Size of preview image
Hi, Is there any way to change the size LyX uses internally when creating the bitmaps for preview images? In many cases, the default size of the preview image is to small. I know that I can specify a preview scaling factor in the graphics settings, however, that causes the *bitmap* to be scaled -- which then becomes rather unreadable. Ideally, Lyx would create a new preview bitmap when the scale settings are changed. A maybe simpler way might be to create the bitmaps internally for a 200% scale factor and scale them down on screen. Daniel
Re: Finding Bad characters
Sebastian Rohrer wrote: The problem is most likely caused by some characters that I forgot to change after pasting from OOwriter. Is there any way to find those characters? It is very tedious by eye... In recent versions (1.5.5, if not earlier), you can find it by opening View-Source Code. The problematic characters are highlighted in red. Jürgen
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk. or you have some particular developer in mind? :)) Last time that I remember lyx2lyx was also a nice dream. :-) pavel -- José Abílio
1.6.x Beta 4 bug -- section heading.
Is anyone else finding it impossible to start a new section heading in LyX 1.6 beta 4? When I type some text and then try to select section from the drop down, nothing happens. The paragraph type is not altered but the section GUI does reflect my selection from the menu. At the moment, I am using the work-around of setting the environment to a paragraph and then decreasing the nesting depth. I was unable to find any mention of this in bugzilla. If others can confirm this problem, I'll add it. This problem exhibits itself in new and existing documents under Windows XP SP2. The problem goes away if I go back to Beta 3. Unfortunately, LyX complains that the converter cannot read the documents that have been saved under Beta 4. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture freelance writer
Adjacent Figures
While I thought that by using two minipages I could place two figures
side-by-side, they're not displaying properly. Perhaps someone here can help
me debug the problem.
Here's the scenario:
I defined a custom page size (tabloid, in landscape orientation) by
specifying the geometry package in the preamble:
\usepackage[paperwidth=17in,paperheight=11in,landscape]{geometry}
All I want on the page are two flowcharts drawn with PSTricks. I put each
flowchart in its own \begin{minipage} ... \end{minipage}, but I have not
defined a \pspicture environment within the minipages. If I put an \hfill
between the two minipages, there is no difference.
When I view the output in gv each flowchart is on a separate page.
Changing the gv page size to tabloid (and landscape) doesn't do any good.
A clue stick will be much appreciated.
Rich
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Lyx 1.5.2 errors on file that used to work
Hello, I have several documents that ran fine on LyX 1.5.2 on Windows XP in May. I got busy on something else for a few months and am now trying to edit the same documents. I had problems after making changes so reverted to the old versions and am still getting the following errors when trying to use view/pdflatex or view/pstopdf: LaTeX Error: Two \documentclass or \documentstyle commands. Package doc Error: Character table corrupted. Undefined control sequence. The document is a 'report' type and I can't find any place in the document that mentions document type again. The corrupted characters seem to have something to do with a right bracket } and tilde ~, but neither of those are in the document text. I get the same errors regardless of which file I run and even when I create a new document with only a chapter title. Does anyone have any ideas on how to find the sources of the errors? Also, any insight on why these files worked fine before but now will not create output? Would I be better off trying to update LyX to see if that helps? If so, what's the best way to upgrade to 1.5.5? Thanks, Tina Lamers
Math in a footnote
Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. Thank you for your time. Marwan -- Peace
Re: Math in a footnote
Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. This shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time. There must be some other issue. See if you can get the attached file to work. If not, we can start there. If so, there must be another issue in your file. rh math.lyx Description: application/lyx
Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI
Peace, All of a sudden 2 days ago I could no longer produce PDF, Postscript or DVI outputs from my Lyx document. I have the full Miktex 2.7 installation, up to date. Lyx 1.5.5.3 Vista premium I have restored my laptop, reinstalled both miktex and lyx and none of this has made any difference. What happens? I press the View PDF (pdflatex) button (I have tried them all, even from the drop down menu), and some brief processng takes place... then nothing! I recall from the past that while the pdf was being produced a number of sub processes would spawn from the Lyx process (I think, maybe miktex?)... but now... nothing. Just some proceesing with the lyx.exe... then nothing. Can anyone suggest something else I should try? I look forward to any useful suggestions. Thank you in advance, Marwan Boustany -- Peace
Re: 1.6.x Beta 4 bug -- section heading.
killermike wrote: I was unable to find any mention of this in bugzilla. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5053 Jürgen
Re: Math in a footnote
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:19:55 +0100, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. This shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time. There must be some other issue. See if you can get the attached file to work. If not, we can start there. If so, there must be another issue in your file. rh Peace, I tried to open it, you see what i saw in the three pictures. I have full miktex 2.7 installed, up to date. lyx 1.5.5.3 on windows xp sp3 Thank you for your time -- Peaceattachment: what i see.pngattachment: Error 1.pngattachment: error 2.png
Re: 1.6.x Beta 4 bug -- section heading.
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: killermike wrote: I was unable to find any mention of this in bugzilla. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5053 Damn. Sorry about that. I searched bugzilla without finding anything. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture freelance writer
Re: Math in a footnote
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:16:56 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. Thank you for your time. Marwan Peace, By the way my other email above on the lyx list Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI Was sent yesterday... and it was somehow delayed. This posting is from today where i have found what stopped my document being converted to pdf etc.. My apologies for the inconvenience. Marwan -- Peace
Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)
On 24.07.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: by the way - Uwe, i have hidden wish - would it be possible for you to produce ONE BIG LYX documentation for all the manuals together (plus lfuns.lyx) - each file could be one part for example... ? Would you only use it to search for information? In that case, maybe having a version exported to HTML would be useful? we can even put this as main documentation link from our official site. You don't mean as a single web page do you...? It'd be _huge_. It would be really nice to have a HTML version of the Guides -- as a directory of reasonable sized pages with all the nice hyperlinks and a big index ... while html version could be used for that too, i somehow like the idea, that we have one single huge pdf, we can call the Book :) Why not The Guide? Günter
Re: Math in a footnote
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:50:16 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:19:55 +0100, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. This shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time. There must be some other issue. See if you can get the attached file to work. If not, we can start there. If so, there must be another issue in your file. rh Peace, I tried to open it, you see what i saw in the three pictures. I have full miktex 2.7 installed, up to date. lyx 1.5.5.3 on windows xp sp3 Thank you for your time Ok the images are not available for download... Well I see the text and footnote... That was the what I see attachment. The first error says: The layout file requested by this document, paper. 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, LyX will not be able to produce output. The second error says: No inlormation or exporting the Format PDF (pdIlatex). Thank you for your time... -- Peace
Re: Finding Bad characters
On 25.07.08, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: Hi, I have a relatively large lyx document that does not compile. The error message is: Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could help. Actually, changing the encoding to utf8 will most probably *not* help (as utf8 is very limited in the range of supported characters). You could try changing to utf8x. This might help - maybe just by a more specific error message. Günter
Re: Math Macro
On 24.07.08, rgheck wrote:
Bruce Pourciau wrote:
A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an
\overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these
insertions in math mode as quick as possible?
Well, you can shorten \overrightarrow by defining a quick math-macro, e.g.:
\newcommand{\ora}[1]{\overrightarrow{#1}}
Remember that you can actually type that into LyX, then highlight it,
and hit Ctrl-M to declare the macro.
Good hint. (Should be put in the Math guide (if it is not already there and
it still works with the new math macros in 1.6).)
And then, if you like, you can define a shortcut for this: math-insert
\ora is the function you would want.
Well, with a shortcut defined in a bind file, you might even leave out
the math-macro definition and do
bind your key math-insert \overrightarrow
Günter
Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle
Hi all,
I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this
way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them
with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I get the following error
message:
LaXeX Error: Command \lyxcode already defined
I can use all Code1, or all Code2, or all LyX-Code, but if I have any two of
them in the document, I get an error like described above.
The attached mini document (1.5.3 produced) plus the mini-layout produce the
symptom.
Is there a simple way I can use CopyStyle with LyX-Code and not get this
error?
Thanks
SteveT
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lyxcodebug.lyx
Description: application/lyx
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[book]{lyxcodebug}
Input stdclass.inc
Input numreport.inc
Preamble
EndPreamble
Style Code1
CopyStyle LyX-Code
End
Style Code2
CopyStyle LyX-Code
End
Re: replace text
On 24.07.08, Manveru wrote: 2008/7/23 Christopher Reeve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe LyX need chemistry mode similar to the math mode (with certainly less options). In LyX 1.6, this could (probably) be done with a character style (similar to an URL, say). Günter
shrinking or spanning tables
Hi all, I have a few large tables that dissapear off the edges of their pages. Is there a way to shrink a whole table? Thanks :)
Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle FIX FOUND
On Sunday 27 July 2008 17:09, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this
way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them
with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I get the following
error message:
LaXeX Error: Command \lyxcode already defined
I can use all Code1, or all Code2, or all LyX-Code, but if I have any two
of them in the document, I get an error like described above.
The attached mini document (1.5.3 produced) plus the mini-layout produce
the symptom.
Is there a simple way I can use CopyStyle with LyX-Code and not get this
error?
Thanks
SteveT
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Recession Relief Package
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Hi all,
I found a fix I can use locally, and a fix that could be made with the LyX
distribution. Let me start with the latter...
LyX-Code is defined in lyxdir/layouts/lyxmacros.inc thusly:
Style LyX-Code
MarginStatic
LatexType Environment
LatexName lyxcode
NextNoIndent 1
LeftMarginMMM
RightMargin MMM
TopSep0.5
BottomSep 0.5
Align Left
AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center
LabelType No_Label
FreeSpacing 1
Preamble
\newenvironment{lyxcode}
{\begin{list}{}{
\setlength{\rightmargin}{\leftmargin}
\setlength{\listparindent}{0pt}% needed for AMS
classes
\raggedright
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
\normalfont\ttfamily}%
\item[]}
{\end{list}}
EndPreamble
Font
Family Typewriter
EndFont
End
Notice that the LaTeX environment, lyxcode, is defined within the LyX
environment definition, so if LyX-Code is mentioned twice, \lyxcode is
defined twice, which is an error.
To fix the problem, the developers could remove everything from Preamble to
EndPreamble in the LyX-Code definition, and put it after the Format 4 and
before any LyX style definitions. While you're at it, you might as well pull
the LaTeX definitions out of LyX environments Address and Right_Address,
because those will have the same problems with CopyStyle. Obviously, there
need be only a single Preamble/EndPreamble pair globally in this file.
It's nice and modular to put the LaTeX definition inside the LyX definition,
but doing so greatly reduces the value of CopyStyle, so I'd recommend against
it.
I didn't want to mess with the distribution, so I did the following locally,
within my layout file...
#
Preamble
\newenvironment{litt_lyxcode}
{\begin{list}{}{
\setlength{\rightmargin}{\leftmargin}
\setlength{\listparindent}{0pt}% needed for AMS classes
\raggedright
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
\normalfont\ttfamily}%
\item[]}
{\end{list}}
OTHER LATEX STUFF GOES HERE
EndPreamble
Style litt_LyX-Code
MarginStatic
LatexType Environment
LatexName litt_lyxcode
NextNoIndent 1
LeftMarginMMM
RightMargin MMM
TopSep0.5
BottomSep 0.5
Align Left
AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center
LabelType No_Label
FreeSpacing 1
Preamble
EndPreamble
Font
Family Typewriter
EndFont
End
Style Code
CopyStyle litt_LyX-Code
End
Style Codeinbox
CopyStyle litt_LyX-Code
End
Style Codetext
CopyStyle litt_LyX-Code
End
#
In other words, I copied and pasted \lyxcode to \litt_lyxcode within my layout
file, and copied and pasted LyX-Code (minus the Preamble/EndPreamble section)
to litt_LyX-Code within my layout file, and then did CopyStyle on
litt_LyX-Code. It worked perfectly!
Thanks
SteveT
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http://www.recession-relief.US
Re: shrinking or spanning tables
One thing you might try is to place the entire table inside
of
\tiny{
TABLE HERE
}
--- On Fri, 7/25/08, Glen Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Glen Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: shrinking or spanning tables
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Friday, July 25, 2008, 7:29 AM
Hi all,
I have a few large tables that dissapear off the edges of
their pages.
Is there a way to shrink a whole table?
Thanks :)
Re: Math Macro
rgheck wrote:
Bruce Pourciau wrote:
A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an
\overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these
insertions in math mode as quick as possible?
Well, you can shorten \overrightarrow by defining a quick math-macro, e.g.:
\newcommand{\ora}[1]{\overrightarrow{#1}}
Remember that you can actually type that into LyX, then highlight it,
and hit Ctrl-M to declare the macro. And then, if you like, you can
define a shortcut for this: math-insert \ora is the function you would
want.
FYI, you can also type 'math-macro ora 1' in the mini-buffer, then put
the cursor in the first of the two boxes in the created inset and type
'\#1' (omitting the quotes both times). The second box is irrelevant.
Does the same thing as what Richard suggested.
However, I'd be tempted to take a different route. Pick a key
combination you don't have much use for and bind it to 'math-insert
\overrightarrow'. Then whack that key combo while you're in a math
inset and type whatever your vectorizing under the arrow.
/Paul
Lyx for windows
I'm a long time user of Lyx for Linux, and recently installed it for windows at my new job. However, the math symbols (all Greek letters plus many of the symbols from the math panel) have a different letter or number appear on the screen. When I compile to dvi, the correct symbol is displayed, but the confusion in Lyx is disorienting. Is anyone familiar with this problem, or knows of a font solution that I can use? Thanks, Alexander Scott UAB radiology physics
Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Bob Lounsbury wrote: I just started using my Mac again with the Safari web browser and went to the LyX website to download the latest version. The homepage is displayed correctly, but when I click on any other link on the website like Download it looses the website style. I really don't know anything about websites so I don't know how to describe it, so I've attached a screenshot when I click on the Download link. Hi Bob, I can't repeat this with Opera on Windows, do you still see this problem? (I was doing stuff with the web backend, so maybe it's just your browser that needs to reload it's cache or something) Do others seem something strange when looking at the page: http://www.lyx.org/Download regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari
On Jul 27, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Bob Lounsbury wrote: I just started using my Mac again with the Safari web browser and went to the LyX website to download the latest version. The homepage is displayed correctly, but when I click on any other link on the website like Download it looses the website style. I really don't know anything about websites so I don't know how to describe it, so I've attached a screenshot when I click on the Download link. Hi Bob, I can't repeat this with Opera on Windows, do you still see this problem? (I was doing stuff with the web backend, so maybe it's just your browser that needs to reload it's cache or something) Do others seem something strange when looking at the page: http://www.lyx.org/Download Yes, I can reproduce it with Safari. When you follow a link from the homepage, the next page has a link to a non-existent stylesheet, http:/farm/pub/skins/lyx/lyx.css The correct URI should be http://www.lyx.org/farm/pub/skins/lyx/lyx.css (so the base URI isn't added) That's what causes the missing formating. Firefox is better at guessing what you meant here, but it really is an error that appears on all the other pages except for the lyx home page. Jens
Re: Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI
Peace. - Original Message - From: Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 2:38 PM Subject: Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI Peace, All of a sudden 2 days ago I could no longer produce PDF, Postscript or DVI outputs from my Lyx document. I have the full Miktex 2.7 installation, up to date. Lyx 1.5.5.3 Vista premium I have restored my laptop, reinstalled both miktex and lyx and none of this has made any difference. What happens? I press the View PDF (pdflatex) button (I have tried them all, even from the drop down menu), and some brief processng takes place... then nothing! I recall from the past that while the pdf was being produced a number of sub processes would spawn from the Lyx process (I think, maybe miktex?)... but now... nothing. Just some proceesing with the lyx.exe... then nothing. Can anyone suggest something else I should try? I look forward to any useful suggestions. Thank you in advance, Marwan Boustany -- Peace __ Informacin de NOD32, revisin 3301 (20080727) __ Este mensaje ha sido analizado con NOD32 antivirus system http://www.nod32.com
Re: Adjacent Figures
Try to use the environment subfigure and the other environment landscape
- Original Message -
From: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 12:45 AM
Subject: Adjacent Figures
While I thought that by using two minipages I could place two figures
side-by-side, they're not displaying properly. Perhaps someone here can
help
me debug the problem.
Here's the scenario:
I defined a custom page size (tabloid, in landscape orientation) by
specifying the geometry package in the preamble:
\usepackage[paperwidth=17in,paperheight=11in,landscape]{geometry}
All I want on the page are two flowcharts drawn with PSTricks. I put
each
flowchart in its own \begin{minipage} ... \end{minipage}, but I have not
defined a \pspicture environment within the minipages. If I put an \hfill
between the two minipages, there is no difference.
When I view the output in gv each flowchart is on a separate page.
Changing the gv page size to tabloid (and landscape) doesn't do any good.
A clue stick will be much appreciated.
Rich
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Re: Math in a footnote
Peace - Original Message - From: Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 10:16 PM Subject: Math in a footnote Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. Thank you for your time. Marwan -- Peace
Re: Math in a footnote
Peace - Original Message - From: Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 10:50 PM Subject: Re: Math in a footnote On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:19:55 +0100, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. This shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time. There must be some other issue. See if you can get the attached file to work. If not, we can start there. If so, there must be another issue in your file. rh Peace, I tried to open it, you see what i saw in the three pictures. I have full miktex 2.7 installed, up to date. lyx 1.5.5.3 on windows xp sp3 Thank you for your time -- Peace
Re: Math in a footnote
Peace - Original Message - From: Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 10:53 PM Subject: Re: Math in a footnote On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:16:56 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. Thank you for your time. Marwan Peace, By the way my other email above on the lyx list Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI Was sent yesterday... and it was somehow delayed. This posting is from today where i have found what stopped my document being converted to pdf etc.. My apologies for the inconvenience. Marwan -- Peace
Re: Math in a footnote
Peace - Original Message - From: Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 10:57 PM Subject: Re: Math in a footnote On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:50:16 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:19:55 +0100, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. This shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time. There must be some other issue. See if you can get the attached file to work. If not, we can start there. If so, there must be another issue in your file. rh Peace, I tried to open it, you see what i saw in the three pictures. I have full miktex 2.7 installed, up to date. lyx 1.5.5.3 on windows xp sp3 Thank you for your time Ok the images are not available for download... Well I see the text and footnote... That was the what I see attachment. The first error says: The layout file requested by this document, paper. 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, LyX will not be able to produce output. The second error says: No inlormation or exporting the Format PDF (pdIlatex). Thank you for your time... -- Peace
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk. or you have some particular developer in mind? :)) Last time that I remember lyx2lyx was also a nice dream. :-) you wanted to say docbook ? :)) pavel
Re: Finding Bad characters
On Friday 25 July 2008 06:28, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: Hi, I have a relatively large lyx document that does not compile. The error message is: Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could help. The problem is most likely caused by some characters that I forgot to change after pasting from OOwriter. Is there any way to find those characters? It is very tedious by eye... Thanks, Sebastian If you can list all the allowable characters including carriage return and/or linefeed, then you (or a friend like me) could write a C program to read each character, test it for inclusion in that set, and report on any characters (character ascii/unicode value and position in the file) that aren't in the set. I know nothing about unicode, so I'd need to be brought up to speed on that before writing the program. I assume unicode is a 16 bit representation of characters. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is remeber about. How many LyX user are working in large team projects? How often they have to merge text files from different branches? Have you ever merge XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I think LyX cannot exist with XML data format without build-in document merge functionality. If any one is thinking about proffesional usage of LyX. I saw some discussions about it, but I do not know whether it is in LyX or not. I do not need this feature yet. YAML is interesting idea, I saw use of it in one of Python frameworks (I don't remeber which one). But it stays in nische. I don't see libraries for YAML under active development right now. -- Manveru jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
Re: Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:38:36 +0100 Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest something else I should try? Run LyX from a command line (terminal) and check for messages on the screen. John
My MS Word to LyX conversion is more or less finished
Hi all, A couple days ago it took the entire day to change all the tables from markers to real tables. It was a tough job. Today I put in the 10 images into the book. What made it hard was that the old images were object embbedded Micrografx Windows Draw images. MGX Windows Draw was a wonderful program, probably better than Inkscape, but it's an orphan running only on Windows, and my only Windows machine is a Pentium II300 with 128 MB of RAM. Therefore, I had to reconstruct many of the images (they were diagrams) using the dia program, running a conversion program to convert the dia to .png, using Inkscape as the conversion mechanism. One distressing effect was that the LyX book ballooned out to 370 pages from the 309 in MS Word, even though I set the LyX margins about the same as the (wide and tall) MS Word margins. In both books the font was 12point -- I insist on all my books being 12point so that people with poor vision can read them. I think the problem is LyX puts more space after headings than I like. If that's a significant part of the problem, I can narrow that out in the layout file. Anyway, the mainmatter of the LyX book is essentially the same as the mainmatter of the MS Word book, so as soon as I do a few final checks, I'll begin making my 2008 revision of the book. Thanks for all of your help. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US
Re: Lyx for windows
Alexander Scott wrote: I'm a long time user of Lyx for Linux, and recently installed it for windows at my new job. However, the math symbols (all Greek letters plus many of the symbols from the math panel) have a different letter or number appear on the screen. When I compile to dvi, the correct symbol is displayed, but the confusion in Lyx is disorienting. Is anyone familiar with this problem, or knows of a font solution that I can use? It means the fonts LyX uses for math displays in the GUI aren't properly installed under Windows. Check that a .\Resources\fonts directory exists under your LyX program directory, and that it contains nine TrueType font files (.ttf) and the BaKoMa4LyX font license. If not, snag them here (ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX-1.1.zip) and unpack them. Now crank up the Windows font applet (from the Control Panel). If it shows any or all of those fonts installed, delete them in the font applet. Then reinstall them from the LyX fonts directory. Restart LyX and cross your fingers. /Paul
Re: shrinking or spanning tables
Glen Whitehead wrote: Hi all, I have a few large tables that dissapear off the edges of their pages. Is there a way to shrink a whole table? Thanks :) http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#toc17
Watermark across a book?
Is it possible to use Lyx to create a 'watermark' across all the pages of a book -- say, something in grey to read 'Unedited Rough Draft'? I've seen this on another draft copy of a book (not done in Lyx) and was wondering if similar capabilities existed here. Just need to use this while submitting books, which should not be taken as the final version. Thanks! FN -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Goa http://www.linkedin.com/in/fredericknoronha
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is remeber about. How many LyX user are working in large team projects? How often they have to merge text files from different branches? Have you ever merge XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I don't see why it would be harder if we just replace \begin...\end with .../. I think LyX cannot exist with XML data format without build-in document merge functionality. This would be nice in any case. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia
Re: Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI
Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, All of a sudden 2 days ago I could no longer produce PDF, Postscript or DVI outputs from my Lyx document. I have the full Miktex 2.7 installation, up to date. Lyx 1.5.5.3 Vista premium I have restored my laptop, reinstalled both miktex and lyx and none of this has made any difference. What happens? If you did a MikTeX update recently, you might need to regenerate your formats in MikTeX-Settings or on the command line via initexmf --dump. The cause are new hyphenantion patterns in MikTeX. HTH, Jürgen
Size of preview image
Hi, Is there any way to change the size LyX uses internally when creating the bitmaps for preview images? In many cases, the default size of the preview image is to small. I know that I can specify a preview scaling factor in the graphics settings, however, that causes the *bitmap* to be scaled -- which then becomes rather unreadable. Ideally, Lyx would create a new preview bitmap when the scale settings are changed. A maybe simpler way might be to create the bitmaps internally for a 200% scale factor and scale them down on screen. Daniel
Re: Finding Bad characters
Sebastian Rohrer wrote: The problem is most likely caused by some characters that I forgot to change after pasting from OOwriter. Is there any way to find those characters? It is very tedious by eye... In recent versions (1.5.5, if not earlier), you can find it by opening View-Source Code. The problematic characters are highlighted in red. Jürgen
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk. or you have some particular developer in mind? :)) Last time that I remember lyx2lyx was also a nice dream. :-) pavel -- José Abílio
1.6.x Beta 4 bug -- section heading.
Is anyone else finding it impossible to start a new section heading in LyX 1.6 beta 4? When I type some text and then try to select section from the drop down, nothing happens. The paragraph type is not altered but the section GUI does reflect my selection from the menu. At the moment, I am using the work-around of setting the environment to a paragraph and then decreasing the nesting depth. I was unable to find any mention of this in bugzilla. If others can confirm this problem, I'll add it. This problem exhibits itself in new and existing documents under Windows XP SP2. The problem goes away if I go back to Beta 3. Unfortunately, LyX complains that the converter cannot read the documents that have been saved under Beta 4. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture freelance writer
Adjacent Figures
While I thought that by using two minipages I could place two figures
side-by-side, they're not displaying properly. Perhaps someone here can help
me debug the problem.
Here's the scenario:
I defined a custom page size (tabloid, in landscape orientation) by
specifying the geometry package in the preamble:
\usepackage[paperwidth=17in,paperheight=11in,landscape]{geometry}
All I want on the page are two flowcharts drawn with PSTricks. I put each
flowchart in its own \begin{minipage} ... \end{minipage}, but I have not
defined a \pspicture environment within the minipages. If I put an \hfill
between the two minipages, there is no difference.
When I view the output in gv each flowchart is on a separate page.
Changing the gv page size to tabloid (and landscape) doesn't do any good.
A clue stick will be much appreciated.
Rich
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Lyx 1.5.2 errors on file that used to work
Hello, I have several documents that ran fine on LyX 1.5.2 on Windows XP in May. I got busy on something else for a few months and am now trying to edit the same documents. I had problems after making changes so reverted to the old versions and am still getting the following errors when trying to use view/pdflatex or view/pstopdf: LaTeX Error: Two \documentclass or \documentstyle commands. Package doc Error: Character table corrupted. Undefined control sequence. The document is a 'report' type and I can't find any place in the document that mentions document type again. The corrupted characters seem to have something to do with a right bracket } and tilde ~, but neither of those are in the document text. I get the same errors regardless of which file I run and even when I create a new document with only a chapter title. Does anyone have any ideas on how to find the sources of the errors? Also, any insight on why these files worked fine before but now will not create output? Would I be better off trying to update LyX to see if that helps? If so, what's the best way to upgrade to 1.5.5? Thanks, Tina Lamers
Math in a footnote
Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. Thank you for your time. Marwan -- Peace
Re: Math in a footnote
Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. This shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time. There must be some other issue. See if you can get the attached file to work. If not, we can start there. If so, there must be another issue in your file. rh math.lyx Description: application/lyx
Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI
Peace, All of a sudden 2 days ago I could no longer produce PDF, Postscript or DVI outputs from my Lyx document. I have the full Miktex 2.7 installation, up to date. Lyx 1.5.5.3 Vista premium I have restored my laptop, reinstalled both miktex and lyx and none of this has made any difference. What happens? I press the View PDF (pdflatex) button (I have tried them all, even from the drop down menu), and some brief processng takes place... then nothing! I recall from the past that while the pdf was being produced a number of sub processes would spawn from the Lyx process (I think, maybe miktex?)... but now... nothing. Just some proceesing with the lyx.exe... then nothing. Can anyone suggest something else I should try? I look forward to any useful suggestions. Thank you in advance, Marwan Boustany -- Peace
Re: 1.6.x Beta 4 bug -- section heading.
killermike wrote: I was unable to find any mention of this in bugzilla. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5053 Jürgen
Re: Math in a footnote
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:19:55 +0100, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. This shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time. There must be some other issue. See if you can get the attached file to work. If not, we can start there. If so, there must be another issue in your file. rh Peace, I tried to open it, you see what i saw in the three pictures. I have full miktex 2.7 installed, up to date. lyx 1.5.5.3 on windows xp sp3 Thank you for your time -- Peaceattachment: what i see.pngattachment: Error 1.pngattachment: error 2.png
Re: 1.6.x Beta 4 bug -- section heading.
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: killermike wrote: I was unable to find any mention of this in bugzilla. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5053 Damn. Sorry about that. I searched bugzilla without finding anything. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture freelance writer
Re: Math in a footnote
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:16:56 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. Thank you for your time. Marwan Peace, By the way my other email above on the lyx list Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI Was sent yesterday... and it was somehow delayed. This posting is from today where i have found what stopped my document being converted to pdf etc.. My apologies for the inconvenience. Marwan -- Peace
Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)
On 24.07.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: by the way - Uwe, i have hidden wish - would it be possible for you to produce ONE BIG LYX documentation for all the manuals together (plus lfuns.lyx) - each file could be one part for example... ? Would you only use it to search for information? In that case, maybe having a version exported to HTML would be useful? we can even put this as main documentation link from our official site. You don't mean as a single web page do you...? It'd be _huge_. It would be really nice to have a HTML version of the Guides -- as a directory of reasonable sized pages with all the nice hyperlinks and a big index ... while html version could be used for that too, i somehow like the idea, that we have one single huge pdf, we can call the Book :) Why not The Guide? Günter
Re: Math in a footnote
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:50:16 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:19:55 +0100, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. This shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time. There must be some other issue. See if you can get the attached file to work. If not, we can start there. If so, there must be another issue in your file. rh Peace, I tried to open it, you see what i saw in the three pictures. I have full miktex 2.7 installed, up to date. lyx 1.5.5.3 on windows xp sp3 Thank you for your time Ok the images are not available for download... Well I see the text and footnote... That was the what I see attachment. The first error says: The layout file requested by this document, paper. 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, LyX will not be able to produce output. The second error says: No inlormation or exporting the Format PDF (pdIlatex). Thank you for your time... -- Peace
Re: Finding Bad characters
On 25.07.08, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: Hi, I have a relatively large lyx document that does not compile. The error message is: Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could help. Actually, changing the encoding to utf8 will most probably *not* help (as utf8 is very limited in the range of supported characters). You could try changing to utf8x. This might help - maybe just by a more specific error message. Günter
Re: Math Macro
On 24.07.08, rgheck wrote:
Bruce Pourciau wrote:
A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an
\overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these
insertions in math mode as quick as possible?
Well, you can shorten \overrightarrow by defining a quick math-macro, e.g.:
\newcommand{\ora}[1]{\overrightarrow{#1}}
Remember that you can actually type that into LyX, then highlight it,
and hit Ctrl-M to declare the macro.
Good hint. (Should be put in the Math guide (if it is not already there and
it still works with the new math macros in 1.6).)
And then, if you like, you can define a shortcut for this: math-insert
\ora is the function you would want.
Well, with a shortcut defined in a bind file, you might even leave out
the math-macro definition and do
bind your key math-insert \overrightarrow
Günter
Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle
Hi all,
I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this
way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them
with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I get the following error
message:
LaXeX Error: Command \lyxcode already defined
I can use all Code1, or all Code2, or all LyX-Code, but if I have any two of
them in the document, I get an error like described above.
The attached mini document (1.5.3 produced) plus the mini-layout produce the
symptom.
Is there a simple way I can use CopyStyle with LyX-Code and not get this
error?
Thanks
SteveT
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http://www.recession-relief.US
lyxcodebug.lyx
Description: application/lyx
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[book]{lyxcodebug}
Input stdclass.inc
Input numreport.inc
Preamble
EndPreamble
Style Code1
CopyStyle LyX-Code
End
Style Code2
CopyStyle LyX-Code
End
Re: replace text
On 24.07.08, Manveru wrote: 2008/7/23 Christopher Reeve [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe LyX need chemistry mode similar to the math mode (with certainly less options). In LyX 1.6, this could (probably) be done with a character style (similar to an URL, say). Günter
shrinking or spanning tables
Hi all, I have a few large tables that dissapear off the edges of their pages. Is there a way to shrink a whole table? Thanks :)
Re: Difficulty with LyX-Code and Copystyle FIX FOUND
On Sunday 27 July 2008 17:09, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I'm not calling this a bug because maybe it was never intended to work this
way, but if I create and use two LyX styles, Code1 and Code2, each of them
with CopyStyle LyX-Code, then on conversion to PDF I get the following
error message:
LaXeX Error: Command \lyxcode already defined
I can use all Code1, or all Code2, or all LyX-Code, but if I have any two
of them in the document, I get an error like described above.
The attached mini document (1.5.3 produced) plus the mini-layout produce
the symptom.
Is there a simple way I can use CopyStyle with LyX-Code and not get this
error?
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Hi all,
I found a fix I can use locally, and a fix that could be made with the LyX
distribution. Let me start with the latter...
LyX-Code is defined in lyxdir/layouts/lyxmacros.inc thusly:
Style LyX-Code
MarginStatic
LatexType Environment
LatexName lyxcode
NextNoIndent 1
LeftMarginMMM
RightMargin MMM
TopSep0.5
BottomSep 0.5
Align Left
AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center
LabelType No_Label
FreeSpacing 1
Preamble
\newenvironment{lyxcode}
{\begin{list}{}{
\setlength{\rightmargin}{\leftmargin}
\setlength{\listparindent}{0pt}% needed for AMS
classes
\raggedright
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
\normalfont\ttfamily}%
\item[]}
{\end{list}}
EndPreamble
Font
Family Typewriter
EndFont
End
Notice that the LaTeX environment, lyxcode, is defined within the LyX
environment definition, so if LyX-Code is mentioned twice, \lyxcode is
defined twice, which is an error.
To fix the problem, the developers could remove everything from Preamble to
EndPreamble in the LyX-Code definition, and put it after the Format 4 and
before any LyX style definitions. While you're at it, you might as well pull
the LaTeX definitions out of LyX environments Address and Right_Address,
because those will have the same problems with CopyStyle. Obviously, there
need be only a single Preamble/EndPreamble pair globally in this file.
It's nice and modular to put the LaTeX definition inside the LyX definition,
but doing so greatly reduces the value of CopyStyle, so I'd recommend against
it.
I didn't want to mess with the distribution, so I did the following locally,
within my layout file...
#
Preamble
\newenvironment{litt_lyxcode}
{\begin{list}{}{
\setlength{\rightmargin}{\leftmargin}
\setlength{\listparindent}{0pt}% needed for AMS classes
\raggedright
\setlength{\itemsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\parsep}{0pt}
\normalfont\ttfamily}%
\item[]}
{\end{list}}
OTHER LATEX STUFF GOES HERE
EndPreamble
Style litt_LyX-Code
MarginStatic
LatexType Environment
LatexName litt_lyxcode
NextNoIndent 1
LeftMarginMMM
RightMargin MMM
TopSep0.5
BottomSep 0.5
Align Left
AlignPossible Block, Left, Right, Center
LabelType No_Label
FreeSpacing 1
Preamble
EndPreamble
Font
Family Typewriter
EndFont
End
Style Code
CopyStyle litt_LyX-Code
End
Style Codeinbox
CopyStyle litt_LyX-Code
End
Style Codetext
CopyStyle litt_LyX-Code
End
#
In other words, I copied and pasted \lyxcode to \litt_lyxcode within my layout
file, and copied and pasted LyX-Code (minus the Preamble/EndPreamble section)
to litt_LyX-Code within my layout file, and then did CopyStyle on
litt_LyX-Code. It worked perfectly!
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Re: shrinking or spanning tables
One thing you might try is to place the entire table inside
of
\tiny{
TABLE HERE
}
--- On Fri, 7/25/08, Glen Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Glen Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: shrinking or spanning tables
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Friday, July 25, 2008, 7:29 AM
Hi all,
I have a few large tables that dissapear off the edges of
their pages.
Is there a way to shrink a whole table?
Thanks :)
Re: Math Macro
rgheck wrote:
Bruce Pourciau wrote:
A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an
\overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these
insertions in math mode as quick as possible?
Well, you can shorten \overrightarrow by defining a quick math-macro, e.g.:
\newcommand{\ora}[1]{\overrightarrow{#1}}
Remember that you can actually type that into LyX, then highlight it,
and hit Ctrl-M to declare the macro. And then, if you like, you can
define a shortcut for this: math-insert \ora is the function you would
want.
FYI, you can also type 'math-macro ora 1' in the mini-buffer, then put
the cursor in the first of the two boxes in the created inset and type
'\#1' (omitting the quotes both times). The second box is irrelevant.
Does the same thing as what Richard suggested.
However, I'd be tempted to take a different route. Pick a key
combination you don't have much use for and bind it to 'math-insert
\overrightarrow'. Then whack that key combo while you're in a math
inset and type whatever your vectorizing under the arrow.
/Paul
Lyx for windows
I'm a long time user of Lyx for Linux, and recently installed it for windows at my new job. However, the math symbols (all Greek letters plus many of the symbols from the math panel) have a different letter or number appear on the screen. When I compile to dvi, the correct symbol is displayed, but the confusion in Lyx is disorienting. Is anyone familiar with this problem, or knows of a font solution that I can use? Thanks, Alexander Scott UAB radiology physics
Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Bob Lounsbury wrote: I just started using my Mac again with the Safari web browser and went to the LyX website to download the latest version. The homepage is displayed correctly, but when I click on any other link on the website like Download it looses the website style. I really don't know anything about websites so I don't know how to describe it, so I've attached a screenshot when I click on the Download link. Hi Bob, I can't repeat this with Opera on Windows, do you still see this problem? (I was doing stuff with the web backend, so maybe it's just your browser that needs to reload it's cache or something) Do others seem something strange when looking at the page: http://www.lyx.org/Download regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: LyX website displays incorrectly w/ Safari
On Jul 27, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Christian Ridderström wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008, Bob Lounsbury wrote: I just started using my Mac again with the Safari web browser and went to the LyX website to download the latest version. The homepage is displayed correctly, but when I click on any other link on the website like Download it looses the website style. I really don't know anything about websites so I don't know how to describe it, so I've attached a screenshot when I click on the Download link. Hi Bob, I can't repeat this with Opera on Windows, do you still see this problem? (I was doing stuff with the web backend, so maybe it's just your browser that needs to reload it's cache or something) Do others seem something strange when looking at the page: http://www.lyx.org/Download Yes, I can reproduce it with Safari. When you follow a link from the homepage, the next page has a link to a non-existent stylesheet, http:/farm/pub/skins/lyx/lyx.css The correct URI should be http://www.lyx.org/farm/pub/skins/lyx/lyx.css (so the base URI isn't added) That's what causes the missing formating. Firefox is better at guessing what you meant here, but it really is an error that appears on all the other pages except for the lyx home page. Jens
Re: Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI
Peace. - Original Message - From: Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 2:38 PM Subject: Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI Peace, All of a sudden 2 days ago I could no longer produce PDF, Postscript or DVI outputs from my Lyx document. I have the full Miktex 2.7 installation, up to date. Lyx 1.5.5.3 Vista premium I have restored my laptop, reinstalled both miktex and lyx and none of this has made any difference. What happens? I press the View PDF (pdflatex) button (I have tried them all, even from the drop down menu), and some brief processng takes place... then nothing! I recall from the past that while the pdf was being produced a number of sub processes would spawn from the Lyx process (I think, maybe miktex?)... but now... nothing. Just some proceesing with the lyx.exe... then nothing. Can anyone suggest something else I should try? I look forward to any useful suggestions. Thank you in advance, Marwan Boustany -- Peace __ Informacin de NOD32, revisin 3301 (20080727) __ Este mensaje ha sido analizado con NOD32 antivirus system http://www.nod32.com
Re: Adjacent Figures
Try to use the environment subfigure and the other environment landscape
- Original Message -
From: Rich Shepard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2008 12:45 AM
Subject: Adjacent Figures
While I thought that by using two minipages I could place two figures
side-by-side, they're not displaying properly. Perhaps someone here can
help
me debug the problem.
Here's the scenario:
I defined a custom page size (tabloid, in landscape orientation) by
specifying the geometry package in the preamble:
\usepackage[paperwidth=17in,paperheight=11in,landscape]{geometry}
All I want on the page are two flowcharts drawn with PSTricks. I put
each
flowchart in its own \begin{minipage} ... \end{minipage}, but I have not
defined a \pspicture environment within the minipages. If I put an \hfill
between the two minipages, there is no difference.
When I view the output in gv each flowchart is on a separate page.
Changing the gv page size to tabloid (and landscape) doesn't do any good.
A clue stick will be much appreciated.
Rich
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Re: Math in a footnote
Peace - Original Message - From: Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 10:16 PM Subject: Math in a footnote Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. Thank you for your time. Marwan -- Peace
Re: Math in a footnote
Peace - Original Message - From: Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 10:50 PM Subject: Re: Math in a footnote On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:19:55 +0100, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. This shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time. There must be some other issue. See if you can get the attached file to work. If not, we can start there. If so, there must be another issue in your file. rh Peace, I tried to open it, you see what i saw in the three pictures. I have full miktex 2.7 installed, up to date. lyx 1.5.5.3 on windows xp sp3 Thank you for your time -- Peace
Re: Math in a footnote
Peace - Original Message - From: Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 10:53 PM Subject: Re: Math in a footnote On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:16:56 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. Thank you for your time. Marwan Peace, By the way my other email above on the lyx list Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI Was sent yesterday... and it was somehow delayed. This posting is from today where i have found what stopped my document being converted to pdf etc.. My apologies for the inconvenience. Marwan -- Peace
Re: Math in a footnote
Peace - Original Message - From: Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 10:57 PM Subject: Re: Math in a footnote On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:50:16 +0100, Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:19:55 +0100, rgheck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. This shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time. There must be some other issue. See if you can get the attached file to work. If not, we can start there. If so, there must be another issue in your file. rh Peace, I tried to open it, you see what i saw in the three pictures. I have full miktex 2.7 installed, up to date. lyx 1.5.5.3 on windows xp sp3 Thank you for your time Ok the images are not available for download... Well I see the text and footnote... That was the what I see attachment. The first error says: The layout file requested by this document, paper. 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, LyX will not be able to produce output. The second error says: No inlormation or exporting the Format PDF (pdIlatex). Thank you for your time... -- Peace
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk. or you have some particular developer in mind? :)) Last time that I remember lyx2lyx was also a nice dream. :-) you wanted to say docbook ? :)) pavel
Re: Finding Bad characters
On Friday 25 July 2008 06:28, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: Hi, I have a relatively large lyx document that does not compile. The error message is: Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could help. The problem is most likely caused by some characters that I forgot to change after pasting from OOwriter. Is there any way to find those characters? It is very tedious by eye... Thanks, Sebastian If you can list all the allowable characters including carriage return and/or linefeed, then you (or a friend like me) could write a C program to read each character, test it for inclusion in that set, and report on any characters (character ascii/unicode value and position in the file) that aren't in the set. I know nothing about unicode, so I'd need to be brought up to speed on that before writing the program. I assume unicode is a 16 bit representation of characters. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is remeber about. How many LyX user are working in large team projects? How often they have to merge text files from different branches? Have you ever merge XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I think LyX cannot exist with XML data format without build-in document merge functionality. If any one is thinking about proffesional usage of LyX. I saw some discussions about it, but I do not know whether it is in LyX or not. I do not need this feature yet. YAML is interesting idea, I saw use of it in one of Python frameworks (I don't remeber which one). But it stays in nische. I don't see libraries for YAML under active development right now. -- Manveru jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
Re: Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:38:36 +0100 Marwan Boustany [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest something else I should try? Run LyX from a command line (terminal) and check for messages on the screen. John
My MS Word to LyX conversion is more or less finished
Hi all, A couple days ago it took the entire day to change all the tables from markers to real tables. It was a tough job. Today I put in the 10 images into the book. What made it hard was that the old images were object embbedded Micrografx Windows Draw images. MGX Windows Draw was a wonderful program, probably better than Inkscape, but it's an orphan running only on Windows, and my only Windows machine is a Pentium II300 with 128 MB of RAM. Therefore, I had to reconstruct many of the images (they were diagrams) using the dia program, running a conversion program to convert the dia to .png, using Inkscape as the conversion mechanism. One distressing effect was that the LyX book ballooned out to 370 pages from the 309 in MS Word, even though I set the LyX margins about the same as the (wide and tall) MS Word margins. In both books the font was 12point -- I insist on all my books being 12point so that people with poor vision can read them. I think the problem is LyX puts more space after headings than I like. If that's a significant part of the problem, I can narrow that out in the layout file. Anyway, the mainmatter of the LyX book is essentially the same as the mainmatter of the MS Word book, so as soon as I do a few final checks, I'll begin making my 2008 revision of the book. Thanks for all of your help. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US
Re: Lyx for windows
Alexander Scott wrote: I'm a long time user of Lyx for Linux, and recently installed it for windows at my new job. However, the math symbols (all Greek letters plus many of the symbols from the math panel) have a different letter or number appear on the screen. When I compile to dvi, the correct symbol is displayed, but the confusion in Lyx is disorienting. Is anyone familiar with this problem, or knows of a font solution that I can use? It means the fonts LyX uses for math displays in the GUI aren't properly installed under Windows. Check that a .\Resources\fonts directory exists under your LyX program directory, and that it contains nine TrueType font files (.ttf) and the BaKoMa4LyX font license. If not, snag them here (ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX-1.1.zip) and unpack them. Now crank up the Windows font applet (from the Control Panel). If it shows any or all of those fonts installed, delete them in the font applet. Then reinstall them from the LyX fonts directory. Restart LyX and cross your fingers. /Paul
Re: shrinking or spanning tables
Glen Whitehead wrote: Hi all, I have a few large tables that dissapear off the edges of their pages. Is there a way to shrink a whole table? Thanks :) http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#toc17
Watermark across a book?
Is it possible to use Lyx to create a 'watermark' across all the pages of a book -- say, something in grey to read 'Unedited Rough Draft'? I've seen this on another draft copy of a book (not done in Lyx) and was wondering if similar capabilities existed here. Just need to use this while submitting books, which should not be taken as the final version. Thanks! FN -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Goa http://www.linkedin.com/in/fredericknoronha
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is remeber about. How many LyX user are working in large team projects? How often they have to merge text files from different branches? Have you ever merge XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I don't see why it would be harder if we just replace \begin...\end with .../. I think LyX cannot exist with XML data format without build-in document merge functionality. This would be nice in any case. -- John C. McCabe-Dansted PhD Student University of Western Australia
Re: Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI
Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, All of a sudden 2 days ago I could no longer produce PDF, Postscript or DVI outputs from my Lyx document. I have the full Miktex 2.7 installation, up to date. Lyx 1.5.5.3 Vista premium I have restored my laptop, reinstalled both miktex and lyx and none of this has made any difference. What happens? If you did a MikTeX update recently, you might need to regenerate your formats in MikTeX-Settings or on the command line via initexmf --dump. The cause are new hyphenantion patterns in MikTeX. HTH, Jürgen
Size of preview image
Hi, Is there any way to change the size LyX uses internally when creating the bitmaps for preview images? In many cases, the default size of the preview image is to small. I know that I can specify a preview scaling factor in the graphics settings, however, that causes the *bitmap* to be scaled -- which then becomes rather unreadable. Ideally, Lyx would create a new preview bitmap when the scale settings are changed. A maybe simpler way might be to create the bitmaps internally for a 200% scale factor and scale them down on screen. Daniel
Re: Finding "Bad" characters
Sebastian Rohrer wrote: > The problem is most likely caused by some characters that I forgot to > change after pasting from OOwriter. Is there any way to find those > characters? It is very tedious by eye... In recent versions (1.5.5, if not earlier), you can find it by opening "View->Source Code". The problematic characters are highlighted in red. Jürgen
Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: > frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. > my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will > happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk. > > or you have some particular developer in mind? :)) Last time that I remember lyx2lyx was also a nice dream. :-) > pavel -- José Abílio
1.6.x Beta 4 bug -- section heading.
Is anyone else finding it impossible to start a new section heading in LyX 1.6 beta 4? When I type some text and then try to select "section" from the drop down, nothing happens. The paragraph type is not altered but the section GUI does reflect my selection from the menu. At the moment, I am using the work-around of setting the environment to a paragraph and then decreasing the nesting depth. I was unable to find any mention of this in bugzilla. If others can confirm this problem, I'll add it. This problem exhibits itself in new and existing documents under Windows XP SP2. The problem goes away if I go back to Beta 3. Unfortunately, LyX complains that the converter cannot read the documents that have been saved under Beta 4. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture freelance writer
Adjacent Figures
While I thought that by using two minipages I could place two figures
side-by-side, they're not displaying properly. Perhaps someone here can help
me debug the problem.
Here's the scenario:
I defined a custom page size (tabloid, in landscape orientation) by
specifying the geometry package in the preamble:
\usepackage[paperwidth=17in,paperheight=11in,landscape]{geometry}
All I want on the page are two flowcharts drawn with PSTricks. I put each
flowchart in its own \begin{minipage} ... \end{minipage}, but I have not
defined a \pspicture environment within the minipages. If I put an \hfill
between the two minipages, there is no difference.
When I view the output in gv each flowchart is on a separate page.
Changing the gv page size to tabloid (and landscape) doesn't do any good.
A clue stick will be much appreciated.
Rich
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Lyx 1.5.2 errors on file that used to work
Hello, I have several documents that ran fine on LyX 1.5.2 on Windows XP in May. I got busy on something else for a few months and am now trying to edit the same documents. I had problems after making changes so reverted to the old versions and am still getting the following errors when trying to use view/pdflatex or view/pstopdf: LaTeX Error: Two \documentclass or \documentstyle commands. Package doc Error: Character table corrupted. Undefined control sequence. The document is a 'report' type and I can't find any place in the document that mentions document type again. The corrupted characters seem to have something to do with a right bracket } and tilde ~, but neither of those are in the document text. I get the same errors regardless of which file I run and even when I create a new document with only a chapter title. Does anyone have any ideas on how to find the sources of the errors? Also, any insight on why these files worked fine before but now will not create output? Would I be better off trying to update LyX to see if that helps? If so, what's the best way to upgrade to 1.5.5? Thanks, Tina Lamers
Math in a footnote
Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. Thank you for your time. Marwan -- Peace
Re: Math in a footnote
Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. This shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time. There must be some other issue. See if you can get the attached file to work. If not, we can start there. If so, there must be another issue in your file. rh math.lyx Description: application/lyx
Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI
Peace, All of a sudden 2 days ago I could no longer produce PDF, Postscript or DVI outputs from my Lyx document. I have the full Miktex 2.7 installation, up to date. Lyx 1.5.5.3 Vista premium I have restored my laptop, reinstalled both miktex and lyx and none of this has made any difference. What happens? I press the View PDF (pdflatex) button (I have tried them all, even from the drop down menu), and some brief processng takes place... then nothing! I recall from the past that while the pdf was being produced a number of sub processes would spawn from the Lyx process (I think, maybe miktex?)... but now... nothing. Just some proceesing with the lyx.exe... then nothing. Can anyone suggest something else I should try? I look forward to any useful suggestions. Thank you in advance, Marwan Boustany -- Peace
Re: 1.6.x Beta 4 bug -- section heading.
killermike wrote: > I was unable to find any mention of this in bugzilla. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5053 Jürgen
Re: Math in a footnote
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:19:55 +0100, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. This shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time. There must be some other issue. See if you can get the attached file to work. If not, we can start there. If so, there must be another issue in your file. rh Peace, I tried to open it, you see what i saw in the three pictures. I have full miktex 2.7 installed, up to date. lyx 1.5.5.3 on windows xp sp3 Thank you for your time -- Peace<><><>
Re: 1.6.x Beta 4 bug -- section heading.
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: killermike wrote: I was unable to find any mention of this in bugzilla. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5053 Damn. Sorry about that. I searched bugzilla without finding anything. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture freelance writer
Re: Math in a footnote
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:16:56 +0100, Marwan Boustany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. Thank you for your time. Marwan Peace, By the way my other email above on the lyx list "Cannot produce PDF, Postscript or DVI" Was sent yesterday... and it was somehow delayed. This posting is from today where i have found what stopped my document being converted to pdf etc.. My apologies for the inconvenience. Marwan -- Peace
Re: Documentation of LyX functions (aka LFUNs)
On 24.07.08, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: > >> by the way - Uwe, i have hidden wish - would it be possible for you to > >> produce ONE BIG LYX documentation for all the manuals together (plus > >> lfuns.lyx) - each file could be one part for example... ? > > > > Would you only use it to search for information? In that case, maybe having > > a version exported to HTML would be useful? > > > >> we can even put this as main documentation link from our official site. > > > > You don't mean as a single web page do you...? It'd be _huge_. It would be really nice to have a HTML version of the Guides -- as a directory of reasonable sized pages with all the nice hyperlinks and a big index ... > while html version could be used for that too, i somehow like the idea, that > we have one single huge pdf, we can call the Book :) Why not "The Guide"? Günter
Re: Math in a footnote
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:50:16 +0100, Marwan Boustany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:19:55 +0100, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marwan Boustany wrote: Peace, Is there a way to put math (using ctrl-m in windows) into a footnote? When I tried, the document would not allow conversion into pdf or any other format. Only when removed would it work. This shouldn't be a problem. I do it all the time. There must be some other issue. See if you can get the attached file to work. If not, we can start there. If so, there must be another issue in your file. rh Peace, I tried to open it, you see what i saw in the three pictures. I have full miktex 2.7 installed, up to date. lyx 1.5.5.3 on windows xp sp3 Thank you for your time Ok the images are not available for download... Well I see the text and footnote... That was the what I see attachment. The first error says: The layout file requested by this document, paper. 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, LyX will not be able to produce output. The second error says: No inlormation or exporting the Format PDF (pdIlatex). Thank you for your time... -- Peace
Re: Finding "Bad" characters
On 25.07.08, Sebastian Rohrer wrote: > Hi, > I have a relatively large lyx document that does not compile. The error > message is: > "Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the > chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could help." Actually, changing the encoding to utf8 will most probably *not* help (as utf8 is very limited in the range of supported characters). You could try changing to utf8x. This might help - maybe just by a more specific error message. Günter
