I had some difficulty getting the DocBook stuff to work on my Debian
system. Here's what seems to work for me:
1. Export to DocBook in LyX
2. Change the article lang=en_US in the SGML to have lang=en instead
3. openjade -c /etc/sgml/catalog -t tex -d
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
I am inserting a Xfig picture via insert--external material. Is there
some way of setting the scale of the Xfig picture with which the picture
will appear in the DVI file?
In the parameters field (for fig2dev) of the dialog box where you set
the filename
How can I adjust the vertical alignment of the contents of table cells? I
can't get the relevant bits of dialog box not to be grayed out, and I'm
can't work out what tweaks to make to an exported LaTeX file to get the
right effect.
-- Mark
I wanted to mention that I just used LyX for some proposals I was writing
and it worked really well. So, thanks to the developers for making it so
easy for me to yet again produce good-looking documents without having to
use LaTeX directly.
-- Mark
Is Word good at positioning floats yet? It always used to annoy me because
I'd have to shift figures and tables around by hand so that things would
paginate agreeably, and then redo it if things changed. Having to approach
positioning-for-good-pagination somewhat manually was dreadful because
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Paul Smith wrote:
(snip)
In spite of being few, LyX staff deserves a high commendation for
having greatly simplified, in an intelligent way, the task of battling
with LaTeX when writing our documents.
Right: this is really why I switched to LyX from Word. You compare the
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
(snip)
Although Lyx provides another language layer over LaTeX (which works over
plain TeX) its files still maintain a rather simple structure that becomes
life-saving over crashes and glitches both Lyx-related and system-wide.
(snip)
On Mon, 9 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
You are probably using the fancy header style (which may be the default for
books) which shows the page at the top and only on chapter pages where there
is
no page (fancy header) at the top the page is shown at the bottom.
(snip)
I'm not
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this
thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I
assume you see some advantages to LyX, right?
I like it as a LaTeX front-end with a much shallower learning
I'm thinking of spending some time trying out LyX harder than I have
already, but before I do so I'd be grateful if someone could confirm that
it would be worth my while. In particular:
(a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations
on different sections. Can it be
Thank you very much! It's good to hear that it should be easy to get
PostScript-type diagrams into LyX documents. I can also live with pressing
a key to update the PostScript file and using gv with Watch File -
that's exactly what I do now when writing PostScript documents, after all!
I'll make
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote:
(snip)
Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the FAQ.lyx about
this, which must be the most frequently asked question about LyX...
So I took the liberty of adding the small piece of .lyx-code below
to the FAQ.lyx now I just
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Mate Wierdl wrote:
(snip)
I have to use large (12 point) fonts throughout a document I am writing.
Unfortunately, my reference pages (bibtex) insist on using a smaller font - I
believe it must be 10 point. How do I force bibtex to use the same font as
the rest of my lyx
I need my document to start on page 3 and have section heading numbering
starting with d - for instance, d, d.1, d.2, d.2.1, d.2.2, e, e.1, ...
In my preamble I've found that I can put,
\setcounter{page}{3}
\setcounter{section}{3}
to give me 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 5, 5.1, ... starting on
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Mark Carroll wrote:
(snip)
\setcounter{page}{3}
\setcounter{section}{3}
to give me 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 5, 5.1, ... starting on page 3.
But, how can I change the first number to a letter?
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\alph{section}} in the preamble seems to do
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, lec wrote:
(snip)
I've checked and the file libflimage.so.1 is in /usr/X11R6/lib
Is /usr/X11R6/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf ?
Do you need to run ldconfig ? How does ldconfig -p look ?
What does ldd report about your lyx executable ?
I hope that's a helpful starting place -
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote:
(snip)
What I would loved was that some people with LaTeX knowledge, programming
skills and stamina got together and wrote a LyX style utility. I envisage
this LyX-styler as a separate program, and that LyX still comes with a
handful of nice usable
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote:
(snip)
I'm sorry for my ignorance, but what is Nonpareil ?
Hopefully it will be - http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~jeff/nonpareil/
(Jeff Kingston's the guy who developed Lout -
http://snark.niif.spb.su/~uwe/lout/)
One of the design goals of Nonpareil is
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Giovanni [windows-1252] Biczó wrote:
(snip)
The only drawback of my dream is, that it has not too much to do with the
TeX-LaTeX-LyX approach.
(snip)
You don't think so? I can see that a WYSIWYG way of doing it might be, but
layouts are very much a part of the LaTeX approach
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, William Adams wrote:
Matej said:
(snip)
:-), but lout is IMHO better for this.
Apparently only for those willing to tolerate widows and orphans w/ impunity.
(snip)
@InitialBreak { unbreakablefirst unbreakablelast 1.20fx adjust hyphen }
and suchlike should avoid them?
--
Is the file format for the .lyx files published anywhere? We might want to
do our own automatic generation and manipulation of LyX files - so far
I've just been going by the examples I can generate and that's gone fairly
well, but if we someday want to implement a better parser it would
probably
Sometimes when I include some XFig or EPS or something as a floating
figure, then use LyX 1.1.6fix4 to export to PostScript, I get LaTeX errors
about not being able to find the file or the bounding box and things.
However, if I export to LaTeX, and then just use latex and dvips with no
extra
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Farshad wrote:
How can I insert a picture in a one column document in lyx such that I
can write text lines next to the image. I want to export this document
into Tex later. For example:
(snip)
I seem to remember something about this in some of the LyX documentation -
the
Is LyX 1.1.6fix4 available for OS X anywhere? We really need stability so
we've been using 1.1.6fix4, but a Mac user wants to be able to edit our
files from home, and the file format seems to have changed. He does have
1.2.1 working. Suggestions?
-- Mark
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dipl.-Ing. [iso-8859-15] Peßenhofer Werner wrote:
(snip)
Have anyone an idea, why tex2pdf do not find the files ?
Does http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg24088.html
help at all?
-- Mark
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
(snip)
OT: Seriously xforms is dead... Noone except longtime users will use it.
Oh, that's a pity. ): Maybe I'm strange, but I prefer the xforms frontend
to lyx to the qt one.
-- Mark
One thing that I found helped was that the default document language was
english, but my system dictionaries were british and american - changing
the document's language accordingly made ispell happier.
-- Mark
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, James Frye wrote:
I suppose this is a more of a general latex question than a Lyx-specific
one, but I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere else. The
question seems pretty simple, even trivial: how can I get the page number
in the upper right corner of the page,
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
Where can I find examples of tools used for converting a report or a manual
from LyX - HTML?
I don't know, but FWIW I normally export to TeX then use a free latex2html
Perl script.
-- Mark
On Saturday 03 April 2004 23:04, Pablo Rodríguez González wrote:
(snip)
I want to create a template document, with my logo's company -and
another text- in header.
(snip)
Sorry I missed the original to this. I do something in the preamble like,
\usepackage{graphics}
I had some difficulty getting the DocBook stuff to work on my Debian
system. Here's what seems to work for me:
1. Export to DocBook in LyX
2. Change the article lang=en_US in the SGML to have lang=en instead
3. openjade -c /etc/sgml/catalog -t tex -d
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
I am inserting a Xfig picture via insert--external material. Is there
some way of setting the scale of the Xfig picture with which the picture
will appear in the DVI file?
In the parameters field (for fig2dev) of the dialog box where you set
the filename
How can I adjust the vertical alignment of the contents of table cells? I
can't get the relevant bits of dialog box not to be grayed out, and I'm
can't work out what tweaks to make to an exported LaTeX file to get the
right effect.
-- Mark
I wanted to mention that I just used LyX for some proposals I was writing
and it worked really well. So, thanks to the developers for making it so
easy for me to yet again produce good-looking documents without having to
use LaTeX directly.
-- Mark
Is Word good at positioning floats yet? It always used to annoy me because
I'd have to shift figures and tables around by hand so that things would
paginate agreeably, and then redo it if things changed. Having to approach
positioning-for-good-pagination somewhat manually was dreadful because
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Paul Smith wrote:
(snip)
In spite of being few, LyX staff deserves a high commendation for
having greatly simplified, in an intelligent way, the task of battling
with LaTeX when writing our documents.
Right: this is really why I switched to LyX from Word. You compare the
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
(snip)
Although Lyx provides another language layer over LaTeX (which works over
plain TeX) its files still maintain a rather simple structure that becomes
life-saving over crashes and glitches both Lyx-related and system-wide.
(snip)
On Mon, 9 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
You are probably using the fancy header style (which may be the default for
books) which shows the page at the top and only on chapter pages where there
is
no page (fancy header) at the top the page is shown at the bottom.
(snip)
I'm not
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this
thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I
assume you see some advantages to LyX, right?
I like it as a LaTeX front-end with a much shallower learning
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
(snip)
OT: Seriously xforms is dead... Noone except longtime users will use it.
Oh, that's a pity. ): Maybe I'm strange, but I prefer the xforms frontend
to lyx to the qt one.
-- Mark
One thing that I found helped was that the default document language was
english, but my system dictionaries were british and american - changing
the document's language accordingly made ispell happier.
-- Mark
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, James Frye wrote:
I suppose this is a more of a general latex question than a Lyx-specific
one, but I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere else. The
question seems pretty simple, even trivial: how can I get the page number
in the upper right corner of the page,
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
Where can I find examples of tools used for converting a report or a manual
from LyX - HTML?
I don't know, but FWIW I normally export to TeX then use a free latex2html
Perl script.
-- Mark
On Saturday 03 April 2004 23:04, Pablo Rodríguez González wrote:
(snip)
I want to create a template document, with my logo's company -and
another text- in header.
(snip)
Sorry I missed the original to this. I do something in the preamble like,
\usepackage{graphics}
I'm thinking of spending some time trying out LyX harder than I have
already, but before I do so I'd be grateful if someone could confirm that
it would be worth my while. In particular:
(a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations
on different sections. Can it be
Thank you very much! It's good to hear that it should be easy to get
PostScript-type diagrams into LyX documents. I can also live with pressing
a key to update the PostScript file and using gv with Watch File -
that's exactly what I do now when writing PostScript documents, after all!
I'll make
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote:
(snip)
Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the FAQ.lyx about
this, which must be the most frequently asked question about LyX...
So I took the liberty of adding the small piece of .lyx-code below
to the FAQ.lyx now I just
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Mate Wierdl wrote:
(snip)
I have to use large (12 point) fonts throughout a document I am writing.
Unfortunately, my reference pages (bibtex) insist on using a smaller font - I
believe it must be 10 point. How do I force bibtex to use the same font as
the rest of my lyx
I need my document to start on page 3 and have section heading numbering
starting with d - for instance, d, d.1, d.2, d.2.1, d.2.2, e, e.1, ...
In my preamble I've found that I can put,
\setcounter{page}{3}
\setcounter{section}{3}
to give me 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 5, 5.1, ... starting on
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Mark Carroll wrote:
(snip)
\setcounter{page}{3}
\setcounter{section}{3}
to give me 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 5, 5.1, ... starting on page 3.
But, how can I change the first number to a letter?
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\alph{section}} in the preamble seems to do
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, lec wrote:
(snip)
I've checked and the file libflimage.so.1 is in /usr/X11R6/lib
Is /usr/X11R6/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf ?
Do you need to run ldconfig ? How does ldconfig -p look ?
What does ldd report about your lyx executable ?
I hope that's a helpful starting place -
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote:
(snip)
What I would loved was that some people with LaTeX knowledge, programming
skills and stamina got together and wrote a LyX style utility. I envisage
this LyX-styler as a separate program, and that LyX still comes with a
handful of nice usable
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote:
(snip)
I'm sorry for my ignorance, but what is Nonpareil ?
Hopefully it will be - http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~jeff/nonpareil/
(Jeff Kingston's the guy who developed Lout -
http://snark.niif.spb.su/~uwe/lout/)
One of the design goals of Nonpareil is
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Giovanni [windows-1252] Biczó wrote:
(snip)
The only drawback of my dream is, that it has not too much to do with the
TeX-LaTeX-LyX approach.
(snip)
You don't think so? I can see that a WYSIWYG way of doing it might be, but
layouts are very much a part of the LaTeX approach
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, William Adams wrote:
Matej said:
(snip)
:-), but lout is IMHO better for this.
Apparently only for those willing to tolerate widows and orphans w/ impunity.
(snip)
@InitialBreak { unbreakablefirst unbreakablelast 1.20fx adjust hyphen }
and suchlike should avoid them?
--
Is the file format for the .lyx files published anywhere? We might want to
do our own automatic generation and manipulation of LyX files - so far
I've just been going by the examples I can generate and that's gone fairly
well, but if we someday want to implement a better parser it would
probably
Sometimes when I include some XFig or EPS or something as a floating
figure, then use LyX 1.1.6fix4 to export to PostScript, I get LaTeX errors
about not being able to find the file or the bounding box and things.
However, if I export to LaTeX, and then just use latex and dvips with no
extra
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Farshad wrote:
How can I insert a picture in a one column document in lyx such that I
can write text lines next to the image. I want to export this document
into Tex later. For example:
(snip)
I seem to remember something about this in some of the LyX documentation -
the
Is LyX 1.1.6fix4 available for OS X anywhere? We really need stability so
we've been using 1.1.6fix4, but a Mac user wants to be able to edit our
files from home, and the file format seems to have changed. He does have
1.2.1 working. Suggestions?
-- Mark
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dipl.-Ing. [iso-8859-15] Peßenhofer Werner wrote:
(snip)
Have anyone an idea, why tex2pdf do not find the files ?
Does http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg24088.html
help at all?
-- Mark
I had some difficulty getting the DocBook stuff to work on my Debian
system. Here's what seems to work for me:
1. Export to DocBook in LyX
2. Change the in the SGML to have lang="en" instead
3. openjade -c /etc/sgml/catalog -t tex -d
On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Paul Smith wrote:
> I am inserting a Xfig picture via "insert-->external material". Is there
> some way of setting the scale of the Xfig picture with which the picture
> will appear in the DVI file?
In the "parameters" field (for fig2dev) of the dialog box where you set
the
How can I adjust the vertical alignment of the contents of table cells? I
can't get the relevant bits of dialog box not to be grayed out, and I'm
can't work out what tweaks to make to an exported LaTeX file to get the
right effect.
-- Mark
I wanted to mention that I just used LyX for some proposals I was writing
and it worked really well. So, thanks to the developers for making it so
easy for me to yet again produce good-looking documents without having to
use LaTeX directly.
-- Mark
Is Word good at positioning floats yet? It always used to annoy me because
I'd have to shift figures and tables around by hand so that things would
paginate agreeably, and then redo it if things changed. Having to approach
positioning-for-good-pagination somewhat manually was dreadful because
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Paul Smith wrote:
(snip)
> In spite of being few, LyX staff deserves a high commendation for
> having greatly simplified, in an intelligent way, the task of battling
> with LaTeX when writing our documents.
Right: this is really why I switched to LyX from Word. You compare
On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos wrote:
(snip)
> Although Lyx provides another language layer over LaTeX (which works over
> plain TeX) its files still maintain a rather simple structure that becomes
> life-saving over crashes and glitches both Lyx-related and system-wide.
(snip)
On Mon, 9 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
> You are probably using the fancy header style (which may be the default for
> books) which shows the page at the top and only on chapter pages where there
> is
> no page (fancy header) at the top the page is shown at the bottom.
(snip)
> I'm
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Can anyone summarize pros/cons of the various options listed in this
> thread? You're all using (and most are actively developing) LyX, so I
> assume you see some advantages to LyX, right?
I like it as a LaTeX front-end with a much shallower
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
(snip)
> OT: Seriously xforms is dead... Noone except longtime users will use it.
Oh, that's a pity. ): Maybe I'm strange, but I prefer the xforms frontend
to lyx to the qt one.
-- Mark
One thing that I found helped was that the default document language was
english, but my system dictionaries were british and american - changing
the document's language accordingly made ispell happier.
-- Mark
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, James Frye wrote:
> I suppose this is a more of a general latex question than a Lyx-specific
> one, but I haven't been able to find an answer anywhere else. The
> question seems pretty simple, even trivial: how can I get the page number
> in the upper right corner of the
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
> Where can I find examples of tools used for converting a report or a manual
> from LyX -> HTML?
I don't know, but FWIW I normally export to TeX then use a free latex2html
Perl script.
-- Mark
> On Saturday 03 April 2004 23:04, Pablo Rodríguez González wrote:
(snip)
> > I want to create a template document, with my logo's company -and
> > another text- in header.
(snip)
Sorry I missed the original to this. I do something in the preamble like,
\usepackage{graphics}
I'm thinking of spending some time trying out LyX harder than I have
already, but before I do so I'd be grateful if someone could confirm that
it would be worth my while. In particular:
(a) I write a lot of documents where there are number-of-pages limitations
on different sections. Can it be
Thank you very much! It's good to hear that it should be easy to get
PostScript-type diagrams into LyX documents. I can also live with pressing
a key to update the PostScript file and using gv with "Watch File" -
that's exactly what I do now when writing PostScript documents, after all!
I'll make
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote:
(snip)
> Oh, btw Mark, I just checked and there is nothing in the FAQ.lyx about
> this, which must be the most frequently asked question about LyX...
>
> So I took the liberty of adding the small piece of .lyx-code below
> to the FAQ.lyx now I
On Sun, 8 Dec 2002, Mate Wierdl wrote:
(snip)
> I have to use large (12 point) fonts throughout a document I am writing.
> Unfortunately, my reference pages (bibtex) insist on using a smaller font - I
> believe it must be 10 point. How do I force bibtex to use the same font as
> the rest of my
I need my document to start on page 3 and have section heading numbering
starting with d - for instance, d, d.1, d.2, d.2.1, d.2.2, e, e.1, ...
In my preamble I've found that I can put,
\setcounter{page}{3}
\setcounter{section}{3}
to give me 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 5, 5.1, ... starting on
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Mark Carroll wrote:
(snip)
> \setcounter{page}{3}
> \setcounter{section}{3}
>
> to give me 4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 5, 5.1, ... starting on page 3.
>
> But, how can I change the first number to a letter?
\renewcommand{\thesection}{\alph{section}} in the pr
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, lec wrote:
(snip)
> I've checked and the file libflimage.so.1 is in /usr/X11R6/lib
Is /usr/X11R6/lib in your /etc/ld.so.conf ?
Do you need to run ldconfig ? How does ldconfig -p look ?
What does ldd report about your lyx executable ?
I hope that's a helpful starting place -
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote:
(snip)
> What I would loved was that some people with LaTeX knowledge, programming
> skills and stamina got together and wrote a LyX style utility. I envisage
> this "LyX-styler" as a separate program, and that LyX still comes with a
> handful of nice
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Ingar Pareliussen wrote:
(snip)
> I'm sorry for my ignorance, but what is Nonpareil ?
Hopefully it will be - http://www.it.usyd.edu.au/~jeff/nonpareil/
(Jeff Kingston's the guy who developed Lout -
http://snark.niif.spb.su/~uwe/lout/)
One of the design goals of Nonpareil is
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Giovanni [windows-1252] Biczó wrote:
(snip)
> The only drawback of my dream is, that it has not too much to do with the
> TeX-LaTeX-LyX approach.
(snip)
You don't think so? I can see that a WYSIWYG way of doing it might be, but
layouts are very much a part of the LaTeX
On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, William Adams wrote:
> Matej said:
(snip)
> >:-), but lout is IMHO better for this.
>
> Apparently only for those willing to tolerate widows and orphans w/ impunity.
(snip)
@InitialBreak { unbreakablefirst unbreakablelast 1.20fx adjust hyphen }
and suchlike should avoid
Is the file format for the .lyx files published anywhere? We might want to
do our own automatic generation and manipulation of LyX files - so far
I've just been going by the examples I can generate and that's gone fairly
well, but if we someday want to implement a better parser it would
probably
Sometimes when I include some XFig or EPS or something as a floating
figure, then use LyX 1.1.6fix4 to export to PostScript, I get LaTeX errors
about not being able to find the file or the bounding box and things.
However, if I export to LaTeX, and then just use latex and dvips with no
extra
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Farshad wrote:
> How can I insert a picture in a one column document in lyx such that I
> can write text lines next to the image. I want to export this document
> into Tex later. For example:
(snip)
I seem to remember something about this in some of the LyX documentation -
Is LyX 1.1.6fix4 available for OS X anywhere? We really need stability so
we've been using 1.1.6fix4, but a Mac user wants to be able to edit our
files from home, and the file format seems to have changed. He does have
1.2.1 working. Suggestions?
-- Mark
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Dipl.-Ing. [iso-8859-15] Peßenhofer Werner wrote:
(snip)
> Have anyone an idea, why tex2pdf do not find the files ?
Does http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg24088.html
help at all?
-- Mark
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