Re: Unsubscribe me from Lyx list

[Gour]

On Tue, 8 May 2012 18:02:07 -0500
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 Dear Lyx list team:
 
 I want to unsubscribe from the Lyx list. What do I have to do?

Check headers of your message- there is one named: List-Unsubscribe: ;)


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Re: Straghtforward XML export?

[Nico Williams]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:
 On 05/08/2012 07:30 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
 LyXHTML looks very promising.  It certainly preserves everything I
 have in my [admittedly small] test file.  If it preserves custom inset
 names then I could probably use custom insets to provide the
 additional metadata I need (I still haven't quite figured out how to
 create custom insets, but give me time).  XSLT can do the rest.

 It will do with custom insets whatever you ask it to do. If I remember
 correctly, it defaults to something like:
 div class=custominset
 or an equivalent span, depending upon whether its a charstyle or a
 flex inset.

Excellent.  I've got an XSLT stylesheet in the works that does what I want.

I don't know how to create a custom inset that does.. nothing much
except have a custom inset name.  Specifically I need variants of the
Author inset to represent the metadata I need (author organization,
e-mail address, and postal address).  With that I'd be set.

 In principle, you can also tell the LyXHTML output to use some other
 tag than div or span. This is all customized in the layout files, as is
 explained in the bits on XHTML in the customization manual. So I'm
 guessing that you could get quite a long way towards XML simply in
 that sort of way.

The divs are fine.  I can address them just fine with XPath, so I'm
quite happy.  If the LyXHTML schema changes radically I'll just have
to re-write the XSLT stylesheet I'm writing now, but as long as no
metadata is lost I'll be fine.

Eventually I'll probably want to develop a layout and class for
actually dealing with RFCs directly in LyX.  The typesetting rules for
RFCs are... trivial in comparison to most other layouts.  But I
confess knowing nothing about LaTeX, so it will be sometime before I
get there.  For now I'm just happy -ecstatic even- to just consume
LyXHTML with XSLT.

[Actually, I'm noticing one problem with LyXHTML: it doesn't preserve
vertical spacing in any way, not even as horizontal spacing!  I'm
talking about Insert-Formatting-Vertical Space.  I suspect that
there are other such things that aren't preserved.  For now I'll live.
 Vertical space is useful for multi-paragraph list items, which are
very common in RFCs and Internet-Drafts.  If need be I suspect I can
write a patch and submit it.]

Thanks for your help.  Sorry to need so much handholding, I'm out of
my element here,

Nico
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Re: Straghtforward XML export?

[Nico Williams]

 [Actually, I'm noticing one problem with LyXHTML: it doesn't preserve
 vertical spacing in any way, not even as horizontal spacing!  I'm
 talking about Insert-Formatting-Vertical Space.  I suspect that
 there are other such things that aren't preserved.  For now I'll live.
  Vertical space is useful for multi-paragraph list items, which are
 very common in RFCs and Internet-Drafts.  If need be I suspect I can
 write a patch and submit it.]

Found a solution to that: a nest list with no bulleting/numbering is
rendered as a single li with divs for the nested list elements,
which works out perfectly.  No doubt the vspace loss will come up
elsewhere, but for now it's fine.

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

[Guenter Milde]

On 2012-05-08, Tim Wescott wrote:

 I'm thinking that I should probably just write an equation, print the
 file to eps (if I can figure out how), edit it with Inkscape, then put
 that figure into the text.

There was a thread about LyX as equation editor here on the list some
time ago. The idea is simply to add export options (EPS, PDF (cropped), SVG)
in the ToolsSettingsExport dialogue. It is (AFAIK) described on
wiki.lyx.org.

Günter

Idea: Using online LaTeX compiler?

[Rainer M Krug]

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Hi

let me first state, that I have enough hdd space, so it does not concern me.

But I fount the following discussion on stackexchange about online LaTeX 
compiler [1], and I
stated thinking: would it be possible to use these online compilers to avoid 
having to install a
full LaTeX installation and to save hdd space (relevant on netbooks and, if LyX 
would be running
on them, tablets / android devices).

But apart from that: using an online compiler, would also dramatically reduce 
the download size
and be one less piece of software to keep up to date.

Disclaimer: I have never used one of these compilers, so I don't know how 
usable they are for LyX.

But I think it would be a nice idea to implement it - and it should not be to 
difficult - an
additional export format would need to be created which then uploads the 
relevant files to the
online compiler (from the tmp directory) and then compiles the document.

Cheers,

Rainer

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un subscribe

[paul sutton]

sorry my original reply seems to have a ' on the subject line so i
replied with the error corrected.

paul

On 09/05/12 00:39, paul sutton wrote:
 On 09/05/12 00:02, becko wrote:
 Dear Lyx list team:

 I want to unsubscribe from the Lyx list. What do I have to do?

 Thanks.
  
 A search on the website reveals this page

 http://www.lyx.org/MailingLists#toc2

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   * lyx-users-subscr...@lists.lyx.org
 mailto:lyx-users-subscr...@lists.lyx.org to subscribe
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 mailto:lyx-users-unsubscr...@lists.lyx.org to unsubscribe
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Re: Idea: Using online LaTeX compiler?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:
 But I fount the following discussion on stackexchange about online LaTeX 
 compiler [1], and I
 stated thinking: would it be possible to use these online compilers to avoid 
 having to install a
 full LaTeX installation and to save hdd space (relevant on netbooks and, if 
 LyX would be running
 on them, tablets / android devices).

This looks like a very neat idea indeed, for all the reasons you
mention above. Additionally, this would allow two collaborators to use
the exact same LaTeX compiler and avoid minor glitches between two
different distributions (say, TeX Live and MikTeX).

Liviu

Re: Idea: Using online LaTeX compiler?

[paul sutton]

On 09/05/12 11:06, Liviu Andronic wrote:
 On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:
 But I fount the following discussion on stackexchange about online LaTeX 
 compiler [1], and I
 stated thinking: would it be possible to use these online compilers to avoid 
 having to install a
 full LaTeX installation and to save hdd space (relevant on netbooks and, if 
 LyX would be running
 on them, tablets / android devices).

 This looks like a very neat idea indeed, for all the reasons you
 mention above. Additionally, this would allow two collaborators to use
 the exact same LaTeX compiler and avoid minor glitches between two
 different distributions (say, TeX Live and MikTeX).

 Liviu
Txt2tags uses an online editor to produce output,  including latex,  an
online editor would be useful too, if you're doing that maybe have a
chat function too, like you get with gobby / sobby collaboration tools.

http://txt2tags.org/online.php

Paul

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Re: Idea: Using online LaTeX compiler?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:09 PM, paul sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
 Txt2tags uses an online editor to produce output,  including latex,  an

Although interesting, it seems that this tool uses a very simplistic
markup language (?) to produce LaTeX (among other formats). I am not
sure how this can be useful in the context of LyX, which produces
LaTeX that needs to be compiled. I don't see a LaTeX compilation
feature in Txt2tags.

Liviu

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

[Tim Wescott]

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 22:25 +, Paul A.Rubin wrote:
 Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com writes:
 
  
  I want to generate a page with Beamer that looks like the enclosed
 pdf.
  Any suggestions on how to achieve the arrows pointing to parts of
 an
  equation effect?
  
  I'm thinking that I should probably just write an equation, print
 the
  file to eps (if I can figure out how), edit it with Inkscape, then
 put
  that figure into the text.
  
  But if there's a stunningly easier way that doesn't involve spending
 the
  next year learning some new tool, I'm open to suggestions.
  
 
 Not stunningly easier, but I would use the TiKZ package (by Til
 Tantau, the
 author of Beamer). It's worth getting to know for its easy integration
 with
 Beamer and its range.  
 
 I'm pasting in an example below (one frame from a demo I did here). 

That looks cool -- but it runs off the right side of my screen and Lyx
won't let me scroll over there.

Suggestions?

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www.wescottdesign.com
Control  Communications systems, circuit  software design.

Beamer, Buttons, and Fancy Footers

[Tim Wescott]

I'm working on a presentation, and I'd like to have a footer with a
copyright notice and page number (if there's room).

But when I attempt to make that happen, I blow away those handy little
Beamer navigation buttons, and the footer falls of the end of the page
anyway.

Is there a way to make this happen?

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www.wescottdesign.com
Control  Communications systems, circuit  software design.

Re: LyXHTML Visual Appearance

[Gour]

On Tue, 08 May 2012 18:59:05 -0400
Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 This is probably doable with a LyX module. If you send me the JS code
 you need, I can probably come up with one fairly quickly. This again
 is a nice aspect of the modularity of the code and the way LyX's
 internal converter re-uses existing LyX constructs.

I've found the following:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/605888/whats-the-search-engine-used-in-the-new-python-documentation
and the answer points to the following JS code, among other things:

http://sphinx.pocoo.org/_static/searchtools.js

No idea, however, how it can fit into LyX...


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SV: Placing figures beside text in Beamer

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Surely there is a way to do this.

you need to specify align bottom in settings for the two boxes.

See the attached file.(you may have to change the picture if you have another 
file layout)

Ingar Pareliussen

example.lyx
Description: example.lyx

SV: Beamer, Buttons, and Fancy Footers

[Ingar Pareliussen]

hi

I'm working on a presentation, and I'd like to have a footer with a
copyright notice and page number (if there's room).

You need to adjust the outer theme of the beamer presentation.

You might almost get what you want by adding

\useoutertheme[footline=authorinstitute]{miniframes}

to the preamble

To get pagenumbers I think you need to make your own outertheme.
You could copy and rename the miniframes and add
  \insertpagenumber 

to the theme. For more info read the beamerguide where all this is 
explained, however, with 250 pages it is a bit daunting :).

Ingar Pareliussen

Re: Placing figures beside text in Beamer

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/5/9 Ingar Pareliussen:
Surely there is a way to do this.

 you need to specify align bottom in settings for the two boxes.

 See the attached file.(you may have to change the picture if you have another 
 file layout)

An alternative is to use columns instead of boxes (which is what I
usually do to produce such slides). The advantage (?) with columns is
that they are not output as such in article mode, so you can layout
your handout differently.

Jürgen

 Ingar Pareliussen

Re: Placing figures beside text in Beamer

[Les Denham]

On Wed, 09 May 2012 09:42:29 -0700
Tim Wescott t...@wescottdesign.com wrote:

 More Beamer hand-holding needed:
 
 I want to put a figure on the right, with text on the left, as shown
 (this is from an Impress presentation, BTW).
 
 I tried to place two miniboxes on the slide, with the text in one and
 the figure in the other.  These boxes get placed exactly the way I
 want them to if I put text in both -- but as soon as I put the figure
 in the second box, LaTeX wants to put it above and to the right, with
 the text below and to the left.
 
 Surely there is a way to do this.
 

As Jürgen pointed out, the standard Beamer way to do this is to use
columns. I've modified Ingar's example of how to align boxes to give an
example, as the way you use columns is not exactly intuitive.

Les


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Re: Math font error on Lyx - Windows

[danrindia]

Paul sir you are great you solved my problem by giving the idea to install
symbol

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Re: Embedding arrows stuff

[Paul A . Rubin]

Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com writes:


 That looks cool -- but it runs off the right side of my screen and Lyx
 won't let me scroll over there.
 
 Suggestions?

This is a major PITA.  Horizontal scrollbars have been suggested, and I suspect
there's a (long) open ticket for it.

My preferred workaround used to be to select the entire equation and use ctrl-M
to convert it back to plain text, dink around with that, then ctrl-M again to
make it a formula once more.  That no longer works (I'm not sure which version
did away with it).

The best workaround I've got now is to insert the cursor into the formula and
use Edit  Math  Change Formula Type to make it AMS multiline.  Then I can
insert ctrl-enter periodically to break it into multiple lines, do any edits I
want, and then use Edit  Math  Change Formula Type to convert it back into an
regular display mode formula.  Sigh.

Paul

Re: Beamer, Buttons, and Fancy Footers

[Paul A . Rubin]

Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com writes:

 
 I'm working on a presentation, and I'd like to have a footer with a
 copyright notice and page number (if there's room).
 
 But when I attempt to make that happen, I blow away those handy little
 Beamer navigation buttons, and the footer falls of the end of the page
 anyway.
 
 Is there a way to make this happen?
 

Yes, but it's not for the faint of heart (at least not the way I know).  You
have to copy both the Beamer theme file you're using and the outertheme file it
loads someplace (with new names), and edit them.  Hack the outertheme file to
show what you want; hack the main theme to use the new outertheme.  The new
files have to be places somewhere that LaTeX looks (preferably your local texmf
tree), and you have to reindex your LaTeX files (run texhash or whatever, or use
MiKTeX control applications if you're a MiKTeX user).

I think the Beamer manual discusses how to do this.  Search 'outertheme'.

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

[William Seager]

On Thursday 10 May 2012 00:10:33 Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 This is a major PITA. 

++ on that
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RE: Embedding arrows stuff

[Scott Kostyshak]

From: Paul A. Rubin [ru...@msu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:10 PM

This is a major PITA.  Horizontal scrollbars have been suggested, and I suspect
there's a (long) open ticket for it.

Yes, here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1083

My preferred workaround used to be to select the entire equation and use ctrl-M
to convert it back to plain text, dink around with that, then ctrl-M again to
make it a formula once more.  That no longer works (I'm not sure which version
did away with it).

I didn't know that this is how it used to work. I wonder why it was changed. 
For something similar, see workaround 1 below.

Here are 3 workarounds to long inline math equations that you might find useful.

workaround 1:
Convert the math to LaTeX, edit the LaTeX, then convert back to math.

Two ways to do this:
(a) You could bind the following command-sequence to a shortcut. Then put your 
cursor in front of your long equation and run the shortcut.
command-sequence char-forward; line-end-select ; cut; char-backward; paste; 
char-delete-forward

(b) Or if you want to do it manually, go just inside the equation and do 
ctrl+shift+right arrow or ctrl+end. Both of those work for me. And then go 
outside of math and paste. It should now show up as LaTeX.

To convert from LaTeX back to math, highlight the LaTeX code and do ctrl+m.

workaround 2:
Bind the following command to a shortcut. This will split an inline math 
inset into two separate inline math insets.
command-sequence line-end-select; cut; char-forward; math-mode; paste; 
char-forward; word-backward

You might need to do that more than once (at different positions, of course) 
depending on how long your equation is.
To then paste them back together into one math inset highlight them all and 
press ctrl+m. 

workaround 3:
zoom out (ctrl + scroll wheel).

I wonder if we should create a wiki page for workarounds to this issue as it 
seems to come up often and a fix seems to be too difficult. If anyone is up to 
it, please go ahead, and then link to it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Math

Scott

Re: Unsubscribe me from Lyx list

[Gour]

On Tue, 8 May 2012 18:02:07 -0500
becko becko...@hotmail.com wrote:

 Dear Lyx list team:
 
 I want to unsubscribe from the Lyx list. What do I have to do?

Check headers of your message- there is one named: List-Unsubscribe: ;)


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Re: Straghtforward XML export?

[Nico Williams]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:
 On 05/08/2012 07:30 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
 LyXHTML looks very promising.  It certainly preserves everything I
 have in my [admittedly small] test file.  If it preserves custom inset
 names then I could probably use custom insets to provide the
 additional metadata I need (I still haven't quite figured out how to
 create custom insets, but give me time).  XSLT can do the rest.

 It will do with custom insets whatever you ask it to do. If I remember
 correctly, it defaults to something like:
 div class=custominset
 or an equivalent span, depending upon whether its a charstyle or a
 flex inset.

Excellent.  I've got an XSLT stylesheet in the works that does what I want.

I don't know how to create a custom inset that does.. nothing much
except have a custom inset name.  Specifically I need variants of the
Author inset to represent the metadata I need (author organization,
e-mail address, and postal address).  With that I'd be set.

 In principle, you can also tell the LyXHTML output to use some other
 tag than div or span. This is all customized in the layout files, as is
 explained in the bits on XHTML in the customization manual. So I'm
 guessing that you could get quite a long way towards XML simply in
 that sort of way.

The divs are fine.  I can address them just fine with XPath, so I'm
quite happy.  If the LyXHTML schema changes radically I'll just have
to re-write the XSLT stylesheet I'm writing now, but as long as no
metadata is lost I'll be fine.

Eventually I'll probably want to develop a layout and class for
actually dealing with RFCs directly in LyX.  The typesetting rules for
RFCs are... trivial in comparison to most other layouts.  But I
confess knowing nothing about LaTeX, so it will be sometime before I
get there.  For now I'm just happy -ecstatic even- to just consume
LyXHTML with XSLT.

[Actually, I'm noticing one problem with LyXHTML: it doesn't preserve
vertical spacing in any way, not even as horizontal spacing!  I'm
talking about Insert-Formatting-Vertical Space.  I suspect that
there are other such things that aren't preserved.  For now I'll live.
 Vertical space is useful for multi-paragraph list items, which are
very common in RFCs and Internet-Drafts.  If need be I suspect I can
write a patch and submit it.]

Thanks for your help.  Sorry to need so much handholding, I'm out of
my element here,

Nico
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Re: Straghtforward XML export?

[Nico Williams]

 [Actually, I'm noticing one problem with LyXHTML: it doesn't preserve
 vertical spacing in any way, not even as horizontal spacing!  I'm
 talking about Insert-Formatting-Vertical Space.  I suspect that
 there are other such things that aren't preserved.  For now I'll live.
  Vertical space is useful for multi-paragraph list items, which are
 very common in RFCs and Internet-Drafts.  If need be I suspect I can
 write a patch and submit it.]

Found a solution to that: a nest list with no bulleting/numbering is
rendered as a single li with divs for the nested list elements,
which works out perfectly.  No doubt the vspace loss will come up
elsewhere, but for now it's fine.

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

[Guenter Milde]

On 2012-05-08, Tim Wescott wrote:

 I'm thinking that I should probably just write an equation, print the
 file to eps (if I can figure out how), edit it with Inkscape, then put
 that figure into the text.

There was a thread about LyX as equation editor here on the list some
time ago. The idea is simply to add export options (EPS, PDF (cropped), SVG)
in the ToolsSettingsExport dialogue. It is (AFAIK) described on
wiki.lyx.org.

Günter

Idea: Using online LaTeX compiler?

[Rainer M Krug]

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Hi

let me first state, that I have enough hdd space, so it does not concern me.

But I fount the following discussion on stackexchange about online LaTeX 
compiler [1], and I
stated thinking: would it be possible to use these online compilers to avoid 
having to install a
full LaTeX installation and to save hdd space (relevant on netbooks and, if LyX 
would be running
on them, tablets / android devices).

But apart from that: using an online compiler, would also dramatically reduce 
the download size
and be one less piece of software to keep up to date.

Disclaimer: I have never used one of these compilers, so I don't know how 
usable they are for LyX.

But I think it would be a nice idea to implement it - and it should not be to 
difficult - an
additional export format would need to be created which then uploads the 
relevant files to the
online compiler (from the tmp directory) and then compiles the document.

Cheers,

Rainer

[1] 
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3/compiling-documents-online?newsletter=1nlcode=4051|dbd7
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UCT), Dipl. Phys.
(Germany)

Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Tel :   +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44
Cell:   +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98
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sorry my original reply seems to have a ' on the subject line so i
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paul

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 Thanks.
  
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Re: Idea: Using online LaTeX compiler?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:
 But I fount the following discussion on stackexchange about online LaTeX 
 compiler [1], and I
 stated thinking: would it be possible to use these online compilers to avoid 
 having to install a
 full LaTeX installation and to save hdd space (relevant on netbooks and, if 
 LyX would be running
 on them, tablets / android devices).

This looks like a very neat idea indeed, for all the reasons you
mention above. Additionally, this would allow two collaborators to use
the exact same LaTeX compiler and avoid minor glitches between two
different distributions (say, TeX Live and MikTeX).

Liviu

Re: Idea: Using online LaTeX compiler?

[paul sutton]

On 09/05/12 11:06, Liviu Andronic wrote:
 On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote:
 But I fount the following discussion on stackexchange about online LaTeX 
 compiler [1], and I
 stated thinking: would it be possible to use these online compilers to avoid 
 having to install a
 full LaTeX installation and to save hdd space (relevant on netbooks and, if 
 LyX would be running
 on them, tablets / android devices).

 This looks like a very neat idea indeed, for all the reasons you
 mention above. Additionally, this would allow two collaborators to use
 the exact same LaTeX compiler and avoid minor glitches between two
 different distributions (say, TeX Live and MikTeX).

 Liviu
Txt2tags uses an online editor to produce output,  including latex,  an
online editor would be useful too, if you're doing that maybe have a
chat function too, like you get with gobby / sobby collaboration tools.

http://txt2tags.org/online.php

Paul

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Re: Idea: Using online LaTeX compiler?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:09 PM, paul sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
 Txt2tags uses an online editor to produce output,  including latex,  an

Although interesting, it seems that this tool uses a very simplistic
markup language (?) to produce LaTeX (among other formats). I am not
sure how this can be useful in the context of LyX, which produces
LaTeX that needs to be compiled. I don't see a LaTeX compilation
feature in Txt2tags.

Liviu

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

[Tim Wescott]

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 22:25 +, Paul A.Rubin wrote:
 Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com writes:
 
  
  I want to generate a page with Beamer that looks like the enclosed
 pdf.
  Any suggestions on how to achieve the arrows pointing to parts of
 an
  equation effect?
  
  I'm thinking that I should probably just write an equation, print
 the
  file to eps (if I can figure out how), edit it with Inkscape, then
 put
  that figure into the text.
  
  But if there's a stunningly easier way that doesn't involve spending
 the
  next year learning some new tool, I'm open to suggestions.
  
 
 Not stunningly easier, but I would use the TiKZ package (by Til
 Tantau, the
 author of Beamer). It's worth getting to know for its easy integration
 with
 Beamer and its range.  
 
 I'm pasting in an example below (one frame from a demo I did here). 

That looks cool -- but it runs off the right side of my screen and Lyx
won't let me scroll over there.

Suggestions?

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Beamer, Buttons, and Fancy Footers

[Tim Wescott]

I'm working on a presentation, and I'd like to have a footer with a
copyright notice and page number (if there's room).

But when I attempt to make that happen, I blow away those handy little
Beamer navigation buttons, and the footer falls of the end of the page
anyway.

Is there a way to make this happen?

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Re: LyXHTML Visual Appearance

[Gour]

On Tue, 08 May 2012 18:59:05 -0400
Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net wrote:

 This is probably doable with a LyX module. If you send me the JS code
 you need, I can probably come up with one fairly quickly. This again
 is a nice aspect of the modularity of the code and the way LyX's
 internal converter re-uses existing LyX constructs.

I've found the following:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/605888/whats-the-search-engine-used-in-the-new-python-documentation
and the answer points to the following JS code, among other things:

http://sphinx.pocoo.org/_static/searchtools.js

No idea, however, how it can fit into LyX...


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SV: Placing figures beside text in Beamer

[Ingar Pareliussen]

Surely there is a way to do this.

you need to specify align bottom in settings for the two boxes.

See the attached file.(you may have to change the picture if you have another 
file layout)

Ingar Pareliussen

example.lyx
Description: example.lyx

SV: Beamer, Buttons, and Fancy Footers

[Ingar Pareliussen]

hi

I'm working on a presentation, and I'd like to have a footer with a
copyright notice and page number (if there's room).

You need to adjust the outer theme of the beamer presentation.

You might almost get what you want by adding

\useoutertheme[footline=authorinstitute]{miniframes}

to the preamble

To get pagenumbers I think you need to make your own outertheme.
You could copy and rename the miniframes and add
  \insertpagenumber 

to the theme. For more info read the beamerguide where all this is 
explained, however, with 250 pages it is a bit daunting :).

Ingar Pareliussen

Re: Placing figures beside text in Beamer

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/5/9 Ingar Pareliussen:
Surely there is a way to do this.

 you need to specify align bottom in settings for the two boxes.

 See the attached file.(you may have to change the picture if you have another 
 file layout)

An alternative is to use columns instead of boxes (which is what I
usually do to produce such slides). The advantage (?) with columns is
that they are not output as such in article mode, so you can layout
your handout differently.

Jürgen

 Ingar Pareliussen

Re: Placing figures beside text in Beamer

[Les Denham]

On Wed, 09 May 2012 09:42:29 -0700
Tim Wescott t...@wescottdesign.com wrote:

 More Beamer hand-holding needed:
 
 I want to put a figure on the right, with text on the left, as shown
 (this is from an Impress presentation, BTW).
 
 I tried to place two miniboxes on the slide, with the text in one and
 the figure in the other.  These boxes get placed exactly the way I
 want them to if I put text in both -- but as soon as I put the figure
 in the second box, LaTeX wants to put it above and to the right, with
 the text below and to the left.
 
 Surely there is a way to do this.
 

As Jürgen pointed out, the standard Beamer way to do this is to use
columns. I've modified Ingar's example of how to align boxes to give an
example, as the way you use columns is not exactly intuitive.

Les


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Re: Math font error on Lyx - Windows

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Paul sir you are great you solved my problem by giving the idea to install
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Re: Embedding arrows stuff

[Paul A . Rubin]

Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com writes:


 That looks cool -- but it runs off the right side of my screen and Lyx
 won't let me scroll over there.
 
 Suggestions?

This is a major PITA.  Horizontal scrollbars have been suggested, and I suspect
there's a (long) open ticket for it.

My preferred workaround used to be to select the entire equation and use ctrl-M
to convert it back to plain text, dink around with that, then ctrl-M again to
make it a formula once more.  That no longer works (I'm not sure which version
did away with it).

The best workaround I've got now is to insert the cursor into the formula and
use Edit  Math  Change Formula Type to make it AMS multiline.  Then I can
insert ctrl-enter periodically to break it into multiple lines, do any edits I
want, and then use Edit  Math  Change Formula Type to convert it back into an
regular display mode formula.  Sigh.

Paul

Re: Beamer, Buttons, and Fancy Footers

[Paul A . Rubin]

Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com writes:

 
 I'm working on a presentation, and I'd like to have a footer with a
 copyright notice and page number (if there's room).
 
 But when I attempt to make that happen, I blow away those handy little
 Beamer navigation buttons, and the footer falls of the end of the page
 anyway.
 
 Is there a way to make this happen?
 

Yes, but it's not for the faint of heart (at least not the way I know).  You
have to copy both the Beamer theme file you're using and the outertheme file it
loads someplace (with new names), and edit them.  Hack the outertheme file to
show what you want; hack the main theme to use the new outertheme.  The new
files have to be places somewhere that LaTeX looks (preferably your local texmf
tree), and you have to reindex your LaTeX files (run texhash or whatever, or use
MiKTeX control applications if you're a MiKTeX user).

I think the Beamer manual discusses how to do this.  Search 'outertheme'.

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

[William Seager]

On Thursday 10 May 2012 00:10:33 Paul A. Rubin wrote:
 This is a major PITA. 

++ on that
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RE: Embedding arrows stuff

[Scott Kostyshak]

From: Paul A. Rubin [ru...@msu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:10 PM

This is a major PITA.  Horizontal scrollbars have been suggested, and I suspect
there's a (long) open ticket for it.

Yes, here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1083

My preferred workaround used to be to select the entire equation and use ctrl-M
to convert it back to plain text, dink around with that, then ctrl-M again to
make it a formula once more.  That no longer works (I'm not sure which version
did away with it).

I didn't know that this is how it used to work. I wonder why it was changed. 
For something similar, see workaround 1 below.

Here are 3 workarounds to long inline math equations that you might find useful.

workaround 1:
Convert the math to LaTeX, edit the LaTeX, then convert back to math.

Two ways to do this:
(a) You could bind the following command-sequence to a shortcut. Then put your 
cursor in front of your long equation and run the shortcut.
command-sequence char-forward; line-end-select ; cut; char-backward; paste; 
char-delete-forward

(b) Or if you want to do it manually, go just inside the equation and do 
ctrl+shift+right arrow or ctrl+end. Both of those work for me. And then go 
outside of math and paste. It should now show up as LaTeX.

To convert from LaTeX back to math, highlight the LaTeX code and do ctrl+m.

workaround 2:
Bind the following command to a shortcut. This will split an inline math 
inset into two separate inline math insets.
command-sequence line-end-select; cut; char-forward; math-mode; paste; 
char-forward; word-backward

You might need to do that more than once (at different positions, of course) 
depending on how long your equation is.
To then paste them back together into one math inset highlight them all and 
press ctrl+m. 

workaround 3:
zoom out (ctrl + scroll wheel).

I wonder if we should create a wiki page for workarounds to this issue as it 
seems to come up often and a fix seems to be too difficult. If anyone is up to 
it, please go ahead, and then link to it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Math

Scott

Re: Unsubscribe me from Lyx list

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Check headers of your message- there is one named: List-Unsubscribe: ;)


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Re: Straghtforward XML export?

[Nico Williams]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Richard Heck  wrote:
> On 05/08/2012 07:30 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
>> LyXHTML looks very promising.  It certainly preserves everything I
>> have in my [admittedly small] test file.  If it preserves custom inset
>> names then I could probably use custom insets to provide the
>> additional metadata I need (I still haven't quite figured out how to
>> create custom insets, but give me time).  XSLT can do the rest.
>>
> It will do with custom insets whatever you ask it to do. If I remember
> correctly, it defaults to something like:
> 
> or an equivalent span, depending upon whether its a charstyle or a
> flex inset.

Excellent.  I've got an XSLT stylesheet in the works that does what I want.

I don't know how to create a custom inset that does.. nothing much
except have a custom inset name.  Specifically I need variants of the
Author inset to represent the metadata I need (author organization,
e-mail address, and postal address).  With that I'd be set.

> In principle, you can also tell the LyXHTML output to use some other
> tag than div or span. This is all customized in the layout files, as is
> explained in the bits on XHTML in the customization manual. So I'm
> guessing that you could get quite a long way towards XML simply in
> that sort of way.

The divs are fine.  I can address them just fine with XPath, so I'm
quite happy.  If the LyXHTML schema changes radically I'll just have
to re-write the XSLT stylesheet I'm writing now, but as long as no
metadata is lost I'll be fine.

Eventually I'll probably want to develop a layout and class for
actually dealing with RFCs directly in LyX.  The typesetting rules for
RFCs are... trivial in comparison to most other layouts.  But I
confess knowing nothing about LaTeX, so it will be sometime before I
get there.  For now I'm just happy -ecstatic even- to just consume
LyXHTML with XSLT.

[Actually, I'm noticing one problem with LyXHTML: it doesn't preserve
vertical spacing in any way, not even as horizontal spacing!  I'm
talking about Insert->Formatting->Vertical Space.  I suspect that
there are other such things that aren't preserved.  For now I'll live.
 Vertical space is useful for multi-paragraph list items, which are
very common in RFCs and Internet-Drafts.  If need be I suspect I can
write a patch and submit it.]

Thanks for your help.  Sorry to need so much handholding, I'm out of
my element here,

Nico
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[Nico Williams]

> [Actually, I'm noticing one problem with LyXHTML: it doesn't preserve
> vertical spacing in any way, not even as horizontal spacing!  I'm
> talking about Insert->Formatting->Vertical Space.  I suspect that
> there are other such things that aren't preserved.  For now I'll live.
>  Vertical space is useful for multi-paragraph list items, which are
> very common in RFCs and Internet-Drafts.  If need be I suspect I can
> write a patch and submit it.]

Found a solution to that: a nest list with no bulleting/numbering is
rendered as a single  with s for the nested list elements,
which works out perfectly.  No doubt the vspace loss will come up
elsewhere, but for now it's fine.

Re: Embedding arrows & stuff

[Guenter Milde]

On 2012-05-08, Tim Wescott wrote:

> I'm thinking that I should probably just write an equation, print the
> file to eps (if I can figure out how), edit it with Inkscape, then put
> that figure into the text.

There was a thread about "LyX as equation editor" here on the list some
time ago. The idea is simply to add export options (EPS, PDF (cropped), SVG)
in the Tools>Settings>Export dialogue. It is (AFAIK) described on
wiki.lyx.org.

Günter

Idea: Using online LaTeX compiler?

[Rainer M Krug]

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let me first state, that I have enough hdd space, so it does not concern me.

But I fount the following discussion on stackexchange about online LaTeX 
compiler [1], and I
stated thinking: would it be possible to use these online compilers to avoid 
having to install a
full LaTeX installation and to save hdd space (relevant on netbooks and, if LyX 
would be running
on them, tablets / android devices).

But apart from that: using an online compiler, would also dramatically reduce 
the download size
and be one less piece of software to keep up to date.

Disclaimer: I have never used one of these compilers, so I don't know how 
usable they are for LyX.

But I think it would be a nice idea to implement it - and it should not be to 
difficult - an
additional export format would need to be created which then uploads the 
relevant files to the
online compiler (from the tmp directory) and then compiles the document.

Cheers,

Rainer

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Re: Idea: Using online LaTeX compiler?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rainer M Krug  wrote:
> But I fount the following discussion on stackexchange about online LaTeX 
> compiler [1], and I
> stated thinking: would it be possible to use these online compilers to avoid 
> having to install a
> full LaTeX installation and to save hdd space (relevant on netbooks and, if 
> LyX would be running
> on them, tablets / android devices).
>
This looks like a very neat idea indeed, for all the reasons you
mention above. Additionally, this would allow two collaborators to use
the exact same LaTeX compiler and avoid minor glitches between two
different distributions (say, TeX Live and MikTeX).

Liviu

Re: Idea: Using online LaTeX compiler?

[paul sutton]

On 09/05/12 11:06, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rainer M Krug  wrote:
>> But I fount the following discussion on stackexchange about online LaTeX 
>> compiler [1], and I
>> stated thinking: would it be possible to use these online compilers to avoid 
>> having to install a
>> full LaTeX installation and to save hdd space (relevant on netbooks and, if 
>> LyX would be running
>> on them, tablets / android devices).
>>
> This looks like a very neat idea indeed, for all the reasons you
> mention above. Additionally, this would allow two collaborators to use
> the exact same LaTeX compiler and avoid minor glitches between two
> different distributions (say, TeX Live and MikTeX).
>
> Liviu
Txt2tags uses an online editor to produce output,  including latex,  an
online editor would be useful too, if you're doing that maybe have a
chat function too, like you get with gobby / sobby collaboration tools.

http://txt2tags.org/online.php

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Re: Idea: Using online LaTeX compiler?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:09 PM, paul sutton  wrote:
> Txt2tags uses an online editor to produce output,  including latex,  an
>
Although interesting, it seems that this tool uses a very simplistic
markup language (?) to produce LaTeX (among other formats). I am not
sure how this can be useful in the context of LyX, which produces
LaTeX that needs to be compiled. I don't see a LaTeX compilation
feature in Txt2tags.

Liviu

Re: Embedding arrows & stuff

[Tim Wescott]

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 22:25 +, Paul A.Rubin wrote:
> Tim Wescott  wescottdesign.com> writes:
> 
> > 
> > I want to generate a page with Beamer that looks like the enclosed
> pdf.
> > Any suggestions on how to achieve the "arrows pointing to parts of
> an
> > equation" effect?
> > 
> > I'm thinking that I should probably just write an equation, print
> the
> > file to eps (if I can figure out how), edit it with Inkscape, then
> put
> > that figure into the text.
> > 
> > But if there's a stunningly easier way that doesn't involve spending
> the
> > next year learning some new tool, I'm open to suggestions.
> > 
> 
> Not "stunningly easier", but I would use the TiKZ package (by Til
> Tantau, the
> author of Beamer). It's worth getting to know for its easy integration
> with
> Beamer and its range.  
> 
> I'm pasting in an example below (one frame from a demo I did here). 

That looks cool -- but it runs off the right side of my screen and Lyx
won't let me scroll over there.

Suggestions?

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Beamer, Buttons, and Fancy Footers

[Tim Wescott]

I'm working on a presentation, and I'd like to have a footer with a
copyright notice and page number (if there's room).

But when I attempt to make that happen, I blow away those handy little
Beamer navigation buttons, and the footer falls of the end of the page
anyway.

Is there a way to make this happen?

-- 

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www.wescottdesign.com
Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design.

Re: LyXHTML Visual Appearance

[Gour]

On Tue, 08 May 2012 18:59:05 -0400
Richard Heck  wrote:

> This is probably doable with a LyX module. If you send me the JS code
> you need, I can probably come up with one fairly quickly. This again
> is a nice aspect of the modularity of the code and the way LyX's
> internal converter re-uses existing LyX constructs.

I've found the following:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/605888/whats-the-search-engine-used-in-the-new-python-documentation
and the answer points to the following JS code, among other things:

http://sphinx.pocoo.org/_static/searchtools.js

No idea, however, how it can fit into LyX...


Sincerely,
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[Ingar Pareliussen]

>Surely there is a way to do this.

you need to specify align bottom in settings for the two boxes.

See the attached file.(you may have to change the picture if you have another 
file layout)

Ingar Pareliussen

example.lyx
Description: example.lyx

SV: Beamer, Buttons, and Fancy Footers

[Ingar Pareliussen]

hi

>I'm working on a presentation, and I'd like to have a footer with a
>copyright notice and page number (if there's room).

You need to adjust the outer theme of the beamer presentation.

You might almost get what you want by adding

\useoutertheme[footline=authorinstitute]{miniframes}

to the preamble

To get pagenumbers I think you need to make your own outertheme.
You could copy and rename the miniframes and add
  \insertpagenumber 

to the theme. For more info read the beamerguide where all this is 
explained, however, with 250 pages it is a bit daunting :).

Ingar Pareliussen

Re: Placing figures beside text in Beamer

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2012/5/9 Ingar Pareliussen:
>>Surely there is a way to do this.
>
> you need to specify align bottom in settings for the two boxes.
>
> See the attached file.(you may have to change the picture if you have another 
> file layout)

An alternative is to use columns instead of boxes (which is what I
usually do to produce such slides). The advantage (?) with columns is
that they are not output as such in article mode, so you can layout
your handout differently.

Jürgen

> Ingar Pareliussen

Re: Placing figures beside text in Beamer

[Les Denham]

On Wed, 09 May 2012 09:42:29 -0700
Tim Wescott  wrote:

> More Beamer hand-holding needed:
> 
> I want to put a figure on the right, with text on the left, as shown
> (this is from an Impress presentation, BTW).
> 
> I tried to place two miniboxes on the slide, with the text in one and
> the figure in the other.  These boxes get placed exactly the way I
> want them to if I put text in both -- but as soon as I put the figure
> in the second box, LaTeX wants to put it above and to the right, with
> the text below and to the left.
> 
> Surely there is a way to do this.
> 

As Jürgen pointed out, the standard Beamer way to do this is to use
columns. I've modified Ingar's example of how to align boxes to give an
example, as the way you use columns is not exactly intuitive.

Les


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Re: Math font error on Lyx - Windows

[danrindia]

Paul sir you are great you solved my problem by giving the idea to install
"symbol"

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Re: Embedding arrows & stuff

[Paul A . Rubin]

Tim Wescott  wescottdesign.com> writes:


> That looks cool -- but it runs off the right side of my screen and Lyx
> won't let me scroll over there.
> 
> Suggestions?

This is a major PITA.  Horizontal scrollbars have been suggested, and I suspect
there's a (long) open ticket for it.

My preferred workaround used to be to select the entire equation and use ctrl-M
to convert it back to plain text, dink around with that, then ctrl-M again to
make it a formula once more.  That no longer works (I'm not sure which version
did away with it).

The best workaround I've got now is to insert the cursor into the formula and
use Edit > Math > Change Formula Type to make it AMS multiline.  Then I can
insert ctrl-enter periodically to break it into multiple lines, do any edits I
want, and then use Edit > Math > Change Formula Type to convert it back into an
regular display mode formula.  Sigh.

Paul

Re: Beamer, Buttons, and Fancy Footers

[Paul A . Rubin]

Tim Wescott  wescottdesign.com> writes:

> 
> I'm working on a presentation, and I'd like to have a footer with a
> copyright notice and page number (if there's room).
> 
> But when I attempt to make that happen, I blow away those handy little
> Beamer navigation buttons, and the footer falls of the end of the page
> anyway.
> 
> Is there a way to make this happen?
> 

Yes, but it's not for the faint of heart (at least not the way I know).  You
have to copy both the Beamer theme file you're using and the outertheme file it
loads someplace (with new names), and edit them.  Hack the outertheme file to
show what you want; hack the main theme to use the new outertheme.  The new
files have to be places somewhere that LaTeX looks (preferably your local texmf
tree), and you have to reindex your LaTeX files (run texhash or whatever, or use
MiKTeX control applications if you're a MiKTeX user).

I think the Beamer manual discusses how to do this.  Search 'outertheme'.

Re: Embedding arrows & stuff

[William Seager]

On Thursday 10 May 2012 00:10:33 Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> This is a major PITA. 

++ on that
-- 
William Seager
University of Toronto Scarborough
www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

RE: Embedding arrows & stuff

[Scott Kostyshak]

From: Paul A. Rubin [ru...@msu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:10 PM

>This is a major PITA.  Horizontal scrollbars have been suggested, and I suspect
>there's a (long) open ticket for it.

Yes, here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1083

>My preferred workaround used to be to select the entire equation and use ctrl-M
>to convert it back to plain text, dink around with that, then ctrl-M again to
>make it a formula once more.  That no longer works (I'm not sure which version
>did away with it).

I didn't know that this is how it used to work. I wonder why it was changed. 
For something similar, see workaround 1 below.

Here are 3 workarounds to long inline math equations that you might find useful.

workaround 1:
Convert the math to LaTeX, edit the LaTeX, then convert back to math.

Two ways to do this:
(a) You could bind the following command-sequence to a shortcut. Then put your 
cursor in front of your long equation and run the shortcut.
command-sequence char-forward; line-end-select ; cut; char-backward; paste; 
char-delete-forward

(b) Or if you want to do it manually, go just inside the equation and do 
ctrl+shift+ or ctrl+end. Both of those work for me. And then go 
outside of math and paste. It should now show up as LaTeX.

To convert from LaTeX back to math, highlight the LaTeX code and do ctrl+m.

workaround 2:
Bind the following command to a shortcut. This will "split" an inline math 
inset into two separate inline math insets.
command-sequence line-end-select; cut; char-forward; math-mode; paste; 
char-forward; word-backward

You might need to do that more than once (at different positions, of course) 
depending on how long your equation is.
To then paste them back together into one math inset highlight them all and 
press ctrl+m. 

workaround 3:
zoom out (ctrl + scroll wheel).

I wonder if we should create a wiki page for workarounds to this issue as it 
seems to come up often and a fix seems to be too difficult. If anyone is up to 
it, please go ahead, and then link to it from here http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Math

Scott