Re: ot: converting minutes in hour-decimals

2020-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: yes, thats clear, but how to do that one >>> You can use python for this on the command line. The aim is, to produce a second column with the hours-minutes in decimals, something like $1/60. Wolfgang, Oh. I'd use awk; a one-line script. Off the

Beamer presentation PDF resolution

2020-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
I've used LyX (and LaTeX before this) for a very long time to prepare the slides (visuals) for presentations. They're always produced in a 4:3 resolution ratio and that's how both xpdf and mupdf display them. This works fine for in-person presentations projected on a screen by an lcd projector. H

Re: ot: converting minutes in hour-decimals

2020-06-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: off topic: How could I convert minutes in hour-decimals in a column such as 00:01 00:04 00:07 00:11 00:12 00:13 00:13 00:18 00:19 00:21 00:23 00:32 00:32 and more so that e.g. 00:30 becomes 00.50 h either by a unix terminal command or by gnup

Re: Same figure entered twice [FIXED]

2020-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 17 Jun 2020, Daniel wrote: Looks like the snipped is not well-formed lyx code (e.g. has a stray \begin_layout tag). Can you reproduce a minimal example as a lyx-file? Daniel, I discovered out how I entered the same figure twice: I had entered it last week when I wrote the document. Th

Same figure entered twice

2020-06-16 Thread Rich Shepard
I've no idea how I managed to enter the same figure twice, but I did. LyX finds the same place when I search for both Figure 1 and Figure 2 using the Navigate -> Figures menu. Looking at the .lyx file in emacs I think the following encompasses both instances: \begin_layout Standard The entity-r

Re: Beamer class: question and comment

2020-05-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 16 May 2020, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Re your question, I believe all you need to do is click File > Save As, click the "Templates" button in the dialog to steer you to your templates directory, and finish the save operation (giving it a suitable name). Paul, Ah, I missed that. Re your

Beamer class: question and comment

2020-05-16 Thread Rich Shepard
I hope you're all healthy, productive, and safe and you stay this way. Question: After years of beamer presentations with different looks I've decided on one that I'll use for all future presentations. How do I save this format and structure (stripped of presentation-specific content) as a defau

Re: Beamer document: Undefined control sequence [FIXED]

2020-04-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 10 Apr 2020, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I think you have a typo in the last line of your preamble, in the argument to \logo (should be \pdfuseimage rather than \pfuseimage)? Paul, Oops! That did sneak in somehow. Correcting the typo didn't fix the problem, but I'm not using a logo in this w

Beamer document: Undefined control sequence

2020-04-10 Thread Rich Shepard
efault \tracking_changes false \output_changes false \html_math_output 0 \html_css_as_file 0 \html_be_strict false \end_header \begin_body \begin_layout Title Title \end_layout \begin_layout Subtitle Subtitle \end_layout \begin_layout Author \size small \begin_inset Argument 1 status colla

Re: old font command `\it'

2020-03-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I am getting this error. ! Class scrbook Error: undefined old font command `\it'. I use KOMA-script book. What is wrong? Wolfgang, That style specification has been deprecated. I encountered this issue a few months ago with the bibtex style au

Re: Bibliography missing publication date. [FIXED]

2020-03-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: This may be a glitch in the JabRef 5.x snapshots. I don't recall which of the 28597 entries in the bibliographic database I've entered most recently, but they might also be lacking the year field. I'll ask on the JabRef dev mail list i

Re: Bibliography missing publication date. [FIXED]

2020-03-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I'm used to the date being the "year" field ("year = {1986}"). Is it literally "date" in your .bib file and, if so, just for that one reference or for all of them? Paul, The direct answer to your questrion is both yes and no. For some reason that ent

Bibliography missing publication date.

2020-03-10 Thread Rich Shepard
The bibtex source includes date = {1986}. The citation is (Cronshey et al. 1986), but the reference is, Cronshey, R., McCuen, R.H., Miller, N., Rawls, W., Robbins, S., & Woodward, D. Urban Hydrology for Small Watersheds. Tech. rept. TR-55. Natural Resources Conservation Service. No date. Is this

Re: Bibliographic citation not allowing formatting [FIXED]

2020-03-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: Prior lyx versions would show a selection of citation formats; e.g., (Author date), (Author, date), Author (date). They ain't available to me now and I don't know what I did to lose them. Same thing when the biblio style is authordate3 which

Re: Bibliographic citation not allowing formatting

2020-03-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, Kornel Benko wrote: What about Document->Settings...->Bibliography->Style format: ATM you have selected 'Basic (BibTeX)', try for instance Biblatex. Kornel, That setting needed to be changed. It's now Citation Style Format Natbib (Bibtex) Author-Year, Bibliography

Re: Bibliographic citation not allowing formatting

2020-03-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Mar 2020, Kornel Benko wrote: What about Document->Settings...->Bibliography->Style format: Kornel, Doesn't matter if that, and the bibliography setting, are both APA or authordate3, the only formatting styles remain the three I included in my message. ATM you have select

Bibliographic citation not allowing formatting

2020-03-10 Thread Rich Shepard
Running lyx-2.3.4.3-x86_64 on Slackware-14.2/x86_64. I inserted the bibtex bibliography at the end of the document and a citation from JabRef-5.1.dev. The bibliography style is APA, but when I try to format the appearance of the citation in the text I am allowed only [#ID], Add to biblography onl

Re: PDF output wrong size

2020-03-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, Les wrote: Actually, /setstocksize alone does the trick. Les, I use the KOMA-Script classes, not memoir, but I offer information related to PDF page size that applies to existing PDF files, not generated ones in LyX. There's a tool called pdfjam that allows a pdf document

Re: [ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.3.4.2 'Emergency' Release

2020-02-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 12 Feb 2020, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: This is an emergency release that fixes four bugs in 2.3.4. Only the first two really warrant an emergency release, but while we're at it... Riki, My thanks to you and all the development team for being so responsive and effective. All us uses

Re: KOMA-Script letter 2 for invoices

2020-02-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 1 Feb 2020, Jean-Marie Pacquet wrote: I need to upgrade my Lyx version (which is 2.2.3) to be able to use your files (2.3). I'll be back to you to-morrow. It's compiling... Jean-Marie, Thank you. There's no rush and I do want to learn how to use the lco files with KOMAScript. Regard

Re: KOMA-Script letter 2 for invoices

2020-02-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 1 Feb 2020, Rich Shepard wrote: I just updated the scrguien PDF to the 2019-10-10 version and will read Section 4.21. I may be back with specific questions for you. Jean-Marie, I've read Section 4.21 of the latest KOMA-Script manual and I'm still lost. I understand the ov

Re: KOMA-Script letter 2 for invoices

2020-02-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 1 Feb 2020, Jean-Marie Pacquet wrote: Do you have a lco (letter class option) file? If yes, you can append any text you want after the logo in a minitable. Jean-Marie, This struck a memory chord so I went looking. I have a DINrich.lco (and a DINrich.lyx) which I think you provided 6.5

KOMA-Script letter 2 for invoices

2020-01-31 Thread Rich Shepard
I use the KOMA-Script letter 2 for my client invoices. I want to add the EIN (Employer Indentification Number; the business equivalent of a Social Security Number for people). I've not found an environment that allows me to put the EIN between the logo and the date, on the right side of the text a

Re: LyX 2.3.4 is Released

2020-01-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 31 Jan 2020, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.4. This is the fourth maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. My thanks to all you devs for your work. Carpe weekend, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org

Re: Table and longtable: alternate color rows [RESOLVED]

2019-12-12 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: I removed all lines in the preamble associated with non-longtables but it still has alternate color rows. I removed the alternate row coloring which I thought would make the long table more readable because it's too difficult to get it right.

Re: Table and longtable: alternate color rows

2019-12-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: The floating table above has the header line (with wrapped cells) as two lines, grey and white and with a separator line. There are no separator lines above and below the 2-line column header row. I removed all lines in the preamble associated with non

Re: Wrap contents in all cells in a column [mwe]

2019-12-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Thank you. I'll diff the files and learn how to avoid this issue in the future. Ah, yes! It was the rotation that should not have been there. Apparently I was insufficiently caffinated yesterday afternoon. Thanks, Rich -- lyx-users mailing lis

Re: Wrap contents in all cells in a column [mwe]

2019-12-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, Baris Erkus wrote: See attached. Baris, Thank you. I'll diff the files and learn how to avoid this issue in the future. Regards, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Wrap contents in all cells in a column

2019-12-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Dec 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: I've a table with 5 columns and 84 rows (multipgag/long table). The second column holds site descriptions which can be wordy so the table extends well past the right margin of the paper when compiled. I set individual column widths so the total

Re: Wrap contents in all cells in a column

2019-12-10 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 10 Dec 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: I've a table with 5 columns and 84 rows (multipgag/long table). The second column holds site descriptions which can be wordy so the table extends well past the right margin of the paper when compiled. Second question: When I compile the document

Wrap contents in all cells in a column

2019-12-10 Thread Rich Shepard
I've a table with 5 columns and 84 rows (multipgag/long table). The second column holds site descriptions which can be wordy so the table extends well past the right margin of the paper when compiled. The Tables chapter of the embedded objects document, subsection 2.8.1, says setting the column w

Re: LyX not compiling any more for Beamer and modernCV classes (missing beginDocument, missing Glyphs)

2019-11-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, Daniel Gómez Martínez wrote: Also, I can compile regular .tex files for moderncv class with latex and pdflatex commands (I mean, using regular TeX code instead of using LyX). Daniel, I'm not familiar with Debian TeXLive packaging. If you see any irregularity please let

Re: Section fonts-there must be an easier way

2019-11-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 25 Nov 2019, John White wrote: I am doing a koma document with sections. The section font is too large. So I go to each section manually, highlight it and change font from larger to large. And if there are subsections, they are now same size as sections, so I have to manually reduce font

Re: LyX not compiling any more for Beamer and modernCV classes (missing beginDocument, missing Glyphs)

2019-11-25 Thread Rich Shepard
Am Montag, den 25.11.2019, 11:22 -0500 schrieb Daniel Gómez Martínez: Some time ago I made some presentations with Beamer and my CV with modercv class in LyX. LyX used to work just fine with those classes (although I think those were working with LyX 2.3.2), but suddenly, things stopped working.

Re: Bibliography includes document type

2019-11-02 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 2 Nov 2019, Kornel Benko wrote: Checking TL19 I found some .bst files containing this string. ./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/uestcthesis/uestcthesis.bst:1687:{ "Tech. rept." } % ODWE abbrevs. ./texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/seuthesis/seuthesis.bst:1685:{ "

Re: Fwd: Re: URL inserts that overfill lines

2019-11-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, Michael Berger wrote: Would this perhaps help as it does in my linguistic and other documents? %instruction to LATEX not to run lines into the margins %Thanks to Jürgen Spitzmüller for this piece of fine advice \tolerance 1414 \hbadness 1414 \emergencystretch 1.5em \hfuzz

Re: URL inserts that overfill lines

2019-11-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, Paul A. Rubin wrote: I don't recall URLs ever wrapping automatically. In the past, I would add hyphens at places where I wanted the URL to wrap, which is a bit clunky (since a change in preceding text can change where the wrap needs to happen). You might check out the xurl La

Bibliography includes document type

2019-11-01 Thread Rich Shepard
This is a new issue with kbibtex. Technical report reference in the bibliography include the document type, Tech. rept., even though that's not in the bibtex source in the kbibtex database. Three examples of the output and their source listings (minus the abstracts): Brinson, M.M. 1993. A hydroge

Re: bibtex formatting

2019-11-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, Baris Erkus wrote: How  does it appear on the generated PDF file? Baris, As (wet) rather than as (WET). LyX has its own formatting of references, which is most of the time NOT same as the bibtex format you are using. I hadn't encountered this issue (and another I need

URL inserts that overfill lines

2019-10-31 Thread Rich Shepard
I had the impression that inserted URLs automatically wrapped when they extended past the text width. In a current document they don't wrap. My solution was to put the URLs in footnotes rather than in parentheses after the organization name. Is there a way to properly wrap a URL inserted with th

bibtex formatting

2019-10-31 Thread Rich Shepard
I have a reference titled, Wetland Evaluation Technique (WET) and it's entered in kbibtex with the abbreviation writte this way: ({WET}). But, when entered in a LyX document the bibliography shows the abbreviation as (wet). I thought the braces specified 'keep the text exactly as written' so I mu

Re: "Undefined font command \sc"

2019-10-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The authordate4.bst file seems to be the source of the \sc commands. I just grepped my copy, and I find \sc in three different places, including author and editor names. It may just be out of date. Paul, Thanks! I didn't think to look there because th

Re: "Undefined font command \sc"

2019-10-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Could it be coming from the .bst file you are using? The author list in the error message looks like it is formatted for output. The "raw" author list (in the .bib entry you showed) is different. Paul, The .bst file is the same one I use for all docum

Re: "Undefined font command \sc"

2019-10-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: There is no '\sc' in the entry. The kbibtex file settings have Encoding set to UTF-8. I should have mentioned that lyx Document -> Settings -> Fonts -> Encoding is Default and the 'use real small caps' is unchecked. Rich

"Undefined font command \sc"

2019-10-29 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm stymied. A report that compiled before now throws an error when I try to preview it (using psdvi) or compile it (using pdflatex). The error is "Class scrreport Error: undefined old font command '\sc'" and it is found in a bibliographic reference: {\sc Adamus, P.R., Clairain, E.J.,

Compile warnings need removing

2019-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
After getting kbibtex working last week I thought all bibliographic entry errors were corrected. Apparently not the case. Different document, different citation. I get these warnings (from the log): Class scrreprt Warning: deprecated old font command `\bf' used. ... LaTeX Font Info:Font sha

Re: Reducing document figures size

2019-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Cris Fuhrman wrote: GhostScript has lots of features. There are some hints at this GIST: https://gist.github.com/firstdoit/6390547 Thanks, Chris. Over the past couple of decades I've used gs primarily to convert .ps to .pdf (or the reverse) and have never dug deeply into a

Reducing document figures size

2019-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard
I have a 37-page report and the pdf size is 7.3M because it includes 34 figures. Some of these figures are digital photographs (720x480dpi, .png), some are spatial maps produced by GRASS (.pdf), and some are lattice plots produced by R (large amounts of data display slowly, .pdf). Is there a form

Re: Convert float figure to float table?

2019-09-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 28 Sep 2019, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Right-click the float's "handle", click Settings..., and change the float type in the first setting. Then buy your spelling checker an extra large (regular) coffee, since it was apparently too sleepy to catch "cafinated". ;-) Paul, Missed both. Th

Re: Multi-page table displays incorrectly [RESOLVED]

2019-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 25 Sep 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: The attached mwe.lyx has a longtable. Aside from my problems getting a caption on it, when I look at the dvips preview I see that the second row (bluegill) is now the top row on the following page. WTF? How did it move from row 2 to row 15? Sigh. I

Re: Multipage table: No caption on Insert menu [RESOLVED]

2019-09-27 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 25 Sep 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: The current document has one multipage table and I've just added a second one, including an additional row on the top for the caption. Resolved. I finally noticed the Captions row at the bottom of the list of checkboxes. Rich

Convert float figure to float table?

2019-09-26 Thread Rich Shepard
I goofed and put a table in a figure float. Can I directly convert it? If not I'll cut-and-past the table elsewhere, create a table float and put it in there. Must not have been sufficiently cafinated when I did this. TIA, Rich

Multi-page table displays incorrectly

2019-09-26 Thread Rich Shepard
The attached mwe.lyx has a longtable. Aside from my problems getting a caption on it, when I look at the dvips preview I see that the second row (bluegill) is now the top row on the following page. WTF? How did it move from row 2 to row 15? Sigh. Your thoughts needed, Rich#LyX 2.3 created this f

Multipage table: No caption on Insert menu

2019-09-26 Thread Rich Shepard
The current document has one multipage table and I've just added a second one, including an additional row on the top for the caption. Right-click on a table cell brought up the table menu and I selected Settings -> Multipage table. Turned on heading, too. With the cursor in top row I look in th

Re: Add caption to unfloated figure

2019-09-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Longtable has its own caption support. It's possible there is some graphics package that does so, as well. Riki, I had assumed that because longtable can have captions so could graphics. Now I know that's not so. Of course, not all figures req

Re: Add caption to unfloated figure

2019-09-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: Just to add a minor bit of additional clarification: Captions belong to floats, not to images; so you need a non-floating float if you want a caption, as JMarc said. Riki, That's the conclusion I reached when I found no way to add a caption to

Re: Add caption to unfloated figure

2019-09-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: You can specify individually "Here" for each figure that should not float. JMarc, Thank you. I thought this is the solution. Regards, Rich

Add caption to unfloated figure

2019-09-23 Thread Rich Shepard
When I use Insert -> Caption with the cursor immediately before and immediately after the figure lyx tells me is's 'senseless.' None of the manuals seem to explain how to add a caption to a graphic image; makes me wonder why it's in the Insert menu. Is the only option to use Settings -> Floats an

"Unfloat" figures and captions

2019-09-23 Thread Rich Shepard
I've a series of nine figures in an appendix. Each is in a section as a floating figure. My mistake. The list of sections is printed after the appendix head, but the figures all follow rather than being in their section of the appendix/chapter. Is there a way to unfloat them other than deleting e

Re: pleading paper part 2

2019-09-16 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 15 Sep 2019, John White wrote: Most apologies if this appears in the list twice. I keep forgetting my proper login. John, Both work. Looks like you can successfully use either domain. Regards, Rich

Re: Multi-page table

2019-09-04 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019, Shay Riggs wrote: I took a quick look at this. It seems to work fine as long as it’s not in a float (which I guess kind of makes sense now I think about it…). Shay, Well, that certainly makes sense. I hadn't considered that as my focus was on the document itself. Perhaps t

Multi-page table

2019-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
The table has 84 rows and needs to be handled by longtable. Right clicking on the header row and selecting Settings -> Multipage tab I set multipage 'on' and set the selected (header) row to be the header row on all pages. Looking at both the dvips preview and the pdflatex .pdf file the table run

Re: Deleting labels [FIXED]

2019-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Somehow I've managed to enter duplicate figure and table labels. I've not found how I can delete the *-1 and use the first label. I didn't see how to edit labels in the manuals or in web search results. A clue stick to how to edit the li

Deleting labels

2019-09-03 Thread Rich Shepard
Somehow I've managed to enter duplicate figure and table labels. I've not found how I can delete the *-1 and use the first label. I didn't see how to edit labels in the manuals or in web search results. A clue stick to how to edit the list of lables is needed. Regards, Rich

Re: KOMA-Script report: old font issue with bibtex

2019-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thursday, August 29, 2019 5:44:13 AM PDT Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Ok, thanks, please don't ask questions then, for which you don't like the answers. el, You answered my question days ago: select a different style or modify a .bst file. I chose a different style. Rich

Re: KOMA-Script report: old font issue with bibtex

2019-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 29 Aug 2019, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: you really seem to not be getting it. Eberhard, We'll agree to disagree. I fully understand what you've written and have neither need nor desire to futz any more with reference styles. Documents I prepare are for clients, regulatory agencies, or

Re: KOMA-Script report: old font issue with bibtex

2019-08-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 28 Aug 2019, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Switching style will often solve issues, fixing the BST file will definitively. El, There are multiple styles that present the references by author/date. The differences appear to be the fonts used for author names, titles, and volumes. So finding

Re: Background doesn't work.

2019-08-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, John White wrote: I could have sworn I sent something like this to the lyx users list yesterday, but don't see it in my "sent" file. So here goes, possibly again. John, Please start a new thread with a new topic rather than responding to an existing thread. I have the f

Re: KOMA-Script report: old font issue with bibtex

2019-08-25 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: You don't need to change the reference format. El, Actually, I do; at least the style as used by the LyX bibliography. Reading the .bst files I saw that the authordate[1-4] follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 13th Ed. (I have the 15th edition whic

Re: KOMA-Script report: old font issue with bibtex

2019-08-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 25 Aug 2019, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: shows FUNCTION {emphasize} { duplicate$ empty$ { pop$ "" } { "{\em " swap$ * "}" * } if$ } so if you replace that with FUNCTION {emphasize} { duplicate$ empty$

Re: KOMA-Script report: old font issue with bibtex

2019-08-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 24 Aug 2019, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: Don't look in the LyX source. send me the BST file that is being used, the dabatase for the ciation and the STY file, together with the MWE. el, There is no BST file in that directory, only the .lyx file. One of the JabRef devs responded to my po

Re: KOMA-Script report: old font issue with bibtex

2019-08-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Johannes Böttcher wrote: KOMA-Script got rid of the old font commands. Use the document option "enabledeprecatedfontcommands" (from memory) Johannes, I had that as a class type option, but it broke other things. Because this appeared only after I added a citation/referenc

Re: KOMA-Script report: old font issue with bibtex

2019-08-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: It's either LaTeX or JabRef changing how it presents the bibtex entry to lyx. This is most likely a JabRef issue so I've posted a question on their web forum about this and other changes. Regards, Rich

Re: KOMA-Script report: old font issue with bibtex

2019-08-23 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 23 Aug 2019, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: It's a LaTeX one, or rather a BST one and you need to look at the BST what it shows there. Eberhard, It's either LaTeX or JabRef changing how it presents the bibtex entry to lyx. Look for something like (from another style): FUNCTION {emphasize

KOMA-Script report: old font issue with bibtex

2019-08-22 Thread Rich Shepard
Strange situation here and I do not see where to fix it. I use JabRef-4.3.1 for my references. I've created a new KOMA-Script report and used the JabRef -> LyX icon to insert a reference and bibliography reference. As a test I tried to preview the document only to have lyx tell me there are depre

Re: Preview hogging CPU cycles

2019-08-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: LyX spawns these processes in the background, so it's possible that one of them gets hung, and we'd never know it. Riki, Good to know. When I see a process consuming all CPU cycles and lyx is not open I'll know the reason. Note that this is

Re: Preview hogging CPU cycles

2019-08-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: I see this on occasion on the mac as well. No drama, just kill it and move on :-)-O el, That's what I did, but have not before seen this happen. Regards, Rich

Preview hogging CPU cycles

2019-08-21 Thread Rich Shepard
I noticed on gkrellm that CPU usage was very high so I checked top. Found that 28269 tty1 R375:58 latex lyxpreviewg26676.tex was consuming 100% of CPU cycles and running continuously for more than 6.25 hours. (Should have done something about it sooner.) There was no LyX, dvips, or other

Re: KOMA-Script Report: titlehead and title on two pages [FIXED]

2019-08-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Paul A. Rubin wrote: The "Default margins" setting means use /class/ defaults, not paper size defaults. The user guide claims that KOMA Script formats will calculate margins based on paper size, but if that is happening (iffy) it is not proving helpful. I manually put 1" mar

Re: Startup failure: cannot run script or convert UI file format

2019-08-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: There's no such system-wide file. It's your file that's being used. LyX only stores the filename, and searches both the user- and system-directories for it. Riki, I've it all figured out now. The UI file used on the 32-bit host (the soon-to-be

Startup failure: cannot run script or convert UI file format

2019-08-20 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm migrating to a new server/workstation and now I FUBAR'd lyx so it does not load. While looking in preferences to see if I could set the default window size there (for a 1250x1024 dpi monitor) I did not find an appropriate setting. But I did see that the UI file was a system-wide one rather th

Re: KOMA-Script Report: titlehead and title on two pages

2019-08-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Now I do: mwe.lyx is a KOMA-script report and mwe2.lyx is a KOMA-Script article. But, I've used the report layout with the letterhead in the past and it's worked. Partially fixed: I changed the page layout to US letter and set margins

Re: KOMA-Script Report: titlehead and title on two pages

2019-08-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: I don't see how the two .lyx files differ so the first doesn't appear like the second. Now I do: mwe.lyx is a KOMA-script report and mwe2.lyx is a KOMA-Script article. But, I've used the report layout with the letterhead in the past

Re: KOMA-Script Report: titlehead and title on two pages

2019-08-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: I've shrunk the size (x,y) to bottom: 85,15 top:525,145 and this eliminates all surrounding white space. The compiled mwe.pdf is attached. Attached is another example, mwe2.lyx and mwe3.pdf. Same letterhead PDF with default coordinate setting

Re: KOMA-Script Report: titlehead and title on two pages

2019-08-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Reading the KOMA doc scrguiden.pdf might give some answers. Okay. Guenter, I read sections found searching for 'titlehead' and saw nothing of use. I must have missed what you found. Experimenting with the size (especially hight) of the

Re: KOMA-Script Report: titlehead and title on two pages

2019-08-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Guenter Milde wrote: Reading the KOMA doc scrguiden.pdf might give some answers. Guenter, Okay. Experimenting with the size (especially hight) of the letterhead, too. I shortened the width (removing the white space on the left edge) and the image would not display at

Re: KOMA-Script Report: titlehead and title on two pages

2019-08-19 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: and data on page 2, and the introduction on page 3. ^ e That should be date, not data. Rich

Re: Renumbering a page FUBARs all page numbers [RESOLVED]

2019-07-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Still need to figure out where to put the \setcounter{page}{nn} so the ToC is correct. Found the solution. Originally, I put the ERT in front of the chapter title. Putting it on a new line after the chapter title results in correct page numbering in the

Re: Renumbering a page FUBARs all page numbers

2019-07-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: After adding \setnumber{page}{nn} in front of two Appendices/Chapters to leave room for added PDF docs the pdflatex ToC pages started with 141 rather than 1. After removing those two ERT commands pagination now begins at 7. Oh, duh! That's becaus

Renumbering a page FUBARs all page numbers

2019-07-01 Thread Rich Shepard
After adding \setnumber{page}{nn} in front of two Appendices/Chapters to leave room for added PDF docs the pdflatex ToC pages started with 141 rather than 1. After removing those two ERT commands pagination now begins at 7. Where should I look to figure out why these two unexpected results occur

Re: Set new page numbers for ToC

2019-07-01 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 1 Jul 2019, Axel Dessecker wrote: You may insert a specific page number on any page by using \setcounter{page} {XXX} as ERT. Axel, Thank you. I was about to respond with this solution myself as I found the answer in The LaTeX Companion. Regards, Rich

Set new page numbers for ToC

2019-07-01 Thread Rich Shepard
The report I'm preparing has several multipage appendices. Rather than bursting the PDFs into single pages and inserting then sequentially as graphic inserts I want to insert them as separate documents into the final document using pdftk. The ToC should have the correct page number for each append

Re: List of Tables: no chapter numbers [RESOLVED]

2019-06-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: The last one is in an appendix, not the main body; I'll look to learn how to take that out of the List of Tables. My web search finds many descriptions on how to add LoF and LoT to the ToC, but none on how to keep figures and tables in appendice

Re: List of Tables: no chapter numbers [RESOLVED]

2019-06-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Paul A. Rubin wrote: Try changing \renewcommand{\thetable}{\arabic{table}} in the preamble to \renewcommand{\thetable}{\arabic{chapter}.\arabic{table}}. (I'm not sure why you need to specify arabic here, but I'm going with the flow.) Paul, I, too, don't know why arabic is

Re: List of Tables: no chapter numbers

2019-06-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: How interesting. It does so here; I checked before sending the original message. The mwe.pdf is attached. Perhaps I'm asking the wrong question. Figures are numbered sequentially in the document, regardless of in which chapter they are locate

Re: List of Tables: no chapter numbers

2019-06-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Kornel Benko wrote: Your mwe.lyx does _not_ create the provided pdf. With other words, it is not a mwe for your case. Kornel, How interesting. It does so here; I checked before sending the original message. The mwe.pdf is attached. Rich mwe.pdf Description: Adobe PDF do

Re: List of Tables: no chapter numbers

2019-06-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: MEW attached. Oops! No cat attached, only an MWE. Carpe weekend, Rich

List of Tables: no chapter numbers

2019-06-28 Thread Rich Shepard
MEW attached. The full document has several tables in several chapters, yet the List of Tables displays only the table number within each chapter rather than chapter_number-table_number. The attached page shows this; the mwe compiles with pdflatex to show the table as 1 rather than 1.1. I've not

Change cursor color or size

2019-06-26 Thread Rich Shepard
The Tools -> Preferences -> Look & Feel -> Colors menu has a long list of document entry types and the color associated with each. Is there a place where I can change the color of the 'I' cursor from black to red to make it easier to find in the application frame? TIA, Rich

Re: PDF images in appendices [RESOLVED]

2019-06-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Two possible solutions occur to me: 1) Insert a new page between the chapter heading page and the PDF image. I chose this approach. Rich

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