Reverse search in windows (from lyx 1.5 - )

[Chris Lingwood]

I've had this working for a while, I've not noticed anyone posting about how
to use it without cygwin. This works with the standard windows version of
lyx rather than the cywin version. Its a bit of a stupid method with cludges
but it does work fine, its not as neat as the cygwin version (which it's
basically a port of) If anyone manages to clean it up a bit and remove some
of the dependancies that would be good.

Requirements:
- nircmd.exe (i've forgotten why, I think its purely to let me hide the
windows command window)
- python 2.6 (might work with 3 not tried it)
- win32api python extension (to find the short pathnames)
- SumatraPDF

Setup:
- Set the lyxserver pipe (under paths in the settings) to
\\.\pipe\lyxserver
- put SumatraPDF.bat, search.py, nircmd.exe and SumatraPDF.exe in
../lyx16/bin
- Update the paths in SumatraPDF.bat to be correct for your setup (mine is
64bit), use pythonw.exe to supress the console
- set your in PDF (pdflatex) viewer field (in file formats) to: NIRCMD.EXE
EXECMD SumatraPDF.bat
- set the Latex (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex) converter to pdflatex
--synctex=-1 $$i

Fixes:
- If it won't work uncomment the time.sleep(100) line to see python errors
and change pythonw.exe to python.exe in SumatraPDF.bat.
- To turn on debugging in lyx for the pipe use the flag -dbg lyxserver. This
will probably say something illuminating, or nothing at all if its not
worked.

SumatraPDF.bat

SumatraPDF.exe -inverse-search C:/Progra~1/Python~1/pythonw.exe
C:/Progra~2/lyx16/bin/search.py %%l %%f %1


search.py

# author Chris Lingwood
#
# This script (along with sumatra.bat) enables DVI/PDF search in windows
using Sumatra

import sys
import time
import os
import win32api


#Debug output to ensure the path name is picked up properly
print(sys.argv[1])
print(sys.argv[2:])

line = sys.argv[1]
filename = ' '.join(sys.argv[2:])
print(filename)

#We have to get the windows short filename to avoid having spaces which
upsets the command
filename = win32api.GetShortPathName(filename);
#create the command to be send to the lyx server pipe with an echo to a
windows pipe
command = echo LYXCMD:revdvi:server-goto-file-row:+filename+ +line+
.\pipe\lyxserver.in

#print it for debugging and send it to the os
print(command)
os.system(command)

#Uncomment the next line if there are problems, it lets you see the
debugging output (this is still supressed with pythonw.exe though)
#time.sleep(100)


Chris
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Re: Justifying figures to outer margin

[Helge Hafting]

On 29. mai 2010 01:04, george legge wrote:

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca mailto:jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
Hi,
I am not completely clear on what you want to accomplish, but you might
want to have a look at the sidecap package [1]. I wrote a minimalistic
module to use the package in LyX [2]. Maybe that would help. Otherwise,
sorry for the noise.

Thank you Julien for the prompt reply.
I have read your documentation.
Your package does allow figures to move into the margin and captions to
be placed on either side.
But it does not appear to tackle the major problem, which is:
How to get figures (of all widths) to justify to a boundary several cm
outside the text edge.


A figure, (including the caption) can be shifted left or right if you 
want to. Here is one way:


1.Insert the figure float.
2.The first thing inside this float should be horizontal space.
  Use a negative length to move into the left margin, or use a
  positive length to move into the right margin.
  (Insert-Formatting-Horizontal Space). Set the type
  to custom. That lets you type in a custom length.
3. After the horizontal space, insert a minipage. (Insert-Box)
   In the settings, make sure it is a minipage, set the width to
   100% of line length, and use no frame. (Frames makes it easier
   to see what happens, but they have width of their own, so they
   interfere with precise positioning.)
4. Put all your figure content inside this minipage. Both the
   image and the caption. (The caption can be moved inside
   the minipage by copy-paste.)

This gives you a figure of normal width, i.e. the distance between
the margins. But you can push it right and left by adjusting the
horizontal spacing at the beginning of the figure float.

You may also want to vary the width of the minipage for further control.
The edges of the minipage will be the margins for your figure. So you 
can decide how a very long caption will break up.


Tip: You can see the edges of this minipage by writing a long line. For 
example, a horizontal space of the fill type, with some suitable

fill pattern. (Or use a frame for the minipage, but be aware that
the frame makes the minipage wider in order to make romm for frame lines.)

The actual graphic can be but next to the right or left edge by
using Edit-Paragraph Settings and make the paragraph with the
figure left-adjusted or right-adjusted.

This way, you can line your figure up perfectly with any edge
you like.

Helge Hafting

Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

[Helge Hafting]

On 10. juni 2010 21:44, Jose Quesada wrote:

Hi,

What is a good lyx layout for notetaking?


I tend to use article or report for this purpose.


I don't care about the pdf looks, since my notes will never be printed.
I care about very distinctive part/section/subsection etc (ideally with
diff. colors even).

The section headings are distinctive, but not colored.
Color (on screen) can be added though. Make a copy of the article.layout
called something like myarticle.layout.
In the Font section of Style Part, add Color blue after the size.

Settings for section, subsection etc. is in stdsections.inc,
copy what you need to change into myarticle.layout

You can also change font sizes and vertical separation. And many
other things too.


An something that formats paragraphs with some space separation and no
indent.
Most document classes supports this - make a template document, or save 
it as default for all documents. (The setting is under 
Document-Settings-Text Style


Helge Hafting

Re: GUI behavior in table editing

[Helge Hafting]

On 11. juni 2010 16:33, Maria Gouskova wrote:

Dear LyX users,

I am trying to understand the principles behind cursor and window
behavior in the LyX GUI during table editing. Suppose you're working
on a table that fits into the open document window completely. Move
the cursor (using either a mouse click or the arrow-down key) into a
row of the table. The window view jumps so that the line of the table
that contains the cursor is now either at the top of the LyX window or
the table is repositioned in the window. But this isn't
necessary---and it can be kind of a pain,

[...]

I suspect this is a feature, but I am hoping that it is a bug that can
be fixed!


This is a bug. So it can be fixed - if someone want to do it.

Helge Hafting

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

[Helge Hafting]

On 13. juni 2010 01:10, Alan L Tyree wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:01:26 -0400
Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com  wrote:


On Saturday 12 June 2010 03:55:23 Barak Sh wrote:

Hello all,
An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page
contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce
the article to 6 pages? I know it's possible to make fonts a bit
smaller throughout the entire article. This will get the job done,
but I have noticed that there are many blank spaces between
paragraphs and between formulas and text. There must be a simple
way to tell LaTeX to make these spaces a bit smaller so that the
article fits comfortably into 6 pages. (I know there's an option in
Document Settings to specify the vertical separation of paragraphs.
It's already at the smallest value.) Thanks in advance,
Barak


LaTeX puts big space between paragraphs rather than have a page end
before the bottom. The more and bigger graphics (and probably
formulas), the more inter- paragraph variations become. It's hard to
defeat this LaTeX behavior without a lot of micromanaging.


Isn't this behaviour overcome with \raggedbottom?


That won't help. You get rid of the big vertical spaces, but
the pages breaks in the same places, so the page count is
the same.

Helge Hafting

Re: GUI behavior in table editing

[Maria Gouskova]

 I am trying to understand the principles behind cursor and window
 behavior in the LyX GUI during table editing. Suppose you're working
 on a table that fits into the open document window completely. Move
 the cursor (using either a mouse click or the arrow-down key) into a
 row of the table. The window view jumps so that the line of the table
 that contains the cursor is now either at the top of the LyX window or
 the table is repositioned in the window. But this isn't
 necessary---and it can be kind of a pain,

 [...]

 I suspect this is a feature, but I am hoping that it is a bug that can
 be fixed!

 This is a bug. So it can be fixed - if someone want to do it.

 Helge Hafting


Okay, I submitted a bug report.

Maria

Re: GUI behavior in table editing

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Maria Gouskove wrote:
Okay, I submitted a bug report.

Forwarding the message by Edwin on lyx-devel to lyx-users:

can you confirm whether this is fixed in latest trunk?

ed.

Vincent

Re: Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Todd Denniston]

Jose Quesada wrote, On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM:
 update: using branches does not help.
 Moving around in a large doc (example: userGuide) is sluggy too. Weird. This
 must be something in my config...
 I tried 1.6.4 (ubuntu) 1.6.6 (sabayon) and 2alpha 3 (ubuntu). Same problem.
 The problem is that moving the cursor (not even typing, as usersGuide is
 read-only) takes a long time, maybe .5 sec per character. Doesn't feel
 speedy... compared with a small doc, where it flies.
 Best,
 -Jose
 

FYI CentOS 5.4, LyX 1.6.5 from EPEL
With Outline closed, LyX works nice and fast, with Outline open, I feel a 
slight slowdown even on a
dual Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.83GHz, with 2GB of ram, on slower/smaller machines (dual 
Xeon(TM) CPU @ 1.50GHz
.5GB) I have to keep it closed except when needed.


For rearranging the document though, the new (since 1.4) outline mode is 
tremendously helpful.


-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter

Current status of Tufte style?

[John Kane]

I know that there was a problem with the Tufte handout a few months ago but 
between being distracted by other matters and the recent loss of the mailing 
list I don't know what is happening at the moment.

I just did an upgrade to 1.6.6.1 and reinstalled Mixtex and I am getting some 
weird results with tufte outlne.  If I have nothing but standard text in a 
document I get output in Yap.  Add a title and Lyx bombs.  And the same thing 
happens with Book (Tufte).

It is not a serious matter at the moment, I just wanted to show someone how the 
handout  would look but any current information would be appreciated.  

Thanks

Re: Problems with lines in EPS Figure

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 14 June 2010 15:01:23 Tim Wescott wrote:
 This drawing looks fine when I look at it using Eye of Gnome document
 viewer.  But when I incorporate it into my LyX document as a figure, the
 line weights look off.  When I make a pdf from that document, some of
 the lines are so light they're almost invisible, and some are normal
 weight.  It's definitely not up to snuff for sending to a customer!
 
 Am I screwed?  Do I just need to export the thing as a bitmap?  or is
 there some setting I can try to make it render better?

Hi Tim,

When I open it in Okular, it looks great, assuming you meant your lines to be 
1 pixel thick, because that's what it looks like. I'd imagine that with one 
pixel lines, if putting it into LyX enlarges or shrinks it, that would do 
funny things to the lines. Why don't you try a drawing with 3 pixel thick 
lines (including the circles and rectangles) and see whether you get the same 
problems. If not, I recommend using 3px lines.

Another thing I've done successfully is convert it to a .pdf and use that in 
LyX. For whatever reasons, .pdf graphics seem to scale better within LyX.

HTH

SteveT

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

Re: Justifying figures to outer margin

[george legge]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.nowrote:

 A figure, (including the caption) can be shifted left or right if you want
 to. Here is one way:
 1.Insert the figure float.
 2.The first thing inside this float should be horizontal space.
  Use a negative length to move into the left margin, or use a
  positive length to move into the right margin.
  (Insert-Formatting-Horizontal Space). Set the type
  to custom. That lets you type in a custom length.
 3. After the horizontal space, insert a minipage. (Insert-Box)
   In the settings, make sure it is a minipage, set the width to
   100% of line length, and use no frame. (Frames makes it easier
   to see what happens, but they have width of their own, so they
   interfere with precise positioning.)
 4. Put all your figure content inside this minipage. Both the
   image and the caption. (The caption can be moved inside
   the minipage by copy-paste.)


Thank you Helge,

The sidecap package with the wide option appears to have answered most
of my needs;
but I shall bear in mind your suggestions for moving figures precisely.

George Legge

I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

[Xu Jiang]

To whom it may concern,

I was originally using the 1.6.5 version of Lyx. Suddenly it stops 
exporting to any format of files while maybe 10 minutes ago it is able 
to do that. I upgraded it to 1.6.6 version and it still doesn't work. It 
didn't return any error and there is no output. Can anybody has any 
solution to that? Thanks so much and have a great day.

Re: I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 14 June 2010 17:23:27 Xu Jiang wrote:
 To whom it may concern,
 
 I was originally using the 1.6.5 version of Lyx. Suddenly it stops
 exporting to any format of files while maybe 10 minutes ago it is able
 to do that. I upgraded it to 1.6.6 version and it still doesn't work. It
 didn't return any error and there is no output. Can anybody has any
 solution to that? Thanks so much and have a great day.

Try making a one paragraph, two word LyX doc that just says Hello World in 
standard environment. Try exporting that. If it works, exploit the differences 
between that doc and the one that wouldn't export. If that one doesn't work, 
it's either a bug or an intermittent problem cured by rebooting, so try 
rebooting.

HTH

SteveT

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

Re: I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Xu Jiang jiang...@umn.edu wrote:
 To whom it may concern,

 I was originally using the 1.6.5 version of Lyx. Suddenly it stops exporting
 to any format of files while maybe 10 minutes ago it is able to do that. I
 upgraded it to 1.6.6 version and it still doesn't work. It didn't return any
 error and there is no output.

Yes, this can happen with LyX: produce no output, but no error pop-up.
Try the following:
- make sure you have enough free space in your temp dir (you did not
specify your OS)
- try compiling your doc on a different system (reboot if you have
dual-boot, try another computer if possible)
- even if no error pop-up appears, go to Document  LaTeX log and see
if any errors are present
- if all else fails, try to isolate the part of your document that
doesn't compile (for example, delete second half and try to compile
first part, etc.)

Regards
Liviu


 Can anybody has any solution to that? Thanks
 so much and have a great day.




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Re: I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

[Paul Rubin]

Xu Jiang jiang088 at umn.edu writes:

 
 To whom it may concern,
 
 I was originally using the 1.6.5 version of Lyx. Suddenly it stops 
 exporting to any format of files while maybe 10 minutes ago it is able 
 to do that. I upgraded it to 1.6.6 version and it still doesn't work. It 
 didn't return any error and there is no output. Can anybody has any 
 solution to that? Thanks so much and have a great day.
 
 

Check your LaTeX installation and make sure it still works (and is still
globally accessible -- meaning if you run 'latex -help' from a terminal/shell
you get something).  Could be LyX no longer sees your LaTeX distro.

/Paul

Negative indent in an enumerated list inside a theorem?

[Paul Elliott]

How do I do in lyx, a negative indent on an enumerated list inside a Theorem?

I have a math book where sometimes the theorems are written like this:

--
Theorem.
If all cows are spherical and either:
 (1) the moon is made of green cheese,
  or (2) there are canals on Mars
then pluto is a planet.
--

How do I copy this style in lyx, specificly the negative indent
on the or.


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Reverse search in windows (from lyx 1.5 - )

[Chris Lingwood]

I've had this working for a while, I've not noticed anyone posting about how
to use it without cygwin. This works with the standard windows version of
lyx rather than the cywin version. Its a bit of a stupid method with cludges
but it does work fine, its not as neat as the cygwin version (which it's
basically a port of) If anyone manages to clean it up a bit and remove some
of the dependancies that would be good.

Requirements:
- nircmd.exe (i've forgotten why, I think its purely to let me hide the
windows command window)
- python 2.6 (might work with 3 not tried it)
- win32api python extension (to find the short pathnames)
- SumatraPDF

Setup:
- Set the lyxserver pipe (under paths in the settings) to
\\.\pipe\lyxserver
- put SumatraPDF.bat, search.py, nircmd.exe and SumatraPDF.exe in
../lyx16/bin
- Update the paths in SumatraPDF.bat to be correct for your setup (mine is
64bit), use pythonw.exe to supress the console
- set your in PDF (pdflatex) viewer field (in file formats) to: NIRCMD.EXE
EXECMD SumatraPDF.bat
- set the Latex (pdflatex) - PDF (pdflatex) converter to pdflatex
--synctex=-1 $$i

Fixes:
- If it won't work uncomment the time.sleep(100) line to see python errors
and change pythonw.exe to python.exe in SumatraPDF.bat.
- To turn on debugging in lyx for the pipe use the flag -dbg lyxserver. This
will probably say something illuminating, or nothing at all if its not
worked.

SumatraPDF.bat

SumatraPDF.exe -inverse-search C:/Progra~1/Python~1/pythonw.exe
C:/Progra~2/lyx16/bin/search.py %%l %%f %1


search.py

# author Chris Lingwood
#
# This script (along with sumatra.bat) enables DVI/PDF search in windows
using Sumatra

import sys
import time
import os
import win32api


#Debug output to ensure the path name is picked up properly
print(sys.argv[1])
print(sys.argv[2:])

line = sys.argv[1]
filename = ' '.join(sys.argv[2:])
print(filename)

#We have to get the windows short filename to avoid having spaces which
upsets the command
filename = win32api.GetShortPathName(filename);
#create the command to be send to the lyx server pipe with an echo to a
windows pipe
command = echo LYXCMD:revdvi:server-goto-file-row:+filename+ +line+
.\pipe\lyxserver.in

#print it for debugging and send it to the os
print(command)
os.system(command)

#Uncomment the next line if there are problems, it lets you see the
debugging output (this is still supressed with pythonw.exe though)
#time.sleep(100)


Chris
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Re: Justifying figures to outer margin

[Helge Hafting]

On 29. mai 2010 01:04, george legge wrote:

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Julien Rioux
jri...@physics.utoronto.ca mailto:jri...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote:
Hi,
I am not completely clear on what you want to accomplish, but you might
want to have a look at the sidecap package [1]. I wrote a minimalistic
module to use the package in LyX [2]. Maybe that would help. Otherwise,
sorry for the noise.

Thank you Julien for the prompt reply.
I have read your documentation.
Your package does allow figures to move into the margin and captions to
be placed on either side.
But it does not appear to tackle the major problem, which is:
How to get figures (of all widths) to justify to a boundary several cm
outside the text edge.


A figure, (including the caption) can be shifted left or right if you 
want to. Here is one way:


1.Insert the figure float.
2.The first thing inside this float should be horizontal space.
  Use a negative length to move into the left margin, or use a
  positive length to move into the right margin.
  (Insert-Formatting-Horizontal Space). Set the type
  to custom. That lets you type in a custom length.
3. After the horizontal space, insert a minipage. (Insert-Box)
   In the settings, make sure it is a minipage, set the width to
   100% of line length, and use no frame. (Frames makes it easier
   to see what happens, but they have width of their own, so they
   interfere with precise positioning.)
4. Put all your figure content inside this minipage. Both the
   image and the caption. (The caption can be moved inside
   the minipage by copy-paste.)

This gives you a figure of normal width, i.e. the distance between
the margins. But you can push it right and left by adjusting the
horizontal spacing at the beginning of the figure float.

You may also want to vary the width of the minipage for further control.
The edges of the minipage will be the margins for your figure. So you 
can decide how a very long caption will break up.


Tip: You can see the edges of this minipage by writing a long line. For 
example, a horizontal space of the fill type, with some suitable

fill pattern. (Or use a frame for the minipage, but be aware that
the frame makes the minipage wider in order to make romm for frame lines.)

The actual graphic can be but next to the right or left edge by
using Edit-Paragraph Settings and make the paragraph with the
figure left-adjusted or right-adjusted.

This way, you can line your figure up perfectly with any edge
you like.

Helge Hafting

Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

[Helge Hafting]

On 10. juni 2010 21:44, Jose Quesada wrote:

Hi,

What is a good lyx layout for notetaking?


I tend to use article or report for this purpose.


I don't care about the pdf looks, since my notes will never be printed.
I care about very distinctive part/section/subsection etc (ideally with
diff. colors even).

The section headings are distinctive, but not colored.
Color (on screen) can be added though. Make a copy of the article.layout
called something like myarticle.layout.
In the Font section of Style Part, add Color blue after the size.

Settings for section, subsection etc. is in stdsections.inc,
copy what you need to change into myarticle.layout

You can also change font sizes and vertical separation. And many
other things too.


An something that formats paragraphs with some space separation and no
indent.
Most document classes supports this - make a template document, or save 
it as default for all documents. (The setting is under 
Document-Settings-Text Style


Helge Hafting

Re: GUI behavior in table editing

[Helge Hafting]

On 11. juni 2010 16:33, Maria Gouskova wrote:

Dear LyX users,

I am trying to understand the principles behind cursor and window
behavior in the LyX GUI during table editing. Suppose you're working
on a table that fits into the open document window completely. Move
the cursor (using either a mouse click or the arrow-down key) into a
row of the table. The window view jumps so that the line of the table
that contains the cursor is now either at the top of the LyX window or
the table is repositioned in the window. But this isn't
necessary---and it can be kind of a pain,

[...]

I suspect this is a feature, but I am hoping that it is a bug that can
be fixed!


This is a bug. So it can be fixed - if someone want to do it.

Helge Hafting

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

[Helge Hafting]

On 13. juni 2010 01:10, Alan L Tyree wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:01:26 -0400
Steve Littsl...@troubleshooters.com  wrote:


On Saturday 12 June 2010 03:55:23 Barak Sh wrote:

Hello all,
An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page
contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce
the article to 6 pages? I know it's possible to make fonts a bit
smaller throughout the entire article. This will get the job done,
but I have noticed that there are many blank spaces between
paragraphs and between formulas and text. There must be a simple
way to tell LaTeX to make these spaces a bit smaller so that the
article fits comfortably into 6 pages. (I know there's an option in
Document Settings to specify the vertical separation of paragraphs.
It's already at the smallest value.) Thanks in advance,
Barak


LaTeX puts big space between paragraphs rather than have a page end
before the bottom. The more and bigger graphics (and probably
formulas), the more inter- paragraph variations become. It's hard to
defeat this LaTeX behavior without a lot of micromanaging.


Isn't this behaviour overcome with \raggedbottom?


That won't help. You get rid of the big vertical spaces, but
the pages breaks in the same places, so the page count is
the same.

Helge Hafting

Re: GUI behavior in table editing

[Maria Gouskova]

 I am trying to understand the principles behind cursor and window
 behavior in the LyX GUI during table editing. Suppose you're working
 on a table that fits into the open document window completely. Move
 the cursor (using either a mouse click or the arrow-down key) into a
 row of the table. The window view jumps so that the line of the table
 that contains the cursor is now either at the top of the LyX window or
 the table is repositioned in the window. But this isn't
 necessary---and it can be kind of a pain,

 [...]

 I suspect this is a feature, but I am hoping that it is a bug that can
 be fixed!

 This is a bug. So it can be fixed - if someone want to do it.

 Helge Hafting


Okay, I submitted a bug report.

Maria

Re: GUI behavior in table editing

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Maria Gouskove wrote:
Okay, I submitted a bug report.

Forwarding the message by Edwin on lyx-devel to lyx-users:

can you confirm whether this is fixed in latest trunk?

ed.

Vincent

Re: Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Todd Denniston]

Jose Quesada wrote, On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM:
 update: using branches does not help.
 Moving around in a large doc (example: userGuide) is sluggy too. Weird. This
 must be something in my config...
 I tried 1.6.4 (ubuntu) 1.6.6 (sabayon) and 2alpha 3 (ubuntu). Same problem.
 The problem is that moving the cursor (not even typing, as usersGuide is
 read-only) takes a long time, maybe .5 sec per character. Doesn't feel
 speedy... compared with a small doc, where it flies.
 Best,
 -Jose
 

FYI CentOS 5.4, LyX 1.6.5 from EPEL
With Outline closed, LyX works nice and fast, with Outline open, I feel a 
slight slowdown even on a
dual Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.83GHz, with 2GB of ram, on slower/smaller machines (dual 
Xeon(TM) CPU @ 1.50GHz
.5GB) I have to keep it closed except when needed.


For rearranging the document though, the new (since 1.4) outline mode is 
tremendously helpful.


-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter

Current status of Tufte style?

[John Kane]

I know that there was a problem with the Tufte handout a few months ago but 
between being distracted by other matters and the recent loss of the mailing 
list I don't know what is happening at the moment.

I just did an upgrade to 1.6.6.1 and reinstalled Mixtex and I am getting some 
weird results with tufte outlne.  If I have nothing but standard text in a 
document I get output in Yap.  Add a title and Lyx bombs.  And the same thing 
happens with Book (Tufte).

It is not a serious matter at the moment, I just wanted to show someone how the 
handout  would look but any current information would be appreciated.  

Thanks

Re: Problems with lines in EPS Figure

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 14 June 2010 15:01:23 Tim Wescott wrote:
 This drawing looks fine when I look at it using Eye of Gnome document
 viewer.  But when I incorporate it into my LyX document as a figure, the
 line weights look off.  When I make a pdf from that document, some of
 the lines are so light they're almost invisible, and some are normal
 weight.  It's definitely not up to snuff for sending to a customer!
 
 Am I screwed?  Do I just need to export the thing as a bitmap?  or is
 there some setting I can try to make it render better?

Hi Tim,

When I open it in Okular, it looks great, assuming you meant your lines to be 
1 pixel thick, because that's what it looks like. I'd imagine that with one 
pixel lines, if putting it into LyX enlarges or shrinks it, that would do 
funny things to the lines. Why don't you try a drawing with 3 pixel thick 
lines (including the circles and rectangles) and see whether you get the same 
problems. If not, I recommend using 3px lines.

Another thing I've done successfully is convert it to a .pdf and use that in 
LyX. For whatever reasons, .pdf graphics seem to scale better within LyX.

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt
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Re: Justifying figures to outer margin

[george legge]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.nowrote:

 A figure, (including the caption) can be shifted left or right if you want
 to. Here is one way:
 1.Insert the figure float.
 2.The first thing inside this float should be horizontal space.
  Use a negative length to move into the left margin, or use a
  positive length to move into the right margin.
  (Insert-Formatting-Horizontal Space). Set the type
  to custom. That lets you type in a custom length.
 3. After the horizontal space, insert a minipage. (Insert-Box)
   In the settings, make sure it is a minipage, set the width to
   100% of line length, and use no frame. (Frames makes it easier
   to see what happens, but they have width of their own, so they
   interfere with precise positioning.)
 4. Put all your figure content inside this minipage. Both the
   image and the caption. (The caption can be moved inside
   the minipage by copy-paste.)


Thank you Helge,

The sidecap package with the wide option appears to have answered most
of my needs;
but I shall bear in mind your suggestions for moving figures precisely.

George Legge

I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

[Xu Jiang]

To whom it may concern,

I was originally using the 1.6.5 version of Lyx. Suddenly it stops 
exporting to any format of files while maybe 10 minutes ago it is able 
to do that. I upgraded it to 1.6.6 version and it still doesn't work. It 
didn't return any error and there is no output. Can anybody has any 
solution to that? Thanks so much and have a great day.

Re: I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 14 June 2010 17:23:27 Xu Jiang wrote:
 To whom it may concern,
 
 I was originally using the 1.6.5 version of Lyx. Suddenly it stops
 exporting to any format of files while maybe 10 minutes ago it is able
 to do that. I upgraded it to 1.6.6 version and it still doesn't work. It
 didn't return any error and there is no output. Can anybody has any
 solution to that? Thanks so much and have a great day.

Try making a one paragraph, two word LyX doc that just says Hello World in 
standard environment. Try exporting that. If it works, exploit the differences 
between that doc and the one that wouldn't export. If that one doesn't work, 
it's either a bug or an intermittent problem cured by rebooting, so try 
rebooting.

HTH

SteveT

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

Re: I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Xu Jiang jiang...@umn.edu wrote:
 To whom it may concern,

 I was originally using the 1.6.5 version of Lyx. Suddenly it stops exporting
 to any format of files while maybe 10 minutes ago it is able to do that. I
 upgraded it to 1.6.6 version and it still doesn't work. It didn't return any
 error and there is no output.

Yes, this can happen with LyX: produce no output, but no error pop-up.
Try the following:
- make sure you have enough free space in your temp dir (you did not
specify your OS)
- try compiling your doc on a different system (reboot if you have
dual-boot, try another computer if possible)
- even if no error pop-up appears, go to Document  LaTeX log and see
if any errors are present
- if all else fails, try to isolate the part of your document that
doesn't compile (for example, delete second half and try to compile
first part, etc.)

Regards
Liviu


 Can anybody has any solution to that? Thanks
 so much and have a great day.




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Re: I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

[Paul Rubin]

Xu Jiang jiang088 at umn.edu writes:

 
 To whom it may concern,
 
 I was originally using the 1.6.5 version of Lyx. Suddenly it stops 
 exporting to any format of files while maybe 10 minutes ago it is able 
 to do that. I upgraded it to 1.6.6 version and it still doesn't work. It 
 didn't return any error and there is no output. Can anybody has any 
 solution to that? Thanks so much and have a great day.
 
 

Check your LaTeX installation and make sure it still works (and is still
globally accessible -- meaning if you run 'latex -help' from a terminal/shell
you get something).  Could be LyX no longer sees your LaTeX distro.

/Paul

Negative indent in an enumerated list inside a theorem?

[Paul Elliott]

How do I do in lyx, a negative indent on an enumerated list inside a Theorem?

I have a math book where sometimes the theorems are written like this:

--
Theorem.
If all cows are spherical and either:
 (1) the moon is made of green cheese,
  or (2) there are canals on Mars
then pluto is a planet.
--

How do I copy this style in lyx, specificly the negative indent
on the or.


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Reverse search in windows (from lyx 1.5 -> )

[Chris Lingwood]

I've had this working for a while, I've not noticed anyone posting about how
to use it without cygwin. This works with the standard windows version of
lyx rather than the cywin version. Its a bit of a stupid method with cludges
but it does work fine, its not as neat as the cygwin version (which it's
basically a port of) If anyone manages to clean it up a bit and remove some
of the dependancies that would be good.

Requirements:
- nircmd.exe (i've forgotten why, I think its purely to let me hide the
windows command window)
- python 2.6 (might work with 3 not tried it)
- win32api python extension (to find the short pathnames)
- SumatraPDF

Setup:
- Set the lyxserver pipe (under paths in the settings) to
"\\.\pipe\lyxserver"
- put "SumatraPDF.bat", "search.py", "nircmd.exe" and "SumatraPDF.exe" in
"../lyx16/bin"
- Update the paths in "SumatraPDF.bat" to be correct for your setup (mine is
64bit), use pythonw.exe to supress the console
- set your in "PDF (pdflatex)" viewer field (in file formats) to: NIRCMD.EXE
EXECMD SumatraPDF.bat
- set the "Latex (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex)" converter to "pdflatex
--synctex=-1 $$i"

Fixes:
- If it won't work uncomment the time.sleep(100) line to see python errors
and change "pythonw.exe" to "python.exe" in "SumatraPDF.bat".
- To turn on debugging in lyx for the pipe use the flag -dbg lyxserver. This
will probably say something illuminating, or nothing at all if its not
worked.

SumatraPDF.bat

"SumatraPDF.exe" -inverse-search "C:/Progra~1/Python~1/pythonw.exe
C:/Progra~2/lyx16/bin/search.py %%l %%f" %1


search.py

# author Chris Lingwood
#
# This script (along with sumatra.bat) enables DVI/PDF search in windows
using Sumatra

import sys
import time
import os
import win32api


#Debug output to ensure the path name is picked up properly
print(sys.argv[1])
print(sys.argv[2:])

line = sys.argv[1]
filename = ' '.join(sys.argv[2:])
print(filename)

#We have to get the windows short filename to avoid having spaces which
upsets the command
filename = win32api.GetShortPathName(filename);
#create the command to be send to the lyx server pipe with an echo to a
windows pipe
command = "echo LYXCMD:revdvi:server-goto-file-row:"+filename+" "+line+">>
.\pipe\lyxserver.in"

#print it for debugging and send it to the os
print(command)
os.system(command)

#Uncomment the next line if there are problems, it lets you see the
debugging output (this is still supressed with pythonw.exe though)
#time.sleep(100)


Chris
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Re: Justifying figures to outer margin

[Helge Hafting]

On 29. mai 2010 01:04, george legge wrote:

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Julien Rioux
> wrote:
Hi,
I am not completely clear on what you want to accomplish, but you might
want to have a look at the sidecap package [1]. I wrote a minimalistic
module to use the package in LyX [2]. Maybe that would help. Otherwise,
sorry for the noise.

Thank you Julien for the prompt reply.
I have read your documentation.
Your package does allow figures to move into the margin and captions to
be placed on either side.
But it does not appear to tackle the major problem, which is:
How to get figures (of all widths) to justify to a boundary several cm
outside the text edge.


A figure, (including the caption) can be shifted left or right if you 
want to. Here is one way:


1.Insert the figure float.
2.The first thing inside this float should be horizontal space.
  Use a negative length to move into the left margin, or use a
  positive length to move into the right margin.
  (Insert->Formatting->Horizontal Space). Set the type
  to "custom". That lets you type in a custom length.
3. After the horizontal space, insert a minipage. (Insert->Box)
   In the settings, make sure it is a minipage, set the width to
   100% of line length, and use "no frame". (Frames makes it easier
   to see what happens, but they have width of their own, so they
   interfere with precise positioning.)
4. Put all your figure content inside this minipage. Both the
   image and the caption. (The caption can be moved inside
   the minipage by copy-paste.)

This gives you a figure of normal width, i.e. the distance between
the margins. But you can push it right and left by adjusting the
horizontal spacing at the beginning of the figure float.

You may also want to vary the width of the minipage for further control.
The edges of the minipage will be the "margins" for your figure. So you 
can decide how a very long caption will break up.


Tip: You can see the edges of this minipage by writing a long line. For 
example, a horizontal space of the "fill" type, with some suitable

fill pattern. (Or use a frame for the minipage, but be aware that
the frame makes the minipage wider in order to make romm for frame lines.)

The actual graphic can be but next to the right or left edge by
using Edit->Paragraph Settings and make the paragraph with the
figure left-adjusted or right-adjusted.

This way, you can line your figure up perfectly with any edge
you like.

Helge Hafting

Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

[Helge Hafting]

On 10. juni 2010 21:44, Jose Quesada wrote:

Hi,

What is a good lyx layout for notetaking?


I tend to use article or report for this purpose.


I don't care about the pdf looks, since my notes will never be printed.
I care about very distinctive part/section/subsection etc (ideally with
diff. colors even).

The section headings are distinctive, but not colored.
Color (on screen) can be added though. Make a copy of the article.layout
called something like "myarticle.layout".
In the "Font" section of "Style Part", add "Color blue" after the size.

Settings for "section", "subsection" etc. is in stdsections.inc,
copy what you need to change into "myarticle.layout"

You can also change font sizes and vertical separation. And many
other things too.


An something that formats paragraphs with some space separation and no
indent.
Most document classes supports this - make a template document, or save 
it as default for all documents. (The setting is under 
"Document->Settings->Text Style"


Helge Hafting

Re: GUI behavior in table editing

[Helge Hafting]

On 11. juni 2010 16:33, Maria Gouskova wrote:

Dear LyX users,

I am trying to understand the principles behind cursor and window
behavior in the LyX GUI during table editing. Suppose you're working
on a table that fits into the open document window completely. Move
the cursor (using either a mouse click or the arrow-down key) into a
row of the table. The window view jumps so that the line of the table
that contains the cursor is now either at the top of the LyX window or
the table is repositioned in the window. But this isn't
necessary---and it can be kind of a pain,

[...]

I suspect this is a feature, but I am hoping that it is a bug that can
be fixed!


This is a bug. So it can be fixed - if someone want to do it.

Helge Hafting

Re: Reducing the number of pages in an article

[Helge Hafting]

On 13. juni 2010 01:10, Alan L Tyree wrote:

On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:01:26 -0400
Steve Litt  wrote:


On Saturday 12 June 2010 03:55:23 Barak Sh wrote:

Hello all,
An article I'm writing has reached 7 pages where the last page
contains only a small paragraph. Is there a simple way to reduce
the article to 6 pages? I know it's possible to make fonts a bit
smaller throughout the entire article. This will get the job done,
but I have noticed that there are many blank spaces between
paragraphs and between formulas and text. There must be a simple
way to tell LaTeX to make these spaces a bit smaller so that the
article fits comfortably into 6 pages. (I know there's an option in
Document Settings to specify the vertical separation of paragraphs.
It's already at the smallest value.) Thanks in advance,
Barak


LaTeX puts big space between paragraphs rather than have a page end
before the bottom. The more and bigger graphics (and probably
formulas), the more inter- paragraph variations become. It's hard to
defeat this LaTeX behavior without a lot of micromanaging.


Isn't this behaviour overcome with \raggedbottom?


That won't help. You get rid of the big vertical spaces, but
the pages breaks in the same places, so the page count is
the same.

Helge Hafting

Re: GUI behavior in table editing

[Maria Gouskova]

>> I am trying to understand the principles behind cursor and window
>> behavior in the LyX GUI during table editing. Suppose you're working
>> on a table that fits into the open document window completely. Move
>> the cursor (using either a mouse click or the arrow-down key) into a
>> row of the table. The window view jumps so that the line of the table
>> that contains the cursor is now either at the top of the LyX window or
>> the table is repositioned in the window. But this isn't
>> necessary---and it can be kind of a pain,
>
> [...]
>>
>> I suspect this is a feature, but I am hoping that it is a bug that can
>> be fixed!
>
> This is a bug. So it can be fixed - if someone want to do it.
>
> Helge Hafting
>

Okay, I submitted a bug report.

Maria

Re: GUI behavior in table editing

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

>Maria Gouskove wrote:
>Okay, I submitted a bug report.

Forwarding the message by Edwin on lyx-devel to lyx-users:

>can you confirm whether this is fixed in latest trunk?
>
>ed.

Vincent

Re: Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Todd Denniston]

Jose Quesada wrote, On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM:
> update: using branches does not help.
> Moving around in a large doc (example: userGuide) is sluggy too. Weird. This
> must be something in my config...
> I tried 1.6.4 (ubuntu) 1.6.6 (sabayon) and 2alpha 3 (ubuntu). Same problem.
> The problem is that moving the cursor (not even typing, as usersGuide is
> read-only) takes a long time, maybe .5 sec per character. Doesn't feel
> speedy... compared with a small doc, where it flies.
> Best,
> -Jose
> 

FYI CentOS 5.4, LyX 1.6.5 from EPEL
With Outline closed, LyX works nice and fast, with Outline open, I feel a 
slight slowdown even on a
dual Xeon(R) CPU @ 2.83GHz, with 2GB of ram, on slower/smaller machines (dual 
Xeon(TM) CPU @ 1.50GHz
.5GB) I have to keep it closed except when needed.


For rearranging the document though, the new (since 1.4) outline mode is 
tremendously helpful.


-- 
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter

Current status of Tufte style?

[John Kane]

I know that there was a problem with the Tufte handout a few months ago but 
between being distracted by other matters and the recent loss of the mailing 
list I don't know what is happening at the moment.

I just did an upgrade to 1.6.6.1 and reinstalled Mixtex and I am getting some 
weird results with tufte outlne.  If I have nothing but standard text in a 
document I get output in Yap.  Add a title and Lyx bombs.  And the same thing 
happens with Book (Tufte).

It is not a serious matter at the moment, I just wanted to show someone how the 
handout  would look but any current information would be appreciated.  

Thanks

Re: Problems with lines in EPS Figure

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 14 June 2010 15:01:23 Tim Wescott wrote:
> This drawing looks fine when I look at it using Eye of Gnome document
> viewer.  But when I incorporate it into my LyX document as a figure, the
> line weights look off.  When I make a pdf from that document, some of
> the lines are so light they're almost invisible, and some are normal
> weight.  It's definitely not up to snuff for sending to a customer!
> 
> Am I screwed?  Do I just need to export the thing as a bitmap?  or is
> there some setting I can try to make it render better?

Hi Tim,

When I open it in Okular, it looks great, assuming you meant your lines to be 
1 pixel thick, because that's what it looks like. I'd imagine that with one 
pixel lines, if putting it into LyX enlarges or shrinks it, that would do 
funny things to the lines. Why don't you try a drawing with 3 pixel thick 
lines (including the circles and rectangles) and see whether you get the same 
problems. If not, I recommend using 3px lines.

Another thing I've done successfully is convert it to a .pdf and use that in 
LyX. For whatever reasons, .pdf graphics seem to scale better within LyX.

HTH

SteveT

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

Re: Justifying figures to outer margin

[george legge]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Helge Hafting wrote:

> A figure, (including the caption) can be shifted left or right if you want
> to. Here is one way:
> 1.Insert the figure float.
> 2.The first thing inside this float should be horizontal space.
>  Use a negative length to move into the left margin, or use a
>  positive length to move into the right margin.
>  (Insert->Formatting->Horizontal Space). Set the type
>  to "custom". That lets you type in a custom length.
> 3. After the horizontal space, insert a minipage. (Insert->Box)
>   In the settings, make sure it is a minipage, set the width to
>   100% of line length, and use "no frame". (Frames makes it easier
>   to see what happens, but they have width of their own, so they
>   interfere with precise positioning.)
> 4. Put all your figure content inside this minipage. Both the
>   image and the caption. (The caption can be moved inside
>   the minipage by copy-paste.)
>
>
Thank you Helge,

The "sidecap" package with the "wide" option appears to have answered most
of my needs;
but I shall bear in mind your suggestions for moving figures precisely.

George Legge

I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

[Xu Jiang]

To whom it may concern,

I was originally using the 1.6.5 version of Lyx. Suddenly it stops 
exporting to any format of files while maybe 10 minutes ago it is able 
to do that. I upgraded it to 1.6.6 version and it still doesn't work. It 
didn't return any error and there is no output. Can anybody has any 
solution to that? Thanks so much and have a great day.

Re: I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 14 June 2010 17:23:27 Xu Jiang wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> I was originally using the 1.6.5 version of Lyx. Suddenly it stops
> exporting to any format of files while maybe 10 minutes ago it is able
> to do that. I upgraded it to 1.6.6 version and it still doesn't work. It
> didn't return any error and there is no output. Can anybody has any
> solution to that? Thanks so much and have a great day.

Try making a one paragraph, two word LyX doc that just says "Hello World" in 
standard environment. Try exporting that. If it works, exploit the differences 
between that doc and the one that wouldn't export. If that one doesn't work, 
it's either a bug or an intermittent problem "cured" by rebooting, so try 
rebooting.

HTH

SteveT

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

Re: I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Xu Jiang  wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> I was originally using the 1.6.5 version of Lyx. Suddenly it stops exporting
> to any format of files while maybe 10 minutes ago it is able to do that. I
> upgraded it to 1.6.6 version and it still doesn't work. It didn't return any
> error and there is no output.
>
Yes, this can happen with LyX: produce no output, but no error pop-up.
Try the following:
- make sure you have enough free space in your temp dir (you did not
specify your OS)
- try compiling your doc on a different system (reboot if you have
dual-boot, try another computer if possible)
- even if no error pop-up appears, go to Document > LaTeX log and see
if any errors are present
- if all else fails, try to isolate the part of your document that
doesn't compile (for example, delete second half and try to compile
first part, etc.)

Regards
Liviu


> Can anybody has any solution to that? Thanks
> so much and have a great day.
>



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Re: I have some problem with exporting in Lyx

[Paul Rubin]

Xu Jiang  umn.edu> writes:

> 
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> I was originally using the 1.6.5 version of Lyx. Suddenly it stops 
> exporting to any format of files while maybe 10 minutes ago it is able 
> to do that. I upgraded it to 1.6.6 version and it still doesn't work. It 
> didn't return any error and there is no output. Can anybody has any 
> solution to that? Thanks so much and have a great day.
> 
> 

Check your LaTeX installation and make sure it still works (and is still
globally accessible -- meaning if you run 'latex -help' from a terminal/shell
you get something).  Could be LyX no longer sees your LaTeX distro.

/Paul

Negative indent in an enumerated list inside a theorem?

[Paul Elliott]

How do I do in lyx, a negative indent on an enumerated list inside a Theorem?

I have a math book where sometimes the theorems are written like this:

--
Theorem.
If all cows are spherical and either:
 (1) the moon is made of green cheese,
  or (2) there are canals on Mars
then pluto is a planet.
--

How do I copy this style in lyx, specificly the negative indent
on the "or".


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