Re: Best font for printed output
Hi, all LaTeX-Fonts are designed to be well suited for printed output. However, they differ and when you search on LaTeX-Fonts on the internet, you will even find people complaining about the way too bad LaTeX-Fonts. Those people claim to be typographers and I do not know if they are right or wrong, but the examples given seem more or less logic to me. So, I recommend using a font that you like. Write a page or two of text and print it several times with a different font each time. I tried that once and did not find big differences between them – again, I am not a typographer or any kind of designer, just interested in it. This way I began using the Times font in LaTeX, which I liked best (I do not like the standard font at all). And then there is XeTeX, which enables you to use any font of your OS in LaTeX. There are tipps on the wiki how to use it in LyX. XeTeX is well suited for writing in many different languages at once and other fun stuff all around typographic details. I like to use Hoefler Text via XeTeX in LyX, as it is a beautiful font and very well equipped – what many fonts out there are not. Even LaTeX-fonts do not seem to be always full-featured. However, many packages, especially around mathematical stuff, do not (yet) work with XeTeX, so you should check your essential needs before thinking about XeTeX. To me as a humanities student it is absolutely the best and nicest way of using LaTeX. Regards, Max ___ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for details.
Re: Fwd: No information for converting gif format to png
Yes, I have.Moreover, to be sure, I reinstalled ImageMagick, but the problem continues to be present. gs 2008/3/8, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: gabriele spina wrote: I'm a new user of the Mac version of Lyx for Mac and I have a problem to pose. I installed Lxy 1.5.4 in two G4 computers under MacOSX 10.4.11 The program installed into une of them correctly processes my .lyx file. However, if I try to use the Update PDF(pdflatex) command of Lyx installed in the second computer, I obtain the following error message: No information for converting gif format to png. Define a converter in the preferences. Of coarse the .lyx file is the same and uses a .gif file. I'm probably posing a banal question, but the definitions for the converters in the preference panes are identical for both installations, and moreover I use the same MacTex distribution. Do you have any idea? Gabriele Spina P.S. I also noted that the second installation of Lyx cannot process the UserGuide file. Here, Lyx has no information concerning the conversion from xpm to the png format. Of coarse the program installed into the first computer generates the UserGuide.pdf file. Do you have ImageMagick installed on the balky Mac? /Paul
Re: Missing pages in DVI or PDF files [SOLVED]
sara teinturier wrote: Hello Lyxers! A problem appeared whereas it worked well just a moment before: when I want to export my lyx file to dvi or pdf format, the document stops page 7 - but there are more! It should be a problem with my preamble or something, but I don't know what I have to do to resolve it: nothing seems strange... Just for archival purposes, this turned out to be a LyX comment inside emphasized text, which LaTeX will not permit. /Paul
Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution
William R. Buckley schrieb: What is less clear is the use of texhash, as it is not part of the LyX distribution. You don't need to use this cind of command line commands. The best and easiest way of getting a full featured LyX/LaTeX system on WIndows is to reinstall your current LaTeX distribution and LyX. Then reinstall LyX using the complete variant of this installer while you have an open internet connection: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller LyX will install all needed packages to MiKTeX, also LNCS. Try it out and post when it doesn't work for you. regards Uwe
Re: Define a converter in the preferences
On Mar 8, 2008, at 9:31 AM, spn.grl wrote: Thanks Bennett, I'm using the MacTeX-20071201 package that includes ImageMagick. Anyway, using i-Installer, I updated the ImageMagick package and reconfigured Lyx. Unfortunately the problem remains. Do you have any other suggestion? Try to move aside your preferences file -- located at ~/Library/ Application Support/LyX-1.5/preferences. Then restart LyX and see if it works. If not, I'm out of ideas. Bennett
Re: Define a converter in the preferences
Hi Bennett, I cant find, inside the folder you suggested, the preferences file as shown by the ls -R output Is it usual? Gs Last login: Sun Mar 9 19:32:01 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! iMac:~ gabriele$ cd /Users/gabriele/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.5/ iMac:~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5 gabriele$ ls -R binddoc layouts session cache exampleslyxrc.defaults templates clipart images packages.lsttextclass.lst configure.log kbd scripts ui ./bind: ./cache: index ./clipart: ./doc: LaTeXConfig.lyx ./examples: ./images: ./kbd: ./layouts: ./scripts: ./templates: default ./templates/default: IEEEtran.lyxg-brief-en.lyx README.new_templatesg-brief2.lyx aa.lyx hollywood.lyx aastex.lyx ijmpc.lyx agu_article.lyx ijmpd.lyx apa.lyx iop-article.lyx beamer-conference-ornate-20min.lyx kluwer.lyx de_beamer-conference-ornate-20min.lyx koma-letter2.lyx dinbrief.lyxlatex8.lyx docbook_article.lyx letter.lyx elsart.lyx revtex.lyx fr_beamer-conference-ornate-20min.lyx revtex4.lyx g-brief-de.lyx slides.lyx ./ui: iMac:~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5 gabriele$ 2008/3/9, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try to move aside your preferences file -- located at ~/Library/ Application Support/LyX-1.5/preferences. Then restart LyX and see if it works. If not, I'm out of ideas. Bennett
Re: Fwd: No information for converting gif format to png
spn.grl wrote: Yes, I have.Moreover, to be sure, I reinstalled ImageMagick, but the problem continues to be present. Does ImageMagick's path show up either on your system command path (in which case you should be able to run 'convert --version' in a terminal) or else on LyX's path prefix (Tools - Preferences - Paths - PATH prefix)? I'm a Windows user, but here at least there are no explicitly declared GIF - PNG or XPM - PNG converters. For undeclared graphics format conversions, the default is to use ImageMagick's convert utility. So I'm guessing that is failing on your second machine, and looking for a possible reason why. /Paul
Safety from data reorganization?
Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. Shame on me, my last backup was 5 days old. But still, it would have been nice for LyX to say hey, your layout file just became bad. Do you REALLY want me to revert your document class to article, or would you like to save as (the broken) whatever document class so you can fix the problem without losing content? Pardon me while I reorganize my latest book version with guidance from the structure of the 5 day old backup... SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Sunday 09 March 2008 15:35, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. I reenstated all the chapters, which had been converted to body text. It appears like none of my custom character styles were zapped, but my custom environments were, so I'll need to figure out how to find them all, and reenstate them to the custom styles instead of the reverted body text. Once again, if there's a way to warn the user that their custom environments will be reverted, and give them the opportunity to save before reversions. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Sunday 09 March 2008 16:09, Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2008 15:35, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. I reenstated all the chapters, which had been converted to body text. It appears like none of my custom character styles were zapped, but my custom environments were, so I'll need to figure out how to find them all, and reenstate them to the custom styles instead of the reverted body text. Once again, if there's a way to warn the user that their custom environments will be reverted, and give them the opportunity to save before reversions. First of all, do as I say, not as I do. Back up several times per day :-) If you ever need to did yourself out of one of these environment reversions, and if you have a reasonably recent version that has not experienced environment reversion, you can find all environments used in the old document like this: grep begin_layout mybook_old.lyx | sort -u The preceding gives a list of all environments used in the old document. Remove all article-provided environments -- those did not revert, presumably. What you're left with is environments that reverted. Now, in a read only text editor, search the old document for each of those environments, and obtain some suitable search text with which to look for the same text in the new (but reverted) version. Apply the proper environment in the new one. The preceding is the fastest recovery you can make, but it's ugly. The way out of this is to back up several times per day. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Latex template on 1.5.4
Phillip Ferguson wrote: It has now boiled down to a layout file. At this point in time there is a document class unavailable to use. I have the orginal spconf.sty, and the layout file which is a derivative of the article class. What I needs is the spconf package, where can I get it? Like Bob, I got a bit lost here. Assuming you are just going to use this package to submit to this one conference (and not use it on a regular basis), you really don't need a layout file at all. Since I'm not sure what you've done to date, I'll rewind to the beginning and show one way to get it in production. 1. Open the MiKTeX Settings application, click on the Roots tab, and find the path to the directory described as UserConfig. If you left-click it and hover over it, you'll see the full path. Leave this application open, you'll need it again. 2. Find that directory in Windows Explorer and drill down to UserConfig\tex\latex (which should already be there). Unzip fpl08.zip there, which should create a subfolder named fpl08. 3. Return to the MiKTeX Settings application, click on the General tab, and click Refresh FNDB. Sit back and watch your hard drive spin. When that's done, you can click either Ok or Cancel and exit the application. 4. [Optional] You might want to create a shortcut someplace to the UserConfig\tex\latex\fpl08 folder. Alternatively, you might want to copy the two .bib files and .eps file to a more convenient folder (i.e., one buried less deeply in the rubble). 5. Paste the attached LyX file into whatever directory has the .eps and .bib files. This is basically the sample proceedings document (which contains formatting instructions) converted to LyX. I put in the bare minimum formatting (page size, margins, Times Roman 10 pt. as the base font), but you may need to do more fiddling to pacify the conference gods. Also, I trimmed out some of the less informative comments and put the others in bright yellow LyX Notes. The author, affiliation and acknowledgment stuff is in the preamble (Document - Settings... - LaTeX Preamble), which you'll need to edit in your own documents unless you want someone else to take the blame. :-) 6. Open fpl08.lyx in LyX either by double-clicking the file icon or using File - Open. Try View - DVI to make sure things work correctly. 7. To create a new proceedings, just do File - Save As to create a new copy (with a different name, obviously), and then hack out the current contents and insert your own. (You can open the original with File - New from Template as an insurance policy against overwriting it.) Hope this helps, Paul fpl08.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Define a converter in the preferences
On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:39 PM, spn.grl wrote: I cant find, inside the folder you suggested, the preferences file as shown by the ls -R output Is it usual? That only means you haven't defined any preferences, and so nothing should be messed up. I'm not sure what's going wrong. Bennett
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. Shame on me, my last backup was 5 days old. But still, it would have been nice for LyX to say hey, your layout file just became bad. Do you REALLY want me to revert your document class to article, or would you like to save as (the broken) whatever document class so you can fix the problem without losing content? A simple solution might be for LyX to automatically treat the document as if it were a template it decides the layout is broken -- change to article or whatever, but in read-only mode, so that you can only save the modified document under a new name. That would leave the original (now presumably broken) version intact. /Paul
no pdf
Hello again, my LyX file won't turn to PDF format for an unknown reason. The following message appears: Die Datei existiert nicht: (Name der Datei) What can I do? Thank you in advance and kind regards, Annabelle
no PDF-more precise
Hello again, my LyX file won't turn to PDF format for an unknown reason. The following message appears: Die Datei existiert nicht: (Name der Datei) I opened the dvi, checked the roperties and it says: MiKTeX Problem Report Message: Not all fonts could be loaded. See 'File-Document Properties', for details. Data: Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.7\Programs\MiKTeX\Yap\MFC\DviDoc.cpp Line: 636 MiKTeX: 2.7 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (Build 6000) SystemAdmin: no PowerUser: no SharedSetup: yes BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin Root0: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.7 Root1: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.7 Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 UserConfig: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.7 UserData: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.7 CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 Sound like chinese to me... What can I do? Thank you in advance and kind regards, Annabelle
[announce] first preview test release of LyX 1.6 for Windows
Hello LyX testers, I uploaded a first snapshot of the upcoming LyX version 1.6.0 for Windows. NOTE: LyX 1.6 is in alpha state! That means it is not stable enough for a beta test release, so expect crashes and inconsistencies. This preview release is build for interested LyX users who want to check out the new features of LyX. The new features of LyX are listed here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 ! THIS LYX VERSION SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ANYTHING ELSE THAN TESTING ! - The installer for this version can be downloaded from: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=14325 (General infos about the installer can be found here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller ) This LyX version can be installed side by side to an existing LyX 1.5 installation when you unchek the installer option update the .lyx file extension settings. It will be installed as LyX 1.6svn-1. - Please report bugs, regressions, and crashes at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/ . Here is a list of the known crashes, and regressions to LyX 1.5.4: http://tinyurl.com/25y4nk - happy testing and best regards Uwe
Re: no PDF-more precise
Annabelle Sack wrote: Hello again, my LyX file won't turn to PDF format for an unknown reason. The following message appears: Die Datei existiert nicht: (Name der Datei) I opened the dvi, checked the roperties and it says: MiKTeX Problem Report Message: Not all fonts could be loaded. See 'File-Document Properties', for details. Data: Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.7\Programs\MiKTeX\Yap\MFC\DviDoc.cpp Line: 636 MiKTeX: 2.7 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (Build 6000) SystemAdmin: no PowerUser: no SharedSetup: yes BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin Root0: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.7 Root1: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.7 Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 UserConfig: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.7 UserData: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.7 CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 Sound like chinese to me... I would have guessed Sanskrit. Does the DVI file look correct? Typically when it can't load all the fonts it either tries to load substitutes (I think) or just omits characters. Which method are you using to generate PDF output (dvipdf, ps2pdf or pdflatex)? Does the file fail to generate using all three methods? Is there anything in the LaTeX log file (Document - LaTeX Log) indicating an error? /Paul
Re: Best font for printed output
Hi, all LaTeX-Fonts are designed to be well suited for printed output. However, they differ and when you search on LaTeX-Fonts on the internet, you will even find people complaining about the way too bad LaTeX-Fonts. Those people claim to be typographers and I do not know if they are right or wrong, but the examples given seem more or less logic to me. So, I recommend using a font that you like. Write a page or two of text and print it several times with a different font each time. I tried that once and did not find big differences between them – again, I am not a typographer or any kind of designer, just interested in it. This way I began using the Times font in LaTeX, which I liked best (I do not like the standard font at all). And then there is XeTeX, which enables you to use any font of your OS in LaTeX. There are tipps on the wiki how to use it in LyX. XeTeX is well suited for writing in many different languages at once and other fun stuff all around typographic details. I like to use Hoefler Text via XeTeX in LyX, as it is a beautiful font and very well equipped – what many fonts out there are not. Even LaTeX-fonts do not seem to be always full-featured. However, many packages, especially around mathematical stuff, do not (yet) work with XeTeX, so you should check your essential needs before thinking about XeTeX. To me as a humanities student it is absolutely the best and nicest way of using LaTeX. Regards, Max ___ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for details.
Re: Fwd: No information for converting gif format to png
Yes, I have.Moreover, to be sure, I reinstalled ImageMagick, but the problem continues to be present. gs 2008/3/8, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: gabriele spina wrote: I'm a new user of the Mac version of Lyx for Mac and I have a problem to pose. I installed Lxy 1.5.4 in two G4 computers under MacOSX 10.4.11 The program installed into une of them correctly processes my .lyx file. However, if I try to use the Update PDF(pdflatex) command of Lyx installed in the second computer, I obtain the following error message: No information for converting gif format to png. Define a converter in the preferences. Of coarse the .lyx file is the same and uses a .gif file. I'm probably posing a banal question, but the definitions for the converters in the preference panes are identical for both installations, and moreover I use the same MacTex distribution. Do you have any idea? Gabriele Spina P.S. I also noted that the second installation of Lyx cannot process the UserGuide file. Here, Lyx has no information concerning the conversion from xpm to the png format. Of coarse the program installed into the first computer generates the UserGuide.pdf file. Do you have ImageMagick installed on the balky Mac? /Paul
Re: Missing pages in DVI or PDF files [SOLVED]
sara teinturier wrote: Hello Lyxers! A problem appeared whereas it worked well just a moment before: when I want to export my lyx file to dvi or pdf format, the document stops page 7 - but there are more! It should be a problem with my preamble or something, but I don't know what I have to do to resolve it: nothing seems strange... Just for archival purposes, this turned out to be a LyX comment inside emphasized text, which LaTeX will not permit. /Paul
Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution
William R. Buckley schrieb: What is less clear is the use of texhash, as it is not part of the LyX distribution. You don't need to use this cind of command line commands. The best and easiest way of getting a full featured LyX/LaTeX system on WIndows is to reinstall your current LaTeX distribution and LyX. Then reinstall LyX using the complete variant of this installer while you have an open internet connection: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller LyX will install all needed packages to MiKTeX, also LNCS. Try it out and post when it doesn't work for you. regards Uwe
Re: Define a converter in the preferences
On Mar 8, 2008, at 9:31 AM, spn.grl wrote: Thanks Bennett, I'm using the MacTeX-20071201 package that includes ImageMagick. Anyway, using i-Installer, I updated the ImageMagick package and reconfigured Lyx. Unfortunately the problem remains. Do you have any other suggestion? Try to move aside your preferences file -- located at ~/Library/ Application Support/LyX-1.5/preferences. Then restart LyX and see if it works. If not, I'm out of ideas. Bennett
Re: Define a converter in the preferences
Hi Bennett, I cant find, inside the folder you suggested, the preferences file as shown by the ls -R output Is it usual? Gs Last login: Sun Mar 9 19:32:01 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! iMac:~ gabriele$ cd /Users/gabriele/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.5/ iMac:~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5 gabriele$ ls -R binddoc layouts session cache exampleslyxrc.defaults templates clipart images packages.lsttextclass.lst configure.log kbd scripts ui ./bind: ./cache: index ./clipart: ./doc: LaTeXConfig.lyx ./examples: ./images: ./kbd: ./layouts: ./scripts: ./templates: default ./templates/default: IEEEtran.lyxg-brief-en.lyx README.new_templatesg-brief2.lyx aa.lyx hollywood.lyx aastex.lyx ijmpc.lyx agu_article.lyx ijmpd.lyx apa.lyx iop-article.lyx beamer-conference-ornate-20min.lyx kluwer.lyx de_beamer-conference-ornate-20min.lyx koma-letter2.lyx dinbrief.lyxlatex8.lyx docbook_article.lyx letter.lyx elsart.lyx revtex.lyx fr_beamer-conference-ornate-20min.lyx revtex4.lyx g-brief-de.lyx slides.lyx ./ui: iMac:~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5 gabriele$ 2008/3/9, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Try to move aside your preferences file -- located at ~/Library/ Application Support/LyX-1.5/preferences. Then restart LyX and see if it works. If not, I'm out of ideas. Bennett
Re: Fwd: No information for converting gif format to png
spn.grl wrote: Yes, I have.Moreover, to be sure, I reinstalled ImageMagick, but the problem continues to be present. Does ImageMagick's path show up either on your system command path (in which case you should be able to run 'convert --version' in a terminal) or else on LyX's path prefix (Tools - Preferences - Paths - PATH prefix)? I'm a Windows user, but here at least there are no explicitly declared GIF - PNG or XPM - PNG converters. For undeclared graphics format conversions, the default is to use ImageMagick's convert utility. So I'm guessing that is failing on your second machine, and looking for a possible reason why. /Paul
Safety from data reorganization?
Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. Shame on me, my last backup was 5 days old. But still, it would have been nice for LyX to say hey, your layout file just became bad. Do you REALLY want me to revert your document class to article, or would you like to save as (the broken) whatever document class so you can fix the problem without losing content? Pardon me while I reorganize my latest book version with guidance from the structure of the 5 day old backup... SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Sunday 09 March 2008 15:35, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. I reenstated all the chapters, which had been converted to body text. It appears like none of my custom character styles were zapped, but my custom environments were, so I'll need to figure out how to find them all, and reenstate them to the custom styles instead of the reverted body text. Once again, if there's a way to warn the user that their custom environments will be reverted, and give them the opportunity to save before reversions. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Sunday 09 March 2008 16:09, Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2008 15:35, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. I reenstated all the chapters, which had been converted to body text. It appears like none of my custom character styles were zapped, but my custom environments were, so I'll need to figure out how to find them all, and reenstate them to the custom styles instead of the reverted body text. Once again, if there's a way to warn the user that their custom environments will be reverted, and give them the opportunity to save before reversions. First of all, do as I say, not as I do. Back up several times per day :-) If you ever need to did yourself out of one of these environment reversions, and if you have a reasonably recent version that has not experienced environment reversion, you can find all environments used in the old document like this: grep begin_layout mybook_old.lyx | sort -u The preceding gives a list of all environments used in the old document. Remove all article-provided environments -- those did not revert, presumably. What you're left with is environments that reverted. Now, in a read only text editor, search the old document for each of those environments, and obtain some suitable search text with which to look for the same text in the new (but reverted) version. Apply the proper environment in the new one. The preceding is the fastest recovery you can make, but it's ugly. The way out of this is to back up several times per day. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Latex template on 1.5.4
Phillip Ferguson wrote: It has now boiled down to a layout file. At this point in time there is a document class unavailable to use. I have the orginal spconf.sty, and the layout file which is a derivative of the article class. What I needs is the spconf package, where can I get it? Like Bob, I got a bit lost here. Assuming you are just going to use this package to submit to this one conference (and not use it on a regular basis), you really don't need a layout file at all. Since I'm not sure what you've done to date, I'll rewind to the beginning and show one way to get it in production. 1. Open the MiKTeX Settings application, click on the Roots tab, and find the path to the directory described as UserConfig. If you left-click it and hover over it, you'll see the full path. Leave this application open, you'll need it again. 2. Find that directory in Windows Explorer and drill down to UserConfig\tex\latex (which should already be there). Unzip fpl08.zip there, which should create a subfolder named fpl08. 3. Return to the MiKTeX Settings application, click on the General tab, and click Refresh FNDB. Sit back and watch your hard drive spin. When that's done, you can click either Ok or Cancel and exit the application. 4. [Optional] You might want to create a shortcut someplace to the UserConfig\tex\latex\fpl08 folder. Alternatively, you might want to copy the two .bib files and .eps file to a more convenient folder (i.e., one buried less deeply in the rubble). 5. Paste the attached LyX file into whatever directory has the .eps and .bib files. This is basically the sample proceedings document (which contains formatting instructions) converted to LyX. I put in the bare minimum formatting (page size, margins, Times Roman 10 pt. as the base font), but you may need to do more fiddling to pacify the conference gods. Also, I trimmed out some of the less informative comments and put the others in bright yellow LyX Notes. The author, affiliation and acknowledgment stuff is in the preamble (Document - Settings... - LaTeX Preamble), which you'll need to edit in your own documents unless you want someone else to take the blame. :-) 6. Open fpl08.lyx in LyX either by double-clicking the file icon or using File - Open. Try View - DVI to make sure things work correctly. 7. To create a new proceedings, just do File - Save As to create a new copy (with a different name, obviously), and then hack out the current contents and insert your own. (You can open the original with File - New from Template as an insurance policy against overwriting it.) Hope this helps, Paul fpl08.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Define a converter in the preferences
On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:39 PM, spn.grl wrote: I cant find, inside the folder you suggested, the preferences file as shown by the ls -R output Is it usual? That only means you haven't defined any preferences, and so nothing should be messed up. I'm not sure what's going wrong. Bennett
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom rjustbook to article, removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. Shame on me, my last backup was 5 days old. But still, it would have been nice for LyX to say hey, your layout file just became bad. Do you REALLY want me to revert your document class to article, or would you like to save as (the broken) whatever document class so you can fix the problem without losing content? A simple solution might be for LyX to automatically treat the document as if it were a template it decides the layout is broken -- change to article or whatever, but in read-only mode, so that you can only save the modified document under a new name. That would leave the original (now presumably broken) version intact. /Paul
no pdf
Hello again, my LyX file won't turn to PDF format for an unknown reason. The following message appears: Die Datei existiert nicht: (Name der Datei) What can I do? Thank you in advance and kind regards, Annabelle
no PDF-more precise
Hello again, my LyX file won't turn to PDF format for an unknown reason. The following message appears: Die Datei existiert nicht: (Name der Datei) I opened the dvi, checked the roperties and it says: MiKTeX Problem Report Message: Not all fonts could be loaded. See 'File-Document Properties', for details. Data: Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.7\Programs\MiKTeX\Yap\MFC\DviDoc.cpp Line: 636 MiKTeX: 2.7 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (Build 6000) SystemAdmin: no PowerUser: no SharedSetup: yes BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin Root0: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.7 Root1: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.7 Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 UserConfig: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.7 UserData: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.7 CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 Sound like chinese to me... What can I do? Thank you in advance and kind regards, Annabelle
[announce] first preview test release of LyX 1.6 for Windows
Hello LyX testers, I uploaded a first snapshot of the upcoming LyX version 1.6.0 for Windows. NOTE: LyX 1.6 is in alpha state! That means it is not stable enough for a beta test release, so expect crashes and inconsistencies. This preview release is build for interested LyX users who want to check out the new features of LyX. The new features of LyX are listed here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 ! THIS LYX VERSION SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ANYTHING ELSE THAN TESTING ! - The installer for this version can be downloaded from: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=14325 (General infos about the installer can be found here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller ) This LyX version can be installed side by side to an existing LyX 1.5 installation when you unchek the installer option update the .lyx file extension settings. It will be installed as LyX 1.6svn-1. - Please report bugs, regressions, and crashes at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/ . Here is a list of the known crashes, and regressions to LyX 1.5.4: http://tinyurl.com/25y4nk - happy testing and best regards Uwe
Re: no PDF-more precise
Annabelle Sack wrote: Hello again, my LyX file won't turn to PDF format for an unknown reason. The following message appears: Die Datei existiert nicht: (Name der Datei) I opened the dvi, checked the roperties and it says: MiKTeX Problem Report Message: Not all fonts could be loaded. See 'File-Document Properties', for details. Data: Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.7\Programs\MiKTeX\Yap\MFC\DviDoc.cpp Line: 636 MiKTeX: 2.7 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (Build 6000) SystemAdmin: no PowerUser: no SharedSetup: yes BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin Root0: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.7 Root1: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.7 Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 UserConfig: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.7 UserData: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.7 CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 Sound like chinese to me... I would have guessed Sanskrit. Does the DVI file look correct? Typically when it can't load all the fonts it either tries to load substitutes (I think) or just omits characters. Which method are you using to generate PDF output (dvipdf, ps2pdf or pdflatex)? Does the file fail to generate using all three methods? Is there anything in the LaTeX log file (Document - LaTeX Log) indicating an error? /Paul
Re: Best font for printed output
Hi, all LaTeX-Fonts are designed to be well suited for printed output. However, they differ and when you search on LaTeX-Fonts on the internet, you will even find people complaining about the way too bad LaTeX-Fonts. Those people claim to be typographers and I do not know if they are right or wrong, but the examples given seem more or less logic to me. So, I recommend using a font that you like. Write a page or two of text and print it several times with a different font each time. I tried that once and did not find big differences between them – again, I am not a typographer or any kind of designer, just interested in it. This way I began using the Times font in LaTeX, which I liked best (I do not like the standard font at all). And then there is XeTeX, which enables you to use any font of your OS in LaTeX. There are tipps on the wiki how to use it in LyX. XeTeX is well suited for writing in many different languages at once and other fun stuff all around typographic details. I like to use Hoefler Text via XeTeX in LyX, as it is a beautiful font and very well equipped – what many fonts out there are not. Even LaTeX-fonts do not seem to be always full-featured. However, many packages, especially around mathematical stuff, do not (yet) work with XeTeX, so you should check your essential needs before thinking about XeTeX. To me as a humanities student it is absolutely the best and nicest way of using LaTeX. Regards, Max ___ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for details.
Re: Fwd: No information for converting gif format to png
Yes, I have.Moreover, to be sure, I reinstalled ImageMagick, but the problem continues to be present. gs 2008/3/8, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > gabriele spina wrote: > > > > > > I'm a new user of the Mac version of Lyx for Mac and I have a problem to > > pose. > > I installed Lxy 1.5.4 in two G4 computers under MacOSX 10.4.11 > > The program installed into une of them correctly processes my .lyx file. > > However, if I try to use the "Update PDF(pdflatex)" command of Lyx > > installed in the second computer, I obtain the following error message: > > " No information for converting gif format to png. Define a converter in > > the preferences". > > Of coarse the .lyx file is the same and uses a .gif file. > > I'm probably posing a banal question, but the definitions for the > > converters in the preference panes are identical for both installations, > > and moreover I use the same MacTex distribution. > > Do you have any idea? > > > > Gabriele Spina > > > > P.S. I also noted that the second installation of Lyx cannot process the > > "UserGuide" file. > > Here, Lyx has no information concerning the conversion from xpm to the > > png format. > > Of coarse the program installed into the first computer generates the > > "UserGuide.pdf" file. > > > > > > Do you have ImageMagick installed on the balky Mac? > > > /Paul > >
Re: Missing pages in DVI or PDF files [SOLVED]
sara teinturier wrote: Hello Lyxers! A problem appeared whereas it worked well just a moment before: when I want to export my lyx file to dvi or pdf format, the document stops page 7 - but there are more! It should be a problem with my preamble or something, but I don't know what I have to do to resolve it: nothing seems "strange"... Just for archival purposes, this turned out to be a LyX comment inside emphasized text, which LaTeX will not permit. /Paul
Re: Layout and Class Files on Windows Distribution
William R. Buckley schrieb: What is less clear is the use of texhash, as it is not part of the LyX distribution. You don't need to use this cind of command line commands. The best and easiest way of getting a full featured LyX/LaTeX system on WIndows is to reinstall your current LaTeX distribution and LyX. Then reinstall LyX using the complete variant of this installer while you have an open internet connection: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller LyX will install all needed packages to MiKTeX, also LNCS. Try it out and post when it doesn't work for you. regards Uwe
Re: Define a converter in the preferences
On Mar 8, 2008, at 9:31 AM, spn.grl wrote: Thanks Bennett, I'm using the MacTeX-20071201 package that includes ImageMagick. Anyway, using i-Installer, I updated the ImageMagick package and reconfigured Lyx. Unfortunately the problem remains. Do you have any other suggestion? Try to move aside your preferences file -- located at ~/Library/ Application Support/LyX-1.5/preferences. Then restart LyX and see if it works. If not, I'm out of ideas. Bennett
Re: Define a converter in the preferences
Hi Bennett, I cant find, inside the folder you suggested, the "preferences" file as shown by the ls -R output Is it usual? Gs Last login: Sun Mar 9 19:32:01 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! iMac:~ gabriele$ cd /Users/gabriele/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.5/ iMac:~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5 gabriele$ ls -R binddoc layouts session cache exampleslyxrc.defaults templates clipart images packages.lsttextclass.lst configure.log kbd scripts ui ./bind: ./cache: index ./clipart: ./doc: LaTeXConfig.lyx ./examples: ./images: ./kbd: ./layouts: ./scripts: ./templates: default ./templates/default: IEEEtran.lyxg-brief-en.lyx README.new_templatesg-brief2.lyx aa.lyx hollywood.lyx aastex.lyx ijmpc.lyx agu_article.lyx ijmpd.lyx apa.lyx iop-article.lyx beamer-conference-ornate-20min.lyx kluwer.lyx de_beamer-conference-ornate-20min.lyx koma-letter2.lyx dinbrief.lyxlatex8.lyx docbook_article.lyx letter.lyx elsart.lyx revtex.lyx fr_beamer-conference-ornate-20min.lyx revtex4.lyx g-brief-de.lyx slides.lyx ./ui: iMac:~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5 gabriele$ 2008/3/9, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Try to move aside your preferences file -- located at ~/Library/ > Application Support/LyX-1.5/preferences. Then restart LyX and see if > it works. If not, I'm out of ideas. > > > Bennett >
Re: Fwd: No information for converting gif format to png
spn.grl wrote: Yes, I have.Moreover, to be sure, I reinstalled ImageMagick, but the problem continues to be present. Does ImageMagick's path show up either on your system command path (in which case you should be able to run 'convert --version' in a terminal) or else on LyX's path prefix (Tools -> Preferences -> Paths -> PATH prefix)? I'm a Windows user, but here at least there are no explicitly declared GIF -> PNG or XPM -> PNG converters. For undeclared graphics format conversions, the default is to use ImageMagick's convert utility. So I'm guessing that is failing on your second machine, and looking for a possible reason why. /Paul
Safety from data reorganization?
Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom "rjustbook" to "article", removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. Shame on me, my last backup was 5 days old. But still, it would have been nice for LyX to say "hey, your layout file just became bad. Do you REALLY want me to revert your document class to "article", or would you like to save as (the broken) "whatever" document class so you can fix the problem without losing content?" Pardon me while I reorganize my latest book version with guidance from the structure of the 5 day old backup... SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Sunday 09 March 2008 15:35, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my > layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's > document class from my custom "rjustbook" to "article", removing all > chapters and flattening out the table of contents. I reenstated all the chapters, which had been converted to body text. It appears like none of my custom character styles were zapped, but my custom environments were, so I'll need to figure out how to find them all, and reenstate them to the custom styles instead of the reverted body text. Once again, if there's a way to warn the user that their custom environments will be reverted, and give them the opportunity to save before reversions. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
On Sunday 09 March 2008 16:09, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sunday 09 March 2008 15:35, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my > > layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's > > document class from my custom "rjustbook" to "article", removing all > > chapters and flattening out the table of contents. > > I reenstated all the chapters, which had been converted to body text. It > appears like none of my custom character styles were zapped, but my custom > environments were, so I'll need to figure out how to find them all, and > reenstate them to the custom styles instead of the reverted body text. > > Once again, if there's a way to warn the user that their custom > environments will be reverted, and give them the opportunity to save before > reversions. First of all, do as I say, not as I do. Back up several times per day :-) If you ever need to did yourself out of one of these environment reversions, and if you have a reasonably recent version that has not experienced environment reversion, you can find all environments used in the old document like this: grep "begin_layout" mybook_old.lyx | sort -u The preceding gives a list of all environments used in the old document. Remove all article-provided environments -- those did not revert, presumably. What you're left with is environments that reverted. Now, in a read only text editor, search the old document for each of those environments, and obtain some suitable search text with which to look for the same text in the new (but reverted) version. Apply the proper environment in the new one. The preceding is the fastest recovery you can make, but it's ugly. The way out of this is to back up several times per day. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Latex template on 1.5.4
Phillip Ferguson wrote: It has now boiled down to a layout file. At this point in time there is a document class unavailable to use. I have the orginal spconf.sty, and the layout file which is a derivative of the article class. What I needs is the spconf package, where can I get it? Like Bob, I got a bit lost here. Assuming you are just going to use this package to submit to this one conference (and not use it on a regular basis), you really don't need a layout file at all. Since I'm not sure what you've done to date, I'll rewind to the beginning and show one way to get it in production. 1. Open the MiKTeX Settings application, click on the Roots tab, and find the path to the directory described as "UserConfig". If you left-click it and hover over it, you'll see the full path. Leave this application open, you'll need it again. 2. Find that directory in Windows Explorer and drill down to \tex\latex (which should already be there). Unzip fpl08.zip there, which should create a subfolder named fpl08. 3. Return to the MiKTeX Settings application, click on the General tab, and click Refresh FNDB. Sit back and watch your hard drive spin. When that's done, you can click either Ok or Cancel and exit the application. 4. [Optional] You might want to create a shortcut someplace to the \tex\latex\fpl08 folder. Alternatively, you might want to copy the two .bib files and .eps file to a more convenient folder (i.e., one buried less deeply in the rubble). 5. Paste the attached LyX file into whatever directory has the .eps and .bib files. This is basically the sample proceedings document (which contains formatting instructions) converted to LyX. I put in the bare minimum formatting (page size, margins, Times Roman 10 pt. as the base font), but you may need to do more fiddling to pacify the conference gods. Also, I trimmed out some of the less informative comments and put the others in bright yellow LyX Notes. The author, affiliation and acknowledgment stuff is in the preamble (Document -> Settings... -> LaTeX Preamble), which you'll need to edit in your own documents unless you want someone else to take the blame. :-) 6. Open fpl08.lyx in LyX either by double-clicking the file icon or using File -> Open. Try View -> DVI to make sure things work correctly. 7. To create a new proceedings, just do File -> Save As to create a new copy (with a different name, obviously), and then hack out the current contents and insert your own. (You can open the original with File -> New from Template as an insurance policy against overwriting it.) Hope this helps, Paul fpl08.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Define a converter in the preferences
On Mar 9, 2008, at 2:39 PM, spn.grl wrote: I cant find, inside the folder you suggested, the "preferences" file as shown by the ls -R output Is it usual? That only means you haven't defined any preferences, and so nothing should be messed up. I'm not sure what's going wrong. Bennett
Re: Safety from data reorganization?
Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I just lost my entire book structure due to a small modification to my layout file that prevented compilation. LyX therefore reverted the book's document class from my custom "rjustbook" to "article", removing all chapters and flattening out the table of contents. Shame on me, my last backup was 5 days old. But still, it would have been nice for LyX to say "hey, your layout file just became bad. Do you REALLY want me to revert your document class to "article", or would you like to save as (the broken) "whatever" document class so you can fix the problem without losing content?" A simple solution might be for LyX to automatically treat the document as if it were a template it decides the layout is broken -- change to article or whatever, but in read-only mode, so that you can only save the modified document under a new name. That would leave the original (now presumably broken) version intact. /Paul
no pdf
Hello again, my LyX file won't turn to PDF format for an unknown reason. The following message appears: "Die Datei existiert nicht: (Name der Datei)" What can I do? Thank you in advance and kind regards, Annabelle
no PDF-more precise
Hello again, my LyX file won't turn to PDF format for an unknown reason. The following message appears: "Die Datei existiert nicht: (Name der Datei)" I opened the dvi, checked the roperties and it says: "MiKTeX Problem Report Message: Not all fonts could be loaded. See 'File->Document Properties', for details. Data: Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.7\Programs\MiKTeX\Yap\MFC\DviDoc.cpp Line: 636 MiKTeX: 2.7 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (Build 6000) SystemAdmin: no PowerUser: no SharedSetup: yes BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin Root0: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.7 Root1: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.7 Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 UserConfig: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.7 UserData: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.7 CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7" Sound like chinese to me... What can I do? Thank you in advance and kind regards, Annabelle
[announce] first preview test release of LyX 1.6 for Windows
Hello LyX testers, I uploaded a first snapshot of the upcoming LyX version 1.6.0 for Windows. NOTE: LyX 1.6 is in alpha state! That means it is not stable enough for a beta test release, so expect crashes and inconsistencies. This preview release is build for interested LyX users who want to check out the new features of LyX. The new features of LyX are listed here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX16 ! THIS LYX VERSION SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR ANYTHING ELSE THAN TESTING ! - The installer for this version can be downloaded from: https://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=14325 (General infos about the installer can be found here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller ) This LyX version can be installed side by side to an existing LyX 1.5 installation when you unchek the installer option update the ".lyx" file extension settings. It will be installed as "LyX 1.6svn-1". - Please report bugs, regressions, and crashes at http://bugzilla.lyx.org/ . Here is a list of the known crashes, and regressions to LyX 1.5.4: http://tinyurl.com/25y4nk - happy testing and best regards Uwe
Re: no PDF-more precise
Annabelle Sack wrote: Hello again, my LyX file won't turn to PDF format for an unknown reason. The following message appears: "Die Datei existiert nicht: (Name der Datei)" I opened the dvi, checked the roperties and it says: "MiKTeX Problem Report Message: Not all fonts could be loaded. See 'File->Document Properties', for details. Data: Source: C:\work3\miktex-2.7\Programs\MiKTeX\Yap\MFC\DviDoc.cpp Line: 636 MiKTeX: 2.7 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition (Build 6000) SystemAdmin: no PowerUser: no SharedSetup: yes BinDir: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7\miktex\bin Root0: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.7 Root1: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.7 Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 Root3: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 Install: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.7 UserConfig: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.7 UserData: C:\Users\annabelle\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.7 CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7 CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.7" Sound like chinese to me... I would have guessed Sanskrit. Does the DVI file look correct? Typically when it can't load all the fonts it either tries to load substitutes (I think) or just omits characters. Which method are you using to generate PDF output (dvipdf, ps2pdf or pdflatex)? Does the file fail to generate using all three methods? Is there anything in the LaTeX log file (Document -> LaTeX Log) indicating an error? /Paul
