RE: Black edge on images when using pdflatex
William Adams wrote: On May 3, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Sander Marechal wrote: I tried, but apparently the SVGs are too complicated for PDF. The polygons that make up the graph don't floodfill correctly. No, the SVGs are too complex for the svg to pdf conversion tool you're using. In that case I used xsltproc and fop to go from DocBook XML with embedded SVG through XML-FO to PDF. After a couple of experiments with DocBook I switched to LyX for the report templates and PDF generator. What is making the SVGs in the first place? Can it go directly to .pdf? Or some other format which can be easily made into a .pdf? (.eps would be ideal, converting from .eps to .pdf is well understood) The graphs are generated with the Image::Graph PHP-PEAR package. -- Sander Marechal
Lyx opens Foxit 2.0 without loading PDF in it
Hi! I use Lyx 1.5.0beta2 for Windows. At first I used Acrobat Reader 8.0. Because of the known bug I decided to install Foxit Reader 2.0 (I didn't uninstall Adobe Reader 8.0). It is now my default PDF-Viewer. When I export my Lyx-File to PDF I can open it with Foxit, but when I make View-PDF(pdflatex) I only got Foxit started without PDF in it. After reading this thread http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg53679.html I added Foxit-path to PATH-prefix but without advancement. What am I doing wrong? Best regards, Yegor Yefrmov
Multiple document cross-reference problems?
Hello, I'm relatively new to using LyX. I'd played around with it a year or two ago, but (perhaps out of inertia more than anything else) returned to directly writing the latex with a text editor. Now I'm using LyX 1.4.3, and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. Thanks to the developers for some great work! One of the many things that impressed me was the apparent ability to cross-reference between documents. (Our use case is to refer back and forth between the main text and supplementary information for a scientific paper.) While LyX makes it easy to insert the cross-document cross-reference, I have yet to figure out how to make that cross reference actually work in the PDF-exported document---it appears as ?? when the PDF is generated. Attached are two small files that illustrate the problem. I open both files, verify that the cross-reference from doc1 points to a label in doc2, and then select View - PDF (pdflatex). An internal cross-reference works just fine, but the cross-document one does not. Am I missing something, or is this a bug? Thanks in advance for taking the time to look into this. Best, --Tim doc1.lyx Description: application/lyx doc2.lyx Description: application/lyx
downsampling in pdflatex output?
Hi all I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some too-high resolution images in there. I found the graphics/degrade package on CTAN but that seems to require that I use ERT for all my images, which I'd rather avoid. If it's not possible from within LyX, perhaps there's a post-processing tool that someone can recommend: one that does the downsampling of a PDF file, without killing my hyperlinks and bookmarks, would be what I'd want. Any suggestions? Cheers JP
Re: Multiple document cross-reference problems?
Tim Holy wrote: Hello, I'm relatively new to using LyX. I'd played around with it a year or two ago, but (perhaps out of inertia more than anything else) returned to directly writing the latex with a text editor. Now I'm using LyX 1.4.3, and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. Thanks to the developers for some great work! One of the many things that impressed me was the apparent ability to cross-reference between documents. (Our use case is to refer back and forth between the main text and supplementary information for a scientific paper.) While LyX makes it easy to insert the cross-document cross-reference, I have yet to figure out how to make that cross reference actually work in the PDF-exported document---it appears as ?? when the PDF is generated. Attached are two small files that illustrate the problem. I open both files, verify that the cross-reference from doc1 points to a label in doc2, and then select View - PDF (pdflatex). An internal cross-reference works just fine, but the cross-document one does not. Am I missing something, or is this a bug? You are missing something. :-/ References from one file to another works only when the two files are part of the same multi-file document. Example: I wrote a book with one file per chapter. (And a master document including all those chapters.) With this setup, I had no problem making references from one chapter-file to another. The page numbers or section numbers were resolved properly only when printing the entire book - not if I printed just one chapterfile. I believe this is the way latex work, I know no way to get correct pagenumbers or section numbers for a document not part of the output. That leaves the manual way, i.e. see section 'results' in document #2... Helge Hafting
Re: downsampling in pdflatex output?
John Pye wrote: Hi all I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some too-high resolution images in there. I found the graphics/degrade package on CTAN but that seems to require that I use ERT for all my images, which I'd rather avoid. If it's not possible from within LyX, perhaps there's a post-processing tool that someone can recommend: one that does the downsampling of a PDF file, without killing my hyperlinks and bookmarks, would be what I'd want. Any suggestions? Just look at the size of your image files. Then, downsample the biggest ones. If you want to keep the originals, make new filenames for the downsampled files, and change the document accordingly. Helge Hafting
Re: 1.5.0 Beta 2 and XeTeX
Philipp Reichmuth wrote: Would it be possible to add bare-bones UTF-8 output as an extra output encoding option (UTF-8 Raw or something)? done (in revision 18198). The encoding is called utf8-plain. Please test, if you find the time. Jürgen
Re: Multiple document cross-reference problems?
Tim Holy wrote: Hello, I'm relatively new to using LyX. I'd played around with it a year or two ago, but (perhaps out of inertia more than anything else) returned to directly writing the latex with a text editor. Now I'm using LyX 1.4.3, and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. Thanks to the developers for some great work! One of the many things that impressed me was the apparent ability to cross-reference between documents. (Our use case is to refer back and forth between the main text and supplementary information for a scientific paper.) While LyX makes it easy to insert the cross-document cross-reference, I have yet to figure out how to make that cross reference actually work in the PDF-exported document---it appears as ?? when the PDF is generated. Attached are two small files that illustrate the problem. I open both files, verify that the cross-reference from doc1 points to a label in doc2, and then select View - PDF (pdflatex). An internal cross-reference works just fine, but the cross-document one does not. I suggest that, as Helge suggested, you create a master document that contains 'Input' tags for the two subdocuments. Then create your PDF by calling pdflatex on the master document. Then, if you really want to split the resulting sngle document back into separate PDFs, use 'pdftk' as a post-processing step. Cheers JP -- John Pye Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia http://pye.dyndns.org/
Docbook (sigh)
Hi I'm looking at Lyx as a possible nice editing facility for an application which is currently using FrameMaker to do that job, with our source documents saved as XML files. The document files are constrained to a simple schema which I suppose is close to being a small subset of Docbook, and we could in fact create XSL stylesheets to take our files in and out of Docbook if we wished to. I realize that Lyx does not natively support XML source files, but I see that it is possible to export a Lyx document to Docbook format. I have knocked up a sample Lyx file which looks like (part of) one of my documents and produced a file.xml as per Docbook, so far so good. Now I want to import it back into Lyx, but it seems that going in this direction is not possible. As far as I can tell there was once a piece of software called 'db2lyx' which appears to have enabled this, but it seems to have fallen by the wayside and not kept pace with the last few years of Lyx development (I've seen warnings against using newer versions, i.e. newer than 1.1!) and here I am on 1.4.4, about to be 1.5. If I can add a suitable command in the Conversions table I can see Docbook as a valid format to import from; the trouble is I don't have a command that works. Does anybody? Surely somebody is doing this! Cheers T
Re: downsampling in pdflatex output?
Helge Hafting wrote: John Pye wrote: Hi all I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some too-high resolution images in there. I found the graphics/degrade package on CTAN but that seems to require that I use ERT for all my images, which I'd rather avoid. If it's not possible from within LyX, perhaps there's a post-processing tool that someone can recommend: one that does the downsampling of a PDF file, without killing my hyperlinks and bookmarks, would be what I'd want. Any suggestions? Just look at the size of your image files. Then, downsample the biggest ones. If you want to keep the originals, make new filenames for the downsampled files, and change the document accordingly. Helge Hafting Hi Helge, I was really looking for an automated approach. For example on Windows, there is 'PDF Factory' (although I haven't tried it with hyperlinks). So I was hoping for something similar on Linux. One reason why an automated approach would be good is that the file can be big and appear big on the page: it /needs/ to be big. But if it's big and appears /small/ on the page, then it needs to be downsampled. Another reason: a LyX document can embed PDFs, SVGs, and I imagine other 'image' files, that can in turn embed bitmaps. One needs a tool that examines the resulting PDF output, rather than the input files. Cheers JP
Re: downsampling in pdflatex output?
On Friday 04 May 2007 09:51, John Pye wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: John Pye wrote: Hi all I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some too-high resolution images in there. I found the graphics/degrade package on CTAN but that seems to require that I use ERT for all my images, which I'd rather avoid. If it's not possible from within LyX, perhaps there's a post-processing tool that someone can recommend: one that does the downsampling of a PDF file, without killing my hyperlinks and bookmarks, would be what I'd want. Any suggestions? Just look at the size of your image files. Then, downsample the biggest ones. If you want to keep the originals, make new filenames for the downsampled files, and change the document accordingly. Helge Hafting Hi Helge, I was really looking for an automated approach. For example on Windows, there is 'PDF Factory' (although I haven't tried it with hyperlinks). So I was hoping for something similar on Linux. One reason why an automated approach would be good is that the file can be big and appear big on the page: it /needs/ to be big. But if it's big and appears /small/ on the page, then it needs to be downsampled. Another reason: a LyX document can embed PDFs, SVGs, and I imagine other 'image' files, that can in turn embed bitmaps. One needs a tool that examines the resulting PDF output, rather than the input files. Cheers JP If I needed to do this, I would write a program in Ruby, Python or Perl to do the following: * Copy your original LyX to another filename. * Scan the new file for included pictures. * For each picture: 1. Use imagemagic convert to create a lower resolution copy 2. Change the LyX source to point to the new picture copy * Export to Latex * Run pdflatex Run one command, and your PDF is built with smaller pictures. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: Multiple document cross-reference problems?
Thanks to both Helge and John for clarifying the issues.
One small problem with the master document strategy is that the figure
numbering, etc, will (by default) be wrong: when we refer to the first
supplementary figure, unless we manually restart the figure counter, it will
get rendered as Supp. Fig. n+1, where n is the number of figures in the main
text. But we can work around this. In our case, the file sizes are not huge,
so the motivation to split into two documents is simply that it's how we
expect to have to submit the files. As you both say, there are several
possible workarounds.
But I do think there is a way of getting this to work transparently, and maybe
this would be of interest to the developers. Using the simple example files I
sent in my last message, I just opened the doc2.aux file, copied the line:
\newlabel{sec:Results}{{1}{1}}
into doc1.aux, and then re-ran pdflatex on doc1. It worked like a charm.
In general, if LyX can keep track of the document referred to by the
cross-references, then a simple
grep newlabel file2.aux file1.aux
would appear to solve the problem. The only issue I see here is that users
might do some manual version control (having files named main_ver1.lyx,
main_ver2.lyx, suppl_ver1.lyx, suppl_ver2.lyx, etc) and that might require
some thought about how to migrate all the cross-references over to a file
with a different name.
Best,
--Tim
On Friday 04 May 2007, John Pye wrote:
Tim Holy wrote:
Hello,
I'm relatively new to using LyX. I'd played around with it a year or two
ago, but (perhaps out of inertia more than anything else) returned to
directly writing the latex with a text editor. Now I'm using LyX 1.4.3,
and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. Thanks to the developers for
some great work!
One of the many things that impressed me was the apparent ability to
cross-reference between documents. (Our use case is to refer back and
forth between the main text and supplementary information for a
scientific paper.) While LyX makes it easy to insert the cross-document
cross-reference, I have yet to figure out how to make that cross
reference actually work in the PDF-exported document---it appears as ??
when the PDF is generated.
Attached are two small files that illustrate the problem. I open both
files, verify that the cross-reference from doc1 points to a label in
doc2, and then select View - PDF (pdflatex). An internal cross-reference
works just fine, but the cross-document one does not.
I suggest that, as Helge suggested, you create a master document that
contains 'Input' tags for the two subdocuments. Then create your PDF by
calling pdflatex on the master document. Then, if you really want to
split the resulting sngle document back into separate PDFs, use 'pdftk'
as a post-processing step.
Cheers
JP
I need a distinctive character style for a specific word
Hi all, You know how there's a command to print LaTeX in a very decorative way? I need something similar to print the word ex so readers understand I'm speaking of the ex editor, and not an ex girlfriend or ex posto facto or something. I know how to use a character style and link it to a command -- I just need to know how to make something decorative within the LaTeX I have on my system (I think it's standard texmf). I don't know how to incorporate the fonts in /usr/share/texmf/fonts into LyX. I have a feeling that a wierd, decorative font would do the trick. In the meantime, so I can continue writing my book til I find out, I'm just gonna make the character style print ex big and black. When I get something more decorative I'll change the layout to change the appearance of every occurrence of ex (and that, my friends, is why I wanted character styles all these years :-) Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
please help me
Hello i am work with Lyx 1.5beta2,i have a problem with load files 1) am make the file in Lyx 1.5beta2 2) go home 3) back to work and i try load file and...exception (0x4015) in adress 0x005b9531 Lyx is been closed because of an unexpected situation this is most likely caused by a flaw in the software please help me
Re: please help me
Jorge Mario wrote: Hello i am work with Lyx 1.5beta2,i have a problem with load files 1) am make the file in Lyx 1.5beta2 2) go home 3) back to work and i try load file and...exception (0x4015) in adress 0x005b9531 Lyx is been closed because of an unexpected situation this is most likely caused by a flaw in the software please help me If it is not confidential, send the file to the developer list. It if it you can send it privately to me. Abdel.
How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like?
Hi all, Turns out I'll be using my Ex character style in body text and in several headings, which means I can't hardcode a size like \LARGE, but instead must find a way to *increase* the font size, which means I need to detect and store the current font size so I can increase it, probably with a bunch of if/then/else type stuff. How do I detect and store the current font size? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
OO export
Hi, I'm trying to export a document to OpenOffice and the following error is presented in the console: Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: xtpipes zip no se reconoce como un comando interno o externo, programa o archivo por lotes ejecutable. The Exception error is shown in two batches like 20 times each one. Btween the two batches, the zip error appears. Any problem with the scripts? BTW, I'm running Vista. -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF quality
No it's not, they look jagged., but it's online on screen. On 5/4/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does pdflatex produce a better on-screen appearance than latex filename;ps2pdf filename? It seems to me when I do the latter, my normal body text fonts have jaggies, but perhaps it's my imagination. Is there a way to get rid of the jaggies if I continue to use latex filename;ps2pdf filename? Thanks STeveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF quality
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Does pdflatex produce a better on-screen appearance than latex filename;ps2pdf filename? It seems to me when I do the latter, my normal body text fonts have jaggies, but perhaps it's my imagination. Is there a way to get rid of the jaggies if I continue to use latex filename;ps2pdf filename? Thanks STeveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Steve, I thought you had been here for a while longer than me... does the following explain the problem you are seeing? And hopefully give you a good solution? http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 also as far as i can recall, the problem would exist in both ps2pdf and pdflatex, because it is a problem with the font. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
Re: Docbook (sigh)
On May 4, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Trevor Nicholls wrote: Hi I'm looking at Lyx as a possible nice editing facility for an application which is currently using FrameMaker to do that job, with our source documents saved as XML files. The document files are constrained to a simple schema which I suppose is close to being a small subset of Docbook, and we could in fact create XSL stylesheets to take our files in and out of Docbook if we wished to. I'm also making the transition from FrameMaker to LyX. I convert(ed) the xml-files exported from FrameMaker to latex or docbook with XSL stylesheets. The thoughest part were the equations. I realize that Lyx does not natively support XML source files, but I see that it is possible to export a Lyx document to Docbook format. I have knocked up a sample Lyx file which looks like (part of) one of my documents and produced a file.xml as per Docbook, so far so good. Now I want to import it back into Lyx, but it seems that going in this direction is not possible. That's right but the last time I tried it there were still some problems with equations. You may also have a look at some other packages for converting latex to xml (I didn't try any of them yet): http://www-sop.inria.fr/miaou/tralics/ http://hermes.roua.org/ http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/#get As far as I can tell there was once a piece of software called 'db2lyx' which appears to have enabled this, but it seems to have fallen by the wayside and not kept pace with the last few years of Lyx development (I've seen warnings against using newer versions, i.e. newer than 1.1!) and here I am on 1.4.4, about to be 1.5. I don't expect db2lyx to work with the newer LyX versions. I suppose you should use db2latex (from the same author). LyX can easlily import latex documents. I have tried db2latex but sofar with no success but this has very probably to do with the equations. db2latex uses xsltml for converting mathml equations to latex. I use this package too but made a few changes to it. So I should modify db2latex to use the modified version of mathml ... If I can add a suitable command in the Conversions table I can see Docbook as a valid format to import from; the trouble is I don't have a command that works. Does anybody? Surely somebody is doing this! I'll stick with LyX for the time being. I would prefer to keep my documents in an xml-format but this seems not possible as far as I know. I feel comfortable right now with the idea that LyX can export its documents as docbook. I suppose you know about: http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ but like db2lyx it won't work with the latest versions of lyx and it looks rather complicated. Regards Patrick De Visschere Cheers T
Multi-numbered equations
Hi! I have 3 equations that I want on a single line (not inline), and numbered individually, like this: 1+1=2, F=ma, A=bh (2), (3), (4) In LyX I can only set one label per equation so is it possible to achieve this? Or if I should use LaTeX/ERT does someone know which package is needed? Thanks in advance! Hans Kunkell
RE: Black edge on images when using pdflatex
William Adams wrote: On May 3, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Sander Marechal wrote: I tried, but apparently the SVGs are too complicated for PDF. The polygons that make up the graph don't floodfill correctly. No, the SVGs are too complex for the svg to pdf conversion tool you're using. In that case I used xsltproc and fop to go from DocBook XML with embedded SVG through XML-FO to PDF. After a couple of experiments with DocBook I switched to LyX for the report templates and PDF generator. What is making the SVGs in the first place? Can it go directly to .pdf? Or some other format which can be easily made into a .pdf? (.eps would be ideal, converting from .eps to .pdf is well understood) The graphs are generated with the Image::Graph PHP-PEAR package. -- Sander Marechal
Lyx opens Foxit 2.0 without loading PDF in it
Hi! I use Lyx 1.5.0beta2 for Windows. At first I used Acrobat Reader 8.0. Because of the known bug I decided to install Foxit Reader 2.0 (I didn't uninstall Adobe Reader 8.0). It is now my default PDF-Viewer. When I export my Lyx-File to PDF I can open it with Foxit, but when I make View-PDF(pdflatex) I only got Foxit started without PDF in it. After reading this thread http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg53679.html I added Foxit-path to PATH-prefix but without advancement. What am I doing wrong? Best regards, Yegor Yefrmov
Multiple document cross-reference problems?
Hello, I'm relatively new to using LyX. I'd played around with it a year or two ago, but (perhaps out of inertia more than anything else) returned to directly writing the latex with a text editor. Now I'm using LyX 1.4.3, and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. Thanks to the developers for some great work! One of the many things that impressed me was the apparent ability to cross-reference between documents. (Our use case is to refer back and forth between the main text and supplementary information for a scientific paper.) While LyX makes it easy to insert the cross-document cross-reference, I have yet to figure out how to make that cross reference actually work in the PDF-exported document---it appears as ?? when the PDF is generated. Attached are two small files that illustrate the problem. I open both files, verify that the cross-reference from doc1 points to a label in doc2, and then select View - PDF (pdflatex). An internal cross-reference works just fine, but the cross-document one does not. Am I missing something, or is this a bug? Thanks in advance for taking the time to look into this. Best, --Tim doc1.lyx Description: application/lyx doc2.lyx Description: application/lyx
downsampling in pdflatex output?
Hi all I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some too-high resolution images in there. I found the graphics/degrade package on CTAN but that seems to require that I use ERT for all my images, which I'd rather avoid. If it's not possible from within LyX, perhaps there's a post-processing tool that someone can recommend: one that does the downsampling of a PDF file, without killing my hyperlinks and bookmarks, would be what I'd want. Any suggestions? Cheers JP
Re: Multiple document cross-reference problems?
Tim Holy wrote: Hello, I'm relatively new to using LyX. I'd played around with it a year or two ago, but (perhaps out of inertia more than anything else) returned to directly writing the latex with a text editor. Now I'm using LyX 1.4.3, and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. Thanks to the developers for some great work! One of the many things that impressed me was the apparent ability to cross-reference between documents. (Our use case is to refer back and forth between the main text and supplementary information for a scientific paper.) While LyX makes it easy to insert the cross-document cross-reference, I have yet to figure out how to make that cross reference actually work in the PDF-exported document---it appears as ?? when the PDF is generated. Attached are two small files that illustrate the problem. I open both files, verify that the cross-reference from doc1 points to a label in doc2, and then select View - PDF (pdflatex). An internal cross-reference works just fine, but the cross-document one does not. Am I missing something, or is this a bug? You are missing something. :-/ References from one file to another works only when the two files are part of the same multi-file document. Example: I wrote a book with one file per chapter. (And a master document including all those chapters.) With this setup, I had no problem making references from one chapter-file to another. The page numbers or section numbers were resolved properly only when printing the entire book - not if I printed just one chapterfile. I believe this is the way latex work, I know no way to get correct pagenumbers or section numbers for a document not part of the output. That leaves the manual way, i.e. see section 'results' in document #2... Helge Hafting
Re: downsampling in pdflatex output?
John Pye wrote: Hi all I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some too-high resolution images in there. I found the graphics/degrade package on CTAN but that seems to require that I use ERT for all my images, which I'd rather avoid. If it's not possible from within LyX, perhaps there's a post-processing tool that someone can recommend: one that does the downsampling of a PDF file, without killing my hyperlinks and bookmarks, would be what I'd want. Any suggestions? Just look at the size of your image files. Then, downsample the biggest ones. If you want to keep the originals, make new filenames for the downsampled files, and change the document accordingly. Helge Hafting
Re: 1.5.0 Beta 2 and XeTeX
Philipp Reichmuth wrote: Would it be possible to add bare-bones UTF-8 output as an extra output encoding option (UTF-8 Raw or something)? done (in revision 18198). The encoding is called utf8-plain. Please test, if you find the time. Jürgen
Re: Multiple document cross-reference problems?
Tim Holy wrote: Hello, I'm relatively new to using LyX. I'd played around with it a year or two ago, but (perhaps out of inertia more than anything else) returned to directly writing the latex with a text editor. Now I'm using LyX 1.4.3, and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. Thanks to the developers for some great work! One of the many things that impressed me was the apparent ability to cross-reference between documents. (Our use case is to refer back and forth between the main text and supplementary information for a scientific paper.) While LyX makes it easy to insert the cross-document cross-reference, I have yet to figure out how to make that cross reference actually work in the PDF-exported document---it appears as ?? when the PDF is generated. Attached are two small files that illustrate the problem. I open both files, verify that the cross-reference from doc1 points to a label in doc2, and then select View - PDF (pdflatex). An internal cross-reference works just fine, but the cross-document one does not. I suggest that, as Helge suggested, you create a master document that contains 'Input' tags for the two subdocuments. Then create your PDF by calling pdflatex on the master document. Then, if you really want to split the resulting sngle document back into separate PDFs, use 'pdftk' as a post-processing step. Cheers JP -- John Pye Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia http://pye.dyndns.org/
Docbook (sigh)
Hi I'm looking at Lyx as a possible nice editing facility for an application which is currently using FrameMaker to do that job, with our source documents saved as XML files. The document files are constrained to a simple schema which I suppose is close to being a small subset of Docbook, and we could in fact create XSL stylesheets to take our files in and out of Docbook if we wished to. I realize that Lyx does not natively support XML source files, but I see that it is possible to export a Lyx document to Docbook format. I have knocked up a sample Lyx file which looks like (part of) one of my documents and produced a file.xml as per Docbook, so far so good. Now I want to import it back into Lyx, but it seems that going in this direction is not possible. As far as I can tell there was once a piece of software called 'db2lyx' which appears to have enabled this, but it seems to have fallen by the wayside and not kept pace with the last few years of Lyx development (I've seen warnings against using newer versions, i.e. newer than 1.1!) and here I am on 1.4.4, about to be 1.5. If I can add a suitable command in the Conversions table I can see Docbook as a valid format to import from; the trouble is I don't have a command that works. Does anybody? Surely somebody is doing this! Cheers T
Re: downsampling in pdflatex output?
Helge Hafting wrote: John Pye wrote: Hi all I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some too-high resolution images in there. I found the graphics/degrade package on CTAN but that seems to require that I use ERT for all my images, which I'd rather avoid. If it's not possible from within LyX, perhaps there's a post-processing tool that someone can recommend: one that does the downsampling of a PDF file, without killing my hyperlinks and bookmarks, would be what I'd want. Any suggestions? Just look at the size of your image files. Then, downsample the biggest ones. If you want to keep the originals, make new filenames for the downsampled files, and change the document accordingly. Helge Hafting Hi Helge, I was really looking for an automated approach. For example on Windows, there is 'PDF Factory' (although I haven't tried it with hyperlinks). So I was hoping for something similar on Linux. One reason why an automated approach would be good is that the file can be big and appear big on the page: it /needs/ to be big. But if it's big and appears /small/ on the page, then it needs to be downsampled. Another reason: a LyX document can embed PDFs, SVGs, and I imagine other 'image' files, that can in turn embed bitmaps. One needs a tool that examines the resulting PDF output, rather than the input files. Cheers JP
Re: downsampling in pdflatex output?
On Friday 04 May 2007 09:51, John Pye wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: John Pye wrote: Hi all I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some too-high resolution images in there. I found the graphics/degrade package on CTAN but that seems to require that I use ERT for all my images, which I'd rather avoid. If it's not possible from within LyX, perhaps there's a post-processing tool that someone can recommend: one that does the downsampling of a PDF file, without killing my hyperlinks and bookmarks, would be what I'd want. Any suggestions? Just look at the size of your image files. Then, downsample the biggest ones. If you want to keep the originals, make new filenames for the downsampled files, and change the document accordingly. Helge Hafting Hi Helge, I was really looking for an automated approach. For example on Windows, there is 'PDF Factory' (although I haven't tried it with hyperlinks). So I was hoping for something similar on Linux. One reason why an automated approach would be good is that the file can be big and appear big on the page: it /needs/ to be big. But if it's big and appears /small/ on the page, then it needs to be downsampled. Another reason: a LyX document can embed PDFs, SVGs, and I imagine other 'image' files, that can in turn embed bitmaps. One needs a tool that examines the resulting PDF output, rather than the input files. Cheers JP If I needed to do this, I would write a program in Ruby, Python or Perl to do the following: * Copy your original LyX to another filename. * Scan the new file for included pictures. * For each picture: 1. Use imagemagic convert to create a lower resolution copy 2. Change the LyX source to point to the new picture copy * Export to Latex * Run pdflatex Run one command, and your PDF is built with smaller pictures. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: Multiple document cross-reference problems?
Thanks to both Helge and John for clarifying the issues.
One small problem with the master document strategy is that the figure
numbering, etc, will (by default) be wrong: when we refer to the first
supplementary figure, unless we manually restart the figure counter, it will
get rendered as Supp. Fig. n+1, where n is the number of figures in the main
text. But we can work around this. In our case, the file sizes are not huge,
so the motivation to split into two documents is simply that it's how we
expect to have to submit the files. As you both say, there are several
possible workarounds.
But I do think there is a way of getting this to work transparently, and maybe
this would be of interest to the developers. Using the simple example files I
sent in my last message, I just opened the doc2.aux file, copied the line:
\newlabel{sec:Results}{{1}{1}}
into doc1.aux, and then re-ran pdflatex on doc1. It worked like a charm.
In general, if LyX can keep track of the document referred to by the
cross-references, then a simple
grep newlabel file2.aux file1.aux
would appear to solve the problem. The only issue I see here is that users
might do some manual version control (having files named main_ver1.lyx,
main_ver2.lyx, suppl_ver1.lyx, suppl_ver2.lyx, etc) and that might require
some thought about how to migrate all the cross-references over to a file
with a different name.
Best,
--Tim
On Friday 04 May 2007, John Pye wrote:
Tim Holy wrote:
Hello,
I'm relatively new to using LyX. I'd played around with it a year or two
ago, but (perhaps out of inertia more than anything else) returned to
directly writing the latex with a text editor. Now I'm using LyX 1.4.3,
and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. Thanks to the developers for
some great work!
One of the many things that impressed me was the apparent ability to
cross-reference between documents. (Our use case is to refer back and
forth between the main text and supplementary information for a
scientific paper.) While LyX makes it easy to insert the cross-document
cross-reference, I have yet to figure out how to make that cross
reference actually work in the PDF-exported document---it appears as ??
when the PDF is generated.
Attached are two small files that illustrate the problem. I open both
files, verify that the cross-reference from doc1 points to a label in
doc2, and then select View - PDF (pdflatex). An internal cross-reference
works just fine, but the cross-document one does not.
I suggest that, as Helge suggested, you create a master document that
contains 'Input' tags for the two subdocuments. Then create your PDF by
calling pdflatex on the master document. Then, if you really want to
split the resulting sngle document back into separate PDFs, use 'pdftk'
as a post-processing step.
Cheers
JP
I need a distinctive character style for a specific word
Hi all, You know how there's a command to print LaTeX in a very decorative way? I need something similar to print the word ex so readers understand I'm speaking of the ex editor, and not an ex girlfriend or ex posto facto or something. I know how to use a character style and link it to a command -- I just need to know how to make something decorative within the LaTeX I have on my system (I think it's standard texmf). I don't know how to incorporate the fonts in /usr/share/texmf/fonts into LyX. I have a feeling that a wierd, decorative font would do the trick. In the meantime, so I can continue writing my book til I find out, I'm just gonna make the character style print ex big and black. When I get something more decorative I'll change the layout to change the appearance of every occurrence of ex (and that, my friends, is why I wanted character styles all these years :-) Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
please help me
Hello i am work with Lyx 1.5beta2,i have a problem with load files 1) am make the file in Lyx 1.5beta2 2) go home 3) back to work and i try load file and...exception (0x4015) in adress 0x005b9531 Lyx is been closed because of an unexpected situation this is most likely caused by a flaw in the software please help me
Re: please help me
Jorge Mario wrote: Hello i am work with Lyx 1.5beta2,i have a problem with load files 1) am make the file in Lyx 1.5beta2 2) go home 3) back to work and i try load file and...exception (0x4015) in adress 0x005b9531 Lyx is been closed because of an unexpected situation this is most likely caused by a flaw in the software please help me If it is not confidential, send the file to the developer list. It if it you can send it privately to me. Abdel.
How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like?
Hi all, Turns out I'll be using my Ex character style in body text and in several headings, which means I can't hardcode a size like \LARGE, but instead must find a way to *increase* the font size, which means I need to detect and store the current font size so I can increase it, probably with a bunch of if/then/else type stuff. How do I detect and store the current font size? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
OO export
Hi, I'm trying to export a document to OpenOffice and the following error is presented in the console: Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: xtpipes zip no se reconoce como un comando interno o externo, programa o archivo por lotes ejecutable. The Exception error is shown in two batches like 20 times each one. Btween the two batches, the zip error appears. Any problem with the scripts? BTW, I'm running Vista. -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF quality
No it's not, they look jagged., but it's online on screen. On 5/4/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does pdflatex produce a better on-screen appearance than latex filename;ps2pdf filename? It seems to me when I do the latter, my normal body text fonts have jaggies, but perhaps it's my imagination. Is there a way to get rid of the jaggies if I continue to use latex filename;ps2pdf filename? Thanks STeveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF quality
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Does pdflatex produce a better on-screen appearance than latex filename;ps2pdf filename? It seems to me when I do the latter, my normal body text fonts have jaggies, but perhaps it's my imagination. Is there a way to get rid of the jaggies if I continue to use latex filename;ps2pdf filename? Thanks STeveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Steve, I thought you had been here for a while longer than me... does the following explain the problem you are seeing? And hopefully give you a good solution? http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 also as far as i can recall, the problem would exist in both ps2pdf and pdflatex, because it is a problem with the font. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
Re: Docbook (sigh)
On May 4, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Trevor Nicholls wrote: Hi I'm looking at Lyx as a possible nice editing facility for an application which is currently using FrameMaker to do that job, with our source documents saved as XML files. The document files are constrained to a simple schema which I suppose is close to being a small subset of Docbook, and we could in fact create XSL stylesheets to take our files in and out of Docbook if we wished to. I'm also making the transition from FrameMaker to LyX. I convert(ed) the xml-files exported from FrameMaker to latex or docbook with XSL stylesheets. The thoughest part were the equations. I realize that Lyx does not natively support XML source files, but I see that it is possible to export a Lyx document to Docbook format. I have knocked up a sample Lyx file which looks like (part of) one of my documents and produced a file.xml as per Docbook, so far so good. Now I want to import it back into Lyx, but it seems that going in this direction is not possible. That's right but the last time I tried it there were still some problems with equations. You may also have a look at some other packages for converting latex to xml (I didn't try any of them yet): http://www-sop.inria.fr/miaou/tralics/ http://hermes.roua.org/ http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/#get As far as I can tell there was once a piece of software called 'db2lyx' which appears to have enabled this, but it seems to have fallen by the wayside and not kept pace with the last few years of Lyx development (I've seen warnings against using newer versions, i.e. newer than 1.1!) and here I am on 1.4.4, about to be 1.5. I don't expect db2lyx to work with the newer LyX versions. I suppose you should use db2latex (from the same author). LyX can easlily import latex documents. I have tried db2latex but sofar with no success but this has very probably to do with the equations. db2latex uses xsltml for converting mathml equations to latex. I use this package too but made a few changes to it. So I should modify db2latex to use the modified version of mathml ... If I can add a suitable command in the Conversions table I can see Docbook as a valid format to import from; the trouble is I don't have a command that works. Does anybody? Surely somebody is doing this! I'll stick with LyX for the time being. I would prefer to keep my documents in an xml-format but this seems not possible as far as I know. I feel comfortable right now with the idea that LyX can export its documents as docbook. I suppose you know about: http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ but like db2lyx it won't work with the latest versions of lyx and it looks rather complicated. Regards Patrick De Visschere Cheers T
Multi-numbered equations
Hi! I have 3 equations that I want on a single line (not inline), and numbered individually, like this: 1+1=2, F=ma, A=bh (2), (3), (4) In LyX I can only set one label per equation so is it possible to achieve this? Or if I should use LaTeX/ERT does someone know which package is needed? Thanks in advance! Hans Kunkell
RE: Black edge on images when using pdflatex
William Adams wrote: > On May 3, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Sander Marechal wrote: > >> I tried, but apparently the SVGs are too complicated for PDF. The >> polygons that make up the graph don't floodfill correctly. > > No, the SVGs are too complex for the svg to pdf conversion tool > you're using. In that case I used xsltproc and fop to go from DocBook XML with embedded SVG through XML-FO to PDF. After a couple of experiments with DocBook I switched to LyX for the report templates and PDF generator. > What is making the SVGs in the first place? Can it go directly > to .pdf? Or some other format which can be easily made into a .pdf? > (.eps would be ideal, converting from .eps to .pdf is well understood) The graphs are generated with the Image::Graph PHP-PEAR package. -- Sander Marechal
Lyx opens Foxit 2.0 without loading PDF in it
Hi! I use Lyx 1.5.0beta2 for Windows. At first I used Acrobat Reader 8.0. Because of the known bug I decided to install Foxit Reader 2.0 (I didn't uninstall Adobe Reader 8.0). It is now my default PDF-Viewer. When I export my Lyx-File to PDF I can open it with Foxit, but when I make View->PDF(pdflatex) I only got Foxit started without PDF in it. After reading this thread http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg53679.html I added Foxit-path to PATH-prefix but without advancement. What am I doing wrong? Best regards, Yegor Yefrmov
Multiple document cross-reference problems?
Hello, I'm relatively new to using LyX. I'd played around with it a year or two ago, but (perhaps out of inertia more than anything else) returned to directly writing the latex with a text editor. Now I'm using LyX 1.4.3, and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. Thanks to the developers for some great work! One of the many things that impressed me was the apparent ability to cross-reference between documents. (Our use case is to refer back and forth between the "main text" and "supplementary information" for a scientific paper.) While LyX makes it easy to insert the cross-document cross-reference, I have yet to figure out how to make that cross reference actually work in the PDF-exported document---it appears as "??" when the PDF is generated. Attached are two small files that illustrate the problem. I open both files, verify that the cross-reference from doc1 points to a label in doc2, and then select View -> PDF (pdflatex). An internal cross-reference works just fine, but the cross-document one does not. Am I missing something, or is this a bug? Thanks in advance for taking the time to look into this. Best, --Tim doc1.lyx Description: application/lyx doc2.lyx Description: application/lyx
downsampling in pdflatex output?
Hi all I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some too-high resolution images in there. I found the graphics/degrade package on CTAN but that seems to require that I use ERT for all my images, which I'd rather avoid. If it's not possible from within LyX, perhaps there's a post-processing tool that someone can recommend: one that does the downsampling of a PDF file, without killing my hyperlinks and bookmarks, would be what I'd want. Any suggestions? Cheers JP
Re: Multiple document cross-reference problems?
Tim Holy wrote: Hello, I'm relatively new to using LyX. I'd played around with it a year or two ago, but (perhaps out of inertia more than anything else) returned to directly writing the latex with a text editor. Now I'm using LyX 1.4.3, and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. Thanks to the developers for some great work! One of the many things that impressed me was the apparent ability to cross-reference between documents. (Our use case is to refer back and forth between the "main text" and "supplementary information" for a scientific paper.) While LyX makes it easy to insert the cross-document cross-reference, I have yet to figure out how to make that cross reference actually work in the PDF-exported document---it appears as "??" when the PDF is generated. Attached are two small files that illustrate the problem. I open both files, verify that the cross-reference from doc1 points to a label in doc2, and then select View -> PDF (pdflatex). An internal cross-reference works just fine, but the cross-document one does not. Am I missing something, or is this a bug? You are missing something. :-/ References from one file to another works only when the two files are part of the same multi-file document. Example: I wrote a book with one file per chapter. (And a master document including all those chapters.) With this setup, I had no problem making references from one chapter-file to another. The page numbers or section numbers were resolved properly only when printing the entire book - not if I printed just one chapterfile. I believe this is the way latex work, I know no way to get correct pagenumbers or section numbers for a document not part of the output. That leaves the manual way, i.e. "see section 'results' in document #2"... Helge Hafting
Re: downsampling in pdflatex output?
John Pye wrote: Hi all I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some too-high resolution images in there. I found the graphics/degrade package on CTAN but that seems to require that I use ERT for all my images, which I'd rather avoid. If it's not possible from within LyX, perhaps there's a post-processing tool that someone can recommend: one that does the downsampling of a PDF file, without killing my hyperlinks and bookmarks, would be what I'd want. Any suggestions? Just look at the size of your image files. Then, downsample the biggest ones. If you want to keep the originals, make new filenames for the downsampled files, and change the document accordingly. Helge Hafting
Re: 1.5.0 Beta 2 and XeTeX
Philipp Reichmuth wrote:
> Would it be possible to add
> bare-bones UTF-8 output as an extra output encoding option ("UTF-8 Raw"
> or something)?
done (in revision 18198). The encoding is called utf8-plain.
Please test, if you find the time.
Jürgen
Re: Multiple document cross-reference problems?
Tim Holy wrote: > Hello, > > I'm relatively new to using LyX. I'd played around with it a year or two ago, > but (perhaps out of inertia more than anything else) returned to directly > writing the latex with a text editor. Now I'm using LyX 1.4.3, and I have to > say that I'm quite impressed. Thanks to the developers for some great work! > > One of the many things that impressed me was the apparent ability to > cross-reference between documents. (Our use case is to refer back and forth > between the "main text" and "supplementary information" for a scientific > paper.) While LyX makes it easy to insert the cross-document cross-reference, > I have yet to figure out how to make that cross reference actually work in > the PDF-exported document---it appears as "??" when the PDF is generated. > > Attached are two small files that illustrate the problem. I open both files, > verify that the cross-reference from doc1 points to a label in doc2, and then > select View -> PDF (pdflatex). An internal cross-reference works just fine, > but the cross-document one does not. > I suggest that, as Helge suggested, you create a master document that contains 'Input' tags for the two subdocuments. Then create your PDF by calling pdflatex on the master document. Then, if you really want to split the resulting sngle document back into separate PDFs, use 'pdftk' as a post-processing step. Cheers JP -- John Pye Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia http://pye.dyndns.org/
Docbook (sigh)
Hi I'm looking at Lyx as a possible "nice" editing facility for an application which is currently using FrameMaker to do that job, with our source documents saved as XML files. The document files are constrained to a simple schema which I suppose is close to being a small subset of Docbook, and we could in fact create XSL stylesheets to take our files in and out of Docbook if we wished to. I realize that Lyx does not natively support XML source files, but I see that it is possible to export a Lyx document to Docbook format. I have knocked up a sample Lyx file which looks like (part of) one of my documents and produced a file.xml as per Docbook, so far so good. Now I want to import it back into Lyx, but it seems that going in this direction is not possible. As far as I can tell there was once a piece of software called 'db2lyx' which appears to have enabled this, but it seems to have fallen by the wayside and not kept pace with the last few years of Lyx development (I've seen warnings against using "newer" versions, i.e. newer than 1.1!) and here I am on 1.4.4, about to be 1.5. If I can add a suitable command in the Conversions table I can see Docbook as a valid format to import from; the trouble is I don't have a command that works. Does anybody? Surely somebody is doing this! Cheers T
Re: downsampling in pdflatex output?
Helge Hafting wrote: > John Pye wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or >> 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using >> pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my >> PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some >> too-high resolution images in there. I found the graphics/degrade >> package on CTAN but that seems to require that I use ERT for all my >> images, which I'd rather avoid. >> >> If it's not possible from within LyX, perhaps there's a post-processing >> tool that someone can recommend: one that does the downsampling of a PDF >> file, without killing my hyperlinks and bookmarks, would be what I'd >> want. >> >> Any suggestions? >> > Just look at the size of your image files. Then, downsample > the biggest ones. If you want to keep the originals, make new > filenames for the downsampled files, and change the document > accordingly. > > Helge Hafting Hi Helge, I was really looking for an automated approach. For example on Windows, there is 'PDF Factory' (although I haven't tried it with hyperlinks). So I was hoping for something similar on Linux. One reason why an automated approach would be good is that the file can be big and appear big on the page: it /needs/ to be big. But if it's big and appears /small/ on the page, then it needs to be downsampled. Another reason: a LyX document can embed PDFs, SVGs, and I imagine other 'image' files, that can in turn embed bitmaps. One needs a tool that examines the resulting PDF output, rather than the input files. Cheers JP
Re: downsampling in pdflatex output?
On Friday 04 May 2007 09:51, John Pye wrote: > Helge Hafting wrote: > > John Pye wrote: > >> Hi all > >> > >> I would like to know if there's a way I can easily downsample (or > >> 'degrade') images in my LyX document when creating output using > >> pdflatex. I have a mix of PNGs, PDFs, EPS and JPG in my document, but my > >> PDF file is starting to become large and I'm sure there must be some > >> too-high resolution images in there. I found the graphics/degrade > >> package on CTAN but that seems to require that I use ERT for all my > >> images, which I'd rather avoid. > >> > >> If it's not possible from within LyX, perhaps there's a post-processing > >> tool that someone can recommend: one that does the downsampling of a PDF > >> file, without killing my hyperlinks and bookmarks, would be what I'd > >> want. > >> > >> Any suggestions? > > > > Just look at the size of your image files. Then, downsample > > the biggest ones. If you want to keep the originals, make new > > filenames for the downsampled files, and change the document > > accordingly. > > > > Helge Hafting > > Hi Helge, > > I was really looking for an automated approach. For example on Windows, > there is 'PDF Factory' (although I haven't tried it with hyperlinks). So > I was hoping for something similar on Linux. > > One reason why an automated approach would be good is that the file can > be big and appear big on the page: it /needs/ to be big. But if it's big > and appears /small/ on the page, then it needs to be downsampled. > > Another reason: a LyX document can embed PDFs, SVGs, and I imagine other > 'image' files, that can in turn embed bitmaps. One needs a tool that > examines the resulting PDF output, rather than the input files. > > Cheers JP If I needed to do this, I would write a program in Ruby, Python or Perl to do the following: * Copy your original LyX to another filename. * Scan the new file for included pictures. * For each picture: 1. Use imagemagic convert to create a lower resolution copy 2. Change the LyX source to point to the new picture copy * Export to Latex * Run pdflatex Run one command, and your PDF is built with smaller pictures. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: Multiple document cross-reference problems?
Thanks to both Helge and John for clarifying the issues.
One small problem with the "master document" strategy is that the figure
numbering, etc, will (by default) be wrong: when we refer to the first
supplementary figure, unless we manually restart the figure counter, it will
get rendered as Supp. Fig. n+1, where n is the number of figures in the main
text. But we can work around this. In our case, the file sizes are not huge,
so the motivation to split into two documents is simply that it's how we
expect to have to submit the files. As you both say, there are several
possible workarounds.
But I do think there is a way of getting this to work transparently, and maybe
this would be of interest to the developers. Using the simple example files I
sent in my last message, I just opened the doc2.aux file, copied the line:
\newlabel{sec:Results}{{1}{1}}
into doc1.aux, and then re-ran pdflatex on doc1. It worked like a charm.
In general, if LyX can keep track of the document referred to by the
cross-references, then a simple
grep newlabel file2.aux >> file1.aux
would appear to solve the problem. The only issue I see here is that users
might do some manual version control (having files named main_ver1.lyx,
main_ver2.lyx, suppl_ver1.lyx, suppl_ver2.lyx, etc) and that might require
some thought about how to migrate all the cross-references over to a file
with a different name.
Best,
--Tim
On Friday 04 May 2007, John Pye wrote:
> Tim Holy wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm relatively new to using LyX. I'd played around with it a year or two
> > ago, but (perhaps out of inertia more than anything else) returned to
> > directly writing the latex with a text editor. Now I'm using LyX 1.4.3,
> > and I have to say that I'm quite impressed. Thanks to the developers for
> > some great work!
> >
> > One of the many things that impressed me was the apparent ability to
> > cross-reference between documents. (Our use case is to refer back and
> > forth between the "main text" and "supplementary information" for a
> > scientific paper.) While LyX makes it easy to insert the cross-document
> > cross-reference, I have yet to figure out how to make that cross
> > reference actually work in the PDF-exported document---it appears as "??"
> > when the PDF is generated.
> >
> > Attached are two small files that illustrate the problem. I open both
> > files, verify that the cross-reference from doc1 points to a label in
> > doc2, and then select View -> PDF (pdflatex). An internal cross-reference
> > works just fine, but the cross-document one does not.
>
> I suggest that, as Helge suggested, you create a master document that
> contains 'Input' tags for the two subdocuments. Then create your PDF by
> calling pdflatex on the master document. Then, if you really want to
> split the resulting sngle document back into separate PDFs, use 'pdftk'
> as a post-processing step.
>
> Cheers
> JP
I need a distinctive character style for a specific word
Hi all, You know how there's a command to print LaTeX in a very decorative way? I need something similar to print the word "ex" so readers understand I'm speaking of the ex editor, and not an ex girlfriend or ex posto facto or something. I know how to use a character style and link it to a command -- I just need to know how to make something decorative within the LaTeX I have on my system (I think it's standard texmf). I don't know how to incorporate the fonts in /usr/share/texmf/fonts into LyX. I have a feeling that a wierd, decorative font would do the trick. In the meantime, so I can continue writing my book til I find out, I'm just gonna make the character style print ex big and black. When I get something more decorative I'll change the layout to change the appearance of every occurrence of ex (and that, my friends, is why I wanted character styles all these years :-) Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
please help me
Hello i am work with Lyx 1.5beta2,i have a problem with load files 1) am make the file in Lyx 1.5beta2 2) go home 3) back to work and i try load file and...exception (0x4015) in adress 0x005b9531 Lyx is been closed because of an unexpected situation this is most likely caused by a flaw in the software please help me
Re: please help me
Jorge Mario wrote: Hello i am work with Lyx 1.5beta2,i have a problem with load files 1) am make the file in Lyx 1.5beta2 2) go home 3) back to work and i try load file and...exception (0x4015) in adress 0x005b9531 Lyx is been closed because of an unexpected situation this is most likely caused by a flaw in the software please help me If it is not confidential, send the file to the developer list. It if it you can send it privately to me. Abdel.
How to detect current font size, shape, series and the like?
Hi all, Turns out I'll be using my Ex character style in body text and in several headings, which means I can't hardcode a size like \LARGE, but instead must find a way to *increase* the font size, which means I need to detect and store the current font size so I can increase it, probably with a bunch of if/then/else type stuff. How do I detect and store the current font size? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
OO export
Hi, I'm trying to export a document to OpenOffice and the following error is presented in the console: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: xtpipes "zip" no se reconoce como un comando interno o externo, programa o archivo por lotes ejecutable. The "Exception" error is shown in two batches like 20 times each one. Btween the two batches, the "zip" error appears. Any problem with the scripts? BTW, I'm running Vista. -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF quality
No it's not, they look jagged., but it's online on screen. On 5/4/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Does pdflatex produce a better on-screen appearance than latex filename;ps2pdf filename? It seems to me when I do the latter, my normal body text fonts have "jaggies", but perhaps it's my imagination. Is there a way to get rid of the "jaggies" if I continue to use latex filename;ps2pdf filename? Thanks STeveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF quality
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Does pdflatex produce a better on-screen appearance than latex filename;ps2pdf filename? It seems to me when I do the latter, my normal body text fonts have "jaggies", but perhaps it's my imagination. Is there a way to get rid of the "jaggies" if I continue to use latex filename;ps2pdf filename? Thanks STeveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Steve, I thought you had been here for a while longer than me... does the following explain the problem you are seeing? And hopefully give you a good solution? http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 also as far as i can recall, the problem would exist in both ps2pdf and pdflatex, because it is a problem with the font. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
Re: Docbook (sigh)
On May 4, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Trevor Nicholls wrote: Hi I'm looking at Lyx as a possible "nice" editing facility for an application which is currently using FrameMaker to do that job, with our source documents saved as XML files. The document files are constrained to a simple schema which I suppose is close to being a small subset of Docbook, and we could in fact create XSL stylesheets to take our files in and out of Docbook if we wished to. I'm also making the transition from FrameMaker to LyX. I convert(ed) the xml-files exported from FrameMaker to latex or docbook with XSL stylesheets. The thoughest part were the equations. I realize that Lyx does not natively support XML source files, but I see that it is possible to export a Lyx document to Docbook format. I have knocked up a sample Lyx file which looks like (part of) one of my documents and produced a file.xml as per Docbook, so far so good. Now I want to import it back into Lyx, but it seems that going in this direction is not possible. That's right but the last time I tried it there were still some problems with equations. You may also have a look at some other packages for converting latex to xml (I didn't try any of them yet): http://www-sop.inria.fr/miaou/tralics/ http://hermes.roua.org/ http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/#get As far as I can tell there was once a piece of software called 'db2lyx' which appears to have enabled this, but it seems to have fallen by the wayside and not kept pace with the last few years of Lyx development (I've seen warnings against using "newer" versions, i.e. newer than 1.1!) and here I am on 1.4.4, about to be 1.5. I don't expect db2lyx to work with the newer LyX versions. I suppose you should use db2latex (from the same author). LyX can easlily import latex documents. I have tried db2latex but sofar with no success but this has very probably to do with the equations. db2latex uses xsltml for converting mathml equations to latex. I use this package too but made a few changes to it. So I should modify db2latex to use the modified version of mathml ... If I can add a suitable command in the Conversions table I can see Docbook as a valid format to import from; the trouble is I don't have a command that works. Does anybody? Surely somebody is doing this! I'll stick with LyX for the time being. I would prefer to keep my documents in an xml-format but this seems not possible as far as I know. I feel comfortable right now with the idea that LyX can export its documents as docbook. I suppose you know about: http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ but like db2lyx it won't work with the latest versions of lyx and it looks rather complicated. Regards Patrick De Visschere Cheers T
Multi-numbered equations
Hi! I have 3 equations that I want on a single line (not inline), and numbered individually, like this: 1+1=2, F=ma, A=bh (2), (3), (4) In LyX I can only set one label per equation so is it possible to achieve this? Or if I should use LaTeX/ERT does someone know which package is needed? Thanks in advance! Hans Kunkell
