know and I'll try and add
them.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 10:00 -0500, Bruce Pourciau wrote:
> I have two figures (eps files) inserted as side by side graphics
> (directly, not in floats). Each lies in its own Box (Minipage), the
> boxes separated by a couple of \qquads. But one figure prints higher
> than the other, I suppose
Hi Steve,
<< I notice that your conversion isn't done by OO itself, but by
ConvertDoc. Does ConvertDoc pass through paragraph and character
styles? If so, this is VERY useful. Note that I don't even care if it
translates the style defs -- I can just make a layout. What I want is a
final doc with
Hi Anders,
I've had good success first converting to HTML, then running a filter on the
HTML, and then importing to LyX. The overall process is described here:
http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import
While some formatting is lost, it's mostly the type of formatting that
Hi Bob,
The best way to create specific types of drawings for a LyX document is to use
a program designed for that purpose (like a circuit diagram editor) and then
exporting to an appropriate image format (PDF, PNG, JPEG, etc.). There may be
LaTeX packages that can draw circuit diagrams (I wou
I think that would work pretty well. It turns out, there's actually a
couple of different approaches you can take. I'm trying to write up a
guide.
The one serious limitation to placing the information in a Note inset is
that it doesn't get passed to LaTeX. As a result, you need to manually
load
Right, so just overlook everything in that last email. It doesn't work.
You might be able to accomplish something by redefining the
\thebibliography and \bibitem commands (and probably one or two more),
but I'd need to think about how to go about doing it before making
recommendations.
If this ro
I just realized that there might be a second option as well. The
appearance of the bibliography in a latex document is determined by an
environment called thebibliography.
When I was working on a CV template (see
http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2009/11/25/latex-cv-part1 and
http://blog.oak-tree
an elegant, it does get the job done. And
it's probably as fast as commenting out code lines.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 11:07 -0400, Jim Rockford wrote:
> What I'd like to do is generate a PDF document from my lyx source that
> shows all the reference citations in t
Hi Jim,
I think that you can expect a very good experience on Windows without admin
rights. You may want to take a look at LyX-Portable. There is even a project
devoted to creating a LyX on Windows experience that can be run from a memory
stick (see http://code.google.com/p/lytex/).
Additio
Dear LyX-Users,
As I've gotten several emails already, I thought I would forward this along
to the list.
It appears that there is some interest in trying out the outline
enhancements I've been working on for the past few months. I greatly
appreciate the interest in my little project, I rea
Hi Vincent,
<< So.. could it be Rob's outliner enhancements then ??? >>
That's certainly possible, but I think it unlikely. To the best of my
knowledge, Jose only began using the branch with the expanded outliner and
other tools yesterday whereas the problem has also been seen in LyX 1.6.6.1
Hi John,
This message means that the LaTeX document class needed by the layout is
not available. You can install these using the MikTeX package manager.
Simply search for the required package name and then click on install.
Once you have installed the needed LaTeX packages, then you can
reconfigu
Dear LyX Users,
Sorry for the spam, but ...
I had a friend contact me today who was looking for a current University of
Utah Thesis class, and wondering if I might be willing to help him create a
layout file for it. Before I go about updating the (very old) class available
from the mathematic
or your computer, and allow it to
read/write to protected directories.
Just some thoughts.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
; On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Rob Oakes wrote:
>> I came up empty handed.
>>
> What about PDF chain [1], an alpha-stage GUI to pdftk [2]? It has a
> compress/uncompress dialogue, but I'm not sure that it does what
> you're looking for.
>
> Re
ol repeatedely
show up on users mailing list.) And as per the GPL, any patches would be sent
upstream to the maintainer of PDF-Shuffler.
Anyone who might interested?
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
For a futre enhancement of LyX, it might also be worth adding .bib, .aux, and
other such files between sessions. As others have pointed out, caching of
these files might greatly improve the compilation time between sessions. And
as most of them are text based, it would not greatly add to the s
ages if I exported to LaTeX and compiled there, as
well. I suppose that is the price that I pay for having a very complicated
document and desiring beautiful typesetting. Even so, I'm sure that I will
survive.
Cheers,
Rob
On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:12 AM, BH wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 3, 201
> I was also hoping to control other files. Can I have LyX keep other output
> and aux files, so that latex and bibtex can run fewer times and produce the
> output faster (example, references and bibs). My understanding is that
> everything is wiped out if I close and reopen. This can waste time
Hi Ivan,
Instead of using the "View" PDF, use the "Export" option instead. This will
create a copy of the PDF in the working directory. As I understand it, the
"View" option is meant to look at the progress of your document rather than
create a copy for distribution.
Cheers,
Rob
On Jun 3,
Dear LyX-Users,
I am in the process of creating a custom of modules for personal use
(one for easily creating dropcaps via letrine and the stringstrings
package, and another for the creation of epigraphs). For the epigraph
module to work correctly, it is important that I be able to use multiple
i
ove should help you get started (and may even be enough to help you
sort it out). If not, feel free to shoot me an email and I'd be happy to try
and walk you through it.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
On Jun 1, 2010, at 9:35 AM, Will wrote:
> I am trying to modify the book class for my thesis. I
Sorry, my apologies. In the previous message, I meant to say LyZ not
Lytero.
Same question and issues, though.
Sent from Rob's Palm
On May 28, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Rob Oakes wrote:
Dear LyX Users,
I've been toiling away on a book chapter about Reference Managers
and Cite-While
that it is unable to either locate the
LyX pipe or that it is unable to find the bibliography style.
I'm just wondering if anyone has had success getting it to work with one of the
alpha builds of LyX or with the SVN versions.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Probably the easiest way to do this is to downloa and install the Qt SDK
for Windows (http://qt.nokia.com/downloads). It includes the Qt4
development libraries, documentation, and an IDE called Qt Creator.
Using Qt Creator in addition to CMake (http://www.cmake.org/) is
probably the easiest way I
Hi Ricardo,
If you'd find it helpful, I've been working on a book appendix that
compares some of the most common LaTeX document classes. It shows
examples, and goes over their more common features. It's still in draft
form, but I would be happy to provide a download link if you think it
would be
s/layout, I would be extremely
appreciative of any feedback; particularly if things don't work quite
right. I would like to include this class with aforementioned book, and
I hate to release code with bugs.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Dear LyX-Users,
Everytime this particular topic comes up, I find myself exploring
different options for automatically importing MS Word into LyX. This
latest time round, I managed to come up with an automated system that
meets most of my needs.
A description with links and instructions can be fo
It's been a while since I've used it, but I thought that EndNote was
able to directly export to BibTeX. If not, you can export to EndNote
XML and then import using JabRef, BibDesk (Mac OS X), Zotero or
Mendeley. Or you can upload to CiteULike and then download a converted
BibTeX file to use local
pell user dictionary stored in
the /home/ folder that I should be using instead? (I've already gotten
the same thing to work with aspell.)
Thanks,
Rob Oakes
Hi Rob,
I'm not sure that I follow what you're trying to accomplish. Do you
need your figures to appear in text, or do you need them to appear at
the end of your document after the references section? (The way that
many biomedical journals specify an article must be submitted.)
And what do you
This is clearly either a problem in the way that R installs itself, or
the way that LaTeX installs itself. I'm not actually sure which though
and I don't know where to file the bug report.
When I just checked, I was not able to find a "sweave" package for R,
nor was I able to find one for TeXLive
Hi Ricardo,
Just one thought, make sure that there is a copy of Sweave.sty installed
in your LaTeX path (and make sure that LyX can find it). I was having
some troubles with Sweave and LyX 2.0 on Mac a while ago, and this is
what ultimately fixed it.
But, to be honest, I haven't really played wi
Hi Emme,
To do this, you need to use a bibtex style that supports divisions.
Some months ago, I started putting together a LaTeX class and modified
CV bibtex style that can handle this. For more information, see:
http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2009/11/25/latex-cv-part1
For instructions on ho
Rodriguez] eBioTIC. wrote:
> Rob,
>
> >
> > Rob Oakes wrote:
> >
> >> If the code chunk is short, you can also use S/R expression insets.
> >> (Not sure if this is available in LyX 1.6.5. From LyX 2.0, go to
> >> Insert->Custom Inserts->S/R expres
. You can do this by clicking on Insert->Box, and then
placing the code within there.
If the code chunk is short, you can also use S/R expression insets.
(Not sure if this is available in LyX 1.6.5. From LyX 2.0, go to
Insert->Custom Inserts->S/R expression).
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
For anything fancy, you're better off creating the titlepage/cover in a
layout program and then importing a PDF file at the time that you
generate. While it's not a pure "LaTeX" option, it saves a significant
amount of time. And I'm not sure that individualized covers are
something that you would
Hi Tim,
This may be a LaTeX issue and thus not specific to LyX. Or, it might be
a LyX problem. It depends on where the screwy numbering is appearing.
Are you seeing it when writing with the editor? Or is it showing up in
your PDF? If it's the former, then there is a problem with
article.la
des.
http://people.cs.uu.nl/piet/floats/node4.html#SECTION00022000
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 07:37 -0400, rgheck wrote:
> On 04/09/2010 03:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> > On 04/09/2010 07:31 AM, Jose Quesada wrote:
> >> What I would like to know is... is this narrowing feature interesting
> >> for
> >> people here?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >> Or is it just me who think
x27;s
something you'll only do once, it's often easier to use a layout tool
and add it to your document:
Insert->File->External Material
Choose the File (as a PDF) and PDF pages from the template diagram.
Then click Ok.
If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email.
Chee
I'm a big fan of putting title pages together in Scribus. It allows you
to be anally particular about where things go, what fonts you want to
use, etc. I also find that it's easier to use for layout work than
OpenOffice. When you're done, you can export your masterpiece as a PDF
and then include
's history with Google's Summer of Code is, but if
there is any interest, I'd be happy to help with filing applications and
such. I'm not sure that I'm qualified to be a mentor, but I could be a
ruthlessly competent coordinator.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Dear LyX Users,
Thank you everyone for the very helpful recommendations. I finally narrowed
down what my problem was. Turns out, it wasn't related to RAM, LaTeX, LyX or
number of floats. (Just for the record, XeLaTeX and LyX 2.0 are doing a
marvelous job with 153 figure and table floats and
on the number of files that it can
realistically handle? I'd be extremely appreciative of any advice.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Piero,
If you have access to open type or true type fonts, you might consider using
XeLaTeX and fontspec. I've had better success going this route than trying
to install Garamond by hand (for some reason the Ubuntu packages just don't
seem to work well for me.)
Cheers,
Rob
-Original Messag
Hi Nikos,
To get ODF to work, you must have Sun Java installed from the
restricted repositories. If you don't install that version, it won't
work.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Sent from Rob's Palm
On Mar 3, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Νίκος Αλεξανδρής uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
Νίκο
also returns LyX to a "What
You See is What You Mean" writing environment.
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
PS, the module for this particular command is attached in case it is of
interest to anyone. To use it, just place it in the "layouts" folder of
your user directory.
longtablepage.module
Description: Binary data
Hi Steve,
<< Curtis -- Is LyX 2.0 still like old ones where you can compile it as,
let's say, lyx-20 and it will run parallel to the LyX that came with your
distro (Ubuntu 9.10 in my case)? >>
I may not be Curtis, but I can answer that question. In short, yes.
I've also been running the SVN ver
Hi Stephen,
You may need to get the most recent version from the tufte-latex source code
repository. I'm not sure that the MikTeX version has been updated
(http://code.google.com/p/tufte-latex/). Also, the issue still persists
when compiling documents with xelatex.
For xelatex users, the proble
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 the jpgs into monochrome tiffs? Or
would the conversion cost me definition? >>
By all means, process the files. If possib
, make sure that the graphic is a vector
based image rather than a rasterized version. This will result in a much
crisper looking print reproduction. The process for doing so varies from
program to program, however.
Best of luck with your project.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Another option might be to use a service such as Windows Live Skydrive
(http://skydrive.live.com). I've used it to host photos and other files for
a while and I don't really have any complaints. There are size restrictions
(I think it is 50 MB), but other than that, I've found it a good way for
s
the table on
every page.
I am not, aware of a way to automatically split a given table into two
sections, however. Perhaps others on the list might be able to provide
additional recommendations?
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
-Original Message-
From: SteveSB [mailto:sbsid...@mweb.co.za]
Sent: Tuesday
directly from LyX. Thus, I've found
that this doesn't concern me nearly as much as I thought it might.
Good luck as you try out different programs. And if you find something that
is better than JabRef, please let me know. I would love to find a good
BibTeX editor on the Windows platform.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
tents.
Pretty basic, but this might cause the behavior you describe.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Sent from Rob's Palm
On Jan 17, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Peter Bradley
wrote:
stephen's mailinglist account wrote:
What type (class) of document are you working on (article, report,
book)?
a module? Or does this
(landscape longtable) have to be a second module?
2010/1/15 stephen's mailinglist account >:
2010/1/15 Rob Oakes :
Dear Daniel, Liviu and Other LyX Users,
Daniel and Liviu, thank you very much for the recommendations and
for the link. I've been experimenti
t posted to my website at some point.
I am forwarding it to the group in the hope that others will find it useful.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
-Original Message-
From: Liviu Andronic [mailto:landronim...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 8:13 AM
To: Daniel Lohmann
Cc: Rob Oakes; lyx mai
aks at appropriate places)?
For me, getting the sort of sub-labeling described by Liviu is not something I
am concerned about. In fact, I would prefer to maintain the standard labeling
scheme (Table ChapNum.TableNum).
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
related testing. It's
pretty easy to get this running with Sun's VirtualBox and a live CD.
(Though I've personally been using VMware workstation.)
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
-Original Message-
From: SteveSB [mailto:sbsid...@mweb.co.za]
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 1:25 AM
To: l
rwise just continue,
>
> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>
>
>
> I noticed that the AAAI AuthorKit also contains a file named
> "fixbib.sty".
> I don't know if that can help to "fix" the problem.
>
>
ttp://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/2009/11/02/custom-lyx-nih)
Customizing LyX: Character Styles and the LyX Local Layout
(http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/2009/11/14/customize-lyx-character-styles)
Best of luck with your paper.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
mail.
Nevertheless, I would be very interest in feedback on the style,
language, or content. I would also love to hear any positive and
negative thoughts that members of the group might have.
I look forward to your emails.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
y products.
>
> Many thanks for the
>
>
> --- On Mon, 12/28/09, John Kane wrote:
>
> > From: John Kane
> > Subject: RE: Zotero to Bibtex to Lyx: A Problem not a baseball play
> > To: "Rob Oakes"
> > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> >
sorted out.
Additionally Mendeley makes it very easy to organize and sync your reference
library to multiple machines. Zotero can do something similar, but I've
found Mendeley easier to use.
You can find more information on their web site:
http://www.mendeley.com/
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Hi Anders,
I forgot to add an important detail. If you redefine the section
definitions, you will need to do that in a dedicated style. It uses the
\...@startsection macro, which can't appear in a normal LaTeX document.
If you are going to just add the new definitions to the preamble, best to
s
, the basic syntax is the
same for the other latex engines as well.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Anders Host-Madsen
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:38 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Redefining sections
This is rea
link has some good information on Version Control in general and
Subversion in particular.
http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/science-and-technology/svn
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
;t included.
Manually trying to sort this out is tremendously frustrating. (Speaking from
experience here.)
Compared to those frustrations, I finally decided that I would just delete a
few extra videos out of iTunes. Even now, months later, I still think that was
a good decision.
Cheers,
stores the previous definition
%%
This is an extremely rough solution, and I haven't tested it, but it would
generally have the effect that you're looking for.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
e: In the example above, using xetex allowed me to use the same
typefaces that Tufte uses -- Bembo and Gil Sans -- without creating a
font definition file for them -- which ranks right alongside major oral
surgery on my priority list.)
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
ou find it useful, I would enjoy hearing about
that too.
I will post a layout file soon. It was going to be today but because of
work commitments, soon just became undefined. Nevertheless, I wanted to
post a link while I was still excited.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
is
free (as in beer) and cross platform.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
-Original Message-
From: Erez Yerushalmi [mailto:erezyerusha...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 9:14 AM
To: lyx-users
Cc: Izwandy Idris
Subject: Re: Suggestion for LyX
Another recommendation is to take a look at a pr
wiki:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/FiguresSideBySide
I've been using this trick to typeset code examples and latex output and
I've been very happy so far.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
but it's still on the to-do list.
In short, welcome to the open source club. I hope that things work out for
you. While it took about a year for me to really get comfortable, the end
result is that I am much more productive.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Hi Vince,
I was aware that newer versions of LyX use a different file format. I
meant only that you have to manually export the document to an older
version of LyX. The lyx2lyx script is not capable of doing so on its
own.
My fault for not being clear.
Cheers,
Rob
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 21:33
use the newer features, I
> did not feel brave enough to go down a path that looked very much like a
> one-way street. Other users may be braver than me, though.
>
>
> S.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, rgheck wrote:
>
> > On 11/
Hi Günter,
Thank you for the thoughts and the links.
"Unfortunately, you still did not write, how you process your document
with XeTeX. (Export with File>Export>LaTeX (XeTeX) or something alike?)"
I set up LyX according to the instructions on the LyX wiki:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/XeTeX
Briefly,
ment, but
it also lets you easily move from one document class to another. If you
should decide that "Comic-Sans" is a really ghastly font, you can easily
change it to something else without having to carefully scour your
document.
Through xetex, you can use any font installed on your compute
Dear Günter and other LyX users,
Again thank you for the advice to check last week's and earlier
discussions. While reading through the old emails, I was able to
resolve the problem. To solve it, I went to Tools->Preferences->LaTeX
and changed the TeX encoding to a null value (blank). I saw whe
Hi Günter,
Thank you for the thorough reply.
"Seems to be the default CM. Never call it ugly on a TeX-related list."
I will remember that. I should probably apologize for the rather harsh
language. It's amazing what happens when you are frustrated. By the time I
had emailed the list, I had
Dear LyX Users,
I've run up against a problem that I don't know how to solve. I've
spent the last several days putting together a document class that
matches the style of my book publisher. Because it uses an Open Type
font, I created it as a XeLaTeX class. I've set up my xetex per the
instruct
hSweave
While there is a learning curve, it's pretty mild. The examples are
pretty self explanatory and LyX has a logical design. Moreover, the
members of the mailing list are very helpful. I've gotten some
wonderful guidance on the questions I've posted.
Best of luck with your project.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Hi Daniel,
If there is already a LaTeX class and style, then you only need to
create .layout file that points LyX in the right direction. A few weeks
ago, I wrote a simple example that you can find at:
http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/2009/11/02/custom-lyx-nih
That example is mostly about
two years, I'm
still trying to get all of the boxes unpacked.
Cheers,
Rob
-Original Message-
From: Phil Underwood [mailto:philjunderw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:26 AM
To: Rob Oakes
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: JabRef and Lyx on Mac
Hi Rob,
I'
r solution, but nevertheless,
you might want to take a look at BibDesk or at Mendeley (which can sync
references to a BibTeX reference file).
http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
http://www.mendeley.com/
I use both programs and I've been very happy with them. They also instantly
solved by JabRef problems.
l from
Visio (if it's first been exported to PDF).
For raster images, it seems like PNG works the best (though most of the
raster images I've been using are screenshots). A friend who does
layout/design has suggested that I spend some time with PDF raster images,
but I haven
Thank you Alan,
That fixed the problem. I hadn't realized that the Java run time was a
dependency of oolatex. Export from LyX to OpenDocument now works. From
there, it's an easy conversion to Word.
Cheers,
Rob
nted with leaving out the needaux, which results in
the same problem as described above. I'm not getting any errors.
Any thoughts or ideas would be extremely appreciated.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
mples that you would like to see?
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
d, other than a tremendously quick overview
of the program and instructions on where to find the docs.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Dear Richard and other LyX Users,
Thank you very much for the recommendation, it worked perfectly. The
final formatting worked out to be:
Counter subsection
LabelString "\Alph{section}.\{subsection}"
End
Since this is one of those "Write it down or forget it" type of things,
I also put togeth
Dear Richard and other LyX Users,
I managed to solve a few of the formatting problems. To change the
section labels from numbers to letters, I added the following to the
nih.cls file:
\def\thesection{\Alph{section}}
That solved the output problem. Now I am trying to get the labels for
section,
ring.
All files are being generated off of the modified LaTeX cls file, so I
don't think that is where the problem is.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can tell LyX/LaTeX to use letters
rather than numbers for section numbering?
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
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