Re: Including a hyperlink removes coloring from my URLs

2017-04-06 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 4:41 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:25:18 -0400 > "Paul A. Rubin" wrote: > > > On 03/30/2017 03:45 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > [snip Steve's symptom description] > > > I made a small test document (attached) using the standard book > > class. When I added th

Re: indented list of tables

2017-03-27 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Steve Burnham wrote: > In my list of tables it appears to be every so slightly indented which my > thesis editor is not happy with. In the link for a MWE you can see that the > numbers 1.1 light up with the actual name of the chapter in the table of > contents rat

Re: Who maintains the APA6 layout?

2016-08-28 Thread Jacob Bishop
is no standard way to do this but I suggest the following: > > looking in the .layout file, I see: > # Author: Jacob Bishop based on the apa > # layout written by Randy Gobbel. > > seems confusing, but since there is an email for Jacob, I would use > that. (further, looki

Re: LyX-related Hiccup when installing system updates

2016-06-03 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 1:47 PM, Georg Baum wrote: > Jacob Bishop wrote: > > > I am on Linux Mint 17, using the lyx-devel/release ppa. When I tried to > > install the regular system updates today using the update manager, it > > failed with the message, > > > >

LyX-related Hiccup when installing system updates

2016-06-02 Thread Jacob Bishop
s helps in case anyone else runs into this same issue, and I also hope that perhaps we can understand better what went wrong to avoid it in the future. Jacob Bishop

Re: Problem with tables.

2016-05-17 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Pedro Ramos wrote: > Hello. I've been writing an article-class document using Lyx 2.1.4 and > I've had trouble with the multiple lines in one table cell. Everytime I > generate the .pdf it appears disorganized. > How colud I fix it? > > Go to the row(s) for whi

Re: Multicol Package: Figures Not Displayed

2016-04-28 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Guillaume Munch wrote: > > This appears to be an issue on the latex side. Since you are using ERT, >> you will have to use one of the solutions from >> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12262/multicol-and-figures by

Re: Windows API error 126

2016-01-19 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:13 AM, MANUEL ANGEL DOMINGUEZ TORIBIO < m...@ccee.ucm.es> wrote: > > I have been using Lyx for two years in two desktops with windows 7 > installed. So far, documents are perfectly compatible between these two > computers. Now I am travelling and have decided to install

Re: Splitting long eqution

2015-12-07 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Steve Burnham wrote: > > In regard to the ams multiline, when I use it in the two column format my > equations then get rather messed up. The first half of the equation is left > justified while the second half is right justified. The whole equation > (both parts)

Re: gantt

2015-12-07 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Is there any gui using latex code (more or less like lyx)? > Yes, I use QTikZ, http://www.hackenberger.at/blog/ktikz-editor-for-the-tikz-language/ to create the diagrams, then paste the results into LyX (wrapped by a preview). -Jacob

Re: Splitting long eqution

2015-12-03 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: > see the extended minimal example attached. > This example is really good, and Anders' response was on the spot, but I thought I'd take the opportunity to point out something that took me quite a while to realize. When using the equation arr

Re: threeparttablex with longtable

2015-12-03 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 6:17 PM, Tyler Grummett < tyler.grumm...@flinders.edu.au> wrote: > Im having a problem when using threeparttablex with longtables. > Does the normal threeparttable package work for you? Is it just a longtable and threeparttablex-specific problem? If so, have you tried putti

Re: thispagestyle empty not working

2015-11-11 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 11/10/2015 11:46 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote: > >> >> I would love to see an additional LyX feature that adds a checkbox option >> like "apply headings style settings globally" which could work by simp

Re: thispagestyle empty not working

2015-11-10 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 2:20 PM, PhilipPirrip wrote: > On 11/10/2015 03:54 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote: > >> I am having a problem. I put \thispagestyle{empty} into my LyX preamble, >> expecting it to suppress the page number on the first page (as per the >> wiki: http://wi

thispagestyle empty not working

2015-11-10 Thread Jacob Bishop
I am having a problem. I put \thispagestyle{empty} into my LyX preamble, expecting it to suppress the page number on the first page (as per the wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Numbering#noPageNumberOnFirstPage). It does not. The page number shows up anyway. Attached is a minimal example. Does anyone

Re: Longtable problem

2015-03-03 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Csikos Bela wrote: > Hello: > > I would like to make a landscape longtable in Lyx. > I'd like to make a formal table with header, but I want only one separator > line between the header and the following row. I attached an example table > (MWE) in lyx and the pdf

Re: Größere Integrale / big integral

2015-01-23 Thread Jacob Bishop
hat should fix the problem in LyX, but it will not change the .pdf output. I hope this helps. Jacob > > 2015-01-16 16:37 GMT+01:00 Jacob Bishop : > >> >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Martin Tamms < >> martin.ta...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>>

Re: Greek characters in Lyx Beamer

2015-01-21 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Michael Berger wrote: > Hi, > I am working on a linguistic presentation in Beamer (theme = Singapore). > Single upright Greek characters need to be inserted here and there. > Many hours spent on experiments and attempts to use Greek characters > ended up in Latex

Re: Größere Integrale / big integral

2015-01-16 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Martin Tamms wrote: > Hallo, > > gibt es eine Möglichkeit in LYX die Integrale zu vergößern, sodass sie den > ganzen Bruch umfassen? > > Vielen Dank, > > Hello, > > is there an opportunity to write bigger intgrals in Lyx, because my > fraction is much bigger than

Re: Bibliography: APA-style in german language

2014-11-04 Thread Jacob Bishop
that it's not getting loaded?), but I am not so good at German. I hope that helps. Jacob Bishop

Re: Customization manual, 5.1 Installing new LaTeX files, Kubuntu 12.04

2014-10-27 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Patrick Gagnon > wrote: > >> Updates: >>> >>> Looked first in Kubuntu repositories, and installed 3 packages >>> containing parts of the APA style: >

Re: Customization manual, 5.1 Installing new LaTeX files, Kubuntu 12.04

2014-10-27 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Patrick Gagnon wrote: > Updates: >> >> Looked first in Kubuntu repositories, and installed 3 packages containing >> parts of the APA style: >> >>- texlive-publishers >>- texlive-publishers-doc (required dependency) >>- texlive-bibtex-extra >> >> Recon

Re: 答复: Reconfiguration Problem in Windows 8.1 [was: lyx problem in win8.1]

2014-10-15 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:44 PM, LIANG Keyao < 2197...@student.anucollege.edu.au> wrote: > Appreciate that you would like to help me! > I'm happy to try. > I've tried what you said,but it still does not work. I ckeck the tex > information and it seems that lyx can scan the latex classes. > That

Re: Reconfiguration Problem in Windows 8.1 [was: lyx problem in win8.1]

2014-10-14 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 10/14/2014 08:06 AM, LIANG Keyao wrote: > > lyx always warns me about cannot find the basic module and no textclass, > but all the layouts and modules are just in the resources folderI do > not know why it cannot recognize these files

Re: gantt

2014-10-07 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:08 AM, stefano franchi wrote: > > > In practical terms, I actually worked on the chart itself separately from > LyX using a Latex editor (Kile). Once I debugged it to my satisfaction, I > simply cut and paste the latex code into an ERT box in LyX > For what it's worth,

Re: LyX on PC-BSD?

2014-09-24 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Will Parsons wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I installed LyX on PC-BSD and it errors out that I don't have > > article.cls. I have a feeling that PC-BSD has much fewer depends than > > most Linuxes. Is anyone running LyX on PC-BSD, and if so, what

Re: RV: Lyx Windows

2014-07-27 Thread Jacob Bishop
2014-07-22 11:06 GMT-06:00 Matias Valladares : > Estimados, > > Ola, espero que se encuentren bien. > Recientemente compre un notebook con Windows 8, hace muchísimo tiempo que > no > poseo Windows en el ordenador principal, y por tema de trabajo tengo que > tener trabajar con él. Por lo mismo me e

Re: Unsupported math environments

2014-06-30 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 1:52 AM, Georg Baum wrote: > > Unfortunately it is not possible to use unsupported math environments in > LyX > without putting the whole formula in ERT or do some advanced macro tricks. > The reason for this is that the native LyX format for math formulas is > LaTeX. This

Fwd: Unsupported math environments

2014-06-28 Thread Jacob Bishop
Forgot to reply to lyx-users...sorry. Now including reply to list. On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > Dear Jacob. > > > What I want and need is a means to implement the math ENVIRONMENTS defined > by the mathtools package and that are not explicitly supported by LyX. > Speci

Re: APA with a Table of Contents: Losing the subparagaph in the ToC

2014-06-24 Thread Jacob Bishop
Hi John, A couple of things. First, you have included the knitr and short-inset-names modules in the document, which as far as I can tell are not used for this minimal example. I removed them since I'm not yet set up to work with those. This shouldn't cause any problems, but I thought I'd mention

Re: pick out all graphics from a lyx file?

2014-06-10 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > Helpful, but does not pick out a page from a multi-page pdf > If you want to export a single page from a multi-page pdf then one possibility is to use a .pdf split/merge program such as pdfsam ( http://www.pdfsam.org/ ) or pdftk ( http://www

Re: How to include child documents in Lyx

2014-06-10 Thread Jacob Bishop
*How to get your custom university thesis template to work:* > > This has been asked here before, and I will answer specific questions once > you read the previous posts and wiki on how to do that. The wiki page on > this can be found at: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis > One recent post fro

Re: How to include child documents in Lyx

2014-06-10 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:46 PM, umair durrani wrote: > I have asked this question on tex.stackexchange but got no answer so far. I > am new to LaTeX and LyX. For writing my thesis I got 2 files from > university: uw_masters_thesis.sty and sample_thesis.tex. The sample file > contains \usepackage{

Re: Removing a period from BibTeX generated references

2014-06-05 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Steve Burnham wrote: > I have a BibTeX generated list of references that is doing one entry > incorrectly. As sen in the attached picture there is a period being placed > after the question mark. I need to remove this period > I realize this does not directly s

Re: Importing tables to Lyx?

2014-05-14 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا wrote: > Is there any tool which allows imports of boxes/tables (from say doc/odt > files) to Lyx? The filters for Abiword often don't work. FN > I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but

Re: PDF preview under Widows 8

2014-05-05 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:14 PM, UD-Kap wrote: > I am using Windows 8.1 (NOT my fault!), and pdf previewing does not work-- > I have tried Adobe reader, Sumatra and Foxit as pdfLatex readers. Can > someone help? I have LyX on a Windows 8.1 laptop and pdf previewing does work, using Adobe reade

Re: Thesis template and layout files

2014-04-29 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Steve Burnham wrote: > OK, so overall success. I was able to modify the files myself and get > them to compile in LaTeX. I found the whole parent/child document thing a > little confusing at first. Not the concept so much but just syntax and how > they are stru

Re: knitr package not available or converter not installed

2014-04-29 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:57 AM, James Saracco wrote: > > Dear group, > I'm a new Lyx user. I'm trying to add the Rnw(knitr) module in the > document -> settings, but get the following message: > "The module knitr requires a packages that is not available in your LaTex > installation, or a conver

Re: resize equation output

2014-04-29 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: > > > I have the misfortune to be commanded to produce ppt. So I took one of > my > > equations, in lyx. I chose beamer so I get something that'll look good > on a > > slide. I put > > \beamertemplatenavigationsymbolsempt

Re: Thesis template and layout files

2014-04-10 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Steve Burnham wrote: > I am trying to write my thesis using LyX but I am experiencing some > confusion/problems with importing my universities thesis class and create > the LyX template. > Hi Steve, I used LyX for my thesis, and had to customize things to work fo

Re: Lyx installation in Mint16

2014-04-01 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:56 PM, James A.R. Koehler wrote: > Thanks Jacob, > You're welcome. I'm glad to help. > > I am also using Mint 16 Petra but with MATE. On my main machine, > which is the 64-bit version of Mint16, I installed all the texlive packages > (I have a fairly high-speed l

Re: Lyx installation in Mint16

2014-04-01 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:00 PM, James A.R. Koehler wrote: > I have installed Lyx (several times!) on two Mint16 machines; one a 32-bit > version and the other 64-bit. Mint is based on Ubuntu 13. In both cases, > when installing either from a download from the Lyx site or via the .deb > repositor

Re: APACITE

2014-01-03 Thread Jacob Bishop
If you want to use APA style, I would suggest using the template. There are several things that have to be set which the template does for you. If you want something different than what the template provides, it might be easiest to use that as a starting point rather than a vanilla article class.

Re: Two reference list

2013-09-21 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to generate 2 reference lists. Let say one take the citations > upto the list. Then I have an appendix where I would like to start new > citations to generate a new list at the very end of the Appendix. > I think "Se

Re: Forward/reverse search and LuaTeX

2013-09-21 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 1:16 PM, John Kane wrote: > I seem to have forward search (LyX -> Ocular) working with Default Output > Format set to PDF(pdflatex) and Syncronize with Output set to \synctex = 1 > but nothing at all seems to happen when I try reverse search (Ocular -> > LyX). > Strange.

Re: Forward/reverse search and LuaTeX

2013-09-20 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:42 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Jacob Bishop wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: >> >>> Is anyone around with 0.17 version of Okular to test? >

Re: Forward/reverse search and LuaTeX

2013-09-18 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Is anyone around with 0.17 version of Okular to test? > I had never used forward or reverse search previously, but, interested in the possibility, I just tested it on my system. Following the instructions, forward search seems to work fine,

Re: Windows 8

2013-09-17 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Christer wrote: > Hello, > > How does LyX work with Windows 8? > I use it with XP and Windows 7, so I'm not sure, though I think it probably works fine. My guess is the OS is not really the direct source of the problem you are having. I tried to make a a paper

Re: A question about SAS output in lyx

2013-09-04 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Zhan Joyce wrote: > Dear all: > > I've a problem inserting the SAS output into my lyx file. I use ODS system > in SAS and get a tex file. Then I try to use the program listing to add it > into lys file but failed. What should I do with it? Thank you very much. > I

Re: The tyranny of the APA Manual (more or less on topic)

2013-08-24 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:56 PM, John Kane wrote: > > It's not some kind of self-help group but a high-powered group of experts > providing advice. As a rough analogy, think of having the R Core > Development team plus a few major package maintainers running a blog. > > It speaks to the importanc

Re: The tyranny of the APA Manual (more or less on topic)

2013-08-24 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:13 AM, John Kane wrote: > I was poking around the Zotero site trying to see if there was a way to > get a specific APA citation format [Author (date)] which is easy enough in > LyX or LaTeX to work in a word processor such as AOO Writer or MS Word[1]. > Well actually >

Re: APA6 New paragraph at end of seriate environment

2013-08-06 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:19 AM, John Kane wrote: > A minor question. If I am using apa6 and the seriate environment how do I > get a new paragraph at the end of the list? Example attached. > I don't know the 'right' way to do this, but it is possible to trick it into working. Just add a protec

Re: document class

2013-06-07 Thread Jacob Bishop
Sharif, If you could respond to Paul's questions, that would help us know how to help. I run LyX on Windows 7 all the time, and I would be glad to help if you can just give us some more information on what is happening. Jacob

Re: ctable does not work with article(APA)

2013-05-20 Thread Jacob Bishop
The following link discusses the problem, and ways it might be resolved. See http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/51131/using-ctable-package-with-apa6-class Jacob

Re: ctable does not work with article(APA)

2013-05-20 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:09 AM, John Kane wrote: > And I just realised that \documentclass[12pt,letterpaper]{apa6} in LaTex > gives the same error as I get with LyX > Correct. The reason this happens is because you are loading both ctable and threeparttable. Each of these packages defines the

Re: APA6 seems to have stopped working after upgrade to LyX 2.0.6

2013-05-12 Thread Jacob Bishop
Hi John, I have not upgraded to 2.0.6 yet, but even on 2.0.5, I have never been able to get the apa6 class working without specifying more information than what you have included here (in the second file, "test.of.APA6.lyx"). Adding a title and author makes this work for me with LyX 2.0.5. As far

Re: Regarding Interface for Lyx

2013-05-08 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Abhishek Sharma wrote: > I'm using the Lyx document processor and studying the interface for Lyx. > And for this I have studied the tutorial given in Lyx, is there any > other source I can use to enhance my knowledge for interface of Lyx. > It's not a tutorial per

Re: LyX on PC and Mac

2013-05-01 Thread Jacob Bishop
Andrew, I agree with Liviu. I do not use mac, but I regularly switch between Windows and Linux. I have my LyX documents stored in Dropbox, which synchronizes them to all my computers. I then open and edit them on any computer, regardless of OS. Aside from needing to make sure that all LaTeX packa

Re: APA6 vs APA. APA6 includes month in the date e.g. (1999, June)

2013-04-24 Thread Jacob Bishop
John, I'm not an expert on apa6, for sure. However, it seems to me that the behavior you are seeing is the exact behavior intended by the author of the apacite package. You can see the apacite manual for more on this http://mirror.utexas.edu/ctan/biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite/apacite.pdf The auth

Re: lyx and natbib, two questions

2013-04-24 Thread Jacob Bishop
bcsikos, 1. How can I set options for the natbib package? The stuff that goes > between [], like \usepackage[options]{natbib}. As I see lyx adds only > 'authoryear' or 'numbers' as options, but how can I add other options, eg. > 'merge'? > Although it seems strange (to me), you actually pass pack

Re: Citations are not working.

2013-04-22 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: > On 21 April 2013 21:28, John Kane wrote: > > I seem to be rapidly losing any ability to work with LyX. In the > attached > > example I cannot get citations to work. I originally added the citations > > using the Lyz plug-in for Zotero but a

Re: Problem_with_BibTeX/bibtopic

2013-04-08 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 3:14 AM, Andrea Landella wrote: > Good morning, > > I'm using LyX 2.0.1.5 on Windows 7 (MiKTeX 2.9.4813). > Since my thesis covers a very specific topic (QM of Retinal's > Photoisomerization) I have to divide my Bibliography in two sections: > >1. Essential Bibliography

Re: feature request: ribbon menus

2013-04-03 Thread Jacob Bishop
Opinions are cheap, so I guess I'll offer mine. Patents are one thing I know next to nothing about, so that may be a game stopper to begin with, as Richard pointed out. I may be in the minority here, but in general I think the ribbon toolbar is a useful improvement for Microsoft products (at least

Re: editing a matrix

2013-03-13 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Bob Alvarez wrote: > Section 4 of the Lyx Detailed Math manual describes how to set a Matrix > characteristics when I create it. > > What if I change my mind? Is there any way to edit the Matrix? > > In particular, how do I change the horizontal alignment? For exa

Re: creating a quiz /multiple choice questions with Lyx

2013-01-26 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Vivek wrote: > I would like to create a MCQ list at the end of a presentation with > ability to > display correct answers/ and a score at end of the test. > > Is it possible to do so in lyx? or Latex is the way to go. > > Lyx and latex gurus help me. > > Vivek > >

Re: moderncv

2013-01-16 Thread Jacob Bishop
You may disregard the last email. I did not read closely enough, and had thought you were NOT able to get the sectioned bibliography to work. Apologies. Jacob

Re: moderncv

2013-01-16 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Hansen, Glenn J. wrote: > I am able to get the multiple sectioned bibliography to work with a new > default lyx document. > While I was not able to solve the entire issue you are having, I have no problem getting the multiple sectioned bibliography to work. See

Re: How to find a package: was Vancouver style

2013-01-13 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > A lot of you are able to instantly find LaTeX packages to solve random > problems. I can't do that and want to learn how. I know of the > existence of ctan.org just like everyone else, but there's something in > my mental makeup that's different

Re: Biblatex with Lyx and eventually with APA6 style

2013-01-07 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Julio Rojas wrote: > In Venezuela, just about all. It is the de facto standard for all > college/university reports/thesis. Note to self: The next step is to get these users working with apa and LyX...and improve LyX support for APA along the way. Jacob

Re: Biblatex with Lyx and eventually with APA6 style

2013-01-04 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:12 AM, John Kane wrote: > Hi Jacob, > This looks great but so far I cannot even get my very simple example that > ran for you and Stefano to work. and I'm left gazing woefully at your pdf > file. I do like the use of &! > I wonder if you or Stefano could have another lo

Re: New APA6 Layout

2012-12-26 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > > I assume you would be happy to have us add this to LyX itself? Certainly. > If so, can you send a message to lyx-devel saying something like: I hereby > authorize my contributions to LyX to be licensed under GPL version 2 or any > later

Re: New APA6 Layout

2012-12-26 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:56 AM, John Kane wrote: > > Well I've only used it on a half-page file to see how it looks but I'm > certainly very pleased. > It's great work > > Thank you.

Re: Using units package with custom options

2012-12-17 Thread Jacob Bishop
Martin, May I ask why you are using \text ? To my knowledge, the \unit and \unitfrac commands automatically ensure that the text is typeset upright. I seem to get the correct output by using \unitfrac without using \text. Then again, it isn't exactly clear to me what output you are looking for.

Re: APA6 with LyX

2012-12-16 Thread Jacob Bishop
Thanks, Jürgen. This is exactly what I needed to know. Jacob

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-11 Thread Jacob Bishop
> > Hi Mateo, John, Ray, Jacob (and everyone else), > > It seems APA6 is useful to a lot of people and in particular to you > guys. How about we make a layout for it together then? > I will be happy to help. As soon as I get caught up on some things, I will clean up what I am using and see if we c

Re: APA6 class with LyX?

2012-12-10 Thread Jacob Bishop
I recently shifted from Engineering to Psychology (actually Engineering Education, but I am currently preparing a publication for an APA journal). I used LyX for my masters' thesis, and LaTeX is the only acceptable thesis format for some of the Engineering departments. When professors started requi

Re: installation of a .def file for use in exporting polytonic greek text

2012-09-19 Thread Jacob Bishop
John, What operating system are you using? If it is ubuntu linux, installing texlive- latex-extra and/or texlive-lang-greek through apt should do it (e.g. sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra). If it's Windows and MiKTeX, you might have to do it by hand. If you give more detailed information a

Re: Images & Directories

2012-02-21 Thread Jacob Bishop
Bob, On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:22 PM, BOB Merhebi wrote: > Indeed, that's what I do too. I have a folder -call it A- inside of > which there are 3 folders (one for figures -B-, one for my report -C- & > another for my beamer -presentation -D-). I use the figure folder for > both the report & th

Re: Images & Directories

2012-02-21 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:05 AM, BOB Merhebi wrote: > Hello there, > > I guess the question I'm going to ask is somewhat naive, but I think it > is important to ask. > > Given that you've been working on some document that includes images and > that you're done working with it and wish to archiv

Re: LyX-Produced Book

2011-12-01 Thread Jacob Bishop
Richard, Congratulations on finishing the book. I took a look at it on Amazon, and it looks very nice. Jacob

Re: Move from d:drive to c:drive

2011-10-17 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: > And don't forget about: 3) Have a geeky friend write a (really very simple) > script to make all of those changes in one fell swoop. > touché -Jacob

Re: Move from d:drive to c:drive

2011-10-15 Thread Jacob Bishop
It's really not that hard. Here's my attempt at a simple explanation: An absolute path is a complete file path, such as: C:\Users\Your Name\MyLyxFiles\Fall2011\Project1\lyxFiles\myProject.lyx A relative path, on the other hand is "relative" in that it depends on what path you're in. Each name be

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

2011-08-11 Thread Jacob Bishop
Ehud, I did a quick search, and it seems the bug has been fixed upstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/+bug/619811 Also, in the meantime, there is a workaround documented here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/134649 Jacob

Re: UNITY (in Ubuntu) kills menus

2011-08-11 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:03 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com < ehud.kap...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have discovered that the new Ubuntu 11.04 GUI Unity (or perhaps its > appmenu) kills the menus on Lyx 2.0 (and several other programs, such as > VLC), possibly because of a qt4 incompatibility. The bug has

Re: how to avoid continuing words in paragraph

2011-07-16 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:59 PM, vios wrote: > Hi, > > I'm is on writing my master thesis. My question is, how to get justify > words > in paragraph? > For example in one paragraph I write like this: > >Nowadays scenario have witnessed that the major applications of image > processing are in

Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 is released

2011-05-09 Thread Jacob Bishop
Just wanted to add my congratulations to those already expressed. This is a great milestone. A big thanks to all who worked on this. Jacob

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

2011-03-30 Thread Jacob Bishop
I vote: Oxygen That said, I think the entire view/update toolbar could use some work, particularly with Oxygen icon set. I like the other icons on oxygen better, by enough I'll go with it. If I had my choice, I'd use oxygen for everything but that view/update toolbar. It's probably not that easy

Re: More hyperref bogosity

2011-03-24 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an appendix listing the several processes in my book, with cross > references pointing to the pages on which these processes are discussed, > using > a text:myprocess-discussion-start and text:myprocess-discussion-end labels >

Re: Representing matrix dimensions

2010-11-22 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote: > I'm not aware of the "correct way" to do this, but I personally use \times > inside a math environment. I use that anytime I want a Cartesian product. I > think the output looks the way it should using this method. So,

Re: Representing matrix dimensions

2010-11-22 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: In speaking about the size of a matrix, I would normally say "A is a p by q > matrix". In shorthand, I may say "A is a p x q matrix", where the 'x' is > not the letter, but a cross raised slightly above the center line. The > closest that I k

Re: Latex error

2010-11-09 Thread Jacob Bishop
Perhaps without adding a high amount of useful information, I just want to voice support for this. While writing my thesis, I had to disable the babel package since there were incompatibilities with the thesis template I was using. I feel that making this configurable on a per-document basis is de

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-04 Thread Jacob Bishop
"and windows is meant to be easier than Linux, even the command line on Linux is easier to use, I remember the old path command had a limit of something like 128 characters is this still the case." I got curious, and found this: Windows 2000 has a 254 character limit. Windows XP has a 255 charact

Re: Windows Command Line

2010-11-03 Thread Jacob Bishop
> > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > >> >> Can someone on Windows explain the right thing to do here? >> > Shucks, I guess I'll give it a go. Go to the command line (windowsbubble>run>cmd). Type in our command. C:\Users\MyName>lyx.exe -help 'lyx.exe' is not recognized as an i

Re: Understanding Lyx

2010-11-02 Thread Jacob Bishop
As Rob noted, this is a very large question. With regard to the question: * How to bring two comps (using different distros) in tandem with Lyx I do this with my computers, some running Windows, others running Linux. There are several parts to making this work. The first is to get some sort of s

Re: relative path for images

2010-10-28 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:56 AM, M DR wrote: > Hi again, > > I am having now a problem when visualizing the document. It says that the > "name-of-my-folder.sty" (LyXDocs.sty) is not found and it cannot create the > final file. > I think it might have been my post that caused this confusion. I'm

Re: Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

2010-10-26 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:05 AM, EJ wrote: Has anyone gotten Lyx to work with figures exported from Inkscape using the PDF+LaTeX option? Thanks in advance On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Jacob Bishop wrote: I have. This was one of the major reasons I went to 1.6.7 from older versions. It&#

Re: Lyx with Inkscape 0.48

2010-10-26 Thread Jacob Bishop
I have. This was one of the major reasons I went to 1.6.7 from older versions. It's great not to have to export figures manually in multiple formats each time you make a change, and all that headache. Without more information, it's difficult to provide much help to you. Basically, you have to inst

Re: what is a good lyx layout for notetaking?

2010-10-14 Thread Jacob Bishop
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > VimOutliner > > http://www.vimoutliner.net > Steve, I looked at VimOutliner last night and have begun using it. I watched your video, and it has been easy to get started since I already use vim every day, and have already been using it to gene

Re: How to show two images side by side?

2010-10-02 Thread Jacob Bishop
I usually generate one float, and put two floats (or more) inside that, with a horizontal quad space between them. That way I have one caption for the two related figures. You can of course also just put the two floats not inside another with the space, and that will work as well, just as Alan has

Re: Spell checker

2010-09-24 Thread Jacob Bishop
Alberto, I am also using LyX 1.6.7 on Windows, and have no trouble with the spell checker. Can you provide a bit more information? What installer did you use? What os (Vista, XP, W7)? Do you know how to start a spell-check, and you get a message? What exactly? Please explain. Jacob On Fri, Sep 2

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