(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it
didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive).
Apologies if it is a duplicate.)
___
I get this message when try to preview a file that (suprise) is in a
directory that has spaces in its
(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it
didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive).
Apologies if it is a duplicate.)
___
I've had a look at LyX a couple of times over the past few years, and
occasionally write an article or
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Bruce wrote:
(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it
didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive).
Apologies if it is a duplicate.)
As I seem to remember having answered it probably made
Seeing as I started this thread, may as well wade in with my strictly
non-technical end user perspective ...
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:48:42PM -0500, Les Denham wrote:
As far as I know, Windows is the only significant operating system which
allows spaces in file and directory names.
I assume you installed MiKTeX, as indicated on the native port page
(http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/)? You will need this for the
native port to work properly, particularly for generating any output.
You should then be able to preview a LyX document by View, DVI, which
should launch the
Yes, this is because you installed LyX before MiKTeX. I think this problem
would be fixed by Edit, Reconfigure. After doing that, shut down and
restart LyX, then DVI view should work.
B.
I downloaded both the port and MiKTeX. I then installed LyX. After
running it, I realized I hadn't
(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it
didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive).
Apologies if it is a duplicate.)
___
I get this message when try to preview a file that (suprise) is in a
directory that has spaces in its
(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it
didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive).
Apologies if it is a duplicate.)
___
I've had a look at LyX a couple of times over the past few years, and
occasionally write an article or
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Bruce wrote:
(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it
didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive).
Apologies if it is a duplicate.)
As I seem to remember having answered it probably made
Seeing as I started this thread, may as well wade in with my strictly
non-technical end user perspective ...
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:48:42PM -0500, Les Denham wrote:
As far as I know, Windows is the only significant operating system which
allows spaces in file and directory names.
I assume you installed MiKTeX, as indicated on the native port page
(http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/)? You will need this for the
native port to work properly, particularly for generating any output.
You should then be able to preview a LyX document by View, DVI, which
should launch the
Yes, this is because you installed LyX before MiKTeX. I think this problem
would be fixed by Edit, Reconfigure. After doing that, shut down and
restart LyX, then DVI view should work.
B.
I downloaded both the port and MiKTeX. I then installed LyX. After
running it, I realized I hadn't
(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it
didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive).
Apologies if it is a duplicate.)
___
I get this message when try to preview a file that (suprise) is in a
directory that has spaces in its
(I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it
didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive).
Apologies if it is a duplicate.)
___
I've had a look at LyX a couple of times over the past few years, and
occasionally write an article or
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:54:46AM -0400, Bruce wrote:
>> (I sent this message last week, and though received no error message it
>> didn't seem to make it to the list (or at least not to the archive).
>> Apologies if it is a duplicate.)
>
> As I seem to remember havin
Seeing as I started this thread, may as well wade in with my strictly
non-technical end user perspective ...
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 01:48:42PM -0500, Les Denham wrote:
>> As far as I know, Windows is the only significant operating system which
>> allows spaces in file and directory names.
>
I assume you installed MiKTeX, as indicated on the native port page
(http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/)? You will need this for the
native port to work properly, particularly for generating any output.
You should then be able to preview a LyX document by "View, DVI", which
should launch
Yes, this is because you installed LyX before MiKTeX. I think this problem
would be fixed by "Edit, Reconfigure". After doing that, shut down and
restart LyX, then DVI view should work.
B.
> I downloaded both the port and MiKTeX. I then installed LyX. After
> running it, I realized I hadn't
to get (a) and (b). Screen won't look right, but output will.
Bruce
Sorry, here's my question with a corrected title:
When I try to open example lyx files posted on this list, I get a
conversion script failure: "filename.lyz is from an earlier version
of lyx, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it" I'm running LyX
1.4.1. Must I upgrade to 1.5?
Bruce
When I try to open example lyx files posted on this list, I get a
conversion script failure: "filename.lyz is from an earlier version
of lyx, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it" I'm running LyX
1.4.1. Must I upgrade to 1.5?
Bruce
't end
sentences by adopting the Oxford University Press house style: use
the period only when an abbreviation stops in the middle of the word.
Thus Mr, Ms, Mrs, and Dr, but Prof. Heck and Capt. Hook.
Bruce
On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:06 PM, rgheck wrote:
Bruce Pourciau wrote:
On Dec 20, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Bennett Helm wrote:
On Dec 20, 2007, at 12:16 PM, rgheck wrote:
Is there some way in LyX to do this:
Mr.\ Dedekind
without using ERT?
Insert > Formatting > Inter-word space.
B
unlike Times. I'm happy as a clam -- boldface and all
-- with \usepackage[osf]{mathpazo} in the preamble.
Bruce
On Mar 3, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Bruce Pourciau wrote:
If you don't _have_ to use Times, why not choose Palatino? It is a
beautiful face, unlike Times. I'm happy as a clam -- boldface and
all -- with \usepackage[osf]{mathpazo} in the preamble.
How well does that work
to install LyX on her machine. Any thoughts
on how I can make this go smoothly for them?
Bruce
let us know!
Rex
Of those listed above, I like these two:
http://www.inkscape.org
http://www.scipy.org
Both are simple, clean, visually appealing, easy to explore, and
informative.
Bruce
On Apr 9, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Bruce Pourciau schrieb:
Is there any reason this might not work? (I'm running LyX/Mac
1.4.1 and she's running Windows XP).
Should work, but you should both use the same major LyX Version. I
recommend to use LyX 1.5 not 1.4.
I would ask our
I plan to update LyX from 1.4.1 to 1.5.4. Before doing this, should I
replace my current MacTeX installation with a new one? If so, do I
need to clean house myself or would a new MacTeX install do that for me?
Bruce
On Apr 10, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Bennett Helm wrote:
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Bruce Pourciau <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I plan to update LyX from 1.4.1 to 1.5.4. Before doing this, should I
replace my current MacTeX installation with a new one? If so, do I
need to
clean house
On Apr 18, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Manveru wrote:
FeeLyX is... quite sugestive... :-)
Do we know the mascot is male? (The icon lacks sufficient
definition for me to tell.) Maybe LyXandra? Has a classical ring
to it.
Shouldn't FeeLyX be FeLyX? LyXandra sounds a bit
ot;An error occurred whilst running none" Am I missing something?
Bruce
Not long ago I upgraded to LyX 1.5.4, but when I tried today to
export a LyX file as a pdf, the menu File > Export listed only one
option -- Custom -- and choosing that made LyX quit. Any idea why the
various Export options are not appearing?
Bruce
On May 9, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
Not long ago I upgraded to LyX 1.5.4, but when I tried today to
export a LyX file as a pdf, the menu File > Export listed only one
option -- Custom -- and choosing that made LyX quit. Any idea why
the various Export opti
On May 9, 2008, at 2:32 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
On May 9, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
Not long ago I upgraded to LyX 1.5.4, but when I tried today to
export a LyX file as a pdf, the menu File > Export listed only one
option -- Custom -- and choosing that made LyX quit.
Neophyte question I know, but on a Mac (LyX 1.5.4, MacTeX), how does
one find a list of the LaTeX packages installed and read their
documentations?
Bruce
In LyX 1.3.4, figures in eps format had to be saved without a preview
or else LyX would choke. Is this still true in more recent versions
of LyX, like 1.5.4?
Bruce
ror in 1.3.4. Other similar documents, created with 1.3.4,
seem to be fine in 1.5.4.
Anybody know what's going on? (NB: I'm a LyX intermediate and a TeX
novice.)
Bruce
On Jun 23, 2008, at 10:44 AM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:16 PM, Bruce Pourciau
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Missing $ inserted.
Extra }, or forgotten $.
LaTeX Error: Bad math environment delimiter.
LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
M
On Jun 23, 2008, at 11:18 AM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Bruce Pourciau
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not really, these messages can be caused by pretty much anything.
Try cutting text until it finally compiles. Then uncut text until
you
find where t
On Jun 23, 2008, at 11:18 AM, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Bruce Pourciau
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not really, these messages can be caused by pretty much anything.
Try cutting text until it finally compiles. Then uncut text until
you
find where t
On Jun 24, 2008, at 2:06 AM, G. Milde wrote:
On 23.06.08, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
I rewrote the first spot where there was an error, and now
everything is
fine! Weird.
This could be e.g. a math-only character outside math (or vice
versa) that
triggers a math-toggle ("ins
A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an
\overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make these
insertions in math mode as quick as possible?
Bruce
On Jul 24, 2008, at 8:29 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
rgheck wrote:
Bruce Pourciau wrote:
A paper I'm writing has a googolplex of symbols with an
\overrightarrow overhead. What would be the best way to make
these insertions in math mode as quick as possible?
Well, you can shorten
In a recent manuscript with lots of figures, I inserted each figure
in a Quote environment. This automatically provided pleasant
indentation of the figure, with nice vertical spacing above and
below. Has anyone else done this?
Is there a simple, idiot-proof way to set up spellchecking in LyX/Mac
1.5.4?
Bruce
Just finished a 45 page article with lots of figures, mathematics,
citations, and bibtex generated references. Not even the tiniest
screw up. Perfect. Thank you, thank you, to the LyX development team!
Bruce
, and mathematical symbols that blend.
Bruce
On Aug 27, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Rich Shepard wrote:
Typefaces have subtle and subconscious effects on the reader.
Pick a
typeface that implies professionalism (if that's the impression
you want to
make) and use that. My default typeface is Palatino. It's a
Having just updated to LyX 1.5.6, I seem to have lost the screen
magnification setting. The default setting is a bit hard to read on my
monitor. What am I missing?
Bruce
Have just upgraded my Mac and LyX (to 1.5.6). A hoard of fonts show up
in the list of available _screen_ fonts, but for some reason not
Palatino. Palatino show up in the font lists for Word and Nisus, and
my LyX produced pdf's are generated in Palatino. Any thoughts?
Bruce
?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Bruce
On Sep 11, 2008, at 3:04 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Bruce Pourciau wrote:
I have two figures placed side by side, but the left hand figure is
taller than the right hand figure, so when they line up along their
baselines, the right hand figure looks much lower. How can I move
the right hand
get
1. line1
line2
2. line3
line4
and so on. I get different things depending on the kind of paste in
LyX I choose, but I do not get what I want. Any help would be
appreciated.
Bruce
my office?
Bruce
, so I'd appreciate knowing how to handle this from within LyX,
but if I can't, I can't.
Thanks for any assistance,
Bruce
On Mar 8, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Ingar Pareliussen wrote:
\documentclass[12pt,aps,prb,preprint]{revtex4}
Presently the article is in the standard Article class with Plain
style. If I can make this change from within LyX, exactly how would I
do it? On LyX/Mac 1.6.5, TeXLive 2008.
Go to the menu
ppreciated.
Bruce
On Mar 10, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Julien Rioux wrote:
On 10/03/2011 11:05 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
I'm still having problems converting an Article class document (with
footnotes and citations) to a REVTeX4
(\documentclass[12pt,aps,prb,preprint]{revtex4}) document, where
there
are no footnotes
libreoffice
hin LyX so my lyx file will generate a tex file in which all the
LaTeX "includes" are commented out? Or is this something I have to do
by working directly on the tex file?
And if the latter, then where exactly do I place the %?
Bruce
On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Bruce Pourciau
<bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu> wrote:
A journal wants me to send them a zipped up folder which contains
the figure
files, a pdf to tell them where the figures are to be placed, and
t
On Apr 1, 2011, at 6:00 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-03-31, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Bruce Pourciau
<bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu> wrote:
A journal wants me to send them a zipped up folder which contains
the figure
files, a pdf to tell them
of the ms at any
time, at least until I send them the final tex file at the end of the
process. I'm tempted to write back to the editors and say that I want
my manuscript to enjoy the editing process of a Word submission. Do
you think that's justified?
Bruce
On Apr 2, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
A journal has the tex file I exported from my lyx file. Their
editing process goes like this: they mark places in that tex file
where they want revisions, attach it to an email to me, I make the
revisions in that marked up tex file
On Apr 2, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
On Saturday 02 April 2011 11:03:00 Julien Rioux wrote:
On 02/04/2011 9:55 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
A journal has the tex file I exported from my lyx file. Their
editing
process goes like this: they mark places in that tex file where they
want
On Apr 2, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-04-02, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
Let me add this: The editors don't expect the author of a Word
submission to conduct the revision process in an unfamiliar file
format. I'm sure they go back and forth with Word files. But they are
trying
into the memory of
every postscript printer, like Palatino.
Bruce
On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Hey Bruce
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Bruce Pourciau
<bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu> wrote:
Other faces designed by Herman Zapf would do as well -- such as
Aldus or
Renaissance
As far as I understand, Aldus is a book weight v
The Elsevier document class
prints "Preprint submitted to Elsevier" and the date as footers
indents the first paragraph after a heading
What, if anything, can I put in the preamble to make the footers go
away and to stop the first paragraph after a heading from indenting?
Bruce
On Apr 15, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 04/15/2011 01:47 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
The Elsevier document class
prints "Preprint submitted to Elsevier" and the date as footers
indents the first paragraph after a heading
What, if anything, can I put in the preamb
Settings > Fonts choose Palatino and check Small Caps and Old Style
figures. This gives you Zapf's lovely Palatino for text and symbols
for mathematics that have been redrawn (Palatino'd) to blend well with
the text.
Bruce
, but this seems
cumbersome. Any easier, more systematic methods for this?
Bruce
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
paragraphs. In the source, the only odd thing I see is the comment, %
Preview source code for paragraph 85, which appears just before the
sudden single spacing begins.
Any thoughts?
Bruce
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
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
On Jun 15, 2011, at 2:09 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-06-14, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
...
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
is coming out fine, but the citations in the text
should be, say, [Newton, 1999, 407] and I'm getting a numerical style
with no brackets: 12, 407.
LyX 1.6.5 on a Mac
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Bruce
P.S. I can live with a numerical style if I have to -- the journal
will convert
I have a colleague using book class who wants to place a comment on
the page labeled Part 1, but when he tries to do this, the comment
appears on the first page after the page labelled Chapter 1 of Part 1.
Does anyone have a suggestion?
Bruce
On Sep 21, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Julien Rioux wrote:
On 22/09/2011 12:50 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 09/21/2011 02:11 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
I have a colleague using book class who wants to place a comment on
the page labeled Part 1, but when he tries to do this, the comment
appears
in which
sentences begin with lowercase letters. In the absence of a capital,
a full en space (M/2) between sentences will generally be welcome.
I normally use the command \frenchspacing in the preamble to stop
LaTeX from adding any extra space between sentences.
Bruce
Does anyone know why, in the LyX Essentials
[1] https://sites.google.com/site/tsewiki/resources/latex
TeXShop is called a "popular alternative [to LyX] for Mac users"?
Bruce
, LyX couldn't
get past generating the noweb file.
I finally tracked down the solution. The converter command (step 8) has to be
"Rweave.bat $$i" rather than "Rweave $$i".
Bruce
o everyone in the LyX community for such a great program, and
for all the help I got on the user's list when I was starting out!
Richard Heck
Nice to see that someone at my alma mater has been doing some serious
work. Congratulations on a very nicely typeset and (I'm sure) very
nicely argued book!
Bruce
OK, I'm sure this must be a silly question, but why, when I enter in
ERT \ˆ{e}, to get a circumflex over the e, does my document stop being
viewable?
Bruce
On Dec 12, 2011, at 9:13 AM, Manolo Martínez wrote:
On 12/12/11 at 09:07am, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
OK, I'm sure this must be a silly question, but why, when I enter in
ERT \ˆ{e}, to get a circumflex over the e, does my document stop
being viewable?
Bruce
Why don't you enter ê in plain text
On Dec 12, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
On 2011-12-12, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
OK, I'm sure this must be a silly question, but why, when I enter in
ERT \ˆ{e}, to get a circumflex over the e, does my document stop
being
viewable?
If the character you used in LyX is the same
s erased? I think the basic Letter class uses a table
for the right aligned address at the top right of the letter.
Bruce
rian
habit. As a general rule, no more than a single space is required
after a period, colon or any other mark of punctuation.
LyX is just nudging you along the path of unlearning.
Bruce
A copyeditor has asked if I could find and replace all the double
quotation marks with single quotation marks, so she doesn't have to
mark them all. Normal find/replace in LyX doesn't seem to work. Is
there a way to do this?
Bruce
* You can set LyX to not show pictures within the LyX window
Is there a way to make all the graphics in a document not appear,
without turning them off one-by-one?
Bruce
On Nov 6, 2006, at 3:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, David A. Case wrote:
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006
M (or two of them) in for the longest label. Nest standard
environments inside the list when you're showing the solutions.
Typographical downside: two-digit problem numbers will be flush left
rather than the better looking flush right as in an enumeration
environment.
Bruce
I would like to write a couple of words in a calligraphic or script
typeface. Is there a fairly easy way to do this within LyX? In
mathmode there's \mathcal, but this is only for uppercase letters.
Bruce
Bruce, I think you're going to have to use the LaTeX font selection
scheme in ERT. You could use Zapf Chancery as your script font.
It's pzc to LaTeX.
Thanks, Richard and Jurgen. But what specific commands in ERT would
put some given text in size large Zapf Chancery? I looked up
Bruce, I think you're going to have to use the LaTeX font selection
scheme in ERT. You could use Zapf Chancery as your script font.
It's pzc to LaTeX.
\fontfamily{pzc}\large {text} seems to work, but replacing \large by
\larger does not. What's up with that?
Bruce
On Dec 6, 2006, at 9
On Dec 6, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
Bruce Pourciau wrote:
\fontfamily{pzc}\large {text} seems to work, but replacing \large by
\larger does not. What's up with that?
try \Large, \LARGE, \huge and \Huge
Jürgen
Thanks, Jürgen.
How do I get a letter like e or a with an accent? In other
applications it's option-e (together) then the letter, but that
doesn't give it to me in LyX/Mac 1.4.1. What am I doing wrong?
Bruce
Depending on the accent you want (acute or grave), insert the
following in ERT:
\'e
\`e
Thanks, Maria.
Bruce
On Dec 6, 2006, at 2:40 PM, Maria Gouskova wrote:
Depending on the accent you want (acute or grave), insert the
following in ERT:
\'e
\`e
Or, hit Ctrl+M twice to enter math
before I upgraded to LyX/Mac 1.4.1 and OS 10.4.5. That's why I
was surprised that I couldn't duplicate it and assumed that I was
just not remembering the correct keystrokes.
Bruce
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