RE: collecting items
If it's lyx or latex documents you can just copy and paste. Lyx will work as is. Latex math you need to either paste into an existing math block or paste as normal text, then select the math parts and press Ctrl-M to create a math block of the text. If it's openoffice it may be possible to export to latex first and then possibly import it into lyx (don't know how well the math export works). If it's word or pdf you are probably stuck with rewriting the equations -Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of pol Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 21:31 To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: collecting items Often i have to pick up math questions from several previously made documents to build up a new one (homework, test, other deliverables). I would like to hear about your suggestions to effectively accomplish such task. Thank you ---P
Re: wrapfigure
E. Kaplan schrieb: Please ignore my previous message regarding wrapfigure. It works, although the results differ from what I get with Latex. That should not be the case. LyX supports wrapfigures natively, see sec. 3.2.2 "Wrap Floats" of the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in the Help menu of LyX. What cases do you have where plain LaTeX gives you a different output than LyX does? regards Uwe
Re: Parbox footnote disappears. LyX example attached
Paul Johnson schrieb: I find myself wondering why LyX allows one to insert of a footnote in a parbox, if that is forbidden by LaTeX. Because it is not forbidden ;-) You can do this, the footnote will only not be shown. But there might be LaTeX packages that changes the code so this it will be shown specially in the output. As long as LaTeX don't give an error or warning LyX must therefore allow such things. Do you think that the various LyX manuals can ever be "linked together" or connected somehow with a unified table of contents? Not as a single LyX/PDF file, because this would be unmaintainable. But I plan to provide a HTML file build out of the manuals. A LyX user is currently developing a new LyX2HTML converter which seems to be able to do this. Currently there are 4 basic manuals: - The UserGuide that at least gives an overview about ALL features and that often links to the specific manuals. -The EmbeddedObjects manual that explains Tables, floats, graphics, boxes, external material, and program listings in detail - The Math manual - The Customization manual The last two are self explanatory. The Intro manual now also lists them and explains shortly what they are about. (I just updated this section for the next release.) regards Uwe
collecting items
Often i have to pick up math questions from several previously made documents to build up a new one (homework, test, other deliverables). I would like to hear about your suggestions to effectively accomplish such task. Thank you ---P
Re: Parbox footnote disappears. LyX example attached
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Paul Johnson schrieb: > >> I have been testing the LyX box insert. I don't know much about >> minipages, but I can see one major advantage is that footnotes in them >> are not numbered with the notes in the rest of the document and they >> print at the bottom of the minipage. Neat! The test document is >> attached. Inside a parbox, I can insert a footnote and it is numbered >> in sequence with the document, but the footnote never prints out. > > This behaviour is described in detail in LyX's EmbeddedObjects manual that > you find in LyX's Help menu. > > regards Uwe > Ah, thanks. I find myself wondering why LyX allows one to insert of a footnote in a parbox, if that is forbidden by LaTeX. Do you think that the various LyX manuals can ever be "linked together" or connected somehow with a unified table of contents? For the user, it is difficult to know which manual to look through when trying to find things like this. PJ -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas
Re: Changing fontsize of marginpar environment
On Friday 27 March 2009 20:40:44 Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> Stefano Franchi writes:
> > I tried to apply to marginpar the recent suggestion about the quotation
> >
> > environment:
> > > Or a bit easier (and more generalizable):
> > >
> > > \newcommand*{\OriginalQuotation}{}
> > > \let\OriginalQuotation\quotation
> > > \renewcommand*{\quotation}{\OriginalQuotation\small}
> >
> > to produce smaller font margin notes as follows:
> >
> > \newcommand*{\OriginalMarginpar}{}
> > \let\OriginalMarginpar\marginpar
> > \renewcommand*{\marginpar}{\OriginalMarginpar\small}
> >
> > But it does not work ;-( In fact, the commands swallow up the margin note
> > completely. Is there anything I am doing wrong ? Or perhaps this method
> > cannot be applied to margin notes?
>
> The problem here is that \marginpar is a command rather than an
> environment. Try the following:
>
> \let\oldmarginpar\marginpar
> \def\marginpar#1{\oldmarginpar{\tiny #1}}
Thanks Enrico.
I was not aware \marginpar was a command. It works fine now.
Cheers,
S.
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wrapfigure
Please ignore my previous message regarding wrapfigure. It works, although the results differ from what I get with Latex. EK--
wrapfigure
Is there a way to use the wrapfigure environment in Lyx? When I import a Latex file with wrapfigure in it, 1.6.1 gags on it. Thanks-- EK
Re: How to use German capital sharp s (U+1E9E)?
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:59:34AM +0100, Tao Cumplido wrote: > > The Linux Libertine font has a capital sharp s. > > That's the font I'm using. > > > I don't know for what purpose you need a capital ß, but in german > > ortography, the ß becomes SS when writing capitalized. > > I don't know yet whether I am gonna need it or not, but I'd like to > know if it's possible before I start getting into Lyx seriously. It is possible as Juergen wrote, but I question the approach you use to check whether some piece of software suits your purposes. Capital ß is as much part of Real Life as is World Peace. > Why does with Latex everything have to be so complicated? :/ Partially because TeX is a horrible language, and partially because it tends to lead to pagmatic solution (as opposed to "Ivory Tower style" solutions) ;-} Andre'
Re: How to use German capital sharp s (U+1E9E)?
Tao Cumplido wrote:
> I don't know yet whether I am gonna need it or not, but I'd like to know if
> it's possible before I start getting into Lyx seriously.
With LaTeX, the following works:
\usepackage{libertine}
GRO\MakeUppercase{ß}E SACHE
\textsc{Große Sache}
In other words, the LaTeX package automatically uses the capital <ß> unless
you load the package with the option "ss".
Jürgen
Re: How to use German capital sharp s (U+1E9E)?
> The Linux Libertine font has a capital sharp s. That's the font I'm using. > I don't know for what purpose you need a capital ß, but in german ortography, > the ß becomes SS when writing capitalized. I don't know yet whether I am gonna need it or not, but I'd like to know if it's possible before I start getting into Lyx seriously. Why does with Latex everything have to be so complicated? :/ Would it work if I got Xetex working with Lyx and use the xelibertine package? I found this article but I don't know if it will work for me since I am on WinXP. http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX And if I got it to work would it still be possible to use the Lilypond converters? These are actually the main reason why I started using Lyx, because it's so easy to implement music snippets into a text document. Regards, Tao -- Neu: GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate + Telefonanschluss für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://dsl.gmx.de/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a
Re: rotating package and float sideways tables
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> > I can reproduce it with rotating 2.16 (and not with rotating 2.15c). So I
> > submitted a bug report to comp.text.tex, because Robin Fairbairns (the
> > package maintainer) is actively participating that newsgroup.
>
> Thanks, I was about to report it too. You can also send Robin a direct mail
> when you find bugs. (The last time he fixed a bug I reported within two
> days, so perhaps the fixed version is even part of the next MiKTeX update
> round on Monday.)
Robin already responded, and promised to put a new version on CTAN this
weekend:
http://groups.google.de/group/comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/b294c3790bd49a92
It seems that adding \RequirePackage{color} is a workaround for the time being
(I haven't checked that).
Jürgen
Re: How to use German capital sharp s (U+1E9E)?
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: > The Linux Libertine font has a capital sharp s. See > http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/ I see. And is there a corresponding LaTeX macro? Jürgen
