Re: Posters in LyX

[Liviu Andronic]

On 6/19/09, Les Denham lden...@hal-pc.org wrote:
  What worked best for me is Scribus.

A relevant discussion, and a nice overview by Les on LyX vs. Scribus [1].
Liviu

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg57576.html

Re: assign tab to insert four spaces

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Le 21 juin 09 à 17:19, Paul A. Rubin a écrit :
\bind C-S-q command-sequence unicode-insert 0x20; unicode-insert 
0x20; unicode-insert 0x20; unicode-insert 0x20;


\bind C-S-q repeat 4 unicode-insert 0x20


Even if we don't right now, I think we should support unicode-insert 
0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20. Imagine that you want to insert a unicode string 
in the command buffer, repeating unicode-insert would be cumbersome...


Abdel.

Re: how to change font size for math on screen

[Hauser Helmut]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Hauser Helmut schrieb:

I tried to find the place in LyX where I can change the size of the 
formulas when the cursor is not there. When I type them they have the 
right size, but later when leaving the maths area

they fall back to a smaller size.




Hello Uwe, Hello Günter,


I don't understand. Do you have instant preview enabled (menu Tools - 
Preferences- Look  feel-

Graphics)?
If so, either turn it off or set it to no math, or add this line to 
the file lyxrc.dist that you find in LyX's installation folder:


\preview_scale_factor 1.0

The default size is 0.9. This has often been reported as too small 
therefore the alternative Windows installer sets it automatically to 1.0.




Thanks a lot for you help. This was exactly what I needed.
As always the LyX community is fast and powerful. I think this makes the 
wonderful piece of software even better.


Thanks again.
Best regards,
Helmut

regards Uwe



--

Helmut Hauser
Institute for Theoretical Computer Sciences
Technische Universitaet Graz
Inffeldgasse 16b, I
A-8010 Graz, Austria
---
helmut.hau...@igi.tugraz.at
Tel: + 43 316 873-5821
Fax: + 43 316 873-5805
http://www.igi.TUGraz.at/helmut/

journal abbreviations

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

I would like to use journal abbreviations in my reference list. I know, Jabref 
is having this option (manage journal abbreviations); I have, however, 
difficulties in getting it to work. Could somebody who used it already give 
me a hint? The explanation in jabref is beyond me (e.g. personal Journal 
list, external files, where and how to insert the journal list from JabRef)

There are actually 2 tasks:
- use abbreviations
- make sure the various kinds of writing of the same journal end up in the 
same  abbreviation

e.g.:
citation 1 uses AJP
citation 2 uses AJP
citation 3 Am.J.Phys.
citation 4 Am. J. Phys. (space!)
citation 5 Am. J. Physiol.
citation 6 Am. J. Physiology
citation 7 American Journal of Physiology

 should all have finally

Am. J. Physiol.

It would be nice to mark the citations in my Jabref file who use the same 
journal and tell jabref to put the correct abbreviation to all those. I have 
the feeling, this is implemented in Jabref, but can't get it to work.

Wolfgang 

SV: journal abbreviations

[Ingar Pareliussen]

 Hi

I do not use jabref, however in bibtex you may use strings{} for this. 
The best way is to use a shorthand form of the journal when you
enter the citataion (like AJP) and then make a new bibfile
with:
@string{AJP = Am. J. Physiol.}
and call that bibfile before your bibfile with citations.
in LaTeX: \bibliography{abbreviations,citations}

You may make several @strings to format into 
Am. J. Physiol. if your citation.bib
has many different formats for each journal.

Ingar

Re: Posters in LyX

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 22 June 2009 02:43:51 am Liviu Andronic wrote:
 On 6/19/09, Les Denham lden...@hal-pc.org wrote:
   What worked best for me is Scribus.

 A relevant discussion, and a nice overview by Les on LyX vs. Scribus [1].
 Liviu

 [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg57576.html

After reading that, it sounds like Scribus is the ideal tool for posters. It 
sounds great for 8.5x11 flyers, and for folding brochures. And yes, most 
short newsletters are extremely fine tuned, so it sounds great for those too.

You know what else it sounds great for -- laying out the cover of an eBook. 
I've been using Inkscape for that, but I might try Scribus just for fun.

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

how to use custom insert

[Alexander Barcza]

Hello,

I'm using LyX 1.6.3 on a Mac. I'd like to define some custom insert in order
to insert frequently used formatted text. There seems to be an item in the
menu but all it says is No custom insets defined!. How do I define one?

Could you please let me know whether I'm doing something wrong or whether
there is a workaround to achieve the same. In particular I want to define
some math expressions (like $T_{\mathrm{C}} and so on) that I want to insert
in my document with a single/few clicks.

This is possible in e.g. Kile but I really love LyX because of the WYSIWYG.

Thanks
Alex

Extending Existing Layouts

[Tad Marko]

Hello,

Another basic newbie question:

I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from the
book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir layout.
Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?

Thanks,
Tad

Re: journal abbreviations

[Paul A. Rubin]

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
I would like to use journal abbreviations in my reference list. I know, Jabref 
is having this option (manage journal abbreviations); I have, however, 
difficulties in getting it to work. Could somebody who used it already give 
me a hint? The explanation in jabref is beyond me (e.g. personal Journal 
list, external files, where and how to insert the journal list from JabRef)


There are actually 2 tasks:
- use abbreviations
- make sure the various kinds of writing of the same journal end up in the 
same  abbreviation


e.g.:
citation 1 uses AJP
citation 2 uses AJP
citation 3 Am.J.Phys.
citation 4 Am. J. Phys. (space!)
citation 5 Am. J. Physiol.
citation 6 Am. J. Physiology
citation 7 American Journal of Physiology

 should all have finally

Am. J. Physiol.

It would be nice to mark the citations in my Jabref file who use the same 
journal and tell jabref to put the correct abbreviation to all those. I have 
the feeling, this is implemented in Jabref, but can't get it to work.




You could do something like that with the personal journal list, but it 
would involve adding one line to your new personal list for each version 
of each journal's name appearing in your .bib file, e.g.


AJP - Am. J. Phys.
Am.J.Phys. - Am. J. Phys.
American Journal of Physiology - Am. J. Phys.
etc.

(assuming Am. J. Phys. was the abbreviation you wanted BibTeX to use).

Assuming you only have one .bib file, it might be easier to use the 
string editor (Ctrl-T or BibTeX  Edit Strings) to add one abbreviation 
for each journal (e.g., AJP - Am. J. Phys., again assuming the right 
side is how you want it listed).  Then just manually edit each entry, 
replacing whatever is in the journal field with #AJP#.  The biggest 
limitation of this approach is that the strings only apply to the .bib 
file containing them, although I suspect it is not hard to transfer them 
to a new .bib file.


/Paul

Re: how to use custom insert

[rgheck]

Alexander Barcza wrote:

Hello,

I'm using LyX 1.6.3 on a Mac. I'd like to define some custom insert in order
to insert frequently used formatted text. There seems to be an item in the
menu but all it says is No custom insets defined!. How do I define one?

  
This is for inserting custom insets, e.g., an inset that would work like 
a footnote inset but that would produce an endnote. So that's probably 
not what you want, but creating them is explained in Chapter 5 of the 
Customization manual. Or have a look at the code for the endnote module, 
which you'll find in the file endnote.module in your layout directory.



Could you please let me know whether I'm doing something wrong or whether
there is a workaround to achieve the same. In particular I want to define
some math expressions (like $T_{\mathrm{C}} and so on) that I want to insert
in my document with a single/few clicks.

  
You can do this either with keybindings or by adding things to the 
menus. For keybindings, you can use the Shortcuts dialog under 
Preferences. The menus are controlled by the files in the ui/ directory. 
You could add a submenu in stdmenus.inc and populate it as you wish. The 
syntax of the menu file is pretty simple.


The trick, in either case, will be to get the syntax of the LyX command 
right. You can play with this in the command buffer 
(ViewToolbarsCommand Buffer). It also helps to watch the status line. 
Look under the Help menu for a list of the functions you can use there.


rh

Re: how to use custom insert

[Paul A. Rubin]

Alexander Barcza wrote:

Hello,

I'm using LyX 1.6.3 on a Mac. I'd like to define some custom insert in order
to insert frequently used formatted text. There seems to be an item in the
menu but all it says is No custom insets defined!. How do I define one?

Could you please let me know whether I'm doing something wrong or whether
there is a workaround to achieve the same. In particular I want to define
some math expressions (like $T_{\mathrm{C}} and so on) that I want to insert
in my document with a single/few clicks.

This is possible in e.g. Kile but I really love LyX because of the WYSIWYG.

Thanks
Alex



If you want to insert them using custom insets, I think you will need to 
create a module containing the code for them.  See section 5.3.6 of the 
Customization manual.  Alternatively, you could just bind them to a 
keystroke (Tools  Preferences  Editing  Shortcuts).  For instance, 
'math-insert {T_{\mathrm{C}}}' (without the quotes) should fit your 
example above.  (The extra braces will appear in the the LyX GUI but not 
in the output.  They're a workaround to an apparent bug in the 
math-insert function -- unless I'm missing something.)


/Paul

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[rgheck]

Tad Marko wrote:

Hello,

Another basic newbie question:

I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from the
book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir layout.
Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?

  
That might well work, so far as LyX is concerned. But the book class 
does not have a chapterprecis environment, so you'll need to define it. 
You can just copy (or adapt) it from memoir.cls.


rh

Help message about LyX-XeTeX

[Francesco Fuganti Pedoni]

I've just downloaded the last LyX release (1.6.3) and my OS is Windovs Vista 
Home Premium. I've used LyX writing all my reports in the last six months. I've 
got only one great problem that I can't solve without your help. I 'd like to 
use some characters not available in LaTeX: for exemple Calibri. I've made some 
researches and I've read about XeTeX. I use MikTeX, the last release, and it 
contains XeTeX. It should be possible to use XeTeX whit LyX but I can't do it. 
I've read something about the conversion in the format output PDF (xetex) but 
it is not present in the list that I've found in ToolsPreferencesFile 
HandlingConverters. It seems like LyX doesn't find XeTeX even if it's yet 
installed. What could I do? 
I hope my english will be clear to you.
Thank you for your attention.
Yours faithfully,

Francesco Fuganti Pedoni

Re: Posters in LyX

[obregonmateo]

I have to disagree in this debate. I have found lyx a *superb* tool for making 
scientific posters! It gives a uniform look, as well as dealing with the proper 
formatting of legends and cross-references. Plus, it properly formats my bibtex 
references and places everything evenly distributed on an A0 layout. If 
information overflows, it means I have to reorganise my poster, not 
finger-paint layouts to shoe-horn items into the poster (that probably 
shouldn't be there anyway for the requirements of a poster).

It also means that I can re-use text and graphics from talks and papers that 
I've written in lyx.

I use sciposter.cls, sectionbox.sty, multicol.sty and wallpaper.sty to generate 
posters with multiple columns, sectioned boxes and a background. I generate my 
plots with R and graphics with inkscape.

On the other hand, I end up spending much more time fiddling about 
finger-painting with tools like scribus.

Mateo.

On Monday 22 June 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
 On Monday 22 June 2009 02:43:51 am Liviu Andronic wrote:
  On 6/19/09, Les Denham lden...@hal-pc.org wrote:
What worked best for me is Scribus.
 
  A relevant discussion, and a nice overview by Les on LyX vs. Scribus [1].
  Liviu
 
  [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg57576.html
 
 After reading that, it sounds like Scribus is the ideal tool for posters. It 
 sounds great for 8.5x11 flyers, and for folding brochures. And yes, most 
 short newsletters are extremely fine tuned, so it sounds great for those too.
 
 You know what else it sounds great for -- laying out the cover of an eBook. 
 I've been using Inkscape for that, but I might try Scribus just for fun.
 
 Thanks
 
 SteveT
 
 Steve Litt
 Recession Relief Package
 http://www.recession-relief.US
 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
 
 

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-06-22, rgheck wrote:
 Tad Marko wrote:
 Hello,

 Another basic newbie question:

 I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from the
 book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
 copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir layout.
 Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?


 That might well work, so far as LyX is concerned. But the book class 
 does not have a chapterprecis environment, so you'll need to define it. 
 You can just copy (or adapt) it from memoir.cls.

Remember, that you *must not* change the book.cls document class file
directly.

Instead, you can

a) Create a new class file based on book.cls.

b) Create a new style file (package) and load in the layout or a module.

c) Add the environment to the preamble block in your layout file.

d) Add the environment to the preamble block of a module file.


How to create a latex package or class is described in the clsguide.pdf
(comes with your LaTeX distribution). How to write a LyX layout or module
file is described in the Customization manual.

Günter

Re: Help message about LyX-XeTeX

[rgheck]

Francesco Fuganti Pedoni wrote:
I've just downloaded the last LyX release (1.6.3) and my OS is Windovs Vista Home Premium. I've used LyX writing all my reports in the last six months. I've got only one great problem that I can't solve without your help. I 'd like to use some characters not available in LaTeX: for exemple Calibri. I've made some researches and I've read about XeTeX. I use MikTeX, the last release, and it contains XeTeX. It should be possible to use XeTeX whit LyX but I can't do it. I've read something about the conversion in the format output PDF (xetex) but it is not present in the list that I've found in ToolsPreferencesFile HandlingConverters. It seems like LyX doesn't find XeTeX even if it's yet installed. What could I do? 

  
The expert on XeTeX is Jurgen: He'll probably comment on this when he 
sees it. But you might search the wiki for info. And you'll be pleased 
to hear that there will be support for XeTeX in LyX 2.0. If you're 
feeling a bit adventurous, you can checkout svn and compile it. It's 
reasonably stable at the moment, though I'd stay away from anything 
that's currently under active development, like spellcheck and HTML 
output


Richard

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[rgheck]

Guenter Milde wrote:

On 2009-06-22, rgheck wrote:
  

Tad Marko wrote:


Hello,
  


  

Another basic newbie question:
  


  

I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from the
book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir layout.
Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?
  



  
That might well work, so far as LyX is concerned. But the book class 
does not have a chapterprecis environment, so you'll need to define it. 
You can just copy (or adapt) it from memoir.cls.



Remember, that you *must not* change the book.cls document class file
directly.

Instead, you can

a) Create a new class file based on book.cls.

b) Create a new style file (package) and load in the layout or a module.

c) Add the environment to the preamble block in your layout file.

d) Add the environment to the preamble block of a module file.

How to create a latex package or class is described in the clsguide.pdf
(comes with your LaTeX distribution). How to write a LyX layout or module
file is described in the Customization manual.

  
I had (c) or (d) in mind myself, though of course (a) and (b) will also 
work.


rh

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 22 juin 09 à 16:06, Tad Marko a écrit :
I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from  
the
book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as  
simple as
copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir  
layout.

Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?


Is there a reason why you do not use memoir as base class? It is  
better than the legacy book.cls.


JMarc

Reset Section Numbering by Part

[Andrew Hills]

Hi all,

I want the section numbering to restart for each part in the article 
class. The only way I have devised is a simple hack in the LaTeX preamble:


\let\oldpart\part
\renewcommand{part}[1]{\oldpart{#1}
\setcounter{section}{0}}

This works great, except for the Table of Contents. When I generate a 
PDF, every Section N links to the first Section N; e.g., clicking on 
Part III, Section 2 takes me down to Part I, Section 2.


I understand that I can define a new counter with 
\newcounter{newsection}[part] to reset when I want it to. Is there a way 
to force sections to display this new counter while still being linked 
with the old one? If not, is there another way to solve my problem?


Other information: LyX 1.6.2 on Windows XP (MiKTeX 2.7)

--Andrew Hills

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[Tad Marko]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.orgwrote:

 Le 22 juin 09 à 16:06, Tad Marko a écrit :

 I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from the
 book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
 copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir
 layout.
 Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?


 Is there a reason why you do not use memoir as base class? It is better
 than the legacy book.cls.


I simply find the memoir class unattractive. I like the looks of the classic
book class.

Tad

Re: Posters in LyX

[Liviu Andronic]

On 6/19/09, Les Denham lden...@hal-pc.org wrote:
  What worked best for me is Scribus.

A relevant discussion, and a nice overview by Les on LyX vs. Scribus [1].
Liviu

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg57576.html

Re: assign tab to insert four spaces

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Le 21 juin 09 à 17:19, Paul A. Rubin a écrit :
\bind C-S-q command-sequence unicode-insert 0x20; unicode-insert 
0x20; unicode-insert 0x20; unicode-insert 0x20;


\bind C-S-q repeat 4 unicode-insert 0x20


Even if we don't right now, I think we should support unicode-insert 
0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20. Imagine that you want to insert a unicode string 
in the command buffer, repeating unicode-insert would be cumbersome...


Abdel.

Re: how to change font size for math on screen

[Hauser Helmut]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Hauser Helmut schrieb:

I tried to find the place in LyX where I can change the size of the 
formulas when the cursor is not there. When I type them they have the 
right size, but later when leaving the maths area

they fall back to a smaller size.




Hello Uwe, Hello Günter,


I don't understand. Do you have instant preview enabled (menu Tools - 
Preferences- Look  feel-

Graphics)?
If so, either turn it off or set it to no math, or add this line to 
the file lyxrc.dist that you find in LyX's installation folder:


\preview_scale_factor 1.0

The default size is 0.9. This has often been reported as too small 
therefore the alternative Windows installer sets it automatically to 1.0.




Thanks a lot for you help. This was exactly what I needed.
As always the LyX community is fast and powerful. I think this makes the 
wonderful piece of software even better.


Thanks again.
Best regards,
Helmut

regards Uwe



--

Helmut Hauser
Institute for Theoretical Computer Sciences
Technische Universitaet Graz
Inffeldgasse 16b, I
A-8010 Graz, Austria
---
helmut.hau...@igi.tugraz.at
Tel: + 43 316 873-5821
Fax: + 43 316 873-5805
http://www.igi.TUGraz.at/helmut/

journal abbreviations

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

I would like to use journal abbreviations in my reference list. I know, Jabref 
is having this option (manage journal abbreviations); I have, however, 
difficulties in getting it to work. Could somebody who used it already give 
me a hint? The explanation in jabref is beyond me (e.g. personal Journal 
list, external files, where and how to insert the journal list from JabRef)

There are actually 2 tasks:
- use abbreviations
- make sure the various kinds of writing of the same journal end up in the 
same  abbreviation

e.g.:
citation 1 uses AJP
citation 2 uses AJP
citation 3 Am.J.Phys.
citation 4 Am. J. Phys. (space!)
citation 5 Am. J. Physiol.
citation 6 Am. J. Physiology
citation 7 American Journal of Physiology

 should all have finally

Am. J. Physiol.

It would be nice to mark the citations in my Jabref file who use the same 
journal and tell jabref to put the correct abbreviation to all those. I have 
the feeling, this is implemented in Jabref, but can't get it to work.

Wolfgang 

SV: journal abbreviations

[Ingar Pareliussen]

 Hi

I do not use jabref, however in bibtex you may use strings{} for this. 
The best way is to use a shorthand form of the journal when you
enter the citataion (like AJP) and then make a new bibfile
with:
@string{AJP = Am. J. Physiol.}
and call that bibfile before your bibfile with citations.
in LaTeX: \bibliography{abbreviations,citations}

You may make several @strings to format into 
Am. J. Physiol. if your citation.bib
has many different formats for each journal.

Ingar

Re: Posters in LyX

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 22 June 2009 02:43:51 am Liviu Andronic wrote:
 On 6/19/09, Les Denham lden...@hal-pc.org wrote:
   What worked best for me is Scribus.

 A relevant discussion, and a nice overview by Les on LyX vs. Scribus [1].
 Liviu

 [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg57576.html

After reading that, it sounds like Scribus is the ideal tool for posters. It 
sounds great for 8.5x11 flyers, and for folding brochures. And yes, most 
short newsletters are extremely fine tuned, so it sounds great for those too.

You know what else it sounds great for -- laying out the cover of an eBook. 
I've been using Inkscape for that, but I might try Scribus just for fun.

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

how to use custom insert

[Alexander Barcza]

Hello,

I'm using LyX 1.6.3 on a Mac. I'd like to define some custom insert in order
to insert frequently used formatted text. There seems to be an item in the
menu but all it says is No custom insets defined!. How do I define one?

Could you please let me know whether I'm doing something wrong or whether
there is a workaround to achieve the same. In particular I want to define
some math expressions (like $T_{\mathrm{C}} and so on) that I want to insert
in my document with a single/few clicks.

This is possible in e.g. Kile but I really love LyX because of the WYSIWYG.

Thanks
Alex

Extending Existing Layouts

[Tad Marko]

Hello,

Another basic newbie question:

I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from the
book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir layout.
Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?

Thanks,
Tad

Re: journal abbreviations

[Paul A. Rubin]

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
I would like to use journal abbreviations in my reference list. I know, Jabref 
is having this option (manage journal abbreviations); I have, however, 
difficulties in getting it to work. Could somebody who used it already give 
me a hint? The explanation in jabref is beyond me (e.g. personal Journal 
list, external files, where and how to insert the journal list from JabRef)


There are actually 2 tasks:
- use abbreviations
- make sure the various kinds of writing of the same journal end up in the 
same  abbreviation


e.g.:
citation 1 uses AJP
citation 2 uses AJP
citation 3 Am.J.Phys.
citation 4 Am. J. Phys. (space!)
citation 5 Am. J. Physiol.
citation 6 Am. J. Physiology
citation 7 American Journal of Physiology

 should all have finally

Am. J. Physiol.

It would be nice to mark the citations in my Jabref file who use the same 
journal and tell jabref to put the correct abbreviation to all those. I have 
the feeling, this is implemented in Jabref, but can't get it to work.




You could do something like that with the personal journal list, but it 
would involve adding one line to your new personal list for each version 
of each journal's name appearing in your .bib file, e.g.


AJP - Am. J. Phys.
Am.J.Phys. - Am. J. Phys.
American Journal of Physiology - Am. J. Phys.
etc.

(assuming Am. J. Phys. was the abbreviation you wanted BibTeX to use).

Assuming you only have one .bib file, it might be easier to use the 
string editor (Ctrl-T or BibTeX  Edit Strings) to add one abbreviation 
for each journal (e.g., AJP - Am. J. Phys., again assuming the right 
side is how you want it listed).  Then just manually edit each entry, 
replacing whatever is in the journal field with #AJP#.  The biggest 
limitation of this approach is that the strings only apply to the .bib 
file containing them, although I suspect it is not hard to transfer them 
to a new .bib file.


/Paul

Re: how to use custom insert

[rgheck]

Alexander Barcza wrote:

Hello,

I'm using LyX 1.6.3 on a Mac. I'd like to define some custom insert in order
to insert frequently used formatted text. There seems to be an item in the
menu but all it says is No custom insets defined!. How do I define one?

  
This is for inserting custom insets, e.g., an inset that would work like 
a footnote inset but that would produce an endnote. So that's probably 
not what you want, but creating them is explained in Chapter 5 of the 
Customization manual. Or have a look at the code for the endnote module, 
which you'll find in the file endnote.module in your layout directory.



Could you please let me know whether I'm doing something wrong or whether
there is a workaround to achieve the same. In particular I want to define
some math expressions (like $T_{\mathrm{C}} and so on) that I want to insert
in my document with a single/few clicks.

  
You can do this either with keybindings or by adding things to the 
menus. For keybindings, you can use the Shortcuts dialog under 
Preferences. The menus are controlled by the files in the ui/ directory. 
You could add a submenu in stdmenus.inc and populate it as you wish. The 
syntax of the menu file is pretty simple.


The trick, in either case, will be to get the syntax of the LyX command 
right. You can play with this in the command buffer 
(ViewToolbarsCommand Buffer). It also helps to watch the status line. 
Look under the Help menu for a list of the functions you can use there.


rh

Re: how to use custom insert

[Paul A. Rubin]

Alexander Barcza wrote:

Hello,

I'm using LyX 1.6.3 on a Mac. I'd like to define some custom insert in order
to insert frequently used formatted text. There seems to be an item in the
menu but all it says is No custom insets defined!. How do I define one?

Could you please let me know whether I'm doing something wrong or whether
there is a workaround to achieve the same. In particular I want to define
some math expressions (like $T_{\mathrm{C}} and so on) that I want to insert
in my document with a single/few clicks.

This is possible in e.g. Kile but I really love LyX because of the WYSIWYG.

Thanks
Alex



If you want to insert them using custom insets, I think you will need to 
create a module containing the code for them.  See section 5.3.6 of the 
Customization manual.  Alternatively, you could just bind them to a 
keystroke (Tools  Preferences  Editing  Shortcuts).  For instance, 
'math-insert {T_{\mathrm{C}}}' (without the quotes) should fit your 
example above.  (The extra braces will appear in the the LyX GUI but not 
in the output.  They're a workaround to an apparent bug in the 
math-insert function -- unless I'm missing something.)


/Paul

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[rgheck]

Tad Marko wrote:

Hello,

Another basic newbie question:

I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from the
book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir layout.
Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?

  
That might well work, so far as LyX is concerned. But the book class 
does not have a chapterprecis environment, so you'll need to define it. 
You can just copy (or adapt) it from memoir.cls.


rh

Help message about LyX-XeTeX

[Francesco Fuganti Pedoni]

I've just downloaded the last LyX release (1.6.3) and my OS is Windovs Vista 
Home Premium. I've used LyX writing all my reports in the last six months. I've 
got only one great problem that I can't solve without your help. I 'd like to 
use some characters not available in LaTeX: for exemple Calibri. I've made some 
researches and I've read about XeTeX. I use MikTeX, the last release, and it 
contains XeTeX. It should be possible to use XeTeX whit LyX but I can't do it. 
I've read something about the conversion in the format output PDF (xetex) but 
it is not present in the list that I've found in ToolsPreferencesFile 
HandlingConverters. It seems like LyX doesn't find XeTeX even if it's yet 
installed. What could I do? 
I hope my english will be clear to you.
Thank you for your attention.
Yours faithfully,

Francesco Fuganti Pedoni

Re: Posters in LyX

[obregonmateo]

I have to disagree in this debate. I have found lyx a *superb* tool for making 
scientific posters! It gives a uniform look, as well as dealing with the proper 
formatting of legends and cross-references. Plus, it properly formats my bibtex 
references and places everything evenly distributed on an A0 layout. If 
information overflows, it means I have to reorganise my poster, not 
finger-paint layouts to shoe-horn items into the poster (that probably 
shouldn't be there anyway for the requirements of a poster).

It also means that I can re-use text and graphics from talks and papers that 
I've written in lyx.

I use sciposter.cls, sectionbox.sty, multicol.sty and wallpaper.sty to generate 
posters with multiple columns, sectioned boxes and a background. I generate my 
plots with R and graphics with inkscape.

On the other hand, I end up spending much more time fiddling about 
finger-painting with tools like scribus.

Mateo.

On Monday 22 June 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
 On Monday 22 June 2009 02:43:51 am Liviu Andronic wrote:
  On 6/19/09, Les Denham lden...@hal-pc.org wrote:
What worked best for me is Scribus.
 
  A relevant discussion, and a nice overview by Les on LyX vs. Scribus [1].
  Liviu
 
  [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg57576.html
 
 After reading that, it sounds like Scribus is the ideal tool for posters. It 
 sounds great for 8.5x11 flyers, and for folding brochures. And yes, most 
 short newsletters are extremely fine tuned, so it sounds great for those too.
 
 You know what else it sounds great for -- laying out the cover of an eBook. 
 I've been using Inkscape for that, but I might try Scribus just for fun.
 
 Thanks
 
 SteveT
 
 Steve Litt
 Recession Relief Package
 http://www.recession-relief.US
 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
 
 

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-06-22, rgheck wrote:
 Tad Marko wrote:
 Hello,

 Another basic newbie question:

 I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from the
 book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
 copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir layout.
 Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?


 That might well work, so far as LyX is concerned. But the book class 
 does not have a chapterprecis environment, so you'll need to define it. 
 You can just copy (or adapt) it from memoir.cls.

Remember, that you *must not* change the book.cls document class file
directly.

Instead, you can

a) Create a new class file based on book.cls.

b) Create a new style file (package) and load in the layout or a module.

c) Add the environment to the preamble block in your layout file.

d) Add the environment to the preamble block of a module file.


How to create a latex package or class is described in the clsguide.pdf
(comes with your LaTeX distribution). How to write a LyX layout or module
file is described in the Customization manual.

Günter

Re: Help message about LyX-XeTeX

[rgheck]

Francesco Fuganti Pedoni wrote:
I've just downloaded the last LyX release (1.6.3) and my OS is Windovs Vista Home Premium. I've used LyX writing all my reports in the last six months. I've got only one great problem that I can't solve without your help. I 'd like to use some characters not available in LaTeX: for exemple Calibri. I've made some researches and I've read about XeTeX. I use MikTeX, the last release, and it contains XeTeX. It should be possible to use XeTeX whit LyX but I can't do it. I've read something about the conversion in the format output PDF (xetex) but it is not present in the list that I've found in ToolsPreferencesFile HandlingConverters. It seems like LyX doesn't find XeTeX even if it's yet installed. What could I do? 

  
The expert on XeTeX is Jurgen: He'll probably comment on this when he 
sees it. But you might search the wiki for info. And you'll be pleased 
to hear that there will be support for XeTeX in LyX 2.0. If you're 
feeling a bit adventurous, you can checkout svn and compile it. It's 
reasonably stable at the moment, though I'd stay away from anything 
that's currently under active development, like spellcheck and HTML 
output


Richard

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[rgheck]

Guenter Milde wrote:

On 2009-06-22, rgheck wrote:
  

Tad Marko wrote:


Hello,
  


  

Another basic newbie question:
  


  

I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from the
book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir layout.
Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?
  



  
That might well work, so far as LyX is concerned. But the book class 
does not have a chapterprecis environment, so you'll need to define it. 
You can just copy (or adapt) it from memoir.cls.



Remember, that you *must not* change the book.cls document class file
directly.

Instead, you can

a) Create a new class file based on book.cls.

b) Create a new style file (package) and load in the layout or a module.

c) Add the environment to the preamble block in your layout file.

d) Add the environment to the preamble block of a module file.

How to create a latex package or class is described in the clsguide.pdf
(comes with your LaTeX distribution). How to write a LyX layout or module
file is described in the Customization manual.

  
I had (c) or (d) in mind myself, though of course (a) and (b) will also 
work.


rh

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 22 juin 09 à 16:06, Tad Marko a écrit :
I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from  
the
book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as  
simple as
copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir  
layout.

Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?


Is there a reason why you do not use memoir as base class? It is  
better than the legacy book.cls.


JMarc

Reset Section Numbering by Part

[Andrew Hills]

Hi all,

I want the section numbering to restart for each part in the article 
class. The only way I have devised is a simple hack in the LaTeX preamble:


\let\oldpart\part
\renewcommand{part}[1]{\oldpart{#1}
\setcounter{section}{0}}

This works great, except for the Table of Contents. When I generate a 
PDF, every Section N links to the first Section N; e.g., clicking on 
Part III, Section 2 takes me down to Part I, Section 2.


I understand that I can define a new counter with 
\newcounter{newsection}[part] to reset when I want it to. Is there a way 
to force sections to display this new counter while still being linked 
with the old one? If not, is there another way to solve my problem?


Other information: LyX 1.6.2 on Windows XP (MiKTeX 2.7)

--Andrew Hills

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[Tad Marko]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes lasgout...@lyx.orgwrote:

 Le 22 juin 09 à 16:06, Tad Marko a écrit :

 I would like to extend the book layout with the Chapterprecis from the
 book (memoir) layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
 copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir
 layout.
 Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?


 Is there a reason why you do not use memoir as base class? It is better
 than the legacy book.cls.


I simply find the memoir class unattractive. I like the looks of the classic
book class.

Tad

Re: Posters in LyX

[Liviu Andronic]

On 6/19/09, Les Denham  wrote:
>  What worked best for me is Scribus.
>
A relevant discussion, and a nice overview by Les on "LyX vs. Scribus" [1].
Liviu

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg57576.html

Re: assign tab to insert four spaces

[Abdelrazak Younes]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

Le 21 juin 09 à 17:19, Paul A. Rubin a écrit :
\bind "C-S-q" "command-sequence unicode-insert 0x20; unicode-insert 
0x20; unicode-insert 0x20; unicode-insert 0x20;"


\bind "C-S-q" "repeat 4 unicode-insert 0x20"


Even if we don't right now, I think we should support "unicode-insert 
0x20 0x20 0x20 0x20". Imagine that you want to insert a unicode string 
in the command buffer, repeating unicode-insert would be cumbersome...


Abdel.

Re: how to change font size for math on screen

[Hauser Helmut]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Hauser Helmut schrieb:

I tried to find the place in LyX where I can change the size of the 
formulas when the cursor is not there. When I type them they have the 
right size, but later when leaving the maths area

they fall back to a smaller size.




Hello Uwe, Hello Günter,


I don't understand. Do you have instant preview enabled (menu Tools -> 
Preferences-> Look & feel->

Graphics)?
If so, either turn it off or set it to "no math", or add this line to 
the file "lyxrc.dist" that you find in LyX's installation folder:


\preview_scale_factor "1.0"

The default size is 0.9. This has often been reported as too small 
therefore the alternative Windows installer sets it automatically to 1.0.




Thanks a lot for you help. This was exactly what I needed.
As always the LyX community is fast and powerful. I think this makes the 
wonderful piece of software even better.


Thanks again.
Best regards,
Helmut

regards Uwe



--

Helmut Hauser
Institute for Theoretical Computer Sciences
Technische Universitaet Graz
Inffeldgasse 16b, I
A-8010 Graz, Austria
---
helmut.hau...@igi.tugraz.at
Tel: + 43 316 873-5821
Fax: + 43 316 873-5805
http://www.igi.TUGraz.at/helmut/

journal abbreviations

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

I would like to use journal abbreviations in my reference list. I know, Jabref 
is having this option (manage journal abbreviations); I have, however, 
difficulties in getting it to work. Could somebody who used it already give 
me a hint? The explanation in jabref is beyond me (e.g. personal Journal 
list, external files, where and how to insert the journal list from JabRef)

There are actually 2 tasks:
- use abbreviations
- make sure the various kinds of writing of the same journal end up in the 
same  abbreviation

e.g.:
citation 1 uses AJP
citation 2 uses AJP
citation 3 Am.J.Phys.
citation 4 Am. J. Phys. (space!)
citation 5 Am. J. Physiol.
citation 6 Am. J. Physiology
citation 7 American Journal of Physiology

 should all have finally

Am. J. Physiol.

It would be nice to mark the citations in my Jabref file who use the same 
journal and tell jabref to put the correct abbreviation to all those. I have 
the feeling, this is implemented in Jabref, but can't get it to work.

Wolfgang 

SV: journal abbreviations

[Ingar Pareliussen]

 Hi

I do not use jabref, however in bibtex you may use strings{} for this. 
The best way is to use a shorthand form of the journal when you
enter the citataion (like AJP) and then make a new bibfile
with:
@string{AJP = "Am. J. Physiol."}
and call that bibfile before your bibfile with citations.
in LaTeX: \bibliography{abbreviations,citations}

You may make several @strings to format into 
"Am. J. Physiol." if your citation.bib
has many different formats for each journal.

Ingar

Re: Posters in LyX

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 22 June 2009 02:43:51 am Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On 6/19/09, Les Denham  wrote:
> >  What worked best for me is Scribus.
>
> A relevant discussion, and a nice overview by Les on "LyX vs. Scribus" [1].
> Liviu
>
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg57576.html

After reading that, it sounds like Scribus is the ideal tool for posters. It 
sounds great for 8.5x11 flyers, and for folding brochures. And yes, most 
short newsletters are extremely fine tuned, so it sounds great for those too.

You know what else it sounds great for -- laying out the cover of an eBook. 
I've been using Inkscape for that, but I might try Scribus just for fun.

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

how to use "custom insert"

[Alexander Barcza]

Hello,

I'm using LyX 1.6.3 on a Mac. I'd like to define some custom insert in order
to insert frequently used formatted text. There seems to be an item in the
menu but all it says is "No custom insets defined!". How do I define one?

Could you please let me know whether I'm doing something wrong or whether
there is a workaround to achieve the same. In particular I want to define
some math expressions (like $T_{\mathrm{C}} and so on) that I want to insert
in my document with a single/few clicks.

This is possible in e.g. Kile but I really love LyX because of the WYSIWYG.

Thanks
Alex

Extending Existing Layouts

[Tad Marko]

Hello,

Another basic newbie question:

I would like to extend the book layout with the "Chapterprecis" from the
book (memoir)" layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir layout.
Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?

Thanks,
Tad

Re: journal abbreviations

[Paul A. Rubin]

Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
I would like to use journal abbreviations in my reference list. I know, Jabref 
is having this option (manage journal abbreviations); I have, however, 
difficulties in getting it to work. Could somebody who used it already give 
me a hint? The explanation in jabref is beyond me (e.g. personal Journal 
list, external files, where and how to insert the journal list from JabRef)


There are actually 2 tasks:
- use abbreviations
- make sure the various kinds of writing of the same journal end up in the 
same  abbreviation


e.g.:
citation 1 uses AJP
citation 2 uses AJP
citation 3 Am.J.Phys.
citation 4 Am. J. Phys. (space!)
citation 5 Am. J. Physiol.
citation 6 Am. J. Physiology
citation 7 American Journal of Physiology

 should all have finally

Am. J. Physiol.

It would be nice to mark the citations in my Jabref file who use the same 
journal and tell jabref to put the correct abbreviation to all those. I have 
the feeling, this is implemented in Jabref, but can't get it to work.




You could do something like that with the personal journal list, but it 
would involve adding one line to your new personal list for each version 
of each journal's name appearing in your .bib file, e.g.


AJP -> Am. J. Phys.
Am.J.Phys. -> Am. J. Phys.
American Journal of Physiology -> Am. J. Phys.
etc.

(assuming Am. J. Phys. was the abbreviation you wanted BibTeX to use).

Assuming you only have one .bib file, it might be easier to use the 
string editor (Ctrl-T or BibTeX > Edit Strings) to add one abbreviation 
for each journal (e.g., AJP -> Am. J. Phys., again assuming the right 
side is how you want it listed).  Then just manually edit each entry, 
replacing whatever is in the journal field with #AJP#.  The biggest 
limitation of this approach is that the strings only apply to the .bib 
file containing them, although I suspect it is not hard to transfer them 
to a new .bib file.


/Paul

Re: how to use "custom insert"

[rgheck]

Alexander Barcza wrote:

Hello,

I'm using LyX 1.6.3 on a Mac. I'd like to define some custom insert in order
to insert frequently used formatted text. There seems to be an item in the
menu but all it says is "No custom insets defined!". How do I define one?

  
This is for inserting custom insets, e.g., an inset that would work like 
a footnote inset but that would produce an endnote. So that's probably 
not what you want, but creating them is explained in Chapter 5 of the 
Customization manual. Or have a look at the code for the endnote module, 
which you'll find in the file endnote.module in your layout directory.



Could you please let me know whether I'm doing something wrong or whether
there is a workaround to achieve the same. In particular I want to define
some math expressions (like $T_{\mathrm{C}} and so on) that I want to insert
in my document with a single/few clicks.

  
You can do this either with keybindings or by adding things to the 
menus. For keybindings, you can use the Shortcuts dialog under 
Preferences. The menus are controlled by the files in the ui/ directory. 
You could add a submenu in stdmenus.inc and populate it as you wish. The 
syntax of the menu file is pretty simple.


The trick, in either case, will be to get the syntax of the LyX command 
right. You can play with this in the command buffer 
(View>Toolbars>Command Buffer). It also helps to watch the status line. 
Look under the Help menu for a list of the functions you can use there.


rh

Re: how to use "custom insert"

[Paul A. Rubin]

Alexander Barcza wrote:

Hello,

I'm using LyX 1.6.3 on a Mac. I'd like to define some custom insert in order
to insert frequently used formatted text. There seems to be an item in the
menu but all it says is "No custom insets defined!". How do I define one?

Could you please let me know whether I'm doing something wrong or whether
there is a workaround to achieve the same. In particular I want to define
some math expressions (like $T_{\mathrm{C}} and so on) that I want to insert
in my document with a single/few clicks.

This is possible in e.g. Kile but I really love LyX because of the WYSIWYG.

Thanks
Alex



If you want to insert them using custom insets, I think you will need to 
create a module containing the code for them.  See section 5.3.6 of the 
Customization manual.  Alternatively, you could just bind them to a 
keystroke (Tools > Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts).  For instance, 
'math-insert {T_{\mathrm{C}}}' (without the quotes) should fit your 
example above.  (The extra braces will appear in the the LyX GUI but not 
in the output.  They're a workaround to an apparent bug in the 
math-insert function -- unless I'm missing something.)


/Paul

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[rgheck]

Tad Marko wrote:

Hello,

Another basic newbie question:

I would like to extend the book layout with the "Chapterprecis" from the
book (memoir)" layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir layout.
Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?

  
That might well work, so far as LyX is concerned. But the book class 
does not have a chapterprecis environment, so you'll need to define it. 
You can just copy (or adapt) it from memoir.cls.


rh

Help message about LyX-XeTeX

[Francesco Fuganti Pedoni]

I've just downloaded the last LyX release (1.6.3) and my OS is Windovs Vista 
Home Premium. I've used LyX writing all my reports in the last six months. I've 
got only one great problem that I can't solve without your help. I 'd like to 
use some characters not available in LaTeX: for exemple Calibri. I've made some 
researches and I've read about XeTeX. I use MikTeX, the last release, and it 
contains XeTeX. It should be possible to use XeTeX whit LyX but I can't do it. 
I've read something about the conversion in the format output PDF (xetex) but 
it is not present in the list that I've found in Tools>Preferences>File 
Handling>Converters. It seems like LyX doesn't find XeTeX even if it's yet 
installed. What could I do? 
I hope my english will be clear to you.
Thank you for your attention.
Yours faithfully,

Francesco Fuganti Pedoni

Re: Posters in LyX

[obregonmateo]

I have to disagree in this debate. I have found lyx a *superb* tool for making 
scientific posters! It gives a uniform look, as well as dealing with the proper 
formatting of legends and cross-references. Plus, it properly formats my bibtex 
references and places everything evenly distributed on an A0 layout. If 
information overflows, it means I have to reorganise my poster, not 
finger-paint layouts to shoe-horn items into the poster (that probably 
shouldn't be there anyway for the requirements of a poster).

It also means that I can re-use text and graphics from talks and papers that 
I've written in lyx.

I use sciposter.cls, sectionbox.sty, multicol.sty and wallpaper.sty to generate 
posters with multiple columns, sectioned boxes and a background. I generate my 
plots with R and graphics with inkscape.

On the other hand, I end up spending much more time fiddling about 
finger-painting with tools like scribus.

Mateo.

On Monday 22 June 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Monday 22 June 2009 02:43:51 am Liviu Andronic wrote:
> > On 6/19/09, Les Denham  wrote:
> > >  What worked best for me is Scribus.
> >
> > A relevant discussion, and a nice overview by Les on "LyX vs. Scribus" [1].
> > Liviu
> >
> > [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg57576.html
> 
> After reading that, it sounds like Scribus is the ideal tool for posters. It 
> sounds great for 8.5x11 flyers, and for folding brochures. And yes, most 
> short newsletters are extremely fine tuned, so it sounds great for those too.
> 
> You know what else it sounds great for -- laying out the cover of an eBook. 
> I've been using Inkscape for that, but I might try Scribus just for fun.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> SteveT
> 
> Steve Litt
> Recession Relief Package
> http://www.recession-relief.US
> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
> 
> 

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-06-22, rgheck wrote:
> Tad Marko wrote:
>> Hello,

>> Another basic newbie question:

>> I would like to extend the book layout with the "Chapterprecis" from the
>> book (memoir)" layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
>> copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir layout.
>> Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?


> That might well work, so far as LyX is concerned. But the book class 
> does not have a chapterprecis environment, so you'll need to define it. 
> You can just copy (or adapt) it from memoir.cls.

Remember, that you *must not* change the book.cls document class file
directly.

Instead, you can

a) Create a new class file based on book.cls.

b) Create a new style file (package) and load in the layout or a module.

c) Add the environment to the preamble block in your layout file.

d) Add the environment to the preamble block of a module file.


How to create a latex package or class is described in the clsguide.pdf
(comes with your LaTeX distribution). How to write a LyX layout or module
file is described in the Customization manual.

Günter

Re: Help message about LyX-XeTeX

[rgheck]

Francesco Fuganti Pedoni wrote:
I've just downloaded the last LyX release (1.6.3) and my OS is Windovs Vista Home Premium. I've used LyX writing all my reports in the last six months. I've got only one great problem that I can't solve without your help. I 'd like to use some characters not available in LaTeX: for exemple Calibri. I've made some researches and I've read about XeTeX. I use MikTeX, the last release, and it contains XeTeX. It should be possible to use XeTeX whit LyX but I can't do it. I've read something about the conversion in the format output PDF (xetex) but it is not present in the list that I've found in Tools>Preferences>File Handling>Converters. It seems like LyX doesn't find XeTeX even if it's yet installed. What could I do? 

  
The expert on XeTeX is J"urgen: He'll probably comment on this when he 
sees it. But you might search the wiki for info. And you'll be pleased 
to hear that there will be support for XeTeX in LyX 2.0. If you're 
feeling a bit adventurous, you can checkout svn and compile it. It's 
reasonably stable at the moment, though I'd stay away from anything 
that's currently under active development, like spellcheck and HTML 
output


Richard

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[rgheck]

Guenter Milde wrote:

On 2009-06-22, rgheck wrote:
  

Tad Marko wrote:


Hello,
  


  

Another basic newbie question:
  


  

I would like to extend the book layout with the "Chapterprecis" from the
book (memoir)" layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir layout.
Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?
  



  
That might well work, so far as LyX is concerned. But the book class 
does not have a chapterprecis environment, so you'll need to define it. 
You can just copy (or adapt) it from memoir.cls.



Remember, that you *must not* change the book.cls document class file
directly.

Instead, you can

a) Create a new class file based on book.cls.

b) Create a new style file (package) and load in the layout or a module.

c) Add the environment to the preamble block in your layout file.

d) Add the environment to the preamble block of a module file.

How to create a latex package or class is described in the clsguide.pdf
(comes with your LaTeX distribution). How to write a LyX layout or module
file is described in the Customization manual.

  
I had (c) or (d) in mind myself, though of course (a) and (b) will also 
work.


rh

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 22 juin 09 à 16:06, Tad Marko a écrit :
I would like to extend the book layout with the "Chapterprecis" from  
the
book (memoir)" layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as  
simple as
copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir  
layout.

Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?


Is there a reason why you do not use memoir as base class? It is  
better than the legacy book.cls.


JMarc

Reset Section Numbering by Part

[Andrew Hills]

Hi all,

I want the section numbering to restart for each part in the article 
class. The only way I have devised is a simple hack in the LaTeX preamble:


\let\oldpart\part
\renewcommand{part}[1]{\oldpart{#1}
\setcounter{section}{0}}

This works great, except for the Table of Contents. When I generate a 
PDF, every Section N links to the first Section N; e.g., clicking on 
Part III, Section 2 takes me down to Part I, Section 2.


I understand that I can define a new counter with 
\newcounter{newsection}[part] to reset when I want it to. Is there a way 
to force sections to display this new counter while still being linked 
with the old one? If not, is there another way to solve my problem?


Other information: LyX 1.6.2 on Windows XP (MiKTeX 2.7)

--Andrew Hills

Re: Extending Existing Layouts

[Tad Marko]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> Le 22 juin 09 à 16:06, Tad Marko a écrit :
>
>> I would like to extend the book layout with the "Chapterprecis" from the
>> book (memoir)" layout. It is probably naive to assume this is as simple as
>> copying book.layout and copying the Chapterprecis style from memoir
>> layout.
>> Can anyone tell me a bit about the proper way to do this?
>>
>
> Is there a reason why you do not use memoir as base class? It is better
> than the legacy book.cls.


I simply find the memoir class unattractive. I like the looks of the classic
book class.

Tad