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Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-09 Thread Oscar Lopez

Oscar Lopez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Thank you very much for your contributions to this thread

I would like to give a brief summary of what I have been able to learn

I gave a try to inkscape however it seems that the render of latex formula is
broken at linux at version 0.45. Last stable version I haven't been able to
compile at linux and I can not comment

So far, the more promising try have been ipe. It seems that latex formulae can
be easily inserted. There are some minor issues that I have to get used, but it
could be the tool we are looking for.

PyX seems to much low level for my taste. We were looking something more 
drag'n'drop

Before I recommend my colleague to give a try to jfig I'd like to hear from
people that have used it if jfig can be used the same way that xfig with the
external material inset (taking care of latex formula rendering internally using
some python scripts)

Other possibility would be cygwin however it will depend on the policy of the
system administration where he works.

Once again thank you very much for your valuable contributions.

Re: Name of the Mascot (Was: New splash screen (Was: LyX logo))

2008-04-09 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann

Am Dienstag, 8. April 2008 23:02 schrieb Luis Rivera:
 curtis osterhoudt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  I don't see that LyXia engenders oral thoughts, though I'd be more

 strongly inclined to give the

  program a try if it did! Besides, would this mean that Word users suffer
  from

 dysLyXia?


 If the thread (and vote) are still open, I'd say LyX is just fine;
 alternative: FeLyX (although a cat would be better then :)

 On the LyDia/dysLyXia front, why not aLyXia? (although alyxiae seem to be
 plants rather than animals).

 My penny contribution,

 Luis.


my penny contribution:

LyXle

mind you, LyX was created in Tuebingen, which belongs to Swabia (Germany), and 
the Swabians put a le at the end of a word for diminution. An advantage is, 
its pronouncable for GBs and USs easily (though not as the swabians do)

Wolfgang

Re: No accents when mastering a document (Spanish) ??

2008-04-09 Thread Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo


El mar, 08-04-2008 a las 10:12 +0200, G. Milde escribió:
 On  7.04.08, Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo wrote:
 
  So I don't know what to do, if I should abandon the idea of building a
  master document,since I don't see clearly which advantages it really
  provides. Anyone could point me any? 
 
 You will get the advantage of a common document 
 
  * continuous page numbers
  * continuous chapter and section numbers
  * table of contents for the whole document
  * common bibliography section
  * cross-references between different chapters just work
  * ...
  
 as well as the advantages of smaller documents 
 
  * faster compiling (i.e. faster preview of just one chapter)
  * faster navigation in a document
  * improved security: a corrupt sub-document does not affect the whole.
  * ...
 
 There are disadvantages as well but this was not the question.
 

You are very very illustrative, thanks.

  Besides, the master document has not built-in the sets of child
  documents, has it? 
 
 The master document source contains just a link to the child documents.
 - this way is it remains a very small file.
 The same is used for graphics.
 

I've got already the idea :-) But yes, that was the sense of my
question ;-)

 For my thesis, I have a directory structure like
 
   Diss/
  main.lyx % master
  preamble.tex   % used with \input{preamble.tex}
  math-macros.lyx  % included in master and childs (as branch)
  Einleitung/% chapter 1
einleitung.lyx   % child document
plot.eps % vector graphic, included as is
photo1.jpg   % pixel graphic, wrapped in eps by LyX
  Grundgleichungen/  % chapter 2
feldkopplung.svg % vector graphic, converted to eps by LyX
impulsfolge.gnuplot% gnuplot source of a plot
impulsfolge.eps  % gnuplot eps output, included as is
...% more supporting files
  ...% more chapter subdirectories
  zusammenfassung.lyx  % a chapter without supporting files
  Anhang/% appendix
...  % LyX source and supporting files

 which will combined be not take more disk space than a corresponding
 openoffice or other office-suite file with included graphics.
  
 I can easily pack it in a zip or tar.bz2 archive if I want to move
 or store it as a single file.
 
  Consequently, the whole set of child docs should be
  there forever, if I've understood it rightly.
 
 No, only as long as the master document is there ;-)
 
 GM

:-))

Thanks again, you talked very clearly.

Cheers,
Daniel

Re: Float Placement in Windows version of LYX

2008-04-09 Thread Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL


I suppose it is Document  Settings  and choose Float placement
( I translate from french ... sorry ).

Hope it helps.
Siegfried.

Re: Lyx crashing on custom template

2008-04-09 Thread hectic styler

Did one of windows binary maintainers want to see if they could reproduce this?

wes


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 6:12 PM, hectic styler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 The main.lyx file included in
  http://www.threewordslong.com/downloads/lyx/unswthesis.zip exhibits
  this behavior.

  If you remove the first three lines (i.e. the title and author ) you
  can view the file in 1.5.4.  If either the title or author are
  included in the lyx file the file doesn't view.

  wes



  On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Andre Poenitz
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 01:41:14PM +1000, hectic styler wrote:
 The template can be found here

 
 http://www.threewordslong.com/blog/entry/63/A_LyX_Thesis_Layout_for_UNSW_T

 wes

 On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 1:36 PM, hectic styler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hi,
 
   Upon installing Lyx 1.5.4 (+ MiKTex) on MS Vista, I can open up my
   custom template fine, but trying to view the main.lyx as pdf 
 generates
   an error Undefined control error - viewing the chapter alone
   generates the same error but I can view the pdf. Installing Lyx 1.5.3
   allows me to view as pdf fine - is this a known regression and has it
   been fixed in subversion?
  
I can't reproduce your problem with a very simple example text using
your layout.
  
If you send me your thesis preferably cut down to the minimal amount
that still exhibits the problem I'll have a look.
  
Andre'

Re: Just the name of the chapter right in the header, unable of getting it. How how how...

2008-04-09 Thread Filippo Zangheri

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 Miguel Daniel Rodríguez Magarzo ha scritto:
 Hi again,

 Honestly, I hope to get to explain good enough. The issue is very
 simple. 

 What I've done until now in order to sorting this out has been just
 taping in the preamble, inside \rhead{}, the string I wanted to be
 appeared there (using the fancyhdr). But how to do if I want the same
 result using code? 

 I've tried several combinations, but without results. Actually, I never
 knew much what I  was really doing, since I know nothing about LaTeX,
 but the try and error method didn't gave me a only chance either.

 In a pdf document (Page layout in LaTeX, Piet van Oostrum, Utrecht
 University, 2004), page 10, it shows several examples of this, more...
 what I wanted was there... !!!, __just__ the third from the end, very
 simple:

 \renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{%
  \markboth{#1}{}}
 Hi Miguel,

 Try using the syntax below, maybe you are not using \leftmark?

 \usepackage{fancyhdr}
 \pagestyle{fancy}
 \renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
 \fancyhead[ER,OR,EL,OL]{}
 \fancyhead[EC,OC]{Your Name\hfill \leftmark}

 As a note, if you find that header font is too small, you can always
 do: \begin{large} your header here \end{large} .

 Greetings.


 - --
 Filippo Zangheri

 
 Thank you for your suggestion, Filippo.
 
 I've tried with that, removing much of the lines I had in the preamble;
 this is what is there at the moment:
 
 \AtBeginDocument{%
 \addto\captionsspanish{%
 \renewcommand{\chaptername}{Tema }%
 }}
 \usepackage{fancyhdr}
 \pagestyle{fancy}
 \renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}
 \fancyhead[ER,OR,EL,OL]{}
 \fancyhead[EC,OC]{Biología\hfill \leftmark} 
 \cfoot{\thepage}

You can safely remove this last line, because that's the default
footer of fancy pagestyle.


 
 This code works, since:
   a. To the left of each page, heading, appears the string wanted.
   b. To the right of the same page, heading, takes place the title of the
 chapter, as desired, but...
 
   1. There is a minor detail, a difference in relation to what I wanted:
 it appears in upper case letters; I didn't wanted in that way, but lower
 case letters except the first, e.g. Nucleic acids, not NUCLEIC ACIDS.

Strange, indeed! I copied your LaTeX preamble and put it into the
LaTeX preamble of a new document, then I created a master document
with two children and the result is literally the one you wish:
lowercase chapter name. I attached those three files, check by yourself.


   2. Besides, now a new (big) fail has appeared: the number page is the
 1 in all pages of the master document. Much probably this has to do
 with the ERT that I had placed at the beginning of each document
 (child), just after the chapter, this one:
   
 \setcounter{page}{1}
 
 This did let me to obtain a desired effect: to reset page numbers when
 starting each chapter. I know this practise is not much common, but for
 some materials it reveals to be very practical (specially for pupils). 
 
 Is there any work around for solving these issues, please?

To fix the problem, try to put the ERT[\setcounter{page}{1}] at the
very beginning of the child document - before the chapter. ;)


Best regards.

- --
Filippo Zangheri

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Re: Setting align as the default environment for multiline formulas

2008-04-09 Thread Guy Rutenberg

Hi,

Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


 This can be done by redefining the eqnarray environment to be the align
environment, you should find 
   how this is done in the archive of this list.
 
 regards Uwe
 
 

Thanks very much for your reply. I tried searching the archive and google but
couldn't find anything useful.

Using \renewenvironment didn't work (LyX still treats it as an eqnarray and adds
an extra ).

Could you give me more detailed pointers to where I may find a solution?

Regards,

Guy

Re: WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr

William R. Buckley schrieb:

On this point, you and I strongly disagree. There are many
times when a document could benefit by the use of more
than one font. I can send you example documents which
do use several fonts, and would be difficult to fathom if only
one font were used.

You mix fonts and font shapes. LyX offers you three major font shapes: italic/slanted, roman
(serif), sansserif, and the font styles emphasized and noun (capitals). In math you can even use
blackboard and calligraphic letters. That's enough and no book I know uses more.

Having more than one font, I don't mean not font styles or shapes, is bad typography. Every
typography books tells you this, you can also talk to publishers or typographers when you don't
believe me.

If this is a limitation of LyX/LaTeX/Tex, that only one font
can be supported per document, then these tools are
grossly underpowered compared to even the lowly Ventura
Publisher.

As said above, you misunderstood font.

Consequently, many times I need special fonts to represent
the states of my cellular automatons.

Are the different font styles and shapes not enough? I mean how could distinguish you automatons by
using different fonts as the difference between e.g. the fonts Verdana and Tahoma are not visible on
the first look and by every reader.

It is interesting that another reply from another respondent
directed their effort to (i) assure me that strike-through is
available, if only I'd (ii) read the documentation.

It is available, but you need to use ERT (LaTeX commands directly).
Due to the Unicode problematic, we don'tr offer support for now as I wrote.

The observation reported respecting file browsing behavior
was met with such discord as to discourage any other
such report. The more telling behavior is that another
developer (Joost) noted the error was in LyX implementation,
and that he corrected the problem.

Yep, it'S fixed for the next LyX version 1.5.5.

Interesting to me is
that Andre Pönitz vociferously and rudely suggested to me
that the problem must be resident in Window, the OS.

These are the usual Windows is a bad OS comments, don't take this personally.

regards Uwe

Re: Float Placement in Windows version of LYX

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr


neon none schrieb:


I am trying to control the float placement in Windows version of Lyx.


Have a look at section 3.5 of the EmbeddedObjects manual.

regards Uwe

Re: multiplatform vector drawing program to use

2008-04-09 Thread G. Milde

On  8.04.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 Steve Litt wrote:

 Is there a SVG to PSTricks converter? Can you imagine how cool that would 
 be?!


 Seems to me I saw somewhere that Inkscape can read SVG (is that its  
 native format?) 

It is. 

 and export to PSTricks.

However, AFAIK, it converts text to paths in the process so it will show in
the PS (or PDF) output exactly as in the SVG.

The EffectRenderLatex-Formula worked on my Debian/testing system
with Inkscape 0.45.1 (Mar  8 2008). It is not very suitable for
converting *all* text elements in a graphic. However, it should be possible
to customize inkscape to use the same fonts as your LyX document.
I did not take the time to figure out how to teach the RenderLatex-Formula
script which latex font package to use.

GM

Re: Setting align as the default environment for multiline formulas

2008-04-09 Thread Uwe Stöhr


Guy Rutenberg schrieb:


Using \renewenvironment didn't work (LyX still treats it as an eqnarray and adds
an extra ).


Sorry my fault, this is of course not possible because align has 2 columns, 
eqnarray 3 columns.

So the easiest way is to define a keyboard shortcut that inserts an align equation. How to define 
such a shortcut is explained in the Customization manual. (The next major LyX release has a dilaog 
where you can define them much more easier.)

For existing formulas, use the menu Edit - Math - Change formula type 
(shortcut Alt-m t a).

regards Uwe

Re: Float Placement in Windows version of LYX

2008-04-09 Thread Paul A. Rubin


neon none wrote:

Hello,

I am trying to control the float placement in Windows version of Lyx. While
the LyxWiki prescribes going to Layout menu and use Float placement dialog
to do so, I see no such 'Layout' menu in the version I am using (LyxWindows
1.5.4) [the official windows installation].  So, what should I do to control
float placement in Lyx windows version?

Thanks,
Neon



Right click somewhere in the float (but not in the caption) and the 
layout menu will pop up.


/Paul

Re: WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-09 Thread Rich Shepard


On Wed, 9 Apr 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote:


You mix fonts and font shapes.


  It seems a very common misconception. Too many people use the word 'font'
when they refer to 'typeface.' A 'font' is a particular typeface (Palatino,
Amerigo, Bookman), shape (Roman, Slant, Italic), weight (normal, bold,
thin), and size (10pt, 11pt, 12pt). That's why you'll see so many entries in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ with the same family name.

  In the days when all printed documents were hand-set with metal type,
typesetters had many large wooden trays, each with numerous small
compartments (one for each character in that font set). Each tray contained
a single font.

  Now, with computers doing all the work, we've lost sight of the
distinctions in terms, call everything a 'font,' and end up
miscommunicating.

  In most documents, only two typefaces are used: a serif typeface as the
body text and a san-serif typeface as the headline (part, chapter, section,
etc.) text. Within the body text, emphasis is usually by changing the shape
to Italic or slant (if the former is not available). Bold and underline are
not used. (Take a look at a newspaper, book, or magazine and see if you can
find bold or underlined text used.) Underlined text is a hold-over from
typewriter days, and I suspect (but do not know) that bold is the creation
of the earlier word processors (e.g., Wang and those on monochrome-monitored
PCs) that could not display Italic fonts. Current word processors (Wurd,
OO.o., AbiWord) continue to provide these typographic oddities, and writers
continue to use them.

  If we all use typographic terms with precision we'll communicate much more
clearly and effectively.

Your local curmudgeon,

Rich

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Re: WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller

Rich Shepard wrote:

 It seems a very common misconception. Too many people use the word 'font'
 when they refer to 'typeface.' A 'font' is a particular typeface
 (Palatino, Amerigo, Bookman), shape (Roman, Slant, Italic), weight
 (normal, bold, thin), and size (10pt, 11pt, 12pt). That's why you'll see
 so many entries in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ with the same family name.

Depends. Actually, a font is a kind of economic entity. It's a collection
of shapes and sizes (or a specific shape) of a given type face, as it is
sold by the type _foundry_ (e.g. Linotype or Adobe). Historically, a font
(or found, for traditionalists) was indeed a set of metal types,
distributed and sold as an entity. Nowadays, a font is a file which
contains information about glyphs, metrics etc. for a subset (or the whole)
of a typeface.

So, strictly speaking, font is just the material container, the thing you
install on your computer. What you select in the application are type
faces, shapes, sizes etc.

Jürgen

Re: WRB - Summary of Experience with LyX

2008-04-09 Thread Juergen Spitzmueller

Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:

 (or found, for traditionalists)

I feel the traditionalists attacking. Of course, it's spelled fount.

Jürgen

LyX Without LaTeX

2008-04-09 Thread Bruce Pourciau

Elbow problems have begun to make it hard for me to type a long  
manuscript into LyX. I was thinking that we could install LyX (but  
not LaTeX) on my secretary's machine, and then she could type the ms  
into LyX, perhaps typing ff or something whenever there's a formula  
that would require LaTeX (so that she wouldn't have to learn about  
mathmode stuff), and then after getting the LyX file from her by  
email, I could open it and insert the formulas. Is there any reason  
this might not work? (I'm running LyX/Mac 1.4.1 and she's running  
Windows XP).


I would ask our IT folks to install LyX on her machine. Any thoughts  
on how I can make this go smoothly for them?


Bruce

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