Beamer Class: Now Cannot View PDF Output

I created a presentation in LyX using the Beamer class. It worked perfectly and includes two PSTricks figures (also done in LyX) that I view in pdf4. Those two figures are saved as pdf files and included in the presentation (along with some .eps figures). Today I made a couple of small editor

Re: Beamer Class: Now Cannot View PDF Output -- FIXED!!

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Rich Shepard wrote: Help needed to figure out what went wrong so I can fix it. Sigh. I found in which /tmp/lyx_* directory today's log was hidden, and I learned that the paths to the figures were not up to date. Once I fixed that everything worked. Sorry fo

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Andre Berger wrote: German Gurus told me the palatino, times, and pslatex fonts were obsolete, and told me to use mathpazo and mathptmx instead. I wonder if LyX will reflect this development? Andre, I certainly hope not! I like Palatino. It's the default font in all my

Re: Obsolete fonts palatino, times, pslatex

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: mathpazo.sty is an enhanced replacement package for the package palatino.sty with support for math and other things (small caps, old style figures etc.). It still uses the Palatino (or, more precise: Palladio) font. The same counts for times.sty v

Re: Lyx crashes when hitting Help/Manual

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: The Qt port is really nicer than the xforms one (but indeed a bit slower). Jean-Marc, OK, you got me here. How does one define "faster" and "slower" with a text processing application? Seems to me the computer is wasting cycles waiting for me

Re: Lyx crashes when hitting Help/Manual

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: You take a slower computer, and try to see how responsive it is to page up/down, selection, etc. I can tell you, unfortunately, that currently LyX/Qt 1.4.0cvs feels really sluggish compared to lyx/xfoms. But since we do not really know why, it is

1.3.6 Won't Build on Slackware-10.1

I've not before had a problem building lyx. The config.log is attached (gzipped). Make failed after 15.5 minutes when I did not specify the qt directories; now that I've specified them, it fails in 8 seconds: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../../src -I../../../src -I../../../src/frontends -I.

Re: 1.3.6 Won't Build on Slackware-10.1

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Georg Baum wrote: I found nothing pertinent searching the gmane archive. Is this a STL issue? No, but the gmane search function seems to be not so powerful: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users%40lists.lyx.org/msg40655.html Georg, I _thought_ that I had recently

Re: Indenting Text

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Stacia Hartleben wrote: Could someone please explain to me how text indenting works in Lyx? I can't seem to figure it out. Thanks! You can change it in two places: Layout->Document->Layout choose Indent or Skip for paragraph spacing. Then, in Layout->Paragraph->General yo

Re: last question tonight :-)

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Søren O'Neill wrote: How do I force a newline in a section heading? I've not tried it in a heading, but ctrl-enter should do it. Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President | Author of "Quantifying Environmental Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) | Impact Assessm

Re: Any successes w/ LyX 1.3.6 for Windows 98SE

On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Luis Rivera wrote: What should I send to the developers? Luis, A couple of dozen roses for making a native Winduhs port might be nice. Or, a nice wine, perhaps? Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President | Author of "Quantifying Environmental Applied Ecosystem Serv

Re: Symbol

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Sreekumar Bhaskaran-Nair {msbad084} wrote: Thanks guys. That works. Btw, I realized something. If I enable lyx preview and then type \S in the math box, the symbol comes. So may be there is no need to insert it as a latex command Sree, It depends on whether you want the

Screen Dumps -> LyX Docs

For a change of pace, I offer information of potential use to others rather than asking for help. :-) I'm writing the User Manual for my fuzzy system modeling software and need to illustrate the application's GUI screens in the text. Well, The GIMP is great for generating a high-quality .jpg,

Re: Screen Dumps -> LyX Docs

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Jose' Matos wrote: Just as it happens with convert from ImageMagick and: I thought that 'convert' would do it, but I could not find the list of supported formats in the man page. Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President | Author of "Quantifying Environmental App

Re: How to get starred titles in the TOC

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I would like to have a table of contents. I have tried to redefine the "part*" command so that it includes an entry in the TOC. I've put the following in the preamble: Sonja, Try the ERT \addcontentsline{toc}(part)(part_title) I know

Re: How to get starred titles in the TOC

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Rich Shepard wrote: Try the ERT \addcontentsline{toc}(part)(part_title) I forgot to add the placement location: immediately after the Part command, on a separate line in standard environment. When used with a chapter (in my case, the un-numbered Preface), the ERT is at

Re: How can I add unnumbered chapter into the automatic table of content?

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Leon Chen wrote: The TOC automatically generated by lyx is very helpful. But it will not include the unnumbered chapter, or section. Any comments for this? Maybe I can hand in thesis just with the TOC without those sections, but I just want to be perfect. Leon, This

Re: How can I add unnumbered chapter into the automatic table of content?

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Tom Poe wrote: Is that what you're referring to? Tom, Yes, this is the most recent. Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President | Author of "Quantifying Environmental Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM) | Impact Assessments Using Fuzzy Logic"

Re: Questions.

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: Could I suggest that before a question is posted the following things are done 1) Read the wiki 2) Search the mailing list archives 3) Try google to see if there is already an answer on the web Great suggestions, Geoff. I'll add: 4) Herbert's T

Re: LaTeX for the printers ?

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Søren O'Neill wrote: a general question - If I set a document up in LaTeX, would one expect it to be readily accepted by professional printshops? Not here in the USA. However, if you export it as a PDF file then every printer can accept it as camera-ready copy. Some publ

Re: LaTeX for the printers ?

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Søren O'Neill wrote: ... are printshops able to re-set a pdf document? New styles, fonts etc? Only if they disassemble it. One advantage of PDF is that it is view-only for most folks. Therefore, what they see is what you intend. Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, Presiden

Re: an asthetic question

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Marcelo Acuÿf1a wrote: Hi all, I writing with Koma script book style. In several books I can see that quotations appears: Smith said: "blah blah blah". in others appears: Smith said: "blah blah blah." Marcelo, Ah! You've come to the great Atlantic divide. The Europe

Re: Compiling LyX 1.3.6 with qt

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Luqman H wrote: Please help.. i dont know what i've miss i don't know if there is more dependency needed for qt frontend. but the ./configure seem to run fine... I'm using VectorLinux standard 5.1 qt version 3.3.4 tetex-3.0 As Georg wrote a couple of months ago: Change

Re: View>Update is greyed-out

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, John E. Harbold wrote: I'm using version 1.3.6 to publish my thesis. When I try to view my thesis as Postscript, the menu selection, View>Update, is greyed out. What do I need to do to remedy the problem. John, What happens when you press ctrl-d for the dvi output? Al

Re: Compiling LyX 1.3.6 with qt

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Luqman H wrote: i'm just have tobe patient for very long compiling.. btw, is it a bug? or it only happen to my machine..? I don't remember just how long it too, but I recall something like 7 or 8 minutes on an Athlon XP-2200+ with 1G RAM. I always run the 'time' command w

Copying A Table Float Across Documents

I want to copy a table -- as a table -- from one document to another, but my attempts so far have failed. I've opened the table in the source document, highlighted the entire table, used ctrl-c to copy it to the clipboard, switched focus to the destination document, and used the Edit->Externa

Re: Copying A Table Float Across Documents

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Paul Smith wrote: This is not the cleanest solution, Rich, but your goal may be achieved by using a text editor to copy the table, without doing it inside LyX. (I am assuming both documents are LyX ones.) Paul, You'd think that after all this time I'd just do that, woul

Re: Copying A Table Float Across Documents

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, samar wrote: You first need to create a blank table with the same number of columns and rows as the original in your destination document. Ideally the same structure Copy the source into the destination but make sure you have the cursor in the top left hand cell. Someti

Re: Copying A Table Float Across Documents

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Helge Hafting wrote: Copying tables, and anything else, is trivial as long as we're talking about copying from one lyx document to another. The recipe is simple: Helge, As I wrote, this is exactly what I tried to do. To copy a table float, mark the entire float using

Re: Copying A Table Float Across Documents

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Helge Hafting wrote: That's the problem then. The external system is mostly ascii, and will create ascii representations of tables and such. It is meant for pasting to/from other applications, lyx does not know what kind of data other apps use, and other apps does not know

Re: Copying A Table Float Across Documents

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Helge Hafting wrote: ... and press ctrl+v for paste. Helge, et al.: This was my problem. I used the external paste rather than regular paste, and the former did not work. The latter does. I had assumed that ctrl-v was for pasting selections within the same document whil

Re: Error: "Resulting file is empty"

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I've tried File > Export > PDF/PDF (pdflatex)/DVI, but it always gives me the error "Resulting file is empty". I have miktex installed, and the previous intallation of LyX (the unofficial LyX-win32 1.3.5) worked fine. I can, however, export to

Re: Dates

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use a personal letter template based on koma-letter2.lyx. It prints to-day's date in the document allright. The problem comes when I display or print an old letter: the date that shows up is to-day's, when I wish I had saved the date I wrote it. Any

Re: Export setup

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, David Soukal wrote: I never actually paid attention as to which PDF exporter I'm using; I simply clicked the first one (the "it works" approach). :) The first in the menu now is: dvipdfm. The third is ps2pdf, which works as expected. David, I cannot address the configur

Re: Export setup

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, David Soukal wrote: What do you mean by PDF4? Do you mean ps2pdf14? David, No, it's ps4pdf. From : ps4pdf.sty PostScript into PDF A package to integrate PostScript code into a PDF output. It's analogous to ps2pdf, but it works gre

Re: Newbie questions

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to lyx, and have been hooked by the concept and potential power of the application. I principally would like to use it for (surgical) journal article preparation. I have three questions that will ease the transation away from OpenOffice.

Re: equations in lyx

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, gajus miknaitis wrote: This is probably a very simple and obvious question, but how do I get LyX to insert \begin{equation} and \end{equation}? Using "Insert->Math->Inline (or Display) forumla" doesn't get me this. Do I need to do it by hand? It's worked for me.

Re: equations in lyx

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, gajus miknaitis wrote: No, "\begin{equation}". The LaTeX compiles fine, but I want the equation mode (or environment or whatever) so that the eqns are numbered. Put the cursor at the end of the equation (within the mathbox) and press meta-m m, or select Edit->Math->Turn

Re: equations in lyx

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, gajus miknaitis wrote: Now if there was only a way to turn on this numbering for the entire document, instead of case by case. I believe that when turned on it stays on for future equations. However, it's been many months since I finished entering equations in my book so

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Bo Peng wrote: If we can keep a new user for a week, we will have him for good. After lyx/latex becomes irreplaceable, he will join this list and learn some latex and advanced lyx. The situation now is that most (windows) users are scared away by the long installation process

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please do, at least so that I can figure out what you meant with the paragraph above ;-) Christian, Some time during the late 1990s, coffee shop retail clerks around here came up with the idea of putting jars on the counters for tips. I think it'

Re: Poor men's scientific workplace.

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Paul Smith wrote: Yes, it is painfully a very long installation process for MS Windows users. Most of the time, I use Linux, but sometimes I am in places where there are only MS Windows machines, and once I had to install it on a MS Windows computer. Paul, Have you consi

Re: Converting from EPS to JPG

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Paul Smith wrote: This may be a bit out of topic, but I would like to convert a eps picture to a jpg one with the following features: Paul, 'man convert' Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President | Author of "Quantifying Environmental Applied Ecosystem Services,

Re: Presentations using LyX

On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Daniel Watkins wrote: I've read quite a lot about using LyX to create presentations, along with such words as Beamer and FoilTeX being thrown around. I was wondering if someone would be kind enough to explain how LyX can be used in such a way, or point me to a website which

Re: Presentations using LyX

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Gour wrote: I'd like to hear more regarding the drawing tools used with beamer/LyX. Anything that produces a file in .eps format can be inserted directly into the document. afaics, in the beamer manual, pstricks does not work with pdflatex? This is correct. Is th

Re: Presentations using LyX

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Gour wrote: I've found something in wiki, is that the right thing? I don't know. I followed the instructions with the ps4pdf package ... I think. Once I get some application or add-on installed and working I do a dump of that knowledge from the NPU[1] so there's room for

Re: lyx-code - date-insert

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, David Wolfson wrote: My first response was 'really! the date gets put in anyway?' Then I tried the ERT you suggested and suddenly I get two dates... For now that's perfect, but I have a horrible feeling I'll be trawling the archives to find out how to get rid of it soon! D

Re: Clever quotes

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Paul wrote: Is there a command-line tool that does this using some heuristics to cover most areas that could be problematic? Paul sed. tr, too, but sed would work. Something like s/"[A-Z,a-z]?/``?/g. I didn't look at my sed book, but that reads, "substitute two single

Beamer Class: Lost Logo

In a couple of presentations I have the following ERT immediately after the author block on the title slide: \pgfdeclareimage[height=0.5cm]{institution-logo}{/home/rshepard/data/slide-presentation/beamer/aesi-logo} \logo{\pgfuseimage{institution-logo}} but nothing shows up on the slides when v

Re: Beamer Class: Lost Logo -- SOLVED

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Jose' Matos wrote: AFAIR you need the file suffix for pdflatex. Jose', Actually, that's not true. At least with the beamer class any suffix that can be processed by pdflatex works. In any case, I found the source of the problem: user error, of course. I had one lett

Environment Button Changes Shape

This is a minor point, but annoying nonetheless. When I invoke LyX, the environment choice button at the left of the icon bar is small. As soon as I load a beamer document, that button expands to consume about 1/3 the horizontal space in the window. This drives the macro entry widget to the l

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul wrote: Most of my potential readership is going to be using Adobe Acrobat on Windows I imagine. So if I use Times, will that be treated as different from Times New Roman and cause problems for Windows users, or will it silently substitute the font (possibly causing slig

Re: Environment Button Changes Shape

The environment control is expanding to accommodate the widest entry in the list, which with beamer appears to be ColumnsCenterAligned. If you never use columns, I suppose you could edit ColumnsCenterAligned and ColumnsTopAligned out of the layout file, and then the environment control would not e

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanna know: What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why? Douglas, I've used only pdflatex and it produces everything very well. I have not looked at other output processors because this one works for everything I do. Ri

Re: No one answered a simple topic :(

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Bruce Pourciau wrote: Correct me someone if I'm wrong, but doesn't PDF (pdflatex) fail when the document has graphics in eps format? But PDF will work fine. Don't know about PDF (dvipdfm). Bruce, No. At least, not for me. I use .eps graphics in book, article, report, an

Beamer Compile Error

I've tried adding some subsections and frames in a presentation I'm writing. I get this error message when compiling with pdflatex: LaTeX Error: There's no line here to end. \lyxframeend {}\lyxframe{Information Domains II} Your command was ignored. Type Ito replace it wi

Re: Beamer Compile Error -- FIXED

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005, Rich Shepard wrote: Is it the mix of definition and enumerate that causes pdflatex the indigestion? I just do not see the error. It was not the mixture of types (I don't think) as much as it was too much information to fit on a slide. The mixture probably didn&#

Finding the Reason xdvi Output Disappeared

I just upgraded all the systems here to Slackware-10.2. I've been busy developing beamer presentations (another one to be done in the next couple of weeks), so I've been viewing compiled output with pdflatex. Yesterday, however, I wrote a short article and tried to view the output by pressing ct

Re: Finding the Reason xdvi Output Disappeared

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: To rule out the first, try exporting the doc as a DVI and then running xdvi against it manually. Paul, Sigh. Why didn't I think of this? (That's a rhetorical question, by the way.) For some reason, the t1lib was not upgraded. No library, no display.

Re: Finding the Reason xdvi Output Disappeared

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Andre Berger wrote: You have to define a viewer like \format "dvi" "dvi" "DVI" "D" "xdvi" "" No, that's not it. It turns out that apparently xdvi is behind the t1 libraries. The application is looking for libt1.so.1, and the current version of the library is libt1.so

Re: Finding the Reason xdvi Output Disappeared

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Andre Berger wrote: Glad you solved it. Andre, Thanks! I am, too. Now I'm trying to learn why the error occurred in the first place. I suspect it's the way xdvi was packaged. Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President | Author of "Quantifying Environmental Applie

Graphics: jpicedt

Not too long ago, someone here recommended jpicedt to make it easier to work with PSTricks. The application is not properly installing for me (Slackware-10.2) and I would appreciate an off-the-list response if anyone has suggestions. I'll explain the problems, of course. TIA, Rich -- Dr. Rich

Re: Graphics: jpicedt -- SOLVED

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Rich Shepard wrote: Not too long ago, someone here recommended jpicedt to make it easier to work with PSTricks. The application is not properly installing for me (Slackware-10.2) and I would appreciate an off-the-list response if anyone has suggestions. I'll explai

Re: Where can I see what lyx is doing in the background when generating a preview?

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Sanders, Maarten (M.J.L.) wrote: Where can I see what lyx is doing in the background when generating a preview? Maarten, Take a look in /tmp/lyx_tmpdirectory*/lyx_tmpbuf0/ and you'll find all the files, including the .log file. Rich -- Dr. Richard B. Shepard, Presiden

Re: Chapter with numbering but without word "chapter" - more questions...

On Sat, 29 Oct 2005, Steve Litt wrote: Where does one get "The LaTeX Companion 2nd edition"? http://www.amazon.com, http://www.powells.com, and others. It's a great resource, Steve. I ended up reading it cover to cover just because it was so interesting and answered so many questions.

Re: add index with its page number to table of contents

On Sat, 5 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I am using a "book" class. I have a tableofcontents and I have a printindex{} at end. How can I get my generated books' table of contents to also have an entry that says: Index with the correct page number? Jeremy, Mine does this automagically. H

Re: Tables

On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Note that you can declare a single cell to be "multicolumn" if you want it to have unique borders. Also, if you want the column to have entries left justified, but the column header to be centered, you need to declare that column header cell 'multicol

Re: subtitle for book?

On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: It uses same font size though which I also don't want. Jeremy, Highlight the sub-title using the pointy device or the arrow keys, then select Layout->Character and make the font size small, smaller, or smallest. This is what I do on my beamer pr

Re: LyX and "listings": code is double-spaced when I use copy/paste?

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Joerg Hau wrote: If I take the same code and copy/paste it in a piece of ERT containing the \begin{lstlisting}...\end{lstlisting} "brackets", the whole code is displayed double-spaced. Example below. Oops?! Anyone knows how to work around this problem? Joerg, Yup. It a

Re: Index Tips & Tricks in LyX.

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, John C. McCabe-Dansted wrote: a) I have in my book: Otto von Bismark-Schonhausen I put the cursor at the end of this name, click on Insert > Index Entry and get a dialog box with the word Schonhausen, then I must add the rest of name without any misspelling each time

Re: Just an idea - would like to hear your opinion

On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Nusret BALCI wrote: I've seen the flash demo on their website: what's kdissert about? Is it just to draw charts like that? Probably it has other uses, right? Thanks. Nusret, "Mind mapping" is a tool for people who were never taught to organize their thoughts and ideas in

Re: Forget Windows

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Helge Hafting wrote: Evereybody except me get sub-second startup times? That is good, lyx is probably ok with me making a mistake then. It'd sure be interesting if anyone have an idea what I do wrong. Helge, If I've not invoked LyX before, then it takes about 1-2 seconds

Re: Forget Windows

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a minor tip, try this: time lyx -x 'command-sequence lyx-quit;' Christian, How kewel! I've not had LyX running today, so I gave the above three tries in succession: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ time lyx -x 'command-sequence lyx-quit;' re

Re: Forget Windows

On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Helge Hafting wrote: Impressive timings. Your first start is faster than my cached startups. My lyx-1.3 starts in 0.7s, my lyx-1.4 in 3.5s when in cache. Which version of lyx is this, and does it use xforms or qt? Helge, 1.3.6qt. On Slack-10.2. A moderately fast machine

Re: Back in the list, going soon to press

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: After a vacation and hiatus I am back on the list. The book project that I have been working on (forever, it seems) will soon go to the printer. Today I got back the following comments after they looked at a small sample of our LyX file (the publisher's

Re: What do you guys prefer

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, John O'Gorman wrote: Which you guys think is better, ragged right or justified right? It's a book of short stories. I think that justified right creates the appearance of professionalism. Studies have shown that it is a little easier to read ragged right. It is a book of

[SOT] Using a Template Programmatically

This is a LaTeX question rather than a LyX question, so I hope that you indulge my posting here first. I created a LaTeX document to be used as the basis for printing Optical Mark Readable (OMR) forms. The content of each form will change from one use to the next. That is, the number of lines

Re: [SOT] Using a Template Programmatically -- RESOLVED

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Rich Shepard wrote: I created a LaTeX document to be used as the basis for printing Optical Mark Readable (OMR) forms. The content of each form will change from one use to the next. That is, the number of lines may vary, and the contents of each string certainly will. The

Re: [SOT] Using a Template Programmatically

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Herbert Voss wrote: For a complicated appointment calendar for about 500 people I create with a Perl script the latex file (the data is from a mysql data base), then run from within Perl pdflatex on the script. The generated pdf is sent via email to the user. Herbert, T

Shifting Text Area in a Single Command

I have a narrow form (textwidth = 72.5mm) that is to be on a page no wider than 82.5mm. I lose part of the available width because of the laser printer's non-printing area along the left margin of the paper. Is there a single LaTeX (or TeX) command that can shift everything to the right by a

Re: Shifting Text Area in a Single Command

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Helge Hafting wrote: If you want to shift everything to the right - why not simply increase the left margin and decrease the right margin? That is the usual way of moving the text area. Helge, I wasn't sure what would happen if I increased the page width, but after thin

Hollow Box Similar to \rule?

Happy New Year, folks: On my OMR form the marking boxes need to be a specific size (3.0mm wide x 2.54mm high). My research in Guide to LaTeX taught me how to use a \rule box as a strobe mark, but that's filled by default and I cannot find an equivalent command to create an empty box of specifie

Re: Hollow Box Similar to \rule?

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Kevin, \begin{picture}(72,72)(0,0) \put(36,36){\framebox(72,72)][0]{}} \end{picture} This might get you started (not sure if it's the best solution, though as I've never used such a thing). Look at "\framebox" and the picture env. for more info. I

Help Needed with Multido{}

I'm caught in an infinite loop here. Kevin was very helpful in suggesting that I use \framebox rather than \makebox; that gives me a rectangular, empty box (as long as there's no text to frame). Now I have three issues that I've not been able to resolve. I hope someone here can help me. 1.) T

Re: Hollow Box Similar to \rule?

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Kevin Pfeiffer writes: Look at "\framebox" and the picture env. for more info. The attached LyX file is my meagre attempt to offer a better example. Kevin, Thanks for your efforts. If you look at the .tex file I attached to my post you'll see tha

Re: Help Needed with Multido{}

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: 1.) The \multido{} loop in lines 69-71 does not produce the desired results. I want each framebox in line 71 to be 3mm wide, but if I reduce the width from 7mm, the lines are combined; that is, the even numbered line is next to the odd nunber line. I

Re: Hollow Box Similar to \rule?

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Have you looked at \multiput? http://www-h.eng.cam.ac.uk/help/tpl/textprocessing/teTeX/latex/latex2e-html/ltx-269.html Kevin, I will take a look at it. ... but perhaps since you are working on something specialized you should purchase one or two L

Re: Help Needed with Multido{}

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Herbert Voss wrote: insert an explicit line end. Herbert, Sonofagun. I've not seen a \newline before in my documents or the examples folks have used here on the mail list. I've seen a double backslash and a space followed by a %, but not the \newline. I tried variations

Re: Help Needed with Multido{}

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Herbert Voss wrote: insert an explicit line end. %% Make nR rows of scoring boxes for answers \multido{\nRow=1+1}{\nR}{% {\strobe}\hspace{3mm}\makebox[0.3\omrx]{\nRow}% \multido{}{10}{\hspace{2mm} \framebox[3.55mm]{}}\newline} Herbert, I have read everything I c

Re: Hollow Box Similar to \rule?

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Herbert Voss wrote: for PSTricks it is \rput or one of the other label macros, but not \put Herbert, Thanks for the reminder. It's been a while. But, ... I think that's what I need for this OMR form. Plain ol' LaTeX took me 98% of the way, but fine tuning positioning is

Re: Hollow Box Similar to \rule?

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Herbert Voss wrote: you need only the right tool :-) Well, Herbert, that's what I've been trying to learn on my own. attched an example which creates the table dynymical. You can modify this macro for your purpose. With a tabular you'll get always correct horizontal and

Re: Hollow Box Similar to \rule?

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Herbert Voss wrote: this depends strongly on your problem. But you should always first trying to realize it with a tabular. It is a powerful environment, but needs some time to understand. Herbert, Yes, it does. Time to re-read the books I have so I can become more comfo

Re: Help Needed with Multido{}

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: I have read everything I can find on \framebox and \vspace, and I have tried putting a negative \vspace at different positions in the last line above. Well, I just re-discovered that the proper command is \raisebox to adjust the vertical position of

Re: copying and pasting a LyX environment? (like Word's Format Painter)

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: I just had to change several subsections to subsubsections. There were not enough of these to bother switching to search-and-replace in my text editor, but enough to make the process in LyX tedious. While doing this it occurred to me that the MS Word For

Incomplete Document Opening

Perhaps it's too early here, and the caffine has not reached full titer in my NPU, but I cannot find why only part of a document displays. This is lyx-1.3.6 on linux. Yesterday I started a report and quite for the evening after entering a new section head. This morning, I fire up LyX and load

Re: Incomplete Document Opening

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Rich Shepard wrote: Yesterday I started a report and quite for the evening after entering a new section head. This morning, I fire up LyX and load the document and only the first 255 (of 344 total) lines display. The titlehead image is also messed up (that is, there

Re: Incomplete Document Opening

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: If you can send me the file (or post it to the list), I'll see if I can reproduce your errors. Anders, Here it is. I've not before encountered this behavior so I'm really puzzled. BTW, I've lots of time; these comments are not due until February. T

Re: Incomplete Document Opening

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: If you can send me the file (or post it to the list), I'll see if I can reproduce your errors. Anders/Paul, Now it's working here, too. I suspect there was some process running in the background that stopped LyX from fully loading the file for displ

Re: Incomplete Document Opening

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Anders Ekberg wrote: Works fine for me too (on both 1.3.6 and 1.4pre3 on Mac). I send you pdf-output privately along with a newly saved file (in case something is still messed up with the original. In case the problem persists, a possibility could be to do some resets (recon

Re: spacing after ellipsis, Q & A!

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Martin Geisler wrote: Then I ran texhash (all of this as root), reconfigured and restarted LyX, and added "\usepackage{ellipsis}" to the doc preamble. So I always install such new packages there and thus avoid becoming root. On my own machine this doesn't make such a big

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