Re: Confusion algorithm vs. listing

2012-03-09 Thread Neal Becker
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2012-03-07, Neal Becker wrote: I can insert my code listing as a float in 2 ways, it appears. I can insert an algorithm float, then insert a program listing into it. This results in a caption 'Algorithm ...' Else, I can insert a program listing, enter

Re: Presentation tip: was LyX as a presentation tool

2012-04-06 Thread Neal Becker
Thanks for the tip about Impressive! That is pretty Impressive. Finding/installing deps on fedora 16 was a little bit of a pain (mostly due to differing package names on different systems)

Re: Graphics Tools

2012-07-18 Thread Neal Becker
William R. Buckley 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.

Re: Graphics Tools

2012-07-19 Thread Neal Becker
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com writes: Boxes with text labels Connectors Everything aligns on the grid! Export to vector format Some text on lines (some math would be nice) If you don't need a GUI interface, TiKZ does those accurately and, once you learn

Re: break long equation into two lines

2006-11-08 Thread Neal Becker
Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 09:42:55 -0500 Reuben D. Budiardja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When working with math formula in equation array mode, I found out that my equation is too long on the page. I want to break it to two lines. Is there a way do that ? All my

ams article defect

2006-11-15 Thread Neal Becker
I recall hitting this problem once before, but I forgot what the fix was. I'm using ams article. The output has a header that says: englishMyTitle instead of MyTitle

Re: ams article defect

2006-11-15 Thread Neal Becker
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 12:13 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: David == David L Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:55:44 -0500 David Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recall hitting this problem once before, but I forgot what the fix was. I'm using

Re: ams article defect

2006-11-16 Thread Neal Becker
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: To: David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: ams article defect From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:00:46 +0100 David == David L Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] David LaTeX2e

Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-06 Thread Neal Becker
I'm using lyx-1.4.3 on Fedora with kde. What is the easiest way to enter a few special accented characters? My language and document is english, but let's say I'd like to enter a few spanish symbols. I know I can do this with special latex, but is there a more generic (and newbie friendly) way?

Re: Entering foreign language characters

2007-02-07 Thread Neal Becker
John Coppens wrote: On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:14:45 -0500 David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool. It works, except that it is Winkey-` e rather than the other way around. That depends on if the combinations are defined - in my case both work. There's a lot of fun to be had with

grace - pdf broken after 1.4.4 upgrade

2007-02-18 Thread Neal Becker
Looks like this converter isn't being used when a doc including grace graphics is exported to pdf (using pdflatex): \converter agr pdf2 gracebat -hardcopy -printfile $$o -hdevice PDF $$i 2/dev/null I get a blank pdf file for the graphic. If I run this command manually, it works fine. The

Re: grace - pdf broken after 1.4.4 upgrade

2007-02-18 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: Looks like this converter isn't being used when a doc including grace graphics is exported to pdf (using pdflatex): \converter agr pdf2 gracebat -hardcopy -printfile $$o -hdevice PDF $$i 2/dev/null I get a blank pdf file for the graphic. If I run this command

Re: grace - pdf broken after 1.4.4 upgrade

2007-02-18 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: Neal Becker wrote: Looks like this converter isn't being used when a doc including grace graphics is exported to pdf (using pdflatex): \converter agr pdf2 gracebat -hardcopy -printfile $$o -hdevice PDF $$i 2/dev/null I get a blank pdf file for the graphic. If I

How does eps scaling work?

2007-02-18 Thread Neal Becker
I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. I changed the eps-pdf to use ImageMagick's convert. Now I have images, but they don't appear to be scaled

Re: How does eps scaling work?

2007-02-18 Thread Neal Becker
Paul Smith wrote: On 2/18/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. I changed the eps-pdf to use

Re: How does eps scaling work?

2007-02-18 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: Paul Smith wrote: On 2/18/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I now understand that the problems I've been seeing with graphics have nothing to do with the 1.4.4 update, it is because of a ghostscript update, and ghostscript is crashing in epstopdf. I changed

Fixed:Re: grace - pdf broken after 1.4.4 upgrade

2007-02-18 Thread Neal Becker
I replaced tetex-3.0-32.fc6 old version of epstopdf with the latest perl script from ctan, and now it works again.

Re: LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 1) is released

2007-02-23 Thread Neal Becker
Built OK on linux fedora fc6 (x86_64)! 1 minor problem so far. Tried to set preferences (wanted to use kpdf instead of acroread - wish that was the default!). In the process of changing this, my Sans Serif screen font got changed to 'A.C.M.E. Secret Agent'. Looked pretty silly. For some

Re: LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 1) is released

2007-02-24 Thread Neal Becker
1 more tiny buglet: In math panel, selection widget on left, 5th down has no text label, and hover over it gives the wrong message.

Re: LyX version 1.5.0 (beta 1) is released

2007-02-24 Thread Neal Becker
I have a simple beamer doc that has no sections. Selecting to view the TOC puts lyx into an infinite loop (using 100% cpu). gdb says: (gdb) where #0 0x003d932c49ff in poll () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x0036e584af06 in _XRead32 () from /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 #2 0x0036e584b518 in

beamer page size

2007-02-25 Thread Neal Becker
beamer is a great package. It has an odd feature, though. The pages are set to some strange size. This doesn't matter for screen presentations, but printing the pdf output will result in small output. This is annoying when sending lyx pdf output to others, who may be lacking in technical

beamer block example question

2007-02-25 Thread Neal Becker
I wanted to add a Question: blah blah Answer: some stuff To my beamer presentation. I decided to try block example. I found that I couldn't insert a 2nd block example right after the first, lyx kept trying to merge them. Finally I threw in a 'seperator', and that seems to have fixed it. Is

[OT] printing with kpdf

2007-02-26 Thread Neal Becker
I found that printing pdf output of beamer will work fine from Acrobat if I choose 'fit to page'. However, I prefer kpdf. I have not found a similar option in kpdf - the output is always in portrait mode and too small. Does anyone know a solution to this (or should I report this as a kpdf bug?)

unicode howto? (1.5beta2)

2007-04-23 Thread Neal Becker
I'm playing with 1.5b2. I noticed that there is supposed to be improved support for unicode. Any specifics on this?

How to use 'block' in beamer?

2007-05-22 Thread Neal Becker
This is lyx-1.5.0b3. I selected 'block' and I get something that says: block ( ERT[{title}] body ): my text here... There is no way to select that block... with the mouse. How do I edit it? If I do nothing, then pdflatex will pick up the first letter of the following text and highlight it.

algorithm document?

2007-07-10 Thread Neal Becker
What do you like for documenting an algorithm? I'm thinking of something like an itemize environment (displaying structure via indentation), but without bullets.

Re: algorithm document?

2007-07-10 Thread Neal Becker
Bo Peng wrote: On 7/10/07, Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do you like for documenting an algorithm? I'm thinking of something like an itemize environment (displaying structure via indentation), but without bullets. verbatim or lyx-code environment, or preferably the newly

Re: dvi preview in 1.5.0rc2?

2007-07-11 Thread Neal Becker
David L. Johnson wrote: I must have missed this from earlier, but am confused. Why is dvi-preview left out of the View menu? reconfigure gives me: checking for a DVI previewer... +checking for xdvi... yes so it should be able to find it. Was there some decision not to use dvi

typewritter font

2007-08-28 Thread Neal Becker
When writing documentation _describing_ code (as opposed to literal code listings), it is common to refer to program identifiers using typewritter font. Unfortunately, this font family usually has hyphenation turned off. What is the suggested fix for this?

Re: typewritter font

2007-08-28 Thread Neal Becker
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: Neal Becker wrote: When writing documentation _describing_ code (as opposed to literal code listings), it is common to refer to program identifiers using typewritter font. Unfortunately, this font family usually has hyphenation turned off

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-08-29 Thread Neal Becker
Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-08-29 Thread Neal Becker
Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870 Nobody on this list is going to learn much from it. It is directed at people who want to self-publish and are

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-08-29 Thread Neal Becker
On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Typhoon wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:33:28 -0400 Neal Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: Typhoon wrote: Self-publishing with LyX is now available as a free download or as a USD9.95 printed book from Lulu.com: http://www.lulu.com

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

2007-08-29 Thread Neal Becker
Typhoon wrote: On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:09 +0200 Walter van Holst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Typhoon wrote: Hmmm. I guess so. If that offends, you can download from http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf Thanks for that. The bad news is that Apple Preview doesn't render it too

Preferred way to write c++

2007-09-04 Thread Neal Becker
Simple question. What is a good way to typeset 'c++'?

Re: Preferred way to write c++

2007-09-04 Thread Neal Becker
Alan Isaac wrote: On Tue, 04 Sep 2007, Neal Becker wrote: Simple question. What is a good way to typeset 'c++'? http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/listings/ Sorry, I meant typeset the word: c++.

Only paragraph*, no paragraph in ams article?

2007-09-10 Thread Neal Becker
Is it intentional that there is paragraph*, but not paragraph in ams article?

Re: Does true TTF work in LyX on Linux

2007-09-13 Thread Neal Becker
Declan O'Byrne wrote: Silly question: Are you using Evince? If so, try acroread. I have found that Evince sometimes gives strange fuzzyness. For what it's worth, I don't find the same problem with Evince on Gutsy. Apologies if this is irrelevant. Declan Look at the fonts used. Make

How does lyx locate tex packages?

2009-10-24 Thread Neal Becker
I'm testing an experimental texlive-2009 package for fedora f11. I had previously tetex. texlive is installed into /usr/share/texlive. I ran lyx reconfig. I'm wondering if it correctly found all the packages, and how does it know where to look.

the next document I put together will me lyx

2009-11-08 Thread Neal Becker
http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/11/the_next_document_i_put_togeth.php

Re: the next document I put together will me lyx

2009-11-08 Thread Neal Becker
Steve Litt wrote: On Sunday 08 November 2009 07:25:21 Neal Becker wrote: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/11/the_next_document_i_put_togeth.ph p Great post Neal! I think a lot of your responders missed the point that it's all about styles. I've made excellently formatted books

Insert \left. (xxxx) \right|

2009-11-12 Thread Neal Becker
I'm entering this expression: \left.\frac{R_{s}}{2f_{s}}(1+\alpha)\right|_{f_{s=4R_{s}}} which is a common way of saying (expression) evalated substituting (value). Is there any direct way to enter this without resorting to ERT?

Re: plotting with LyX

2009-12-05 Thread Neal Becker
Les Denham wrote: On Friday 04 December 2009 17:29:20 Yoel Koenka wrote: Hi all, Can someone tell me how do I plot graphs from math formulas in LyX? I have LyX 1.6.4.2 on Ubuntu. I've read there should be support for Octave (for example) but couldn't find which package to install. Thanks

Re: Lyx in Fedora 12

2010-01-06 Thread Neal Becker
Dr. Gyorgy Pota wrote: Dear Users, Lyx did not show any eps figures in a freshly installed Fedora 12 system. Running Lyx in a terminal revealed that convert was unsuccesful. Finally it turned out that ImageMagick was not installed for Lyx although I installed Lyx via yum, which, in

unary minus

2010-09-03 Thread Neal Becker
Inserting the following in math mode [A|-B] the minus appears as an binary operator rather than a unary operator on B, so the minus is too big and the space to B is too large. Using tex code: [A|{-B}] looks better, although I thing the minus is still too large. What is the best lyx approach?

2.0.0alpha5 xetex (texlive 2011/dev) failure

2010-11-09 Thread Neal Becker
First try with lyx 2.0.0alpha5 of xetex. Log is attached. Failure is ! Undefined control sequence. l.67 \ExplSyntaxOn This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (TeX Live 2011/dev) (format=xelatex 2010.11.9) 9 NOV 2010 08:20 entering extended mode restricted \write18 enabled. %-line

no spellcheck in lyx2.0beta3

2011-01-28 Thread Neal Becker
I'm using lyx-2.0.0-0.11.beta3.fc14.x86_64 on fedora 14. I just noticed tools/spell check is grayed out. What is needed? I tried reconfig.

table editing

2011-01-28 Thread Neal Becker
I select a whole column of my table that I'd like to change from center to left justified. Unfortunately, I can't find any way to change only the justification without also changing other properties such as border, which I can't apply uniformly to all rows of the column.

Re: no spellcheck in lyx2.0beta3

2011-01-28 Thread Neal Becker
José Matos wrote: On Friday 28 January 2011 16:03:05 Neal Becker wrote: I'm using lyx-2.0.0-0.11.beta3.fc14.x86_64 on fedora 14. I just noticed tools/spell check is grayed out. What is needed? I tried reconfig. I suspect that we need to pass some option to configure when compiling lyx

no instant preview (do I need dv2dt?)

2011-01-31 Thread Neal Becker
linux fedora 14 lyx 2.0.0beta3. Used to have instant preview, but not anymore. I do see Unable to find executable from 'dv2dt' on console. Is dv2dt the only way to get instant preview? Doesn't seem to be available for fedora 14 via yum.

lyx2.0.0beta3 vs. texlive 2010

2011-01-31 Thread Neal Becker
This is fedora 14 using texlive 2010 package from Jindrich Novy jn...@redhat.com checking for a Latex2e program... +checking for latex... yes checking for a DVI postprocessing program... +checking for pplatex... no checking for pLaTeX, the Japanese LaTeX... +checking for platex... yes

Re: lyx2.0.0beta3 vs. texlive 2010

2011-01-31 Thread Neal Becker
On Monday 31 January 2011, Marcelo Acuña wrote: This is fedora 14 using texlive 2010 package from Jindrich Novy jn...@redhat.com checking for a Latex2e program... +checking for latex... yes texlive 2010 work very well for me, with all 2.0 alphas and betas and 1.6.8 versions. I

Re: lyx2.0.0beta3 vs. texlive 2010

2011-02-01 Thread Neal Becker
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-01-31, Neal Becker wrote: On Monday 31 January 2011, Marcelo Acuña wrote: This is fedora 14 using texlive 2010 package from Jindrich Novy jn...@redhat.com checking for a Latex2e program... +checking for latex... yes texlive 2010 work very well

xetex use stix fonts?

2011-02-02 Thread Neal Becker
Any easy way to switch to all stix fonts (lyx 2.0)?

Re: xetex use stix fonts?

2011-02-03 Thread Neal Becker
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2011-02-02, Neal Becker wrote: Any easy way to switch to all stix fonts (lyx 2.0)? What for (Text/Math/both)? I recommend using XITS (a re-packed STIX font) and the unicode-math package. Günter Assuming I can find XITS (I'm using fedora linux - stix

Re: editing math in lyx

2013-03-20 Thread Neal Becker
Any convenient shortcut to select the content of the formula? I thought clicking inside the math formula and choosing 'select whole inset' from edit menu would do it, but seems to insist on selecting entire document! On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Alex Vergara Gil a...@cphr.edu.cu wrote:

Re: editing math in lyx

2013-03-20 Thread Neal Becker
Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:36 PM, David L. Johnson david.john...@lehigh.edu wrote: On 03/20/2013 11:43 AM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: I would really love to be able to conveniently edit the TeX code directly - I'd be vastly more productive. I find lyx gui editing - as

howto insert option into beamer frame

2013-04-06 Thread Neal Becker
I might have asked this before, but goog doesn't seem to find it. I want to use beamer frame with an option [allowframebreaks] I tried using 'insert short title'. This produces the tex code: \lyxframeend{}\lyxframe[allowframebreaks]{Carrier Estimation} This doesn't work: Runaway argument?

error loading file into memory (pdf)

2013-04-16 Thread Neal Becker
I have 2 included graphics in this document. One previews OK, the other says: Error loading file into memory. Both render fine when printed. Both pdfs produced the same way (matplotlib). Any clues?

make graphic insert 100% textwidth default

2013-07-31 Thread Neal Becker
I almost always want my graphic insert to be 100% textwidth. How can I set this as the default?

Re: make graphic insert 100% textwidth default

2013-08-01 Thread Neal Becker
Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: I almost always want my graphic insert to be 100% textwidth. How can I set this as the default? You could try graphic groups. See section Grouping of Image Settings in Help User Guide. Scott

2.1.0beta1 beamer ui issues

2013-08-01 Thread Neal Becker
I'm trying out 2.1.0beta1. Interested in beamer improvements. I'm finding the ui confusing. I start off with a frame environment and put in a title. I'd now expect to hit ret to put text into the frame. ret is disabled. If I move over a space with left -, now I'm outside title and hit ret.

Re: Forward/reverse search and LuaTeX

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

babel error with view Additional Manual lyx 2.1.0beta1

2013-09-18 Thread Neal Becker
2.1.0b1 on fedora 19 linux. I tried view Additional Manual, and I get a stream of errors like: Package babel Error: Unknow option `ngerman'. Either you misspelled it Any hints? If I search: $ yum search ngerman ... === Matched: ngerman

Re: Forward/reverse search and LuaTeX

2013-09-18 Thread Neal Becker
Pavel Sanda wrote: Neal Becker wrote: Can anyone explain how to test this? Additional features manual, section 5.6/5.7, and read this thread from beginning. Pavel The manual says how to setup, but I don't know how to activate it. I found that reverse search worked by shift left mouse

Re: babel error with view Additional Manual lyx 2.1.0beta1

2013-09-19 Thread Neal Becker
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 2013/9/18 Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com 2.1.0b1 on fedora 19 linux. I tried view Additional Manual, and I get a stream of errors like: Package babel Error: Unknow option `ngerman'. Either you misspelled it Any hints? Seems your LaTeX installation

Link to external image viewer

2014-02-11 Thread Neal Becker
I'm giving a little presentation of my trip to Globecom2013. I have many pictures I took of slides presented there. I'm putting together a beamer presentation. I don't want to create a slide and cut and paste each picture - there are about 200. I wonder if I could somehow bring up an

external pdfpages not producing any output

2014-02-11 Thread Neal Becker
I turned my jpgs into a multipage pdf using sam2p and pdfjoin. As a test, I tried inserting just 1 page of the pdf into lyx as external pdfpages. It will display onscreen within lyx, but not in the finished pdf output from lyx! I did use pages=- option. If I export as luatex, and run luatex,

Re: external pdfpages not producing any output

2014-02-11 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: I turned my jpgs into a multipage pdf using sam2p and pdfjoin. As a test, I tried inserting just 1 page of the pdf into lyx as external pdfpages. It will display onscreen within lyx, but not in the finished pdf output from lyx! I did use pages=- option. If I export

Re: external pdfpages not producing any output

2014-02-11 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: I turned my jpgs into a multipage pdf using sam2p and pdfjoin. As a test, I tried inserting just 1 page of the pdf into lyx as external pdfpages. It will display onscreen within lyx, but not in the finished pdf output from lyx! I did use pages=- option. If I export

IEEE conference, author affilitation

2014-03-05 Thread Neal Becker
Trying to write an IEEE conference paper (in a big hurry!). I see I can insert authors, but I don't see anything for affiliation. In my case, I have 3 authors. Just use ERT and follow the instructions from IEEEconf.pdf? Of course, I can't help thinking that IEEE conf class isn't actually

Re: IEEE conference, author affilitation

2014-03-05 Thread Neal Becker
Bruce Veidt wrote: Neal Becker ndbecker2 at gmail.com writes: Trying to write an IEEE conference paper (in a big hurry!). I see I can insert authors, but I don't see anything for affiliation. In my case, I have 3 authors. Just use ERT and follow the instructions from IEEEconf.pdf

confusion about IEEEtran vs. ieee bib

2014-03-06 Thread Neal Becker
I'm using ieeetr bib option in lyx, which uses ieeetr bib style. I'm using texlive on fedora 20. I also have a package: rpm -ql texlive-biblatex-ieee /usr/share/doc/texlive-biblatex-ieee /usr/share/doc/texlive-biblatex-ieee/lppl1.3.txt

footnote in table - too much vertical space in minipage

2014-03-10 Thread Neal Becker
I tried the advice for putting footnote inside table http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#toc12 It works, but there's too much space from the bottom edge of the table to the footnote (and following caption). Any suggestion? Without the footnote, the caption is tight to the bottom of the table

Re: footnote in table - too much vertical space in minipage

2014-03-10 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: I tried the advice for putting footnote inside table http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables#toc12 It works, but there's too much space from the bottom edge of the table to the footnote (and following caption). Any suggestion? Without the footnote, the caption is tight

Re: Table width

2014-03-30 Thread Neal Becker
What I did is enclose my table in: \resizebox{\columnwidth}{!}{} Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 27.03.2014 14:09, schrieb Cee Van Houten: Yet i was trying to create a table today which was a little bit to wide. Lyx didnt warn me it was to wide nor did it make any corrections itself. This is

resize equation output

2014-04-22 Thread Neal Becker
I have the misfortune to be commanded to produce ppt. So I took one of my equations, in lyx. I chose beamer so I get something that'll look good on a slide. I put \beamertemplatenavigationsymbolsempty so crop will work. When exported export/pdf(crop), it looks OK, but it's too small. I

Re: resize equation output

2014-04-22 Thread Neal Becker
Neal Becker wrote: I have the misfortune to be commanded to produce ppt. So I took one of my equations, in lyx. I chose beamer so I get something that'll look good on a slide. I put \beamertemplatenavigationsymbolsempty so crop will work. When exported export/pdf(crop), it looks OK

encoding problem using biblatex?

2014-04-28 Thread Neal Becker
I tried bibtex8 blah.bib I tried setting inputenc to utf8 in doc preamble. Any ideas here? ... Package biblatex Info: Input encoding 'utf8' detected. Package biblatex Info: Automatic encoding selection. (biblatex) Assuming data encoding 'utf8'. Package biblatex Warning: Data

Re: Beamer in Lyx 2.1.0

2014-05-07 Thread Neal Becker
Julio Rojas wrote: Thanks Scott, This shortcut is quite useful in getting me over the old Frame environment hangover. Nevertheless, while trying both methods another problem appeared: To get out of the title of a Frame pressing return is not enough. One has to use the arrows to get out of

Re: Beamer in Lyx 2.1.0

2014-05-07 Thread Neal Becker
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 2014-05-07 17:02 GMT+02:00 Richard Heck: One idea I had was to implement something corresponding to the Next Style option in LibreOffice styles. So, e.g., if you are in a Frame environment and you hit Return, then LyX would know NOT to make the next line also a

Re: Beamer in Lyx 2.1.0

2014-05-07 Thread Neal Becker
After arrow right, return. I can type some text. Looks nice. Oh, it's not nested in the frame. Hit tab. Now you have Frame inside Frame. On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: 2014-05-07 17:14 GMT+02:00 Neal Becker: OK, I'm confused here. Let's

Re: Beamer in Lyx 2.1.0

2014-05-07 Thread Neal Becker
Which brings up another question. Alt-A return? How could I have discovered this? If I look at Help/Shortcuts, I don't see it (or am I blind?) I wish lyx had a way to discover things like emacs does. On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: After arrow right

nice writeup of lyx2.1 in lwn.net

2014-05-08 Thread Neal Becker
Currently behind paywall. But it includes this paragraph: Improved support for math typesetting is hardly a surprise; TeX was originally created by Donald Knuth to help him typeset The Art of Computer Programming, and TeX is used heavily by math journals. Nevertheless, there is

very strange problem with microtype

2014-06-03 Thread Neal Becker
I am finalizing my IEEE conf paper. I added \usepackage{microtype} When I do that, one of the references is typeset with an extremely overfull hbox. But the log says nothing about any overfull hbox! Without microtype it's fine. The offending item comes from this: \bibitem{dvbs2-acm}

Re: very strange problem with microtype

2014-06-03 Thread Neal Becker
But without microtype it hyphenates correctly On Jun 3, 2014 3:46 PM, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote: On 06/03/2014 01:15 PM, Neal Becker wrote: I am finalizing my IEEE conf paper. I added \usepackage{microtype} When I do that, one of the references is typeset with an extremely

Re: very strange problem with microtype

2014-06-04 Thread Neal Becker
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 2014-06-04 3:53 GMT+02:00 Richard Heck: On 06/03/2014 03:48 PM, Neal Becker wrote: But without microtype it hyphenates correctly Yes, I understand. But microtype modifies all kinds of things. Also, the use of TeX font style switches is strongly discouraged

Re: very strange problem with microtype

2014-06-04 Thread Neal Becker
Well that would be IEEE.bst then On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: 2014-06-04 13:06 GMT+02:00 Neal Becker: By TeX font style switches, you mean the {\em ...}? Yes. This was produced automatically from bibtex. The paragraph that produced

paper accepted for publication, but need help!

2014-06-10 Thread Neal Becker
Submitting to IEEE conf. They accept TeX. If I try to give them the TeX output, they say they need dvi, and all figures in eps (what is this, 1980??) If I try to export to dvi from lyx, I get: --- ! Package inputenc Error: Keyboard character used is undefined (inputenc)

Re: paper accepted for publication, but need help!

2014-06-10 Thread Neal Becker
OK. So is this a good procedure, or is something else recommended here? Neal Becker wrote: Submitting to IEEE conf. They accept TeX. If I try to give them the TeX output, they say they need dvi, and all figures in eps (what is this, 1980??) If I try to export to dvi from lyx, I get

pick out all graphics from a lyx file?

2014-06-10 Thread Neal Becker
Anyone know an easy way to pick out all the pdfs that are included in my lyx file? Before you answer, some are multipage pdfs, and are included using page=option. I want to just pick the correct pages of those.

Re: pick out all graphics from a lyx file?

2014-06-10 Thread Neal Becker
Liviu Andronic wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know an easy way to pick out all the pdfs that are included in my lyx file? Try to export to archive bundle, and then check what was included in there. LyX should collect all files necessary

Re: paper accepted for publication, but need help!

2014-06-13 Thread Neal Becker
stefano franchi wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Benedict Holland benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com wrote: That is a fantastic point. Also I just found this. http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex I don't know enough about Lyx to start programing stuff for it yet but it seems like

Re: paper accepted for publication, but need help!

2014-06-13 Thread Neal Becker
stefano franchi wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Neal Becker ndbeck...@gmail.com wrote: stefano franchi wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Benedict Holland benedict.m.holl...@gmail.com wrote: That is a fantastic point. Also I just found this. http://wiki.lyx.org

lyx+beamer+beamerspot.module usage

2014-10-31 Thread Neal Becker
I installed beamerspot.module http://www.spitzmueller.org/tools/lyx/beamerspot.module But not sure about usage. I found Edit/Text Style/Spotlight. This produces a yellow oval. But how do I customize? According to http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Modules: The form and color of the spot can be

Re: units of measure in lyx

2008-11-11 Thread Neal Becker
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Neal Becker schrieb: But shouldn't this be a non-breaking space? A half space is the correct length and is also non-breakable. regards Uwe Thanks. I'm guessing here, but it seems to me that if the units is an abbreviation (e.g., 2 kW) the thin space looks correct

Re: Let Lyx support Xetex, especially for international users

2008-12-08 Thread Neal Becker
I tried this on linux, but it didn't work. I copied /usr/share/lyx1.6/ui/stdtoolbars.inc to ~/.lyx1.6/ui/ and edited as suggested, but I see no new menu entries under 'view' (I installed lyx1.6 using --with-version-suffix=1.6)

paragraph mode in table?

2009-01-22 Thread Neal Becker
I have a table where the first row has text describing the entries below each column (nothing unusual about that). One of the text entries is too long, and should be multi-line. If I was using latex, I would use paragraph mode. How do I do this with lyx?

Page numbers in beamer presentation

2009-02-05 Thread Neal Becker
How do I get page numbers in my beamer presentation? (lyx-1.6.1)

Re: Package manager

2009-02-24 Thread Neal Becker
Stefano Franchi wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2009 10:38:50 Ehud Kaplan wrote: I realize that this is not a specific Lyx question, but someone here might know the answer. My main problem in running Lyx (or Latex) on Linux is the lack of a nice package manager like Miktex is on Windows. I

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