Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

jezZiFeR wrote:

 I use the above mentioned footnote-dw-style in a report [koma]- 
 document. I read about the numbering of the footnotes, that »the first  
 citation will give a full reference, following citations will only use  
 author and shorttitle«.
 
 I would like to change that manner, so that the first citation will  
 give a full reference, not for the whole document, but for just the  
 chapter. Is there a possibility to do this?

You can use the biblatex option 'refsection=chapter'. For details on
this, see the biblatex documentation.

Regards,
Dominik.-

syncing lyx documents

[xPol]

I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs from a web 
server. 
I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such facility.

Thank you 
---P

Re: syncing lyx documents

[Rainer M Krug]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:31 AM, xPol xtek...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs from a web
 server.


You could look into copiers which might be able to achieve at least the
writing to the web server.

The automatic reading, I don't know (and I would rather do that manually
before starting lyx).

You could add your support to the enhancement request

http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6393

which suggests user defined pre-processor and post-processor support, which
could achieve the writing to web server through a script which is executed
after compilation of the document.

The other option would be a version control module for what you want to do -
but don't ask me how, and I don't think that could be easily done.

Cheers,

Rainer


I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such facility.

 Thank you
 ---P




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Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[jezZiFeR]

I use the above mentioned footnote-dw-style in a report [koma]-
document. I read about the numbering of the footnotes, that »the  
first
citation will give a full reference, following citations will only  
use

author and shorttitle«.

I would like to change that manner, so that the first citation will
give a full reference, not for the whole document, but for just the
chapter. Is there a possibility to do this?


You can use the biblatex option 'refsection=chapter'. For details on
this, see the biblatex documentation.


Dear Dominik, dear list,

thank you – numbering starting in every chapter works fine now, but  
now only the shorttitle in bold letters is displayed in the footnotes  
(footnote-dw active here), which I don´t want. I just added the  
command you mentioned, nothing else. How could I keep the footnote- 
behaviour I have had before?


Best*
Jess

Re: syncing lyx documents

[Abdelrazak Younes]

xPol wrote:
I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs from a web 
server. 
I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such facility.


Just use svn with apache web server. LyX has now pretty good integration 
with svn.


Abdel.

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

jezZiFeR wrote:

 thank you – numbering starting in every chapter works fine now, but  
 now only the shorttitle in bold letters is displayed in the footnotes  
 (footnote-dw active here), which I don´t want. I just added the  
 command you mentioned, nothing else. 

biblatex creates one .aux file per refsection. You need to run BibTeX on
every .aux file. There should be a warning like
,--
¦ Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run BibTeX on the file(s):
¦ (biblatex)filename1-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)filename2-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)and rerun LaTeX afterwards.
`

I don't know if it is possible to run BibTeX on these files from within
LyX, but you can open a console, browse to the directory in which LyX
temporarily stores the files and then run BibTeX on the .aux files
mentioned in the .log.

Regards,
Dominik.-

Re: tufte-latex 3.5 problem with LyX

[Joachim]

Am 17.12.2009, 03:59 Uhr, schrieb Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de:
I think that this is a bug in tufte 3.5 because the example files  
compiled well with the beta versions of tufte 3.5. The tufte version  
history also doesn't describe that the handling of \author and \title  
was changed.


I agree, Uwe,

So before I'm going to change the LyX layout file, can you please  
contact the tufte developer (CC me) and ask how to proceed?


Uwe forestalled me with that already… Thanks. The necessary change within  
tufte-latex by the developer seems to be on the good way already .


Regards,
joachim
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LyX 1.6.5 - MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[jezZiFeR]

Dear Dominik, dear list,

I am sorry, but I even don´t know what an .aux-file is. I also don´t  
know how to run BibTeX on such files, I have installed BibTeX and I  
thought that Lyx runs BibTeX itself when it is needed.


I could open a console, but then I don´t know how to browse the  
mentioned directory. Isn´t there any possibility to get this working  
without having this special knowledge? I have the impression that I am  
not in the position to get that managed, but maybe I misunderstood  
something.


Hopefully somebody could help…

Thanks, best*
Jess







thank you – numbering starting in every chapter works fine now, but
now only the shorttitle in bold letters is displayed in the footnotes
(footnote-dw active here), which I don´t want. I just added the
command you mentioned, nothing else.


biblatex creates one .aux file per refsection. You need to run  
BibTeX on

every .aux file. There should be a warning like
,--
¦ Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run BibTeX on the file(s):
¦ (biblatex)filename1-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)filename2-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)and rerun LaTeX afterwards.
`

I don't know if it is possible to run BibTeX on these files from  
within

LyX, but you can open a console, browse to the directory in which LyX
temporarily stores the files and then run BibTeX on the .aux files
mentioned in the .log.

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven | addition

[jezZiFeR]

thank you – numbering starting in every chapter works fine now, but
now only the shorttitle in bold letters is displayed in the footnotes
(footnote-dw active here), which I don´t want. I just added the
command you mentioned, nothing else.


biblatex creates one .aux file per refsection. You need to run  
BibTeX on

every .aux file. There should be a warning like
,--
¦ Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run BibTeX on the file(s):
¦ (biblatex)filename1-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)filename2-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)and rerun LaTeX afterwards.





BTW: I do not get such warning, I do not get any warning…




I don't know if it is possible to run BibTeX on these files from  
within

LyX, but you can open a console, browse to the directory in which LyX
temporarily stores the files and then run BibTeX on the .aux files
mentioned in the .log.

Limux

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Gestern Abend war ich bei der Info der Tübinger Rathausspitze im 
Uhlandgymnasium. Es ging um die hohe Verschuldung der Stadt in den kommenden 
Jahren. Dort wurde auf meine Anfrage, ob die Tübinger Stadtverwaltung Linux 
verwendet (vor einigen Jahren gab es eine Columne im  Schwäbischen 
Tagblatt 'mein Rotstift', wo von der LUGT vorgeschlagen wurde, Linux 
einzuführen), gesagt, dass sich Linux in der Stadtverwaltung von München 
nicht bewährt habe und es nicht weiter verwendet würde. Ich finde aber beim 
Googeln keinen Hinweis. Weiss da jemand Bescheid (bei den Grazer Linuxtage 
2009 lese ich:

Seit mittlerweile fast drei Jahren arbeiten in Münchens Stadtverwaltung 
zunehmend mehr der 14.000 PCs mit freier Software. Zeit zurückzublicken auf 
teilweise turbulente Jahre, seit dem ersten Beschluss des Stadtrates im Jahr 
2003. Herausforderungen bei der Umstellung sind dabei die Integration des 
debianbasierten Basisclients in z.T. heterogene IT-Strukturen, die 
Verfügbarkeit von Fachanwendungen und der Umstieg auf OpenOffice.org. Der 
Umstieg auf OpenOffice.org (unter Windows und Linux) ist mittlerweile bereits 
weit fortgeschritten, die Zahl der installierten linuxbasierten Basisclients 
steigt kontinuierlich. Der Vortrag richtet sich an LiMux-Interessierte mit 
und ohne technischem Vorwissen. Er gibt einen kurzen Überblick zum 
Projekthintergrund, beschreibt den aktuellen Projektstand und stellt 
gleichzeitig die technischen Lösungen (Basisclient, WollMux als Office-Tool) 
vor.
Über den Vortragenden
Diplom Verwaltungswirt Florian Schießl (30) studierte Verwaltungsrecht mit 
Schwerpunkt Verwaltungsinformatik an der öffentlichen 
Verwaltungsfachhochschule in Hof. Er kennt das Projekt seit dem Start im Jahr 
2003. Während er als stellvertretender Teilprojektleiter zunächst die 
Technik, v.a. die Entwicklung des Basisclients und die Koordinierung der 
Officeumstellung sicherstellte, zeichnet er seit 2008 als stellvertretender 
Gesamtprojektleiter für den stadtweiten Fortschritt der Migration und aller 
Teilprojekte verantwortlich. Privat +sind Linux und freie Software sein 
ständiger Begleiter seit 1998.
##
), was sich für mich nicht so anhört, wie hier in Tü behauptet wird. 
Vielleicht könnten wir einen Leserbrief lancieren

Inhalt etwa:
-stimmt die Behauptung für München?
-welche anderen Städte und Behörden benutzen Linux in der Verwaltung?
-wieviel Geld kann eingespart werden?
  (Kommentar dazu: offenbar hat M mehr Geld für die Umstellung ausgegeben als 
nötig gewesen wäre, um die nächste Microsoft-Version zu kaufen. Aber da 
könnte sich ja TÜ bei M auch einkaufen
Und wie ist das mit Schwäbisch-Hall? Größenmäßig ist die Stadt besser mit TÜ 
vergleichbar als M, Dort wird ja auch Linux in der Stadtverwaltung benutzt)
-weitere Vorteile von Linux neben der geringeren Kosten für die Software

Zur Vorgehensweise: Ich könnte einen Leserbrief schreiben mit den Basics.
Wenn dann die Stadtverwaltung antwortet, könnte man weitere Argumente für 
Linux bringen.

Wolfgang Engelmann

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

jezZiFeR wrote:

 I could open a console, but then I don´t know how to browse the  
 mentioned directory.

You can look up where the temporary directory of LyX resides. In LyX,
just go to the menu 'Tools - Preferences' and look into the 'Paths'
section where the 'Temporary Directory' is listed. This is the directory
where LyX stores every file while processing it.

Next, open the document you wish to work on and compile it. You can see
the log file created during the compiling process from within LyX (menu
'Document - LaTeX Log').

The next step is to open a console window (don't close LyX at this
point, because then it would delete the temp directory!) and browse to
the directory you have looked up. You can change to a directory by
typing 'cd', followed by a space and the directory name, e.g.
,--
¦ C:\cd Temp
`

(Everything before the  is the path you are currently in.) If you have
to go one level up, the command is
,--
¦ C:\Tempcd ..
`
Inside LyX's temp directory, you will find at least one directory whith
a name like 'lyx_tmpdir.gq6580'. The characters after the dot will vary,
but the 'lyx_tmpdir.' part is always the same. If you have more than one
directory, these are leftovers of earlier LyX sessions where LyX was not
properly finished (unless you do not have several LyX instances open at
the same time -- every instance creates one directory). The newest
directory should be the one you are looking for. This directory again
has at least one subdirectory. Every buffer (i.e. every document you
open inside LyX) has its own subdirectory. The first is called
'lyx_tmpbuf0', the second 'lyx_tmpbuf1' and so on. If you close a
document, the directory is deleted. Browse to the appropriate
subdirectory and type the following (only the bit after the ):
,--
¦ C:\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.gq7420\lyx_tmpbuf0bibtex8 -W filename1-blx.aux
¦ C:\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.gq7420\lyx_tmpbuf0bibtex8 -W filename2-blx.aux
`
Thereby, BibTeX will be executed for the appropriate file (you have to
change the filename, of course). If you have more than two files (you
can look that up at the end of the logfile, a file with the extension
.log that resides in the same directory), you have to repeat that for
every file. [Note: if you don't have bibtex8 (bibtex8bit) installed, try
'bibtex' instead of 'bibtex8 -W'. But it would be better to install
bibtex8.]

Afterwards, you go back to your LyX session and compile once again. Then
the references should appear.

This seems very complicated at first sight, but I tried to give a
step-by-step explanation, and I think if you've done that once or twice,
it's not that complicated. However, it would of course be better to have
this done from inside LyX automatically. I don't know if that's
possible, but you could ask on the developer list or file a bug report.

HTH,
Dominik.-

Re: syncing lyx documents

[Paul A. Rubin]

xPol wrote:
I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs from a web 
server. 
I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such facility.


Thank you 
---P





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synchronization ?

/Paul

Re: Cutting and pasting in tables

[Paul A. Rubin]

Maria Gouskova wrote:

Dear LyX users,

First, configuration: Mac OS 10.6.2, LyX 1.6.4.2.

Second, when I use any sort of font formatting inside a table, say
underlining or italics, and then move the cursor to another cell in
the table, LyX assumes that the formatting for the text in next cell
will be the same as the last formatting I used. This happens even when
I select one letter and change its formatting to italics rather than
type the entire word in italics. Even hitting Cmd+e before typing in
the next cell doesn't change the formatting back to normal. The only
way to return formatting to normal is to select the newly typed text
and then toggle Cmd+e.

Is this behavior intended? Can others replicate it? It is new (as of
1.6, I believe) and, to me at least, unexpected.

Maria



I reproduced this in LyX 1.6.5 on Win XP (so it's not a platform issue), 
but only when using the tab or cursor keys to move to a new cell after 
cut/paste, copy/paste or select/change style.  If I use the mouse to 
move to the new cell, the character style reverts to its default value.


I couldn't find this in Trac (which means either it's a new bug or I'm 
inept at searching) (or both).  Unless someone else has a better answer 
to this thread, you should probable file a bug report for it.


/Paul

RE: syncing lyx documents

[Rob Oakes]

Subversion on a remote server with local copies could be one way of
accomplishing this.  LyX has good support for SVN built-in and there are
many good user interfaces (such as Tortoise SVN for Windows, Rabbit VCS for
Linux and Versions for Mac OS X) that make it a point and click affair.

Moreover, you can get free hosting from companies like Beanstalk
(http://beanstalkapp.com/).  In addition to syncing files, another benefit
of version control is that it keeps a log of every change.  This can be
invaluable if you are working on a complicated project (like a thesis, paper
or book).

This link has some good information on Version Control in general and
Subversion in particular.

http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/science-and-technology/svn

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Redefining sections

[Anders Host-Madsen]

This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.

I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}

It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
and then references in small on the next line).

What do I do wrong?

RE: Redefining sections

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Anders,

You may be better off using sectsty
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/sectsty.html) or by
completely rewriting the section definition.  After you get comfortable with
the structure, I find that I prefer to completely redefine my section
definitions.  I've occasionally gotten weird behavior with sectsty (mostly
with the Koma-Script Classes and memoir that have specialized macros for
such customization).

For some specific examples, see:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/sectsty.html

Even though these examples are specific to xetex, the basic syntax is the
same for the other latex engines as well.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Anders Host-Madsen
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:38 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Redefining sections

This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.

I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}

It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
and then references in small on the next line).

What do I do wrong?

RE: Cutting and pasting in tables

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

Second, when I use any sort of font formatting inside
a table, say underlining or italics, and then move the
cursor to another cell in the table, LyX assumes that
the formatting for the text in next cell will be the
same as the last formatting I used. 

I think this is fixed in http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/32570.

Even hitting Cmd+e before typing in the next cell
doesn't change the formatting back to normal. The
only way to return formatting to normal is to select
the newly typed text and then toggle Cmd+e.

I've no idea what Cmd+e is supposed to do.

Oh, sorry--forgot to mention that this sticky
formatting persists even when cutting and pasting
or copying objects between cells. As in, select an
italicized letter, cut it, paste it to another cell,
and then try to type in a different cell--the text
will be in italics. This doesn't happen outside of
tables.

As far as I can see, this also happens outside tables.

Maria

Vincent

Re: Redefining sections

[rgheck]

On 12/17/2009 12:38 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote:

This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.

I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}

It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
and then references in small on the next line).

What do I do wrong?

   
I'm not sure, but you should probably use the titlesec or sectsty 
package instead to do this kind of thing. Apparently, it's kind of delicate.


Actually, come to think of it, part of the problem is likely that 
\section* isn't really a separate command. It's the \section command 
followed by a *, which gets detected in the code.


rh

RE: Redefining sections

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Anders,

I forgot to add an important detail.  If you redefine the section
definitions, you will need to do that in a dedicated style.  It uses the
\...@startsection macro, which can't appear in a normal LaTeX document.

If you are going to just add the new definitions to the preamble, best to
stick with sectsty.

Cheers,

Rob

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Anders Host-Madsen
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:38 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Redefining sections

This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.

I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}

It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
and then references in small on the next line).

What do I do wrong?

Re: Redefining sections

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 17 December 2009 12:38:14 Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
 This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.
 
 I redefine sections with the latex preamble
 \newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
 \let\tmpsection=\section
 \renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}
 
 It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
 of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
 and then references in small on the next line).
 
 What do I do wrong?

I don't know the root cause of your table of contents problem, but I'll answer 
your literal question, what am I doing wrong?

When you redefine an environment, you need to transfer both the environment's 
begin code and end code. You didn't do that here.

Here's a discussion:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm

Within that document, search for this string:

POTENTIAL DEBUGGING NIGHTMARE

Like I said, it might not fix your TOC problem, but it does answer the 
question what am I doing wrong.

HTH

SteveT

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

Auto hide/unhide toolbars

[Diego Queiroz]

Hello.

I am using Lyx 1.6.5 (the actual last version) on Windows XP SP3.

The problem is that the Math Toolbar and Math Panels Toolbar doesn't auto
unhide when I am editing a formula.
The same is happening when I am editing tables: the Table Toolbar does not
auto unhide.

I know I can hide/unhide them selecting the proper option on View 
Toolbars, but I prefer to only see these toolbars when needed.

The weird part is that this is happening only on the computer where I did a
new install of Lyx (with no versions installed before).
The same issue didn't happened on other computers, where there was old
versions of Lyx installed and I just over installed the new version.

How can I restore the default option to auto hide/unhide these toolbars?


Regards,
---
Diego Queiroz

doc class xy can't be loaded

[Joachim Osnabryg]

Since sometime, when in LyX I choose File = new and then with within the  
standard new document class (article), I choose Document = Options and  
within the Options window, section document class, choose Handout  
(Tufte), I get the LyX error:


Die Dokumentklasse tufte-handout konnte nicht geladen werden.
The document class tufte-handout could not be loaded.

But there are the .layout files for it within the Lyx.app and within
~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.6/layouts/
- of course the tufte-latex .def and .cls files installed and tex-hashed -

which I use it nearly dayly with my (costomized) template  
tufte-hdout-…etc.lyx file(s) with success.


What might be the reason for this awfull error message, how can I get rid  
of it and use the document class/layout Handout (Tufte) in this normal  
way, too?


joachim
--
Mac BacicTeX 2009 - TeXShop 2.29 / TeXworks 0.2.3
LyX 1.6.5 - MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger

Re: syncing lyx documents

[Typhoon]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:09:28 -0500
Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote:

 xPol wrote:
  I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs
  from a web server. 
  I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such
  facility.
  
  Thank you 
  ---P
  

It may depend on your access to the remote machine. I normally use
sshfs to mount the remote file system to a local directory. All the
remote files then appear as local.

If I am going to be working off line, I use a distributed version
control system (I use Bazaar, but others have the same functionality).
Even if I forget to do a proper update before heading off with the
laptop, the merge is usually easy. If you do a proper update first,
then it is dead simple to push back to the original.

I add my vote to *always* using a reversion control system just for the
complete record keeping. 

HTH,
Alan

  
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synchronization ?
 
 /Paul
 
 


-- 
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Tel:  04 2748 6206

Re: doc class xy can't be loaded

[Uwe Stöhr]

Joachim Osnabryg schrieb:

Since sometime, when in LyX I choose File = new and then with within 
the standard new document class (article), I choose Document = Options 
and within the Options window, section document class, choose Handout 
(Tufte), I get the LyX error:


Die Dokumentklasse tufte-handout konnte nicht geladen werden.
The document class tufte-handout could not be loaded.


Try to reconfigure LyX. Have a look in the log file of this process in case this fails to get more 
info if also other packages cannot be found. This would then be hint that there are problems with 
your LaTeX installation. If all other packages are found, assure that you are using the tufe layout 
files that come with LyX and also assure that there is no other version of the layout file in the 
same directory as the LyX file.


regards Uwe

Page Numbering Chaos

[Rob]

Hi,

Could somebody please advise me how to change the default page numbering so that
I may simply:
(1) put all page numbers 1 inch from top and 1 inch from right margins
(2) have this hold for first page of chapters
(3) do not have the page number show up on first page
(4) roman page numbers until page X
(5) arabic thereafter.

I specify the \pagenumbering{roman} and then arabic options on the pages that I
want them to begin on, but the roman page numbers don't appear until page 4 for
some reason. 
I'm using the following and am failing on each of the other above points:

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{\thepage} 
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}

%Redefine the plain setting since this is default for chapters.
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
\rhead{\thepage} 
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}}

Re: Redefining sections

[Anders Host-Madsen]

Thanks, it seems the titlesec package is quite flexible. The
secsty package seems limited; for example it cannot redefine
spacing before and after section headings, which was exactly
what I wanted here (I needed a document to fit 15 pages). 
I will try to use the titlesec package.

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

jezZiFeR wrote:

 I use the above mentioned footnote-dw-style in a report [koma]- 
 document. I read about the numbering of the footnotes, that »the first  
 citation will give a full reference, following citations will only use  
 author and shorttitle«.
 
 I would like to change that manner, so that the first citation will  
 give a full reference, not for the whole document, but for just the  
 chapter. Is there a possibility to do this?

You can use the biblatex option 'refsection=chapter'. For details on
this, see the biblatex documentation.

Regards,
Dominik.-

syncing lyx documents

[xPol]

I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs from a web 
server. 
I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such facility.

Thank you 
---P

Re: syncing lyx documents

[Rainer M Krug]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:31 AM, xPol xtek...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs from a web
 server.


You could look into copiers which might be able to achieve at least the
writing to the web server.

The automatic reading, I don't know (and I would rather do that manually
before starting lyx).

You could add your support to the enhancement request

http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6393

which suggests user defined pre-processor and post-processor support, which
could achieve the writing to web server through a script which is executed
after compilation of the document.

The other option would be a version control module for what you want to do -
but don't ask me how, and I don't think that could be easily done.

Cheers,

Rainer


I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such facility.

 Thank you
 ---P




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Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[jezZiFeR]

I use the above mentioned footnote-dw-style in a report [koma]-
document. I read about the numbering of the footnotes, that »the  
first
citation will give a full reference, following citations will only  
use

author and shorttitle«.

I would like to change that manner, so that the first citation will
give a full reference, not for the whole document, but for just the
chapter. Is there a possibility to do this?


You can use the biblatex option 'refsection=chapter'. For details on
this, see the biblatex documentation.


Dear Dominik, dear list,

thank you – numbering starting in every chapter works fine now, but  
now only the shorttitle in bold letters is displayed in the footnotes  
(footnote-dw active here), which I don´t want. I just added the  
command you mentioned, nothing else. How could I keep the footnote- 
behaviour I have had before?


Best*
Jess

Re: syncing lyx documents

[Abdelrazak Younes]

xPol wrote:
I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs from a web 
server. 
I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such facility.


Just use svn with apache web server. LyX has now pretty good integration 
with svn.


Abdel.

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

jezZiFeR wrote:

 thank you – numbering starting in every chapter works fine now, but  
 now only the shorttitle in bold letters is displayed in the footnotes  
 (footnote-dw active here), which I don´t want. I just added the  
 command you mentioned, nothing else. 

biblatex creates one .aux file per refsection. You need to run BibTeX on
every .aux file. There should be a warning like
,--
¦ Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run BibTeX on the file(s):
¦ (biblatex)filename1-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)filename2-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)and rerun LaTeX afterwards.
`

I don't know if it is possible to run BibTeX on these files from within
LyX, but you can open a console, browse to the directory in which LyX
temporarily stores the files and then run BibTeX on the .aux files
mentioned in the .log.

Regards,
Dominik.-

Re: tufte-latex 3.5 problem with LyX

[Joachim]

Am 17.12.2009, 03:59 Uhr, schrieb Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de:
I think that this is a bug in tufte 3.5 because the example files  
compiled well with the beta versions of tufte 3.5. The tufte version  
history also doesn't describe that the handling of \author and \title  
was changed.


I agree, Uwe,

So before I'm going to change the LyX layout file, can you please  
contact the tufte developer (CC me) and ask how to proceed?


Uwe forestalled me with that already… Thanks. The necessary change within  
tufte-latex by the developer seems to be on the good way already .


Regards,
joachim
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LyX 1.6.5 - MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[jezZiFeR]

Dear Dominik, dear list,

I am sorry, but I even don´t know what an .aux-file is. I also don´t  
know how to run BibTeX on such files, I have installed BibTeX and I  
thought that Lyx runs BibTeX itself when it is needed.


I could open a console, but then I don´t know how to browse the  
mentioned directory. Isn´t there any possibility to get this working  
without having this special knowledge? I have the impression that I am  
not in the position to get that managed, but maybe I misunderstood  
something.


Hopefully somebody could help…

Thanks, best*
Jess







thank you – numbering starting in every chapter works fine now, but
now only the shorttitle in bold letters is displayed in the footnotes
(footnote-dw active here), which I don´t want. I just added the
command you mentioned, nothing else.


biblatex creates one .aux file per refsection. You need to run  
BibTeX on

every .aux file. There should be a warning like
,--
¦ Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run BibTeX on the file(s):
¦ (biblatex)filename1-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)filename2-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)and rerun LaTeX afterwards.
`

I don't know if it is possible to run BibTeX on these files from  
within

LyX, but you can open a console, browse to the directory in which LyX
temporarily stores the files and then run BibTeX on the .aux files
mentioned in the .log.

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven | addition

[jezZiFeR]

thank you – numbering starting in every chapter works fine now, but
now only the shorttitle in bold letters is displayed in the footnotes
(footnote-dw active here), which I don´t want. I just added the
command you mentioned, nothing else.


biblatex creates one .aux file per refsection. You need to run  
BibTeX on

every .aux file. There should be a warning like
,--
¦ Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run BibTeX on the file(s):
¦ (biblatex)filename1-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)filename2-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)and rerun LaTeX afterwards.





BTW: I do not get such warning, I do not get any warning…




I don't know if it is possible to run BibTeX on these files from  
within

LyX, but you can open a console, browse to the directory in which LyX
temporarily stores the files and then run BibTeX on the .aux files
mentioned in the .log.

Limux

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Gestern Abend war ich bei der Info der Tübinger Rathausspitze im 
Uhlandgymnasium. Es ging um die hohe Verschuldung der Stadt in den kommenden 
Jahren. Dort wurde auf meine Anfrage, ob die Tübinger Stadtverwaltung Linux 
verwendet (vor einigen Jahren gab es eine Columne im  Schwäbischen 
Tagblatt 'mein Rotstift', wo von der LUGT vorgeschlagen wurde, Linux 
einzuführen), gesagt, dass sich Linux in der Stadtverwaltung von München 
nicht bewährt habe und es nicht weiter verwendet würde. Ich finde aber beim 
Googeln keinen Hinweis. Weiss da jemand Bescheid (bei den Grazer Linuxtage 
2009 lese ich:

Seit mittlerweile fast drei Jahren arbeiten in Münchens Stadtverwaltung 
zunehmend mehr der 14.000 PCs mit freier Software. Zeit zurückzublicken auf 
teilweise turbulente Jahre, seit dem ersten Beschluss des Stadtrates im Jahr 
2003. Herausforderungen bei der Umstellung sind dabei die Integration des 
debianbasierten Basisclients in z.T. heterogene IT-Strukturen, die 
Verfügbarkeit von Fachanwendungen und der Umstieg auf OpenOffice.org. Der 
Umstieg auf OpenOffice.org (unter Windows und Linux) ist mittlerweile bereits 
weit fortgeschritten, die Zahl der installierten linuxbasierten Basisclients 
steigt kontinuierlich. Der Vortrag richtet sich an LiMux-Interessierte mit 
und ohne technischem Vorwissen. Er gibt einen kurzen Überblick zum 
Projekthintergrund, beschreibt den aktuellen Projektstand und stellt 
gleichzeitig die technischen Lösungen (Basisclient, WollMux als Office-Tool) 
vor.
Über den Vortragenden
Diplom Verwaltungswirt Florian Schießl (30) studierte Verwaltungsrecht mit 
Schwerpunkt Verwaltungsinformatik an der öffentlichen 
Verwaltungsfachhochschule in Hof. Er kennt das Projekt seit dem Start im Jahr 
2003. Während er als stellvertretender Teilprojektleiter zunächst die 
Technik, v.a. die Entwicklung des Basisclients und die Koordinierung der 
Officeumstellung sicherstellte, zeichnet er seit 2008 als stellvertretender 
Gesamtprojektleiter für den stadtweiten Fortschritt der Migration und aller 
Teilprojekte verantwortlich. Privat +sind Linux und freie Software sein 
ständiger Begleiter seit 1998.
##
), was sich für mich nicht so anhört, wie hier in Tü behauptet wird. 
Vielleicht könnten wir einen Leserbrief lancieren

Inhalt etwa:
-stimmt die Behauptung für München?
-welche anderen Städte und Behörden benutzen Linux in der Verwaltung?
-wieviel Geld kann eingespart werden?
  (Kommentar dazu: offenbar hat M mehr Geld für die Umstellung ausgegeben als 
nötig gewesen wäre, um die nächste Microsoft-Version zu kaufen. Aber da 
könnte sich ja TÜ bei M auch einkaufen
Und wie ist das mit Schwäbisch-Hall? Größenmäßig ist die Stadt besser mit TÜ 
vergleichbar als M, Dort wird ja auch Linux in der Stadtverwaltung benutzt)
-weitere Vorteile von Linux neben der geringeren Kosten für die Software

Zur Vorgehensweise: Ich könnte einen Leserbrief schreiben mit den Basics.
Wenn dann die Stadtverwaltung antwortet, könnte man weitere Argumente für 
Linux bringen.

Wolfgang Engelmann

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

jezZiFeR wrote:

 I could open a console, but then I don´t know how to browse the  
 mentioned directory.

You can look up where the temporary directory of LyX resides. In LyX,
just go to the menu 'Tools - Preferences' and look into the 'Paths'
section where the 'Temporary Directory' is listed. This is the directory
where LyX stores every file while processing it.

Next, open the document you wish to work on and compile it. You can see
the log file created during the compiling process from within LyX (menu
'Document - LaTeX Log').

The next step is to open a console window (don't close LyX at this
point, because then it would delete the temp directory!) and browse to
the directory you have looked up. You can change to a directory by
typing 'cd', followed by a space and the directory name, e.g.
,--
¦ C:\cd Temp
`

(Everything before the  is the path you are currently in.) If you have
to go one level up, the command is
,--
¦ C:\Tempcd ..
`
Inside LyX's temp directory, you will find at least one directory whith
a name like 'lyx_tmpdir.gq6580'. The characters after the dot will vary,
but the 'lyx_tmpdir.' part is always the same. If you have more than one
directory, these are leftovers of earlier LyX sessions where LyX was not
properly finished (unless you do not have several LyX instances open at
the same time -- every instance creates one directory). The newest
directory should be the one you are looking for. This directory again
has at least one subdirectory. Every buffer (i.e. every document you
open inside LyX) has its own subdirectory. The first is called
'lyx_tmpbuf0', the second 'lyx_tmpbuf1' and so on. If you close a
document, the directory is deleted. Browse to the appropriate
subdirectory and type the following (only the bit after the ):
,--
¦ C:\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.gq7420\lyx_tmpbuf0bibtex8 -W filename1-blx.aux
¦ C:\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.gq7420\lyx_tmpbuf0bibtex8 -W filename2-blx.aux
`
Thereby, BibTeX will be executed for the appropriate file (you have to
change the filename, of course). If you have more than two files (you
can look that up at the end of the logfile, a file with the extension
.log that resides in the same directory), you have to repeat that for
every file. [Note: if you don't have bibtex8 (bibtex8bit) installed, try
'bibtex' instead of 'bibtex8 -W'. But it would be better to install
bibtex8.]

Afterwards, you go back to your LyX session and compile once again. Then
the references should appear.

This seems very complicated at first sight, but I tried to give a
step-by-step explanation, and I think if you've done that once or twice,
it's not that complicated. However, it would of course be better to have
this done from inside LyX automatically. I don't know if that's
possible, but you could ask on the developer list or file a bug report.

HTH,
Dominik.-

Re: syncing lyx documents

[Paul A. Rubin]

xPol wrote:
I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs from a web 
server. 
I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such facility.


Thank you 
---P





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synchronization ?

/Paul

Re: Cutting and pasting in tables

[Paul A. Rubin]

Maria Gouskova wrote:

Dear LyX users,

First, configuration: Mac OS 10.6.2, LyX 1.6.4.2.

Second, when I use any sort of font formatting inside a table, say
underlining or italics, and then move the cursor to another cell in
the table, LyX assumes that the formatting for the text in next cell
will be the same as the last formatting I used. This happens even when
I select one letter and change its formatting to italics rather than
type the entire word in italics. Even hitting Cmd+e before typing in
the next cell doesn't change the formatting back to normal. The only
way to return formatting to normal is to select the newly typed text
and then toggle Cmd+e.

Is this behavior intended? Can others replicate it? It is new (as of
1.6, I believe) and, to me at least, unexpected.

Maria



I reproduced this in LyX 1.6.5 on Win XP (so it's not a platform issue), 
but only when using the tab or cursor keys to move to a new cell after 
cut/paste, copy/paste or select/change style.  If I use the mouse to 
move to the new cell, the character style reverts to its default value.


I couldn't find this in Trac (which means either it's a new bug or I'm 
inept at searching) (or both).  Unless someone else has a better answer 
to this thread, you should probable file a bug report for it.


/Paul

RE: syncing lyx documents

[Rob Oakes]

Subversion on a remote server with local copies could be one way of
accomplishing this.  LyX has good support for SVN built-in and there are
many good user interfaces (such as Tortoise SVN for Windows, Rabbit VCS for
Linux and Versions for Mac OS X) that make it a point and click affair.

Moreover, you can get free hosting from companies like Beanstalk
(http://beanstalkapp.com/).  In addition to syncing files, another benefit
of version control is that it keeps a log of every change.  This can be
invaluable if you are working on a complicated project (like a thesis, paper
or book).

This link has some good information on Version Control in general and
Subversion in particular.

http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/science-and-technology/svn

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Redefining sections

[Anders Host-Madsen]

This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.

I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}

It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
and then references in small on the next line).

What do I do wrong?

RE: Redefining sections

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Anders,

You may be better off using sectsty
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/sectsty.html) or by
completely rewriting the section definition.  After you get comfortable with
the structure, I find that I prefer to completely redefine my section
definitions.  I've occasionally gotten weird behavior with sectsty (mostly
with the Koma-Script Classes and memoir that have specialized macros for
such customization).

For some specific examples, see:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/sectsty.html

Even though these examples are specific to xetex, the basic syntax is the
same for the other latex engines as well.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Anders Host-Madsen
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:38 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Redefining sections

This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.

I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}

It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
and then references in small on the next line).

What do I do wrong?

RE: Cutting and pasting in tables

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

Second, when I use any sort of font formatting inside
a table, say underlining or italics, and then move the
cursor to another cell in the table, LyX assumes that
the formatting for the text in next cell will be the
same as the last formatting I used. 

I think this is fixed in http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/32570.

Even hitting Cmd+e before typing in the next cell
doesn't change the formatting back to normal. The
only way to return formatting to normal is to select
the newly typed text and then toggle Cmd+e.

I've no idea what Cmd+e is supposed to do.

Oh, sorry--forgot to mention that this sticky
formatting persists even when cutting and pasting
or copying objects between cells. As in, select an
italicized letter, cut it, paste it to another cell,
and then try to type in a different cell--the text
will be in italics. This doesn't happen outside of
tables.

As far as I can see, this also happens outside tables.

Maria

Vincent

Re: Redefining sections

[rgheck]

On 12/17/2009 12:38 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote:

This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.

I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}

It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
and then references in small on the next line).

What do I do wrong?

   
I'm not sure, but you should probably use the titlesec or sectsty 
package instead to do this kind of thing. Apparently, it's kind of delicate.


Actually, come to think of it, part of the problem is likely that 
\section* isn't really a separate command. It's the \section command 
followed by a *, which gets detected in the code.


rh

RE: Redefining sections

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Anders,

I forgot to add an important detail.  If you redefine the section
definitions, you will need to do that in a dedicated style.  It uses the
\...@startsection macro, which can't appear in a normal LaTeX document.

If you are going to just add the new definitions to the preamble, best to
stick with sectsty.

Cheers,

Rob

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Anders Host-Madsen
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:38 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Redefining sections

This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.

I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}

It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
and then references in small on the next line).

What do I do wrong?

Re: Redefining sections

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 17 December 2009 12:38:14 Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
 This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.
 
 I redefine sections with the latex preamble
 \newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
 \let\tmpsection=\section
 \renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}
 
 It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
 of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
 and then references in small on the next line).
 
 What do I do wrong?

I don't know the root cause of your table of contents problem, but I'll answer 
your literal question, what am I doing wrong?

When you redefine an environment, you need to transfer both the environment's 
begin code and end code. You didn't do that here.

Here's a discussion:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm

Within that document, search for this string:

POTENTIAL DEBUGGING NIGHTMARE

Like I said, it might not fix your TOC problem, but it does answer the 
question what am I doing wrong.

HTH

SteveT

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

Auto hide/unhide toolbars

[Diego Queiroz]

Hello.

I am using Lyx 1.6.5 (the actual last version) on Windows XP SP3.

The problem is that the Math Toolbar and Math Panels Toolbar doesn't auto
unhide when I am editing a formula.
The same is happening when I am editing tables: the Table Toolbar does not
auto unhide.

I know I can hide/unhide them selecting the proper option on View 
Toolbars, but I prefer to only see these toolbars when needed.

The weird part is that this is happening only on the computer where I did a
new install of Lyx (with no versions installed before).
The same issue didn't happened on other computers, where there was old
versions of Lyx installed and I just over installed the new version.

How can I restore the default option to auto hide/unhide these toolbars?


Regards,
---
Diego Queiroz

doc class xy can't be loaded

[Joachim Osnabryg]

Since sometime, when in LyX I choose File = new and then with within the  
standard new document class (article), I choose Document = Options and  
within the Options window, section document class, choose Handout  
(Tufte), I get the LyX error:


Die Dokumentklasse tufte-handout konnte nicht geladen werden.
The document class tufte-handout could not be loaded.

But there are the .layout files for it within the Lyx.app and within
~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.6/layouts/
- of course the tufte-latex .def and .cls files installed and tex-hashed -

which I use it nearly dayly with my (costomized) template  
tufte-hdout-…etc.lyx file(s) with success.


What might be the reason for this awfull error message, how can I get rid  
of it and use the document class/layout Handout (Tufte) in this normal  
way, too?


joachim
--
Mac BacicTeX 2009 - TeXShop 2.29 / TeXworks 0.2.3
LyX 1.6.5 - MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger

Re: syncing lyx documents

[Typhoon]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:09:28 -0500
Paul A. Rubin ru...@msu.edu wrote:

 xPol wrote:
  I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs
  from a web server. 
  I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such
  facility.
  
  Thank you 
  ---P
  

It may depend on your access to the remote machine. I normally use
sshfs to mount the remote file system to a local directory. All the
remote files then appear as local.

If I am going to be working off line, I use a distributed version
control system (I use Bazaar, but others have the same functionality).
Even if I forget to do a proper update before heading off with the
laptop, the merge is usually easy. If you do a proper update first,
then it is dead simple to push back to the original.

I add my vote to *always* using a reversion control system just for the
complete record keeping. 

HTH,
Alan

  
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synchronization ?
 
 /Paul
 
 


-- 
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Tel:  04 2748 6206

Re: doc class xy can't be loaded

[Uwe Stöhr]

Joachim Osnabryg schrieb:

Since sometime, when in LyX I choose File = new and then with within 
the standard new document class (article), I choose Document = Options 
and within the Options window, section document class, choose Handout 
(Tufte), I get the LyX error:


Die Dokumentklasse tufte-handout konnte nicht geladen werden.
The document class tufte-handout could not be loaded.


Try to reconfigure LyX. Have a look in the log file of this process in case this fails to get more 
info if also other packages cannot be found. This would then be hint that there are problems with 
your LaTeX installation. If all other packages are found, assure that you are using the tufe layout 
files that come with LyX and also assure that there is no other version of the layout file in the 
same directory as the LyX file.


regards Uwe

Page Numbering Chaos

[Rob]

Hi,

Could somebody please advise me how to change the default page numbering so that
I may simply:
(1) put all page numbers 1 inch from top and 1 inch from right margins
(2) have this hold for first page of chapters
(3) do not have the page number show up on first page
(4) roman page numbers until page X
(5) arabic thereafter.

I specify the \pagenumbering{roman} and then arabic options on the pages that I
want them to begin on, but the roman page numbers don't appear until page 4 for
some reason. 
I'm using the following and am failing on each of the other above points:

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{\thepage} 
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}

%Redefine the plain setting since this is default for chapters.
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
\rhead{\thepage} 
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}}

Re: Redefining sections

[Anders Host-Madsen]

Thanks, it seems the titlesec package is quite flexible. The
secsty package seems limited; for example it cannot redefine
spacing before and after section headings, which was exactly
what I wanted here (I needed a document to fit 15 pages). 
I will try to use the titlesec package.

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

jezZiFeR wrote:

> I use the above mentioned footnote-dw-style in a report [koma]- 
> document. I read about the numbering of the footnotes, that »the first  
> citation will give a full reference, following citations will only use  
> author and shorttitle«.
> 
> I would like to change that manner, so that the first citation will  
> give a full reference, not for the whole document, but for just the  
> chapter. Is there a possibility to do this?

You can use the biblatex option 'refsection=chapter'. For details on
this, see the biblatex documentation.

Regards,
Dominik.-

syncing lyx documents

[xPol]

I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs from a web 
server. 
I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such facility.

Thank you 
---P

Re: syncing lyx documents

[Rainer M Krug]

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:31 AM, xPol  wrote:

> I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs from a web
> server.
>

You could look into "copiers" which might be able to achieve at least the
writing to the web server.

The automatic reading, I don't know (and I would rather do that manually
before starting lyx).

You could add your support to the enhancement request

http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6393

which suggests user defined pre-processor and post-processor support, which
could achieve the "writing to web server" through a script which is executed
after compilation of the document.

The other option would be a version control module for what you want to do -
but don't ask me how, and I don't think that could be easily done.

Cheers,

Rainer


I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such facility.
>
> Thank you
> ---P
>
>


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Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[jezZiFeR]

I use the above mentioned footnote-dw-style in a report [koma]-
document. I read about the numbering of the footnotes, that »the  
first
citation will give a full reference, following citations will only  
use

author and shorttitle«.

I would like to change that manner, so that the first citation will
give a full reference, not for the whole document, but for just the
chapter. Is there a possibility to do this?


You can use the biblatex option 'refsection=chapter'. For details on
this, see the biblatex documentation.


Dear Dominik, dear list,

thank you – numbering starting in every chapter works fine now, but  
now only the shorttitle in bold letters is displayed in the footnotes  
(footnote-dw active here), which I don´t want. I just added the  
command you mentioned, nothing else. How could I keep the footnote- 
behaviour I have had before?


Best*
Jess

Re: syncing lyx documents

[Abdelrazak Younes]

xPol wrote:
I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs from a web 
server. 
I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such facility.


Just use svn with apache web server. LyX has now pretty good integration 
with svn.


Abdel.

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

jezZiFeR wrote:

> thank you – numbering starting in every chapter works fine now, but  
> now only the shorttitle in bold letters is displayed in the footnotes  
> (footnote-dw active here), which I don´t want. I just added the  
> command you mentioned, nothing else. 

biblatex creates one .aux file per refsection. You need to run BibTeX on
every .aux file. There should be a warning like
,--
¦ Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run BibTeX on the file(s):
¦ (biblatex)1-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)2-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)and rerun LaTeX afterwards.
`

I don't know if it is possible to run BibTeX on these files from within
LyX, but you can open a console, browse to the directory in which LyX
temporarily stores the files and then run BibTeX on the .aux files
mentioned in the .log.

Regards,
Dominik.-

Re: tufte-latex 3.5 problem with LyX

[Joachim]

Am 17.12.2009, 03:59 Uhr, schrieb Uwe Stöhr :
I think that this is a bug in tufte 3.5 because the example files  
compiled well with the beta versions of tufte 3.5. The tufte version  
history also doesn't describe that the handling of \author and \title  
was changed.


I agree, Uwe,

So before I'm going to change the LyX layout file, can you please  
contact the tufte developer (CC me) and ask how to proceed?


Uwe forestalled me with that already… Thanks. The necessary change within  
tufte-latex by the developer seems to be on the good way already .


Regards,
joachim
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LyX 1.6.5 - MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[jezZiFeR]

Dear Dominik, dear list,

I am sorry, but I even don´t know what an ".aux-file" is. I also don´t  
know how to run BibTeX on such files, I have installed BibTeX and I  
thought that Lyx runs BibTeX itself when it is needed.


I could open a console, but then I don´t know how to browse the  
mentioned directory. Isn´t there any possibility to get this working  
without having this special knowledge? I have the impression that I am  
not in the position to get that managed, but maybe I misunderstood  
something.


Hopefully somebody could help…

Thanks, best*
Jess







thank you – numbering starting in every chapter works fine now, but
now only the shorttitle in bold letters is displayed in the footnotes
(footnote-dw active here), which I don´t want. I just added the
command you mentioned, nothing else.


biblatex creates one .aux file per refsection. You need to run  
BibTeX on

every .aux file. There should be a warning like
,--
¦ Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run BibTeX on the file(s):
¦ (biblatex)1-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)2-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)and rerun LaTeX afterwards.
`

I don't know if it is possible to run BibTeX on these files from  
within

LyX, but you can open a console, browse to the directory in which LyX
temporarily stores the files and then run BibTeX on the .aux files
mentioned in the .log.

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven | addition

[jezZiFeR]

thank you – numbering starting in every chapter works fine now, but
now only the shorttitle in bold letters is displayed in the footnotes
(footnote-dw active here), which I don´t want. I just added the
command you mentioned, nothing else.


biblatex creates one .aux file per refsection. You need to run  
BibTeX on

every .aux file. There should be a warning like
,--
¦ Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run BibTeX on the file(s):
¦ (biblatex)1-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)2-blx.aux
¦ (biblatex)and rerun LaTeX afterwards.





BTW: I do not get such warning, I do not get any warning…




I don't know if it is possible to run BibTeX on these files from  
within

LyX, but you can open a console, browse to the directory in which LyX
temporarily stores the files and then run BibTeX on the .aux files
mentioned in the .log.

Limux

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Gestern Abend war ich bei der Info der Tübinger Rathausspitze im 
Uhlandgymnasium. Es ging um die hohe Verschuldung der Stadt in den kommenden 
Jahren. Dort wurde auf meine Anfrage, ob die Tübinger Stadtverwaltung Linux 
verwendet (vor einigen Jahren gab es eine Columne im  Schwäbischen 
Tagblatt 'mein Rotstift', wo von der LUGT vorgeschlagen wurde, Linux 
einzuführen), gesagt, dass sich Linux in der Stadtverwaltung von München 
nicht bewährt habe und es nicht weiter verwendet würde. Ich finde aber beim 
Googeln keinen Hinweis. Weiss da jemand Bescheid (bei den Grazer Linuxtage 
2009 lese ich:

Seit mittlerweile fast drei Jahren arbeiten in Münchens Stadtverwaltung 
zunehmend mehr der 14.000 PCs mit freier Software. Zeit zurückzublicken auf 
teilweise turbulente Jahre, seit dem ersten Beschluss des Stadtrates im Jahr 
2003. Herausforderungen bei der Umstellung sind dabei die Integration des 
debianbasierten Basisclients in z.T. heterogene IT-Strukturen, die 
Verfügbarkeit von Fachanwendungen und der Umstieg auf OpenOffice.org. Der 
Umstieg auf OpenOffice.org (unter Windows und Linux) ist mittlerweile bereits 
weit fortgeschritten, die Zahl der installierten linuxbasierten Basisclients 
steigt kontinuierlich. Der Vortrag richtet sich an LiMux-Interessierte mit 
und ohne technischem Vorwissen. Er gibt einen kurzen Überblick zum 
Projekthintergrund, beschreibt den aktuellen Projektstand und stellt 
gleichzeitig die technischen Lösungen (Basisclient, WollMux als Office-Tool) 
vor.
Über den Vortragenden
Diplom Verwaltungswirt Florian Schießl (30) studierte Verwaltungsrecht mit 
Schwerpunkt Verwaltungsinformatik an der öffentlichen 
Verwaltungsfachhochschule in Hof. Er kennt das Projekt seit dem Start im Jahr 
2003. Während er als stellvertretender Teilprojektleiter zunächst die 
Technik, v.a. die Entwicklung des Basisclients und die Koordinierung der 
Officeumstellung sicherstellte, zeichnet er seit 2008 als stellvertretender 
Gesamtprojektleiter für den stadtweiten Fortschritt der Migration und aller 
Teilprojekte verantwortlich. Privat +sind Linux und freie Software sein 
ständiger Begleiter seit 1998.
##
), was sich für mich nicht so anhört, wie hier in Tü behauptet wird. 
Vielleicht könnten wir einen Leserbrief lancieren

Inhalt etwa:
-stimmt die Behauptung für München?
-welche anderen Städte und Behörden benutzen Linux in der Verwaltung?
-wieviel Geld kann eingespart werden?
  (Kommentar dazu: offenbar hat M mehr Geld für die Umstellung ausgegeben als 
nötig gewesen wäre, um die nächste Microsoft-Version zu kaufen. Aber da 
könnte sich ja TÜ bei M auch einkaufen
Und wie ist das mit Schwäbisch-Hall? Größenmäßig ist die Stadt besser mit TÜ 
vergleichbar als M, Dort wird ja auch Linux in der Stadtverwaltung benutzt)
-weitere Vorteile von Linux neben der geringeren Kosten für die Software

Zur Vorgehensweise: Ich könnte einen Leserbrief schreiben mit den Basics.
Wenn dann die Stadtverwaltung antwortet, könnte man weitere Argumente für 
Linux bringen.

Wolfgang Engelmann

Re: Footnot-dw-style / Biblatex / Waßenhoven

[Dominik Waßenhoven]

jezZiFeR wrote:

> I could open a console, but then I don´t know how to browse the  
> mentioned directory.

You can look up where the temporary directory of LyX resides. In LyX,
just go to the menu 'Tools -> Preferences' and look into the 'Paths'
section where the 'Temporary Directory' is listed. This is the directory
where LyX stores every file while processing it.

Next, open the document you wish to work on and compile it. You can see
the log file created during the compiling process from within LyX (menu
'Document -> LaTeX Log').

The next step is to open a console window (don't close LyX at this
point, because then it would delete the temp directory!) and browse to
the directory you have looked up. You can change to a directory by
typing 'cd', followed by a space and the directory name, e.g.
,--
¦ C:\>cd Temp
`

(Everything before the > is the path you are currently in.) If you have
to go one level up, the command is
,--
¦ C:\Temp>cd ..
`
Inside LyX's temp directory, you will find at least one directory whith
a name like 'lyx_tmpdir.gq6580'. The characters after the dot will vary,
but the 'lyx_tmpdir.' part is always the same. If you have more than one
directory, these are leftovers of earlier LyX sessions where LyX was not
properly finished (unless you do not have several LyX instances open at
the same time -- every instance creates one directory). The newest
directory should be the one you are looking for. This directory again
has at least one subdirectory. Every buffer (i.e. every document you
open inside LyX) has its own subdirectory. The first is called
'lyx_tmpbuf0', the second 'lyx_tmpbuf1' and so on. If you close a
document, the directory is deleted. Browse to the appropriate
subdirectory and type the following (only the bit after the >):
,--
¦ C:\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.gq7420\lyx_tmpbuf0>bibtex8 -W 1-blx.aux
¦ C:\Temp\lyx_tmpdir.gq7420\lyx_tmpbuf0>bibtex8 -W 2-blx.aux
`
Thereby, BibTeX will be executed for the appropriate file (you have to
change the , of course). If you have more than two files (you
can look that up at the end of the logfile, a file with the extension
.log that resides in the same directory), you have to repeat that for
every file. [Note: if you don't have bibtex8 (bibtex8bit) installed, try
'bibtex' instead of 'bibtex8 -W'. But it would be better to install
bibtex8.]

Afterwards, you go back to your LyX session and compile once again. Then
the references should appear.

This seems very complicated at first sight, but I tried to give a
step-by-step explanation, and I think if you've done that once or twice,
it's not that complicated. However, it would of course be better to have
this done from inside LyX automatically. I don't know if that's
possible, but you could ask on the developer list or file a bug report.

HTH,
Dominik.-

Re: syncing lyx documents

[Paul A. Rubin]

xPol wrote:
I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs from a web 
server. 
I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such facility.


Thank you 
---P





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synchronization ?

/Paul

Re: Cutting and pasting in tables

[Paul A. Rubin]

Maria Gouskova wrote:

Dear LyX users,

First, configuration: Mac OS 10.6.2, LyX 1.6.4.2.

Second, when I use any sort of font formatting inside a table, say
underlining or italics, and then move the cursor to another cell in
the table, LyX assumes that the formatting for the text in next cell
will be the same as the last formatting I used. This happens even when
I select one letter and change its formatting to italics rather than
type the entire word in italics. Even hitting Cmd+e before typing in
the next cell doesn't change the formatting back to normal. The only
way to return formatting to normal is to select the newly typed text
and then toggle Cmd+e.

Is this behavior intended? Can others replicate it? It is new (as of
1.6, I believe) and, to me at least, unexpected.

Maria



I reproduced this in LyX 1.6.5 on Win XP (so it's not a platform issue), 
but only when using the tab or cursor keys to move to a new cell after 
cut/paste, copy/paste or select/change style.  If I use the mouse to 
move to the new cell, the character style reverts to its default value.


I couldn't find this in Trac (which means either it's a new bug or I'm 
inept at searching) (or both).  Unless someone else has a better answer 
to this thread, you should probable file a bug report for it.


/Paul

RE: syncing lyx documents

[Rob Oakes]

Subversion on a remote server with local copies could be one way of
accomplishing this.  LyX has good support for SVN built-in and there are
many good user interfaces (such as Tortoise SVN for Windows, Rabbit VCS for
Linux and Versions for Mac OS X) that make it a point and click affair.

Moreover, you can get free hosting from companies like Beanstalk
(http://beanstalkapp.com/).  In addition to syncing files, another benefit
of version control is that it keeps a log of every change.  This can be
invaluable if you are working on a complicated project (like a thesis, paper
or book).

This link has some good information on Version Control in general and
Subversion in particular.

http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/science-and-technology/svn

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

Redefining sections

[Anders Host-Madsen]

This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.

I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}

It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
and then references in small on the next line).

What do I do wrong?

RE: Redefining sections

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Anders,

You may be better off using sectsty
(http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/sectsty.html) or by
completely rewriting the section definition.  After you get comfortable with
the structure, I find that I prefer to completely redefine my section
definitions.  I've occasionally gotten weird behavior with sectsty (mostly
with the Koma-Script Classes and memoir that have specialized macros for
such customization).

For some specific examples, see:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/sectsty.html

Even though these examples are specific to xetex, the basic syntax is the
same for the other latex engines as well.

Cheers,

Rob Oakes

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Anders Host-Madsen
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:38 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Redefining sections

This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.

I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}

It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
and then references in small on the next line).

What do I do wrong?

RE: Cutting and pasting in tables

[Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW]

>Second, when I use any sort of font formatting inside
>a table, say underlining or italics, and then move the
>cursor to another cell in the table, LyX assumes that
>the formatting for the text in next cell will be the
>same as the last formatting I used. 

I think this is fixed in http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/32570.

>Even hitting Cmd+e before typing in the next cell
>doesn't change the formatting back to normal. The
>only way to return formatting to normal is to select
>the newly typed text and then toggle Cmd+e.

I've no idea what Cmd+e is supposed to do.

>Oh, sorry--forgot to mention that this "sticky
>formatting" persists even when cutting and pasting
>or copying objects between cells. As in, select an
>italicized letter, cut it, paste it to another cell,
>and then try to type in a different cell--the text
>will be in italics. This doesn't happen outside of
>tables.

As far as I can see, this also happens outside tables.

>Maria

Vincent

Re: Redefining sections

[rgheck]

On 12/17/2009 12:38 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote:

This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.

I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}

It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
and then references in small on the next line).

What do I do wrong?

   
I'm not sure, but you should probably use the titlesec or sectsty 
package instead to do this kind of thing. Apparently, it's kind of delicate.


Actually, come to think of it, part of the problem is likely that 
\section* isn't really a separate command. It's the \section command 
followed by a *, which gets detected in the code.


rh

RE: Redefining sections

[Rob Oakes]

Hi Anders,

I forgot to add an important detail.  If you redefine the section
definitions, you will need to do that in a dedicated style.  It uses the
\...@startsection macro, which can't appear in a normal LaTeX document.

If you are going to just add the new definitions to the preamble, best to
stick with sectsty.

Cheers,

Rob

-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Anders Host-Madsen
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:38 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Redefining sections

This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.

I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}

It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
and then references in small on the next line).

What do I do wrong?

Re: Redefining sections

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 17 December 2009 12:38:14 Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
> This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.
> 
> I redefine sections with the latex preamble
> \newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
> \let\tmpsection=\section
> \renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}
> 
> It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex unable to make a table
> of contents, and the 'references' heading comes out strangely (7 * in large
> and then references in small on the next line).
> 
> What do I do wrong?

I don't know the root cause of your table of contents problem, but I'll answer 
your literal question, "what am I doing wrong?"

When you redefine an environment, you need to transfer both the environment's 
begin code and end code. You didn't do that here.

Here's a discussion:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm

Within that document, search for this string:

POTENTIAL DEBUGGING NIGHTMARE

Like I said, it might not fix your TOC problem, but it does answer the 
question "what am I doing wrong."

HTH

SteveT

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

Auto hide/unhide toolbars

[Diego Queiroz]

Hello.

I am using Lyx 1.6.5 (the actual last version) on Windows XP SP3.

The problem is that the Math Toolbar and Math Panels Toolbar doesn't auto
unhide when I am editing a formula.
The same is happening when I am editing tables: the Table Toolbar does not
auto unhide.

I know I can hide/unhide them selecting the proper option on View >
Toolbars, but I prefer to only see these toolbars when needed.

The weird part is that this is happening only on the computer where I did a
new install of Lyx (with no versions installed before).
The same issue didn't happened on other computers, where there was old
versions of Lyx installed and I just over installed the new version.

How can I restore the default option to auto hide/unhide these toolbars?


Regards,
---
Diego Queiroz

"doc class xy can't be loaded"

[Joachim Osnabryg]

Since sometime, when in LyX I choose File => new and then with within the  
standard new document class (article), I choose Document => Options and  
within the Options window, section document class, choose "Handout  
(Tufte)", I get the LyX error:


Die Dokumentklasse tufte-handout konnte nicht geladen werden.
The document class tufte-handout could not be loaded.

But there are the .layout files for it within the Lyx.app and within
~/Library/Application\ Support/LyX-1.6/layouts/
- of course the tufte-latex .def and .cls files installed and tex-hashed -

which I use it nearly dayly with my (costomized) template  
tufte-hdout-…etc.lyx file(s) with success.


What might be the reason for this awfull error message, how can I get rid  
of it and use the document class/layout "Handout (Tufte)" in this "normal"  
way, too?


joachim
--
Mac BacicTeX 2009 - TeXShop 2.29 / TeXworks 0.2.3
LyX 1.6.5 - MacBook Pro intel OSX 10.4.11 Tiger

Re: syncing lyx documents

[Typhoon]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:09:28 -0500
"Paul A. Rubin"  wrote:

> xPol wrote:
> > I would like to be able to easily store and retrieve my lyx docs
> > from a web server. 
> > I am intrigued to know what you have devised to set up such
> > facility.
> > 
> > Thank you 
> > ---P
> > 

It may depend on your access to the remote machine. I normally use
sshfs to mount the remote file system to a local directory. All the
remote files then appear as local.

If I am going to be working off line, I use a distributed version
control system (I use Bazaar, but others have the same functionality).
Even if I forget to do a proper update before heading off with the
laptop, the merge is usually easy. If you do a proper update first,
then it is dead simple to "push" back to the original.

I add my vote to *always* using a reversion control system just for the
complete record keeping. 

HTH,
Alan

> > 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_synchronization ?
> 
> /Paul
> 
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Re: "doc class xy can't be loaded"

[Uwe Stöhr]

Joachim Osnabryg schrieb:

Since sometime, when in LyX I choose File => new and then with within 
the standard new document class (article), I choose Document => Options 
and within the Options window, section document class, choose "Handout 
(Tufte)", I get the LyX error:


Die Dokumentklasse tufte-handout konnte nicht geladen werden.
The document class tufte-handout could not be loaded.


Try to reconfigure LyX. Have a look in the log file of this process in case this fails to get more 
info if also other packages cannot be found. This would then be hint that there are problems with 
your LaTeX installation. If all other packages are found, assure that you are using the tufe layout 
files that come with LyX and also assure that there is no other version of the layout file in the 
same directory as the LyX file.


regards Uwe

Page Numbering Chaos

[Rob]

Hi,

Could somebody please advise me how to change the default page numbering so that
I may simply:
(1) put all page numbers 1 inch from top and 1 inch from right margins
(2) have this hold for first page of chapters
(3) do not have the page number show up on first page
(4) roman page numbers until page X
(5) arabic thereafter.

I specify the \pagenumbering{roman} and then arabic options on the pages that I
want them to begin on, but the roman page numbers don't appear until page 4 for
some reason. 
I'm using the following and am failing on each of the other above points:

\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyfoot{}
\lhead{}
\chead{}
\rhead{\thepage} 
\lfoot{}
\cfoot{}
\rfoot{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}

%Redefine the plain setting since this is default for chapters.
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
\rhead{\thepage} 
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}}

Re: Redefining sections

[Anders Host-Madsen]

Thanks, it seems the titlesec package is quite flexible. The
secsty package seems limited; for example it cannot redefine
spacing before and after section headings, which was exactly
what I wanted here (I needed a document to fit 15 pages). 
I will try to use the titlesec package.