using Latex style/layout in Lyx on Vista environment

[gsenviro]

Hi,
I'm working on a Windows Vista system and am using Lyx 1.5.3. 
Could someone tell me how to install Latex styles (achemso) to lyx?
I have already installed this style in Miktex, but can't use it from inside
Lyx.

Thanks
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Re: vertical spacing between table rows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Adrian Peter schrieb:


I looked at the Embedded Objects manual but it was not clear how I could get
my desired effect of just adjusting the space between consecutive rows.


There is section 2.12.1 that describes two possibilities. There is perhaps another one using the 
command \jot. You can have a look at section 18.1.1 of this manual:

http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/LyXDevelDocumentation/1.5/Math.pdf
I think the method with the command \jot is also possible for tables, but I 
haven't tested that.

regards Uwe

Re: using Latex style/layout in Lyx on Vista environment

[Uwe Stöhr]

gsenviro schrieb:


Could someone tell me how to install Latex styles (achemso) to lyx?


You can either:

- load the package achemso in your document preamble using this line:
  \usepackage[options]{achemso}
  Where options is a comma separated list of the possible options explained in 
the achemso
  documentation. You can also omit the options.

or:

- achemso is a bibliography style, to load it, right-click on the BibTeX inset 
in your document and
  choose achemso as style file, see section 6.5.1 of the LyX User's Guide.

regards Uwe

Translation problems with AMS

[Dominik Böhm]

Hello everybody,

I've got some problems using LyX for my German diploma thesis (ngerman), as
some of the math stuff isn't translated correctly in the pdf export. In LyX
everything works like a charm, when I mark a paragraph as Remark, LyX shows
it to me like Bemerkung x.x, like I expect it. But in the exported pdf
file, this passage has Remark x.x as caption.Other environment s, like
proof, are translated correctly.

I already tried a lot of things: editing the ntheorems.sty, etc., executing
a \renewtheorem{example}{Beispiel}-command, but nothing helped.

I am using the normal article document class, as my professor prefers the
article layout. Those are the first few lines of my preamble, I think it
shouldn't cause any trouble to include the ams stuff like this:

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\usepackage{amssymb}

\usepackage{amsmath} % Mathematische Gleichungen (auch mehrzeilig)

\usepackage{amsfonts}

\usepackage{amsthm}


Hopefully someone can help.

Thanks a lot
Dominik

Re: Translation problems with AMS

[Uwe Stöhr]

Dominik Böhm schrieb:


I've got some problems using LyX for my German diploma thesis (ngerman), as
some of the math stuff isn't translated correctly in the pdf export. In LyX
everything works like a charm, when I mark a paragraph as Remark, LyX shows
it to me like Bemerkung x.x, like I expect it. But in the exported pdf
file, this passage has Remark x.x as caption. Other environments, like
proof, are translated correctly.


Have a look at this page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/I18nLabels

regards Uwe

Harvard style referencing

[Jennifer Brookes]

Hi,

I am having difficulty figuring out how to convert my references to 
alphabetical (Harvard style) in preparation of an article. I have been 
using lyx version 1.4.4, with document class article (REVTeX4), citation 
style natbib (Author-year) and  bibliography style agsm. When I compile 
however, no references appear and there are question marks where I would 
like the references to be. Before I was using natbib (numerical) and 
bibliography style apsrev, which worked fine, can anyone tell me the 
problem?


Many thanks
Jenny

Nomenclature in Table of Contens

[Fritz Bein]

Hi,

my nomenclature appears in the table of contents on the same level as  
Chapter. The other tables (figures, contents) etc. appear as sections.


Entering the following code from the Lyx FAQ:

\def\nompreamble{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\nomname}\markboth{\nomname}{\nomname}

results in a double entry in the TOC: one on chapter level and one on  
section level.


How can I remove the entry on chapter level?

Thanks for your help!
Fritz

Re: Template for standard manuscript format

[Bill Moran]

In response to Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
 
  Anyone know of a template for standard manuscript format ... as
  described here, for example: http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html
 
I don't know where he gets his ideas, but if you want to emulate that, use
 the article class with a monospaced typeface as the default. I submit
 typeset articles in pdf to journal editors, and only the most retrogressive
 ask that I put them into M$ Word format.

I'm not interested in M$ Word.  Most of the markets that are worth
submitting to want submissions sent by mail anyway, so the electronic
format is unimportant.

What _is_ important is that I can focus on my story while I'm writing it,
and not worry about whether my headers are correct, or whether OOo
decided to change the fonts or the line spacing on me for some reason.

At this time, I do most of my writing in OOo, purely so I have an active
spell-checker, and I save the files as ASCII text.  Once the story is
complete, I then go to all the trouble to fight with OOo to get the
story formatted as I want it.

While your comments about the relative benefits and disadvantages of
that format are interesting, they're completely unimportant to me
until you can convince paying editors of their merits.  If you want to
take up that torch, feel free ... I'm simply trying to find a way to
adhere to the current market requirements.

His comment about making the content more important than the visual
 appearance is belied by the rest of his suggestions. Typeset material is so
 much easier to read that the content stands by itself. His blog entry was
 visibly irritating for me to read.

Well, if I'm submitting a story to you for publication, I'll remember
that and format it as you'd like.  However, until you're paying $.10 a
word or better for fiction, I'll follow the guidelines of the people who
_are_ paying.  And that page is the best description of those guidelines
I've found so far.

Heck, use OO.o if that's the appearance you want. Don't use a typesetting
 application to make a document look non-typeset.

OOo sucks for this kind of thing.  I, and other writers I know have been
looking for a superior writing tool for quite some time, and I honestly
believe that Lyx could be it.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Template for standard manuscript format

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Bill Moran wrote:


Anyone know of a template for standard manuscript format ... as
described here, for example: http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html


  I don't know where he gets his ideas, but if you want to emulate that, use
the article class with a monospaced typeface as the default. I submit
typeset articles in pdf to journal editors, and only the most retrogressive
ask that I put them into M$ Word format.

  His comment about making the content more important than the visual
appearance is belied by the rest of his suggestions. Typeset material is so
much easier to read that the content stands by itself. His blog entry was
visibly irritating for me to read.

  Heck, use OO.o if that's the appearance you want. Don't use a typesetting
application to make a document look non-typeset.

Rich

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Re: EuropeCV

[Tomas Pavlik]

Hello Liviu,
I didn't run the tools  reconfigure in LyX and that was what I  
missed...it worked :) Thank you for helping me.


Pablo

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:48:00 +0100, Liviu Andronic  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Hello Tomas,

On 2/7/08, Tomas Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello,
I'm using the 1.5.3 windows version of LyX and I can't get the
europeCV.lyx get running. When I try to open it, it says
The layout file requested by this document,
europecv.layout,
is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX
class or style file required by it is not
available. See the Customization documentation
for more information.


This would mean that the LaTeX class is not installed.


I have downloaded and installed europecv package for miktex 2.6 but it
didn't help.
Anyone can help me with this please?


To install the class, exactly what steps did you perform? Did you run,
from within LyX, Tools  Reconfigure?

Liviu

EuropeCV

[Tomas Pavlik]

Hello,
I'm using the 1.5.3 windows version of LyX and I can't get the  
europeCV.lyx get running. When I try to open it, it says

The layout file requested by this document,
europecv.layout,
is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX
class or style file required by it is not
available. See the Customization documentation
for more information.

I have downloaded and installed europecv package for miktex 2.6 but it  
didn't help.

Anyone can help me with this please?

Pablo

Template for standard manuscript format

[Bill Moran]

Anyone know of a template for standard manuscript format ... as
described here, for example:
http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Printing from LyX on a mac

[John Culleton]

On Wednesday 06 February 2008 11:36:47 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi, I've been using LyX for years -- since maybe 1.2 or earlier. I've
 always been able to print well-formatted out-put directly from LyX.
 But now on 1.5.3 I cannot.

 I have dvips defined as the print command in preferences. And it does
 print but it cuts off the footer no matter what I do.

 I can print from the dvi directly where this is not a problem but then
 I can't specify odd or even pages like I can by printing directly from
 LyX.

 Does anyone know what I missing here that I might be able to recover
 my ability to print fully formatted docs in LyX 1.5.3?

 thanks,
 jamie faunt



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Problems with picture position.

[Gregor Skrt]

I'm writing my thesis in Lyx. It's a great for long texts. First thanks 
to all developers of Lxy !


I have one question concerning picture floats. I have a picture that's 
quite long and doesn't fit between borders very well. It seems like Lyx 
is obeying borders that I've set in document settings and ads some free 
space between border and picture on left side. Is there a way to use 
that free space too ?


I'm using article class.

Thanks for your help !

Re: Template for standard manuscript format

[Bill Moran]

In response to Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:28:25 -0500
 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

SNIP

 SNIP
 
 It does seem to me that the manuscript format recommended by the web
 page is somewhat outdated. Even the author notes that an earlier
 version was reprinted in 1998 and he cites a VERY HELPFUL work from
 1990.

How is that relevant?  They haven't updated their payscale since 1950,
so the fact that the format is dated by at least 20 years is hardly
a surprise to me.  Or something I care about in the least.

 I write fiction and legal textbooks, and I have never had a
 publisher call for a manuscript in the form that Shunn recommends.

Your legal textbooks are of no interest to me, as I've noticed that
different markets have different rules.  So, while you may have completely
different requirements for submitting legal documents, it simply doesn't
matter to anyone submitting fiction stories.

As to people who request documents in standard manuscript format,
how about Fantasy  Science Fiction magazine, probably the most prestigious
market in the scifi genre:
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/glines.htm
Their guidelines point to an article on SFWA's web site, which basically
mirrors the guidelines I mentioned earlier:
http://sfwa.org/writing/vonda/vonda.htm

What fiction markets have you submitted to and what are their guidelines?

 However, as Rich said, LaTeX is so versatile that you can force it to
 make ugly manuscripts.

I don't know how this is relevant.

To return to the original point of this thread:

I'm looking for something superior to OOo for formatting my manuscripts.
They are required to be in standard manuscript format as described
here: http://sfwa.org/writing/vonda/vonda.htm and a tankful of other
places.

Does anyone know of a pre-existing template so that I can evaluate Lyx
for this purpose?

At this point I'm guessing that I'll have to learn to make my own template.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Template for standard manuscript format

[Typhoon]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:28:25 -0500
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 In response to Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
  On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
  
   Anyone know of a template for standard manuscript format ... as
   described here, for example:
   http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html
  
 I don't know where he gets his ideas, but if you want to emulate
  that, use the article class with a monospaced typeface as the
  default. I submit typeset articles in pdf to journal editors, and
  only the most retrogressive ask that I put them into M$ Word format.
 
 I'm not interested in M$ Word.  Most of the markets that are worth
 submitting to want submissions sent by mail anyway, so the electronic
 format is unimportant.
 
 What _is_ important is that I can focus on my story while I'm writing
 it, and not worry about whether my headers are correct, or whether OOo
 decided to change the fonts or the line spacing on me for some reason.
 
 At this time, I do most of my writing in OOo, purely so I have an
 active spell-checker, and I save the files as ASCII text.  Once the
 story is complete, I then go to all the trouble to fight with OOo to
 get the story formatted as I want it.
 
 While your comments about the relative benefits and disadvantages of
 that format are interesting, they're completely unimportant to me
 until you can convince paying editors of their merits.  If you want to
 take up that torch, feel free ... I'm simply trying to find a way to
 adhere to the current market requirements.
 
 His comment about making the content more important than the
  visual appearance is belied by the rest of his suggestions. Typeset
  material is so much easier to read that the content stands by
  itself. His blog entry was visibly irritating for me to read.
 
 Well, if I'm submitting a story to you for publication, I'll remember
 that and format it as you'd like.  However, until you're paying $.10 a
 word or better for fiction, I'll follow the guidelines of the people
 who _are_ paying.  And that page is the best description of those
 guidelines I've found so far.
 
SNIP

It does seem to me that the manuscript format recommended by the web
page is somewhat outdated. Even the author notes that an earlier
version was reprinted in 1998 and he cites a VERY HELPFUL work from
1990. I write fiction and legal textbooks, and I have never had a
publisher call for a manuscript in the form that Shunn recommends.

However, as Rich said, LaTeX is so versatile that you can force it to
make ugly manuscripts.

Alan

 
 -- 
 Bill Moran
 http://www.potentialtech.com
 

Re: Translation problems with AMS

[Dominik Böhm]

On Feb 7, 2008 6:57 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Have a look at this page:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/I18nLabels


Thanks for your quick answer. I had a look and could partly solve my
problem:

Adding

\newtheorem{exa}{Beispiel}
\renewenvironment{example}{\begin{exa}}{\end{exa}}

to my lyx file translated the example lable. But now the numbering doesn't
work as expected. A
\numberwithin{exa}{theorem}/\numberwithin{exa}{section} didn't help...

Maybe you, or someother person, can help me again!

Thanks and best regards
Dominik

Repeating numbered Examples

[Manolo Martínez]

Hello,

I'm writing a paper using numbered examples, with Covington.sty. I would
like to repeat one example later in the text, like this

***
Some text

(1) The first example
(2) The second example

Some more text

(3) The third example
(1) The first example
***

I have found no easy way to do this. Any ideas?

Cheers.
Manolo

Re: Template for standard manuscript format

[Typhoon]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:50:50 -0500
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 In response to Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
SNIP

 
  However, as Rich said, LaTeX is so versatile that you can force it
  to make ugly manuscripts.
 
 I don't know how this is relevant.
 
 To return to the original point of this thread:
 
 I'm looking for something superior to OOo for formatting my
 manuscripts. They are required to be in standard manuscript format
 as described here: http://sfwa.org/writing/vonda/vonda.htm and a
 tankful of other places.
 
 Does anyone know of a pre-existing template so that I can evaluate Lyx
 for this purpose?
 
 At this point I'm guessing that I'll have to learn to make my own
 template.

But Rich suggested that you use the article class with monospaced
fonts. Double spacing can be set in the LyX menus. All that is left is
to adjust the margins. You can do that directly in the LyX menus.

As to the front page requirements, there have been many comments on
this list that the front matter is usually best hand crafted.

If you want to see how the hand crafting of front matter might be done,
have a look at my book Self-publishing with LyX. It's a free download
from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870

The book will also show you how to set headers of the kind that Shunn
suggests.

It seems to me that this will meet all the essential requirements of
Shunn's guidelines.

I still think that it produces an ugly manuscript :-).

Alan

 
 -- 
 Bill Moran
 http://www.potentialtech.com
 

Re: Template for standard manuscript format

[Niklas Huldén]

However, as Rich said, LaTeX is so versatile that you can force it to
make ugly manuscripts.


I don't know how this is relevant.

To return to the original point of this thread:

I'm looking for something superior to OOo for formatting my manuscripts.
They are required to be in standard manuscript format as described
here: http://sfwa.org/writing/vonda/vonda.htm and a tankful of other
places.

Does anyone know of a pre-existing template so that I can evaluate Lyx
for this purpose?

At this point I'm guessing that I'll have to learn to make my own template.



Try Hollywood, you have to install it in latex also though.

regards

N

Re: Printing from LyX on a mac

[jf7]

Quoting John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


On Wednesday 06 February 2008 11:36:47 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi, I've been using LyX for years -- since maybe 1.2 or earlier. I've
always been able to print well-formatted out-put directly from LyX.
But now on 1.5.3 I cannot.

I have dvips defined as the print command in preferences. And it does
print but it cuts off the footer no matter what I do.

I can print from the dvi directly where this is not a problem but then
I can't specify odd or even pages like I can by printing directly from
LyX.

Does anyone know what I missing here that I might be able to recover
my ability to print fully formatted docs in LyX 1.5.3?

thanks,
jamie faunt




Speaking from the depths of my ignorance, I suspect you are trying   
to print A4

pages on letter paper.



Thanks for the reply, John. That's a good guess. But I've got it  
configured for US Letter format on same paper.


jamie



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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

using Latex style/layout in Lyx on Vista environment

[gsenviro]

Hi,
I'm working on a Windows Vista system and am using Lyx 1.5.3. 
Could someone tell me how to install Latex styles (achemso) to lyx?
I have already installed this style in Miktex, but can't use it from inside
Lyx.

Thanks
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Re: vertical spacing between table rows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Adrian Peter schrieb:


I looked at the Embedded Objects manual but it was not clear how I could get
my desired effect of just adjusting the space between consecutive rows.


There is section 2.12.1 that describes two possibilities. There is perhaps another one using the 
command \jot. You can have a look at section 18.1.1 of this manual:

http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/LyXDevelDocumentation/1.5/Math.pdf
I think the method with the command \jot is also possible for tables, but I 
haven't tested that.

regards Uwe

Re: using Latex style/layout in Lyx on Vista environment

[Uwe Stöhr]

gsenviro schrieb:


Could someone tell me how to install Latex styles (achemso) to lyx?


You can either:

- load the package achemso in your document preamble using this line:
  \usepackage[options]{achemso}
  Where options is a comma separated list of the possible options explained in 
the achemso
  documentation. You can also omit the options.

or:

- achemso is a bibliography style, to load it, right-click on the BibTeX inset 
in your document and
  choose achemso as style file, see section 6.5.1 of the LyX User's Guide.

regards Uwe

Translation problems with AMS

[Dominik Böhm]

Hello everybody,

I've got some problems using LyX for my German diploma thesis (ngerman), as
some of the math stuff isn't translated correctly in the pdf export. In LyX
everything works like a charm, when I mark a paragraph as Remark, LyX shows
it to me like Bemerkung x.x, like I expect it. But in the exported pdf
file, this passage has Remark x.x as caption.Other environment s, like
proof, are translated correctly.

I already tried a lot of things: editing the ntheorems.sty, etc., executing
a \renewtheorem{example}{Beispiel}-command, but nothing helped.

I am using the normal article document class, as my professor prefers the
article layout. Those are the first few lines of my preamble, I think it
shouldn't cause any trouble to include the ams stuff like this:

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\usepackage{amssymb}

\usepackage{amsmath} % Mathematische Gleichungen (auch mehrzeilig)

\usepackage{amsfonts}

\usepackage{amsthm}


Hopefully someone can help.

Thanks a lot
Dominik

Re: Translation problems with AMS

[Uwe Stöhr]

Dominik Böhm schrieb:


I've got some problems using LyX for my German diploma thesis (ngerman), as
some of the math stuff isn't translated correctly in the pdf export. In LyX
everything works like a charm, when I mark a paragraph as Remark, LyX shows
it to me like Bemerkung x.x, like I expect it. But in the exported pdf
file, this passage has Remark x.x as caption. Other environments, like
proof, are translated correctly.


Have a look at this page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/I18nLabels

regards Uwe

Harvard style referencing

[Jennifer Brookes]

Hi,

I am having difficulty figuring out how to convert my references to 
alphabetical (Harvard style) in preparation of an article. I have been 
using lyx version 1.4.4, with document class article (REVTeX4), citation 
style natbib (Author-year) and  bibliography style agsm. When I compile 
however, no references appear and there are question marks where I would 
like the references to be. Before I was using natbib (numerical) and 
bibliography style apsrev, which worked fine, can anyone tell me the 
problem?


Many thanks
Jenny

Nomenclature in Table of Contens

[Fritz Bein]

Hi,

my nomenclature appears in the table of contents on the same level as  
Chapter. The other tables (figures, contents) etc. appear as sections.


Entering the following code from the Lyx FAQ:

\def\nompreamble{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\nomname}\markboth{\nomname}{\nomname}

results in a double entry in the TOC: one on chapter level and one on  
section level.


How can I remove the entry on chapter level?

Thanks for your help!
Fritz

Re: Template for standard manuscript format

[Bill Moran]

In response to Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
 
  Anyone know of a template for standard manuscript format ... as
  described here, for example: http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html
 
I don't know where he gets his ideas, but if you want to emulate that, use
 the article class with a monospaced typeface as the default. I submit
 typeset articles in pdf to journal editors, and only the most retrogressive
 ask that I put them into M$ Word format.

I'm not interested in M$ Word.  Most of the markets that are worth
submitting to want submissions sent by mail anyway, so the electronic
format is unimportant.

What _is_ important is that I can focus on my story while I'm writing it,
and not worry about whether my headers are correct, or whether OOo
decided to change the fonts or the line spacing on me for some reason.

At this time, I do most of my writing in OOo, purely so I have an active
spell-checker, and I save the files as ASCII text.  Once the story is
complete, I then go to all the trouble to fight with OOo to get the
story formatted as I want it.

While your comments about the relative benefits and disadvantages of
that format are interesting, they're completely unimportant to me
until you can convince paying editors of their merits.  If you want to
take up that torch, feel free ... I'm simply trying to find a way to
adhere to the current market requirements.

His comment about making the content more important than the visual
 appearance is belied by the rest of his suggestions. Typeset material is so
 much easier to read that the content stands by itself. His blog entry was
 visibly irritating for me to read.

Well, if I'm submitting a story to you for publication, I'll remember
that and format it as you'd like.  However, until you're paying $.10 a
word or better for fiction, I'll follow the guidelines of the people who
_are_ paying.  And that page is the best description of those guidelines
I've found so far.

Heck, use OO.o if that's the appearance you want. Don't use a typesetting
 application to make a document look non-typeset.

OOo sucks for this kind of thing.  I, and other writers I know have been
looking for a superior writing tool for quite some time, and I honestly
believe that Lyx could be it.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Template for standard manuscript format

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Bill Moran wrote:


Anyone know of a template for standard manuscript format ... as
described here, for example: http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html


  I don't know where he gets his ideas, but if you want to emulate that, use
the article class with a monospaced typeface as the default. I submit
typeset articles in pdf to journal editors, and only the most retrogressive
ask that I put them into M$ Word format.

  His comment about making the content more important than the visual
appearance is belied by the rest of his suggestions. Typeset material is so
much easier to read that the content stands by itself. His blog entry was
visibly irritating for me to read.

  Heck, use OO.o if that's the appearance you want. Don't use a typesetting
application to make a document look non-typeset.

Rich

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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: EuropeCV

[Tomas Pavlik]

Hello Liviu,
I didn't run the tools  reconfigure in LyX and that was what I  
missed...it worked :) Thank you for helping me.


Pablo

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:48:00 +0100, Liviu Andronic  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



Hello Tomas,

On 2/7/08, Tomas Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hello,
I'm using the 1.5.3 windows version of LyX and I can't get the
europeCV.lyx get running. When I try to open it, it says
The layout file requested by this document,
europecv.layout,
is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX
class or style file required by it is not
available. See the Customization documentation
for more information.


This would mean that the LaTeX class is not installed.


I have downloaded and installed europecv package for miktex 2.6 but it
didn't help.
Anyone can help me with this please?


To install the class, exactly what steps did you perform? Did you run,
from within LyX, Tools  Reconfigure?

Liviu

EuropeCV

[Tomas Pavlik]

Hello,
I'm using the 1.5.3 windows version of LyX and I can't get the  
europeCV.lyx get running. When I try to open it, it says

The layout file requested by this document,
europecv.layout,
is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX
class or style file required by it is not
available. See the Customization documentation
for more information.

I have downloaded and installed europecv package for miktex 2.6 but it  
didn't help.

Anyone can help me with this please?

Pablo

Template for standard manuscript format

[Bill Moran]

Anyone know of a template for standard manuscript format ... as
described here, for example:
http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Printing from LyX on a mac

[John Culleton]

On Wednesday 06 February 2008 11:36:47 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi, I've been using LyX for years -- since maybe 1.2 or earlier. I've
 always been able to print well-formatted out-put directly from LyX.
 But now on 1.5.3 I cannot.

 I have dvips defined as the print command in preferences. And it does
 print but it cuts off the footer no matter what I do.

 I can print from the dvi directly where this is not a problem but then
 I can't specify odd or even pages like I can by printing directly from
 LyX.

 Does anyone know what I missing here that I might be able to recover
 my ability to print fully formatted docs in LyX 1.5.3?

 thanks,
 jamie faunt



 __
 D O T E A S Y - Join the web hosting revolution!
  http://www.doteasy.com

Speaking from the depths of my ignorance, I suspect you are trying to print A4 
pages on letter paper. 

-- 
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

Problems with picture position.

[Gregor Skrt]

I'm writing my thesis in Lyx. It's a great for long texts. First thanks 
to all developers of Lxy !


I have one question concerning picture floats. I have a picture that's 
quite long and doesn't fit between borders very well. It seems like Lyx 
is obeying borders that I've set in document settings and ads some free 
space between border and picture on left side. Is there a way to use 
that free space too ?


I'm using article class.

Thanks for your help !

Re: Template for standard manuscript format

[Bill Moran]

In response to Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:28:25 -0500
 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

SNIP

 SNIP
 
 It does seem to me that the manuscript format recommended by the web
 page is somewhat outdated. Even the author notes that an earlier
 version was reprinted in 1998 and he cites a VERY HELPFUL work from
 1990.

How is that relevant?  They haven't updated their payscale since 1950,
so the fact that the format is dated by at least 20 years is hardly
a surprise to me.  Or something I care about in the least.

 I write fiction and legal textbooks, and I have never had a
 publisher call for a manuscript in the form that Shunn recommends.

Your legal textbooks are of no interest to me, as I've noticed that
different markets have different rules.  So, while you may have completely
different requirements for submitting legal documents, it simply doesn't
matter to anyone submitting fiction stories.

As to people who request documents in standard manuscript format,
how about Fantasy  Science Fiction magazine, probably the most prestigious
market in the scifi genre:
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/glines.htm
Their guidelines point to an article on SFWA's web site, which basically
mirrors the guidelines I mentioned earlier:
http://sfwa.org/writing/vonda/vonda.htm

What fiction markets have you submitted to and what are their guidelines?

 However, as Rich said, LaTeX is so versatile that you can force it to
 make ugly manuscripts.

I don't know how this is relevant.

To return to the original point of this thread:

I'm looking for something superior to OOo for formatting my manuscripts.
They are required to be in standard manuscript format as described
here: http://sfwa.org/writing/vonda/vonda.htm and a tankful of other
places.

Does anyone know of a pre-existing template so that I can evaluate Lyx
for this purpose?

At this point I'm guessing that I'll have to learn to make my own template.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Template for standard manuscript format

[Typhoon]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:28:25 -0500
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 In response to Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
  On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
  
   Anyone know of a template for standard manuscript format ... as
   described here, for example:
   http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html
  
 I don't know where he gets his ideas, but if you want to emulate
  that, use the article class with a monospaced typeface as the
  default. I submit typeset articles in pdf to journal editors, and
  only the most retrogressive ask that I put them into M$ Word format.
 
 I'm not interested in M$ Word.  Most of the markets that are worth
 submitting to want submissions sent by mail anyway, so the electronic
 format is unimportant.
 
 What _is_ important is that I can focus on my story while I'm writing
 it, and not worry about whether my headers are correct, or whether OOo
 decided to change the fonts or the line spacing on me for some reason.
 
 At this time, I do most of my writing in OOo, purely so I have an
 active spell-checker, and I save the files as ASCII text.  Once the
 story is complete, I then go to all the trouble to fight with OOo to
 get the story formatted as I want it.
 
 While your comments about the relative benefits and disadvantages of
 that format are interesting, they're completely unimportant to me
 until you can convince paying editors of their merits.  If you want to
 take up that torch, feel free ... I'm simply trying to find a way to
 adhere to the current market requirements.
 
 His comment about making the content more important than the
  visual appearance is belied by the rest of his suggestions. Typeset
  material is so much easier to read that the content stands by
  itself. His blog entry was visibly irritating for me to read.
 
 Well, if I'm submitting a story to you for publication, I'll remember
 that and format it as you'd like.  However, until you're paying $.10 a
 word or better for fiction, I'll follow the guidelines of the people
 who _are_ paying.  And that page is the best description of those
 guidelines I've found so far.
 
SNIP

It does seem to me that the manuscript format recommended by the web
page is somewhat outdated. Even the author notes that an earlier
version was reprinted in 1998 and he cites a VERY HELPFUL work from
1990. I write fiction and legal textbooks, and I have never had a
publisher call for a manuscript in the form that Shunn recommends.

However, as Rich said, LaTeX is so versatile that you can force it to
make ugly manuscripts.

Alan

 
 -- 
 Bill Moran
 http://www.potentialtech.com
 

Re: Translation problems with AMS

[Dominik Böhm]

On Feb 7, 2008 6:57 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Have a look at this page:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/I18nLabels


Thanks for your quick answer. I had a look and could partly solve my
problem:

Adding

\newtheorem{exa}{Beispiel}
\renewenvironment{example}{\begin{exa}}{\end{exa}}

to my lyx file translated the example lable. But now the numbering doesn't
work as expected. A
\numberwithin{exa}{theorem}/\numberwithin{exa}{section} didn't help...

Maybe you, or someother person, can help me again!

Thanks and best regards
Dominik

Repeating numbered Examples

[Manolo Martínez]

Hello,

I'm writing a paper using numbered examples, with Covington.sty. I would
like to repeat one example later in the text, like this

***
Some text

(1) The first example
(2) The second example

Some more text

(3) The third example
(1) The first example
***

I have found no easy way to do this. Any ideas?

Cheers.
Manolo

Re: Template for standard manuscript format

[Typhoon]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:50:50 -0500
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 In response to Typhoon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
SNIP

 
  However, as Rich said, LaTeX is so versatile that you can force it
  to make ugly manuscripts.
 
 I don't know how this is relevant.
 
 To return to the original point of this thread:
 
 I'm looking for something superior to OOo for formatting my
 manuscripts. They are required to be in standard manuscript format
 as described here: http://sfwa.org/writing/vonda/vonda.htm and a
 tankful of other places.
 
 Does anyone know of a pre-existing template so that I can evaluate Lyx
 for this purpose?
 
 At this point I'm guessing that I'll have to learn to make my own
 template.

But Rich suggested that you use the article class with monospaced
fonts. Double spacing can be set in the LyX menus. All that is left is
to adjust the margins. You can do that directly in the LyX menus.

As to the front page requirements, there have been many comments on
this list that the front matter is usually best hand crafted.

If you want to see how the hand crafting of front matter might be done,
have a look at my book Self-publishing with LyX. It's a free download
from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870

The book will also show you how to set headers of the kind that Shunn
suggests.

It seems to me that this will meet all the essential requirements of
Shunn's guidelines.

I still think that it produces an ugly manuscript :-).

Alan

 
 -- 
 Bill Moran
 http://www.potentialtech.com
 

Re: Template for standard manuscript format

[Niklas Huldén]

However, as Rich said, LaTeX is so versatile that you can force it to
make ugly manuscripts.


I don't know how this is relevant.

To return to the original point of this thread:

I'm looking for something superior to OOo for formatting my manuscripts.
They are required to be in standard manuscript format as described
here: http://sfwa.org/writing/vonda/vonda.htm and a tankful of other
places.

Does anyone know of a pre-existing template so that I can evaluate Lyx
for this purpose?

At this point I'm guessing that I'll have to learn to make my own template.



Try Hollywood, you have to install it in latex also though.

regards

N

Re: Printing from LyX on a mac

[jf7]

Quoting John Culleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:


On Wednesday 06 February 2008 11:36:47 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi, I've been using LyX for years -- since maybe 1.2 or earlier. I've
always been able to print well-formatted out-put directly from LyX.
But now on 1.5.3 I cannot.

I have dvips defined as the print command in preferences. And it does
print but it cuts off the footer no matter what I do.

I can print from the dvi directly where this is not a problem but then
I can't specify odd or even pages like I can by printing directly from
LyX.

Does anyone know what I missing here that I might be able to recover
my ability to print fully formatted docs in LyX 1.5.3?

thanks,
jamie faunt




Speaking from the depths of my ignorance, I suspect you are trying   
to print A4

pages on letter paper.



Thanks for the reply, John. That's a good guess. But I've got it  
configured for US Letter format on same paper.


jamie



--
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

using Latex style/layout in Lyx on Vista environment

[gsenviro]

Hi,
I'm working on a Windows Vista system and am using Lyx 1.5.3. 
Could someone tell me how to install Latex styles (achemso) to lyx?
I have already installed this style in Miktex, but can't use it from inside
Lyx.

Thanks
-- 
View this message in context: 
http://www.nabble.com/using-Latex-style-layout-in-Lyx-on-Vista-environment-tp15329566p15329566.html
Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: vertical spacing between table rows

[Uwe Stöhr]

Adrian Peter schrieb:


I looked at the Embedded Objects manual but it was not clear how I could get
my desired effect of just adjusting the space between consecutive rows.


There is section 2.12.1 that describes two possibilities. There is perhaps another one using the 
command \jot. You can have a look at section 18.1.1 of this manual:

http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/LyXDevelDocumentation/1.5/Math.pdf
I think the method with the command \jot is also possible for tables, but I 
haven't tested that.

regards Uwe

Re: using Latex style/layout in Lyx on Vista environment

[Uwe Stöhr]

gsenviro schrieb:


Could someone tell me how to install Latex styles (achemso) to lyx?


You can either:

- load the package achemso in your document preamble using this line:
  \usepackage[options]{achemso}
  Where options is a comma separated list of the possible options explained in 
the achemso
  documentation. You can also omit the options.

or:

- achemso is a bibliography style, to load it, right-click on the BibTeX inset 
in your document and
  choose achemso as style file, see section 6.5.1 of the LyX User's Guide.

regards Uwe

Translation problems with AMS

[Dominik Böhm]

Hello everybody,

I've got some problems using LyX for my German diploma thesis (ngerman), as
some of the math stuff isn't translated correctly in the pdf export. In LyX
everything works like a charm, when I mark a paragraph as Remark, LyX shows
it to me like "Bemerkung x.x", like I expect it. But in the exported pdf
file, this passage has "Remark x.x" as caption.Other environment s, like
"proof", are translated correctly.

I already tried a lot of things: editing the ntheorems.sty, etc., executing
a "\renewtheorem{example}{Beispiel}"-command, but nothing helped.

I am using the normal article document class, as my professor prefers the
article layout. Those are the first few lines of my preamble, I think it
shouldn't cause any trouble to include the ams stuff like this:

\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}

\usepackage{amssymb}

\usepackage{amsmath} % Mathematische Gleichungen (auch mehrzeilig)

\usepackage{amsfonts}

\usepackage{amsthm}


Hopefully someone can help.

Thanks a lot
Dominik

Re: Translation problems with AMS

[Uwe Stöhr]

Dominik Böhm schrieb:


I've got some problems using LyX for my German diploma thesis (ngerman), as
some of the math stuff isn't translated correctly in the pdf export. In LyX
everything works like a charm, when I mark a paragraph as Remark, LyX shows
it to me like "Bemerkung x.x", like I expect it. But in the exported pdf
file, this passage has "Remark x.x" as caption. Other environments, like
"proof", are translated correctly.


Have a look at this page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/I18nLabels

regards Uwe

Harvard style referencing

[Jennifer Brookes]

Hi,

I am having difficulty figuring out how to convert my references to 
alphabetical (Harvard style) in preparation of an article. I have been 
using lyx version 1.4.4, with document class article (REVTeX4), citation 
style natbib (Author-year) and  bibliography style agsm. When I compile 
however, no references appear and there are question marks where I would 
like the references to be. Before I was using natbib (numerical) and 
bibliography style apsrev, which worked fine, can anyone tell me the 
problem?


Many thanks
Jenny

Nomenclature in Table of Contens

[Fritz Bein]

Hi,

my nomenclature appears in the table of contents on the same level as  
"Chapter". The other tables (figures, contents) etc. appear as sections.


Entering the following code from the Lyx FAQ:

\def\nompreamble{\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\nomname}\markboth{\nomname}{\nomname}

results in a double entry in the TOC: one on chapter level and one on  
section level.


How can I remove the entry on chapter level?

Thanks for your help!
Fritz

Re: Template for "standard manuscript format"

[Bill Moran]

In response to Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know of a template for "standard manuscript format" ... as
> > described here, for example: http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html
> 
>I don't know where he gets his ideas, but if you want to emulate that, use
> the article class with a monospaced typeface as the default. I submit
> typeset articles in pdf to journal editors, and only the most retrogressive
> ask that I put them into M$ Word format.

I'm not interested in M$ Word.  Most of the markets that are worth
submitting to want submissions sent by mail anyway, so the electronic
format is unimportant.

What _is_ important is that I can focus on my story while I'm writing it,
and not worry about whether my headers are correct, or whether OOo
decided to change the fonts or the line spacing on me for some reason.

At this time, I do most of my writing in OOo, purely so I have an active
spell-checker, and I save the files as ASCII text.  Once the story is
complete, I then go to all the trouble to fight with OOo to get the
story formatted as I want it.

While your comments about the relative benefits and disadvantages of
that format are "interesting", they're completely unimportant to me
until you can convince paying editors of their merits.  If you want to
take up that torch, feel free ... I'm simply trying to find a way to
adhere to the current market requirements.

>His comment about making the content more important than the visual
> appearance is belied by the rest of his suggestions. Typeset material is so
> much easier to read that the content stands by itself. His blog entry was
> visibly irritating for me to read.

Well, if I'm submitting a story to you for publication, I'll remember
that and format it as you'd like.  However, until you're paying $.10 a
word or better for fiction, I'll follow the guidelines of the people who
_are_ paying.  And that page is the best description of those guidelines
I've found so far.

>Heck, use OO.o if that's the appearance you want. Don't use a typesetting
> application to make a document look non-typeset.

OOo sucks for this kind of thing.  I, and other writers I know have been
looking for a superior writing tool for quite some time, and I honestly
believe that Lyx could be it.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Template for "standard manuscript format"

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Bill Moran wrote:


Anyone know of a template for "standard manuscript format" ... as
described here, for example: http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html


  I don't know where he gets his ideas, but if you want to emulate that, use
the article class with a monospaced typeface as the default. I submit
typeset articles in pdf to journal editors, and only the most retrogressive
ask that I put them into M$ Word format.

  His comment about making the content more important than the visual
appearance is belied by the rest of his suggestions. Typeset material is so
much easier to read that the content stands by itself. His blog entry was
visibly irritating for me to read.

  Heck, use OO.o if that's the appearance you want. Don't use a typesetting
application to make a document look non-typeset.

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: EuropeCV

[Tomas Pavlik]

Hello Liviu,
I didn't run the tools > reconfigure in LyX and that was what I  
missed...it worked :) Thank you for helping me.


Pablo

On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:48:00 +0100, Liviu Andronic  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



Hello Tomas,

On 2/7/08, Tomas Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hello,
I'm using the 1.5.3 windows version of LyX and I can't get the
europeCV.lyx get running. When I try to open it, it says>
"The layout file requested by this document,
europecv.layout,
is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX
class or style file required by it is not
available. See the Customization documentation
for more information."


This would mean that the LaTeX class is not installed.


I have downloaded and installed europecv package for miktex 2.6 but it
didn't help.
Anyone can help me with this please?


To install the class, exactly what steps did you perform? Did you run,
from within LyX, Tools > Reconfigure?

Liviu

EuropeCV

[Tomas Pavlik]

Hello,
I'm using the 1.5.3 windows version of LyX and I can't get the  
europeCV.lyx get running. When I try to open it, it says>

"The layout file requested by this document,
europecv.layout,
is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX
class or style file required by it is not
available. See the Customization documentation
for more information."

I have downloaded and installed europecv package for miktex 2.6 but it  
didn't help.

Anyone can help me with this please?

Pablo

Template for "standard manuscript format"

[Bill Moran]

Anyone know of a template for "standard manuscript format" ... as
described here, for example:
http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Printing from LyX on a mac

[John Culleton]

On Wednesday 06 February 2008 11:36:47 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I've been using LyX for years -- since maybe 1.2 or earlier. I've
> always been able to print well-formatted out-put directly from LyX.
> But now on 1.5.3 I cannot.
>
> I have dvips defined as the print command in preferences. And it does
> print but it cuts off the footer no matter what I do.
>
> I can print from the dvi directly where this is not a problem but then
> I can't specify odd or even pages like I can by printing directly from
> LyX.
>
> Does anyone know what I missing here that I might be able to recover
> my ability to print fully formatted docs in LyX 1.5.3?
>
> thanks,
> jamie faunt
>
>
>
> __
> D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!"
>  http://www.doteasy.com

Speaking from the depths of my ignorance, I suspect you are trying to print A4 
pages on letter paper. 

-- 
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

Problems with picture position.

[Gregor Skrt]

I'm writing my thesis in Lyx. It's a great for long texts. First thanks 
to all developers of Lxy !


I have one question concerning picture floats. I have a picture that's 
quite long and doesn't fit between borders very well. It seems like Lyx 
is obeying borders that I've set in document settings and ads some free 
space between border and picture on left side. Is there a way to use 
that free space too ?


I'm using article class.

Thanks for your help !

Re: Template for "standard manuscript format"

[Bill Moran]

In response to Typhoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:28:25 -0500
> Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



> 
> 
> It does seem to me that the manuscript format recommended by the web
> page is somewhat outdated. Even the author notes that an earlier
> version was "reprinted" in 1998 and he cites a "VERY HELPFUL" work from
> 1990.

How is that relevant?  They haven't updated their payscale since 1950,
so the fact that the format is dated by at least 20 years is hardly
a surprise to me.  Or something I care about in the least.

> I write fiction and legal textbooks, and I have never had a
> publisher call for a manuscript in the form that Shunn recommends.

Your legal textbooks are of no interest to me, as I've noticed that
different markets have different rules.  So, while you may have completely
different requirements for submitting legal documents, it simply doesn't
matter to anyone submitting fiction stories.

As to people who request documents in "standard manuscript format",
how about Fantasy & Science Fiction magazine, probably the most prestigious
market in the scifi genre:
http://www.sfsite.com/fsf/glines.htm
Their guidelines point to an article on SFWA's web site, which basically
mirrors the guidelines I mentioned earlier:
http://sfwa.org/writing/vonda/vonda.htm

What fiction markets have you submitted to and what are their guidelines?

> However, as Rich said, LaTeX is so versatile that you can force it to
> make ugly manuscripts.

I don't know how this is relevant.

To return to the original point of this thread:

I'm looking for something superior to OOo for formatting my manuscripts.
They are required to be in "standard manuscript format" as described
here: http://sfwa.org/writing/vonda/vonda.htm and a tankful of other
places.

Does anyone know of a pre-existing template so that I can evaluate Lyx
for this purpose?

At this point I'm guessing that I'll have to learn to make my own template.

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com

Re: Template for "standard manuscript format"

[Typhoon]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:28:25 -0500
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In response to Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Bill Moran wrote:
> > 
> > > Anyone know of a template for "standard manuscript format" ... as
> > > described here, for example:
> > > http://www.shunn.net/format/story.html
> > 
> >I don't know where he gets his ideas, but if you want to emulate
> > that, use the article class with a monospaced typeface as the
> > default. I submit typeset articles in pdf to journal editors, and
> > only the most retrogressive ask that I put them into M$ Word format.
> 
> I'm not interested in M$ Word.  Most of the markets that are worth
> submitting to want submissions sent by mail anyway, so the electronic
> format is unimportant.
> 
> What _is_ important is that I can focus on my story while I'm writing
> it, and not worry about whether my headers are correct, or whether OOo
> decided to change the fonts or the line spacing on me for some reason.
> 
> At this time, I do most of my writing in OOo, purely so I have an
> active spell-checker, and I save the files as ASCII text.  Once the
> story is complete, I then go to all the trouble to fight with OOo to
> get the story formatted as I want it.
> 
> While your comments about the relative benefits and disadvantages of
> that format are "interesting", they're completely unimportant to me
> until you can convince paying editors of their merits.  If you want to
> take up that torch, feel free ... I'm simply trying to find a way to
> adhere to the current market requirements.
> 
> >His comment about making the content more important than the
> > visual appearance is belied by the rest of his suggestions. Typeset
> > material is so much easier to read that the content stands by
> > itself. His blog entry was visibly irritating for me to read.
> 
> Well, if I'm submitting a story to you for publication, I'll remember
> that and format it as you'd like.  However, until you're paying $.10 a
> word or better for fiction, I'll follow the guidelines of the people
> who _are_ paying.  And that page is the best description of those
> guidelines I've found so far.
> 


It does seem to me that the manuscript format recommended by the web
page is somewhat outdated. Even the author notes that an earlier
version was "reprinted" in 1998 and he cites a "VERY HELPFUL" work from
1990. I write fiction and legal textbooks, and I have never had a
publisher call for a manuscript in the form that Shunn recommends.

However, as Rich said, LaTeX is so versatile that you can force it to
make ugly manuscripts.

Alan

> 
> -- 
> Bill Moran
> http://www.potentialtech.com
> 

Re: Translation problems with AMS

[Dominik Böhm]

On Feb 7, 2008 6:57 PM, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Have a look at this page:
> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/I18nLabels
>

Thanks for your quick answer. I had a look and could partly solve my
problem:

Adding

\newtheorem{exa}{Beispiel}
\renewenvironment{example}{\begin{exa}}{\end{exa}}

to my lyx file translated the example lable. But now the numbering doesn't
work as expected. A
"\numberwithin{exa}{theorem}"/"\numberwithin{exa}{section}" didn't help...

Maybe you, or someother person, can help me again!

Thanks and best regards
Dominik

Repeating numbered Examples

[Manolo Martínez]

Hello,

I'm writing a paper using numbered examples, with Covington.sty. I would
like to repeat one example later in the text, like this

***
Some text

(1) The first example
(2) The second example

Some more text

(3) The third example
(1) The first example
***

I have found no easy way to do this. Any ideas?

Cheers.
Manolo

Re: Template for "standard manuscript format"

[Typhoon]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:50:50 -0500
Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> In response to Typhoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 


> 
> > However, as Rich said, LaTeX is so versatile that you can force it
> > to make ugly manuscripts.
> 
> I don't know how this is relevant.
> 
> To return to the original point of this thread:
> 
> I'm looking for something superior to OOo for formatting my
> manuscripts. They are required to be in "standard manuscript format"
> as described here: http://sfwa.org/writing/vonda/vonda.htm and a
> tankful of other places.
> 
> Does anyone know of a pre-existing template so that I can evaluate Lyx
> for this purpose?
> 
> At this point I'm guessing that I'll have to learn to make my own
> template.

But Rich suggested that you use the article class with monospaced
fonts. Double spacing can be set in the LyX menus. All that is left is
to adjust the margins. You can do that directly in the LyX menus.

As to the front page requirements, there have been many comments on
this list that the front matter is usually best hand crafted.

If you want to see how the hand crafting of front matter might be done,
have a look at my book "Self-publishing with LyX". It's a free download
from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870

The book will also show you how to set headers of the kind that Shunn
suggests.

It seems to me that this will meet all the essential requirements of
Shunn's guidelines.

I still think that it produces an ugly manuscript :-).

Alan

> 
> -- 
> Bill Moran
> http://www.potentialtech.com
> 

Re: Template for "standard manuscript format"

[Niklas Huldén]

However, as Rich said, LaTeX is so versatile that you can force it to
make ugly manuscripts.


I don't know how this is relevant.

To return to the original point of this thread:

I'm looking for something superior to OOo for formatting my manuscripts.
They are required to be in "standard manuscript format" as described
here: http://sfwa.org/writing/vonda/vonda.htm and a tankful of other
places.

Does anyone know of a pre-existing template so that I can evaluate Lyx
for this purpose?

At this point I'm guessing that I'll have to learn to make my own template.



Try Hollywood, you have to install it in latex also though.

regards

N

Re: Printing from LyX on a mac

[jf7]

Quoting John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:


On Wednesday 06 February 2008 11:36:47 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi, I've been using LyX for years -- since maybe 1.2 or earlier. I've
always been able to print well-formatted out-put directly from LyX.
But now on 1.5.3 I cannot.

I have dvips defined as the print command in preferences. And it does
print but it cuts off the footer no matter what I do.

I can print from the dvi directly where this is not a problem but then
I can't specify odd or even pages like I can by printing directly from
LyX.

Does anyone know what I missing here that I might be able to recover
my ability to print fully formatted docs in LyX 1.5.3?

thanks,
jamie faunt




Speaking from the depths of my ignorance, I suspect you are trying   
to print A4

pages on letter paper.



Thanks for the reply, John. That's a good guess. But I've got it  
configured for US Letter format on same paper.


jamie



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