Float placement

2008-05-19 Thread D . Zorig
Hi all, I'm trying to place a float on top of next page (I'm using default placement). But what I get is a page with float vertically centered. By reading Embedded objects manual I understood that if a float occupies more than 70% of the page then float is placed alone on the next page vertically

A couple problems

2008-05-19 Thread Brian Bubnash
I'm a LaTeX newbie, but already really like the system, and I like LyX's interface quite a lot. I'm having two serious issues though in assembling a large report I'm writing in LyX. First, LyX does not seem to be importing my BibTeX bibliography correctly - after I insert, I see the "BibTeX Genera

Re: Packages required under Linux

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
(new posting; the previous one apparently did not reach the list...) On Tuesday 15 May 2008 17:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2008, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: > [...] > > own list of useful packages. I could post it here if someone asks, or > > maybe it could go to the Wiki pa

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 19 May 2008 19:56, Marwan Boustany wrote: > > Thank you for the response... > > As it happens the graphics are large, taking up, lengthwise about 40% of > the page. And they tend to need to be where i put them for the most part. Yeah, I've got a bunch like that. The best way I've found

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Marwan Boustany
On Tue, 20 May 2008 00:49:45 +0100, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 19 May 2008 12:51, Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is it necessary to force very float to be 'here definitely' if I actually want it to be correctly placed in the text? Marwan, You might want to read this

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 19 May 2008 12:51, Marwan Boustany wrote: > Peace, > > Is it necessary to force very float to be 'here definitely' if I actually > want it to be correctly placed in the text? Marwan, You might want to read this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#courtesy Calling an as

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Marwan Boustany
On Mon, 19 May 2008 20:39:48 +0100, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 08:29:19PM +0100, Marwan Boustany wrote: The default placement is typically not that bad as long as there is a sufficient amount of "regular" text in the documnet. Andre' I think the point

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Marwan Boustany
On Mon, 19 May 2008 22:12:57 +0100, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marwan Boustany schrieb: Peace, Nice joke. It was not a joke, if I wanted to joke I could say, " What is the difference between a store and a stohr?" and someone else would say "what?", then I would say "You can

Re: Appendix and document structure

2008-05-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Tim Michelsen schrieb: I want to have the following structure: Executive Summary (Section*) Part I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Part II Chapter 3 Annex A But in my Lyx TOC outline on the left sidepane as well as in the PDF Annex A is attributed to the Part II like: Part II Chapter 3

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Marwan Boustany schrieb: Peace, Nice joke. Is it necessary to force very float to be 'here definitely' if I actually want it to be correctly placed in the text? You can use the document wide option in the document settings menu, but this will affect all floats of your document. I would th

Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns

2008-05-19 Thread jf7
Quoting Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Bug report is filed. New version of csv2lyx.py works as expected. thanks very much! jamie faunt

Re: Personal dictionary

2008-05-19 Thread Paul A. Rubin
G. Milde wrote: On 16.05.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: Where is the default personal dictionary placed? Which operating system? Info for all OSes is under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UserDir I'm not sure if it's that simple on Windows. On Windows, Aspell can be

Re: No figures in PDF output

2008-05-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Adrian Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using Lyx (1.5.1 on WinXP) to write my thesis. When I try exporting the > multi-part document as pdf (using dvipdfm) I get errors but the output pdf > has no figures in it. All the captions and everything

Re: Using lyx on the windows command line

2008-05-19 Thread Tim Michelsen
I am looking into something like: lyx.exe input.lyx --format=PDFLATEX output.pdf lyx -e pdf2 input.lyx This will produce input.pdf, you cannot specify output.pdf. Very nice, thanks I can now write my batch file which does the publishing automatically. I tried lyx.exe /HELP but Lyx just open

Re: Using lyx on the windows command line

2008-05-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Tim Michelsen wrote: Using lyx on the windows command line Hello, I'd like to automatize the PDF-generation an publication of my Lyx-documents. I there I way that allows me to run lyx.exe from command line and having it convert a file to a PDF using pdflatex? I am looking into something like:

Re: Appendix and document structure

2008-05-19 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Tim Michelsen wrote: Hello, I have a question concerning document structure. I am using the KOMA script report document class and want to have the following structure: Executive Summary (Section*) Part I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Part II Chapter 3 Annex A But in my Lyx TOC outline on the

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 08:29:19PM +0100, Marwan Boustany wrote: >> The default placement is typically not that bad as long as there is >> a sufficient amount of "regular" text in the documnet. >> >> Andre' > > I think the point with me is that I have text and graphics in a way that > the graphics

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Marwan Boustany
On Mon, 19 May 2008 19:49:35 +0100, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 05:51:50PM +0100, Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is it necessary to force very float to be 'here definitely' if I actually want it to be correctly placed in the text? Yes. I tried to lea

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Marwan Boustany
On Mon, 19 May 2008 19:45:03 +0100, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 19 May 2008, Marwan Boustany wrote: Actually, when i tried to copy it to another new lyx file, the defaults of my thesis document somehow went to the new one, so it was functioning with 'here definitely'

Re: Packages required under Linux

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel CLEMENT
On Tuesday 15 May 2008 17:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2008, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: > [...] > > own list of useful packages. I could post it here if someone asks, or > > maybe it could go to the Wiki page Peleg Michaeli has started. > > Please add it to the wiki page, I'

Re: Personal dictionary

2008-05-19 Thread G. Milde
On 16.05.08, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Rune Schjellerup Philosof wrote: >> Where is the default personal dictionary placed? > Which operating system? Info for all OSes is under http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/UserDir GM

Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns

2008-05-19 Thread Raymond Ouellette
Importing a spreadsheet is something I very often do in LyX but I use quite a different way! Usually my finished product is a pdf file, harder to edit and respecting exactly the formatting I want. Here is what I do in a few words: printing the spreadsheet table in a Postscript file, convert it in

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 05:51:50PM +0100, Marwan Boustany wrote: > Peace, > > Is it necessary to force very float to be 'here definitely' if I actually > want it to be correctly placed in the text? Yes. > I tried to leave all floats at default, and when the pdf was created, there > were floats

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Marwan Boustany wrote: Actually, when i tried to copy it to another new lyx file, the defaults of my thesis document somehow went to the new one, so it was functioning with 'here definitely' functionality' So I can post a portion which formats incorrectly... here it is as

Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns

2008-05-19 Thread jf7
Okay -- I've got 1.5.5 installed. When I import a csv file it separates the rows but not the columns. In looking at the converter I see that the python script is csv2lyx. I can't find that script on my system. Would it have been part of my lyx installation? (I installed the Mac Universal

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Marwan Boustany
Actually, when i tried to copy it to another new lyx file, the defaults of my thesis document somehow went to the new one, so it was functioning with 'here definitely' functionality' So I can post a portion which formats incorrectly... here it is as a lyx file. thank you for your help, -- Peac

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Marwan Boustany wrote: The preamble is empty, float placement is set at default in document settings, and all the floats are set at default. Though it must be stated that I had the default float positioning set at 'here definitely' for a while. Marwan, You're not using

Using lyx on the windows command line

2008-05-19 Thread Tim Michelsen
Using lyx on the windows command line Hello, I'd like to automatize the PDF-generation an publication of my Lyx-documents. I there I way that allows me to run lyx.exe from command line and having it convert a file to a PDF using pdflatex? I am looking into something like: lyx.exe input.lyx --for

Appendix and document structure

2008-05-19 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I have a question concerning document structure. I am using the KOMA script report document class and want to have the following structure: Executive Summary (Section*) Part I Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Part II Chapter 3 Annex A But in my Lyx TOC outline on the left sidepane as well

Problems with equations in tables

2008-05-19 Thread Tim Michelsen
Hello, I'd like to put a enumerated equation into a table. When I try this I get a lot of errors. There's already been a thread on this issue at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg130124.html But the answer given there doesn't solve the problem for me. May anyone please send me a

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5.5 (Universal) Released

2008-05-19 Thread Konrad Hofbauer
Honest Guvnor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is still unusable on OSX 10.3 because of multiple popups when > cutting-and-pasting (it is also slow but I could live with that). I > presume this can only be addressed by upgrading to the latest version > of OSX? I have tried to compile an X version w

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Marwan Boustany
On Mon, 19 May 2008 18:11:16 +0100, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 19 May 2008, Marwan Boustany wrote: Is it necessary to force very float to be 'here definitely' if I actually want it to be correctly placed in the text? That probably depends on how 'correctly' is def

Re: SVG to PDF

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 18 May 2008 04:39, Máté Salát wrote: > Hi, > > Nobody has any idea about LyX converters? I try again hoping to get a > respond. #!/bin/bash dianame=$1 gname=`echo $dianame | sed -e "s/\..*$//"` pdfname=$gname.pdf echo Converting $dianame to $pdfname inkscape --export-embed-fonts --export

ModernCV.cls changing the vertical spacing between lines

2008-05-19 Thread Singul4r1ty Matrix
In order to get my CV neatly fit in 2 pages I would like the change the vertical spacing, I looked at the cls file but couldnt find it! regards, Sing

Re: bug with alignement of minipages ?

2008-05-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
nicolas roy schrieb: I noticed something which looks to me like a small bug: If you have to minipages, with width = 45 % of the page width. They appear on the same line. Suppose you set the alignement to "top" for both. It works. But if the first one is with "shadow" (from the french "boite om

Re: Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Marwan Boustany wrote: Is it necessary to force very float to be 'here definitely' if I actually want it to be correctly placed in the text? That probably depends on how 'correctly' is defined. I tried to leave all floats at default, and when the pdf was created, there

Re: Packages required under Linux

2008-05-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 19 May 2008, dclement wrote: There's one thing I'd like to check, though: it's about the package qt4-qtconfig. I don't know how I came across this one, but I found it allowed to customize the LyX GUI menu size/font (default is much too small to my taste). The question is: do we really n

Re: Packages required under Linux

2008-05-19 Thread dclement
(I'm trying with Nabble; for whatever reason my messages don't reach the list) On Tuesday 15 May 2008 17:06 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2008, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: > [...] > > own list of useful packages. I could post it here if someone asks, or > > maybe it could go to

Re: Appendix question for koma-script book

2008-05-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Marwan Boustany schrieb: I was looking to see how to create a section for the appendix, a section which would have the bibliography after it. I saw code: - \begin{appendix} bla bla \end{appendix} But when I put this in nothing happens*, either as standard text or as ert text. (btw, \bla{bla

Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns

2008-05-19 Thread Uwe Stöhr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Okay -- I've got 1.5.5 installed. When I import a csv file it separates the rows but not the columns. In looking at the converter I see that the python script is csv2lyx. I can't find that script on my system. I attached the latest version of the script. It does now

Default Float placement is pathetic

2008-05-19 Thread Marwan Boustany
Peace, Is it necessary to force very float to be 'here definitely' if I actually want it to be correctly placed in the text? I tried to leave all floats at default, and when the pdf was created, there were floats in the middle of itemize lists, on the wrong pages and even in the wrong ord