Re: modernCV formatting questions

2007-11-18 Thread David Hewitt
wrote: > > On the rest, cannot suggest anything constructive. Things like > increasing the space available for personal information would probably > imply hacking the TeX code of the moderncv class. > ** I was afraid of that - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Scie

Re: Thesis Issues

2007-11-18 Thread David Hewitt
s just comes up with 'A - Title of > first appendix', rather than 'Appendix A - Title of first appendix' > > Thanks for taking the time to read my problems, any help would be much > appreciated. > > Regards > > Stuart > - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of M

Re: Exporting to Rich Text Format with latex2rtf, issues and a fix

2007-11-28 Thread David Hewitt
d. I just dumped my old version, reinstalled, and everything worked just as you indicated. I noticed that you edited the Wiki a bit... I went ahead and fleshed it out for pre- and post- 1.9.19 versions. Let me know if you see anything that's incorrect: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRic

Re: Koma-script report, Bibliography entry in Table of Contents un-bold?

2007-12-05 Thread David Hewitt
% print out the bibliography >\ORIGputbib >\endgroup >} > > I tried a number of different iterations using this code (and just pieces of it) in the Preamble and in ERT before the Bibliography in the document, but to no avail. I'm not great with plain LaTeX, so c

Re: Edit complete source?

2007-12-05 Thread David Hewitt
plain LaTeX as well, which might save a step or two (but does not allow code editing within LyX per se). - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Edit-complete-source--tf4952441.html#a1

Re: Koma-script report, Bibliography entry in Table of Contents un-bold?

2007-12-07 Thread David Hewitt
Daniel Lohmann-2 wrote: > > David Hewitt wrote: > >> I'm not great with plain LaTeX, so could you post a piece of hacking that >> would work just to drop the Bibliography to a section level? >> > > Okay, the following should work with KOMA-script. Just put it

Re: Add Bibliography to TOC?

2007-12-07 Thread David Hewitt
r than sticking that in the Preamble. It doesn't make sense (IMO) to have a GUI button or menu item for every option, if that's what you're thinking of as a "Lyx-way" to do it. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View th

Re: Koma-script report, Bibliography entry in Table of Contents un-bold?

2007-12-07 Thread David Hewitt
g two ERT commands just before the widget: \renewcommand\bibname{References} \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{References} You have to put these commands after a forced page break in order to get the right page number associated with the Biblio. I don't like it, but it works. - David Hewitt Virgi

Re: Bug? LyX "crashes" when opening Embed. Objects manual

2007-12-13 Thread David Hewitt
p -> User's Guide. Click on the TOC widget to open the outline. Go to Help -> EO... death becomes it when trying to open Dummy Document 1 (according to the buffer). Happens every time for me. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/

Re: MiKTeX 2.7

2007-12-18 Thread David Hewitt
o an existing MiKTeX 2.6 installation > (http://miktex.org/2.7/Setup.aspx). > I haven't tested how it works to have two MiKTeX versions installed side > by side. But in case you > have this, LyXWinInstaller will set up LyX to use the latest version (in > this case 2.7). > > regards U

Moderncv issues resolved - page on Wiki

2008-01-07 Thread David Hewitt
Thanks mostly to the expertise of others, I was able to create a Wiki page that describes some simple fixes to the moderncv class for creating nifty CVs in (and out of) LyX. http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/ModernCVClassIssues Corrections, comments, etc. welcome. - David Hewitt Virginia

Upgrading to LyX 1.5.3 with LyXWinInstaller - worked great

2008-01-07 Thread David Hewitt
Just in case anyone else is behind on upgrading like me... I just used the LyXWinInstaller to upgrade from LyX 1.5.2 to LyX 1.5.3 on WinXP and it worked great. It even preserved a Converter that I had set up in 1.5.2 and had expected to need to re-do. Thanks again Uwe! - David Hewitt

Re: cv-Layout

2008-01-09 Thread David Hewitt
ample is a little fancier. Curve is another popular CV class for LaTeX that's regularly maintained, but I haven't tried it: http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=curve Example here: http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~didier - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://ww

Re: [Bulk] Moderncv issues resolved - page on Wiki

2008-01-11 Thread David Hewitt
: > > \ifthenelse{\equal{#6}{}}{}{\newline{}{\small#6}} > > Without this modification, when you add some text after a \cventry with 6 > non-empty parameters > (and only if the \cventry has all 6 parameters not being empty), the > additional text inherits the > "

Re: [Bulk] Moderncv issues resolved - page on Wiki

2008-01-11 Thread David Hewitt
e two points and let him incorporate them, particularly the error on line 367. I'd prefer not to offer class file hacks on the wiki as a solution for formatting when there are other options and Xavier is working on them. However, the fix on line 367 is a good spot, and it's documented here if people

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Moderncv issues resolved - page on Wiki

2008-01-13 Thread David Hewitt
>> Xavier >> fixes it. > > Patch correcting "line 366 bug" was submitted to Xavier. > > I agree with about everything you say, but the first issue (line 333) is > not a > LaTeX-related issue, as it emerges only if you use LyX -- which adds blank > lines for rea

Alternatives to YAP on Windows

2008-01-13 Thread David Hewitt
the other one once its installed? ----- David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Alternatives-to-YAP-on-Windows-tp14790892p14790892.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Moving graphics from R into LyX - best format?

2008-01-13 Thread David Hewitt
I produce most of my statistical graphics in R and move them into LyX floats. I've been exporting them as JPGs from R. Is there a better format that plays well with LyX/LaTeX? Any suggestions are appreciated. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish

Re: Document style for writing use cases

2008-01-16 Thread David Hewitt
Shawn, I suspect you'll need to be more specific about what you mean by "use cases". Shawn Willden-9 wrote: > > Does anyone have such a thing? > > Thanks, > > Shawn. > > - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.e

Re: Math font error on Lyx - Windows

2008-01-17 Thread David Hewitt
dable: Metric (TFM) file not > found > I can't reproduce this problem with a standard document class, and I wouldn't know how to help if I could. However, I suspect it will help if you let us know which document class you're working with and which fonts you've specified in the Documents -&g

Re: Math font error on Lyx - Windows

2008-01-18 Thread David Hewitt
haven't gotten any errors, but it would be nice to be able to go to a file or window and see the current defaults (rather than just seeing "Default" displayed without knowing what it is). Anyone know how to get that? I rambled through all the documentation and didn't come up with anything. --

Re: Math font error on Lyx - Windows

2008-01-18 Thread David Hewitt
oblem in a standard article class with Times Roman font (I don't have Times New Roman, but I think they're the same). - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Math-font-error-on-Lyx---

Re: copy+paste table entries?

2008-01-21 Thread David Hewitt
and Ctrl-V) single cells or selected groups of cells within and between both tables. WinXP, LyX 1.5.3 - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/copy%2Bpaste-table-entries--tp14999295

Re: Latex presentation with lyx

2008-01-23 Thread David Hewitt
dea. I'm also particularly interested in any other advice people have about Beamer presentations via LyX. (I'm on WinXP with LyX 1.5.3.) - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/

Re: Latex presentation with lyx

2008-01-23 Thread David Hewitt
res and text, a hierarchical > structure for the presentation and a generic PDF file that can be played > anywhere. > Can you post a simple example to the Wiki? - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context:

LyX mailing lists on Nabble

2008-01-23 Thread David Hewitt
: http://www.lyx.org/mailing.php I didn't see who maintained that. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/LyX-mailing-lists-on-Nabble-tp15054737p15054737.html Sent from the LyX - Users

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-01-24 Thread David Hewitt
). > So, the recent suggestion to create EPS files of graphics in R for use in LyX floats seems less palatable. If PDF is the endpoint for the LyX document, perhaps PDF output from R is best? - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewit

Re: lyx crash when loading eps files

2008-01-24 Thread David Hewitt
in LyX and it worked fine. Is this known problem restricted to Linux, or specifically Kubuntu? (And, I say "worked fine", but actually the preview in the float window was chopped in half, but the output was fine.) - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.e

Re: EPS image displayed rotated by 90 degrees and cropped in Lyx and also in pdf output

2008-01-28 Thread David Hewitt
n only be a problem of the EPS-image or of the LaTeX-packages you might > have loaded in your > preamble. Can you send me a SMALL LyX file and the EPS-file for testing? > EPS images display in Float boxes cropped off for me as well (not rotated). Output looks fine. WinXP, MikTeX 2.6 Dave --

Re: Latex presentation with lyx

2008-01-28 Thread David Hewitt
nted it out. (I'm a professor. Being oblivious > is a job requirement.) > Well cr*p, does this mean I need to practice being oblivious at work as well as at home? - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context

Re: OT: Proof reading - usually with doc?????

2008-01-30 Thread David Hewitt
onverting a complex thesis file, but worth a shot. See here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf Now, if they say "we accept only files with a .doc extension", then yes they're strange (and annoyingly myopic). - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Two formatting issues with koma-script book

2008-02-01 Thread David Hewitt
umbered 1, 2, 3, ... Can I make the Figure numbers the same as the equation numbering? For completeness, I have the following in my Preamble now to get integer chapter and Figure numbering (but I'm not sure this is right): \setcounter{chapter}{1} \makeatletter [EMAIL PROTECTED]@figure} [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: User's Guide doesn't work

2008-02-04 Thread David Hewitt
-2001. The User's Guide has always done just fine with PDF output for me. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/User%27s-Guide-doesn%27t-work-tp15238866p15269005.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Two formatting issues with koma-script book

2008-02-04 Thread David Hewitt
Thanks Uwe... but > David Hewitt schrieb: > >> It's a 2-sided document with "headings" Page Style. >> >> (1) The first problem is that the headings for sections/"high-level" >> environments that start on odd-numbered pages show up on empty &g

Re: First page customizing in koma-script

2008-02-04 Thread David Hewitt
any advice for me? > > Yes, ask on the koma-script community page: > http://komascript.de > Perhaps you also find something about your problems in their archive. > > Alternatively I attached an example with a title page containing an image. > - David Hewitt Virgini

Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread David Hewitt
I need to have a single final page in a Koma-Script book that I can format rather freely. I can always make a separate single-page PDF, but I was wondering if there was a way to force it into the regular document. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish

Re: Presentations in LyX?

2008-02-06 Thread David Hewitt
mpatible is LyX with > Beamer? I just imported an old beamer tex file, but it looks very > confusing. Am I better of using a traditional latex editor for > presentations/beamers? > - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- V

Re: Last page customizing in Koma-Script (book)

2008-02-06 Thread David Hewitt
> > I need to have a single final page in a Koma-Script book that I can > format > > rather freely. > > I wouls simply insert a forced newpage at the end, this gives you a new > page that you can formnat as > you like. To turn off the default page layout, use the commands > \thispagestyle and the

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread David Hewitt
2rtf handles pictures and equations, but it might be worth a try. http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Converting-t

Re: moderncv class & usage?

2008-02-18 Thread David Hewitt
dows and don't know much about Macs. But, since no one else piped up, you might take a look at the wiki page for moderncv and see if any of that helps. Sounds somewhat related... http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/ModernCVClassIssues Apologies if you already looked there, or if it doesn't help. - David

Re: footnote in a figure

2008-02-18 Thread David Hewitt
used them to get footnotes for Tables (Table inside Minipage inside Float), and I presume without testing that the same strategy might work for Figures. Again, I'm not sure what your desired endpoint is, but minipages might be a means to the end. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science htt

Re: Input files in LyX

2008-02-18 Thread David Hewitt
> main.lyx. I have also tried to compile test.lyx before compiling main.lyx > but that does not help. > This is the second post of this question. It seems that what you are looking for is in Section 3.2 of the Extended Features manual -- Child Documents. - David Hewitt Virginia

Re: New nice article about LyX among other things

2008-02-20 Thread David Hewitt
ht go better on the LyX home page. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/New-nice-article-about-LyX-among-other-things-tp15585505p15590750.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

2008-02-22 Thread David Hewitt
t be related that sometimes footnote references (label footnote, then cross-reference it) also show up as '??' but output fine. All of this is in Koma-script book class. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in con

Re: Display formula numbering IN Lyx document

2008-02-22 Thread David Hewitt
>> I have a bunch of display style equations with numbers and labels. >> However, the numbers displayed by LyX are almost never right. Sometimes it >> will open the file and each equation will be number '1', sometimes they'll >> number by chapter, sometimes a few have '??' instead of numbers. I've

Koma-script book class title page modifications

2008-02-25 Thread David Hewitt
I'm looking for a little help modifying the standard Koma-script book class output for, you guessed it, a dissertation. I have become intimately familiar with the manual for this class and the stuff on the Wiki, but I'm still stumped. I thought I had my requirements met with a bunch of

Re: Koma-script book class title page modifications

2008-02-26 Thread David Hewitt
Rich Shepard wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, David Hewitt wrote: > >> I thought I had my requirements met with a bunch of \extratitle{} stuff, >> but then I learned I need the title page to be _after_ the TOC, List of >> Figures, etc. > >Years ago I gave

Re: Click in the scrollbar doesn't advance enough

2008-02-26 Thread David Hewitt
at all for up to 4 clicks, etc. I appreciate that it's tough to sort out and am just thankful it is getting better. Thanks. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Click-in-the-scrol

LaTeX error, \prevdepth with Figure

2008-02-26 Thread David Hewitt
{cbsac2007advreport}).} \end{figure} \par\end{center} Thanks for any help, Dave - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/LaTeX-error%2C-%5Cprevdepth-with-Figure-tp15705637p15705637.html

Re: LaTeX error, \prevdepth with Figure

2008-02-27 Thread David Hewitt
point to get it on its own line - easier to find when browsing the LyX file. That such a simple change could bomb the whole compilation is annoying for sure, but maybe it's just something to be aware of (I am now!). Thanks David Hewitt wrote: > > This is a new one for me. I'm hoping this

Re: Page numbering etc

2008-02-29 Thread David Hewitt
include environments for Chapters in article class (I doubt LaTeX does either - don't know). I use Sections (not the starred versions - Section*, e.g.) and it works fine. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this mess

Re: LyX won't compile my document any more

2008-02-29 Thread David Hewitt
te,indexing=cite]{biblatex} >>> \bibliography{/Users/Maksi/Studium/Politikwissenschaft/Diplomarbeit/ >>> TeX/politischer_islam} >> >> >> Also, the problem does not seem to be related to XeTeX as I get >> exactly the same error messages when trying to compile the usual >&

Re: How to have numbered equations using KOMA scripts.

2008-03-01 Thread David Hewitt
fault is to number subscripted by chapter -- i.e., first eqn is chapter 1 is (1.1), first one in chapter 2 is (2.1), etc. Parts are different. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/

Re: Turn off page numbers but DON'T count page

2008-03-04 Thread David Hewitt
printed but still count the page in the counter. Lucio, I think you could just make a PDF of the other pages and insert them. I'm not sure if they'll be counted or not. Someone else will have to help on that. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/st

Re: Layout questions

2008-03-06 Thread David Hewitt
ing in the LaTeX preamble of your document: > > \usepackage[bookmarks]{hyperref} > That works, but you get red and green boxes around the things that are linked... is it possible to turn those off and have the hyperrefs in "stealth" mode? - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marin

Re: Layout questions

2008-03-06 Thread David Hewitt
gt; > \usepackage[bookmarks]{hyperref} >> > > > Try adding in the LaTeX preamble of your document: > > \usepackage[bookmarks,pdfborder=false]{hyperref} > > Ignacio > > - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Layout-questions-tp15873118p15885362.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: LyX discussion boards?

2008-03-11 Thread David Hewitt
ahead and started archiving all LyX mailing lists. The Nabble archives are not listed on the LyX web site... perhaps they should be? - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/LyX-discussion-b

Re: Equation numbering

2008-03-15 Thread David Hewitt
This was just discussed recently. Search the archives for "display formula numbering" and you'll get what you want. bigblop wrote: > > All my equations in LyX have the number (0.1) but they are shown correctly > in the pdf. But why the same number for all equations in Ly

Re: Equation numbering

2008-03-16 Thread David Hewitt
You got it. bigblop wrote: > > > > David Hewitt wrote: >> >> This was just discussed recently. Search the archives for "display >> formula numbering" and you'll get what you want. >> >> >> bigblop wrote: >>> &

Re: Long table settings problem

2008-03-22 Thread David Hewitt
nual makes a note that longtables and floats don't always play well together, but doesn't specifically address putting a longtable in a float. Anyway, it would be nice to know how to customize the borders a little more, even if it involves some TeX code hacks. Dave - David Hewitt Virginia In

Re: Website re-design ideas

2008-03-23 Thread David Hewitt
/ > http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ > http://www.python.org/ > http://www.scipy.org/ > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ > > If there are other websites that you guys think are particularly well > designed, please let us know! > > Rex > > - David Hewitt Virginia Institu

Re: Bibtex bibliography

2008-03-31 Thread David Hewitt
> When you are using an article clas, use > > \usepackage[english]{babel} > \addto\captionsenglish {\renewcommand{\refname}{References}} > > When your document language is e.g. Frech, replace "english" by "french" > in the above commands. >

Re: short title in floating object

2008-04-01 Thread David Hewitt
r the short title text. This also works for captions inside floats. - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/short-title-in-floating-object-tp16418457p16420920.html Sent from the LyX - User

Why does Windows LyX 1.5.3 care about Xetex?

2008-04-07 Thread David Hewitt
on't think any of the packages but ifxetex have anything to do with pdflscape. Why in the world does a Windows installation of MikTeX and LyX care about Xetex -- a Mac TeX system?? Is this a new addition to the pdflscape package? ----- David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist, USGS Klamath Falls Fie

Numbering of floats in appendices

2008-04-07 Thread David Hewitt
How do you change the numbering of table and figure floats to include the appendix letter. E.g., In Appendix A, I would like Table A1 rather than a continuous numbering system from the main text. I looked around at the appendix package and in the LyX Docs and came up empty. - David Hewitt

Re: Why does Windows LyX 1.5.3 care about Xetex?

2008-04-07 Thread David Hewitt
> > Why in the world does a Windows installation of MikTeX and LyX care about > > Xetex -- a Mac TeX system?? > > XeTeX is not a MAC system. It is a Unicode variant of LaTeX and the new > thing in MiKTeX 2.7. So perhaps one of the LaTeX-packages you load in your > preamble use now XeTeX when it

Re: Moderncv cls and font problems

2008-04-10 Thread David Hewitt
y strange and they totally different from the selected > text in the main document. > I gots no ideas. - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist, USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (Oregon, USA) -and- Student, Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt

Re: Moderncv cls and font problems

2008-04-10 Thread David Hewitt
, I searched the files in my system for \moderncvtheme[blue, roman] > {classic} and I could not find something and I thought the LyX wiki was an > old one. > The .tex file that you export from LyX will have something like this in the document class declaration. - David Hewitt Research Fish

Re: Fwd: Bibtex and Lyx

2008-04-11 Thread David Hewitt
> Anyone else have any ideas? > I'm not on a Mac and can't really help, but perhaps a simple LyX file and the offending .bib file would help someone with a Mac to test out what's going on. - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist, USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (Orego

Re: Numbering of floats in appendices

2008-04-11 Thread David Hewitt
e}} To do the same for Tables, just change the string "figure" to "table" in all three places. This changes the entries in the TOC correctly as well. - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist, USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (Oregon, USA) -and- Student, Virginia Institute

Floats cause extra spaces between paragraphs

2008-04-15 Thread David Hewitt
(as suggested might happen in the Guide), so that fixed my problem. However, this seems like a bug of some sort? - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist, USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (Oregon, USA) -and- Student, Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt

Address manager for LaTeX, like BibTeX?

2008-04-20 Thread David Hewitt
Are there any free managers for address files (.adr) like there are for bibtext files (e.g., JabRef)? - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist, USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (Oregon, USA) -and- Student, Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt

Installation glitch

2008-05-22 Thread David Hewitt
ed, and re-opened, and all looks OK. I feel like I should be concerned that something did not complete and that I should uninstall and try again. Any advice? ----- David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist, USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (Oregon, USA) -and- Student, Virginia Institute of Marine Sc

Re: Installation glitch

2008-05-22 Thread David Hewitt
>> LyX is behaving itself). If in doubt, you can always set MikTeX as >> above and reconfigure. > So by the time LyX gets to that long scroll window during install, all it's doing is maintenance and configuration type work, and not critical installation stuff? In other words,

Re: how do I actually get a .bib file?

2008-05-22 Thread David Hewitt
JabRef Erez Yerushalmi wrote: > > How do I actually save a file in a *.bib* format??? > ----- David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (USA) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-do-I-actually-get-a-.bib-file--tp17416085p1741

Re: Math pannel disapeared

2008-05-23 Thread David Hewitt
tool bar but I can not find the >> math panel. I tried switching it on and off and put it back horizontal >> but I can not see it any more. Can any body help? > - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (USA) -- View this message in context: http://w

Collaboration using LyX in a MS Office workplace

2008-05-23 Thread David Hewitt
works best for you? ----- David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (USA) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Collaboration-using-LyX-in-a-MS-Office-workplace-tp17442859p17442859.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: OT? Ligatures in pdf documents to be used in LyX

2008-05-27 Thread David Hewitt
with pdflatex, all the ligatures show up as special characters and must be replaced. This is with Computer Modern Roman font and standard classes (article, report). - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (USA) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/OT

Re: Problems exporting to OpenDocument

2008-05-27 Thread David Hewitt
e tough to figure out for newbies to the export tools, and especially newbies to LyX. - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (USA) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Problems-exporting-to-OpenDocument-tp17458782p17502675.html Sent from the

Re: Thesis first pages

2008-05-28 Thread David Hewitt
t;Vertical space), > \hfill (Menu >Insert >Formating >Horizontal fill), > \minipage (Menu >Insert >Box), > is quite powerful once you get the logic of it. > > If you are not sure how to start, send a minimized copy of your pdf and I > will > send

Re: Collaboration using LyX in a MS Office workplace

2008-05-28 Thread David Hewitt
aved after editing. Then it reverts to uneditable. Any ideas of what to do without re-enabling rights each time someone wants to make changes? - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (USA) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Collaboration-using-

Re: Installation glitch

2008-05-28 Thread David Hewitt
nd everything seems fine. So, this is just the configuration script running when LyX hangs? If so, why does that same script run like lightning in the LyX program window, but crawl in the installer? Just curious. - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Klamath Falls Field Stati

Re: Installation glitch

2008-05-29 Thread David Hewitt
all. Then I can refresh the FNDB manually and make the new formats and all works. LyX is fine with all of this, but it seems like turning off the on-the-fly installation is not obeyed by the LyXWinInstaller script on the first time through during install. Dave - David Hewitt Research Fi

Using Sweave for R code in LyX on Windows

2008-06-23 Thread David Hewitt
to bring in the Windows side of things. - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (USA) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Using-Sweave-for-R-code-in-LyX-on-Windows-tp18078289p18078289.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

2011-03-30 Thread David Hewitt
Oxygen for sure! - Dave

Re: LyX 1.6. ~ LaTex2RTF

2009-10-07 Thread David Hewitt
> > On 09/22/2009 10:14 PM, 0 wrote: > > > I've used the two links below to start using LaTeX 2 RTF: > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf#toc2 > > > http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/ > > > > > > "Rich Text Format" appeared in export list. But it does not work, and

Re: Thank You / Specific Examples?

2009-11-13 Thread David Hewitt
Rob Oakes writes: > I am also planning to include examples which demonstrate how to use LyX > as a "literate programming environment" so that statistical and other > results can be generated "on the fly" and inserted into documents. Are > there other types of examples that you

Need Wiki password for upload

2010-03-30 Thread David Hewitt
I'd like to upload a PDF document that explains some of the nuts and bolts of how to get LyX to work with R through Sweave. Dave Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Western Fisheries Research Center Klamath Falls Field Station, Oregon http://profile.usgs.gov/dhewitt

Wiki update on LyX-R-Sweave on Windows XP and Vista

2010-04-01 Thread David Hewitt
The Wiki has been updated here to reflect some recent guidance on getting LyX-R-Sweave working on Windows machines: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave including a particular note for Tinn-R users. Feedback welcome! -- Dave Hewitt Klamath Falls, Oregon

A little help with LyX-Sweave-R

2010-04-08 Thread David Hewitt
This is a bit of a tangent from true LyX issues, but it is related and I suspect the expertise exists on this list to solve my problem. I appreciate any help. For those also on the R-Help mailing list, I apologize for the duplication. I use LyX on a Windows XP machine with R 2.10.1 and a recent

Re: A little help with LyX-Sweave-R

2010-04-08 Thread David Hewitt
>> I run LyX from a command window and watch what goes on in the >> background. All goes fine through the whole process, texi2dvi runs and >> finishes (and I can confirm that it finds and executes texi2dvi.exe in >> the MiKTeX bin), and then LyX pukes an error that it cannot open the >> PDF

Re: A little help with LyX-Sweave-R

2010-04-09 Thread David Hewitt
have it also running on Mac OS X and Linux, but the files and > instructions in the link provided above are for Windows only (tested on > Windows XP sp3). Please, ask me later on for the other configs... but for > today, I don't have time to compile them. > > Best, > > Philippe G

LyX 2.0 timeline?

2010-09-26 Thread David Hewitt
I'm preparing for some system changes in the near future, and LyX reinstallation will be part of that process. I was hoping to hold out for LyX 2.0 and put off some writing until it's ready. I know it's taboo to ask, but does the development team have a sense of the time remaining until a beta is

Updated instructions for using R/Sweave through LyX on Windows XP/Vista (LyX 1.6.8, MiKTeX 2.9)

2010-11-19 Thread David Hewitt
We just uploaded a new set of instructions to the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LaTeX/SweaveR/lyx_with_r_and_sweave_instructions.pdf Somewhat embarrassingly, not long after we uploaded the original my system broke and I never figured out what

modernCV example in LyX 1.6.8 broken for me on MiKTeX 2.9, Win XP

2010-11-21 Thread David Hewitt
Fresh install of all of the above, with latest modernCV stuff, and the example that ships with LyX 1.6.8 fails to compile through pdflatex. I only get the error below repeated as two entries (same) in the LyX error display: \begin{document} The control sequence at the end of the top line of

PDF Update fails, LyX 1.5.7 (WinXP)

2008-11-24 Thread David Hewitt
I upgraded to LyX 1.5.7 on WinXP with MikTeX 2.7 (updated). Everything is fine except that update PDF does not work. When I try to update an open PDF, which always worked fine before, I get an error from LaTeX: --- I can't write on file `test.pdf' --- The snippet of the Log file is here: LaTeX

Re: PDF Update fails, LyX 1.5.7 (WinXP)

2008-11-25 Thread David Hewitt
>> I upgraded to LyX 1.5.7 on WinXP with MikTeX 2.7 (updated). Everything >> is fine except that update PDF does not work. When I try to update an >> open PDF, which always worked fine before, I get an error from LaTeX: >> --- >> I can't write on file `test.pdf' >> --- >> >> The snippet of the Log

Package for controlling Bibliography appearance - recommendations?

2008-12-24 Thread David Hewitt
I've recently found the 'tocloft' package particularly nice for adjusting TOC, LOF, and LOT appearance, and it works well with Koma-script. I was wondering if anyone can recommend a similar package for making adjustments to the Bibliography/List of references? Thanks, Dave Hewitt

Spacing around floats with centered figures - a suggestion

2009-02-18 Thread David Hewitt
This is mostly a recommendation for a small change to the User's Guide. If the change has been made in LyX 1.6 (I'm still on LyX 1.5.7, WinXP, examples in basic article class), or if I have otherwise blundered in proffering advice (known to happen), I apologize. I've been a LyX user for a long

Re: Books in LyX: Was How to import separate chapters into document?

2009-02-20 Thread David Hewitt
Steve Litt writes: > If I had to give LyX advice to a prospective author, I'd say that the minute > you've committed to using LyX, learn LaTeX. In my opionion, the VERY FIRST > STEP in learning LaTeX is to learn TeX, which is about 1000 times easier. I'd > advise the new LyX-using

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