Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
rgheck wrote: \bind C-apostrophe accent-acute \bind C-S-quotedbl accent-umlaut Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind ~S-M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedblself-insert \ to \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ The ~S means: Ignore the state of the shift key. Could you commit those Richard? Abdel.
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rgheck wrote: Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind ~S-M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedblself-insert \ to \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ The ~S means: Ignore the state of the shift key. Could you commit those Richard? Richard, why did you have to make this change? This should be correct. JMarc
Re: First page customizing in koma-script
Thanks a lot for your advice! The \extratitles stuff seems to be handy (yet hacky ;-), but I already got it working with Uwe's test LyX document - I just didn't have any time to reply till now. :-) Have a nice day! Michael Färber On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:30:19 -0800 (PST) David Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Publisher environment does come in handy. You can also look into the Extratitle environment. I've found that you can put all sorts of stuff in one of those to make extra up-front pages (more than one even, just insert page breaks). They can replace the title page entirely and are more fine-tuneable, even if typographically awful. Michael Färber schrieb: Hey thanks, that did it! I was able to define everything now, except for an image under the title, and I haven't found how to do something like that in the documentation. Do you have any advice for me? Yes, ask on the koma-script community page: http://komascript.de Perhaps you also find something about your problems in their archive. Alternatively I attached an example with a title page containing an image. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/First-page-customizing-in-koma-script-tp15245690p15280286.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rgheck wrote: Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind ~S-M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedblself-insert \ to \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ The ~S means: Ignore the state of the shift key. Could you commit those Richard? Richard, why did you have to make this change? This should be correct. Yes, I agree, this looks like a bug. But try it this way: \bind ~S-M-quotedbl quote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedbl self-insert \ \bind S-M-apostrophe accent-acute \bind S-C-quotedbl accent-umlaut You can't make the accent work. But this does work: \bind M-apostrophe quote-insert single \bind S-M-apostropher self-insert \ \bind C-apostrophe accent-acute \bind S-C-quotedbl accent-umlaut I wonder if the problem isn't the apostrophe vs quotedbl bit somehow? Richard
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
On 5.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: rgheck wrote: \bind C-apostrophe accent-acute \bind C-S-quotedbl accent-umlaut Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind ~S-M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedblself-insert \ to \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ The ~S means: Ignore the state of the shift key. Could you commit those Richard? Please do not rush this through: On my German keyboard, the quotedbl () is above the number 2, i.e. \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ would never be activated! How could I insert a verbatim after these changes? Guenter
branches and child documents
Dear Lyx users, I wonder how the new branches feature cooperates with including child documents. Could someone with more profund knowledge confirm my observation that * if a child document defines (and activates) a branch, that is not defined in the parent, this branch will be - active in the child document, - not activate if the parent is compiled. * The (de)activation of a similar named branch in the parent document overrides the setting in include child documents. This would allow me to replace the current ifthen constructs with LyX branches :-) GM
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
G. Milde wrote: On 5.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: rgheck wrote: \bind C-apostrophe accent-acute \bind C-S-quotedbl accent-umlaut Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind ~S-M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedblself-insert \ to \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ The ~S means: Ignore the state of the shift key. Could you commit those Richard? Please do not rush this through: On my German keyboard, the quotedbl () is above the number 2, i.e. \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ would never be activated! How could I insert a verbatim after these changes? Nothing's being done immediately. Actually, it would help a lot if you could play around with the changes that have been suggested, namely: \bind M-apostrophe quote-insert single \bind S-M-quotedbl self-insert \ \bind C-apostrophe accent-acute \bind S-C-quotedbl accent-umlaut As you may also have seen, we think there may be a bug here somewhere, too. rh
Double sided wrong siders anew family of lyx users
dear Uwe, Several users of memoir class and I have been giving you much agravation. I have now worked out about a misunderstanding. Your replies on the subject of left and right pages and bind margins are off course exactly correct. What is happening is that the amateurs like myself actually want to use the wide margin as a bind margin with those plastic strip binders you get to use in offices. For it to look good I want the wider margin on the WRONG side, so when I put my book into a home or office binder it looks professional. It is actually a stupid vanity because the publisher of my book takes no notice of my page design and layout. They do it to their own professional standards. Would you not be kind to us people who we will call Wrong Siders and tell us how to set that margin so that we retain the defaults already in the settings of Memoir class,but cause it to wrong side the extra white space. I would want the wider margin on odd pages to be at left of the text. I try very hard to understand Latex and am slowly getting to it but it is not for fools. We fools are clever enough to know we are fools so we do not mess with margins preset by the authors of Memoir class. You would be most kind if you could give some code for us to put in the PREAMBLE to give us the wrong side feature we want. LYX made it possible for me to start writting novels. I have written over 500 000 words already and many more to go. Latex and LYX makes it so easy to be creative and let the words flow through the keys without interruption. To get our binders to look good we wrongsiders are printing page three on rear of page two and page one on obverse by itself so that pages one and two face each other when the bound up document is opened, Authors want to write and print it down on a desk top HP then bind it with a plastic strip and send it to publishers, looking as good as it can so bound, That is why you are seeing so much all the time about this margin for page one. How about posting it on Nabble for us Great regards and sorry we drove you crazy Llewellyn lee. Ps once I have the facility I will save a template with it so that I do not have to mess up my standard Memoir class. I will call the template NOVEL. all the people wanting this are writers of novels. End of encapsulated message -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Double-sided-wrong-siders-anew-family-of-lyx-users-tp15294660p15294660.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
custom layout
I am trying to write a book with lyx. The book is mostly tutorials with step by step instructions. For each step, I need to have step number, a block of text on left as instruction, and a image on right as figure showing what the instruction means. I am currently using a custom list. For each item/step, I use two boxes within another box. This works ok, but too painful with the insertion of all the boxes and setting width etc. Can I create a custom layout that I can simply insert into document that has two predefined fields for me to put in the text and figure, and it will layout the text and figure by passing the text and figure to a predefined latex class? I can create a cuxtom layout that passes one item, but not two, to a latex class. Is this possible? Thanks. Max
Re: Double sided wrong siders anew family of lyx users
llewellyn wrote:
dear Uwe,
Several users of memoir class and I have been giving you
much agravation.
I have now worked out about a misunderstanding.
Your replies on the subject of left and right pages and bind margins are off
course exactly correct.
What is happening is that the amateurs like myself actually want to
use the
wide margin as a bind margin with those plastic strip binders you get to use
in offices.
For it to look good I want the wider margin on the WRONG side, so
when I put
my book into a home or office binder it looks professional.
It is actually a stupid vanity because the publisher of my book takes no
notice of my page design and layout. They do it to their own professional
standards.
Would you not be kind to us people who we will call Wrong Siders
and tell
us how to set that margin so that we retain the defaults already in the
settings of Memoir class,but cause it to wrong side the extra white space.
I would want the wider margin on odd pages to be at left of the text.
Uwe probably knows the answer to this. He is the source of all LaTeX
knowledge. ;-) But if you want to figure this out, look in section 6.4
of the memoir manual. The terminology here is different from what you
usually see. Memoir calls the inner margin the spinemargin and the
outer margin the foredge, and it provides two ways to set these. So
one way to do this is to play with \setrlmarginsandblock and
\setrlmargins. It's probably the former you want, and if you want to set
inner and outer margins directly, then the formula is:
\setlrmarginsandblock{INNER}{OUTER}{*}
Your page size has to be set already---which it presumably is---and this
will set the width of the text area to be \pagewidth - \spinemargin -
\foredge, which is what you'd expect.
Probably the better way to do this would be to play with \stocksize and
\paperwidth, etc. The stocksize is the width of what you're printing on.
The paperwidth is supposed to be how wide the paper is after its
trimmed. You're not trimming, but you can pretend you are, and use the
trimmed bit as binding width.
So something like this:
\usepackage{calc} % let's us do minus
\newlength{\bindingwidth}
\setlength\bindingwidth{2cm} % for example
\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth - \bindingwidth}
\settrims{0cm}{0cm} %this forces all the extra width to the inner
edge...I think
Something like that will work---I haven't tested it---and is more in the
spirit of the package.
Richard
Re: custom layout
Z. Bian wrote:
I am trying to write a book with lyx. The book is mostly tutorials with step by
step instructions. For each step, I need to have step number, a block of text
on left as instruction, and a image on right as figure showing what the
instruction means.
I am currently using a custom list. For each item/step, I use two boxes within
another box. This works ok, but too painful with the insertion of all the boxes
and setting width etc.
Can I create a custom layout that I can simply insert into document that has
two predefined fields for me to put in the text and figure, and it will layout
the text and figure by passing the text and figure to a predefined latex class?
I can create a cuxtom layout that passes one item, but not two, to a latex
class.
This is a shortcoming of LyX, one I'd love to remedy. But here's a hack:
Define your layout so that it calls a two-argument command. Then, in ERT
at the very beginning of each one, put: {whatever you want}, as your
first argument.
Other way: Make the first argument optional, turn on optional arguments
in the layout, and then put your first argument in the misnamed short
title inset (under Insert).
Richard
Fonts for Lyx
I use a variety of fonts with e.g. pdftex or Context. But when I fire up Lyx I find about five available. What can be done to make my additional fonts, some of which are purchased, available to Lyx? I use Slackware Linux and Lyx 1.5.1. Is the answer to the above different for Windows users? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
Re: Double sided wrong siders anew family of lyx users
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:22:03 -0500
rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
llewellyn wrote:
dear Uwe,
SNIP
So something like this:
\usepackage{calc} % let's us do minus
\newlength{\bindingwidth}
\setlength\bindingwidth{2cm} % for example
\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth - \bindingwidth}
\settrims{0cm}{0cm} %this forces all the extra width to the inner
edge...I think
Something like that will work---I haven't tested it---and is more in
the spirit of the package.
This is what I did to change margins using the Memoir class:
\setstocksize{9in}{6in}
\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth}
\setlrmargins{1.2in}{*}{*}
\checkandfixthelayout
This last item is the gotcha: the changed settings will not take
effect unless you include it.
Alan
Richard
How to remove a line from multiline equation?
Hi all, If I make a mistake in one line then I don't seem to be able to remove that line even if I remove all the contents in the cells that lyx creates for the LHS, the =, and the RHS for that line. Is there a better way than to create a new multiline equation and copy over all lines except the invalid ones? Thanks, Manoj
Re: How to remove a line from multiline equation?
Hi all, sorry for the trouble, I figured it out. I spotted the remove row button for tables and that works. -- Manoj Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: Hi all, If I make a mistake in one line then I don't seem to be able to remove that line even if I remove all the contents in the cells that lyx creates for the LHS, the =, and the RHS for that line. Is there a better way than to create a new multiline equation and copy over all lines except the invalid ones? Thanks, Manoj
Re: Bibliography style
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody !! Does anybody know id exists an editor for .bst files (bibliographic style files ? What do you mean by editor : a graphical interface to create a custom bst file by pointclick. That does not exist. There is a latex package called custombib that will create a custom bst file by asking you questions but it is rather limited. If you are looking for a bst style for a specific journal, there is a database on the internet : http://jo.irisson.free.fr/bstdatabase/ The custombib package not only creates a .bst file, it records the instructions to generate the .bst file in a file with a .dbj extension. If you have the .dbj file from a customized .bst file, you can edit the .dbj (it essentially contains the prompts and responses to the interview that custombib conducts in designing your style) and recompile the .bst file with modifications, without going through the entire interview again. If you need to tweak something in the .bst file that is not covered by custombib, you have to edit the .bst file directly in a text editor. (I had to do this once, with guidance kindly provided by people on the list.) /Paul
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
rgheck wrote: \bind C-apostrophe accent-acute \bind C-S-quotedbl accent-umlaut Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind ~S-M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedblself-insert \ to \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ The ~S means: Ignore the state of the shift key. Could you commit those Richard? Abdel.
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rgheck wrote: Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind ~S-M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedblself-insert \ to \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ The ~S means: Ignore the state of the shift key. Could you commit those Richard? Richard, why did you have to make this change? This should be correct. JMarc
Re: First page customizing in koma-script
Thanks a lot for your advice! The \extratitles stuff seems to be handy (yet hacky ;-), but I already got it working with Uwe's test LyX document - I just didn't have any time to reply till now. :-) Have a nice day! Michael Färber On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:30:19 -0800 (PST) David Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Publisher environment does come in handy. You can also look into the Extratitle environment. I've found that you can put all sorts of stuff in one of those to make extra up-front pages (more than one even, just insert page breaks). They can replace the title page entirely and are more fine-tuneable, even if typographically awful. Michael Färber schrieb: Hey thanks, that did it! I was able to define everything now, except for an image under the title, and I haven't found how to do something like that in the documentation. Do you have any advice for me? Yes, ask on the koma-script community page: http://komascript.de Perhaps you also find something about your problems in their archive. Alternatively I attached an example with a title page containing an image. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/First-page-customizing-in-koma-script-tp15245690p15280286.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: rgheck wrote: Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind ~S-M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedblself-insert \ to \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ The ~S means: Ignore the state of the shift key. Could you commit those Richard? Richard, why did you have to make this change? This should be correct. Yes, I agree, this looks like a bug. But try it this way: \bind ~S-M-quotedbl quote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedbl self-insert \ \bind S-M-apostrophe accent-acute \bind S-C-quotedbl accent-umlaut You can't make the accent work. But this does work: \bind M-apostrophe quote-insert single \bind S-M-apostropher self-insert \ \bind C-apostrophe accent-acute \bind S-C-quotedbl accent-umlaut I wonder if the problem isn't the apostrophe vs quotedbl bit somehow? Richard
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
On 5.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: rgheck wrote: \bind C-apostrophe accent-acute \bind C-S-quotedbl accent-umlaut Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind ~S-M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedblself-insert \ to \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ The ~S means: Ignore the state of the shift key. Could you commit those Richard? Please do not rush this through: On my German keyboard, the quotedbl () is above the number 2, i.e. \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ would never be activated! How could I insert a verbatim after these changes? Guenter
branches and child documents
Dear Lyx users, I wonder how the new branches feature cooperates with including child documents. Could someone with more profund knowledge confirm my observation that * if a child document defines (and activates) a branch, that is not defined in the parent, this branch will be - active in the child document, - not activate if the parent is compiled. * The (de)activation of a similar named branch in the parent document overrides the setting in include child documents. This would allow me to replace the current ifthen constructs with LyX branches :-) GM
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
G. Milde wrote: On 5.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: rgheck wrote: \bind C-apostrophe accent-acute \bind C-S-quotedbl accent-umlaut Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind ~S-M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind ~S-C-quotedblself-insert \ to \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ The ~S means: Ignore the state of the shift key. Could you commit those Richard? Please do not rush this through: On my German keyboard, the quotedbl () is above the number 2, i.e. \bind M-quotedblquote-insert single \bind C-quotedblself-insert \ would never be activated! How could I insert a verbatim after these changes? Nothing's being done immediately. Actually, it would help a lot if you could play around with the changes that have been suggested, namely: \bind M-apostrophe quote-insert single \bind S-M-quotedbl self-insert \ \bind C-apostrophe accent-acute \bind S-C-quotedbl accent-umlaut As you may also have seen, we think there may be a bug here somewhere, too. rh
Double sided wrong siders anew family of lyx users
dear Uwe, Several users of memoir class and I have been giving you much agravation. I have now worked out about a misunderstanding. Your replies on the subject of left and right pages and bind margins are off course exactly correct. What is happening is that the amateurs like myself actually want to use the wide margin as a bind margin with those plastic strip binders you get to use in offices. For it to look good I want the wider margin on the WRONG side, so when I put my book into a home or office binder it looks professional. It is actually a stupid vanity because the publisher of my book takes no notice of my page design and layout. They do it to their own professional standards. Would you not be kind to us people who we will call Wrong Siders and tell us how to set that margin so that we retain the defaults already in the settings of Memoir class,but cause it to wrong side the extra white space. I would want the wider margin on odd pages to be at left of the text. I try very hard to understand Latex and am slowly getting to it but it is not for fools. We fools are clever enough to know we are fools so we do not mess with margins preset by the authors of Memoir class. You would be most kind if you could give some code for us to put in the PREAMBLE to give us the wrong side feature we want. LYX made it possible for me to start writting novels. I have written over 500 000 words already and many more to go. Latex and LYX makes it so easy to be creative and let the words flow through the keys without interruption. To get our binders to look good we wrongsiders are printing page three on rear of page two and page one on obverse by itself so that pages one and two face each other when the bound up document is opened, Authors want to write and print it down on a desk top HP then bind it with a plastic strip and send it to publishers, looking as good as it can so bound, That is why you are seeing so much all the time about this margin for page one. How about posting it on Nabble for us Great regards and sorry we drove you crazy Llewellyn lee. Ps once I have the facility I will save a template with it so that I do not have to mess up my standard Memoir class. I will call the template NOVEL. all the people wanting this are writers of novels. End of encapsulated message -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Double-sided-wrong-siders-anew-family-of-lyx-users-tp15294660p15294660.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
custom layout
I am trying to write a book with lyx. The book is mostly tutorials with step by step instructions. For each step, I need to have step number, a block of text on left as instruction, and a image on right as figure showing what the instruction means. I am currently using a custom list. For each item/step, I use two boxes within another box. This works ok, but too painful with the insertion of all the boxes and setting width etc. Can I create a custom layout that I can simply insert into document that has two predefined fields for me to put in the text and figure, and it will layout the text and figure by passing the text and figure to a predefined latex class? I can create a cuxtom layout that passes one item, but not two, to a latex class. Is this possible? Thanks. Max
Re: Double sided wrong siders anew family of lyx users
llewellyn wrote:
dear Uwe,
Several users of memoir class and I have been giving you
much agravation.
I have now worked out about a misunderstanding.
Your replies on the subject of left and right pages and bind margins are off
course exactly correct.
What is happening is that the amateurs like myself actually want to
use the
wide margin as a bind margin with those plastic strip binders you get to use
in offices.
For it to look good I want the wider margin on the WRONG side, so
when I put
my book into a home or office binder it looks professional.
It is actually a stupid vanity because the publisher of my book takes no
notice of my page design and layout. They do it to their own professional
standards.
Would you not be kind to us people who we will call Wrong Siders
and tell
us how to set that margin so that we retain the defaults already in the
settings of Memoir class,but cause it to wrong side the extra white space.
I would want the wider margin on odd pages to be at left of the text.
Uwe probably knows the answer to this. He is the source of all LaTeX
knowledge. ;-) But if you want to figure this out, look in section 6.4
of the memoir manual. The terminology here is different from what you
usually see. Memoir calls the inner margin the spinemargin and the
outer margin the foredge, and it provides two ways to set these. So
one way to do this is to play with \setrlmarginsandblock and
\setrlmargins. It's probably the former you want, and if you want to set
inner and outer margins directly, then the formula is:
\setlrmarginsandblock{INNER}{OUTER}{*}
Your page size has to be set already---which it presumably is---and this
will set the width of the text area to be \pagewidth - \spinemargin -
\foredge, which is what you'd expect.
Probably the better way to do this would be to play with \stocksize and
\paperwidth, etc. The stocksize is the width of what you're printing on.
The paperwidth is supposed to be how wide the paper is after its
trimmed. You're not trimming, but you can pretend you are, and use the
trimmed bit as binding width.
So something like this:
\usepackage{calc} % let's us do minus
\newlength{\bindingwidth}
\setlength\bindingwidth{2cm} % for example
\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth - \bindingwidth}
\settrims{0cm}{0cm} %this forces all the extra width to the inner
edge...I think
Something like that will work---I haven't tested it---and is more in the
spirit of the package.
Richard
Re: custom layout
Z. Bian wrote:
I am trying to write a book with lyx. The book is mostly tutorials with step by
step instructions. For each step, I need to have step number, a block of text
on left as instruction, and a image on right as figure showing what the
instruction means.
I am currently using a custom list. For each item/step, I use two boxes within
another box. This works ok, but too painful with the insertion of all the boxes
and setting width etc.
Can I create a custom layout that I can simply insert into document that has
two predefined fields for me to put in the text and figure, and it will layout
the text and figure by passing the text and figure to a predefined latex class?
I can create a cuxtom layout that passes one item, but not two, to a latex
class.
This is a shortcoming of LyX, one I'd love to remedy. But here's a hack:
Define your layout so that it calls a two-argument command. Then, in ERT
at the very beginning of each one, put: {whatever you want}, as your
first argument.
Other way: Make the first argument optional, turn on optional arguments
in the layout, and then put your first argument in the misnamed short
title inset (under Insert).
Richard
Fonts for Lyx
I use a variety of fonts with e.g. pdftex or Context. But when I fire up Lyx I find about five available. What can be done to make my additional fonts, some of which are purchased, available to Lyx? I use Slackware Linux and Lyx 1.5.1. Is the answer to the above different for Windows users? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
Re: Double sided wrong siders anew family of lyx users
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:22:03 -0500
rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
llewellyn wrote:
dear Uwe,
SNIP
So something like this:
\usepackage{calc} % let's us do minus
\newlength{\bindingwidth}
\setlength\bindingwidth{2cm} % for example
\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth - \bindingwidth}
\settrims{0cm}{0cm} %this forces all the extra width to the inner
edge...I think
Something like that will work---I haven't tested it---and is more in
the spirit of the package.
This is what I did to change margins using the Memoir class:
\setstocksize{9in}{6in}
\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth}
\setlrmargins{1.2in}{*}{*}
\checkandfixthelayout
This last item is the gotcha: the changed settings will not take
effect unless you include it.
Alan
Richard
How to remove a line from multiline equation?
Hi all, If I make a mistake in one line then I don't seem to be able to remove that line even if I remove all the contents in the cells that lyx creates for the LHS, the =, and the RHS for that line. Is there a better way than to create a new multiline equation and copy over all lines except the invalid ones? Thanks, Manoj
Re: How to remove a line from multiline equation?
Hi all, sorry for the trouble, I figured it out. I spotted the remove row button for tables and that works. -- Manoj Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: Hi all, If I make a mistake in one line then I don't seem to be able to remove that line even if I remove all the contents in the cells that lyx creates for the LHS, the =, and the RHS for that line. Is there a better way than to create a new multiline equation and copy over all lines except the invalid ones? Thanks, Manoj
Re: Bibliography style
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody !! Does anybody know id exists an editor for .bst files (bibliographic style files ? What do you mean by editor : a graphical interface to create a custom bst file by pointclick. That does not exist. There is a latex package called custombib that will create a custom bst file by asking you questions but it is rather limited. If you are looking for a bst style for a specific journal, there is a database on the internet : http://jo.irisson.free.fr/bstdatabase/ The custombib package not only creates a .bst file, it records the instructions to generate the .bst file in a file with a .dbj extension. If you have the .dbj file from a customized .bst file, you can edit the .dbj (it essentially contains the prompts and responses to the interview that custombib conducts in designing your style) and recompile the .bst file with modifications, without going through the entire interview again. If you need to tweak something in the .bst file that is not covered by custombib, you have to edit the .bst file directly in a text editor. (I had to do this once, with guidance kindly provided by people on the list.) /Paul
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
rgheck wrote: \bind "C-apostrophe" "accent-acute" \bind "C-S-quotedbl" "accent-umlaut" Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind "~S-M-quotedbl""quote-insert single" \bind "~S-C-quotedbl""self-insert \"" to \bind "M-quotedbl""quote-insert single" \bind "C-quotedbl""self-insert \"" The "~S" means: Ignore the state of the shift key. Could you commit those Richard? Abdel.
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > rgheck wrote: >> Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some >> earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: >> \bind "~S-M-quotedbl""quote-insert single" >> \bind "~S-C-quotedbl""self-insert \"" >> to >> \bind "M-quotedbl""quote-insert single" >> \bind "C-quotedbl""self-insert \"" >> The "~S" means: Ignore the state of the shift key. > > Could you commit those Richard? Richard, why did you have to make this change? This should be correct. JMarc
Re: First page customizing in koma-script
Thanks a lot for your advice! The \extratitles stuff seems to be handy (yet hacky ;-), but I already got it working with Uwe's test LyX document - I just didn't have any time to reply till now. :-) Have a nice day! Michael Färber On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:30:19 -0800 (PST) David Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Publisher environment does come in handy. > > You can also look into the Extratitle environment. I've found that you can > put all sorts of stuff in one of those to make extra up-front pages (more > than one even, just insert page breaks). They can replace the title page > entirely and are more fine-tuneable, even if typographically awful. > > > > > Michael Färber schrieb: > >> Hey thanks, that did it! I was able to define everything now, except for > >> an image under the title, and I haven't found how to do something like > >> that in the documentation. > >> > >> Do you have any advice for me? > > > > Yes, ask on the koma-script community page: > > http://komascript.de > > Perhaps you also find something about your problems in their archive. > > > > Alternatively I attached an example with a title page containing an image. > > > > > - > David Hewitt > Virginia Institute of Marine Science > http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/First-page-customizing-in-koma-script-tp15245690p15280286.html > Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rgheck wrote: Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change: \bind "~S-M-quotedbl""quote-insert single" \bind "~S-C-quotedbl""self-insert \"" to \bind "M-quotedbl""quote-insert single" \bind "C-quotedbl""self-insert \"" The "~S" means: Ignore the state of the shift key. Could you commit those Richard? Richard, why did you have to make this change? This should be correct. Yes, I agree, this looks like a bug. But try it this way: \bind "~S-M-quotedbl" "quote-insert single" \bind "~S-C-quotedbl" "self-insert \"" \bind "S-M-apostrophe" "accent-acute" \bind "S-C-quotedbl" "accent-umlaut" You can't make the accent work. But this does work: \bind "M-apostrophe" "quote-insert single" \bind "S-M-apostropher" "self-insert \"" \bind "C-apostrophe" "accent-acute" \bind "S-C-quotedbl" "accent-umlaut" I wonder if the problem isn't the "apostrophe" vs "quotedbl" bit somehow? Richard
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
On 5.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> rgheck wrote:
>> \bind "C-apostrophe" "accent-acute"
>> \bind "C-S-quotedbl" "accent-umlaut"
>> Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier
>> bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change:
>> \bind "~S-M-quotedbl""quote-insert single"
>> \bind "~S-C-quotedbl""self-insert \""
>> to
>> \bind "M-quotedbl""quote-insert single"
>> \bind "C-quotedbl""self-insert \""
>> The "~S" means: Ignore the state of the shift key.
> Could you commit those Richard?
Please do not rush this through: On my German keyboard, the quotedbl (") is
above the number 2, i.e.
>> \bind "M-quotedbl""quote-insert single"
>> \bind "C-quotedbl""self-insert \""
would never be activated! How could I insert a verbatim " after these
changes?
Guenter
branches and child documents
Dear Lyx users, I wonder how the new "branches" feature cooperates with including child documents. Could someone with more profund knowledge confirm my observation that * if a child document defines (and activates) a branch, that is not defined in the parent, this branch will be - active in the child document, - not activate if the parent is compiled. * The (de)activation of a similar named branch in the parent document overrides the setting in include child documents. This would allow me to replace the current "ifthen" constructs with LyX branches :-) GM
Re: easiest way to type accents, graves, and other interesting letters
G. Milde wrote:
On 5.02.08, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
rgheck wrote:
\bind "C-apostrophe" "accent-acute"
\bind "C-S-quotedbl" "accent-umlaut"
Note that, to get these to work, you may also need to change some earlier
bindings. In cua.bind, I had to change:
\bind "~S-M-quotedbl""quote-insert single"
\bind "~S-C-quotedbl""self-insert \""
to
\bind "M-quotedbl""quote-insert single"
\bind "C-quotedbl""self-insert \""
The "~S" means: Ignore the state of the shift key.
Could you commit those Richard?
Please do not rush this through: On my German keyboard, the quotedbl (") is
above the number 2, i.e.
\bind "M-quotedbl""quote-insert single"
\bind "C-quotedbl""self-insert \""
would never be activated! How could I insert a verbatim " after these
changes?
Nothing's being done immediately. Actually, it would help a lot if you
could play around with the changes that have been suggested, namely:
\bind "M-apostrophe" "quote-insert single"
\bind "S-M-quotedbl" "self-insert \""
\bind "C-apostrophe" "accent-acute"
\bind "S-C-quotedbl" "accent-umlaut"
As you may also have seen, we think there may be a bug here somewhere, too.
rh
Double sided wrong siders anew family of lyx users
dear Uwe, Several users of memoir class and I have been giving you much agravation. I have now worked out about a misunderstanding. Your replies on the subject of left and right pages and bind margins are off course exactly correct. What is happening is that the amateurs like myself actually want to use the wide margin as a bind margin with those plastic strip binders you get to use in offices. For it to look good I want the wider margin on the WRONG side, so when I put my book into a home or office binder it looks professional. It is actually a stupid vanity because the publisher of my book takes no notice of my page design and layout. They do it to their own professional standards. Would you not be kind to us people who we will call "Wrong Siders" and tell us how to set that margin so that we retain the defaults already in the settings of Memoir class,but cause it to wrong side the extra white space. I would want the wider margin on odd pages to be at left of the text. I try very hard to understand Latex and am slowly getting to it but it is not for fools. We fools are clever enough to know we are fools so we do not mess with margins preset by the authors of Memoir class. You would be most kind if you could give some code for us to put in the PREAMBLE to give us the wrong side feature we want. LYX made it possible for me to start writting novels. I have written over 500 000 words already and many more to go. Latex and LYX makes it so easy to be creative and let the words flow through the keys without interruption. To get our binders to look good we "wrongsiders" are printing page three on rear of page two and page one on obverse by itself so that pages one and two face each other when the bound up document is opened, Authors want to write and print it down on a desk top HP then bind it with a plastic strip and send it to publishers, looking as good as it can so bound, That is why you are seeing so much all the time about this margin for page one. How about posting it on Nabble for us Great regards and sorry we drove you crazy Llewellyn lee. Ps once I have the facility I will save a template with it so that I do not have to mess up my standard Memoir class. I will call the template NOVEL. all the people wanting this are writers of novels. End of encapsulated message -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Double-sided-wrong-siders-anew-family-of-lyx-users-tp15294660p15294660.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
custom layout
I am trying to write a book with lyx. The book is mostly tutorials with step by step instructions. For each step, I need to have step number, a block of text on left as instruction, and a image on right as figure showing what the instruction means. I am currently using a custom list. For each item/step, I use two boxes within another box. This works ok, but too painful with the insertion of all the boxes and setting width etc. Can I create a custom layout that I can simply insert into document that has two predefined fields for me to put in the text and figure, and it will layout the text and figure by passing the text and figure to a predefined latex class? I can create a cuxtom layout that passes one item, but not two, to a latex class. Is this possible? Thanks. Max
Re: Double sided wrong siders anew family of lyx users
llewellyn wrote:
dear Uwe,
Several users of memoir class and I have been giving you
much agravation.
I have now worked out about a misunderstanding.
Your replies on the subject of left and right pages and bind margins are off
course exactly correct.
What is happening is that the amateurs like myself actually want to
use the
wide margin as a bind margin with those plastic strip binders you get to use
in offices.
For it to look good I want the wider margin on the WRONG side, so
when I put
my book into a home or office binder it looks professional.
It is actually a stupid vanity because the publisher of my book takes no
notice of my page design and layout. They do it to their own professional
standards.
Would you not be kind to us people who we will call "Wrong Siders"
and tell
us how to set that margin so that we retain the defaults already in the
settings of Memoir class,but cause it to wrong side the extra white space.
I would want the wider margin on odd pages to be at left of the text.
Uwe probably knows the answer to this. He is the source of all LaTeX
knowledge. ;-) But if you want to figure this out, look in section 6.4
of the memoir manual. The terminology here is different from what you
usually see. Memoir calls the inner margin the "spinemargin" and the
outer margin the "foredge", and it provides two ways to set these. So
one way to do this is to play with \setrlmarginsandblock and
\setrlmargins. It's probably the former you want, and if you want to set
inner and outer margins directly, then the formula is:
\setlrmarginsandblock{INNER}{OUTER}{*}
Your page size has to be set already---which it presumably is---and this
will set the width of the text area to be \pagewidth - \spinemargin -
\foredge, which is what you'd expect.
Probably the better way to do this would be to play with \stocksize and
\paperwidth, etc. The stocksize is the width of what you're printing on.
The paperwidth is supposed to be how wide the paper is after its
trimmed. You're not trimming, but you can pretend you are, and use the
trimmed bit as binding width.
So something like this:
\usepackage{calc} % let's us do minus
\newlength{\bindingwidth}
\setlength\bindingwidth{2cm} % for example
\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth - \bindingwidth}
\settrims{0cm}{0cm} %this forces all the extra width to the inner
edge...I think
Something like that will work---I haven't tested it---and is more in the
spirit of the package.
Richard
Re: custom layout
Z. Bian wrote:
I am trying to write a book with lyx. The book is mostly tutorials with step by
step instructions. For each step, I need to have step number, a block of text
on left as instruction, and a image on right as figure showing what the
instruction means.
I am currently using a custom list. For each item/step, I use two boxes within
another box. This works ok, but too painful with the insertion of all the boxes
and setting width etc.
Can I create a custom layout that I can simply insert into document that has
two predefined fields for me to put in the text and figure, and it will layout
the text and figure by passing the text and figure to a predefined latex class?
I can create a cuxtom layout that passes one item, but not two, to a latex
class.
This is a shortcoming of LyX, one I'd love to remedy. But here's a hack:
Define your layout so that it calls a two-argument command. Then, in ERT
at the very beginning of each one, put: {whatever you want}, as your
first argument.
Other way: Make the first argument optional, turn on optional arguments
in the layout, and then put your first argument in the misnamed "short
title" inset (under Insert).
Richard
Fonts for Lyx
I use a variety of fonts with e.g. pdftex or Context. But when I fire up Lyx I find about five available. What can be done to make my additional fonts, some of which are purchased, available to Lyx? I use Slackware Linux and Lyx 1.5.1. Is the answer to the above different for Windows users? -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
Re: Double sided wrong siders anew family of lyx users
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:22:03 -0500
rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> llewellyn wrote:
> > dear Uwe,
>
> So something like this:
> \usepackage{calc} % let's us do minus
> \newlength{\bindingwidth}
> \setlength\bindingwidth{2cm} % for example
> \settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth - \bindingwidth}
> \settrims{0cm}{0cm} %this forces all the extra width to the inner
> edge...I think
> Something like that will work---I haven't tested it---and is more in
> the spirit of the package.
This is what I did to change margins using the Memoir class:
\setstocksize{9in}{6in}
\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth}
\setlrmargins{1.2in}{*}{*}
\checkandfixthelayout
This last item is the "gotcha": the changed settings will not take
effect unless you include it.
Alan
>
> Richard
>
>
How to remove a line from multiline equation?
Hi all, If I make a mistake in one line then I don't seem to be able to remove that line even if I remove all the contents in the cells that lyx creates for the LHS, the "=", and the RHS for that line. Is there a better way than to create a new multiline equation and copy over all lines except the invalid ones? Thanks, Manoj
Re: How to remove a line from multiline equation?
Hi all, sorry for the trouble, I figured it out. I spotted the "remove row" button for tables and that works. -- Manoj Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: Hi all, If I make a mistake in one line then I don't seem to be able to remove that line even if I remove all the contents in the cells that lyx creates for the LHS, the "=", and the RHS for that line. Is there a better way than to create a new multiline equation and copy over all lines except the invalid ones? Thanks, Manoj
Re: Bibliography style
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody !! Does anybody know id exists an editor for .bst files (bibliographic style files ? What do you mean by editor : a graphical interface to create a custom bst file by point That does not exist. There is a latex package called custombib that will create a custom bst file by asking you questions but it is rather limited. If you are looking for a bst style for a specific journal, there is a database on the internet : http://jo.irisson.free.fr/bstdatabase/ The custombib package not only creates a .bst file, it records the instructions to generate the .bst file in a file with a .dbj extension. If you have the .dbj file from a customized .bst file, you can edit the .dbj (it essentially contains the prompts and responses to the interview that custombib conducts in designing your style) and recompile the .bst file with modifications, without going through the entire interview again. If you need to tweak something in the .bst file that is not covered by custombib, you have to edit the .bst file directly in a text editor. (I had to do this once, with guidance kindly provided by people on the list.) /Paul
