Re: Beamer background image on one slide only
I have finally worked this out
You need
ERT box{
\usebackgroundtemplate{\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]
{/home/graham/Dropbox/Lectures/R-Intro/Images/Moon.png}}
Then the begin frame menu item
Frame content
Then end frame menu item
Then an ERT box with }
This seems to work fine , but is there a better way?
Graham
Graham M Smith wrote:
Using an ERT box I can add a background image to Beamer presentation
with
\usebackgroundtemplate{\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]
{/home/graham/Dropbox/Lectures/R-Intro/Images/Moon.png}}
But this adds it to every slide, and I only want it on a single slide.
I have tried some other options such as putting this in the preamble
(from searching the Lyx archives)
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[1]{%
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill \hfill
\includegraphics[width=0.8\paperwidth,height=0.8\paperheight]{#1}
\hfill \vfill
}}}
and then
\BackgroundPicture{image}
But again this adds the same image to every slide.
I have tried replacing the image with nil \BackgroundPicture{} for the
next slide to try and switch it off, and tried replacing it with a
different image, but both are ignored.
The Latex instructions are to put the entire slide in a graphics block
ended with a } but putting this in an ERT at the end of the slide
throws an error. even when I have a matching { at the beginning of the
code.
I have tried the "end frame" menu option, but again this doesn't stop
the graphic appearing on all subsequent slides.
Hopefully this is one of those things that is easy to do, just
difficult to find.
Thanks,
Graham
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Beamer background image on one slide only
Using an ERT box I can add a background image to Beamer presentation with
\usebackgroundtemplate{\includegraphics[width=\paperwidth]
{/home/graham/Dropbox/Lectures/R-Intro/Images/Moon.png}}
But this adds it to every slide, and I only want it on a single slide.
I have tried some other options such as putting this in the preamble
(from searching the Lyx archives)
\newcommand\BackgroundPicture[1]{%
\setbeamertemplate{background}{%
\parbox[c][\paperheight]{\paperwidth}{%
\vfill \hfill
\includegraphics[width=0.8\paperwidth,height=0.8\paperheight]{#1}
\hfill \vfill
}}}
and then
\BackgroundPicture{image}
But again this adds the same image to every slide.
I have tried replacing the image with nil \BackgroundPicture{} for the
next slide to try and switch it off, and tried replacing it with a
different image, but both are ignored.
The Latex instructions are to put the entire slide in a graphics block
ended with a } but putting this in an ERT at the end of the slide throws
an error. even when I have a matching { at the beginning of the code.
I have tried the "end frame" menu option, but again this doesn't stop
the graphic appearing on all subsequent slides.
Hopefully this is one of those things that is easy to do, just difficult
to find.
Thanks,
Graham
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Graham M Smith
Re: Optimising PDF file size - graphics management
José Matos Except, I am only using screen grabs when I need to illustrate what the screen looks like. Looking at my original post I should probably have had a comma after "screen grabs". With "screen grab" do you mean a screen shot of R's output? No, when I said that I need to illustrate what the screen looks like, I literally meant what the screen looked like with multiple windows open, menus, toolbars etc. In fact, in terms of Lyx the solution seems to be grabbing the screen as a png rather than a PDF. the PNGs are a up to 25% the size of the PDFs and Lyx seems to be able to re-size these with little loss of quality. Not as good as the PDF, but much smaller. However, given that Lyx seems to do some optimisation anyway, whether it makes any difference to the size of the final document. Graham
Re: Optimising PDF file size - graphics management
Paul A suggestion Graham: try to produce vectorial graphics with R (and not screen-shots); this will reduce the size of your graphics and improve dramatically their quality. Mmmm, yes :-) Except, I am only using screen grabs when I need to illustrate what the screen looks like. Looking at my original post I should probably have had a comma after "screen grabs". All the charts and graphs are exported from R as PDFs. Graham
Optimising PDF file size - graphics management
Not really a Lyx question, but it has spawned from using Lyx, and Lyx users are likely to have an appropriate approach. I have a 20 page Lyx Beamer document that I am compiling as an article (A4) and a presentation. Both PDFs end up at 2.7Mb. The bulk of the documents are screen grabs and graphics produced from R. File sizes for the graphics range from a few kb to almost 1Mb (all PDFs) for the screenshots. First question is whether there is any optimisation of file sizes during the compiling to PDF and the original file sizes don't really matter. This seems to the case to a certain extent as the total file size for all the graphics exceeds the 2.7Mb of the final file. But should I still be trying to reduce the size of the original files. If so is there a best way of doing this, and is there guidance somewhere on target sizes and resolutions for different purposes. It seems an obvious and recurring question that people might have, but googling seems to just throw up lots about web pages. So I would be interested if any Lyx users have established some routine for managing this problem. I am using Ubuntu 9.1, most of the time. Many thanks, Graham -- -- Graham M Smith
Re: organisation as author not cited properly
It's being shown this way in LyX or in the output? As Stephen points out, it does in fact compile properly and looks fine as the PDF. I jumped to the conclusion that as it wasn't looking right in Lyx, that it wouldn't compile properly either. Never thought about compiling to check. Thanks, Graham -- -- Graham M Smith graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk
organisation as author not cited properly
I have a bibtex file created in Jabref
The entry in the author field is {R Development Core Team} but Lyx is
citing it as Team (2009).
As I understand it, the curly brackets around the name should stop the
contents being parsed like this.
Can I fix this.
Graham
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Re: Sweave - R command line running off edge of page
I'm ashamed to say, that continued searching has found that I had
already been given the answer to this earlier this year. But in a
different context and my initial searches didn't find it.
The answer is to put the Sweave code into an ERT box and start it with:
/SweaveOpts{keep.source=TRUE}
This stops the R parser from ignoring the line break codes.
In the article class document that I copied the text from, I had added
this to the preamble and hadn't realised it was there.
In fact I now also realise that you can use it as a scrap using
<>=
Graham
Graham
Graham M Smith wrote:
I have an Sweave/lyx document with a long line of code .
As an article (noweb), ctrl+return allows me to break up the code and
allow it to fit the page and still work as code.
I have pasted the text from the article class file into a new file
that uses the book class (noweb). But now the line runs off the edge
of the page and the single ctrl+return I can see, prints out as \n
rather than wrapping the text.
As always, I could do with some suggestions as to how to fix this.
Graham
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graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk
Station Cottage, Station Road
Binegar, Somerset
BA3 4UQ
Sweave - R command line running off edge of page
I have an Sweave/lyx document with a long line of code . As an article (noweb), ctrl+return allows me to break up the code and allow it to fit the page and still work as code. I have pasted the text from the article class file into a new file that uses the book class (noweb). But now the line runs off the edge of the page and the single ctrl+return I can see, prints out as \n rather than wrapping the text. As always, I could do with some suggestions as to how to fix this. Graham -- -- Graham M Smith graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk
Re: adding appendix before Bibliography
OK,
The appendix box was a red herring as this wasn't what I wanted and
removing [titletoc] from the load package line seems to let it work.
Graham
Graham M Smith wrote:
After searching the forum I have downloaded a sample file illustrating
using the appendix package. I want the appendices to come before the
bibliography
I have added
\usepackage[titletoc]{appendix} to the preamble
and
\begin{appendices} and \end{appendices}
but the example file seems to have these commands wrapped in an
"appendix" box, but I can't work out how to do this.
I would appreciate some help.
Thanks,
Graham
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Graham M Smith
graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk
Station Cottage, Station Road
Binegar, Somerset
BA3 4UQ
adding appendix before Bibliography
After searching the forum I have downloaded a sample file illustrating
using the appendix package. I want the appendices to come before the
bibliography
I have added
\usepackage[titletoc]{appendix} to the preamble
and
\begin{appendices} and \end{appendices}
but the example file seems to have these commands wrapped in an
"appendix" box, but I can't work out how to do this.
I would appreciate some help.
Thanks,
Graham
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Graham M Smith
graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk
Re: [LyX] Lattice library and sweave
Kevin, As you will now have seen, problem was solved. Thanks, Graham Kevin Middleton wrote: Wrap the xyplot line in an explicit print() statement: print(xyplot(light.trans~simpson)) On Nov 26, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Graham M Smith wrote: Should the lattice library work with Lyx? Ubuntu 9.04, Lyx 1.6.2, R 2.10 with latest version of lattice. It seems to compile OK, but although the code appears I get no plot. <>= library(lattice) xyplot(light.trans~simpson) @ Anyone any ideas? Thanks, Graham -- -- Graham M Smith -- -- Graham M Smith graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk Station Cottage, Station Road Binegar, Somerset BA3 4UQ
Re: Lattice library and sweave
OK, with help from Mateo, you need to add a print command as below: <>= library(lattice) print(xyplot(light.trans~simpson)) @ Graham Graham M Smith wrote: Actually, I now realise I had this problem before and it was solved by changing the encoding to UTF8, but its not working this time. Graham Graham M Smith wrote: Should the lattice library work with Lyx? Ubuntu 9.04, Lyx 1.6.2, R 2.10 with latest version of lattice. It seems to compile OK, but although the code appears I get no plot. <>= library(lattice) xyplot(light.trans~simpson) @ Anyone any ideas? Thanks, Graham -- -- Graham M Smith graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk Station Cottage, Station Road Binegar, Somerset BA3 4UQ
Re: Lattice library and sweave
Actually, I now realise I had this problem before and it was solved by changing the encoding to UTF8, but its not working this time. Graham Graham M Smith wrote: Should the lattice library work with Lyx? Ubuntu 9.04, Lyx 1.6.2, R 2.10 with latest version of lattice. It seems to compile OK, but although the code appears I get no plot. <>= library(lattice) xyplot(light.trans~simpson) @ Anyone any ideas? Thanks, Graham -- -- Graham M Smith graham.sm...@myotis.co.uk Station Cottage, Station Road Binegar, Somerset BA3 4UQ
Lattice library and sweave
Should the lattice library work with Lyx? Ubuntu 9.04, Lyx 1.6.2, R 2.10 with latest version of lattice. It seems to compile OK, but although the code appears I get no plot. <>= library(lattice) xyplot(light.trans~simpson) @ Anyone any ideas? Thanks, Graham -- -- Graham M Smith
Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book
>In addition, I'd really like some instructions/examples on how to create "business" like >documents. When I've tried, I've found it difficult and annoying to try to get the appearance the >way the company wants it. (With logos, lines and legaleese..). So tips and instructions on that >would certainly be useful I would also support this. Graham
Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book
Rob But are there other things that you would like to see? The standard LyX documentation is so good that I've found myself struggling to find other topics that need to be covered, other than a tremendously quick overview of the program and instructions on where to find the docs. I wonder if something on Lyx/Sweave/R/Beamer might be useful. This combination is unbeatable (and I think unique, ignoring working with straight Latex) for anyone with scientific/statistics related teaching/writing/presentations to do, but not immediately obvious how to get working, especially with beamer (I am still trying to sort that out). Graham
Re: How many use Linux: was[LyX] explicit mail subject
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 11 September 2009 09:58:04 Murray Eisenberg wrote: But only a fraction of folks use Unix/Linux! I've always assumed that fraction was about 4/5 but never examined that assumption. Does anyone know the percentages of LyX users on: Linux Windows Mac BSD Other Just to start the ball rolling, I've always used LyX on Linux (since 2001) and am currently using it on Ubuntu 9.0.4. Just to kick the ball out of bounds, how do you count cross-platform users? I have it on one XP box and two Ubuntu boxes, and I use it heavily under both OSes. When I first came across LyX (which goes back far enough that the only Windows version was a port that required Cygwin), Linux users vastly outnumbered Windows users. From list traffic, I suspect Linux is still prevalent (followed by Windows, then Mac), but the "vastly" is likely no longer true. /Paul Well, I have it on a ubuntu 9.04 Thinkpad, a Mint Gloria eePC, a MacBook Pro, and two XP desktops (which have Mint Gloria running under Virtulisation also running Lyx) So work that one out :-) Graham
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Paul I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to "default" when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it. Strange indeed. Did you by any chance hack the article-beamer.layout file? Or might you have an old version of the layout files in your ~/.lyx folder that maybe are superseding the current versions? This is fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04, on an HD that did have Windows on it, but I installed Ubuntu to use the entire disc. Lyx was installed with synaptic and I haven't hacked/edited/changed any aspect of Lyx, so I have no idea why it isn't working as it should, especially as your other post says that its greyed out on you copy of Ubuntu. Graham
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Jürgen Graham M Smith wrote: After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would "magically" remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as the default for the Beamer class and refused to compile I didn't follow this discussion in all detail, but wouldn't the use of a portmanteau beamer-article master solve this? See: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Presentations#toc7 Indeed this does seem to be a solution :-) Many thanks, Graham
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Paul Well, I have something to propose. I still have no idea how you managed to change margins before (it should have been grayed out), unless maybe you're on an older version of LyX. Since I could not change margins, I could not reproduce your results. If you are using 1.6.x, though, I may have an answer. The attached file is a replacement for the article-beamer layout file. Drop it in your local layouts directory and reconfigure/restart LyX. It should enable you to adjust paper type/size and margins in "article (beamer)" the same as in any article. I've tested it both by converting existing presentations to articles and by using the embedding method in the link that Jürgen provided. I'm using 1.6.2, on Ubuntu 9.04 and none of the margin/page controls are greyed out, so I can already adjust paper type/size and margins in article (beamer) as in any article. It was just that these then needed set back to "default" when switching back t Beamer. Strange isn't it. Thanks for your help. Graham
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Pau lI thank you for bringing the beamer(article) to my attention. That is very handy for me as well. I can see that if I insert some branches, then I can really customize which material is included in the article output. Nice! Yes, its a superb capability, I was also hoping to use the branches feature as I give similar lectures to different courses and the branches feature would allow me to quickly customise the content. To answer your margin question, I wonder how you changed the margins? In all of the beamer examples I find, the margin options are grayed out and I can't change them. After changing to Beamer(article) class. I used the Document Settings|Page Margins tab I unticked the default and changed the margin sizes. I was hoping that Lyx would "magically" remember this was just the default for the Beamer (article) bit, but it also took this as the default for the Beamer class and refused to compile That means we need to make the change either in the preamble or in the lyx layout or latex style file. Blech. I started to think "there has to be a better way" and this way seems to do it. \oddsidemargin 0.0in \textwidth 6.0in %%testing: does following have any effect? %%\evensidemargin 0.0in Yes, this was my next step, but was hoping to avoid commenting code in and out in the preamble, but its not really a problem. I continue to be amazed at how brilliantly useful Lyx/Latex is :-) Graham
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Paul
That's ok, I understood what you meant -- just not why you did it. I
don't use article (Beamer), but my impression is that it's purpose is
to facilitate turning a slideshow into a paper (either after the fact
or in parallel development). I don't think it's really intended to
reproduce slides in slide-like form (although I could be wrong), and
in any case it seems to be overkill for handouts (unless maybe you
mean to annotate the handouts a fair bit).
Ah, but we have a fundamental misunderstanding. The reason I started
using Beamer was the very fact that I could prepare slides and lecture
notes (article) in parallel. I don't want a print out of the slides in
a slide-like form. I use the slide content as an outline for my
lecture, but expand on this (with more text than you would want to put
on the slides), and additional diagrams, examples, reference list etc as
a class hand out. So students get properly written (and illustrated)
hand outs, for my lectures.
In fact it was this capability that brought me to latex/beamer in the
first place after a plea on various forums for any ideas on how I could
keep my handouts and presentations in sync so I didn't have to try and
keep two documents (Powerpoint and Word) up to date and in sync. But
Beamer became available in Lyx before I managed to develop any real
expertise in Latex, even though I had started to rewrite all my lecture
material in Latex
I have put up with the wide margins up to now, but it seems a waste of
paper, and it would be useful to allow diagrams and graphs to expand
across the full page width.
Am I in the wrong place? A simple handout option would be nice. This
is 1.6.2 on Ubuntu 9.04
In this case, just type the word 'handout' (no quotes) in the "Custom"
field and then View->PDF (pdflatex). What you get is a bunch of
slides, one per page, same margins as the original.
Ahh, now that is still useful, as I still produce a single copy like
this for myself (as a guide for my lecture), but do it by commenting in
and out the following lines in the preamble (lifted from one of my
original Latex presentations)
%\usepackage{pgfpages}
%\pgfpagesuselayout{4 on 1}[a4paper,border shrink=2mm]
%\setbeamercolor{background canvas}{bg=black!1}
%\setbeamertemplate{footline}[page number]
Now that we aren't talking at cross purposes :-), have you any
suggestions on my original question.
I could of course add a line for the margins in the preamble that I
comment out and in depending on the output, but I was hoping for
something a bit more automated than that.
Graham
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
Paul Any particular reason you are switching to the article class for handouts, as opposed to using the handout option in the class options field? Mmmm, I'm not switching to the article class, I'm switching to the "article (Beamer)" class. I realise now that I described this as "beamer article" class in my original post. However, I can't see a handout option under class options assuming this is meant to be under Document settings|document class. The document class options predefined is ticked but greyed out with [No options predefined] in the field. This is when Document Class "presentation(Beamer)" is selected. Am I in the wrong place? A simple handout option would be nice. This is 1.6.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 Thanks, Graham
Re: changing margins in article class when using Beamer
rh If you can find some macro that is defined in this case, but not in the other case, then all you need is: \ifx\thatmacro\undefined\relax\else your stuff here \fi I don't know what \thatmacro might be, though. Thanks, but unfortunately, this doesn't mean very much to me, I confess I was hoping for a single options line in the preamble :-( Graham
changing margins in article class when using Beamer
I'm using Beamer, and producing a presentation handout by switching to the beamer article class, which defaults to wide margins. If I change the margins in documents settings, this then prevents the beamer slides being produced (I get a compile error). I assume I can put something in the preamble that will switch the margins for beamer article only, but don't know what this might be. Can anyone help with this? Many thanks, Graham
Re: Sweave with Beamer and Koma Script book
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 20 juin 09 à 12:02, Graham Smith a écrit : Showing my ignorance of how all this works, but how do you get Sweave to work with Beamer and the Koma Script book class? There is a Sweave module that has been posted to lyx-devel (I do not have it at hand) and that is incorporated into 2.0.0svn. If you do not find it, I'll send a copy. JMarc Thanks, but not familiar with modules or svn for that matter. Can I just add the module into the appropriate directory and then add it via document settings modules? I have had a look for it, but not sure where or what exactly I am looking for. Given its still a under development, am I going to be able to set up as a complete beginner? Graham
