your MiKTeX installation using MiKTeX's update manager which is accessible in the Start menu under Programs -> MiKTeX 2.5. For new installations the next LyXWinInstaller version has the new MiKTeX version bundled. For existing installations the installer asks you to update MiKTeX before you start LyX the first time. Use this option and MiKTeX's update manager will be started by the installer. For explanation: LyX needs some LaTeX-packages for some of its features that are not delivered in the basic installation of MiKTeX. You can use LyX without having these packages installed but then you cannot use all LyX features. If you want to have all packages needed by LyX installed, install LyX while you have an open internet connection or open later an internet connection and reconfigure LyX. regards Uwe
Re: cannot reqd an old lyx file
on a new computer running windiws vista and the new lyx for windows. Harald The release that will come out hopefully today fixes you initial problem. Besides this, let me ask you if the installer runs fine on Vista and can you work with LyX on Vista as with LyX on XP? If yes, please let me know. (I was only able to test it out once on Vista releace candidate and it worked there.) thanks in advance and regards Uwe
Re: Using ACM and APA styles in LyX?
Hi Richard, I changed from tetex to texlive but I'm not seeing any change in the document classes I see in lyx. >From tex info I can see the following classes I'm looking for: acmconf.cls acmtrans2e.cls apa.cls The document classes I can choose from document settings are: Article (APA) But no ACM. I don't see a good correlation between the list of "document class" and the text info list of classes. Any further suggestions? Thanks, B. Bogart Richard Heck wrote: > LyX does have an APA layout, so you should be able to use it. Check to > make sure you do have the APA document class installed and that LaTeX > can see it (run texhash as root) and then reconfigure LyX (Tools > > Reconfigure). You can use Tools > Tex Info to check what LyX thinks is > there. > > I don't see an ACM layout. Anybody got one? It's unlikely it'd be hard > to create one if not. > > As for references, natbib isn't a bibliography style but something more > general. You can use apalike with it, to be sure. You can also use > apacite by itself (and the apa.layout file seems to load apacite.sty, > which you'd also want). Just choose "default" for your citation style > and then, when you put the bibliography in its place (Insert > List >> Bibliography), choose "apacite" as your style. Of course, you'll need > to make sure that's installed, too. > > Richard > > B. Bogart wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm new to tex/latex/lyx but need to write papers in ACM and APA >> formats. I see that the package texlive-publishers includes APA and ACM >> document classes, and I have the package installed, but lyx does not see >> those templates. >> >> How can I use lyx to write APA and ACM papers? I also need my citations >> and bibliographies to be in the proper APA format, but lyx seems to only >> give three types citation styles? (default,natbib,jurabib) >> >> FYI I'm using the ubuntu edgy packages of lyx/tex >> >> Thanks all. >> >> B. Bogart >> >> >> > >
