Re: Reducing space after fullstops?
On Aug 10, 2015, at 7:14 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Am Montag 10 August 2015, 16:20:56 schrieb Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक > नोरोन्या > *فريدريك نورونيا: >> LyX tends to add spaces after fullstops. It looks a bit excessive >> sometimes. How do I reduce/avoid this pls? FN > > This is the so called "French spacing" which is common in some languages. > Look > here how to switch it off globally or for specific languages: > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/210254/babels-selectlanguage-resets-frenchspacing > > Jürgen See this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing for the interesting history of spacing between sentences. One snippet: With the advent of the typewriter in the late 19th century, French and English typists adopted approximations of standard spacing practices to fit the limitations of the typewriter itself. French typists used a single space between sentences, consistent with the typeset French spacing technique, whereas English typists used a double space. • French spacing inserted spaces around most punctuation marks, but single-spaced after sentences, colons, and semicolons.[3] • English spacing removed spaces around most punctuation marks, but double-spaced after sentences, colons, and semicolons.[4] These approximations were taught and used as the standard typing techniques in French and English-speaking countries.[5] For example, T. S. Eliot typed rather than wrote the manuscript for his classic The Waste Land between 1920 and 1922, and used only English spacing throughout: double-spaced sentences.[6] Historically, "French spacing" referred to single-spacing between sentences. In calling the command that forces this single-spacing \frenchspacing, Knuth was following this historical terminology. On this topic, the typographer's bible, The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst, has this to say: 2.1.4 Use a single word space between sentences. In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography and type design, many compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of twentieth-century typists were then taught to do the same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint Victorian habit. As a general rule, no more than a single space is required after a period, a colon or any other mark of punctuation. Larger spaces (e.g., en spaces) are themselves punctuation. The rule is usually altered, however, when setting classical Latin and Greek, romanized Sanskrit, phonetics or other kinds of texts in which sentences begin with lowercase letters. In the absences of a capital, a full en space (M/2) between sentences will generally be welcome. Bruce
Re: Switching to Chicago NB Notes
Yes, thank you. I had done a similar search, but did not find much on how difficult it will be for the copy editor to make the necessary changes in my file. Bruce On Jun 25, 2015, at 7:03 PM, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > https://www.google.com/search?q=bibtex+chicago&oq=bibtex+chicago&aqs=chrome..69i57.2245j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8 > > el > > On 2015-06-25 10:52 , Bruce Pourciau wrote: >> I should have mentioned that the volume will be using the Chicago Manual >> of Style 16th edition bibliography style, which suggests that they may >> be using biblatex with the biblatex-chicago style files. >> >> Bruce >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> *From: *Bruce Pourciau >> <mailto:bruce.h.pourc...@lawrence.edu>> >>> *Date: *June 25, 2015 8:47:27 AM CDT >>> *To: *LyXFolks mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>> >>> *Subject: **Switching to Chicago NB Notes* >>> >>> I have used LyX to produce a LaTeX file for a chapter I am >>> contributing to a volume. My LaTeX file uses a common system for >>> notes and bibliography: there is a bibliography at the end and the >>> citations refer to entires in that bibliography. But the volume will >>> be using what's called the Chicago NB system: there is no bibliography >>> at the end; the notes contain the bibliographic information: >>> >>> https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/ >>> >>> How difficult will it be for the copy editor to change the format of >>> my paper into the Chicago NB format? Is this conversion something I >>> should expect the copy editor to take care of? Being a LaTeX novice, I >>> wouldn't want to do it myself. >>> >>> Bruce >>
Fwd: Switching to Chicago NB Notes
I should have mentioned that the volume will be using the Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition bibliography style, which suggests that they may be using biblatex with the biblatex-chicago style files. Bruce Begin forwarded message: > From: Bruce Pourciau > Date: June 25, 2015 8:47:27 AM CDT > To: LyXFolks > Subject: Switching to Chicago NB Notes > > I have used LyX to produce a LaTeX file for a chapter I am contributing to a > volume. My LaTeX file uses a common system for notes and bibliography: there > is a bibliography at the end and the citations refer to entires in that > bibliography. But the volume will be using what's called the Chicago NB > system: there is no bibliography at the end; the notes contain the > bibliographic information: > > https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/ > > How difficult will it be for the copy editor to change the format of my paper > into the Chicago NB format? Is this conversion something I should expect the > copy editor to take care of? Being a LaTeX novice, I wouldn't want to do it > myself. > > Bruce
Switching to Chicago NB Notes
I have used LyX to produce a LaTeX file for a chapter I am contributing to a volume. My LaTeX file uses a common system for notes and bibliography: there is a bibliography at the end and the citations refer to entires in that bibliography. But the volume will be using what's called the Chicago NB system: there is no bibliography at the end; the notes contain the bibliographic information: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/ How difficult will it be for the copy editor to change the format of my paper into the Chicago NB format? Is this conversion something I should expect the copy editor to take care of? Being a LaTeX novice, I wouldn't want to do it myself. Bruce
Re: String There But Not Found
On Jun 20, 2015, at 9:54 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Sorry to repeat my question, but the Subject was incorrectly labelled: > > > I need to replace the American style ," and ." with the British style ", and > ". The LyX Find and Replace is finding some but not all of the strings. I > looked for the first ," it did not find, copied it, pasted it into the Find > box, placed the cursor just before it, clicked Find Next, and LyX still did > not find it. It seems to be just the quotation mark, not the comma, that it's > not finding. > > Any thoughts on what might be going on? Any suggestions? > > Bruce The Find Replace Advanced does the job! Didn't even know there was an advanced version. Live and learn. Bruce
String There But Not Found
Sorry to repeat my question, but the Subject was incorrectly labelled: I need to replace the American style ," and ." with the British style ", and ". The LyX Find and Replace is finding some but not all of the strings. I looked for the first ," it did not find, copied it, pasted it into the Find box, placed the cursor just before it, clicked Find Next, and LyX still did not find it. It seems to be just the quotation mark, not the comma, that it's not finding. Any thoughts on what might be going on? Any suggestions? Bruce
Re: Chicago 16 Bibliography Style
I need to replace the American style ," and ." with the British style ", and ". The LyX Find and Replace is finding some but not all of the strings. I looked for the first ," it did not find, copied it, pasted it into the Find box, placed the cursor just before it, clicked Find Next, and LyX still did not find it. Any thoughts on what might be going on? Any suggestions? Bruce
Re: Chicago 16 Bibliography Style
On Jun 20, 2015, at 2:11 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > 2015-06-20 3:54 GMT+02:00 Bruce H. Pourciau: > I used LyX to write an article that will be appearing in an edited volume, > and the editors have requested that the LaTeX file I send them should use the > bibliographic style employed in the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. At > the following website, I found the examples below (N = Note, B = > Bibliography). Does anyone know which styles available with LyX would come > closest to matching this Chicago 16 style? Or, by editing the exported LaTeX > file, is there a way to get an exact match (I'd like to avoid biblatex, > since I'm not familiar with it, and time is not my friend.) In the second > pair of examples, the book title needs to be in italic. > > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. > > There is a chicago.bst style file that claims to stick to the Chicago manual > (although 13th ed.). Since it is included in TeXLive and MikTeX, you should > be able to use it in LyX without much hassle. > > Jürgen > > > Bruce Oddly, it seems that the style authordate1 is closer to Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition than chicago style. And even with authordate1, the dates comes out near the beginning instead of the end, and articles are not in quotation marks. Every other contributor to this volume has submitted a Word file. From these Word files, a master LaTeX file is constructed for typesetting the book. I think a contribution like mine that's already in LaTeX causes problems, because it means a deviation from their workflow! But they certainly have to have a bibtex style file for the Chicago Manual of Style 16th edition, since that is the style for the book, and they should be able just to insert that into my LaTeX file, right? Bruce
Re: why people give up on open source software
On Oct 25, 2013, at 2:49 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > 25/10/2013 02:37, Ken Springer: >> Just a question, does viable equate something that will be successful in >> the long run? > > It is already successful. We have users, LyX continues to advance, although > at a frustratingly slow pace these days. But in some sense, the fact that we > continue to advance in a time where the number of active and enthusiastic > developers is low is a proof that LyX is a robust project. Having 3 more > active developers (I mean good enough to avoid generating random code that > will take years to clean up) is the most we need probably. > > What I mean is that I do not want personally to create some kind of killer > app, but provide a trusty tool for a small to medium circle of users ready to > make some investment in learning time. Having people who trust LyX enough to > entrust their writing work to us _is_ a success. > > JMarc For me, LyX is in fact a killer app, in the sense that it has killed any need or desire to have an affair, a one night stand, or even flirt with any other app. I write long, structured papers that contain mathematics, figures, cross-references, and bibliographic citations, and LyX has been the perfect partner and document processor. It does everything I need, produces beautiful pdf's, and it's solid as a rock. A heartfelt thank you to JMarc and the other LyX developers. Bruce
Re: Formatting Marginal Notes
On Jul 4, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 04 Juli 2013, 09:36:14 schrieb Bruce Pourciau:
>> In the default format for marginal notes, for the standard article class,
>> the note appears to have the same text size, line spacing, and justified
>> format of the body text. This seems odd to me. I would expect and prefer a
>> standard marginal note to have a smaller text size, smaller line spacing,
>> and be ragged right (to eliminate the huge gaps between words that
>> justified text has in very narrow spaces), as in the marginal notes of
>> Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographical Style, which is often thought of
>> as the typographer's bible.
>>
>> Is there a global way to alter the default format for marginal notes, by
>> inserting commands into the preamble? Failing that, is there a one-by-one
>> way to get the format I prefer?
>
> Try something like:
>
> \let\oldmarginpar\marginpar
> \renewcommand*\marginpar[1]{%
> \oldmarginpar{\footnotesize\raggedright #1}}
>
> Jürgen
>
>
Perfect. Thank you, Jürgen.
Bruce
Formatting Marginal Notes
In the default format for marginal notes, for the standard article class, the note appears to have the same text size, line spacing, and justified format of the body text. This seems odd to me. I would expect and prefer a standard marginal note to have a smaller text size, smaller line spacing, and be ragged right (to eliminate the huge gaps between words that justified text has in very narrow spaces), as in the marginal notes of Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographical Style, which is often thought of as the typographer's bible. Is there a global way to alter the default format for marginal notes, by inserting commands into the preamble? Failing that, is there a one-by-one way to get the format I prefer? Bruce
Re: document statistics
On Jun 17, 2013, at 5:21 PM, stefano franchi wrote:
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>
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> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:07:57 -0400
> Maria Gouskova wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Csikos Bela
> > wrote:
> >
> > > stefano franchi írta:
> > > >On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Alex Vergara Gil a...@cphr.edu.cu>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >>>Hello:
> > > >>>Occasionally it is necessary to count the total word or character
> > > number in
> > > >>>a document.
> > > >>>Lyx has Tools->Statistics option for the document, but how can I
> > > >>>make statistics that includes the text in the Bibliography which
> > > >>>is not
> > > edited in
> > > >>l>yx?
> > >
> > > >>If is not edited in LyX there is no way LyX can count the words,
> > > >>so I use Okular to do this kind of things once the document is
> > > >>ready.
> > >
> > > >Alex,I never knew Okular could do document statistics. Is it a
> > > >plugin/ extension/whatever? My version of okular does not seem to
> > > >have any facility of the kind. I use pdftotxt | wc -w when I need
> > > >to obtain final figures. I'd be glad to skip a step or two and
> > > >use okular directly.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > bcsikos
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Any decent text editor will count up words for you, as will Open
> > Office/Libre Office. I usually use TextWrangler.app (Mac OS,
> > freeware). Take your PDF, copy and paste the contents into a text
> > file, and you'll have an estimate. All estimates of word counts are
> > imprecise because of variable definitions of what a "word" is.
> >
> > Maria
>
> Hi Maria,
>
> The one caveat with editor word counting, or for that matter piping the
> file into wc, is that you need to find a way to not count markup like
> \begin{standard}.
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>
> You can use the detex utility for that:
>
> $ man detex
> NAME
>detex - a filter to strip TeX commands from a .tex file.
>
> That will not help you with the bibliography, however, if (as it sometimes
> happens) you need to include references in the word count.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefano
Couldn't one replace the inserted bibtex bibliography with the .bbl file that
it generates and then do the word count?
Bruce
Restoring Window Size and Position
I have "Restore window layouts and geometries" checked in LyX 2.0.6 preferences, but when I open a file in the morning, the window is half the size and re-positioned from how it was when the file was saved the day before. LyX does remember window size and position during the day while LyX is up and running. Is there a box I'm not checking? Bruce
Re: Generating a bbl File
On May 9, 2013, at 4:33 PM, UD wrote: > I repeat my request to activate this option by default, perhaps with a > warning (shown when the option is actually used) that there are problems with > multiple bibliographies. My colleagues have often complained about the > ornate dance that is required to produce the Latex file with the content of > the .bbl file embedded in it. Since this is a routine application (until > journals accept Lyx files, it must be faced each time you submit an article > to a journal), it would be very helpful to have it by default. > > Ehud Kaplan > > > On 05/03/2013 03:23 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 05/03/2013 02:37 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >>> On May 3, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >>> >>>> On 05/03/2013 11:40 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >>>>> Once a submitted paper has been accepted by a journal, one must replace >>>>> the BibTeX bibliography with a bbl file. What's the easiest way to do >>>>> this? I have instructions around someplace, but has this replacement >>>>> become more automatic (like PDF pdflatex with bbl, as an export option) >>>>> in the newest versions of LyX? >>>> There's an option to export "LaTeX (with Bib)", which includes the >>>> contents of the bbl file in the LaTeX file itself. Which is usually what >>>> they want. >>>> >>>> rh >>>> >>> I just updated to LyX 2.0.5.1, but do not see the export option LaTeX (with >>> bib). >> >> Sorry, I forgot, we do not enable it by default. >> >> There are instructions about how to get this in the file include_bib.py, >> which you will find in your LyX installation (e.g., at >> /usr/share/lyx/scripts/). The easiest thing to do is to open your >> preferences file and add these two lines: >> >> \format "ltxbib" "tex" "LaTeX (With Bib)" "" "" "" "document,menu=export" >> \converter "pdflatex" "ltxbib" "python -tt $$s/scripts/include_bib.py $$i >> $$o" "needaux" >> >> in the appropriate places, which should be obvious. >> >> Richard >> Personally, I wouldn't need or wish to have exporting LaTeX with the bbl file be the default, but given that the bbl file must replace the bibtex bibliography every time one submits a paper for publication, it would indeed seem very useful to have Export > LaTeX (with bib) as a menu choice. How hard would this be? Bruce
Re: Generating a bbl File
On May 3, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 05/03/2013 02:37 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >> On May 3, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >> >>> On 05/03/2013 11:40 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >>>> Once a submitted paper has been accepted by a journal, one must replace >>>> the BibTeX bibliography with a bbl file. What's the easiest way to do >>>> this? I have instructions around someplace, but has this replacement >>>> become more automatic (like PDF pdflatex with bbl, as an export option) in >>>> the newest versions of LyX? >>> There's an option to export "LaTeX (with Bib)", which includes the contents >>> of the bbl file in the LaTeX file itself. Which is usually what they want. >>> >>> rh >>> >> I just updated to LyX 2.0.5.1, but do not see the export option LaTeX (with >> bib). > > Sorry, I forgot, we do not enable it by default. > > There are instructions about how to get this in the file include_bib.py, > which you will find in your LyX installation (e.g., at > /usr/share/lyx/scripts/). The easiest thing to do is to open your preferences > file and add these two lines: > > \format "ltxbib" "tex" "LaTeX (With Bib)" "" "" "" "document,menu=export" > \converter "pdflatex" "ltxbib" "python -tt $$s/scripts/include_bib.py $$i > $$o" "needaux" > > in the appropriate places, which should be obvious. > > Richard > Many thanks, Richard
Re: Generating a bbl File
On May 3, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 05/03/2013 11:40 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >> Once a submitted paper has been accepted by a journal, one must replace the >> BibTeX bibliography with a bbl file. What's the easiest way to do this? I >> have instructions around someplace, but has this replacement become more >> automatic (like PDF pdflatex with bbl, as an export option) in the newest >> versions of LyX? > > There's an option to export "LaTeX (with Bib)", which includes the contents > of the bbl file in the LaTeX file itself. Which is usually what they want. > > rh > I just updated to LyX 2.0.5.1, but do not see the export option LaTeX (with bib). Bruce
Re: Generating a bbl File
On May 3, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 05/03/2013 11:40 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: >> Once a submitted paper has been accepted by a journal, one must replace the >> BibTeX bibliography with a bbl file. What's the easiest way to do this? I >> have instructions around someplace, but has this replacement become more >> automatic (like PDF pdflatex with bbl, as an export option) in the newest >> versions of LyX? > > There's an option to export "LaTeX (with Bib)", which includes the contents > of the bbl file in the LaTeX file itself. Which is usually what they want. > > rh > I guess I should update.
Generating a bbl File
Once a submitted paper has been accepted by a journal, one must replace the BibTeX bibliography with a bbl file. What's the easiest way to do this? I have instructions around someplace, but has this replacement become more automatic (like PDF pdflatex with bbl, as an export option) in the newest versions of LyX? Bruce
Re: Palatino linotype in Lyx
On Mar 5, 2013, at 9:20 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: > Since NIH now wants us to use Palatino Linotype (among several other, uglier > fonts), I tried to find it in the Lyx font list, but could only find > Palatino, which is apparently different from Palatino Linotype. Where can I > find Palatino Linotype so I could add it to the Lyx font list? > Thanks, > > -- > Ehud Kaplan, Were you told that Palatino in the LyX font list is not Palatino Linotype? Inspected closely, the letter forms in LyX's Palatino look just like Palatino Linotype. The letter spacing could be different, but the letterforms themselves look right. Bruce
BasicTeX and LyX
At home, in contrast to the office, I have used LyX in rather simple ways. Would it make sense to download BasicTeX onto our new computer at home, rather than the full version of MacTeX? Would this cause any problems for LyX? Bruce
Re: Getting rid of "You cannot type two spaces this way" message?
On Apr 11, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Bill Foote wrote: Is there an easy way for me to get rid of the "You cannot ... Please read the tutorial" message? I know that typing two spaces that way doesn't change the layout, and I'm more-or-less fine with LyX auto-deleting the space. I'm completely fine with TeX not changing the formatting based on "extra" spaces. With all that said, I'd prefer that LyX stop nagging. I know already! Start ignoring it. :) This is what I did. Besides, it's a good idea to always show it, so as to quickly and clearly explain new users what happens and why. LyX cannot know whether the user typing _knows_ it already or not. I'm not going to adjust my typing style, because most of the time when I type, putting two spaces after a period or some other punctuation is the right thing to do. Likely TeX/LaTeX would disagree. The author of The Elements of Typographical Style, Robert Bringhurst, has this to say about putting two spaces after a period: In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography and type design, many compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of twentieth century typists were then taught to do the same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint Victorian 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
Re: right align a block of text
On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:23 AM, Csikos Bela wrote: PhilipPirrip írta: Is this possible in lyx?> Everything that is possible in LaTeX is also possible in LyX. Therefore, > asking on a LaTeX group would be a better option for you, I guess. The > answer would be - yes, it is possible, but is it easy?> Easiness is relative. I don't care if it is easy or not. Moreover, these 'strange' formattings should be better done in > LibreOffice, or even better in Scribus. Maybe you should ask yourself > why do you need LaTeX and LyX after all.> Well, I don't write official letters in scribus, and I changed to lyx from office writers (LibreOffice, OpenOffice, MS Word) since it gives nicer output. I don't see why this would be 'strange' format. If I write an official letter, I want to put the recipient's address in the top left corner, and the sender's address in the top right corner. And it would look ugly if the sender's address was staggered at the inside; it also would be ugly if the sender's address block wasn't aligned. bcsikos Couldn't you use two tables, one left the other right aligned, with the table lines erased? I think the basic Letter class uses a table for the right aligned address at the top right of the letter. Bruce
Re: Circumflex
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 as here:
Character 'ˆ' (710, 0x2C6)
02C6MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
it is because it is not the ASCII-circumflex
Character '^' (94, 0x5E)
005ECIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
and hence an unknown command.
Günter
Thank you, Günter. That's the problem. I formed the circumflex by
doing option-i on a Mac keyboard, and this apparently produces
character (710, 0x2C6), according to
http://homepage.mac.com/nellisks/tools/char_val.html?c=ˆ
Bruce
Re: Circumflex
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? LyX (mine at least) takes care
of that.
--
Yes, thank you, that works. But I still wonder about my question.
Bruce
Circumflex
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
Re: LyX-Produced Book
On Nov 29, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Richard Heck wrote: My book, /Frege's Theorem/, which was both written with and typeset from LyX, has just recently been published by Oxford University Press. You can have a look at the pages, if you wish, from its page on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Freges-Theorem-Richard-G-Heck/dp/0199695644/ LyX gets mentioned on p. xii, which seems currently to be part of the "preview". The font is just New Century Schoolbook. The document class was written by me to OUP's specifications and will go up on CTAN when I get some time. Thanks to 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
Re: Beginner Tutorials
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
Re: Capital letter
On Oct 21, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Helge Hafting wrote: LaTeX knows that there should be more space after a period, in some languages. (And no such thing in some other languages). Today, many (most?) typographers recommend just a single word space between sentences, except in languages where sentences begin with a lower case letter. Robert Bringhurst, the author of The Elements of Typographic Style, a book widely regarded as the typographer's bible, writes: In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography and type design, many compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of twentieth- century typists were then taught to do the same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint Victorian habit. As a general rule, no more than a single space is required after a period, a colon or any other mark of punctuation. Larger spaces (e.g., en spaces) are themselves punctuation. The rule is usually altered, however, when setting classical Latin and Greek, Romanized Sanskrit, phonetics or other kinds of text 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
Re: Comment on Part Page
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 on the first page after the page labelled Chapter 1 of Part 1. Does anyone have a suggestion? This is controlled by the document class. You would have to modify the book class in order to get such a comment to print on the Part page. This isn't insanely hard to do, but one would have to decide exactly what syntax to use, etc. Richard Exactly, it is not possible with the standard class. Short of writing the latex code for it, you could also use one of the latex classes that make such customization easy. I vaguely remember that the memoir class and koma-script classes will allow you to do what you want. Since I'm no expert, I can only suggest that you look at their documentation. -- Julien Thanks Julien and Richard. I'll pass your advice on. Bruce
Comment on Part Page
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
Author-Year-Page Citation Style
I have a document in the Article (Elsevier) class, with Natbib Author-
Year selected under Bibliography and \usepackage{natbib} in the
preamble. I have a bibtex generated bibliography using the .bst style
file of the journal which is in the folder with my document.
The bibliography 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 the numerical style to author-year (at least they did the
last time) -- but I still would need the brackets: [12, 407], not just
12, 407.
Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space
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 for this article I have Indentation checked in Text Layout. Should I replace ParSep 1 with something else? There are additional Keywords for space above and below the paragraph. See Help>Customization. Günter Thanks, Günter.
Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space
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: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space
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. For various reasons, I wish to avoid using the AMS theorem,
lemma, etc, environments to do this. I've been using soft returns
(command-return on a Mac) -- two above and two below -- but this
method results in too much vertical space around the assertion. I
could also use normal paragraphing, where I insert a \noindent and
adjust the vertical spacing above and below, but this seems
cumbersome. Any easier, more systematic methods for this?
How about the FancyBreak module?
(Save the code below in a file fancybreak.module in your LYXDIR,
reconfigure LyX and select via Document>Settings>Modules.
Then, a new paragraph style "Fancybreak" should appear in the drop
down list.
Günter
#\DeclareLyXModule{fancybreak}
#DescriptionBegin
# Define FancyBreak style for 'breaks' or 'transitions' between
paragraphs.
#
# Separate pragraphs with some ornaments or simple vertical space.
# This is usually used for gaps in the narrative (also called a
'transition'),
# e.g. love scenes left out in older novels
# or to start a new section without a section header
# (also called an 'anonymous section').
#DescriptionEnd
# Author: Günter Milde
Format 11
# Modelled after the fancybreak in the memoir LaTeX document class.
# Changes: no starred version, 1/2 baselineskip above and below.
Style FancyBreak
LatexName fancybreak
LatexType command
ParSep 1
NextNoIndent1
KeepEmpty 1# allow for plain break
Align Center
AlignPossible Center
LabelString "break"
LeftMargin "break"
LabelType Static
LabelSepx
LabelFont
SeriesMedium
Shape Italic
Size Small
Color magenta
EndFont
Preamble
\providecommand{\fancybreak}[1]{\par
\penalty -100
\vskip 0.5\baselineskip
\noindent\parbox{\linewidth}{\centering #1}\null
\penalty -20
%% \vskip -\onelineskip
\vskip 0.5\baselineskip
\@afterindentfalse
\@afterheading}
EndPreamble
End
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. Then I should replace the
choice "center" for Align and AlignPossible with ? And should I
replace something in the Preamble part?
Bruce
Sudden Single Spacing
I'm writing a paper in the Elsevier class, with the option "review," which produces extra space between lines, suitable for a manuscript submitted to a journal for review. But right in the middle of the document, the text suddenly becomes single spaced for a couple of 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
Re: Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space
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. For various reasons, I wish to avoid using the AMS theorem,
lemma, etc, environments to do this. I've been using soft returns
(command-return on a Mac) -- two above and two below -- but this
method results in too much vertical space around the assertion. I
could also use normal paragraphing, where I insert a \noindent and
adjust the vertical spacing above and below, but this seems
cumbersome. Any easier, more systematic methods for this?
How about the FancyBreak module?
(Save the code below in a file fancybreak.module in your LYXDIR,
reconfigure LyX and select via Document>Settings>Modules.
Then, a new paragraph style "Fancybreak" should appear in the drop
down list.
Günter
#\DeclareLyXModule{fancybreak}
#DescriptionBegin
# Define FancyBreak style for 'breaks' or 'transitions' between
paragraphs.
#
# Separate pragraphs with some ornaments or simple vertical space.
# This is usually used for gaps in the narrative (also called a
'transition'),
# e.g. love scenes left out in older novels
# or to start a new section without a section header
# (also called an 'anonymous section').
#DescriptionEnd
# Author: Günter Milde
Format 11
# Modelled after the fancybreak in the memoir LaTeX document class.
# Changes: no starred version, 1/2 baselineskip above and below.
Style FancyBreak
LatexName fancybreak
LatexType command
ParSep 1
NextNoIndent1
KeepEmpty 1# allow for plain break
Align Center
AlignPossible Center
LabelString "break"
LeftMargin "break"
LabelType Static
LabelSepx
LabelFont
SeriesMedium
Shape Italic
Size Small
Color magenta
EndFont
Preamble
\providecommand{\fancybreak}[1]{\par
\penalty -100
\vskip 0.5\baselineskip
\noindent\parbox{\linewidth}{\centering #1}\null
\penalty -20
%% \vskip -\onelineskip
\vskip 0.5\baselineskip
\@afterindentfalse
\@afterheading}
EndPreamble
End
Perfect. Works like a charm. Thanks, Günter.
Separating Paragraphs: Indentation vs Vertical Space
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. For various reasons, I wish to avoid using the AMS theorem, lemma, etc, environments to do this. I've been using soft returns (command-return on a Mac) -- two above and two below -- but this method results in too much vertical space around the assertion. I could also use normal paragraphing, where I insert a \noindent and adjust the vertical spacing above and below, but this seems cumbersome. Any easier, more systematic methods for this? Bruce
Re: selecting fonts in xetex
On May 11, 2011, at 2:32 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: How are math fonts selected? By default, math fonts are not changed and still taken from the 8-bit encoded CM fonts. To configure math fonts, there are two options: You could also, within LyX, use the mathpazo package: In Document 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
Re: Modifying the Elsevier Class
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 preamble to make the footers go away and to stop the first paragraph after a heading from indenting? For the first, try giving the "final" option to the class. For the second, try: \@afterindentfalse. If that doesn't quite work, mimic what's done in the indentfirst package: \let\@afterindenttrue\@afterindentfalse \@afterindentfalse rh Thanks, Richard. And Liviu, as well. Using \let\@afterindenttrue\@afterindentfalse \@afterindentfalse does work. Haven't gotten rid of the "Preprint submitted to Elsevier" yet. Bruce
Modifying the Elsevier Class
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
Re: Zapf typefaces in LaTeX (was: 'Re: No ligatures in Palatino?')
On Apr 8, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Hey Bruce On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Bruce Pourciau 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 version of Palatino, hence more readable. Do you know if URW++ or TeX Gyre (or anyone else) provide a free clone? I searched all places that I could think of, but couldn't find anything. Given that Aldus is a more book-friendly version of Palatino, it's odd that it isn't better known and more often used. I too cannot find a free clone of Aldus. Also, could you please confirm if URW Antiqua [2] is _not_ a clone of Zapf Renaissance Antiqua [5]? The former complements [4] URW Grotesque [3]. If so, are you aware of a free clone of Renaissance? [2] http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/antiqua/ [3] http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/grotesk/ [4] http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/antiqua/?more [5] http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/zapf-renaissance-antiqua/ URW Antigua, to my untrained eye, looks very little like Renaisssance. I'm afraid I don't know about any free clones of Renaissance. -- except that they aren't burned into the memory of every postscript printer, like Palatino. Personally I like to use another Zapf design, Optima [1], as a sans complement to Palatino. [1] http://ctan.org/pkg/classico Another possibility would be Syntax, designed by Hans Eduard Meier. http://new.myfonts.com/search/syntax/fonts/ but again, there may be no free clone. My bible for all things typographic is Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style, now in its third edition. Bruce For those interested, from the Zapf series freely available in LaTeX there's also URW Chancery and TeX Gyre Chorus [6], both clones of Zapf Chancery, a calligraphical font. [6] http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/tgchorus/ Regards Liviu
Re: No ligatures in Palatino?
On Apr 8, 2011, at 1:31 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: Because there are no ligatures in Palatino -- by design. This is one of the many, many reasons why the typographic world would be a prettier place if Word folks would use Palatino, rather than Times, as the default typeface. Not only then would documents all around the world have a more beautiful face, but they'd be sprinkled with elegance fi ffi fl rather than littered with collisions fi ffi fl Other faces designed by Herman Zapf would do as well -- such as Aldus or Renaissance -- except that they aren't burned into the memory of every postscript printer, like Palatino. Bruce
Re: Editing Process
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 to force me to conduct the editing process in an unfamiliar file format, namely tex. However, I suppose they clearly stated that they accept either LaTeX or Word *before* you submitted your manuscript. In both cases, the submission-format is used for the revision process. I don't think it is fair to expect the editors to be familiar with any of the many possible formats of some pre-processing state to generate either of these (OpenOffice, LyX, some HTML2latex or HTML2Word converter, Abiword, Docutils, ...). (Working with OpenOffice while the other side uses Word can be a nightmare too.) Günter Very true, but shouldn't they be willing in this special case -- an author who submits a tex file, but who is not conversant with tex -- to go "old school"?: they mark up the pdf, mail a photocopy or email a scanned copy to me, I make the revisions in LyX, then export tex and pdf files and send them back. Doesn't seem like too big a deal, and the result would be a more error-free article. Bruce
Re: Editing Process
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 revisions, attach it to an email to me, I make the revisions in that marked up tex file and send it back to them. Now I'm comfortable working with LyX, but not at all comfortable working with a tex file directly. I'm worried that I'll make errors in the editing process and that it will take me much longer to make revisions, if I have to work with the tex file directly. I know I can import the tex file they send me -- a revision of the original tex file generated by my lyx file -- but if I do this, make the changes they want in lyx, and then export a tex file, can I be sure that this would result in the same tex file that would have resulted from working directly on the tex file they sent me? A second question: this journal does accept Word file submissions, but they much prefer tex files (naturally). I imagine that the editing process is different for Word submissions, probably more like what I would prefer: they tell me what they want changed, I make the changes in LyX, and then send them a new tex file exported from my revised lyx file, even if that exported tex file is different (due to the import/export process, not just the revisions) from the tex file that would have resulted from working on the tex file directly. In this process, my lyx document is always the final say on the state 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 Save yourself from the tex -> lyx -> tex cycle, as it is known to be incomplete. So I see two ways forward (not counting the Word alternative) 1) Use your original LyX file. Always only modify the original LyX file, and use .tex at the last stage (export). For this method, you will first need to figure out what is different, between the .tex file you sent to the editors, and the .tex file you received from them. Identify those changes and make the same changes in your LyX file. Then identify the things they want you to change, and make the changes in your LyX file. When done, export to .tex and send the file. 2) Just go with editing the .tex file. At the editing stage, you will only be changing a few sentences here and there anyway. If you need to modify math formulas and are intimidated by this, fire up LyX with a new file, write down how the formula should look like, open the View>Source panel, and copy/paste to your .tex file. 3) Ask your editors if, just possibly, they might use LyX on their end. Who knows, they might like it. For all the reasons you mention, if I were a professional editor I'd HATE working directly in LaTeX, and I'd LOVE working in LyX, always assuming I could agree with the author on which LyX version. SteveT Steve, Eberhard, Stefano, Julien, and Liviu, Thank you for the suggestions! I'll have to ponder. What I'd really like is to go "old school": Have them mark up the pdf with a pen, send it to me, I make the revisions in the lyx file, export tex, send the tex file and a pdf to them with the changes. But I'm afraid they'll never agree. It's my name that's going to be on the article, so I want control. As it is, one editor has already made changes in the tex file, replacing italic used for emphasis with roman, which is fine, but he also did this for some theorem-like assertions, which is _not_ fine, and it's hard for me to know that I've spotted all the changes I disagree with. His comments are marked with xx, which makes them easy to find, but these changes are not so marked. So I feel, even at this early stage of the process that I've lost control of my own ms! G. Bruce
Re: Editing Process
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 and send it back to them. Now I'm comfortable working with LyX, but not at all comfortable working with a tex file directly. I'm worried that I'll make errors in the editing process and that it will take me much longer to make revisions, if I have to work with the tex file directly. I know I can import the tex file they send me -- a revision of the original tex file generated by my lyx file -- but if I do this, make the changes they want in lyx, and then export a tex file, can I be sure that this would result in the same tex file that would have resulted from working directly on the tex file they sent me? A second question: this journal does accept Word file submissions, but they much prefer tex files (naturally). I imagine that the editing process is different for Word submissions, probably more like what I would prefer: they tell me what they want changed, I make the changes in LyX, and then send them a new tex file exported from my revised lyx file, even if that exported tex file is different (due to the import/export process, not just the revisions) from the tex file that would have resulted from working on the tex file directly. In this process, my lyx document is always the final say on the state 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 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 to force me to conduct the editing process in an unfamiliar file format, namely tex. Bruce
Editing Process
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 and send it back to them. Now I'm comfortable working with LyX, but not at all comfortable working with a tex file directly. I'm worried that I'll make errors in the editing process and that it will take me much longer to make revisions, if I have to work with the tex file directly. I know I can import the tex file they send me -- a revision of the original tex file generated by my lyx file -- but if I do this, make the changes they want in lyx, and then export a tex file, can I be sure that this would result in the same tex file that would have resulted from working directly on the tex file they sent me? A second question: this journal does accept Word file submissions, but they much prefer tex files (naturally). I imagine that the editing process is different for Word submissions, probably more like what I would prefer: they tell me what they want changed, I make the changes in LyX, and then send them a new tex file exported from my revised lyx file, even if that exported tex file is different (due to the import/ export process, not just the revisions) from the tex file that would have resulted from working on the tex file directly. In this process, my lyx document is always the final say on the state 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
Re: Commenting Out Figures
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 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 the tex file, with all LaTeX "includes" commented out and the figure captions collected at the end. Is there something I can do from within LyX so my lyx file will generate a tex file in which all the LaTeX "includes" are commented out? What about branches? Yes. But I'd go for a less convoluted implementation: You can use branch that contains only '%' in ERT and that you add right in front of the figure includes. When compiling the normal document, you disable the branch. When you need to comment out the figures, you enable the branch. This relies on the fact that the figure include maps to just one line of source code. Why not just put the figures (and all related material) into a branch that is active by default but inactive for the generation of the no-figures source? Günter Yes, this is exactly what I ended up doing, and it worked perfectly. Bruce
Re: Commenting Out Figures
On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Bruce Pourciau 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 the tex file, with all LaTeX "includes" commented out and the figure captions collected at the end. Is there something I can do from within LyX so my lyx file will generate a tex file in which all the LaTeX "includes" are commented out? What about branches? You can use branch that contains only '%' in ERT and that you add right in front of the figure includes. When compiling the normal document, you disable the branch. When you need to comment out the figures, you enable the branch. Regards Liviu Branches worked perfectly. Thanks, Liviu.
Commenting Out Figures
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 the tex file, with all LaTeX "includes" commented out and the figure captions collected at the end. Is there something I can do from within 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
Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0
libreoffice
Re: REVTeX4 Again
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, but citations and comments appear together in
endnotes. I selected REVTeX4 and put the options
12pt,aps,prb,preprint
into the Custom field.
But even trying to convert the simplest test document in the Article
class, I can't see how to get page numbers into a citation (using the
"text after" puts the page numbers into the body text, rather than
the
endnote entry).
Yes, the behavior you mention is intended; "text after" is meant to
appear in the text. If you want a page range to appear in your
bibliography you would enter that info in your .bib file as in:
@ARTICLE{Dirac1928a,
author = {Dirac, P. A. M.},
title = {The Quantum Theory of the Electron},
journal = {Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A},
year = {1928},
volume = {117},
pages = {610--624},
number = {778}
}
Also, if I cite the same article a second time, with page numbers
this
time, I need the citation to appear as endnote 2, like this:
1 cited article
2 See Ref. 1, pp.2--4
(normally you would always have page numbers for an article, but
maybe you mean a book)
One way to do this would be just to have an endnote with the text
"See Ref. [cite ref 1], pp.2--4" in it.
Otherwise, you could use Bibtex to do it for you. Assume you had a
book, and you refer to different chapters of the book. The usual
approach is to have multiple @INBOOK entries in your .bib file with
cross-references to a @BOOK entry:
@BOOK{Meier1984,
booktitle = {Optical Orientation},
year = {1984},
editor = {F. Meier and B.~P. Zakharchenya}
}
@INBOOK{Dyakonov1984,
author = {M.~I. D'yakonov and V.~I. Perel'},
year = {1984},
chapter = {2},
pages = {15--71},
crossref = {Meier1984}
}
@INBOOK{Pikus1984,
author = {G.~E. Pikus and A.~N. Titkov},
year = {1984},
chapter = {3},
pages = {73--131},
crossref = {Meier1984}
}
etc.
Notice the crossref field. It allows Bibtex to fetch additional
bibliographic information from the "parent", the actual book. If you
reference a number (2, or more) of different chapters from the same
book, Bibtex will automatically insert the book as entry 1. in your
list of references and will have entries like
1. The book.
2. In Ref. 1, pp. 15--71.
3. In Ref. 1, pp. 73--131.
Of course you can also refer to the book directly, too.
To see the format I'm striving for, one could go to
http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v79/i3/p261_s1
and download the pdf of the short Dirac article. (no need for the
two-column at this point)
I'd really like to do the conversion from within LyX, because there
will
be further editing which will be hard for me to manage if I have to
make
those edits directly on the LaTeX file.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Bruce
--
Julien
Thank you, Julien. That's very helpful. But iyour description makes it
seem like there's no way to make these formatting changes from within
LyX, starting from a document already formatted in the Article class.
Is that right?
If I were starting in LyX with a document in the class
[12pt,aps,prb,preprint]{revtex4}, could one make that document follow
the formatting you have described above, from within LyX?
Bruce
REVTeX4 Again
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, but citations and comments appear together in
endnotes. I selected REVTeX4 and put the options 12pt,aps,prb,preprint
into the Custom field.
But even trying to convert the simplest test document in the Article
class, I can't see how to get page numbers into a citation (using the
"text after" puts the page numbers into the body text, rather than the
endnote entry).
Also, if I cite the same article a second time, with page numbers this
time, I need the citation to appear as endnote 2, like this:
1 cited article
2 See Ref. 1, pp.2--4
To see the format I'm striving for, one could go to
http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v79/i3/p261_s1
and download the pdf of the short Dirac article. (no need for the two-
column at this point)
I'd really like to do the conversion from within LyX, because there
will be further editing which will be hard for me to manage if I have
to make those edits directly on the LaTeX file.
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Bruce
Re: SV: RevTeX4 and prb
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 Document->Settings --> Document class
Choose article(ReVTeX 4) from the document class drop down menu.
Remove the chosen predefined and copy into the Custom field:
12pt,aps,prb,preprint
I use a mix of citations in the text and endnotes, but the journal
puts all citations in the endnotes. Is there an efficient way to make
this change?
Sorry, can't help you here.Maybe somebody else can.
hth,
Ingar Pareliussen
I didn't realize that the options 12pt,aps,prb,preprint could be
inserted in the custom field. Thank you. But now I get a bunch of
Undefined control sequence errors. The commands
\doublespacing
\the endnotes
\@endanenote
all create errors. That was the second time I tried to View > PDF
(pdflatex). The first time I got a whole bunch of errors related to
bibliographic items.
RevTeX4 and prb
An article submitted to a physics journal has reached the stage where
they are asking for a specific document class and style, namely
\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.
I use a mix of citations in the text and endnotes, but the journal
puts all citations in the endnotes. Is there an efficient way to make
this change?
I'm a LyX user on a Mac and have never worked directly with a tex
file, 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
Import LyX File
I attached a file created with LyX 1.5.7 at home to an email and sent it to my office, where it arrived with its LyX code displayed (with first line "#LyX 1.5.7 created this file" following five lines of Apple Mail content information). How do I open this file in LyX 1.6.5 at my office? Bruce
Re: Figure Float Label
On Jan 4, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 1/4/2011 10:00 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: The "Number Figures by Section" was _not_ in the selected box, but when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well. That's odd. Was this document written using an earlier version of LyX? (I'm wondering if lyx2lyx had to process it and did something odd.) /Paul No, LyX 1.6.5. But earlier on I did do some switching around to various document classes, before I came back and settled on the basic article class. Perhaps that had some latent effect? Sounds plausible, in which case I'd call it a bug, but probably one that is hard to reproduce. You don't happen to remember which classes you tried, do you? I was unable to reproduce in 1.6.6 -- I tried starting with article (AMS), which adds the offending module, then switching to article, but the Number Figures by Section module was still visibly selected after the switch. To be clear, I don't think that retaining the module is the bug -- that could easily be intended by the user. Failing to display the module in the selected list would be the bug. /Paul I know I tried IEEETrans and RevTeX4, because they are both close to the format used in the journal the article will appear in. I couldn't get it to compile in RevTeX4, perhaps because I had a bibtex generated bibliography and RevTeX4 seems to want all references in footnotes. Bruce
Re: Figure Float Label
On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 01/03/2011 05:38 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Thanks, Paul. You're welcome. The "Number Figures by Section" was _not_ in the selected box, but when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well. That's odd. Was this document written using an earlier version of LyX? (I'm wondering if lyx2lyx had to process it and did something odd.) /Paul No, LyX 1.6.5. But earlier on I did do some switching around to various document classes, before I came back and settled on the basic article class. Perhaps that had some latent effect?
Copying From PDF
I have copied some passages from a pdf and pasted them into a LyX document. When I view this LyX document, the pasted in passages display some odd formatting: some lines extend beyond the margins and there seem to be extra spaces between some words. And the pasted in passages resist fixing. Any advice?
Re: Figure Float Label
On Jan 2, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Paul A.Rubin wrote: Bruce Pourciau lawrence.edu> writes: When I cross reference a figure float called Figure 2, the cross reference yields 2.1 rather than 2. What am I doing wrong? Have a look at Document > Settings... > Modules, and if "Number Figures by Section" is in the "Selected:" box, highlight and delete it. I think it gets selected automagically with certain document classes, such as article (AMS). With article (AMS), the figure is also numbered 2.1 (including in the GUI), so I'm not positive that's what's going on with your document. If not, try posting a minimal example. /Paul Thanks, Paul. The "Number Figures by Section" was _not_ in the selected box, but when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well. Bruce
Figure Float Label
When I cross reference a figure float called Figure 2, the cross reference yields 2.1 rather than 2. What am I doing wrong? Bruce
Re: Block Quotations in Letter Class
On Dec 15, 2010, at 9:26 AM, Richard Heck wrote: On 12/15/2010 09:50 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple (read simple-minded Mac user) way to get the basic Letter class to allow the Quote environment? I wonder why we don't have that? I'll fix it. For now: Find the file letter.layout. Copy it to your local LyX directory, open it, and add the following: Input stdlayouts.inc at the end of the series of Input commands. Richard Thanks, Richard. Works great.
Block Quotations in Letter Class
Is there a simple (read simple-minded Mac user) way to get the basic Letter class to allow the Quote environment? Bruce
Re: Figure Numbering
On Oct 19, 2010, at 3:55 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Bruce Pourciau lawrence.edu> writes: I've looked at the manuals, but cannot find the answer to this question: Using the Article class with unnumbered headings and subheadings -- it's a relatively short paper, so there's no need to number the headings -- the figures come out numbered Figure 0.1, Figure 0.2, etc. Can I change this scheme so they are numbered Figure 1, Figure 2, etc? Not for me. Can you post a small example? (You can omit the actual figures and just put placeholder text in the floats.) /Paul For some reason -- perhaps because I had earlier switched this paper from Article to Article(AMS) and then back again -- three modules remained selected (Number Equations by Section, Number Figures by Section, and Theorem(AMS)) even when I switched back to the standard Article class. When I deleted those modules, the figures began numbering as desired: 1, 2, When you change the document class, say from Article(AMS) to Article, shouldn't the modules associated with the first class disappear? Bruce
Figure Numbering
I've looked at the manuals, but cannot find the answer to this question: Using the Article class with unnumbered headings and subheadings -- it's a relatively short paper, so there's no need to number the headings -- the figures come out numbered Figure 0.1, Figure 0.2, etc. Can I change this scheme so they are numbered Figure 1, Figure 2, etc? Bruce
Re: Side By Side Graphics But One Caption
On Oct 19, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 10/19/2010 9:36 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: How can I insert two figures (graphics) side by side, but with just one caption and figure number? I know from the Wiki how to have side by side figures with two separate captions, either Figure 1 and 2 or Figures 1a and 1b, but I'd prefer a single caption and figure number underneath the two figures. Insert a figure float, set the caption, and then just insert both graphics consecutively in the body of the float (with Insert > Graphics). If you need to adjust their heights relative to each other (i.e., if they are not the same size), you can put each on in a box (minipage) and futz with the box settings until they line up correctly. /Paul Works great. Thanks, Paul. Bruce
Side By Side Graphics But One Caption
How can I insert two figures (graphics) side by side, but with just one caption and figure number? I know from the Wiki how to have side by side figures with two separate captions, either Figure 1 and 2 or Figures 1a and 1b, but I'd prefer a single caption and figure number underneath the two figures. Thanks, Bruce
Marginal Note Format
I forgot, I also want the line spacing to be smaller than it is in the body text. I guess I want the Marginal Note to have the format of a footnote, except it should be ragged right, rather than justified. Bruce Expecting the default format for a Marginal Note to be ragged right (when it's in the right margin) and Small text size (like footnotes), I was surprised to see full justification, which produced huge spaces between words of course, and normal size text. How do I make my marginal notes ragged right and small text size, without applying this format to each individual marginal note? Bruce
Marginal Note Format
Expecting the default format for a Marginal Note to be ragged right (when it's in the right margin) and Small text size (like footnotes), I was surprised to see full justification, which produced huge spaces between words of course, and normal size text. How do I make my marginal notes ragged right and small text size, without applying this format to each individual marginal note? Bruce
Asterisk as Equation Label
This must be easy to do, but how can you label a displayed equation, not with a number, but with just an asterisk or star in parentheses? I don't need to be referring to my equations in general, but I do need to refer to one particular equation. Bruce
Spacing Around Quote Environment
In the article class, the quote environment puts some extra space above and below the quotation to help separate it from the body text. In the article (AMS) class, though, the quote environment inserts no extra space, which would seem in conflict with normal typographic practice. What would be the right way to insert the extra vertical space? Bruce
Re: lyx: Font derail (with semi-related ranting)
On Aug 11, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: The letter forms of Palatino may be the most refined ever created. But, I've never really been able to find a sans-serif and mono-spaced font that matches well. (At least not per my aesthetic taste.) For that reason, I don't use it often. As a big fan of Robert Bringhurst's book The Elements of Typographic Style, I will follow him and suggest the sanserif typeface Syntax, designed by Hans Eduard Meier. Unlike most sanserifs, it is based on Renaissance forms like Garamond, as is Palatino. An illustration in his book shows how good it looks with Minion. Bruce
Side by Side Figures Not Aligned
I have two figures (eps files) inserted as side by side graphics (directly, not in floats). Each lies in its own Box (Minipage), the boxes separated by a couple of \qquads. But one figure prints higher than the other, I suppose because the amount of space around the figure that's included in the file is not the same. What can I do to make the figures print on roughly the same horizontal line? Bruce
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
On Aug 1, 2010, at 7:06 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 19 juil. 10 à 19:49, Pavel Sanda a écrit : Bruce Pourciau wrote: Looking at the icons in the dock of my Mac, it's hard not to notice that the LyX icon -- with Lydia sitting on top of the letters LyX -- being relatively complicated, is less readily identifiable and less "graphic" i guess you can relatively easy change the icon on your toolbar, here are different ones http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Icons , choose the one you like. pavel I think the right answer is that all installers should use the same icon, with several bitmap and svg versions. JMarc Then for simplicity and "graphic identity" I vote for the letters L y X alone, leaving Lydia out. Bruce
Re: EPS Files Without Preview
On Jul 21, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote:
On Jul 21, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
In the past, inserting graphics in eps format has worked beautifully
in LyX, as long as the files were saved with no preview attached to
them. Eps files with a preview cause an error ("An error occurred
whilst running epstopdf"), and the pdf compiles with an empty space
where the figure should be. Someone has scanned in some figures for
me, cleaned them up (using In Design, I think), and then saved them
as eps files. They say they have saved them without any preview
attached, but when I insert them and try to view the document, I get
the same error I always have gotten when there's a preview.
Any thoughts? Could there be some kind of preview still attached?
Bruce
A few things to try...
1. If you are using pdflatex in LyX, then save the files from Adobe as
pdf instead of eps. I think this will avoid the preview issue
altogether.
2. In Adobe use Print to PDF or Print to Postscript instead of Save
As.
3. From the terminal, try eps2eps or ps2ps on your file. This may
strip the preview.
Steve
Whenever I insert a figure file in pdf format into LyX it takes up a
full page, even though I have the options set at a minimal bounding
area. No idea why.
Bruce
Re: EPS Files Without Preview
On Jul 21, 2010, at 3:01 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Bruce Pourciau lawrence.edu> writes: Any thoughts? Could there be some kind of preview still attached? EPS files are text files, so open one of the images in a text editor and look for a block of binary nonsense. I haven't done this in a while, but as I recall the last time I did the preview was pretty unambiguous in its previewness. (Unfortunately, I don't have a file with a preview handy on which to test this.) If there is a preview and you can't see how to excise it manually, you might try running ps2eps against the file with the -P option, which (allegedly) strips out preview images. (If you do that, you may also need to experiment with a few other options. For some reason, ps2eps likes to "fix" the bounding boxes in my EPS files, and the fixed version is usually worse than the original.) /Paul Thanks, Paul. I'll experiment. Bruce
Re: EPS Files Without Preview
On Jul 21, 2010, at 2:28 PM, Stephen Buonopane wrote:
On Jul 21, 2010, at 3:16 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
In the past, inserting graphics in eps format has worked beautifully
in LyX, as long as the files were saved with no preview attached to
them. Eps files with a preview cause an error ("An error occurred
whilst running epstopdf"), and the pdf compiles with an empty space
where the figure should be. Someone has scanned in some figures for
me, cleaned them up (using In Design, I think), and then saved them
as eps files. They say they have saved them without any preview
attached, but when I insert them and try to view the document, I get
the same error I always have gotten when there's a preview.
Any thoughts? Could there be some kind of preview still attached?
Bruce
A few things to try...
1. If you are using pdflatex in LyX, then save the files from Adobe as
pdf instead of eps. I think this will avoid the preview issue
altogether.
2. In Adobe use Print to PDF or Print to Postscript instead of Save
As.
3. From the terminal, try eps2eps or ps2ps on your file. This may
strip the preview.
Steve
Thanks for the advice, Steve. I would have them save the figure files
in pdf format, asyou suggest, but I've always had size problems with
pdf that I don't have with eps: the figure will take up a whole page
-- lots of white space all around. With eps the figure takes up the
minimal amount of space, without my having to do anything, so I don't
have to worry about re-sizing anything. And the eps files produced by
someone in the same office last year worked fine. So I'm not sure
what's going on.
Bruce
EPS Files Without Preview
In the past, inserting graphics in eps format has worked beautifully
in LyX, as long as the files were saved with no preview attached to
them. Eps files with a preview cause an error ("An error occurred
whilst running epstopdf"), and the pdf compiles with an empty space
where the figure should be. Someone has scanned in some figures for
me, cleaned them up (using In Design, I think), and then saved them as
eps files. They say they have saved them without any preview attached,
but when I insert them and try to view the document, I get the same
error I always have gotten when there's a preview.
Any thoughts? Could there be some kind of preview still attached?
Bruce
Spellchecking on LyX/Mac
After going without a spellchecker for years on LyX/Mac, I'm ready to take the plunge. Reading about installing cocoAspell on the LyX Wiki made me nervous, though: sounds like it often fails to work, and it's unclear how recent the instructions are. Anyone out there with good spellchecking experiences with LyX and the Mac? I'm a Mac guy and not a Terminal guy, so installation needs to be pretty easy or I'm going to screw it up. I would just love some simple, step-by-step help. Bruce LyX 1.6.5 for Mac
Re: Endnotes Only, No Bibliography
On Jul 19, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Richard Heck wrote: On 07/19/2010 02:31 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: What if you've written a paper in the usual style, with citations distinct from footnotes and a bibtex generated bibliography, but this paper will ultimately be appearing in a book where the house style is to have only endnotes and no bibliography: all bibliographic information is given in the endnotes, in full form initially and then using Ibid or some abbreviated form for later citations of the same work. Is there a LyX or LaTeX way to automate the bibliographic information with this style? I've seen a few packages that do this. Jurabib has options for this kind of thing. I'm not sure that's quite what you need, but try using it and loading it with class options "super,ibidem". Maybe you get lucky. If you need to do it more manually, try the bibentry package. Richard Thanks, Richard, I appreciate the help. Bruce
Endnotes Only, No Bibliography
What if you've written a paper in the usual style, with citations distinct from footnotes and a bibtex generated bibliography, but this paper will ultimately be appearing in a book where the house style is to have only endnotes and no bibliography: all bibliographic information is given in the endnotes, in full form initially and then using Ibid or some abbreviated form for later citations of the same work. Is there a LyX or LaTeX way to automate the bibliographic information with this style? Bruce
Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
On Jul 18, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Hellmut Weber wrote: On 18.07.2010 14:39, John Kane wrote: --- On Sat, 7/17/10, Richard Heck wrote: From: Richard Heck Subject: Re: Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon? To: "Bruce Pourciau" Cc: "LyXFolks" Received: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 10:07 AM On 07/17/2010 09:43 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Looking at the icons in the dock of my Mac, it's hard not to notice that the LyX icon -- with Lydia sitting on top of the letters LyX -- being relatively complicated, is less readily identifiable and less "graphic" than other icons. Most icons are simpler, and more successful IMHO because of that simplicity. Now I'm really fond of Lydia, and I wouldn't want her to snap at me if she were to get dumped, but what would LyX folks think about just using the letters LyX alone (just the letters, no background even)? It would be simple, graphically strong, but also unusuIal, since few icons are the same as the name of the application. Just a thought. There is an older LyX icon that seems to turn up here for some reason and that just has the letters, more or less. rh Is this a Mac thing? In XP I just get a slightly garish, multi- coloured LyX layout that is very easy to find. I had to go to the LyX website to see who Lydia is. Same thing here on my gentoo linux box: the icon in the panel is just the one appearing in the upper left corner od the www.lyx.org homepage ;-) Very nice, highly suggestive and easy to identify Cheers Hellmut It's odd then that it's different on the Mac. Even more reason -- uniformity of "graphic identity" -- that the Mac icon should be just the letters LyX. Bruce
Losing Lydia: A Simpler LyX Icon?
Looking at the icons in the dock of my Mac, it's hard not to notice that the LyX icon -- with Lydia sitting on top of the letters LyX -- being relatively complicated, is less readily identifiable and less "graphic" than other icons. Most icons are simpler, and more successful IMHO because of that simplicity. Now I'm really fond of Lydia, and I wouldn't want her to snap at me if she were to get dumped, but what would LyX folks think about just using the letters LyX alone (just the letters, no background even)? It would be simple, graphically strong, but also unusual, since few icons are the same as the name of the application. Just a thought. Bruce
Return to Previous Cursor Position
It would speed up my navigating, especially when I'm going back and forth in a long document, if I could return to the previous cursor position with a key combination. Is this possible? Bruce LyX/Mac 1.6.5
Re: Formatting numbered equations
On Apr 19, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 19.04.2010 22:57, schrieb Marshall Feldman: (By the way in English there is no comma before the "and" if the part after the "and" is the last enumeration in a sentence; like in "A, B, C and D are letters.") The following comes from the /Chicago Manual of Style/, 15th ed., section 6.18: When a conjunction joins the last two elements in a series, a comma -- known as the serial or series comma or the Oxford comma -- should appear before the conjunction. Chicago strongly recommends this widely practiced usage, blessed by Fowler and other authorities (see bibliog. 1.2), since it prevents ambiguity. Here's an example of what the CMS is talking about: "The meal consisted of soup, salad, and macaroni and cheese." I was saying the same. In your example there must be a comma before the first "and" because there is a further "and" in the last course. In your formulas case you have only 3 courses: (1) (2) and (3) so that (1) (2) , and (3) would be wrong, because there is only one course behind the "and" and there is no further "and" inside the last course. I recently had the same discussion with our English LyX manual proof reader who's working for a publishing company. regards Uwe The advice given by the Chicago Manual of Style does not depend on there being a further "and" in the last course. To reduce the chance of ambiguity, they recommend inserting the Oxford comma whenever "a conjunction joins the last two elements in a series." Here's a humorous example in a book dedication (from wikipedia): To my parents, Ayn Rand and God. To my parents, Ayn Rand, and God. But the Oxford comma can also introduce ambiguity: My mother, Ayn Rand, and God. In the punctuation world, there's no general agreement on the use of the Oxford comma, just various organizations going one way of the other. Bruce
Footnote Symbol
A short document has just one footnote. Can I force the footnote symbol to be, say, a dagger? Bruce
Re: Trouble with View PDF (pdflatex)
On Dec 4, 2009, at 12:55 PM, rgheck wrote: On 12/04/2009 01:14 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: When I select View PDF (pdflatex) for a document just created (by making changes in an older document and doing Save As), I get this error message: File does not exist: /var/folders/fM/fMVJAuudF3mykCC-YewvpGq6JHA/-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.JL1277/ lyx_tmpbuf0/O'HalloranJoe(PhDPhysics).pdf This does not happen with other lyx files. Any help would be appreciated. Is the single quote the problem? rh Yes, thank you, Richard. I should have remembered: the same thing happened to me a few years back. Bruce
Trouble with View PDF (pdflatex)
When I select View PDF (pdflatex) for a document just created (by making changes in an older document and doing Save As), I get this error message: File does not exist: /var/folders/fM/fMVJAuudF3mykCC-YewvpGq6JHA/-Tmp-/lyx_tmpdir.JL1277/ lyx_tmpbuf0/O'HalloranJoe(PhDPhysics).pdf This does not happen with other lyx files. Any help would be appreciated. Bruce
Re: lyx and pdf fonts
On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 11/11/09, Pavel Sanda wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Suggestion: Would it be possible, to pre-select Latin Modern in the standard template? unfortunately this is much more complex thing than it looks on the first sight. http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg142386.html Would it make sense for LyX to propose default settings based on availability? For example, use LM if it is installed; otherwise, fall back to the LaTeX default CM (or whichever it is). Liviu Would it make sense to have Palatino as the default? How universally is Palatino or a Palatino variant installed? The mathematical symbols that blend with Palatino would come from the mathpazo package. Bruce
Re: LyX 1.6.4.1 and Snow Leopard
On Oct 29, 2009, at 9:01 AM, rgheck wrote: On 10/29/2009 09:03 AM, James C. Sutherland wrote: On Oct 29, 2009, at 5:38 AM, Luca Carlon wrote: Jan David Hauck writes: Referring to the recent discussion on LyX having problems on Snow Leopard, I can state, that the problem solved itself somehow. In fact LyX crashed "really" one time (I think when I accidentally wanted to paste a footnote inside a footnote or something) but after that no more problems even with autosave enabled (and on 3 minutes). I made System Update recently maybe that fixed it. Anybody else resolved it? I tried to turn off autosave but it seems there is a bug in turning it off (reported). Then I tried to set to 100 minutes the autosave interval, so that I could work without it somehow (seems to me there is a bug there too, I had to restart some times before 100 minutes were actually placed between autosavings). I still get the error message some times, but very rarely. Anyay, I suppose the bug is still there. The bug is still there. As far as I know there is not yet a solid fix for this. Bennet had been working on something, but I don't know if he has finalized a fix yet... A fix has been committed: disabling fork() on OSX. We don't know why it suddenly stopped working, but it is a limitation of OSX itself. rh What about earlier versions, 1.6.3 for example, and snow leopard? Bruce
Re: free Palatino Sans?
On Oct 26, 2009, at 6:34 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 10/26/09, Bruce Pourciau wrote: unserifed face like Futura. Now Palatino is based on Renaissance humanist forms -- it looks like its written with a broad-nibbed pen -- and it would not mix well with Futura, for example. But it might mix well with Syntax, say, which is an unserifed face also based on Renaissance forms. I think I found a good candidate. Looking on Wikipedia for Humanist fonts [1], I stumbled upon Optima, originally designed by H. Zapf. The Font Catalogue provides a clone called URW Classico [2]. It is shipped with TeX Live. Liviu [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanist_sans-serif#Classification [2] http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/optima/ I've never tried Palatino and Optima together, but they have the same daddy (Zapf). Bruce
Re: free Palatino Sans?
On Oct 26, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote: I am trying to figure which Sans and Typewritter fonts to use in combination with Palatino (or the TeX Gyre Pagella extension). Liviu, That's an interesting question. I use Palatino as my default typeface and leave the sans and typewriter choices as 'default.' It has never been an issue for me because Palatino is a serifed typeface and I had not assumed that there was a san-serif version. In my documents I don't use a sans-serif typeface, and the incidental code can be in any monospace typeface. Rich In his wonderful book The Elements of Typographical Style, Robert Bringhurst suggests "pair[ing] serifed and unserifed faces on the basis of their inner structure." And he goes on to give examples: one might pair a modern geometric serifed face like Berthold Bodoni with a geometric unserifed face like Futura. Now Palatino is based on Renaissance humanist forms -- it looks like its written with a broad- nibbed pen -- and it would not mix well with Futura, for example. But it might mix well with Syntax, say, which is an unserifed face also based on Renaissance forms. Bruce
Re: Vertical spacing of matrices
On Sep 11, 2009, at 12:18 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Yago schrieb: Respect to your second kindly comment, in the Spanish Navy Naval Military School (I am Commander in the Spanish Navy, Hydrographer) the brackets are omited in the notation to the half addition or difference of trigonometrical functions because the formula, sin1/2(A+B) in purity is the product of sin1/2 (I suppose in radians) and the addition of the angles A and B (also in radians). There are strict rules in math how to typeset formulas. sin1/2 means sin*1/2 (when the "sin" would not be upright, it would even mean s*i*n*1/2) So "sin" is in your typesetting a variable or an operator but not a function. A function has to have an argument. For arguments round brackets are used: sin(0.5(a+b)) When you have several levels of brackets it is allowed to use brackets for the outer ones: sin[0.5(a+b)] although this is quite unusual. Normally one uses larger round brackets for the outer level and smaller ones for the inner level as explained in LyX's Math manual. Reading sin1/2(a+b) I first thought that you mean sqrt(sin(a+b)) although the 1/2 would then have to be set as superscript. You definitively need a bracket behind sin and the like, no matter where you are working. Math is the same all over the world and it is important that everybody can understand what you are writing. regards Uwe A mathematician would read sin1/2(A+B) as the sine of 1 divided by 2(A +B), unless, of course, the context -- say a navel military text -- suggested a different reading. Uwe is right: mathematicians all agree on the typographical rules for typesetting and writing mathematics so there will be no ambiguity in communicating. But when the communication takes place within a closed world, like our navel military formula, I suppose that world can get away with having its own rules, for brevity say. Bruce
Re: Find All and Emphasize
On Aug 13, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Same idea as Richard's, Open your .lyx file in another editor such as notepad++ and find and replace the WORD with \emph on WORD \emph default I tried it and wit worked for me. erez On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau > wrote: Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Bruce Thanks, Erez. That should save me some time.
Re: Find All and Emphasize
On Aug 12, 2009, at 5:38 PM, rgheck wrote: On 08/12/2009 04:34 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Not within LyX itself. The best way to do it is to run a script of some sort on the .lyx file. E.g.: sed -e 's/ that / \n\n\\emph on\nthat\n\\emph default\n /g' < t.lyx >tt.lyx is a dumb sed one-liner that almost does it. rh Thanks, Richard
Find All and Emphasize
Is there a simple way to go back through a document and italicize (emphasize) all occurrences of a certain word? Bruce
Re: Go Away Drawer
On Aug 11, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote: In LyX 1.6.3, how cam I make the Table of Contents drawer go away? By pressing the small 'x' ? Thanks, Vincent. Didn't see any small 'x', but unchecking Outline in the Document menu worked. I guess I was assuming that the drawer would be controlled in the View menu. Bruce
Go Away Drawer
In LyX 1.6.3, how cam I make the Table of Contents drawer go away? Also, after I set the window size and position for one file, LyX 1.5.6 would open all subsequent files in that window, but 1.6.3 opens some subsequent files (those it hasn't seen before) in a small window which I then have to resize. Any way to fix this? Bruce
Re: Another Point to Consider in Your Writing
On Jul 17, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: Nothing wrong with New Century Schoolbook, but take a look at Minion for book work. It is easy on the eyes, economical, and the LaTeX package support is excellent, with small caps and choice of oldstyle or lining figures, and more. It's already on your computer in OpenType, but for publishing you might consider licensing the full package. Eran And of course there's Palatino, an elegant Roman and italic, designed by the great typographer Hermann Zapf. It too comes with old style figures and small caps. Wider than the skinny Times, Palatino is very readable at 11 pt. LyX has built-in support for Palatino, old style figures, small caps, and matching mathematical symbols. Bruce
Re: Endnotes that Contains the References
On Jul 2, 2009, at 9:50 AM, BH wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Fellow LyXers, In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of "Notes" in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first time, it gives the full bibliographic information (what would normally be given in the list of references). Ibid and loc cit are then used for later citations of that reference in the notes. There is no separate list of references, as all the bibliographic information is contained in the notes. How does LyX/LaTeX handle this reference style? Do I have to type in the full bibliographic information for every work cited, at least the initial time it's cited, or is there there some automagic may of handling this? I use BibDesk to store the reference information. It looks like you should be using biblatex, which you can find here: http://dante.ctan.org/indexes/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ The biblatex documentation is extensive and will explain what you need to do to get full citations, ibid, and loc cit. (It comes with a collection of styles, which may be all you need. Others have contributed biblatex styles; you can find many of these here: http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex-contrib/ Although LyX doesn't natively support biblatex, you can get it working by following instructions on this page: http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex The only caution with all of this is that biblatex is a work in progress, but many (including myself) have used it successfully. Bennett Thank you, Bennett. I'll take a look at biblatex. Bruce
Endnotes that Contains the References
Fellow LyXers, In a volume to which I am contributing, each article ends with a set of "Notes" in numerical order. When a note cites a reference for the first time, it gives the full bibliographic information (what would normally be given in the list of references). Ibid and loc cit are then used for later citations of that reference in the notes. There is no separate list of references, as all the bibliographic information is contained in the notes. How does LyX/LaTeX handle this reference style? Do I have to type in the full bibliographic information for every work cited, at least the initial time it's cited, or is there there some automagic may of handling this? I use BibDesk to store the reference information. Thanks. Bruce LyX/Mac 1.5.6
