Re: Greek Fonts Part 3 - Günter

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-12-02, Brian Bosse wrote:

 You mentioned that I could wait for 1.6.5 to come out, but I would
 rather not. 

 You also mentioned to copy the file =91unicodesymbols=92
 from the system from the system LYXDIR to my personal lyx-dir and apply
 a patch.  I am on a Windows XP system, and found the file under
 C:\Program Files\LyX16\Resources.  I am not sure where to copy this
 file. (Specifically, I do not know what you mean by the distinction
 between the system LYXDIR and my personal lyx-dir.) 

You might search for this information on the LyX wiki. I don't know
about the file layout under Windows. However, you can also patch the
original file at the original place (make a backup first (e.g. copy to
unicodesymbols.bak)).

 Also, I do not know how to apply the patch.  What are the steps that I
 need to do to apply the patch?  

If you have the patch command, things are easy. In a D0S-box (or
whatever this is called in newer Win versions), type patch -h for help.

If not, you can insert the appended Greek Extended block into the
original file (just before # general punctuation)
via drag-and-drop.

 I noticed another patch that seems to be a correction to the first
 patch. Should I apply that instead?  

No. I the carxxx patch is the one that works without further changes to LyX.

Or go the save way and use utf8x (ucs enhance) latex encoding and mark
the Greek text parts as Greek.

Günter


#
# Greek extended
#
# Call character directly if present in LGR (to enable kerning), use 
input-ligature else
0x1f00 \\textgreek{\\char130}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI
0x1f01 \\textgreek{\\char129}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA
0x1f02 \\textgreek{\\char139}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f03 \\textgreek{\\char131}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f04 \\textgreek{\\char138}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f05 \\textgreek{\\char137}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f06 \\textgreek{\\char146}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f07 \\textgreek{\\char145}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f08 \\textgreek{A}   textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI
0x1f09 \\textgreek{A}   textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA
0x1f0a \\textgreek{`A}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f0b \\textgreek{`A}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f0c \\textgreek{'A}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f0d \\textgreek{'A}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f0e \\textgreek{\\char126A}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f0f \\textgreek{\\char126A}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f10 \\textgreek{\\char226}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI
0x1f11 \\textgreek{\\char225}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA
0x1f12 \\textgreek{\\char235}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f13 \\textgreek{\\char227}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f14 \\textgreek{\\char234}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f15 \\textgreek{\\char233}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f18 \\textgreek{E}   textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI
0x1f19 \\textgreek{E}   textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA
0x1f1a \\textgreek{`E}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f1b \\textgreek{`E}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f1c \\textgreek{'E}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f1d \\textgreek{'E}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f20 \\textgreek{\\char154}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH PSILI
0x1f21 \\textgreek{\\char153}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH DASIA
0x1f22 \\textgreek{\\char171}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f23 \\textgreek{\\char163}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f24 \\textgreek{\\char162}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f25 \\textgreek{\\char161}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f26 \\textgreek{\\char170}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f27 \\textgreek{\\char169}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f28 \\textgreek{H}   textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ETA WITH PSILI
0x1f29 

Re: Skip a block of text when printing

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-12-02, Rob wrote:


 I have a bunch of figures at the end of my document that I want to keep
 in the document, but I don't want to have them appear in the pdf
 output.  How do I skip over these?  They need to be part of the
 material compiled since they have labels that are referenced in the
 text, but I simply don't want them to appear in the pdf output.  At
 present, I hacked it by setting the font color to white, but now I have
 lots of extra blank pages.  Is there a \skipsendingthistopdf{...}
 command that would include the material, but just not send it to pdf?

As already said, the draft document option should help.

Alternatively (and more selectively), you can place the images (not the
whole figure) in a branch inset.

Günter

Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Luke Venediger]

Hi Guys,

Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
3.6)

Many Thanks,
Luke Venediger
My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/

Caption

[Peter Pieczora]

Hi,

This is regarding caption numbering.

I am using caption package with following options
\RequirePackage[singlelinecheck=off, justification=raggedright, 
labelformat=empty, labelsep=none]{caption}



Under TeTeX (on freebsd) this was producing caption with no numbers.
The same on TexLive2009 produces numbers.

Does anyone know how to disable numbers in caption?

Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Luke Venediger]

Hi,

Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
3.6)

Many Thanks,
Luke Venediger
My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/

Caption

[Peter Pieczora]

Hi,

This is regarding caption numbering.

I am using caption package with following options
\RequirePackage[singlelinecheck=off, justification=raggedright, 
labelformat=empty, labelsep=none]{caption}



Under TeTeX (on freebsd) this was producing caption with no numbers.
The same on TexLive2009 produces numbers.

Does anyone know how to disable caption numbering?

Re: Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:59:25 Luke Venediger wrote:
 Hi Guys,
 
 Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
 writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
 trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
 http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
 3.6)
 
 Many Thanks,
 Luke Venediger
 My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/

There are probably a hundred ways to do it. The way that occurs to me is to 
create a new environment -- call it lyx-code-marked, from the lyx-code 
environment. lyx-code-marked would be a different color. So you would change 
the environment of the marked lines from lyx-code to lyx-code-marked.

HTH

SteveT

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

Caption

[Peter Pieczora]

Hi,

Using suppresses the numbering
\renewcommand\thetable{}

Re: Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Luke Venediger]

Hi Steve,

Thanks very much, I'll give it a try.

Cheers,
Luke

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

 On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:59:25 Luke Venediger wrote:
  Hi Guys,
 
  Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
  writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
  trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
  http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
  3.6)
 
  Many Thanks,
  Luke Venediger
  My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/

 There are probably a hundred ways to do it. The way that occurs to me is to
 create a new environment -- call it lyx-code-marked, from the lyx-code
 environment. lyx-code-marked would be a different color. So you would
 change
 the environment of the marked lines from lyx-code to lyx-code-marked.

 HTH

 SteveT

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

Module error message?

[Stefano Franchi]

Dear Lyxers,

after moving a few lines of latex code that frames comments in a grayed box 
from the preamble to its own module I get the following error each time the 
module is loaded: 

The module Comment-in-box requires a package that is
not available in your LaTeX installation. LaTeX output
may not be possible.


However the module works fine and the pdf it produces is correct and the two 
Latex packages the code uses are available in my installation. I suppose I 
made a mistake in the module itself. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? I 
append the full module code below.


Thanks,

S.

#\DeclareLyXModule[colortbl,tabularx]{Comments-in-box}
#DescriptionBegin
# Shows comments in a gray box
# 
#DescriptionEnd
# Author: stefano Franchi 

Format 11

AddToPreamble
% The next bit shows the comment environment inside a grey box

\renewenvironment{comment}
{% replaces \begin{comment}
\noindent
\tabularx{\textwidth}{|{\columncolor[gray]{0.9}}X|}
\hline
\emph{\textbf{Comment:}}
}
{% replaces \end{comment}
\endtabularx\hrule
}

EndPreamble








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

Re: Module error message?

[rgheck]

On 12/03/2009 02:02 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote:

Dear Lyxers,

after moving a few lines of latex code that frames comments in a grayed box
from the preamble to its own module I get the following error each time the
module is loaded:

The module Comment-in-box requires a package that is
not available in your LaTeX installation. LaTeX output
may not be possible.


However the module works fine and the pdf it produces is correct and the two
Latex packages the code uses are available in my installation. I suppose I
made a mistake in the module itself. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? I
append the full module code below.

   

This is bug 6361, which was just fixed. Short-term change this:


#\DeclareLyXModule[colortbl,tabularx]{Comments-in-box}

   

to :

#\DeclareLyXModule{Comments-in-box}


rh

choosing a custom font

[Ercan Cem]

I've read similar questions and respective answers but still cannot figure out
what to do.

I'm using Lyx on Windows. I simply want to use a custom font set for a specific
chapter in the book I'm writing. Say I want to use kurier font set for sansserif
family (which comes with MikTeX).

Can someone please tell me what exactly should I include in the preamble?

Ercan Cem

Re: Module error message?

[Stefano Franchi]

On 12/03/09, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote:
On 12/03/2009 02:02 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote:
 Dear Lyxers,

 after moving a few lines of latex code that frames comments in a grayed
 box from the preamble to its own module I get the following error each
 time the module is loaded:

 The module Comment-in-box requires a package that is
 not available in your LaTeX installation. LaTeX output
 may not be possible.


 However the module works fine and the pdf it produces is correct and the
 two Latex packages the code uses are available in my installation. I
 suppose I made a mistake in the module itself. Can anyone tell me what I
 did wrong? I append the full module code below.

This is bug 6361, which was just fixed. Short-term change this:
 #\DeclareLyXModule[colortbl,tabularx]{Comments-in-box}

to :

#\DeclareLyXModule{Comments-in-box}


Thanks Richard. 

I am glad to hear I had the module syntax right, for once. Indeed, the change 
you suggested fixes the problem.

Cheers,

S.




rh

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

Re: Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Luke Venediger]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

 On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:59:25 Luke Venediger wrote:
  Hi Guys,
 
  Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
  writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
  trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
  http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
  3.6)
 
  Many Thanks,
  Luke Venediger
  My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/

 There are probably a hundred ways to do it. The way that occurs to me is to
 create a new environment -- call it lyx-code-marked, from the lyx-code
 environment. lyx-code-marked would be a different color. So you would
 change
 the environment of the marked lines from lyx-code to lyx-code-marked.

 HTH

 SteveT

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


Hi Steve,

Are you saying that inside my program listing block I would change to a
custom environment? Currently all text in a program listing block is in the
Plain Layout environment. I'm also using program listing to get syntax
highlighting when the output is rendered.

Thanks,
Luke

crashes with templates

[humanengr]

Lyx 1.6.4.1 on OS X 10.5.8 crashes when opening a document (either 
new or created with Lyx 1.5.x) using any template. 
Preferences:Path:Document Templates points to /Users/user 
name/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/templates.


Advice?

Thanks,
humanengr

Re: LaTeX line length formatting

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

 I am looking for a tool that will fold or format long LaTeX lines. It 
 will need to know LaTeX, so it doesn't break commands or environments. 
 (Examples: will properly handle % comments and not split a long 
 \includegraphics filename.)

So I never found this.

So I always thought that LyX did a good job at this folding long lines 
into multiple lines -- my many .lyx documents show this. But then today 
I looked at a document (#LyX file created by tex2lyx 1.6.2 and 
\lyxformat 247) and it had long lines. I opened it in LyX 1.6.4.1 and 
and LyX said:

Warning: #LyX file created by tex2lyx 1.6.2

Why the warning?

When I saved it, it folded the long lines (which is what I wanted 
because I want diffs to be readable).

So I am using LyX for this project. (I was going to try Kile but it 
chopped and created broken LaTeX when it shortened lines.)

Thanks again to LyX!

Insets and Options (or how do I use todonotes effectively)

[Alex Simma]

I am writing up my thesis in LyX and want to use the todonotes  
package.  I found Jürgen Spitzmüller's layout and it's very useful.


The basic way the that the todo package is used is as \todo[options] 
{todoEntry} and I want to know how to pass options to the todo  
command.  For example, one valid option is 'inline.'  I created a  
second, TODOInline inset where the corresponding LatexName  is  
todo[inline] and that works but does not scale when I want more types  
of todos with more options.  It feels like creating a new inset type  
for each permutation of options is clearly the wrong way.  However,  
optional-insert does not work with the todo inset.


What's the LyX way of having inset commands that accept options?

Thanks,
Alex

Re: Insets and Options (or how do I use todonotes effectively)

[Stefano Franchi]

On 12/03/09, Alex Simma asi...@eecs.berkeley.edu wrote:
I am writing up my thesis in LyX and want to use the todonotes
package.  I found Jürgen Spitzmüller's layout and it's very useful.

The basic way the that the todo package is used is as \todo[options]
{todoEntry} and I want to know how to pass options to the todo
command.  For example, one valid option is 'inline.'  I created a
second, TODOInline inset where the corresponding LatexName  is
todo[inline] and that works but does not scale when I want more types
of todos with more options.  It feels like creating a new inset type
for each permutation of options is clearly the wrong way.  However,
optional-insert does not work with the todo inset.

What's the LyX way of having inset commands that accept options?


I believe the LyX way to pass options is by using the InsertShort title 
command. This is how you pass an option, e.g., to the sectioning commands. 
However, it is grayed out in the To do inset, even though the module declares 
a one argument command.
I suppose it is up to the module experts to provide some enlightenment.


S. 





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

linguistics module missing

[sefi p]

Hello,

i d/l recently Lyx 1.6.4 for windows, tried to load linguistics module.
however, it tells me I miss a package, and states: covington.sty.
I think i found it, then copied it under the latex directory. I see it
appears in the list of styles.

still ti doesn't help. what dependency still am I missing? why doesn't
it come with the installer if the linguistic module is supposed to be
supported?

thank you very much,
Sefi.

Re: linguistics module missing

[Uwe Stöhr]

sefi p schrieb:


i d/l recently Lyx 1.6.4 for windows, tried to load linguistics module.
however, it tells me I miss a package, and states: covington.sty.


To install all LaTeX-packages needed by LyX, open an Internet connection and reconfigure LyX. MiKTeX 
 will do the installation automatically in the background (needs some time).



I think i found it, then copied it under the latex directory. I see it
appears in the list of styles.


Afterwards you need to go to the MikTeX settings and press on the refresh FNDB button. Finally 
restart LyX and reconfigure it.


regards Uwe

Re: choosing a custom font

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ercan Cem schrieb:


I've read similar questions and respective answers but still cannot figure out
what to do.

I'm using Lyx on Windows. I simply want to use a custom font set for a specific
chapter in the book I'm writing. Say I want to use kurier font set for sansserif
family (which comes with MikTeX).


Go to the document settings of LyX and select there under Fonts a font for sans 
serif.
When the desired font is not in the list of available fonts, it gets complicated. Have a look at the 
documentation of the font you want to use to find out how it is loaded in the document preamble.


regards Uwe

Re: linguistics module missing

[Maria Gouskova]

 still ti doesn't help. what dependency still am I missing? why doesn't
it come with the installer if the linguistic module is supposed to be
supported?

The linguistics module manual (LyXHelpSpecific ManualsLinguistics
Manual) lists the extra packages required for the module, and
Covington is among them. I think the key thing to keep in mind here is
that LyX is just a gui for LaTeX--even though it is now pretty
sophisticated, it relies on the LaTeX distribution for certain
functions.

You should also have a look at the wiki page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX . it lists recommended packages
that aren't always included in default installations.

Maria

Lyx is messing with my PNG images.

[william.croc...@analog.com]

Hello:

I Insert/Graphics... a PNG file into my lyx document.
I then export the doc to HTML.
Apparently, as part of the exporting process,
lyx processes the PNG file and produces a new PNG file
which is referenced in the html.

The problem is that, while my original PNG
file (cut.png, attached) looks good (and the
preview in lyx looks just as good), the
processed PNG image (img2.png, attached)
does not look good. The processed image
appears to have been scaled up a little, but
I did not specify any scaling as part of the
graphics insert.

Why does lyx mess with my PNG?

I'm using version 1.6.4

Thanks.

Bill


inline: img2.pnginline: cut.png

Problem with table format

[burnes]

I have Lyx version 1.6.4.1 on a mac running os x version 10.5.8 and am a
new user of the Lyx application.  I am having problems with the format of
a simple table when I generate a pdf file.  Specifically, I get part of an
extra cell attached to the bottom-left corner of the table I create.  The
partial extra cell does not exist in the table I created in the Lyx
document itself, it only exists in the pdf or dvi file I generate from it.
 Any assistance would be greatly appreciated in helping me determine what
I am doing wrong.

Sincerely,
Rick

letter class

[vbanait]

When using a letter class, send to address always fails to print. Any help
is welcome.
Also how do i use newlfm class with lyx?

vaibhav

Re: Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 03 December 2009 16:19:19 you wrote:
 On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:
  On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:59:25 Luke Venediger wrote:
   Hi Guys,
  
   Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
   writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples.
   I'm trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
   http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623 
   (example 3.6)
  
   Many Thanks,
   Luke Venediger
   My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/
 
  There are probably a hundred ways to do it. The way that occurs to me is
  to create a new environment -- call it lyx-code-marked, from the lyx-code
  environment. lyx-code-marked would be a different color. So you would
  change
  the environment of the marked lines from lyx-code to lyx-code-marked.
 
  HTH
 
  SteveT
 
  Steve Litt
  Recession Relief Package
  http://www.recession-relief.US
  Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
 
 Hi Steve,
 
 Are you saying that inside my program listing block I would change to a
 custom environment? Currently all text in a program listing block is in the
 Plain Layout environment. I'm also using program listing to get syntax
 highlighting when the output is rendered.

Whoa, you're doing things a whole lot differently than I do. I always use the 
lyx-code environment for program listings.

Whatever environment you're using for code listings, use that environment to 
derive a new environment differing from the original only in color, either 
foreground or background. Probably if you're printing black and white paper or 
if you expect some readers to be color blind, you're probably better off 
changing the background color so it appears gray instead of white.

I suggest you look at the lyx-code environment. I think it's better for 
displaying computer programs.

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

Re: Insets and Options (or how do I use todonotes effectively)

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-12-03, Stefano Franchi wrote:
 On 12/03/09, Alex Simma asi...@eecs.berkeley.edu wrote:
I am writing up my thesis in LyX and want to use the todonotes
package.  I found Jürgen Spitzmüller's layout and it's very useful.

The basic way the that the todo package is used is as \todo[options]
{todoEntry} and I want to know how to pass options to the todo
command. 
...
What's the LyX way of having inset commands that accept options?

 I believe the LyX way to pass options is by using the InsertShort
 title command. This is how you pass an option, e.g., to the sectioning
 commands.  However, it is grayed out in the To do inset, even though
 the module declares a one argument command. 

The Keyword you need in the *.layout or *.module file is OptionalArgs.
E.g. the enumitem.module (to be found on the wiki) contains::

  # With enumitem, the three standard list environments take an optional
  # argument. See enumitem.pdf_ for possible values.
  
  Style Itemize
OptionalArgs  1
  End
  
Günter  

Re: choosing a custom font

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-12-04, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Ercan Cem schrieb:

 I've read similar questions and respective answers but still cannot
 figure out what to do.

 I'm using Lyx on Windows. I simply want to use a custom font set for a
 specific chapter in the book I'm writing. Say I want to use kurier
 font set for sansserif family (which comes with MikTeX).

 Go to the document settings of LyX and select there under Fonts a font
 for sans serif. When the desired font is not in the list of available
 fonts, it gets complicated. 

Select [Default] in the GUI and ...

 Have a look at the documentation of the
 font you want to use to find out how it is loaded in the document
 preamble.

Remember, that TeX needs special font setup. System fonts can only be
used with XeTeX.

Günter

Re: Greek Fonts Part 3 - Günter

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-12-02, Brian Bosse wrote:

 You mentioned that I could wait for 1.6.5 to come out, but I would
 rather not. 

 You also mentioned to copy the file =91unicodesymbols=92
 from the system from the system LYXDIR to my personal lyx-dir and apply
 a patch.  I am on a Windows XP system, and found the file under
 C:\Program Files\LyX16\Resources.  I am not sure where to copy this
 file. (Specifically, I do not know what you mean by the distinction
 between the system LYXDIR and my personal lyx-dir.) 

You might search for this information on the LyX wiki. I don't know
about the file layout under Windows. However, you can also patch the
original file at the original place (make a backup first (e.g. copy to
unicodesymbols.bak)).

 Also, I do not know how to apply the patch.  What are the steps that I
 need to do to apply the patch?  

If you have the patch command, things are easy. In a D0S-box (or
whatever this is called in newer Win versions), type patch -h for help.

If not, you can insert the appended Greek Extended block into the
original file (just before # general punctuation)
via drag-and-drop.

 I noticed another patch that seems to be a correction to the first
 patch. Should I apply that instead?  

No. I the carxxx patch is the one that works without further changes to LyX.

Or go the save way and use utf8x (ucs enhance) latex encoding and mark
the Greek text parts as Greek.

Günter


#
# Greek extended
#
# Call character directly if present in LGR (to enable kerning), use 
input-ligature else
0x1f00 \\textgreek{\\char130}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI
0x1f01 \\textgreek{\\char129}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA
0x1f02 \\textgreek{\\char139}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f03 \\textgreek{\\char131}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f04 \\textgreek{\\char138}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f05 \\textgreek{\\char137}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f06 \\textgreek{\\char146}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f07 \\textgreek{\\char145}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f08 \\textgreek{A}   textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI
0x1f09 \\textgreek{A}   textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA
0x1f0a \\textgreek{`A}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f0b \\textgreek{`A}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f0c \\textgreek{'A}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f0d \\textgreek{'A}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f0e \\textgreek{\\char126A}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f0f \\textgreek{\\char126A}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f10 \\textgreek{\\char226}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI
0x1f11 \\textgreek{\\char225}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA
0x1f12 \\textgreek{\\char235}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f13 \\textgreek{\\char227}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f14 \\textgreek{\\char234}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f15 \\textgreek{\\char233}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f18 \\textgreek{E}   textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI
0x1f19 \\textgreek{E}   textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA
0x1f1a \\textgreek{`E}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f1b \\textgreek{`E}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f1c \\textgreek{'E}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f1d \\textgreek{'E}  textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f20 \\textgreek{\\char154}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH PSILI
0x1f21 \\textgreek{\\char153}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH DASIA
0x1f22 \\textgreek{\\char171}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f23 \\textgreek{\\char163}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f24 \\textgreek{\\char162}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f25 \\textgreek{\\char161}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f26 \\textgreek{\\char170}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f27 \\textgreek{\\char169}textgreek# GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f28 \\textgreek{H}   textgreek# GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ETA WITH PSILI
0x1f29 

Re: Skip a block of text when printing

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-12-02, Rob wrote:


 I have a bunch of figures at the end of my document that I want to keep
 in the document, but I don't want to have them appear in the pdf
 output.  How do I skip over these?  They need to be part of the
 material compiled since they have labels that are referenced in the
 text, but I simply don't want them to appear in the pdf output.  At
 present, I hacked it by setting the font color to white, but now I have
 lots of extra blank pages.  Is there a \skipsendingthistopdf{...}
 command that would include the material, but just not send it to pdf?

As already said, the draft document option should help.

Alternatively (and more selectively), you can place the images (not the
whole figure) in a branch inset.

Günter

Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Luke Venediger]

Hi Guys,

Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
3.6)

Many Thanks,
Luke Venediger
My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/

Caption

[Peter Pieczora]

Hi,

This is regarding caption numbering.

I am using caption package with following options
\RequirePackage[singlelinecheck=off, justification=raggedright, 
labelformat=empty, labelsep=none]{caption}



Under TeTeX (on freebsd) this was producing caption with no numbers.
The same on TexLive2009 produces numbers.

Does anyone know how to disable numbers in caption?

Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Luke Venediger]

Hi,

Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
3.6)

Many Thanks,
Luke Venediger
My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/

Caption

[Peter Pieczora]

Hi,

This is regarding caption numbering.

I am using caption package with following options
\RequirePackage[singlelinecheck=off, justification=raggedright, 
labelformat=empty, labelsep=none]{caption}



Under TeTeX (on freebsd) this was producing caption with no numbers.
The same on TexLive2009 produces numbers.

Does anyone know how to disable caption numbering?

Re: Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:59:25 Luke Venediger wrote:
 Hi Guys,
 
 Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
 writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
 trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
 http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
 3.6)
 
 Many Thanks,
 Luke Venediger
 My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/

There are probably a hundred ways to do it. The way that occurs to me is to 
create a new environment -- call it lyx-code-marked, from the lyx-code 
environment. lyx-code-marked would be a different color. So you would change 
the environment of the marked lines from lyx-code to lyx-code-marked.

HTH

SteveT

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

Caption

[Peter Pieczora]

Hi,

Using suppresses the numbering
\renewcommand\thetable{}

Re: Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Luke Venediger]

Hi Steve,

Thanks very much, I'll give it a try.

Cheers,
Luke

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

 On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:59:25 Luke Venediger wrote:
  Hi Guys,
 
  Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
  writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
  trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
  http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
  3.6)
 
  Many Thanks,
  Luke Venediger
  My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/

 There are probably a hundred ways to do it. The way that occurs to me is to
 create a new environment -- call it lyx-code-marked, from the lyx-code
 environment. lyx-code-marked would be a different color. So you would
 change
 the environment of the marked lines from lyx-code to lyx-code-marked.

 HTH

 SteveT

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

Module error message?

[Stefano Franchi]

Dear Lyxers,

after moving a few lines of latex code that frames comments in a grayed box 
from the preamble to its own module I get the following error each time the 
module is loaded: 

The module Comment-in-box requires a package that is
not available in your LaTeX installation. LaTeX output
may not be possible.


However the module works fine and the pdf it produces is correct and the two 
Latex packages the code uses are available in my installation. I suppose I 
made a mistake in the module itself. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? I 
append the full module code below.


Thanks,

S.

#\DeclareLyXModule[colortbl,tabularx]{Comments-in-box}
#DescriptionBegin
# Shows comments in a gray box
# 
#DescriptionEnd
# Author: stefano Franchi 

Format 11

AddToPreamble
% The next bit shows the comment environment inside a grey box

\renewenvironment{comment}
{% replaces \begin{comment}
\noindent
\tabularx{\textwidth}{|{\columncolor[gray]{0.9}}X|}
\hline
\emph{\textbf{Comment:}}
}
{% replaces \end{comment}
\endtabularx\hrule
}

EndPreamble








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

Re: Module error message?

[rgheck]

On 12/03/2009 02:02 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote:

Dear Lyxers,

after moving a few lines of latex code that frames comments in a grayed box
from the preamble to its own module I get the following error each time the
module is loaded:

The module Comment-in-box requires a package that is
not available in your LaTeX installation. LaTeX output
may not be possible.


However the module works fine and the pdf it produces is correct and the two
Latex packages the code uses are available in my installation. I suppose I
made a mistake in the module itself. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? I
append the full module code below.

   

This is bug 6361, which was just fixed. Short-term change this:


#\DeclareLyXModule[colortbl,tabularx]{Comments-in-box}

   

to :

#\DeclareLyXModule{Comments-in-box}


rh

choosing a custom font

[Ercan Cem]

I've read similar questions and respective answers but still cannot figure out
what to do.

I'm using Lyx on Windows. I simply want to use a custom font set for a specific
chapter in the book I'm writing. Say I want to use kurier font set for sansserif
family (which comes with MikTeX).

Can someone please tell me what exactly should I include in the preamble?

Ercan Cem

Re: Module error message?

[Stefano Franchi]

On 12/03/09, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote:
On 12/03/2009 02:02 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote:
 Dear Lyxers,

 after moving a few lines of latex code that frames comments in a grayed
 box from the preamble to its own module I get the following error each
 time the module is loaded:

 The module Comment-in-box requires a package that is
 not available in your LaTeX installation. LaTeX output
 may not be possible.


 However the module works fine and the pdf it produces is correct and the
 two Latex packages the code uses are available in my installation. I
 suppose I made a mistake in the module itself. Can anyone tell me what I
 did wrong? I append the full module code below.

This is bug 6361, which was just fixed. Short-term change this:
 #\DeclareLyXModule[colortbl,tabularx]{Comments-in-box}

to :

#\DeclareLyXModule{Comments-in-box}


Thanks Richard. 

I am glad to hear I had the module syntax right, for once. Indeed, the change 
you suggested fixes the problem.

Cheers,

S.




rh

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

Re: Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Luke Venediger]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:

 On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:59:25 Luke Venediger wrote:
  Hi Guys,
 
  Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
  writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
  trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
  http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
  3.6)
 
  Many Thanks,
  Luke Venediger
  My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/

 There are probably a hundred ways to do it. The way that occurs to me is to
 create a new environment -- call it lyx-code-marked, from the lyx-code
 environment. lyx-code-marked would be a different color. So you would
 change
 the environment of the marked lines from lyx-code to lyx-code-marked.

 HTH

 SteveT

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


Hi Steve,

Are you saying that inside my program listing block I would change to a
custom environment? Currently all text in a program listing block is in the
Plain Layout environment. I'm also using program listing to get syntax
highlighting when the output is rendered.

Thanks,
Luke

crashes with templates

[humanengr]

Lyx 1.6.4.1 on OS X 10.5.8 crashes when opening a document (either 
new or created with Lyx 1.5.x) using any template. 
Preferences:Path:Document Templates points to /Users/user 
name/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/templates.


Advice?

Thanks,
humanengr

Re: LaTeX line length formatting

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

 I am looking for a tool that will fold or format long LaTeX lines. It 
 will need to know LaTeX, so it doesn't break commands or environments. 
 (Examples: will properly handle % comments and not split a long 
 \includegraphics filename.)

So I never found this.

So I always thought that LyX did a good job at this folding long lines 
into multiple lines -- my many .lyx documents show this. But then today 
I looked at a document (#LyX file created by tex2lyx 1.6.2 and 
\lyxformat 247) and it had long lines. I opened it in LyX 1.6.4.1 and 
and LyX said:

Warning: #LyX file created by tex2lyx 1.6.2

Why the warning?

When I saved it, it folded the long lines (which is what I wanted 
because I want diffs to be readable).

So I am using LyX for this project. (I was going to try Kile but it 
chopped and created broken LaTeX when it shortened lines.)

Thanks again to LyX!

Insets and Options (or how do I use todonotes effectively)

[Alex Simma]

I am writing up my thesis in LyX and want to use the todonotes  
package.  I found Jürgen Spitzmüller's layout and it's very useful.


The basic way the that the todo package is used is as \todo[options] 
{todoEntry} and I want to know how to pass options to the todo  
command.  For example, one valid option is 'inline.'  I created a  
second, TODOInline inset where the corresponding LatexName  is  
todo[inline] and that works but does not scale when I want more types  
of todos with more options.  It feels like creating a new inset type  
for each permutation of options is clearly the wrong way.  However,  
optional-insert does not work with the todo inset.


What's the LyX way of having inset commands that accept options?

Thanks,
Alex

Re: Insets and Options (or how do I use todonotes effectively)

[Stefano Franchi]

On 12/03/09, Alex Simma asi...@eecs.berkeley.edu wrote:
I am writing up my thesis in LyX and want to use the todonotes
package.  I found Jürgen Spitzmüller's layout and it's very useful.

The basic way the that the todo package is used is as \todo[options]
{todoEntry} and I want to know how to pass options to the todo
command.  For example, one valid option is 'inline.'  I created a
second, TODOInline inset where the corresponding LatexName  is
todo[inline] and that works but does not scale when I want more types
of todos with more options.  It feels like creating a new inset type
for each permutation of options is clearly the wrong way.  However,
optional-insert does not work with the todo inset.

What's the LyX way of having inset commands that accept options?


I believe the LyX way to pass options is by using the InsertShort title 
command. This is how you pass an option, e.g., to the sectioning commands. 
However, it is grayed out in the To do inset, even though the module declares 
a one argument command.
I suppose it is up to the module experts to provide some enlightenment.


S. 





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

linguistics module missing

[sefi p]

Hello,

i d/l recently Lyx 1.6.4 for windows, tried to load linguistics module.
however, it tells me I miss a package, and states: covington.sty.
I think i found it, then copied it under the latex directory. I see it
appears in the list of styles.

still ti doesn't help. what dependency still am I missing? why doesn't
it come with the installer if the linguistic module is supposed to be
supported?

thank you very much,
Sefi.

Re: linguistics module missing

[Uwe Stöhr]

sefi p schrieb:


i d/l recently Lyx 1.6.4 for windows, tried to load linguistics module.
however, it tells me I miss a package, and states: covington.sty.


To install all LaTeX-packages needed by LyX, open an Internet connection and reconfigure LyX. MiKTeX 
 will do the installation automatically in the background (needs some time).



I think i found it, then copied it under the latex directory. I see it
appears in the list of styles.


Afterwards you need to go to the MikTeX settings and press on the refresh FNDB button. Finally 
restart LyX and reconfigure it.


regards Uwe

Re: choosing a custom font

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ercan Cem schrieb:


I've read similar questions and respective answers but still cannot figure out
what to do.

I'm using Lyx on Windows. I simply want to use a custom font set for a specific
chapter in the book I'm writing. Say I want to use kurier font set for sansserif
family (which comes with MikTeX).


Go to the document settings of LyX and select there under Fonts a font for sans 
serif.
When the desired font is not in the list of available fonts, it gets complicated. Have a look at the 
documentation of the font you want to use to find out how it is loaded in the document preamble.


regards Uwe

Re: linguistics module missing

[Maria Gouskova]

 still ti doesn't help. what dependency still am I missing? why doesn't
it come with the installer if the linguistic module is supposed to be
supported?

The linguistics module manual (LyXHelpSpecific ManualsLinguistics
Manual) lists the extra packages required for the module, and
Covington is among them. I think the key thing to keep in mind here is
that LyX is just a gui for LaTeX--even though it is now pretty
sophisticated, it relies on the LaTeX distribution for certain
functions.

You should also have a look at the wiki page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX . it lists recommended packages
that aren't always included in default installations.

Maria

Lyx is messing with my PNG images.

[william.croc...@analog.com]

Hello:

I Insert/Graphics... a PNG file into my lyx document.
I then export the doc to HTML.
Apparently, as part of the exporting process,
lyx processes the PNG file and produces a new PNG file
which is referenced in the html.

The problem is that, while my original PNG
file (cut.png, attached) looks good (and the
preview in lyx looks just as good), the
processed PNG image (img2.png, attached)
does not look good. The processed image
appears to have been scaled up a little, but
I did not specify any scaling as part of the
graphics insert.

Why does lyx mess with my PNG?

I'm using version 1.6.4

Thanks.

Bill


inline: img2.pnginline: cut.png

Problem with table format

[burnes]

I have Lyx version 1.6.4.1 on a mac running os x version 10.5.8 and am a
new user of the Lyx application.  I am having problems with the format of
a simple table when I generate a pdf file.  Specifically, I get part of an
extra cell attached to the bottom-left corner of the table I create.  The
partial extra cell does not exist in the table I created in the Lyx
document itself, it only exists in the pdf or dvi file I generate from it.
 Any assistance would be greatly appreciated in helping me determine what
I am doing wrong.

Sincerely,
Rick

letter class

[vbanait]

When using a letter class, send to address always fails to print. Any help
is welcome.
Also how do i use newlfm class with lyx?

vaibhav

Re: Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 03 December 2009 16:19:19 you wrote:
 On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.comwrote:
  On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:59:25 Luke Venediger wrote:
   Hi Guys,
  
   Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
   writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples.
   I'm trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
   http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623 
   (example 3.6)
  
   Many Thanks,
   Luke Venediger
   My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/
 
  There are probably a hundred ways to do it. The way that occurs to me is
  to create a new environment -- call it lyx-code-marked, from the lyx-code
  environment. lyx-code-marked would be a different color. So you would
  change
  the environment of the marked lines from lyx-code to lyx-code-marked.
 
  HTH
 
  SteveT
 
  Steve Litt
  Recession Relief Package
  http://www.recession-relief.US
  Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
 
 Hi Steve,
 
 Are you saying that inside my program listing block I would change to a
 custom environment? Currently all text in a program listing block is in the
 Plain Layout environment. I'm also using program listing to get syntax
 highlighting when the output is rendered.

Whoa, you're doing things a whole lot differently than I do. I always use the 
lyx-code environment for program listings.

Whatever environment you're using for code listings, use that environment to 
derive a new environment differing from the original only in color, either 
foreground or background. Probably if you're printing black and white paper or 
if you expect some readers to be color blind, you're probably better off 
changing the background color so it appears gray instead of white.

I suggest you look at the lyx-code environment. I think it's better for 
displaying computer programs.

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

Re: Insets and Options (or how do I use todonotes effectively)

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-12-03, Stefano Franchi wrote:
 On 12/03/09, Alex Simma asi...@eecs.berkeley.edu wrote:
I am writing up my thesis in LyX and want to use the todonotes
package.  I found Jürgen Spitzmüller's layout and it's very useful.

The basic way the that the todo package is used is as \todo[options]
{todoEntry} and I want to know how to pass options to the todo
command. 
...
What's the LyX way of having inset commands that accept options?

 I believe the LyX way to pass options is by using the InsertShort
 title command. This is how you pass an option, e.g., to the sectioning
 commands.  However, it is grayed out in the To do inset, even though
 the module declares a one argument command. 

The Keyword you need in the *.layout or *.module file is OptionalArgs.
E.g. the enumitem.module (to be found on the wiki) contains::

  # With enumitem, the three standard list environments take an optional
  # argument. See enumitem.pdf_ for possible values.
  
  Style Itemize
OptionalArgs  1
  End
  
Günter  

Re: choosing a custom font

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-12-04, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Ercan Cem schrieb:

 I've read similar questions and respective answers but still cannot
 figure out what to do.

 I'm using Lyx on Windows. I simply want to use a custom font set for a
 specific chapter in the book I'm writing. Say I want to use kurier
 font set for sansserif family (which comes with MikTeX).

 Go to the document settings of LyX and select there under Fonts a font
 for sans serif. When the desired font is not in the list of available
 fonts, it gets complicated. 

Select [Default] in the GUI and ...

 Have a look at the documentation of the
 font you want to use to find out how it is loaded in the document
 preamble.

Remember, that TeX needs special font setup. System fonts can only be
used with XeTeX.

Günter

Re: Greek Fonts Part 3 - Günter

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-12-02, Brian Bosse wrote:

> You mentioned that I could wait for 1.6.5 to come out, but I would
> rather not. 

> You also mentioned to copy the file =91unicodesymbols=92
> from the system from the system LYXDIR to my personal lyx-dir and apply
> a patch.  I am on a Windows XP system, and found the file under
> C:\Program Files\LyX16\Resources.  I am not sure where to copy this
> file. (Specifically, I do not know what you mean by the distinction
> between the system LYXDIR and my personal lyx-dir.) 

You might search for this information on the LyX wiki. I don't know
about the file layout under Windows. However, you can also patch the
original file at the original place (make a backup first (e.g. copy to
unicodesymbols.bak)).

> Also, I do not know how to apply the patch.  What are the steps that I
> need to do to apply the patch?  

If you have the "patch" command, things are easy. In a D0S-box (or
whatever this is called in newer Win versions), type patch -h for help.

If not, you can insert the appended "Greek Extended" block into the
original file (just before "# general punctuation")
via drag-and-drop.

> I noticed another patch that seems to be a correction to the first
> patch. Should I apply that instead?  

No. I the carxxx patch is the one that works without further changes to LyX.

Or go the save way and use utf8x (ucs enhance) latex encoding and mark
the Greek text parts as Greek.

Günter


#
# Greek extended
#
# Call character directly if present in LGR (to enable kerning), use 
input-ligature else
0x1f00 "\\textgreek{\\char130}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI
0x1f01 "\\textgreek{\\char129}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA
0x1f02 "\\textgreek{\\char139}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f03 "\\textgreek{\\char131}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f04 "\\textgreek{\\char138}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f05 "\\textgreek{\\char137}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f06 "\\textgreek{\\char146}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f07 "\\textgreek{\\char145}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f08 "\\textgreek{>A}"   "textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI
0x1f09 "\\textgreek{`A}"  "textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f0b "\\textgreek{<`A}"  "textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f0c "\\textgreek{>'A}"  "textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f0d "\\textgreek{<'A}"  "textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f0e "\\textgreek{>\\char126A}"  "textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH PSILI AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f0f "\\textgreek{<\\char126A}"  "textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
ALPHA WITH DASIA AND PERISPOMENI
0x1f10 "\\textgreek{\\char226}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI
0x1f11 "\\textgreek{\\char225}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA
0x1f12 "\\textgreek{\\char235}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f13 "\\textgreek{\\char227}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f14 "\\textgreek{\\char234}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f15 "\\textgreek{\\char233}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f18 "\\textgreek{>E}"   "textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI
0x1f19 "\\textgreek{`E}"  "textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f1b "\\textgreek{<`E}"  "textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f1c "\\textgreek{>'E}"  "textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f1d "\\textgreek{<'E}"  "textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK CAPITAL LETTER 
EPSILON WITH DASIA AND OXIA
0x1f20 "\\textgreek{\\char154}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH PSILI
0x1f21 "\\textgreek{\\char153}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH DASIA
0x1f22 "\\textgreek{\\char171}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH PSILI AND VARIA
0x1f23 "\\textgreek{\\char163}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH DASIA AND VARIA
0x1f24 "\\textgreek{\\char162}""textgreek" "" "" "" # GREEK SMALL LETTER 
ETA WITH PSILI AND OXIA
0x1f25 

Re: Skip a block of text when printing

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-12-02, Rob wrote:


> I have a bunch of figures at the end of my document that I want to keep
> in the document, but I don't want to have them appear in the pdf
> output.  How do I "skip" over these?  They need to be part of the
> material compiled since they have labels that are referenced in the
> text, but I simply don't want them to appear in the pdf output.  At
> present, I hacked it by setting the font color to white, but now I have
> lots of extra blank pages.  Is there a \skipsendingthistopdf{...}
> command that would include the material, but just not send it to pdf?

As already said, the "draft" document option should help.

Alternatively (and more selectively), you can place the images (not the
whole figure) in a branch inset.

Günter

Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Luke Venediger]

Hi Guys,

Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
3.6)

Many Thanks,
Luke Venediger
My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/

Caption

[Peter Pieczora]

Hi,

This is regarding caption numbering.

I am using caption package with following options
\RequirePackage[singlelinecheck=off, justification=raggedright, 
labelformat=empty, labelsep=none]{caption}



Under TeTeX (on freebsd) this was producing caption with no numbers.
The same on TexLive2009 produces numbers.

Does anyone know how to disable numbers in caption?

Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Luke Venediger]

Hi,

Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
3.6)

Many Thanks,
Luke Venediger
My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/

Caption

[Peter Pieczora]

Hi,

This is regarding caption numbering.

I am using caption package with following options
\RequirePackage[singlelinecheck=off, justification=raggedright, 
labelformat=empty, labelsep=none]{caption}



Under TeTeX (on freebsd) this was producing caption with no numbers.
The same on TexLive2009 produces numbers.

Does anyone know how to disable caption numbering?

Re: Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:59:25 Luke Venediger wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
> writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
> trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
> http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
> 3.6)
> 
> Many Thanks,
> Luke Venediger
> My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/

There are probably a hundred ways to do it. The way that occurs to me is to 
create a new environment -- call it lyx-code-marked, from the lyx-code 
environment. lyx-code-marked would be a different color. So you would change 
the environment of the marked lines from lyx-code to lyx-code-marked.

HTH

SteveT

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

Caption

[Peter Pieczora]

Hi,

Using suppresses the numbering
\renewcommand\thetable{}

Re: Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Luke Venediger]

Hi Steve,

Thanks very much, I'll give it a try.

Cheers,
Luke

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:59:25 Luke Venediger wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
> > writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
> > trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
> > http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
> > 3.6)
> >
> > Many Thanks,
> > Luke Venediger
> > My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/
>
> There are probably a hundred ways to do it. The way that occurs to me is to
> create a new environment -- call it lyx-code-marked, from the lyx-code
> environment. lyx-code-marked would be a different color. So you would
> change
> the environment of the marked lines from lyx-code to lyx-code-marked.
>
> HTH
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Recession Relief Package
> http://www.recession-relief.US
> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
>
>

Module error message?

[Stefano Franchi]

Dear Lyxers,

after moving a few lines of latex code that frames comments in a grayed box 
from the preamble to its own module I get the following error each time the 
module is loaded: 

The module Comment-in-box requires a package that is
not available in your LaTeX installation. LaTeX output
may not be possible.


However the module works fine and the pdf it produces is correct and the two 
Latex packages the code uses are available in my installation. I suppose I 
made a mistake in the module itself. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? I 
append the full module code below.


Thanks,

S.

#\DeclareLyXModule[colortbl,tabularx]{Comments-in-box}
#DescriptionBegin
# Shows comments in a gray box
# 
#DescriptionEnd
# Author: stefano Franchi 

Format 11

AddToPreamble
% The next bit shows the comment environment inside a grey box

\renewenvironment{comment}
{% replaces \begin{comment}
\noindent
\tabularx{\textwidth}{|>{\columncolor[gray]{0.9}}X|}
\hline
\emph{\textbf{Comment:}}
}
{% replaces \end{comment}
\endtabularx\hrule
}

EndPreamble








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

Re: Module error message?

[rgheck]

On 12/03/2009 02:02 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote:

Dear Lyxers,

after moving a few lines of latex code that frames comments in a grayed box
from the preamble to its own module I get the following error each time the
module is loaded:

The module Comment-in-box requires a package that is
not available in your LaTeX installation. LaTeX output
may not be possible.


However the module works fine and the pdf it produces is correct and the two
Latex packages the code uses are available in my installation. I suppose I
made a mistake in the module itself. Can anyone tell me what I did wrong? I
append the full module code below.

   

This is bug 6361, which was just fixed. Short-term change this:


#\DeclareLyXModule[colortbl,tabularx]{Comments-in-box}

   

to :

#\DeclareLyXModule{Comments-in-box}


rh

choosing a custom font

[Ercan Cem]

I've read similar questions and respective answers but still cannot figure out
what to do.

I'm using Lyx on Windows. I simply want to use a custom font set for a specific
chapter in the book I'm writing. Say I want to use kurier font set for sansserif
family (which comes with MikTeX).

Can someone please tell me what exactly should I include in the preamble?

Ercan Cem

Re: Module error message?

[Stefano Franchi]

On 12/03/09, rgheck  wrote:
>On 12/03/2009 02:02 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote:
>> Dear Lyxers,
>>
>> after moving a few lines of latex code that frames comments in a grayed
>> box from the preamble to its own module I get the following error each
>> time the module is loaded:
>>
>> The module Comment-in-box requires a package that is
>> not available in your LaTeX installation. LaTeX output
>> may not be possible.
>>
>>
>> However the module works fine and the pdf it produces is correct and the
>> two Latex packages the code uses are available in my installation. I
>> suppose I made a mistake in the module itself. Can anyone tell me what I
>> did wrong? I append the full module code below.
>
>This is bug 6361, which was just fixed. Short-term change this:
>> #\DeclareLyXModule[colortbl,tabularx]{Comments-in-box}
>
>to :
>
>#\DeclareLyXModule{Comments-in-box}
>
>
Thanks Richard. 

I am glad to hear I had the module syntax right, for once. Indeed, the change 
you suggested fixes the problem.

Cheers,

S.




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

Re: Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Luke Venediger]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:59:25 Luke Venediger wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
> > writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples. I'm
> > trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
> > http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623  (example
> > 3.6)
> >
> > Many Thanks,
> > Luke Venediger
> > My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/
>
> There are probably a hundred ways to do it. The way that occurs to me is to
> create a new environment -- call it lyx-code-marked, from the lyx-code
> environment. lyx-code-marked would be a different color. So you would
> change
> the environment of the marked lines from lyx-code to lyx-code-marked.
>
> HTH
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Recession Relief Package
> http://www.recession-relief.US
> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
>
>
Hi Steve,

Are you saying that inside my "program listing" block I would change to a
custom environment? Currently all text in a program listing block is in the
Plain Layout environment. I'm also using "program listing" to get syntax
highlighting when the output is rendered.

Thanks,
Luke

crashes with templates

[humanengr]

Lyx 1.6.4.1 on OS X 10.5.8 crashes when opening a document (either 
new or created with Lyx 1.5.x) using any template. 
Preferences:Path:Document Templates points to /Users/name>/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.6/templates.


Advice?

Thanks,
humanengr

Re: LaTeX line length formatting

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I am looking for a tool that will fold or format long LaTeX lines. It 
> will need to know LaTeX, so it doesn't break commands or environments. 
> (Examples: will properly handle % comments and not split a long 
> \includegraphics filename.)

So I never found this.

So I always thought that LyX did a good job at this folding long lines 
into multiple lines -- my many .lyx documents show this. But then today 
I looked at a document ("#LyX file created by tex2lyx 1.6.2" and 
"\lyxformat 247") and it had long lines. I opened it in LyX 1.6.4.1 and 
and LyX said:

Warning: #LyX file created by tex2lyx 1.6.2

Why the warning?

When I saved it, it folded the long lines (which is what I wanted 
because I want diffs to be readable).

So I am using LyX for this project. (I was going to try Kile but it 
chopped and created broken LaTeX when it shortened lines.)

Thanks again to LyX!

Insets and Options (or how do I use todonotes effectively)

[Alex Simma]

I am writing up my thesis in LyX and want to use the todonotes  
package.  I found Jürgen Spitzmüller's layout and it's very useful.


The basic way the that the todo package is used is as \todo[options] 
{todoEntry} and I want to know how to pass options to the todo  
command.  For example, one valid option is 'inline.'  I created a  
second, TODOInline inset where the corresponding LatexName  is  
todo[inline] and that works but does not scale when I want more types  
of todos with more options.  It feels like creating a new inset type  
for each permutation of options is clearly the wrong way.  However,  
optional-insert does not work with the todo inset.


What's the LyX way of having inset commands that accept options?

Thanks,
Alex

Re: Insets and Options (or how do I use todonotes effectively)

[Stefano Franchi]

On 12/03/09, Alex Simma  wrote:
>I am writing up my thesis in LyX and want to use the todonotes
>package.  I found Jürgen Spitzmüller's layout and it's very useful.
>
>The basic way the that the todo package is used is as \todo[options]
>{todoEntry} and I want to know how to pass options to the todo
>command.  For example, one valid option is 'inline.'  I created a
>second, TODOInline inset where the corresponding LatexName  is
>todo[inline] and that works but does not scale when I want more types
>of todos with more options.  It feels like creating a new inset type
>for each permutation of options is clearly the wrong way.  However,
>optional-insert does not work with the todo inset.
>
>What's the LyX way of having inset commands that accept options?
>

I believe the LyX way to pass options is by using the Insert>>Short title 
command. This is how you pass an option, e.g., to the sectioning commands. 
However, it is grayed out in the To do inset, even though the module declares 
a one argument command.
I suppose it is up to the module experts to provide some enlightenment.


S. 





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

linguistics module missing

[sefi p]

Hello,

i d/l recently Lyx 1.6.4 for windows, tried to load linguistics module.
however, it tells me I miss a package, and states: covington.sty.
I think i found it, then copied it under the latex directory. I see it
appears in the list of styles.

still ti doesn't help. what dependency still am I missing? why doesn't
it come with the installer if the linguistic module is supposed to be
supported?

thank you very much,
Sefi.

Re: linguistics module missing

[Uwe Stöhr]

sefi p schrieb:


i d/l recently Lyx 1.6.4 for windows, tried to load linguistics module.
however, it tells me I miss a package, and states: covington.sty.


To install all LaTeX-packages needed by LyX, open an Internet connection and reconfigure LyX. MiKTeX 
 will do the installation automatically in the background (needs some time).



I think i found it, then copied it under the latex directory. I see it
appears in the list of styles.


Afterwards you need to go to the MikTeX settings and press on the "refresh FNDB" button. Finally 
restart LyX and reconfigure it.


regards Uwe

Re: choosing a custom font

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ercan Cem schrieb:


I've read similar questions and respective answers but still cannot figure out
what to do.

I'm using Lyx on Windows. I simply want to use a custom font set for a specific
chapter in the book I'm writing. Say I want to use kurier font set for sansserif
family (which comes with MikTeX).


Go to the document settings of LyX and select there under Fonts a font for sans 
serif.
When the desired font is not in the list of available fonts, it gets complicated. Have a look at the 
documentation of the font you want to use to find out how it is loaded in the document preamble.


regards Uwe

Re: linguistics module missing

[Maria Gouskova]

> still ti doesn't help. what dependency still am I missing? why doesn't
it come with the installer if the linguistic module is supposed to be
supported?

The linguistics module manual (LyX>Help>Specific Manuals>Linguistics
Manual) lists the extra packages required for the module, and
Covington is among them. I think the key thing to keep in mind here is
that LyX is just a gui for LaTeX--even though it is now pretty
sophisticated, it relies on the LaTeX distribution for certain
functions.

You should also have a look at the wiki page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX . it lists recommended packages
that aren't always included in default installations.

Maria

Lyx is messing with my PNG images.

[william.croc...@analog.com]

Hello:

I Insert/Graphics... a PNG file into my lyx document.
I then export the doc to HTML.
Apparently, as part of the exporting process,
lyx processes the PNG file and produces a new PNG file
which is referenced in the html.

The problem is that, while my original PNG
file (cut.png, attached) looks good (and the
preview in lyx looks just as good), the
processed PNG image (img2.png, attached)
does not look good. The processed image
appears to have been scaled up a little, but
I did not specify any scaling as part of the
graphics insert.

Why does lyx mess with my PNG?

I'm using version 1.6.4

Thanks.

Bill


<><>

Problem with table format

[burnes]

I have Lyx version 1.6.4.1 on a mac running os x version 10.5.8 and am a
new user of the Lyx application.  I am having problems with the format of
a simple table when I generate a pdf file.  Specifically, I get part of an
extra cell attached to the bottom-left corner of the table I create.  The
partial extra cell does not exist in the table I created in the Lyx
document itself, it only exists in the pdf or dvi file I generate from it.
 Any assistance would be greatly appreciated in helping me determine what
I am doing wrong.

Sincerely,
Rick

letter class

[vbanait]

When using a letter class, "send to" address always fails to print. Any help
is welcome.
Also how do i use newlfm class with lyx?

vaibhav

Re: Marking lines in a Program Listing in Lyx

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 03 December 2009 16:19:19 you wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 December 2009 06:59:25 Luke Venediger wrote:
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > Is it possible to mark certain lines in a Program Listing in Lyx? I'm
> > > writing a book and want to point out certain things in code examples.
> > > I'm trying to get the same effect as the one used by Mark Pilgrim, see
> > > http://diveintopython.org/native_data_types/lists.html#d0e5623 
> > > (example 3.6)
> > >
> > > Many Thanks,
> > > Luke Venediger
> > > My book: Erlang for Skeptics: http://erlangforskeptics.com/book/
> >
> > There are probably a hundred ways to do it. The way that occurs to me is
> > to create a new environment -- call it lyx-code-marked, from the lyx-code
> > environment. lyx-code-marked would be a different color. So you would
> > change
> > the environment of the marked lines from lyx-code to lyx-code-marked.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
> > Recession Relief Package
> > http://www.recession-relief.US
> > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Are you saying that inside my "program listing" block I would change to a
> custom environment? Currently all text in a program listing block is in the
> Plain Layout environment. I'm also using "program listing" to get syntax
> highlighting when the output is rendered.

Whoa, you're doing things a whole lot differently than I do. I always use the 
lyx-code environment for program listings.

Whatever environment you're using for code listings, use that environment to 
derive a new environment differing from the original only in color, either 
foreground or background. Probably if you're printing black and white paper or 
if you expect some readers to be color blind, you're probably better off 
changing the background color so it appears gray instead of white.

I suggest you look at the lyx-code environment. I think it's better for 
displaying computer programs.

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

Re: Insets and Options (or how do I use todonotes effectively)

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-12-03, Stefano Franchi wrote:
> On 12/03/09, Alex Simma  wrote:
>>I am writing up my thesis in LyX and want to use the todonotes
>>package.  I found Jürgen Spitzmüller's layout and it's very useful.

>>The basic way the that the todo package is used is as \todo[options]
>>{todoEntry} and I want to know how to pass options to the todo
>>command. 
...
>>What's the LyX way of having inset commands that accept options?

> I believe the LyX way to pass options is by using the Insert>>Short
> title command. This is how you pass an option, e.g., to the sectioning
> commands.  However, it is grayed out in the To do inset, even though
> the module declares a one argument command. 

The Keyword you need in the *.layout or *.module file is OptionalArgs.
E.g. the enumitem.module (to be found on the wiki) contains::

  # With enumitem, the three standard list environments take an optional
  # argument. See enumitem.pdf_ for possible values.
  
  Style Itemize
OptionalArgs  1
  End
  
Günter  

Re: choosing a custom font

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-12-04, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Ercan Cem schrieb:

>> I've read similar questions and respective answers but still cannot
>> figure out what to do.

>> I'm using Lyx on Windows. I simply want to use a custom font set for a
>> specific chapter in the book I'm writing. Say I want to use kurier
>> font set for sansserif family (which comes with MikTeX).

> Go to the document settings of LyX and select there under Fonts a font
> for sans serif. When the desired font is not in the list of available
> fonts, it gets complicated. 

Select [Default] in the GUI and ...

> Have a look at the documentation of the
> font you want to use to find out how it is loaded in the document
> preamble.

Remember, that TeX needs special font setup. System fonts can only be
used with XeTeX.

Günter