Re: Typographical/graphical analysis of a document
On Thursday 22 June 2006 07:54, Martin A. Hansen wrote: Hello All, I found this document on the BBC news website, which I have reposted here: http://130.226.106.174/~paste/cgi-bin/20_06_06_iap_evolution.pdf And after reading it I thought it would be an interesting exercise to present it to the LyX-users list for thorough criticism with respect to typographical and graphical layout. I think we could learn some interesting things here (at least I could). I shall not go into the content of the document, but only say that in my opinion, this document is of major importance and therefore ought to have perfect layout. However, looking closely at the document it is clear that it was not prepared using LyX! I have this feeling that, apart from several errors, a lot of typographical rules have been broken or ignored - and also some graphical ones when considering the letterhead. In my opinion the letterhead is poorly designed. The little black bar in the top left corner annoys me, why is it there? The line reading (The Academy for Sciences for the Developing World) seem badly placed shifting the entire block right of the vertical bar. The document contains several errors as far as I can tell: there is a white space missing after (ii) and the vertical white space between 67. and 68. institutions should not be there. Furthermore, I am not sure I like the choice of fonts (and the high number of fonts used). Finally, I have this feeling that all blocks of text are aligned in an unpleasing way, but I cannot say what exactly triggers this feeling. Perhaps somebody can? I agree on all the points you have made. One aspect which I find particularly offensive is the use of upper case where lower case would traditionally be used and lower case where upper case would traditionally be used. The general feeling of unpleasing alignment is, in my opinion, due to three features: justification is by varying word spacing only; kerning is not used (look at the spacing of V in the last word of the title); and a sans serif font (Officina Sans-Book I'd guess, from the fonts listed by Adobe Reader) is used for the bulk of the document, made worse by putting the first page in bold. There's a reason why most printed blocks of text have used a serif font for the last three centuries or more: it's easier to read. Les -- L. R. Denham Gentoo Linux 2005.1 Kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 KDE 3.3.2 Athlon XP 3200+ 1 GB Dual Channel PC2700 RAM Maxtor 120 GB (Partitions EXT3) Sony CRX300E CD-RW/DVD-ROM OPTORITE DVD RW DD1205 Gainward GeForce4 64MB MX440 EPox 8RDA3+ Motherboard
Re: powerdot help
On Monday 18 September 2006 12:42, mail.k wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to create a slide with text and graphics side by side:
three itemized lines on the left, and a small figure on the right.
I've tried \twocolumn{text}{\includegraphics{}}
and also tried floats, but the graphics doesn't show properly.
Any advice?
I recently tried to do the same thing, and could not figure out an easy way to
do it. I settled for putting the picture at the top, and the text below it.
The most promising approach might be to use two minipages side by side.
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Gentoo Linux 2005.1 Kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r6
KDE 3.3.2
Athlon XP 3200+
1 GB Dual Channel PC2700 RAM
Maxtor 120 GB (Partitions EXT3)
Sony CRX300E CD-RW/DVD-ROM
OPTORITE DVD RW DD1205
Gainward GeForce4 64MB MX440
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Re: Multi-writer book
On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेडरिक नोरोंया wrote:
Any tip how I could enter the name of the author of each chapter in
the table-of-contents of a multi-author book? Thanks in advance. FN
Frederick,
You can put the title and author as a Short Title. See attached.
Les
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Gentoo Linux 2007.1 Kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r5
KDE 3.5.7
#LyX 1.4.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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\language english
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\use_amsmath 1
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\end_header
\begin_body
\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset LatexCommand \tableofcontents{}
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Section
Test
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status collapsed
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Test by LRD
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Re: A0 posters in LyX
On Friday 16 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to have the facility of generating a clean design -- like what the beamer/LyX combination gives you-- together with my references properly formatted with bibtex. Could I get a beamer presentation onto one A4 landscape page? The trouble I see is with the font sizes, as beamer makes everything quite large for a screen layout. I haven't used beamer, but I do use powerdot -- a similar class -- on a regular basis, and I can see the problem with fonts. If you have a relatively large amount of text, and relatively few figures (even if they are fairly large) you might get good results with a very straightforward approach using article class and the multicol package to put perhaps three columns onto a single landscape page. With this method I'd put the figures and tables in floats and let LaTeX figure out where to put them -- but I'd also expect to waste a lot of time juggling margins, font sizes and spacing to fill the page without overflowing it. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: A0 posters in LyX
On Friday 16 November 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found several references through Google search on how to create an a0poster.layout, but I haven't found any tips on what LyX tools to use to create a poster. Should I use minipages and fixed floats for graphics and tables, or, should I use columns? Any special handling of fonts? What about background decorations or watermarks? Or, should I design a one-page (A4) landscape APA article layout and use a tool like psa4toa0.sh to enlarge it? Anyone have an example a0poster that they produced with LyX that they could share? Mateo, Last time I had a poster paper to present I spent quite a while researching the possibilities using LyX, and ended up using Scribus. But the best solution depends on exactly what you want to put on the poster. The more complicated it gets, and the more graphics you want to use, the harder it becomes to use LyX (or LaTeX). No matter what software you use, there is a lot to be said for generating the poster at a manageable size such as A4, then enlarging it at the plotting stage. That way you don't put things in that are too small to be viewed properly on the poster when it is displayed. My posters are plotted using SDI plotting software which allows any desired scaling as the poster is sent to the plotter, so no specific tool is needed to enlarge it. Many other printer and plotter drivers can do the same. If I did use LyX, I would most likely use minipages to control layout -- but even with them, it's hard to get things looking right. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: What are your experiences (including figures)?
On Tuesday 11 December 2007, bigblop wrote: Does anyone actually use the LyX way to include figures/pictures? I always use the LyX way, and I frequently produce documents with tens or hundreds of figure floats. But to speed things up, once I have the settings right (size, justification, position of caption, etc.) I insert the next figure by copying and pasting the previous figure, then editing the image filename, label and caption appropriately. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Conversion to OpenOffice error
When I convert from LyX to OpenOffice.org writer, I get the following type of error: LyX (1.4.2 on Linux): 1. The benefits of this document offer a few problems. OpenOffice.org (2.1 on Linux): The beneøts of this document ooeer a few problems. My LyX document uses Article(koma-script) and Font newcent. Has anyone else run across this kind of problem? I suspect it is a problem with fonts -- the errors occur with fi, ff and a few other uncommon letter combinations. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Conversion to OpenOffice error
On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Jia 'Colin' Zheng wrote: How did you convert it, by copy and paste or export to plain text? I've no clue how ligature affects the conversion, unless it was converted from dvi or ps or pdf format. I did the conversion using the File-Export-OpenOffice.org Writer function in LyX, which uses oolatex. I too have no clue as to how the ligature (which appears to be the problem) affects the conversion. But the error is quite repeatable. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: (latex question) Repeated footnote?
On Friday 11 January 2008 08:25, Neal Becker wrote: I have a description env, and I have some notes for some entries. I was planning to use footnotes, but I need multiple references to the _same_ notes. Like: entry A: 1 entry B: 1 entry C: 2 1: some footnote 2: some other footnote Neal, 1. The first time the footnote occurs, put it in normally. 2. Then put a label in the footnote. 3. To refer to the same footnote a second time, insert a crossreference to the label and format it as superscript. 4. Example attached. Les footnote.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: [OT] Best KDE-centric Distribution?
On Monday 14 January 2008 11:18, rgheck wrote: I've been using Fedora ever since I started using Linux, but the second-rate status of KDE under Fedora is starting to get to me, so I'm thinking about switching. But then: to what? I don't think Kubuntu is for me. Gentoo would be an option, but then I'm not sure I want to be quite that bleeding-edge. So, the question: What? Richard Richard, For various reasons I have found myself using four different Linux distributions at the moment: Gentoo (with KDE), Suse 10.1 (with KDE), RHEL3 (with KDE) and Ubuntu (with Gnome). I haven't tried Kubuntu, but I have found Ubuntu generally satisfactory and trouble free. I like Gentoo, but getting things to work properly is sometimes very time-consuming. Things that just just work in Ubuntu or Suse sometimes take a lot of fiddling to get running in Gentoo. On the other hand, the things that you just give up on in the other distributions can usually be made to work (often quite easily) with Gentoo. I wouldn't recommend Suse because I've come across some annoying things that don't seem to have a fix -- such as frequently disallowing graphical logins except by root, until you log in as root and then log out again. We only use RHEL3 because we use some proprietory software that only runs on that release -- it's archaic, and doesn't support a lot of recent software or a lot of new hardware. Les
Re: left justify floats?
On Thursday 17 January 2008 06:07, Helge Hafting wrote: I was hoping for a preference setting that allows printing via pdflatex instead of the usual way, because that is necessary for using microtype. But lyx currently doesn't support microtype directly so there is no need. . . Helge, So what? Microtype is only used to improve the final output; Lyx is only concerned with the on-screen user interface. Couldn't the user replace the dvips used as the printer command with a short script to run pdflatex to a temporary file, run pdf2ps on the temporary file, then send the output to the printer? Les
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, muzzle wrote: Hi, I have been using lyx for my latex needs for quite a long time. Now I am trying latex presentations, but lyx does not seem very well suited for the task and I went back to pure latex code. Can you give me some advice on writing slides with lyx? Is it even a good idea? Any plans for the next release regarding this area? I think it coul be a very interesting impovement given the quality of the average powerpoint/openoffice presentation :) Goodbye, Emme, I have used Powerdot very successfully for presentations at international conferences for about three years (http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Powerdot). I have installed Powerdot from CTAN on four computers running different (but all up-to-date) Linux distributions, and have not yet found the default LaTeX installation to meet the prerequisites for Powerdot (usually the required version of xkeyval [2.5c] is not there). These requirements are on page 26 of the Powerdot manual, unobtrusively included under the heading Compiling your presentation. A LyX layout is included with the CTAN download. Overall, I think Powerdot gives much better (more professional and consistent) results than PowerPoint, but does not have the ease of editing, nor many of the bells and whistles. I would say it is about 70% integrated into LyX. One point which is not emphasized in the manual is that though the final product is usually a PDF file, you can't get it using pdflatex -- you have to use ps2pdf. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Latex presentation with lyx
On Wednesday 23 January 2008, John O'Gorman wrote:
Recently I flirted with powerdot. It is a nightmare on the SUSE
platforms and relies on postscript for overlays, animation, etc which
then do not translate fully to PDF. Powerdot also relies on TeX packages
which are not included by default in the SUSE teTeX distributions.
John,
This is a valid criticism of Powerdot. However, I think you'll find it worth
persevering to get it running. One of the systems I use it on is a 64-bit
SMT version of Suse 10.1 (and you probably wouldn't believe the extra
incompatibilities you get with 64-bit!), and you're right -- it wants half a
dozen pieces not included in the Suse distribution: but they're all readily
available on CTAN, and quite easy to install (if you read the instructions --
it varies from package to package).
Powerdot does not work properly with pdflatex for conversion to PDF, but it
does work properly with ps2pdf.
I include \hypersetup{pdfpagemode=FullScreen} in the Preamble, which starts
the presentation with a full-screen display, instead of the usual Acroread
menu and border. You can easily customize the layout with judicious use of
ERT, or use one of the included styles and stick with the defaults.
--
Les
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Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 13:16, Rich Shepard wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Les Denham wrote: If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster tool which is part of GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/) does a very nice job. Les, I don't want a raster image; LyX/LaTeX prefers PostScript, particularly the encapsulated form. Rich, In spite of its name, ps2raster does not necessarily convert to raster format: if you choose the -Tf option it outputs PDF directly from the PS input. Les
Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: If I was able to insert and use a .pdf at the top of the letter's first page I would not need to go through the exercise of converting the .pdf to an .eps. I have the .pdf file already. Ah! Well, you need: ps2raster -A -Te file.ps which should generate file.eps One of the features I like about this utility is that it happily deals with a lot of files that ghostscript chokes on (which is probably not pertinent in your case -- these are usually very large and complex files). -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead
On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Rich Shepard wrote: When I get the syntax for cropping the .eps file using 'convert' I'll be able to import it into the document, and that's ultimately what I need. Rich, If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do, the ps2raster tool which is part of GMT (http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/) does a very nice job. ps2raster -A -Tf file.ps takes a PS (or EPS) input file, sets the bounding box to the smallest size which will fit everything in the input file, and outputs file.pdf If you use convert to do the job, I think you'll change everything into a raster format. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson
On Sunday 24 February 2008 17:35, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Here are two small LyX files. The only difference is that in bug2.lyx the labels come last inside the floats, whereas in bug.lyx the labels come first. bug2.lyx works (after a couple view-pdf, but bug.lyx never works (at least on my 1.5.3). I'm attaching the files and the two images they use, so that you all can be aware of this little gotcha. Or, if it's only happening on my system, maybe we can exploit the differences to find out why. Thanks Steve, I get the same results as you with these examples, though I'm using 1.5.1 rather than 1.5.3. But I always put the label inside the caption of the float, and have never had this problem. As the caption is what is actually numbered, I think that is the logical place to put the label. A few minutes ago I completed a 66 page document with 235 figures, almost all of them labeled and cross-referenced, and while I have not done a final proof-read I do not think I have an error in any of those references. Les
Re: Figure references 1.5.3: Danger Will Robinson
On Sunday 24 February 2008 18:06, Steve Litt wrote: Aha! I never even thought of putting it inside the caption (should it be at the beginning or end of caption?). Whatever the final answer, it should be documented. Steve, I don't know whether it is explicitly documented, but if you look at the documentation for floats (4.3.2.1 in UserGuide.lyx for 1.5.1) and examine how the labels are placed in the floats, you will see they are in the captions, at the beginning. I doubt if putting them elsewhere in the caption would make any difference, but when you click on the label icon, the default name of the label is based on the first few words after the cursor. Doing this in your example gives The-Rapid-Learning as the label for the first figure, and The-Terminology-learning for the second figure. The default is close to what you want in many cases. If there was a particular word or phrase later in the caption you wanted in the label you could insert the label in front of it, and I'm sure it would work fine. Les
Re: Using a network printer
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. Printing from one of the viewers is pretty much the recommended method. Should we then have a 'print' entry in the File-menu? I wonder about that myself. I never use it (I always print from a viewer), although that's partly because I don't have a PS-aware printer. Beyond that, it's not entirely obvious (at least to a newbie) just what File-Print is going to print, since DVI, PS and PDF outputs of the same doc tend to differ a bit. Does it seem strange to have a document processor that cannot print? I'd be ok with using the viewer, but it's confusing with a File-Print that doesn't work. Christian, The problem with that thought is that on my system it Just Works, without any arcane settings. And mine is not a particularly simple setup: I'm running Gentoo Linux, with CUPS printing, on a rather complicated network, and LyX just defaults to running a document through dvips and sending it to the default printer. However . . . as many LyX users do, I usually use pdflatex for my default preview and most common export. And some figures which work perfectly with pdflatex do not work at all with latex. When I try to print a document with such figures, the printing fails with the message: Could not print document name.lyx. Check that your printer is set up correctly. Perhaps this is exactly the problem Paul has encountered: the error message gives the impression it is a printer problem, whereas the real problem is the difference between latex and pdflatex. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Website re-design ideas
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:01 -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. So that our graphic designer can know what kind of general design style would look good, which ones of the following look best to you guys? http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ http://www.python.org/ http://www.scipy.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ If there are other websites that you guys think are particularly well designed, please let us know! Rex, Certainly, all of these look better than the current LyX site. My personal favorite is www.ruby-lang.org. But perhaps more important than the appearance is how the site is built. I would suggest the following rules: 1. Use DOCTYPE XHTML (it's the future). 2. Define the appearance entirely in CSS (and keep it reasonably simple). That makes it easy to change if necessary. 3. Avoid using script if possible. Les
Re: disable tilde backup-on-save files
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Dennis Nezic wrote: Currently, whenever I save a document, it additionally saves a filename.lyx~ backup file (appended with a tilde). Is there a way to disable this? Try Tools-Preferences-User interface and uncheck the Backup documents. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: New LyX website
On Sunday 30 March 2008 19:07, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: For those who haven't seen it, the new LyX website is now at: http://www.lyx.org/test/index.php/Main/HomePage We're still doing some design work, but the basics are in place. What do you all think? Rex, I like the look, and I'm particularly impressed with how quickly it has gone from a suggestion for an improvement to a fait accompli. Les
Re: a0poster example using LyX
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I ended up using the sciposter class with the options
[landscape,a0,largefonts,plainsections] and the packages:
\usepackage{multicol}
\usepackage{sectionbox}
\usepackage{wallpaper}
snip
The columns were automatically and evenly distributed and the EPS figures
and LYX tables were all properly sized and layed out. I didn't worry about
font sizes or margins.
Hope this helps.
Mateo,
I'll keep that in mind next time I have a poster paper. I tried to use LyX
for a poster paper a year ago, but could not get something that looked
reasonable. I ended up doing it in Scribus: but that meant fiddling with
every little detail of the appearance.
--
Les
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Re: Clickable Intradocument Cross-Reference
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Where would I find information on how to insert a clickable cross-reference (much like a hypertext one), which redirects to another area of the same document, in Lyx? Thanks in advance. For when you are editing the LyX document? If you insert a label (the icon that looks like a luggage tag) at the target point, then insert a cross-reference (the icon like an open book with an arrow in it) where you want the clickable cross-reference. Clicking on the cross-reference gives a popup window with Go to Label as one of the options. For the final PDF document, use the hyperref package. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: LyX Without LaTeX
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 09:21 -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote: I would ask our IT folks to install LyX on her machine. Any thoughts on how I can make this go smoothly for them? Bruce, Another option is the portable LyX mentioned in another thread earlier today. http://portableapps.com/node/9880 Les
Re: Short Horizontal line in LyX?
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Ed Sykes wrote: Hi, Would someone be so kind to let me know how to make a short horizonal line in LyX please? something like: First Name: ___ Thanks, Ed Sykes One way of doing this is to insert a 1x1 table, specify the column width, and put a border on the bottom only. Or you could put both parts in a table. See attached. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html #LyX 1.4.4 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 245 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass article \language english \inputencoding auto \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize default \use_geometry false \use_amsmath 1 \cite_engine basic \use_bibtopic false \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation skip \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \tracking_changes false \output_changes false \end_header \begin_body \begin_layout Standard First name: \begin_inset Tabular lyxtabular version=3 rows=1 columns=1 features column alignment=center valignment=top width=2in row bottomline=true cell alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true rightline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset /cell /row /lyxtabular \end_inset \end_layout \begin_layout Standard or you could put both parts in a table: \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Tabular lyxtabular version=3 rows=1 columns=2 features column alignment=center valignment=top width=0 column alignment=center valignment=top width=2in row bottomline=true cell multicolumn=1 alignment=center valignment=top usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard First name: \end_layout \end_inset /cell cell alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true rightline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset /cell /row /lyxtabular \end_inset \end_layout \end_body \end_document
Re: Drawing graphs in lyx
On Friday 11 April 2008, Ola Vestad wrote: Hi, I'm preparing a presentation in lyx and want to draw a couple of (simple) graphs. I'm not a very advanced computer user so right now I'm making the presentation in lyx and drawing the graphs in Microsoft Word (!), and I plan to add them to the presentation as images afterwards. Is there a simpler way to do this? More specifically; is it possible to draw graphs directly in lyx? Ola, LyX does not have built-in graphing, but there are a number of easy-to-use tools out there which LyX supports very nicely. Personally, I use Grace http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/. Unfortunately, it appears that installing Grace on Windows (which I assume is your OS) does not appear to be trivial. I haven't tried it. However, the way you are doing it can work quite well, or at least as well as anything using MS Word (wouldn't Excel be better?). If you can save the graph in a vector format that LyX can read (such as PDF or Postscript) the results will be better than saving it as a raster file. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: How to make a title page?
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008 22:20, HZ wrote: Hi all, How can I make a title page for report? Normally, there should be a title, author, logo and date at the foot of the title page. Can I generate a separate lyx file for the title page and include my report lyx file within it? Is there a customized layout file to do that? Thanks a lot! HZ For some of you this will sound like a broken record, but I never get tired of saying it -- fine tune your front matter with custom styles and ERT, including page breaks. Trying to get any document class to present the front matter in a specific way, and still having that document class do a good job in the mainmatter, has in my experience been walking the trail of tears. Steve, I have seen your opinions on this before, and they do have validity. A good discussion on defining front matter is in the documentation of the memoir class. However, to answer the question HZ asked: you can use a separate file for the title page, export it as PDF, and merge the PDF export from your report using pdfpages (http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pdfpages), which is probably in your LaTeX distribution. If you want a really nice title page, you might want to use Scribus rather than LyX to format it. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Extra Space in Footnotes
On Monday 14 April 2008, John A. Lorenc wrote: Hello, I am using the report class and when I preview my document with .dvi or export to .pdf several of my footnotes have an extra blank line right after the note number, then the text of the footnote, e.g.: John, I can't duplicate this behavior; and I've never seen it, even though I use footnotes very frequently (though I usually use other classes). What version of LyX are you using? Can you post a minimal example of a LyX file which exhibits this problem? -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Help me Please
On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Hassan Khater wrote: Hello I am using lyx to produce my PhD thesis. Sorry if I am not expert enough to deal with every thing. I have three problems with my lyx master file: 1) I have to set the document class to book as the best choice available. 2) When I apply roman numbers to table of contents, it starts with a blank but numbered page. 3) The title is centered on the cover page and I am allowed only to insert author with title and date. You know other things should appear on the title page. Like address and a two line description of the thesis. at the moemnt I have to write these as title or author but with different fonts and line break. Hope to receive answers or suggestions Hassan Khater Materials Science Hassan, If you want a fully configurable layout, I'd suggest memoir class -- but expect to read the LaTeX memoir documentation (about 250 pages for the manual and 100 pages for the addendum) several time before you figure out how to get the most out of it. Another option is to create the title page as a separate document (possibly using a different application, such as Scribus) and combine it with the rest of your thesis using pdfpages. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Texlive for lyx
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know Alain, I have made the switch on three computers recently, without any major problems, though it is somewhat of a hassle. On Gentoo, texlive is divided into about thirty packages (with the documentation in separate packages). Your first step should be to look at what is in each one and decide whether you need it. I find the best place to quickly get information on packages is http://gentoo-portage.com. Next, remove tetex completely (emerge -Ca tetex). If you have installed additional packages from CTAN directly rather than through a Gentoo emerge, it should be left alone in the texmf tree when you remove tetex, but it might be a good policy to back it up. Then emerge the texlive packages. You will need lots of disk space and a fast internet connection (they total close to half a gigabyte), and you'll probably get a few blocks. Solve these by removing the offending package: it probably is replaced by something in texlive, and if it isn't, you can emerge a newer version after you have texlive emerged. Run texhash (not really needed if you don't have any other TeX packages), and reconfigure LyX. There is a Howto for doing this on the Gentoo wiki somewhere, but I only found out about it after I'd done the job, and I haven't read it. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Texlive for lyx
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Pavel Sanda wrote: Your first step should be to look at what is in each one and decide whether you need it. I find the best place to quickly get information on packages is http://gentoo-portage.com. please note that there is texmfind utility under gentoo, which helps to find appropriate packages for a given classes for texlive, eg: texmfind moderncv.cls pavel, Yes, that helps when you know what you are looking for. I had in mind a way of looking at each package to decide whether you might need it in the future. For example, clicking on View in the dev-texlive/texlive-genericextra page on gentoo-portage.com shows it contains: abbr abstyles aurora barr borceux c-pascal colorsep dinat eijkhout fltpoint insbox mathdots metatex mftoeps midnight multi ofs pdf-trans psfig realcalc vrb vtex collection-genericextra Now I don't know what most of these are, but I'm pretty sure I might want psfig, so I emerge this package. Les -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Bogus responses to my lyx-users@lists.lyx.org posts
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Steve Litt wrote: Since May 1, 2008, every time I post to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, I get what looks like an autoresponder email from [EMAIL PROTECTED], telling me to check their FAQ and then if that doesn't help to submit a trouble ticket. Could someone please unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] If worst comes to worst I can pipe everything from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to /dev/null, but I imagine this is a problem for more people than just me. I just emailed their sales department asking them to get rid of the autoresponder on mail from the LyX list. You too? I thought it was just me getting them. I'd suggest removing every address in the ultimatevocabulary.com domain from the lyx-users list . . . -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: problems with Beamer presentations
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: Sorry, i did not precise : i'm under Ubuntu 7.10, with Lyx 1.5.1 nicolas nicolas roy a écrit : Hi everybody, I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several problems. Of course, like always, i waited for the very last moment to start to write my presentation (last time was some year ago, with another linux, another verions of lyx, another computer...)... :-(. Any help will be greatly appreciated ! snip Thanks a lot in advance for any help. nicolas, I can identify with your problem -- several years ago I tried to put together a presentation with beamer, and gave up. I turned to powerdot instead, and have generally found it to be very satisfactory. I think it is a standard class with LyX 1.5.1, and Ubuntu 7.10 should have a new enough version of texlive for everything to work (when I started with powerdot all my systems had tetex, which does not have recent enough versions of several LaTeX packages for powerdot). The only caveat with powerdot is you have to remember to generate the PDF output using ps2pdf, not pdflatex. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: problems with Beamer presentations
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: More precisely, when i force the programm to choose the document class powerdot, i have an alert : the layout file requested by this document powerdot.layout is not usable. This is probably because a Latex class or style file required by it is not available. Nicolas, Look in the Powerdot documentation (probably /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf or /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf, definitely at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/doc/powerdot.pdf) at Table 2 on page 26, which lists the required LaTeX packages. You can download these individually from CTAN (http://www.ctan.org) and follow the installation instructions for each one; or as an alternative, just install all the texlive packages available for Ubuntu -- you'll get them in there somewhere, but I don't know where, and the total download is hundreds of megabytes. Once you have installed the missing LaTeX packages, reconfigure LyX and try to open the sample Powerdot LyX presentation, powerdot-example.lyx (which on my system is at /usr/share/texmf/doc/powerdot/lyx, but may be somewhere else on yours) and check whether you can export to PDF (using ps2pdf). If you can, everything is working. The best way to start your own presentation is by modifying the example: getting the preamble and powerdot options right is sometimes tricky. There is a mailing list archived at http://www.freelists.org/archives/powerdot/ which is helpful for a new user. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: problems with Beamer presentations
On Thursday 15 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: BUT : if i export in ps, and the by hand use ps2pdf, then it works ! I guess thus, that the problem comes from the command dvipdfm that lyx seems to use. How can i change it ? Notice than, with beamer, using export ps and by hand ps2pdf solve partially the problem. The slides are nice, but they have a very small size embedded in a A4 page. I mean : http://www.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~roy/beamer.pdf Is there an option that could solve this size issue ? The standard LyX installation usually has three ways of exporting to PDF: PDF(dvipdfm), PDF(pdflatex) and PDF(ps2pdf). You access all of them from the File-Export menu. The PDF icon (at least on my 1.5.4 installation) uses the PDF(pdflatex) converter, which certainly does not work with powerdot and probably not with beamer (I haven't tried it). Powerdot (and probably beamer) uses the pstricks package which means the conversion has to go through postscript, so dvipdfm, which goes directly from DVI to PDF, and pdflatex, which goes directly from LaTeX to PDF, do not work properly. If you use the PDF(ps2pdf) export (or viewer) it should work properly. The page format problem is probably due to something lacking in the class options or in the preamble. Have you tried the example, powerdot-example.lyx? -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Nathan Miller wrote: I'm checking whether the fonts are embedded using Acrobat (properties) and pdffonts. There are a scary number of fonts (~100) and most are not embedded. In my experience most non-embedded fonts with LyX documents come from figures in the document in Postscript/EPS or PDF format. If the application which generated these figures did not embed the fonts, and they differ from those your LyX document uses, they will show up in the PDF document as not embedded. The solution is to fix the original figure, or, if you can't do that, convert it to a raster image at a suitable resolution for the final document. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Les Denham wrote: The solution is to fix the original figure, or, if you can't do that, convert it to a raster image at a suitable resolution for the final document. With a few minutes research, I noted the following from the ps2pdf documentation: ps2pdf will sometimes convert text to high-resolution bitmapped fonts rather than to embedded outline fonts. This will occur when the PostScript file uses Type 3, CIDFontType 1, or CIDFontType 4 fonts, or Type 0 fonts that reference any of these; it may also occur in some cases if the input file uses fonts with non-standard encodings, or in some other rare cases. The default setting of EmbedAllFonts for ps2pdf is true, so using ps2pdf to convert to PDF should embed everything if these font types are avoided. Of course, this may be a problem with non-Roman character sets, which are likely to be available as CID fonts only. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?
On Thursday 15 May 2008 10:54:44 am Nathan Miller wrote: I know basically nothing about all this font business, but naively it seems like some program should just be able to see which fonts are not embedded, and then add them to the pdf. Is there a basic reason this wouldn't work? I think ps2pdf does this as best it can. I'd suggest running each of your figures (which are now in PDF format) through pdf2ps then through ps2pdf, then open it in Acrobat Reader (or xpdf, etc.) and look at the document properties to see if the fonts in that figure are embedded. If they aren't, anything you do with the output from pdflatex won't work. If that happens to a particular figure, you can convert it to a bitmap (I'd suggest PNG) using Gimp, ImageMagick or other image editor, and specify the bitmap in your LyX document. LyX will handle it automatically. Les
Re: Default Float placement is pathetic
On Tuesday 20 May 2008, G. Milde wrote:
The counters topnumber and bottomnumber determine how many floats are
allowed on one page and the commands \topfraction, \bottomfraction and
\textfraction determine how much space they might take.
Change with e.g. \setcounter{topnumber}{4}
or \renewcommand{textfraction}{0.1} in the LaTeX preamble.
Günter,
That is some very valuable advice. I am currently working on a document of
about 200 pages with over 200 figures, and getting the reasonable float
placement has been quite an interesting experience. I spent more time than I
really wanted to reading the details of how LaTeX decides where to put a
float -- the documentation of how these LaTeX settings really affect the
output is dense, complex and abstruse. I only arrived at a satisfactory
solution by repeated trial and error, and I'm still not sure why the settings
I'm using give the results they do.
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Re: Default Float placement is pathetic
On Tuesday 20 May 2008, G. Milde wrote: Thanks. Encouraged by this and following an old tradition on this list, I include a link to Herbert Voß' Tips and Tricks pages: All about floats: http://www.texnik.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=floats/floats Float parameters: http://www.texnik.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=floats/parameter Yes, Herbert's Tips and Tricks were my starting point. They showed me which setting I needed to change. But the tips are, by their nature, terse, so I had to hunt through the documentation to find out what each parameter really does, and even then I had to try it out until I found something that worked for my case. As for the unfortunate title of this thread, if you want really pathetic figure placement, try getting decent figure layouts in a conventional word processor. Those who want perfect figure placement should perhaps use a publishing program such as Scribus. But be prepared to place every figure exactly where you want it -- one at a time. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: +/- in a table too large
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 12:36:01 pm Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Have a look at the document settings. I can´t see any strange things there, and the error stays after taking out the preamble entrances I can see exactly what you are talking about. The +/- symbol appears too large. But only if you use Latin Modern fonts. I tried every other font I have in LaTeX, and the problem seems to be exclusive to the LMSymbol Type 1 font, which I assume is what is used for Math symbols when you use Latin Modern fonts for text. Whether it is a problem with LyX, with LaTeX, or with the font, I can't tell. You can fiddle with the line spacing in the table (I don't remember exactly how), but it seems to me the simplest solution would be to use another font. I'm using 1.5.4 with texlive on Gentoo 2007. Les
Re: Several questions on memoir style with fancy layout
On Thursday 05 June 2008, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
Hello!
I'm preparing a book using the memoir style with the fancy page-layout.
snip
Here are my questions:
1. Each chapter's name is of style Chapter, naturally. What's the correct
style for the description, however? Ideally, I'd like the descriptions to
appear in the TOC -- under the chapter's name, but without its own
page-number, which is always the same as the chapter's, of course.
I currently use the style Addsec*, which is not quite doing it...
In ERT:
\chapterprecis{your text here} at the beginning of each chapter. See p. 120
of the Memoir manual.
2. For some reason, the chapter-names do not appear on the headers of the
pages -- as the fancy-layout is supposed to do, does not it? Only the
TOC's pages have the proper headers.
Read section 14.3 of the Memoir manual (starts on p. 185)
3. For the same (or for some other reason), the bookmarks in the generated
PDF-file, although they refer to each Chapter, have no label.
Probably for the same reason you don't have the names in the headers (I'm
guessing).
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Re: Lyx for business
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:32 +0100, Graham Smith wrote: A rather vague question, but would anyone like to share their experiences of using Lyx in a small business situation, or point me towards some web links, with maybe example templates. Graham, I've been trying to do this for some years now. I have yet to persuade my partner to convert to LyX, even though every time he writes something (in OpenOffice or MS Word) he passes it on to me to fix the formatting. I usually just save it as text, import it into LyX, and return it to him in PDF format. I have several templates for different purposes, and start my documents with a copy of one of them. They are mainly based on Koma classes, and have features like a logo at the top of the first page, and a small logo in the running header on subsequent pages (set up in the Preamble). I estimate writing and formatting most documents in LyX takes about half the time required for the same document in MS Word. I also use LyX and Powerdot instead of PowerPoint for presentations. I have the most problems with clients who absolutely insist on receiving reports in MS Word format (or even PowerPoint format!). As far as possible, I ignore such requirements and use PDF. Les
Re: missing float.sty on default install
On Tuesday 08 July 2008, Hussein Elgridly wrote: I've come to LyX from the Windows version, and have just installed LyX from the Ubuntu repositories. I'm running Ubuntu 8.04, which gave me LyX 1.5.3. Firing up a .lyx document which I made in Windows, I tried exporting to PDF and it complained that I don't have prettyref.sty. I put it in the same folder as the .lyx document. Now I've tried again and it's complaining about float.sty. I'm under the impression that this is a pretty standard package, and on the Windows distribution it'll go off to CTAN and get all the styles by itself. Hussein, I haven't been in exactly your position, and I'm at work now where I'm not using Ubuntu, but I have Ubuntu (Kubuntu, actually) at home. I think the problem is that Ubuntu divides TeXlive into a lot of pieces, and I'll bet installing LyX just brings in the minimal package as a dependency. The simplest solution is to install texlive-full. But not the quickest: it's about a 500 Mb download. If that's a problem, look at all the texlive packages and pick out the ones you need. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Table Alignment
On Friday 18 July 2008, Paulina Restrepo wrote: I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 on a Mac, with Mac OS X version 10.4.11. I have a table inside a float, and the word Measure on the table looks aligned in Lyx, but when I compile into pdf it moves up. I haven't been able to fix its alignment. Here is the Lyx file. Any ideas? Paulina, I'm using LyX 1.5.4 on Linux, and I see exactly the same as you do. I looked at the exported LaTeX, and I can't see anything there that would make it behave the way it does. Running the LaTeX through both latex and pdflatex fails to generate any clues in the log files. However, I did manage to fix it. I'm not sure why this worked, though. 1. Select the whole row. 2. Set the font to Small Bold (did you realize you had a mixture of Small and Normal?) 3. Right click and set the vertical alignment to Middle. The fixed example is attached. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html #LyX 1.5.4 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 276 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass article \language english \inputencoding auto \font_roman default \font_sans default \font_typewriter default \font_default_family default \font_sc false \font_osf false \font_sf_scale 100 \font_tt_scale 100 \graphics default \paperfontsize default \papersize default \use_geometry false \use_amsmath 1 \use_esint 1 \cite_engine basic \use_bibtopic false \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \tracking_changes false \output_changes false \author \author \end_header \begin_body \begin_layout Standard \align center \begin_inset Tabular lyxtabular version=3 rows=10 columns=7 features column alignment=center valignment=middle leftline=true width=1.2in column alignment=center valignment=middle leftline=true width=0 column alignment=center valignment=middle leftline=true width=0.4in column alignment=center valignment=middle leftline=true width=0.4in column alignment=center valignment=middle leftline=true width=0.4in column alignment=center valignment=middle leftline=true width=0.4in column alignment=center valignment=middle leftline=true rightline=true width=0.4in row topline=true cell alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset /cell cell alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset /cell cell multicolumn=1 alignment=center valignment=top topline=true bottomline=true leftline=true rightline=true usebox=none width=2in \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \align center \series bold \size small Elasticity of Substitution of Consumption Goods \end_layout \end_inset /cell cell multicolumn=2 alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset /cell cell multicolumn=2 alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset /cell cell multicolumn=2 alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset /cell cell multicolumn=2 alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true rightline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset /cell /row row bottomline=true cell alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \align center \series bold \size small Share of Informal Labor \end_layout \end_inset /cell cell alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \series bold \size small Measure \end_layout \end_inset /cell cell alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \align center \series bold \size small 20 \end_layout \end_inset /cell cell alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \align center \series bold \size small 12 \end_layout \end_inset /cell cell alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \align center \series bold \size small 8 \end_layout \end_inset /cell cell alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \align center \series bold \size small 4 \end_layout \end_inset /cell cell alignment=center valignment=top topline=true leftline=true rightline=true usebox=none \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard
Re: Excel graphs into Lyx
On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 01:55 -0700, timtheenchanter wrote: Sorry if this question has been answered before but what is the best way to import excel graphs (Charts) into Lyx. If I convert them to a .jpg for example the quality of the finished document is poor. The new capabilities in 1.6 will be very nice, but meanwhile ... 1. Install PDFCreator (it's a GPL opensource package). 2. Print your Excel spreadsheet to PDF using PDFCreator as the printer. 3. Include the PDF page in your LyX document. I haven't done this with Excel, but I have done it with other programs, and it works very nicely, especially if you take the trouble to format your output to fill a single page nicely. Les
Re: Interesting thread on Slashdot
On Wednesday 30 July 2008, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is LyX only good for writing books, then? I use LyX for most writing of any kind. I find it most useful for writing technical reports, where I find on average it reduces the total time I spend on the writing by about 50%. My most recent report, which I finished yesterday, was about 70 pages, around 70% figures and the remainder text. The figures were in PDF, PNG and AGR format. A quick check of my project directories shows I have PDF files generated from LyX ranging in size from 3 kB to 40 MB -- so I obviously use LyX for documents of all sizes. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Excel graphs into Lyx
On Friday 08 August 2008, Konrad Blum wrote: PS: The people who have the free time to learn a bit gnuplot might want to export the Excel data into the CVS format, and use the gnuplot graphics, which can use also jpg or fig or whatsoever... You might also consider Grace, which (in my opinion) is easier to learn than gnuplot. The Grace (or xmgrace) format is accepted by LyX directly, and is a vector format, so the results are excellent. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer
On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Hi All In my presentation [using presentation (beamer) class], I want to put two logos in every page: One on the top-left (university logo) and another one on the top-right (research group logo) How can I do that, or any suggestions to place two different logo images in every presentation page in the header or footer. Thank you Obviously, from the lack of clear, simple replies, this is not a trivial problem. I use powerdot, not beamer, and it is not trivial there, either. But putting one logo on every page is. A simple solution would therefore be to create a combined image with the two logos in it, spanning the full with of the top of the screen. In powerdot, the size, location and file name of the logo is put in the preamble. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 02:04:33 pm Paul A. Rubin wrote: I don't use powerdot. Does it not put a slide title at the top of the screen? If so, this would seem to block the title (or vice versa). Paul, Most layouts for Powerdot do put the title at the top of the slide -- but they write it on top of the background, so they will write on top of the logo if it runs across the top. I just moved the logo into the center of the top on one of my presentations and viewed the resulting PDF to make sure this was what it did. Therefore, if you create your full-width logo with the two required logos on each side, and the center section (where the slide title will appear) consisting of a background the same as the slide style has in that position, the effect is the same as having separate logos in each corner. It would probably be simple to modify powerdot.sty to allow a second logo, but most people (including me) don't want to mess with the internals of LaTeX. Les
Re: Kudos to LyX Development Team
On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Just finished a 45 page article with lots of figures, mathematics, citations, and bibtex generated references. Not even the tiniest screw up. Perfect. Thank you, thank you, to the LyX development team! I second that. I just finished a 95 page report with 114 figures, five tables and two appendices, and satisfied a nit-picking client with strange and strongly held ideas about page layout. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Times Roman vs Latin Modern Roman Font
On Wednesday 27 August 2008, Abe Lau wrote: Hi all, I am wondering what's the difference between Times Roman and Latin Modern Roman font. I have read from the mailing list that the Latin Modern Roman (lmodern) package is preferred over the default Computer Modern Roman. However, I can't find any information about Times Roman. The Times Roman font looks much better on screen and this is the only difference I could tell from a brief look. Is there any disadvantage when compared to Latin Modern Roman? or is it just a matter of preference? Thanks, Abe As Times Roman was originally a newspaper font designed for narrow columns, I suspect it is on average slightly narrower than other fonts of the same nominal size, to make justification simpler in narrow columns. This would be a disadvantage for a page with a single column, where the larger number of characters in the line makes reading more difficult. LaTeX will automatically compensate for this by making the default margins wider. However, most people are very much used to Times Roman (and its clones, such as Times New Roman) because it is the most common serif font today, so you won't go far wrong if you use it. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Ike
Just a short note to those on the LyX list with whom I have corresponded. I live in Houston, and have come through hurricane Ike practically unscathed. We lost electric power on Friday night when the center of hurricane was still 200 miles away. The eye of the storm passed about 40 miles east of my house, and we had gale force winds for some 12 hours, from about 2100 Friday to 0900 Saturday. My internet connection stopped working before the power went off. The wired phone connection stopped working about lunch Saturday, and mobile phone service stopped working in my home a few hours later. Electricity was restored early afternoon Sunday, and wired phone service about 1700 Sunday. My DSL internet connection started working shortly afterwards. Mobile phone service is still intermittent. I had an attic ventilator blown off my roof, and two sections of fence knocked over. Most of Houston still has no electricity, and phone service is patchy. Wind damage is extensive. My office has major damage from glass breakage and water. The downtown business district has been cordoned off due to the danger from falling debris (one item mentioned in the local news was a computer which had falled to the street from a broken window one of the upper floors of a 75 storey skyscraper). Travel about the city by car is generally possible, though dangerous: traffic signals are either not working at all because there is no power, or have been severely damaged by the wind, and even major freeways have debris in them. There is a serious shortage of supplies, particularly fuel, ice, and perishable food such as milk. Les
Re: Lyx 1.5.4 lof caption length
On Monday 22 September 2008, Daniel Lohmann wrote:
On 22.09.2008, at 16:51, Fil wrote:
Hi,
Please could you advise if you can set the caption length in LOF in
the TOC?? . I'm using lyx 1.5.4.
snip
The following might help you if you put it in the preamble.
It redefines \caption so that everything until the first period (.) is
taken, without the period, as short caption.
So:
\caption{Man on moon. This picture shows Neil Armstrong, the first
man on the moon.}
effectively becomes:
\caption[Man on moon]{Man on moon.\\ This picture shows Neil
Armstrong, the first man on the moon.}
An alternative is to use the Short Title. Click on the on the caption for the
Figure, then click on InsertShort Title and enter what you would like to
have in the LOF.
Of course, this will mean editing each of your 60 or so captions -- but it is
more flexible than Daniel's solution.
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Les
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Re: Location of packages
On Wednesday 24 September 2008 09:18:05 am rgheck wrote: E. Kaplan wrote: Thanks, RH. I placed the xcolor folder (with xcolor.sty in it) in the homologous place to where I found it in my Windows Miktex 2.7 installation, where the same Lyx file works just fine. The other latex packages are in folders in the same place (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/). Hmm. Well, since I don't have texlive, I'm not sure about this. Anyone? Richard PS Please make sure to include the list. Others with similar questions may be following the thread. On my texlive installation (on Gentoo, not Ubuntu) it's at: /usr/share/texmf-site/tex/latex/xcolor/xcolor.sty I am using texlive-2007 and xcolor-2.11. If this doesn't help, let me know and I'll look this evening at my home computer (which has Ubuntu 8.04 with texlive).
Re: dot/graphviz
On Tuesday 07 October 2008, Eran Kaplinsky wrote: Can anyone guide me how to incorporate dot graphs in my LyX documents? Is there a wiki on this? Thanks, Eran I have not used graphviz, but according to its website it can output postscript and PDF, either of which can be put in a figure in LyX (you may need to convert postscript to EPS, but that's easy too). Or you could output SVG files and use inkscape to include them in LyX (see http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/UseInkscapeSVGImages). -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Number of documents prepared with LyX? (Was: Frustrated user)
On Friday 24 October 2008, Christian Ridderström wrote: Interesting question... how many such documents have been written using LyX? I've written something like 10-20 documents (not counting presentations created with LyX). If ten documents is a typical number, and LyX has hundreds of users, we'd be talking about thousands of documents prepared with LyX. Christian, I think that would be far fewer than for many users. A quick search (find . -name \*lyx |wc -l) of just one of the four computers I use frequently with LyX gives a count of 348. I have been using LyX for at least seven years, and have probably used it for well over 1000 documents, ranging from one-page memos to reports and books over 400 pages, as well as quite a few presentations. I'm sure I have used LyX for at least 20 documents over 100 pages in length. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: How to install LaTeX packages
On Thursday 30 October 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to install LaTeX packages Keith Roberts wrote: How do I go about installing new/required LaTeX packages from CTAN? Do I have to install them into LyX, or into my actuall LaTeX installation? What operating system, and what LaTeX distribution? /Paul Hi Paul. I'm on Fedora 8, and it uses tetex-latex 3.0-44.9.fc8 Keith Keith, I'd suggest you upgrade to TexLive -- tetex is no longer maintained. You may well find the packages you want are already included. See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureTexLive However, the basic installation for most CTAN packages is pretty simple: 1. Download the package -- usually the You can get this entire directory bundled as .zip near the top of the page listing the contents. 2. Unzip the downloaded file. 3. Follow the installation instructions in the README file. 4. Run texhash 5. From within LyX, do: Tools-Reconfigure. Restart LyX. See section 5.1 in the LyX Help file Customization. The installation instructions typically are something like this (from the calendar package): INSTALLATION The simplest way to install the tools in the package is to make a subdirectory in the search path of your TeX, FTP all of the source files to that directory, and run latex allcal.ins. You should then be able to run the demonstration files. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Problem with geometry package (urgent)
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, a e wrote:
Sorry if this has an stupid answer but I'm burned out triying to set up the
correct margins for my document. I'm using Lyx 1.5.5 working with two
sided document (Document-Page layout- two sided) (book class) and using
geometry package with the following options.
\usepackage[a4paper,twoside,includeall,outer= 2.5 cm,inner= 0.75 cm,
vmarginratio=4:5,textheight= 25 cm,ignoremp,bindingoffset= 0.5
cm,pdftex]{geometry}
I tried using these options myself on a test document, and I get the correct
margins. I'm using LyX 1.5.4. Can you post a minimal document which has the
problem?
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Re: Word processor bashing
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: I'm moving this discussion to the users list: Patrick Camilleri wrote: Though I find LaTeX + LyX to be a very good typesetting system, I don’t understand all this bashing at other word processors in your ‘Introduction to LyX’ document. In my opinion if one took at least ¼ the amount of time one needed to learn LaTeX, one would find out that modern Word Processors are indeed very capable tools. Capable, yes. Usable, no. Yesterday I forwarded to a colleague a proposal I had written using LyX. At his request I converted it to ODT format so he could modify it using OpenOffice. As it was a simple document, the ODT version was a rather good imitation of the PDF I had exported from LyX. And it used styles. But when I got the edited document back, in ODT format, all of my colleague's additions were marked as hyperlinks to a non-existent target, and were in a blue instead of black, and used a different font. One item in an unedited Enumerate environment had the number underlined. He had no idea why these changes in appearance happened. I have tried to get him to use LyX, and even installed it on his computer for him; but he is uncomfortable with not being able to tweak the appearance the way you can do with conventional word processors (never mind that this usually results in a messy and hard-to-read document). It took me over an hour to get the proposal looking decent again using OpenOffice: I should have just exported it as text and imported it back into LyX. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Problem with geometry package (urgent)
On Wednesday 05 November 2008, a e wrote: Thank you for answering. Here I post a minimal document Looks right to me when I generate a PDF. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0
On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 08:26:28 Pavel Sanda wrote: These are the three themes available and we want to know which should be the default one. So I'm opening the poll right now, anyone interested can reply to this thread with - old - libreoffice - oxygen I don't have strong feelings about this. I'm personally most comfortable with the old icons, but I can see arguments for both the other sets. The Libreoffice icons are surely destined to become very well known as Libreoffice replaces Openoffice as the most widely used replacement for MS Office, and this will make them familiar to most new users of LyX. Oxygen has the goal of “Make a break with the past and go in a new direction, leaving behind the cartoonish and childish look of previous graphics”, and certainly this is a worthy goal. On balance, as I don't have strong feelings as a user, I should vote for the one which will be of most use to LyX as a community for the longest time. That must surely be Oxygen. See: http://www.oxygen-icons.org/?page_id=2 -- Les Denham
Re: Timeline generation
On Monday, April 18, 2011 14:19:07 mario wrote: hello On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 06:51 PM, Steve Litt lt;sl...@troubleshooters.comgt; wrote: On Monday 18 April 2011 03:09:53 Walter wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have a good solution to generate timelines? All I know is this would be really cool, and please let us know when you've found a solution. Yes, it would be very very cool. Do you know about http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/ ? It would be very nice to be able to convert that html output to something Latex can hadle. I have millions of question, but before I ask them maybe somebody could tell us what can be done, or which stumblig blocks are in front of us. I look forward to read from you thanks mario Mario, Conversion from HTML to LyX is (at least in principle) doable. The big problem with SIMILE is that the guts of the output is in Javascript not HTML. I'm not aware of a way of getting Javascript into something LyX might be able to handle. Les -- Les Denham
Re: lyx presentation
On Saturday, May 21, 2011 07:50:33 am tania kallab wrote: Hello again, i am using lyx version 1.6is there a way that i can create presentation slides using lyx since i dont actually know how to do it on latexthank you The simplest is to use Beamer. Look at some of the examples at http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Beamer or at the Beamer template installed with LyX. Another possibility is Powerdot. Les
Re: line breaks in chapter title show up in TOC
On Friday, May 27, 2011 14:12:23 Richard Opheim wrote: Hello LyX users. Has anyone ever had a problem with line breaks in a chapter title showing up in a TOC? I didn't like the way LyX laid out a chapter title---too many words on the top line and too few in the bottom line. So I inserted a line break. Problem is, now I've got a line break in the TOC. Is there any way to have my line break and normal-looking TOC, too? Richard Opheim Richard, You can use Short Title (Insert-Short Title) to define a different title for the Table of Contents. See attached. Les -- Les Denham short_title.16.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Most suitable image format
On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 15:18:03 Jens Nöckel wrote: Sam, just use PNG for all purposes. It's compressed but lossless, and it's supported by LyX as well as all modern web browsers. Jens On May 31, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Sam Lewis wrote: Thanks for your quick reply. I intent to both print it and distribute it online. I guess two versions of the document might be useful. What lossy format, would you recommend for the latter? If it really is high resolution, even a PNG image format may give unacceptably slow loading over some internet connections. JPEG is usually smaller than PNG, so there is an argument for using it for online distribution. But in general PNG is a very good universal format. If the PNG file is still too big, reduce the image resolution for online distribution. -- Les Denham
Re: Figure Float Rotated When Exported: Why?
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com wrote: I created a figure using gnuplot (because neither PSTricks nor R can make a bar plot with dates as the x labels), and exported it as PostScript (.ps). When I view the document, the figure is properly oriented, but when I export the file to pdflatex, the figure is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. Rotating the figure in the document is necessary so it is properly oriented when the file is compiled. Any ideas why this happened? Rich, I have no idea why this has happened, but I don't use gnuplot because this kind of thing seems to happen with it. Instead I use xmgrace, which can do exactly what I think you're trying to do, and can export directly to either PDF or EPS, either of which will probably behave better than PS when included as a figure. Les
Re: Printing full size pages
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:57:22 -0500 Bob Smither smit...@c-c-i.com wrote: I have a LyX document and I want to include some master forms in an appendix. The forms were created in OO.o and converted to letter sized PDFs. Is there a way in LyX to have these pages, when printed from the PDF generated from the LyX document, print as full size pages? Whatever I try ends up with the PDF scaled to fit inside the page margins. Bob, I can think of three ways of doing this. Firstly, insert the PDF pages as figures, which appears to be what you have been doing, but then use the clipping option to clip an existing border from the inserted page. This will only work if the inserted PDF page has a margin as large as the margin in the LyX document. Secondly, you can insert blank pages in your LyX document where you want the PDF pages inserted, and put the real pages into your exported PDF file using pdftk. The third way is to use the pdfpages package. This is supported in LyX 2.0 through Insert-File-External Material. I don't remember if it is supported in earlier versions, but even if it isn't you can use LaTeX code to make it work. See the LaTeX documentation for the package: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdfpages/ Les
Re: Can I use lyx for a shopping list
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 22:08:39 -0700 Monty Zukowski mo...@codetransform.com wrote: I'd like to lay out a 3x5 card shopping list in 3 columns. I'm not sure what document class to use for something so basic, everything I tried likes to have a lot of space at the top. Thanks for any pointers, Monty, I use LyX for almost everything written, but it really isn't the best tool for doing this. But you can make it work. I'd suggest getting the columns by setting up a table with fixed column widths. Use article class, and center the table using the paragraph settings. Adjust the margins (Document-Settings-Page Margins) and if you still have too much space at the top of the page you can use Insert-Formatting-Vertical Space to put in a negative space at the top of the page. But I'd use a spreadsheet such as Gnumeric or LibreOffice Calc to do the job. Les
Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis
On Monday 17 October 2011 11:49:53 Johnston81 wrote: 1. Considering LyX over Word, how much time would I approximately need to learn LyX to the extent that I can actually produce text, including graphics and formulas(!), from a template? Assuming you are reasonably fast at learning new things (and I assume you are as you are in graduate school): ten minutes. 2. What can I reasonably expect my learning curve to be after having learned the bare basics; what I mean is, is it simple to teach LyX to oneself and how easy is it to solve problems when encountered? Most problems are quickly and easily solved. Some -- such as complying exactly with very specific formatting directions -- can be extraordinarily difficult. 3. And finally, being a skilled user of Word would I - ultimately - save or spend time if I did try my luck on LyX? In spite of such a serious handicap I believe you will save a lot of time by using LyX, as long as you forget all you know about Word. I recently sent to printing a 164 page book with figures (mainly photographs) on nearly every page. I do not think it would be possible to generate a satisfactory final PDF using Word, but it was relatively easy with LyX. Today I finished a 33-page report with 30 figures. My total time for completing the report was about eight hours, of which 75% was spent extracting figures from PowerPoint presentations made by my collaborators and editing them to look decent. -- Les Denham Interactive Interpretation Training, Inc.
Re: Import into LyX
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:59:33 -0700 Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote: Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. One thing you do not mention is handling figures. The documents I work with tend to be very heavily illustrated, and I like LyX because it handles figures so much better than Word that there is no comparison. But most of my collaborators refuse to consider anything but Word, and hand me their contributions -- replete with figures on every page -- in the form of a .docx file which is so messed up LibreOffice renders it in a barely recognizable form. I usually end up asking for a PDF file, and I go through it copying text from it and pasting it into LyX, and using Acrobat Reader's snapshot tool to get the figures into Gimp. A tool which could import figure-heavy Word documents into LyX would be wonderful. A tool which would allow export of such documents into Word would be even more wonderful (and also a miracle). The client for a project currently near completion would like the final report (a 250 page document with over 200 figures, an index, and a bibtex bibliography) in Word format as well as in PDF format and paper. My current plan for that is to export the LyX to HTML and try to import it into LibreOffice, but I'm not very hopeful about getting a useful result. Les
Re: Import into LyX
On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:50:05 -0700 Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote: In the meantime, hearing about what features should be supported would be very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only docx support) would also be very helpful. I would be quite happy with only .docx support. As time goes by more and more of the people who insist on sending me Word documents get new versions of Word which default to that format. For the .doc format documents I can always use LibreOffice to convert to .docx. Supporting Styles and Figures is a major achievement as far as I am concerned. I assume you don't do much in deciphering the fingerpainting favored by most Word users. Such crass formatting is probably best left as Standard in LyX anyway. Les
Re: Greek pdf(LaTeX) bookmarks within from LyX
On Thu, 9 Feb 2012 23:26:00 + (UTC) Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net wrote: On 2012-02-09, Nikos Alexandris wrote: Finally it works! Un-Ticked the Tools Preferences Language Settings (or Language) Set languages globally option and used the LyX code attached below. This is rather a tricky option when dealing with bi- or multi-lingual documents I guess(?). @Liviu: I tried all sorts of utf8's, nothing worked (from the combinations of encodings and selected languages I tried). Well, it seems I haven't figured it out exactly. Any additional text in Greek raises a failure to compile properly. I am (more) puzzled. I'll try more combinations (since it's the only thing I can do for the moment) and will eventually report a success to the list. It seems like there is no force flag for the Greek letters in unicodesymbols. This means that Greek Unicode-chars are kept as-is when exporting to LaTeX. * This is good for the pdfstring * It does not work with Unicode (utf8) unless you add a `lgrenc.dfu` file for Greek Unicode with the inputenc standard UTF-8 support (e.g. from http://milde.users.sourceforge.net/LGR/). (There should be something about Greek and Unicode at the lyx wiki.) Günter That probably explains why PDFLATEX complains when I use a 'mu' (for 'micro-') in text context. I get around it by making it a math character. Les
Re: Many huge pictures - Memory problems?
On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:04:48 +0100 Peter Baumgartner peter.baumgart...@donau-uni.ac.at wrote: My assumption is that there is a memory problem: 1. I can compile every part of the book as long as I'm not compiling the whole book at once. 2. I can compile the whole book without problems in draft modus e.g. without integrating the pictures 3. To compile just a part but to tell LyX it should include counter and references results in the same error. Probably not a memory problem: I compiled a document yesterday with about 250 images, producing a PDF file of 280 pages and 325MB. I have not idea how to proceed: If I compile the book in two independent parts what about the int-text references, bibliography and other automatic generated lists (table of contents, table of figures etc.)? You shouldn't have to do that. Could a new organisation of the files helpful? (At the moment I have one master file with 53 subfiles.) That shouldn't make any difference. Another possibility I'm thinking of are the pictures itself. In my first version the pictures had about 80 to 300 kB. After shooting the screenshots again half of them have now 200 kB to 700 kB (still bad resolution but maybe sufficient?) the other half is between 2 to 4 MB. All the pictures are in PNGs. Perhaps it would help to size the biggest pictures a little bit down? But here the problem is: To some of the websites I have no access anymore and all the pictures have overlaid graphics in it (to highlight some part of the screenshot). The size of the graphics is not a problem, but there is probably one particular image which is giving you a problem. I'm at a loss and don't know how to proceed. Any hint would be *very* appreciated... I'd suggest the following process: 1. Export to LaTeX (pdflatex) 2. Run pdflatex on the exported file. It will stop at the problem. 3. Use the 'E' command to edit the file, removing anything suspicious around the point where it stopped. 4. Rerun pdflatex, repeating until you get it to run properly. 5. Go back to LyX and remove and re-enter the bits where pdflatex had problems. That process has solved similar problems for me in the past. One frequent problem is spaces in filepath names: they sometimes work and sometimes don't. The best solution is to remove them. Les
Problem with Change tracking
I seem to have found an undocumented feature of LyX 2.02. If I have Track Changes turned on AND have Show Changes in Output turned on AND have an embedded Gnumeric spreadsheet deleted in the current changes awaiting acceptance or rejection THEN PDFLaTeX dies every time. The solution for me is to make sure I accept the deletion of spreadsheets before I try to make a PDF of the document to sent to my colleagues for them to look at the changes before I accept them. If I have Show Changes in Output turned off, there is no problem. I'm running LyX 2.02 and TeXLive 2011 on Gentoo Linux. Les
Re: Recommended third-party tools
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:45:52 -0800 Russell D Brunelle rdb...@uw.edu wrote: Here's the draft I have so far, which builds on something I mentioned on this list a while ago: http://russellb.livejournal.com/1335718.html I'm sure everyone has different preferences, but here are some of my preferences. Firstly, the version of Linux is not all that important. I've had good experiences with Ubuntu in the past, but thanks to some idiotic (in my opinion) decisions recently by the maintainers of both Gnome and KDE and by Ubuntu for its default desktop, I've given up on Ubuntu, Gnome, and KDE, all three of which I have used happily in the past. For the average user now I would recommend Linux Mint (which just works even more smoothly than Ubuntu) and, for those willing to learn a little or a lot about what is behind the pretty windows, either Sabayon or Gentoo. Whichever distro you choose, change the window manager to XFCE or LXDE. For attractive graphics, I would generally agree. You have left out two tools I find very versatile and useful: for easy publication-quality data plotting I think xmgrace (which has a graphical interface, but can also be used on the command line and in scripts) is easier to use than gnuplot; and if maps of any kind are needed, you need GMT (Generic Mapping Tools). If you are using PDF for everything else you definitely need pdfimages (part of the Poppler library) and pdftk. And for things like the title pages Steve Litt says you need to do with something other than LyX, you need Scribus. Finally, if you want to make your document into an ebook, you need Calibre. Les
Re: Embedded Fonts
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:02:51 +0100 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I would like to use Lulu.com to print a book. Nevertheless, the ask for the fonts to be embedded in the PDF. Does Lyx do that by default? Mos often, yes. To verify, open the PDF in acroread or evince and access ctrl+d and alt+enter, respectively. In the Fonts tab you should have information on whether they're embedded or not. Liviu One potential source of non-embedded fonts is figures (usually in PDF format) with non-embedded fonts. If the PDF reader tells you there are fonts in the document which are not embedded, check any PDF figures the same way. The solution for non-embedded fonts in PDF figures depends on the source of the figures: if you didn't generate the figures yourself, embedding the fonts could be tricky. The ultimate solution is to convert the PDF figures to raster images (PNG is best) at high enough resolution to meet your final requirements. But this can generate very large PDF files. Les
Re: psfrag
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:24:46 + (UTC) Guenter Milde mi...@users.sf.net wrote: On 2012-03-26, Megnin, Christof (IMT) wrote: Hallo Lyx-Team, ich habe die Bilder in Lyx als eps eingefügt und möchte nun Versuchen die Schriften innerhalb der Bilder durch das Paket psfrag zu ändern. Wie kann ich das machen oder was muss ich als Latex schreiben, damit das funktioniert? Google for LyX and psfrag. Amongst many posts to this list, you will also find http://lachlan.rogers.name/2007/09/perfect-graph-integration-using-psfrag/ Günter, I don't remember seeing that particular post. But it seems to me that this might be a solution to a problem I have had from time to time with PDF files produced from LyX which have non-embedded fonts when I have done everything obvious to embed the fonts. The problem has turned out to be PDF figures in the LyX document, figures generated by some other program which has not embedded the fonts. Or perhaps pdflatex does not embed fonts embedded in included PDF files? Using pdftops to convert the figure to EPS, then using psfrag, might be a better solution to this problem than the solution I have used in the past: convert the PDF figure to a raster image. Les
Re: Incomplete Document from Letter Template
On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:27:01 +0200 Caterpillar caterpilla...@gmail.com wrote: Il 05/04/2012 19:22, Richard Heck ha scritto: On 04/05/2012 10:55 AM, Caterpillar wrote: Hello, I started using Lyx 2 months ago, so I am a new user compared to you :-) I am having some troubles with any template of letter kind. I opened a topic here, but I don't get answers by some days, and I need to fix this problem as soon as possible http://latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19t=19307 The problem is: If I write a complete letter using any letter template (filling name, address, subject, ecc.) and then I click on show document, I obtain only a poor document with only the main body. Please attach a LyX file that causes this problem. Richard Here is an example You need to have Opening style. See Help-Additional Features 6.14.3 Les
Re: Placing figures beside text in Beamer
On Wed, 09 May 2012 09:42:29 -0700 Tim Wescott t...@wescottdesign.com wrote: More Beamer hand-holding needed: I want to put a figure on the right, with text on the left, as shown (this is from an Impress presentation, BTW). I tried to place two miniboxes on the slide, with the text in one and the figure in the other. These boxes get placed exactly the way I want them to if I put text in both -- but as soon as I put the figure in the second box, LaTeX wants to put it above and to the right, with the text below and to the left. Surely there is a way to do this. As Jürgen pointed out, the standard Beamer way to do this is to use columns. I've modified Ingar's example of how to align boxes to give an example, as the way you use columns is not exactly intuitive. Les 0628.example_columns.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Music (not music theory) books in Lyx
On Thu, 17 May 2012 16:28:36 -0700 (PDT) ski_phreak mfu...@gmail.com wrote: So my big challenge is: How should I create non-printing Title, Composer and Lyricist references for my indexing. Thanks in advance for sharing your knowledge. Mike The Ski_Phreak -- View this message in context: http://lyx.475766.n2.nabble.com/Music-not-music-theory-books-in-Lyx-tp7564697.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Mike, This should be quite easy to achieve. An index entry does not itself show on the page: it just has to be on the right page. LyX 2.0 handles multiple indices natively, so having the three different ones should be simple. See: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Indexing Les
Re: Grey Matter
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 19:48:21 +
Beil, Scott scott.b...@ars.usda.gov wrote:
Lyx,
How do I grey boxes within tables; to make large table easy to read?
Scott,
It can be quite easy.
1. Add to the preamble:
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
2. Put ERT in the document before the first table:
\rowcolors{1}{lightgray}{white}
The result is shown in the attached file.
The methods mentioned by Paul and Liviu also work, but this is easier
for making all your tables the same color layout.
Les
tablebackground.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: How to get rid of excessive vertical whitespace
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 12:53:50 -0700 Roger House rho...@sonic.net wrote: I'm using Lyx for the first time and find it, by and large, quite nice. However, I've run into a situation where Lyx's automatic vertical layout is creating ugly output. Example: input text small figure caption text large figure (taking an entire page) output PAGE BREAK text small figure LOTS OF VERTICAL WHITESPACE caption LOTS OF VERTICAL WHITESPACE text PAGE BREAK large figure (taking an entire page) I want a page break before the large figure, so that works fine. . . . I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to prevent the layout shown above. Roger, The obvious solution would be to put a vertical fill (Insert-Formatting-Vertical Space-VFill) after the second text, and follow it with a page break (Ctrl-Enter). However, I'd suggest you reconsider the need for having the large figure quite so large (so it would fit on the same page) or, alternatively, making the small figure larger, so it fills some of the empty space. But make sure your document has pretty much its final content, and you are happy with the margins and font size (etc.) before you start making changes to get the page breaks making sense: changing these things will change the page breaks anyway. Les
Re: Thank You!
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 21:12:22 +0200 Påvel Nicklasson pavel223...@gmail.com wrote: My wishlist includes an Adobe Distiller type of program for Linux and that more printing houses would learn about LaTeX/LyX and offer support and advice. Påvel, One of my problems has been that most printing companies insist on if providing a PDF it must be distilled using Adobe for PDF files. That's a quote from Lulu.com, and while they do accept other PDF files for private printing, if you want it published by them you have to comply. Other publishers have similar wording. I have heard that Lulu.com will accept a PostScript file, though they do not say so on their website. So if you want to use Linux only for writing a book to be published, you pretty much have the choice of finding a publisher who will accept PostScript, or paying for Adobe's online service (I think they accept PostScript). Some publishers will accept other graphics files, such as JPEG or PDF for covers, and if they will do this Scribus is quite good for putting a cover together (with some of the graphic bits produced by Gimp). But I certainly join you in wishing for more LaTeX support among publishers. I don't worry so much about LyX support: if a publisher will accept LaTeX it is quite easy to generate that from LyX. Les
Re: Lyx 2.0.4 for Linux
On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:03:50 -0400 UD ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: I keep forgetting where I might be able to get the latest Lyx releases for Linux. I think Liviu maintains a site which has it, but what is it? Thanks, EK I just did an emerge --sync and found that LyX 2.0.4 is already available in Gentoo Portage. Les
Re: Graphics Tools
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 08:44:55 -0700 William R. Buckley w...@wrbuckley.com wrote: Working with TeX is a bit of a challenge, since it seems not to include much support for abstract drawing. I have need for figures to appear in a paper, and am not familiar with the toolset usually employed for use to make drawn images suitable for use with TeX. Can you please make a few suggestions. wrb One tool I haven't seem mentioned is Grace (http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/). I've found this a very versatile program, and (on Linux at least) it has native support from LyX. Look at http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/gallery/ for examples of what can be done. Les
Re: beamer question
On Wed, 01 Aug 2012 20:15:29 +0100 paul sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: Hi Now we have the raspberry PI out, I can perhaps use a raspberry Pi as part of a display system for a TV, sort of scroll through slides etc. if i create a presentation in beamer does this allow for auto changing of slides as in if I set the pi to auto boot to x, auto login and start a presentation, I want it to run the presentation and when it gets to the end, start over from the beginning without having to press a keyboard to go to next slide. Just wondered if this is possible or another package should be used. Paul Paul, Look at \transduration in the the Beamer User Guide (http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/beamer/doc/beameruserguide.pdf) I haven't used it myself, but it seems as if it should do what you're asking. Or you could use Impressive (http://impressive.sourceforge.net/index.php) which can be used to automate any PDF presentation. You might need to write a simple loop in some scripting language (I'd use Perl, but Python, bash, etc. would work) to repeat the show. Les
Re: Does LyX work in 64 bit?
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 14:31, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, For some unearthly reason, LyX was left out of the Mandriva 2007 64 bit version. It's been in Mandrake since version 7.x in 2000. Is there something about LyX that it can't be compiled and configured for 64 bit? Steve, I've been running Lyx in a 64-bit version of SuSE 10.0 for about a year with no issues. It's not the latest version (1.3.6, I think -- I'm not on that machine at present), and I don't know whether it's a 32-bit or a 64-bit executable, but it works fine. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Fbox in equations
On Friday 15 December 2006 17:32, James wrote: I am trying to put a box around equations. In Latex, you use an \fbox to accomplish this. However, I cannot figure out how to get Lyx to do this properly, particularly in the case of a displayed equation. Any tips? The attached example shows the Lyx source and PDF output. Les test.lyx Description: application/lyx test.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
Re: plain note
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 12:48, Philipp Fleig wrote: Hello everybody, I am new to LyX and I want to write a simple note using Lyx. Just a few lines and some formulae, so no sections, dates, heading etc. What document class should I use for this? Thanks a lot. Philipp Phillipp, I'd just use article. I'd leave everything in Standard environment, and put the formulae in using the Insert math. I might change the margins, but otherwise I'd just type the note and print it or export to PDF. -- L. R. Denham Gentoo Linux 2005.1 Kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r6
Re: tex4ht and LaTeX music applications?
On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:17, Jamie Faunt wrote: Hi Jens, I just wanted to thank you for all the text4ht into and your own very helpful page on same. These resources are going to be very helpful as I continue to learn about TeX, LaTeX, XML and such. Being an author of music instruction materials as well, my primary use and interest in LyX/TeX is not as a mathematician or scientist. I love the way LyX let's me concentrate on the content, and avails me of a wide-range of symbols as I need them. Unlike many authors of music materials, my need for music notation is less critical because the type of things I teach (mainly to professional and other aspiring musicians). For rhythmic and also standard notation however, I do have occasional needs. I would really prefer to use typography rather than bitmaps. So I was wondering if you or any other reader on this list knew of any music notation packages that use or export to LaTeX so that I might be able to use these in conjunction with my LyX docs. Jamie, Are you familiar with Lilypond (http://lilypond.org)? It produces beautiful results, and can be integrated with LaTeX. So putting it together with Lyx should be practical, though I haven't tried it. Les
Re: File refuses to conform to letter size...
On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:55, Kenward Vaughan wrote: Hello folks, I have an older LyX file for my classes which I opened for the semester, and cannot get the file to properly print out using US letter in landscape mode. It insists on being A4. I have never had this happen before, and am frustrated because I've no clue what the issue is. I'm using Debian Sid/LyX 1.4.3. Is someone able to quickly glance at it and tell me what weird thing has happened? I'd really appreciate it. I've attached it (I don't think it's too big, but please correct me if wrong). Kenward, I loaded it into Lyx 1.4.1 on Gentoo Linux and it came out in Letter without me doing anything (see attached). The margins could be evened a little, but it's definitely Letter. There may be something different in 1.4.3. Les labreportRubric.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
Re: powerdot
On Saturday 10 February 2007 04:34, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
I am getting
counter does not exist:subsection
same for section
in using powerdot under lyx.
am I missing a package in the preamble?
Does the sample presentation installed with Powerdot (powerdot-example.lyx)
work properly? If it doesn't, you probably don't have the required versions
of some packages (look carefully at the documentation). The versions of
several prerequisites distributed with even the latest versions of many Linux
distributions are too old.
If the example does work, start with that example building your presentation.
I've found it is quite easy to do things in Lyx that Powerdot does not like.
But it can priduce outstanding results.
For comparison with yours, here is the preamble from a recent presentation I
made with Powerdot:
\usepackage{listings}
\pdsetup{%
lf=INT3.3,
rf=Estimating Hydrocarbon Content from Amplitudes,
logohook=c,
logopos={.08\slidewidth,.92\slideheight},
logocmd={\includegraphics[scale=.16]{nola76_simple.ps}}
}
As you can see, almost everything is specific to the layour of my
presentation.
Les
Re: How to center graphics in Lyx?
On Thursday 15 February 2007 15:47, Christian Röttgers wrote: Hi everyone, could anyone please tell me, how to center a graphic with lyx? In most cases the width of my graphics are 100% of the text, but in two cases they are smaller, but there are an the left of the side. But I would like to have them centered. Please help me, Bye bye Put an hfill before and after the graphics, on the same line: Insert-Special Formatting-Horizontal Fill (Lyx 1.4) Insert-Special Character-Hfill (Lyx 1.3) You can also center-align the paragraph containing the graphic (even within a float), but I've had fewer problems with the Hfill. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: printer driver
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:56, Carlos Knauer wrote: Hi. Is there a specific driver for HP Photosmart C3100 Series printer ? Carlos F. Knauer I assume you're talking about Linux, because it comes with Windows and Mac drivers. You need the HPLIP package (http://hplip.sourceforge.net) which supports the printing and scanning functions quite nicely. Les
Re: Why Lyx-Word?
On Monday 14 May 2007 12:30, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, This is a general question for all those asking about converting LyX to MS Word... Why not use MS Word from the beginning? Steve, The documents I write tend to be technical reports with lots of figures. The report I'm working on at the moment is currently at 28 pages, with 25 figures and one table. It will probably end up at about 100 pages with about 80 figures and ten tables. With Lyx I can get the figures in easily (even if they are Grace files) and cross-reference them no matter which page they end up on. With MS Word (and OO.org), getting figures the size I want them is a nightmare, and half the time the caption is on the next page. That's probably my biggest problem. I won't even go into pagination that changes every time you open the file on a different computer, margins which change for no apparent reason every second paragraph, etc. If someone wants my document in MS Word format, appearance is obviously not important. So I'll export from Lyx in ASCII, load it into OO.org, stick all the figures at the end, and save in MS Word format. I estimate my time to produce a useful document using Lyx is about half as long as to produce the same document in MS Word. -- L. R. Denham
Re: How to create a good looking and memory conserving full page graphic? SOLVED
On Friday 18 May 2007 14:09, Steve Litt wrote: Anyone know of a way I can use a full sized 8.5x11 graphic without it taking over a megabyte of memory? One would think it would be very compressible. Over half the graphic is contiguous pure white, with another 10% contiguous pure black. I figured it out. With a really big graphic, you you must create the graphic as a .eps, and within LyX include that .eps. Whatever graphic conversion programs LyX uses blows converts from .jpg or .png to a HUGE .eps, much bigger than the .eps would be if you created it directly from Gimp. Steve, Probably the best way of getting a full page graphic with a reasonable file size is to use a vector graphic. I haven't used them for covers, but I have used them for full page illustrations within a document. Some vector graphic formats can be taken care of automatically with Lyx -- Grace .agr format, for example, which I use very often -- while others you might export as a .eps file from the application that generates the graphic. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Friday 15 June 2007 08:36, Helge Hafting wrote: Acrobat certainly isn't useless, but have some problems: Precisely why I use Acrobat Reader: I don't want to create a PDF which does not work properly with the reader most people use. I performed the necessary convolutions to get it to work on my x86_64 Linux machine, and when using it to view Lyx output I just close it each time. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: LaTeX Error: Too many unprocessed floats.
On Monday 25 June 2007 14:09, Bob Lounsbury wrote: I'm trying to complete my thesis in the next few weeks. I just inserted 20 floating/sideways figures, which is one figure per page. However, when I do this I get the error in the subject line along with a bunch of other errors. Is there something I can adjust? Is there a limit to the number of figures you can have in a document? This seems odd to me. Latex has a limit of 18 on the number of pending floats. To get around this, insert the latex command: \clearpage at intervals through your document where a new page makes sense to force the display of pending floats. See http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=floats/floats#unprocessed -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
