Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2011-06-13, Rich Shepard wrote:
I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R can make
 a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as PostScript (.ps).
 When I view the document, the figure is properly oriented, but when I export
 the file to pdflatex, the figure is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
 Rotating the figure in the document is necessary so it is properly oriented
 when the file is compiled.

Any ideas why this happened?

No. However, you might try the eps option:

  set terminal postscript eps

or, e.g.,

  set terminal postscript eps NimbusRomNo9L-Regu 16
  
Günter  

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

[Guenter Milde]

On 2011-06-13, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

 On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:

 On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
 At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated  
 with indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I
 would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and
 after. 

...

 How about the FancyBreak module?

...

 Günter, what if I need the the format of this fancy break text to be  
 like the text after a section in the Article class: flush left (no  
 indent) and justified, rather than centered.

The FancyBreak style is intended just for the break, either with no
text at all or with some decoration (e.g. three stars). The
KeepEmpty keyword ensures that LyX will not delete this special
paragraph even when it is empty.

The to-be-separated paragraph (claim, proposition, ...) should be
typed after another [Return] in a paragraph of Standard (or whatever)
style.

The basic idea is a promintent separator between standard paragraphs.

*  *  *

However, in your case you could consider to write a special Style for
your claims, propositions, laws ... that would take content and give
it the desired formatting.

 Then I should replace the  
 choice center for Align and AlignPossible with ? And should I  
 replace something in the Preamble part?


both. The normal keywords tell LyX what to show and what to do,
while the Preamble defines the command for LaTeX.

Example:

Style Proposition
   LatexNameproposition
   LatexTypecommand
   ParSep   1
   NextNoIndent 1
   Preamble
 \providecommand{\proposition}[1]{\par
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \noindent #1
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \@afterindentfalse
   \@afterheading}
   EndPreamble
End


If the proposition (or ...) may contain more than one paragraph, the
Style should be defined as an environment and the second+ paragraphs
nested ...

See the section on new layouts in HelpCustomization.

Günter

Adding a logo to beamer presentation

[Graham Smith]

Hello I am trying to add a logo to a beamer presentation Lyx 1.6.7 Ubuntu
10.10  Goettingen theme

I tried just

\logo{\includegraphics[height=0.5cm]{Biocensustraininglogonew.JPG}}

an option in the Beamer instructions both as a preamble and ERT but nothing
happened , no errors no logo. The logo file is in the same directory as the
lyx file.

I then tried:


\usepackage{pgf}
\pgfdeclareimage[height=0.5cm]{Biocensus-logo}{/home/graham/Dropbox/Lectures/WildlifeLegislation/Biocensustraininglogonew.JPG}
\logo{\pgfuseimage{Biocensus-logo}}


Again no error messages and no logo.

My search through google seems to just confirm the above method of doing
what I am doing, but obviously I am missing something.

Can anyone help.

Many thanks,

Graham

Working with two documents in one Window

[jezZiFeR]

hello

is there a possibility to use the view of one document in two windows  
(left/right, top/bottom) for two separate documents?


best
jess

Re: Adding a logo to beamer presentation

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello I am trying to add a logo to a beamer presentation Lyx 1.6.7 Ubuntu
 10.10  Goettingen theme

[..]

 My search through google seems to just confirm the above method of doing
 what I am doing, but obviously I am missing something.

I'm wondering if it's not theme-related. Have you tried with some other themes?
Liviu

Re: Working with two documents in one Window

[Richard Heck]

On 06/14/2011 06:16 AM, jezZiFeR wrote:
 hello

 is there a possibility to use the view of one document in two windows
 (left/right, top/bottom) for two separate documents?

Yes. Just open whatever document you want in whichever view you want.
I.e., split the view, then open the new document.

rh

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Julien Rioux wrote:


I've seen this happen because of a
%%Orientation: Landscape
line in the postscript. It's up to the converter to decide how to interpret 
this and whether to apply a rotation or not. The png and eps converters 
evidently behave differently.


Julien,

  That's interesting. I saw the same results for both eps and ps (since they
are so closely related it's not surprising).

Thanks,

Rich

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Guenter Milde wrote:


No. However, you might try the eps option:
 set terminal postscript eps
or, e.g.,
 set terminal postscript eps NimbusRomNo9L-Regu 16


Guenter,

  Initially I set t postscript eps enhanced and tried to have gnuplot accept
the palladio typeface. No joy there. Rather than wasting more time with
this, I switched to Times and that worked.

  The eps output rotated itself so I regenerated the plot as ps; no
difference. Both need to be rotated in lyx to appear properly in the
generated pdf.

Thanks,

Rich

Re: Adding a logo to beamer presentation

[Graham Smith]

Liviu


 I'm wondering if it's not theme-related. Have you tried with some other
 themes?


You are correct, it is linked to the them, changing to Warsaw gives me the
logo in the bottom left corner.

Which is fine except I really want the Goettingen theme. Having tried a few
themes it seems it doesn't work if you have a theme with a vertical
navigation bar.

That's a blow, but at least I now know what is going on.

Thanks,

Graham

Re: Images in Headings/TOC

[H . Hodges]

Julien Rioux jrioux at physics.utoronto.ca writes:


 
 
 
 
 There is a way to distinguish in-text section text and in-toc section 
 text. If that's what you want, here's how to do it. With your cursor on 
 the section line inside the LyX editor window, use the menu Insert  
 Short Title to insert the text that appear in the TOC and in page headers.
 
 Hope this helps,
 Julien


Thanks, that worked...except for Part headings. The Short Title option is greyed
out in that case. Anyone have any ideas on how to keep a graphic in the heading
of the main document, but out of the corresponding heading listing in the table
of contents? 

Comment écrire opérateur adjoint en mécanique quantique ?

[Robert Joseph]

Voilà. Comment écrire A^+ (avec dague au lieu de +) ?
Merci very much schön !

RJ

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:50 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:


On 2011-06-13, Bruce Pourciau wrote:


On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:



On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated
with indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc,  
which I

would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and
after.


However, in your case you could consider to write a special Style for
your claims, propositions, laws ... that would take content and give
it the desired formatting.


Example:

Style Proposition
  LatexName proposition
  LatexType command
  ParSep1
  NextNoIndent  1
  Preamble
\providecommand{\proposition}[1]{\par
  \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
  \noindent #1
  \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
  \@afterindentfalse
  \@afterheading}
  EndPreamble
End


If the proposition (or ...) may contain more than one paragraph, the
Style should be defined as an environment and the second+ paragraphs
nested ...

See the section on new layouts in HelpCustomization.

Günter



This is just what I need. I've saved it as a LyX module. Thank you.  
How do I get the separation to show up in LyX? I'm assuming the ParSep  
1 won't make the separation show up, because for this article I have  
Indentation checked in Text Layout. Should I replace ParSep 1 with  
something else?


Bruce

Re: Comment écrire opérateur adjoint en mécanique quantique ?

[José Matos]

On Tuesday 14 June 2011 16:53:53 Robert Joseph wrote:
 Voilà. Comment écrire A^+ (avec dague au lieu de +) ?
 Merci very much schön !
 
 RJ

\dagger in math mode will work.

-- 
José Abílio

Re: spell checker not active

[José Matos]

On Saturday 11 June 2011 18:21:46 Cor Blom wrote:
 Maybe your hunspell is too recent? 1.3 is not found by lyx.
 
 See http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg169351.html
 
 Regards,
 
 Cor

FWIW this patch has been committed and it will be present in lyx-2.0.1.

-- 
José Abílio

LyX 2.0.0 spell checker {KBD shortcut(s)}

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

Has anybody else experienced these keyboard shortcut issues with the
spellchecker sidebar on LyX 2.0???

Especially any one NOT using the binary found in the PCLinuxOS repository?

If it matters: I'm a ‘multi-boot’, ‘multi-Linux Distro’ user. And
I use whichever version of LyX is available from the repository of
whichever Linux system I'm currently using. I may be a bit too dependent on
the various package management systems on my installed distros but most of
the time this saves me a lot of dependency headaches.

At the moment the only one of my installed Linux that normal system
upgrades resulted in LyX 2.0.0 (April 29 2011) is my PCLinuxOS
installation. Thus I have no other LyX 2.0 to use to see if the keyboard
shortcut issues I've encountered are inherent in LyX 2.0.0, or {I do hope}
perhaps they stem from some modifications made by the PCLinuxOS package
maintainers.

I asked about these issues earlier and got some suggestions, but nobody
said that their LyX 2.0 had the same problem. Since most people nowadays
are more comfortable with using the mouse as a primary control interface,
it is quite possible that more LyX 2.0 users have these keyboard shortcut
issues than are aware of it. (simply because they click on the buttons
rather than typing in the keyboard shortcuts.)

The shortcut issues I'm having are:

1) The Alt+D on the Add button conflicts with the Document pull down menu. 
To
   actually add the word to the word list I MUST click on the button with the 
mouse.

2) The Alt+I on the Ignore button conflicts with the Insert pull down menu.
   Again I MUST click...

3) The Alt+F on the Find next button conflicts with the File pull down menu.
   Again I MUST click...

3) There does not appear to be any way to use the keyboard to dismiss the
   sidebars so that the document text can use the entire window/screen width.
   To ditch the sidebar I MUST click on the little x marked button in the
   upper right hand corner.
   Note: I can disengage the sidebars focus with escape and edit the
   document using only the approximately 2/3's of the screen/window width.
   But I can't make the sidebar go away with the keyboard.
   And I note: that this is so regardless of whether or not I've selected
   the Spellcheck Continuously setting...

If anyone is experiencing symptoms like that with their copy of LyX...

Please tell me!

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|  ?   ?   Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
|  ^J(tWdy)P
|\___/ jtw...@ttlc.net

Re: LyX 2.0.0 spell checker {KBD shortcut(s)}

[David L. Johnson]

On 06/14/2011 11:52 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

 I may be a bit too dependent on
 the various package management systems on my installed distros but 
most of

 the time this saves me a lot of dependency headaches.

I don't think I would fault anyone for being dependent upon package 
management systems on a distro.  I've been using debian since -- I have 
no idea how long --- and have found that the package management is now 
very, very good (it wasn't so smart at first), and it is very difficult 
to avoid difficulties if you oppose its wishes.


I am also using 2.0.0, under debian testing (wheezy).

 The shortcut issues I'm having are:

 1) The Alt+D on the Add button conflicts with the Document pull 
down menu. To
 actually add the word to the word list I MUST click on the button 
with the mouse.


 2) The Alt+I on the Ignore button conflicts with the Insert pull 
down menu.

 Again I MUST click...

 3) The Alt+F on the Find next button conflicts with the File pull 
down menu.

 Again I MUST click...

I see these phenomena as well (I use gnome, but it seems that this is an 
issue about LyX that is independent of the window-manager).  If you just 
right-click on the misspelled word when using continuous spellchecking 
(something I thought I would never do, but I do like it now), you do not 
get those keyboard shortcuts at all.  Maybe they need to be removed from 
the spellchecker window, or changed to avoid the conflicts.  This may 
also depend upon how you set up your LyX shortcuts.  I use cua with a 
few additions (not conflicting with these commands).


One thing to note is that, if the spellchecker window has the focus, you 
can use the shortcuts.  But typically the focus would be on the main 
window, and since that gets the focus the shortcuts would go to its 
menu.  So you have to use the mouse, no matter what, at least to shift 
the input focus to the spellchecker window.


--

David L. Johnson

Business! cried the Ghost. Mankind was my business. The common
welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance,  and benevolence,
were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of
water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
--Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Re: Adding a logo to beamer presentation

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
 You are correct, it is linked to the them, changing to Warsaw gives me the
 logo in the bottom left corner.
 Which is fine except I really want the Goettingen theme. Having tried a few
 themes it seems it doesn't work if you have a theme with a vertical
 navigation bar.

Each Beamer theme is a collection of LaTeX commands, meaning that
instead of using a given theme you could compile several commands
(from different themes) that would give you the look you desire. I'd
start with Beamer's documentation.

Regards
Liviu

Re: Images in Headings/TOC

[Julien Rioux]

On 14/06/2011 10:49 AM, H. Hodges wrote:


Julien Riouxjriouxat  physics.utoronto.ca  writes:









There is a way to distinguish in-text section text and in-toc section
text. If that's what you want, here's how to do it. With your cursor on
the section line inside the LyX editor window, use the menu Insert
Short Title to insert the text that appear in the TOC and in page headers.

Hope this helps,
Julien



Thanks, that worked...except for Part headings. The Short Title option is greyed
out in that case. Anyone have any ideas on how to keep a graphic in the heading
of the main document, but out of the corresponding heading listing in the table
of contents?








This looks like an oversight, because LaTeX itself provides this feature 
also for parts, but LyX doesn't.


Solution: Define OptionalArgs 1 for the Part style in the layout 
file you are using. (if this sounds alien to you just ask and I or 
someone will try to explain)


Devs: See attached patch.

--
Julien
Index: lib/layouts/stdsections.inc
===
--- lib/layouts/stdsections.inc	(revision 39050)
+++ lib/layouts/stdsections.inc	(working copy)
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 	ParSep0.8
 	Align Center
 	Alignpossible Center
+	OptionalArgs  1
 	Font
 	  Series  Bold
 	  SizeHuge
Index: lib/layouts/stdstarsections.inc
===
--- lib/layouts/stdstarsections.inc	(revision 39050)
+++ lib/layouts/stdstarsections.inc	(working copy)
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 	LatexName part*
 	LabelType No_Label
 	LabelCounter	  
+	OptionalArgs  0
 End
 
 

Re: beamer lyx page numbering

[Julien Rioux]

On 13/06/2011 5:37 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM, tania kallabtaniakal...@hotmail.com  wrote:

Hi again,
i am working on beamer template for presentations using lyx
there are two things i am stuck with
inserting the page numberering


This can be achieved by experimenting with different themes. See [1]
for some pointers.
[1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer



Skipping automatically to the next slide when the first one is full without
having to start a frame evrytime


I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but you should know that beamer
always expects the user to specify the beginning of a new frame.
Furthermore, LyX cannot know before-hand when a slide is full, as it
would first need to compile the entire document. However, even in this
case LyX doesn't (and possibly will never) feature the automatic
mechanisms that would allow it to spot that a slide is full, and
relies on your eyes to do that.

Regards
Liviu



Sorry but this is actually misleading a bit. You can have frame breaks 
in beamer. In that use case frames are filled just like the pages in a 
regular article. Coming from the powerpoint world you would never want 
to do that, but from a latex world this is what you expect from latex in 
general: you expect that it does the layout for you.


Solution: Put [allowframebreaks] in TeX code as the very first thing 
in your Frame heading in LyX. I use this for bibliography slide(s).


--
Julien

Implementation of minutes.sty in LyX?

[Marcus Glöder]

Dear LyX-users,

to write minutes of meetings, there is the LaTeX package minutes.sty. Is 
there a way to install a LyX implementation of this package at documents 
- settings - modules?


greetings from Germany,
Marcus

--
E-Mail:  m.gloe...@gmx.de

Suggestions for my Debian 6 LyX guide?

[RDB]

Dear LyX Users,

I'm putting together a one-page guide to installing and using LyX on the 
latest stable version of Debian Linux.


My hope is that the installation procedure it contains could be followed 
by a local charity which installs Linux on old donated hardware, but even 
if that doesn't happen I'd be satisfied just having something I can pass 
on to other Debian users who want to get started using LyX.


What follows is the guide I have so far, which represents what I did to 
set up LyX on my own Debian 6.0.1 machine.  Any suggestions, particularly 
as regards potential gotchas I should address, extra software which 
users might appreciate being installed as they advance in their 
understanding of LyX, or common points of confusion for new users, would 
all be appreciated.  [Note: The steps I used to lay down the operating 
system are at http://russellb.livejournal.com/1335718.html but I doubt 
they'd be relevant for the limited purpose of critiquing the LyX install.]




A ONE-PAGE GUIDE TO INSTALLING AND USING LYX ON DEBIAN 6 DESKTOPS

1. To install LyX, start by opening System-Administration-Synaptic 
Package Manager. Under Settings-Preferences-General make sure Consider 
recommended packages as dependencies is checked, then install the 
following packages: texlive-full, latex2rtf, chktex, rcs, and lyx. [Note: 
If you anticipate creating multiple documents with lengthy bibliographies, 
then install the pybliographer package as well.]


2. Open System-Preferences-Keyboard-Layouts-Options-Compose Key 
Position, and check Right Win (check something else if your keyboard 
doesn't have those generally unused Windows logo keys): you can then press 
and release this key, followed by two other keys according to the chart at 
http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html to type special characters.


3. If you're using US letter sized paper (i.e. 8 1/2 x 11) rather than 
the slightly larger European A4 sized paper, then LyX needs to be told 
this. Start LyX, make the change to US letter paper in 
Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX, then select Save. Next, open a new 
document in LyX (via File-New), go to Document-Settings-Page Layout, 
change the paper format to US Letter, and click on Save as Document 
Defaults. You shouldn't have to make either of these changes again.


4. The fact that you installed latex2rtf, chktex and rcs enables a 
few more features in LyX (if you don't see them right away run 
Tools-Reconfigure and then restart LyX): you can use File-Export to 
export a LyX file as Rich Text Format (which Microsoft Word and almost all 
other word processing software can understand), the Check TeX command in 
the Tools menu helps you find typographical problems with your document, 
and Version Control in the File menu lets you track your writing 
progress and revert to any earlier version of your document (for more 
details on using version control see Help-Additional Features-Table of 
Contents-LyX Features needing Extra Software-Version Control in LyX).


5. If you'll be exporting as Rich Text Format, and then importing into 
Microsoft Word, any LyX documents which contain equations, then go to 
Tools-Preferences-File Handing-Converters and remove the -p and -S 
switches from the command which invokes latex2rtf [Note: after saving this 
change you'll need to run Reconfigure and restart LyX].


6. It bears mentioning that the only reason you should ever have to export 
a LyX document as Rich Text Format is if the person you'll be sending that 
RTF file will be taking over the job of editing it: if the recipient only 
needs to read your document, then you should save it in standard PDF 
(pdflatex) format, which unlike RTF format will present your document 
exactly as it is supposed to look.


7. If you're creating an Encapsulated Postscript graphic for later 
inclusion in a LyX document, it's generally best to save that graphic 
without the preview.


8. If you're asked to use double-spacing with a 12 point font, then open 
your LyX document and go to Document-Settings-Text Layout to set Line 
spacing to Double, and go to Document-Settings-Document Class to enter 
12pt as a Custom Class Option.

xetex CV

[Mauro]

Hello everyone.

I downloaded LyX a few days ago and then I tried to make a CV. As I surfed
through the web, I kept finding more and more styles for this so I finally
decided for one, xetexCV. The thing is that I followed all the steps in this
website: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/19/latex-cv-part4 and used
the .zip there provided. After that, I tried to make a PDF output of the example
LyX's file included. Won't compile, the legend No \title given. pops up. I
tried a few things out but couldn't manage to sort that. I don't know LaTeX I
(only know the Maths Mode) so I can't analyze what's going on. If you want I can
copypaste the LaTeX source cod LyX displays, but it'll make the message heavy,
maybe it's better for you to download the .zip in the site I mentioned, but if
you prefer, I could post the code in another mail.

I have LyX 2.0.0 and MikTex 2.9. Pretty much followed the intuitive Windows
installation wizard.


Thank you for your time.

Mauro.

P.S: Hope I posted this in the right place.

Re: LyX 2.0.0 spell checker {KBD shortcut(s)}

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Jun 14, David L. Johnson did say:

 On 06/14/2011 11:52 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
 
  I may be a bit too dependent on
  the various package management systems on my installed distros but 
  most of the time this saves me a lot of dependency headaches.
 
 I don't think I would fault anyone for being dependent upon package management
 systems on a distro.  I've been using debian since -- I have no idea how long
 --- and have found that the package management is now very, very good (it
 wasn't so smart at first), and it is very difficult to avoid difficulties if
 you oppose its wishes.
 
 I am also using 2.0.0, under debian testing (wheezy).
 
  The shortcut issues I'm having are:
 
  1) The Alt+D on the Add button conflicts with the Document pull 
  down menu. To actually add the word to the word list I MUST click on the
  button with the mouse.
 
  2) The Alt+I on the Ignore button conflicts with the Insert pull 
  down menu.
  Again I MUST click...
 
  3) The Alt+F on the Find next button conflicts with the File pull 
  down menu.
  Again I MUST click...
 
 I see these phenomena as well (I use gnome, but it seems that this is an issue
 about LyX that is independent of the window-manager). 

I'll by that, I'm using E17...

 If you just right-click on the misspelled word when using continuous
 spellchecking (something I thought I would never do, but I do like it now),
 you do not get those keyboard shortcuts at all.

That's something I know I wouldn't learn to like. Not only do my fingers
quickly go numb when I start using the mouse a lot, But I sometimes have
difficulty controlling it accurately. I do a little better with my trackball
than a traditional mouse but as a control interface it still gives me much
aggravation.

Aside from which I would NOT want full time spellchecking. Anything that
instantly tells me a word is misspelled (even those stupid squiggly
underlines like they use in some word processors and web browsers, are
enough to make me lose track of the creative thought process when I'm
typing new content...  


 Maybe they need to be removed from the spellchecker window,

{whimper} If they remove them nobody will ever fix them and I don't wanna
be stuck with the mouse. 

 or changed to avoid the conflicts.  

Now that's the ticket. But to avoid the conflict with Documents, the Add
button would have to either need to use a character NOT in it's label or
give it the Alt+A shortcut, which would mean the Replace All button
couldn't use the A anymore. And so on... A better solution would be
perhaps to force the focus to switch to the spell checker window when F7 is
pressed, and keep it there until (the escape key is pressed, the spell
checker window is closed, or a mouse click is made within the main window.

 This may also depend upon how you set up your LyX shortcuts.  I use cua with a
 few additions (not conflicting with these commands).

Could you tell me how to add one to close the spellchecker. The sidebar
doesn't disappear upon the escape key any more. And while I can't remember
if undocking it so that it's once again a floating box that hides part of
the context goes away upon the esc key. But I surely noticed that undocking
it from being a sidebar stops the questionable words from getting
highlighted...

 One thing to note is that, if the spellchecker window has the focus, you can
 use the shortcuts.  But typically the focus would be on the main window, and
 since that gets the focus the shortcuts would go to its menu.  So you have to
 use the mouse, no matter what, at least to shift the input focus to the
 spellchecker window.

{whimper}

-- 
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|   ^J(tWdy)P
| \___/ jtw...@ttlc.net

Re: xetex CV

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Mauro fontana.ma...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello everyone.

 I downloaded LyX a few days ago and then I tried to make a CV. As I surfed
 through the web, I kept finding more and more styles for this so I finally
 decided for one, xetexCV. The thing is that I followed all the steps in this
 website: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/19/latex-cv-part4 and used
 the .zip there provided. After that, I tried to make a PDF output of the 
 example
 LyX's file included. Won't compile, the legend No \title given. pops up. I

Yes, I've stumbled upon this myself. Some time ago I reported the
error to Rob, but then he didn't have a ready-to-ship solution.
Perhaps he would have more to add now, or maybe not.

Cheers
Liviu

PS An unsatisfactory solution would be to get rid of all the \title
calls in the document, basically all the environments other than
section and subsection (if I remember right). If you can hack the
header part by yourself (as in this [1] CV template), the you might be
able to use xetexCV even so.
[1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/CV#toc11


 tried a few things out but couldn't manage to sort that. I don't know LaTeX I
 (only know the Maths Mode) so I can't analyze what's going on. If you want I 
 can
 copypaste the LaTeX source cod LyX displays, but it'll make the message 
 heavy,
 maybe it's better for you to download the .zip in the site I mentioned, but if
 you prefer, I could post the code in another mail.

 I have LyX 2.0.0 and MikTex 2.9. Pretty much followed the intuitive Windows
 installation wizard.


 Thank you for your time.

 Mauro.

 P.S: Hope I posted this in the right place.





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Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2011-06-13, Rich Shepard wrote:
I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R can make
 a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as PostScript (.ps).
 When I view the document, the figure is properly oriented, but when I export
 the file to pdflatex, the figure is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
 Rotating the figure in the document is necessary so it is properly oriented
 when the file is compiled.

Any ideas why this happened?

No. However, you might try the eps option:

  set terminal postscript eps

or, e.g.,

  set terminal postscript eps NimbusRomNo9L-Regu 16
  
Günter  

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

[Guenter Milde]

On 2011-06-13, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

 On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:

 On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
 At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated  
 with indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I
 would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and
 after. 

...

 How about the FancyBreak module?

...

 Günter, what if I need the the format of this fancy break text to be  
 like the text after a section in the Article class: flush left (no  
 indent) and justified, rather than centered.

The FancyBreak style is intended just for the break, either with no
text at all or with some decoration (e.g. three stars). The
KeepEmpty keyword ensures that LyX will not delete this special
paragraph even when it is empty.

The to-be-separated paragraph (claim, proposition, ...) should be
typed after another [Return] in a paragraph of Standard (or whatever)
style.

The basic idea is a promintent separator between standard paragraphs.

*  *  *

However, in your case you could consider to write a special Style for
your claims, propositions, laws ... that would take content and give
it the desired formatting.

 Then I should replace the  
 choice center for Align and AlignPossible with ? And should I  
 replace something in the Preamble part?


both. The normal keywords tell LyX what to show and what to do,
while the Preamble defines the command for LaTeX.

Example:

Style Proposition
   LatexNameproposition
   LatexTypecommand
   ParSep   1
   NextNoIndent 1
   Preamble
 \providecommand{\proposition}[1]{\par
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \noindent #1
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \@afterindentfalse
   \@afterheading}
   EndPreamble
End


If the proposition (or ...) may contain more than one paragraph, the
Style should be defined as an environment and the second+ paragraphs
nested ...

See the section on new layouts in HelpCustomization.

Günter

Adding a logo to beamer presentation

[Graham Smith]

Hello I am trying to add a logo to a beamer presentation Lyx 1.6.7 Ubuntu
10.10  Goettingen theme

I tried just

\logo{\includegraphics[height=0.5cm]{Biocensustraininglogonew.JPG}}

an option in the Beamer instructions both as a preamble and ERT but nothing
happened , no errors no logo. The logo file is in the same directory as the
lyx file.

I then tried:


\usepackage{pgf}
\pgfdeclareimage[height=0.5cm]{Biocensus-logo}{/home/graham/Dropbox/Lectures/WildlifeLegislation/Biocensustraininglogonew.JPG}
\logo{\pgfuseimage{Biocensus-logo}}


Again no error messages and no logo.

My search through google seems to just confirm the above method of doing
what I am doing, but obviously I am missing something.

Can anyone help.

Many thanks,

Graham

Working with two documents in one Window

[jezZiFeR]

hello

is there a possibility to use the view of one document in two windows  
(left/right, top/bottom) for two separate documents?


best
jess

Re: Adding a logo to beamer presentation

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello I am trying to add a logo to a beamer presentation Lyx 1.6.7 Ubuntu
 10.10  Goettingen theme

[..]

 My search through google seems to just confirm the above method of doing
 what I am doing, but obviously I am missing something.

I'm wondering if it's not theme-related. Have you tried with some other themes?
Liviu

Re: Working with two documents in one Window

[Richard Heck]

On 06/14/2011 06:16 AM, jezZiFeR wrote:
 hello

 is there a possibility to use the view of one document in two windows
 (left/right, top/bottom) for two separate documents?

Yes. Just open whatever document you want in whichever view you want.
I.e., split the view, then open the new document.

rh

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Julien Rioux wrote:


I've seen this happen because of a
%%Orientation: Landscape
line in the postscript. It's up to the converter to decide how to interpret 
this and whether to apply a rotation or not. The png and eps converters 
evidently behave differently.


Julien,

  That's interesting. I saw the same results for both eps and ps (since they
are so closely related it's not surprising).

Thanks,

Rich

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Guenter Milde wrote:


No. However, you might try the eps option:
 set terminal postscript eps
or, e.g.,
 set terminal postscript eps NimbusRomNo9L-Regu 16


Guenter,

  Initially I set t postscript eps enhanced and tried to have gnuplot accept
the palladio typeface. No joy there. Rather than wasting more time with
this, I switched to Times and that worked.

  The eps output rotated itself so I regenerated the plot as ps; no
difference. Both need to be rotated in lyx to appear properly in the
generated pdf.

Thanks,

Rich

Re: Adding a logo to beamer presentation

[Graham Smith]

Liviu


 I'm wondering if it's not theme-related. Have you tried with some other
 themes?


You are correct, it is linked to the them, changing to Warsaw gives me the
logo in the bottom left corner.

Which is fine except I really want the Goettingen theme. Having tried a few
themes it seems it doesn't work if you have a theme with a vertical
navigation bar.

That's a blow, but at least I now know what is going on.

Thanks,

Graham

Re: Images in Headings/TOC

[H . Hodges]

Julien Rioux jrioux at physics.utoronto.ca writes:


 
 
 
 
 There is a way to distinguish in-text section text and in-toc section 
 text. If that's what you want, here's how to do it. With your cursor on 
 the section line inside the LyX editor window, use the menu Insert  
 Short Title to insert the text that appear in the TOC and in page headers.
 
 Hope this helps,
 Julien


Thanks, that worked...except for Part headings. The Short Title option is greyed
out in that case. Anyone have any ideas on how to keep a graphic in the heading
of the main document, but out of the corresponding heading listing in the table
of contents? 

Comment écrire opérateur adjoint en mécanique quantique ?

[Robert Joseph]

Voilà. Comment écrire A^+ (avec dague au lieu de +) ?
Merci very much schön !

RJ

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:50 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:


On 2011-06-13, Bruce Pourciau wrote:


On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:



On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated
with indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc,  
which I

would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and
after.


However, in your case you could consider to write a special Style for
your claims, propositions, laws ... that would take content and give
it the desired formatting.


Example:

Style Proposition
  LatexName proposition
  LatexType command
  ParSep1
  NextNoIndent  1
  Preamble
\providecommand{\proposition}[1]{\par
  \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
  \noindent #1
  \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
  \@afterindentfalse
  \@afterheading}
  EndPreamble
End


If the proposition (or ...) may contain more than one paragraph, the
Style should be defined as an environment and the second+ paragraphs
nested ...

See the section on new layouts in HelpCustomization.

Günter



This is just what I need. I've saved it as a LyX module. Thank you.  
How do I get the separation to show up in LyX? I'm assuming the ParSep  
1 won't make the separation show up, because for this article I have  
Indentation checked in Text Layout. Should I replace ParSep 1 with  
something else?


Bruce

Re: Comment écrire opérateur adjoint en mécanique quantique ?

[José Matos]

On Tuesday 14 June 2011 16:53:53 Robert Joseph wrote:
 Voilà. Comment écrire A^+ (avec dague au lieu de +) ?
 Merci very much schön !
 
 RJ

\dagger in math mode will work.

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Re: spell checker not active

[José Matos]

On Saturday 11 June 2011 18:21:46 Cor Blom wrote:
 Maybe your hunspell is too recent? 1.3 is not found by lyx.
 
 See http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg169351.html
 
 Regards,
 
 Cor

FWIW this patch has been committed and it will be present in lyx-2.0.1.

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LyX 2.0.0 spell checker {KBD shortcut(s)}

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

Has anybody else experienced these keyboard shortcut issues with the
spellchecker sidebar on LyX 2.0???

Especially any one NOT using the binary found in the PCLinuxOS repository?

If it matters: I'm a ‘multi-boot’, ‘multi-Linux Distro’ user. And
I use whichever version of LyX is available from the repository of
whichever Linux system I'm currently using. I may be a bit too dependent on
the various package management systems on my installed distros but most of
the time this saves me a lot of dependency headaches.

At the moment the only one of my installed Linux that normal system
upgrades resulted in LyX 2.0.0 (April 29 2011) is my PCLinuxOS
installation. Thus I have no other LyX 2.0 to use to see if the keyboard
shortcut issues I've encountered are inherent in LyX 2.0.0, or {I do hope}
perhaps they stem from some modifications made by the PCLinuxOS package
maintainers.

I asked about these issues earlier and got some suggestions, but nobody
said that their LyX 2.0 had the same problem. Since most people nowadays
are more comfortable with using the mouse as a primary control interface,
it is quite possible that more LyX 2.0 users have these keyboard shortcut
issues than are aware of it. (simply because they click on the buttons
rather than typing in the keyboard shortcuts.)

The shortcut issues I'm having are:

1) The Alt+D on the Add button conflicts with the Document pull down menu. 
To
   actually add the word to the word list I MUST click on the button with the 
mouse.

2) The Alt+I on the Ignore button conflicts with the Insert pull down menu.
   Again I MUST click...

3) The Alt+F on the Find next button conflicts with the File pull down menu.
   Again I MUST click...

3) There does not appear to be any way to use the keyboard to dismiss the
   sidebars so that the document text can use the entire window/screen width.
   To ditch the sidebar I MUST click on the little x marked button in the
   upper right hand corner.
   Note: I can disengage the sidebars focus with escape and edit the
   document using only the approximately 2/3's of the screen/window width.
   But I can't make the sidebar go away with the keyboard.
   And I note: that this is so regardless of whether or not I've selected
   the Spellcheck Continuously setting...

If anyone is experiencing symptoms like that with their copy of LyX...

Please tell me!

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Re: LyX 2.0.0 spell checker {KBD shortcut(s)}

[David L. Johnson]

On 06/14/2011 11:52 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

 I may be a bit too dependent on
 the various package management systems on my installed distros but 
most of

 the time this saves me a lot of dependency headaches.

I don't think I would fault anyone for being dependent upon package 
management systems on a distro.  I've been using debian since -- I have 
no idea how long --- and have found that the package management is now 
very, very good (it wasn't so smart at first), and it is very difficult 
to avoid difficulties if you oppose its wishes.


I am also using 2.0.0, under debian testing (wheezy).

 The shortcut issues I'm having are:

 1) The Alt+D on the Add button conflicts with the Document pull 
down menu. To
 actually add the word to the word list I MUST click on the button 
with the mouse.


 2) The Alt+I on the Ignore button conflicts with the Insert pull 
down menu.

 Again I MUST click...

 3) The Alt+F on the Find next button conflicts with the File pull 
down menu.

 Again I MUST click...

I see these phenomena as well (I use gnome, but it seems that this is an 
issue about LyX that is independent of the window-manager).  If you just 
right-click on the misspelled word when using continuous spellchecking 
(something I thought I would never do, but I do like it now), you do not 
get those keyboard shortcuts at all.  Maybe they need to be removed from 
the spellchecker window, or changed to avoid the conflicts.  This may 
also depend upon how you set up your LyX shortcuts.  I use cua with a 
few additions (not conflicting with these commands).


One thing to note is that, if the spellchecker window has the focus, you 
can use the shortcuts.  But typically the focus would be on the main 
window, and since that gets the focus the shortcuts would go to its 
menu.  So you have to use the mouse, no matter what, at least to shift 
the input focus to the spellchecker window.


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Re: Adding a logo to beamer presentation

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
 You are correct, it is linked to the them, changing to Warsaw gives me the
 logo in the bottom left corner.
 Which is fine except I really want the Goettingen theme. Having tried a few
 themes it seems it doesn't work if you have a theme with a vertical
 navigation bar.

Each Beamer theme is a collection of LaTeX commands, meaning that
instead of using a given theme you could compile several commands
(from different themes) that would give you the look you desire. I'd
start with Beamer's documentation.

Regards
Liviu

Re: Images in Headings/TOC

[Julien Rioux]

On 14/06/2011 10:49 AM, H. Hodges wrote:


Julien Riouxjriouxat  physics.utoronto.ca  writes:









There is a way to distinguish in-text section text and in-toc section
text. If that's what you want, here's how to do it. With your cursor on
the section line inside the LyX editor window, use the menu Insert
Short Title to insert the text that appear in the TOC and in page headers.

Hope this helps,
Julien



Thanks, that worked...except for Part headings. The Short Title option is greyed
out in that case. Anyone have any ideas on how to keep a graphic in the heading
of the main document, but out of the corresponding heading listing in the table
of contents?








This looks like an oversight, because LaTeX itself provides this feature 
also for parts, but LyX doesn't.


Solution: Define OptionalArgs 1 for the Part style in the layout 
file you are using. (if this sounds alien to you just ask and I or 
someone will try to explain)


Devs: See attached patch.

--
Julien
Index: lib/layouts/stdsections.inc
===
--- lib/layouts/stdsections.inc	(revision 39050)
+++ lib/layouts/stdsections.inc	(working copy)
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 	ParSep0.8
 	Align Center
 	Alignpossible Center
+	OptionalArgs  1
 	Font
 	  Series  Bold
 	  SizeHuge
Index: lib/layouts/stdstarsections.inc
===
--- lib/layouts/stdstarsections.inc	(revision 39050)
+++ lib/layouts/stdstarsections.inc	(working copy)
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 	LatexName part*
 	LabelType No_Label
 	LabelCounter	  
+	OptionalArgs  0
 End
 
 

Re: beamer lyx page numbering

[Julien Rioux]

On 13/06/2011 5:37 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM, tania kallabtaniakal...@hotmail.com  wrote:

Hi again,
i am working on beamer template for presentations using lyx
there are two things i am stuck with
inserting the page numberering


This can be achieved by experimenting with different themes. See [1]
for some pointers.
[1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer



Skipping automatically to the next slide when the first one is full without
having to start a frame evrytime


I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but you should know that beamer
always expects the user to specify the beginning of a new frame.
Furthermore, LyX cannot know before-hand when a slide is full, as it
would first need to compile the entire document. However, even in this
case LyX doesn't (and possibly will never) feature the automatic
mechanisms that would allow it to spot that a slide is full, and
relies on your eyes to do that.

Regards
Liviu



Sorry but this is actually misleading a bit. You can have frame breaks 
in beamer. In that use case frames are filled just like the pages in a 
regular article. Coming from the powerpoint world you would never want 
to do that, but from a latex world this is what you expect from latex in 
general: you expect that it does the layout for you.


Solution: Put [allowframebreaks] in TeX code as the very first thing 
in your Frame heading in LyX. I use this for bibliography slide(s).


--
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Implementation of minutes.sty in LyX?

[Marcus Glöder]

Dear LyX-users,

to write minutes of meetings, there is the LaTeX package minutes.sty. Is 
there a way to install a LyX implementation of this package at documents 
- settings - modules?


greetings from Germany,
Marcus

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Suggestions for my Debian 6 LyX guide?

[RDB]

Dear LyX Users,

I'm putting together a one-page guide to installing and using LyX on the 
latest stable version of Debian Linux.


My hope is that the installation procedure it contains could be followed 
by a local charity which installs Linux on old donated hardware, but even 
if that doesn't happen I'd be satisfied just having something I can pass 
on to other Debian users who want to get started using LyX.


What follows is the guide I have so far, which represents what I did to 
set up LyX on my own Debian 6.0.1 machine.  Any suggestions, particularly 
as regards potential gotchas I should address, extra software which 
users might appreciate being installed as they advance in their 
understanding of LyX, or common points of confusion for new users, would 
all be appreciated.  [Note: The steps I used to lay down the operating 
system are at http://russellb.livejournal.com/1335718.html but I doubt 
they'd be relevant for the limited purpose of critiquing the LyX install.]




A ONE-PAGE GUIDE TO INSTALLING AND USING LYX ON DEBIAN 6 DESKTOPS

1. To install LyX, start by opening System-Administration-Synaptic 
Package Manager. Under Settings-Preferences-General make sure Consider 
recommended packages as dependencies is checked, then install the 
following packages: texlive-full, latex2rtf, chktex, rcs, and lyx. [Note: 
If you anticipate creating multiple documents with lengthy bibliographies, 
then install the pybliographer package as well.]


2. Open System-Preferences-Keyboard-Layouts-Options-Compose Key 
Position, and check Right Win (check something else if your keyboard 
doesn't have those generally unused Windows logo keys): you can then press 
and release this key, followed by two other keys according to the chart at 
http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html to type special characters.


3. If you're using US letter sized paper (i.e. 8 1/2 x 11) rather than 
the slightly larger European A4 sized paper, then LyX needs to be told 
this. Start LyX, make the change to US letter paper in 
Tools-Preferences-Output-LaTeX, then select Save. Next, open a new 
document in LyX (via File-New), go to Document-Settings-Page Layout, 
change the paper format to US Letter, and click on Save as Document 
Defaults. You shouldn't have to make either of these changes again.


4. The fact that you installed latex2rtf, chktex and rcs enables a 
few more features in LyX (if you don't see them right away run 
Tools-Reconfigure and then restart LyX): you can use File-Export to 
export a LyX file as Rich Text Format (which Microsoft Word and almost all 
other word processing software can understand), the Check TeX command in 
the Tools menu helps you find typographical problems with your document, 
and Version Control in the File menu lets you track your writing 
progress and revert to any earlier version of your document (for more 
details on using version control see Help-Additional Features-Table of 
Contents-LyX Features needing Extra Software-Version Control in LyX).


5. If you'll be exporting as Rich Text Format, and then importing into 
Microsoft Word, any LyX documents which contain equations, then go to 
Tools-Preferences-File Handing-Converters and remove the -p and -S 
switches from the command which invokes latex2rtf [Note: after saving this 
change you'll need to run Reconfigure and restart LyX].


6. It bears mentioning that the only reason you should ever have to export 
a LyX document as Rich Text Format is if the person you'll be sending that 
RTF file will be taking over the job of editing it: if the recipient only 
needs to read your document, then you should save it in standard PDF 
(pdflatex) format, which unlike RTF format will present your document 
exactly as it is supposed to look.


7. If you're creating an Encapsulated Postscript graphic for later 
inclusion in a LyX document, it's generally best to save that graphic 
without the preview.


8. If you're asked to use double-spacing with a 12 point font, then open 
your LyX document and go to Document-Settings-Text Layout to set Line 
spacing to Double, and go to Document-Settings-Document Class to enter 
12pt as a Custom Class Option.

xetex CV

[Mauro]

Hello everyone.

I downloaded LyX a few days ago and then I tried to make a CV. As I surfed
through the web, I kept finding more and more styles for this so I finally
decided for one, xetexCV. The thing is that I followed all the steps in this
website: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/19/latex-cv-part4 and used
the .zip there provided. After that, I tried to make a PDF output of the example
LyX's file included. Won't compile, the legend No \title given. pops up. I
tried a few things out but couldn't manage to sort that. I don't know LaTeX I
(only know the Maths Mode) so I can't analyze what's going on. If you want I can
copypaste the LaTeX source cod LyX displays, but it'll make the message heavy,
maybe it's better for you to download the .zip in the site I mentioned, but if
you prefer, I could post the code in another mail.

I have LyX 2.0.0 and MikTex 2.9. Pretty much followed the intuitive Windows
installation wizard.


Thank you for your time.

Mauro.

P.S: Hope I posted this in the right place.

Re: LyX 2.0.0 spell checker {KBD shortcut(s)}

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Jun 14, David L. Johnson did say:

 On 06/14/2011 11:52 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
 
  I may be a bit too dependent on
  the various package management systems on my installed distros but 
  most of the time this saves me a lot of dependency headaches.
 
 I don't think I would fault anyone for being dependent upon package management
 systems on a distro.  I've been using debian since -- I have no idea how long
 --- and have found that the package management is now very, very good (it
 wasn't so smart at first), and it is very difficult to avoid difficulties if
 you oppose its wishes.
 
 I am also using 2.0.0, under debian testing (wheezy).
 
  The shortcut issues I'm having are:
 
  1) The Alt+D on the Add button conflicts with the Document pull 
  down menu. To actually add the word to the word list I MUST click on the
  button with the mouse.
 
  2) The Alt+I on the Ignore button conflicts with the Insert pull 
  down menu.
  Again I MUST click...
 
  3) The Alt+F on the Find next button conflicts with the File pull 
  down menu.
  Again I MUST click...
 
 I see these phenomena as well (I use gnome, but it seems that this is an issue
 about LyX that is independent of the window-manager). 

I'll by that, I'm using E17...

 If you just right-click on the misspelled word when using continuous
 spellchecking (something I thought I would never do, but I do like it now),
 you do not get those keyboard shortcuts at all.

That's something I know I wouldn't learn to like. Not only do my fingers
quickly go numb when I start using the mouse a lot, But I sometimes have
difficulty controlling it accurately. I do a little better with my trackball
than a traditional mouse but as a control interface it still gives me much
aggravation.

Aside from which I would NOT want full time spellchecking. Anything that
instantly tells me a word is misspelled (even those stupid squiggly
underlines like they use in some word processors and web browsers, are
enough to make me lose track of the creative thought process when I'm
typing new content...  


 Maybe they need to be removed from the spellchecker window,

{whimper} If they remove them nobody will ever fix them and I don't wanna
be stuck with the mouse. 

 or changed to avoid the conflicts.  

Now that's the ticket. But to avoid the conflict with Documents, the Add
button would have to either need to use a character NOT in it's label or
give it the Alt+A shortcut, which would mean the Replace All button
couldn't use the A anymore. And so on... A better solution would be
perhaps to force the focus to switch to the spell checker window when F7 is
pressed, and keep it there until (the escape key is pressed, the spell
checker window is closed, or a mouse click is made within the main window.

 This may also depend upon how you set up your LyX shortcuts.  I use cua with a
 few additions (not conflicting with these commands).

Could you tell me how to add one to close the spellchecker. The sidebar
doesn't disappear upon the escape key any more. And while I can't remember
if undocking it so that it's once again a floating box that hides part of
the context goes away upon the esc key. But I surely noticed that undocking
it from being a sidebar stops the questionable words from getting
highlighted...

 One thing to note is that, if the spellchecker window has the focus, you can
 use the shortcuts.  But typically the focus would be on the main window, and
 since that gets the focus the shortcuts would go to its menu.  So you have to
 use the mouse, no matter what, at least to shift the input focus to the
 spellchecker window.

{whimper}

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Re: xetex CV

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Mauro fontana.ma...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello everyone.

 I downloaded LyX a few days ago and then I tried to make a CV. As I surfed
 through the web, I kept finding more and more styles for this so I finally
 decided for one, xetexCV. The thing is that I followed all the steps in this
 website: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/19/latex-cv-part4 and used
 the .zip there provided. After that, I tried to make a PDF output of the 
 example
 LyX's file included. Won't compile, the legend No \title given. pops up. I

Yes, I've stumbled upon this myself. Some time ago I reported the
error to Rob, but then he didn't have a ready-to-ship solution.
Perhaps he would have more to add now, or maybe not.

Cheers
Liviu

PS An unsatisfactory solution would be to get rid of all the \title
calls in the document, basically all the environments other than
section and subsection (if I remember right). If you can hack the
header part by yourself (as in this [1] CV template), the you might be
able to use xetexCV even so.
[1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/CV#toc11


 tried a few things out but couldn't manage to sort that. I don't know LaTeX I
 (only know the Maths Mode) so I can't analyze what's going on. If you want I 
 can
 copypaste the LaTeX source cod LyX displays, but it'll make the message 
 heavy,
 maybe it's better for you to download the .zip in the site I mentioned, but if
 you prefer, I could post the code in another mail.

 I have LyX 2.0.0 and MikTex 2.9. Pretty much followed the intuitive Windows
 installation wizard.


 Thank you for your time.

 Mauro.

 P.S: Hope I posted this in the right place.





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Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2011-06-13, Rich Shepard wrote:
>I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R can make
> a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as PostScript (.ps).
> When I view the document, the figure is properly oriented, but when I export
> the file to pdflatex, the figure is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
> Rotating the figure in the document is necessary so it is properly oriented
> when the file is compiled.

>Any ideas why this happened?

No. However, you might try the eps option:

  set terminal postscript eps

or, e.g.,

  set terminal postscript eps "NimbusRomNo9L-Regu" 16
  
Günter  

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

[Guenter Milde]

On 2011-06-13, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

> On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:

>> On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
>>> At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated  
>>> with indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc, which I
>>> would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and
>>> after. 

...

>> How about the FancyBreak module?

...

> Günter, what if I need the the format of this fancy break text to be  
> like the text after a section in the Article class: flush left (no  
> indent) and justified, rather than centered.

The FancyBreak style is intended just for the break, either with no
text at all or with some decoration (e.g. three stars). The
"KeepEmpty" keyword ensures that LyX will not delete this special
paragraph even when it is empty.

The to-be-separated paragraph (claim, proposition, ...) should be
typed after another [Return] in a paragraph of Standard (or whatever)
style.

The basic idea is a promintent separator between standard paragraphs.

*  *  *

However, in your case you could consider to write a special Style for
your claims, propositions, laws ... that would take content and give
it the desired formatting.

> Then I should replace the  
> choice "center" for Align and AlignPossible with ? And should I  
> replace something in the Preamble part?


both. The "normal" keywords tell LyX what to show and what to do,
while the Preamble defines the command for LaTeX.

Example:

Style Proposition
   LatexNameproposition
   LatexTypecommand
   ParSep   1
   NextNoIndent 1
   Preamble
 \providecommand{\proposition}[1]{\par
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \noindent #1
   \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
   \@afterindentfalse
   \@afterheading}
   EndPreamble
End


If the proposition (or ...) may contain more than one paragraph, the
Style should be defined as an environment and the second+ paragraphs
nested ...

See the section on new layouts in Help>Customization.

Günter

Adding a logo to beamer presentation

[Graham Smith]

Hello I am trying to add a logo to a beamer presentation Lyx 1.6.7 Ubuntu
10.10  Goettingen theme

I tried just

\logo{\includegraphics[height=0.5cm]{Biocensustraininglogonew.JPG}}

an option in the Beamer instructions both as a preamble and ERT but nothing
happened , no errors no logo. The logo file is in the same directory as the
lyx file.

I then tried:


\usepackage{pgf}
\pgfdeclareimage[height=0.5cm]{Biocensus-logo}{/home/graham/Dropbox/Lectures/WildlifeLegislation/Biocensustraininglogonew.JPG}
\logo{\pgfuseimage{Biocensus-logo}}


Again no error messages and no logo.

My search through google seems to just confirm the above method of doing
what I am doing, but obviously I am missing something.

Can anyone help.

Many thanks,

Graham

Working with two documents in one Window

[jezZiFeR]

hello

is there a possibility to use the view of one document in two windows  
(left/right, top/bottom) for two separate documents?


best
jess

Re: Adding a logo to beamer presentation

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Graham Smith  wrote:
> Hello I am trying to add a logo to a beamer presentation Lyx 1.6.7 Ubuntu
> 10.10  Goettingen theme
>
[..]

> My search through google seems to just confirm the above method of doing
> what I am doing, but obviously I am missing something.
>
I'm wondering if it's not theme-related. Have you tried with some other themes?
Liviu

Re: Working with two documents in one Window

[Richard Heck]

On 06/14/2011 06:16 AM, jezZiFeR wrote:
> hello
>
> is there a possibility to use the view of one document in two windows
> (left/right, top/bottom) for two separate documents?
>
Yes. Just open whatever document you want in whichever view you want.
I.e., split the view, then open the new document.

rh

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Julien Rioux wrote:


I've seen this happen because of a
%%Orientation: Landscape
line in the postscript. It's up to the converter to decide how to interpret 
this and whether to apply a rotation or not. The png and eps converters 
evidently behave differently.


Julien,

  That's interesting. I saw the same results for both eps and ps (since they
are so closely related it's not surprising).

Thanks,

Rich

Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Guenter Milde wrote:


No. However, you might try the eps option:
 set terminal postscript eps
or, e.g.,
 set terminal postscript eps "NimbusRomNo9L-Regu" 16


Guenter,

  Initially I set t postscript eps enhanced and tried to have gnuplot accept
the palladio typeface. No joy there. Rather than wasting more time with
this, I switched to Times and that worked.

  The eps output rotated itself so I regenerated the plot as ps; no
difference. Both need to be rotated in lyx to appear properly in the
generated pdf.

Thanks,

Rich

Re: Adding a logo to beamer presentation

[Graham Smith]

Liviu


> I'm wondering if it's not theme-related. Have you tried with some other
> themes?
>
>
You are correct, it is linked to the them, changing to Warsaw gives me the
logo in the bottom left corner.

Which is fine except I really want the Goettingen theme. Having tried a few
themes it seems it doesn't work if you have a theme with a vertical
navigation bar.

That's a blow, but at least I now know what is going on.

Thanks,

Graham

Re: Images in Headings/TOC

[H . Hodges]

Julien Rioux  physics.utoronto.ca> writes:

>
> >
> >
> >
> 
> There is a way to distinguish in-text section text and in-toc section 
> text. If that's what you want, here's how to do it. With your cursor on 
> the section line inside the LyX editor window, use the menu Insert > 
> Short Title to insert the text that appear in the TOC and in page headers.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Julien
>

Thanks, that worked...except for Part headings. The Short Title option is greyed
out in that case. Anyone have any ideas on how to keep a graphic in the heading
of the main document, but out of the corresponding heading listing in the table
of contents? 

Comment écrire "opérateur adjoint" en mécanique quantique ?

[Robert Joseph]

Voilà. Comment écrire A^+ (avec "dague" au lieu de +) ?
Merci very much schön !

RJ

Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space

[Bruce Pourciau]

On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:50 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:


On 2011-06-13, Bruce Pourciau wrote:


On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:42 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:



On 2011-06-10, Bruce Pourciau wrote:

At various spots within a document where paragraphs are separated
with indentation, I often have claims, propositions, laws, etc,  
which I

would like formatted flush left with some vertical space before and
after.


However, in your case you could consider to write a special Style for
your claims, propositions, laws ... that would take content and give
it the desired formatting.


Example:

Style Proposition
  LatexName proposition
  LatexType command
  ParSep1
  NextNoIndent  1
  Preamble
\providecommand{\proposition}[1]{\par
  \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
  \noindent #1
  \vskip 0.5\baselineskip
  \@afterindentfalse
  \@afterheading}
  EndPreamble
End


If the proposition (or ...) may contain more than one paragraph, the
Style should be defined as an environment and the second+ paragraphs
nested ...

See the section on new layouts in Help>Customization.

Günter



This is just what I need. I've saved it as a LyX module. Thank you.  
How do I get the separation to show up in LyX? I'm assuming the ParSep  
1 won't make the separation show up, because for this article I have  
Indentation checked in Text Layout. Should I replace ParSep 1 with  
something else?


Bruce

Re: Comment écrire " opérateur adjoint" en mécanique quantique ?

[José Matos]

On Tuesday 14 June 2011 16:53:53 Robert Joseph wrote:
> Voilà. Comment écrire A^+ (avec "dague" au lieu de +) ?
> Merci very much schön !
> 
> RJ

\dagger in math mode will work.

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Re: spell checker not active

[José Matos]

On Saturday 11 June 2011 18:21:46 Cor Blom wrote:
> Maybe your hunspell is too recent? 1.3 is not found by lyx.
> 
> See http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg169351.html
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Cor

FWIW this patch has been committed and it will be present in lyx-2.0.1.

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LyX 2.0.0 spell checker {KBD shortcut(s)}

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

Has anybody else experienced these keyboard shortcut issues with the
spellchecker sidebar on LyX 2.0???

Especially any one NOT using the binary found in the PCLinuxOS repository?

If it matters: I'm a ‘multi-boot’, ‘multi-Linux Distro’ user. And
I use whichever version of LyX is available from the repository of
whichever Linux system I'm currently using. I may be a bit too dependent on
the various package management systems on my installed distros but most of
the time this saves me a lot of dependency headaches.

At the moment the only one of my installed Linux that normal system
upgrades resulted in LyX 2.0.0 (April 29 2011) is my PCLinuxOS
installation. Thus I have no other LyX 2.0 to use to see if the keyboard
shortcut issues I've encountered are inherent in LyX 2.0.0, or {I do hope}
perhaps they stem from some modifications made by the PCLinuxOS package
maintainers.

I asked about these issues earlier and got some suggestions, but nobody
said that their LyX 2.0 had the same problem. Since most people nowadays
are more comfortable with using the mouse as a primary control interface,
it is quite possible that more LyX 2.0 users have these keyboard shortcut
issues than are aware of it. (simply because they "click" on the buttons
rather than typing in the keyboard shortcuts.)

The shortcut issues I'm having are:

1) The Alt+D on the "Add" button conflicts with the "Document" pull down menu. 
To
   actually add the word to the word list I MUST click on the button with the 
mouse.

2) The Alt+I on the "Ignore" button conflicts with the "Insert" pull down menu.
   Again I MUST click...

3) The Alt+F on the "Find next" button conflicts with the "File" pull down menu.
   Again I MUST click...

3) There does not appear to be any way to use the keyboard to dismiss the
   sidebars so that the document text can use the entire window/screen width.
   To ditch the sidebar I MUST click on the little "x" marked button in the
   upper right hand corner.
   Note: I can disengage the sidebars focus with escape and edit the
   document using only the approximately 2/3's of the screen/window width.
   But I can't make the sidebar go away with the keyboard.
   And I note: that this is so regardless of whether or not I've selected
   the "Spellcheck Continuously" setting...

If anyone is experiencing symptoms like that with their copy of LyX...

Please tell me!

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Re: LyX 2.0.0 spell checker {KBD shortcut(s)}

[David L. Johnson]

On 06/14/2011 11:52 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

> I may be a bit too dependent on
> the various package management systems on my installed distros but 
most of

> the time this saves me a lot of dependency headaches.

I don't think I would fault anyone for being dependent upon package 
management systems on a distro.  I've been using debian since -- I have 
no idea how long --- and have found that the package management is now 
very, very good (it wasn't so smart at first), and it is very difficult 
to avoid difficulties if you oppose its wishes.


I am also using 2.0.0, under debian testing (wheezy).

> The shortcut issues I'm having are:
>
> 1) The Alt+D on the "Add" button conflicts with the "Document" pull 
down menu. To
> actually add the word to the word list I MUST click on the button 
with the mouse.

>
> 2) The Alt+I on the "Ignore" button conflicts with the "Insert" pull 
down menu.

> Again I MUST click...
>
> 3) The Alt+F on the "Find next" button conflicts with the "File" pull 
down menu.

> Again I MUST click...

I see these phenomena as well (I use gnome, but it seems that this is an 
issue about LyX that is independent of the window-manager).  If you just 
right-click on the misspelled word when using continuous spellchecking 
(something I thought I would never do, but I do like it now), you do not 
get those keyboard shortcuts at all.  Maybe they need to be removed from 
the spellchecker window, or changed to avoid the conflicts.  This may 
also depend upon how you set up your LyX shortcuts.  I use cua with a 
few additions (not conflicting with these commands).


One thing to note is that, if the spellchecker window has the focus, you 
can use the shortcuts.  But typically the focus would be on the main 
window, and since that gets the focus the shortcuts would go to its 
menu.  So you have to use the mouse, no matter what, at least to shift 
the input focus to the spellchecker window.


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Re: Adding a logo to beamer presentation

[Liviu Andronic]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Graham Smith  wrote:
> You are correct, it is linked to the them, changing to Warsaw gives me the
> logo in the bottom left corner.
> Which is fine except I really want the Goettingen theme. Having tried a few
> themes it seems it doesn't work if you have a theme with a vertical
> navigation bar.
>
Each Beamer theme is a collection of LaTeX commands, meaning that
instead of using a given theme you could compile several commands
(from different themes) that would give you the look you desire. I'd
start with Beamer's documentation.

Regards
Liviu

Re: Images in Headings/TOC

[Julien Rioux]

On 14/06/2011 10:49 AM, H. Hodges wrote:


Julien Rioux  writes:









There is a way to distinguish in-text section text and in-toc section
text. If that's what you want, here's how to do it. With your cursor on
the section line inside the LyX editor window, use the menu Insert>
Short Title to insert the text that appear in the TOC and in page headers.

Hope this helps,
Julien



Thanks, that worked...except for Part headings. The Short Title option is greyed
out in that case. Anyone have any ideas on how to keep a graphic in the heading
of the main document, but out of the corresponding heading listing in the table
of contents?








This looks like an oversight, because LaTeX itself provides this feature 
also for parts, but LyX doesn't.


Solution: Define "OptionalArgs 1" for the "Part" style in the layout 
file you are using. (if this sounds alien to you just ask and I or 
someone will try to explain)


Devs: See attached patch.

--
Julien
Index: lib/layouts/stdsections.inc
===
--- lib/layouts/stdsections.inc	(revision 39050)
+++ lib/layouts/stdsections.inc	(working copy)
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 	ParSep0.8
 	Align Center
 	Alignpossible Center
+	OptionalArgs  1
 	Font
 	  Series  Bold
 	  SizeHuge
Index: lib/layouts/stdstarsections.inc
===
--- lib/layouts/stdstarsections.inc	(revision 39050)
+++ lib/layouts/stdstarsections.inc	(working copy)
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 	LatexName part*
 	LabelType No_Label
 	LabelCounter	  ""
+	OptionalArgs  0
 End
 
 

Re: beamer lyx page numbering

[Julien Rioux]

On 13/06/2011 5:37 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:04 AM, tania kallab  wrote:

Hi again,
i am working on beamer template for presentations using lyx
there are two things i am stuck with
inserting the page numberering


This can be achieved by experimenting with different themes. See [1]
for some pointers.
[1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer



Skipping automatically to the next slide when the first one is full without
having to start a frame evrytime


I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but you should know that beamer
always expects the user to specify the beginning of a new frame.
Furthermore, LyX cannot know before-hand when a slide is full, as it
would first need to compile the entire document. However, even in this
case LyX doesn't (and possibly will never) feature the automatic
mechanisms that would allow it to spot that a slide is full, and
relies on your eyes to do that.

Regards
Liviu



Sorry but this is actually misleading a bit. You can have frame breaks 
in beamer. In that use case frames are filled just like the pages in a 
regular article. Coming from the powerpoint world you would never want 
to do that, but from a latex world this is what you expect from latex in 
general: you expect that it does the layout for you.


Solution: Put "[allowframebreaks]" in TeX code as the very first thing 
in your Frame heading in LyX. I use this for bibliography slide(s).


--
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Implementation of minutes.sty in LyX?

[Marcus Glöder]

Dear LyX-users,

to write minutes of meetings, there is the LaTeX package minutes.sty. Is 
there a way to install a LyX implementation of this package at documents 
-> settings -> modules?


greetings from Germany,
Marcus

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Suggestions for my Debian 6 LyX guide?

[RDB]

Dear LyX Users,

I'm putting together a one-page guide to installing and using LyX on the 
latest stable version of Debian Linux.


My hope is that the installation procedure it contains could be followed 
by a local charity which installs Linux on old donated hardware, but even 
if that doesn't happen I'd be satisfied just having something I can pass 
on to other Debian users who want to get started using LyX.


What follows is the guide I have so far, which represents what I did to 
set up LyX on my own Debian 6.0.1 machine.  Any suggestions, particularly 
as regards potential "gotchas" I should address, extra software which 
users might appreciate being installed as they advance in their 
understanding of LyX, or common points of confusion for new users, would 
all be appreciated.  [Note: The steps I used to lay down the operating 
system are at http://russellb.livejournal.com/1335718.html but I doubt 
they'd be relevant for the limited purpose of critiquing the LyX install.]




A ONE-PAGE GUIDE TO INSTALLING AND USING LYX ON DEBIAN 6 DESKTOPS

1. To install LyX, start by opening System->Administration->Synaptic 
Package Manager. Under Settings->Preferences->General make sure "Consider 
recommended packages as dependencies" is checked, then install the 
following packages: texlive-full, latex2rtf, chktex, rcs, and lyx. [Note: 
If you anticipate creating multiple documents with lengthy bibliographies, 
then install the "pybliographer" package as well.]


2. Open System->Preferences->Keyboard->Layouts->Options->Compose Key 
Position, and check "Right Win" (check something else if your keyboard 
doesn't have those generally unused Windows logo keys): you can then press 
and release this key, followed by two other keys according to the chart at 
http://www.hermit.org/Linux/ComposeKeys.html to type special characters.


3. If you're using US "letter" sized paper (i.e. 8 1/2" x 11") rather than 
the slightly larger European "A4" sized paper, then LyX needs to be told 
this. Start LyX, make the change to "US letter" paper in 
Tools->Preferences->Output->LaTeX, then select Save. Next, open a new 
document in LyX (via File->New), go to Document->Settings->Page Layout, 
change the paper format to "US Letter", and click on "Save as Document 
Defaults". You shouldn't have to make either of these changes again.


4. The fact that you installed "latex2rtf", "chktex" and "rcs" enables a 
few more features in LyX (if you don't see them right away run 
Tools->Reconfigure and then restart LyX): you can use File->Export to 
export a LyX file as Rich Text Format (which Microsoft Word and almost all 
other word processing software can understand), the "Check TeX" command in 
the Tools menu helps you find typographical problems with your document, 
and "Version Control" in the File menu lets you track your writing 
progress and revert to any earlier version of your document (for more 
details on using version control see Help->Additional Features->Table of 
Contents->LyX Features needing Extra Software->Version Control in LyX).


5. If you'll be exporting as Rich Text Format, and then importing into 
Microsoft Word, any LyX documents which contain equations, then go to 
Tools->Preferences->File Handing->Converters and remove the "-p" and "-S" 
switches from the command which invokes latex2rtf [Note: after saving this 
change you'll need to run Reconfigure and restart LyX].


6. It bears mentioning that the only reason you should ever have to export 
a LyX document as Rich Text Format is if the person you'll be sending that 
RTF file will be taking over the job of editing it: if the recipient only 
needs to read your document, then you should save it in standard PDF 
(pdflatex) format, which unlike RTF format will present your document 
exactly as it is supposed to look.


7. If you're creating an Encapsulated Postscript graphic for later 
inclusion in a LyX document, it's generally best to save that graphic 
without the "preview."


8. If you're asked to use double-spacing with a 12 point font, then open 
your LyX document and go to Document->Settings->Text Layout to set "Line 
spacing" to Double, and go to Document->Settings->Document Class to enter 
"12pt" as a Custom Class Option.

xetex CV

[Mauro]

Hello everyone.

I downloaded LyX a few days ago and then I tried to make a CV. As I surfed
through the web, I kept finding more and more styles for this so I finally
decided for one, xetexCV. The thing is that I followed all the steps in this
website: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/19/latex-cv-part4 and used
the .zip there provided. After that, I tried to make a PDF output of the example
LyX's file included. Won't compile, the legend "No \title given." pops up. I
tried a few things out but couldn't manage to sort that. I don't know LaTeX I
(only know the Maths Mode) so I can't analyze what's going on. If you want I can
copy the LaTeX source cod LyX displays, but it'll make the message heavy,
maybe it's better for you to download the .zip in the site I mentioned, but if
you prefer, I could post the code in another mail.

I have LyX 2.0.0 and MikTex 2.9. Pretty much followed the intuitive Windows
installation wizard.


Thank you for your time.

Mauro.

P.S: Hope I posted this in the right place.

Re: LyX 2.0.0 spell checker {KBD shortcut(s)}

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Jun 14, David L. Johnson did say:

> On 06/14/2011 11:52 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> 
> > I may be a bit too dependent on
> > the various package management systems on my installed distros but 
> > most of the time this saves me a lot of dependency headaches.
> 
> I don't think I would fault anyone for being dependent upon package management
> systems on a distro.  I've been using debian since -- I have no idea how long
> --- and have found that the package management is now very, very good (it
> wasn't so smart at first), and it is very difficult to avoid difficulties if
> you oppose its wishes.
> 
> I am also using 2.0.0, under debian testing (wheezy).
> 
> > The shortcut issues I'm having are:
> >
> > 1) The Alt+D on the "Add" button conflicts with the "Document" pull 
> > down menu. To actually add the word to the word list I MUST click on the
> > button with the mouse.
> >
> > 2) The Alt+I on the "Ignore" button conflicts with the "Insert" pull 
> > down menu.
> > Again I MUST click...
> >
> > 3) The Alt+F on the "Find next" button conflicts with the "File" pull 
> > down menu.
> > Again I MUST click...
> 
> I see these phenomena as well (I use gnome, but it seems that this is an issue
> about LyX that is independent of the window-manager). 

I'll by that, I'm using E17...

> If you just right-click on the misspelled word when using continuous
> spellchecking (something I thought I would never do, but I do like it now),
> you do not get those keyboard shortcuts at all.

That's something I know I wouldn't learn to like. Not only do my fingers
quickly go numb when I start using the mouse a lot, But I sometimes have
difficulty controlling it accurately. I do a little better with my trackball
than a traditional mouse but as a control interface it still gives me much
aggravation.

Aside from which I would NOT want full time spellchecking. Anything that
instantly tells me a word is misspelled (even those stupid squiggly
underlines like they use in some word processors and web browsers, are
enough to make me lose track of the creative thought process when I'm
typing new content...  


> Maybe they need to be removed from the spellchecker window,

{whimper} If they remove them nobody will ever fix them and I don't wanna
be stuck with the mouse. 

> or changed to avoid the conflicts.  

Now that's the ticket. But to avoid the conflict with Documents, the Add
button would have to either need to use a character NOT in it's label or
give it the Alt+A shortcut, which would mean the "Replace All" button
couldn't use the "A" anymore. And so on... A better solution would be
perhaps to force the focus to switch to the spell checker window when F7 is
pressed, and keep it there until (the escape key is pressed, the spell
checker window is closed, or a mouse click is made within the main window.

> This may also depend upon how you set up your LyX shortcuts.  I use cua with a
> few additions (not conflicting with these commands).

Could you tell me how to add one to close the spellchecker. The sidebar
doesn't disappear upon the escape key any more. And while I can't remember
if undocking it so that it's once again a floating box that hides part of
the context goes away upon the esc key. But I surely noticed that undocking
it from being a sidebar stops the questionable words from getting
highlighted...

> One thing to note is that, if the spellchecker window has the focus, you can
> use the shortcuts.  But typically the focus would be on the main window, and
> since that gets the focus the shortcuts would go to its menu.  So you have to
> use the mouse, no matter what, at least to shift the input focus to the
> spellchecker window.

{whimper}

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Re: xetex CV

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Mauro  wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I downloaded LyX a few days ago and then I tried to make a CV. As I surfed
> through the web, I kept finding more and more styles for this so I finally
> decided for one, xetexCV. The thing is that I followed all the steps in this
> website: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/19/latex-cv-part4 and used
> the .zip there provided. After that, I tried to make a PDF output of the 
> example
> LyX's file included. Won't compile, the legend "No \title given." pops up. I
>
Yes, I've stumbled upon this myself. Some time ago I reported the
error to Rob, but then he didn't have a ready-to-ship solution.
Perhaps he would have more to add now, or maybe not.

Cheers
Liviu

PS An unsatisfactory solution would be to get rid of all the \title
calls in the document, basically all the environments other than
section and subsection (if I remember right). If you can hack the
header part by yourself (as in this [1] CV template), the you might be
able to use xetexCV even so.
[1] http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/CV#toc11


> tried a few things out but couldn't manage to sort that. I don't know LaTeX I
> (only know the Maths Mode) so I can't analyze what's going on. If you want I 
> can
> copy the LaTeX source cod LyX displays, but it'll make the message 
> heavy,
> maybe it's better for you to download the .zip in the site I mentioned, but if
> you prefer, I could post the code in another mail.
>
> I have LyX 2.0.0 and MikTex 2.9. Pretty much followed the intuitive Windows
> installation wizard.
>
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Mauro.
>
> P.S: Hope I posted this in the right place.
>
>



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