a one-off conversion. Especially if they
don't have word - it cost money . . .
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Richard Heck wrote:
Hey, I loved WordPerfect back when you had the blue background and stuff.
Note that LyX has color preferences - so you can get that
white on blue feeling. :-)
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writes his answers in word (or
plain text email), possibly cutting and pasting
text from the PDF.
You then copy from his messages and paste into your
LyX document.
Does he have to write in the _same_ document file?
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the box.
The box can of course be centered.
Or do you need something that insert-box don't offer?
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this - use export-latex and see what
kind of latex code LyX generate with your document class.
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for an explanation of such difference.
Yuck - what an attitude! If they don't care about an explanation, just send
them some LyX files. When they complain, show that they
open fine here! :-(
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it as a screen font. Using it for printing too
is much more difficult.
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file get truncated.
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the developer. He don't say on the website.
Why Windows only?
No idea. It is open-source though, so porting it
to other operating systems is possible.
On linux (and other unixes) there are several
small quick pdf viewers already. I use xpdf.
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include pieces from
a file (e.g. lines 10--20) and much more.
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to
try the developers mailing list first.
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in the preferences if you don't like it.
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cursor position, or when storing the cursor
in the session, or when reading the position from the session.
I see. This explains why new document tend to place the
cursor halfway off the screen too. It is simply the empty
template scrolled one line up!
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in the preamble that redefines the look of the
appropriate counters. I don't know which ones that
will be in this case - look it up on the net, in a latex book, or
try a latex forum if nobody here can give you the answer.
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?
Looks like the math is shown 1/.65 = 1.5x too big.
Could this be the screen_zoom setting Enrico mentioned?
I believe it defaults to 1.5 . . .
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a float! ?
This gives a meaningful hint. Although the real bug probably is that
it was possible to manufacture such a document in the first place.
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50MB he isn't working on.
SVN isn't meant to be used in such a decentralized manner, it
is meant for the everybody check their changes in at one
central server scenario. Which works well for things like LyX . . .
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the changetracking feature.
Then show your coworker LyX, perhaps he'll be impressed enough
to use it - you can then pass LyX documents back and forth
using changetracking. LyX will not prevent him from using LaTeX,
he may still apply all tricks he knows using ERT.
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machine (BTW with pdflatex) at:
http://ares001.altervista.org/job/downloads/dispense.pdf
Looks fine using xpdf on my machine, while it
looks awful using acrobat 5.0.5.
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Trevor Nicholls wrote:
Hi
I would like to define a style/environment which is effectively a standard
paragraph indented by a certain amount, with a small graphic file in the
margin created by the indent. Apart from the text in the paragraph,
everything is fixed, i.e. the graphic is a specific
Georg Brandl wrote:
Hi,
I have to make some modifications to the LyX source, so I have
to build it afresh on Windows.
What do you want to change?
If you are planning an improvement, please consider
getting it into LyX for the benefit of all. :-)
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heard that the rpm-based systems also have automatic
downloading these days, simplifying this process.
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(with contents) will move above
1.1 section
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importance.
You can get familiar with the new features, and find out if
1.5 is sufficiently stable for your use. And of course you can
report any faults you find and get them fixed before the release. :-)
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not _overlap_ the text of course, as latex won't make
room for it. But such trick can be used to let the logo potrude
into margins or the spacing between running heads and text
if need be.
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automatically.
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reasons for staying away from acrobat though.
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for you - but I wouldn't recommend it
to a new user.
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:39:55AM -0500, Les Denham wrote:
On Friday 15 June 2007 08:36, Helge Hafting wrote:
Acrobat certainly isn't useless, but have some problems:
Precisely why I use Acrobat Reader: I don't want to create a PDF which does
not work properly with the reader most people
Jakub Suder wrote:
Hi,
I'm writing my MSc thesis in Lyx, and today I installed 1.5.0rc1 and
tried to use code listings (I have lots of Java examples in my
thesis), but I've encountered a problem. I'm using a custom class from
my university - mgragh (I don't know if the list accepts attachments,
you are
going to get anyway.
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work on the same problems.
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to understand what
you put inside an ERT box. In this case, a comment character
that invalidates the rest of that line. And the rest of the line
is the linebreak character. :-)
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, english, and american. These will
invoke different wordlists - experiment to find out
what works for you. I have to use british.
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separator.
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, the last ERT box with the rest of the
latex code.
Splitting up the ERT like this lets me use a normal LyX label,
which will show up in the cross reference dialog as usual.
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only.
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the right-arrow to move the cursor past the
end of the document either - even if you might want
to put some text in the lower-right corner.
And you can't erase past the beginning of the document,
you can't use super/subscript twice in a row (there must be text
inbetween) and so on.
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written? I think LyX defaults to english after
installation, but this looks more like german. I think hyphenation is
supported for all the languages you can select.
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Darren Freeman wrote:
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 13:06 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote:
Darren Freeman wrote:
It feels more natural to have all my key-presses honoured on the screen.
When certain keys are sometimes disabled, it just doesn't feel right.
There are lots of limitations
paragraph.
2. If that don't help, try adding a paragraph after the math
that contains the vspace command and nothing else. Perhaps
you'll have to add a paragraph spacing distance to the
negative distance to make up for the extra paragraph.
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you
want under that circumflex.
The solution for me is to press circumflex followed by space.
Inside LyX (and outside it too), this produce a
circumflex with nothing under it - i.e. a plain circumflex. In LyX math,
this produce an exponent.
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to insert any standard format i
want and from where.
Thanks for your respectful help.
It is LyX, not LEX.
Start up lyx, use the menu help-Extended Features.
Navigate to chapter 4.10, which describe
Springer Journal layouts and how to use them in LyX.
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to the left of the square, or you can put the square
in a paragraph of its own and make that paragraph right-adjusted.
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(such as microsoft windows).
If this is LyX for scientific use, why not just call it that?
Or perhaps LyX for science?
The X don't say what it is about - or gives the wrong impression.
Well, perhaps it works for the intended audience, but can
confuse others.
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solution, the question
is if anyone bothers. There are lots of other things to do as well.
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and ConTeXt are extensions of TeX, but
they are very different extensions.
I don't know about xetex. Whatever you use, it must understand
the latex commands LyX generates. ConTeXt does not.
Anything that claims to support LaTeX (possibly with
some interesting extensions) ought to work.
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idea to have much more
than 66 letters per line, which is one reason for large margins.
A larger/wider font may therefore be a good idea if you
go for really thin margins.
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), etc.
I have now tested lyx-1.5 with xetex. It works, with a small
amount of ERT and preamble commands.
Have a look at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX
for instructions a sample document with font changes
and a wide range of unicode characters.
(symbols, latin, greek, russian, chinese)
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text.
2. Mark the $\frac{1}{3}$ part, then press ctrl+m
It is now converted to lyx-native math, which is easy to read.
If you print this, the latex generated will be the same, it is
only the in-LyX presentation that improves.
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$ for me.
Both octave and maxima can do better, so someone interested
in this can probably improve the computer algebra support a lot.
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even if it is compressed.
(PNG compression does not cause any errors or blurring,
quite unlike jpeg.) So feel free to use compressed png in
order to get a smaller file. TIFF is the same as png - a lossless
format. Either should work exactly the same, although the
TIFF might be bigger.
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Thomas wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:01:56 +0200, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
paragraph settings menu
Where can i find this menu? I didn't know this before.
Edit menu, item Paragraph Settings...
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Rainer M. Krug wrote:
Helge Hafting wrote:
Rainer M. Krug wrote:
A frelated question:
I have octave and maxima installed, but even after a reconfigure of
LyX 1.5.1, they are both disabled. Where can I enable them?
LyX must be able to find them - and I believe LyX uses the
PATH environment
books.
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Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Helge Hafting wrote:
So to restate what I want: footnotes use numbers and letters starting with
a on first footnote per verse. Second and later footnotes per verse are
not numbered but use next letter alphabetically.
Any ideas or example code
in order to let the commands
working correctly? If the answer is yes, which packages are requested
and where can I find them?
Take a look at the latex2rtf software found at:
http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/
I don't know if they have a mac version.
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to be informed that closing dos windows
will break the install - and they will disappear after some
time anyway.
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paragraph as well as at the start of the next one,
see if it helps.
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that, then insert the
superscript.
For how to do this in TeX, do a File-Export-LaTeX from LyX,
and look at what you get. If using LyX 1.5, try view-source.
I get: $A={}^{X}Y$
The smart-ass answer would be to change your notation...
Well, TeX should be able to typeset anything. :-/
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package it is that provides it)
might help also.
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time I tried,
I pasted a unicode test file into LyX and exported it as text. Unicode
came out just fine.
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to turn the hyphenation
back on, but I am sure this is possible.
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/SuggestedReading
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something important there. See if this
fixes the menus.
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William Adams wrote:
- use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation?
When I do this on A4 text, I go from 1-3 hyphens per page
to about 3 pages per hyphen. :-) Useful indeed.
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John Kane wrote:
--- Pavel Sanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
works on ~x86 gentoo.
is Insert-Date working for you ?
pavel
It works okay on Windows XP except I'm getting the
American dating format.
I believe you set the date format in the preferences somewhere.
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alternative 3, except that it always works on
whole paragraphs. But a table is usually in a paragraph
of its own anyway, so not much of a problem here.
You can then change the paragraph type for each table.
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everybody else's
though, and having to make this change in every new release
you want to use. I don't think you'll get the development team to
accept a change when training will achieve the same result.
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of many. This will be less
effective but it will still help - and the file size doesn't increase as
much.
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or one character is of course debatable.
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. It is no longer floating in any sense. But
at least this always works - no surprisingly missing stuff.
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Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
on 09/04/2007 03:53 AM Helge Hafting said the following:
Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
In both 1.3.7 1.5.1 I've been unable to get a Figure Float Wrap to
appear in either DVI or a print-out. It's visible to me--I can see
both the graphic the text in LyX
Hartmut Haase wrote:
Hi,
can someone please send me a .lyx-file where I can see how to use Old Style
Figures?
Here is an example file with old and new style numbers.
Use view-dvi or view-PDF to see the effect.
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oldstyle.lyx
Description: application/lyx
\newstylenums in each float then.
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document, just
open them all, copy paste them into a new myhelp.lyx.
From then on, just open myhelp.lyx whenever you want such a search.
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.
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Tomek wrote:
type in a formula the command
\Box
or
\square
Thanks. This square is nice, although I need one
of half of the size of it. Tomek
How about setting a smaller font (edit-text style) and
then use the square?
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(via ERT and export-latex)
at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX
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printing/viewing won't work until that is corrected.
This new import would have to handle stuff smaller than a whole document.
In order to collaborate today, consider file-export-latex in order to
send off a latex file, and file-import-latex in order to import a changed
latex file back into LyX.
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latex, possibly based on the
original stuff.
This way will clearly only work for small adjustments that are few
and far between. Sometimes, it might be enough.
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for the wasted page,
if they really worry about that?
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, then the error
likely is in the file itself. Move the cursor to the cross reference,
check if it gets an underline there, indicating a language change.
In this case, select the region with wrong language, and go
edit-text style-custom and revert language changes from there.
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paragraphs are purged.
Perhaps there are batter ways, I don't know.
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.
Has anyone else found this minor problem and is there a cure?
I think the best way here is to report this problem to whoever
develops the convtex tool. They can fix it and release a new version.
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the center}
\lfoot{left footer}
\rfoot{right footer}
\cfoot{center footer}
Now, you probably don't want _all_ of these, omit
whatever you don't need or set them empty: {}
If you want the page number to appear somewhere, use
the command \thepage inside the header or footer text.
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nothing
or just the page number on all pages.
Then, use \thispagestyle{fancy} or something like
that to get all sorts of headers on the first page only
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to turn anti-aliasing off?
LyX uses a library called qt for making widgets. It has a setup program
called qtconfig or possibly qtconfig-qt4. Run that, and pick a different
font.
I have never tried this on windows though, perhaps it is done
differently there.
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the menu Document-Settings. You get a dialog.
The seventh item there should be Numbering TOC
Here you can decide what sectioning levels are numbered,
and what to include in the TOC.
If your LyX doesn't have this, get the latest which is 1.5.x
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file a bug report
at bugzilla.lyx.org
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. Good line breaking with two
straight margins is not easy to do when generating postscript directly,
latex will do this with quality good enough for a printed book.
Latex is also nice if you need to print complicated formulas.
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Sam Lewis wrote:
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:15:47 +0200 Helge Hafting wrote:
If the file now is wrong on both computers, then the error
likely is in the file itself. Move the cursor to the cross reference,
check if it gets an underline there, indicating a language change.
In this case, select
sure that the ERT boxes occur in standard text, not
inside the enumeration itself.
This way, the enumeration is of the standard variety, only laid out
differently. So the usual means for cross referencing works.
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it should be no harder than
modifying latex. LyX can even import latex files, if you
prefer to modify/generate latex code.
LyX has enough batch features that a script can create pdf/ps without
anyone having to run LyX manually.
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for this purpose?
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, then this shouldn't happen.
For details on setting up tex, ask in a tex or latex forum.
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on the file-export menu should be ok for
exporting, which I guess is the batch feature you need.
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and others are converted.
Also, the latx program produces .dvi files, while pdflatex produces
.pdf files. Use whatever you need.
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this from a script, just run
lyx --export pdf2 file.lyx
in order to produce file.pdf automatically.
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of the text, but
if you put it in a minipage, you can have different lengths by
varying the minipage width.
Anything else require some latex code.
Horizontal lines of varying length and thickness is the easiest,
insert-TeX and then type
\rule{length}{thickness}, for example \rule{3in}{2pt}
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