When I try to produce a PDF output document I get an instant error, which
reads
An error occurred while running:
java -jar htmltolatex.jar -input "openquestions_v1.html" -output
"openquestions_v1.tex"
Grateful for pointers.
I've a fresh installation of 2.0.0 on Linux Mint 11 Katya. I've been
Success!
I am proudly holding my just-published 200 page book -an Italian manual on
how to set up and run humanist funerals- which was typeset entirely in Lyx
and includes text, tables, photos, external files and even music scores.
Thanks to Lyx it looks very professional indeed. I am one happy b
Thanks for the pointer, Jurgen. I was using 1.6.4 and as a result of your
input, have today updated to 1.6.5. This has also solved a few other issues
I had with pdfpackages!
Richard
Thanks for your very clear explanation, Paul: it enabled me to understand
the problem- which was that I had underscores in the pdf filename. So when
lyx "mangled" the file name (as you put it), it then couldn't read the
mangled filename back because my underscores and the mangling underscores
confu
Using 1.6.5 on ubunto 9..10, and komascript book, I have some photographs
insert in floats. Each photograph has a caption. Sometimes the captions are
centred on the page, and sometimes they are left justified- and I can see no
difference whatsoever in the procedure I adopted (Insert float, + inser
Using pdfpages to put a pdf doc into my komabook book (lyx 1.6 on Ubuntu
9.10), instead of inserting the file I get a bizarre file not found error,
which states
' Error: pdfpackages error- can't find file
10_home_richard_Desktop_book2_form'
The file it should find, but obviously doesn't, is
/./ho
Hi,
I have written a paper using the IEEE template in lyx. It is now time to
submit that paper, IEEE wants either a latex, word, or rtf. When I export
the lyx file to plain latex, it does not produce usable output - part of the
paper is there, some of the figures are missing and the references sho
Thanks for this. By following your instructions I managed to a) see the pdf
in lyx on screen and b) generate a DVI file. But the place where the pdf
should be is empty. If however I c) try to generate a pdf from pdflatex, lyx
just goes into an endless loop, from which I can only exit by forcing a
I do > Insert External Files > PDF and select my pdf. I add the pages
options for all of the pages (there are 2). Lyx burbles a little, and then
spits the error message at me:
error converting to loadable format. The file was prepared by a friend on
Windows from a Sibelius music notation file.
I
If I set custom margins (in document settings), where are the margins
measured from? I thought from the edge of the paper as defined in document
setings, but this doesn't seem to be so. I'm using komascript book class.
Richard
Yesterday I made a new layout, called it poembook.layout and put it in
.lyx/layouts in my home directory. It worked splendidly. I had finally
solved my layout problems.
Today when I fired up the computer and loaded the lyx document, I get 'The
document class poembook can not be loaded.' It seems it
I have some TIFF files exported from Sibelius, the music scoring program.
They are just high-quality images of black and white music scores. I tried
converting them to jpg in GIMP for inclusion in my Lyx manuscript, but the
results were awful- or at least, they were awful in lyx. When I open the
co
This is a sily question, but my only excuse is I'm trying to understand.
Thanks for your patience, understanding and answers!
Up to now I've been inserting my photographs and other graphics in a float.
But what is the float actually for? Can I just insert the graphics files
directly via the Inser
Thanks for that Steve. I followed your tutorials, and learned a fair
amount: but in the end I found that the new environment I had made had
knock-on effects on the paragraphs surrounding those where I applied it-
effects I couldn't explain or remove. I hope there's a simpler way.
I'm using komascript book, which if I understand aright calls stdlayouts.inc
to get its basic parameters.
In one of the environments, (verse) i want a different vertical space
between every line of the poems. I think each poem line is defined as a
separate paragraph. So I decided to change parskip
I have I'm using Koma script book, and I need to adjust the captions for my
floats.
I'd like to have them without the prefix 'Figu. 1:' etc, just my caption and
no other text. So I put
\captionsetup[figure]{labelformat=empty}
in the preamble, following advice found on this list. The Fig. 1 di
I'm using Komsascript book, and have a fair amount of poetry in my
manuscript. But the VERSE environment is not very satisfactory: The main
problem is that there is too much space between one line and the next, and I
must absolutely adjust that. It would also be nice if I had greater
flexibility fo
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
>
>
> Are you using "two-sided", I have no problem in two-sided. Also
> Uppertitleback and Lowertitleback environments work in two-sided only.
>
> Waluyo
>
Yes, I am using two sided. It seems that Uppertitleback and Lowertitleback
can ea
Thanks; I tried that but it output only one line of many, hiding the rest
and still not printing on the blank page after the title page!
> in the KOMA script there are also the Uppertitleback and Lowertitleback
> environments. Maybe this is what you need?
>
> Nikos
>
>
Ehud Kaplan wrote:
> Document/Settings/text layout/Vertical space
Thanks for that; but I'm sorry I should have been clearer in my
question. I don't want to change the default settings for paragraph
spacing in the whole document. I just need to be able to say that
certain paragraphs will be nea
Uisng koma script book, and having on my title page only a title,
subject and authors, for some reason I get a white page after the title
page whereas I need to put the title verso there. I can't see any reason
why this is happening: what should I check?
TIA
Richard
I don't seem to be able to vary the distance between paragraphs. I'm
sure there must be a way. Grateful for pointers.
Richard
> You could use the exercise package:
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/exercise/
> It needs to be installed in your latex-distribution,
Thanks for this suggestion, which on paper looks to be what I need. But
as a complete newby I am stumped at how to install. I have no idea
I don't want my photographs to be prefaced with any text or numbers, but
only to have the captions I've inserted in each float. My doc is in Italian
So I tried
\usepackage{babel}
\addto\captionsitalian{
\renewcommand{\figurename}{}
}
\renewcommand{\thefigure}
This almost does the job: Fig
> (a thought strikes me: could these font errors pertain to some pdf
> files I include, which are musical scores made into a pdf by
> Sibelius?)
I'm replying to my own post: this was indeed the case. When I removed
the external materials, the problem went away and the printer's
objections disapp
I have to provide my ms as a pdf; I've read a lot on this list about vector
fonts etc, much of which I don't understand: but I trusted, and did it. In
documents >settings > fonts I changed the values from default to Latin
Modern Roman, Latin Modern Sans and Latin Modern Typewriter. The default
fami
How can a comparative newby adopt the EXERCISE format that Donald Knuth
uses in the TeXbook? (key issues: correct numbering of exercises by
chapter, and related answers written in the manuscript next to each
exercise but printed elsewhere in a separately placed key)
I've adopted komascript book fo
Hello.
In the embedded objects manual, and in other places in documentation, I
find it written that I can include files in my lyx document by using
Insert > File> External Material and then choosing a template.
But all of the documentation says that available templates are chess,
date, lilypond, r
I've found a number of posts that say the best way to insert a pdf file
is to use
Insert > File > External material
and choose the pdf template option.
However, when I do this I only get chess, lily pond and raster templates
offreed. I read somewhere that I need to update the includepdf package
> You will then get an image that works with DVI, PDF and PS.
> These alternatives handles images a little differently, and LyX knows
> that. But LyX doesn't help you with ERT stuff.
Thanks for that. I finally managed this afternoon to try, and it is
easier to manage, certainly: BUT the dvi file
I'm confused about the different ways to generate final copy.
Specifically, using the following Evil Red Text, after an includepackage
graphicx in the preamble,
\begin{figure}[h]
\includegraphics {bw_albergo.eps}
\caption{A picture of a room.}
\end{figure}
if I generate copy with the DVI butt
Thanks, Rob. That was very clear and helpful!
Richard
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 13:12 -0700, Rob Oakes wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> << Can I ask a quick supplementary? >>
>
> Of course.
>
> << The jpgs are at the moment much bigger than I need: I'll have to scale
> them to about 40%. Should I process
Thanks for that encouraging reply, Rob. Can I ask a quick supplementary?
I have colour jpgs, not particularly high res but neither are they poor.
And I'm making a pdf for submission to a printer, to be printed in b/w.
The jpgs are atthe moment much bigger than I need: I'll have to scale
them to abo
Does anyone have any useful input on what photo format gives the best
quality results on b/w printing via lyx? Are there any optimal values,
or things to worry about?
TIA
Richard
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 06:56 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
> You can control the headings by using package fancyhdr.
Thanks: however, I have been trying to use scrpage2 since the komascript
documentation says that it has a greater compatibility (with komascript)
than fancyhdr.
With scrpage
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 07:01 +0800, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:
> You can try one line before your title. Type \frontmatter in red box
> [Enter] then your title in Title environment.
Thanks for the reply, Waluyo. I had managed to do this: but I am unable
to put more than one line before the title w
I don't seem to be able to do this. If I put a \frontmatter command in
before my title, anything longer than five words produces a compile
error. What am I missing?
TIA
Richard
Hello again.
Is it possible to edit the contents of \leftmark so that they contain
the chapter name but not the chapter number, and of \rightmark so that
the inverse is true?
Or would there be a better solution to my issue, which is how to print
(in the header on my Komascript bnook class doc) Ch
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 13:09 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Hmm, what is your document class, what version of KOMA-script?
The document class is BOOK (Koma script) and the version of Koma script
is the default I have with my installation of Lyx 1.5.3. The following
info is cut-and-pasted from the Latex
an
> > environment (\begin{landscape}..\end{landscape}. Content in between is
> > rotated, but headers and footers are left as per normal.
> > I have used this with a rotated supertabular which stetched over a few
> > pages. Don't know whether lyX can implement. may ne
Hello yet again.
I have a big table in my ms, which can only fit on the page if I put it
in landscape mode. How do I do this for just one page, leaving the rest
as portrait which is fine? I'm using Koma script Book and the table was
generated by using insert > float > table
Thanks again.
Richard
Hello again.
I'm struggling still, though I can now see some progress...
But my problem now is that I have an unwanted empty white page after
some, but not all, chapters. I can't see any logic as to why, either in
my input ms or in the output dvi. What should I be looking for, anfd how
can I chang
In the koma script book documentation I (a pure newby) find these
instructions:
With the standard classes book and report a chapter title
consists of a line with the word “Chapter”1 followed by the chapter
number. The title itself s set left-justified on the following lines.
The same ef
s you have to install th package
> "texlive-lang-italian", which loads the Italian hyphenation pattern.
>
> I hope this helps.
> ---------
> Julio Rojas
> jcredbe...@gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:07 P
at I
have found, assuming I've got the right ones, I find big unfriendly
warnings that nothing should be changed. It's rather worrying, and I
have -don't we all?- imminent deadlines! Thanks enormously, and in
advance.
I'm running Lyx 1.5.3 on ubuntu linux 8.04
Richard
Richard Brown
..
Hello.
In my book, I want to put a preface after the TOC and before chapter 1.
But I can't work out how to eliminate the text 'Contents' that appears
not only on the TOC pages (where I want it) but also in the header of
the preface, where I decidedly don't. I've experimented with Book,
Memoir and
Cur that I am, I forgot both to sign myself off, and to thank you in
advance for your help!
Richard
Richard Brown wrote:
>I'm using the memoir document class, and I need to do the following:
>
>insert a graphic on the page, and next to the graphic write a short 2
>line dialog
I'm using the memoir document class, and I need to do the following:
insert a graphic on the page, and next to the graphic write a short 2
line dialogue exchange- like this mock-up
Look! Is that a brontosaurus?
No- ir's my pet leek in pajamas.
I tried with a table, but I do
Dear Lyx people,
I'm using the memoir document class for my work at the moment, but find
that the three format styles that I most often use are at the very end
of the drop down styles menu on the left. Is there some way to configure
the list so that I can decide in which order the items appear, a
Thanks Elias! That worked, and got me a little further on. Now I have a
completely different error message, which reads
c: The TZ environment variable is not set; please set it to yout timezone
ci aborted
I get the same error even if I go to a DOS window, and do SET TZ=BST001
for my time zone, whi
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions about version control. I still
can't seem to get it to work.
I am working with winXP.
I have the RCS files from Purdue, have unzipped them and have put them
in a directory (C:\lyx\RCS) which I have also added to the PATH
variable. (There is no install, start
Thanks to everyone for their comments, which I have found illuminating.
It seems to me that RCS would probably be sufficient for me now, as I am
a single user but that CVS would cope with future developments if my
colleagues also adopt Lyx. So I'd go for RCS now, if I could find any
information on
Hello Lyx people,
It's me with a stupid question again. Comes of being an advanced idiot,
but also of wanting to learn.
I'd like to be able to do version control of my Lyx files running on Win
XP; but I find the manual etc less than clear.
I found a page on the web which said
Versi
;s all very new, but I'm trying to learn
G. Milde wrote:
>On 12.06.05, Richard Brown wrote:
>
>
>
>>What I'd like to be able to do is write all the elements for each
>>exercise at the same time in the same file, defining them as "students
>
co-ordinated. Then, when I come to print
it, to have the software automatically understand where the elements go,
and print it to the right file so that I end up with 4 files: the
master, the students book, the teachers book and the CD script. All
properly cross-reefernced.
Am I asking for too much? Can it be done, and how?
Thanks for your time and help,
Richard Brown
Rubin wrote:
> Richard Brown wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your reply. I didn't intervene in the directory structure at
>> all as far as I remember, but anyway I renamed the directory where it
>> was, and ran the installation .exe again. (This was
>> lyx-1.3.5-win32-nc
the textclass.lst files, and it was just the same.
I tried copying the entire contents of the c:\lyx\share\lyx subdirectory
to teh same place as the lyx.exe (ie, C:\lyx\bin) and it made no
difference. The error still says
LyX wasn’t able to find any layout description
Check the contents of t
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX136pre
Richard Brown wrote:
> Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is
> advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong.
> I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all
> sorts of thin
Grateful for help with installing. My level of technical competence is
advanced idiot, so I've assuredly done something wrong.
I think I followed the instruction on the wiki exactly. I installed all
sorts of things one by one and it all looked OK. then at the first
attempt to run lyx I got this err
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