Re: table prefix in appendix

[Hartmann Sybill]

Hartmann Sybill hartmannsyb...@... writes:

 
 Dear LyXers,
 
 I would like to reference some figures and tables, which are in the appendix
 of my book. That works just fine in LyX.  My problem now is the following.
 In LyX I get labels suchs as Table A.1 or Figure A.2 and so on. I would
 like to have in my pdf the same way, but in the pdf I get Table .1 and
 Figure .2 and so on. The letters are gone. How can I change that?
 
 Thank you in advance!
 
 Hartmann

I found my problem: 
I had \backmatter involved, which killed the appendix prefix

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.1

[Uwe Stöhr]

Hello LyXers,

I forgot to announce the alternative Windows installer for LyX 1.6.1, that is available since a few 
days.


This installer comes again with an update installer to update existing LyX 1.6.0 installation to LyX 
1.6.1. NOTE: To be able to use this installer version, LyX 1.6.0 must have been installed with the 
alternative Windows installer.


-

The installer for this version can be downloaded from:
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=15560
and
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.1/

(General infos about the installer can be found here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller )

Installer Changelog:
-
Version 4.16
- LyX 1.6.1
- updated to MiKTeX 2.7 (build 3248)
- updated to ImageMagick 6.4.7-7
- fix unnecessary refreshing of Aspell dictionaries when no new
  dictionary was installed
-

happy LyXing and a happy new year
Uwe

Re: Show pagebreaks in the editor?

[Michael Wojcik]

rgheck wrote:
 Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
 I guess he was just not aware that [showing page breaks] is actually
 not feasible in LyX, as Richard G. Heck kindly explained.

 What if it would be feasible ? Would it be an added value or is it too
 the-non-tex-way ?

 I don't see the value myself. As I said before, in LaTeX (unlike in
 Word) page breaks can change by the character, as paragraphs are
 re-broken and floats are repositioned. I guess that makes me think that
 it isn't even feasible---where do floats appear, vis-a-vis page breaks?
 But even if it were, it encourages one to think in the wrong terms, at
 least during the document-creation process.

I think even that statement might be a more-generous take on the
matter than I would have.

There are two ways a LaTeX editor could show page breaks: by guessing,
which is likely to be inaccurate (so of little value), not to mention
a huge amount of work; or by continually rerunning the toolchain (as
with Instant Preview, but greatly aggravated), which is impractical
and a waste of resources.

More importantly, looking for formatting results such as the location
of page breaks from LyX contradicts the entire design philosophy
behind late-formatting document production toolchains. There are
early-formatting toolchains (so-called WYSIWYG word processors) for
those who want early formatting. TeX, LaTeX, and LyX are not designed
that way.

And, as Richard says, early formatting conflates content and
presentation. There's a reason why the Greek rhetors put style and
delivery in separate canons: we can only concentrate on so many
details at once.

As with most things, there are different benefits and costs to early
and late rendering. Trying to make one tool do both is likely to
produce something with the faults of each.

That doesn't mean it's not useful to ask these questions, of course.
Understanding why LyX doesn't show page breaks means understanding the
principle of late rendering, and hopefully why it's valuable.

-- 
Michael Wojcik
Micro Focus
Rhetoric  Writing, Michigan State University

Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

[Dieter Jurzitza]

Dear listmembers,
I stumbled over (and found the hint in the documentation) that you are forced 
to add a whitespace at the end of any raw TeX-insert.

I understand that the TeX - insert is not encapsulated, i. e. it is intended 
to have impact on LyX code that follows.

However I would like to ask why LyX cannot insert Whitespace (i. e. a single 
blank) at the end of a TeX insert and why a blank _following_ a TeX insert is 
not guarded by some means.

Example - (the %-sign stands for start-end of TeX insert within LyX) if you 
say

The difference between %\TeX% and %\LyX% is bla bla ...

You will end in _no_ space between TeX and and, you will get

.. between TeXand LyXis bla bla ...

So a fist point would be to add to the (very good!) manual a hint 
that closed TeX inserts such as %\TeX% should in any case be bracketed to 
depict clearly that the following whitespace should be paid attention to. 
Simply adding a blank is not enough. You have to say %{\TeX}% to get the 
following blank in effect.

Therefore I would like to rise two points you may - or may not - share.

1.) put automatically a blank as whitespace at the end of each TeX-insert 
before closing it. 
2.) protect a whitespace follwing a TeX-insert if there is one - assume that 
the user intentionally puts a whitespace there.

Maybe I overlooked something - but for now I cannot see a good reason not to 
do this. I personally think that the results would be closer to what the user 
expects. If I insert a blank after a TeX-insert I (personally) expect it to 
be intentional and it is hard to understand (not being a TeXnician) why it is 
not remaining where I have been putting it to - even worse it is not easy to 
know the rule how to avoid that it is vanishing in the dark.

This is just the outcome from some testing - apart from this I like LyX 1.6 
very much and the option to have several texts open in parallel is simply 
great!

Thank you very much for working on this program,
take care



Dieter Jurzitza

-- 
---

   |
\
 /\_/\   |
| ~x~ |/-\   /
 \   /-   \_/
  ^^__   _/  _     /
 °°__ \- \_/ |  |/|  |
  ||  || _| _|_| _|

if you really want to see the pictures above - use some font
with constant spacing like courier! :-)
---

Landscape Book

[Bob Wonderly]

I want to create a short math book that incorporates mostly large PDF 
graphs (generated by gnuplot). These graphs need to be displayed 
landscape. There will be some explanatory text and equations. How can I 
make the whole book landscape format?


Thus far my attempts are only displaying part of the graphs and the text 
is still portrait.


I looked at the FAQ's and did specify \usepackage{lscape}.

OT. Editor for texinfo.

[mario m]

Hi,

i am thiking to use texinfo for a project. 
Is there a nice editor, something I may use for texinfo as I use lyx for
tex?
(May I use lyx itself? how?)
thanks
greetings
mario

Re: OT. Editor for texinfo.

[Typhoon]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:52:44 +
mario m m...@mariochiari.net wrote:

 Hi,
 
 i am thiking to use texinfo for a project. 
 Is there a nice editor, something I may use for texinfo as I use lyx
 for tex?
 (May I use lyx itself? how?)
 thanks
 greetings
 mario

Texinfo and Emacs go together like  well, like Texinfo and Emacs.

Alan

 
 
 

Re: Landscape Book

[Bennett Helm]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Bob Wonderly rwon...@attglobal.net wrote:
 I want to create a short math book that incorporates mostly large PDF graphs
 (generated by gnuplot). These graphs need to be displayed landscape. There
 will be some explanatory text and equations. How can I make the whole book
 landscape format?

 Thus far my attempts are only displaying part of the graphs and the text is
 still portrait.

 I looked at the FAQ's and did specify \usepackage{lscape}.


Document  Settings  Page Layout  Orientation

Bennett

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.1 is released

[Liviu Andronic]

Dear all,
I've just built LyX 1.6.1 on my system, and wanted to thank for the
devel's efforts. Per all the application does not feel that different
from the 1.5.x series, however it feels much more usable. And beamer
documents compile, so I'm happy.
Happy holidays,
Liviu

PS Only a glitch with my article CV, but hope I can solve it. It
seems a glitch on handling figures.


On 12/15/08, Jürgen Spitzmüller juer...@spitzmueller.org wrote:
 Public release of LyX version 1.6.1
  ===

  We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.1. This is the first
  maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and as such, it mainly
  focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major problems that slipped
  into the application in the wake of the new features.

lilypond in LyX 6.1

[jf7]

Hi, I am trying to insert a lilypond file with InsertFileExternal  
MaterialLilyPond in a LyX 6.1 doc. It seems to need an .eps or .ps  
doc as a conversion from the .ly lilypond file.


I can import a pdf but that's not workable because it does a whole page.

I'm using TexShop on a Mac if that's pertinent.

Does anyone know how I can do this since it's been a listed feature for while?

Seems to need some info in Preferences - File Formats for the LilyPond  
Music item.


thanks much,
jamie faunt

Slashdot article

[killermike]

I noticed some LyX banter on a Slashdot article.

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/21/1837256

/I have questions for those of you who have written books: what 
writing tools have you found helpful? I want to start my book off right 
(so I'm pretty sure I don't want to write it in MS Word). What has and 
has not worked well for you?/


--
http://www.unmusic.co.uk/ Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture 
freelance writer. Buy my article compilation book, Tech Book 1.

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

[David Mertens]

 1.) put automatically a blank as whitespace at the end of each TeX-insert
 before closing it.
 2.) protect a whitespace follwing a TeX-insert if there is one - assume
 that
 the user intentionally puts a whitespace there.


Something tells me this has been discussed before, but since Dieter posted
on it... I'm going to second Dieter's curiosity and vote for #2.  I had lots
of trouble with this when creating a presentation using powerdot, in which
case (for my particular use) the ert was meant to modify the normal text
that followed, but for which I needed a space between the tex and the
regular text.  I eventually figured it out, but I never understood why my
space had to be in the ert.

David

Re: table prefix in appendix

[Hartmann Sybill]

Hartmann Sybill hartmannsyb...@... writes:

 
 Dear LyXers,
 
 I would like to reference some figures and tables, which are in the appendix
 of my book. That works just fine in LyX.  My problem now is the following.
 In LyX I get labels suchs as Table A.1 or Figure A.2 and so on. I would
 like to have in my pdf the same way, but in the pdf I get Table .1 and
 Figure .2 and so on. The letters are gone. How can I change that?
 
 Thank you in advance!
 
 Hartmann

I found my problem: 
I had \backmatter involved, which killed the appendix prefix

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.1

[Uwe Stöhr]

Hello LyXers,

I forgot to announce the alternative Windows installer for LyX 1.6.1, that is available since a few 
days.


This installer comes again with an update installer to update existing LyX 1.6.0 installation to LyX 
1.6.1. NOTE: To be able to use this installer version, LyX 1.6.0 must have been installed with the 
alternative Windows installer.


-

The installer for this version can be downloaded from:
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=15560
and
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.1/

(General infos about the installer can be found here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller )

Installer Changelog:
-
Version 4.16
- LyX 1.6.1
- updated to MiKTeX 2.7 (build 3248)
- updated to ImageMagick 6.4.7-7
- fix unnecessary refreshing of Aspell dictionaries when no new
  dictionary was installed
-

happy LyXing and a happy new year
Uwe

Re: Show pagebreaks in the editor?

[Michael Wojcik]

rgheck wrote:
 Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
 I guess he was just not aware that [showing page breaks] is actually
 not feasible in LyX, as Richard G. Heck kindly explained.

 What if it would be feasible ? Would it be an added value or is it too
 the-non-tex-way ?

 I don't see the value myself. As I said before, in LaTeX (unlike in
 Word) page breaks can change by the character, as paragraphs are
 re-broken and floats are repositioned. I guess that makes me think that
 it isn't even feasible---where do floats appear, vis-a-vis page breaks?
 But even if it were, it encourages one to think in the wrong terms, at
 least during the document-creation process.

I think even that statement might be a more-generous take on the
matter than I would have.

There are two ways a LaTeX editor could show page breaks: by guessing,
which is likely to be inaccurate (so of little value), not to mention
a huge amount of work; or by continually rerunning the toolchain (as
with Instant Preview, but greatly aggravated), which is impractical
and a waste of resources.

More importantly, looking for formatting results such as the location
of page breaks from LyX contradicts the entire design philosophy
behind late-formatting document production toolchains. There are
early-formatting toolchains (so-called WYSIWYG word processors) for
those who want early formatting. TeX, LaTeX, and LyX are not designed
that way.

And, as Richard says, early formatting conflates content and
presentation. There's a reason why the Greek rhetors put style and
delivery in separate canons: we can only concentrate on so many
details at once.

As with most things, there are different benefits and costs to early
and late rendering. Trying to make one tool do both is likely to
produce something with the faults of each.

That doesn't mean it's not useful to ask these questions, of course.
Understanding why LyX doesn't show page breaks means understanding the
principle of late rendering, and hopefully why it's valuable.

-- 
Michael Wojcik
Micro Focus
Rhetoric  Writing, Michigan State University

Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

[Dieter Jurzitza]

Dear listmembers,
I stumbled over (and found the hint in the documentation) that you are forced 
to add a whitespace at the end of any raw TeX-insert.

I understand that the TeX - insert is not encapsulated, i. e. it is intended 
to have impact on LyX code that follows.

However I would like to ask why LyX cannot insert Whitespace (i. e. a single 
blank) at the end of a TeX insert and why a blank _following_ a TeX insert is 
not guarded by some means.

Example - (the %-sign stands for start-end of TeX insert within LyX) if you 
say

The difference between %\TeX% and %\LyX% is bla bla ...

You will end in _no_ space between TeX and and, you will get

.. between TeXand LyXis bla bla ...

So a fist point would be to add to the (very good!) manual a hint 
that closed TeX inserts such as %\TeX% should in any case be bracketed to 
depict clearly that the following whitespace should be paid attention to. 
Simply adding a blank is not enough. You have to say %{\TeX}% to get the 
following blank in effect.

Therefore I would like to rise two points you may - or may not - share.

1.) put automatically a blank as whitespace at the end of each TeX-insert 
before closing it. 
2.) protect a whitespace follwing a TeX-insert if there is one - assume that 
the user intentionally puts a whitespace there.

Maybe I overlooked something - but for now I cannot see a good reason not to 
do this. I personally think that the results would be closer to what the user 
expects. If I insert a blank after a TeX-insert I (personally) expect it to 
be intentional and it is hard to understand (not being a TeXnician) why it is 
not remaining where I have been putting it to - even worse it is not easy to 
know the rule how to avoid that it is vanishing in the dark.

This is just the outcome from some testing - apart from this I like LyX 1.6 
very much and the option to have several texts open in parallel is simply 
great!

Thank you very much for working on this program,
take care



Dieter Jurzitza

-- 
---

   |
\
 /\_/\   |
| ~x~ |/-\   /
 \   /-   \_/
  ^^__   _/  _     /
 °°__ \- \_/ |  |/|  |
  ||  || _| _|_| _|

if you really want to see the pictures above - use some font
with constant spacing like courier! :-)
---

Landscape Book

[Bob Wonderly]

I want to create a short math book that incorporates mostly large PDF 
graphs (generated by gnuplot). These graphs need to be displayed 
landscape. There will be some explanatory text and equations. How can I 
make the whole book landscape format?


Thus far my attempts are only displaying part of the graphs and the text 
is still portrait.


I looked at the FAQ's and did specify \usepackage{lscape}.

OT. Editor for texinfo.

[mario m]

Hi,

i am thiking to use texinfo for a project. 
Is there a nice editor, something I may use for texinfo as I use lyx for
tex?
(May I use lyx itself? how?)
thanks
greetings
mario

Re: OT. Editor for texinfo.

[Typhoon]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:52:44 +
mario m m...@mariochiari.net wrote:

 Hi,
 
 i am thiking to use texinfo for a project. 
 Is there a nice editor, something I may use for texinfo as I use lyx
 for tex?
 (May I use lyx itself? how?)
 thanks
 greetings
 mario

Texinfo and Emacs go together like  well, like Texinfo and Emacs.

Alan

 
 
 

Re: Landscape Book

[Bennett Helm]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Bob Wonderly rwon...@attglobal.net wrote:
 I want to create a short math book that incorporates mostly large PDF graphs
 (generated by gnuplot). These graphs need to be displayed landscape. There
 will be some explanatory text and equations. How can I make the whole book
 landscape format?

 Thus far my attempts are only displaying part of the graphs and the text is
 still portrait.

 I looked at the FAQ's and did specify \usepackage{lscape}.


Document  Settings  Page Layout  Orientation

Bennett

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.1 is released

[Liviu Andronic]

Dear all,
I've just built LyX 1.6.1 on my system, and wanted to thank for the
devel's efforts. Per all the application does not feel that different
from the 1.5.x series, however it feels much more usable. And beamer
documents compile, so I'm happy.
Happy holidays,
Liviu

PS Only a glitch with my article CV, but hope I can solve it. It
seems a glitch on handling figures.


On 12/15/08, Jürgen Spitzmüller juer...@spitzmueller.org wrote:
 Public release of LyX version 1.6.1
  ===

  We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.1. This is the first
  maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and as such, it mainly
  focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major problems that slipped
  into the application in the wake of the new features.

lilypond in LyX 6.1

[jf7]

Hi, I am trying to insert a lilypond file with InsertFileExternal  
MaterialLilyPond in a LyX 6.1 doc. It seems to need an .eps or .ps  
doc as a conversion from the .ly lilypond file.


I can import a pdf but that's not workable because it does a whole page.

I'm using TexShop on a Mac if that's pertinent.

Does anyone know how I can do this since it's been a listed feature for while?

Seems to need some info in Preferences - File Formats for the LilyPond  
Music item.


thanks much,
jamie faunt

Slashdot article

[killermike]

I noticed some LyX banter on a Slashdot article.

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/21/1837256

/I have questions for those of you who have written books: what 
writing tools have you found helpful? I want to start my book off right 
(so I'm pretty sure I don't want to write it in MS Word). What has and 
has not worked well for you?/


--
http://www.unmusic.co.uk/ Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture 
freelance writer. Buy my article compilation book, Tech Book 1.

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

[David Mertens]

 1.) put automatically a blank as whitespace at the end of each TeX-insert
 before closing it.
 2.) protect a whitespace follwing a TeX-insert if there is one - assume
 that
 the user intentionally puts a whitespace there.


Something tells me this has been discussed before, but since Dieter posted
on it... I'm going to second Dieter's curiosity and vote for #2.  I had lots
of trouble with this when creating a presentation using powerdot, in which
case (for my particular use) the ert was meant to modify the normal text
that followed, but for which I needed a space between the tex and the
regular text.  I eventually figured it out, but I never understood why my
space had to be in the ert.

David

Re: table prefix in appendix

[Hartmann Sybill]

Hartmann Sybill  writes:

> 
> Dear LyXers,
> 
> I would like to reference some figures and tables, which are in the appendix
> of my book. That works just fine in LyX.  My problem now is the following.
> In LyX I get labels suchs as "Table A.1" or "Figure A.2" and so on. I would
> like to have in my pdf the same way, but in the pdf I get "Table .1" and
> "Figure .2" and so on. The letters are gone. How can I change that?
> 
> Thank you in advance!
> 
> Hartmann

I found my problem: 
I had \backmatter involved, which "killed" the appendix prefix

[announce] LyXWinInstaller for LyX 1.6.1

[Uwe Stöhr]

Hello LyXers,

I forgot to announce the alternative Windows installer for LyX 1.6.1, that is available since a few 
days.


This installer comes again with an update installer to update existing LyX 1.6.0 installation to LyX 
1.6.1. NOTE: To be able to use this installer version, LyX 1.6.0 must have been installed with the 
alternative Windows installer.


-

The installer for this version can be downloaded from:
http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117_id=15560
and
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.1/

(General infos about the installer can be found here:
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller )

Installer Changelog:
-
Version 4.16
- LyX 1.6.1
- updated to MiKTeX 2.7 (build 3248)
- updated to ImageMagick 6.4.7-7
- fix unnecessary refreshing of Aspell dictionaries when no new
  dictionary was installed
-

happy LyXing and a happy new year
Uwe

Re: Show pagebreaks in the editor?

[Michael Wojcik]

rgheck wrote:
> Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote:
>>> I guess he was just not aware that [showing page breaks] is actually
>>> not feasible in LyX, as Richard G. Heck kindly explained.
>>>
>> What if it would be feasible ? Would it be an added value or is it too
>> the-non-tex-way ?
>>
> I don't see the value myself. As I said before, in LaTeX (unlike in
> Word) page breaks can change by the character, as paragraphs are
> re-broken and floats are repositioned. I guess that makes me think that
> it isn't even feasible---where do floats appear, vis-a-vis page breaks?
> But even if it were, it encourages one to think in the wrong terms, at
> least during the document-creation process.

I think even that statement might be a more-generous take on the
matter than I would have.

There are two ways a LaTeX editor could show page breaks: by guessing,
which is likely to be inaccurate (so of little value), not to mention
a huge amount of work; or by continually rerunning the toolchain (as
with Instant Preview, but greatly aggravated), which is impractical
and a waste of resources.

More importantly, looking for formatting results such as the location
of page breaks from LyX contradicts the entire design philosophy
behind late-formatting document production toolchains. There are
early-formatting toolchains (so-called WYSIWYG word processors) for
those who want early formatting. TeX, LaTeX, and LyX are not designed
that way.

And, as Richard says, early formatting conflates content and
presentation. There's a reason why the Greek rhetors put style and
delivery in separate canons: we can only concentrate on so many
details at once.

As with most things, there are different benefits and costs to early
and late rendering. Trying to make one tool do both is likely to
produce something with the faults of each.

That doesn't mean it's not useful to ask these questions, of course.
Understanding why LyX doesn't show page breaks means understanding the
principle of late rendering, and hopefully why it's valuable.

-- 
Michael Wojcik
Micro Focus
Rhetoric & Writing, Michigan State University

Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

[Dieter Jurzitza]

Dear listmembers,
I stumbled over (and found the hint in the documentation) that you are forced 
to add a whitespace at the end of any raw TeX-insert.

I understand that the TeX - insert is not encapsulated, i. e. it is intended 
to have impact on LyX code that follows.

However I would like to ask why LyX cannot insert Whitespace (i. e. a single 
blank) at the end of a TeX insert and why a blank _following_ a TeX insert is 
not guarded by some means.

Example - (the %-sign stands for start-end of TeX insert within LyX) if you 
say

"The difference between %\TeX% and %\LyX% is bla bla ..."

You will end in _no_ space between "TeX" and "and", you will get

".. between TeXand LyXis bla bla ..."

So a fist point would be to add to the (very good!) manual a hint 
that "closed" TeX inserts such as %\TeX% should in any case be bracketed to 
depict clearly that the following whitespace should be paid attention to. 
Simply adding a blank is not enough. You have to say %{\TeX}% to get the 
following blank in effect.

Therefore I would like to rise two points you may - or may not - share.

1.) put automatically a blank as whitespace at the end of each TeX-insert 
before closing it. 
2.) protect a whitespace follwing a TeX-insert if there is one - assume that 
the user intentionally puts a whitespace there.

Maybe I overlooked something - but for now I cannot see a good reason not to 
do this. I personally think that the results would be closer to what the user 
expects. If I insert a blank after a TeX-insert I (personally) expect it to 
be intentional and it is hard to understand (not being a TeXnician) why it is 
not remaining where I have been putting it to - even worse it is not easy to 
know the rule how to avoid that it is vanishing in the dark.

This is just the outcome from some testing - apart from this I like LyX 1.6 
very much and the option to have several texts open in parallel is simply 
great!

Thank you very much for working on this program,
take care



Dieter Jurzitza

-- 
---

   |
\
 /\_/\   |
| ~x~ |/-\   /
 \   /-   \_/
  ^^__   _/  _     /
 <°°__ \- \_/ |  |/|  |
  ||  || _| _|_| _|

if you really want to see the pictures above - use some font
with constant spacing like courier! :-)
---

Landscape Book

[Bob Wonderly]

I want to create a short math book that incorporates mostly large PDF 
graphs (generated by gnuplot). These graphs need to be displayed 
landscape. There will be some explanatory text and equations. How can I 
make the whole book landscape format?


Thus far my attempts are only displaying part of the graphs and the text 
is still portrait.


I looked at the FAQ's and did specify "\usepackage{lscape}".

OT. Editor for texinfo.

[mario m]

Hi,

i am thiking to use texinfo for a project. 
Is there a nice editor, something I may use for texinfo as I use lyx for
tex?
(May I use lyx itself? how?)
thanks
greetings
mario

Re: OT. Editor for texinfo.

[Typhoon]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:52:44 +
mario m  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> i am thiking to use texinfo for a project. 
> Is there a nice editor, something I may use for texinfo as I use lyx
> for tex?
> (May I use lyx itself? how?)
> thanks
> greetings
> mario

Texinfo and Emacs go together like  well, like Texinfo and Emacs.

Alan

> 
> 
> 

Re: Landscape Book

[Bennett Helm]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Bob Wonderly  wrote:
> I want to create a short math book that incorporates mostly large PDF graphs
> (generated by gnuplot). These graphs need to be displayed landscape. There
> will be some explanatory text and equations. How can I make the whole book
> landscape format?
>
> Thus far my attempts are only displaying part of the graphs and the text is
> still portrait.
>
> I looked at the FAQ's and did specify "\usepackage{lscape}".
>

Document > Settings > Page Layout > Orientation

Bennett

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 1.6.1 is released

[Liviu Andronic]

Dear all,
I've just built LyX 1.6.1 on my system, and wanted to thank for the
devel's efforts. Per all the application does not feel that different
from the 1.5.x series, however it feels much more usable. And beamer
documents compile, so I'm happy.
Happy holidays,
Liviu

PS Only a glitch with my "article" CV, but hope I can solve it. It
seems a glitch on handling figures.


On 12/15/08, Jürgen Spitzmüller  wrote:
> Public release of LyX version 1.6.1
>  ===
>
>  We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 1.6.1. This is the first
>  maintenance release in the brand-new 1.6.x series, and as such, it mainly
>  focuses on bug fixes. We have ironed out some major problems that slipped
>  into the application in the wake of the new features.
>

lilypond in LyX 6.1

[jf7]

Hi, I am trying to insert a lilypond file with Insert>File>External  
Material>LilyPond in a LyX 6.1 doc. It seems to need an .eps or .ps  
doc as a conversion from the .ly lilypond file.


I can import a pdf but that's not workable because it does a whole page.

I'm using TexShop on a Mac if that's pertinent.

Does anyone know how I can do this since it's been a listed feature for while?

Seems to need some info in Preferences - File Formats for the LilyPond  
Music item.


thanks much,
jamie faunt

Slashdot article

[killermike]

I noticed some LyX banter on a Slashdot article.

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/21/1837256

"/"I have questions for those of you who have written books: what 
writing tools have you found helpful? I want to start my book off right 
(so I'm pretty sure I don't want to write it in MS Word). What has and 
has not worked well for you?/"


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freelance writer. Buy my article compilation book, Tech Book 1.

Re: Question on whitespace at the end of raw TeX - inserts

[David Mertens]

>
> 1.) put automatically a blank as whitespace at the end of each TeX-insert
> before closing it.
> 2.) protect a whitespace follwing a TeX-insert if there is one - assume
> that
> the user intentionally puts a whitespace there.
>

Something tells me this has been discussed before, but since Dieter posted
on it... I'm going to second Dieter's curiosity and vote for #2.  I had lots
of trouble with this when creating a presentation using powerdot, in which
case (for my particular use) the ert was meant to modify the normal text
that followed, but for which I needed a space between the tex and the
regular text.  I eventually figured it out, but I never understood why my
space had to be in the ert.

David