ed into a header? I find ps2pdf to be
more forgiving, in general, of graphics formats than pdlatex (I often
include postscript and eps graphics, which sometimes pdflatex does not
like).
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Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we
like to
s"
This may depend on the document class. What class are you using?
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by
little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
On 08/05/2012 10:37 PM, Eisa Alanazi wrote:
I have asked exactly the same question almost 2 years ago :)
what I got: Inner= left and outer=right
That would be correct for a one-sided document, but not for a two-sided
document, of course.
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"A foolish consistency i
the 4th
line in that menu. Then you can attach a label (a number) to one line
of that multi-line formula (you can also attach separate labels to each
line if needed).
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What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not
that they are extr
-
Which seems to tell me nothing. But what do I know?
That seems to say that you don't have access to much of anything in the
system. How can that be? Maybe a regular user shouldn't be able to
write to some of those directories, but read??
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Deserves death!
version of Ubuntu you are looking at is a stable version, which
is always pretty old.
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It is a scientifically proven fact that a mid life crisis can only be
cured by something racy and Italian. Bianchis and Colnagos are a lot
cheaper than Maserattis an
another go
at installing leadpar. Or should I expect it to have installed
automatically with ver. 2012?
Maybe not. I have neither tlmgr nor leadpar in my TeXlive 2012.
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David L. Johnson
"Business!" cried the Ghost. "Mankind was my business. The common
welfare was my busi
same in LyX, but not in the pdf.
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Lehigh University
be to install
the symbol package (or maybe, if that fails or if it's already installed, the
ly1 package).
Paul
That link didn't work, but this is not just a MiKTeX issue. I use linux
(debian wheezy), which has texlive, and it has the same issue.
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David L. Johnson
Department of M
bably a pdf viewer issue. Try it with a postscript or dvi
viewer, or send a sample file.
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David L. Johnson
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a
conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw
check the address to which the
lists are sent to know which address to use when changing anything,
since I use david.john...@lehigh.edu as an alias to my real account name.
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I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our
educational system and that in a
part that you cut out.
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David L. Johnson
What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not
that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.
--Robert F. Kennedy
oice, not really an error.
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Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
to fail, corrupting random
areas on the disk. Although disk drives do seem more reliable than they
used to be, it does still happen.
--
David L. Johnson
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein
nsist on Latex. I also have no idea whether this has any
relevance outside of the US.
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Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
rs (if not the content). The AMS journals from the 1970s and
before were works of art, but even most Springer-Verlag monographs were
truly ugly.
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David L. Johnson
The motor car reflects our standard of living and gauges the speed of
our present life. It long ago ran down Simple Living, and
On 12/10/2012 05:51 PM, stefano franchi wrote:
Cheers,
Hullabaloo, caneck, caneck.
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David L. Johnson
Become MicroSoft-free forever. Ask me how.
command, at
least when you write it with LyX. I don't know how setting up multiple
chapters might change that, since I only use Beamer for lectures.
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Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
at we call
them "Imperial", that would be almost as un-American as using the
Godless metric system (yes, that really is what many people here called
it when there was an abortive effort to convert, many years ago).
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David L. Johnson
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made P
On 02/18/2013 03:14 PM, John Kane wrote:
*From:* David L. Johnson
*To:* lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
*Sent:* Monday, February 18, 2013 11:06:00 AM
*Subject:* Re: kitr problem after R update.
On 02/18/2013 10:53 AM, John Kane
your TeX distribution, and if that
doesn't, then certainly the setup that lyx does the first time you start
it should find all related files and programs.
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David L. Johnson
Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of business.
-debug. Unless you specify an output
by the option "-o outputfilename" it will spit the output to stdout.
So, to process a file "oldfile.lyx" and get an updated version
"newfile.lyx", enter on the command line:
/full/path/to/lyx2lyx -o newfile.lyx oldfile
replace for the appropriate string on the *.lyx file,
using an editor. This is not the "advised" way, but it is quick when it
works. Before doing something like this, though, do make a backup copy
of the file...
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David L. Johnson
Let's not escape into mathematics. L
e the function
is, a displayed line rather than inline. Is the function so long that
it takes more than a whole line of a page? TeX sometimes has trouble
with inline equations. It will not hyphenate such a line (hyphens would
be interpreted as minus signs), leaving it for you to do manually.
line and shorter words surround it. I do this, too, on occasion.
Rich
I think the issue is that this is happening in math mode. There, lines
are up to the writer entirely.
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David L. Johnson
Let's be straight here. If we find something we can't understand we
like to call it som
old eyes can endure, along with getting a widescreen monitor, and still
at times I wish for more.
Of course, this does not mean I want the text spread out over a very
long line like that, only the math block (or a table, perhaps).
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David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
a crack at that, but not until after mid-April.
If no one else volunteers, send it to me and I will take a look at it to
see how much work it will be.
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David L. Johnson
Accept risk. Accept responsibility. Put a lawyer out of business.
but the journal
actually re-typeset the whole thing in LaTeX in order to print it.
I would not expect to be able to effortlessly convert a 140-page thesis
from Word *.docx to html. Can Word itself really do that in a way that
does not mangle equations?
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David L. Johnson
Department of Mat
ng similar which
is accidentally in a "section"-style environment. Every time I have
seen a similar message that was the culprit. Look at those areas where
you made changes just to be sure everything is in the correct environment.
--
David L. Johnson
I believe that the motion pi
But
with LyX I can see what I am doing, with properly typeset equations, so
I can think while I am writing.
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David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
On 08/18/2013 09:26 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
On 8/18/13 5:02 PM, Chris Menzel wrote:
On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, "David L. Johnson" mailto:d...@lehigh.edu>> wrote:
>...
> For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept
(prefer) LaTeX source, and they can ch
Original Message
Subject:Re: Question: Using LyX as your daily word processor
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 12:22:19 -0400
From: David L. Johnson
To: Wolfgang Keller
On 08/21/2013 11:45 AM, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
And I say this as a LyX-only writer for the
I'll let you know if I find anything.
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David L. Johnson
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove
mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. [1 Corinth. 13:2]
On 08/22/2013 04:43 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:49 AM, David L. Johnson wrote:
at one time, and used Motif widgets). It was originally called "LyriX",
but Matthais got a letter from a lawyer about that, so he changed the name.
According to Matthias: &q
X has now grown beyond the linux/unix base, and so these
widget-set/desktop-environment distinctions are no longer important.
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David L. Johnson
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a
conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Wordstar (don't know which version) on plain MS DOS?
Oh, yeah. Plus various technical-writing programs, some more wysiwyg
than others, but the printout usually was horrible.
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David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
settings, but other than that
we should have the same behavior. Also the same, my configure.log file
makes no mention of "spell" or "enchant", so that may not be part of
what is configured, although it seems it should be.
--
David L. Johnson
When you are up to your ass in a
Hmm. The file seemed to have no problem for me. Lyx-2.0.6, linux
debian testing.
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Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
appreciated.
Me, too. I have all of my class presentations on beamer, created
through lyx in the (admittedly clunky) way we have now. I would hate to
have to re-do all of that.
--
David L. Johnson
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on
no account be allowed to do the job
till occur occasionally.
--
David L. Johnson
Some people used to claim that, if enough monkeys sat in front of
enough typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would
reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has
proven this not to be the case.
hen you do have a
problem, you have a chance, with open-source software, to actually ask
for help from the person who wrote it. For example, this list is
well-populated by the actual developers of LyX, who are very helpful.
Commercial support will connect you with a call center full of peo
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
Absolutely!
--
David L. Johnson
And what if you
utput that
arXiv.org will accept!
The easiest is if you don't have a separate bibtex file, and if you have
no diagrams. Then the export to plain LaTeX should be all they need.
If it doesn't work, contact me off-list and I will try to help.
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David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
tually, though, why you can't install all languages is somehow a fault
of either the package maintainer, or the archive you are using. What
came after where you cut this off? Did it say why it was not going to
install the Latvian package? Maybe the file wasn't found?
--
David L. Johnson
What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not
that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant.
--Robert F. Kennedy
eX adds in ligatures and other fancy font
details, re-sets the page width and justification, and prints what you
wrote. Some fonts are different, but usually better than the on-screen
appearance. Why would you want it more like the screen?
--
David L. Johnson
And what if you track down these me
also don't recall
any special set-up to get it to work.
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David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
ut Ctrl+1? Can these settings be altered? This seems
to be Windows-specific, so I can't help further.
Screenshot clipped to save bandwidth.
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David L. Johnson
"Business!" cried the Ghost. "Mankind was my business. The common
welfare was my business; charity, mercy,
you use routinely use mathematical expressions in your documents?
3. Why do you/would you need to export to LibreOffice/Word format? (to
send the documents to publishers, mentors, advisors, colleagues, and
so on)
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David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
I don't know any combinatorics, but I've gathered this
over the years. "tables" and "list of tables" more correctly refers to
the more general situation.
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Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
question is whether to treat the
beginning of a Frame similarly to the treatment of a Section, or to
treat it more like a Theorem or quotation environment. Following LaTeX
treatment is probably best in the long run. Getting out of such an
environment could be easier. Why does a plain fram
ave a document open in LyX 2.1.0 and then open a new one
from recent documents, it works correctly. I wonder whether it is a bug
in LyX, or elsewhere. Are these particularly large or complicated
documents? Do you have the same problem no matter which documents you
have open and opening?
--
Da
s are tighter around the
numbers, and it looks more like a binomial coefficient. Easier as well.
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David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
In math-mode, enter the F. Highlight that F. Then, look on the menu at the
bottom of the screen, for a dotted square with a hat on top. It will open
up a menu with a choice of decorations you can add, including the hat you
need. There are two types, smaller and larger.
HTH.
--
David L
ome problematic languages, but with german I don't know any.
Try \ss, making it "TeX mode", or what we call ERT.
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David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
It's easy to assign any command or keystrokes to, say, function keys or
Alt-Key combinations. You only need the \ss, \"{a}, etc., which is not so
many to deal with. I would probably set it up within ERT, but you can also
find the appropriate text-based codes.
--
David
some getting used to, and the nesting
issues could be handled better. Given the variability of how blocks may
have been built up on your old files, getting a converter to handle them
all may be difficult.
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David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
to have the aspell development libraries available, or the
configure script will leave spellchecking out. I had that problem, as
well. But it does say something about that in the INSTALL file that
comes with the sources.
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David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
et up correctly. What was your first error message.
Can someone help me? I'm soo really discouraged :-(
You can send me questions off list. I don't use the debian version of
lyx since it is too outdated, but I have used debian and lyx for a long
time.
--
David L. Johnson
The unstable branch now has either 2.1.1 or 2.1.2. You can just manually
install that.
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Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
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On October 17, 2014 8:22:17 AM renato wrote:
Hi,
can someone help me to install
.
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Lehigh University
.
Ah, these never allow resizing. Again, ALT+Left click-hold and drag
should work.
Please suggest me some way so that I can insert citation in the
documents or can resize that window.
Thanks in advance
-Atanu
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Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
esired output.
Well, this would work for a few isolated Greek letters, but the spacing
is different, particularly between words, and line lengths can be
messy. I real Greek solution would be best. Unfortunately, I can't
help with making that work.
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David L. Johnson
Department of Mathema
is with Ubuntu --- or your
version of it. Certainly they have an updated version of LyX. If not,
get it from the LyX archive. If you want to go back to Openoffice, that
is one thing, but this is not an obstacle. Just upgrade your LyX
version, and there are many ways to do that.
--
D
re than one e-mail address, or perhaps an alias,
and you are responding from the other address? This happens to me quite
often, since my account has an alias, and I forget which version (dlj0@
or david.johnson@) I used to sign up.
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Lehigh University
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