Re: Strange menu behaviour on resize
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi A strange thing happens whenever I minimise my Lyx window to the tool bar in Windows. When I bring it back up (regardless of whether it is full screen or user defined size) only the first 4 menu options are available (FIle, Edit, Insert, Layout). When I run the mouse of the vacant space the other menu items appear. Very odd, wondered whether anyone else had this problem and although minor whether it is a bug worth reporting. Geoff Can't reproduce it here. Then again, over here windows get minimized rather than minimised; don't know if that makes a difference. :-) Sounds as if Windows is getting lazy about repainting the LyX window when you revive it. Seems unlikely to be anything in the LyX code. You might try calling up the task manager (ctrl-alt-del) while the LyX windows is minimized. Switch to the Processes tab, then revive the LyX window and see if anything hammers your CPU while the window is being repainted. (Bit of a long shot, I suppose.) -- Paul
Re: Heretical question?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "Juergen" == Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Juergen> Angus Leeming wrote: Perhaps you should check out http://www.texmacs.org/ Juergen> or (if you're on win) Juergen> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/microimp/ I did not know this one. I guess there is also BaKoMa YeX Word: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/ JMarc 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? Paul
Re: Figure numbering/labelling
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
Hi
Just had a paper accepted for publication and thanks to Lyx it was a breeze to
produce in the right way for the publisher. However the figures are labelled
Figure 1: caption
Figure 2: caption
etc
I need FIG. 1. Caption
Notice the colon has become a period.
At the moment I am using
\renewcommand{\figurename}{FIG.}
to change the Figure to FIG. and that is fine. How do I change the following
colon to a period (or full-stop for us English folk)?
Geoff
You might have a look at the caption package (see, for instance,
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/caption/caption.pdf).
Paul
Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm new to Lyx and Latex in general, and I'm having trouble installing a new .cls file. I've read a previous post on this subject, and did exactly as was described, but it still wouldn't recognize the file. I'm running win2k Miktex Minimum 2.4.1461 Lyx 1.3.5 I put the file once in miktex\localtexmf\tex\latex\user and also tried it once in miktex\tex\latex\base. I clicked every refresh button in the miktex options, than ran lyx -> edit -> reconfigure. Still nothing. Also, the classes that appear in the lyx menu seem a lot less than what's available in miktex I think. Any ideas??? Thanks in advance! What you did sounds fine for getting the new class installed under MiKTeX. Just as insurance, you might open a command window and type 'kpsewhich new_class.cls' (without the quotes, and changing new_class to the name of your class file). It should spit up the path to the .cls file. LyX uses layout files to tell it how to display various document classes on screen. Have a look at Chapter 5 of Help->Customization for details. You may also find some help in the Layouts page of the LyX Wiki (http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts). I'm pretty sure that the LyX reconfiguration script only looks for class files for which LyX has an associated layout file, which explains both why you don't see many of the classes that came with MiKTeX and why your new class is not listed. If I'm right, you're going to have to cobble together a layout file to use with the new class (unless someone else has already done so). Paul
Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I copied and renamed an existing layout file in lyx\share\lyx\layouts, then reconfigured lyx, but it still won't appear! Do I need to put it somewhere else as well or something? The location is correct. Did you edit the contents of the layout file? Specifically, did you change the argument of the \DeclareLaTeXClass command near the top of the layout file? That tells LyX what to name the class in the list of layouts. If you don't change that, either you create a conflict with an existing class or your layout is listed but you don't recognize it. If you did that, can you post your layout file so we can check it out? Paul
Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I did change the title bit and the file name both to docsummary! Ok, I'm probably missing something here, but I can't find a class named docsummary in MiKTeX's package manager, and I can't find it on CTAN. Just to confirm, you have a class named docsummary.cls installed, right? Did you write it yourself? I didn't change much else though (basically copied article.layout) Generally a good starting point, assuming that the mystery class looks like an article. I hate to take much of your time so feel free to ignore me, but would anyone be willing to help me with the code as well? The sytax seems different from the .cls files, I'm pretty sure the syntax of .layout files is unique to LyX. and I can't find anything on writing .layout files in the lyx help, Help->Customization, section 5.3. and all I want are just a couple of small changes... I think someone biblical once said that about horses. Thus the origin of the camel. Paul
Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you did that, can you post your layout file so we can check it out?
Here it is. Like I said, just copied the code:
\DeclareLaTeXClass{docsummary}
Aha. If the layout file listing was verbatim, I think I see the
problem. That line should be # \Declare... The space (character
position 2) is not significant, but removing the comment symbol (#)
apparently confuses the reconfiguration script. I tried your file as
you posted it. Lacking a docsummary class, I named the file
acmconf.layout, since I have an acmconf.cls installed and no layout for
it. Reconfiguring did not add "docsummary" to the LyX class list. Then
I added back the comment symbol and reconfigured again, and lo and
behold "docsummary" showed up on the class list (employing acmconf.cls).
So the reconfiguration problem may be solved.
Paul
Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, just reread your very first reply, seems I really have to create both the .cls and the .layout myself. Wonder how I missed that...hmm well, it's 1am around here so maybe that explains my dropping iq... The whole thing is getting too much for lil me since both have a different syntax, don't know whether it's worth the effort anymore...maybe I should just shut up and be satisfied with equation editor and crashing documents *shudder* Anyways, everything hazy now so will leave it till tomorrow... Lillian I'm not sure you need a new class file; if the feature list you posted was exhaustive, you can probably use a standard class (say article) and just modify the layout. Need to contemplate further. Paul
Re: HELP! Installing new .cls file
Paul A. Rubin wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, just reread your very first reply, seems I really have to create both the .cls and the .layout myself. Wonder how I missed that...hmm well, it's 1am around here so maybe that explains my dropping iq... The whole thing is getting too much for lil me since both have a different syntax, don't know whether it's worth the effort anymore...maybe I should just shut up and be satisfied with equation editor and crashing documents *shudder* Anyways, everything hazy now so will leave it till tomorrow... Lillian I'm not sure you need a new class file; if the feature list you posted was exhaustive, you can probably use a standard class (say article) and just modify the layout. Need to contemplate further. Paul Upon further review, I *think* you can do what you want with just a layout file (based on the article class). The catch is that you'll need to know some LaTeX to write the layout file. Among the layout file's functions are telling LyX how to render certain environments on the screen (which does *not* affect how they show up in the document), specifying options to be passed to the document class, and specifying "boilerplate" contents of the document preamble. The latter two do affect the document format (but not the display within LyX). I assume that, when you specify that "heading1" should be left-aligned in red smallcap font, that you mean that (a) it should look that way in the final document and (b) you would like it to look that way, to the extent possible, in the LyX window. The latter is easily set in a layout file. I think the former requires defining a "heading1" command in LaTeX (or redefining an existing heading command). You should be able to set those definitions in the preamble (in which case you can set the layout file to generate the preamble commands). So what we need now is someone more fluent in LaTeX than I to cobble together the right commands. It might be a good idea for you to repost your list of specifications; the length of this thread may deter responses. Paul
Re: screen fonts set to andale mono
Martin A. Hansen wrote: after installing reinstalling ghostscript and reconfiguring lyx (1.3.6 - linux), the screen fonts somehow is set to andale mono - its ugly! i also saw this happening on a windows install of lyx-1.3.6. anyone else? i would like to see if i could reproduce this "bug", but i need to get my system back to normal first :o/ martin There appears to be a bug in Qt/Win Free that causes it to default to the first font (alphabetically) for both Roman and San Serif (although it seems to get Courier right as the Typewriter font, at least on my systems). In my case, that means I get the butt-ugly Agency FB. If this is happening on Linux, that would seem to imply a problem in Qt, not just the Windows port. In any case, if you go to Edit->Preferences->Look and feel->Screen fonts, set the Roman and San Serif to something tolerable (Times New Roman and Arial in my case), and Save, does that cure the problem? Paul
Re: View->PDF lost
Roger McMurtrie wrote: The PDF choice has disappeared from my View menu. I think it probably disappeared after I did an Edit->reconfigure. I have also recently added the Edit->Change tracking patch which seems to be working fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Roger Two possibilities: either LyX lost the name of the viewer to use, or it lost the ability to produce PDF output. First thing to check is Edit->Preferences->File formats->PDF and see if the Viewer: field is filled in. If not, insert the name of the viewer there, click Modify and then Save, and see if life gets better. I use Acrobat Reader, and I can type in just "acrord32" (minus the quotes) and have it work. Others, though, have reported that it doesn't work on their systems, and they have to type a full path to it. If you need the full path, and if the path contains spaces, I think you'll need to enclose it in double quotes (but I'm not positive). Note that if this is the problem, you may need to do the same for PDF (pdflatex) and PDF (dvipdfm). If the viewer field is correctly filled in, check whether File->Export lists PDF as an option. If not, LyX has lost track of how to generate a PDF. Have a look in Edit->Preferences->Converters. The usual route for "plain" PDF (as opposed to the other two PDF options) is LyX->LaTeX->DVI->Postscript->PDF prior to version 1.3.6, LyX->LaTeX->DraftDVI->DVI->Postscript->PDF as of version 1.3.6. The first step (LyX->LaTeX) is built in, but you'll need converters for each of the remaining steps. The Postscript->PDF converter on my system reads "ps2pdf13 $$i" (in the Converter: field). You'll need to recreate any missing converters (or provide some other sequence that gets from LaTeX to PDF). HTH, Paul
Re: Heretical question?
Michael Wojcik wrote: 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? [This is late, but Paul's query doesn't seem to have garnered much response.] One LyX advantage: it isn't WYSIWYG. I'm happy to argue that separating content and presentation is the right way to go, and that WYSIWYG has done tremendous damage to writing. (Yes, some of my friends at MSU's WIDE (Writing in Digital Environments) center might disagree with that, but if we all agreed on everything we wouldn't have much to talk about at parties.) Thanks for the reply. I'm inclined to view WYSIWYG as an enabler of bad writing more than a cause. In any case, my writing is invariably of the highest quality :-), and I like to see how the final version looks at least periodically, especially when I'm embedding figures or tables. That said, I'm certainly comfortable working in a WYSIWYM environment, and I'm not willing to tolerate delays in display updates as I type. So LyX continues to look pretty good. Paul
Re: Paste External
Stacia Hartleben wrote:
Is there a way I could make a keyboard command for paste external? I
need to paste a lot of external things and it takes a long time to go
to the menu all the time. I don't mind if there are two seperate
functions, but I want easy acess to the external paste one. Thanks!
Yes, you can create a key binding for it. In LyX, go to
Edit->Preferences->User interface and take note of which bind file
you're using. Now close LyX, track down your bind file, and open it in
a text editor. If you are using a customized bind file, it may be in
the bind folder of the LyX directory tree under your home directory;
otherwise it's probably in the bind folder under the LyX installation
directory. It has a .bind extension.
Pick a key combination to use for external pasting, and decide whether
you want to paste as lines or paragraphs (or else pick two key
combinations and bind one to each). You'll add either one or two lines
to the bind file, save it, then restart LyX. The lines are best
explained by example. Here is one pair:
\bind "M-Insert" "primary-selection-paste paragraph"
\bind "C-Insert" "primary-selection-paste line"
These bind control+insert to external paste (line) and "meta"+insert to
external paste (paragraph). ("Meta" is the Alt key in Windows; I'm not
positive about other OSes.)
Paul
Re: Installing beamer class layouts for lyx under Win XP
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I am new to LyX and I try to install the layout files for the beamer class for LyX on a Windows XP box. Unfortunately without much success so far. I tried the hints for Linux which were given in some earlier thread but it doesn't work. I hve installed MikTeX and the beamer class under MikTex. I have run reconfigure in LyX without any success. As I am new to LyX I might have overlooked some place where to find the relevant documentation. Could anybody please help? Thanks in advance, Hanno Klemm Did you copy C:\directory>\tex\latex\beamer\lyx\layouts\beamer.layout and paste it into one of the LyX layout directories? If not, I recommend you use your "personal" layout directory (should be C:\Documents and Settings\id>\Application Data\lyx\layouts). That way, if you uninstall/reinstall LyX, you won't lose the layout file. After that, you may need to reconfigure LyX (can't recall). If the layout file is where LyX can see it, then we'll need some additional information on what is going wrong (error messages or symptoms). Paul
Re: weird table problems in Lyx
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: - Original Message - From: "Stacia Hartleben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 3:18 PM Subject: weird table problems in Lyx I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but most times when I make a table, the first row of the table is seperate than the others. I can get around this by deleting and inserting more rows, but it's a pain. What am I doing wrong? Also, is there an easy way to set the lines of the table to not show up? I can do it per row or cell but I don't know if there's an easy way to fix the whole table. You aren't doing anything wrong that is just the way Lyx draws tables on the screen and annoyingly in the output. As for the cell borders, you have to do them one by one. Basically table support in Lyx is one of its failings. Sorry not to be anymore help - that said if you use Windows, you can always make pretty tables in Excel and import them into lyx. Geoff The "separation" of the first row in the table is not done by LyX; it's how LaTeX does tables. On the assumption that the first row will be headings, it gets a double underline. (Unlike office suites, LaTeX does not support "thick" v. "thin" lines, at least not unless someone has developed a package for it, so the double underline is its version of "thick".) To make the first row look like every other row, just eliminate either the bottom border of the first row or the top border of the second row. To zap all the borders in a table, do the following: 1. Left click just inside the upper left cell. Cursor placement is a bit finicky: you don't want to be in the text entry box for the cell, you want to be between the cell boundary and where the text inserts. 2. Drag diagonally downward to highlight the entire table. 3. Right click to get the table settings window, pick the Borders tab and click the Clear button. Paul
Re: coloured rows with multicolumns
Søren O'Neill wrote:
I've managed to get the backgrounds of rows in my table gray using colortbl,
but it skips all multicolumn cells (i.e they are not gray'ed) - any
suggestions ? I'll edit the raw lyx/latex file if needed :-)
kind regards
The following works for me (using package xcolor, which in turn calls
colortbl).
1. In the preamble: \usepackage[table]{xcolor}.
2. In ERT before the table: \rowcolors{1}{gray}. (The first argument
says to start coloring in row 1, the second sets the background color.)
3. Right click in any multicolumn cell and put the following in the
LaTeX command box: |>{\columncolor{gray}}c|. The 'c' is to center
horizontally (use 'l' or 'r' for left or right); this inclusion
apparently overrides the horizontal alignment specified in the drop-down
list of the LyX dialog, and omitting it seems to cause a LaTeX error.
The two '|' characters are replace the left and right cell borders (if
either or both are deleted); include or omit as needed. Note that you
apparently need to close the table dialog for these changes to take effect.
I've attached a small example.
HTH,
Paul
newfile1.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: weird table problems in Lyx
Søren O'Neill wrote: I appreciate your comments. I'm not that exerienced a LyX user, but must say I find the table functions very cumbersome and generally not quite sufficient. Actually I've been here before about a year ago, (needed the dynamic referencing), but abandoned it because of the table insufficiencies. I think I might just prefer to create tables in OOo, Scribus or somewhere else and export as an image file to be included in the LyX. I'm not slagging LyX in general and I realise, that complicated formating of tables is not really the main objective of LyX/Latex, but it certainly is the one issue that keeps popping up as a problem for me. Soren I've used the M$ office suite :-) as well as the Corel office suite, and of course I use LyX, so I've seen both sides. The first thing to keep in mind is that LaTeX, not LyX, produces the final document, so you will not be able to do anything with tables in LyX that LaTeX (plus whatever useful packages you can find) does not support. The LyX interface to tables can be a bit finicky (particularly with regard to where you click inside a cell and how you convert existing text to tables), but after a bit of time descending the learning curve I'm pretty happy with it. Specific suggestions for feasible improvements can always be sent to the developers for possible inclusion in the next generation. As far as creating tables in an office application and importing them as images, that has its limitations. The fonts used in the tables may or may not match those used in the document, layout may be slightly different, rendition of the image may be less crisp than rendition of text, and I suspect that scaling of the image to match the size of the text fonts might be slightly problematic. For some documents, you may not care about small quality glitches, but in general I'd be inclined to use LaTeX tables where possible. Paul
Re: math mess in 1.3.6 on windows 2003 server
Hong Lu wrote: Hi, all. I am happy to find out the new release of LyX 1.3.6 for windows. The installation(on windows 2003 server) is smooth. Everything works great except that math symbols can't be rendered. Check the attachment for a picture of what I got. It seems that LyX works fine on windows XP. Anyone please tell me how to fix this? Do you have either the bakoma4lyx fonts or the latex-xft fonts installed? (See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136, heading "Math fonts".) Paul
File format extension
Is the extension field in Edit->Preferences->File formats documented anywhere? I tried changing the extension for a clone of the PDF (pdflatex) format to 'pdf4' (because I was trying to open it in a non-Acrobat viewer, and the files were opening in Acrobat Reader regardless). Turns out this doesn't work, because pdflatex gives the file a .pdf extension regardless. I'm not sure if this is a bug or just how things work, because I can't find any documentation of whether the field is intended to let me specify the extension I want or just communicate the extension the file is going to have (outside my control). Paul
Re: File format extension
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: I tried changing the extension for a clone of the PDF (pdflatex) format to 'pdf4' (because I was trying to open it in a non-Acrobat viewer, and the files were opening in Acrobat Reader regardless). Turns out this doesn't work, because pdflatex gives the file a .pdf extension regardless. Do I get it right that you changed the "extension" field to "pdf4"? You have to change the "format" (to, say, "PDF4") and "GUI name" fields (to, say, "pdflatex (xpdf)") instead. The extension has to be "pdf" for all pdf files. HTH, Jürgen Yes, you got it right. So I gather that the extension field does not control the extension being used. (In other words, making it "pdf4" does not tell LyX to modify the pdflatex command to produce an output file named whatever.pdf4.) Thanks, Paul
Re: File format extension
Stephen P. Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 9:16 AM Subject: File format extension Is the extension field in Edit->Preferences->File formats documented anywhere? I tried changing the extension for a clone of the PDF (pdflatex) format to 'pdf4' (because I was trying to open it in a non-Acrobat viewer, and the files were opening in Acrobat Reader regardless). Turns out this doesn't work, because pdflatex gives the file a .pdf extension regardless. I'm not sure if this is a bug or just how things work, because I can't find any documentation of whether the field is intended to let me specify the extension I want or just communicate the extension the file is going to have (outside my control). Paul I have been able to use another viewer to read postscript files besides gswin (although it uses ghostscript.exe) so I think you can use another viewer app instead of Reader, Acrobat or xpdf (I put it in C:\lyx\lyx\bin) to read pdf. But to read a different file format I think you need a new viewer field assigned to that file format which would mean adapting the LyX source code. I received an email once from Helge(sp?) which I can't find now that leads me to believe this. Angus will probably give a definitive answer. Regards, Stephen Stephen, Thanks. I actually didn't have any insurmountable :-) problems getting the new viewer to work. I created a new format (similar to PDF (pdflatex) but with a different name), created a conversion path to get from LyX to it (using pdflatex), inserted the viewer command I wanted and added the directory containing the viewer to the PATH prefix (key step). During debugging of this, I had a file opened by Acrobat Reader (presumably because the viewer I wanted wasn't set up properly and LyX reverted to the system file association for ".pdf"), so I thought I could avoid that in the future by changing the extension. Apparently, that thought was incorrect. BTW, adding a new format, new converter, new viewer does not require tinkering with LyX source. Paul
Re: Multirow ... no go !
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: - Original Message - From: "Søren O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 7:36 PM Subject: Multirow ... no go ! I've included two lyx files. One is from the wiki at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tables called table-,ultirow-lyx and it demonstrates multirow support. That filel comes out as expected in the DVI. The other one is my own lyx table - and it doesnt work as expected, but I cant quite see why not ... Ok this appears to be something to do with the fact that you have set column widths in your table settings. I have delete them all and it works. I have no idea why this makes a difference of how you get your table to show up the way you want it to as it now spans more than the page witdth, but it does allow multicol to work properly! I attach the new file but like I say all I have done is removed the column widths from the table properties box. Geoff Actually, it's not the column widths per se. The problem only occurs when cell contents wrap around to a second line (which, in turn, can only occur if you use a fixed column width). If the column widths are fixed wide enough that no wrapping occur, things go ok. I assume this is a limitation in multirow. Attached is a file that I think does what you want "manually", by using a raisebox to elevate the content of the lower of the two cells to be merged. You may want to fiddle with the amount of vertical shift. I think you might also be able to use the cellular package to generate your table, but I don't have it installed here. HTH, Paul table.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: File format extension
Stephen P. Harris wrote: BTW, adding a new format, new converter, new viewer does not require tinkering with LyX source. I'm interested to know how you did this. If it is documented perhaps you can point me to the instructions. I just noticed that Adobe released Reader ver. 7.0 for Linux and Solaris. ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/7x/7.0/enu/ Maybe this is old news but I just noticed it. I dual boot and was going to see how this worked out with FC4 as a LyX pdf viewer. All the following takes place in Edit->Preferences: 1. Click File formats->New. Set the Format: field to pdf4 (or pdf5 if you already have a pdf4, etc.). Make the GUI name anything that you want (that isn't already used, of course); this is how it will be listed in the View and File->Export menus. If you're going to use it often enough, you can fill in a keyboard shortcut (again, one not currently in use) in Shortcut:, but this is strictly optional. Set the Extension: field to pdf. Fill in the Viewer: field with the name of the viewer executable. Click Modify and Save. 2. Go to Converters. Find the current converter that matches what you plan to use to generate PDFs. If you use View->PDF, this will probably be the Postscript->PDF converter. If you use View->PDF (dvipdfm), this will probably be the DVI->PDF converter. If you use View->PDF (pdflatex), this will presumably be the LaTeX->PDF converter. Change the From: field to your new format (which should be on the list, else step 1 failed), then click Modify and Save. 3. Open a document, go to the View menu, and verify that the new viewer is present (and works). You can do this for all three PDF conversion methods if you want, but you'll need to create three new formats in step 1 (with distinct names). HTH, Paul
Re: File format extension
Angus Leeming wrote: Stephen P. Harris wrote: In my case I wanted a new .ps viewer. I changed the format to ps2. I set the extension field to ps the GUI name to Gscript and the viewer executable to flps. It worked just like you said it would. Thank you. Incidentally, if you're interested in just changing the Viewer, why not just change the Viewer of the existing ps format? Where would the sport be in that?
Re: Space between table columns
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi I have created a table in latex and imported it into Lyx. Unfortunately there is a large amount of space between the contents of each column. I want them to almost touch. If I right align the left hand column and left align the right, then I can get what I want (albeit with the insertion of a small \hspace in the right column). However this leaves the table looking like it isn't flush with the right hand margin. Is there anyway I can close the gap without left aligning the right column. Geoff Are you saying the columns are too wide? If you set their widths manually (to something narrower), does that do the trick? Paul
Re: pdflatex view
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi All of a sudden when I select view->>pdflatex instead of getting the document as it is I get a very old version of it. I have tried Update, I have tried closing and starting again. Closing/restarting LyX, or closing/reopening the document? (The former should get rid of your temp directory and anything in it.) Also, what happens if you add a space and delete it (so that the doc registers as changed), then try View->PDF (pdflatex)? Paul
Re: vertical alignment (center text vertically)
Robert Neumann wrote:
No need to use ERT. See attached (use the paragraph dialog to get the
vspace*{\fill}.
When I use the paragraph dialog it provides me only with a vfill and not with a vfill* (I
use the "variabel" in the german paragraph dialog)
Robert
Notice in Juergen's example that he checked the "Keep space" box. That
plus vfill apparently causes LyX to specify \vfill* in the LaTeX output.
Paul
OT: Font size in pgf text labels
Hopefully one of the LaTeX gurus can help me. I've got a graph done in
pgf, including text in \pgfbox commands. I'd like to change the size of
the text but can't figure out how. For example,
\pgfbox[center,center]{\it my text} sets "my text" in italics, but
\pgfbox[center,center]{\small my text} does not seem to reduce the size
of "my text". (I tried \footnotesize as well as \small, with no effect.)
Any suggestions would be welcomed.
Paul
Re: Problem with incorporation of subparts
S. Teletchéa wrote: I'm writing down my PhD (well finishing today or tomorrow if you can help me) and i'm encountering a problem I've made a file where all my chapters are incorporated (using 'incorporation'). Each incorporated file begin with Part + some chapters When i incorporate all of them, parts are well numbered but chapters are never reinitialized. Any idea why ? I have : Part 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Part 2 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Part 3 Chapter 6 ... and so on... I'll need : Part 1 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Part 2 Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Part 3 Chapter 1 ... I'm using Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official : lyx-1.3.4-5mdk Thanks in advance for any help. Note that if i only use 'chapter' (no Part) the numbering is ok (but i presume it is a side effect). Stéphane I'm not sure why the chapter counter is not being reset -- it may be dependent on the class you are using -- but for a workaround try adding the following to the preamble of the master document: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul
Re: Pagenumber at top of page - how to
Søren O'Neill wrote:
The title says it all ... How do I put the page number at the top of a page
rather than at the bottom?
Kind regards
Soren
First set Layout->Document->Layout->Page style to Fancy, then in the
preamble add \rhead{\thepage} to put it in the upper right corner.
Change \rhead to \lhead or \chead to put it in the left corner or center
respectively. You can also embellish it (for instance,
\rhead{-\thepage-} to add a dash on either side).
This won't apply to a title page, though.
Paul
Re: Problem viewing PDFs
Gustavo Guerra wrote: - Original Message - From: "Geoffrey Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:05 PM Subject: Re: Problem viewing PDFs - Original Message - From: "Gustavo Guerra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: Problem viewing PDFs Hi there I just installed LyX 1.3.6 for Windows. When I select View->PDF (any of the three versions), acrobat reader gives an error saying that it can't open the document. The file is generated in the temp dir, but probably the path is being passed wrong. How can I fix it? Thanks Best regards, Gustavo Guerra PS: With this new instaler, I still have to install the fonts given on the wiki site(ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/BaKoMa4LyX.zip), or does the installer include them. Firstly the fonts, yes you do have to install them seperately. Secondly with the pdf problem. Is Acrobat open at the time, if so close it, then select view pdf. Yes, closing acrobat first solves the problem. Thanks. It's still a weird behaviour, though, having to keep closing acrobat. Is it a bug in acrobat? Best Regards, Gustavo Guerra Windows does not handle pipes very well, certainly not as well as Unix and its derivatives do. I'm inclined to blame Windows rather than Acrobat Reader. There's a workaround of sorts. Manually edit your preferences file (should be in C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\lyx), adding the following line: \custom_export_command "acrord32 $$FName" This assumes that you have the path to Acrobat Reader on LyX's path prefix. Close and restart LyX if it is open when you make the change. Now instead of using View->PDF (or either of the PDF alternatives), use File->Export->Custom, pick the PDF format you want, and click ok. The export command should already be filled in. For whatever reason, this can display the document in an already running copy of Acrobat Reader. One thing this does not fix: there is no way to use View->Update->PDF to view changes while the previous version of the document is open in Reader. Again, I think the fault lies with Windows: while you're displaying the previous version, Windows puts a read lock on the file in the temp directory, so the updated version (which uses the same file name) cannot overwrite it. Paul
Bindings question
Is there a way to daisy-chain bindings? What I want to do is set up a key binding that will execute File->Export->Custom with the format set to PDF (pdflatex) and the command set to "acrord32 $$FName". I can bind a key to "buffer-export custom" and get to the custom export menu, and I can prefill the command using \custom_export_command in the preferences file, but I can't figure out how to avoid having to manually select the format. (Ideally, I'd like the binding to all execute the command, so that I don't have to click OK each time.) Once in the menu, you can select the format with M-e pp, so if I could find a way to bind that sequence (I haven't figured out how to get Meta-e to be the result of a key binding) and then could chain the bindings, I think I'd be there. Paul
Re: Problem viewing PDFs
Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: "Paul A. Rubin" One thing this does not fix: there is no way to use View->Update->PDF to view changes while the previous version of the document is open in Reader. Again, I think the fault lies with Windows: while you're displaying the previous version, Windows puts a read lock on the file in the temp directory, so the updated version (which uses the same file name) cannot overwrite it. Is this workaround useful for this situation? http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXWinTips#pdfwiew Improved PDF viewing This tweak makes the View PDF (pdflatex) command open the viewer window automatically and avoids the error message that occurs if you invoke View PDF (pdflatex) with the opened reader. Other viewer windows will remain unaffected. [...] This will allow you to alter the document and then see the changed version with View->PDF (pdflatex), without manually closing the previous version. View->Update->PDF (pdflatex) still won't work (fails silently, old version continues to display in reader), but I don't see that as a problem. Paul
Re: output refresh when only graphics change?
Sven Schreiber wrote: How can I force lyx to run a latex cycle when only an included graphics file has changed? Lyx doesn't seem to notice the change (which I understand) and therefore only offers the output from the buffer with the old graphic. Workaround is to close and reopen the lyx-file, but surely this is not really necessary? Thanks, Sven I've experienced this myself. Easier workaround: insert a space (anywhere) and then delete it, so that LyX thinks the document has changed. However, I do agree this should not be necessary. Paul
Re: output refresh when only graphics change?
Sven Schreiber wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Sven Schreiber wrote: How can I force lyx to run a latex cycle when only an included graphics file has changed? Lyx doesn't seem to notice the change (which I understand) and therefore only offers the output from the buffer with the old graphic. Workaround is to close and reopen the lyx-file, but surely this is not really necessary? Thanks, Sven I've experienced this myself. Easier workaround: insert a space (anywhere) and then delete it, so that LyX thinks the document has changed. Paul, that was the first thing I tried, but it didn't work (although normally I agree it works). At least in this situation, Lyx apparently understands that nothing has changed. Instead of closing the file, however, I can also 1. insert a word, 2. update, 3. delete the word, 4. update, and all is as it should be. Actually it is difficult to construct a simple test case, so this seems to be a rather subtle bug that is triggered only in special circumstances. Maybe it helps to describe the situation where it occurred: 1. I have a lyx document with pdf graphics included (lyx 1.3.6 on win 2000, could also try xp, haven't tried yet) 2. I edit one graph by updating the .eps, and then running it through eps2pdf.exe (a wrapper around ghostscript, I believe) which updates the .pdf. 3. Then I try "update" in lyx and... no latex run, so nothing changes. I could do more testing if somebody tells me in which direction. -Sven Ok, I think I see the problem, though not the solution. The first time you view the document, LyX copies the graphics files into the temp directory (which also houses any transformations of them done by ImageMagick). When you perform step 2, I assume that you're performing it on the original image file, not the copy in the temp buffer. LyX does not know the image has changed. Also, although I'm not sure of this, I think View->Update may only run latex unless it sees a change to the list of graphic files. I experimented with this. Oddly, changing the name of the image file in LyX, then changing it back, then doing either View or View->Update did not cause LyX to update the image file. Changing the name of the image, viewing it, then changing the image file name back and executing View again did update the image. (But doing View->Update in the second step, rather than View, did not update the image, again a bit surprising.) I made the mistake of experimenting with a rather large beamer presentation. When I did get LyX to initiate a new pdflatex run, it was rather time consuming, and in the situation you describe I don't think it should be necessary. Assuming that the image widget in the LyX document specifies dimensions for the image, I don't think the document flow can be affected by the image edit, so a new latex/pdflatex run should not be required. Perhaps we should suggest a modification that adds a button to the image widget that tells LyX to update the copy in the temp buffer, preparatory to a View->Update. Paul
Re: output refresh when only graphics change?
Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Ok, I think I see the problem, though not the solution. The first time you view the document, LyX copies the graphics files into the temp directory (which also houses any transformations of them done by ImageMagick). When you perform step 2, I assume that you're performing it on the original image file, not the copy in the temp buffer. LyX does not know the image has changed. Ermmm. That's not entirely true. LyX does indeed check whether the file has changed when it generates the LaTeX source, so at that point the file in the temp directory is updated. However, there's no mechanism at the moment to propagate the information that, actually, we really do need to run the document through the latex compiler again, even though the source hasn't changed. Maybe you could add an entry to bugzilla so that this doesn't get forgotten? Can do, but first let me clarify two things. You said LyX does check for a changed graphic file _when it generates the LaTeX source_. However, if the only thing you've done since the last LaTeX run is muck around with the graphics file (not change the name of the file being used, just change the content of the image file), what will tell LyX to run LaTeX again? Second, when you say LyX checks for a changed graphic file, does it check the file's last modification date, or does it just look to see if the file name has changed? Paul
Re: output refresh when only graphics change?
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: - Original Message - From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 7:37 PM Subject: Re: output refresh when only graphics change? Angus Leeming wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Ok, I think I see the problem, though not the solution. The first time you view the document, LyX copies the graphics files into the temp directory (which also houses any transformations of them done by ImageMagick). When you perform step 2, I assume that you're performing it on the original image file, not the copy in the temp buffer. LyX does not know the image has changed. Ermmm. That's not entirely true. LyX does indeed check whether the file has changed when it generates the LaTeX source, so at that point the file in the temp directory is updated. However, there's no mechanism at the moment to propagate the information that, actually, we really do need to run the document through the latex compiler again, even though the source hasn't changed. Maybe you could add an entry to bugzilla so that this doesn't get forgotten? Can do, but first let me clarify two things. You said LyX does check for a changed graphic file _when it generates the LaTeX source_. However, if the only thing you've done since the last LaTeX run is muck around with the graphics file (not change the name of the file being used, just change the content of the image file), what will tell LyX to run LaTeX again? Second, when you say LyX checks for a changed graphic file, does it check the file's last modification date, or does it just look to see if the file name has changed? Paul Out of interest is the Lyx graphic preview recognising the change. IE in the Lyx window does the grpahic look different. Geoff Don't know -- never preview graphics inside LyX. Sven? Paul
Re: Restarting endnotes numbering for each chapter?
Stefano Franchi wrote:
Hi all,
I am writing a scholarly book that will have endnotes at the end of
each chapter. I followed the instructions in the LaTeX companion on how
to use the endnotes package and the formatting works perfectly except
that the numbering of the endnotes does not restart with each chapter.
The companion does indeed say that you need "to restart the endnote
counter to zero after calling \theendnotes" but it does not say how to
do so. I suppose it was too obvious... :-(
Suggestions are greatly appreciated...
Stefano
Try \setcounter{endnote}{0} in ERT.
Paul
Re: Writing a list in another environment
Jose Capco wrote: Dear List, I am still using the 1.3.5 version for windows (due to problems involved with 1.3.6 and Win98). I have a question on how to write a list when I change the environment. I am using the amsbook layout. And when for instance I am say in the "Proof" environment and I want to itemize something, then I have to change the environment to "Itemize" (I use the pulldown menu in the upper left part of the LyX window). But then I am not longer in the "Proof" environment.. and when I get out of the "Itemize" environment, the proof has already ended.. I hope I got my message clear.. Let me try to give an example I want something like this: (start of Theorem environment) Theorem: This is Theorem blahblah (end of Theorem environment) (start of proof environment) Proof: To proof this theorem we need the following steps (here an itemize environment starts) -(bullet) Step 1 -(bullet) Step 2 ... etc. (itemize ends.. but still I am in the proof environment) Step 1 is blahblabla. ... (end of proof environment) Is this at all possible with LyX (1.3.5 here!)? Yes, and it's not version-specific. You just need to increment the environment depth. Start the proof, then hit Enter and change the environment to itemize or enumerate (which, as you noted, takes you out of the proof environment). Now increment the environment (S-M-Right, Layout->Increase Environment Depth, or the toolbar button that looks like an indented paragraph with an arrow pointing to the right). The itemize/enumerate environment is now embedded within the proof. You'll have to increment depth for each new item. When you are done with the list, hit Enter and change the environment of the new paragraph back to proof. This will continue the current proof. Paul
Re: output refresh when only graphics change?
Sven Schreiber wrote: Sven Schreiber wrote: Actually it is difficult to construct a simple test case, so this seems to be a rather subtle bug that is triggered only in special Well I don't remember why I found that so difficult, but I found out some details; especially that the problem only appears when a temp directory is used (option checked in preferences). The updated graphics file gets copied into the tempdir though, so Lyx must be somehow aware of the change, yet Lyx isn't rerunning (pdf)latex. The graphic preview is updated like it should be, however. Maybe this is again a Windows-specific path thing? My test case is the file D:\lyxtest\newfile1.lyx with embedded graphics file D:\lyxtest\impulse-redone.pdf; specifying absolute or relative paths doesn't make a difference. The temp dir is also D:\lyxtest, but I had it in C:\tmp before, with no difference. Btw, in the status bar for a very brief moment Lyx says its "Running Latex..." (I think, it disappears almost instantly). Any bug squashers let me know if you need further info, thanks, Sven FYI, I've added this to bugzilla. Paul
Re: installing beamer
Martin A. Hansen wrote:
thanks - that did the trick!
but isn't that a very odd work-around?
Not really. For any class you want on LyX's list, you need a layout
file (so LyX knows how to render things on screen). LyX automatically
installs layouts for a lot of "common" classes ("common" being defined
by the developers, I guess). For any other class you add, you need to
manually add a layout file. In most cases you're stuck creating the
layout file yourself (unless some other kind soul has posted one).
Beamer is somewhat unique in that the package developer supplies a
layout file, but otherwise this is business as usual.
Paul
Re: arabic in 1.3.6?
Talal Al-Azem wrote: Hello, all I’m having a bit of trouble getting Arabic to work in 1.3.6. It was working fine in 1.3.5, which I then removed to upgrade to 1.3.6, since it was supposed to be the proper port into windows. Since then, however, i can’t get the Arabic functioning. It might have to do with the fact that I can’t find a “preferences” file in 1.3.6, the way that the guy who wrote up the directions for getting Arabic to function in 1.3.5 had said; in 1.3.5, it had been in my “documents and settings” folder, under .lyx. Now, I see no such folder, and can’t find a “preferences” file in the lyx folder under “programs”, where 1.3.6 installed itself. Any help??? Thanks in advance. The preferences file for 1.3.6 should be in C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\lyx. Paul
Re: Questions.
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi It is becoming apparent that many questions on this list are being repeated and some are quite sraightforward for want of a better phrase. Could I suggest that before a question is posted the following things are done 1) Read the wiki 2) Search the mailing list archives 3) Try google to see if there is already an answer on the web Also I recommend every user to get a good handbook on Latex as most queries are more Tex than Lyx. Please don't get me wrong, I am not forgetting what it was like to be puzzled by Lyx/Latex, and I am as guilty as the next man when it comes to asking 'obvious' questions. All I am saying is that in my experience I have learnt more by playing about and finding the answer by research, and using the list as a last resort. Mainly as it opens upo things I never knew about extending my perception of Latex's power. However if you do have questions post away as I am happy to help out as best I can (as many people may already be aware) as are others on the list with vastly better knowledge than me. And sometimes when the thesis deadline is looming spending hours trying to find out how to move a title or include a footnote is not condusive to the stress levels and the list is a useful 'quick fix' source!!! I hope this is read in the manner intended. Geoff Now the trick is to get people to read this. We may need someone to repost this once a month as a reminder to newbies. Paul
Re: No classes
Pablo Ortúzar wrote: Stephen, Thanks. My doc/LaTeXConfig.lyx autogenerated file says that "[t]he document classes presented in this section are the basic document classes provided by LaTeX. In particular, they are all present on your system as long as log as LaTeX2e is installed". The SuSE te_latex rpm "provides LaTeX. To be exact, LaTeX2e". Now, te_latex *is* installed. However, "[w]hen the text indicates that a particular class has not been found, this means the layout file supporting this particular class has not been found". No classes were found for article, report, book, letter, slides, amsart, aa, aastex, AGU Journal of Gephysical Research, broadway, cv, cl2emult, dinfrief, docbook, dtk, egs, elsart, entcs, extsizes, foils, g-brief-en, g-brief-de, gbrief2, hollywood, IEEEtran, ijmpd, kluwer, koma-script, koma-script letter, latex 8, linuxdoc, IIncs, memoir, mwcls, paper, SPIE, REVTeX, REVTeX4, SIAMLTeX, Springer Unspecific Journal, Springer Journal of Geodesy, Springer Probability Theory and Related Fields, nor TUGboat. Further packages listed as "missing" are: array, babel, color, graphicx, longtable, varioref, a4, a4wide, geometry, algorithm, fancyhdr, floatflt, natbib, prettyref, rotating, subfigure, setspace, and url. Either the LaTeX package is utterly corrupted, or Lyx does not detect its layout files. Shifting from Lyx 3.5 to version 3.6 -or the other way around- has proven useless. Disclaimer: I'm not a Suse user, and in fact don't use Linux much. I wouldn't worry about the LyX layout files, at least for the moment. Going back to the output from the configure script (included in your original post), the configure script was able to find your LaTeX executable. It did not find the the core set of fonts it seeks (cmex10 etc.), and it appears that it could not find the xfonts directory. I think you'll need to install some fonts: see http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Qt for details. The configure script also failed to find *any* of the document classes it searched for, including the basic ones such as article and book. Either your te_latex installation is damaged or the environment variables that should point to the texmf directory tree do not. Try opening a shell and executing 'kpsewhich article.cls' (no quotes). It should return the path to the article document class file. If it fails, either the class is not installed or there's a problem locating the texmf tree (possibly a missing or incorrect environment variable). Paul
Re: No classes
Pablo Ortúzar wrote: Hi, Thanks, Paul. I dowloaded & installed the XFT forms and fonts. In a console, "kpsewhich article.cls" (no quotation marks) gave... nothing. ) Uh-oh. Doing "Reconfigure" didn't change anything. It wouldn't. The problem lies with LaTeX, not with LyX. Under "View", I have no DVI nor PDF. You need to clarify something here. When you first open LyX (meaning you are looking at the splash screen, and no document is open in LyX), the View menu has "No Documents Open!" and does not have entries for DVI or PDF. It should, however, end with an entry that lets you view your TeX information (list LaTeX classes and styles, as well as BibTeX styles). In a properly configured system, when you open a document (or create a new one), the View menu contains entries for DVI, PDF etc. Are you saying the View menu lacks DVI and PDF entries even when a document is open? For that matter, *can* you open a document, given that either LyX or LaTeX can't seem to find any of your document classes? I do not think there is something wrong with *my* installation: I've seen quite a few posts pointing to the same problem, which appears after an upgrade (in one case, Fedora. Mine is a clean SuSE install. Others have reported the same problem both with Windows and with Macs). Forget about LyX for the moment. In any LaTeX installation I've used (and I confess I've not used teTeX), kpsewhich should be able to find any document class you have installed, and *every* LaTeX package installs the article class. The article.cls file should be in the ./tex/latex/base folder under your LaTeX installation. Is it there? If not, the teTeX installation may be hosed. If it is there, then I suspect there's a problem with environment variables. Quoting the teTeX FAQ: The file texmf.cnf is searched for in $SELFAUTODIR, $SELFAUTOPARENT, $TETEXDIR. If the file texmf.cnf is not found, set the TETEXDIR variable in your environment. Are those variables set in your environment? Paul
Re: displaymath
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Hi I am using displaymath environment and wondered whether it was possible, for a few equations only, to have this environment to be left aligned rather than the default centered. Geoff In Layout->Document->Packages, check the box to use the amsmath package. Then insert the following in ERT in the text prior to each equation whose placement you want to change: [EMAIL PROTECTED] to switch to left alignment; [EMAIL PROTECTED] to switch to center alignment. Be sure to include a terminal space in the ERT so that \makeatother doesn't run into whatever comes next. HTH, Paul
Re: how to share BibTeX references across platforms
David Soukal wrote: Dear LyXers, I would like to ask you for help with the following problem. I'm writing papers with my advisor and we decided to use LyX. She uses Windows version while I work from Linux. Our problem is sharing documents with BibTeX references. While sharing LyX documents works flawlessy, we have problems with BibTeX generated references. The problem is where to store the BibTeX files. Each of us would like to have the references in a place where they can be accesses from several papers. The problem is how to achieve this in situation where the database is in different locations on different machines. For example, my advisor prefers c:\papers\bibliography\1994.bib while I prefer ~/work/references/1994.bib. When I'm entering the database file in LyX, I have two options, either hit the Browse button in which case LyX enters the full path, or I can manually add relative path. I thought I'd add a symbolic link into each directory with a paper and then I'd add the databases using relative path, like so ./ref/1994.bib, where "ref" is the link to whatever directory the database is stored in on particular machine (e.g. ~/work/references for on my machine). Now, while this works for me on Linux. Windows shortcuts don't seem to do the trick. My question is, does anybody have experience with sharing LyX documents with BibTeX references that are not stored in one fixed place? Thank you for any comments, David If your advisor has installed (or is willing to install) the MinSYS system (subsystem? package? whatever), you can use symbolic links. I believe MinSYS is mandatory for LyX 1.3.6 and later on Windows. From MinSYS's interactive shell, you create the link pretty much as you would on Linux, other than to remember that the C: drive is /c in MinSYS. So, for instance, you would use ln -s /c/papers/bibliography ./ref on her machine. Alternatively, you can do the same thing from a DOS command prompt, by providing the path to ln if necessary, for instance "C:\Program Files\msys\1.0\bin\ln.exe" -s /c/papers/bibliography ./ref (assuming the default installation location). I've tried it here (Win XP) and it seems to work as expected. Paul
Re: Problem with depth.
José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández wrote: Hello, I am having a problem with depths where I have a paragraph and a set of items (itemize) and everything should be in depth 1 (not 0), so I select it and I choose "increse depth". All the items except the fisrt one are put inside an incresed depth (the first item and the paragraph are left out). Am I doing something wrong ? I am attaching the example file, I am using LyX 1.3.5 on Linux. Thanks. You cannot nest anything into a standard environment. Have a look at section 3.4.2 of the LyX User's Guide. Paul
Re: Export to html?
Roy Schestowitz wrote: Latex2html is an excellent tool, which you must run from the /command line/. For example, once you export your document as LaTeX (File -> Export -> LaTeX), navigate your way (in DOS, Bash or whatever) to the location (path) of the output file and run the script, calling the file as the only (first) argument, e.g. c:/>latex2html my_doc.tex or $ latex2html my_doc.tex I don't use latex2html, so what I'm about to type is hypothetical, but you should be able to run it directly from LyX in the same way that you run pdflatex. LyX already has HTML defined as a file format, so I *think* all you need to do is go into Edit->Preferences->Converters and add a new converter, as follows: From: LaTeX To: HTML Converter: latex2html $$i Extra flag: You might also have to add the path to the latex2html executable to Edit->Preferences->Paths->PATH prefix. (By the way, does this exist in all versions, or is it unique to the Windows version?) This should add HTML to the File->Export list. To add it to the File->View list, you need to add your web browser of choice to the Viewer: field in the HTML entry in Edit->Preferences->File formats, then modify and save. I think. Paul
Re: Keyboard shortcut for selecting paragraph styles / environments?
Veysel Özer wrote: Mark Engelberg wrote: Is there a shortcut to activate the drop-down box for all the environments? It really bugs me having to use a mouse to click up there any time I change environments. Thanks, Mark the default keyboard shortcuts are in /usr/share/lyx/bind/* for drop-down of enviroments try alt-p-space regard, Veysel You can also select some (all?) environments with a keyboard shortcut. Since the contents of the environment menu varies by document class, unsurprisingly so do the shortcuts. Typing M-p-s gets you the standard environment. Typing just M-p displays (somewhat briefly) in the status line at the bottom of the screen a list of possible completions of the sequence (including, as noted above, M-p-space). Unfortunately, I don't know of any visible "legend" for the shortcuts. Paul
Re: Keyboard shortcut for selecting paragraph styles / environments?
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Unfortunately, I don't know of any visible "legend" for the shortcuts. Er, um, on second thought yes I do. They're listed in the menus.bind file. Paul (scraping egg off face)
Re: quotes in the lyx
Leon Chen wrote: Hi. Sorry for bothering, although the double quotes problem was solved, the single quote ' still has the problem... they are all right single quota... Anyone has any comments? Use ` (same key as ~, assuming a typical US/UK keyboard) for left single quote and ' (same key as ") for right single quote. Paul
Re: Windows spellchecker for LyX?
Mark Engelberg wrote: Thanks for all the help, everyone. I was able to get the hollywood class in the right place, and it works fine. But now, the spellchecker is telling me it can't find an en_US wordlist. How do I get hold of that, and set it up properly with the Windows distribution? (I'm kind of surprised it wasn't automatically installed). Thanks, Mark You can find the dictionary at http://aspell.net/win32/. In fact, you can find all sorts of dictionaries there. LyX does not install Aspell, in part because on Unix-type platforms you get your choice of which spellchecker you want to use. (On Windows, you can use any one you want, as long as it's Aspell.) Aspell, in turn, installs the software but not the dictionary, because you get to pick your language. (Although, typically, your parents picked it for you at an early age. :-) Paul
Re: Problem with math-macro
Srinivas Nedunuri wrote:
Hello, I tried defining a macro as described in the User Guide (the
macrowarg example). However, I get the following erroe message:
Extra }, or forgotten $.
\newcommand{\macrowarg}[1]{2+\sqrt{#1}}
What is wrong here? The code looks identical to what the User Guide says is
produced.
It is, and it's identical to what I get when I (successfully) define and
use the example macro.
(BTW, If I try surrounding the macro body with $ (by shifting into math mode
in Lyx) I get a complaint that you can't use #1 inside math mode
The macro definition does not go in math mode, so you were on the right
track the first time.
The only thing I can think of is that there's a problem earlier in your
document.
At any rate, here's one way to define the macro.
1. In the mini-buffer, type 'math-macro macrowarg 1' (without the
quotes) and hit enter. The macro definition box should materialize.
2. In the left entry of the macro definition box, type '2+\sqrt' and,
inside the argument box for the square root, type '#1' (both again
without the quotes).
3. Try typing \macrowarg inside math mode, and enter something in the
argument box.
If it doesn't work, try posting a minimal document that fails.
Paul
Re: Question
Leon Chen wrote: Note you don't get the pdf through 'export', choose 'view' and then pdflatex. Actually, with everything properly configured, there _should_ be options to export to PDF (regular, pdflatex and dvipdfm). Ana would appear to have some problems with her setup. File->Export should list LaTeX among its options. If it does not, then it is likely that LyX failed to find a working LaTeX installation, and that needs to be fixed before LyX can be used for much of anything. As far as import, there is no option to import PDF or PS files. Only ASCII, LaTeX and Noweb files can be imported. Paul
Re: how to share BibTeX references across platforms
David Soukal wrote: Paul, thanks a lot you for the tip. I happened to have Cygwin installed one my machine, so I gave it a try. My setup is the following: I have windows version of LyX 1.3.5 downloaded from LyX.org. I tried to create the sym-link in Cygwin and run LyX from there. However, it did not work. The command "ln -s a b" run from Cygwin simply creates Windows shortcut. But LyX run from Cygwin won't recognize the shortcut as a link... obviously it ignores Cygwin altogether. I just tried Cygwin's version of ln and had the same experience you did. If you use Windows Explorer to look at the directory where you created the symbolic link, you see a Windows link icon. You're right, LyX won't follow a Windows link (.lnk). You mentioned MinSYS being required for LyX 1.3.6. What does it mean? Actually, MinSYS is not exactly required -- what's required is sh.exe, and MinSYS is (I think) the way the LyX 1.3.6 installer suggests getting it (if it doesn't find sh.exe already installed, as for instance it would if you had Cygwin on the system). Does it mean that LyX will understand shortcuts in Windows? Not in the sense of interpreting .lnk files, but if you use the ln.exe that comes with MinSYS, what Windows Explorer shows you is not a .lnk icon but a folder icon. Prior to Win 2000 (I think), the Windows file system had no real symbolic link capability at all resembling what Unix has. I'm not sure if it was a consequence of switching to the NTFS file system, but Win XP (and I think Win 2K) have the ability to create actual symbolic links now. The catch, if I recall correctly, is that the command line application to do so does not install automatically but comes from a toolkit CD (which may cost extra -- again, not sure). I suspect that the version of ln that comes with MinSYS has been compiled to use the Win XP/Win 2K API calls to create symbolic links. I don't know if this will work on a FAT drive; it may well be restricted to NTFS partitions. I'm going to try to install MinSYS now. If you're installing on the same machine that has Cygwin (and not uninstalling Cygwin), be sure to use the full path to ln so that you get the MinSYS version of it. Follow up here if it still doesn't work. Paul
Re: float in the float
Roy Schestowitz wrote: I suggest you look into LaTeX packages that allow embedment of two floats side by side. I wonder if the subfigure package would help. Paul
Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs
Peter Flynn wrote: I just tried to install Lyx from the 1.3.6-1 RPMs. It can't find the commands kpsewhich and texhash, which is weird because they are both in the global path. The TeX is a new full install from the TeX Collection DVD. How do I get around this? Is the postinstall script SUing to some strange UID (the RPM install is done as root, of course). This happens for both xforms and qt versions (tried both) and now they won't uninstall cleanly either, because they're trying to undo stuff that never got done. It's not just kpsewhich and texhash -- both install scripts failed to find a working latex executable. IIRC, the install scripts for look for latex and latex2e by trying to execute them. Assuming that your latex executable is on the global path and works (which you can test by trying to run it from a shell prompt), you might check whether there's a permissions problem (is the LyX install script running under an account that can access the LaTeX installation). Paul
Re: LyX doesn't store my PDF viewer info
Mark Engelberg wrote: I tried Angus' suggested work-around of setting the path to include f:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader, and then just set the viewer to acrord32.exe. Interestingly, LyX IS able to load the path from the preferences file, and the viewer of just acrord32.exe just fine. It can remember the viewer when it is acrord32.exe but not the longer full pathname, which is certainly a bit baffling. However, when I try to view the pdf with those settings, it IS able to open the viewer, but cannot find the temp pdflatexed file to open. Argh! So, this combination of settings doesn't work, but for a completely different reason. Since we now know why the first approach failed, let's focus on getting this to work. I assume from your wording that Reader is *not* open prior to your clicking View->PDF (pdflatex) in LyX. (It's a known problem that an already open copy of Reader will report being unable to open the .pdf file in the temp directory, and there are various workarounds posted.) So clicking View->PDF (pdflatex) causes Reader to open, but it fails to find the file it's supposed to display. First question: Does the output file exist? If so, can you open it by double-clicking it? I think I've had this happen when a compile problem actually caused pdflatex to fail to generate the output file. (I can't recall the precise circumstances.) I'm pretty sure it's also happened to me when pdflatex was able to process the .tex file but was blocked by the OS from writing the .pdf output (because a file of the same name already existed and had a lock on it), although that doesn't sound like your problem. If the file exists, then there may be a problem with the path to it. One way to test that is as follows. Create the following two-line batch file (putting it in the directory where Reader lives would be a good idea). echo Looking for input file %1 pause Call it reader.bat, say. Then change the viewer entry from acrord32.exe to reader.bat and try View->PDF (pdflatex). This will show you the path to the .pdf output being fed to Reader. Paul
Re: Problems installing 1.3.6-1 RPMs
Peter Flynn wrote: How do I know what account the LyX postinstall script from the RPM has picked to run as? The RPM was installed as root, of course, but if LyX has picked something else to use to run its script, that is hidden from sight -- what's the best way to find out (and why on earth would they want to do such a weird thing anyway?). Sorry, my wording was fuzzy. I don't have a working Linux box handy these days, but I assume that LyX runs with the permissions of whatever user is logged in. So if you can run latex directly, presumably when you run the LyX configure script it has the same permissions. kpsewhich and all the TeX binaries are in /usr/local/bin, which is in every user's path, AFAIK. If you're motivated, you could hack the configure script to add a couple of echo commands that might tell you at least where things are going south. If I'm reading the configure script correctly, the quest for a working copy of LaTeX is done in two parts. First, every directory on the path is scanned for either 'latex' or 'latex2e'. (More precisely, the path is scanned for 'latex', then if necessary for 'latex2e'.) If a file with the correct name is found, LyX then tries to run it against a test .ltx file to determine if it's a working version of LaTeX. So it might be helpful to echo each directory being searched. By the way, IIRC there have been misadventures in the past caused by people having a both functional and dysfunctional LaTeX installations, with the dysfunctional one first on the path. If I'm reading the script correctly (and that's a big "if", since I'm not a Linux user), once it finds a 'latex' file, it stops searching for other 'latex' files even if the one it finds doesn't pass the functionality test. Might be worth checking. HTH, Paul
Re: Lyx-code formatting
Dave Mills wrote: Hi, I've got a document with some numbered chemical reaction equations formated as lyx-code. The problem is, when I generate a PDF the equations run over the edge of the page, they don't wrap around to the next line. Is it possible to make them wrap? Some ERT needed? Any other suggestion? I'm using Lyx 1.3.5 on OSX 10.3.9 cheers, Dave The LyX code environment is like the preformatted tag in HTML -- text is reproduced verbatim, monospaced. If you want it verbatim and want it to fit, you can block it and use Layout->Character->Size to shrink it. Alternatively, if you want it to wrap, you could try switching to another environment (standard? quote? definition?) and use Layout->Character->Family to change the font family to typewriter. Paul
Re: dia help
Myriam Abramson wrote: Hi! Somebody on this list might be familiar with the dia editor tool for drawing diagrams on many Linux distributions. The text facility seems pretty basic and I urgently need to have subscripts and superscripts. Does anybody know how to do that in a nice way? Thanks for your insights, You might take a look at Ipe. I've used both Dia and Ipe, and I believe Ipe is much better at handling text (assuming the diagram is headed for inclusion in a LaTeX document). Paul
Re: key bindings
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem with the key bindings in LyX under an Italian winXP at work. I'm very used to the Spanish LyX in my Linux box at home (yes, I have a language mess: in addition to that, some of my colleagues at the university only speak English...), and love the Alt+M+something to do “math things”, like greek characters. My problem is that in the Italian version, Alt+M open the "Modifica" (Edit) menu, so I cannot use, for example, Alt+M+( to introduce scalable brackets, something with which I'm very comfortable. Any suggestions? Thanks! -- Email.it, the professional e-mail, gratis per te: http://www.email.it/f Sponsor: Fun Stepper Modella fianchi, gambe, glutei e brucia calorie divertendoti! clicca qui Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=3851&d=20050914 I may be missing something here: what's preventing you from editing the key bindings to your taste? Paul
Re: htlatex converter
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: Hello, htlatex works fine on file foo when used standalone from a shell. If I add html2 file format and conversion from latex to html2 as htlatex $$i, I get a different output and lyx spits no result, whatever View or Export call. Not solved by reconfigure. Seems that the initial compilations needed by htlatex are inncomplete: This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) %&-line parsing enabled. output format initialized to DVI entering extended mode LaTeX2e <2003/12/01> Babel and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang, nohyphenation, ba sque, german, ngerman, spanish, catalan, french, italian, ukenglish, loaded. (./foo.tex This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.20a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.3) There should be a parsing of classes and packages before the second run, so the latex passes produce no output. Any clue ? TIA Not sure this applies to all platforms (and not sure what you're running on), but on Windows, htlatex needs either to have some environment variables set or to find a file named tex4ht.env (or both -- don't recall). Does it look for environment variables when you run it from a shell, and if so does it get the same environment variables when LyX calls it? Paul
Re: how to insert optional arguments?
David Soukal wrote:
Hello,
I started to write a presentation in LyX using the Beamer document
class. Everythings seems to be working perfect. Only, I wasn't able to
figure out how to insert an optional argument for some of the
environments (like Date). When I open the LyX demo files that came with
Beamer, most of them have the optional arguments but I am unable to
create them in my presentation. The optional arguments look like ERT
boxes except their tab says "opt"...
So far I managed by copying the opt-boxes from the demo file but I was
wondering how they were inserted in the demos.
Thank you for your help,
David
Type optional-insert in the minibuffer at the bottom, then type your
option in the widget/thingie that gets inserted.
Note that this works for some Beamer environments that take options
(such as Date) and not for others (such as Block). To add an optional
title to a Block, you have to put it in braces {} in ERT at the very
start of the environment.
Paul
Re: how to insert optional arguments?
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Use Insert>Short Title. I know the name is not very helpful, but we have not been able to come up with something better. JMarc I had no idea that worked. (I'd assumed that it literally inserted *only* the optional short version of a title.) How about Insert->Option or Insert->Optional argument? Those are sufficiently obvious that I suspect they were considered and rejected for some reason. Paul
Re: how to insert optional arguments?
David Soukal wrote:
I have one more question regarind the OPT boxes. I don't know whether
it's a bug or whether I missed something, but I cannot insert the OPT
box for environments where it should be possible. For example, the
author of Beamer recommends to enter an optional argument "fragile" for
the frame environment in situations when the frame contains verbatim
text. I didn't manage to get OPT for the BeginFrame environment in LyX.
I tried a trick with an ERT box with [fragile], set right at the
beginning of the frame. But it won't work because it creates LaTeX code
\lyxframe{[fragile]...}
This is normal behavior. For instance, if you put [<+->] in ERT at the
beginning of the frame title, you'll get \lyxframe{[<+->]...} where ...
is the frame title text, and it will function correctly (itemized
entries will automatically trigger new overlays). So I think the
problem with "fragile" may be a defect in the coding of the lyxframe macro.
You might want to e-mail a report of this to Till Tantau, the author of
the Beamer package (including the beamer.layout file).
Paul
Re: Line breaks for in-line math; viewer path preference woes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For 2, as Angus suggested, it seems I need to change the path_prefix.
However, I can't find this option anywhere. I can also manually edit
one of the preferences files (I'm guessing $HOME/.lyx/lyxrc.defaults)
but I have no idea how. Also, 1 still has no solution. Can anybody
help? Thanks!
1. How do I insert a line break in an inline math formula (C-m)? Enter
and M-Enter don't work. I tried C-Enter, but this changes my math to
some other math environment (I'm guessing an eqnarray). Note that this
works fine in LaTeX:
$a\\b$
In the preamble, add the following:
\newcommand{\bb}{\\}
Within a math environment, type '\bb ' (including a space to end the
command) to insert the break. There's nothing sacred about the name of
the command; you could call it \mybreak, for instance. I don't *think*
that \bb collides with anything "standard", but I could be wrong.
Paul
Re: Error: "Resulting file is empty"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've Googled the archives for this problem, but the only time it came up was when the file was already open in Acrobat Reader, which has a write lock on the output file, so of course pdflatex fails. It also happens to me when I'm using pdflatex and an error in the source files causes pdflatex to blow up. When I run latex (typically with View->DVI), LyX is pretty reliable at recognizing that a LaTeX error has occurred and flagging it, but when I use pdflatex, LyX is somewhat less reliable about spotting errors. Anyway, I've tried File > Export > PDF/PDF (pdflatex)/DVI, but it always gives me the error "Resulting file is empty". I have miktex installed, and the previous intallation of LyX (the unofficial LyX-win32 1.3.5) worked fine. That suggests a configuration problem, but not what the problem might be. I can, however, export to LaTeX. Running pdflatex from cmd works, and I've ensured that C:\texmf\miktex\bin is in the path_prefix. Same errors when I use View menu. What am I missing? Thanks in advance for any help. When you get the empty file message, does the LaTeX log file (View->LaTeX log file) indicate any errors? Paul
Re: non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate
David Soukal wrote: The package enumitem, David, may be of some help. Have a look at the examples in its documentation. Paul Thank you Paul. I had a look at the package and it looks useful. However, I wasn't able to figure out what I should put as "label="... I have no idea how Beamer creates the graphics around the items... I'm again sorry to bring this thing up here. David I'm not sure enumitem will help -- it resets the format for an entire enumeration, not just for one item. Your original approach may have some legs, although personally I would insert labels in the original enumeration and use cross-references in the explanation part for safety sake. (If you know you're never going to modify the first list, I suppose this is overkill.) Without knowing what Beamer theme you're using, it's hard to know what the enumerations should look like. Can you post a LyX file containing a minimal example? Paul
Re: non-LyX question: Beamer enumerate
David Soukal wrote: Without knowing what Beamer theme you're using, it's hard to know what the enumerations should look like. Can you post a LyX file containing a minimal example? > There it is! The reason why I want this "configuration" is that the three properties are proved on previous slides one by one (each proof being slightly different). However, it is useful to interpret Prop. 2 and Prop 3. together :) Thank you very much for any hint! David I've attached a modified version of the test file. Is this what you want? There may be a better way to do this via Beamer customizations. I just located the code Beamer uses to typeset the enumeration numbers and made an ugly kludge that does two numbers. Note the new command added to the preamble, and the call to \kludge in the optional argument to the enumeration. Paul ps. I'm very sorry for abusing this list! Thank you for putting up with me! No worries, we all do it. Or at least I do. :-) style_example.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: oddity
Srinivas Nedunuri wrote: I did notice that under converters, there was no converter for Lyx to Dvi, in fact anything to Dvi...which might be the source of the problem though I'm baffled as to how it disappeared if indeed there ought to be one There is no direct converter from LyX to DVI. What you need is a converter from LyX to LaTeX and a converter from LaTeX to DVI. First thing to check: File->Export has an entry for LaTeX. If not, something has either hosed your LaTeX installation or made it appear to LyX to be unavailable. Second thing to check: Edit->Preferences->File formats should include entries for LaTeX and DVI. The DVI entry needs to have a viewer specified (probably yap if you're using MiKTeX). The LaTeX entry need not have a viewer specified; you can use any text editor/viewer (e.g., notepad) if you want to be able to view LaTeX files produced by LyX. Third thing to check: Edit->Preferences->Converters needs a path from LaTeX to DVI. (LyX to LaTeX is automatically available and is not listed in the Converters section.) In recent versions, this path has two elements: a LaTeX to DraftDVI entry (the converter is latex $$i), and a DraftDVI to DVI entry (python $$s/scripts/clean_dvi.py $$i $$o). With just the first entry, you should have DraftDVI available on the View menu. Paul
Re: C-Tab?
Angus Leeming wrote: Scott Otterson wrote: Should I be able to map control-tab to a lyx function? I've added this line to my .bind file: \bind "C-Tab" "depth-decrement" But on the Windows port of Lyx 1.3.6-1, nothing happens when I type C-Tab. This may or may not be a bug in the Qt/WinFree library. If you fire up lyx from the cmd console as lyx -dbg key you'll be able to generate lots of debugging information. However, I'm unable to tell you what you should be expecting to see because here my linux window manager (KDE) grabs C-Tab for itself and I switch virtual desktops :( Nonetheless, please post the output and someone will be able to help. Works ok for me (LyX 1.3.6-1 on Win XP), so it's probably not a Qt/WinFree issue. Three things: 1. Are you sure you edited the same bind file that LyX is loading (i.e., you didn't edit the bind file in C:\Program Files\LyX\Resources\lyx\bind but load one from C:\Documents and Settings\your name here\Application Data\lyx\bind, or vice versa)? 2. Did you restart LyX after editing the bind file? 3. Did you put the new binding *after* any \bind_file entries in your bind file (so that it's not being overridden by something in a subsequently loaded bind file)? Paul
Re: Fixing the equal-sign and other font issues on Windows
Paul Smith wrote: On 9/30/05, Matei Zaharia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I noticed that on http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ it says to download certain TTF fonts for Windows, and if an issue pops up where horizontal or vertical lines are being hidden (e.g. in equal signs, but also happens with +/-, epsilon, and a whole bunch of stuff), to tweak the font size. [I think this issue only happens with ClearType or no text smoothing, but I could be wrong]. I found an easier solution: uninstall the old fonts if you have them, and download Mozilla's math font collection from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/. These will look good on Windows at all zoom levels. Maybe someone can add this to the Wiki and install instructions as well. LyX team has meanwhile released the version 1.3.6, in which the problem reported by you does not occur! Paul Nonetheless, thanks for the tip. I've installed the MathML fonts, and they do seem to look good (and may be useful for other purposes, since I'm a Mozilla user). Other Paul
Re: Selecting All Within A Document
Daniel Watkins wrote: This is a fairly noob Q, but is there a shortcut to select everything within a document (like Ctrl-A)? Cheers, Dan Yes, there is (sort of), and no, it's not a particularly newbie question (meaning that I've been using LyX for a while and only discovered it by looking hard, after reading your question). On my system, Ctrl-Shift-End grabs everything from the cursor position to the end of the file, and Ctrl-Home jumps to the top of the document. So Ctrl-Home followed by Ctrl-Shift-End will do it. If you want to make a one-chord shortcut for it, you can do the following. 1. Find the bind file you're using. If you don't know which one it is, check Edit->Preferences->Look and feel->User interface->Bind file. Copy it to the bind folder of your local user settings (C:\Documents and Settings\your name here\Application Data\lyx\bind on Windows if using version 1.3.6 or later). 2. Open the bind file in a text editor and add the following at the bottom: \bind "C-a" "command-sequence buffer-begin; buffer-end-select;" (assuming that Ctrl-A is not mapped to anything you find useful -- otherwise pick a different key combo). 3. Save the new bind file, open LyX, go to Edit->Preferences->Look and feel->User interface->Bind file and set it to the newly edited bind file, then test whether Ctrl-A now highlights everything. HTH, Paul
Re: wrap: figure not working
Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: Hi, I have a multipart (input) document in which I try to use a "wrap: Figure". For some reason this does not show up in pdf files (pdflatex) but it shows up in html via tex2html. If I put the figure in an ordinary float it shows in both ways. The figure is a png. The funny thing is if I compile extended.lyx (the extended features doc) mobius.eps shows in the pdf file. From the latex Log I do not get a clue though it seems the figure is being processed. On the other hand, if I put a label in the caption and a reference in the file there is a complaint it is undefined but in html the ref is present and working. in my layout preamble section I have the following packages (in this order): helvet, rcs, fancyhdr, chappg, tocbibind, cmap, hyperref Anyone a suggestion on where/how to dig further? Maarten Can you post a minimal example? Paul
Re: Fixing the equal-sign and other font issues on Windows
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul Smith wrote: On 9/30/05, Matei Zaharia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I noticed that on http://www.home.zonnet.nl/rareitsma/lyx/ it says to download certain TTF fonts for Windows, and if an issue pops up where horizontal or vertical lines are being hidden (e.g. in equal signs, but also happens with +/-, epsilon, and a whole bunch of stuff), to tweak the font size. [I think this issue only happens with ClearType or no text smoothing, but I could be wrong]. I found an easier solution: uninstall the old fonts if you have them, and download Mozilla's math font collection from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/mathml/fonts/. These will look good on Windows at all zoom levels. Maybe someone can add this to the Wiki and install instructions as well. LyX team has meanwhile released the version 1.3.6, in which the problem reported by you does not occur! Paul Nonetheless, thanks for the tip. I've installed the MathML fonts, and they do seem to look good (and may be useful for other purposes, since I'm a Mozilla user). Other Paul Spoke too soon. I installed the MathML font package, and initially it looked ok, but today I discovered that \le was displaying in LyX as an empty square rather than it's usual self. I reinstalled the BaKoMa4LyX font package (deleting the seven corresponding fonts from MathML), and \le is back to its usual handsome self. Paul
Re: Download Classes
Carlos Knauer wrote: Hi. From where do I download classes (or layouts) for LyX ? Thanks, -- Carlos Fernando Knauer Classes are part of your LaTeX distribution. Most of the available LyX layouts ship with LyX, but there are some user-contributed ones on the Wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts. If you need a layout for class not covered by one of those sources, you have to write your own (or induce someone to write it for you). Writing your own is discussed in the documentation, and there are links to one or two articles on the Wiki layout page. Paul
Re: beamer presentations & projectors
Gour wrote: Although it's a little bit OT, I'd like to hear some experiences from LyX & beamers users, i.e. is it the resolution of 800x600 (aka SVGA) enough for a beamer presentations in a classroom-size room? Yes. I've used that routinely in classes with up to 45 students, and I've done at least one presentation (with graphs and the odd formula) in a lecture hall that seats 300 (and had people sitting all the way front to back). That room had a large screen, rear projection system, though; I wouldn't attempt to use a portable projector in a room that big. Any brand you can recommend and whether to go with lcd & dlp? I'm partial to DLP, but IMHO the big thing is to get the maximum brightness you can within you budget (and weight/size capacity). I've found the PC Magazine product reviews pretty accurate. Have a look at http://www.pcmag.com/category2/0,1874,7496,00.asp. Paul
Re: Increase features!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a funny affair! I just wanted to increase some features at my Lyx (like new document classes, color support on LaTeX picture, spellchecker, etc.) and I thought about to do a full install of the MikTex program (the Lyk base for LaTeX on windows systems). Then, I downloaded about 400mb of MikTex stuff and start installing everything, which spent me one long day and one gb of HD! Afterwards I could realize that nothing changes! No increase feature at Lyx! My spellchecker is not working, then I tried to download some about ".ispell" to use on it, then I realize it must be compiled on linux or cygwin -- wich I won't install! The Windows port of LyX uses only aspell, not ispell. In the preferences section, the spell checker program is listed as ispell and grayed out (not changeable), but the Windows version is hard-coded to use aspell. Almost mad, I started to seek the "aspell" dict to use on my Lyx, then I downloaded it and installed it, and afterwards, I configured on Lyx to use aspell spellchecker. Really? How? On my copy, Edit->Preferences->Language settings->Spellchecker->Spell checker program is an inactive control (can't be changed). Now Lyx is freezing and that's it! Did you install aspell to C:\Aspell. IIRC, the path is hard-coded someplace, so it doesn't work if you put it anywhere else. You might try running LyX in debug mode to see if it tells you anything useful. The easiest way to do this is probably to open a command window in the LyX bin directory and run 'lyx -dbg any'. It will produce a tremendous message volume in the command window, but all you care about is the last few messages before LyX freezes. Good grief! I'm tired, but would like to ask a simple question: Is there some way to use a non-english dict on Lyx (not on theory, but I want some stuff that really works!)? AFAIK, the non-English dictionaries in Aspell work, assuming you have them downloaded. (They are separated downloads from the main program.) Paul
Re: "Oh-oh --- Aspell is not working!"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh --- I see! Aspell is not working! Now I know! There is no 'aspell.com' or 'aspel.exe' or some aspell executable, and I can't use the command line aspell (DOS prompt), neither inside the exact path (c:\aspell), because the single executable there is the 'aspell-uninstall'! I tried to install it many times, what seems to be the matter? C:\Aspell should contain just the uninstallers (one for aspell and one for the dictionary, I think) plus the readme file and some other miscellaneous stuff. It should also be parent to subdirectories bin, data, dict, and doc, with the actual executables (aspell.exe, dlls, etc.) in the bin folder. If that's not the case, perhaps you run the uninstaller, remove any residual directories, reinstall and, if unsuccessful, post details of what you did here. Paul
Re: poster view/export postscript page size problem.
Bo Peng wrote: Look at the Converters section in the Edit->Preferences dialog. Alternatively, run lyx from the command line as lyx -dbg all -export pdf > lyx.log and wade through the messages. I see, as I suspected, lyx calls dvips -t letter -o poster.ps poster.dvi This "-t letter" is causing the problem, but it is not in Edit->Preference->Converters->dvi to ps. How can I get rid of this option? Maybe the standard layout file set this? Thanks. Bo What is set in Layout->Document->Paper? Paul
Re: Problems with installing/running
Robert Badzey wrote: Hi: So I've been using LyX for awhile now. Great program - wrote my dissertation on it in about half the time it would have taken for LatTeX. So I noticed the new build (1.3.6) for Windows, and figured I'd give it a shot. I don't know what the problem is, but it's been giving me fits ever since, with a progressive degrading of performance that's a bit startling. First, I couldn't import LaTex files correctly. Always got an error message. Tried installing tex2lyx -- no dice. I just got a generic error message, and so was never able to track it down beyond that. Then, just yesterday, LyX apparently lost the ability to generate previews - no DVI, nothing. The pull-down menu options which existed before simply vanished. Only output to PDF. Having removed and re-installed, now I can't even run it. I get an error message which tells me that it "wasn't able to find any layout description" and the program fails to run. So in the space of three days I've gone from a functional program to one which simply won't run at all. Any ideas/suggestions? This is very worrying and not at all explicable. Rob Badzey LIFO -- first priority is to figure out why the reinstall won't run. Any chance that the third-party programs required by LyX were uninstalled (and not reinstalled), removed from the command path or otherwise hosed? In particular, you need a working version of sh.exe (presumably from the MinSys package?) for the configuration script to work. The "no layout files" error has been known to happen when the configure script breaks either because the wrong version of sh or the wrong version of sed (or no version?) is used. Paul
Re: Wiki page for "Presentations using LyX"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Presentations about LyX are supposed to be listed/documented on this wiki page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/PresentationsAboutLyX however at the moment it has no material (I can't remember why I created it but never added even a single link). Seems to me that someone posted to the group about having built a presentation about LyX and offered it for use by others. I think Nirmal Govind was one (see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/12792), although I checked the link and his presentation is no longer there. Perhaps Nirmal could be persuaded to upload it to the Wiki. Paul
Re: Bug ?
Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: - Original Message - From: "Nicolas Ferré" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 2:38 PM Subject: Bug ? Dear all, could you please confirm the following bug, found in the following build of lyx: LyX 1.3.6 of Sat, Jul 16, 2005 Built on Jul 17 2005, 12:36:17 Configuration Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags:aiksaurus use-pspell use-ispell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler flags: -g -O2 C++ Compiler: g++ (3.4.3) C++ Compiler flags: -O Linker flags: Frontend: qt Qt version: 3.3.4 Packaging: posix LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir:/usr/local/share/lyx In the attached file, there are some math, entered in the following way: 1) type any character ; 2) one step back in the math box (e.g. with the left arrow of the numerical pad) ; 3) open an exposant or an indice ; 4) without having typed anything in the box, get out of it. To the right, OK. To the left, the top or the bottom, lyx crashes with an emergency saving. I find it is Ok to the right, left and bottom but crashes if I exit Top Geoff Bug 1598 -- apparently fixed in version 1.4.0cvs. Paul
Re: Quick question: where are the outputs?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're not there... In fact, I ran dir/s/b \blah.pdf but found nothing. What might be going wrong? I've never changed anything under Preferences since installing LyX, and I have all the support software the installer demanded. On 10/17/05, Geoffrey Lloyd - [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: They should appear in the same directory as the lyx file is? - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:12 AM Subject: Quick question: where are the outputs? I'm using LyX 1.3.6 for Windows. When I do File > Export > ..., I don't see any output files. Where are they? Thanks in advance. 1. Do view commands (e.g., View->DVI) work? 2. If you're trying to export a PDF file, check the LaTeX log (View->LaTeX Logfile) after doing File->Export->... and see if there is an error message. If one of the applications used in the export fails, there is no output file (and no visible warning in LyX). 3. Does File->Export->LaTeX work? It should produce a file with the document's name and a .tex extension in the directory where the file lives. 4. All else failing, open a DOS window, cd to the LyX bin directory, run 'lyx -dbg files' and report what shows up in the DOS window from the point you click File->Export->whatever onward. Paul
Re: How to recover dvi -> ps -> pdf output?
Stefano Franchi wrote: I need to recover the ability to generate (and see) a Pdf file via the dvips route. I lost the relevant items in the "View" menu a long time ago and never bother fixing the problem, because I was happy with pdftex. But now I have problems with the latter (after installing some fancy fonts) and need to go the other route. Can anyone remind me how to reinstruct LyX to perform the proper conversions? I am on a Mac, 10.3.9, running LyX 1.3.6 with Gerben Wierda's version of TeTex. dvips and company work fine when used from the console and/or TexShop. The following assumes that Ghostscript is also installed and working, since you need it for the Postscript->PDF conversion (unless something else is used on Macs). Go to the Edit->Preferences->Converters dialog. You need two converters, DVI->Postscript and Postscript->PDF. On my system (Win XP, but this should be platform-independent) the Converter: line for DVI->Postscript is 'dvips -o $$o $$i' with no extra flags; for Postscript->PDF it is 'ps2pdf13 $$i', again with no flags. (You may want to experiment with other converters from the Ghostscript lib directory, such as ps2pdf14.) If a converter is present but the Converter: line is empty, you can fill in the field and click Modify and then Save. If a converter is completely missing, set the From: and To: drop down lists, fill in the Converter: line, then click New followed by Save. Paul
Re: How to recover dvi -> ps -> pdf output?
Stefano Franchi wrote: Thanks Paul, the procedure you mentioned is more or less what I remembered, thanks for the details. But I cannot get it to work. Nothing shows up in either the View or Export menus. I suppose LyX knows what it is supposed to do to carry out the various conversions, but cannot find some relevant piece of software. Is there a way to get some more information on what is going on? I tried to start LyX in debug mode, but since I cannot trigger any "coverting" action, that's hardly helpful. Stefano, Does this mean that the DVI->Postscript and Postscript->PDF converters are correctly listed in the Edit->Preferences->Converters dialog? If so, is Ghostscript installed, and does the ps2pdf13 command run if invoked from the console? When you say "nothing shows up" in the View and Export menus, do you mean just no way to View/Export PDF? Or do you mean no way to View/Export a DVI as well? If the latter, it might imply that LyX is having a hard time finding LaTeX. If you can view DVIs but not PDFs with the DVI->PS->PDF route, then the next question is whether you can view/export PDFs using pdflatex or dvipdfm? Paul
Re: Windows 1.3.6: unrecognizable math symbols
Lars Henriksen wrote: Hello, I have been using the unofficial Windows port installed in a Cygwin environment for a while. Now I have downloaded and installed LyX 1.3.6 for Windows. The installation of all needed components went smoothly and OK (as far as I can tell). But the result was disappointing in that mathematical symbols and greek letters etc. no longer display as anything recognizable. E.g. the symbol for a greek alfa is a trademark sign, a sum sign is a capital P. When converted to dvi format the result is fine. What am I missing? Please respond directly, I'm not subscribed to the list. Lars Henriksen You probably just need to install the BaKoMa fonts. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136#installer_limitations (scroll down a bit to the paragraph on fonts). Download the fonts, unzip them into a temporary directory, then run the fonts applet from the Windows control panel and tell it to install all the fonts it finds in the temporary directory. Paul
Re: Environment Button Changes Shape
Rich Shepard wrote: This is a minor point, but annoying nonetheless. When I invoke LyX, the environment choice button at the left of the icon bar is small. As soon as I load a beamer document, that button expands to consume about 1/3 the horizontal space in the window. This drives the macro entry widget to the line below. All this in 1.3.6/qt on linux. Is this a beamer issue or something that I can control? I see nothing in the Edit->Preferences->Look 'n' Feel menus. Rich The environment control is expanding to accommodate the widest entry in the list, which with beamer appears to be ColumnsCenterAligned. If you never use columns, I suppose you could edit ColumnsCenterAligned and ColumnsTopAligned out of the layout file, and then the environment control would not expand as far. I take it using a wider window is out of the question? Paul
Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX
Paul wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as "standard". A standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. OK so does that mean those fonts (Times, Helvetica, Courier and variants) are built into the reader, or that it just expects them to be available? For example on Windows machines they generally have Times New Roman and Arial TrueType fonts rather than Times and Helvetica. Most of my potential readership is going to be using Adobe Acrobat on Windows I imagine. So if I use Times, will that be treated as different from Times New Roman and cause problems for Windows users, or will it silently substitute the font (possibly causing slight differences in the output?) Is it best for maximum portability to somehow force even standard fonts to be embedded in PDFs? This is assuming a fairly large document where the extra space taken by an embedded font wouldn't be significant. Paul. I use either the ae or pslatex fonts as a rule, and I've never had any problem with the PDFs being difficult to read or "ugly" on other machines (typically either a classroom PC or a student's PC). With other choices, you run a greater risk that the desired font is unavailable, in which case Acrobat Reader will map it to a different font if possible. Paul
Re: How to recover dvi -> ps -> pdf output?
Stefano Franchi wrote: What I mean is that in View menu I only have one item "PDF (pdflatex)" . Similarly, in the File>Export menu I LaTeX and PDF(pdflatex). And nothing else. No DVI, dvipdfm, etc. If you can view DVIs but not PDFs with the DVI->PS->PDF route, then the next question is whether you can view/export PDFs using pdflatex or dvipdfm? I cannot view DVIs. All I can do is view PDFs via the pdflatex route. Which has been all I needed so far, that's why I never bothered recovering the other options. Ok, this sounds strongly as though LyX cannot find a working copy of LaTeX. Without being able to run LaTeX (or more precisely without knowing it can run LaTeX), LyX will not show any export or view options that rely on LaTeX. Viewing and exporting LaTeX files themselves do not rely on having a copy of LaTeX; these options always exist, since the code to produce LaTeX output is internal to LyX. Being able to view or export PDFs via the pdflatex route relies on having a working copy of pdflatex but not on having a working copy of LaTeX. You indicated that you had TeTeX installed. The first step is to verify that you can run latex from a command shell. At this point, it gets difficult for me to advise you, since I'm not a Mac user. There's a script named 'configure' lurking in a folder under the LyX installation folder (on Windows it would be in \Resources\lyx, but I'm not sure if that holds for Macs). If you can run it from a command shell, you should be able to watch the progress messages. Edit->Reconfigure runs the same script from inside LyX, but at least on Windows you cannot see the messages unless you ran LyX in debug mode. Early on the script will output "checking for a LaTeX2e program" and then report on whether it found one or not, and if it did whether the one it found works or not. If the answer is no, that at least confirms that failure to find LaTeX is the problem. One last tip: I once ran into a problem with LyX failing to detect a working LaTeX, even though I had MiKTeX properly installed. It turned out that I also had Cygwin installed, including a nonfunctioning (or not fully functioning) latex.exe executable, and the Cygwin version of latex.exe preceded the MiKTeX version of latex.exe on the command path. Others have reported a similar problem. So if you have more than one copy of latex.exe on your system, make sure that LyX sees the right one first. HTH, Paul
Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX
Paul wrote: You said about sticking to basic PDF fonts, but I would have thought that it would be the other way round - unusual fonts would be *more* portable because they are actually embedded within the document. I'm not sure that's necessarily true. I think it is up to the software producing the PDF file to decide whether to embed fonts (either "unusual" or standard) or simply to enter the font name someplace in the document. If the font is not embedded and also not installed on the viewing machine, then the reader program uses what it thinks is a "close enough" font (determined, I think, from tables in the reader program). Also, I'm pretty sure (but not positive) that some programs writing PDF files will draw characters as bitmaps if the corresponding font is neither embedded nor "standard". That frequently results in rather jagged output. So IMHO using a non-standard font is rolling the dice. Paul
Re: No one answered a simple topic :(
Stephen Harris wrote: - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lyx Contribute" Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:23 PM Subject: No one answered a simple topic :( I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? -- It depends on what type of figures are in the document. http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/help/faqs/latex/conversions.shtml Also, if you embed pgf commands in your document to produce graphics, I'm pretty sure you have to use pdflatex (they won't appear in DVI output, or at least not with any semblance to what you intended). My impression is that there are nontrivial size differences among the outputs from various methods, in those cases where all the methods are capable of generating the right output. I'm not positive about that, though (and don't recall which produces the smallest files). Paul
Re: Installing layouts on Windows
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Angus Lemming wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry, I can in fact see the user dir in the About menu; however,
placing my files there didn't fix the problem. Please help!
Hi all, I'm trying to install the algorithms layout (from
http://bgu.chez.tiscali.fr/). I followed the instructions exactly
as specified in the accompanying readme.txt (my HOME is my cygwin
home dir so I copied all the files to under my .lyx directory
there, I defined TEXINPUTS to point to the packages dir, and I ran
Reconfigure). I still don't see any algorithm style available. The
readme.txt mentioned that I could find out where the user directory
is located by looking under Help > Version, but I see no such menu
option
(Help > About LyX doesn't specify this). I'm using LyX 1.3.6 and
MikTeX. Please help!! Thanks in advance.
LyX will look for .layout files in the ${LYX_USER_SUPPORT}/layouts
directory where
LYX_USER_SUPPORT="$HOME/.lyx"
on *nix and, I guess, Cygwin and
LYX_USER_SUPPORT="C:/Documents and Settings/USER/Application
Data/LyX"
on Windows.
So, question 1: you're using the Cygwin executable, right?
I'm not using the Cygwin exe (I wasn't aware there is one; how does it
compare to the native?), but rather the one downloaded straight from
the site.
If you install the LyX layout file correctly, you should be able to
find the thing in the Layouts->Document menu. If the LaTeX class is
not installed correctly, then the class will be marked as
"unavailable", meaning you can edit your .lyx document but you won't
be able to generate a .dvi file, etc.
Yes, I determined the possible locations, and the variable to set them
(LYX_USERDIR_136), but I've tried puting files in both locations to no
avail. I don't see the new layout at all.
I just installed the package successfully (LyX 1.3.7cvs, MiKTeX, Win
XP). I deviated from the instructions a bit. My steps (after unpacking
things) were as follows:
1. Copy algorithm.inc and article-algo.layout to C:\Documents and
Settings\\Application Data\lyx\layouts.
2. Create a folder named algolyx (the name does not actually matter)
under ...\localtexmf\tex\latex. I could have put it under the tex\latex
folder in the MiKTeX tree, but this way it's less likely to get
vaporized if I reinstall MiKTeX. Copy algolyx.sty there.
3. Update the MiKTeX file database (run the MiKTeX Options program,
select the General tab, click Refresh Now under File name database).
4. From a DOS prompt, run 'kpsewhich algolyx.sty' and verify that it
finds algolyx.sty. (I screwed up the installation the first time around
by putting the algolyx folder, containing algolyx.sty, directly under
localtexmf, hence the need to check that MiKTeX can find the style file.)
5. Start LyX, Edit->Reconfigure, exit and restart.
This gave me a working Article (algo) choice for document class. (Note
that this appears _above_ the default choice, article, in the drop-down
list of document classes.)
HTH,
Paul
Re: Horizontal Rule
Daniel Watkins wrote:
I'm looking to place a horizontal rule in a document I'm currently
working on. However, the standard horizontal rule is ugly (it just goes
from one side of the page to the other). How can I tell LyX to put in a
line that isn't as long (and what's a typographically good length to
have it?)?
Thanks in advance,
Dan
In ERT, centered in a paragraph: \rule[raise]{width}{thickness}
All three arguments are measurements. The mandatory arguments are the
horizontal width of the line and the thickness. The optional argument
is how much to raise it within its paragraph.
I don't know if there is a preferred width. I would say to use whatever
appeals to you visually.
Paul
Re: Is this possible in lyx?
Jose Capco wrote:
Dear List,
I just figured out how to disallow LaTeX to linebreak
a math inline formula that resides in the end of a
line. Sometimes they turn so awkward when they are
breaked in the end of the line. With LaTeX I just type
a formula in an \mbox and it solves my problem.. but
what about lyx? how can I perform an \mbox in Lyx? ..
I can of course input a latex code within lyx.. but it
would be great if I could do it in a "lyx" way too so
that I could also have the benefit of actually seeing
to formula.
Sincerely,
Jose Capco
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Try writing your formula in LyX the normal way, then putting \mbox{ in
ERT to the left of it and } in ERT to the right of it.
Paul
Re: updating postscript file, but not eepic picture
Gunnar wrote: Hi. I have a LyX (1.3.6) file that contains a reference to an eepic file that is be included with "\input" command. That works, but when I change in the eepic file, the LyX files preview is not updataed, even though I use update postscript/ view postscript and reloads the postscript file. What can I do to fix this problem? Does closing and reopening the LyX document rectify the problem? Paul
Re: Finding the Reason xdvi Output Disappeared
Rich Shepard wrote: I just upgraded all the systems here to Slackware-10.2. I've been busy developing beamer presentations (another one to be done in the next couple of weeks), so I've been viewing compiled output with pdflatex. Yesterday, however, I wrote a short article and tried to view the output by pressing ctrl-d. The status line shows the compiler at work, but there is no display. Here's the log file: This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=latex 2003.3.8) 26 OCT 2005 09:27 **st-andrews-prize.phase-1.tex (./st-andrews-prize.phase-1.tex LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, n ohyphenation, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo File: size10.clo 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX file (size option) ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \abovecaptionskip=\skip41 \belowcaptionskip=\skip42 \bibindent=\dimen102 ) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/palatino.sty Package: palatino 2002/09/08 PSNFSS-v9.0a (SPQR) ) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty Package: fontenc 2001/06/05 v1.94 Standard LaTeX package (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def File: t1enc.def 2001/06/05 v1.94 Standard LaTeX file LaTeX Font Info:Redeclaring font encoding T1 on input line 38. )) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty Package: inputenc 2001/07/10 v0.99a Input encoding file (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def File: latin1.def 2001/07/10 v0.99a Input encoding file )) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.sty \headwidth=\dimen103 ) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty Package: babel 2001/03/01 v3.7h The Babel package (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/english.ldf Language: english 2001/04/15 v3.3l English support from the babel system (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/babel/babel.def File: babel.def 2001/03/01 v3.7h Babel common definitions [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] = a dialect from [EMAIL PROTECTED] )) No file st-andrews-prize.phase-1.aux. \openout1 = `st-andrews-prize.phase-1.aux'. LaTeX Font Info:Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 18. LaTeX Font Info:... okay on input line 18. LaTeX Font Info:Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 18. LaTeX Font Info:... okay on input line 18. LaTeX Font Info:Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 18. LaTeX Font Info:... okay on input line 18. LaTeX Font Info:Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 18. LaTeX Font Info:... okay on input line 18. LaTeX Font Info:Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 18. LaTeX Font Info:... okay on input line 18. LaTeX Font Info:Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 18. LaTeX Font Info:... okay on input line 18. LaTeX Font Info:Try loading font information for T1+ppl on input line 18. (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ppl.fd File: t1ppl.fd 2001/06/04 font definitions for T1/ppl. ) LaTeX Font Info:External font `cmex10' loaded for size (Font) <12> on input line 22. LaTeX Font Info:External font `cmex10' loaded for size (Font) <8> on input line 22. LaTeX Font Info:External font `cmex10' loaded for size (Font) <6> on input line 22. LaTeX Warning: No \author given. [1 ] [2] (./st-andrews-prize.phase-1.aux) ) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: 899 strings out of 95847 9400 string characters out of 1195949 59003 words of memory out of 101 3872 multiletter control sequences out of 1+5 10896 words of font info for 28 fonts, out of 50 for 1000 14 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000 30i,10n,43p,185b,333s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,20b,5000s Output written on st-andrews-prize.phase-1.dvi (2 pages, 4388 bytes). So, why don't I see anything? Rich Best guess(es): either the upgrade munged xdvi, or the path to xdvi that LyX is using is wrong. To rule out the first, try exporting the doc as a DVI and then running xdvi against it manually. This is what you get for upgrading. Whatever happened to "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"? :-) Paul
Re: Forcing LyX to retypeset included files?
Stefano Franchi wrote: > BTW, I could not find a panel in LyX preference related to the /temp directory. Do you know where it is? Edit->Preferences->Paths has a check box for whether to use a temp directory; next to that is a box to enter the path (and a browse button for non-typists). Paul
