Hi, all. Back on the list after a long break.
I want to create a fill-in-the-blank handout. I'm using \line(1,0){100}
in ERT to make my blanks. The problem is that \line really messes up
line breaking, so that I have lines running off the page. If I change
from justified to left for my paragraph
Hi, all. This is a reiteration of my previous question. Someone
responded off-list that I should try \newline. Problem with this is that
what I really want is -inline- 'blanks' that don't break justification.
If I'm asking this question in the wrong place, then please, someone let
me know where I
at 09:14 +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Hi, all. This is a reiteration of my previous question. Someone
responded off-list that I should try \newline. Problem with this is that
what I really want is -inline- 'blanks' that don't break justification.
If I'm asking
button in the Below pane.
one may look better than the other for your purpose.
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
No, I am using \line because I want an horizontal line in the place of
missing words. It's what a Word user would repeatedly hit the _ to do.
\hspace just leaves an empty space
Thanks to all replies on this question. \underline{\hphantom{text}} is
precisely what I needed. I realize as well that I can \newcommand to
shorten this even further. As always, the LyX community comes through.
I just switched to a new Linux distro (Debian 2.2r3 from Mandrake
6.something). Somehow, the \columnbreak command that worked before now works
no longer (i.e., documents that were written under the old distro don't work
under the new distro). I have returned to the documentation for multicols,
Upgrading the package fixed the problem. Thanks to Jim Osborn for suggesting
the solution.
On Saturday 30 June 2001 11:23, you wrote:
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
I just switched to a new Linux distro (Debian 2.2r3 from Mandrake
6.something). Somehow, the \columnbreak command that worked
Are there date commands that will allow me to show the upcoming Sunday? So
that whether it is Monday or Wednesday, Sunday's date will show up until
Monday comes again, and then it will show the next Sunday's date?
I looked through CTAN, but I didn't find any packages that would do this.
ispell seems not to work in LyX. Not sure when this happened... in any case,
I have no problem running ispell from the command line. What could the
problem be, or what should I do to track it down?
Well, custom dictionary american fixed the problem. Thanks again.
On Sunday 08 July 2001 08:30, you wrote:
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
ispell seems not to work in LyX. Not sure when this happened... in any
case, I have no problem running ispell from the command line. What could
This happens when the key you used in the reference doesn't match anything in
the database bibtex searches. You could have misspelled a key, misspelled the
name of the .bib database, or when you made the database you didn't run
texconfig rehash... In any case, the problem is that bibtex can't
I recall a while back someone found an early post to the LyX list, looking
suspiciously like an announcement of the intended development of KDE. Here's
the confirmation of this suspicion...
http://freeos.com/articles/4070
Martin Konold reports that Mathias Etterich (these two guys thought up
Go to Preferences-Inputs-Paths. Where it says LyXXerver pipe say
yourhomepath/.lyx/lyxpipe. Restart LyX. You then will find in your .lyx
dir a lyxpipe.in and lyxpipe.out. Tell Pybliographic where they are and
that's all there is to it.
On Thursday 26 July 2001 07:20 am, you wrote:
bla bla
What bibtex style are you using? The documentation for that style is a good
place to start.
On Thursday 26 July 2001 08:20 am, you wrote:
well
I my bibtex up and running. but ...
The references appear in the order of 3, 8, 2, 1, etc
I would like to have them appear as 1, 2, 3, etc. How do
I installed bibtopic and made the script on Herbert Voss's website, following
all other instructions there (put it in ~/bin, set permissions, checked the
path, etc.). But my documents came out with nothing by way of a bibliography,
and citations were empty.
Thinking that perhaps there was
1) Is possible to automatically captilize some words, \capitalize{some
text}? I do not mean smallcaps. I can of course just write the text with
SHIFT PRESSED DOWN put it's cumbersome and I'd like to automatically
capitalize first-level sections.
Others may know better, but I would define an
Did that. I use the achicago bst--don't know if that runs into bibtopic
limitations, but I have also tried it with some of the standard bst's. Still
no good. I did read the docs (always the first thing I do ;-) ) but it still
doesn't seem immediately obvious to me what I have missed.
When
% makes a comment.
Diff between \bf and \bfseries:
\bf 'toggles' bold, until such time as you issue, say, \rm.
\bfseries scopes over bracketed text only.
Try http://www.astro.ku.dk/help/LaTeX/ltx-2.html for a good list of commands.
On Monday 30 July 2001 10:18 am, you wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jul
Opps. Quoted you the material you already quoted me. \bfseries is explained
under Fonts-Styles-Font Selection
On Monday 30 July 2001 11:04 am, you wrote:
% makes a comment.
Diff between \bf and \bfseries:
\bf 'toggles' bold, until such time as you issue, say, \rm.
\bfseries scopes over
If I'm not mistaken, a sty would go in the latex, not the bibtex tree. But I
doubt that makes a diff to your problem. The way I understand it, a sty would
handle formatting the citations--author/date parenthetical, etc.--in the
document itself. The sty is included in the preamble
To include foo.sty: in the preamble,
\usepackage{foo}
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 03:39 pm, you wrote:
Hello,
I am a newbie to lyx and would like to know how I can include latex style
files (.sty, .cls) in my lyx document to provide the formatting.
Thanks,
Tricha
We need more information. Send us error messages, a rehearsal of what you did
with what package, what document class you are using, etc.
On Friday 17 August 2001 09:14 am, you wrote:
Dear friends,
I' m using lyx 1.1.6fix3 and I'm trying to make a document with a log in
header on all
Edit the following line in any (say, article.layout) layout file
\DeclareLaTeXClass{article}
to read
\DeclareLaTeXClass{hello world}
Run Edit-Reconfigure, restart lyx, and observe the appearance of hello
world in your Layout-Document-Class menu.
On Friday 17 August 2001 10:54 am, you
Do you have xdvi installed on your system? Alternatively, you could try to
view Postscript. This will require gv or the like.
On Saturday 18 August 2001 07:35 pm, you wrote:
i just installed LyX and it said to see the great output by going to
-View- and selecting dvi -my xterm said there was
Steve, for LaTeX documentation, the best place is to look in the doc/base
directory of your TeX distribution. That's for LaTeX stuff, mind you. Also,
have a look at the following URL's:
http://www.crosswinds.net/~zeimusu/tex/toc.html
http://www.astro.ke.dk/help/LaTeX/ltx-2.html
If you were to write one, it would most likely go somewhere under your LaTeX
tree: depending on distribution, /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/misc, or
something. Then texconfig rehash.
But really, all you need to do for simple things is modify the existing
commands, or load extra packages, in the
I have a buch of .mf files in a special dir under my LateX tree that I need
to make available to metafont. The installation instructions I am reading
say moreover that I need to make some fonts, whose names the documentation
lists.
I have looked through some documentation for metafont, and I
We pronounce TeX as tech, so consistency would say LyX is like.
On Saturday 25 August 2001 03:03 am, you wrote:
Hello,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in North American English -how is LyX pronounced?
tia
I thinks it should be pronounced licks, isn't it?
I recently wanted to find and install the Baskerville font on my system (I
saw it in a book and liked it). After much digging, I found it as part of the
psfonts on CTAN. There were two dirs: baskerbe and baskervi. Not knowing the
difference (what is the difference?) I downloaded and installed
Here it comes...
can you send the /etc/texmf/dvips/psfonts.map file
and a short lyx-example file, which shows the behaviour?
HErbert
% psfonts.map: maintained by the script updmap in $TEXMFMAIN/dvips/config.
% The preferred way to add things to this file is to put the extra lines
%
they are a bit childish in an accademic context. What
alternatives would the list recommend?
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 09:13 am, you wrote:
* Christopher M. Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001-09-03 07:33] wrote:
I recently wanted to find and install the Baskerville font on my system
(I saw it in a book
I've recently set up my X server to run two screens on two monitors. LyX
operates normally on the primary monitor, the first one listed in the server
layout (I'm using X v.4.1). However, running lyx from the second monitor
causes the following error:
BadMatch (Invalid parameter attributes)
Here it comes...
Section ServerLayout
Identifier Simple Layout
Screen Screen 1 0 0
Screen Screen 2 LeftOf Screen 1
InputDeviceMouse1 CorePointer
InputDeviceKeyboard1 CoreKeyboard
EndSection
Section Files
RgbPath
I take it your problem is the following: though you didn't see how to make
your tables using the LyX facilities before, you perhaps now see that it is
indeed possible. However, you still have the problem that you need the tables
and figures in files separate from the main document. Perhaps
Characters including spaces? Does any WP count spaces as characters? There
certainly would be no tool for this, since LyX is very far from treating
spaces as characters. If you aren't worried about the spaces between figures
and such, then why be worried about the spaces between words and
Did you 1) put the files under the TeX tree, 2) run texconfig rehash? All you
need to do now is say in the preamble \usepackage{thesis}, to make the
thesis commands available to you in LyX.
On Thursday 27 September 2001 07:57 am, you wrote:
Hi folks,
At this time, I'm having a hard time
foo.bib has to be in your TeX path. Put it under /usr/share/texmf/bibtex/bib,
or the equivalent in whatever distro you are using, and run texconfig rehash.
Name the file in your document using \bibliography{foo} (not foo.bib) in TeX
mode (red text)
On Saturday 27 October 2001 02:02 pm, you
Yes.
You could put it in either of those places. If you want this for all time
then you should put it in the preamble and save it as the default layout.
On Friday 02 November 2001 06:39 pm, you wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but I'm a newbie and I don't know where I would add
the command:
Check the format of your bibilography file. That happens when Bibtex is
confused what to put where.
On Saturday 03 November 2001 03:35 am, you wrote:
Hi friends,
Another newbie problem. I now have bibtex working so that I can enter
citations. However, when I view the document, where the
But isn't he also right that he could make a
\newcommand\mytextstyle{...} to apply latex character commands to suit his
purposes, without having to go to the character menu?
On Saturday 03 November 2001 10:46 am, you wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 11:36:12AM -0500, Laurent Duperval wrote:
btxhak and btxdoc should be somewhere in your TeX distribution. That's a good
place to start.
On Sunday 11 November 2001 05:50 pm, you wrote:
I need some entry level documentation on bibliographies. My book's
bibliography will have less than 10 entries, and the format's not really
I am looking high and low to find a demoprint of the fonts available for use
with tex/latex. Always, what I find is the font package, but no way to view
what the font is before I download it. The link on Herbert Voss's webpate, to
http://riker.ps.missouri.edu/PrintingServices/Fonts.html is
I tried to install a new font today... here is where I got: I put all the
tfm, vf, and fd files in the appropriate directories, catted the pnb.map file
to the psfonts.map file, and ran texconfig. From LyX, I am able to do a
\newfont{\rmbasker}{pnbr8t at 12pt}
to ge the font I want. With
Simplest thing to do is to, with regard to margins and other things set from
the preferences menu is to get it all like you need, and then save the layout
as default. For more complicated stuff, like fancy headers and modifications
to the sectioning, do the same thing: put your header commands
I have my keys set up differently for getting into ERT mode... but wouldn't
your Ctrl-L just toggle ERT? Do just do the same key sequence to toggle out
as you used to toggle in?
On Monday 19 November 2001 09:03 pm, you wrote:
On 19 Nov, To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- When in TeX mode, what
On Monday 19 November 2001 11:26 pm, you wrote:
Hi all,
I am going to prepare a club magazine for our chess club. And I'm new
to LyX/LaTeX/everything related.
I've been reading up (or trying to) on some FAQs and other material
(mostly TeX-related) but one point which is still quite muddled
Those menu items are hard-coded. Apparently, the developers have plans to
change that. But for now, you need to select Default there, and call other
fonts using commands in the preamble.
On Tuesday 20 November 2001 11:58 am, you wrote:
Greetings,
How can I have a new font selection - in my
Edit-Reconfigure and restart lyx.
On Wednesday 21 November 2001 11:08 pm, you wrote:
I'm getting Document uses an unknown text class X when opening an
document.
How do I fix this? I put the file X.layout in /usr/share/lyx/layouts and
also in my ~/.lyx/layouts catalog
but is something more
In tex (red) type \copyright
Lots of special symbols are available from standard TeX commands. Have a look
at
Help on LaTeX commands: http://www.astro.ku.dk/help/LaTeX/ltx-2.html
Herbert Voss's tips and tricks site: www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/. Or
link to it through the LyX
achicago bst needs achicago sty.
\usepackage{achicago}
On Friday 23 November 2001 02:12 pm, you wrote:
How does one know what packages are necessary when using a bst file?
I discovered the achicago.bst will do pretty much exactly what I need,
but can not get it working. I am thinking I
The file generated should be the bibtex file you use. But you don't 'include'
the file--what you do is you say at the end of your document in TeX (red text)
\bibliographystyle{foo}
\bibliography{bibfile}
Bibfile is without the .bib extension. All you need to do to make the bib
file available
I'm not clear why you want to have page numbers in the bibliography. Are you
sure that's what you want? I know of no bst that will do that. What you would
end up with is a bibliography with full reference info repeated for every
time you cited the work. It sounds to me that you want your
On Wednesday 05 December 2001 06:20 pm, you wrote:
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 06:22:22PM -0500, Evan DiBiase wrote:
My instructor wants the bibliography to be in the standard MLA style,
but wants the citations to be footnotes, starting with 1 on each page,
with the citation in them in the
[OT, therefore last post to LyX list]
My dream is still a fully functional Chicago style, which achicago
Hey, you are stealing my project! I wanted to do something
exactly along these lines, even though I am brand new to
Lyx/Latex. (As if I will find time!)
Same boat. I've used
I am using the twoside option, but I don't want the text to shift at all--I
want every textwidth centered on the page. How do I override this feature?
Right. Using the fancyhdr package, so that \fancyhead[R,O]{} and friends work.
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
I am using the twoside option, but I don't want the text to shift at
all--I want every textwidth centered on the page. How do I override this
feature?
so you need the twosideoption
, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
I am using the twoside option, but I don't want the text to shift at
all--I want every textwidth centered on the page. How do I override this
feature?
Set custom margins, using equal left/right margins
(and don't forget to enable the Use geometry button).
On Monday 10 December 2001 01:02 pm, you wrote:
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Nope. Right/left margins are set equal, geometry enabled. Without twoside
everything is normal, but as soon as twoside is enabled everything shifts
off the page. Maybe I have something else, some other package
I get left margin (looks like) 1.5in or so, on both pages. Shifting is in the
same direction for both pages.
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
On Monday 10 December 2001 01:02 pm, you wrote:
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Nope. Right/left margins are set equal, geometry enabled. Without
twoside
Choose Layout-Character-Language-Reset, to change the language of selected
characters.
Also sprach Laurent Duperval:
Hi,
lyx.org is down soi I can't see the list archives. Anyway, I'm editing a
document in English. My default languiage is normally French. When I change
the language for
But it doesn't seem the problem is with gsview.
You are talking about the little red error boxes? Click on the boxes to get a
popup telling you more about the error. Sometimes it is because you haven't
loaded the right packages, sometimes you might have left off a brace in a
preamble
How do I get a raised th after a number, as in 20th century?
A doublspaced paper, with 1in margins all around, at 12pt Times New Roman,
1500 words, is about 5 pages in LyX.
However, when a professor asks for a 1500 word essay, he says 1500 words
(6-7 pages). This is a more or less consistent trend: whatever the ex[ected
page count, the word count is
the program that created such a good-looking
finished product?
Seriously though, I don't know what it is about (La)Tex but it always looks
better and reads more easily than any other output. Lyx makes it sooo
easy...
Kenward
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 12:31:25PM -0600, Christopher M. Jones
I always use 12pt (see original post)
Also sprach Renaud MICHEL:
Did you consider using 12 pt instead of 10 (wich is default AFAIK) as font
size.
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions. In the end, I think the problem is
due to a combination of all the factors cited. From now on I will simply be
aware of how dramatic simple formatting changes can be in terms of page
count, and adjust accordingly. Thanks very much, everyone.
I want to change the title Contents for the table of contents, using
tocloft. Documentation says \renewcommand{\contentsname}{...} should do it,
but this doesn't work. Have I missunderstood the documentation?
Using report. The \AtBeginDocument suggestion worked fine.
Also sprach Tuukka Toivonen:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
I want to change the title Contents for the table of contents, using
tocloft. Documentation says \renewcommand{\contentsname}{...} should do
Is there a package around that handles formatting logical proofs?
Well, there are lots of bibliography styles out there. I am most familiar
with achicago, since that is what I use day-to-day. Doing
\usepackage{achichicago}
in the preamble and specifying achicago for your bibstyle gives you the
command
\shortciteA{key}
to produce a citation with an
Do you mean you want a titlepage? Report class, and several other classes put
author and title on their own page. The postscript output, viewed in eg.
ghostview, will show two pages (logically) numbered one. As long as no
pagenumber shows up on the printed output, this should be no problem.
Do you mean you want a titlepage? Report class, and several other classes put
author and title on their own page. The postscript output, viewed in eg.
ghostview, will show two pages (logically) numbered one. As long as no
pagenumber shows up on the printed output, this should be no problem.
I have a dual-head setup (no xinerama). The main display is :0.0, the second
is :0.1. I can do everything just as always on :0.0. However, on :0.1 I can
open lyx but not a document. If I open a document then I get:
BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
LyX 1.1.6fix3
I asked a question
I think you want
\setlength\interfootnotelinepenalty{1}
But you should check out Herbert Voss's tips and tricks page. That will tell
you for sure.
Also sprach Roberto Hernandez:
Hey everyone,
I'm writing a document where I have some very long footnotes. After a
certain number of
try http://www.tug.org/fontname
Also sprach Roberto Hernandez:
Hi everyone,
I hope this question isn't overly stupid, but I haven't been able to
find the answer in LyXTips or the doc.
To load the courier font I issue the following:
\fontfamily{pcr}\fontseries{m}\selectfont
Now, I want
Did you run reconfigure and restart LyX?
Also sprach Jim Osborn:
I'm trying to make a new document class, following the docs
from LyX 1.1.5, where in 6.2.2 it says:
For the sake of example we'll assume that the style file is
called myclass.sty and it is meant to be used with report.cls
Your header/footer commands are \rfoot{} and rhead{} (and likewise \chead and
\cfoot, etc.). If I'm not mistaken, you can do just about anything in here
that you want.
The tips and tricks dealilng with Header/Footer will give you some more hints
how to use \fancyhdr.
Does that help?
Also
Don't know geralpha, but normally one handles these situations using
@incollection or @inbook. I usually make a crossref from the article to the
book in which it appears.
Also sprach Jan-Peter Koopmann:
Hi,
this is more a bibtex question I suppose but maybe you guys can help.
How do I get
I need a new verse environment, and I am not quite up to the task. Here is
what I need:
First line of verses no indent
Second line of verses indented xxx
Lines which run longer than the page are broken at an arbitrary (?) point
before normal line termination, and placed raggedleft.
***The
The following basic new environment,
\newenvironment{fancyquote}{%
\addtolength\parindent{2em}\bigskip
\begin{minipage{\textwidth}
}{\end{minipage}\bigskip}
works when I have it defined in the document preamble. But when I put it in a
text file that LaTeX knows about, and \usepackage it, I
I just bought a wheelmouse...
i'd like to have the following (using Linux)
When button 1 is pressed, the wheel does a cursor down to select text.
Instead of the wheel scrolling one frame at a time (ala PageDown) I'd like to
have a smooth scroll (ala scrollbar).
Is this an xforms issue, or a
For book classes:
\renewcommand\bibname{blah}
For article classes:
\renewcommand\refname{blah}
Also sprach praveen taneja:
hi everyone...I want to generate a list of my
publications from a bibtex file. I am able to generate
the list by using \nocite{*}, but the title of the
list is either
I need the numbering of sections to be placed against the left/right margin,
depending on whether it appears on an odd or even page (twoside). The section
text should be centered. How would I go about this?
Thanks much. Now, how do I get this to behave more like the section command,
so that I don't end up with the heading split from the body between pages?
Also sprach Dekel Tsur:
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:19:27PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote:
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
I need the numbering
I would like to know how to repeat a command for every page. Specifically, I
have the following at the beginning of a document:
\begin{picture}(0,0)
\unitlength=1in
\put(-.35,-7.25){\line(0,1){7.25}\hspace{1.05\textwidth}\line(0,1){7.25}}
\end{picture}
The effect this gives me should be
How is it possible to stretch a number of letters across a defined length of
space? For example, Hello world appears as
He l l oW or l d
My pdflatex generates a file using type 3 fonts. I don't have any type 3
fonts, and so the resulting file is not right. I have looked through the
documentation for pdftex, but the answer is not immediately obvious to me,
and this is not something I have time to figure out. Does anybody know
I want to create a simple figure to import into a LaTeX document. How
do I get a pagesize that 'fits' itself around the figure, rather than
simply setting the figure into the middle of a (e.g.) USLetter size
page? Do I have to fiddle with the page size until it is just about as
big as the
I need a quick paragraph style that does the opposite of a standard
indented paragraph. I need the first line to the left margin, with
subsequent lines indented by a length. Unfortunately, I haven't got the
time to RTF or to fiddle. Any takers?
Thanks much.
Hi, all. Back on the list after a long break.
I want to create a fill-in-the-blank handout. I'm using \line(1,0){100}
in ERT to make my blanks. The problem is that \line really messes up
line breaking, so that I have lines running off the page. If I change
from justified to left for my paragraph
Hi, all. This is a reiteration of my previous question. Someone
responded off-list that I should try \newline. Problem with this is that
what I really want is -inline- 'blanks' that don't break justification.
If I'm asking this question in the wrong place, then please, someone let
me know where I
at 09:14 +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
Hi, all. This is a reiteration of my previous question. Someone
responded off-list that I should try \newline. Problem with this is that
what I really want is -inline- 'blanks' that don't break justification.
If I'm asking
button in the Below pane.
one may look better than the other for your purpose.
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
No, I am using \line because I want an horizontal line in the place of
missing words. It's what a Word user would repeatedly hit the _ to do.
\hspace just leaves an empty space
Thanks to all replies on this question. \underline{\hphantom{text}} is
precisely what I needed. I realize as well that I can \newcommand to
shorten this even further. As always, the LyX community comes through.
I just switched to a new Linux distro (Debian 2.2r3 from Mandrake
6.something). Somehow, the \columnbreak command that worked before now works
no longer (i.e., documents that were written under the old distro don't work
under the new distro). I have returned to the documentation for multicols,
Upgrading the package fixed the problem. Thanks to Jim Osborn for suggesting
the solution.
On Saturday 30 June 2001 11:23, you wrote:
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
I just switched to a new Linux distro (Debian 2.2r3 from Mandrake
6.something). Somehow, the \columnbreak command that worked
Are there date commands that will allow me to show the upcoming Sunday? So
that whether it is Monday or Wednesday, Sunday's date will show up until
Monday comes again, and then it will show the next Sunday's date?
I looked through CTAN, but I didn't find any packages that would do this.
ispell seems not to work in LyX. Not sure when this happened... in any case,
I have no problem running ispell from the command line. What could the
problem be, or what should I do to track it down?
Well, custom dictionary american fixed the problem. Thanks again.
On Sunday 08 July 2001 08:30, you wrote:
Christopher M. Jones wrote:
ispell seems not to work in LyX. Not sure when this happened... in any
case, I have no problem running ispell from the command line. What could
This happens when the key you used in the reference doesn't match anything in
the database bibtex searches. You could have misspelled a key, misspelled the
name of the .bib database, or when you made the database you didn't run
texconfig rehash... In any case, the problem is that bibtex can't
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