Re: pdf dimensions

2011-12-01 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 12/01/2011 01:24 PM, Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci wrote: My thesis has 60 figures and 230 pages so the output is of 70 Mb... very big! How to reduce it? Well, how big are those 60 figures? You should work on reducing their size first (by reducing dimensions, resolution/dpi, using better comp

Re: fonts - printing

2012-01-16 Thread PhilipPirrip
Maybe you could try Bera fonts (Bera Sans in this case). And see in the produced PDF what the actual font is (Document-Properties-...).

Re: automatique reference of sub figure

2012-02-06 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 02/05/2012 11:41 PM, Omar Cheikhrouhou (ISET) wrote: Hello, I use the following preambule \AtBeginDocument{\renewcommand{\ref}[1]{\mbox{\autoref{#1 to add the word « Figure » when referencing figure. However, the word figure is not added when referencing sub-figure. For example it writ

Re: bibliography problem

2012-03-05 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 03/05/2012 12:46 AM, Klaus Birnstiel wrote: Is there any idea what I can do about this? There are probably some 'strange' characters in the .bib file (which encoding do you use?).

Re: right align a block of text

2012-03-11 Thread PhilipPirrip
Is this possible in lyx? Everything that is possible in LaTeX is also possible in LyX. Therefore, asking on a LaTeX group would be a better option for you, I guess. The answer would be - yes, it is possible, but is it easy? Moreover, these 'strange' formattings should be better done in Li

Re: Thesis Layout for LyX

2012-04-12 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 04/12/2012 07:29 AM, jdre...@berkeley.edu wrote: Hello- I have a thesis layout that I would like to contribute to the http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts page. What is the best way to go about this? You can either edit the page (there's a link at the top of the page), or submit your templa

Re: Thesis Layout for LyX

2012-04-12 Thread PhilipPirrip
In addition, there's another page where you could advertise your layout: http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/Thesis

Re: Using LyX to edit & organise bibliographies

2012-04-17 Thread PhilipPirrip
Excuse me for not trying what you've done, but I have to ask first: why do you think this is better than using Mendeley, for instance, or some other bibliography management software?

Re: Will LyX produce a LaTeX2E or TeX file?

2012-04-18 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 04/18/2012 03:55 AM, William Hanson wrote: I've created a .bib file that contains only the references I use in my paper, but this file is inside the Mendeley Desktop. And I _cannot_ move it to any other location. So in particular I can't get it into the folder that contains the .tex file of m

Re: Using LyX to edit & organise bibliographies

2012-04-18 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 04/17/2012 04:23 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: Secondly, why should I move out of LyX to edit my Bib files? My question was, actually, why should you edit your bib files at all. Let the reference manager produce them for you. And then let LaTeX do all the formatting.

Re: numbers of figures

2012-04-18 Thread PhilipPirrip
I'd change your preamble to: \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} \addto\captionsngerman{ \renewcommand{\figurename}{Abb.} \renewcommand{\tablename}{Tab.} } \renewcommand{\thefigure}{\arabic{section}.\arabic{figure}} \@addtoreset{figure}{chapter}

Re: Using LyX to edit & organise bibliographies

2012-04-20 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 04/20/2012 04:30 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: why should I move out of LyX to edit my Bib files? Because, as I said, you *don't* need to edit your bib files. You can have a program (if your OS is multitasking) to make bib database for you, by downloading all the data from the internet. Do

Re: Could you help me to solve lyx error "Undefined control sequence" at \maketitle...

2012-05-01 Thread PhilipPirrip
Minimal example files, please.

Re: cant convert into a PDF-Format

2012-06-05 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 06/05/2012 04:26 PM, Nina Knape wrote: Hi, when I started with Lyx a few months ago it was quite easy to open a new document, edit the text and converted it into a PDF. Today I try since several hours to convert a text into a PDF and I always get the notice of three errors ( I attached these)

Re: How to protect text

2012-07-25 Thread PhilipPirrip
You should better post here a minimal example file, i.e. LyX file with a sentence that is causing you problems. When I copy the one you cited here to a LyX document, it successfully compiles.

Re: Strange behaviour on user command defined in preamble.

2012-07-26 Thread PhilipPirrip
Do you have any suggestions? Minimal example .lyx file please.

Re: Strange behaviour on user command defined in preamble.

2012-07-26 Thread PhilipPirrip
The attached example works for me, an produces - Else1 Else2 is - simbolo-minimal.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Strange behaviour on user command defined in preamble.

2012-07-26 Thread PhilipPirrip
Why don't you try this: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/acronym/acronym.pdf (Though I never worked with it, I think that Insert>Nomenclature entry... could do the same within LyX)

Re: apacite: citeA

2012-08-12 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 08/12/2012 06:29 AM, Jack Tanner wrote: Aside from ERT, is there an easy way of having LyX generate \citeA commands for some (but not all) citations rather than \cite? You can ask LyX to insert citealt, for example. But then in the preamble add \renewcommand*{\citealt}[1]{\citeA[#1]}, or so

Re: apacite: citeA

2012-08-12 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 08/12/2012 09:07 PM, Jack Tanner wrote: Thanks, that sounds promising, but how do I ask LyX to insert citealt? Use natbib (Document>Settings>Bibliography>Natbib). Then, when inserting a citation (Insert>Citation), you'll be able to choose the citation style. Check in View>Source which comma

Re: Serious Issues with 2.0.4 and Long Tables

2012-08-13 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 08/13/2012 04:38 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: A sample of the table can be provided if anyone's interested. That, and a detailed description on how to reproduce the problem.

Re: href for footnote / endnote

2012-11-09 Thread PhilipPirrip
Does the attached example work for you? hyper_footnote.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: href for footnote / endnote

2012-11-09 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 11/09/2012 04:05 PM, Andreas Paeffgen wrote: Hi Philip, that works, but i do not want to insert manual labels and references. I just want the footnotes to be klickable. The footnotes in my example are clickable even without using labels. What version of LyX are you using. Can you upload your

Re: href for footnote / endnote

2012-11-11 Thread PhilipPirrip
If one tries to google for "hyperref endnotes clickable" he will find some solutions. There's also a hyperendnotes.sty that some say works.

Re: href for footnote / endnote

2012-11-14 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 11/13/2012 10:05 PM, Andreas Paeffgen wrote: Any hint/ suggestion would be appreciated. Export LaTeX from LyX and compare with the file that works. It is probably something about the order in which the packages (commands) are called.

Re: Palatino linotype in Lyx

2013-03-05 Thread PhilipPirrip
Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatino first. URW Palladio that you see in Lyx is a clone of Palatino (Linotype). On 03/05/2013 10:20 AM, ehud.kap...@gmail.com wrote: Since NIH now wants us to use Palatino Linotype (among several other, uglier fonts), I tried to find it in the Lyx fo

Re: table alignment example

2013-03-11 Thread PhilipPirrip
I have problem with table centering and aligning to the right. You set the width of the right aligned table to 80% of the line width. LaTeX probably calculates the position of your table with respect to this size. Table is, however, rendered to accommodate the whole text in each of the cell

Re: table alignment example

2013-03-12 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 03/12/2013 01:16 PM, Csikos Bela wrote: This behavior seems like result of serious bug. The width of table can be specified to fixed value. It would be nonsense if giving this option resulted wrong table layout/placement. You can always rewrite the code for typesetting the tables, you don't

Re: exporting tex for newbies

2013-09-17 Thread PhilipPirrip
export latex (pdflatex) run pdflatex on the name of your tex file (once or twice) run bibtex on the same, but without .tex extension (i think) bibtex will produce .bbl file copy the contents of the .bbl file to the end of your .tex (replacing bibliography command that's already there) chec

Re: Exporting to arXiv.org

2013-11-07 Thread PhilipPirrip
I had no troubles with arXiv in the past, if I could export my file(s) to .tex and compile them on my linux PC, the same worked with them. If you're exporting for pdflatex, make sure you upload figures as pdf. They accept .bib files, or at least they used to, no need for special prep. as in the

Re: pdflatex font problem

2013-12-18 Thread PhilipPirrip
Can you see the \alpha in your pdf viewer? Which viewer do you use? Have you tried printing the pdf from different viewers (evince, adobe reader)? This look like the reader is trying to use the device (printer) fonts and cannot find the proper glyph. Can you upload a minimal example lyx file, and t

Re: how does Lyx find all the style files ?

2014-02-18 Thread PhilipPirrip
Hi Kevin, I'm maintaining the LyX port of classicthesis style, and would like to help you with this. However, I am not sure if I understood what exactly your problem is. The template uses only local (./) files, if you change the location of any of them, you should make LyX and LaTeX aware of th

Re: new warning about missing cls file in LyX 2.0.7 annoying

2014-02-26 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 02/26/2014 12:57 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: Hey, developers. Can you make LyX look in the current working directory for class files and turn off the warnings the pop up with LyX 2.0.7? Please? Your thesis-ku.lyx (master document) begins with \lyxformat 413 \begin_document \begin_header \textcl

Re: new warning about missing cls file in LyX 2.0.7 annoying

2014-02-26 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 02/26/2014 11:40 AM, Richard Heck wrote: The issue, as I understand it, concerns the fact that the *class file*, kuthesis.cls, is also in the current directory, and so LyX does not know about it. I checked two zip files at: http://pj.freefaculty.org/guides/Computing-HOWTO/

Re: vector graphics badly pixelated when creating pdf with pdflatex under Linux Mint 16. Everything works perfectly under Windows XP.

2014-04-11 Thread PhilipPirrip
If you're producing a pdf, why don't you export your pictures as pdf to start with?

Re: Thesis formatting

2014-06-03 Thread PhilipPirrip
Use Insert > Formatting > Vertical space instead of just adding empty lines. Then, VFill is a stretchable vertical space that could help you keep the things on one page.

Re: Thesis formatting

2014-06-04 Thread PhilipPirrip
It's hard to guess what you're supposed to have without knowing anything about your latex class. What's obvious from the excerpt you've given is that \@degree is meant to be an internal command of the class (because of the @). There must be some part of the class file that fills the \@degree com

Re: Thesis formatting

2014-06-09 Thread PhilipPirrip
Remember that the commands in LaTeX are just macros, they collect any text and expand it where needed. What you need is a command in the preamble of your LyX document of this kind: \degree{Master of Science\\ \vspace{\baselineskip} in\\ \vspace{\baselineskip} Nuclear Engineering} As I sai

Re: Greek and degree-sign characters in listing

2014-07-01 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 07/01/2014 04:10 AM, Alexander Berg wrote: What i am doing wrong and how can i fix it? Minimal example files could help us help you.

Re: problems after including a pdf figure

2014-07-23 Thread PhilipPirrip
Tell us how to reproduce the problem. Start with the document class you're using. Show us the preamble of the document with and without the pdf figure (Export->podflatex could help). Try to make a minimal (non)working example.

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-06-30 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 06/30/2015 05:19 AM, Michael Berger wrote: Dear Friends of LyX, I used bibtex in various documentswith single and sectioned bibliographies and that worked without problems. Then I decided to try using biblatex on one of these documents and found "Using biblatex with LyX" in wiki.lyx.org/Bibtex

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-06-30 Thread PhilipPirrip
It worked for me on Fedora Linux, biber 1.8 + biblatex 2.8a. I used the recipe from the same wiki page. Attaching a working example, might help. @BOOK{monroe:1955, title = {{R}adio {O}n}, publisher = {Addison--Wesley}, year = {1955}, author = {Marilyn Monroe}, address = {Los Ange

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-06-30 Thread PhilipPirrip
It worked for me on Fedora Linux, biber 1.8 + biblatex 2.8a. I used the recipe from the same wiki page. Attaching a working example, might help. @BOOK{monroe:1955, title = {{R}adio {O}n}, publisher = {Addison--Wesley}, year = {1955}, author = {Marilyn Monroe}, address = {Los Ange

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-01 Thread PhilipPirrip
AM, Michael Berger wrote: On 06/30/2015 10:58 PM, PhilipPirrip wrote: It worked for me on Fedora Linux, biber 1.8 + biblatex 2.8a. I used the recipe from the same wiki page. Attaching a working example, might help. Hallo Philip, your example file is working here as anticipated. So, one may co

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-01 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 07/01/2015 09:43 AM, Michael Berger wrote: thank you, I will check what you said - makes sense. However, if the path to my bib-file is wrong, how can I cite references from it? One of the possible reasons: machines never mistake, so when you browse for your .bib file through the dialogs, L

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-01 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 07/01/2015 03:44 PM, Michael Berger wrote: However, I also selected under Content "all references" and ticked "Add bibliography to TOC". Yeah, but that's only for bibtex. Remember, we are only tricking LyX into thinking that it should provide us with the citation dialog. Use this instea

Re: Bibliography does not print when using biblatex instead of bibtex

2015-07-02 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 07/02/2015 03:35 AM, Michael Berger wrote: I hope some good guys will attend to this making the usage of biblatex in LyX as easy as that of bibtex. At least as a hack in the current code that will do this very same thing (biblatex with natbib compatibility) when biber is selected as a pro

Re: Text size in margin note

2015-07-08 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 07/07/2015 11:47 AM, edu Gpl wrote: thank you Michael but this difficult, i have 60-80 margin note or margin table in my book. i want code for lyx preamle. You can play with this, goes straigth into the preamble \def\marginparsetup{% \small% (you only need this line) \parindent=

Re: Biblatex not not found by LyX work on new computer / OS 10.10.3

2015-07-18 Thread PhilipPirrip
On 07/18/2015 11:40 AM, jezZiFeR wrote: I run LyX 2.1.3 on OS 10.10.3. I installed the current bib latex.module, but it could not be found by LyX. Could you please tell me, where the biblatex.module has to be placed? LyX/about LyX tells me to put it into: library/application support/LyX-2.1/

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