Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents
Bo Peng wrote: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ Quite interesting, do you see any hope of integrating this to lyx? ldiff basically just compares tex files (LyX files are converted to tex via lyx -e by the script). I think we should build in some native comparing feature instead (which will mark differences with our change tracking markup). IIRC we have an enhancement request about this. Jürgen
Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents
Ken wrote: Hi all, Is there an easy way to compare the changes or differences between two LyX documents? The only method I can think of is to use Notepad++ to view the differences. If you have any other/better suggestions I would be grateful if you would please share them. Kind regards, Ken For Windows users there is very nice program WinMerge (http://winmerge.org/) Best regards, Yegor
Re: Wishlist: search and spell-check in a sidebar
On 22.01.08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, muzzle wrote: I remember a wishlist bug in bugzilla on moving the search/substitute/spellc-heck pop-up window to a sidebar like the one most document editor (viewer) have. I agree it's annoying with a search window on top sometimes, but OTOH I'm not always fond of losing space on the side. I'd prefer a search bar at the bottom like in firefox (and other apps). Guenter
Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents
Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bo Peng wrote: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ Quite interesting, do you see any hope of integrating this to lyx? ldiff basically just compares tex files (LyX files are converted to tex via lyx -e by the script). I think we should build in some native comparing feature instead (which will mark differences with our change tracking markup). IIRC we have an enhancement request about this. AFAIR, Alfredo expressed interest at doing that. But I do not know whether he began anything. JMarc
Re: Wishlist: search and spell-check in a sidebar
On Jan 23, 2008 9:24 AM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22.01.08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, muzzle wrote: I remember a wishlist bug in bugzilla on moving the search/substitute/spellc-heck pop-up window to a sidebar like the one most document editor (viewer) have. I agree it's annoying with a search window on top sometimes, but OTOH I'm not always fond of losing space on the side. I'd prefer a search bar at the bottom like in firefox (and other apps). Yes, that was my first idea too, but it wouldn't scale well to other functions like substitute, spell-check, search-latex-errors... I wanted to propose something that could be reusable for many components of the lyx interface in a consistent way. Bye, Emme Guenter
Latex presentation with lyx
Hi, I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul be a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) Goodbye, Emme
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 14:23, muzzle wrote: Hi, I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul be a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) Goodbye, Emme I've been using the beamer presentation document class within Lyx for a long while now, and I wouldn't think of going back to anything else. It does take a bit of getting used to, but it's very important for me to have a consistency of look, the referencing of figures and text, a hierarchical structure for the presentation and a generic PDF file that can be played anywhere. Mateo.
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it could be a very interesting improvement given the quality of the average powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) It sure seems like a good idea to me. The Beamer products are very impressive and clean, and IMO anything is better than another dull PPT presentation with Comic Sans text. I intended to start working on this a few days from now for a presentation of my own, but knowing nothing I went and checked the Wiki. This helped: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer The example by Rich Drewes is very nice, but I noticed that LaTeX looks for what appears to be Python scripts in some frames of Section 2. Thus, for me, the PDF or DVI production fails. The scripts look like ones Rich wrote himself, so the compilation will likely fail for anyone that downloads it. But, the example LyX file gives you the idea. I'm also particularly interested in any other advice people have about Beamer presentations via LyX. (I'm on WinXP with LyX 1.5.3.) - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Latex-presentation-with-lyx-tp15043014p15043381.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
I've been using the beamer presentation document class within Lyx for a long while now, and I wouldn't think of going back to anything else. It does take a bit of getting used to, but it's very important for me to have a consistency of look, the referencing of figures and text, a hierarchical structure for the presentation and a generic PDF file that can be played anywhere. Can you post a simple example to the Wiki? - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Latex-presentation-with-lyx-tp15043014p15043382.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Wishlist: search and spell-check in a sidebar
muzzle wrote: On Jan 23, 2008 9:24 AM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22.01.08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, muzzle wrote: I remember a wishlist bug in bugzilla on moving the search/substitute/spellc-heck pop-up window to a sidebar like the one most document editor (viewer) have. I agree it's annoying with a search window on top sometimes, but OTOH I'm not always fond of losing space on the side. I'd prefer a search bar at the bottom like in firefox (and other apps). Yes, that was my first idea too, but it wouldn't scale well to other functions like substitute, spell-check, search-latex-errors... I wanted to propose something that could be reusable for many components of the lyx interface in a consistent way. Search/replace is one thing, spellcheck is another, latex errors a third. I don't think there is that much reuseability. Anyway, the TOC is already a sidebar if reuse is possible. The search is used often. Therefore, I don't want it to pop up on the side unless absolutely necessary. Stuff on the side cause a rebreaking of lines, taking time and messing up the screen for me. A search popping in at the bottom merely makes the main window slightly shorter. Also, the screen width is not unlimited. LyX with a math bar and the TOC on the side doesn't leave room for more. (I never maximize LyX, I usually need a web browser on the side for reference material, or at least room for the pdf preview.) Helge Hafting
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
David Hewitt wrote: I've been using the beamer presentation document class within Lyx for a long while now, and I wouldn't think of going back to anything else. It does take a bit of getting used to, but it's very important for me to have a consistency of look, the referencing of figures and text, a hierarchical structure for the presentation and a generic PDF file that can be played anywhere. Can you post a simple example to the Wiki? There is a template distributed with LyX. I have used that as a starting point, and simply removed what I didn't need or want. This was sufficient to make a couple of useful presentations. (I obviously also added the text and figures needed. :-) If you make presentations regularly, you should make your own starting point template as soon as you find yourself repeating stuff at the start of each new presentation. As mentioned above, the consistency and structure is nice. Clicking on a cross reference takes you there, so jumping around wildly is possible, for example when answering questions from the audience. You can make bullet points within a page appear one at a time if needed, or anything else such as a series of pictures making up a cartoon. Helge Hafting
[Help]- Indic language support in lyx
hello everyone, I am from india. I have a plan to add indic language support in lyx. I came to know that there is i18n support for lyx. At the same time there is indic language support in lex. so i hope it mayn't be a tedious work. please help. give me your valuable suggestions. thanks mobin
Re: [Help]- Indic language support in lyx
Hi Mobin MOBIN M wrote: hello everyone, I am from india. I have a plan to add indic language support in lyx. I came to know that there is i18n support for lyx. At the same time there is indic language support in lex. so i hope it mayn't be a tedious work. please help. give me your valuable suggestions. You can find informations on how to translate the documentation and the user interface on this page: http://www.lyx.org/devel/translation.php Feel free to ask if you have questions. Concerning the support of indic languages and scripts in the output, the amount of works depends on how these are typeset, i.e. what packages (and preprocessors?) you need. From a quick glance on the net, it strikes me that this is rather complicated. Maybe XeTeX is the most easy one ATM (unless LuaTeX is ready). In theory, you should be able to use this straight away with some preamble additions and modifications (cf. http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX for some Mac-biased, though still generally useful advices). Jürgen thanks mobin
Re: XeTeX and Hyperref
Sorry for pushing this old thread but I have found some hints, why the problems mentioned appeared and I consider it useful to pass this information to other users (as I often get to threads in this list when searching for a problem via search engines). To use gtamachoefler, gtamacdidot and the others, one needs to use gwTeX and not MacTeX (though both are based on TeXLive). On OS X you can easily install both distributions and switch back and forth in the systems preference pane (they don't conflict with each other). However, using gwTeX and gtamachoefler made even more problems regarding special characters (I am writing a thesis on Islam, so there are a lot of special characters...), so I will simply stick with XeTeX. The problem with Hyperref as described is still the same, so no change there. ___ Matrikelnummer 0303098 A 296 / A 300 http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0303098/php/
Re: XeTeX and Hyperref
On Jan 23, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Maximilian Wollner wrote: Sorry for pushing this old thread but I have found some hints, why the problems mentioned appeared and I consider it useful to pass this information to other users (as I often get to threads in this list when searching for a problem via search engines). To use gtamachoefler, gtamacdidot and the others, one needs to use gwTeX and not MacTeX (though both are based on TeXLive). On OS X you can easily install both distributions and switch back and forth in the systems preference pane (they don't conflict with each other). However, using gwTeX and gtamachoefler made even more problems regarding special characters (I am writing a thesis on Islam, so there are a lot of special characters...), so I will simply stick with XeTeX. Actually, with recent versions of MacTeX, the gta font definitions are included. Bennett
Re: XeTeX and Hyperref
Actually, on a MacTeX-Mailing list, where I sought for help, I got the advice to use gwTeX, because the gta fonts are not included in MacTeX (and I used the version of end of 2007)... Max Am 23.01.2008 um 20:09 schrieb Bennett Helm: On Jan 23, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Maximilian Wollner wrote: Sorry for pushing this old thread but I have found some hints, why the problems mentioned appeared and I consider it useful to pass this information to other users (as I often get to threads in this list when searching for a problem via search engines). To use gtamachoefler, gtamacdidot and the others, one needs to use gwTeX and not MacTeX (though both are based on TeXLive). On OS X you can easily install both distributions and switch back and forth in the systems preference pane (they don't conflict with each other). However, using gwTeX and gtamachoefler made even more problems regarding special characters (I am writing a thesis on Islam, so there are a lot of special characters...), so I will simply stick with XeTeX. Actually, with recent versions of MacTeX, the gta font definitions are included. Bennett
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 15:23 +0100, muzzle wrote: Hi, I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul be a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) I use beamer for all my presentations. It produces good quality, consistent, structured layouts and can produce fully functional PDF files (with rather pleasant navigation icons). It is not foolproof on my platform (SuSE and openSUSE) and not all the supplied examples work. But if you start by finding the simplest example file which works (or cull it until it does) then work up from there, you will find the effort worthwhile. I have tried others (e.g. Prosper and friends) in the past. Beamer is better. Recently I flirted with powerdot. It is a nightmare on the SUSE platforms and relies on postscript for overlays, animation, etc which then do not translate fully to PDF. Powerdot also relies on TeX packages which are not included by default in the SUSE teTeX distributions. If you wish, contact me separately, and I will send you sample presentations I have made. (One of the presentations is on LyX - LaTeX for our local Linux User Group). regards John O'Gorman Goodbye, Emme
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, muzzle wrote: Hi, I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul be a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) Goodbye, Emme, I have used Powerdot very successfully for presentations at international conferences for about three years (http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Powerdot). I have installed Powerdot from CTAN on four computers running different (but all up-to-date) Linux distributions, and have not yet found the default LaTeX installation to meet the prerequisites for Powerdot (usually the required version of xkeyval [2.5c] is not there). These requirements are on page 26 of the Powerdot manual, unobtrusively included under the heading Compiling your presentation. A LyX layout is included with the CTAN download. Overall, I think Powerdot gives much better (more professional and consistent) results than PowerPoint, but does not have the ease of editing, nor many of the bells and whistles. I would say it is about 70% integrated into LyX. One point which is not emphasized in the manual is that though the final product is usually a PDF file, you can't get it using pdflatex -- you have to use ps2pdf. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, John O'Gorman wrote:
Recently I flirted with powerdot. It is a nightmare on the SUSE
platforms and relies on postscript for overlays, animation, etc which
then do not translate fully to PDF. Powerdot also relies on TeX packages
which are not included by default in the SUSE teTeX distributions.
John,
This is a valid criticism of Powerdot. However, I think you'll find it worth
persevering to get it running. One of the systems I use it on is a 64-bit
SMT version of Suse 10.1 (and you probably wouldn't believe the extra
incompatibilities you get with 64-bit!), and you're right -- it wants half a
dozen pieces not included in the Suse distribution: but they're all readily
available on CTAN, and quite easy to install (if you read the instructions --
it varies from package to package).
Powerdot does not work properly with pdflatex for conversion to PDF, but it
does work properly with ps2pdf.
I include \hypersetup{pdfpagemode=FullScreen} in the Preamble, which starts
the presentation with a full-screen display, instead of the usual Acroread
menu and border. You can easily customize the layout with judicious use of
ERT, or use one of the included styles and stick with the defaults.
--
Les
~~
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Moving graphics from R into LyX - best format?
On Jan 22, 2008 5:17 PM, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello David, You might be interested in using Sweave. There, you only need to write the code. No export - import. Recent threads on Sweave contain all the pertinent information. Basically, you need to use the noweb class, tweak the preferences file (specify the converters specific to R) and write the code chunks in ERT, something similar to: echo=T= 2+2 @ Check this link for interesting demos [1]. They are not done in LyX, but the essentials stay the same. Liviu [1] http://www.stat.umn.edu/~charlie/Sweave Brief correction. I worked out a way in which to use Sweave within lyx. The instruction is posted in the Lyx Wiki http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave A fellow Gregor Gorjanc has polished that up a bit and proposed an article to R-News about using LyX as well. http://gregor.gorjanc.googlepages.com/lyx-sweave -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
Apacite bibliographies with LyX
Hi
I wonder if someone else has been successful in using the Apacite
bibliography style other than with the article (APA) document class. I
need to use apacite, since it is the only bibtex style that supports all of
the fields that I need to use (such as translator and orginal year of
publication).
When I try to se apacite with the standard article class, I get lots of
undefined control sequence errors. I managed to get around that by
changing citation style to default, and adding both \usepackage{apacite}
and \usepackage{natbib} in the document preamble (without the latter added
again I also get control sequence errors. However, with this workaround, LyX
no longer manages the citations correctly, for example not allowing me to
select between (Derrida 2002) and Derrida (2002) styles when clicking on
a citation in the text.
Has anyone had any luck using the apacite style with the normal article (or
any other) standard document classes?
Thanks
Eduard
--
Eduard Grebe
Aids Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town
Contact details and public key: http://maanskyn.za.net/about/
LyX mailing lists on Nabble
I imagine a number of people realized this already, but some time ago I created an archive on Nabble for the LyX lists: http://www.nabble.com/LyX---Users-f28347.html I find it to be a handy. I noticed that it could probably be included on the LyX web site space for mailing lists, if desired: http://www.lyx.org/mailing.php I didn't see who maintained that. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/LyX-mailing-lists-on-Nabble-tp15054737p15054737.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Citation Problem in Lyx 1.5.1
Hi, I upgraded to Lyx 1.5.1 . The References come up just fine, with numbers and everything, but in the text when I make a citation I get a question mark instead of the number corresponding to that reference. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!! Paulina
Re: Citation Problem in Lyx 1.5.1
Paulina Restrepo wrote: I upgraded to Lyx 1.5.1 . The References come up just fine, with numbers and everything, but in the text when I make a citation I get a question mark instead of the number corresponding to that reference. Does anyone know how to fix this? Assuming that you are using BibTeX (you did not say so), in my experience, that usually means either that LyX didn't run LaTeX enough times or that there is a broken or indigestible entry in the .bib file. I don't know whether you would still get the references (all of them?) with a borked .bib file, but I suppose I've seen stranger things happen. Two things you could try (again assuming you are using BibTeX). One would be to start a new paper, using the same .bib file, and just stick in one or two citations, then see if they work. If so, try citing all the papers, and if that breaks do a trial-and-error removal of cites until you find which one is problematic. The other approach would be to export the paper to LaTeX, then run latex-bibtex-latex-latex on it and see if (a) it turns out ok or (b) you get an error message. Any chance you have non-UTF-8 characters in the .bib file? /Paul
Re: Unable to import LaTeX files in LyX 1.5.3
Andreas K. wrote: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I grabbed the file from the bug report that you said 1.4.4 could import but 1.5.3 could not. On my box (LyX 1.5.3, XP Home), I can import it (using File - Import - LaTeX (plain). I get a bunch of warnings about unrecognized commands and such (presumably because I'm not designating a document class), but I do not get the something went wrong error you encountered. I repeated the conversion from the command prompt and captured the output from the error stream. Again, it produced a loadable (if not necessarily correct) LyX file. /Paul Then I guess that it maybe has something with my computers configuration to do. This is my work computer, and I do not have administrator rights on it, but some limited rights. For example, I can install and uninstall some software, but not all. Could it be the cause of the problem? Seems unlikely. Both LyX 1.4.4 and LyX 1.5.3 run tex2lyx on file (just different versions of tex2lyx). You obviously have enough rights to run the newer tex2lyx, else it would not be there to give you the error message. What should I do to get a more detailed error report form LyX? You could try opening a DOS prompt in the directory where the .tex file lives and run 'path to LyX\bin\tex2lyx cjasguide.tex cjasguide.lyx'. Maybe it will give a more useful error message. /Paul Andreas
Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents
Bo Peng wrote: On Jan 22, 2008 1:44 PM, Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken wrote: Is there an easy way to compare the changes or differences between two LyX documents? http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ Quite interesting, do you see any hope of integrating this to lyx? Bo Just FYI, a nice way of doing file comparisons against a subversion repository for Windows/Word users exists, it would be great to see this functionality one day in LyX: http://newgeeks.blogspot.com/2006/08/word-document-management-using-svn.html Cheers JP
Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents
Bo Peng wrote: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ Quite interesting, do you see any hope of integrating this to lyx? ldiff basically just compares tex files (LyX files are converted to tex via lyx -e by the script). I think we should build in some native comparing feature instead (which will mark differences with our change tracking markup). IIRC we have an enhancement request about this. Jürgen
Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents
Ken wrote: Hi all, Is there an easy way to compare the changes or differences between two LyX documents? The only method I can think of is to use Notepad++ to view the differences. If you have any other/better suggestions I would be grateful if you would please share them. Kind regards, Ken For Windows users there is very nice program WinMerge (http://winmerge.org/) Best regards, Yegor
Re: Wishlist: search and spell-check in a sidebar
On 22.01.08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, muzzle wrote: I remember a wishlist bug in bugzilla on moving the search/substitute/spellc-heck pop-up window to a sidebar like the one most document editor (viewer) have. I agree it's annoying with a search window on top sometimes, but OTOH I'm not always fond of losing space on the side. I'd prefer a search bar at the bottom like in firefox (and other apps). Guenter
Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents
Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bo Peng wrote: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ Quite interesting, do you see any hope of integrating this to lyx? ldiff basically just compares tex files (LyX files are converted to tex via lyx -e by the script). I think we should build in some native comparing feature instead (which will mark differences with our change tracking markup). IIRC we have an enhancement request about this. AFAIR, Alfredo expressed interest at doing that. But I do not know whether he began anything. JMarc
Re: Wishlist: search and spell-check in a sidebar
On Jan 23, 2008 9:24 AM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22.01.08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, muzzle wrote: I remember a wishlist bug in bugzilla on moving the search/substitute/spellc-heck pop-up window to a sidebar like the one most document editor (viewer) have. I agree it's annoying with a search window on top sometimes, but OTOH I'm not always fond of losing space on the side. I'd prefer a search bar at the bottom like in firefox (and other apps). Yes, that was my first idea too, but it wouldn't scale well to other functions like substitute, spell-check, search-latex-errors... I wanted to propose something that could be reusable for many components of the lyx interface in a consistent way. Bye, Emme Guenter
Latex presentation with lyx
Hi, I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul be a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) Goodbye, Emme
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 14:23, muzzle wrote: Hi, I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul be a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) Goodbye, Emme I've been using the beamer presentation document class within Lyx for a long while now, and I wouldn't think of going back to anything else. It does take a bit of getting used to, but it's very important for me to have a consistency of look, the referencing of figures and text, a hierarchical structure for the presentation and a generic PDF file that can be played anywhere. Mateo.
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it could be a very interesting improvement given the quality of the average powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) It sure seems like a good idea to me. The Beamer products are very impressive and clean, and IMO anything is better than another dull PPT presentation with Comic Sans text. I intended to start working on this a few days from now for a presentation of my own, but knowing nothing I went and checked the Wiki. This helped: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer The example by Rich Drewes is very nice, but I noticed that LaTeX looks for what appears to be Python scripts in some frames of Section 2. Thus, for me, the PDF or DVI production fails. The scripts look like ones Rich wrote himself, so the compilation will likely fail for anyone that downloads it. But, the example LyX file gives you the idea. I'm also particularly interested in any other advice people have about Beamer presentations via LyX. (I'm on WinXP with LyX 1.5.3.) - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Latex-presentation-with-lyx-tp15043014p15043381.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
I've been using the beamer presentation document class within Lyx for a long while now, and I wouldn't think of going back to anything else. It does take a bit of getting used to, but it's very important for me to have a consistency of look, the referencing of figures and text, a hierarchical structure for the presentation and a generic PDF file that can be played anywhere. Can you post a simple example to the Wiki? - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Latex-presentation-with-lyx-tp15043014p15043382.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Wishlist: search and spell-check in a sidebar
muzzle wrote: On Jan 23, 2008 9:24 AM, G. Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22.01.08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, muzzle wrote: I remember a wishlist bug in bugzilla on moving the search/substitute/spellc-heck pop-up window to a sidebar like the one most document editor (viewer) have. I agree it's annoying with a search window on top sometimes, but OTOH I'm not always fond of losing space on the side. I'd prefer a search bar at the bottom like in firefox (and other apps). Yes, that was my first idea too, but it wouldn't scale well to other functions like substitute, spell-check, search-latex-errors... I wanted to propose something that could be reusable for many components of the lyx interface in a consistent way. Search/replace is one thing, spellcheck is another, latex errors a third. I don't think there is that much reuseability. Anyway, the TOC is already a sidebar if reuse is possible. The search is used often. Therefore, I don't want it to pop up on the side unless absolutely necessary. Stuff on the side cause a rebreaking of lines, taking time and messing up the screen for me. A search popping in at the bottom merely makes the main window slightly shorter. Also, the screen width is not unlimited. LyX with a math bar and the TOC on the side doesn't leave room for more. (I never maximize LyX, I usually need a web browser on the side for reference material, or at least room for the pdf preview.) Helge Hafting
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
David Hewitt wrote: I've been using the beamer presentation document class within Lyx for a long while now, and I wouldn't think of going back to anything else. It does take a bit of getting used to, but it's very important for me to have a consistency of look, the referencing of figures and text, a hierarchical structure for the presentation and a generic PDF file that can be played anywhere. Can you post a simple example to the Wiki? There is a template distributed with LyX. I have used that as a starting point, and simply removed what I didn't need or want. This was sufficient to make a couple of useful presentations. (I obviously also added the text and figures needed. :-) If you make presentations regularly, you should make your own starting point template as soon as you find yourself repeating stuff at the start of each new presentation. As mentioned above, the consistency and structure is nice. Clicking on a cross reference takes you there, so jumping around wildly is possible, for example when answering questions from the audience. You can make bullet points within a page appear one at a time if needed, or anything else such as a series of pictures making up a cartoon. Helge Hafting
[Help]- Indic language support in lyx
hello everyone, I am from india. I have a plan to add indic language support in lyx. I came to know that there is i18n support for lyx. At the same time there is indic language support in lex. so i hope it mayn't be a tedious work. please help. give me your valuable suggestions. thanks mobin
Re: [Help]- Indic language support in lyx
Hi Mobin MOBIN M wrote: hello everyone, I am from india. I have a plan to add indic language support in lyx. I came to know that there is i18n support for lyx. At the same time there is indic language support in lex. so i hope it mayn't be a tedious work. please help. give me your valuable suggestions. You can find informations on how to translate the documentation and the user interface on this page: http://www.lyx.org/devel/translation.php Feel free to ask if you have questions. Concerning the support of indic languages and scripts in the output, the amount of works depends on how these are typeset, i.e. what packages (and preprocessors?) you need. From a quick glance on the net, it strikes me that this is rather complicated. Maybe XeTeX is the most easy one ATM (unless LuaTeX is ready). In theory, you should be able to use this straight away with some preamble additions and modifications (cf. http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX for some Mac-biased, though still generally useful advices). Jürgen thanks mobin
Re: XeTeX and Hyperref
Sorry for pushing this old thread but I have found some hints, why the problems mentioned appeared and I consider it useful to pass this information to other users (as I often get to threads in this list when searching for a problem via search engines). To use gtamachoefler, gtamacdidot and the others, one needs to use gwTeX and not MacTeX (though both are based on TeXLive). On OS X you can easily install both distributions and switch back and forth in the systems preference pane (they don't conflict with each other). However, using gwTeX and gtamachoefler made even more problems regarding special characters (I am writing a thesis on Islam, so there are a lot of special characters...), so I will simply stick with XeTeX. The problem with Hyperref as described is still the same, so no change there. ___ Matrikelnummer 0303098 A 296 / A 300 http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0303098/php/
Re: XeTeX and Hyperref
On Jan 23, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Maximilian Wollner wrote: Sorry for pushing this old thread but I have found some hints, why the problems mentioned appeared and I consider it useful to pass this information to other users (as I often get to threads in this list when searching for a problem via search engines). To use gtamachoefler, gtamacdidot and the others, one needs to use gwTeX and not MacTeX (though both are based on TeXLive). On OS X you can easily install both distributions and switch back and forth in the systems preference pane (they don't conflict with each other). However, using gwTeX and gtamachoefler made even more problems regarding special characters (I am writing a thesis on Islam, so there are a lot of special characters...), so I will simply stick with XeTeX. Actually, with recent versions of MacTeX, the gta font definitions are included. Bennett
Re: XeTeX and Hyperref
Actually, on a MacTeX-Mailing list, where I sought for help, I got the advice to use gwTeX, because the gta fonts are not included in MacTeX (and I used the version of end of 2007)... Max Am 23.01.2008 um 20:09 schrieb Bennett Helm: On Jan 23, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Maximilian Wollner wrote: Sorry for pushing this old thread but I have found some hints, why the problems mentioned appeared and I consider it useful to pass this information to other users (as I often get to threads in this list when searching for a problem via search engines). To use gtamachoefler, gtamacdidot and the others, one needs to use gwTeX and not MacTeX (though both are based on TeXLive). On OS X you can easily install both distributions and switch back and forth in the systems preference pane (they don't conflict with each other). However, using gwTeX and gtamachoefler made even more problems regarding special characters (I am writing a thesis on Islam, so there are a lot of special characters...), so I will simply stick with XeTeX. Actually, with recent versions of MacTeX, the gta font definitions are included. Bennett
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 15:23 +0100, muzzle wrote: Hi, I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul be a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) I use beamer for all my presentations. It produces good quality, consistent, structured layouts and can produce fully functional PDF files (with rather pleasant navigation icons). It is not foolproof on my platform (SuSE and openSUSE) and not all the supplied examples work. But if you start by finding the simplest example file which works (or cull it until it does) then work up from there, you will find the effort worthwhile. I have tried others (e.g. Prosper and friends) in the past. Beamer is better. Recently I flirted with powerdot. It is a nightmare on the SUSE platforms and relies on postscript for overlays, animation, etc which then do not translate fully to PDF. Powerdot also relies on TeX packages which are not included by default in the SUSE teTeX distributions. If you wish, contact me separately, and I will send you sample presentations I have made. (One of the presentations is on LyX - LaTeX for our local Linux User Group). regards John O'Gorman Goodbye, Emme
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, muzzle wrote: Hi, I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul be a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) Goodbye, Emme, I have used Powerdot very successfully for presentations at international conferences for about three years (http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Powerdot). I have installed Powerdot from CTAN on four computers running different (but all up-to-date) Linux distributions, and have not yet found the default LaTeX installation to meet the prerequisites for Powerdot (usually the required version of xkeyval [2.5c] is not there). These requirements are on page 26 of the Powerdot manual, unobtrusively included under the heading Compiling your presentation. A LyX layout is included with the CTAN download. Overall, I think Powerdot gives much better (more professional and consistent) results than PowerPoint, but does not have the ease of editing, nor many of the bells and whistles. I would say it is about 70% integrated into LyX. One point which is not emphasized in the manual is that though the final product is usually a PDF file, you can't get it using pdflatex -- you have to use ps2pdf. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, John O'Gorman wrote:
Recently I flirted with powerdot. It is a nightmare on the SUSE
platforms and relies on postscript for overlays, animation, etc which
then do not translate fully to PDF. Powerdot also relies on TeX packages
which are not included by default in the SUSE teTeX distributions.
John,
This is a valid criticism of Powerdot. However, I think you'll find it worth
persevering to get it running. One of the systems I use it on is a 64-bit
SMT version of Suse 10.1 (and you probably wouldn't believe the extra
incompatibilities you get with 64-bit!), and you're right -- it wants half a
dozen pieces not included in the Suse distribution: but they're all readily
available on CTAN, and quite easy to install (if you read the instructions --
it varies from package to package).
Powerdot does not work properly with pdflatex for conversion to PDF, but it
does work properly with ps2pdf.
I include \hypersetup{pdfpagemode=FullScreen} in the Preamble, which starts
the presentation with a full-screen display, instead of the usual Acroread
menu and border. You can easily customize the layout with judicious use of
ERT, or use one of the included styles and stick with the defaults.
--
Les
~~
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Moving graphics from R into LyX - best format?
On Jan 22, 2008 5:17 PM, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello David, You might be interested in using Sweave. There, you only need to write the code. No export - import. Recent threads on Sweave contain all the pertinent information. Basically, you need to use the noweb class, tweak the preferences file (specify the converters specific to R) and write the code chunks in ERT, something similar to: echo=T= 2+2 @ Check this link for interesting demos [1]. They are not done in LyX, but the essentials stay the same. Liviu [1] http://www.stat.umn.edu/~charlie/Sweave Brief correction. I worked out a way in which to use Sweave within lyx. The instruction is posted in the Lyx Wiki http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave A fellow Gregor Gorjanc has polished that up a bit and proposed an article to R-News about using LyX as well. http://gregor.gorjanc.googlepages.com/lyx-sweave -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
Apacite bibliographies with LyX
Hi
I wonder if someone else has been successful in using the Apacite
bibliography style other than with the article (APA) document class. I
need to use apacite, since it is the only bibtex style that supports all of
the fields that I need to use (such as translator and orginal year of
publication).
When I try to se apacite with the standard article class, I get lots of
undefined control sequence errors. I managed to get around that by
changing citation style to default, and adding both \usepackage{apacite}
and \usepackage{natbib} in the document preamble (without the latter added
again I also get control sequence errors. However, with this workaround, LyX
no longer manages the citations correctly, for example not allowing me to
select between (Derrida 2002) and Derrida (2002) styles when clicking on
a citation in the text.
Has anyone had any luck using the apacite style with the normal article (or
any other) standard document classes?
Thanks
Eduard
--
Eduard Grebe
Aids Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town
Contact details and public key: http://maanskyn.za.net/about/
LyX mailing lists on Nabble
I imagine a number of people realized this already, but some time ago I created an archive on Nabble for the LyX lists: http://www.nabble.com/LyX---Users-f28347.html I find it to be a handy. I noticed that it could probably be included on the LyX web site space for mailing lists, if desired: http://www.lyx.org/mailing.php I didn't see who maintained that. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/LyX-mailing-lists-on-Nabble-tp15054737p15054737.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Citation Problem in Lyx 1.5.1
Hi, I upgraded to Lyx 1.5.1 . The References come up just fine, with numbers and everything, but in the text when I make a citation I get a question mark instead of the number corresponding to that reference. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!! Paulina
Re: Citation Problem in Lyx 1.5.1
Paulina Restrepo wrote: I upgraded to Lyx 1.5.1 . The References come up just fine, with numbers and everything, but in the text when I make a citation I get a question mark instead of the number corresponding to that reference. Does anyone know how to fix this? Assuming that you are using BibTeX (you did not say so), in my experience, that usually means either that LyX didn't run LaTeX enough times or that there is a broken or indigestible entry in the .bib file. I don't know whether you would still get the references (all of them?) with a borked .bib file, but I suppose I've seen stranger things happen. Two things you could try (again assuming you are using BibTeX). One would be to start a new paper, using the same .bib file, and just stick in one or two citations, then see if they work. If so, try citing all the papers, and if that breaks do a trial-and-error removal of cites until you find which one is problematic. The other approach would be to export the paper to LaTeX, then run latex-bibtex-latex-latex on it and see if (a) it turns out ok or (b) you get an error message. Any chance you have non-UTF-8 characters in the .bib file? /Paul
Re: Unable to import LaTeX files in LyX 1.5.3
Andreas K. wrote: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I grabbed the file from the bug report that you said 1.4.4 could import but 1.5.3 could not. On my box (LyX 1.5.3, XP Home), I can import it (using File - Import - LaTeX (plain). I get a bunch of warnings about unrecognized commands and such (presumably because I'm not designating a document class), but I do not get the something went wrong error you encountered. I repeated the conversion from the command prompt and captured the output from the error stream. Again, it produced a loadable (if not necessarily correct) LyX file. /Paul Then I guess that it maybe has something with my computers configuration to do. This is my work computer, and I do not have administrator rights on it, but some limited rights. For example, I can install and uninstall some software, but not all. Could it be the cause of the problem? Seems unlikely. Both LyX 1.4.4 and LyX 1.5.3 run tex2lyx on file (just different versions of tex2lyx). You obviously have enough rights to run the newer tex2lyx, else it would not be there to give you the error message. What should I do to get a more detailed error report form LyX? You could try opening a DOS prompt in the directory where the .tex file lives and run 'path to LyX\bin\tex2lyx cjasguide.tex cjasguide.lyx'. Maybe it will give a more useful error message. /Paul Andreas
Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents
Bo Peng wrote: On Jan 22, 2008 1:44 PM, Juergen Spitzmueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ken wrote: Is there an easy way to compare the changes or differences between two LyX documents? http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ Quite interesting, do you see any hope of integrating this to lyx? Bo Just FYI, a nice way of doing file comparisons against a subversion repository for Windows/Word users exists, it would be great to see this functionality one day in LyX: http://newgeeks.blogspot.com/2006/08/word-document-management-using-svn.html Cheers JP
Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents
Bo Peng wrote: >> http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ > > Quite interesting, do you see any hope of integrating this to lyx? ldiff basically just compares tex files (LyX files are converted to tex via lyx -e by the script). I think we should build in some native comparing feature instead (which will mark differences with our change tracking markup). IIRC we have an enhancement request about this. Jürgen
Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents
Ken wrote: Hi all, Is there an easy way to compare the changes or differences between two LyX documents? The only method I can think of is to use Notepad++ to view the differences. If you have any other/better suggestions I would be grateful if you would please share them. Kind regards, Ken For Windows users there is very nice program WinMerge (http://winmerge.org/) Best regards, Yegor
Re: Wishlist: search and spell-check in a sidebar
On 22.01.08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, muzzle wrote: >> I remember a wishlist bug >> in bugzilla on moving the search/substitute/spellc-heck pop-up window to a >> sidebar like the one most document editor (viewer) have. > I agree it's annoying with a search window on top sometimes, but OTOH I'm > not always fond of losing space on the side. I'd prefer a search bar at the bottom like in firefox (and other apps). Guenter
Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents
Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bo Peng wrote: > >>> http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ >> >> Quite interesting, do you see any hope of integrating this to lyx? > > ldiff basically just compares tex files (LyX files are converted to tex via > lyx -e by the script). I think we should build in some native comparing > feature instead (which will mark differences with our change tracking > markup). IIRC we have an enhancement request about this. AFAIR, Alfredo expressed interest at doing that. But I do not know whether he began anything. JMarc
Re: Wishlist: search and spell-check in a sidebar
On Jan 23, 2008 9:24 AM, G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 22.01.08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, muzzle wrote: > > >> I remember a wishlist bug > >> in bugzilla on moving the search/substitute/spellc-heck pop-up window to a > >> sidebar like the one most document editor (viewer) have. > > > I agree it's annoying with a search window on top sometimes, but OTOH I'm > > not always fond of losing space on the side. > > I'd prefer a search bar at the bottom like in firefox (and other apps). Yes, that was my first idea too, but it wouldn't scale well to other functions like substitute, spell-check, search-latex-errors... I wanted to propose something that could be reusable for many components of the lyx interface in a consistent way. Bye, Emme > > Guenter >
Latex presentation with lyx
Hi, I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul be a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) Goodbye, Emme
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 14:23, muzzle wrote: > Hi, > I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I > am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited > for the task and I went back to pure latex code. > Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good > idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul > be a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average > powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) > Goodbye, > > Emme I've been using the beamer presentation document class within Lyx for a long while now, and I wouldn't think of going back to anything else. It does take a bit of getting used to, but it's very important for me to have a consistency of look, the referencing of figures and text, a hierarchical structure for the presentation and a generic PDF file that can be played anywhere. Mateo.
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
> I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am > trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the > task and I went back to pure latex code. > Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good > idea? > Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it could be a > very interesting improvement given the quality of the average > powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) > It sure seems like a good idea to me. The Beamer products are very impressive and clean, and IMO anything is better than another dull PPT presentation with Comic Sans text. I intended to start working on this a few days from now for a presentation of my own, but knowing nothing I went and checked the Wiki. This helped: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer The example by Rich Drewes is very nice, but I noticed that LaTeX looks for what appears to be Python scripts in some frames of Section 2. Thus, for me, the PDF or DVI production fails. The scripts look like ones Rich wrote himself, so the compilation will likely fail for anyone that downloads it. But, the example LyX file gives you the idea. I'm also particularly interested in any other advice people have about Beamer presentations via LyX. (I'm on WinXP with LyX 1.5.3.) - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Latex-presentation-with-lyx-tp15043014p15043381.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
> I've been using the beamer presentation document class within Lyx for a > long while now, and I wouldn't think of going back to anything else. It > does take a bit of getting used to, but it's very important for me to have > a consistency of look, the referencing of figures and text, a hierarchical > structure for the presentation and a generic PDF file that can be played > anywhere. > Can you post a simple example to the Wiki? - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Latex-presentation-with-lyx-tp15043014p15043382.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Wishlist: search and spell-check in a sidebar
muzzle wrote: On Jan 23, 2008 9:24 AM, G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 22.01.08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, muzzle wrote: I remember a wishlist bug in bugzilla on moving the search/substitute/spellc-heck pop-up window to a sidebar like the one most document editor (viewer) have. I agree it's annoying with a search window on top sometimes, but OTOH I'm not always fond of losing space on the side. I'd prefer a search bar at the bottom like in firefox (and other apps). Yes, that was my first idea too, but it wouldn't scale well to other functions like substitute, spell-check, search-latex-errors... I wanted to propose something that could be reusable for many components of the lyx interface in a consistent way. Search/replace is one thing, spellcheck is another, latex errors a third. I don't think there is that much reuseability. Anyway, the TOC is already a sidebar if reuse is possible. The search is used often. Therefore, I don't want it to pop up on the side unless absolutely necessary. Stuff on the side cause a rebreaking of lines, taking time and messing up the screen for me. A search popping in at the bottom merely makes the main window slightly shorter. Also, the screen width is not unlimited. LyX with a math bar and the TOC on the side doesn't leave room for more. (I never maximize LyX, I usually need a web browser on the side for reference material, or at least room for the pdf preview.) Helge Hafting
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
David Hewitt wrote: I've been using the beamer presentation document class within Lyx for a long while now, and I wouldn't think of going back to anything else. It does take a bit of getting used to, but it's very important for me to have a consistency of look, the referencing of figures and text, a hierarchical structure for the presentation and a generic PDF file that can be played anywhere. Can you post a simple example to the Wiki? There is a template distributed with LyX. I have used that as a starting point, and simply removed what I didn't need or want. This was sufficient to make a couple of useful presentations. (I obviously also added the text and figures needed. :-) If you make presentations regularly, you should make your own starting point template as soon as you find yourself repeating stuff at the start of each new presentation. As mentioned above, the consistency and structure is nice. Clicking on a cross reference takes you there, so "jumping around wildly" is possible, for example when answering questions from the audience. You can make bullet points within a page appear one at a time if needed, or anything else such as a series of pictures making up a cartoon. Helge Hafting
[Help]- Indic language support in lyx
hello everyone, I am from india. I have a plan to add indic language support in lyx. I came to know that there is i18n support for lyx. At the same time there is indic language support in lex. so i hope it mayn't be a tedious work. please help. give me your valuable suggestions. thanks mobin
Re: [Help]- Indic language support in lyx
Hi Mobin MOBIN M wrote: > hello everyone, > > I am from india. I have a plan to add indic language support in lyx. > I came to know that there is i18n support for lyx. At the same time there > is indic language support in lex. so i hope it mayn't be a tedious work. > please help. give me your valuable suggestions. You can find informations on how to translate the documentation and the user interface on this page: http://www.lyx.org/devel/translation.php Feel free to ask if you have questions. Concerning the support of indic languages and scripts in the output, the amount of works depends on how these are typeset, i.e. what packages (and preprocessors?) you need. >From a quick glance on the net, it strikes me that this is rather complicated. Maybe XeTeX is the most easy one ATM (unless LuaTeX is ready). In theory, you should be able to use this straight away with some preamble additions and modifications (cf. http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX for some Mac-biased, though still generally useful advices). Jürgen > thanks > mobin
Re: XeTeX and Hyperref
Sorry for pushing this old thread but I have found some hints, why the problems mentioned appeared and I consider it useful to pass this information to other users (as I often get to threads in this list when searching for a problem via search engines). To use gtamachoefler, gtamacdidot and the others, one needs to use gwTeX and not MacTeX (though both are based on TeXLive). On OS X you can easily install both distributions and switch back and forth in the systems preference pane (they don't conflict with each other). However, using gwTeX and gtamachoefler made even more problems regarding special characters (I am writing a thesis on Islam, so there are a lot of special characters...), so I will simply stick with XeTeX. The problem with Hyperref as described is still the same, so no change there. ___ Matrikelnummer 0303098 A 296 / A 300 http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0303098/php/
Re: XeTeX and Hyperref
On Jan 23, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Maximilian Wollner wrote: Sorry for pushing this old thread but I have found some hints, why the problems mentioned appeared and I consider it useful to pass this information to other users (as I often get to threads in this list when searching for a problem via search engines). To use gtamachoefler, gtamacdidot and the others, one needs to use gwTeX and not MacTeX (though both are based on TeXLive). On OS X you can easily install both distributions and switch back and forth in the systems preference pane (they don't conflict with each other). However, using gwTeX and gtamachoefler made even more problems regarding special characters (I am writing a thesis on Islam, so there are a lot of special characters...), so I will simply stick with XeTeX. Actually, with recent versions of MacTeX, the gta font definitions are included. Bennett
Re: XeTeX and Hyperref
Actually, on a MacTeX-Mailing list, where I sought for help, I got the advice to use gwTeX, because the gta fonts are not included in MacTeX (and I used the version of end of 2007)... Max Am 23.01.2008 um 20:09 schrieb Bennett Helm: On Jan 23, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Maximilian Wollner wrote: Sorry for pushing this old thread but I have found some hints, why the problems mentioned appeared and I consider it useful to pass this information to other users (as I often get to threads in this list when searching for a problem via search engines). To use gtamachoefler, gtamacdidot and the others, one needs to use gwTeX and not MacTeX (though both are based on TeXLive). On OS X you can easily install both distributions and switch back and forth in the systems preference pane (they don't conflict with each other). However, using gwTeX and gtamachoefler made even more problems regarding special characters (I am writing a thesis on Islam, so there are a lot of special characters...), so I will simply stick with XeTeX. Actually, with recent versions of MacTeX, the gta font definitions are included. Bennett
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 15:23 +0100, muzzle wrote: > Hi, > I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I > am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited > for the task and I went back to pure latex code. > Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good > idea? > Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul be > a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average > powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) I use beamer for all my presentations. It produces good quality, consistent, structured layouts and can produce fully functional PDF files (with rather pleasant navigation icons). It is not foolproof on my platform (SuSE and openSUSE) and not all the supplied examples work. But if you start by finding the simplest example file which works (or cull it until it does) then work up from there, you will find the effort worthwhile. I have tried others (e.g. Prosper and friends) in the past. Beamer is better. Recently I flirted with powerdot. It is a nightmare on the SUSE platforms and relies on postscript for overlays, animation, etc which then do not translate fully to PDF. Powerdot also relies on TeX packages which are not included by default in the SUSE teTeX distributions. If you wish, contact me separately, and I will send you sample presentations I have made. (One of the presentations is on LyX - LaTeX for our local Linux User Group). regards John O'Gorman > Goodbye, > > Emme >
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, muzzle wrote: > Hi, > I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I > am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited > for the task and I went back to pure latex code. > Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good > idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul > be a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average > powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) > Goodbye, Emme, I have used Powerdot very successfully for presentations at international conferences for about three years (http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Powerdot). I have installed Powerdot from CTAN on four computers running different (but all up-to-date) Linux distributions, and have not yet found the default LaTeX installation to meet the prerequisites for Powerdot (usually the required version of xkeyval [2.5c] is not there). These requirements are on page 26 of the Powerdot manual, unobtrusively included under the heading "Compiling your presentation". A LyX layout is included with the CTAN download. Overall, I think Powerdot gives much better (more professional and consistent) results than PowerPoint, but does not have the ease of editing, nor many of the "bells and whistles". I would say it is about 70% integrated into LyX. One point which is not emphasized in the manual is that though the final product is usually a PDF file, you can't get it using pdflatex -- you have to use ps2pdf. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, John O'Gorman wrote:
> Recently I flirted with powerdot. It is a nightmare on the SUSE
> platforms and relies on postscript for overlays, animation, etc which
> then do not translate fully to PDF. Powerdot also relies on TeX packages
> which are not included by default in the SUSE teTeX distributions.
John,
This is a valid criticism of Powerdot. However, I think you'll find it worth
persevering to get it running. One of the systems I use it on is a 64-bit
SMT version of Suse 10.1 (and you probably wouldn't believe the extra
incompatibilities you get with 64-bit!), and you're right -- it wants half a
dozen pieces not included in the Suse distribution: but they're all readily
available on CTAN, and quite easy to install (if you read the instructions --
it varies from package to package).
Powerdot does not work properly with pdflatex for conversion to PDF, but it
does work properly with ps2pdf.
I include \hypersetup{pdfpagemode=FullScreen} in the Preamble, which starts
the presentation with a full-screen display, instead of the usual Acroread
menu and border. You can easily customize the layout with judicious use of
ERT, or use one of the included styles and stick with the defaults.
--
Les
~~
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Moving graphics from R into LyX - best format?
On Jan 22, 2008 5:17 PM, Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello David, > > You might be interested in using Sweave. There, you only need to write > the code. No export - import. Recent threads on Sweave contain all the > pertinent information. Basically, you need to use the noweb class, > tweak the preferences file (specify the converters specific to R) and > write the code chunks in ERT, something similar to: >
Apacite bibliographies with LyX
Hi
I wonder if someone else has been successful in using the Apacite
bibliography style other than with the "article (APA)" document class. I
need to use apacite, since it is the only bibtex style that supports all of
the fields that I need to use (such as translator and orginal year of
publication).
When I try to se apacite with the standard article class, I get lots of
"undefined control sequence" errors. I managed to get around that by
changing citation style to default, and adding both "\usepackage{apacite}"
and "\usepackage{natbib}" in the document preamble (without the latter added
again I also get control sequence errors. However, with this workaround, LyX
no longer manages the citations correctly, for example not allowing me to
select between "(Derrida 2002)" and "Derrida (2002)" styles when clicking on
a citation in the text.
Has anyone had any luck using the apacite style with the normal article (or
any other) standard document classes?
Thanks
Eduard
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Eduard Grebe
Aids & Society Research Unit, University of Cape Town
Contact details and public key: http://maanskyn.za.net/about/
LyX mailing lists on Nabble
I imagine a number of people realized this already, but some time ago I created an archive on Nabble for the LyX lists: http://www.nabble.com/LyX---Users-f28347.html I find it to be a handy. I noticed that it could probably be included on the LyX web site space for mailing lists, if desired: http://www.lyx.org/mailing.php I didn't see who maintained that. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/LyX-mailing-lists-on-Nabble-tp15054737p15054737.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Citation Problem in Lyx 1.5.1
Hi, I upgraded to Lyx 1.5.1 . The References come up just fine, with numbers and everything, but in the text when I make a citation I get a question mark instead of the number corresponding to that reference. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!! Paulina
Re: Citation Problem in Lyx 1.5.1
Paulina Restrepo wrote: I upgraded to Lyx 1.5.1 . The References come up just fine, with numbers and everything, but in the text when I make a citation I get a question mark instead of the number corresponding to that reference. Does anyone know how to fix this? Assuming that you are using BibTeX (you did not say so), in my experience, that usually means either that LyX didn't run LaTeX enough times or that there is a broken or indigestible entry in the .bib file. I don't know whether you would still get the references (all of them?) with a borked .bib file, but I suppose I've seen stranger things happen. Two things you could try (again assuming you are using BibTeX). One would be to start a new paper, using the same .bib file, and just stick in one or two citations, then see if they work. If so, try citing all the papers, and if that breaks do a trial-and-error removal of cites until you find which one is problematic. The other approach would be to export the paper to LaTeX, then run latex-bibtex-latex-latex on it and see if (a) it turns out ok or (b) you get an error message. Any chance you have non-UTF-8 characters in the .bib file? /Paul
Re: Unable to import LaTeX files in LyX 1.5.3
Andreas K. wrote: Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I grabbed the file from the bug report that you said 1.4.4 could import but 1.5.3 could not. On my box (LyX 1.5.3, XP Home), I can import it (using File -> Import -> LaTeX (plain). I get a bunch of warnings about unrecognized commands and such (presumably because I'm not designating a document class), but I do not get the "something went wrong" error you encountered. I repeated the conversion from the command prompt and captured the output from the error stream. Again, it produced a loadable (if not necessarily correct) LyX file. /Paul Then I guess that it maybe has something with my computers configuration to do. This is my work computer, and I do not have administrator rights on it, but some limited rights. For example, I can install and uninstall some software, but not all. Could it be the cause of the problem? Seems unlikely. Both LyX 1.4.4 and LyX 1.5.3 run tex2lyx on file (just different versions of tex2lyx). You obviously have enough rights to run the newer tex2lyx, else it would not be there to give you the error message. What should I do to get a more detailed error report form LyX? You could try opening a DOS prompt in the directory where the .tex file lives and run '\bin\tex2lyx cjasguide.tex cjasguide.lyx'. Maybe it will give a more useful error message. /Paul Andreas
Re: Compare Changes/Differences between LyX Documents
Bo Peng wrote: > On Jan 22, 2008 1:44 PM, Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Ken wrote: >> >> >>> Is there an easy way to compare the changes or differences between two >>> LyX documents? >>> >> http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~dekelts/ldiff/ >> > > Quite interesting, do you see any hope of integrating this to lyx? > > Bo > Just FYI, a nice way of doing file comparisons against a subversion repository for Windows/Word users exists, it would be great to see this functionality one day in LyX: http://newgeeks.blogspot.com/2006/08/word-document-management-using-svn.html Cheers JP
