Re: Multiple footnotes
Hm, now I´ve got the problem, that the text inside of the footer is closed with a comma instead of a full stop, which I want to have here, and which I use – and is still displayed – in every other case. To make understandable hat I mean, I add an image this time… I would like to have a comma after the first footnote, after "S. 30". Best* E. <> I think what is wanted is, when there are multiple footnotes in the same spot in the text, to have the footnote numbers appear like this: 1, 2 (superscripted). Right? One way to get it is to use footmisc.sty with the multiple option by putting the following in your preamble: \usepackage[multiple]{footmisc} BH
Re: Typing lag in Lyx 1.6.4.1, OS X 10.6.0
2009/9/16 Josh Whitney > [...] > > James, > Thanks for the quick reply. I suspect you are correct that this is an > issue > with my system only since, as far as I can see, nobody else has mentioned > it > with 1.6.*. I suppose I was just wondering if there was any suggestions on > how > to fix it. I tried deleting Lyx and reinstalling, but that didn't seem to > help. > Is it possible that I'm not completely getting rid of Lyx and that this is > why > the problem remains? > > > I am wondering whether it may be related to the problem with fork() on 10.6? If some task normally forked, started to be done in queue, the LyX may slow down. The interesting thing is why it sometimes triggers a exception. Just loose thoughts. -- Manveru jabber: manv...@manveru.pl gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
Re: Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:35:15PM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote: > > I tried to add a mirror to sources.list but I got this error: > > W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org sid Release: The following signatures > couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY > 9AA38DCD55BE302B > That's a secure-apt problem. There's a wiki on the debian site that explains how you deal with this. One thing you're allowed to do is just accept unsigned packages, although there are probably better alternatives. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com Shinkuro, Inc.
Re: Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy
I tried to add a mirror to sources.list but I got this error: W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org sid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9AA38DCD55BE302B -- myriam
Re: Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy
That doesn't work too well. There are too many dependencies. -- myriam John Jason Jordan writes: > On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:32:51 -0400 > Myriam Abramson dijo: > >> >> Sorry, I'm new to Ubuntu (I was using Fedora before). Ubuntu comes >> with 1.5.3 and apt-get refuses to let me upgrade to a newer version. >> I've tried to put that in the /etc/apt/sources.list but it didn't >> work: >> >> deb ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ubuntu hardy main >> >> and then apt-get update and upgrade but no luck. > > Go here and get the .deb file: > > http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/lyx-common/download > > Once you have the .deb file, right click on it and install it with > gDebi package installer. You can also install it from the command line > or with Synaptic, but gDebi is easier because it's just a couple of > mouse clicks. > > In theory you could also add it with upgrade if you could figure out > the right repository. I have had bad luck trying to figure out exactly > which repo a program is in. I just find the .deb file and install it > manually.
Re: Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:32:51 -0400 Myriam Abramson dijo: > > Sorry, I'm new to Ubuntu (I was using Fedora before). Ubuntu comes > with 1.5.3 and apt-get refuses to let me upgrade to a newer version. > I've tried to put that in the /etc/apt/sources.list but it didn't > work: > > deb ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ubuntu hardy main > > and then apt-get update and upgrade but no luck. Go here and get the .deb file: http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/lyx-common/download Once you have the .deb file, right click on it and install it with gDebi package installer. You can also install it from the command line or with Synaptic, but gDebi is easier because it's just a couple of mouse clicks. In theory you could also add it with upgrade if you could figure out the right repository. I have had bad luck trying to figure out exactly which repo a program is in. I just find the .deb file and install it manually.
Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy
Sorry, I'm new to Ubuntu (I was using Fedora before). Ubuntu comes with 1.5.3 and apt-get refuses to let me upgrade to a newer version. I've tried to put that in the /etc/apt/sources.list but it didn't work: deb ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ubuntu hardy main and then apt-get update and upgrade but no luck. Any clue? I have a deadline. TIA, -- myriam
Re: How to copy required files into the temporary directory?
Thanks a lot! Finally I added the 'cp' command in the converter to copy the files I needed (*.pdf and *.txt) before compiling: cp $$r/*.pdf $$r/*.txt ./ & [converting commands here, e.g. pdflatex $$i] It's still not a complete solution, but works for my situation. Regards, Yihui -- Phone: 515-294-6609 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 3211 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:10 AM, rgheck wrote: > On 09/16/2009 12:36 AM, Yihui Xie wrote: >> >> Thanks! Yes the file name is annoying. What's more, Lyx will use a >> different temp directory each time, so it's difficult to copy the >> files to the temp directory by hand, as I don't know the destination. >> >> > > Yes, I know. But it should actually be fairly easy to write a little script > to find it, though if LyX crashes you'd have to remove it yourself else the > script would fail. > > The other option, of using some customized script to run LaTeX, etc, > wouldn't have this problem. > > rh > >
LyX and Biblatex
I am using LyX 1.6.4, MikTeX 2.7, and the latest biblatex release (as of a few days ago) using biblatex-historian (I need Turabian citations and bibliography). I am able to get a bibliography and create citations using \autocite, but when I do so a lot of extra whitespace is added between the footnotes and the footer. Has anyone encountered that and have a solution? Daniel
Re: Downloading LyX 1.6.4: Error by accessing the server
I Wayan Warmada schrieb: I have tried to download the new lyx since it has been announced, but up to now is not successed. The server said. I have checked it everyday: -- Error! Could not connect. FTP server may be too busy. You tried to access the address ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.4, which is currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page. Right now it works for me. When you are looking for LyX for Windows, you can also get it from my installer project page: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall/ regards Uwe
Re: Multiple footnotes
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > jezZiFeR schrieb: > >> this ist great, and I will use it, but this is not what I was looking for >> actually. I forgot to mention, or maybe it´s just difficult for me to do >> that in english, that I mean the footnotes inside of the text, I mean the >> reference I think > > Sou you want to have this?: > bla bla ,1 > instead of > blabla 1 > > Where ",1" is the footnote mark? If so this can be achieved by redefining > the LaTeX-command \...@makefnmark, see > http://texnik.dante.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=footnotes/footnotes I think what is wanted is, when there are multiple footnotes in the same spot in the text, to have the footnote numbers appear like this: 1, 2 (superscripted). Right? One way to get it is to use footmisc.sty with the multiple option by putting the following in your preamble: \usepackage[multiple]{footmisc} BH
Downloading LyX 1.6.4: Error by accessing the server
Dear LyX lists, I have tried to download the new lyx since it has been announced, but up to now is not successed. The server said. I have checked it everyday: -- Error! Could not connect. FTP server may be too busy. You tried to access the address ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.4, which is currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page. -- I have also tried all of the mirrors, but I found that the newest LyX version is 1.6.0. Thank you very much for your help. Best Regards, Wayan --- Dr. I Wayan WARMADA Jurusan Teknik Geologi Fakultas Teknik, Universitas Gadjah Mada Jl. Grafika 2 Yogyakarta 55281 - INDONESIA Phone: +62-274-901380; Fax: +62-274-513668 http://warmada.staff.ugm.ac.id --
Re: Multiple footnotes
jezZiFeR schrieb: this ist great, and I will use it, but this is not what I was looking for actually. I forgot to mention, or maybe it´s just difficult for me to do that in english, that I mean the footnotes inside of the text, I mean the reference I think Sou you want to have this?: bla bla ,1 instead of blabla 1 Where ",1" is the footnote mark? If so this can be achieved by redefining the LaTeX-command \...@makefnmark, see http://texnik.dante.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=footnotes/footnotes regards Uwe
Help! pdflatex error
I've just installed Ubuntu Hardy and it downloads Lyx 1.5.3. (It's a new OS for me so how can I tell it to download a newer version?) Anyhow, I have problems viewing my Lyx document with pdflatex because of the graphics. Here are the errors I get: Package pdfpages Error: the graphics package was loaded with driver Latex error: cannot determine size of graphic in ... what to do? -- myriam
LyX Beamer Sweave: makebeamertitle not being defined?
I am using LyX to make Beamer slides while supporting the use of R statistical commands via the Sweave package. If I follow the instructions found here http://ggorjan.blogspot.com/2008/09/using-beamer-with-lyx-sweave.html LyX/Sweave/Beamer works just fine. But as soon as I try to put in Title or Author information at the beginning, LyX refuses to typeset the presentation, returning instead this error message: Undefined control sequence. \makebeamertitle The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, and I'll forget about whatever was undefined. This is mystifying to me, as the 'makebeamertitle' is defined in the included beamer.layout now packaged with LyX. Here's the literate-beamer.layout file I am using, which should be loading the 'beamer.layout' information: #% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this # \DeclareLaTeXClass[beamer, Sweave.sty]{beamer (beamer Sweave noweb)} # # What: literate-article textclass definition file. # Author: Gregor Gorjanc # $Id: literate-article.layout 58 2007-01-02 00:41:59Z ggorjan $ # # This is a copy of literate-article.layout from LyX, but changed for # Sweave - NoWeb syntax: # - changed noweb.sty to Sweave.sty # - moved preamble to literate-scrap.inc Format 2 Input beamer.layout Input literate-scrap.inc If I typeset the tex file that LyX generates myself using TeXShop, it generates a pdf without any complaints, but fails to show the requested title page, even though these lines are found in the generated tex file: \begin{document} \title{Test Title} \makebeamertitle If I paste this code from the 'beamer.layout' into my LaTeX file (or into the 'LaTeX preamble' section of my LyX Document Settings): \newcommand\makebeamertitle{\frame{\maketitle}}% \AtBeginDocument{ \let\origtableofcontents=\tableofcontents \def\tableofcontent...@ifnextchar[{\origtableofcontents} {\gobbletableofcontents}} \def\gobbletableofcontents#1{\origtableofcontents} } then the title page appears. But I can get the title pages to appear O.K. if I use the 'presentation (beamer)' style instead. So for some reason, the 'beamer.layout' definitions are not functioning properly in terms of defining the 'makebeamertitle' with my custom 'literate-beamer.layout' file. However, this used to work with an earlier version of LyX last year, as I made several beamer presentations that way. Thanks for any suggestions you might have. Dan Weeks LyX Version 1.6.4.1 Platform: Mac OS X Versoni 10.5.8 on an Intel machine.
Re: Trigonometric tipography
Thank you Guenter. - Original Message - From: "Guenter Milde" To: Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:46 PM Subject: Re: Trigonometric tipography On 2009-09-15, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Yago schrieb: Uwe, as you know Javier Bezos is an reconigsed expert on spanish tipography. If you can read spanish I'm currently learning Spanish and thus cannot understand everything yet. The answer stated, that in the given example, the square brackets are more irritating than helpfull. This will be my last reply to this topic: The most important thing is that people will understand what you are _exactly_ meaning. When I (German) and the other LyX user (US American) misunderstood your typesetting, then we both obviously didn't understand what you meant. Most important is, that the *audience* understands the meaning. I the convention in the field is to do without brackets, this is to be preferred when publishing for this audience. If misunderstanding arised in this list, brackets are helpful *in the context of this list*. The presence of different mathematical notations and conventions is a fact that we have to live with. There is no "one-size-fits-all" solution. While at school I learned to write sin(x), cos(x), ..., the IAPP's Symbols, Units and Nomenclature in Physics states: sin x sine of x cos x cosine of x ... and (in the German translation "Symbole, Einheiten und Nomenklatur in der Physik, Weinheim 1981): Es wird empfohlen (it is recommended) in Ausdrücken wie sin {2\pi(x-x_0)/\lambda} exp {-V(r)/kT)} das Argument zwischen Klammern zu setzen, sofern das Argument nicht ein einfaches Produck aus zwei Größen ist, z.\,B. $\sin kx$ i.e. braces (not brackets) are recommended (but optional) for complex arguments. Günter
Re: Multiple footnotes
Hello Uwe, this ist great, and I will use it, but this is not what I was looking for actually. I forgot to mention, or maybe it´s just difficult for me to do that in english, that I mean the footnotes inside of the text, I mean the reference I thin – sorry, I´m not sure with those english words. But anyway, I like the vertical space in the footer which I achieved with your command much better than without. All the best* E. Am 17.09.2009 um 00:01 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: jezZiFeR schrieb: is it possible to enter a small comma between two footnote- numerals? When I do have two or even more footnotes in sequence I could not find a posibility to enter a small comma, which is also "elevated", I mean over the grund line. Do you need a spacer between subsequent footnotes? If so look at the Math manual's preamble. You find there this command sequence that adds some space: % insert additional vertical space of 1.5 mm between footnotes, \let\myFoot\footnote \renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\myFoot{#1\vspace{1.5mm}}} This command can easily be adopted to insert a character instead of a space before the footnote text: \let\myFoot\footnote \renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\myFoot{,{}#1}} regards Uwe
Re: How Many use linux
I use Linux since 1998 on Mandriva (Mandrake at those times) and lyx almost since the same time best regards, Marc Le samedi 12 septembre 2009 16:56:31, Paul Drake a écrit : > I use Lyx on linux, and have been since 2003 > > Cheers > > Paul
Re: Multiple footnotes
jezZiFeR schrieb: is it possible to enter a small comma between two footnote-numerals? When I do have two or even more footnotes in sequence I could not find a posibility to enter a small comma, which is also "elevated", I mean over the grund line. Do you need a spacer between subsequent footnotes? If so look at the Math manual's preamble. You find there this command sequence that adds some space: % insert additional vertical space of 1.5 mm between footnotes, \let\myFoot\footnote \renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\myFoot{#1\vspace{1.5mm}}} This command can easily be adopted to insert a character instead of a space before the footnote text: \let\myFoot\footnote \renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\myFoot{,{}#1}} regards Uwe
Re: Typing lag in Lyx 1.6.4.1, OS X 10.6.0
James C. Sutherland writes: > > > On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Josh Whitney wrote: > > > I'm currently working on an early 2008 Macbook with 4 gb of RAM. I > > am running OS X 10.6.0 and Lyx 1.6.4.1. I've been writing some very > > long documents in Lyx and once they are more than a few pages long > > typing becomes excruciatingly slow. That is, I type and the > > characters appearing on the screen lag the keystrokes by several > > seconds. I was also having the same issue both with earlier > > versions of Lyx and with OS X 10.5.*, though it seemed a bit more > > mild with Leopard. > > > > I do not have the view source window open. I started typing the > > document with instant preview off for math but after reading some > > of the questions on the mailing list I've turned instant preview > > on. The typing remains very slow and also the preview for math > > doesn't seem to want to work (i.e., all math remains text instead of > > previewed as typeset). > > > > I've read through the mailing list to see if I could find a solution > > to this problem but nothing seemed to work. Any help would be > > greatly appreciated. > > > FWIW, I am running LyX 1.6.4.1 on 10.6 and haven't seen any of these > problems (only the pseudo-crash that has been mentioned previously). > So this is likely not a universal problem, but perhaps a problem > related to your system in particular? > James, Thanks for the quick reply. I suspect you are correct that this is an issue with my system only since, as far as I can see, nobody else has mentioned it with 1.6.*. I suppose I was just wondering if there was any suggestions on how to fix it. I tried deleting Lyx and reinstalling, but that didn't seem to help. Is it possible that I'm not completely getting rid of Lyx and that this is why the problem remains? Thanks, Josh
Multiple footnotes
Dear List, is it possible to enter a small comma between two footnote-numerals? When I do have two or even more footnotes in sequence I could not find a posibility to enter a small comma, which is also "elevated", I mean over the grund line. Best* E.
Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?
On 2009-09-16, Olivier Ripoll wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: >> Olivier Ripoll schrieb: >>> What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is "\mathscr{F}", >>> the "script" F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart >>> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf >> Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that character. The character is >> nevertheless unfortunately not available in Windows' standard fonts like >> Arial or Times New Roman. Even none of the fonts I have installed >> support this character. This might be the reason why is character is >> rarely used. > It works for me through: > insert->special characters->symbols...->Letterlike Symbols > I'm using the "Times New Roman", "Arial" and "Courier New" fonts for the > LyX interface. It looks however better with Déjà Vu fonts than with MS > fonts in LyX. > So who that allow to have the Fourier transform character displayed in > LyX with my module instead of \FT latex code ? If you define a math-macro, you can separately define the LaTeX command and the look-in-lyx. Unfortunately, * you can't define a math-macro in a module, * you can't define a preamble command in a LyX file. This is why I have a file full of math macros which I include in all my math-heavy publications. Instead of the preamble command \MathOperator, I use e.g. \operatorname{sgn} as LaTeX command. View>Source shows this as \global\long\def\sgn{\operatorname{sgn}} \global\long\def\Re{\operatorname{Re}} \global\long\def\Im{\operatorname{Im}} ... Günter
Re: How many are left handed
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 09:20:50 Helge Hafting wrote: > Is there anything in LyX a left-handed person might want different? > I think most of the support goes in the OS: left handed mouse, > and anything you might want change about the keyboard. I am left handed, and I really don't want anything different. I use enough different computers (mainly set up by right handed people) that I have given up wanting anything special. I'm just happy if the mouse (or trackball) is not one of those blatantly discriminatory gadgets which can only be used in the right hand, and if it can be moved to the left side of the keyboard. Les -- .. Les Denham
Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Olivier Ripoll schrieb: What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is "\mathscr{F}", the "script" F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that character. The character is nevertheless unfortunately not available in Windows' standard fonts like Arial or Times New Roman. Even none of the fonts I have installed support this character. This might be the reason why is character is rarely used. It works for me through: insert->special characters->symbols...->Letterlike Symbols I'm using the "Times New Roman", "Arial" and "Courier New" fonts for the LyX interface. It looks however better with Déjà Vu fonts than with MS fonts in LyX. So who that allow to have the Fourier transform character displayed in LyX with my module instead of \FT latex code ? Best regards, Olivier regards Uwe
Once again: Margin alignment
Hello, margin alignment with Lyx 1.6.4.1, OSX and microtype seems to work, but just very lightly (I´m not really sure, because it´s so lightly). Could somebody tell me how to increase the factor, what do I have to enter in the preamble? Up to now I just use: \usepackage{microtype} For the margin alignment I found an old notice of mine, that I would have to use the option "protrusion" with the factor of max. 1000… Thanks, best* E.
Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?
Olivier Ripoll schrieb: What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is "\mathscr{F}", the "script" F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that character. The character is nevertheless unfortunately not available in Windows' standard fonts like Arial or Times New Roman. Even none of the fonts I have installed support this character. This might be the reason why is character is rarely used. regards Uwe
Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?
Neal Becker wrote: What do you usually use for Fourier transform? Calligraphic F, or maybe something else? Hi, Calligraphic F is not the right symbol, although it seems more and more used now :-( (probably because people don't find the correct one, at least that was my case in the past). What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is "\mathscr{F}", the "script" F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf You'll need some additional packages: amsmath and (IIRC) mathrsfs. I attach to this mail my layout module to add some common math functions to LyX. Drop it to you layout folder(*), reconfigure, and add it to the file via the document settings. Then all you need is to type \FT for it and \iFT for the inverse Fourier transform. You can also just pick the interesting code and drop it to the preamble Best regards, Olivier (*)On Windows, it would be something like C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\Application Data\lyx16\layouts on Linux, something like /home/username/.lyx/layouts #\DeclareLyXModule{More Maths Functions} #DescriptionBegin #Additional functions: erf, erfc, sinc, sgn , missing hyperbolic & inverse hyperbolic functions, #Fourier transform & inverse, logarithms in base 10 and 2, floor/ceil (letters and mathematical #notation). #DescriptionEnd # Author : Olivier Ripoll Format 11 Requiresamsmath,mathrsfs AddToPreamble \DeclareMathOperator{\sinc}{sinc} \DeclareMathOperator{\sgn}{sgn} \DeclareMathOperator{\erf}{erf} \DeclareMathOperator{\erfc}{erfc} \DeclareMathOperator{\FT}{\mathscr{F}} \DeclareMathOperator{\iFT}{\mathscr{F}^{-1}} \DeclareMathOperator{\logten}{log_{10}} \DeclareMathOperator{\logtwo}{log_2} \DeclareMathOperator{\sech}{sech} \DeclareMathOperator{\csch}{csch} \DeclareMathOperator{\arsinh}{arsinh} \DeclareMathOperator{\arcosh}{arcosh} \DeclareMathOperator{\artanh}{artanh} \DeclareMathOperator{\arcoth}{arcoth} \DeclareMathOperator{\arsech}{arsech} \DeclareMathOperator{\arcsch}{arcsch} \newcommand{\Floor}[1] {\left\lfloor {#1} \right\rfloor} \DeclareMathOperator{\floor}{floor} \newcommand{\Ceil}[1] {\left\lceil #1 \right\rceil} \DeclareMathOperator{\ceil}{ceil} EndPreamble
Re: Lyx Title problems
On 09/16/2009 11:09 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 10:50:44 matteo abeni wrote: Hello, I am using lyx to write my thesis. But i have a problem. when i write the title and then the author and I see them as PDF file I have a problem cause both stay in the top side of the A4 paper and the other part of the paper stay blank. I wish to put title and author in the middle of the paper but i can't. I tried /vspace{}, or insert>formatting> vertical space, but they didn't work. how can i do that? My document class is Book(ams) As Steve implied, the appearance of the title page is controlled by your document class, and there is no easy way to modify it, other than to redefine the routine, in the document class, that typesets the titlepage. Some document classes (koma-script?) may provide facilities for making such modifications, but the AMS book class is not one of them, so far as I know. The reason the vertical space stuff does not work is that the title environment is really inserting the \title{...} command, which actually does nothing but set a variable. The titlepage itself is printed by the command \maketitle, which is what you would have to redefine, if you wanted to do the titlepage that way. That said, why do you want the title in the center? The designers of the AMS book class went to a lot of trouble to design a titlepage that conformed to good typographical practice and would allow for lots of information to be included there. Are you absolutely sure your preferences, as compared to theirs, are well founded? I should also add that most universities and such have pretty detailed specifications about the titlepage, so you may end up having to do more detailed formatting, anyway. In that case, a good start might be to try to borrow the \maketitle routine from one of the many thesis classes that are out there, and modify that as necessary. We can help with that if necessary. Richard
Re: Natbib options in Lyx with embedded bibliography
On 09/16/2009 10:07 AM, Ehud Kaplan wrote: Lyx */does/* know a lot about the citations, since when I click on one, it shows its details (and in the left column all the other citations that have been included in the Lyx file), but not the formatting options. I inserted the references into the Lyx file through the circuitous route of exporting the Lyx file to Latex, using \begin{thebibiolgraphy} ... end{thebibliography} etc. with the .bbl file pasted in. Once it compiled correctly with pdflatex, I then imported it back to Lyx. So the citations in Bibliography environments at the end of the paper, yes? Then the problem is that, in order for natbib to make sense out of author-year citations, when you insert them this way, the key MUST be in a certain form. Otherwise, natbib has no way of knowing what the author and the year are. (It can't just parse the entry.) I think the form is: author[year], but I am not sure. Jurgen told me about this some time ago on one or another of the lists, so you might find it that way. Or you might email him directly. Though I think he's incommunicado for a bit. Probably the natbib docs have something about this, too. Richard
Re: [okmail] Re: Installing missing packages in Lyx
Ludwik Celnikier schrieb: Two questions, though: 1) I am using Miktex, which has distributed the latex files in localtexmf and texmf. It seems that you are using an older version of MiKTeX. I recommend to update to MiKTeX 2.8 when you are using MiKTeX 2.6 or older. When you do this, uninstall MiKTeX _completely_ before installing the new version. Afterwards reconfigure LyX. (This might take a long time (about 15 min.) because LyX will install all needed LaTeX packages from the Internet when reconfiguring.) I suppose that the Kluwer (and other) package files should be in a subfolder in the texmf folder? Yes. 2) What is texhash? To configure the miktex latex distribution I execute "initexmf --update-fndb" - does that do the same job? I assumed that you are using TeXLive. On MiKTeX installing package is very simple: Open the program "Browse packages" that you find in Windows' Start menu under MiKTeX. Search there for "kluwer" and install the package. That's all. Finally reconfigure LyX and start writing. regards Uwe
Re: Lyx Title problems
On Wednesday 16 September 2009 10:50:44 matteo abeni wrote: > Hello, > > I am using lyx to write my thesis. But i have a problem. when i write the > title and then the author and I see them as PDF file I have a problem cause > both stay in the top side of the A4 paper and the other part of the paper > stay blank. I wish to put title and author in the middle of the paper but i > can't. I tried /vspace{}, or insert>formatting> vertical space, but they > didn't work. how can i do that? > My document class is Book(ams) > > Thanks Hi Matteo, What I do is for the Frontmatter, instead of relying on the document class's properties and then trying to defeat them when necessary (like putting the title in the middle), I use ERT and custom environments to construct the Frontmatter. It works out great, and I can put anything anywhere I want, quickly, with little muss and fuss. All you need is a little LaTeX knowledge. Note that for the Mainmatter, I do the opposite, and use almost no ERT, relying solely on environments and character styles. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
Lyx Title problems
Hello, I am using lyx to write my thesis. But i have a problem. when i write the title and then the author and I see them as PDF file I have a problem cause both stay in the top side of the A4 paper and the other part of the paper stay blank. I wish to put title and author in the middle of the paper but i can't. I tried /vspace{}, or insert>formatting> vertical space, but they didn't work. how can i do that? My document class is Book(ams) Thanks -- Matteo Abeni
Re: How many are left handed
Digress:- Some languages like Arabia and Hebrew writes from right to left. When (sometimes) you browse those sites with these two languages, the scroll bar is on the right hand side of the browser (e.g. Internet Explorer), I just guess they may also like to have the "mirror image" of lyx, not just port-siders only :-) --- On Wed, 9/16/09, Helge Hafting wrote: From: Helge Hafting Subject: Re: How many are left handed To: "Andrew Sullivan" Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 10:20 PM Andrew Sullivan wrote: > You can see from the subject that there is an air of irrelevance about > this. > > But it seems to me that knowing how many are left handed would, > naturally, lead to enhancements targetted at the left-hand community. > > I answer that the customizability and portability of the LyX code base > is sufficient that a typing-able user on any modern desktop-target > platform is in a position to use LyX, and figuring out even rough > numbers for distribution on supported platforms is a distraction to > the LyX community. This is true even if the user is left handed, or > non-Linux using, or whatever. Is there anything in LyX a left-handed person might want different? I think most of the support goes in the OS: left handed mouse, and anything you might want change about the keyboard. And you can already put the toolbars wherever you like them, but I am not sure that actually matters. Helge Hafting
Re: How many are left handed
Andrew Sullivan wrote: You can see from the subject that there is an air of irrelevance about this. But it seems to me that knowing how many are left handed would, naturally, lead to enhancements targetted at the left-hand community. I answer that the customizability and portability of the LyX code base is sufficient that a typing-able user on any modern desktop-target platform is in a position to use LyX, and figuring out even rough numbers for distribution on supported platforms is a distraction to the LyX community. This is true even if the user is left handed, or non-Linux using, or whatever. Is there anything in LyX a left-handed person might want different? I think most of the support goes in the OS: left handed mouse, and anything you might want change about the keyboard. And you can already put the toolbars wherever you like them, but I am not sure that actually matters. Helge Hafting
Re: How many use Linux:
I use LyX on debian linux. LyX is what I use for all formatted text I write on computers: A book, letters, lectures, and presentations. Helge Hafting
Re: Natbib options in Lyx with embedded bibliography
Lyx */does/* know a lot about the citations, since when I click on one, it shows its details (and in the left column all the other citations that have been included in the Lyx file), but not the formatting options. I inserted the references into the Lyx file through the circuitous route of exporting the Lyx file to Latex, using \begin{thebibiolgraphy} ... end{thebibliography} etc. with the .bbl file pasted in. Once it compiled correctly with pdflatex, I then imported it back to Lyx. EK rgheck wrote: On 09/16/2009 07:15 AM, E.Kaplan wrote: When I embed a bibliography in the Lyx file itself (using the .AUX or .bbl file), and then click on a citation reference in the Lyx file, I do not get the option to choose a citation style, as I do when I call the citation from a bibtex database. I am using natbib (author-year), and indicated that in the Document Settings. How do I regain the ability to choose the citation style? I'm a little unclear about how you've got things set up. Are you including the bbl file, via the Insert>File mechanism? Pasting it as ERT? Or what? My hunch is that the problem is that LyX does not know anything about the citation entries, so it is not giving you any options about them. RIchard
Re: Trigonometric tipography
On 2009-09-15, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Yago schrieb: >> Uwe, as you know Javier Bezos is an reconigsed expert on spanish >> tipography. If you can read spanish > I'm currently learning Spanish and thus cannot understand everything yet. The answer stated, that in the given example, the square brackets are more irritating than helpfull. > This will be my last reply to this topic: The most important thing is > that people will understand what you are _exactly_ meaning. When I > (German) and the other LyX user (US American) misunderstood your > typesetting, then we both obviously didn't understand what you meant. Most important is, that the *audience* understands the meaning. I the convention in the field is to do without brackets, this is to be preferred when publishing for this audience. If misunderstanding arised in this list, brackets are helpful *in the context of this list*. The presence of different mathematical notations and conventions is a fact that we have to live with. There is no "one-size-fits-all" solution. While at school I learned to write sin(x), cos(x), ..., the IAPP's Symbols, Units and Nomenclature in Physics states: sin x sine of x cos x cosine of x ... and (in the German translation "Symbole, Einheiten und Nomenklatur in der Physik, Weinheim 1981): Es wird empfohlen (it is recommended) in Ausdrücken wie sin {2\pi(x-x_0)/\lambda} exp {-V(r)/kT)} das Argument zwischen Klammern zu setzen, sofern das Argument nicht ein einfaches Produck aus zwei Größen ist, z.\,B. $\sin kx$ i.e. braces (not brackets) are recommended (but optional) for complex arguments. Günter
Re: Typing lag in Lyx 1.6.4.1, OS X 10.6.0
On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Josh Whitney wrote: I'm currently working on an early 2008 Macbook with 4 gb of RAM. I am running OS X 10.6.0 and Lyx 1.6.4.1. I've been writing some very long documents in Lyx and once they are more than a few pages long typing becomes excruciatingly slow. That is, I type and the characters appearing on the screen lag the keystrokes by several seconds. I was also having the same issue both with earlier versions of Lyx and with OS X 10.5.*, though it seemed a bit more mild with Leopard. I do not have the view source window open. I started typing the document with instant preview off for math but after reading some of the questions on the mailing list I've turned instant preview on. The typing remains very slow and also the preview for math doesn't seem to want to work (i.e., all math remains text instead of previewed as typeset). I've read through the mailing list to see if I could find a solution to this problem but nothing seemed to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. FWIW, I am running LyX 1.6.4.1 on 10.6 and haven't seen any of these problems (only the pseudo-crash that has been mentioned previously). So this is likely not a universal problem, but perhaps a problem related to your system in particular?
Natbib options in Lyx with embedded bibliography
When I embed a bibliography in the Lyx file itself (using the .AUX or .bbl file), and then click on a citation reference in the Lyx file, I do not get the option to choose a citation style, as I do when I call the citation from a bibtex database. I am using natbib (author-year), and indicated that in the Document Settings. How do I regain the ability to choose the citation style? Thanks, EK
Typing lag in Lyx 1.6.4.1, OS X 10.6.0
I'm currently working on an early 2008 Macbook with 4 gb of RAM. I am running OS X 10.6.0 and Lyx 1.6.4.1. I've been writing some very long documents in Lyx and once they are more than a few pages long typing becomes excruciatingly slow. That is, I type and the characters appearing on the screen lag the keystrokes by several seconds. I was also having the same issue both with earlier versions of Lyx and with OS X 10.5.*, though it seemed a bit more mild with Leopard. I do not have the view source window open. I started typing the document with instant preview off for math but after reading some of the questions on the mailing list I've turned instant preview on. The typing remains very slow and also the preview for math doesn't seem to want to work (i.e., all math remains text instead of previewed as typeset). I've read through the mailing list to see if I could find a solution to this problem but nothing seemed to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Josh Whitney
Re: Anyone used Lytex?
Hello, sorry for replying sooo late. > I do not have administrative privileges at work computers but am so dependent > on using lyx for my writing and want to be able to use it on a USB drive or a > network drive that I have access to. I wondered if anyone has used Lytex as > suggested in the wiki? > I tried it and get error messages. The home page for Lytex does not give any > email addresses for requesting help. I have successfully used LyX from a USB stick in the past. In fact LyX itself seems to be "portable" right out of the box. The point was to get a LaTeX installation that works from a stick without "installation". I managed to get it done by using TeX Live 2008. I bought a copy of their DVD (you could also download the iso disk image) and simply moved the entire contents to my USB stick, alongside the LyX folder. Again: I did _NOT_ "install" TeX Live using the installer on the DVD, but only copy the contents from the DVD to the USB stick. Then I modified the tl-lyx.bat file from http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~elts2/lyx/tl-lyx.bat as follows: @echo off set TEXDIR=%~dp0 set tldrive=%~d0 %tldrive% cd %TEXDIR% set TEXDIRW=%USERPROFILE%\.tlportable2008\ if not exist "%TEXDIRW%" md "%TEXDIRW%" set TEXMFSYSVAR=%TEXDIR%texmf-var set TEXMFSYSCONFIG=%TEXDIR%texmf-config set TEXMFMAIN=%TEXDIR%texmf set TEXMFDIST=%TEXDIR%texmf-dist set TEXMFLOCAL=%TEXDIR%texmf-local set TEXMFHOME=%TEXDIRW%texmf-home set TEXMFVAR=%TEXDIRW%texmf-var set TEXMFCONFIG=%TEXDIRW%texmf-config set TEXBINDIR=%TEXDIR%bin\win32 set platform=win32 set PERL5LIB=%TEXDIR%tlpkg\installer\perllib "%TEXDIR%tlpkg\installer\perl" "%TEXDIR%install-tl" --portable if not errorlevel 1 goto doit echo Initialization of TeXLive failed! pause exit :doit path %TEXDIR%bin\win32;%path% set LYX_DIR=%TEXDIR%..\LyX16\ path %LYX_DIR%python;%path% path %LYX_DIR%bin;%path% path %LYX_DIR%imagemagick;%path% set GS_DIR=%LYX_DIR%ghostscript\ path %GS_DIR%bin;%path% set GS_LIB=%GS_DIR%lib;%GS_DIR%fonts;%GS_DIR%Resource %TEXDIR%..\LyX16\bin\lyx.exe %* I never managed to make the TeX Live "package manager" work in portable mode, so I had to install and update packages "by hand", but well, *sigh*... Hope this helps, Sincerely, Wolfgang -- NO "Courtesy Copies" PLEASE!
Re: Hide tracked changes?
> > > The later situation actually seems very useful to me: you just edit your > file without those horrible blue texts, but LyX keeps track of the > changes nevertheless. > > JMarc > Yes this was exactly what I was looking for -- the ability to toggle the visibility of those blue edits. Matts