Re: export to pdf

2008-02-04 Thread Richard Heck
Hellmut Weber wrote: Hi, from inside lyx i can export to pdf using File >Export >pdflatex generating a file foo.pdf. Command line: lyx --export pdflatex foo.lyx produces a file foo.tex. What can I do to produce foo.pdf from the command line? You want to use an appropriate format name, e.g.:

Re: Disable the hyphenation

2008-02-10 Thread Richard Heck
Aitor Valle wrote: Hello everyone, I'm running LyX 1.5.3 in Ubuntu Gutsy. Now I'm previewing a text I've written in basque, but LaTeX does not make the right separation of syllables. Do you know how to disable the hyphenation? I don't know how to do that...but are you sure the language is se

Re: fine-tuning equation alignment

2008-02-13 Thread Richard Heck
Siegfried MEUNIER-GUTTIN-CLUZEL wrote: For long equations, you can use specific environments for multiline formula. You can find a lot of informations on the new Math.lyx manual : http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_5_X/lib/doc/Math.lyx or in PDF http://wiki.lyx.org/up

Re: odd mistake

2008-02-13 Thread Richard Heck
Nicolás wrote: Hi! Sometimes I get some errors for which I do not exactly know where is the source. I use then a pragmatic approach to the problem: divide and conquer. That is, I remove part of the document (e.g. put it inside a Note) and compile. If everything is ok, I know the problem is wi

Re: odd mistake

2008-02-13 Thread Richard Heck
Uwe Stöhr wrote: NinaNutz schrieb: The next problem was due to special characters introduced at JabRef and that lyx couldn't support... The problem is not LyX but BibTeX that doesn't support unicode. The special character it was the name of an author, that I have change to solve it... The

Re: Cannot put templates to work

2008-02-18 Thread Richard heck
Manfred Mertens wrote: Hello friends from the lyx-list! I'm new to Lyx and to this kind of program. I have Lyx 1.5.3 under Ubuntu. When I select a template (f. i. "docbook_article.lyx" I get that the class or style archive from Latex is missing. What have I to do in order to get templates wor

Re: help on keyboard shortcut

2008-02-18 Thread Richard heck
Bob Alvarez wrote: "If you do not find a suitable style file, you can easily create your own. Type "latex makbst" in a console window, and answer the questions. Jürgen" I tried this on my Windows XP installation and got the following message. I also searched for files named makbst on my system

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

2008-02-18 Thread Richard heck
JOHN CULLETON wrote: While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. If so, then it wouldn't seem Qt4 (or any of these other things) are responsible. Yo

Re: lyx on solaris9

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Heck
nuncio wrote: I would like to load lyx in solaris9 on sun OS. is it a painful business ? . If it doesnt go well with solaris, as an alternative I would like to know the best supported unix/linux versions for lyx. I seem to remember that there were some issues with the Qt 4 libraries on

Re: Separate bibliography for separate lyx files?

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Heck
bigblop wrote: I have made a main.lyx file that includes a few "child" .lyx files. Is there someway to create a bibliography in a separate file that can be used in all the separate .lyx files? Are you using BibTeX? If so, you can put the bibliography bit at the end of each file, and it will b

Re: lyx on solaris9

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Heck
Sven Hoexter wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:17:35PM -0500, Richard Heck wrote: nuncio wrote: I would like to load lyx in solaris9 on sun OS. is it a painful business ? . If it doesnt go well with solaris, as an alternative I would like to know the best supported unix/linux

Re: Separate bibliography for separate lyx files?

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Heck
bigblop wrote: Ok so there is no way to keep the bibliography in a separate file and only include it in the master document? If the bibliography is a separate document, or if you are using the LyX Bibliography argument to construct the bibliography, then yes, you can do this. Just include t

Re: Separate bibliography for separate lyx files?

2008-02-27 Thread Richard Heck
But another thing. When I am writing in child file and choose to compile how do I make it compile the master document instead of the child document? In 1.5, I think you have to just open the master document and compile it. In 1.6, if I remember right, there will be a way to compile the mast

Re: how to insert a theorem?

2008-03-05 Thread Richard Heck
One small remark: in an AMS class, the drop-down list becomes quite cluttered. Possibly, it will be possible to customize (reduce) it by editing a proper configuration file. But what about 2 or more drop-down lists: one for sectioning, one for theorems, or text styles... Just an idea. Yes,

Re: Environments

2008-03-05 Thread Richard Heck
Rich Shepard wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Paul A. Rubin wrote: As of LyX 1.5.4 at least, there is an alternative way. Check the environment drop-down list and see if you have "Separator" or "--Separator--" on it. (For some reason, Beamer has the former and article and article (AMS) have the latte

Re: Is there a text-macros equivalent of math-macros?

2008-03-19 Thread Richard Heck
Dominik Böhm wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:42 PM, G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 19.03.08, Dominik Böhm wrote: > Is there any more convenient solution for such problems in LyX or is > the macro-feature a math-only thing? Currently, there is unfortunately no text-macro availabl

Re: Precompiled binaries for LyX1.5.x on Linux

2008-03-21 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 21 March 2008 02:14, rgheck wrote: Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, I have no root permission on my Linux machine, and I would like to install LyX1.5.x on it. Is there a way to get precompiled binaries for Lyx1.5.x that can be installed in my home directory wi

Re: question about lyx

2008-03-31 Thread Richard Heck
Scott White wrote: 2) the first line after a section, subsection, subsubsection begins at the left margin, but the other paragraphs under it are indented ie Section Name first paragraph second paragraph third paragraph This is normal English typesetting style. If you want no indentation

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-31 Thread Richard Heck
Geevarghese Philip wrote: rgheck wrote: This works as intended for the dvi/ps/pdf versions. I guess I am being greedy, but if only I could make LyX display the theorems with a sequential numbering, instead of prepending the subsection number to the theorem Try the attached. You'll get a w

Re: Contents of Preamble...EndPreamble in Layout not being output to tex file

2008-03-31 Thread Richard Heck
Geevarghese Philip wrote: Geevarghese Philip wrote: rgheck wrote: ... Try the attached. You'll get a warning about counter redefinition, but it works. Thanks, but it works and it doesn't I made a small change to the layout file you sent, and it works wonderfully now. Except that I someh

Re: AMS article

2008-04-07 Thread Richard Heck
Julio Rojas wrote: Hostility and cynicism. A very nice way of answering a totally naive question. Good for you Mr. Heck. Sorry, that wasn't meant to be hostile or cynical. Maybe a smiley would have helped rh On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 9:35 PM, rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Julio

Re: Exporting to OpenOffice with Bibtex references in 1.5.4

2008-04-16 Thread Richard Heck
Lars Olesen wrote: Does anyone know how to make sure that the references to bibtex is kept, when exporting to for instance OpenOffice in the 1.5.4 version of Lyx? Compile to DVI (or whatever) first. Then do the OOo export. That should work. rh

Re: "english" appended to the left side of the running head

2008-04-21 Thread Richard Heck
rhb wrote: I'm rather inexperienced with LaTeX and LyX, trying to use the latter to write a presentation for a class. I'm using the amsart document class, because it makes the handout look the best, but at the top of each page, it prints the title as "englishTopological Vector Spaces" instead

Re: Oh god!

2008-04-25 Thread Richard Heck
Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 25 April 2008 05:07, Glen Whitehead wrote: Thank you everyone for your replies :-) I am so relieved (after throwing up). The error was being returned by bibtex and was nothing serious 0_o Good! Prevent future occurrence. Create a shellscript or batch file

Re: Uncompilable output due to bibtex fault

2008-04-28 Thread Richard Heck
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:49 AM, christiaan pauw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Everybody I use Lyx 1.5.3 of Mac OS X leapard with TexShop 2.14 I have a problem with a document that has an bibtex bibliogoraphy that cannot compile in anything but plain.bst When I use plain.bst as the style it g

Re: Author information in article class

2008-04-28 Thread Richard Heck
econkramer wrote: well, how?? but more important...what if i do not what - for instance - the ams layout, but i want its environments, like address, email, and so forth? How might I do? How might I type the commands? If you want these environments, then you have to use a document class tha

Re: bibtex: BIBINPUTS

2008-04-30 Thread Richard Heck
Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Maka Mohu wrote: May be I should try to make it clearer here. When I click Bibtex Generated Bibliography, I can see some default bib files like "test" and I can see my file "bibfile". But when I try insert citations, I can only see references from "test.bib" but n

Re: Italics in bibtex record

2006-06-26 Thread Richard Heck
Charles de Miramon wrote: > Declan O'Byrne wrote: > >> I'm using pybliographic to manage bibliography. Some titles I have quote >> book titles, and those words should be italicised. Is there any way to >> italicise these words either manually, or to mark those words as a book >> title (in such a

Re: citation prefix

2006-06-26 Thread Richard Heck
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Miki Dovrat wrote: >> I am interested in writing text before and after a bibtex citation, >> like: >> [1] See, for example, "some article reference" and references therein. >> [2] For an exellent review, see "this reference". > Perhaps I don't understand

What's on YOUR BibTeX Wish List?

2006-06-26 Thread Richard Heck
In a recent thread, there was some discussion about inadequacies of standard BibTeX styles, especially as regards work in the humanities. Having a little time free, I decided to educate myself as much as possible about BibTeX styles and see what I could do. To this point, I have a working TRANSLAT

Re: bibtex my.bst

2006-06-26 Thread Richard Heck
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > ...[T]he dbj file is confusing for the unexperienced. > For instance, where is the line which selects for article > > Title. Journal > I have now > Title Journal (without .) > > Same with book > > or for incollection: > In: editors (capital and :) > instead of > in ed

Re: Help with Bibliography for book class

2006-06-28 Thread Richard Heck
LB wrote: >>> I'm using document class "book(mwbk)" with Lyx 1.4.1 on Win XP. The >>> latex forces the bibliography to start on a new page, as it supposed >>> to do. However, I would like to have the bibliography to start >>> immediately after the text. I have tried different, but not all, >>> bibl

Re: Change the Chapter font and spacing

2006-06-29 Thread Richard Heck
have a look at the titlesec package. Luqman H wrote: > hi, > > i'm using report (koma-script) doc class, > i want to change the chapter font to the same font > as report doc class. > and also i want to decrease the spacing before > and after the chapter is written.. > how to do that ? > > thanks.

Re: Wiki idea

2006-07-10 Thread Richard Heck
I think that'd be an excellent idea. Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Would the academics on the list be willing to contribute to a Wiki > page that paired journals with BibTeX style files that conformed to > those journals (possibly including custom styles contributed by the > writers)? > > /Paul

Re: New BibTeX Style

2006-07-10 Thread Richard Heck
Use your file-search tool to find alpha.bst. Or try "kpsewhich alpha.bst". You can put your bst files in roughly the same place and then run texhash, or whatever the equivalent "update the tex directory structure" command is on the Mac. Even better is to create a local tex directory structure

Re: New BibTeX Style

2006-07-10 Thread Richard Heck
Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Bruce Pourciau wrote: ...[D]o I have to do anything else to get that style file to show up in the drop-down list of styles in LyX? (I have been unable to find even the existing .bst files that must have come with my TeX installation.) Run 'locate .bst'

Re: New BibTeX Style

2006-07-10 Thread Richard Heck
[EMAIL PROTECTED] getfiles]$ kpsewhich heck.bst /home/rgheck/texmf/bibtex/bst/base/heck.bst [EMAIL PROTECTED] getfiles]$ I'll file the bug report. Georg Baum wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: > > >> This doesn't work for me. I've got heck.bst in my local TeX tree

Re: New BibTeX Style

2006-07-11 Thread Richard Heck
e the list of BibTeX styles. Richard Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>>> > > Richard> I'll file the bug report. > > I did not follow this thread closely. Did you run > Tools>TeX informations>Rescan? > > JMarc >

Re: New BibTeX Style

2006-07-11 Thread Richard Heck
Yes, problem solved. I've updated bugzilla and marked the bug as "WORKSFORME". Do you want me to file a new one, as a feature request? Georg Baum wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: > > >> No, I had not, and wasn't aware of the need to do so. I had thought >>

Re: Adding an abstract section into a book class

2006-07-13 Thread Richard Heck
Isaac Pante wrote: > I want to insert an abstract of my work in my document. Is there a way > to use the "abstract" environment into a document created with the > class "book"? No: The abstract environment does not exist in the book class. (It does exist in amsbook.) Of course, you can define such

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Heck
Basically, what you need to do is run LaTeX manually instead of letting LyX do it for you. Detailed instructions follow. Let's say your LyX file is /home/you/doc.lyx. Open it in LyX and export your LyX document as LaTeX (File>Export>LaTeX). It will turn up as /home/you/doc.tex. Open a terminal an

Re: bib to bbl

2006-07-17 Thread Richard Heck
You have to run latex once on the tex file to create the aux file. BibTeX reads the aux file to find out what references exist in the document. Richard Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Actually, I'm told I should "run BibTeX on my source tex file," but > when I do what I think this means, with a small te

Re: Links for tools for working with PDFs

2006-07-19 Thread Richard Heck
The PDF toolkit is a good place to start for Linux: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/. There are also Windows and Mac packages. Richard Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > Very interesting, but what about linux? > > Is there any tool (or collection of tools) that offer the same options for > linux? > > On Wedn

Re: Prouncing "LyX" - help with sound file

2006-07-19 Thread Richard Heck
ot;p". (I could be wrong about that.) Hence, speakers of English and other such languages tend not to hear it, and that makes learning languages in which the difference is relevant difficult for such speakers. Richard Heck

Re: Label in User-Defined Environment

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Heck
Does he want automatically to have the label created every time he creates the environment? Or does he just want to put a label in it manually, after he creates it, so he can cross-reference to it? If the latter, it's trivial: Just put the label there. You can do this, for example, with the lemma

Layout Idea

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Heck
You know what would be really cool? To be able to include in the definition of a layout environment something like this: LyxCommand label-insert For:#0 with the result that such a label was automatically created from an optional argument. Now that would rock! Richard

Re: Label in User-Defined Environment

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Heck
\renewcommand{\makelabel}[1]{(##1)\hfil}% }% } {% \end{list} } %End Formula environment \newrefformat{For}{(\ref{#1})} EndPreamble End Richard Heck

Re: Digit Lost in References

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Heck
My guess would be that the bibliography style expects years to be four characters long, so you're losing the first character. But the solution is simple: In the .bib file, you can just have both papers be "2005". BibTeX will sort out the "a" and "b" for you automagically. Richard Bruce Pourciau

Re: is it easy to write in theorem environment and ref to a theorem?

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Heck
Why don't you just use the Theorem environment (say), selectable from the drop box in the upper left hand corner (assuming you are using a document class that makes it available) and then use math mode (Ctrl-M)? Then you can enter the label as normal. I'm attaching a short example file. Richard

Re: can't install lyx

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Heck
> *** > * So I tried with YUM: > *** > $ yum install lyx > > Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-libs = 6.8.2-31 is needed by > package xorg-x11 > Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-libs = 6.8.2-31 is needed by > package xorg-x11-devel > Error: Missing Dependency: xorg-x11-libs = 6.8.2-31 is

Re: Print Lyx ERT code, note, comments, etc...

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Heck
How about a screenshot? Wolfgang Lasch wrote: > Hello > > I would like to have a printout of a LyX file as it is seen in the LyX editor > window. So all my open ERT, math, notes, comments, etcpp should be on the > printout. > > For a documentation I'm working on I would like to show the look of

Re: how to sort the environments in the upper left corner pull down menu?

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Heck
Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Bo Peng wrote: >> You can not control the order of the environment. The ui files are >> for menu and toolbars only. I was proposing some sort of order, but >> gave up after a few email exchanges... You may search the archive for >> this. > Unless the seque

Re: Doublespacing footnotes

2006-07-22 Thread Richard Heck
Try the setspace package or try something like \renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{2.0}. If you do the latter, you apparently have to issue some font-size changing command to make it take effect. So you may have to do e.g. \Large\Normal. See /Latex Companion/, 3.1.13. Richard Patrick Lam wrote: > Hi

Re: supressing the section header for the bibliography

2006-07-22 Thread Richard Heck
This can be done if you are using natbib as follows: \renewcommand{\bibsection}{\section*{CUSTOM HEADER}} where of course "\section*" can be replaced by "\subsection" or whatever you wish. If you're not using natbib, then it's a lot more complicated. You'll need to look at the class file for whate

Re: numerical references and hyphenation

2006-07-26 Thread Richard Heck
Have a look at the unsrt styles. I think that's what you're wanting. André Rygh wrote: > I am using Lyx 1.4.2 under windows and a standard tau.bib file I have > editet to suit my references. > > For some reason the bibliography will not show in up numerical order as > used in the text, but seems

Re: change vertical space before and after displaymath

2006-07-27 Thread Richard Heck
Yes, but this is apparently somewhat complicated if you really want to get it right. It's covered in section 8.2.10 of /The Latex Companion/. Richard Robert Neumann wrote: > hello, > is there a way to change the vertical distance before and after a > mathematical > formula in the displaymath-m

Re: Page break bug?

2006-07-31 Thread Richard Heck
It looks to me as if there is a problem with page size in your viewer. Check that you are viewing pages of the same size you are outputing. Reinhard Mayr aka Czerwinski wrote: > Hello, > > actually this should not be, but it seems as if TeX sometimes forgets to > break my pages properly ... (see

Re: chapterbib example

2006-08-02 Thread Richard Heck
It's discussed in section 12.6 of /The LaTeX Companion/. Richard Rainer M Krug wrote: > Hi > > is there anywhere an example on how to use chapterbib? I don't seem to > be able to get it to work and I need Bibliographies per chapter (each > chapter in an included sub-document) > > Thanks > > Rain

Re: toc formating

2006-08-04 Thread Richard Heck
You can't put a \chapter or \addtocomments command in your preamble. That's why you're getting the error. These commands go in the document itself. What you want to do here, I think, is put \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\mbox{}\protect\hrulefill\par} as ERT immediately following the chapter tit

Re: Composing a letter with Header/Footer

2006-08-06 Thread Richard Heck
Yes, it's true: the \opening macro in letter.cls includes: \thispagestyle{firstpage} or \thispagestyle{empty}, depending upon whether \fromaddress is empty. However, one simple solution, I believe, would be declare, just after \opening, \thispagestyle{fancy} in ERT. Exactly where this should be pu

Re: how to make the math symbol panels always appear?

2006-08-06 Thread Richard Heck
> [I]s a way to make math symbol panels always appear as a toolbar in > the toolbar areas of the LyX GUI window? Many other editing software > display math symbol panels as a horizontal bar on the toolbar area so > it is easily accessible. Currently in LyX I have to right click in the > math equat

Re: Equation numbering

2006-08-07 Thread Richard Heck
Use the remreset package, available on CTAN. Mike Reeks wrote: > Any idea how to change Eqn numbering from numbering by section to absolute > numbering? > Mike > >

Re: Equation numbering

2006-08-09 Thread Richard Heck
I'm confused about what you want. Do you want the equations to be numbered consecutively throughout the document and NOT to be reset in each section? If so, then the only way to do this, short of modifying the document class directly, is to use the remreset (or removefr) package, since there is no

Re: Equation numbering

2006-08-14 Thread Richard Heck
mmand{\theequation}{\arabic{equation}} in my preamble will automatically be recognized. Anyway no point in installing remreset twice. Any thoughts on why it's not working. Do I need to declare the use of remreset.sty anywhere? Best Mike ____ From: Richard Heck [mai

Re: Appendix numbering scheme for equations

2006-08-21 Thread Richard Heck
ERT at the beginning of the appendix: \setcounter{equation}{0} \renewcommand{\theequation}{A.\arabic{equation}} I think the first line is right, but you'll know what to do if it's not. Richard Tomás Revilla wrote: > Could someone please point me how to get numbered equations in the > a

Re: Abstract Page Numbering and Separate Chapter Numbering

2006-08-25 Thread Richard Heck
Chris Share wrote: > I have two questions: > > 1. My document consists of a main file and separate files for each > chapter. All files are "reports". I realise that in a report class an > abstract appears without a page number. How can I force a page number > to appear on the abstract page/s? Try E

Re: More Page Numbering Questions

2006-08-28 Thread Richard Heck
Most of that should happen automatically, if you are generating the list of tables and such automatically. LaTeX itself distinguishes "front matter" from "main matter". So there shouldn't be any need to have a list of tables in a separate file. That ought simply to be generated for you. That said

Re: jabref and lyx

2006-09-07 Thread Richard Heck
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > sorry for a slightly off-topic question: > I am using jabref for entering references in my lyx file. > Some of the author entrances in the bib-file are embraced by {author} and > listed separately from the non-embraced author entrances, which I do not > want. example:

Re: jabref and lyx

2006-09-07 Thread Richard Heck
Dominik Waßenhoven wrote: > I just looked into it again. If you don't need the double braces, > JabRef offers an option to automatically remove them when you load a > file. In German it's "Optionen -> Einstellungen -> Beim Laden doppelte > geschweifte Klammern um BibTeX-Felder entfernen". If you ac

Re: Filename in document

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Heck
Susanne Gütter wrote: > I have many files, which I print and after a few weeks, I have work to find > the corresponding files, if I don't label my papers manually. > > Is there any way to label it not manually (like it is possible in other > office-programms) ? There probably is some LaTeX comma

Re: Chapter title without 'Chapter'

2006-09-15 Thread Richard Heck
Look at the titlesec or tocloft package. These allow easy customization of this kind of thing. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am writing a document as a book. I need to insert a Chapter but I > do not want the 'Chapter 5' (for example) to be printed at the top > of the first page of the chapter.

Re: changing bibliography style in layouts

2006-09-19 Thread Richard Heck
I'm not sure I understand what it is you want to do. Do you want LyX to export "\usepackage{oxon}" instead of "\usepackage{natbib}"? Or do you just want to use oxon.sty with natbib the way you might use, say, apalike.sty with natbib? Richard Luis Rivera wrote: > Hello, > > I wrote my own bibliog

Replacing Natbib with Custom BibStyle (WAS: changing bibliography style in layouts)

2006-09-19 Thread Richard Heck
Luis Rivera wrote: > Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm not sure I understand what it is you want to do. Do you want LyX to >> export "\usepackage{oxon}" instead of "\usepackage{natbib}"? >> > Indeed, this is what I'm

Re: Help: Multiple entries in author-year citation

2006-09-20 Thread Richard Heck
reference formats, and insert three separate references with author and year /but no parentheses/. Then insert the parentheses yourself around the three references. Richard Heck Johannes Urpelainen wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX for social scientific articles, and I can't find a way

Upload Password?

2006-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
Can someone let me know the upload password for the wiki? I want to post some spam. ;-)

Wiki Tips Page Re-formatted

2006-09-21 Thread Richard Heck
rough the various tips pages and checking on the categories. Richard Heck

Re: Numbering in Questions and Answers section

2006-09-25 Thread Richard Heck
I'd define two new counters that are reset within chapters: \newcounter{answer}[chapter] \newcounter{question}[chapter] Then you can define an environment or command that uses these counters and automatically prints the counter number in whatever format you want, e.g.: \arabic{answer}. How exac

Re: Problems with Bibtex in Lyx

2006-09-26 Thread Richard Heck
Then run: latex yourfile bibtex yourfile latex yourfile latex yourfile to get all the references right. You don't need the extensions here. So it's not: latex yourfile.tex but just: latex yourfile and particularly: bibtex yourfile You're likely to see errors. These should tell you what's wrong. Richard Heck

Re: Problems with Bibtex in Lyx

2006-09-26 Thread Richard Heck
bibtex\bst" ), even though it is known to cause > some problems. > > Stefan > > > Richard Heck wrote: > >> sk wrote: >> >>> I use: >>> >>> Lyx 1.4.3. >>> Doc. Class: book (koma-script) >>> A Bibtex File I compiled w

Re: Remove "table of contents"''s name in the last empty page

2006-09-28 Thread Richard Heck
I'm guessing the empty page is due to the first chapter's starting on an odd page, so that LaTeX needs to insert a page to get to an odd page. I'd suggest redefining your page style for the TOC. You've presumably already done that once---defined \lhead and the rest. Just define these right before

Re: copy and paste does not work well

2006-09-28 Thread Richard Heck
Try using the middle mouse button to paste. kaktux wrote: > hi there, > i am using kubuntu dapper drake with lyx 1.4.2 > > my problem is: > i can copy and paste in lyx documents - but when i select something in > another > application (firefox, thunderbird, kate, openoffice, etc.) and want to

Re: View menu or Document menu

2006-09-29 Thread Richard Heck
;document" Submenu "Tools|T" "tools" Submenu "Help|H" "help" End Just add Submenu "Windows|W" "windows" where you want it to appear. If you mess up, just re-copy the stdmenus.ui from the original location. By the way, is the exact syntax of these ui files documented somewhere? I mean, besides the source? Richard Heck

Re: how to type #1 for math-macro in 1.4.x?

2006-10-03 Thread Richard Heck
I got tripped up by this, too: Type "\#1". John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > I recall that in 1.3.x you could type #1 in a math macro to represent > argument 1. In 1.4.x this seems to just give you the text string "#1". > How do we do this for 1.4.x? >

Re: Custom enumerated section headers?

2006-10-07 Thread Richard Heck
Yang wrote: > I know that I can have numbered section headers by choosing e.g. > "Section" or "Subsection" from the drop-down in the top-left. But > instead of having these render as: > > 1 My First Section > 1.1 My first subsection > > can I get custom headers such as the following? > > Problem 1

Re: Text before title

2006-10-13 Thread Richard Heck
Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >>> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:29:09 +0200 >>> From: Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>> Subject: Text before title >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> This question is probably more related to Latex than to Lyx, but >>> hopefully you can help me. >>> >>> Giv

Re: math macros

2006-10-16 Thread Richard Heck
and "undefined" can be any macro that you know will remain, uh, undefined. If \EPS is defined, LaTeX will skip the definitions: No choking. Richard Heck

Re: URL question (also links, xref)

2006-10-18 Thread Richard Heck
Timothy Reaves wrote: Paul A. Rubin wrote: Timothy Reaves wrote: If I insert an URL, and make the URL mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and make the name My Name, when I generate a PDF, the URL is displayed too. Can I set it up to only display the Name field? [deleted Paul's solution] Yes, that i

Re: Creating Chapter front pages

2006-10-18 Thread Richard Heck
LyX has no special support for this. But the minitoc package will give you per-chapter tocs, and there are several packages that allow re-configuration of chapter headings and the like. Check the titlesec and titletoc packages, for example. Richard Dan Kaplan wrote: To All, I would like t

Re: centering chapter heading

2006-10-19 Thread Richard Heck
Ares wrote: >> is there a way to modify the formatting of chapter or section >> headings to have them centered ? I think you want to titlesec package or to use the koma-script classes, which provide a lot of flexibility. Richard

Re: Lyx Bibtex Problem

2006-10-24 Thread Richard Heck
Karin Eichele wrote: Sorry, I forgot to mention that I have one .aux file named the same as the lyx file itself. That's what you should have. Richard

Re: Lyx Bibtex Problem

2006-10-24 Thread Richard Heck
Ok, thanks. Sorry again for asking, but how can I manage to figure out where the problem is. The .bbl file in the temp obviously is empty, so how can I fix that? My default technique here is as follows: Export to LaTeX and do everything manually. If that works, then, well, it works, and y

Re: Irregular or non-uniform spacing between paragraphs

2006-10-25 Thread Richard Heck
Horacio Emilio Pérez Sánchez wrote: > Hi, > > I use lyx 1.3.6 on suse 10.1 and I have a 200 page document with a lot > of figures, tables, equations, bibliographic references, etc. > > My problem is that when I compile the document, sometimes, there is an > irregular or non-uniform spacing between

Re: formatting of output?

2006-10-25 Thread Richard Heck
Timothy Reaves wrote: > > Now, for an even more newbie question: where is the best place to > learn what LaTeX packages are available, and how to use them? Is my > best bet to start with a LaTeX book? The LaTeX Companion is excellent. It gives you a nice guide, organized by topic---fonts, page

Re: LyX with JabRef

2006-10-26 Thread Richard Heck
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Michael Chen wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I once succeeded on using the recommended method: insert JabRef bib >> file, and then insert Citation,and then I see a very conveninent list >> of citations to choose from. However it only works for a while, and I >> am not able to see the li

Re: Macros and preview in child documents

2006-10-28 Thread Richard Heck
Nils Becker wrote: > Hi list, > > how do I include my math macros so that they are found > from within child documents? > > Presently, I am using the following document structure: > > Master.lyx > Input macrofile.lyx (this contains the math macros) > Input chapter1.lyx (I want to use th

Re: references

2006-10-28 Thread Richard Heck
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Jabref closes the title of a reference with a . > That is, I have to remove a . at the end of the title. > If the title closes with a ?, I get .? > How can I get rid of the superfluous .? > Wolfgang > Are you sure it's JabRef that's doing this? I don't see this behav

Re: LyX does not allow enter accented characters into TeX code

2006-10-30 Thread Richard Heck
> Also, is there any way how to export LaTeX code from LyX? Yes: File > Export > LaTeX. Richard

Re: \url{http://.../\#6} broken in pdflatex?

2006-10-30 Thread Richard Heck
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > Hi, I am trying to enter the url > http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/mally-deontic/#6 > into lyx. Using dvi or ps2pdf I can use the command > \url{http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2004/entries/mally-deontic/\#6} > > However under pdflatex the "\#

Re: Macros and preview in child documents

2006-11-02 Thread Richard Heck
I don't know about instant preview here. I tend not to use it, as it can cause problems on Fedora. My message concerned, I think, the "preview" you get just within LyX itself, so that "\mymac" would appear as a Sigma. Nils Becker wrote: > Hi list, > > This message relates my previous message > ht

Re: how to specify order of bibliography

2006-11-02 Thread Richard Heck
Michael Chen wrote: > hi, I inserted a bibtex file into my lyx file, and I hope the final > output shows them chronically. However there seems no option at all. > Any idea? Sorry, I'm not sure what's being asked here. Do you mean you want the bibliography to list the entries chronologically? If so,

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