Re: multi page Algorithm Floats ?

[Helge Hafting]

Jaime Huerta Cepas wrote:

Hi all,

I wonder if there is any way of allowing Algorithm Float boxes to start in
the middle of one page, and end in the next one. I'm using these kind of
floats to include pieces of highlighted source code, so I guess text could
be perfectly splitted.


Then a float is not what you need. Floats float around, precisely 
because they need to stay in one piece. (table, picture, ...)


If your algorithm can be split, then it don't need a float.
Write your algorithm, just don't insert a float and you'll be fine.

If you want nice formatting for your algorithm, consider
Insert-Program Listing Listings are nice for computer code and 
similiar stuff. You can specify fonts, you can have syntax highlighting,

you can have automatic line numbering if you like. Just right-click the
listing box, and you'll see all the options.

You can type listings into your document, but a listing may also get its 
content from (parts of) an external file. (Insert-File-child document, 
set the type to listing) This makes it possible to
list parts of actual source code. That way, the working code and the 
document is always in sync - because the same file is used for both. No 
need to fix the document after fixing a bug. :-)


Helge Hafting

How to switch varioref on?

[Robert Siemer]

Dear readers,

I’m interested in cross-references like:

...see next page. OR ...see below.

where I don’t get a number, but a word. I read that vaioref is package that does
exactly that. I also read in some release file that LyX should support it, but
how do I turn that on?

I have varioref installed, but the cross-reference dialog only contains the
formats with page, reference and “Formatted reference”, which means “use
prettyref”, as far as I can see.

How to use varioref references in LyX 1.6.3, Debian??


Regards,
Robert

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

[Richard Talley]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Joachim Osnabryg o...@jpberlin.de wrote:


 = Has anyone installed Aspell or CocoAspell under Mac-OSX and has got them
 working with LyX in a reasonable manner?
 Would you please describe how you installed and configured it?

 joachim



I'm glad you asked this question. I needed to add a Spanish language
dictionary to cocoAspell and with a little googling and command line work, I
got it working.

The cocoAspell project appears moribund, the documentation is incomplete,
and the site is beginning to suffer from link rot. I think the next time I
need to install and configure LyX, I'll just install aspell using Fink and
eschew using cocoAspell to make it available as an OS X service.

First, install cocoAspell and make sure it's working properly with LyX as an
English language spellchecker. That's pretty straight forward.

cocoAspell installs a number of things. It installs aspell itself in
/usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib. It installs a preference pane in system
preferences. It installs a large number of English dictionaries. It installs
a service in ~/Library/Services. That's all OK. If you want the aspell
service available in all user accounts, you'll need to move that last item,
as root, to /Library/Services (you'll probably have to create that
directory). If you just need the service available in the account from which
you installed it, just leave things as cocoAspell installed it.

You'll need to choose one of the available English dictionaries in the
preference pane. Then in LyX preferences you choose aspell as the
spellchecker and add this line to the Alternative Language field:

/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias


That's just following the instructions in the Wiki. Test that you can now
spellcheck an English language document in LyX.


Next, you'll need to download and install a German language dictionary. The
link at the cocoAspell site is dead. Use this one:


ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html


Unzip the file and follow the README  instructions to install the dictionary
into aspell (it's the usual command line sequence of ./configure, make, make
install, make clean).


Now copy or move the dictionary directory (in my case it
is aspell6-es-1.9a-1) to /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell. Chown the
directory to match the English language directory ownership (it should be
the name of your admin account as owner and 501 as group).


Here's the tricky step. Be sure System Preferences is not running. Get into
the command line and become root. Run System Preferences as root! Don't use
the open command, instead give the full path to the executable:


/Applications/System\ Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System\ Preferences


Do one thing and one thing only while running System Preferences as root.
Click on the Spelling preference pane that cocoAspell installed so it finds,
compiles and configures your new dictionary. Quit System Preferences. Reopen
it from the GUI. You should now be able to choose your new dictionary.


To use your new dictionary, change the Alternative Language field in LyX
preferences appropriately. In my case, it's:


/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-es-1.9a-1/spanish.alias


Voilà! I now have Spanish language spellchecking in LyX.

-- Rich TalleyMacTeXLive 2008 - LyX 1.6.3
MacBook Pro (Intel) OS X 10.5.8 Leopard

-- 
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to
handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan
Perlis

Re: Help needed: LyX files Win-Linux Mint Gloria 7

[Paul A. Rubin]

KR Thorne wrote:

Hello,
 
I created a number of files in LyX under Windows Vista, saved in .lyx format. I have just migrated over to Linux Mint Gloria 7, and now my files will not open. I receive an error message:
 


/media/FreeAgent Drive/Encryption Folder/Seagate
Backup/KRT-PC/C/Users/KRT/Documents/Writing/GTG_TWI_newedit_test.lyx is not a 
readable LyX document.

I also tried the files I had copied to a data DVD, but cannot open them either.
 
Both the Windows Lyx and the Linux LyX are the latest release, 1.6.2.
 
This is extremely important, as these are manuscripts representing several years of work. At present I cannot simply open them in Windows, as my Windows installation was not working and the recovery disks are unsuccessful (ticket open with the laptop mfr).
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 


In the midst of that path I see Encryption Folder.  Was this folder by 
any chance automatically encrypted under Vista?  If so, you may need to 
use Vista to move the files to an unencrypted folder somewhere.


/Paul

Re: Help needed: LyX files Win-Linux Mint Gloria 7

[Manveru]

2009/8/28 Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu:
 KR Thorne wrote:
[...]
 /media/FreeAgent Drive/Encryption Folder/Seagate
 Backup/KRT-PC/C/Users/KRT/Documents/Writing/GTG_TWI_newedit_test.lyx is
 not a readable LyX document.

 I also tried the files I had copied to a data DVD, but cannot open them
 either.
[...]

 In the midst of that path I see Encryption Folder.  Was this folder by any
 chance automatically encrypted under Vista?  If so, you may need to use
 Vista to move the files to an unencrypted folder somewhere.

This may be a folder encrypted by External HDD itself. I am wondering
whether these files on DVD are copied under Vista (probably
unencrypted) or under Windows. It would be nice to look into files to
check whether are they text files or scrambled binary.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Custom box inset and custom bullets

[Nick Bell]

Dear list,

I have looked at the mailing lists and wiki but can't find what I want. 
What I'd like to do is:


(1) to create a module defining a new box inset type with an oval frame 
and framesep=12pt, space between lines=medskip, which I can then apply 
to bits of my documents.


(2) Also I'd like to know how to change the bullet type for each 
individual line (itemize environment) - using renewcommand?


Thanks for any pointers

Nick

words out of right margin with / or -

[Piero]

Hello,
I noticed a strange behaviour:
 sometimes compound words or slash separated words

like example/example or example-example
 confuse LaTeX (or LyX) and they could 

be printed outside of margins.
You can put some example-example-example
 inside a random text in a new LyX 

document and PDFize it.

you will notice the behaviour.
How to avoid it?
Thanks.

Re: words out of right margin with / or -

[Stefano Franchi]

On Friday 28 August 2009 08:51:05 am Piero wrote:
 Hello,
 I noticed a strange behaviour:
  sometimes compound words or slash separated words

 like example/example or example-example
  confuse LaTeX (or LyX) and they could

 be printed outside of margins.
 You can put some example-example-example
  inside a random text in a new LyX

 document and PDFize it.

 you will notice the behaviour.
 How to avoid it?
 Thanks.

Hmm, actually I tried and didn't get any strange behavior. Are you sure it 
isn't a simple hyphenation problem, i.e. Latex doesn't have good hyphenation 
points and pushes the word into the margin? Try adding suggested hyphenation 
points to the word and see what happens: InsertFormattingHyphenation point  
Or subsitute breakable slashes for the slashes (usually: type ctrl-/ instead 
of just /).

S.
__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy  Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: Help needed: LyX files Win-Linux Mint Gloria 7

[rgheck]

On 08/27/2009 11:08 PM, KR Thorne wrote:

Hi rh,

Attached is a sample file done in the Windows version of LyX. I cannot 
open this file in LyX 1.6.2 installed on my Linux Mint 7 Gloria system 
-- returns the same error message as below. I've tried several files, 
all with the same result.


Please let me know what you find.

Well, if I save it to /tmp/, it opens up just fine, so that didn't tell 
us very much.


I think the issue is certainly the one pointed out by Paul and Manervu: 
The document is encrypted in some way, but LyX is not getting a 
decrypted version. The only way you can get that message is if the first 
non-comment line of the file isn't \lyxformat ..., which it certainly 
would be.


Try copying the file to your home directory and opening it from there. 
If that does not work, open a terminal and run cat myfile.lyx. If you 
don't see something like this:


#LyX 1.6.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 345
\begin_document
\begin_header

and in particular if you get jumbled garbage, then we've found the problem.

That said, the fact that I could open the file you sent me suggests that 
copying your LyX files to your home directory may be all you need to do.


Richard

Re: Custom box inset and custom bullets

[rgheck]

On 08/28/2009 09:43 AM, Nick Bell wrote:
Dear
list,
  
  
I have looked at the mailing lists and wiki but can't find what I want.
What I'd like to do is:
  
  
(1) to create a module defining a new box inset type with an oval frame
and framesep=12pt, space between lines=medskip, which I can then apply
to bits of my documents.
  
  

Is the issue here how to do the LaTeX, or how to define the Flex inset?

(2) Also
I'd like to know how to change the bullet type for each individual line
(itemize environment) - using renewcommand?
  
  

\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{$\star$}
\renewcommand{\labelitemii}{$\rightarrow$}

etc.

rh

Re: How to switch varioref on?

[rgheck]

On 08/28/2009 05:21 AM, Robert Siemer wrote:

Dear readers,

I’m interested in cross-references like:

...see next page. OR ...see below.

where I don’t get a number, but a word. I read that vaioref is package that does
exactly that. I also read in some release file that LyX should support it, but
how do I turn that on?

I have varioref installed, but the cross-reference dialog only contains the
formats withpage,reference  and “Formatted reference”, which means “use
prettyref”, as far as I can see.

How to use varioref references in LyX 1.6.3, Debian??

   

Is there anything about this on the wiki?

rh

Re: Single Spacing in Caption

[Stephen Buonopane]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote:


Dear All,

I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are  
double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS  
directs it should be.




I know I succeeded in getting single spaced subfigure captions in my  
thesis, but I don't remember how I did it specifically.

I do know I used the hangcaption package

Here are a few relevant lines from my preamble (not sure of the  
difference between the last two lines)


%Decrease space around subfigure captions
\renewcommand{\subfigcapskip}{3pt}
\renewcommand{\subfigbottomskip}{6pt}   


%Caption revision as suggested by cornell class
\usepackage{hangcaption}
%\renewcommand{\caption}[1]{\singlespacing 
\hangcaption{#1}\normalspacing}

\renewcommand{\caption}[1]{\hangcaption{#1}}

Re: words out of right margin with / or -

[Uwe Stöhr]

Piero schrieb:


I noticed a strange behaviour:
 sometimes compound words or slash separated words

like example/example or example-example
 confuse LaTeX (or LyX) and they could 


be printed outside of margins.


In this cases you can use a breakable slash. (menu Insert - Special character)

regards Uwe

Re: How to switch varioref on?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Robert Siemer schrieb:


I’m interested in cross-references like:

...see next page. OR ...see below.


Insert a cross-reference and choose in the appearing dialog the format
reference on page page. This inserts in the background the LaTeX command \vref (provided by 
varioref).


(For more info about reference formats, see sec. 3.4.1 of the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find 
in the Help menu.)


regards Uwe

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

[Joachim Osnabryg]

Thank you very much, Richard, for your kindly and detailed help!

First I uninstalled the aspell installed with MacPorts and tried to follow  
your instructions.


Am 28.08.2009, 14:25 Uhr, schrieb Richard Talley:
First, install cocoAspell and make sure it's working properly with LyX  
as an

English language spellchecker. That's pretty straight forward.


At least to that point I came. I wouldn't call it straight forward but  
the concentrated work of some hours, but anyway, the English language  
spellchecker seems to work usably in my LyX, if I needed it.


I continued with installing and configuring the German language dictionary:


Do one thing and one thing only while running System Preferences as root.
Click on the Spelling preference pane that cocoAspell installed so it  
finds,
compiles and configures your new dictionary. Quit System Preferences.  
Reopen

it from the GUI. You should now be able to choose your new dictionary.


OK, so far.

Only: the crazy German spellchecking in LyX continued as yesterday.

So I give up. I'm going to uninstall CocoAspell as well and shall use LyX  
without spellchecker. Sorry though!


Congratulation to you, for getting usable the Spanish dict. But  
nevertheless I regard this complicated procedure as unreasonable and  
unacceptable for a normal LyX user. I remain with the conclusion:


German language Aspell spellchecking in LyX on Mac-OSX is not practicable!

joachim
--
MacTeXLive 2008 - TeXShop 2.18-svn - LyX 1.6.3
MacBook Pro OSX 10.4.11 Tiger (intel)

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

[Richard Talley]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Joachim Osnabryg o...@jpberlin.de wrote:


 But nevertheless I regard this complicated procedure as unreasonable and
 unacceptable for a normal LyX user.


Yes. Like so many things with computers.

Sorry you couldn't get it working. Perhaps things will be better with LyX
2.0.

-- Rich
-- 
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to
handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan
Perlis

Re: multi page Algorithm Floats ?

[Helge Hafting]

Jaime Huerta Cepas wrote:

Hi all,

I wonder if there is any way of allowing Algorithm Float boxes to start in
the middle of one page, and end in the next one. I'm using these kind of
floats to include pieces of highlighted source code, so I guess text could
be perfectly splitted.


Then a float is not what you need. Floats float around, precisely 
because they need to stay in one piece. (table, picture, ...)


If your algorithm can be split, then it don't need a float.
Write your algorithm, just don't insert a float and you'll be fine.

If you want nice formatting for your algorithm, consider
Insert-Program Listing Listings are nice for computer code and 
similiar stuff. You can specify fonts, you can have syntax highlighting,

you can have automatic line numbering if you like. Just right-click the
listing box, and you'll see all the options.

You can type listings into your document, but a listing may also get its 
content from (parts of) an external file. (Insert-File-child document, 
set the type to listing) This makes it possible to
list parts of actual source code. That way, the working code and the 
document is always in sync - because the same file is used for both. No 
need to fix the document after fixing a bug. :-)


Helge Hafting

How to switch varioref on?

[Robert Siemer]

Dear readers,

I’m interested in cross-references like:

...see next page. OR ...see below.

where I don’t get a number, but a word. I read that vaioref is package that does
exactly that. I also read in some release file that LyX should support it, but
how do I turn that on?

I have varioref installed, but the cross-reference dialog only contains the
formats with page, reference and “Formatted reference”, which means “use
prettyref”, as far as I can see.

How to use varioref references in LyX 1.6.3, Debian??


Regards,
Robert

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

[Richard Talley]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Joachim Osnabryg o...@jpberlin.de wrote:


 = Has anyone installed Aspell or CocoAspell under Mac-OSX and has got them
 working with LyX in a reasonable manner?
 Would you please describe how you installed and configured it?

 joachim



I'm glad you asked this question. I needed to add a Spanish language
dictionary to cocoAspell and with a little googling and command line work, I
got it working.

The cocoAspell project appears moribund, the documentation is incomplete,
and the site is beginning to suffer from link rot. I think the next time I
need to install and configure LyX, I'll just install aspell using Fink and
eschew using cocoAspell to make it available as an OS X service.

First, install cocoAspell and make sure it's working properly with LyX as an
English language spellchecker. That's pretty straight forward.

cocoAspell installs a number of things. It installs aspell itself in
/usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib. It installs a preference pane in system
preferences. It installs a large number of English dictionaries. It installs
a service in ~/Library/Services. That's all OK. If you want the aspell
service available in all user accounts, you'll need to move that last item,
as root, to /Library/Services (you'll probably have to create that
directory). If you just need the service available in the account from which
you installed it, just leave things as cocoAspell installed it.

You'll need to choose one of the available English dictionaries in the
preference pane. Then in LyX preferences you choose aspell as the
spellchecker and add this line to the Alternative Language field:

/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias


That's just following the instructions in the Wiki. Test that you can now
spellcheck an English language document in LyX.


Next, you'll need to download and install a German language dictionary. The
link at the cocoAspell site is dead. Use this one:


ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html


Unzip the file and follow the README  instructions to install the dictionary
into aspell (it's the usual command line sequence of ./configure, make, make
install, make clean).


Now copy or move the dictionary directory (in my case it
is aspell6-es-1.9a-1) to /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell. Chown the
directory to match the English language directory ownership (it should be
the name of your admin account as owner and 501 as group).


Here's the tricky step. Be sure System Preferences is not running. Get into
the command line and become root. Run System Preferences as root! Don't use
the open command, instead give the full path to the executable:


/Applications/System\ Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System\ Preferences


Do one thing and one thing only while running System Preferences as root.
Click on the Spelling preference pane that cocoAspell installed so it finds,
compiles and configures your new dictionary. Quit System Preferences. Reopen
it from the GUI. You should now be able to choose your new dictionary.


To use your new dictionary, change the Alternative Language field in LyX
preferences appropriately. In my case, it's:


/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-es-1.9a-1/spanish.alias


Voilà! I now have Spanish language spellchecking in LyX.

-- Rich TalleyMacTeXLive 2008 - LyX 1.6.3
MacBook Pro (Intel) OS X 10.5.8 Leopard

-- 
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to
handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan
Perlis

Re: Help needed: LyX files Win-Linux Mint Gloria 7

[Paul A. Rubin]

KR Thorne wrote:

Hello,
 
I created a number of files in LyX under Windows Vista, saved in .lyx format. I have just migrated over to Linux Mint Gloria 7, and now my files will not open. I receive an error message:
 


/media/FreeAgent Drive/Encryption Folder/Seagate
Backup/KRT-PC/C/Users/KRT/Documents/Writing/GTG_TWI_newedit_test.lyx is not a 
readable LyX document.

I also tried the files I had copied to a data DVD, but cannot open them either.
 
Both the Windows Lyx and the Linux LyX are the latest release, 1.6.2.
 
This is extremely important, as these are manuscripts representing several years of work. At present I cannot simply open them in Windows, as my Windows installation was not working and the recovery disks are unsuccessful (ticket open with the laptop mfr).
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 


In the midst of that path I see Encryption Folder.  Was this folder by 
any chance automatically encrypted under Vista?  If so, you may need to 
use Vista to move the files to an unencrypted folder somewhere.


/Paul

Re: Help needed: LyX files Win-Linux Mint Gloria 7

[Manveru]

2009/8/28 Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu:
 KR Thorne wrote:
[...]
 /media/FreeAgent Drive/Encryption Folder/Seagate
 Backup/KRT-PC/C/Users/KRT/Documents/Writing/GTG_TWI_newedit_test.lyx is
 not a readable LyX document.

 I also tried the files I had copied to a data DVD, but cannot open them
 either.
[...]

 In the midst of that path I see Encryption Folder.  Was this folder by any
 chance automatically encrypted under Vista?  If so, you may need to use
 Vista to move the files to an unencrypted folder somewhere.

This may be a folder encrypted by External HDD itself. I am wondering
whether these files on DVD are copied under Vista (probably
unencrypted) or under Windows. It would be nice to look into files to
check whether are they text files or scrambled binary.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Custom box inset and custom bullets

[Nick Bell]

Dear list,

I have looked at the mailing lists and wiki but can't find what I want. 
What I'd like to do is:


(1) to create a module defining a new box inset type with an oval frame 
and framesep=12pt, space between lines=medskip, which I can then apply 
to bits of my documents.


(2) Also I'd like to know how to change the bullet type for each 
individual line (itemize environment) - using renewcommand?


Thanks for any pointers

Nick

words out of right margin with / or -

[Piero]

Hello,
I noticed a strange behaviour:
 sometimes compound words or slash separated words

like example/example or example-example
 confuse LaTeX (or LyX) and they could 

be printed outside of margins.
You can put some example-example-example
 inside a random text in a new LyX 

document and PDFize it.

you will notice the behaviour.
How to avoid it?
Thanks.

Re: words out of right margin with / or -

[Stefano Franchi]

On Friday 28 August 2009 08:51:05 am Piero wrote:
 Hello,
 I noticed a strange behaviour:
  sometimes compound words or slash separated words

 like example/example or example-example
  confuse LaTeX (or LyX) and they could

 be printed outside of margins.
 You can put some example-example-example
  inside a random text in a new LyX

 document and PDFize it.

 you will notice the behaviour.
 How to avoid it?
 Thanks.

Hmm, actually I tried and didn't get any strange behavior. Are you sure it 
isn't a simple hyphenation problem, i.e. Latex doesn't have good hyphenation 
points and pushes the word into the margin? Try adding suggested hyphenation 
points to the word and see what happens: InsertFormattingHyphenation point  
Or subsitute breakable slashes for the slashes (usually: type ctrl-/ instead 
of just /).

S.
__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy  Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: Help needed: LyX files Win-Linux Mint Gloria 7

[rgheck]

On 08/27/2009 11:08 PM, KR Thorne wrote:

Hi rh,

Attached is a sample file done in the Windows version of LyX. I cannot 
open this file in LyX 1.6.2 installed on my Linux Mint 7 Gloria system 
-- returns the same error message as below. I've tried several files, 
all with the same result.


Please let me know what you find.

Well, if I save it to /tmp/, it opens up just fine, so that didn't tell 
us very much.


I think the issue is certainly the one pointed out by Paul and Manervu: 
The document is encrypted in some way, but LyX is not getting a 
decrypted version. The only way you can get that message is if the first 
non-comment line of the file isn't \lyxformat ..., which it certainly 
would be.


Try copying the file to your home directory and opening it from there. 
If that does not work, open a terminal and run cat myfile.lyx. If you 
don't see something like this:


#LyX 1.6.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 345
\begin_document
\begin_header

and in particular if you get jumbled garbage, then we've found the problem.

That said, the fact that I could open the file you sent me suggests that 
copying your LyX files to your home directory may be all you need to do.


Richard

Re: Custom box inset and custom bullets

[rgheck]

On 08/28/2009 09:43 AM, Nick Bell wrote:
Dear
list,
  
  
I have looked at the mailing lists and wiki but can't find what I want.
What I'd like to do is:
  
  
(1) to create a module defining a new box inset type with an oval frame
and framesep=12pt, space between lines=medskip, which I can then apply
to bits of my documents.
  
  

Is the issue here how to do the LaTeX, or how to define the Flex inset?

(2) Also
I'd like to know how to change the bullet type for each individual line
(itemize environment) - using renewcommand?
  
  

\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{$\star$}
\renewcommand{\labelitemii}{$\rightarrow$}

etc.

rh

Re: How to switch varioref on?

[rgheck]

On 08/28/2009 05:21 AM, Robert Siemer wrote:

Dear readers,

I’m interested in cross-references like:

...see next page. OR ...see below.

where I don’t get a number, but a word. I read that vaioref is package that does
exactly that. I also read in some release file that LyX should support it, but
how do I turn that on?

I have varioref installed, but the cross-reference dialog only contains the
formats withpage,reference  and “Formatted reference”, which means “use
prettyref”, as far as I can see.

How to use varioref references in LyX 1.6.3, Debian??

   

Is there anything about this on the wiki?

rh

Re: Single Spacing in Caption

[Stephen Buonopane]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote:


Dear All,

I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are  
double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS  
directs it should be.




I know I succeeded in getting single spaced subfigure captions in my  
thesis, but I don't remember how I did it specifically.

I do know I used the hangcaption package

Here are a few relevant lines from my preamble (not sure of the  
difference between the last two lines)


%Decrease space around subfigure captions
\renewcommand{\subfigcapskip}{3pt}
\renewcommand{\subfigbottomskip}{6pt}   


%Caption revision as suggested by cornell class
\usepackage{hangcaption}
%\renewcommand{\caption}[1]{\singlespacing 
\hangcaption{#1}\normalspacing}

\renewcommand{\caption}[1]{\hangcaption{#1}}

Re: words out of right margin with / or -

[Uwe Stöhr]

Piero schrieb:


I noticed a strange behaviour:
 sometimes compound words or slash separated words

like example/example or example-example
 confuse LaTeX (or LyX) and they could 


be printed outside of margins.


In this cases you can use a breakable slash. (menu Insert - Special character)

regards Uwe

Re: How to switch varioref on?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Robert Siemer schrieb:


I’m interested in cross-references like:

...see next page. OR ...see below.


Insert a cross-reference and choose in the appearing dialog the format
reference on page page. This inserts in the background the LaTeX command \vref (provided by 
varioref).


(For more info about reference formats, see sec. 3.4.1 of the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find 
in the Help menu.)


regards Uwe

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

[Joachim Osnabryg]

Thank you very much, Richard, for your kindly and detailed help!

First I uninstalled the aspell installed with MacPorts and tried to follow  
your instructions.


Am 28.08.2009, 14:25 Uhr, schrieb Richard Talley:
First, install cocoAspell and make sure it's working properly with LyX  
as an

English language spellchecker. That's pretty straight forward.


At least to that point I came. I wouldn't call it straight forward but  
the concentrated work of some hours, but anyway, the English language  
spellchecker seems to work usably in my LyX, if I needed it.


I continued with installing and configuring the German language dictionary:


Do one thing and one thing only while running System Preferences as root.
Click on the Spelling preference pane that cocoAspell installed so it  
finds,
compiles and configures your new dictionary. Quit System Preferences.  
Reopen

it from the GUI. You should now be able to choose your new dictionary.


OK, so far.

Only: the crazy German spellchecking in LyX continued as yesterday.

So I give up. I'm going to uninstall CocoAspell as well and shall use LyX  
without spellchecker. Sorry though!


Congratulation to you, for getting usable the Spanish dict. But  
nevertheless I regard this complicated procedure as unreasonable and  
unacceptable for a normal LyX user. I remain with the conclusion:


German language Aspell spellchecking in LyX on Mac-OSX is not practicable!

joachim
--
MacTeXLive 2008 - TeXShop 2.18-svn - LyX 1.6.3
MacBook Pro OSX 10.4.11 Tiger (intel)

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

[Richard Talley]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Joachim Osnabryg o...@jpberlin.de wrote:


 But nevertheless I regard this complicated procedure as unreasonable and
 unacceptable for a normal LyX user.


Yes. Like so many things with computers.

Sorry you couldn't get it working. Perhaps things will be better with LyX
2.0.

-- Rich
-- 
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to
handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan
Perlis

Re: multi page Algorithm Floats ?

[Helge Hafting]

Jaime Huerta Cepas wrote:

Hi all,

I wonder if there is any way of allowing Algorithm Float boxes to start in
the middle of one page, and end in the next one. I'm using these kind of
floats to include pieces of highlighted source code, so I guess text could
be perfectly splitted.


Then a float is not what you need. Floats float around, precisely 
because they need to stay in one piece. (table, picture, ...)


If your algorithm can be split, then it don't need a float.
Write your algorithm, just don't insert a float and you'll be fine.

If you want nice formatting for your algorithm, consider
"Insert->Program Listing" Listings are nice for computer code and 
similiar stuff. You can specify fonts, you can have syntax highlighting,

you can have automatic line numbering if you like. Just right-click the
listing box, and you'll see all the options.

You can type listings into your document, but a listing may also get its 
content from (parts of) an external file. (Insert->File->child document, 
set the type to "listing") This makes it possible to
list parts of actual source code. That way, the working code and the 
document is always in sync - because the same file is used for both. No 
need to fix the document after fixing a bug. :-)


Helge Hafting

How to switch varioref on?

[Robert Siemer]

Dear readers,

I’m interested in cross-references like:

...see next page. OR ...see below.

where I don’t get a number, but a word. I read that vaioref is package that does
exactly that. I also read in some release file that LyX should support it, but
how do I turn that on?

I have varioref installed, but the cross-reference dialog only contains the
formats with ,  and “Formatted reference”, which means “use
prettyref”, as far as I can see.

How to use varioref references in LyX 1.6.3, Debian??


Regards,
Robert

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

[Richard Talley]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Joachim Osnabryg  wrote:

>
> => Has anyone installed Aspell or CocoAspell under Mac-OSX and has got them
> working with LyX in a reasonable manner?
> Would you please describe how you installed and configured it?
>
> joachim
>


I'm glad you asked this question. I needed to add a Spanish language
dictionary to cocoAspell and with a little googling and command line work, I
got it working.

The cocoAspell project appears moribund, the documentation is incomplete,
and the site is beginning to suffer from link rot. I think the next time I
need to install and configure LyX, I'll just install aspell using Fink and
eschew using cocoAspell to make it available as an OS X service.

First, install cocoAspell and make sure it's working properly with LyX as an
English language spellchecker. That's pretty straight forward.

cocoAspell installs a number of things. It installs aspell itself in
/usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib. It installs a preference pane in system
preferences. It installs a large number of English dictionaries. It installs
a service in ~/Library/Services. That's all OK. If you want the aspell
service available in all user accounts, you'll need to move that last item,
as root, to /Library/Services (you'll probably have to create that
directory). If you just need the service available in the account from which
you installed it, just leave things as cocoAspell installed it.

You'll need to choose one of the available English dictionaries in the
preference pane. Then in LyX preferences you choose aspell as the
spellchecker and add this line to the Alternative Language field:

/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias


That's just following the instructions in the Wiki. Test that you can now
spellcheck an English language document in LyX.


Next, you'll need to download and install a German language dictionary. The
link at the cocoAspell site is dead. Use this one:


ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/0index.html


Unzip the file and follow the README  instructions to install the dictionary
into aspell (it's the usual command line sequence of ./configure, make, make
install, make clean).


Now copy or move the dictionary directory (in my case it
is aspell6-es-1.9a-1) to /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell. Chown the
directory to match the English language directory ownership (it should be
the name of your admin account as owner and 501 as group).


Here's the tricky step. Be sure System Preferences is not running. Get into
the command line and become root. Run System Preferences as root! Don't use
the open command, instead give the full path to the executable:


/Applications/System\ Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System\ Preferences


Do one thing and one thing only while running System Preferences as root.
Click on the Spelling preference pane that cocoAspell installed so it finds,
compiles and configures your new dictionary. Quit System Preferences. Reopen
it from the GUI. You should now be able to choose your new dictionary.


To use your new dictionary, change the Alternative Language field in LyX
preferences appropriately. In my case, it's:


/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-es-1.9a-1/spanish.alias


Voilà! I now have Spanish language spellchecking in LyX.

-- Rich TalleyMacTeXLive 2008 - LyX 1.6.3
MacBook Pro (Intel) OS X 10.5.8 Leopard

-- 
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to
handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan
Perlis

Re: Help needed: LyX files Win->Linux Mint Gloria 7

[Paul A. Rubin]

KR Thorne wrote:

Hello,
 
I created a number of files in LyX under Windows Vista, saved in .lyx format. I have just migrated over to Linux Mint Gloria 7, and now my files will not open. I receive an error message:
 


/media/FreeAgent Drive/Encryption Folder/Seagate
Backup/KRT-PC/C/Users/KRT/Documents/Writing/GTG_TWI_newedit_test.lyx is not a 
readable LyX document.

I also tried the files I had copied to a data DVD, but cannot open them either.
 
Both the Windows Lyx and the Linux LyX are the latest release, 1.6.2.
 
This is extremely important, as these are manuscripts representing several years of work. At present I cannot simply open them in Windows, as my Windows installation was not working and the recovery disks are unsuccessful (ticket open with the laptop mfr).
 
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 


In the midst of that path I see "Encryption Folder".  Was this folder by 
any chance automatically encrypted under Vista?  If so, you may need to 
use Vista to move the files to an unencrypted folder somewhere.


/Paul

Re: Help needed: LyX files Win->Linux Mint Gloria 7

[Manveru]

2009/8/28 Paul A. Rubin :
> KR Thorne wrote:
[...]
>> /media/FreeAgent Drive/Encryption Folder/Seagate
>> Backup/KRT-PC/C/Users/KRT/Documents/Writing/GTG_TWI_newedit_test.lyx is
>> not a readable LyX document.
>>
>> I also tried the files I had copied to a data DVD, but cannot open them
>> either.
[...]
>
> In the midst of that path I see "Encryption Folder".  Was this folder by any
> chance automatically encrypted under Vista?  If so, you may need to use
> Vista to move the files to an unencrypted folder somewhere.

This may be a folder encrypted by External HDD itself. I am wondering
whether these files on DVD are copied under Vista (probably
unencrypted) or under Windows. It would be nice to look into files to
check whether are they text files or scrambled binary.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
 gg: 1624001
   http://www.manveru.pl

Custom box inset and custom bullets

[Nick Bell]

Dear list,

I have looked at the mailing lists and wiki but can't find what I want. 
What I'd like to do is:


(1) to create a module defining a new box inset type with an oval frame 
and framesep=12pt, space between lines=medskip, which I can then apply 
to bits of my documents.


(2) Also I'd like to know how to change the bullet type for each 
individual line (itemize environment) - using renewcommand?


Thanks for any pointers

Nick

words out of right margin with "/" or "-"

[Piero]

Hello,
I noticed a strange behaviour:
 sometimes compound words or slash separated words

like "example/example" or "example-example"
 confuse LaTeX (or LyX) and they could 

be printed outside of margins.
You can put some "example-example-example"
 inside a random text in a new LyX 

document and PDFize it.

you will notice the behaviour.
How to avoid it?
Thanks.

Re: words out of right margin with "/" or "-"

[Stefano Franchi]

On Friday 28 August 2009 08:51:05 am Piero wrote:
> Hello,
> I noticed a strange behaviour:
>  sometimes compound words or slash separated words
>
> like "example/example" or "example-example"
>  confuse LaTeX (or LyX) and they could
>
> be printed outside of margins.
> You can put some "example-example-example"
>  inside a random text in a new LyX
>
> document and PDFize it.
>
> you will notice the behaviour.
> How to avoid it?
> Thanks.

Hmm, actually I tried and didn't get any strange behavior. Are you sure it 
isn't a simple hyphenation problem, i.e. Latex doesn't have good hyphenation 
points and pushes the word into the margin? Try adding suggested hyphenation 
points to the word and see what happens: Insert>>Formatting>>Hyphenation point  
Or subsitute breakable slashes for the slashes (usually: type ctrl-/ instead 
of just /).

S.
__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy  Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas A University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Re: Help needed: LyX files Win->Linux Mint Gloria 7

[rgheck]

On 08/27/2009 11:08 PM, KR Thorne wrote:

Hi rh,

Attached is a sample file done in the Windows version of LyX. I cannot 
open this file in LyX 1.6.2 installed on my Linux Mint 7 Gloria system 
-- returns the same error message as below. I've tried several files, 
all with the same result.


Please let me know what you find.

Well, if I save it to /tmp/, it opens up just fine, so that didn't tell 
us very much.


I think the issue is certainly the one pointed out by Paul and Manervu: 
The document is encrypted in some way, but LyX is not getting a 
decrypted version. The only way you can get that message is if the first 
non-comment line of the file isn't "\lyxformat ...", which it certainly 
would be.


Try copying the file to your home directory and opening it from there. 
If that does not work, open a terminal and run "cat myfile.lyx". If you 
don't see something like this:


#LyX 1.6.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 345
\begin_document
\begin_header

and in particular if you get jumbled garbage, then we've found the problem.

That said, the fact that I could open the file you sent me suggests that 
copying your LyX files to your home directory may be all you need to do.


Richard

Re: Custom box inset and custom bullets

[rgheck]

On 08/28/2009 09:43 AM, Nick Bell wrote:
Dear
list,
  
  
I have looked at the mailing lists and wiki but can't find what I want.
What I'd like to do is:
  
  
(1) to create a module defining a new box inset type with an oval frame
and framesep=12pt, space between lines=medskip, which I can then apply
to bits of my documents.
  
  

Is the issue here how to do the LaTeX, or how to define the Flex inset?

(2) Also
I'd like to know how to change the bullet type for each individual line
(itemize environment) - using renewcommand?
  
  

\renewcommand{\labelitemi}{$\star$}
\renewcommand{\labelitemii}{$\rightarrow$}

etc.

rh

Re: How to switch varioref on?

[rgheck]

On 08/28/2009 05:21 AM, Robert Siemer wrote:

Dear readers,

I’m interested in cross-references like:

...see next page. OR ...see below.

where I don’t get a number, but a word. I read that vaioref is package that does
exactly that. I also read in some release file that LyX should support it, but
how do I turn that on?

I have varioref installed, but the cross-reference dialog only contains the
formats with,  and “Formatted reference”, which means “use
prettyref”, as far as I can see.

How to use varioref references in LyX 1.6.3, Debian??

   

Is there anything about this on the wiki?

rh

Re: Single Spacing in Caption

[Stephen Buonopane]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Daniel Joshua Stark wrote:


Dear All,

I'm trying to make up my thesis, and the captions to figures are  
double-spaced as opposed to single-spaced, which is how the CLS  
directs it should be.




I know I succeeded in getting single spaced subfigure captions in my  
thesis, but I don't remember how I did it specifically.

I do know I used the hangcaption package

Here are a few relevant lines from my preamble (not sure of the  
difference between the last two lines)


%Decrease space around subfigure captions
\renewcommand{\subfigcapskip}{3pt}
\renewcommand{\subfigbottomskip}{6pt}   


%Caption revision as suggested by cornell class
\usepackage{hangcaption}
%\renewcommand{\caption}[1]{\singlespacing 
\hangcaption{#1}\normalspacing}

\renewcommand{\caption}[1]{\hangcaption{#1}}

Re: words out of right margin with "/" or "-"

[Uwe Stöhr]

Piero schrieb:


I noticed a strange behaviour:
 sometimes compound words or slash separated words

like "example/example" or "example-example"
 confuse LaTeX (or LyX) and they could 


be printed outside of margins.


In this cases you can use a breakable slash. (menu Insert -> Special character)

regards Uwe

Re: How to switch varioref on?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Robert Siemer schrieb:


I’m interested in cross-references like:

...see next page. OR ...see below.


Insert a cross-reference and choose in the appearing dialog the format
 on page . This inserts in the background the LaTeX command \vref (provided by 
varioref).


(For more info about reference formats, see sec. 3.4.1 of the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find 
in the Help menu.)


regards Uwe

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

[Joachim Osnabryg]

Thank you very much, Richard, for your kindly and detailed help!

First I uninstalled the aspell installed with MacPorts and tried to follow  
your instructions.


Am 28.08.2009, 14:25 Uhr, schrieb Richard Talley:
First, install cocoAspell and make sure it's working properly with LyX  
as an

English language spellchecker. That's pretty straight forward.


At least to that point I came. I wouldn't call it "straight forward" but  
the concentrated work of some hours, but anyway, the English language  
spellchecker seems to work usably in my LyX, if I needed it.


I continued with installing and configuring the German language dictionary:


Do one thing and one thing only while running System Preferences as root.
Click on the Spelling preference pane that cocoAspell installed so it  
finds,
compiles and configures your new dictionary. Quit System Preferences.  
Reopen

it from the GUI. You should now be able to choose your new dictionary.


OK, so far.

Only: the crazy German "spellchecking" in LyX continued as yesterday.

So I give up. I'm going to uninstall CocoAspell as well and shall use LyX  
without spellchecker. Sorry though!


Congratulation to you, for getting usable the Spanish dict. But  
nevertheless I regard this complicated procedure as unreasonable and  
unacceptable for a normal LyX user. I remain with the conclusion:


German language Aspell spellchecking in LyX on Mac-OSX is not practicable!

joachim
--
MacTeXLive 2008 - TeXShop 2.18-svn - LyX 1.6.3
MacBook Pro OSX 10.4.11 Tiger (intel)

Re: aspell, cocoaspell with lyx - a fake?

[Richard Talley]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Joachim Osnabryg  wrote:

>
> But nevertheless I regard this complicated procedure as unreasonable and
> unacceptable for a normal LyX user.


Yes. Like so many things with computers.

Sorry you couldn't get it working. Perhaps things will be better with LyX
2.0.

-- Rich
-- 
Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to
handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. -- Alan
Perlis