Re: Lyx under WindowsXP

[Olivier Ripoll]

rgheck wrote:

On 10/21/2009 12:10 PM, Olivier Ripoll wrote:

XBOT wrote:
The GUI of Lyx looks terrible! All fonts at the programs window are 
too bold and
the fonts at the menues are too thin. You can use the program, but it 
isnt comfortable and most of the orders at the

menues you cant read!
There must be a problem with the fonts the program is using.


You can change the font sizes, the screen dpi and the zoom  in 
Preferences-Look  Feel-Screen fonts


I think the zoom is where you want to start.

This changes the fonts used for the document but not for the menus, etc. 
Under Linux, those can be controlled via qtconfig. There is presumably 
some similar option for Windows. Anyone? (Try under Control Panel.)


rh


Hi,

I thought he meant the document area by programs window. But it's true 
that he could have meant the window title bar.


Best regards,

Olivier

Re: Lyx under WindowsXP

[Olivier Ripoll]

XBOT wrote:
 

Can you post a little screenshot ?

Vincent



Hi Vincent,

sure...look here:

http://www.bilderhosting.info/images/image170113.jpg

Tomorrow I try to reinstall...


Before you do that, what happens if you change the system-wise font 
settings for the menus (e.g. try another font)?
Do you use 120 dpi or 96 dpi under windows (Display 
properties-Settings-Advanced)? Both and they look fine on my machine.


Best regards,

Olivier



Greetz from Germany

XBOT

Re: Converting to doc format

[Anthony Campbell]

On 22 Oct 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote:
 On 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
  On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:50:56PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
   Thanks to all for replies. I went to the Wiki as suggested and found how
   to export files as rtf, which should be loadable into Openoffice
   - excellent! I'll make a start on the conversion soon.
  
  This wasn't actually what I had in mind -- if you have the latest and
  greatest LaTeX under the hood, there actually should be an option to
  export OpenOffice.org files.  Then you can open that up and, if need
  be, save it as a Word doc.  One fewer conversion step.
  
  Strictly speaking, BTW, RTF files _are_ Word files: RTF is officially
  the non-binary form of Word files (up until the recent XML-based
  format, which is completely different).  This principle was, I
  understand, honoured more in the breach.
  
 
 This is vesion 1.6.4 but I can't see any such option here.
 
 AC
 -- 

Ah -- I think I may have found the answer. I first installed tex4ht and
then reconfigured, after which I get the option to export as
OpenDocument. This gives a file with .odt extension, which seems to be
what is needed.

AC
-- 
Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk 
Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux
http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, 
and sceptical articles)

The behaviour of menus

[Manolo Martí­nez]

Dear list,

There is a slightly annoying feature of the behaviour of my Lyx which, I 
have just realised, may be seen as a bug. When I open a drop-down menu 
-e. g., when choosing the language of a paragraph from the drop-down 
list of possibilities- even if I navigate to my preferred option using 
the cursor keys, after pressing Enter the program stays in the option 
that was closer to the position of the mouse cursor.


This is, as I say, slightly annoying, because it forces me to use the 
mouse, which may sometimes be a waste of time. Do you all see this kind 
of behaviour? Is it the intended behaviour?


Thanks,
Manolo

RE: The behaviour of menus

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
 When I open a drop-down menu -e. g., when choosing the
 language of a paragraph from the drop-down list of
 possibilities- even if I navigate to my preferred option
 using the cursor keys, ...

Can you more precisely describe what drop-down menu you mean ? The only way I 
know to select the language is in the text style dialog, but that works fine.

Vincent

Re: The behaviour of menus

[Manolo Martí­nez]

That's the one I mean, yes. It's not working fine for me, though for 
some reason I cannot seem to copy a screen snapshot while the menu is 
displayed, so I cannot show you.


The way to replicate my problem is as follows. Open the text style 
dialog, press the language drop-down menu to unfold it and, without 
moving the mouse, take the language selection up or down with the cursor 
keys. Then hit enter to fold the  menu. What I see is that the chosen 
language is not the one you selected with the cursor keys, but another, 
closer to the position of the mouse cursor.


Manolo

Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW escribió:

Can you more precisely describe what drop-down menu you mean ? The only way I 
know to select the language is in the text style dialog, but that works fine.

Vincent

  

randomly rotated graphics

[Guy Hindell]

Hi there, I think this is more a LaTeX question than LyX, but...

I have some LyX documents that include (via graphicx.sty) graphics files 
supplied in a variety of formats (png, jpg, PDF) that I output as PDFs 
using pdflatex. This works fine on Windows (XP, Vista using MiKTeX v2.7) 
and Linux (Fedora 10, texlive2007). The catch is that on the Linux box 
some (not all) of the images are being rotated 90 degrees without my 
deliberately specifying this. No such rotations are happening on the 
Windows boxes.


I can vaguely remember either experiencing this problem before or 
reading about it, and thought it was something to do with the generation 
of the bounding box information, but cannot for the life of me remember 
what.


Does anyone know?

cheers
guy

Re: input math macro file - incomplete instant preview

[Paul A. Rubin]

Axel Heim wrote:

Hi there,
the math macro is a great feature. However, when I input (or include) a 
file with math macros, the corresponding math symbols do not appear in 
the instant preview, while `hard-coded' symbols do.


I assume you mean that if you view the child document (in a separate tab 
from the parent) you do not get the macro symbols in the instant 
preview.  Is that correct?


The pdf output is 
fine, though.

When I have a math macro at the top of the document,


Top of the parent, or top of the child?

instant preview 
works fine, too.

Has anybody made the same experience and/or knows a solution?

Thank you  best regards,
axel (LyX 1.6.3, 1.6.4, linux)




Seems to work ok for me here (LyX 1.6.4, Win XP).  I haven't had a 
chance to test it on Linux yet.  Do you have a small pair of documents 
(parent and child) that you could post to illustrate the problem?


/Paul

Re: Converting to doc format

[Florian Rubach]

Anthony Campbell schrieb:

I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who
unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can see
after a fair amount of googling the only practical way of doing this is
to produce a plain text (txt) version from Lyx, import it into the
Openoffice WP, and save it as a .doc file from there.

Does anyone know a better way?

Anthony

The most accurate way I found until now (working even for complicated
documents) is exporting the document to pdf and then submitting it to
www.pdftoword.com.
I don't know if you are comfortable with giving away your document to a
site where I wasn't able to find any statement about the security of
your data, but the results look stunningly good and are even well editable.

Florian

Bibtex and child documents

[Jan Piet Joris en Corneel]

Dear list,

I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis.

I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically
I want to do this.
1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one for
each child documents.
2. Have one bibliography at the end of the thesis.
3. Have the ability to insert citations to that bibliography using the
Lyx function.

Points 1 and 2 cause no difficulties. The third point seems to cause
problems. It seems I first need to insert a bibliography to the
chapter to be able to cite from it. Seems logic but I don't want to
have that bibliography repeated at the end of each chapter, just one
at the end of the master document.

How do I make the bibliography 'invisible' at the end of a chapter in
the pdftex output , without losing the ability to insert citations? In
the lyx port files (available at
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/) they
didn't seem to have solved it too. If I look into e.g. Chapter01.lyx
and double click the first citation to Bringhurst, no list of
available sources shows up, because Chapter01.lyx doesn't know it has
to look into Bibliography.bib.

If anybody has some ideas on solving this, please show them up.

Thanks and regards,

Corné

Kluwer doc class: title and author not showing up

[Maria Gouskova]

Dear LyX users,

I am trying out the doc class article (Kluwer) and having a problem:
a simple document with a title, author, and a single section and some
standard text typesets without the title and the author. I looked at
this manual (http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=4-102-45-124370-0), but I
am not sure that it applies to how things work in LyX. The manual
warns that if the Author field isn't followed by \institute{...}, the
author will not be typeset in the final pdf. But there is no
\institute option in LyX. So how is it supposed to work?

LyX 1.6.4.1
Mac OS 10.5
MacTeX-2008

Maria

Re: Bibtex and child documents

[rgheck]

On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote:

Dear list,

I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis.

I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically
I want to do this.
1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one for
each child documents.
2. Have one bibliography at the end of the thesis.
3. Have the ability to insert citations to that bibliography using the
Lyx function.

Points 1 and 2 cause no difficulties. The third point seems to cause
problems. It seems I first need to insert a bibliography to the
chapter to be able to cite from it. Seems logic but I don't want to
have that bibliography repeated at the end of each chapter, just one
at the end of the master document.

How do I make the bibliography 'invisible' at the end of a chapter in
the pdftex output , without losing the ability to insert citations? In
the lyx port files (available at
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/) they
didn't seem to have solved it too. If I look into e.g. Chapter01.lyx
and double click the first citation to Bringhurst, no list of
available sources shows up, because Chapter01.lyx doesn't know it has
to look into Bibliography.bib.

If anybody has some ideas on solving this, please show them up.

   
OK, first, if you open the master document first, and then open the 
child document from the master (e.g., right click on the Include inset, 
then select Edit Included File), then you should have no problems. 
When you do it this way, LyX essentially treats the master and children 
as if they were one huge file, and it picks up the bibliography from the 
master.


In LyX 1.6, there is a way to make this easier. In each of your child 
documents, set the default master document under 
DocumentSettingsDocument Class, and set it to be the master in which 
the children are included. Then, when you open the child directly, LyX 
knows it should first open the master document, too. The master will not 
actually appear to be open---i.e, it won't appear in a window---but if 
you look under the View menu, you'll see it (as well as all of its other 
children). Now the bibliography will work as normal.


Richard

Re: Documenting python code using LyX

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-10-20, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
 Does anybody use LyX to document python code? Any hints?

 PyLit already allows to round-trip between Python code with embedded
 ReST comments and ReST documents with embedded Python code blocks. From
 ReST, you can then convert to LaTeX, which should be somewhat
 importable to LyX.

 However, I haven't found a possibility yet to export ReST with embedded
 Python code blocks from Lyx.

Indeet this is a one-way conversion currently. (My suggestion was
rather to use PyLit (together with your (or my) favourite text editor)
*instead of* LyX rather than PyLit with LyX for literal programming.

 Full round-tripping between LyX and Python (or any other programming
 language) code with embedded ReST comments would be pretty close to
 The Holy Grail Of Literate Programming imho. *duck*

Adding native ReST export (and maybe import) to LyX was alredy
discussed once. Maybe some day...

Günter

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-10-18, Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

 I recently made a .layout file for the Tufte-book class.

 http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/

 I had good luck making it work with my materials, but I know nothing 
 about LyX .layout files. I simply took the existing tufte-handout.layout 
 file on the LyX.org website and modified it appropriately. I also added 
 the full-width figure class figure* which seemed to be missing.

Thanks for your work.

 Anyway, I'm hoping those with more skills can evaluate this .layout 
 file, improve it, and, possibly, find some use for it.

In order to be found even some weeks/months on, could you create a pointer
(page or link on a related page) on the LyX wiki (wiki.lyx.org)?

Günter

Re: Epsilon ran off ...

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-10-19, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 ... and took varrho with it.  This is some sort of screen font problem, 
 but one I don't recall seeing reported before.

 I've got a copy of LyX 1.6.3 installed on Mint Gloria (a Linux distro 
 built over Ubuntu -- Jaunty Jackalope, I think).  Of the Greek letters 
 in the math palette, all but two (\epsilon and \varrho) display 
 correctly in formulas; those two show up as text in the GUI (display 
 correctly in output).

 Usually missing math glyphs are the result of a missing screen font, but 
 it seems unlikely to be the case here since only two glyphs are missing. 
   I've also got LyX 1.6.3 installed on an Ubuntu (Jaunty) box, and the 
 glyphs are present there.

This is very likely, as these could be Greek *variants* missing from a font
that provides basic Greek letters.

(Are the Greek letters *in math* upright or cursive?

 Any suggestions where I could look for the cause?

Try a different screen font.

Günter

Re: Bibtex and child documents

[Pete Crite]

On 23/10/2009, at 7:22 AM, rgheck wrote:


On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote:

Dear list,

I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to  
write a thesis.


I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex.  
Basically

I want to do this.
1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one  
for

each child documents.
2. Have one bibliography at the end of the thesis.
3. Have the ability to insert citations to that bibliography using  
the

Lyx function.

Points 1 and 2 cause no difficulties. The third point seems to cause
problems. It seems I first need to insert a bibliography to the
chapter to be able to cite from it. Seems logic but I don't want to
have that bibliography repeated at the end of each chapter, just one
at the end of the master document.

How do I make the bibliography 'invisible' at the end of a chapter in
the pdftex output , without losing the ability to insert citations?  
In

the lyx port files (available at
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/) they
didn't seem to have solved it too. If I look into e.g. Chapter01.lyx
and double click the first citation to Bringhurst, no list of
available sources shows up, because Chapter01.lyx doesn't know it has
to look into Bibliography.bib.

If anybody has some ideas on solving this, please show them up.


OK, first, if you open the master document first, and then open the  
child document from the master (e.g., right click on the Include  
inset, then select Edit Included File), then you should have no  
problems. When you do it this way, LyX essentially treats the master  
and children as if they were one huge file, and it picks up the  
bibliography from the master.


In LyX 1.6, there is a way to make this easier. In each of your  
child documents, set the default master document under  
DocumentSettingsDocument Class, and set it to be the master in  
which the children are included. Then, when you open the child  
directly, LyX knows it should first open the master document, too.  
The master will not actually appear to be open---i.e, it won't  
appear in a window---but if you look under the View menu, you'll see  
it (as well as all of its other children). Now the bibliography will  
work as normal.


Richard


Should this solution work if I wish to view a PDF version of the child  
document alone?


If so, neither of these two solutions appear to work for me, either  
alone or both at once. I still get ? at each reference, if I do not  
specifically have a bibliography in the child document. Also, inter- 
document cross-references don't work, nor do environments defined in  
the master's header.


Cheers,
Pete.

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

[Jason Waskiewicz]

Guenter Milde mi...@... writes:

 
 On 2009-10-18, Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
 
  I recently made a .layout file for the Tufte-book class.
 
  http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/
 
  I had good luck making it work with my materials, but I know nothing 
  about LyX .layout files. I simply took the existing tufte-handout.layout 
  file on the LyX.org website and modified it appropriately. I also added 
  the full-width figure class figure* which seemed to be missing.
 
 Thanks for your work.
 
  Anyway, I'm hoping those with more skills can evaluate this .layout 
  file, improve it, and, possibly, find some use for it.
 
 In order to be found even some weeks/months on, could you create a pointer
 (page or link on a related page) on the LyX wiki (wiki.lyx.org)?
 
 Günter
 
 

On your suggestion, I did attempt to post the link on the wiki. Apparently I
need a password to upload the file. When I attempted to simply link to the file,
I needed a password for that as well.

Who might I contact to get the password?

--Jason Waskiewicz
  Bowman County High School

Re: Bibtex and child documents

[rgheck]

On 10/22/2009 04:44 PM, Pete Crite wrote:

On 23/10/2009, at 7:22 AM, rgheck wrote:


On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote:

Dear list,

I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to 
write a thesis.


I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically
I want to do this.
1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one for
each child documents.
2. Have one bibliography at the end of the thesis.
3. Have the ability to insert citations to that bibliography using the
Lyx function.

Points 1 and 2 cause no difficulties. The third point seems to cause
problems. It seems I first need to insert a bibliography to the
chapter to be able to cite from it. Seems logic but I don't want to
have that bibliography repeated at the end of each chapter, just one
at the end of the master document.

How do I make the bibliography 'invisible' at the end of a chapter in
the pdftex output , without losing the ability to insert citations? In
the lyx port files (available at
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/) they
didn't seem to have solved it too. If I look into e.g. Chapter01.lyx
and double click the first citation to Bringhurst, no list of
available sources shows up, because Chapter01.lyx doesn't know it has
to look into Bibliography.bib.

If anybody has some ideas on solving this, please show them up.


OK, first, if you open the master document first, and then open the 
child document from the master (e.g., right click on the Include 
inset, then select Edit Included File), then you should have no 
problems. When you do it this way, LyX essentially treats the master 
and children as if they were one huge file, and it picks up the 
bibliography from the master.


In LyX 1.6, there is a way to make this easier. In each of your child 
documents, set the default master document under 
DocumentSettingsDocument Class, and set it to be the master in 
which the children are included. Then, when you open the child 
directly, LyX knows it should first open the master document, too. 
The master will not actually appear to be open---i.e, it won't appear 
in a window---but if you look under the View menu, you'll see it (as 
well as all of its other children). Now the bibliography will work as 
normal.


Richard


Should this solution work if I wish to view a PDF version of the child 
document alone?


No, this will not allow you to view the child alone. That is its central 
limitation.


If so, neither of these two solutions appear to work for me, either 
alone or both at once. I still get ? at each reference, if I do not 
specifically have a bibliography in the child document. Also, 
inter-document cross-references don't work, nor do environments 
defined in the master's header.


All of this is expected when you view the child alone, since LyX then 
treats it as a separate document. (I think there have been improvements 
on some of this for 1.7, by the way, but I am not sure.)


If you want to be able to view the child alone, then what you want to do 
is this. (I think this is on the wiki.) At the top of the master, put in 
ERT:


\newcommand\MAINBIB{true}

Then in each child put:

[ERT]\ifx\undefined\MAINBIB[\ERT]
[Bibliography inset]
[ERT]\fi[\ERT]

where the ERT tags mark ERT. This has LaTeX ignore the bibliography, if 
MAINBIB is defined. (Note that there isn't any \undefined command; we're 
just supposing that it is undefined!)


Note that in this case too inter-document xrefs, etc, won't work if you 
view the child alone. There isn't any way around that, except (a) to 
introduce \includeonly support into LyX and (b) to figure out how that 
can best be made to help in this kind of situation.


Richard

1.6.4, Article Class, and Headings

[Rich Shepard]

  I don't recall seeing this behavior in prior versions so a hint on how to
clean up the page is appreciated.

  Version 1.6.4 on linux, document class is article and the headings are
fancy. When I look at the pdf output I see the page number both centered at
the bottom of each page and adjacent to the section title in the heading of
each page. This is with my default preamble of \date{} and nothing else.

  Seems to me that fancy headers automagically removed the centered footer
page numbers. Has this changed?

Rich

Re: lyx not finding a style file that latex finds !?

[Ernesto Posse]

 On 10/15/2009 08:36 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote:
  I have some very strange behaviour in LyX. I have a simple latex style
  file (mystyle.sty) which is located in a directory mylatexfiles.
  latex knows about this: I have export TEXINPUTS=mylatexfiles: in my
  bash login[...].

 If it's exactly like that, then I believe TeX is searching for 
 ./mylatexfiles/, which will depend upon the working directory. So, if it is
 like that, try giving the complete path to this directory.

 rh

I've given the full path, and I still have the same issue. How come
TeX from the command line finds it but TeX invoked by LyX does not
find it?

Thanks

-- 
Ernesto Posse

Applied Formal Methods Group - Software Technology Lab
School of Computing
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

[Jason Waskiewicz]

Jason Waskiewicz jason.waskiew...@... writes:

 
 Guenter Milde mi...@... writes:
  In order to be found even some weeks/months on, could you create a pointer
  (page or link on a related page) on the LyX wiki (wiki.lyx.org)?
  
  Günter
  

Thank-you! The password was E-mailed to me and the file is now on the LyX Wiki
along with a sample document. I hope someone can improve the .layout file or
else use it in their own work.

--Jason Waskiewicz
  Bowman County High School

Re: lyx not finding a style file that latex finds !?

[rgheck]

On 10/22/2009 08:01 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote:

On 10/15/2009 08:36 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote:
 

I have some very strange behaviour in LyX. I have a simple latex style
file (mystyle.sty) which is located in a directory mylatexfiles.
latex knows about this: I have export TEXINPUTS=mylatexfiles: in my
bash login[...].
   

If it's exactly like that, then I believe TeX is searching for ./mylatexfiles/, 
which will depend upon the working directory. So, if it is
like that, try giving the complete path to this directory.

rh
 

I've given the full path, and I still have the same issue. How come
TeX from the command line finds it but TeX invoked by LyX does not
find it?

   
I'm confused, then. You might send me the exact file. Maybe I can figure 
it out.


rh

Re: Problem

[Uwe Stöhr]

Steinar Graver schrieb:


The first pages in my document, abstract, table of content, list of
figure..ect has roman page numbering. Chapter 1 starts with Arabic
cumbering.

 

How can I get lyx to start the first appendix side with the next roman
number in line, i.e my last roman page is v, and I want my appendix to start
at (roman 6) how is that possible?


This can be done using nasty tricks. But this unusual - I've never seen this before. In strict sense 
of logic this might even be wrong.


I have seen books where the numbering starts for the appendix again with roman numbering, but 
beginning with I (roman 1).


regards Uwe

Image format in lyx.

[nikunj .]

Hi all,

I have lyx 1.6.3 installed. I have to make a presentation and for that
purpose I have used beamer class. I have include images which are in
Jpeg, png and jpg.  However, after a few times that I convert it into
pdf ( i.e. I make changes and then run pdflatex ,and changes are quite
frequent) the image starts getting kind of blurred and dirty.
What might be happening ?

One more thing, I even tried to make a pdf with just that pic so that
I include this 'pic-pdf' instead of the pic itself. But I get 2 pages,
instead of one.
How do I sort this out?

(Yeah, I am a newbie :D )

Thanks in advance,
Nikunj.

Re: Converting to doc format

[Pete Crite]

On 23/10/2009, at 3:34 AM, Florian Rubach wrote:


Anthony Campbell schrieb:

I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who
unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can  
see
after a fair amount of googling the only practical way of doing  
this is

to produce a plain text (txt) version from Lyx, import it into the
Openoffice WP, and save it as a .doc file from there.

Does anyone know a better way?

Anthony

The most accurate way I found until now (working even for complicated
documents) is exporting the document to pdf and then submitting it to
www.pdftoword.com.
I don't know if you are comfortable with giving away your document  
to a

site where I wasn't able to find any statement about the security of
your data, but the results look stunningly good and are even well  
editable.


Florian



I just used this service, and it's not bad! For some strange reason  
though, my inline (ex-pdf or png) images were destroyed. Also, there  
were a few other strange artefacts in formatting. Also note that it  
took about 3 hours before it finished processing for me (it emails you  
the results), so don't use it if you are in a hurry!


From the site:
The PDF files you upload for conversion are deleted straight after  
being converted.
The DOC/RTF files we generate are deleted immediately after we email  
you them.
At no stage are your files looked at or touched by the administrator  
of our PDF-to-Word service.

Re: Lyx under WindowsXP

[Olivier Ripoll]

rgheck wrote:

On 10/21/2009 12:10 PM, Olivier Ripoll wrote:

XBOT wrote:
The GUI of Lyx looks terrible! All fonts at the programs window are 
too bold and
the fonts at the menues are too thin. You can use the program, but it 
isnt comfortable and most of the orders at the

menues you cant read!
There must be a problem with the fonts the program is using.


You can change the font sizes, the screen dpi and the zoom  in 
Preferences-Look  Feel-Screen fonts


I think the zoom is where you want to start.

This changes the fonts used for the document but not for the menus, etc. 
Under Linux, those can be controlled via qtconfig. There is presumably 
some similar option for Windows. Anyone? (Try under Control Panel.)


rh


Hi,

I thought he meant the document area by programs window. But it's true 
that he could have meant the window title bar.


Best regards,

Olivier

Re: Lyx under WindowsXP

[Olivier Ripoll]

XBOT wrote:
 

Can you post a little screenshot ?

Vincent



Hi Vincent,

sure...look here:

http://www.bilderhosting.info/images/image170113.jpg

Tomorrow I try to reinstall...


Before you do that, what happens if you change the system-wise font 
settings for the menus (e.g. try another font)?
Do you use 120 dpi or 96 dpi under windows (Display 
properties-Settings-Advanced)? Both and they look fine on my machine.


Best regards,

Olivier



Greetz from Germany

XBOT

Re: Converting to doc format

[Anthony Campbell]

On 22 Oct 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote:
 On 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
  On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:50:56PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
   Thanks to all for replies. I went to the Wiki as suggested and found how
   to export files as rtf, which should be loadable into Openoffice
   - excellent! I'll make a start on the conversion soon.
  
  This wasn't actually what I had in mind -- if you have the latest and
  greatest LaTeX under the hood, there actually should be an option to
  export OpenOffice.org files.  Then you can open that up and, if need
  be, save it as a Word doc.  One fewer conversion step.
  
  Strictly speaking, BTW, RTF files _are_ Word files: RTF is officially
  the non-binary form of Word files (up until the recent XML-based
  format, which is completely different).  This principle was, I
  understand, honoured more in the breach.
  
 
 This is vesion 1.6.4 but I can't see any such option here.
 
 AC
 -- 

Ah -- I think I may have found the answer. I first installed tex4ht and
then reconfigured, after which I get the option to export as
OpenDocument. This gives a file with .odt extension, which seems to be
what is needed.

AC
-- 
Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk 
Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux
http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, 
and sceptical articles)

The behaviour of menus

[Manolo Martí­nez]

Dear list,

There is a slightly annoying feature of the behaviour of my Lyx which, I 
have just realised, may be seen as a bug. When I open a drop-down menu 
-e. g., when choosing the language of a paragraph from the drop-down 
list of possibilities- even if I navigate to my preferred option using 
the cursor keys, after pressing Enter the program stays in the option 
that was closer to the position of the mouse cursor.


This is, as I say, slightly annoying, because it forces me to use the 
mouse, which may sometimes be a waste of time. Do you all see this kind 
of behaviour? Is it the intended behaviour?


Thanks,
Manolo

RE: The behaviour of menus

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
 When I open a drop-down menu -e. g., when choosing the
 language of a paragraph from the drop-down list of
 possibilities- even if I navigate to my preferred option
 using the cursor keys, ...

Can you more precisely describe what drop-down menu you mean ? The only way I 
know to select the language is in the text style dialog, but that works fine.

Vincent

Re: The behaviour of menus

[Manolo Martí­nez]

That's the one I mean, yes. It's not working fine for me, though for 
some reason I cannot seem to copy a screen snapshot while the menu is 
displayed, so I cannot show you.


The way to replicate my problem is as follows. Open the text style 
dialog, press the language drop-down menu to unfold it and, without 
moving the mouse, take the language selection up or down with the cursor 
keys. Then hit enter to fold the  menu. What I see is that the chosen 
language is not the one you selected with the cursor keys, but another, 
closer to the position of the mouse cursor.


Manolo

Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW escribió:

Can you more precisely describe what drop-down menu you mean ? The only way I 
know to select the language is in the text style dialog, but that works fine.

Vincent

  

randomly rotated graphics

[Guy Hindell]

Hi there, I think this is more a LaTeX question than LyX, but...

I have some LyX documents that include (via graphicx.sty) graphics files 
supplied in a variety of formats (png, jpg, PDF) that I output as PDFs 
using pdflatex. This works fine on Windows (XP, Vista using MiKTeX v2.7) 
and Linux (Fedora 10, texlive2007). The catch is that on the Linux box 
some (not all) of the images are being rotated 90 degrees without my 
deliberately specifying this. No such rotations are happening on the 
Windows boxes.


I can vaguely remember either experiencing this problem before or 
reading about it, and thought it was something to do with the generation 
of the bounding box information, but cannot for the life of me remember 
what.


Does anyone know?

cheers
guy

Re: input math macro file - incomplete instant preview

[Paul A. Rubin]

Axel Heim wrote:

Hi there,
the math macro is a great feature. However, when I input (or include) a 
file with math macros, the corresponding math symbols do not appear in 
the instant preview, while `hard-coded' symbols do.


I assume you mean that if you view the child document (in a separate tab 
from the parent) you do not get the macro symbols in the instant 
preview.  Is that correct?


The pdf output is 
fine, though.

When I have a math macro at the top of the document,


Top of the parent, or top of the child?

instant preview 
works fine, too.

Has anybody made the same experience and/or knows a solution?

Thank you  best regards,
axel (LyX 1.6.3, 1.6.4, linux)




Seems to work ok for me here (LyX 1.6.4, Win XP).  I haven't had a 
chance to test it on Linux yet.  Do you have a small pair of documents 
(parent and child) that you could post to illustrate the problem?


/Paul

Re: Converting to doc format

[Florian Rubach]

Anthony Campbell schrieb:

I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who
unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can see
after a fair amount of googling the only practical way of doing this is
to produce a plain text (txt) version from Lyx, import it into the
Openoffice WP, and save it as a .doc file from there.

Does anyone know a better way?

Anthony

The most accurate way I found until now (working even for complicated
documents) is exporting the document to pdf and then submitting it to
www.pdftoword.com.
I don't know if you are comfortable with giving away your document to a
site where I wasn't able to find any statement about the security of
your data, but the results look stunningly good and are even well editable.

Florian

Bibtex and child documents

[Jan Piet Joris en Corneel]

Dear list,

I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis.

I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically
I want to do this.
1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one for
each child documents.
2. Have one bibliography at the end of the thesis.
3. Have the ability to insert citations to that bibliography using the
Lyx function.

Points 1 and 2 cause no difficulties. The third point seems to cause
problems. It seems I first need to insert a bibliography to the
chapter to be able to cite from it. Seems logic but I don't want to
have that bibliography repeated at the end of each chapter, just one
at the end of the master document.

How do I make the bibliography 'invisible' at the end of a chapter in
the pdftex output , without losing the ability to insert citations? In
the lyx port files (available at
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/) they
didn't seem to have solved it too. If I look into e.g. Chapter01.lyx
and double click the first citation to Bringhurst, no list of
available sources shows up, because Chapter01.lyx doesn't know it has
to look into Bibliography.bib.

If anybody has some ideas on solving this, please show them up.

Thanks and regards,

Corné

Kluwer doc class: title and author not showing up

[Maria Gouskova]

Dear LyX users,

I am trying out the doc class article (Kluwer) and having a problem:
a simple document with a title, author, and a single section and some
standard text typesets without the title and the author. I looked at
this manual (http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=4-102-45-124370-0), but I
am not sure that it applies to how things work in LyX. The manual
warns that if the Author field isn't followed by \institute{...}, the
author will not be typeset in the final pdf. But there is no
\institute option in LyX. So how is it supposed to work?

LyX 1.6.4.1
Mac OS 10.5
MacTeX-2008

Maria

Re: Bibtex and child documents

[rgheck]

On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote:

Dear list,

I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis.

I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically
I want to do this.
1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one for
each child documents.
2. Have one bibliography at the end of the thesis.
3. Have the ability to insert citations to that bibliography using the
Lyx function.

Points 1 and 2 cause no difficulties. The third point seems to cause
problems. It seems I first need to insert a bibliography to the
chapter to be able to cite from it. Seems logic but I don't want to
have that bibliography repeated at the end of each chapter, just one
at the end of the master document.

How do I make the bibliography 'invisible' at the end of a chapter in
the pdftex output , without losing the ability to insert citations? In
the lyx port files (available at
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/) they
didn't seem to have solved it too. If I look into e.g. Chapter01.lyx
and double click the first citation to Bringhurst, no list of
available sources shows up, because Chapter01.lyx doesn't know it has
to look into Bibliography.bib.

If anybody has some ideas on solving this, please show them up.

   
OK, first, if you open the master document first, and then open the 
child document from the master (e.g., right click on the Include inset, 
then select Edit Included File), then you should have no problems. 
When you do it this way, LyX essentially treats the master and children 
as if they were one huge file, and it picks up the bibliography from the 
master.


In LyX 1.6, there is a way to make this easier. In each of your child 
documents, set the default master document under 
DocumentSettingsDocument Class, and set it to be the master in which 
the children are included. Then, when you open the child directly, LyX 
knows it should first open the master document, too. The master will not 
actually appear to be open---i.e, it won't appear in a window---but if 
you look under the View menu, you'll see it (as well as all of its other 
children). Now the bibliography will work as normal.


Richard

Re: Documenting python code using LyX

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-10-20, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
 Does anybody use LyX to document python code? Any hints?

 PyLit already allows to round-trip between Python code with embedded
 ReST comments and ReST documents with embedded Python code blocks. From
 ReST, you can then convert to LaTeX, which should be somewhat
 importable to LyX.

 However, I haven't found a possibility yet to export ReST with embedded
 Python code blocks from Lyx.

Indeet this is a one-way conversion currently. (My suggestion was
rather to use PyLit (together with your (or my) favourite text editor)
*instead of* LyX rather than PyLit with LyX for literal programming.

 Full round-tripping between LyX and Python (or any other programming
 language) code with embedded ReST comments would be pretty close to
 The Holy Grail Of Literate Programming imho. *duck*

Adding native ReST export (and maybe import) to LyX was alredy
discussed once. Maybe some day...

Günter

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-10-18, Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

 I recently made a .layout file for the Tufte-book class.

 http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/

 I had good luck making it work with my materials, but I know nothing 
 about LyX .layout files. I simply took the existing tufte-handout.layout 
 file on the LyX.org website and modified it appropriately. I also added 
 the full-width figure class figure* which seemed to be missing.

Thanks for your work.

 Anyway, I'm hoping those with more skills can evaluate this .layout 
 file, improve it, and, possibly, find some use for it.

In order to be found even some weeks/months on, could you create a pointer
(page or link on a related page) on the LyX wiki (wiki.lyx.org)?

Günter

Re: Epsilon ran off ...

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-10-19, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 ... and took varrho with it.  This is some sort of screen font problem, 
 but one I don't recall seeing reported before.

 I've got a copy of LyX 1.6.3 installed on Mint Gloria (a Linux distro 
 built over Ubuntu -- Jaunty Jackalope, I think).  Of the Greek letters 
 in the math palette, all but two (\epsilon and \varrho) display 
 correctly in formulas; those two show up as text in the GUI (display 
 correctly in output).

 Usually missing math glyphs are the result of a missing screen font, but 
 it seems unlikely to be the case here since only two glyphs are missing. 
   I've also got LyX 1.6.3 installed on an Ubuntu (Jaunty) box, and the 
 glyphs are present there.

This is very likely, as these could be Greek *variants* missing from a font
that provides basic Greek letters.

(Are the Greek letters *in math* upright or cursive?

 Any suggestions where I could look for the cause?

Try a different screen font.

Günter

Re: Bibtex and child documents

[Pete Crite]

On 23/10/2009, at 7:22 AM, rgheck wrote:


On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote:

Dear list,

I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to  
write a thesis.


I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex.  
Basically

I want to do this.
1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one  
for

each child documents.
2. Have one bibliography at the end of the thesis.
3. Have the ability to insert citations to that bibliography using  
the

Lyx function.

Points 1 and 2 cause no difficulties. The third point seems to cause
problems. It seems I first need to insert a bibliography to the
chapter to be able to cite from it. Seems logic but I don't want to
have that bibliography repeated at the end of each chapter, just one
at the end of the master document.

How do I make the bibliography 'invisible' at the end of a chapter in
the pdftex output , without losing the ability to insert citations?  
In

the lyx port files (available at
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/) they
didn't seem to have solved it too. If I look into e.g. Chapter01.lyx
and double click the first citation to Bringhurst, no list of
available sources shows up, because Chapter01.lyx doesn't know it has
to look into Bibliography.bib.

If anybody has some ideas on solving this, please show them up.


OK, first, if you open the master document first, and then open the  
child document from the master (e.g., right click on the Include  
inset, then select Edit Included File), then you should have no  
problems. When you do it this way, LyX essentially treats the master  
and children as if they were one huge file, and it picks up the  
bibliography from the master.


In LyX 1.6, there is a way to make this easier. In each of your  
child documents, set the default master document under  
DocumentSettingsDocument Class, and set it to be the master in  
which the children are included. Then, when you open the child  
directly, LyX knows it should first open the master document, too.  
The master will not actually appear to be open---i.e, it won't  
appear in a window---but if you look under the View menu, you'll see  
it (as well as all of its other children). Now the bibliography will  
work as normal.


Richard


Should this solution work if I wish to view a PDF version of the child  
document alone?


If so, neither of these two solutions appear to work for me, either  
alone or both at once. I still get ? at each reference, if I do not  
specifically have a bibliography in the child document. Also, inter- 
document cross-references don't work, nor do environments defined in  
the master's header.


Cheers,
Pete.

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

[Jason Waskiewicz]

Guenter Milde mi...@... writes:

 
 On 2009-10-18, Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
 
  I recently made a .layout file for the Tufte-book class.
 
  http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/
 
  I had good luck making it work with my materials, but I know nothing 
  about LyX .layout files. I simply took the existing tufte-handout.layout 
  file on the LyX.org website and modified it appropriately. I also added 
  the full-width figure class figure* which seemed to be missing.
 
 Thanks for your work.
 
  Anyway, I'm hoping those with more skills can evaluate this .layout 
  file, improve it, and, possibly, find some use for it.
 
 In order to be found even some weeks/months on, could you create a pointer
 (page or link on a related page) on the LyX wiki (wiki.lyx.org)?
 
 Günter
 
 

On your suggestion, I did attempt to post the link on the wiki. Apparently I
need a password to upload the file. When I attempted to simply link to the file,
I needed a password for that as well.

Who might I contact to get the password?

--Jason Waskiewicz
  Bowman County High School

Re: Bibtex and child documents

[rgheck]

On 10/22/2009 04:44 PM, Pete Crite wrote:

On 23/10/2009, at 7:22 AM, rgheck wrote:


On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote:

Dear list,

I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to 
write a thesis.


I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically
I want to do this.
1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one for
each child documents.
2. Have one bibliography at the end of the thesis.
3. Have the ability to insert citations to that bibliography using the
Lyx function.

Points 1 and 2 cause no difficulties. The third point seems to cause
problems. It seems I first need to insert a bibliography to the
chapter to be able to cite from it. Seems logic but I don't want to
have that bibliography repeated at the end of each chapter, just one
at the end of the master document.

How do I make the bibliography 'invisible' at the end of a chapter in
the pdftex output , without losing the ability to insert citations? In
the lyx port files (available at
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/) they
didn't seem to have solved it too. If I look into e.g. Chapter01.lyx
and double click the first citation to Bringhurst, no list of
available sources shows up, because Chapter01.lyx doesn't know it has
to look into Bibliography.bib.

If anybody has some ideas on solving this, please show them up.


OK, first, if you open the master document first, and then open the 
child document from the master (e.g., right click on the Include 
inset, then select Edit Included File), then you should have no 
problems. When you do it this way, LyX essentially treats the master 
and children as if they were one huge file, and it picks up the 
bibliography from the master.


In LyX 1.6, there is a way to make this easier. In each of your child 
documents, set the default master document under 
DocumentSettingsDocument Class, and set it to be the master in 
which the children are included. Then, when you open the child 
directly, LyX knows it should first open the master document, too. 
The master will not actually appear to be open---i.e, it won't appear 
in a window---but if you look under the View menu, you'll see it (as 
well as all of its other children). Now the bibliography will work as 
normal.


Richard


Should this solution work if I wish to view a PDF version of the child 
document alone?


No, this will not allow you to view the child alone. That is its central 
limitation.


If so, neither of these two solutions appear to work for me, either 
alone or both at once. I still get ? at each reference, if I do not 
specifically have a bibliography in the child document. Also, 
inter-document cross-references don't work, nor do environments 
defined in the master's header.


All of this is expected when you view the child alone, since LyX then 
treats it as a separate document. (I think there have been improvements 
on some of this for 1.7, by the way, but I am not sure.)


If you want to be able to view the child alone, then what you want to do 
is this. (I think this is on the wiki.) At the top of the master, put in 
ERT:


\newcommand\MAINBIB{true}

Then in each child put:

[ERT]\ifx\undefined\MAINBIB[\ERT]
[Bibliography inset]
[ERT]\fi[\ERT]

where the ERT tags mark ERT. This has LaTeX ignore the bibliography, if 
MAINBIB is defined. (Note that there isn't any \undefined command; we're 
just supposing that it is undefined!)


Note that in this case too inter-document xrefs, etc, won't work if you 
view the child alone. There isn't any way around that, except (a) to 
introduce \includeonly support into LyX and (b) to figure out how that 
can best be made to help in this kind of situation.


Richard

1.6.4, Article Class, and Headings

[Rich Shepard]

  I don't recall seeing this behavior in prior versions so a hint on how to
clean up the page is appreciated.

  Version 1.6.4 on linux, document class is article and the headings are
fancy. When I look at the pdf output I see the page number both centered at
the bottom of each page and adjacent to the section title in the heading of
each page. This is with my default preamble of \date{} and nothing else.

  Seems to me that fancy headers automagically removed the centered footer
page numbers. Has this changed?

Rich

Re: lyx not finding a style file that latex finds !?

[Ernesto Posse]

 On 10/15/2009 08:36 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote:
  I have some very strange behaviour in LyX. I have a simple latex style
  file (mystyle.sty) which is located in a directory mylatexfiles.
  latex knows about this: I have export TEXINPUTS=mylatexfiles: in my
  bash login[...].

 If it's exactly like that, then I believe TeX is searching for 
 ./mylatexfiles/, which will depend upon the working directory. So, if it is
 like that, try giving the complete path to this directory.

 rh

I've given the full path, and I still have the same issue. How come
TeX from the command line finds it but TeX invoked by LyX does not
find it?

Thanks

-- 
Ernesto Posse

Applied Formal Methods Group - Software Technology Lab
School of Computing
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

[Jason Waskiewicz]

Jason Waskiewicz jason.waskiew...@... writes:

 
 Guenter Milde mi...@... writes:
  In order to be found even some weeks/months on, could you create a pointer
  (page or link on a related page) on the LyX wiki (wiki.lyx.org)?
  
  Günter
  

Thank-you! The password was E-mailed to me and the file is now on the LyX Wiki
along with a sample document. I hope someone can improve the .layout file or
else use it in their own work.

--Jason Waskiewicz
  Bowman County High School

Re: lyx not finding a style file that latex finds !?

[rgheck]

On 10/22/2009 08:01 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote:

On 10/15/2009 08:36 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote:
 

I have some very strange behaviour in LyX. I have a simple latex style
file (mystyle.sty) which is located in a directory mylatexfiles.
latex knows about this: I have export TEXINPUTS=mylatexfiles: in my
bash login[...].
   

If it's exactly like that, then I believe TeX is searching for ./mylatexfiles/, 
which will depend upon the working directory. So, if it is
like that, try giving the complete path to this directory.

rh
 

I've given the full path, and I still have the same issue. How come
TeX from the command line finds it but TeX invoked by LyX does not
find it?

   
I'm confused, then. You might send me the exact file. Maybe I can figure 
it out.


rh

Re: Problem

[Uwe Stöhr]

Steinar Graver schrieb:


The first pages in my document, abstract, table of content, list of
figure..ect has roman page numbering. Chapter 1 starts with Arabic
cumbering.

 

How can I get lyx to start the first appendix side with the next roman
number in line, i.e my last roman page is v, and I want my appendix to start
at (roman 6) how is that possible?


This can be done using nasty tricks. But this unusual - I've never seen this before. In strict sense 
of logic this might even be wrong.


I have seen books where the numbering starts for the appendix again with roman numbering, but 
beginning with I (roman 1).


regards Uwe

Image format in lyx.

[nikunj .]

Hi all,

I have lyx 1.6.3 installed. I have to make a presentation and for that
purpose I have used beamer class. I have include images which are in
Jpeg, png and jpg.  However, after a few times that I convert it into
pdf ( i.e. I make changes and then run pdflatex ,and changes are quite
frequent) the image starts getting kind of blurred and dirty.
What might be happening ?

One more thing, I even tried to make a pdf with just that pic so that
I include this 'pic-pdf' instead of the pic itself. But I get 2 pages,
instead of one.
How do I sort this out?

(Yeah, I am a newbie :D )

Thanks in advance,
Nikunj.

Re: Converting to doc format

[Pete Crite]

On 23/10/2009, at 3:34 AM, Florian Rubach wrote:


Anthony Campbell schrieb:

I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who
unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can  
see
after a fair amount of googling the only practical way of doing  
this is

to produce a plain text (txt) version from Lyx, import it into the
Openoffice WP, and save it as a .doc file from there.

Does anyone know a better way?

Anthony

The most accurate way I found until now (working even for complicated
documents) is exporting the document to pdf and then submitting it to
www.pdftoword.com.
I don't know if you are comfortable with giving away your document  
to a

site where I wasn't able to find any statement about the security of
your data, but the results look stunningly good and are even well  
editable.


Florian



I just used this service, and it's not bad! For some strange reason  
though, my inline (ex-pdf or png) images were destroyed. Also, there  
were a few other strange artefacts in formatting. Also note that it  
took about 3 hours before it finished processing for me (it emails you  
the results), so don't use it if you are in a hurry!


From the site:
The PDF files you upload for conversion are deleted straight after  
being converted.
The DOC/RTF files we generate are deleted immediately after we email  
you them.
At no stage are your files looked at or touched by the administrator  
of our PDF-to-Word service.

Re: Lyx under WindowsXP

[Olivier Ripoll]

rgheck wrote:

On 10/21/2009 12:10 PM, Olivier Ripoll wrote:

XBOT wrote:
The GUI of Lyx looks terrible! All fonts at the programs window are 
too bold and
the fonts at the menues are too thin. You can use the program, but it 
isnt comfortable and most of the orders at the

menues you cant read!
There must be a problem with the fonts the program is using.


You can change the font sizes, the screen dpi and the zoom  in 
Preferences->Look & Feel->Screen fonts


I think the zoom is where you want to start.

This changes the fonts used for the document but not for the menus, etc. 
Under Linux, those can be controlled via qtconfig. There is presumably 
some similar option for Windows. Anyone? (Try under Control Panel.)


rh


Hi,

I thought he meant the document area by "programs window". But it's true 
that he could have meant the window title bar.


Best regards,

Olivier

Re: Lyx under WindowsXP

[Olivier Ripoll]

XBOT wrote:
 

Can you post a little screenshot ?

Vincent



Hi Vincent,

sure...look here:

http://www.bilderhosting.info/images/image170113.jpg

Tomorrow I try to reinstall...


Before you do that, what happens if you change the system-wise font 
settings for the menus (e.g. try another font)?
Do you use 120 dpi or 96 dpi under windows (Display 
properties->Settings->Advanced)? Both and they look fine on my machine.


Best regards,

Olivier



Greetz from Germany

XBOT

Re: Converting to doc format

[Anthony Campbell]

On 22 Oct 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 21 Oct 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 06:50:56PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > Thanks to all for replies. I went to the Wiki as suggested and found how
> > > to export files as rtf, which should be loadable into Openoffice
> > > - excellent! I'll make a start on the conversion soon.
> > 
> > This wasn't actually what I had in mind -- if you have the latest and
> > greatest LaTeX under the hood, there actually should be an option to
> > export OpenOffice.org files.  Then you can open that up and, if need
> > be, save it as a Word doc.  One fewer conversion step.
> > 
> > Strictly speaking, BTW, RTF files _are_ Word files: RTF is officially
> > the non-binary "form" of Word files (up until the recent XML-based
> > format, which is completely different).  This principle was, I
> > understand, honoured more in the breach.
> > 
> 
> This is vesion 1.6.4 but I can't see any such option here.
> 
> AC
> -- 

Ah -- I think I may have found the answer. I first installed tex4ht and
then reconfigured, after which I get the option to export as
OpenDocument. This gives a file with .odt extension, which seems to be
what is needed.

AC
-- 
Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk 
Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux
http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, 
and sceptical articles)

The behaviour of menus

[Manolo Martí­nez]

Dear list,

There is a slightly annoying feature of the behaviour of my Lyx which, I 
have just realised, may be seen as a bug. When I open a drop-down menu 
-e. g., when choosing the language of a paragraph from the drop-down 
list of possibilities- even if I navigate to my preferred option using 
the cursor keys, after pressing Enter the program stays in the option 
that was closer to the position of the mouse cursor.


This is, as I say, slightly annoying, because it forces me to use the 
mouse, which may sometimes be a waste of time. Do you all see this kind 
of behaviour? Is it the intended behaviour?


Thanks,
Manolo

RE: The behaviour of menus

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

 
> When I open a drop-down menu -e. g., when choosing the
> language of a paragraph from the drop-down list of
> possibilities- even if I navigate to my preferred option
> using the cursor keys, ...

Can you more precisely describe what drop-down menu you mean ? The only way I 
know to select the language is in the text style dialog, but that works fine.

Vincent

Re: The behaviour of menus

[Manolo Martí­nez]

That's the one I mean, yes. It's not working fine for me, though for 
some reason I cannot seem to copy a screen snapshot while the menu is 
displayed, so I cannot show you.


The way to replicate my problem is as follows. Open the text style 
dialog, press the language drop-down menu to unfold it and, without 
moving the mouse, take the language selection up or down with the cursor 
keys. Then hit enter to fold the  menu. What I see is that the chosen 
language is not the one you selected with the cursor keys, but another, 
closer to the position of the mouse cursor.


Manolo

Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW escribió:

Can you more precisely describe what drop-down menu you mean ? The only way I 
know to select the language is in the text style dialog, but that works fine.

Vincent

  

randomly rotated graphics

[Guy Hindell]

Hi there, I think this is more a LaTeX question than LyX, but...

I have some LyX documents that include (via graphicx.sty) graphics files 
supplied in a variety of formats (png, jpg, PDF) that I output as PDFs 
using pdflatex. This works fine on Windows (XP, Vista using MiKTeX v2.7) 
and Linux (Fedora 10, texlive2007). The catch is that on the Linux box 
some (not all) of the images are being rotated 90 degrees without my 
deliberately specifying this. No such rotations are happening on the 
Windows boxes.


I can vaguely remember either experiencing this problem before or 
reading about it, and thought it was something to do with the generation 
of the bounding box information, but cannot for the life of me remember 
what.


Does anyone know?

cheers
guy

Re: input math macro file -> incomplete instant preview

[Paul A. Rubin]

Axel Heim wrote:

Hi there,
the math macro is a great feature. However, when I input (or include) a 
file with math macros, the corresponding math symbols do not appear in 
the instant preview, while `hard-coded' symbols do.


I assume you mean that if you view the child document (in a separate tab 
from the parent) you do not get the macro symbols in the instant 
preview.  Is that correct?


The pdf output is 
fine, though.

When I have a math macro at the top of the document,


Top of the parent, or top of the child?

instant preview 
works fine, too.

Has anybody made the same experience and/or knows a solution?

Thank you & best regards,
axel (LyX 1.6.3, 1.6.4, linux)




Seems to work ok for me here (LyX 1.6.4, Win XP).  I haven't had a 
chance to test it on Linux yet.  Do you have a small pair of documents 
(parent and child) that you could post to illustrate the problem?


/Paul

Re: Converting to doc format

[Florian Rubach]

Anthony Campbell schrieb:

I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who
unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can see
after a fair amount of googling the only practical way of doing this is
to produce a plain text (txt) version from Lyx, import it into the
Openoffice WP, and save it as a .doc file from there.

Does anyone know a better way?

Anthony

The most accurate way I found until now (working even for complicated
documents) is exporting the document to pdf and then submitting it to
www.pdftoword.com.
I don't know if you are comfortable with giving away your document to a
site where I wasn't able to find any statement about the security of
your data, but the results look stunningly good and are even well editable.

Florian

Bibtex and child documents

[Jan Piet Joris en Corneel]

Dear list,

I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis.

I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically
I want to do this.
1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one for
each child documents.
2. Have one bibliography at the end of the thesis.
3. Have the ability to insert citations to that bibliography using the
Lyx function.

Points 1 and 2 cause no difficulties. The third point seems to cause
problems. It seems I first need to insert a bibliography to the
chapter to be able to cite from it. Seems logic but I don't want to
have that bibliography repeated at the end of each chapter, just one
at the end of the master document.

How do I make the bibliography 'invisible' at the end of a chapter in
the pdftex output , without losing the ability to insert citations? In
the lyx port files (available at
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/) they
didn't seem to have solved it too. If I look into e.g. Chapter01.lyx
and double click the first citation to Bringhurst, no list of
available sources shows up, because Chapter01.lyx doesn't know it has
to look into Bibliography.bib.

If anybody has some ideas on solving this, please show them up.

Thanks and regards,

Corné

Kluwer doc class: title and author not showing up

[Maria Gouskova]

Dear LyX users,

I am trying out the doc class "article (Kluwer)" and having a problem:
a simple document with a title, author, and a single section and some
standard text typesets without the title and the author. I looked at
this manual (http://www.springer.com/?SGWID=4-102-45-124370-0), but I
am not sure that it applies to how things work in LyX. The manual
warns that if the Author field isn't followed by \institute{...}, the
author will not be typeset in the final pdf. But there is no
\institute option in LyX. So how is it supposed to work?

LyX 1.6.4.1
Mac OS 10.5
MacTeX-2008

Maria

Re: Bibtex and child documents

[rgheck]

On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote:

Dear list,

I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to write a thesis.

I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically
I want to do this.
1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one for
each child documents.
2. Have one bibliography at the end of the thesis.
3. Have the ability to insert citations to that bibliography using the
Lyx function.

Points 1 and 2 cause no difficulties. The third point seems to cause
problems. It seems I first need to insert a bibliography to the
chapter to be able to cite from it. Seems logic but I don't want to
have that bibliography repeated at the end of each chapter, just one
at the end of the master document.

How do I make the bibliography 'invisible' at the end of a chapter in
the pdftex output , without losing the ability to insert citations? In
the lyx port files (available at
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/) they
didn't seem to have solved it too. If I look into e.g. Chapter01.lyx
and double click the first citation to Bringhurst, no list of
available sources shows up, because Chapter01.lyx doesn't know it has
to look into Bibliography.bib.

If anybody has some ideas on solving this, please show them up.

   
OK, first, if you open the master document first, and then open the 
child document from the master (e.g., right click on the Include inset, 
then select "Edit Included File"), then you should have no problems. 
When you do it this way, LyX essentially treats the master and children 
as if they were one huge file, and it picks up the bibliography from the 
master.


In LyX 1.6, there is a way to make this easier. In each of your child 
documents, set the "default master document" under 
Document>Settings>Document Class, and set it to be the master in which 
the children are included. Then, when you open the child directly, LyX 
knows it should first open the master document, too. The master will not 
actually appear to be open---i.e, it won't appear in a window---but if 
you look under the View menu, you'll see it (as well as all of its other 
children). Now the bibliography will work as normal.


Richard

Re: Documenting python code using LyX

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-10-20, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
>> Does anybody use LyX to document python code? Any hints?

> PyLit already allows to round-trip between Python code with embedded
> ReST comments and ReST documents with embedded Python code blocks. From
> ReST, you can then convert to LaTeX, which should be somewhat
> importable to LyX.

> However, I haven't found a possibility yet to export ReST with embedded
> Python code blocks from Lyx.

Indeet this is a one-way conversion currently. (My suggestion was
rather to use PyLit (together with your (or my) favourite text editor)
*instead of* LyX rather than PyLit with LyX for literal programming.

> Full round-tripping between LyX and Python (or any other programming
> language) code with embedded ReST comments would be pretty close to
> "The Holy Grail Of Literate Programming" imho. *duck*

Adding native ReST export (and maybe import) to LyX was alredy
discussed once. Maybe some day...

Günter

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-10-18, Jason Waskiewicz wrote:

> I recently made a .layout file for the Tufte-book class.

> http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/

> I had good luck making it work with my materials, but I know nothing 
> about LyX .layout files. I simply took the existing tufte-handout.layout 
> file on the LyX.org website and modified it appropriately. I also added 
> the full-width figure class figure* which seemed to be missing.

Thanks for your work.

> Anyway, I'm hoping those with more skills can evaluate this .layout 
> file, improve it, and, possibly, find some use for it.

In order to be found even some weeks/months on, could you create a pointer
(page or link on a related page) on the LyX wiki (wiki.lyx.org)?

Günter

Re: Epsilon ran off ...

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-10-19, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> ... and took varrho with it.  This is some sort of screen font problem, 
> but one I don't recall seeing reported before.

> I've got a copy of LyX 1.6.3 installed on Mint Gloria (a Linux distro 
> built over Ubuntu -- Jaunty Jackalope, I think).  Of the Greek letters 
> in the math palette, all but two (\epsilon and \varrho) display 
> correctly in formulas; those two show up as text in the GUI (display 
> correctly in output).

> Usually missing math glyphs are the result of a missing screen font, but 
> it seems unlikely to be the case here since only two glyphs are missing. 
>   I've also got LyX 1.6.3 installed on an Ubuntu (Jaunty) box, and the 
> glyphs are present there.

This is very likely, as these could be Greek *variants* missing from a font
that provides basic Greek letters.

(Are the Greek letters *in math* upright or cursive?

> Any suggestions where I could look for the cause?

Try a different screen font.

Günter

Re: Bibtex and child documents

[Pete Crite]

On 23/10/2009, at 7:22 AM, rgheck wrote:


On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote:

Dear list,

I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to  
write a thesis.


I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex.  
Basically

I want to do this.
1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one  
for

each child documents.
2. Have one bibliography at the end of the thesis.
3. Have the ability to insert citations to that bibliography using  
the

Lyx function.

Points 1 and 2 cause no difficulties. The third point seems to cause
problems. It seems I first need to insert a bibliography to the
chapter to be able to cite from it. Seems logic but I don't want to
have that bibliography repeated at the end of each chapter, just one
at the end of the master document.

How do I make the bibliography 'invisible' at the end of a chapter in
the pdftex output , without losing the ability to insert citations?  
In

the lyx port files (available at
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/) they
didn't seem to have solved it too. If I look into e.g. Chapter01.lyx
and double click the first citation to Bringhurst, no list of
available sources shows up, because Chapter01.lyx doesn't know it has
to look into Bibliography.bib.

If anybody has some ideas on solving this, please show them up.


OK, first, if you open the master document first, and then open the  
child document from the master (e.g., right click on the Include  
inset, then select "Edit Included File"), then you should have no  
problems. When you do it this way, LyX essentially treats the master  
and children as if they were one huge file, and it picks up the  
bibliography from the master.


In LyX 1.6, there is a way to make this easier. In each of your  
child documents, set the "default master document" under  
Document>Settings>Document Class, and set it to be the master in  
which the children are included. Then, when you open the child  
directly, LyX knows it should first open the master document, too.  
The master will not actually appear to be open---i.e, it won't  
appear in a window---but if you look under the View menu, you'll see  
it (as well as all of its other children). Now the bibliography will  
work as normal.


Richard


Should this solution work if I wish to view a PDF version of the child  
document alone?


If so, neither of these two solutions appear to work for me, either  
alone or both at once. I still get "?" at each reference, if I do not  
specifically have a bibliography in the child document. Also, inter- 
document cross-references don't work, nor do environments defined in  
the master's header.


Cheers,
Pete.

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

[Jason Waskiewicz]

Guenter Milde  writes:

> 
> On 2009-10-18, Jason Waskiewicz wrote:
> 
> > I recently made a .layout file for the Tufte-book class.
> 
> > http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/
> 
> > I had good luck making it work with my materials, but I know nothing 
> > about LyX .layout files. I simply took the existing tufte-handout.layout 
> > file on the LyX.org website and modified it appropriately. I also added 
> > the full-width figure class figure* which seemed to be missing.
> 
> Thanks for your work.
> 
> > Anyway, I'm hoping those with more skills can evaluate this .layout 
> > file, improve it, and, possibly, find some use for it.
> 
> In order to be found even some weeks/months on, could you create a pointer
> (page or link on a related page) on the LyX wiki (wiki.lyx.org)?
> 
> Günter
> 
> 

On your suggestion, I did attempt to post the link on the wiki. Apparently I
need a password to upload the file. When I attempted to simply link to the file,
I needed a password for that as well.

Who might I contact to get the password?

--Jason Waskiewicz
  Bowman County High School

Re: Bibtex and child documents

[rgheck]

On 10/22/2009 04:44 PM, Pete Crite wrote:

On 23/10/2009, at 7:22 AM, rgheck wrote:


On 10/22/2009 02:27 PM, Jan Piet Joris en Corneel wrote:

Dear list,

I'm using LyX and the Lyx port of André Miede's Classicthesis to 
write a thesis.


I was wondering how to deal with child documents and bibtex. Basically
I want to do this.
1. Have one master document with several child documents (i.e. one for
each child documents.
2. Have one bibliography at the end of the thesis.
3. Have the ability to insert citations to that bibliography using the
Lyx function.

Points 1 and 2 cause no difficulties. The third point seems to cause
problems. It seems I first need to insert a bibliography to the
chapter to be able to cite from it. Seems logic but I don't want to
have that bibliography repeated at the end of each chapter, just one
at the end of the master document.

How do I make the bibliography 'invisible' at the end of a chapter in
the pdftex output , without losing the ability to insert citations? In
the lyx port files (available at
http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/) they
didn't seem to have solved it too. If I look into e.g. Chapter01.lyx
and double click the first citation to Bringhurst, no list of
available sources shows up, because Chapter01.lyx doesn't know it has
to look into Bibliography.bib.

If anybody has some ideas on solving this, please show them up.


OK, first, if you open the master document first, and then open the 
child document from the master (e.g., right click on the Include 
inset, then select "Edit Included File"), then you should have no 
problems. When you do it this way, LyX essentially treats the master 
and children as if they were one huge file, and it picks up the 
bibliography from the master.


In LyX 1.6, there is a way to make this easier. In each of your child 
documents, set the "default master document" under 
Document>Settings>Document Class, and set it to be the master in 
which the children are included. Then, when you open the child 
directly, LyX knows it should first open the master document, too. 
The master will not actually appear to be open---i.e, it won't appear 
in a window---but if you look under the View menu, you'll see it (as 
well as all of its other children). Now the bibliography will work as 
normal.


Richard


Should this solution work if I wish to view a PDF version of the child 
document alone?


No, this will not allow you to view the child alone. That is its central 
limitation.


If so, neither of these two solutions appear to work for me, either 
alone or both at once. I still get "?" at each reference, if I do not 
specifically have a bibliography in the child document. Also, 
inter-document cross-references don't work, nor do environments 
defined in the master's header.


All of this is expected when you view the child alone, since LyX then 
treats it as a separate document. (I think there have been improvements 
on some of this for 1.7, by the way, but I am not sure.)


If you want to be able to view the child alone, then what you want to do 
is this. (I think this is on the wiki.) At the top of the master, put in 
ERT:


\newcommand\MAINBIB{true}

Then in each child put:

[ERT]\ifx\undefined\MAINBIB[\ERT]
[Bibliography inset]
[ERT]\fi[\ERT]

where the ERT tags mark ERT. This has LaTeX ignore the bibliography, if 
MAINBIB is defined. (Note that there isn't any \undefined command; we're 
just supposing that it is undefined!)


Note that in this case too inter-document xrefs, etc, won't work if you 
view the child alone. There isn't any way around that, except (a) to 
introduce \includeonly support into LyX and (b) to figure out how that 
can best be made to help in this kind of situation.


Richard

1.6.4, Article Class, and Headings

[Rich Shepard]

  I don't recall seeing this behavior in prior versions so a hint on how to
clean up the page is appreciated.

  Version 1.6.4 on linux, document class is article and the headings are
fancy. When I look at the pdf output I see the page number both centered at
the bottom of each page and adjacent to the section title in the heading of
each page. This is with my default preamble of \date{} and nothing else.

  Seems to me that fancy headers automagically removed the centered footer
page numbers. Has this changed?

Rich

Re: lyx not finding a style file that latex finds !?

[Ernesto Posse]

> On 10/15/2009 08:36 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote:
> > I have some very strange behaviour in LyX. I have a simple latex style
> > file (mystyle.sty) which is located in a directory "mylatexfiles".
> > latex knows about this: I have "export TEXINPUTS=mylatexfiles:" in my
> > bash login[...].
>
> If it's exactly like that, then I believe TeX is searching for 
> ./mylatexfiles/, which will depend upon the working directory. So, if it is
> like that, try giving the complete path to this directory.
>
> rh

I've given the full path, and I still have the same issue. How come
TeX from the command line finds it but TeX invoked by LyX does not
find it?

Thanks

-- 
Ernesto Posse

Applied Formal Methods Group - Software Technology Lab
School of Computing
Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Re: Tufte-book Layout File

[Jason Waskiewicz]

Jason Waskiewicz  writes:

> 
> Guenter Milde  writes:
> > In order to be found even some weeks/months on, could you create a pointer
> > (page or link on a related page) on the LyX wiki (wiki.lyx.org)?
> > 
> > Günter
> > 

Thank-you! The password was E-mailed to me and the file is now on the LyX Wiki
along with a sample document. I hope someone can improve the .layout file or
else use it in their own work.

--Jason Waskiewicz
  Bowman County High School

Re: lyx not finding a style file that latex finds !?

[rgheck]

On 10/22/2009 08:01 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote:

On 10/15/2009 08:36 PM, Ernesto Posse wrote:
 

I have some very strange behaviour in LyX. I have a simple latex style
file (mystyle.sty) which is located in a directory "mylatexfiles".
latex knows about this: I have "export TEXINPUTS=mylatexfiles:" in my
bash login[...].
   

If it's exactly like that, then I believe TeX is searching for ./mylatexfiles/, 
which will depend upon the working directory. So, if it is
like that, try giving the complete path to this directory.

rh
 

I've given the full path, and I still have the same issue. How come
TeX from the command line finds it but TeX invoked by LyX does not
find it?

   
I'm confused, then. You might send me the exact file. Maybe I can figure 
it out.


rh

Re: Problem

[Uwe Stöhr]

Steinar Graver schrieb:


The first pages in my document, abstract, table of content, list of
figure..ect has roman page numbering. Chapter 1 starts with Arabic
cumbering.

 >

How can I get lyx to start the first appendix side with the next roman
number in line, i.e my last roman page is v, and I want my appendix to start
at (roman 6) how is that possible?


This can be done using nasty tricks. But this unusual - I've never seen this before. In strict sense 
of logic this might even be wrong.


I have seen books where the numbering starts for the appendix again with roman numbering, but 
beginning with I (roman 1).


regards Uwe

Image format in lyx.

[nikunj .]

Hi all,

I have lyx 1.6.3 installed. I have to make a presentation and for that
purpose I have used beamer class. I have include images which are in
Jpeg, png and jpg.  However, after a few times that I convert it into
pdf ( i.e. I make changes and then run pdflatex ,and changes are quite
frequent) the image starts getting kind of blurred and dirty.
What might be happening ?

One more thing, I even tried to make a pdf with just that pic so that
I include this 'pic-pdf' instead of the pic itself. But I get 2 pages,
instead of one.
How do I sort this out?

(Yeah, I am a newbie :D )

Thanks in advance,
Nikunj.

Re: Converting to doc format

[Pete Crite]

On 23/10/2009, at 3:34 AM, Florian Rubach wrote:


Anthony Campbell schrieb:

I'm thinking of publishing in ebook form via Smashwords, who
unfortunately demand Word format. I'm on Linux and as far as I can  
see
after a fair amount of googling the only practical way of doing  
this is

to produce a plain text (txt) version from Lyx, import it into the
Openoffice WP, and save it as a .doc file from there.

Does anyone know a better way?

Anthony

The most accurate way I found until now (working even for complicated
documents) is exporting the document to pdf and then submitting it to
www.pdftoword.com.
I don't know if you are comfortable with giving away your document  
to a

site where I wasn't able to find any statement about the security of
your data, but the results look stunningly good and are even well  
editable.


Florian



I just used this service, and it's not bad! For some strange reason  
though, my inline (ex-pdf or png) images were destroyed. Also, there  
were a few other strange artefacts in formatting. Also note that it  
took about 3 hours before it finished processing for me (it emails you  
the results), so don't use it if you are in a hurry!


From the site:
The PDF files you upload for conversion are deleted straight after  
being converted.
The DOC/RTF files we generate are deleted immediately after we email  
you them.
At no stage are your files looked at or touched by the administrator  
of our PDF-to-Word service.