Re: Why a processing error under Windows but not Linux?
On 3/5/20 5:39 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 3/5/20 8:25 PM, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi all, I have my students using LyX for their organic chemistry lab reports. I use a pretty standard installation at home under Debian, while most of them use Windows or Mac. One student in particular tried using an example file I posted for them, added material to it, then ran into problems when trying to view a pdf (or export, etc). I had him send me both the original file and his file. Both properly process for me. No one else has reported issues (yet) like this. If he generates a trivial file with a few words in it, no problem is encountered. The wording of the error message is the following: \chemgreek_drop_symbols: The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, and I'll forget about whatever was undefined. Is it possible that his installation of TexLive is not complete? Or is there something else I'm oblivious to which would explain this? Maybe this: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/249002/error-with-chemgreek. It's got to be a difference in the LaTeX packages. Riki I'll follow up with the student about this. Thank you for the idea! Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Why a processing error under Windows but not Linux?
Hi all, I have my students using LyX for their organic chemistry lab reports. I use a pretty standard installation at home under Debian, while most of them use Windows or Mac. One student in particular tried using an example file I posted for them, added material to it, then ran into problems when trying to view a pdf (or export, etc). I had him send me both the original file and his file. Both properly process for me. No one else has reported issues (yet) like this. If he generates a trivial file with a few words in it, no problem is encountered. The wording of the error message is the following: \chemgreek_drop_symbols: The control sequence at the end of the top line of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue, and I'll forget about whatever was undefined. Is it possible that his installation of TexLive is not complete? Or is there something else I'm oblivious to which would explain this? What else is important for people to be able to problem-solve this? I'm certainly not a guru at this sort of thing. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
Trying to combine articles into one file...
Hello, I'm planning to have my chemistry class create an in-house journal as a way of reporting their lab experiment results. Using the article class with a title/author/abstract/etc. seems to work well with that format, and I've successfully used psjoin and a book script I found online to create a complete booklet postscript file for printing. The problem of course comes with the page numbering if I have more than one report to piece together. I have tried combining two example files together, which looks fine in LyX but the second Title, Author, and Abstract fail. The book class doesn't fit the scheme of having a separate title, author, etc., per chapter. Is there any way to accomplish this easily? I appreciate any thoughts people may have! Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Trying to combine articles into one file...
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:44:50 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: Is there any way to accomplish this easily? I appreciate any thoughts people may have! http://www.ctan.org/pkg/combine There is no LyX layout for this class AFAIK, but it should be fairly trivial to set one up from a copy of article.layout. HTH, Jürgen That looks great! Thank you, Jürgen. Can't say I'll get a layout made for it, but hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to use it within LyX. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Trying to combine articles into one file...
Hello, I'm planning to have my chemistry class create an in-house journal as a way of reporting their lab experiment results. Using the article class with a title/author/abstract/etc. seems to work well with that format, and I've successfully used psjoin and a book script I found online to create a complete booklet postscript file for printing. The problem of course comes with the page numbering if I have more than one report to piece together. I have tried combining two example files together, which looks fine in LyX but the second Title, Author, and Abstract fail. The book class doesn't fit the scheme of having a separate title, author, etc., per chapter. Is there any way to accomplish this easily? I appreciate any thoughts people may have! Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Trying to combine articles into one file...
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:44:50 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: Is there any way to accomplish this easily? I appreciate any thoughts people may have! http://www.ctan.org/pkg/combine There is no LyX layout for this class AFAIK, but it should be fairly trivial to set one up from a copy of article.layout. HTH, Jürgen That looks great! Thank you, Jürgen. Can't say I'll get a layout made for it, but hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to use it within LyX. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Trying to combine articles into one file...
Hello, I'm planning to have my chemistry class create an in-house journal as a way of reporting their lab experiment results. Using the article class with a title/author/abstract/etc. seems to work well with that format, and I've successfully used psjoin and a "book" script I found online to create a complete booklet postscript file for printing. The problem of course comes with the page numbering if I have more than one report to piece together. I have tried combining two example files together, which looks fine in LyX but the second Title, Author, and Abstract fail. The book class doesn't fit the scheme of having a separate title, author, etc., per chapter. Is there any way to accomplish this easily? I appreciate any thoughts people may have! Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Trying to combine articles into one file...
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 10:44:50 +0100 Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Is there any way to accomplish this easily? I appreciate any > > thoughts people may have! > > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/combine > > There is no LyX layout for this class AFAIK, but it should be fairly > trivial to set one up from a copy of article.layout. > > HTH, > Jürgen That looks great! Thank you, Jürgen. Can't say I'll get a layout made for it, but hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to use it within LyX. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
A slash o ?? Cannot get it...
Being a perfectionist, I'd love to get the name Bronsted properly
spelled, with a slash through the o. Using LyX, I've inserted \o in
ERT, but get an undefined control sequence error:
...Define a \inputencoding{latin1}{Br\onsted
}\inputencoding{latin9}-Lowry
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
I can make umlauts, etc., but this one evades me. Does anyone know what
my mistake is?
Using LyX 2.0b3 in Debian (Sid). It happens with 1.6.7 as well. :(
Thanks!
Kenward
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. --
Albert Einstein
A slash o ?? Cannot get it...
Being a perfectionist, I'd love to get the name Bronsted properly
spelled, with a slash through the o. Using LyX, I've inserted \o in
ERT, but get an undefined control sequence error:
...Define a \inputencoding{latin1}{Br\onsted
}\inputencoding{latin9}-Lowry
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
I can make umlauts, etc., but this one evades me. Does anyone know what
my mistake is?
Using LyX 2.0b3 in Debian (Sid). It happens with 1.6.7 as well. :(
Thanks!
Kenward
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. --
Albert Einstein
A "slash o" ?? Cannot get it...
Being a perfectionist, I'd love to get the name Bronsted properly
spelled, with a slash through the o. Using LyX, I've inserted "\o" in
ERT, but get an undefined control sequence error:
...Define a \inputencoding{latin1}{Br\onsted
}\inputencoding{latin9}-Lowry
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
I can make umlauts, etc., but this one evades me. Does anyone know what
my mistake is?
Using LyX 2.0b3 in Debian (Sid). It happens with 1.6.7 as well. :(
Thanks!
Kenward
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. --
Albert Einstein
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 23:39 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I found un I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... The relevant output here is like ... checking aspell.h usability... yes checking aspell.h presence... yes checking for aspell.h... yes checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes checking whether to use aspell... yes checking for ENCHANT... yes checking whether to use enchant... yes checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no checking for main in -lhunspell... no checking whether to use hunspell... no ... You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. That's why hunspell is left not available. Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison. I didn't have this available since it was built in /tmp a few weeks ago. I pulled in the Lyx code again, installed the aspell *dev package (which was not installed), recompiled, and now things work. Browsing through all the documentation pulled up the information as well that the dev package was required. I think I'll file this as a bug under LyX with Debian... For average users, I'd think this is an item expected to be there. I just saw Paul's note as well (apparently he had the same problem). Thank you very much for your patience and help, Stephan! Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 22:01 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: ... I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. One thing to note: The default is to build LyX with the same preferences directory as LyX 1.6! Perhaps you had the problems with 1.6 because of reading and writing LyX 1.6 the same files as LyX 2.0 - when starting LyX from terminal you may add -dbg lyxrc as command line arguments to verify that. I had changed out the .lyx directory for each program, and even deleted the thing to see if that made any difference. It didn't, so I **think** it's the app itself. You have to add e.g. --with-version-suffix=-2.0 to make LyX 2.0 using a parallel $HOME/.lyx-2.0 directory for it's settings. Cool. I'll recompile and do exactly that. Makes life easier... Ciao! Kenward -- Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts... Albert Einstein
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 23:39 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I found un I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... The relevant output here is like ... checking aspell.h usability... yes checking aspell.h presence... yes checking for aspell.h... yes checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes checking whether to use aspell... yes checking for ENCHANT... yes checking whether to use enchant... yes checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no checking for main in -lhunspell... no checking whether to use hunspell... no ... You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. That's why hunspell is left not available. Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison. I didn't have this available since it was built in /tmp a few weeks ago. I pulled in the Lyx code again, installed the aspell *dev package (which was not installed), recompiled, and now things work. Browsing through all the documentation pulled up the information as well that the dev package was required. I think I'll file this as a bug under LyX with Debian... For average users, I'd think this is an item expected to be there. I just saw Paul's note as well (apparently he had the same problem). Thank you very much for your patience and help, Stephan! Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 22:01 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: ... I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. One thing to note: The default is to build LyX with the same preferences directory as LyX 1.6! Perhaps you had the problems with 1.6 because of reading and writing LyX 1.6 the same files as LyX 2.0 - when starting LyX from terminal you may add -dbg lyxrc as command line arguments to verify that. I had changed out the .lyx directory for each program, and even deleted the thing to see if that made any difference. It didn't, so I **think** it's the app itself. You have to add e.g. --with-version-suffix=-2.0 to make LyX 2.0 using a parallel $HOME/.lyx-2.0 directory for it's settings. Cool. I'll recompile and do exactly that. Makes life easier... Ciao! Kenward -- Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts... Albert Einstein
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 23:39 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 19:39 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > >> > >>> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > >>>> Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > >>>> > >>>>> I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have > >>>>> no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) > >>>>> or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. > >>>>> > >>>>> I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several > >>>>> times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > > >>>>> Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. > >>>>> > >>>>> Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by > >>>>> restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. > >>>>> > >>>>> :(( > >>>>> > >>>>> Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? > >>>> > >>>> Did you build LyX yourself? > >>>> If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? > >>> I found un > >>> > >>> I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults > >>> came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this > >>> ought to be a default instead of an option. > >> > >> You did not tell me, how you build it. > >> Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for > >> developers installed. > >> In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check > >> the logs. > > > > > > The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the > > output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per > > the quick directions. > > I take it you called ./configure in top directory of source tree... > > The relevant output here is like > > ... > checking aspell.h usability... yes > checking aspell.h presence... yes > checking for aspell.h... yes > checking for new_aspell_config in -laspell... yes > checking whether to use aspell... yes > checking for ENCHANT... yes > checking whether to use enchant... yes > checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx usability... no > checking hunspell/hunspell.hxx presence... no > checking for hunspell/hunspell.hxx... no > checking for main in -lhunspell... no > checking whether to use hunspell... no > ... > > You can see I don't have any spell checker library code installed. > That's why hunspell is left not available. > > Please post the relevant output of your configure run for comparison. I didn't have this available since it was built in /tmp a few weeks ago. I pulled in the Lyx code again, installed the aspell *dev package (which was not installed), recompiled, and now things work. Browsing through all the documentation pulled up the information as well that the dev package was required. I think I'll file this as a bug under LyX with Debian... For average users, I'd think this is an item expected to be there. I just saw Paul's note as well (apparently he had the same problem). Thank you very much for your patience and help, Stephan! Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 22:01 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > ... > > I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults > > came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this > > ought to be a default instead of an option. > > One thing to note: > > The default is to build LyX with the same preferences directory as LyX 1.6! > Perhaps you had the problems with 1.6 because of reading and writing LyX 1.6 > the same files as LyX 2.0 - when starting LyX from terminal you may add > -dbg lyxrc > as command line arguments to verify that. I had changed out the .lyx directory for each program, and even deleted the thing to see if that made any difference. It didn't, so I **think** it's the app itself. > You have to add e.g. --with-version-suffix=-2.0 to make LyX 2.0 using > a parallel $HOME/.lyx-2.0 directory for it's settings. Cool. I'll recompile and do exactly that. Makes life easier... Ciao! Kenward -- Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts... Albert Einstein
getting LyX to see spellchecker
I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Kenward -- Man does not cease to play because he grows old... Man grows old because he ceases to play. Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting '...Oh, WOW !! ...what a ride...'
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. My comment was only about the fact that I expect the build to be normal. Spell checking has always worked before. Is there some place within LyX's files where the spell checker is noted? I couldn't find anything on a quick scan... Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--attrib. to Ferdinand Magellan by R. Ingersoll
getting LyX to see spellchecker
I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Kenward -- Man does not cease to play because he grows old... Man grows old because he ceases to play. Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting '...Oh, WOW !! ...what a ride...'
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Did you build LyX yourself? If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. You did not tell me, how you build it. Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for developers installed. In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. My comment was only about the fact that I expect the build to be normal. Spell checking has always worked before. Is there some place within LyX's files where the spell checker is noted? I couldn't find anything on a quick scan... Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--attrib. to Ferdinand Magellan by R. Ingersoll
getting LyX to see spellchecker
I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. :(( Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? Kenward -- "Man does not cease to play because he grows old... Man grows old because he ceases to play." "Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting '...Oh, WOW !! ...what a ride...' "
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have > > no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) > > or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. > > > > I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several > > times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > > > Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. > > > > Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by > > restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. > > > > :(( > > > > Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? > > Did you build LyX yourself? > If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this ought to be a default instead of an option. The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to not enable that for the masses... Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: getting LyX to see spellchecker
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:33 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 20.01.2011 um 18:33 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > > > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 18:03 +0100, Stephan Witt wrote: > >> Am 20.01.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Kenward Vaughan: > >> > >>> I'm a tad befuddled over this one... I suddenly discovered that I have > >>> no spellchecker, with either the system current version of LyX (1.6.7) > >>> or 2.0-b3 (I trade out ~/.lyx directories). I'm running Debian/Sid. > >>> > >>> I have both ispell and aspell installed. I've reconfigured LyX several > >>> times to no avail. I cannot change anything under Preferences > > >>> Spellchecker... the Spellchecker engine menu is greyed out. > >>> > >>> Changing language settings to English instead of Automatic, followed by > >>> restarting, reconfiguring, and restarting has no effect. > >>> > >>> :(( > >>> > >>> Is there something really basic here that I don't see?? > >> > >> Did you build LyX yourself? > >> If yes, how? And did you enable the spellchecker engines? > > > > > > I built the beta version myself and installed it using whatever defaults > > came with it. If spellchecking needs to be enabled, then it seems this > > ought to be a default instead of an option. > > You did not tell me, how you build it. > Nevertheless, please check you have all needed software packages for > developers installed. > In case you built it with autotools and configure you may want to check the > logs. The build ran fine after autoconfig was used. I glanced through the output, and seeing nothing odd ran make and then make install. All per the quick directions. > > The other LyX version is a Debian package. I'm pretty certain that > > would be built with the spellchecking turned on, as it makes no sense to > > not enable that for the masses... > > I cannot judge the debian build. I don't have it. > But surely sometimes things making no sense happen. My comment was only about the fact that I expect the build to be normal. Spell checking has always worked before. Is there some place within LyX's files where the spell checker is noted? I couldn't find anything on a quick scan... Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--attrib. to Ferdinand Magellan by R. Ingersoll
Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 10:13 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: A snip of the file is attached. Apparently, nesting framed into quote doesn't work. It works vice versa (nesting quote into framed). I don't think this is a LyX problem, or anything that can be prevented in LyX, but rather a bug or deficiency of the framed package. Jürgen Well, as I mentioned before, what is there has worked for years, so something has changed in how that construct works in LyX. The Insert Box works fine as a replacement, though. Kenward -- The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. -Theodore Rubin If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. - Kurt Lewin How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. - Wayne Dyer
Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 10:13 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: A snip of the file is attached. Apparently, nesting framed into quote doesn't work. It works vice versa (nesting quote into framed). I don't think this is a LyX problem, or anything that can be prevented in LyX, but rather a bug or deficiency of the framed package. Jürgen Well, as I mentioned before, what is there has worked for years, so something has changed in how that construct works in LyX. The Insert Box works fine as a replacement, though. Kenward -- The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. -Theodore Rubin If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. - Kurt Lewin How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. - Wayne Dyer
Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 10:13 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > A snip of the file is attached. > > Apparently, nesting framed into quote doesn't work. It works vice versa > (nesting quote into framed). I don't think this is a LyX problem, or anything > that can be prevented in LyX, but rather a bug or deficiency of the framed > package. > > Jürgen Well, as I mentioned before, what is there has worked for years, so something has changed in how that construct works in LyX. The Insert > Box works fine as a replacement, though. Kenward -- The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. -Theodore Rubin If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. - Kurt Lewin How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. - Wayne Dyer
Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 08:06 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Kenward Vaughan wrote:
I'm updating my class syllabus, which has a mandatory statement which I
normally frame as follows:
\begin{framed}Students with disabilities who believe they may need
accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact Supportive
Services in FACE 16, 395-4334, as soon as possible to better ensure such
accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.\end{framed}
The \begin{} and \end{} are in ERT. The entire paragraph is in a
standalone quote environment. I have used this for years. Now I get the
following message on submitting for a .ps view:
! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H return for immediate help.
l.58 ...plemented in a timely fashion.\end{framed}
Try typing return to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type X return to quit.
The .dvi file is written out, and I can view it from the temporary
directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... The framed area IS framed, and all else
seems OK from a brief scan of the result.
Any ideas what/where the issue is?
Difficult to say without an example file. Could you provide one or at least
post the complete LaTeX log?
BTW, you are aware that LyX supports framed natively (Box, simple frame, no
inner box, allow page breaks)?
Jürgen
A snip of the file is attached.
The native support was tried (though it took me a moment, as your
support appears to be different that using framed itself. The normal
framed commands failed. Found LyX's version under insert.
That worked fine once I figured out how to adjust it to show up
properly. It overflowed on the right and had a large space on the left
inside part of the frame. I removed the quotation environment, set the
minipage's size to 85% of the margin, and centered it.
Thanks for that heads-up! Now my cross-references work too! :)
Kenward
--
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be
learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the
last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Syllabus2011.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 08:06 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
Kenward Vaughan wrote:
I'm updating my class syllabus, which has a mandatory statement which I
normally frame as follows:
\begin{framed}Students with disabilities who believe they may need
accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact Supportive
Services in FACE 16, 395-4334, as soon as possible to better ensure such
accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.\end{framed}
The \begin{} and \end{} are in ERT. The entire paragraph is in a
standalone quote environment. I have used this for years. Now I get the
following message on submitting for a .ps view:
! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H return for immediate help.
l.58 ...plemented in a timely fashion.\end{framed}
Try typing return to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type X return to quit.
The .dvi file is written out, and I can view it from the temporary
directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... The framed area IS framed, and all else
seems OK from a brief scan of the result.
Any ideas what/where the issue is?
Difficult to say without an example file. Could you provide one or at least
post the complete LaTeX log?
BTW, you are aware that LyX supports framed natively (Box, simple frame, no
inner box, allow page breaks)?
Jürgen
A snip of the file is attached.
The native support was tried (though it took me a moment, as your
support appears to be different that using framed itself. The normal
framed commands failed. Found LyX's version under insert.
That worked fine once I figured out how to adjust it to show up
properly. It overflowed on the right and had a large space on the left
inside part of the frame. I removed the quotation environment, set the
minipage's size to 85% of the margin, and centered it.
Thanks for that heads-up! Now my cross-references work too! :)
Kenward
--
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be
learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the
last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Syllabus2011.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package
On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 08:06 +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > I'm updating my class syllabus, which has a mandatory statement which I
> > normally frame as follows:
> >
> > \begin{framed}Students with disabilities who believe they may need
> > accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact Supportive
> > Services in FACE 16, 395-4334, as soon as possible to better ensure such
> > accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.\end{framed}
> >
> >
> > The \begin{} and \end{} are in ERT. The entire paragraph is in a
> > standalone quote environment. I have used this for years. Now I get the
> > following message on submitting for a .ps view:
> >
> > ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
> > See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> > Type H for immediate help.
> > l.58 ...plemented in a timely fashion.\end{framed}
> > Try typing to proceed.
> > If that doesn't work, type X to quit.
> >
> >
> > The .dvi file is written out, and I can view it from the temporary
> > directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... The framed area IS framed, and all else
> > seems OK from a brief scan of the result.
> >
> > Any ideas what/where the issue is?
>
> Difficult to say without an example file. Could you provide one or at least
> post the complete LaTeX log?
>
> BTW, you are aware that LyX supports framed natively (Box, simple frame, no
> inner box, allow page breaks)?
>
> Jürgen
A snip of the file is attached.
The native support was tried (though it took me a moment, as your
support appears to be different that using framed itself. The normal
framed commands failed. Found LyX's version under insert.
That worked fine once I figured out how to adjust it to show up
properly. It overflowed on the right and had a large space on the left
inside part of the frame. I removed the quotation environment, set the
minipage's size to 85% of the margin, and centered it.
Thanks for that heads-up! Now my cross-references work too! :)
Kenward
--
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be
learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the
last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Syllabus2011.lyx
Description: application/lyx
LyX 2.0 and framed package
I'm updating my class syllabus, which has a mandatory statement which I
normally frame as follows:
\begin{framed}Students with disabilities who believe they may need
accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact Supportive
Services in FACE 16, 395-4334, as soon as possible to better ensure such
accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.\end{framed}
The \begin{} and \end{} are in ERT. The entire paragraph is in a
standalone quote environment. I have used this for years. Now I get the
following message on submitting for a .ps view:
! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H return for immediate help.
l.58 ...plemented in a timely fashion.\end{framed}
Try typing return to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type X return to quit.
The .dvi file *is* written out, and I can view it from the temporary
directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... The framed area IS framed, and all else
seems OK from a brief scan of the result.
Any ideas what/where the issue is?
Kenward
--
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I
have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than
in the church.--attrib. to Ferdinand Magellan by R. Ingersoll
Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 22:02 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... The .dvi file *is* written out, and I can view it from the temporary directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... The framed area IS framed, and all else seems OK from a brief scan of the result. Any ideas what/where the issue is? One thing I forgot to mention was that fonts had to be generated when I opened the dvi file. I guess LaTeX didn't finish? Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
LyX 2.0 and framed package
I'm updating my class syllabus, which has a mandatory statement which I
normally frame as follows:
\begin{framed}Students with disabilities who believe they may need
accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact Supportive
Services in FACE 16, 395-4334, as soon as possible to better ensure such
accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.\end{framed}
The \begin{} and \end{} are in ERT. The entire paragraph is in a
standalone quote environment. I have used this for years. Now I get the
following message on submitting for a .ps view:
! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H return for immediate help.
l.58 ...plemented in a timely fashion.\end{framed}
Try typing return to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type X return to quit.
The .dvi file *is* written out, and I can view it from the temporary
directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... The framed area IS framed, and all else
seems OK from a brief scan of the result.
Any ideas what/where the issue is?
Kenward
--
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I
have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than
in the church.--attrib. to Ferdinand Magellan by R. Ingersoll
Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 22:02 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... The .dvi file *is* written out, and I can view it from the temporary directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... The framed area IS framed, and all else seems OK from a brief scan of the result. Any ideas what/where the issue is? One thing I forgot to mention was that fonts had to be generated when I opened the dvi file. I guess LaTeX didn't finish? Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
LyX 2.0 and framed package
I'm updating my class syllabus, which has a mandatory statement which I
normally frame as follows:
\begin{framed}Students with disabilities who believe they may need
accommodations in this class are encouraged to contact Supportive
Services in FACE 16, 395-4334, as soon as possible to better ensure such
accommodations are implemented in a timely fashion.\end{framed}
The \begin{} and \end{} are in ERT. The entire paragraph is in a
standalone quote environment. I have used this for years. Now I get the
following message on submitting for a .ps view:
! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H for immediate help.
l.58 ...plemented in a timely fashion.\end{framed}
Try typing to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type X to quit.
The .dvi file *is* written out, and I can view it from the temporary
directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... The framed area IS framed, and all else
seems OK from a brief scan of the result.
Any ideas what/where the issue is?
Kenward
--
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I
have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than
in the church.--attrib. to Ferdinand Magellan by R. Ingersoll
Re: LyX 2.0 and framed package
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 22:02 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > The .dvi file *is* written out, and I can view it from the temporary > directory /tmp/lyx_tmpdir... The framed area IS framed, and all else > seems OK from a brief scan of the result. > > Any ideas what/where the issue is? One thing I forgot to mention was that fonts had to be generated when I opened the dvi file. I guess LaTeX didn't finish? Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 21:07 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:43 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the transformation? I thought pdf could be a wrapper about an eps figure... If so, which utility is a good one? if you write epstopdf on your console what happens? pavel I have it installed. I also tried including it as a package, but images still became rasterized. i just installed xetex here to look at it, but everything work just fine. (my debug messages still contain Converter.cpp(425): Calling epstopdf --outfile=0_trash_centered_m_195_profile.pdf 0_trash_centered_m_195_profile.eps ) there must be some catch in your configuration. have run reconfigure? what kind of distribution you are running? pavel Hi Pavel, It seems that I needed to switch out my old ~/.lyx directory for a fresh one. I have not yet examined this extensively, but doing so appears to have managed the rasterization issue. There are several quirks I immediately noticed about Xetex vs. Latex as well, which will take a bit to get accustomed to, but at least now it appears to be OK. I **do** have relatively frequent crashes due to simple things like wheel scrolling through a document. I will submit bug reports when I figure out how... :) Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 21:07 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:43 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the transformation? I thought pdf could be a wrapper about an eps figure... If so, which utility is a good one? if you write epstopdf on your console what happens? pavel I have it installed. I also tried including it as a package, but images still became rasterized. i just installed xetex here to look at it, but everything work just fine. (my debug messages still contain Converter.cpp(425): Calling epstopdf --outfile=0_trash_centered_m_195_profile.pdf 0_trash_centered_m_195_profile.eps ) there must be some catch in your configuration. have run reconfigure? what kind of distribution you are running? pavel Hi Pavel, It seems that I needed to switch out my old ~/.lyx directory for a fresh one. I have not yet examined this extensively, but doing so appears to have managed the rasterization issue. There are several quirks I immediately noticed about Xetex vs. Latex as well, which will take a bit to get accustomed to, but at least now it appears to be OK. I **do** have relatively frequent crashes due to simple things like wheel scrolling through a document. I will submit bug reports when I figure out how... :) Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 21:07 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:43 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > > > Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the > > > > transformation? I thought pdf could be a "wrapper" about an eps > > > > figure... If so, which utility is a good one? > > > > > > if you write "epstopdf" on your console what happens? > > > > > > pavel > > > > I have it installed. I also tried including it as a package, but images > > still became rasterized. > > i just installed xetex here to look at it, but everything work just fine. > (my debug messages still contain > Converter.cpp(425): Calling epstopdf > --outfile="0_trash_centered_m_195_profile.pdf" > "0_trash_centered_m_195_profile.eps" > ) > > there must be some catch in your configuration. have run reconfigure? > what kind of distribution you are running? > > pavel Hi Pavel, It seems that I needed to switch out my old ~/.lyx directory for a fresh one. I have not yet examined this extensively, but doing so appears to have managed the "rasterization" issue. There are several quirks I immediately noticed about Xetex vs. Latex as well, which will take a bit to get accustomed to, but at least now it appears to be OK. I **do** have relatively frequent crashes due to simple things like wheel scrolling through a document. I will submit bug reports when I figure out how... :) Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:50 +, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Kenward Vaughan kay_jay at earthlink.net writes: On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... But now something else was noticed... all my beautiful eps figures have been rasterized! Augh! They are hideous in output. :((( Is this normal??? Kenward Kenward, XeTeX requires, like PdfTeX, figures in these formats: pdf,jpeg,png. Since you are using LyX, this conversion from eps to pdf is done for you. I suppose the conversion is not done well enough. I would suggest you convert them yourself to keep the vector essence. Mukhtar Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the transformation? I thought pdf could be a wrapper about an eps figure... If so, which utility is a good one? I'm sorry for my ignorance about this, but it has never been in the forefront of concern since I hadn't hit such an issue before. Thanks for the help, both to you and Paval! Kenward -- Man does not cease to play because he grows old... Man grows old because he ceases to play. Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting '...Oh, WOW !! ...what a ride...'
Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:43 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the transformation? I thought pdf could be a wrapper about an eps figure... If so, which utility is a good one? if you write epstopdf on your console what happens? pavel I have it installed. I also tried including it as a package, but images still became rasterized. Kenward -- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein
Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:50 +, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Kenward Vaughan kay_jay at earthlink.net writes: On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... But now something else was noticed... all my beautiful eps figures have been rasterized! Augh! They are hideous in output. :((( Is this normal??? Kenward Kenward, XeTeX requires, like PdfTeX, figures in these formats: pdf,jpeg,png. Since you are using LyX, this conversion from eps to pdf is done for you. I suppose the conversion is not done well enough. I would suggest you convert them yourself to keep the vector essence. Mukhtar Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the transformation? I thought pdf could be a wrapper about an eps figure... If so, which utility is a good one? I'm sorry for my ignorance about this, but it has never been in the forefront of concern since I hadn't hit such an issue before. Thanks for the help, both to you and Paval! Kenward -- Man does not cease to play because he grows old... Man grows old because he ceases to play. Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting '...Oh, WOW !! ...what a ride...'
Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:43 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the transformation? I thought pdf could be a wrapper about an eps figure... If so, which utility is a good one? if you write epstopdf on your console what happens? pavel I have it installed. I also tried including it as a package, but images still became rasterized. Kenward -- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein
Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 09:50 +, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: > Kenward Vaughan earthlink.net> writes: > > > > > On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... > > But now something else was noticed... all my beautiful eps figures have > > been rasterized! Augh! They are hideous in output. :((( > > > > Is this normal??? > > > > Kenward > > Kenward, > XeTeX requires, like PdfTeX, figures in these formats: pdf,jpeg,png. Since you > are using LyX, this conversion from eps to pdf is done for you. I suppose the > conversion is not done well enough. I would suggest you convert them yourself > to > keep the vector essence. > > Mukhtar Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the transformation? I thought pdf could be a "wrapper" about an eps figure... If so, which utility is a good one? I'm sorry for my ignorance about this, but it has never been in the forefront of concern since I hadn't hit such an issue before. Thanks for the help, both to you and Paval! Kenward -- "Man does not cease to play because he grows old... Man grows old because he ceases to play." "Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting '...Oh, WOW !! ...what a ride...' "
Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 16:43 +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Ah. OK. Knowing that, does anyone have a suggestion for the > > transformation? I thought pdf could be a "wrapper" about an eps > > figure... If so, which utility is a good one? > > if you write "epstopdf" on your console what happens? > > pavel I have it installed. I also tried including it as a package, but images still became rasterized. Kenward -- If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein
Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
Hi,
I've decided to give XeTeX a go as well as LyX 2.0, so have installed
both on my Linux system (Debian Sid).
First thing to do was to open a recent exam and change the settings to
use XeTeX as the means of output, as well as the default viewer to
XeTeX's pdf version.
When I try to view the document, though, errors I've never seen before
pop up. There are five, involving the Latex error of command \acute
having already been defined, as well as analogous ones for \ddot, \tilde
\grave, and \bar. Below them, the description says:
\begin{document}
Your command was ignored.
Type I command return to replace it with another command,
or return to continue without it.
I haven't a clue as to what the problem is. If I try to view the DVI, I
get the following error:
Unable to access jarfile htmltolatex.jar
Systemcall.cpp(237): Systemcall: 'java -jar htmltolatex.jar -input
c1a_e2_f10.html -output c1a_e2_f10.tex' finished with exit code 1
Removing the XeTeX parts from the document makes it all go away. :(
Does anyone have thoughts about this problem? One other area I perhaps
should include is the preamble. Is one of the packages incompatible
with XeTeX?
\usepackage{accents}
\usepackage{mdwlist}
\usepackage{layout}
\usepackage{multicol}
\def\myalph#1{\expandaft...@myalph\csname c...@#1\endcsname}
\d...@myalph#1{%
\ifcase#1\or a\or b\or c\or d\or e\or ab\or ac\or ad\or ae\or bc\or bd
\or be\or cd\or ce\or de\or abc\or abd\or abe\or acd\or ace\or ade\or
bcd\or bce\or bde\or cde\or abcd\or abce\or abde\or acde\or bcde\or
abcde
\el...@ctrerr\fi}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{(\myalph{enumii})}
Many thanks for any help with this!
Kenward
--
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for
reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein
Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
...
Removing the XeTeX parts from the document makes it all go away. :(
Does anyone have thoughts about this problem? One other area I perhaps
should include is the preamble. Is one of the packages incompatible
with XeTeX?
\usepackage{accents}
\usepackage{mdwlist}
\usepackage{layout}
\usepackage{multicol}
...
It looks like removal of the accents package freed up XeTeX, I'm not
certain why I have it in their in the 1st place, actually. Processing
completes now, and I get a pdf file.
But now something else was noticed... all my beautiful eps figures have
been rasterized! Augh! They are hideous in output. :(((
Is this normal???
Kenward
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. --
Albert Einstein
Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
Hi,
I've decided to give XeTeX a go as well as LyX 2.0, so have installed
both on my Linux system (Debian Sid).
First thing to do was to open a recent exam and change the settings to
use XeTeX as the means of output, as well as the default viewer to
XeTeX's pdf version.
When I try to view the document, though, errors I've never seen before
pop up. There are five, involving the Latex error of command \acute
having already been defined, as well as analogous ones for \ddot, \tilde
\grave, and \bar. Below them, the description says:
\begin{document}
Your command was ignored.
Type I command return to replace it with another command,
or return to continue without it.
I haven't a clue as to what the problem is. If I try to view the DVI, I
get the following error:
Unable to access jarfile htmltolatex.jar
Systemcall.cpp(237): Systemcall: 'java -jar htmltolatex.jar -input
c1a_e2_f10.html -output c1a_e2_f10.tex' finished with exit code 1
Removing the XeTeX parts from the document makes it all go away. :(
Does anyone have thoughts about this problem? One other area I perhaps
should include is the preamble. Is one of the packages incompatible
with XeTeX?
\usepackage{accents}
\usepackage{mdwlist}
\usepackage{layout}
\usepackage{multicol}
\def\myalph#1{\expandaft...@myalph\csname c...@#1\endcsname}
\d...@myalph#1{%
\ifcase#1\or a\or b\or c\or d\or e\or ab\or ac\or ad\or ae\or bc\or bd
\or be\or cd\or ce\or de\or abc\or abd\or abe\or acd\or ace\or ade\or
bcd\or bce\or bde\or cde\or abcd\or abce\or abde\or acde\or bcde\or
abcde
\el...@ctrerr\fi}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{(\myalph{enumii})}
Many thanks for any help with this!
Kenward
--
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for
reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein
Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
...
Removing the XeTeX parts from the document makes it all go away. :(
Does anyone have thoughts about this problem? One other area I perhaps
should include is the preamble. Is one of the packages incompatible
with XeTeX?
\usepackage{accents}
\usepackage{mdwlist}
\usepackage{layout}
\usepackage{multicol}
...
It looks like removal of the accents package freed up XeTeX, I'm not
certain why I have it in their in the 1st place, actually. Processing
completes now, and I get a pdf file.
But now something else was noticed... all my beautiful eps figures have
been rasterized! Augh! They are hideous in output. :(((
Is this normal???
Kenward
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. --
Albert Einstein
Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
Hi,
I've decided to give XeTeX a go as well as LyX 2.0, so have installed
both on my Linux system (Debian Sid).
First thing to do was to open a recent exam and change the settings to
use XeTeX as the means of output, as well as the default viewer to
XeTeX's pdf version.
When I try to view the document, though, errors I've never seen before
pop up. There are five, involving the Latex error of command "\acute"
having already been defined, as well as analogous ones for \ddot, \tilde
\grave, and \bar. Below them, the description says:
\begin{document}
Your command was ignored.
Type I to replace it with another command,
or to continue without it.
I haven't a clue as to what the problem is. If I try to view the DVI, I
get the following error:
Unable to access jarfile htmltolatex.jar
Systemcall.cpp(237): Systemcall: 'java -jar htmltolatex.jar -input
"c1a_e2_f10.html" -output "c1a_e2_f10.tex"' finished with exit code 1
Removing the XeTeX parts from the document makes it all go away. :(
Does anyone have thoughts about this problem? One other area I perhaps
should include is the preamble. Is one of the packages incompatible
with XeTeX?
\usepackage{accents}
\usepackage{mdwlist}
\usepackage{layout}
\usepackage{multicol}
\def\myalph#1{\expandaft...@myalph\csname c...@#1\endcsname}
\d...@myalph#1{%
\ifcase#1\or a\or b\or c\or d\or e\or ab\or ac\or ad\or ae\or bc\or bd
\or be\or cd\or ce\or de\or abc\or abd\or abe\or acd\or ace\or ade\or
bcd\or bce\or bde\or cde\or abcd\or abce\or abde\or acde\or bcde\or
abcde
\el...@ctrerr\fi}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{(\myalph{enumii})}
Many thanks for any help with this!
Kenward
--
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for
reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. Albert Einstein
Re: Getting XeTeX/LyX 2.0 to work with my docs...
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:31 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
...
> Removing the XeTeX parts from the document makes it all go away. :(
>
> Does anyone have thoughts about this problem? One other area I perhaps
> should include is the preamble. Is one of the packages incompatible
> with XeTeX?
>
> \usepackage{accents}
> \usepackage{mdwlist}
> \usepackage{layout}
> \usepackage{multicol}
...
It looks like removal of the accents package freed up XeTeX, I'm not
certain why I have it in their in the 1st place, actually. Processing
completes now, and I get a pdf file.
But now something else was noticed... all my beautiful eps figures have
been rasterized! Augh! They are hideous in output. :(((
Is this normal???
Kenward
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. --
Albert Einstein
Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 16:25 +0300, Necati Demir wrote: Hello, I am creating a presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use 1) different theme, 2) custom theme, 3) no theme. How can i do that? If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf files for each part, then stitch them together using ghostscript or something else. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 16:25 +0300, Necati Demir wrote: Hello, I am creating a presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use 1) different theme, 2) custom theme, 3) no theme. How can i do that? If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf files for each part, then stitch them together using ghostscript or something else. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: using different themes on same presentation with beamer
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 16:25 +0300, Necati Demir wrote: > Hello, > > I am creating a presentation with beamer. In some slides i want to use > > 1) different theme, > 2) custom theme, > 3) no theme. > > How can i do that? If all else is the same, you might be able to generate separate pdf files for each part, then stitch them together using ghostscript or something else. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Help: Newbie writing a report- Help in drawing diagrams particularly circuits
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 07:59 -0600, Rob Oakes wrote: Hi Bob, The best way to create specific types of drawings for a LyX document is to use a program designed for that purpose (like a circuit diagram editor) and then exporting to an appropriate image format (PDF, PNG, JPEG, etc.). There may be LaTeX packages that can draw circuit ... Cheers, Rob Bob, In line with Rob's suggestion, I just checked Xfig's capabilities, and they appear to be quite substantial. A document link to something addressing both Xfig and its use in drawing circuits is the following: http://users.skynet.be/hugocoolens/linux/xfig-howto.pdf Xfig has the electrical libraries built into it. Once done, you export the result to an eps figure and import it into LyX. The only question is whether you know Xfig or not. It is fairly easy to do basic stuff. Good luck! Kenward On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:50 AM, BOB Merhebi wrote: Hello, I am a newbie to LyX. I searched most manuals wikis but could find nothing about drawing diagrams (physics related). I am in urgent need of help as I am writing a reports for my physics labs which are due in less than 24 hrs. I particularly need to draw electrical ciruits. You help is appreciated thx Sincerely Yours, BOB Merhebi -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: Help: Newbie writing a report- Help in drawing diagrams particularly circuits
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 07:59 -0600, Rob Oakes wrote: Hi Bob, The best way to create specific types of drawings for a LyX document is to use a program designed for that purpose (like a circuit diagram editor) and then exporting to an appropriate image format (PDF, PNG, JPEG, etc.). There may be LaTeX packages that can draw circuit ... Cheers, Rob Bob, In line with Rob's suggestion, I just checked Xfig's capabilities, and they appear to be quite substantial. A document link to something addressing both Xfig and its use in drawing circuits is the following: http://users.skynet.be/hugocoolens/linux/xfig-howto.pdf Xfig has the electrical libraries built into it. Once done, you export the result to an eps figure and import it into LyX. The only question is whether you know Xfig or not. It is fairly easy to do basic stuff. Good luck! Kenward On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:50 AM, BOB Merhebi wrote: Hello, I am a newbie to LyX. I searched most manuals wikis but could find nothing about drawing diagrams (physics related). I am in urgent need of help as I am writing a reports for my physics labs which are due in less than 24 hrs. I particularly need to draw electrical ciruits. You help is appreciated thx Sincerely Yours, BOB Merhebi -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: Help: Newbie writing a report- Help in drawing diagrams particularly circuits
On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 07:59 -0600, Rob Oakes wrote: > Hi Bob, > > The best way to create specific types of drawings for a LyX document > is to use a program designed for that purpose (like a circuit diagram > editor) and then exporting to an appropriate image format (PDF, PNG, > JPEG, etc.). There may be LaTeX packages that can draw circuit ... > Cheers, > > Rob Bob, In line with Rob's suggestion, I just checked Xfig's capabilities, and they appear to be quite substantial. A document link to something addressing both Xfig and its use in drawing circuits is the following: http://users.skynet.be/hugocoolens/linux/xfig-howto.pdf Xfig has the electrical libraries built into it. Once done, you export the result to an eps figure and import it into LyX. The only question is whether you know Xfig or not. It is fairly easy to do basic stuff. Good luck! Kenward > > On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:50 AM, BOB Merhebi wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am a newbie to LyX. I searched most manuals & wikis but could find > nothing about drawing diagrams (physics related). I am in urgent need > of help as I am writing a reports for my physics labs which are due in > less than 24 hrs. I particularly need to draw electrical ciruits. > > > > You help is appreciated > > thx > > > > Sincerely Yours, > > BOB Merhebi > -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: why braces were automatically added to equation after I reopen Lyx file
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 03:06 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Am 08.03.2010 08:16, schrieb Asm warrior:
I have equation like below:
\begin{equation}
^{C}v_{B}=^{C}(^{U}V_{B})\end{equation}
but when I save the lyx file, then reopen it, it became
\begin{equation}
^{C}v_{B}={}^{C}(^{U}V_{B})\end{equation}
I cannot reproduce this here, but another users reported it today too:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6581
I'll recheck if the problem is reproducible with LyX 1.6.5 (perhaps we have
already fixed this for
LyX 1.6.6).
regards Uwe
I too have seen this minor annoyance.
If I run across it again, I'll send in what info I can as well. I did
see it recently, having something to do with opening an older doc with
subscripts within a \mathrm environment (chemical equation). Deletion
of the subscript... something...
Kenward
--
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I
have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than
in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: why braces were automatically added to equation after I reopen Lyx file
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 03:06 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Am 08.03.2010 08:16, schrieb Asm warrior:
I have equation like below:
\begin{equation}
^{C}v_{B}=^{C}(^{U}V_{B})\end{equation}
but when I save the lyx file, then reopen it, it became
\begin{equation}
^{C}v_{B}={}^{C}(^{U}V_{B})\end{equation}
I cannot reproduce this here, but another users reported it today too:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6581
I'll recheck if the problem is reproducible with LyX 1.6.5 (perhaps we have
already fixed this for
LyX 1.6.6).
regards Uwe
I too have seen this minor annoyance.
If I run across it again, I'll send in what info I can as well. I did
see it recently, having something to do with opening an older doc with
subscripts within a \mathrm environment (chemical equation). Deletion
of the subscript... something...
Kenward
--
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I
have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than
in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: why braces were automatically added to equation after I reopen Lyx file
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 03:06 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Am 08.03.2010 08:16, schrieb Asm warrior:
>
> > I have equation like below:
> >
> > \begin{equation}
> > ^{C}v_{B}=^{C}(^{U}V_{B})\end{equation}
> >
> > but when I save the lyx file, then reopen it, it became
> >
> > \begin{equation}
> > ^{C}v_{B}={}^{C}(^{U}V_{B})\end{equation}
>
> I cannot reproduce this here, but another users reported it today too:
> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6581
>
> I'll recheck if the problem is reproducible with LyX 1.6.5 (perhaps we have
> already fixed this for
> LyX 1.6.6).
>
> regards Uwe
I too have seen this minor annoyance.
If I run across it again, I'll send in what info I can as well. I did
see it recently, having something to do with opening an older doc with
subscripts within a \mathrm environment (chemical equation). Deletion
of the subscript... something...
Kenward
--
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I
have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than
in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: unit package
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:28 +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Is the package \unit for the correct setting of units (kg etc) build in in LyX or do I have to use ERT? I did not find it in the various menues Wolfgang Don't know about that, but I just recently discovered \dfrac and others under the math menu--fractions button... Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: unit package
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:28 +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Is the package \unit for the correct setting of units (kg etc) build in in LyX or do I have to use ERT? I did not find it in the various menues Wolfgang Don't know about that, but I just recently discovered \dfrac and others under the math menu--fractions button... Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: unit package
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:28 +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Is the package \unit for the correct setting of units (kg etc) build in in > LyX > or do I have to use ERT? I did not find it in the various menues > > Wolfgang Don't know about that, but I just recently discovered \dfrac and others under the math menu--fractions button... Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Another wishlist item?
Don't know if this has been asked before, but I'd like to be able to take my images with me... so I wondered whether there had been any thoughts about an export to package option which would amount to creating a subdirectory under /tmp or ~ (or whatever Windows uses) into which all referenced items within a document would be copied. In my handouts I use images from all over the place under various courses, so it can be very tedious if I want to carry this to work. I personally don't care about lost links within the document since I can quickly fix that anyway... Once in such a directory, I can stick it on a flash drive, or zip it up to email myself. Kenward -- The question is not what you look at, but what you see. -- Henry David Thoreau
Another wishlist item?
Don't know if this has been asked before, but I'd like to be able to take my images with me... so I wondered whether there had been any thoughts about an export to package option which would amount to creating a subdirectory under /tmp or ~ (or whatever Windows uses) into which all referenced items within a document would be copied. In my handouts I use images from all over the place under various courses, so it can be very tedious if I want to carry this to work. I personally don't care about lost links within the document since I can quickly fix that anyway... Once in such a directory, I can stick it on a flash drive, or zip it up to email myself. Kenward -- The question is not what you look at, but what you see. -- Henry David Thoreau
Another wishlist item?
Don't know if this has been asked before, but I'd like to be able to take my images with me... so I wondered whether there had been any thoughts about an "export to package" option which would amount to creating a subdirectory under /tmp or ~ (or whatever Windows uses) into which all referenced items within a document would be copied. In my handouts I use images from all over the place under various courses, so it can be very tedious if I want to carry this to work. I personally don't care about lost links within the document since I can quickly fix that anyway... Once in such a directory, I can stick it on a flash drive, or zip it up to email myself. Kenward -- The question is not what you look at, but what you see. -- Henry David Thoreau
Re: Layouts for education?
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 08:24 -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using AcroTex. Depending on your requirements, standard layouts may work fine. I've always used the vanilla article form with multicol (when needed), and a few small modifications kindly provided by people here if part of the exam uses a Scantron and I want more than 5 answers. I use all sorts of problems on exams. Kenward -- The question is not what you look at, but what you see. -- Henry David Thoreau
Re: Layouts for education?
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 08:24 -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using AcroTex. Depending on your requirements, standard layouts may work fine. I've always used the vanilla article form with multicol (when needed), and a few small modifications kindly provided by people here if part of the exam uses a Scantron and I want more than 5 answers. I use all sorts of problems on exams. Kenward -- The question is not what you look at, but what you see. -- Henry David Thoreau
Re: Layouts for education?
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 08:24 -0500, Myriam Abramson wrote: > I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using > AcroTex. > Depending on your requirements, standard layouts may work fine. I've always used the vanilla article form with multicol (when needed), and a few small modifications kindly provided by people here if part of the exam uses a Scantron and I want more than 5 answers. I use all sorts of problems on exams. Kenward -- The question is not what you look at, but what you see. -- Henry David Thoreau
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 18:06 -0700, Phil wrote: For me, it works only if remove option.nopsheader I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Well, part of the problem stemmed from my belief that the powerdot documentation was to be taken literally. They make a statement about putting the above into the options, which I obediently did. Once I remove them, the presentation comes up normally. Unfortunately this depends on what creates the pdf file (which is my ultimate goal, of course). dvipdfm - looks good as screen mode, but overlays show through as grey which I don't want. Xpdf is the same. pdflatex - this NEVER works. It dies in compilation with errors. ps2pdf - the greyed overlays are gone (totally hidden--good!), but the orientation is bad. It's placed on letter-portrait. If I add orient=portrait then I can see it all with dvipdfm but the greyed out material persists. Links (contents) don't work. ps2pdf works fine and all is seen. I have yet to find a combo (variations of letter=/orient=) which works the way I thought things would go to produce a full screen version, except plain portrait mode. ps2pdf is the only converter which properly creates a presentation with overlays completely out of sight. I'm glad to get the portrait version, but it would be nice to get a normal slide as well. I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:59 -0500, Les Denham wrote: On Monday 28 September 2009 11:02:11 Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. Kenward, Firstly, check that your LaTeX installation meets the requirements specified in the Powerdot documentation (page 26). The ps2pdf conversion is the only one which will work properly with Powerdot. Yes, as I have found out. I have numerous presentations which work properly with the following options: nopsheader,style=horatio,display=slides,paper=screen These are set in Document Class (under Document Settings) as a string in Custom, under Class Options. The style can be any of the other Powerdot styles. Everything else in Document Settings I leave at whatever is the default, except for the Preamble. Here I fill in the PDF options using \pdsetup. Your choices still make no difference (screen mode on a portrait page). Regarding the reqs. for powerdot... those should be in place if the Debian packager has their stuff together. That seems to be the case, since I have found that a simple export to plain latex, followed by runs through latex, dvips, and ps2pdf, work perfectly (xpdf and acroread). I still am led to believe that something in LyX's script must have options in it which cause the failure to create this. I do appreciate your help! Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 18:06 -0700, Phil wrote: For me, it works only if remove option.nopsheader I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Well, part of the problem stemmed from my belief that the powerdot documentation was to be taken literally. They make a statement about putting the above into the options, which I obediently did. Once I remove them, the presentation comes up normally. Unfortunately this depends on what creates the pdf file (which is my ultimate goal, of course). dvipdfm - looks good as screen mode, but overlays show through as grey which I don't want. Xpdf is the same. pdflatex - this NEVER works. It dies in compilation with errors. ps2pdf - the greyed overlays are gone (totally hidden--good!), but the orientation is bad. It's placed on letter-portrait. If I add orient=portrait then I can see it all with dvipdfm but the greyed out material persists. Links (contents) don't work. ps2pdf works fine and all is seen. I have yet to find a combo (variations of letter=/orient=) which works the way I thought things would go to produce a full screen version, except plain portrait mode. ps2pdf is the only converter which properly creates a presentation with overlays completely out of sight. I'm glad to get the portrait version, but it would be nice to get a normal slide as well. I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:59 -0500, Les Denham wrote: On Monday 28 September 2009 11:02:11 Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. Kenward, Firstly, check that your LaTeX installation meets the requirements specified in the Powerdot documentation (page 26). The ps2pdf conversion is the only one which will work properly with Powerdot. Yes, as I have found out. I have numerous presentations which work properly with the following options: nopsheader,style=horatio,display=slides,paper=screen These are set in Document Class (under Document Settings) as a string in Custom, under Class Options. The style can be any of the other Powerdot styles. Everything else in Document Settings I leave at whatever is the default, except for the Preamble. Here I fill in the PDF options using \pdsetup. Your choices still make no difference (screen mode on a portrait page). Regarding the reqs. for powerdot... those should be in place if the Debian packager has their stuff together. That seems to be the case, since I have found that a simple export to plain latex, followed by runs through latex, dvips, and ps2pdf, work perfectly (xpdf and acroread). I still am led to believe that something in LyX's script must have options in it which cause the failure to create this. I do appreciate your help! Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 18:06 -0700, Phil wrote: > For me, it works only if remove option.nopsheader > > > > I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, > > paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed > > out as well. Well, part of the problem stemmed from my belief that the powerdot documentation was to be taken literally. They make a statement about putting the above into the options, which I obediently did. Once I remove them, the presentation comes up "normally." Unfortunately this depends on what creates the pdf file (which is my ultimate goal, of course). dvipdfm - looks good as screen mode, but overlays show through as grey which I don't want. Xpdf is the same. pdflatex - this NEVER works. It dies in compilation with errors. ps2pdf - the greyed overlays are gone (totally hidden--good!), but the orientation is bad. It's placed on letter-portrait. If I add "orient=portrait" then I can see it all with dvipdfm but the greyed out material persists. Links (contents) don't work. ps2pdf works fine and all is seen. I have yet to find a combo (variations of letter=/orient=) which works the way I thought things would go to produce a full screen version, except plain portrait mode. ps2pdf is the only converter which properly creates a presentation with overlays completely out of sight. I'm glad to get the portrait version, but it would be nice to get a "normal" slide as well. I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 12:59 -0500, Les Denham wrote: > On Monday 28 September 2009 11:02:11 Kenward Vaughan wrote: > ... > > I don't know where the problem is except that perhaps the way things get > > translated from LyX to LaTeX to the pdf files gets messed up from > > whatever standard powerdot needs to create a normal result. > > Kenward, > > Firstly, check that your LaTeX installation meets the requirements specified > in > the Powerdot documentation (page 26). > > The ps2pdf conversion is the only one which will work properly with Powerdot. Yes, as I have found out. > I have numerous presentations which work properly with the following options: > > nopsheader,style=horatio,display=slides,paper=screen > > These are set in Document Class (under Document Settings) as a string in > Custom, under Class Options. The style can be any of the other Powerdot > styles. Everything else in Document Settings I leave at whatever is the > default, except for the Preamble. Here I fill in the PDF options using > \pdsetup. Your choices still make no difference (screen mode on a portrait page). Regarding the reqs. for powerdot... those should be in place if the Debian packager has their stuff together. That seems to be the case, since I have found that a simple export to plain latex, followed by runs through latex, dvips, and ps2pdf, work perfectly (xpdf and acroread). I still am led to believe that something in LyX's script must have options in it which cause the failure to create this. I do appreciate your help! Kenward -- The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church.--Ferdinand Magellan
Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
Hi all, I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on portrait paper (if that makes any sense). I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Am I missing something? Or perhaps more directly, what am I missing? Thanks for any leads! Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 17:16 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi all, I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on portrait paper (if that makes any sense). I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Am I missing something? Or perhaps more directly, what am I missing? Thanks for any leads! Changing to orient=portrait, paper=letterpaper works to give a readable set in portrait mode, but changing to landscape still gives an off-the-slide problem. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
Hi all, I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on portrait paper (if that makes any sense). I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Am I missing something? Or perhaps more directly, what am I missing? Thanks for any leads! Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 17:16 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hi all, I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on portrait paper (if that makes any sense). I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Am I missing something? Or perhaps more directly, what am I missing? Thanks for any leads! Changing to orient=portrait, paper=letterpaper works to give a readable set in portrait mode, but changing to landscape still gives an off-the-slide problem. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
Hi all, I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on portrait paper (if that makes any sense). I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed out as well. Am I missing something? Or perhaps more directly, what am I missing? Thanks for any leads! Kenward -- Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you that mine are still greater. Albert Einstein
Re: Powerdot slides off screen--no control of orientation?
On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 17:16 -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying powerdot as a quick way to create some slides, but have a > problem of the slide being created in landscape mode but placed on > portrait paper (if that makes any sense). > > I've tried putting nopsheader, orient=landscape, mode=present, > paper=screen into the class options to no avail. Page layout is greyed > out as well. > > Am I missing something? Or perhaps more directly, what am I missing? > > Thanks for any leads! Changing to orient=portrait, paper=letterpaper works to give a readable set in portrait mode, but changing to landscape still gives an off-the-slide problem. Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left** they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any more makes it too small. I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have the right keywords? The whole table would be set to center alignment. I figure there's got to be a command out there for it, but I can't find one that works yet (or perhaps I misused one already without knowing it). Does anyone know one? Does it have to be applied on a cell-by-cell basis or will it work on the whole table? Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
Re: Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:20 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Kenward Vaughan wrote:
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any
classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to
center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes
evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left**
they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border
of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any
more makes it too small.
Is this a fixed-width column? If not, I don't see why the right side
would intrude on the border -- the column should just get wider.
It is fixed width.
I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but
can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have
...
I'm not aware of any separate left and right side padding, but then I'm
not TeXpert. The length \tabcolsep is supposed to control the amount of
space left between columns. It's described as half the intracolumn
separation, which I take to mean that LaTeX will pad both sides of a
table cell by that much. You could try \setlength{\tabcolsep}{something
smaller} and see if it helps.
I'm not sure I've tried playing with this one, but know that attempts to
change the distance between columns (something in LyX's dialog) didn't
help. I'll play with it at work when I get there today.
Kenward
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. --
Albert Einstein
Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left** they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any more makes it too small. I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have the right keywords? The whole table would be set to center alignment. I figure there's got to be a command out there for it, but I can't find one that works yet (or perhaps I misused one already without knowing it). Does anyone know one? Does it have to be applied on a cell-by-cell basis or will it work on the whole table? Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
Re: Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:20 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Kenward Vaughan wrote:
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any
classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to
center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes
evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left**
they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border
of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any
more makes it too small.
Is this a fixed-width column? If not, I don't see why the right side
would intrude on the border -- the column should just get wider.
It is fixed width.
I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but
can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have
...
I'm not aware of any separate left and right side padding, but then I'm
not TeXpert. The length \tabcolsep is supposed to control the amount of
space left between columns. It's described as half the intracolumn
separation, which I take to mean that LaTeX will pad both sides of a
table cell by that much. You could try \setlength{\tabcolsep}{something
smaller} and see if it helps.
I'm not sure I've tried playing with this one, but know that attempts to
change the distance between columns (something in LyX's dialog) didn't
help. I'll play with it at work when I get there today.
Kenward
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. --
Albert Einstein
Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left** they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any more makes it too small. I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have the right keywords? The whole table would be set to center alignment. I figure there's got to be a command out there for it, but I can't find one that works yet (or perhaps I misused one already without knowing it). Does anyone know one? Does it have to be applied on a cell-by-cell basis or will it work on the whole table? Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
Re: Spacing between table cell contents and borders?
On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:20 -0400, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> > I've been finishing off a periodic table which I can insert into any
> > classroom document, and am struggling to get the elements' masses to
> > center in the cells. When I get up to numbers such as 123.45 it becomes
> > evident that the cells have a preconceived notion about how far **left**
> > they will place text; this leaves the right side pushing into the border
> > of the adjacent cell. I have reduced the font size to smallest--any
> > more makes it too small.
>
> Is this a fixed-width column? If not, I don't see why the right side
> would intrude on the border -- the column should just get wider.
It is fixed width.
> > I'd like to get the table to change this padding to something less, but
> > can't find the command despite repeated searches. I guess I don't have
...
> I'm not aware of any separate left and right side padding, but then I'm
> not TeXpert. The length \tabcolsep is supposed to control the amount of
> space left between columns. It's described as half the intracolumn
> separation, which I take to mean that LaTeX will pad both sides of a
> table cell by that much. You could try \setlength{\tabcolsep}{something
> smaller} and see if it helps.
I'm not sure I've tried playing with this one, but know that attempts to
change the distance between columns (something in LyX's dialog) didn't
help. I'll play with it at work when I get there today.
Kenward
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. --
Albert Einstein
Re: [Survey] Explicit subject tag on this list
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 17:52 +0200, Julio Rojas wrote: Not a lot of people interested on the subject??? I went ahead and took the survey (no opinion). I wanted to point out that filtering the list is easy without such a catch. I have evolution check the recipients for lyx-users which snags nearly everything. I'm sorry if I'm simply repeating what others may have said. I have not followed the thread at all... :( Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
Re: [Survey] Explicit subject tag on this list
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 17:52 +0200, Julio Rojas wrote: Not a lot of people interested on the subject??? I went ahead and took the survey (no opinion). I wanted to point out that filtering the list is easy without such a catch. I have evolution check the recipients for lyx-users which snags nearly everything. I'm sorry if I'm simply repeating what others may have said. I have not followed the thread at all... :( Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
Re: [Survey] Explicit subject tag on this list
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 17:52 +0200, Julio Rojas wrote:
> Not a lot of people interested on the subject???
I went ahead and took the survey ("no opinion").
I wanted to point out that filtering the list is easy without such a
catch. I have evolution check the recipients for "lyx-users" which snags
nearly everything.
I'm sorry if I'm simply repeating what others may have said. I have not
followed the thread at all... :(
Kenward
--
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to
make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done,
whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be
learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the
last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Thomas Henry Huxley
shifting a table outside margins?
Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be that wide on letter paper. The other way I see attacking this would be to rotate the table, but then I'd want to rotate the whole page. I tried the package rotating (or rotate?..) but couldn't get it to work on the page with the table. :( TIA! Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
Re: shifting a table outside margins?
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 22:54 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be that wide on letter paper. You can adjust tables to % of page. This has worked for me, but it took a great deal of fiddling. OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the table settings which addresses this. Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
Re: shifting a table outside margins?
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 23:13 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the table settings which addresses this. In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table, and get a menu. It has Settings… at the bottom. The option is underneath that. What I find I can do is to set each column to a % width. That's fine, and equivalent to figuring out a number of cm. The table does not center itself on the page, though. It slides off to the right... Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
shifting a table outside margins?
Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be that wide on letter paper. The other way I see attacking this would be to rotate the table, but then I'd want to rotate the whole page. I tried the package rotating (or rotate?..) but couldn't get it to work on the page with the table. :( TIA! Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
Re: shifting a table outside margins?
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 22:54 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be that wide on letter paper. You can adjust tables to % of page. This has worked for me, but it took a great deal of fiddling. OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the table settings which addresses this. Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
Re: shifting a table outside margins?
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 23:13 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 08:01:32PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the table settings which addresses this. In my LyX (1.6.2 on Mac OX X 10.5.x) I can C-click a table, and get a menu. It has Settings… at the bottom. The option is underneath that. What I find I can do is to set each column to a % width. That's fine, and equivalent to figuring out a number of cm. The table does not center itself on the page, though. It slides off to the right... Kenward -- In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca
shifting a table outside margins?
Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be that wide on letter paper. The other way I see attacking this would be to rotate the table, but then I'd want to rotate the whole page. I tried the package rotating (or rotate?..) but couldn't get it to work on the page with the table. :( TIA! Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
Re: shifting a table outside margins?
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 22:54 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 02:54:21PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Is there any way to force a table to move to the left outside the normal > > margins? I have a table in a document that really won't fit into a size > > any smaller than about 7 inches across, but I don't want margins to be > > that wide on letter paper. > > You can adjust tables to "% of page". This has worked for me, but it > took a great deal of fiddling. OK, but I don't know where this goes. There is no setting under the table settings which addresses this. Kenward -- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. Thomas Henry Huxley
