Re: "automatically" create table based on external (ascii) data

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:50 +0200, Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel > wrote: >> Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? >> Siegfried. > You mean... ? Insert directly a csv file? No, I did not. I just try to > copy-paste from R. The " " (=space)

Re: CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, John Mok wrote: > I tried and the result PDF got a little better. Some of the Chinese > characters were missed out, but it did show some Japanese and Chinese > mixed characters in one document, e.g. "你" in "你們好" was missed out. > Is there any anything I can do to make it complete

Re: Getting LyX to play nice with an external document specification

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Corey Yanofsky wrote: > I'm trying to generate a pdf version of a manuscript using the LaTeX > files provided at > http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/biosts/for_authors/latex%20te > mplate.zip. ... > created the following file, bio.layout, in my /Resources/layouts folder:

Re: Importing tables

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > Talking about tables. I'm trying to import a table from excel. > I get the error "this file is from an earlier version of LyX, > but LyX failed to convert it." If I try to open the file lyx created > from the CSV, LyX crashes. I tried to shorten my csv fil

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
> First, I had to delete "\documentclass{article}" because it was > creating a conflict with the document class setting in the GUI - and I > couldn't figure out how not to specify the document class by the GUI. > But that shouldn't be a problem. In the GUI I set it to article - plain. Sure, that's

RE: LyX -> rtf, doc or openoffice convert: ONCE AGAIN

2009-04-06 Thread Piero Faustini
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> It is well known that ooolatex is buggy and often fails. I would try to use >> eLyXer to convert your document to HTML and then open the result With >> OpenOffice 3 and save it as RTF or whatever you like. >> http://www.nongnu.org/elyxer/ >

Re: Break line in TOC

2009-04-06 Thread Waluyo Adi Siswanto
After you type the section name, then use Insert > Short title. This name that will be written in TOC, which is the short version. was On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 17:41 +0100, Valter Filipe Silva wrote: > Hello, > > > > How i can break a line in TOC ?? > my problem is the right margin The sectio

Re: LyX -> rtf, doc or openoffice convert: ONCE AGAIN

2009-04-06 Thread Alex Fernandez
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > It is well known that ooolatex is buggy and often fails. I would try to use > eLyXer to convert your document to HTML and then open the result With > OpenOffice 3 and save it as RTF or whatever you like. > http://www.nongnu.org/elyxer/ I am tryin

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 10:09:19 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 06 April 2009 03:01:37 am Typhoon wrote: > > Even emacs outline mode will provide the section structure - used in > > conjunction with Muse mode, you get a lot of the other stuff as > > well. > > VimOutliner (cough cough hint hint)

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:15:10 + (UTC) Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-04-06, Typhoon wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:38:35 + (UTC) > > Guenter Milde wrote: > > >> On 2009-04-05, Rich Shepard wrote: > > >> >I'm surprised that no one seems to use the most reasonable > >> > solution for

Re: N00bie font issues

2009-04-06 Thread Yago
and restarting Lyx several times has failed to get the kpfonts visible in the Document > Settings window. So now I'm sad again. :( __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3990 (20090406) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com

TOC

2009-04-06 Thread Yago
Hello to all. I have a problem with the TOC of my document (two sides) that's is placed at the end. I use the package fancyhdr and the titlesec/titletoc, among the others. This is my preamble: \documentclass[spanish]{book} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} \usepackage{ge

Re: SIAM layout

2009-04-06 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Reinaldo wrote: "I updated my version of LyX to 1.6.2. I still cannot have available the SIAM article class document. Can somebody help me with this? What do I need to do in order to have that option available in the Document Class options ? I'm working on Ubuntu and the first version I had there

Importing tables

2009-04-06 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Talking about tables. I'm trying to import a table from excel. I get the error "this file is from an earlier version of LyX, but LyX failed to convert it." If I try to open the file lyx created from the CSV, LyX crashes. I tried to shorten my csv file to a few lines, and then LyX managed to import

Getting LyX to play nice with an external document specification

2009-04-06 Thread Corey Yanofsky
Greetings, I'm using LyX 1.6.1 on Windows Vista. (I've verified that the problem persists using my home computer - LyX 1.6.2 and Windows XP.) I'm trying to generate a pdf version of a manuscript using the LaTeX files provided at http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/biosts/for_authors

Re: Break line in TOC

2009-04-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Valter Filipe Silva schrieb: How i can break a line in TOC ?? my problem is the right margin The section name is to big to fit the defined margins. For this case, LyX provides short titles, see sec. 3.3.4.4 "Short Titles of Headings" of the LyX UserGuide that you find in the Help menu.

Re: "automatically" create table based on external (ascii) data

2009-04-06 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 18:50 +0200, Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel wrote: > Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? > Siegfried. You mean... ? Insert directly a csv file? No, I did not. I just try to copy-paste from R. The " " (=space) also can (or should be able to) act as a "field

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:12:49 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller dijo: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > So I'm getting closer, but still not quite there. I guess this is a > > problem in XeLaTeX, but I don't know what to do next. > > It works for me with the DejaVu font. This is the corresponding LaTeX output

Re: "automatically" create table based on external (ascii) data

2009-04-06 Thread Siegfried Meunier-Guttin-Cluzel
Did you try the csv format (coma separated values ) ? Siegfried.

Re: How to adjust float figure behavior?

2009-04-06 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Sophie: > > At the moment, when I use a float figure it typically appears before the > > point where it is introduced in the text, often appears in the middle/end > > of > > the *previous* section. > > > > Is there a way to get float figures to appear at or after the point in the > > text wher

Break line in TOC

2009-04-06 Thread Valter Filipe Silva
Hello, How i can break a line in TOC ?? my problem is the right margin The section name is to big to fit the defined margins. I try: \section [TOC \\ title]{document \\ title} in the first argument did not work, in the socond it works great ! Any ideia ? Best regards Valter

"automatically" create table based on external (ascii) data

2009-04-06 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Hi table-experts :-) Is it possible to copy a matrix derived from R and paste directly in a LyX table without waisting time to (re-)construct the table? For example, I have the following 3 by 3 data b02 0.3364205 0.5465307 b06 0.4624192 -0.1143715 b07 0.4435665 -0.2369216 Is it possible to cr

Re: SIAM layout

2009-04-06 Thread Reinaldo
"I updated my version of LyX to 1.6.2. I still cannot have available the SIAM article class document. Can somebody help me with this? What do I need to do in order to have that option available in the Document Class options ? I'm working on Ubuntu and the first version I had there was 1.5.6 but

Re: LyX -> rtf, doc or openoffice convert: ONCE AGAIN

2009-04-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Piero Faustini schrieb: After the total re-installation of LyX 1.6.2 and MikTeX, now I'm able to produce simple .odt, but still can't convert my thesis. It is well known that ooolatex is buggy and often fails. I would try to use eLyXer to convert your document to HTML and then open the result

Re: LyX -> rtf, doc or openoffice convert: ONCE AGAIN

2009-04-06 Thread Piero Faustini
After the total re-installation of LyX 1.6.2 and MikTeX, now I'm able to produce simple .odt, but still can't convert my thesis.

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Richard Heck
Vito De Tullio wrote: rgheck wrote: then I tell lyx that, to generate the pdf, I must run the 3 passes... but This is documented in the Customization manual. could you please be a little more specific? What I meant was that the OutputType tag is there. Just "search" for i

Re: CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document

2009-04-06 Thread John Mok
Thanks for your prompt reply. I tried and the result PDF got a little better. Some of the Chinese characters were missed out, but it did show some Japanese and Chinese mixed characters in one document, e.g. "你" in "你們好" was missed out. Is there any anything I can do to make it complete? Tha

Re: CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, John Mok wrote: > I am using LyX 1.6.2-1 on Windows XP. I would like to prepare an article > with Traditional Chinese, Japanese and English, i.e. CJK characters > mixed in one document. I tried the document settings :- > 1. Language=Chinese and Encoding=Chinese(EUC-TW) > Result:

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Jason Jordan wrote: > So I'm getting closer, but still not quite there. I guess this is a > problem in XeLaTeX, but I don't know what to do next. It works for me with the DejaVu font. This is the corresponding LaTeX output. Note that you need all the stuff marked by %<-- in Document>Settings

Org-mode for Emacs (perhaps like VimOutliner?)

2009-04-06 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote: VimOutliner (http://www.vimoutliner.org). Because it was authored as an For the Emacs users, I think 'org-mode' might work as a substitute (on steroids that is). On a more serious note, I'm using org-mode for general purpose outlining and note taking, an

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:42:49 +0200 > Jürgen Spitzmüller dijo: > But I am using XeLaTeX so I can use a specific font that has the IPA > characters I need. So after entering the word I exported to > LaTeX (pdflatex) to get a .tex file, and then used XeLaTeX

Re: Insert character by Unicode code point

2009-04-06 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:42:49 +0200 Jürgen Spitzmüller dijo: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > Suppose I have a font that contains a character at a certain code > > point. I want to insert this character directly into text. There is an > > lfun "insert-unicode," but it doesn't work. > > > > Could some

Re: CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document

2009-04-06 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
John Mok wrote: > I hope someone could advise if UTF-8 support (CJK) in LyX is available > or not, or I have done something wrong. You probably need to install the appropriate fonts. Here is some kind of HowTo: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Unicode#toc4 > Thanks a lot. > > John Mok Jürgen

Re: latex template in lyx, newbe

2009-04-06 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Janwillem vn Dijk wrote: What am I to do to get starting to write a publication using LyX? Janwillem, Download and install the latest version then work the Tutorial. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem S

latex template in lyx, newbe

2009-04-06 Thread Janwillem vn Dijk
I have downloaded a latex template from a publisher (Oxford University Press). It is a zip file with a few dozen files, mainly .sty/.cfg, one document.tex and one document.pdf. What am I to do to get starting to write a publication using LyX? Thanks, Janwillem

Re: My new environment

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 06 April 2009 05:02:20 am Olivier Ripoll wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > On Saturday 04 April 2009 06:34:40 am Pavel Sanda wrote: > >> Steve Litt wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> I decided to put a short statement at the beginning of each chapter. I > >>> wanted it to be surrounded by line

CJK UTF-8 encoding for CJK document

2009-04-06 Thread John Mok
Hi, I am using LyX 1.6.2-1 on Windows XP. I would like to prepare an article with Traditional Chinese, Japanese and English, i.e. CJK characters mixed in one document. I tried the document settings :- 1. Language=Chinese and Encoding=Chinese(EUC-TW) Result: Japanese part neglected in PDF outp

Border table in footer possible?

2009-04-06 Thread John Mok
Hi, I am preparing a user manual with a table footer (repeating on each page). The footer is a border table which contains a company logo, page numbers and others. I checked the documentation and found no clue how to do that. I hope someone could help and advise how to make the table footer.

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 06 April 2009 03:01:37 am Typhoon wrote: > Even emacs outline mode will provide the section structure - used in > conjunction with Muse mode, you get a lot of the other stuff as well. VimOutliner (cough cough hint hint) SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-r

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:06:38 am Rich Shepard wrote: > On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > > In fact in collaborative environments (e.g. companies), where several > > people work together on the same document, Word documents _always_ end up > > like that - A hopelessly tangled spaghetti

Re: Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Martin Görg schrieb: I want the page number to be clickable *and* bold. I know how to get it clickable (just use hyperref) and I know how to get it bold (add |textbf) but it doesn't work simultaneously. Using hyperref is one step, making it bold another one that is described in sec. 6.6.5 "In

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

2009-04-06 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: Is there any other way to avoid the Ghostscript error I am getting? I don't know. What you see is an error in Ghostscript, but can also be caused by buggy libraries at your Linux installation. The only thing I can say for sure is that I don't get the error here wit

Re: No longer able to cross-reference between files?

2009-04-06 Thread Rudi Gaelzer
On Sunday 05 April 2009 16:09:05 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Haha, now we know what this was about! > FYI we just hide the document selection combo since 1.6.0 because nobody > knew why this was needed. Maybe we can restore it back in 1.6.3 as we > found a user :-) > > Abdel. Please do. I'm surpri

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Guenter Milde writes: > However, I would like to see this restriction on OutputType lifted, so > that LyX can be told to generate "latex + specials" output for a > pre-processor like: I have a plan for creating a new OutputFormat "format" tag that would allow to determine the file name of the o

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Vito De Tullio
rgheck wrote: >> then I tell lyx that, to generate the pdf, I must run the 3 passes... but > This is documented in the Customization manual. could you please be a little more specific? I read the entire manual, but I cannot find a section where it's exposed how to force certain passes. At the bes

Re: My new environment

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Olivier Ripoll wrote: > Just for fun, I've tried to make a module out of it. I am no LaTeX > expert at all, so I have issues and perhaps someone can clarify them to me: > LaTeX complains about environment "Sbox" being undefined. I can work > around using "sbox" instead, but then,

Re: Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Florian Rubach
Martin Görg schrieb: On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:40:13 +0200, Florian Rubach wrote: do you want the text of the index entry to be a link? I could not figure out any reasonable way to achieve this. But when you are using hyperref, the page number will be the clickable link to the text location. Yo

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, rgheck wrote: > Vito De Tullio wrote: >> 1) Can I use a custom OutputType? LyX tells me: > No. The allowed types are hardcoded. However, the OutputType literate has been "hijacked" to work with sweave (see the wiki and archives for details). However, I would like to see this rest

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread rgheck
Vito De Tullio wrote: I don't know how "clean" this solution is, but I think I find a way... http://github.com/ZeeD/frontespizio basically I use the "OutputType" directive (no documentation about, I just found this in some .layout files) to tell lyx that I'm *not* gonna create a simple .tex file.

Re: help me with a layout module, please!

2009-04-06 Thread Vito De Tullio
Guenter Milde wrote: >>> 2) tell lyx that, to generate the pdf (via pdflatex), it must do 3 >>> passes >>>(pass 0): generate the FILE.tex from FILE.lyx (as all documents, I >>>think) >>>(pass 1): pdflatex FILE.tex (as all documents?) >>>(pass 2): pdflatex FILE-frn.tex (this file is

Re: Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Martin Görg
On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:40:13 +0200, Florian Rubach wrote: > do you want the text of the index entry to be a link? I could not figure > out any reasonable way to achieve this. But when you are using hyperref, > the page number will be the clickable link to the text location. > You can simply specif

Re: Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Florian Rubach
Martin Görg schrieb: Hi there, Does anyone know how I can create a bold index entry with a link to the text location where the index is specified? Greetings Martin Hi Martin, do you want the text of the index entry to be a link? I could not figure out any reasonable way to achieve this. Bu

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 debian binaries (LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien])

2009-04-06 Thread Per Olofsson
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Friday 03 April 2009 09:24:10 schrieb Guenter Milde: >> On 2009-04-02, Per Olofsson wrote: >>> FWIW, I just uploaded lyx 1.6.2 to Debian unstable. >> Thanks a lot. >> >> Günter > > Very good news. I was struggling with installing from sources -which is > probably a

Re: My new environment

2009-04-06 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Steve Litt wrote: On Saturday 04 April 2009 06:34:40 am Pavel Sanda wrote: Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I decided to put a short statement at the beginning of each chapter. I wanted it to be surrounded by lines, a little bit narrower than general text, and I wanted the print slightly bigger than

Bold index entry with link

2009-04-06 Thread Martin Görg
Hi there, Does anyone know how I can create a bold index entry with a link to the text location where the index is specified? Greetings Martin PS: I know I already posted this a while ago, but much more detailed, so maybe it scared people. This time I just ask a simple question. -- For emai

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-06, Typhoon wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:38:35 + (UTC) > Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2009-04-05, Rich Shepard wrote: >> >I'm surprised that no one seems to use the most reasonable >> > solution for collaborative text: have everyone use plain text ... >> This does not work f

Re: Lyx 1.6.2 debian binaries (LyX Branch, self-compiled [was: lyx 1.6.2 for debian using rpm and alien])

2009-04-06 Thread Nina Lafayette
Am 03.04.2009, 00:46 Uhr, schrieb Per Olofsson : Thanks a lot, Per. Nina Nina Lafayette wrote: Am 24.03.2009, 15:29 Uhr, schrieb Guenter Milde : Hi folks, isn't there anybody who can put the debian binaries for Lyx 1.6.2 on a Web server? This would be great! FWIW, I just uploaded lyx 1

Re: LyX vs. wordprocessors

2009-04-06 Thread Typhoon
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 06:38:35 + (UTC) Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-04-05, Rich Shepard wrote: > > >I'm surprised that no one seems to use the most reasonable > > solution for collaborative text: have everyone use plain text and > > only futz with formatting when you agree on a final vers