Re: Problem about Lyx2+

2012-03-06 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Does the MiKTeX bin directory appear on you system command path (prior to any other LaTeX installation, and prior to Cygwin if you have Cygwin installed)? You might try setting Tools > Preferences > Paths > PATH Prefix to point to the MiKTeX bin directory and then try to reconfigure. Paul

Re: subeq numbers in ams aligned

2012-02-27 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Neal Becker gmail.com> writes: > > I have an ams aligned env, and I'd like each of the subeqs numbered. > How can I do this? > > Alt-M N works for me (toggles line numbering on and off). Paul

Re: Errors on publishing [to pdf]

2012-02-12 Thread Paul A . Rubin
In addition to Richard's suggestion, another option would be to open your LyX document in a text editor and globally replace the Unicode character for the long dash with two ordinary dashes. Paul

Re: Arrays or similar in \xymatrix{

2012-02-05 Thread Paul A . Rubin
I'm not entirely sure I know what you want. Does the following file do it? Paul #LyX 2.0 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 413 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass article \use_default_options true \maintain_unincluded_children false \language english \langua

Re: Unwittingly triggering maths symbol

2012-02-03 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Gerhardus Geldenhuis gmail.com> writes: > > > Hi > I have the following reference in my reference file which is used by BibText bibliography: [...] > url = > "http://serc.carleton.edu/research_education/geochemsheets/browse.html"; > > Whenever I add the url I get the following error whe

Re: EOL characters removed when pasting a source code into a program listing section

2012-02-02 Thread Paul A . Rubin
How are you doing the pasting? The edit menu gives a couple of options for pasting external content, one of which preserves line breaks. Paul

Re: Multirow - Missing Border in Table

2012-01-23 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Paul Richards aston.ac.uk> writes: > Sorry, I should have searched first. I've just found several other topics > about the same problem. > > Table formatting by Christoph Mayer > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/70136 > > Borders in "multi-row" Table Elements by Tim Wesco

Re: Lyx2.0.2 for windows cannot display \leq

2012-01-19 Thread Paul A . Rubin
On the problem machine, go to C:\Program Files (x86)\LyX20\Resources\fonts (assuming LyX is installed in the default location). There should be ten TrueType font files (.ttf), along with a couple of text files. Those fonts are used by LyX to display math on the screen, so it is possible that one

Re: Space between lines at the same size shows differently

2012-01-14 Thread Paul A . Rubin
First, a comment: I'm not sure what you intend here, so I may be wrong, but I think you're doing things the hard way, using standard environments for things (titles, headings) when specialized environments for them exist. That said, the reason for the difference in spacing is that in the first blo

Re: Theorem proof results in error

2012-01-14 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Jeroen van Zundert gmail.com> writes: > > The change in that file (removing the backslash) also exists in the file on my pc ("..\Resources\layouts\theorems-proof-std.inc") You might check the ...\layouts folder under your home directory (on Win 7 that's usually something like C:\Users\\AppData\

Re: Long Math Equation in Table Column

2012-01-14 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Rich Shepard appl-ecosys.com> writes: >I do the above, save the document, and look at the dvi preview. It's not > rotated but in the upper right corner of the page and off both margins. But > ... A-ha! It is rotated in the pdflatex output. > >It occurred to me that sometimes the dvi pre

Re: Long Math Equation in Table Column

2012-01-12 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Not sure to which of these I should respond. :-) In approximately chronological order: 1. IMHO inline equations should never be long. If it's long enough to give you margin/column width headaches, I'd do it display mode, which gives you access to multiline equation formats. 2. Rotating a table i

Re: LyX 2.0: no graphic in DVI output

2012-01-07 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Raymond Ouellette sympatico.ca> writes: > > I can now preview images in the DVI output as I allways did. Strangely > I do have the same packages installed (well, I guess) on my netbook > (Bodhi Linux 32 bits) and there are no images in the DVI output, only > empty rectangles. Images are present,

Re: paragraph inside environments and other issues

2011-12-29 Thread Paul A . Rubin
First issue: insert a separator environment between the two problems. Second issue: try nesting the subenvironment within the proof. I don't have LyX handy, but there are menu and (I believe) tool bar entries for increasing the depth of an entry. I don't know if a paragraph can be nested, but enu

Re: Why is environment Standard undefined?

2011-12-26 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Steve Litt troubleshooters.com> writes: > > And the LaTeX part of it, lastparaL, is defined in the preamble part > of the layout, like this: > > \newenvironment{lastparaL}[0]{\begin{Standard}} > {\end{Standard}\\[10ex]} > > When I try to pdflatex it, I get this error: > > LaTeX Error: Environ

Re: Problems with output on Lyx 2

2011-12-17 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Richard Brown guidedelearning.com> writes: > > > When I try to produce a PDF output document I get an instant error, which > reads > p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } > > An error occurred while running: > java -jar htmltolatex.jar -input "openquestions_v1.html" -output > "openquestions_v1.tex

Re: installing LyX

2011-12-17 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Leslaw Bieniasz cyf-kr.edu.pl> writes: > I am new to LaTex and LyX. I want to install LyX under Windows XP. > Which installer should I use, and what exactly should I install, if > I have nothing related to LaTex previously installed on my computer? The large installer contains pretty much ever

Re: pdflatex - Unknown Extension EPS - even though no EPS in the Lyx File!

2011-12-17 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Onkelbonus googlemail.com> writes: > > as the title suggests I have the problem, that even though I did a > completly new reinstall of Lyx 2.0.2, I have the problem that I can't > insert Graphic files into Lyx (png for instance) without getting this > error in pdflatex. Even when inserted in

Re: How to get two authors with centered institutions below on title page?

2011-12-17 Thread Paul A . Rubin
CP gmail.com> writes: > > I'm trying to align two author names with their respective institutions > (centered) below their names. Does anyone have any ideas? Check out http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/MultipleAuthors. Paul

Re: Table Cells

2011-12-10 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Charles Reichert gmail.com> writes: > > Hello All,Concerning table cells, where on the table tool bar allows me to make all cells the same size?ThanksCharles I don't think you can. You can right click in each column to access settings for that column, and manually specify a constant width for

Re: Enumerate in table with no additional packages?

2011-12-10 Thread Paul A . Rubin
stefano franchi gmail.com> writes: > > Is it possible to enumerate the rows of a table, without using external packages? I vaguely remember seeing a solution to this problem, perhaps in a Latex list or perhaps here, but I cannot find it anymore.  It can be done with ERT, if that's what you wan

Re: R: Re: Re: Help needed

2011-12-08 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Try using the MiKTeX package manager to install the mathpazo package. Paul

Re: Putting tables and figures at the end?

2011-12-06 Thread Paul A . Rubin
fork gmail.com> writes: > How do I get all my tables and figures to be placed at the end, > one per page, preferably in a section called "figures and tables"? > > I will put the text "figure XX about here" where they should go > in the body, as per academic tradition. Put each figure/table

Re: PDF won't generate

2011-12-01 Thread Paul A . Rubin
zara gmx.ch> writes: > > I get exactly the same error message as the one reported by curtis osterhoudt. > Lyx says that it can't find the tex-file even though I can see that the > tex-file is produced in working directory. > > I'm using Lyx 2.0.2 on a windows 7 computer with very limited user p

Re: Shaded boxes

2011-12-01 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Louis Turk dayspringpublisher.com> writes: Maybe use this? http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ShadedBox Paul

Re: Colorful boxes for mathematical formulas

2011-11-28 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Paul Smith gmail.com> writes: > > Thanks, Paul. It works when the equation is in inline style, but not > when in display style -- an error is generated while producing the pdf > file. Any ideas? It's a bit complicated to explain. Here's the key sequence (again using the xcolor package): 1. In

Re: Colorful boxes for mathematical formulas

2011-11-25 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Paul Smith gmail.com> writes: > > > Is there some way of boxing mathematical formulas with a red box? I > > have tried with \fbox, but getting only black boxes. > > Any clue? > Preamble: \usepackage{xcolor} Text: ERT: \fcolorbox{black}{red}{ math inset ERT: } Paul

Re: Extsizes layout

2011-11-17 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Your best bet may be to file an enhancement bug ticket and attach the file.

Re: Beamer/Lyx question on uncovering diagrams step by step

2011-11-10 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Stefano, <+, 4-> is not used for the text items, it's used in multiinclude. So: \multiinclude[<+,4->][...] ... •<4->first textual item •<5-> second textual item Paul On 11/10/2011 03:57 PM, stefano franchi wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Paul A. R

Re: Beamer/Lyx question on uncovering diagrams step by step

2011-11-10 Thread Paul A . Rubin
stefano franchi gmail.com> writes: >\multiinclude[<+>][format=pdf,start=1,end=3,graphics={height=2cm}] {Pdf-file-prefix} [...] > > But I cannot figure out to preserve the diagram when I uncover the > text after it. For instance, I have 3 steps in the diagram above, and > I thought the followi

Re: Need LyX 1.6.10 Configuration file for Windows 32 bit

2011-10-24 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Keith, Keith Roberts karsites.net> writes: > > I suggest you try switching your DVI viewer choice in LyX > > to yap (temporarily). If you can view DVI output, > > something may be wrong with the configuration of Evince > > (or maybe how LyX is passing arguments to it). If yap > > doesn't wo

Re: Need LyX 1.6.10 Configuration file for Windows 32 bit

2011-10-22 Thread Paul A . Rubin
I suggest you try switching your DVI viewer choice in LyX to yap (temporarily). If you can view DVI output, something may be wrong with the configuration of Evince (or maybe how LyX is passing arguments to it). If yap doesn't work either, something may be configured incorrectly in LyX. Paul

Re: Toggle menu and tool bars

2011-10-20 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Manolo Martínez austrohungaro.com> writes: > > Is there a way to toggle the visibility of the menu bar and the tool bars? > Everything above the text, that is. > View > Toolbars (alt-V b) will let you select which tool bars to display. I'm not sure about the menu bar, but I believe you would

Re: Problem Outputting Particular TIFF File

2011-10-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 10/07/2011 05:48 PM, Jane Shevtsov wrote: I did as you suggested (installed IM version 6.7.2-10-Q16-windows-dll, which is the one they recommend if you're not sure which to get, made sure it was on the path, and reconfigured LyX) and am still getting the same error message. How do you spec

Re: Problem Outputting Particular TIFF File

2011-10-07 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 10/07/2011 01:07 AM, Jane Shevtsov wrote: Also, and this may sound a bit weird, if you open a DOS window (Start > Run > cmd) in the directory where the EMS thingy lives, and run convert "EMS flowchart.tiff" new.tiff does LyX like new.tiff? (Note: I'm assuming that th

Re: [OT] Fonts in TeXLive/DVI/Evince

2011-10-06 Thread Paul A- Rubin
PDF output shows the correct symbol. It's only DVI that mucks it up. Paul -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Hi all, > > Not sure where the culprit is, but if I use

[OT] Fonts in TeXLive/DVI/Evince

2011-10-06 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Hi all, Not sure where the culprit is, but if I use \neq in a math formula in LyX with TeXLive 2010 and Evince as the document viewer, it shows up as an equal sign. Viewing in PDF is fine, and a random sampling of other math symbols all worked with View > DVI. Anybody seen this before? Cheers,

Re: Cross-reference in equation in lyx 2

2011-10-06 Thread Paul A . Rubin
David B gmail.com> writes: > > > Hello,In LyX pre-2.0 I was able to put a cross-reference to an equation inside a > formula, so that it would look something like in this image: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/download/file.php?id=4130If I try to do this in LyX 2.0 the reference ends up i

Re: numbering of an equation

2011-10-06 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Wolfgang Engelmann uni-tuebingen.de> writes: > > > > Maybe you tried in text mode? > > It works only if the cursor is inside the > > equation. > > > > Günter > > Thanks, Günther, > > but doing this does not help, and I tried it > before. Do I have to include something in the > preamble? >

Re: Problem Outputting Particular TIFF File

2011-10-06 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Jane Shevtsov gmail.com> writes: > > > I just inserted a new TIFF file, generated by R, and am getting the same error for it. The PNG workaround should work, but can anyone help me figure out what's going on?Thanks,Jane Neither of these _should_ make a difference, but ... 1. Do any of the TI

Re: Xy-pic command doesn't seem to work (bis)

2011-09-17 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Alberto Alcalá Alvarez yahoo.com> writes: > > Sorry, in my last e-mail, I missed the -sign just before the braces of the arrow modifier... I still can't get it to work. I even tried copying code from the manual directly into lyx.Please help me out! > \xymatrix { B \ar[r]

Re: Problem with cross references

2011-09-17 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Alain Didierjean free.fr> writes: > Any other suggestions ? What's this "active character" problem about ? > It's a mess as I need this documents printed on monday ! Do you have Unicode characters (or something other than basic latin) in the reference labels? Could this be an encoding issue?

Re: Can't Export PDF from LyX

2011-09-03 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Jane Shevtsov gmail.com> writes: >> This is a game-changer.  It suggests that there is a problem with your MiKTeX >> installation (assuming MiKTeX is what you're using, which on Windows is quite >> likely).  Am I right that View > PDF (pdflatex) is also no longer available?  > > Yes, that's als

Re: can't change page layout with beamer?

2011-08-26 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Neal Becker gmail.com> writes: > > Any reason that when presentation(beamer) is selected, page layout can't be > changed (grayed out)? The Beamer package fixes the page dimensions and margins. Assuming you output to PDF, you can stretch or shrink the slides when you present them by screwing w

Re: Caption location in subfig

2011-08-14 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Try \captionsetup[subfigure]{position=top,margin=0pt,singlelinecheck=false}. Paul

Re: Missing Toolbars / Broken Installation

2011-07-29 Thread Paul A . Rubin
In Tools > Preferences > Look & Feel > User Interface, try deselecting everything under "Session" and clicking the "Clear all session information" button. Then close and restart LyX. Does that help? Paul

Re: LyX causes Acrobat Reader Freeze (?)

2011-07-28 Thread Paul A. Rubin
:13 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I also searched for messages about Reader freezing on AMD64 and came up empty, which is consistent with it behaving properly when I run it outside LyX. So the mystery remains. Have you tried reinstalling

Re: textpos in lyx

2011-07-23 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Csikos Bela freemail.hu> writes: > Disregard my previous message. > I haven't realized that the page wasn't set to A4 in your example. > Setting it to A4 the rule is exactly in the center. Good. Glad to know I wasn't hallucinating (this time). ;-) > > With "\newlength{\temp}\setlength{\temp}{\

Re: textpos in lyx

2011-07-22 Thread Paul A . Rubin
For some reason I can't get \textpos to place anything snugly against the upper left corner of the page -- if set the position to (0,0), it still seems to leave a small amount of space above and to the left. However, with a bit of tweaking I was able to get a horizontal rule the size of your image

Re: LyX causes Acrobat Reader Freeze (?)

2011-07-22 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Liv, Thanks for the responses. On 07/21/2011 06:02 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: No, this is on the first compilation (as well as on subsequent compilations). Also, in all cases Reader is closed at the time I do View> PDF (pdflatex); I'm not try

LyX causes Acrobat Reader Freeze (?)

2011-07-21 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Hi all, I just ran into a bug, but I'm not sure who the culprit is. The setup is LyX 2.0.0 and Acrobat Reader 9 (specifically 9.4.2-0natty1 on Mint 11 Katya (forked from Ubuntu Natty). If I create a document of more than one page in LyX (I've tested both article and beamer classes, both new and

Re: Icons

2011-07-03 Thread Paul A . Rubin
My just-turned-60 eyes sympathize with yours, but I've learned to hover over an icon and read the tool tip until I start recognizing the bugger. Speaking of icons, is it just me, or does the insert-a-citation icon look as if it should be the insert-a-bookmark icon? Paul

Re: Can't convert

2011-07-01 Thread Paul A . Rubin
William Hanson umn.edu> writes: > When I try I get "Application is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file."  Could this be because my DOS prompt always comes up as C:\Documents and Settings\whanson>  I'm unable to get rid of the ">", and when I put "\"

Re: Can't convert

2011-07-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 07/01/2011 12:46 PM, William Hanson wrote: I've already uninstalled both 1.6.7 and 2.0.0. I reinstalled 2.0 this morning. During the installation process, a got the error message "Downloading of MiKTeX failed. (HTTP/1.1 4054 not found." When you uninstalled LyX, you left MiKTeX alone, ri

Re: Can't convert

2011-07-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Bill, If you have not yet uninstalled/reinstalled (or if you have and the problem persists), here's another thing you can try. Open a command prompt (Start > Run > cmd) and navigate to your user directory (which I think we established was C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\lyx16) (o

Re: no classes available after installation of 1.6.10 and 2.0.0-3

2011-06-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 06/30/2011 12:11 PM, Matthias Hunstig wrote: Let me add that z:, where my user files are, is a mapped network drive. So everything is fine now. Maybe writing to the user directory should become standard for the first configuration and "Tools> Reconfigure"? We've had misadventures with netwo

Re: no classes available after installation of 1.6.10 and 2.0.0-3

2011-06-30 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 06/30/2011 09:01 AM, Matthias Hunstig wrote: I can't remember: have we looked at your configuration log for 2.0.0? I have posted it on the 22nd of June, a recent version is attached. There are some "DEBUG: Failed to remove file" lines in the file. As far as I can see, at least some of t

Re: Can't convert

2011-06-27 Thread Paul A. Rubin
It's a text file. You can open it with either Notepad or Wordpad. Paul On 06/27/2011 01:32 PM, William Hanson wrote: I can't open the file textclass.lst in either 1.6.7 or 2.0. I get a message from Pareto File Cure saying that I don't have the proper application to open lst files. I get a si

Re: Can't convert

2011-06-26 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Yes, you do have separate user directories (which is good). The configuration logs in the user directories look fine. Both of them found MiKTeX. In particular, the 2.0 log shows that it has the correct converter path for producing PDF output, so View > PDF (pdflatex) should be working in 2.0

Re: Can't convert

2011-06-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 06/24/2011 08:22 PM, William Hanson wrote: I have a folder named "MIKTEX2.7 in Program Files, so I suppose I'm using MiKTeX. You are. Pretty much everyone on Windows is. But I know very little about how LyX works. Also, I don't know what you mean when you say, "open a command prompt and

Re: Questions on viewing PDF problem

2011-06-16 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Did you ever resolve this?

Re: No words in aspell dictionary

2011-06-05 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Another possibility (which I recommend) is to upgrade to LyX 2.0. It is stable, has a considerable number of improvements, and switches from Aspell to Hunspell on Windows. Paul

Re: No words in aspell dictionary

2011-06-05 Thread Paul A . Rubin
karko gmail.com> writes: > And a Dictionary: > - aspell-pl-0.50-2-3.exe > > Both into C:\Aspell directory. I assume the dictionary landed in C:\Aspell\Dictionaries. > > Unfortunatelly I keep recieving this error: > http://lyx.475766.n2.nabble.com/file/n6426840/error.jpg > You did not s

Re: Problem with a graph and its title

2011-05-24 Thread Paul A . Rubin
You asked these same questions a few days ago, with a different subject line, and I responded (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/69959). Is there a problem with the solutions I suggested? Cheers, Paul

Re: undirected graph with capture

2011-05-20 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Mike Bonhoff gmx.de> writes: > 1st: The "name" is centered, that means in the middle of the paper to the > left and right. On the other hand, my figure is on the left side. > > I don't know how I can center the figure, too. Place the cursor alongside the graph and use the paragraph settings bu

Re: Borders disapper from multi-row cells

2011-05-13 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Francesco Menoncin eco.unibs.it> writes: > > > I am workgin on LyX 2.0. > When I merge two (or more) rows in a multi-row cell, some borders > diappear from the table. > Please look at the attached file. > Any suggestion? > Thank you > Francesco > Looks like a bug i

Re: gif animation in beamer presentation

2011-05-08 Thread Paul A . Rubin
I'm not sure an animated GIF will work inside a PDF file, but section 14.1 of the Beamer User Guide (at least, in the latest version) offers various suggestions for animating images. The images would be in individual files (unless you used an external program to convert them into a timed "movie", w

Re: caption in listings

2011-05-08 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Neal Becker gmail.com> writes: > > I used menu/insert caption to place a caption into my program listing float. > But, the pld just says e.g. "Listing 1", without my caption. Ideas? > > What's a "pld"? If the problem is with the caption as it appears in the float (as opposed to how it is

Re: Numbering the rows of a table

2011-04-18 Thread Paul A . Rubin
CLOSE Dave us.thalesgroup.com> writes: > > I admit I'm a newbie with LyX, but this seems like such a simple > operation. I read that LyX is especially good with lists, numbered, > itemized, etc. Well, I need that in a table. I want one column of my > table to contain the number of that row. For

Re: directed graphs and benchmarks in lyx

2011-03-29 Thread Paul A . Rubin
I use the TiKZ/PGF LaTeX package. Examples can be seen at http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/. Paul

Re: No spaces when creating pdf from lyx

2011-03-27 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Joshua Bon hotmail.com> writes: > > > Then run pdflatex against it (in a command window) and see if > > the same problem occurs. > > How would I do this? 1. Open a command window. (I don't have access to a Win 7 box right now, but Start > Run > cmd is how you would do it in earlier versions.

Re: How to avoid lines gioing over margins?

2011-03-24 Thread Paul A . Rubin
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2112372/preventing-texttt-latex-tag-from-letting-its-content-passing-over-the-margin Paul

Re: IEEEtran help

2011-03-08 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Myriam Abramson gmail.com> writes: > > > Help! I have a paper due tomorrow! The specification for the papers > requires that subsections be numbered and IEEEtran seems to make them > alphabetical. I tried to change that by putting > > \renewcommand{\thesubsection}{\arabic{subsection}} > > in

Re: LyX + arrows +beamer?

2011-02-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 02/21/2011 06:19 PM, i...@virginia.edu wrote: I just created a .lyx file with the code in your email an it works! Thanks! Another cool thing that I would like to be able to do with LyX is this http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/gnuplot-basics/ Is it possible? Thanks! -Ignacio Yes (exam

Re: Error message: not in outer par mode

2011-02-13 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Annagloria Santello gmail.com> writes: > > Hi everybody,I'm writing my graduate thesis and have a problem when i try to convert the Lyx document in pdf (or dvi or postscript).The error message tells "not in outer par mode" and Lyx highlights a maths formula. But I really can't see what's wrong w

Re: [WINDOWS] Python scripts fail

2011-02-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 02/03/2011 03:12 PM, Gabriel Kniffin wrote: I did View > PDF (pdflatex) then checked the temporary directory. It has all the EPS files with name changes as well as copies of the EPS files with .pdf extensions. There is an EPS -> PDF converter. It's ps2pdf and the converter line matches what

Re: [WINDOWS] Python scripts fail

2011-02-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 2/2/2011 9:35 PM, Gabriel Kniffin wrote: Unfortunately I'm still getting the same "...cannot determine size of graphic in..." errors when trying to build a .pdf. You mentioned in a previous message that the images are all EPS files, and IIRC you said that they show up in DVI and PS output

Re: [WINDOWS] Python scripts fail

2011-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 02/02/2011 03:59 PM, Gabriel Kniffin wrote: The .bbl file is there but explorer says its size is 0 KB. That means that (a) BibTeX was run (which is good) and (b) it failed (not so good). Try exporting your document to a .tex file (File > Export > LaTeX (plain)). Open a command shell and

How LyX copies files to the temp directory

2011-02-02 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Hi all, I asked this on the developer list with no luck (probably got lost in the clutter). Can somebody tell me the mechanism by which LyX copies dependent files (images, for instance) to the temp directory (mangling names along the way)? Does it call tex_copy.py, do the copying directly (meani

Re: [WINDOWS] Python scripts fail

2011-02-02 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 2/1/2011 7:12 PM, Gabriel Kniffin wrote: The image files live on my E: drive. I'm able to build a .ps or .dvi without any figure issues, just not a .pdf. What format are the image files? I wonder if the reason DVI works and PDF doesn't has to do with a failed attempt to convert the format.

Re: [WINDOWS] Python scripts fail

2011-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 02/01/2011 05:44 PM, Gabriel Kniffin wrote: The -userdir switch as you suggested seems to have fixed the texfiles.py failing problem, although now I'm getting a bunch of the following LaTeX errors when I try to build a .pdf: "LaTeX Error: Cannot determine the size of graphic in <...>" That

Re: [WINDOWS] Python scripts fail

2011-02-01 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 02/01/2011 01:42 PM, kniff...@cecs.pdx.edu wrote: The E: drive is a partition of the computer's hard drive. It's the "user" drive of my work computer that I, as a user, am free to modify. The C: drive is maintained by our IT dept. It looks like my user directory is on the network. I went to

Re: shading in math mode

2011-01-30 Thread Paul A . Rubin
xPol gmail.com> writes: > > Is it possible to change the background of a math expression, in the math > mode? > Try the empheq package. /Paul

Re: Can't insert BibTeX Bibliography; TeXFiles.py fails.

2011-01-30 Thread Paul A . Rubin
What happens if you open a DOS window in the \Resources\scripts directory and run TeXFiles.py there? (If Python files are properly registered -- meaning they show up in Explorer with a Python icon, which I won't even attempt to describe -- you can just type 'TeXFiles.py ' to run it; otherwise, you

Re: how to update aux file in LyX?

2011-01-23 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller lyx.org> writes: > > I've had a quick look at revnum.sty, and it does not seem to issue any rerun > message; so it's hard for LyX to determine whether a rerun is requested. > Would it be worth including a checkbox somewhere in Document > Settings to allow the user to specify a

Re: How do I assign a keyboard shortcut to view and update PDFs?

2011-01-16 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Go to Tool > Preferences... > Editing > Shortcuts and click New. That pops up a dialog to create a new shortcut. In the Function: field, enter 'buffer-view pdf2' to view, 'buffer-update pdf2' to update the view or 'buffer-export pdf2' to export (omit the quotes). Then click in the empty Shortcut

Re: Vertical space before and after equations

2011-01-06 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Enrico Forestieri lyx.org> writes: > Put the following in the latex preamble: > > \AtBeginDocument{ > \addtolength{\abovedisplayskip}{-2ex} > \addtolength{\abovedisplayshortskip}{-2ex} > \addtolength{\belowdisplayskip}{-2ex} > \addtolength{\belowdisplayshortskip}{-2ex} > } Aha, the secret sauce

Re: Copying From PDF

2011-01-04 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Bruce Pourciau lawrence.edu> writes: > > I have copied some passages from a pdf and pasted them into a LyX > document. When I view this LyX document, the pasted in passages > display some odd formatting: some lines extend beyond the margins and > there seem to be extra spaces between some

Re: Figure Float Label

2011-01-04 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Bruce Pourciau lawrence.edu> writes: > > I know I tried IEEETrans and RevTeX4, because they are both close to > the format used in the journal the article will appear in. I couldn't > get it to compile in RevTeX4, perhaps because I had a bibtex generated > bibliography and RevTeX4 seems t

Re: Figure Float Label

2011-01-04 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 1/4/2011 10:00 AM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: The "Number Figures by Section" was _not_ in the selected box, but when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well. That's odd. Was this document written using an earlier version of LyX? (I'm wondering if lyx2lyx had to process it an

Re: Figure Float Label

2011-01-03 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 01/03/2011 05:38 PM, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Thanks, Paul. You're welcome. The "Number Figures by Section" was _not_ in the selected box, but when I put it there, saved, and then took it out, all was well. That's odd. Was this document written using an earlier version of LyX? (I'm wonderi

Re: Figure Float Label

2011-01-02 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Bruce Pourciau lawrence.edu> writes: > > When I cross reference a figure float called Figure 2, the cross > reference yields 2.1 rather than 2. What am I doing wrong? Have a look at Document > Settings... > Modules, and if "Number Figures by Section" is in the "Selected:" box, highlight and d

Re: Vertically center a rotated cell within multirows

2011-01-01 Thread Paul A . Rubin
If you're using the "rotate cell" button in the table toolbar, the problem is that the multirow command is being nested inside the sideways environment; you need the nesting in the opposite order. Try deselecting the rotation button in the toolbar and use something like the following inside the ce

Re: How to use local package outside a texmf path?

2010-12-30 Thread Paul A . Rubin
You have a space in the path to the file. Does it work if you escape the space? /Paul

Re: underscore and "missing $ inserted"

2010-12-28 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Try adding \usepackage{underscore} in the preamble (and, of course, installing it if you don't already have it). /Paul

Re: Itemize/enumeration inside table cell

2010-12-23 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Łukasz Sanek gmail.com> writes: > Is it possible to insert itemize/enumeration into a table cell? Yes. The key is that a table cell cannot contain multiple lines of text unless you do something special. > If yes- how? Method 1: Set a fixed width for the column containing the cell (right clic

Re: Equations seem to stray out of bounds

2010-12-22 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Try adding \flushbottom to the preamble. If I understand things correctly, LaTeX takes a bit of license with the vertical length of the text body on a page in most document classes (including article, which you're using), but not in books or two-sided documents. The \flushbottom command will (I t

Re: instant-preview is greyed out

2010-12-19 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Just to confirm that the preview LaTeX package is properly installed, if you open a DOS prompt and run 'kpsewhich preview.sty', does it find the path? /Paul

Re: How to use short dashes in program listings?

2010-12-11 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: > > When inserting a program listing, all "-" characters in the source code > are converted to long dashes. This results in the C operator "--" > looking more like a single long line rather than two dashes. (There is > some space between each dash, but it

Re: XY-pic won't render

2010-12-11 Thread Paul A . Rubin
I notice nobody has responded to this. Is it still a problem? If so: 1. What OS are you using? 2. If you run 'kpsewhich xyd.enc' from a DOS prompt/terminal, do you get the path to xyd.enc? 3. If you open a new doc in LyX and follow the steps under section 2 (Preparation) in Peter's manual, wh

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