User dictionary / spellchecker native / MaxOS Sierra / Lyx 2.2
Hi, I use Lyx 2-2 on macOS Sierra with the native spell checker. I would like to share my modifications to the user dictionary on different machines. Is there a way to transfer the user dictionary? If not, is it possible if I use Aspell or Hunspell in the future? Thanks a lot, Ralf
Re: Lyx 2.0 can\\\'t read Lyx 1.6.x documents
It's the Win32 version running on XP SP3. Is it somehow possible to see the contents of the PATH variable while LyX is running (e.g. by executing additional commands like 'echo $PATH') in the debug console?
Re: Lyx 2.0 can\'t read Lyx 1.6.x documents
I did. Had no influence. Am 12.02.2014 23:57, schrieb Stephan Witt: Am 12.02.2014 um 10:25 schrieb "Ralf Glaser, track IT" : I tested adding the LyX PATH extension to the PATH variable and LyX works fine now. Unfortunately this results in cygwins's python version beeing no longer accessible as LyX's python is beeing used now. It's a workaround but i'd really like to make LyX add it's PATH prefix as intended. Did you try to add the path to the PATH-Prefix in LyX's preferences pane explicitely? I noticed that the PATH variable is actually called 'Path' instead of 'PATH' on my WinXP machine. Maybe this matters... Don't know this. Stephan
Re: Lyx 2.0 can\'t read Lyx 1.6.x documents
I tested adding the LyX PATH extension to the PATH variable and LyX works fine now. Unfortunately this results in cygwins's python version beeing no longer accessible as LyX's python is beeing used now. It's a workaround but i'd really like to make LyX add it's PATH prefix as intended. I noticed that the PATH variable is actually called 'Path' instead of 'PATH' on my WinXP machine. Maybe this matters...
Re: Lyx 2.0 can\'t read Lyx 1.6.x documents
My bad, didn't notice the option to enable verbose output. Seems like you are right and it's a python problem or more precise a problem with LyX calling Cygwin's Python (2.7.3) instead of LyX's own Python (2.7.5). When i run the command in a terminal window using c:\Programme\Lyx 2.0\Python\python.exe instead of C:/cygwin/bin/python2.7.exe it succeeds. Question remains how do i get LyX to use the right python.exe (the PATH prefix looks correct to me)? 10:43:07.602: Öffne Dokument C:\tmp\lyx\newfile1.lyx...D:/LyXGit/2.0.x/src\support/os_win32.cpp (299): [C:/tmp/lyx/newfile1.lyx]->>[C:\tmp\lyx\newfile1.lyx] BufferParams.cpp (1996): setBaseClass: article support/FileName.cpp (692): creating path 'C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/glaser.TRACKITDOMAIN/Lokale Einstellungen/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp2232/lyx_tmpbuf6'. Buffer.cpp (398): Buffer::Buffer() BufferList.cpp (122): Assigning to buffer 0 support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents) Couldn't find a known format! Lexer.cpp (258): lyxlex: UNcompressed Lexer.cpp (338): Comment read: `35LyX 1.6.9 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/' support/FileName.cpp (448): Temporary file in C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/glaser.TRACKITDOMAIN/Lokale Einstellungen/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp2232/Buffer_convertLyXFormat support/FileName.cpp (436): Temporary file `C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/glaser.TRACKITDOMAIN/Lokale Einstellungen/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp2232/Buffer_convertLyXFormat.if2232' created. Buffer.cpp (1122): Running 'C:/cygwin/bin/python2.7.exe -tt "C:/Programme/LyX 2.0/Resources/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx" -t 413 -o "C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/glaser.TRACKITDOMAIN/Lokale Einstellungen/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp2232/Buffer_convertLyXFormat.if2232" "C:/tmp/lyx/newfile1.lyx"' support/FileName.cpp (832): filetools(getFormatFromContents) File type not recognised before EOF! support/FileName.cpp (950): filetools(getFormatFromContents) Couldn't find a known format! Lexer.cpp (258): lyxlex: UNcompressed Error: Dokumentformat-Fehler Am 10.02.2014 19:32, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: Ralf Glaser, track IT wrote: Hello, please find attached the Lyx 1.6 file which Lyx 2.0 won't open. Thanks. It opens just fine here. I suppose lyx2lyx (the converter between different LyX formats) does not work properly on your side. Maybe a Python problem. Can you open LyX from a terminal window (or check View > Messages) to see whether there is an error message from lyx2lyx? Jürgen -- Dipl.-Ing. Ralf Glaser *Neue Adresse ab 1.8.2013:* Blumenauer Str. 1 30449 Hannover Germany track IT GmbH Hinüberstraße 8 30175 Hannover Germany Tel.: +49-511-38098-90 Fax.: +49-511-38098-99 Geschäftsführer Thilo von Usslar Bankhaus C.L. Seeliger BLZ 270 325 00 Konto 6554 Amtgericht Hannover HRB 60983 Steuer Nr.: 2325 02520523667, Ust-IdNr.: DE228892 503 Diese Information ist für den Gebrauch durch die Person oder die Firma/Organisation bestimmt,die in der Empfängeradresse benannt ist und unterliegt u. U. dem Betriebsgeheimnis, dem Schutz von Arbeitsergebnissen oder anderweitigem rechtlichen Schutz.Wenn Sie nicht der angegebene Empfänger sind, nehmen Sie bitte zur Kenntnis, dass Weitergabe, Kopieren, Verteilung oder Nutzung des Inhalts dieser E-Mail-Übertragung unzulässig ist.Falls Sie diese E-Mail irrtümlich erhalten haben, benachrichtigen Sie den Absender bitte unverzüglich telefonisch oder durch eine E-Mail und löschen Sie diese Information aus Ihrem EDV-System. This e-mail message is intended only for the use of the named recipient(s) and contains information which may be confidential or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please notify the sender and delete the material from the computer.
Re: Lyx 2.0 can\'t read Lyx 1.6.x documents
Starting LyX from a terminal window didn't produce any output. The View->Messages output is is also kind of boring: 09:52:23.790: (dialog-toggle progress) 09:52:44.725: Öffne Dokument C:\tmp\lyx\newfile1.lyx...Error: Dokumentformat-Fehler C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/glaser.TRACKITDOMAIN/Lokale Einstellungen/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp2424/Buffer_convertLyXFormat.em2424 ist kein lesbares LyX-Dokument. 09:52:55.843: Dokument nicht geladen. 09:52:55.843: Das Dokument C:\tmp\lyx\newfile1.lyx konnte nicht geöffnet werden 09:52:55.843: (file-open: Ctrl+O) Is it possible to invoke lyx2lyx directly from a terminal window? Ralf Am 10.02.2014 19:32, schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: Ralf Glaser, track IT wrote: Hello, please find attached the Lyx 1.6 file which Lyx 2.0 won't open. Thanks. It opens just fine here. I suppose lyx2lyx (the converter between different LyX formats) does not work properly on your side. Maybe a Python problem. Can you open LyX from a terminal window (or check View > Messages) to see whether there is an error message from lyx2lyx? Jürgen
Lyx 2.0 can't read Lyx 1.6.x documents
I'm running Lyx on a Windows XP system and tried to upgrade from 1.6.7 to 2.0. Unfortunately Lyx failes to open 1.6 files with the following message: “\Buffer_convertLyxFormat.h is not a readable LyX document” I tried upgrading to 1.6.9 before moving on to 2.0 with the following result: 1.6.9 can handle 1.6.7 files. 2.0 can't handle files created with any 1.6 version. Any suggestions welcome as i'm really stuck here...
Shortcut for 'update pdf'
Hi group, this should be easy, couldn't find it however in Tools->Preferences->Editing->Shortcuts: what is the keyboard shortcut for updating the pdf? (And for creating a pdf?) I saw the shortcuts for 'dvi' and 'ps' though ... Cheers -Ralf
Re: Change page layout of ToC
Ralf writes:
>
> Hi group,
>
> is there a simple way of changing the page layout of the ToC? Specifically I'd
> like to have a slightly larger page.
This works:
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\enlargethispage{2ex}}
I put it in the section which need to have a larger page in the ToC
Cheers
-Ralf
Change page layout of ToC
Hi group, is there a simple way of changing the page layout of the ToC? Specifically I'd like to have a slightly larger page. If not, where is the script that generates the ToC? Couldn't find it ... Cheers -Ralf
Re: Professional and Scientific Writing Book
Rob Oakes writes: > I'm currently working on a book which shows how professional and > scientific writing can be done using purely open source tools. > > [snip] > > But are there other things that you would like to see? Since nobody has mentioned it ... scientific works mostly include a lot of figures - I am finished now with my thesis but I struggled immensely with the amount of large figures I had which messed up most of the layout - I practivally needed to fix every position of the figures (lots of ERTs). The requirement that the figures should be as close as possible to the first reference did not help as you can imagine. At times I was so frustrated I glanced at Word which makes this indeed easier. In fact I think I will use Word for future work - the amount of time is just not worth the superior look of Latex (however only text/math and a small number of figures is a totally different story). Moreover, scientific journal publishers mostly only except Word files ... So, how about a section giving tips on how to (strategically & technically) proceed with large figures (typically exceeding the page borders but still A4) with the requirement that they should appear close the first reference ... Cheers -Ralf
whitespaces visible
Hi all, is there an option to make whitespaces visible in the Lyx GUI? You know, similar as to 'show hidden text' in Word? Reason for this: often I overlook that there is a whitespace missing before and after citations and references. Cheers -Ralf
Re: Off Topic: Database for citations?
Ralf Schaa writes: Cool - Thanks both of you! Cheers
Off Topic: Database for citations?
Hi all, just wondering - instead of searching zillions of library pages to find the correct citation (downloadable in BibTex, Endnote, whatever...), there sure must be a webpage just dedicated to this sort of stuff ... something like 'http://adsabs.harvard.edu/' only larger ... couldn't find it however. Any hints? Cheers -Ralf
Re: \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
Guenter Milde writes:
[snip]
>command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
Right on Guenter - problem solved !
Cheers
-Ralf
Re: Shortened Citations in Lyx-Editor
Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW writes: [snip] > >when having citations to more than one source, the citations > >inside the Lyx interface get shortened, for example (Natbib) > > > You even get a tooltip by just holding your mouse over a citation (at > least in 1.6.3). well yes, the tooltip shows the entire reference, not the citation as you would in the compiled document, isn't it? Cheers -Ralf
Re: \bind "C-k" "font-noun"
Rich Shepard writes: [snip] >Look in the preferences->short cuts menu to see all the bindings. I've > found in the latest version that editing the bindings in the short cuts > widget works better than directly editing the bind file. cheers mate! will do next time -ralf
Shortened Citations in Lyx-Editor
Small stuff: when having citations to more than one source, the citations inside the Lyx interface get shortened, for example (Natbib) (e.g. Hanneson, 1992; West and Macnae, 199... instead of the full citation: (e.g. Hanneson, 1992; West and Macnae, 1991, p.31) I would like to see the entire citation without always compiling (or clicking on it). Is this behaviour editable somewhere? Cheers -Ralf
Re: \bind "C-k" "font-noun"
Ralf writes: [snip] > #\bind "C-k" "font-noun" > > I got rid of the '#' and restarted Lyx, > hoping that a C-k would toggle a noun, but alas, it didn't ... > > What magic is needed here to let a C-k toggle the noun ? a simple spell worked: instead of 'k' I used 'j': \bind "C-j" "font-noun" did the trick - I assume the \bind "C-k" clashes with something else, well ... Cheers -Ralf
Re: \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
Guenter Milde writes:
[snip]
> On 2009-06-10, Ralf wrote:
> > how often do we need the \enlargethispage{\baselineskip} ?
> I don't think this is widely used/needed by the general public.
+ yes, seems like it
> How about creating this keybinding yourself?
+ Alright, probably worthwhile to get familiar with Macros sooner or later - but
probably later for me, no time ...
> It should be something like
> "command-sequence; ert-insert; insert \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}"
[snip]
> Make sure to document your solution, either in a follow up or (more
> durable) in the LyX wiki at wiki.lyx.org.
ok
Cheers
-Ralf
\bind "C-k" "font-noun"
Okay, tried to edit the cua.bind file and failed. This I found #\bind "C-k" "font-noun" I got rid of the '#' and restarted Lyx, hoping that a C-k would toggle a noun, but alas, it didn't ... What magic is needed here to let a C-k toggle the noun ? Cheers -Ralf p.s. Lyx1.6.3 on WinXP and c:\Program Files\LyX 1.6.3\Resources\bind\cua.bind
Re: \enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
Steve Litt writes:
[snip]
> I use \enlargethispage on my eBook book cover, but I really don't understand
> it. What you said about keeping something all together sounded interesting,
> because I know as figures start approaching 1/4 page in each length, ugly
> spacing issues happen. Could you please explain the details of
> \enlargethispage to all of us?
well, I am far from being a pro, but \enlargethispage simply does that: enlarge
the current page - from a latex documentation:
\enlargethispage{size}:
"Enlarge the \textheight for the current page by the specified amount; e.g.
\enlargethispage{\baselineskip} will allow one additional line"
\enlargethispage*{size}:
"The starred form tries to squeeze the material together on the page as much as
possible. This is normally used together with an explicit \pagebreak"
if you have a lot of large figures in a chapter (which i do) it can be difficult
to have them in the place where you would like them and also have a good looking
text - enlargethispage gives you an additional amount of freedom in that case,
so that the paragraph does not continue on the next page with only a few words
Cheers
-Ralf
\enlargethispage{\baselineskip}
Hi All,
how often do we need the \enlargethispage{\baselineskip} ?
Well, I use it quite a lot since I have a lot of large figures and sometimes I
just need an extra line to keep it all together.
Instead of typing the ERT each time, it would be fancy to have a button (and/or
shortcut) that includes it ... how do you folks think?
Cheers
-Ralf
Re: Problem with LyxLauncher
Robert Betz writes: [snip] > However, I seem to have one problem. If I open my files using the standard double click technique the figures > will not open. I get the error: > > Error converting to loadable format. my situation is different, however, that error message looks familiar - I use PNG format and the error message occurs when changing the figure in an external editor while Lyx is still open. It does not bother me so much, since the pdf-output works just fine. And when re-opening Lyx the figures are there again. Cheers -Ralf
Re: Child-doc does not update crossrefs
Richard Heck writes: [snip] > It sounds as if LyX doesn't know it's a child document. Have you set the > "Default Master Document" in the child? right, that did the trick! Cheers -Ralf
Re: bibunits, bibtopic, chapterbib ?
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: [snip] > I have used both bibtopic and bibunits and found both easy to use. They > differ > conceptually, so your choice depends on what you need and on your personal > workflow. > > Since I switched to biblatex now, I would probably use its capabilities to > produce such bibliographies. If you are at the beginning of a project, > considering biblatex is advised. It is not (yet) natively supported by LyX, > but it can be used with some effort (cf. the wiki). Thanks Jürgen - I had a look at bibunits and it seems not so bad, maybe I'll try that one first...biblatex maybe for the next project, not now anyway. Cheers -Ralf
Child-doc does not update crossrefs
Good news everyone! I'm at the last chapter of my thesis... Okay, the bad news is that when I am writing a child-document (via include, opened from within the master) the cross-refs to other chapters do not work ( it displays '?' for the crossrefs) Compiling the entire document works. Is this expected behaviour or am I missing something? Cheers -Ralf p.s. it's version 1.6.3 on WinXP
Re: Shortcuts
Thomas Løcke writes: > I do though have one request for the coming versions of LyX: When you > mouseover the various GUI buttons, how about adding the shortcut to > the popup text, eg. CTRL + E for the Emphasis button? Indeed - that is a luxury I would like as well! Cheers -Ralf
Re: Citation style is wrong!
Maximilian Melcher writes: [snip] > In my document settings im using natbib with author-year selected. How > can i change the styles of the references? Is that set in the style of > the bibtex where i set "dinat" ? I tried to activate biblatex from here > : http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Biblatex but that didnt work at all. Hi Maximilian, I tried the 'dinat' style and it works with Natbib for 1.6.2 - however I use plain old BibTex not BibLatex - are you sure you need BibLatex for your purpose? If you don't, well then stick to BibTex, that way you will get the citation style you want. If you need BibLatex on the other hand, then forget this post, I don't know anything about it ... As for the BibTex thing: [Insert]->[List/TOC]->[BibTex Bibliography] - Add your database - Choose your style Hope this helps -Ralf
bibunits, bibtopic, chapterbib ?
Dear all, I searched the Wiki and this Newsgroup and I found some answers to the question of how to implement one of the packages bibunits, bibtopic or chapterbib. My questions: 1) since the information I found seems a bit old, is there any news of how to use these packages, in order to have a Reference-section in each Chapter? 2) what experiences you got with the packages and which do you recommend in terms of simple usage, no fuzz, quick to use ? (I don't need fancy so much, so simple but reliable will do...) I use 1.6.2 (will upgrade soon) on WinXP. Cheers! -Ralf
Re: About Lyx Error Messages
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > > How about a button that takes you to the Error message in the LaTeX log? > > Also, I am missing a search feature in the LaTeX log window. Ahh, big discovery for me - you can indeed browse through the errors. My apologies, I just did not recognize it, because the offending code was in the BibTex part: I copied the BibTex entry from a website and there was a (nonprintable?) character that caused the trouble. But, I concur, an option to jump to the error in the Log file would be swell! Thanks for the replies -Ralf
Re: aux-file of lyx-run
Wolfgang Engelmann writes: [snip] > The reason is, that I have difficulties to localize the citation error, > because even after taking out the offending citation lyx is still complaining > about it. I have to close lyx and reopen it until I get the response after > removing. I guessed, that the aux file is reused after a new run of lyx > (without closing it down), and wanted to remove it therefore from the > tmp-directory(ies). I am however, uncertain about it, since the last file > which contains the citation error produces no tmp-directory. Hi Wolfgang, I don't have an answer for you but I would like to respond and say that I have the same difficulties with finding and solving errors in Lyx (see my other posts today) - even worse is the situation with BibTex and Lyx - there is none indication whatsoever where and how to fix it... I chased a citation error for more than an hour - closing Lyx and reopenening it did the trick; well that is not what I call a deterministic behaviour Anyway, what I do in these situations is that I export to Latex and work with TeXnicCenter where you have more options for error tracking. Still, Lyx is cool. Cheers -Ralf
Export to Latex
Hi there, me again - somehow related to my previous post but this can be a separate question: when I export to plain Latex (when Bug-hunting) the exportation takes ages...okay I got a lot of high resolution PNGs in there - so I put all pictures in Draft mode...alas, this did not help and it seems Lyx still converts everything to EPS (?). Is there a way to export only the text,not the pictures...? Cheers -Ralf
About Lyx Error Messages
Dear Gurus, sometimes even in Lyx you do something wrong and you get an error message. Most of the time they are not very usefull - they simply indicate that something went wrong with a short excerpt of what caused the trouble - the excerpt however is not enough (for me at least) to find out what exactly went wrong and how to fix it. You always have to go bug-hunting... Maybe that is by choice of design to let the user chase it, but if TeXnicCenter can do it, I dare to say, Lyx can (should?) do it. TeXnicCenter let's you browse through the errors and puts you to the right place, which is very very helpfull. Is something like this planned in a future release or maybe it is already there and I just missed it? How do you people solve things like this? Cheers -Ralf
Re: Figures on the page
Adrian Diaz writes:
> I want to put a figure (.jpg, eps, etc) at the top and on the left (or on
> the rigth) corner on a page,
> and below of the figure i want to write a title. Do you knonw how to do this
> in Lyx ?
> Do you know how to set the offset between the figure and the title?
Hi Adrián,
I'd do it with wrapfigure:
In the menu, go to [Insert]->[Float]->[Figure Wrap Float]
and then you do the usual like in any figure float - you can place the caption
above or below the figure...
The settings of Wrap (right click opens the menu) lets you place the figure on
the left or the right. Note that wrapfigure places the figure where you put it
and it doesn't float (unless specified)
Offset:
What do you mean with 'Title'? If you mean Caption, then I cannot help you, but
if you are thinking about Figure and the main text then you can do it with an
ugly hack:
\vspace{-0.5cm} for example lets the vertical offset shrink for half a
centimeter. But I'm sure there are much more elegant ways to do it...I just
don't know them...You would include the ugly hack with: [Insert]->[Tex
Code]->\vspace{-0.5cm}
p.s. the help files in Lyx has something to say about this all as well, so check
it out
Hope this helps
Cheers
-Ralf
picturesize in PDF-file exported from Lyx
Hello, I've tried Lyx for the first time, and I have to mention, that I don't have any knowledge of LaTeX. I've created a documentation that included a lot of screenshots (PNG-files), and exported it as PDF-file. Everything worked so far, except the pictures. In Latex they are shonw in the correct size, but in the exported PDF-file the are much too big and very low quality. This does also happen when I convert them to EPS before importing them into Lyx. Setting the size in percent does have no effect at all, all I can do is set then to an exact size, for example a width of 17cm. Since I've imported about 60 pictures in this documentation this ist not a real choise because I then would have to set every single picture to a size I don't know exactly, and would have to do this by try and error. At last I should mention that I'm runing Kubuntu Linux 6.10 with Lyx-Qt 1.4.2 installed from the official Kubuntu-repository. Any suggestion what to do about this would be welcome. Regards, Ralf _ Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! http://smartsurfer.web.de/?mc=100071&distributionid=0066
Custom styles available in ALL document classes
Hello, i have a defined an own environment, which shall be available in all document classes. For that purpose i've created a file "mystyles.inc", which declares the LyX style for that environment. To tell LyX that there is a new style i've copied lyxmacros.inc to my local LYX_USERDIR and put the statement "include mystyles.inc" at the end. But this method seems not very partable, because lyxmacros.inc may change in future releases. Has anyone a better idea to include a custom style into all document classes? By the way, it works fine. Thanks in advance Ralf
environenment within enumerate
Hi, how can I start a environment immediatly after starting a new item? I want to have something like I am going to proof it using two seperate claims 1. Claim. I claim... Proof. Here it is... 2. Let A be this Claim. ... Proof. ... Furthermore... Claim and Proof are environments (from amsthm). The second item works fine, but the first item is impossible, because LyX does not allow an empty item line. Ralf -- Please remove one x in my mail address
Re: environenment within enumerate
Am Freitag, 11. Oktober 2002 13:13 schrieb Herbert Voss:
> Ralf Goertz wrote:
> > No this doesn't work for an empty first line. That's what I do in the
> > second item of the above example. But I can't increase the depth of the
> > line containig the enumi-counter. In latex I want
> >
> > \begin{enumerate}
> > \item \begin{claim*} blah... \end{claim*}
>
> ok, write the \begin{} \end{} in TeX (red)
>
> > prrof blah
>
> increase the environment depth for this line and choose
> layout proof.
>
> > \item blah
> > \end{enumerate}
Okay it works with ERT. But wouldn't it be nice if it were possible with pure
LyX? E.g. it would be nice to be able to have an empty enum-line. I know
there are good reasons not to allow it. I use my own layout file. Therefore I
would like to have a switch in that layout file that tells LyX not to erase
an empty line in enumerate and if it encounters one not to insert a empty
line. Then I could increase the depth of the following line and use another
environment and would get what I want. Just a suggestion.
Ralf
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Re: environenment within enumerate
Am Freitag, 11. Oktober 2002 12:44 schrieb Herbert Voss:
> Ralf Goertz wrote:
> > how can I start a environment immediatly after starting a new item?
> > I want to have something like
> >
> > I am going to proof it using two seperate claims
> > 1. Claim. I claim...
> > Proof. Here it is...
> > 2. Let A be this
> >Claim. ...
> >Proof. ...
> > Furthermore...
>
> write all in the itemize/enumerate layout, then
> - put the cursor into the line which should become another
>layout
> - Layout->Increase environment Depth
> - change this line(s) to proof or anything else.
>
> Herbert
No this doesn't work for an empty first line. That's what I do in the second
item of the above example. But I can't increase the depth of the line
containig the enumi-counter. In latex I want
\begin{enumerate}
\item \begin{claim*} blah... \end{claim*}
\begin{proof} blah \end{proof}
\item blah
\end{enumerate}
I just noticed that with amsthm a new line is started anyway but with ntheorem
ist works.
Ralf
Re: "\limits" bug worse than before in version 1.2.0
Am Montag, 8. Juli 2002 17:14 schrieb Andre Poenitz: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 03:52:05PM +0200, Ralf Goertz wrote: > > > The '\limit' iformation as implemented 'sticks' to the super/subscript. > > > So if that is deleted, the limit is lost as well. > > > > But I don't delete anything. I toggle the style of the limit using M-m l, > > but that does not affect the LaTeX file. I never see the limit below the > > lim in the dvi-file, regardless of what I see in LyX. > > It still works for me. *shrug* > > You need (a) a \lim, (b) a super r subscript following this and (c) the > cursor in between. Okay, I tried the cvs-version and the bug is gone. Thanks for your help. Ralf
Re: "\limits" bug worse than before in version 1.2.0
Am Montag, 8. Juli 2002 15:43 schrieb Andre Poenitz: > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 03:35:11PM +0200, Ralf Goertz wrote: > > Okay, now it works for integrals and sums but not for limits (in 1.1.6 > > you had to put the cursor in front of \lim, \sum \int). Although I can > > now toggle the limits for \lim on screen, there is no \limits in the > > LaTeX file. > > The '\limit' iformation as implemented 'sticks' to the super/subscript. So > if that is deleted, the limit is lost as well. But I don't delete anything. I toggle the style of the limit using M-m l, but that does not affect the LaTeX file. I never see the limit below the lim in the dvi-file, regardless of what I see in LyX. Ralf
Re: "\limits" bug worse than before in version 1.2.0
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 03:01:31PM +0200, Ralf Goertz wrote: > > The cursor must be directly behind the \lim (not behind the subscript). > Maybe this has changed from 1.1.6. Okay, now it works for integrals and sums but not for limits (in 1.1.6 you had to put the cursor in front of \lim, \sum \int). Although I can now toggle the limits for \lim on screen, there is no \limits in the LaTeX file. Ralf
Re: "\limits" bug worse than before in version 1.2.0
> > M-m l cycles between the three options '\limits', '\nolimits' and '', so > maybe you just have to press M-m l twice to see some effect. It seems to > work in 1.3.0cvs and I think there have been no change in this area since > 1.2.0 Nothing happens. I will now try 1.3.0cvs. I will give a progress report then. > The float options interface is not exactly nice and I don't think it is a > good idea to have more of it... > "Floats" was not a good example. "Seperation" is a better one. You can choose between "Indent" and "Skip". We could have "Inlined formulas" with "limits" and "nolimits". As with Seperation, one can still change an individual formula in the usual way. What about loosing the \limits in inlined \lim after reopening? Can you confirm that? > > PS: Posts containing a full name have a better chance to get through my > spam prevention machinery (as in "look at the sender/subject line and only > if this triggers positive feelings do not press 'd'"). I understand that > the netiquette do not require a full name outside the de.* but I thought > I should mention this nevertheless...) Okay, Ralf
Re: "\limits" bug worse than before in version 1.2.0
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 01:16:17PM +0200, Ralf wrote:
> > The \limits command is not saved. When you write something like
> >
> > \lim\limits _{x\rightarrow\infinity}
> >
> > in inline formulas the subscript will be under the \lim. When you save
> > the file an reopen it, the \limits is gone, so that the subscript will be
> > displayed like usual subscripts (e.g. like in $x_{i}$). This applies only
> > to inline formulas.
>
> I'll have a look. There is certainly something fishy there
I could live with that. I had to before (defining something like
\Lim=\lim\limits), but as I said in version 1.2.0 I can't even change the
position of the limits not even in displayed formulas! That's a big problem.
> > When you use \intlimits as an option for amsmath, integral limits in
> > displayed formulas are put below and above the integral sign as a
> > default, so you don't have to use \limits at all. I regard this as a
> > matter of style. If one uses \limits in inline formulas once, it would be
> > strange not to use it always. That's why I suggest having the option
> > to do so as a default would be very nice.
>
> We are currently not supporting specific options to the ams packages. How
> would a user interface for this look like?
As for this there is no need to do anything. It is enough to put "intlimits"
or "sumlimit" into the extra document options and use amsmath. And it works.
As far as I know there is no amsmath option that does the same for inline
formulas. That's why I thought it could be provided by LyX, in a similar way
like the float options. They are also used for the whole document. so why not
have a check box that, if checked, would lead to the insertion of \limits
after every inlined \lim command (or \int or \sum)
Ralf
Re: "\limits" bug worse than before in version 1.2.0
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 12:22:16PM +0200, Ralf wrote:
> > is it true that the \lim\limits problem is still there in 1.2.0?
>
> What '\lim\limits problem'?
>
The \limits command is not saved. When you write something like
\lim\limits _{x\rightarrow\infinity}
in inline formulas the subscript will be under the \lim. When you save the
file an reopen it, the \limits is gone, so that the subscript will be
displayed like usual subscripts (e.g. like in $x_{i}$). This applies only to
inline formulas.
> > What is the problem? (I guess it must be a problem with my installation).
> > By the way, can't we have a switch that tells lyx to place the limits
> > above and below the symbol in inline formulas (like intlimits in
> > amsmath for displayed formulas)?
>
> This does not sound impossible, but 'up-down-stuff' is still nasty...
> What exactly does '\intlimis' do?
When you use \intlimits as an option for amsmath, integral limits in displayed
formulas are put below and above the integral sign as a default, so you don't
have to use \limits at all. I regard this as a matter of style. If one uses
\limits in inline formulas once, it would be strange not to use it always.
That's why I suggest having the option to do so as a default would be very
nice.
Ralf
"\limits" bug worse than before in version 1.2.0
Hi, is it true that the \lim\limits problem is still there in 1.2.0? And even worse, now I can't even change the position of limits neither with the toolbar nor with M-m-l (it worked under 1.1.6). I use SuSE 8.0 and downloaded the corresponding RPM file. I renamed my .lyx directory, so I started version 1.2.0 from scratch. What is the problem? (I guess it must be a problem with my installation). By the way, can't we have a switch that tells lyx to place the limits above and below the symbol in inline formulas (like intlimits in amsmath for displayed formulas)? Ralf
Very slow generation of depend file
Hi, after updating to SuSE 7.2 (with lyx 1.1.6fix1) it has become almost impossible to properly work with lyx because the production of the dvi file takes incredibly long, e.g. lyx needs 14 seconds to produce or update a dvi file from the "dinbrief" template file (LaTex itself needs less than a second). I found out that the production or update of the *.tex.dep is responsible for that although when run with "-dgb depend" there don't seem to be any problems. There are lines like these in the log AbsolutePath file: /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latin1.def Found file: latin1.def Not a file or we are unable to find it. but that is not where the time is spent. This is really a problem for me. I am writing a paper and the generation or update of the dvi file takes more than 2 minutes.
Re: abstract
Herbert Voss wrote:
>
> Alexander Bauer wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > the german translation from abstract is "Zusammenfassung". Does anyone know
> > how to change this to "Vorwort".
> > Or if this is not possible, how can a section heading be centered?
>
> \renewcommand\abstractname{Vorwort}
>
> in latex preamble
>
You could also use a normal star-section( Section* - LaTeX:
\section*{Vorwort}) instead of an abstract (LaTeX: \abstract{}),
because the context of an abstract normally is substantially
different from the contents of a preface (German "Vorwort") and
abstracts normally are typesetted differently in LaTeX then ordinary
section.
Ralf
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LyX 1.1.5 for sgi IRIX
Anybody got a precompiled version of the latest LyX for sgi IRIX? I never made it compile myself. Always the same problems with xforms not found etc. Some precompiled binaries for the major platforms (Linux, Solaris, Aix, HPUX, IRIX, Win32) wouldn't do any harm to the LyX ftp site, I'd guess! It was common practice for the older versions but it somehow got lost after 1.0. Cheers Ralf
Re: Finishing with lyx in suse 6.4
Angus Leeming wrote: > > Ralf> > - And finally, tonight, I reached with the rpm packages for suse (thanks >again, Peter). > Ralf> Do they contain shared versions of xforms-0.89 or link statically > Ralf> against xforms-0.88? I had to replace the SuSE's shared xforms-0.88 > Ralf> libraries with the original xforms-0.89, because lyx-1.1.5 dumps > Ralf> core badly (somewhere in xforms) for me (SuSE-6.4) when lyx is > Ralf> dynamically linked against SuSE's xforms-0.88. > > Ahhh! But if you compiled the code with xforms-0.89 header files and then try > to execute a lyx that is dynamically linked against xforms-0.88, then you will > core dump because the header files are incompatible. You seem to be right :) I just rebuilt lyx-1.1.5 once against xforms-0.89 and once against xforms-0.88.1 as it comes with SuSE-6.4. Big surprize: Both versions seem to work now. However, I don't have any explanation for the core dumps I had experienced (Lyx dumped core right at the startup). I am sure I did not have mixed libraries and headers, because the core dumps had caused me to upgrade xforms and I didn't have xforms-0.89 before :) Now, I am wondering, what might have caused the problems (I upgraded to XFree4.0 since then, it comes with a new libxpm). Ralf -- Ralf Corsepius Forschungsinstitut fuer Anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW) Helmholtzstr. 16, 89081 Ulm, Germany Tel: +49/731/501-8690 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX: +49/731/501-999 http://www.faw.uni-ulm.de
Re: Finishing with lyx in suse 6.4
Eduardo Diaz Uriarte wrote: > > I've got it. I tried with the rpm packages for suse from the web page of Peter >Suetterlin > (www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~pit/LyX) and it has worked. I have installed it checking >dependencies and it has found > no problem so i think that the problem is in the configure script of the .tar.gz >package. (But I don't want > to talk of what I don't know). > > So collecting the problem for everyone: > > - I firstly tried installing lyx 1.1.5 from .tar.gz and it said me that couldn't >find the 'x libraries and/or > headers'. This means that you probably didn't have the X and/or xforms development packages installed. Another problem with building 1.1.5 under SuSE is, that SuSE-6.4 comes with xforms-0.88, however lyx-1.1.5 seems to require xforms-0.89. > - Then I checked that i had everything I needed. (I did so by selecting lyx 1.1.? to >install from the yast > tool. Checking then dependencies, and installing only whatever was necessary for >lyx, but not lyx). This is bogus and will not help. This only ensures that you have every package installed to *run* lyx. This doesn't necessarily match with the packages required to *build* lyx. > - So I tried again with and without several flags (--with-extra.) and it still >didn't work. cf. above. Another clear indication of not having installed the development packages. > - Next step: rpm package without checking dependencies. I get it by this way, but i >was worry about having > problems in the future (rpm couldn't find everything necesary). This is the brute force way, but should work. > - And finally, tonight, I reached with the rpm packages for suse (thanks again, >Peter). Do they contain shared versions of xforms-0.89 or link statically against xforms-0.88? I had to replace the SuSE's shared xforms-0.88 libraries with the original xforms-0.89, because lyx-1.1.5 dumps core badly (somewhere in xforms) for me (SuSE-6.4) when lyx is dynamically linked against SuSE's xforms-0.88. Ralf -- Ralf Corsepius Forschungsinstitut fuer Anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW) Helmholtzstr. 16, 89081 Ulm, Germany Tel: +49/731/501-8690 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX: +49/731/501-999 http://www.faw.uni-ulm.de
Re: LyX 1.1.5: Problem with compilation on RS6000/AIX-4.3.3.0
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > >>>>> "Dirk" == Dirk Klugmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dirk> I had to include the line: > > Dirk> #include > > Dirk> into the file "spellchecker.C". This is the header file where > Dirk> our gcc-2.95.2 distribution on AIX/RS6000 defines "bzero". > > You mean that bzero is not defined in any other header file? This > seems highly unlikely... Wrong, this rather likely. It is a classical BSD (bcopy) vs. SYSV (memset) portability issue, because real SYSV systems do not have bcopy and friends at all (I don't know any details about AIX, so I can't comment in this specific case). FYI: From linux's bcopy man-page: CONFORMING TO 4.3BSD. This function is deprecated -- use memset in new programs. The bcopy in X11/Xfuncs.h is just a hack X11 applies to work around this issue. Portable programs have to apply similar portability checks if they are supposed to be compileable on old SYSV or BSD systems. As mem* functions are available on most contemporary OSes I would recommend to use mem* family functions (ISO-standard) only and to map b* functions etc. to mem* functions on OSes which don't provide them. Ralf -- Ralf Corsepius Forschungsinstitut fuer Anwendungsorientierte Wissensverarbeitung (FAW) Helmholtzstr. 16, 89081 Ulm, Germany Tel: +49/731/501-8690 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX: +49/731/501-999 http://www.faw.uni-ulm.de
document-class suitable for regulations and minutes/record
Greetings, I recently got the job as secretary of a small computer society and since I've worked with LyX a while now I thought it'd be nice to write the minutes and regulations with LyX as well. But, I don't know which document-class one should use when writing these kind of documents. Anyone who have some good recommendations? best regards /Ralf Nyrén
llncs layout
I need to write a paper in Springer's "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" format. They provide a LaTeX2e class file (llncs.cls from http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Has anybody created a LyX layout file for this? I would be very happy if I could skip the manual editing of the .tex file each time I did some changes in LyX and I want to see the exact output. Thanks for any indications Ralf
Re: ps too big ???
claudio wrote:
> Hello, I'm writihg my thesis with Lyx, but I get a problem: I need to
> produce images with StarOffice ( they come out as results of a Starcalc
> sheet) and to include in the LyX file I can make tho things :
> 1) export directly in ps, but it's too large ( 3Mb)
> 2) save in tiff (200-300 Kb) and use tiff2ps but the ps is too large (
> 3Mb)
>
> Is possible to reduce the size of the files ps I have with some
> compression tool ?
>
> Thanks , Claudio
>
You can gzip the PS (or better EPS) files. This makes you save quite
a lot of megs. But you need to extract the bounding box information
first and put it into a separate file. This leaves you with one
image.eps.gz and one image.eps.bb file.
LaTeX and xdvi should be able to deal with these compressed images
automagically.
Unfortunately, LyX is not yet able to display them. But you can
still use them without problems, you simply need to turn display off
in the figure popup and change the name of your image from image.eps
to image.eps.gz in that same popup.
Below is a little script that can do the trick on hopefully any PS
and EPS file.
-- >8 snip 8< ---
#!/bin/csh -f
# eps2epsgz script
if ($#argv < 1) then
echo "usage: eps2epsgz filename[s]"
echo ""
echo "eps2epsgz extracts bounding box information from given eps
files"
echo " and compresses the files afterwards via gzip"
exit
endif
foreach hfile ( ${argv} )
grep '%%BoundingBox' $hfile > $hfile.bb
gzip $hfile
end
-- >8 snip 8< ---
Hope this helps
Ralf
Re: Bug in LyX
This doesn't happend on my LyX, too - if I doesn't press the "keep" option
to get vertical space at the beginning of a page.
Ralf
Herbert wrote:
> Ralf Schreg wrote:
> >
> > LyX seems to forget a character on exporting as LaTeX:
> >
> > a paragraph with above (or below) keeping vertical spaces is exported as
> >
> > \vspace*{big...}
> > instead of
> > \vspace*{\big...}
> >
> > This seems to happen on all \vspace* - commands.
> >
> > (Tested with LyX 1.0.1pre... and LyX 1.0.2)
>
> This doesn't happened on my LyX! It's exported with
> all slashes. LyX 1.0.2
>
> Herbert
Bug in LyX
LyX seems to forget a character on exporting as LaTeX:
a paragraph with above (or below) keeping vertical spaces is exported as
\vspace*{big...}
instead of
\vspace*{\big...}
This seems to happen on all \vspace* - commands.
(Tested with LyX 1.0.1pre... and LyX 1.0.2)
Ralf
Re: LyX to PDF (was: Why are EPS files so big?)
Lai wrote:
> Thank you for you guys' pointers to pdflatex and pstill program. I am
> trying to convert my thesis to pdf and met problems with both approaches.
>
> 1) pdflatex
> [...]
> ! Error: pdflatex:
> Font ecbx1440 not found in map files
> ===
>
> But if I comment out the line in the tex file
>
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>
> Then the pdflatex would not complain.
>
Two solutions:
(1) get that font
(2) don't use fontenc
You can choose not to use fontenc by adding (uncommenting)
"\font_encoding default" in the TEX SECTION of your configuration
file. (~/.lyx/lyxrc)
>
> 2) pstill
>
> Again, if I use unmodified tex file generated by LyX, pstill needs a long
> time to convert the resulted ps file even I use
>
> dvips -Pcmz -Pamz thesis.dvi
>
> to generate the ps file.
>
> The result is much improved with "\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}" commented out.
>
> Can anyone comment on these results and how can I diable the output of
> "\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}" line in the tex file exported by LyX?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Lai
>
I think the problems come again from Type1 (vector) vs. Type3
(bitmap) fonts. You probably don't have a Type1 version of the EC
fonts (used with fontenc).
See above for directions on how to use default TeX fonts.
Developers: Please make it an option in Layout->Document.
Ralf
LyX to PDF (was: Why are EPS files so big?)
Some experience with LyX (LaTeX) and PDF: * Ghostscript's ps2pdf creates huge files due to the non-compression of bitmap images. Also, the file is ugly to view on-screen because the Type-1 (vector) fonts are sampled to Type-3 (bitmap) fonts. PDF readers can't use anti-aliasing in this case and printers can only print in the maximum resolution that was given by dvips. (lyx->latex->dvips->ps2pdf) * Adobe Acrobat Distiller gives very good results. Fonts remain scalable and are easy to read on-screen. Bitmap images get compressed via zip or jpeg. The only inconvience is that it's not free and that it's not available for Unix. If you are doing business or need good PDF quality for other reasons then you're best with paying the licence. It's worth it for me. (lyx->latex->dvips->distiller) * pdf(la)tex is an alternativ to the tex compiler that generates directly pdf files instead of dvi. I haven't used it intensively but it promises to be fantastic. Fonts are in perfect shape, scalable and readable and you don't need to generate huge eps files from your png or jpeg images, they can be used directly without loss of quality or disk space. An inconvience is that eps vector graphics can't be read, they have to be converted to pdf manually. I had problems with this. But this may be due to the university-wide TeX installation. A direct import of fig figures would be fantastic. Another inconvience is that lyx has no support for pdftex, i.e. you need to deal yourself with the inclusion of png, jpg and pdf images. (Developers: hint, hint...) (lyx->pdflatex) Hope this little overview helped a bit to get even more confused and continue discussing this important issue in order to find a better solution and end all wars. Ralf
Re: figure caption
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >%_Hi all, > > I'm using LyX-1.0.1 and I would like to know how to get figure captions without > having to insert figure as float, just as insert figure. Is there any settings > that I must check to get this? > Sorry for the late answer! I know no way to make a figure caption without float. But you can put a float at the actual position by using the figure.sty in the latex-preamble and the 'H' option in the 'Float Placement' field in the document layout dialog. I hope that information is of any use to you. Regards Ralf -- Fraunhofer IPK Dipl.-Inform. Ralf Berger Pascalstr. 8-9 10587 Berlin Tel.: ++49-(0)30 390 06 129 Fax.: ++49-(0)30 391 10 37 --- In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away. Antoine de Saint Exupery
Re: A BibTeX Question
Hello Juan, Please read the manual. At the moment it is not possible to display the files citation references in a dialog. Juan Ramon Rico schrieb: ... > What can I do? Thanks in advanced. -- == | WINDOWS IS NOT THE ANSWER... | | WINDOWS IS THE QUESTION...|NO MORE BLUE SCREENS | THE ANSWER IS NO! | ||__ _ | Ralf Schreg | / / (_)__ __ __ | eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / == //_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ begin:vcard n:Schreg;Ralf x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Telemarkt adr:;;Ludwig-Thoma-Str. 4;Lichtenstein;Baden-Württemberg;72805;Deutschland version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;fax:(0 71 21) 3 44-2 01 tel;home:(0 71 29) 92 28 56 tel;work:(0 71 21) 3 44-2 51 x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Ralf Schreg end:vcard
springer layout
Did anybody create a LyX layout file for the latest Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science LaTeX2e class (llncs.cls)? I would be happy if you could share it. It's so awkward to write in LyX with article class and then export to TeX and manually modify it to use the llncs class. Especially towards the end where you have to do the fine tuning in order to not exceed the maximum number of pages. Cheers Ralf
