Hello, I'm using Lyx 1.3.6-1 on windows xp and I get sometimes this error Latex
error: Cannot determine size of graphic in H:/...file.lyx
It seems to refer to a grafic in a table in the lyxfile. The whole thing works
perfectly when I use lyx on Linux, even when I take the file with the error
Hello Angus,
thank you, I figured it out, there was something weird with the folder
Documents an Settings, now it works fine.
Are your saved paths in
C:\Documents and Settings\Robert\Application Data\LyX\preferences
Angus
I tried to change the preferences for the temp directory and the
Hello,
Does anybody know, if it ispossible to insert the filename of the lyx-file
automatically in the header (or any other place)?
Thanks
Robert
hello,
is there a way to change the vertical space between the items of a list? I
tried to use an ERT with \setlength{\itemsep}{0ex plus0.2ex} but somehow it
does not work. I would like to change the topsep (distance to the preceeding
text) as well, I'm using lyx 1.34.
Thanks
Robert
hello,
is there a way to change the vertical distance before and after a mathematical
formula in the displaymath-mode. I would like to have it a bit smaller but
for the whole document.
thanks!
robert
I use lyx 1.3.4 and the package mathptmx to create a pdf which then is
manually processed with adobe acrobat. Sometimes there are difficulties and I
have been asked, whether the fonts are embeddet in the pdf file. Is there a
way to control or change this?
Thanks
Robert
thanks for the answers, I got some more precise information about the problem:
the fonts are embedded, I checked this with Acrobat reader.
The problem concerns only the headings (I use the document class article on
lyx 1.3.4 with mathptmx):
When you try to work on this font in the document with
Hello Günter
thanks,
my XkbModel was set to pc105. I tried 102 but it had no effect.
Then I installed gucharmap but there is no way to get the symbol from
ucharmap to lyx, copy and paste doesn't work (it didn't work with the l
inux-console, either.
Does anybody have any more suggestions?
Hello Andre
'unicode-insert hex-value'. So 'M-x unicode-insert 0x41'
I did as described and entered unicode-insert 0x41 in the mini-buffer followed
by Enter, the result was undescribed function
Regards Robert
ok, at least I don't have to look why it doesn't work
Regards
Robert
stupid question, but I couldn't figure it out using the manual, I allways get
error-messsages.
I'm using titlesec and I just want my section*-title centered instead of the
default left alignment.
I use Lyx 1.37 with the document-class article.
thanks Robert
Hi Bob,
works perfectly!
Thanks and Regards
Robert
Hello,
I have trouble with png-graphic-files.
I havew abotu 20 files included in a article file on Lyx 1.34. I works fine to
create a pdf but then suddenly I get the error: The file cannot be converted
error executing ps2pdf -CompatibilityLevel=1.3 'filename.ps'
What seems strange to me is that I
Hello,
I just tried to put a AMS align environment in a table and I get an error
message. Is there any way to do this?
I'm using Lyx 1.34. on a SuSE 8.3 Linux.
Thanks
Robert
Hello,
is there a way to change the distance between the toc-entries?
(tocdepth is 2)
I used baselinestretch and parskip.
This works for the distance between the subsection-entries.
But the vertical distance between the last subsection-entry and the next
section-entry ist still very big. How do
Hello,
I tried to install lyx 143-4 on Windows xp using the network installation
package. Everything runs fine, all the miktech is installed.
When I try to open Lyx the dos-shell appears for half a second, as usually but
then nothing happens...
I rebooted but it didn't help
Is there any solution.
Hello,
finally I upgraded from Suse 9.1 and lyx 134 to kubuntu dapper drake and lyx
143.
Everything works fine but my computer (notebook samsung x20, Centrino 1,6 MHZ)
now needs about 3 times the time to export my lyx file to pdf.
I have files with approx. 300 pages with approx 60 eps figures,
Hello Raymond,
sounds reasonable, I found a documentation at
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Ps2pdf.htm
But since I'm not so familiar with the switches and options
Menu - Tools - Settings (I guess, last choice in the bottom,
«Préférences» in french) - Converters
it's the same in german,
Hello,
I just checked the latex protocoll (lyx 143-1 on kubuntu) and found, that
there are many complaints I don't understand, for example:
Underfull \hbox (badness 1) in paragraph at lines 351--370
[]
The content of the lines 351-370 is:
Skizzieren Sie die Schaubilder folgender
At least I could locate the problem a bit by now, which might be helpful for the
devellopers:
It is noch a kubuntu problem, I installed opensuse 10.1 and used the lyx 1.42,
the same...
The postscript-preview takes only 7-8 sec, so it is a postscript=pdf conversion
problem. (I use the ps2pdf
Hello,
I'm using Lyx 143 on windows xp and I'm trying to include a figure in the footer
with fancyfoot using the command:
\fancyfoot[LO]{\includegraphics[scale=0.25]{../Abbildungen/t_rechner_2.eps}}
It works only if I have the figure somewhere else in the document included. If
it is only in the
Hello Paul,
works fine with graphicx, thanks!
Regards Robert
Hello christian,
just insert an ERT with
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
if you want to set the counter back use
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\arabic{enumi}.}
Regards
Robert
Hello,
I had lyx 143 running on win xp and everything went fine.
Now I reinstalled lyx (with all miktex and so on) because I rearranged my
harddrive.
If I now want to create a pdf of an existing file using ps2pdf, I get only a
blank page. dvi and pdflatex works. Unfortunately I need ps2pdf...
Check Tools-Preferences-Converters-Postscript-PDF (ps2pdf). The
converter is usually ps2pdf13, but I suppose it could be different in
your setup. Assuming it is, there should be a ps2pdf13.bat file in the
MikTeX bin directory (along with ps2pdfxx.bat and ps2pdfxx.exe).
The converter is
Hello Paul,
here it is
regards Robert
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass article
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{multicol}
\renewcommand\labelenumi{\alph{enumi})}
\renewcommand\labelenumii{\Roman{enumii})}
ok, we found it
latex test.tex worked fine
dvips -o test.ps test.dvi worked fine
ps2pdf13 test.ps test.pdf produced error: invalidfont in findfont and
many nostringval
it is the \mathptmx which causes the error
I can reproduce it if I set in a new document the font to times: then
Hello,
I use the package fancyhdr, then I put in the header:
\begin{picture}(0,0)
\put(-32,-4){\includegraphics[scale=1]{example.eps}}
\end{picture}}
With the put command you can change the position of the image, with the scale
you can change the size.
You have to put a
Good question. I would start by going to the MikTeX Options program,
General tab, and click the Update Formats button. I've encountered
problems where MikTeX suddenly became unable to generate fonts (after
I'd done an update to it), and this seemed to do the trick.
I tried, but it didn't
Do you have this problem when using Times without mathptmx, or only
when using Times with mathptmx?
The problem occurs as soon as I set the font to type within Lyx, even if I
write nothing in the preamble
Also, when you say you reinstalled MikTeX, is
I got it,
at least I can work again with my system. I insalled an old Miktex 2.4 and now
it works again. I still have no clue why (on my system) it doesn't work properly
with Miktex 2.5 but I won't touch anything for the next ten years!
(The only thing which is a bit strange, that on my lyx 136
hello,
is there a way to define different vertical margins for odd and even pages?
(I'm designing Vocabulary-Cards with lyx and on the odd side I need a header
and a footer, but on the even side I need neither one - but space to write the
anwer...)
One of my Ideas was, to have small margins
Check in Edit-Preferences...-File formats-PDF (ps2pdf)
that the Viewer: field is correctly set to whatever you use for viewing
works perfectly now
thx
Robert
Sorry, I forgot to mention, that I'm already using \fancyhdr
But I don't manage to set different margins for the odd and even pages.
e.g. the headsep is allways the same.
Regards Robert
Hello,
I would like to change the leftmargin of my itemize environment to zero, so that
the bullets are exactly at the left margin of the standard-text.
I tried to insert a \setlenght{\leftmargin}{0mm} in an ERT at the beginning of
the first itemized paragraph, but this has no effect. (this place
works perfect, thank you
(great package, I didn't know about the existence)
Regards Robert
Hello,
I still encounter problems with eps in the footer, as mentioned in posting:
gmane.editors.lyx.general:34527
After inserting \usepackage{graphicx} in the preamble it works well with my lyx
/ latex2.4 on windows xp
When I gave the file and the graphic to a friend of mine, on whose pc we
Hello,
I have a problem with my screen fonts using lyx 1.36. Since a couple of month
the mathematical fonts are displayed wrong. e.g. \neq is displayed as 6=, \gamma
as ° and so on... The lyx-file itself is fine and the ps export works perfectly.
It is only a bit annoying for correction and
Hello Uwe
Btw. When you really need to use LyX 1.3.x I recommend to update to LyX 1.3.7
because that fixes many Win specific issues and the math fonts should then also
work again
the installation of 1.3.7 worked fine, I'll use this now.
I have to stick to 1.3.x because my lyx 1.37 on SuSE Linux
Did you use LyX 1.4.x in between the session where 1.3.7 worked and the
session where it did not?
yep, 1.43 and since 2 weeks 1.44
Hope this helps. I look forward to the day that someone figures out
what is going on here.
At least I know, that I don't know... (or in this case, that there
Hello,
I just installed lyx 144 sucessfully on a macbook core duo. Opening and
working on a document with 40 pages was no problem (well scrolling up
and down was a bit sluggish...)
But when I opened a document with 290 pages and about 80 figures lyx
hangs itself at the first attempt. At the
Thanks,
Part of the issue may stem from your having LyX display
the graphics; doing this requires that LyX convert the graphics one-
by-one to a format it is able to display, and this may take a while.
ok, I will turn of the graphics preview, I dont really need it.
The other issue -- taking a
hello,
I have some AMS align environments and I would like to change the space above
and below these equations. From the Latex Companion and an older thread I
know, that this is difficult to change the settings. So I just added
\vspace*{-2mm} above at the end of the text. Works perfectly. But I
thank you, works fine...
1. Put the vspace at the end of the paragraph containing
the math, rather than in the beginning of the next paragraph.
this just adds space before the math
you'll have to add a paragraph spacing distance to the
negative distance to make up for the extra paragraph.
this sounds like
Hello,
I have some eps files (graphics) included in the header of my lyx-file.
I do this in the preamble which works perfectly.
I export the file to pdf which works as well.
Now I found out that the color-profile of the pdf-file is RGB instead
of the original CMYK-Profile of the graphics.
How
Hello,
I am writing a text using article.
Now I would like to increase the indent in the section and subsection- lines in
the toc.
I'm talking about the indent before the actual section-number.
(The reason is, that I have 3 different parts, with sections from 1 to 5, I use
setcounter to set the
Hello,
is there any way of using an euro-symbol in mathmode? (I want to create some
exercises with the rule of three (Dreisatz)).
I use the eurosym-package, but this works only in textmode.
Thanks
Robert
Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robert Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
is there any way of using an euro-symbol in mathmode?
If works out of the box with the unicode Euro symbol € in LyX 1.6.
unfortunately I still use 1.37...
I use the eurosym-package, but this works
Hello,
I'm looking vor a way to unterline one line of a matrix.
I use the matrix for an equation and the last line should be underlined.
\underline works only for the single entries but not for the whole line
(Lyx 13.7 on SuSE Linux)
Thanks
Robert
works with text in math... thanks
Hello,
I use Lyx 1.3.4 on a SuSE Linux. I'm using the document-class article.
Is there a way to switch the dots in the toc between header ans pagenumber on
and off?
How can I change the space between the dots?
Thanks
Robert
Hello,
I have a problem with the quality of jpg-images.
I have a jpg image with best quality, made with coreldraw (actually I use
coreldraw to to work on the existing jpg-file, which contains function-graphs
and other curves)
When I open it, the quality is good, there are no little dots from the
Thankx for the very nice advice, especially the sarcastic note!
I write books with about 250 pages and 10 pic. On the old Lyx it takes
around 25 sec. to produce a pdf, on the newer lyx it takes around 40 sec.
When I do the final work I have to produce quite a lot of pdfs to check
the pages. So
It would be interesting to know what exactly causes this difference.
I spent two days on this, a couple of years ago, then I gave up and switched
back to the old Lyx. You can find the discussion here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/34234/focus=34251
It was definitely a big
What I do not understand is:If you compare LyX 1.3 and LyX 1.6 on the same
system (using the same LaTeX installation), do you see a delay then?
As far as I remember: no. But I remember that it was extremly difficult to
install 1.4 on the SuSE Linux, because of YAST, which sticks to the lyx,
Hi Steve,
thanks for the shell skript. I will work with this later, unfortunately I have
only my old Lyx 1.3.4 on an old Suse Linux 9.1 and because of YAST I could not
install a newer Lyx on the same machine. But I have a Lyx 1.5 on a Suse Linux
11.
It is a strange situation now:
- I tried with
Hello Wayan,
I usually use eps for all my vektordrawings, but once in a while I have
to include an jpg, but the funny thing is, that it works with Lyx 1.5
on a Suse 11,so it seems to be possible. The ps-File on my old Suse with
Lyx 1.3 has no pixels either when I export to ps(as I just posted in
Guenter Milde mi...@... writes:
Do you scale the figure in question or set a fixed size? Re-sizing pixel
images can lead to bad surprises.
yes, I just tried with 100%: No Difference.
EPS and PDF can both include JPEG and PNG images -- in newer versions.
Some convertors, however, will
Well, seems like the time to apologize. It was my point of view and I
was wrong. Next time, I try to be more constructive...
Accepted;-)
Next time I have a problem, I will post the link to the old thread about the
strange fact that the newer latex takes more than twice the time immediately.
If you use Coreldraw, don't export to jpg you graphic, but directly to eps
type 2 and you will have best quality and no pixelated contours.
thats what I did, normaly I do the complete drawing but in this case I had to
include a jg.
With GIF-Export it works fairly well, thats what I found out
Hello,
I installed a new font in my LaTeX 2.02 on a Suse Linux 9.1 The creation of all
the necessary files worked fine.
I did all the installation of files as root, but all files are readable to all
users.
When I use Lyx as root it works fine and I can create a pdf.
But as soon as I log in as
OK, I checked the permissions, there was a fault now everything ist perfect.
The reason why I don't upgrade ist that Lyx with teTeX 2.02 is much faster to
produce pdfs than all newer versions!
My typical files have 200 pages and 100 eps figures.
I discussed this rather strange behavior a couple
Hello,
I have a Problem with a german umlaut in index entries: The entry is testä the
error is displayed as:
LaTeX Error: Command \textcurrency unavailable in encoding T1.
\item test\~A\IeC {\textcurrency }
, 5
I am using Lyx 1.3.4 on SuSE Linux 9.1
Hello,
I'm writing a dokument with article style. Now I changed the beforesep and
the aftersep settings with titlesec for chapters 2-6 using the command:
\titlespacing{\subsection}{0pt}{*2}{*0.7}
How can I go back to the default settings for the rest of the document?
Thanks
Robert
Hello I'm looking for a way to put a black bar on the side of my page, to
mark a certain part of a book. (like you have it in phonebooks or
dicionaries, but I need no letters).
Can anybody help me? (and does anybody know how something like this is called
by the way)
Thank you
Robert
You're looking for a chapter-thumbs? Here you can find an example on how to
achieve this with KOMA-Script:
http://www.komascript.de/node/view/25
The fancyhdr documentation (section 20) shows an alternative solution.
not exactly, what I'm looking for, is more simple. Just a bar on the outer
Thanks for the hints, I defined a rule called balken which is going to be
used by rbalken for the odd pages (and eventually lbalken for the even
pages):
\newcommand{\balken}{\rule[0mm]{6mm}{165mm}}
\newcommand\rbalken{
\begin{picture}(0,0)
\put(10,-160){\balken}
\end{picture}
and then
Hello,
I am writing a text using the package geometry. for the 4th and 5th chapter
the topmargin should be changed. but I get the error message that
\geometry{tmargin=10mm} can only be used in the preamble.
using \topmargin is not easy because the tmargin of the geometry package and
\topmargin
Hello,
I'm looking for a way to center a multiline text horizontally and vertically on
a page.
(I'm planing to write something like vocabulary cards). The horizontal
alignment is no problem but how to center the text vertically?
thanks
Robert
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\vspace*{\fill}
before and after you text and it will align it centrally.
it works so far that the bottom of the first line is at
No need to use ERT. See attached (use the paragraph dialog to get the
vspace*{\fill}.
When I use the paragraph dialog it provides me only with a vfill and not with a
vfill* (I use the variabel in the german paragraph dialog)
Robert
Hello,
I'm writing an article with one colum but in some sections I would like to
have 2 or 3 colums. But in the menu I find only the option to change
the number of colums for the whole document.
Does anybody has a solution?
Thanks
Robert
Hello,
I have two sections in a document. I am looking for a way, so change
the size of the sub-section in one of the two sections. Is it posibble to
define another numbered sub-section?
Thanks Robert
Herbert Voss wrote:
Robert Neumann schrieb:
I have two sections in a document. I am looking for a way, so change
the size of the sub-section in one of the two sections. Is it posibble to
define another numbered sub-section?
what do you want to change? the size of the font,
size
hello,
I am unsing tables and the witdh of the whole table should not exceed a
certain value. Since I have different stuff in the cells it makes no sense to
set the table width to a fixed value, because some rows would look pretty
empty. Is there a way to see quickly what with the whole table
hello,
does anybody know if it is possible to change the left margin in a paragraph
of a document and not for the whole document?
thanks
Robert Neumann
Sorry, I was not exact enough:
old question:
hello,
does anybody know if it is possible to change the left margin in a paragraph
of a document and not for the whole document?
thanks
Robert Neumann
1. I would like to have a paragraph with a smaller margin some kind of
negative indent.
2. On my
Hello,
I have some pictures size about 5 x5 cm which I try to place in a text. Is
there any way to place an array or a multiline equation besides the picture.
With a table there is no chance and when I use Hfills, the problem is, that
the array ia not at the same height as the picture, the
Hi,
I'm using lyx 1.2.0 and I have set the font size for the whole document to 11
pt.
Now I would like to change the size for one one chapter to 10 pt. How can I do
this, it should be pretty simple, but I could not figure it out..
thanks
Robert
Hello,
I have an Article with 40 Sections. Now I would like to have a toc which
contains only the first half of the article.
(Actually I reset the sections counter after 20 Sections and start because the
second half of the sections are a kind of repetition of the first ones)
Is there any way of
Hello,
Im using the article.cls and I tried to use fancyheader with the following
commands in the preamble:
\usepackage {fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
And at the beginning of the document:
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\bfseries mytitle}
\fancyfoot[RE,LO]{ \thepage}
\cfoot{}
But mytitle as
Hello,
I'm looking for a way to color the right margin of some pages in gray and
black.
It has to be something like a thumb index described in the page layout in
latex article. but actually more simple: Just a 5 mm wide plain grey area at
the right side of the odd pages and the left side of the
Hello,
I am using the fancyhdr package with the commands
\fancyhead [RO,LE]{ \slshape \leftmark}
to print the pagenumber in the header.
But I would like to have normal with no uppercases. I cannot figure out what
to insert, since I'm sure there is a very simple solution.
(Yes, I'm a newbie)
Hello,
I'm trying to use the mathtime package with Suse Linux 8.1 and Lyx 1.20
In the preamble I inserted
\usepackage {mathtime}
But I get no dvi preview and a weird pdf.
How can I change this?
Thanks
Robert
Hi,
I would like to start a list with 3. like
3. bla bla
4. bla bla
\setcounter {enumi}{2} doesn't work, it works only in situations like:
1. bla bla
2. bla bla
3. bla bla
4. bla bla \setcounter{enumi}{2}
3. bla bla
Can anybody help me?
Robert
Hello,
I am using Lyx 1.2.1 and \usepackage{mathptmx}
I exported my file to a .pdf which worked fine for linux and windows98
But when I tried to open it with a mac, the pi and the infinity symbol were
gone... There was just white space.
Does anybody know how to solve this problem?
Thanks
Robert
, the second as it should be on the left side.
Is there a way of solving this problem?
Thank you
Robert Neumann
Hello,
I am normally using Lyx 1.20, but I'm planing to switch to lyx 1.3.2. When I
open a document which was created with lyx 1.20 using fanyhdr I encounter a
problem: When I use the pdf preview or export function, the pagenumbers
(created with fancyfoot) were gone. If I'm using the dvi
Am Samstag, 15. November 2003 12:10 schrieb Herbert Voß:
Robert Neumann schrieb:
I am normally using Lyx 1.20, but I'm planing to switch to lyx 1.3.2.
When I open a document which was created with lyx 1.20 using fanyhdr I
encounter a problem: When I use the pdf preview or export function
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\slshape Vorwort}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
\cfoot{}
this is stuff which should completely go into the preamble.
Then you have no pagenumbers for dvi and pdf output.
But I want to have pagenumbers!
Okay for the idea that it should be put in
Hi,
I have a table in an enumerated list. Now the number of the list is allways in
the middle, like this:
II
II
3. II
II
I___ I
Is there a possibility to have it like
Hi,
I have a file with fancyhdr and the followings commands in the preamble.
It works fine with lyx 1.20
\usepackage {fancyhdr}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[RO,LE]{\slshape Vorwort}
\fancyfoot[LE,RO]{\thepage}
Now I changed to lyx 1.3.2 and when I export to ps or pdf, the pagenumber in
the footer is
Thank you for the hints,
I attached a minimal file that shows the problem
It works perfectly with Lyx 1.2. with dvi and pdf.
Thank you
Robert
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Robert Neumann wrote:
Hi,
I have a file with fancyhdr and the followings commands in the preamble.
It works fine with lyx 1.20
Am Samstag, 21. Februar 2004 14:03 schrieb Herbert Voss:
Robert Neumann wrote:
I attached a minimal file that shows the problem
It works perfectly with Lyx 1.2. with dvi and pdf.
I cannot believe, please send the 1.2 LyX, log and
tex file.
I attached the files, created120 means created
Hello Herbert,
youe were right with this one:
\topmargin 15mm
\rightmargin 20mm
\bottommargin 5mm
it is impossible to place a pagenumber in a 5mm footer!
I set the bottommargin to 15mm and the pagenumber appeared!!! So it was all
the time there but in a way to much down as I would
Hello,
I recently changed from Lyx 1.20 to 1.30. Lyx 1.30 seems to print rather the
latex code like \Rightarrow or cdot on the screen instead of = or the
dot.
I prefer the sign but I found no option to change this.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks
Robert
I recently changed from Lyx 1.20 to 1.30. Lyx 1.30 seems to print rather
the latex code like \Rightarrow or cdot on the screen instead of =
or the dot.
I prefer the sign but I found no option to change this.
Can anybody help me?
try any of these:
Hi list,
I would like to start an enumeratet list with 3. and I cannot do that.
Is there any possibility to do that?
(I found already some postings, but all of these explain, how to get back to
an enumeration that started already)
Thank you
Robert
I would like to start an enumeratet list with 3. and I cannot do that.
as ERT, add
\setcounter{enumi}{0}
This works fine if I want to have something like
1. first item
2. second item
\setcounter{enumi}{5}
6. sixth item
My problem is, to change the value of the FIRST item.
(If I instert
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