Re: Irregularity with CambridgeUS theme in Beamer
Thanks for your swift reply Baris!
I'll do some further testing on my site. I'm using TexLive
Cheers!Sam
On Friday, 16 February 2018, 17:36, Baris Erkus
wrote:
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Both boxes are black in my case. ? I am using Lyx 2.3.0rc2 Win edition and
MikTeX. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Sam Lewis
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 12:29 PM
To: LyX Developers
Cc: LyX Users
Subject: Irregularity with CambridgeUS theme in Beamer Hi, This is a
persistent irregularity with beamer when using CambridgeUS theme that I noticed
since 2.2.x. Currently I'm using 2.3.0dev. In a beamer frame, two boxes
(minipages, drop shadow) are place in columns next to each other. Everything
works fine, except in the first frame one of the boxes including text is always
red. Please see test file for more details. What could this be? Many
thank! Cheers, Sam
Test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
Irregularity with CambridgeUS theme in Beamer
Hi, This is a persistent irregularity with beamer when using CambridgeUS theme that I noticed since 2.2.x. Currently I'm using 2.3.0dev. In a beamer frame, two boxes (minipages, drop shadow) are place in columns next to each other. Everything works fine, except in the first frame one of the boxes including text is always red. Please see test file for more details. What could this be? Many thank! Cheers,Sam Test.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: 'noframenumbering' option for beamer
On Thursday, 4 January 2018, 11:34, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >the part in [] is called an "optional argument", and in LyX you can >insert it by going to Insert > Frame Options. That's great! Thank you Scott. I'll peruse the documentation as you recommend. Best, Sam
'noframenumbering' option for beamer
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Hi,
The following latex code creates a frame in beamer that does not count towards
the total pager number.
\begin{frame}[noframenumbering]
\titlepage
\end{frame}
What would be a good way to achieve this in LyX? Alternatively, is there an
easy way to suppress the total pager number in the theme of my choice,
e.g.'CambridgeUS'?
Many thanks!
Cheers, Sam
-Sam Lewis
Re: LaTex question: KOMA-script headers and chapter bibliography
> On Thursday, 30 April 2015, 2:03, Johannes Böttcher wrote:
> You are defining `defbibheading` in a way that updates the running
> header with *Further Reading* via `markboth`. Deleting this line should
> fix your problem.
>
> If you really want to have the chapter titles on the starting pages of
> chapters, you can use
> `\renewcommand*{\chapterpagestyle}{scrheadings}`
> or use the starred variant of the commands -> `\ihead*{Chapter
> \headmark}`. An up to date version of KOMA-script is needed for that.
>
> Once you start the appendix, you have some trouble, as you are
> hard-coding the word *chapter*. You can use `\chapapp` instead.
Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I fixed it like this.
\documentclass[chapterprefix=on]{scrbook}
\usepackage[automark]{scrlayer-scrpage}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\ihead{\headmark}
\ohead[\pagemark]{\pagemark}
\chead{}
\cfoot[]{}
\defbibheading{subbibliography}{%
\addsec{#1}}
\chapter{...}
\begin{refsection}
...
\printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,title={Further
Reading},notcategory=cited]
\printbibliography[heading=subbibliography,title={Bibliography},category=cited]
\end{refsection}
Now works like a charm!
Again many thanks.
Cheers, Sam
LaTex question: KOMA-script headers and chapter bibliography
I create running headers in a Koma-script book with the following. This gives
me a page number and the chapter heading on each page, except on the first page
of each chapter as desired.
\usepackage[automark]{scrlayer-scrpage}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\ihead{Chapter \headmark}
\ohead[\pagemark]{\pagemark}
\chead{}
\cfoot[]{}
In this book, I have a bibliography and a further reading section at the end of
each chapter via this code in the preamble
\defbibheading{subbibliography}[\bibname]{%
\section*{#1}%
\markboth{#1}{#1}}
and this ERT at the end of each chapter.
\printbibliography[heading=subbibintoc,title={Further
Reading},notcategory=cited]
\printbibliography[heading=subbibintoc,category=cited]
\end{refsection}
\begin{refsection}
Everything works fine, except that the header on the last page of each chapter
is called "Further Reading" instead of the name of the chapter.
How to fix this?
Many thanks!
Bibliography environments -- poll results
Dear all, This is the result of our poll on bibliography environments. The poll is now closed. Summary: We had 22 responses. Currently the majority of the respondents deploy either Natbib or BibTex. In the future, Biblatex is projected to be the most popular choice by the respondents. Detailed data: See attachments. Many thanks to those who responded. Best wishes, Sam
Your Bibliography Environment -- 1 min poll
Dear all, LyX supports a range of different bibliography environments. Some of them are very mature and well integrated others are relatively new. This is to find out what LyX users mainly use. Please completed this quick poll (two questions) and I will post the results here in about two weeks. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LKNGDFB Many thanks! Best wishes, Sam
LuaTex and biblatex: LyX insert reference irregularity
I generate a pdf via LuaTex with a reference entry that contains two authors.
The output is produced as expected without any problems.
However, the inserted citation for the "two authors" reference entry, results
in an intext citation in LyX of *Author et al.* despite that the citation does
not have three or more authors. Please see attachments for reproducing.
Has a bug report been filed for this?
Cheers!
Test.lyx
Description: application/lyx
% This file was created with JabRef 2.10.
% Encoding: UTF-8
@Article{ReeGar03,
Title= {Analysing competence: Gender and identity at work},
Author = {Bronwen Rees and Elizabeth Garnsey},
Journal = {Gender, Work \& Organization},
Year = {2003},
Number = {5},
Pages= {551--578},
Volume = {10}
}
Re: Hanging paragraphs and \printbibliography
Sam Lewis yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
> I have the \usepackage{hanging} in my document's preamble and successfully
> How do I sensibly integrate the \printbibliography and {hangparas} commands?
Just found the answer! It's controlled by biblatex and not by hanging
package. I.e.:
\setlength{\bibhang}{1em}
\printbibliography
Cheers Sam!
Hanging paragraphs and \printbibliography
I have the \usepackage{hanging} in my document's preamble and successfully
compile with XeTeX. I create hanging paragraphs by using this ERT:
\begin{hangparas}{1em}{1}
Text
\end{hangparas}
However I would like to have hanging paragraphs in my reference section
which is a biblatex output from \printbibliography.
How do I sensibly integrate the \printbibliography and {hangparas} commands?
Cheers!
Sam
Re: RCS user name
Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane navy.mil> writes: > check the file in, but do not check back out a LOCKED copy of the file, > and then you should be able to > checkout a LOCKED copy on the other computer. > > Version Control is GOOD :) Very useful! Thanks! Sam
RCS user name
Dear all, I am using RCS for all my LyX documents to control version changes. I usually synchronize my data to any other Linux computer at a different office. However, when working on a different machine from where the initial document was registered I am unable to check in the document changes, because I log onto each system with different a username. Is there a way around this? Does someone know how to configure RCS, because the username in LyX identity settings does not seem to affect this issues. Many thanks! Sam
Re: Converting lyx to odt
Sotiris Hasapis gmail.com> writes: > I ' m trying to convert lyx to odt file using the methods described > here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice > but nothing seems to work. Does any have some success converting lyx documents that use biblatex. There seem to be considerable more problems with this type. Cheers! Sam
Re: Non-Latin font in document
Walter gmail.com> writes:
>
> I have found XeTeX the best for foreign font output.
>
> I use the following under Document|Settings|LaTeX preamble:
>
> % required for xelatex
> \usepackage{doc} % defines \bibtex macro
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xunicode}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
>
> % apparently for fontspec, not sure if actually needed
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
>
> %: --- set up commands for different fonts for each language.
>
> %: - thai font
> \newfontfamily{\TH}[Scale=1.2]{Norasi}
> \newcommand{\thai}[1]{{\TH #1}}
Thank you for the swift reply. It works fine; I can produce pdfs with Thai words
with the correct font!
I have added \newfontfamily\Thai{Norasi} to the preamble and use the ERT
\Thai\emph{a Thai word} in the LyX document. I got an error with the suggested
\newfontfamily{\TH}[Scale=1.2]{Norasi} But that's not a problem. A little bit of
ERT is fine.
I was wondering whether it is also possible to generate OpenDocument outputs
with XeTex, like pdflatex can do. I only got xhtml now, but that seems limited
as I believe there is no way to import this into libreoffice.
Non-Latin font in document
I have an article (Koma-script) LyX document that is written in British English and produces PDFs at its default encoding via Texlive. This document shall contain in addition to the main text in English some Thai words in Thai font. What would be the best setting to produce PDFs and OpenDocuments outputs for this document? Many thanks! Cheers, Sam
Re: Using LyX to edit & organise bibliographies
> From: Liviu Andronic > It may be nice, perhaps, for LyX to provide an 'Edit BibTeX refs' > button that would allow to easily launch your preferred reference > manager on your ref library. +1 Cheers, Sam
Beamer, usebackgroundtemplate, and background colour for ratio-maintained images
Hi,
I successfully create beamer presentations that contain individual slides that
have full-screen (background) images, with the following latex code:
{\usebackgroundtemplate {\includegraphics[bb=0bp 0bp 1024bp
666bp,width=1\paperwidth]{image}}
\begin{frame}[plain]~\end{frame} }
However, when using a ratio-maintained image that incidentally does not have the
same aspect as the slide size, I get a white strip for the uncovered part of the
slide. Adding \setbeamercolor to the preamble or to specific frames leaves the
frame that contains the \usebackgroundtemplate command unaffected.
How can one control the colour of the *remaining* "background for a frame that
uses the \usebackgroundtemplate command?
Many thanks!
Cheers, Sam
Re: Goodbye message and the search for a new LyX Debian package maintainer
Thank you for the good work over the years, Sven! Your effort will be greatly missed. Best wishes, Sam > Sven Hoexter wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I already switched my work focus away from things where LyX is involved >> (about half a year ago), but only recently settled for a new fulltime >> employment starting next week. So after about five years maintaining the >> LyX package in Debian together with Per this is kind of my goodbye message >> to all the marvelous people who helped me/us along the way.[+] > > Hi Sven, > > I am amazed that is was such a long time. Thank you very much for your > effort, it surely has helped a lot of people. For me it was a pleasure to > work together with you. I hope that we soon get a new maintaner who keeps up > the good work. > > > Georg >
Erratic cursor position in relation to displayed lines of text
Hi, Just to check whether this apparent bug has been reported for LyX 2.0. I have experienced several times erratic changes in the position of the cursor in relation to the displayed lines of text. At some point when the cursor is positioned in the lower parts of the displayed lines of text, a sudden scroll occurs and the displayed lines of text changes by moving the line of current cursor position into the place of the firsted displayed line of text on screen. Cheers, Sam
Re: Most suitable image format
Thanks for your quick reply. I intent to both print it and distribute it online. I guess two versions of the document might be useful. What lossy format, would you recommend for the latter? Cheers, Sam - Original Message - > From: Rob Oakes > To: Sam Lewis > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > Sent: Tuesday, 31 May 2011, 20:22 > Subject: Re: Most suitable image format > > It actually depends on how you intend to use the resulting document. If you > will > be printing the resulting PDF on a professional press, then you will want to > use > a lossless format (most likely tiff), or a high quality jpeg. > > If the PDF is to be put on your website, you will probably want to use a > lossy > format of some type. It will give a better quality to file size ratio, even > though it will introduce some artifacts into the image. But unless your > readers > will be viewing the image at very high resolution (onscreen), they are not > going > to notice. > > Hope that's of some help. > > Cheers, > > Rob >
Most suitable image format
Hello, I have a lyx document in which I would like to insert a high-quality colour photography of me. The output document will be pdf. The photo is currently in RAW format (NEF) and I would like to find out what will the most suitable image format for converting the raw format into. I presume it will be some lossless format. Any suggestions? Many thanks! Cheers, Sam -- Sam Lewis
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 is released
Many congratulations! LyX has been turned into a mature product. Thank you to the whole community. Cheers, Sam - Original Message - > From: Pavel Sanda > To: LyX devel > Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org; lyx-annou...@lists.lyx.org > Sent: Sunday, 8 May 2011, 10:00 > Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX version 2.0.0 is released > > Public release of LyX version 2.0.0 > === > > We are proud to announce the public release of LyX 2.0.0. > > With this release, LyX celebrates 15 years of existence, and we start > a new family of 2.x releases to acknowledge LyX's passing from a child > to an adult. We hope you will celebrate this anniversary with us. > > LyX 2.0.0 is the culmination of two and half years of hard work. This > release begins a new series of 2.0.x which will incrementally improve its > stability as the time passes. > > An overview of the new features can be found here: > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20 > > You can download LyX 2.0.0 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/ . > > We hope you will enjoy the result! > > The file RELEASE-NOTES lists some known issues and problems compared > to the current stable releases (LyX 1.6.x). We strongly recommend that > packagers of LyX on various platforms and distributions read this file. > > As with any major release, this one comes with lot of new features but > also some bugs. If you think you have found a bug in LyX 2.0.0, either email > the LyX developers' mailing list (lyx-devel at lists.lyx.org), or open a bug > report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome . > > If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the > documentation that comes with LyX (under Help) and the LyX wiki, which you > will find at http://wiki.lyx.org/ . You can also send email to the LyX > users' > list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org). > > The LyX team. > http://www.lyx.org >
Re: A basic requested feature
> IMO, we need to improve the functionality of > LyX, and not block good ideas. Of course everybody is welcome to make suggestions and put forward ideas on functionality. But it does not mean that everything gets implemented; it needs to be realistic and accepted by the community of users and developers. Cheers, Sam
Re: Friends, Fellows, Comrades!
> What I mean is when you go to 'Insert > Note > Comment' for example, you > get a comment icon on the page. It is called 'Comment' but I would like > to change that to say 'May Ideas' 'Important Page Numbers' or whatever. Don't think so. You have to use "Label" that you place before the note. But this will not show up in the outliner. Cheers, Sam
Re: lmodern?
> LyX already departs from LaTeX defaults by changing the font encoding
> from OT1 to T1. (See the line
> \usepackage[T1]{inputenc}
Is this not absurd for a default setting: I.e. T1 and CM? If the majority of
users supposedly not primarily write in English, should it not be T1 + LM? If
however most write in English should it not be OT1 + LM? Why bother with CM? Or
am I missing something? Perhaps a survey might shed light on the situation.
Cheers, Sam
Re: Dissertation Finished! Thank you LyXers!
Excellent! > > I also have a number of tips/tricks I accumulated along the way. If > > interested I'd be happy to combine these and post them here. This would be useful, particularly any kind on using LyX in the Humanities. Please add them to the wiki and post the link here. Many thanks! Cheers, Sam
Re: Copy&paste irregularity (2.0-B4) [how to reproduce]
Sam Lewis yahoo.co.uk> writes: > A random text copied from a pdf into lyx (as done many times before), > produces some spacing/ wrapping > irregularities. See attachment. How do I remove any formatting? How it it It seems to be only happening with pdf documents from this journal. Copying from other pdf documents works fine. Reproduce: * Copy from here (open journal): http://www.germanlawjournal.com/pdfs/Vol11-No1/PDF_Vol_11_No_01_9- 32_GG60_Mahlmann.pdf *Paste into new document Cheers, Sam
Re: LyX and TexLive2010
> Both 1.6.7 as well as 2.0 work fine here with TL2010. Thank you for letting me know. Cheers, Sam
LyX and TexLive2010
Dear All, Does anyone successfully use LyX (1.6.7) with TexLive2010? Since I have change to TL2010, LyX brings up the fatal error that I don't have e-Tex. I have update TL2010 via tlnet update, as previously suggested. TL2009 works perfectly well. Any idea? Many thanks. Cheers, Sam
Re: biblatex: elatex and texlive
> Use the TeXLive Utility and update. Thanks. I'll try this. Cheers, Sam
biblatex: elatex and texlive
Dear All, This is slightly off-topic. I have successfully used biblatex with LyX for a long time. Today after changing my TexLive DVD installation from 2009 to 2010, I am not able to compile documents anymore that use the biblatex package. I now get a fatal error message that elatex is not found. Does anyone know about changes in TexLive 2010 and how this relates to biblatex? Any suggestions? Many thanks! Cheers, Sam
Re: Hyperlink: "No action defined!"?
> > icon and the following pop up message appears: "No action defined!" > > What can I define where? > Absent your modifying the source code, I suspect you cannot define any > actions. I see, this is just some kind of place holder in the source. Why not use this for opening the defined link? Might be useful to improve the writing-reading-writing flow. Cheers, Sam
Hyperlink: "No action defined!"?
Hi, What is the purpose of right clicking on a hyperlink *inside* LyX? Reproduce: [Insert] > [Hyperlink]; add a link; right click on inserted hyperlink icon and the following pop up message appears: "No action defined!" What can I define where? Can I open this link from *within* LyX? That would be perfect. Anybody any idea? Many thanks! Cheers, Sam
Re: texlive2008 Debian + any linux distro
> How could I install texlive2008 under debian? > I have the TeX Collection DVD of September 2008 > but would not like to mess things up TexLive 2008 has now also an online installer. http://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html Best to uninstall the TeX packages that comes with your current Linux distribution and follow the above instruction if you don't have a DVD. You need to check how in your Linux distribution LyX is coupled in terms of its requirements for TeX packages. For Debian users, LyX does not "require" any TeX packages. If your distro does, obviously, leave thoses packages which are necessary for LyX installed. Using the TexLive 2008 Package Manager is very easy and should be considered a serious advantage in terms of convince, updating and recovery of a complex production system that should be independent from the distribution's package manager that controls your operating system. Cheers, Sam
Re: lyx 1.6.x on debian
Excellent! Cheers, Sam
lyx 1.6.x on debian
Hi, It's great to to have the 1.6.0~beta4-1 package in "experimental", with matching dependencies of "testing". Thank you kindly, maintainer Sven Hoexter, for your effort! Does anyone know whether, RC5 is a candidate for "experimental"? Or how close is 1.6.0 to make it into any Debian stream? This might reduce the duplication of old bugs this: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5464 Cheers, Sam
Re: [1.6.0-RC4: Layout menue for Section, Subsection or how to use mini-buffer] Bug 5464
rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So what happens when you try to use the layout combo? Just nothing? If > you run from a terminal, do you get any messages? Try "lyx -dbg all", > and see if you get any messages when you try the layout thingy. Setting debug level to all ../../../../src/frontends/qt4/GuiToolbar.cpp(658): ERROR (layoutSelected): layout not found! > > Any idea about using the mini-buffer to get around this? Or is this not a > > "function" of the mini-buffer for structuring the layout? > > > "layout Section", etc. Thanks! Does the job. Cheers, Sam
[Re: 1.6.0-RC4: Layout menue for Section, Subsection or how to use mini-buffer] bug 5464
rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, there's no known bug for that. What platform, etc, are you on? > See 5464 for more: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5464 Cheers, Sam
Re: 1.6.0-RC4: Layout menue for Section, Subsection or how to use mini-buffer
rgheck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The layout menu for these three commands seems not to work in 1.6.0-RC4. I > > presume this bug has been filed. If not let me know and I file it. > > > > > No, there's no known bug for that. What platform, etc, are you on? GNU/Linux, Debian. I'll go ahead and make an entry. Any idea about using the mini-buffer to get around this? Or is this not a "function" of the mini-buffer for structuring the layout? Cheers, Sam
1.6.0-RC4: Layout menue for Section, Subsection or how to use mini-buffer
Hi, Is there a mini-buffer command for setting "Section", "Subsection", or "Subsubsection"? The layout menu for these three commands seems not to work in 1.6.0-RC4. I presume this bug has been filed. If not let me know and I file it. Cheers, Sam
Ulteo: LyX online?
Hi, You may have come across this. Ulteo is a Linux distribution that appears to draws on concepts of cloud computing. There is an online (KDE) desktop available that has a set of standard Linux applications such as as openoffice and the likes. With 1GB storage space per account at their servers (free), it looks like a very interesting online desktop. Check it out: http://www.ulteo.com If you like it, why not post a comment on their forum, asking about adding LyX to their online desktop. Cheers, Sam http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ulteo
Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions
Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Building real Debian packages is called backporting in this case. > You don't have to recreate the whole package because you can base > it on the work already done. > > Add a deb-src line for unstable to your sources.list and > apt-get update && apt-get source lyx. Great! Thanks very much. :-) Cheers, Sam
Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions
Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Sven, > I'll keep it on list because some of the topics might > help people eventually creating Ubuntu backports to do it right. Fine! [...] > > Again, what kind of LyX users are there? Why link LyX to a specific > > latex? Would there be anyone who does not know the relationship > > between LyX and latex, I wonder? > > I should know that I need libc to use some software or shouldn't I? > If you question the need of explicit dependencies you can question > the whole model of creating ready to intall system distributions. Hmm, libc definitely not! Libraries should be explicitly linked, no doubt. Not sure about the linking a whole independent programme like latex. > > Btw, you might like to read the following discussion on checkinstall > > stating that some consider the absence of dependencies in > > checkinstall packages as *either a bug or a feature* ! > > > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/147 > > I would formulate it a bit different. Depending on your own skills > and intention you can in some cases consider it as feature. > > In the case of distributing such packages on the internet to an > unknown mass of people with a very different level of knowledge it's > IMO a disavantage. Reasonable assumption. I'm considering building a package that specifies decencies. About backporting I'm not sure at all. [...] > Of course you've to support your backports in case of security > problems in the version you've backported. It's the same for the > checkinstall stuff. You're pulling in a second, isolated, version of > boost btw that needs to be patched as well in case of problems with > boost. That's a very bad thing and I'm happy that we can use with the > external boost packages provide within Debian with the next stable > release. For a current backport you've to backport libboost aswell. > > IMHO it's easier to notice a DSA for boost and check if your boost > backport is affected as well then searching in all your packages > which libs they ship. I guess this means, I should compile and provide the boost lib too than, for Juergen to upload. Should I? > > Main point how, much time and effort does this really take? Perhaps > > you can send me some relevant links off list about the issue. > > That depends on the package and your own skill level and how much you > know about the package you're backporting. This is what I was fearing, I have no knowledge about the source and very limited skills. > In most cases it's just recompiling in a stable chroot. In case of LyX > you've to recompile boost first with a proper version number so that > it will be replaced with the next stable release that ships the same > version. Then you've to install this new boost version in a chroot > and modify the LyX source package a bit. > You might want to interdiff the .diff.gz from sid against Emilios > .diff.gz. It's actually rolling back two versioned dependencies, > removing a dh_icons call which would require a new version of > debhelper scripts and at least lenny to be usefull at all. If you > like you'll pull in the tetex stuff as alternative to texlive and > then you only need to build the package. > > If you know what to do it's about 5min plus compile time. > There are some hints on > http://debian.ethz.ch/pub/debian-backports/utils/Backport-HOWTO.html Also, is it right, that according to this instruction LyX 1.5.3 cannot yet be build: ` 2.2.1 [...] make sure you use sources with an upstream version not higher than what is available in testing.' because testing is only at 1.5.2? http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=lyx Does this mean, we only *now* could have a backport of LyX 1.5.3? What would you say to build a "real" debian package following this instruction instead of checkinstall: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/336 I would consider this in light of you convincing argument, as a reasonable compromise. Cheers, Sam
Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions
Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:26:48PM +0000, Sam Lewis wrote: > > Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Moin moin, > > > a) The social/trust problem > [...] > > What solution could you think of? Does the development team use key? > > Well the Debian project has a known web of trust based on key exchange Sensible! > > > b) Technical problems [...] > > > ba) You're breaking the upgrade path. > [...] > > True, if you are using checkinstall binaries and (in the unlikely > > event of) your stable debian release upgrading to this specific lyx > > release, libraries might most probably not match. All you need to > > do is to reinstall, through the comfort of checkinstall the > > offending lyx package. > > > > sudo dpkg -r lyx > > And then there is the user who doesn't remember what he did in good > faith to his system. A year later he upgrades to the next stable > releases und this fscking update broke his nice LyX installation > working for fine for the last year. So who's responsible for the non [...] What kind of LyX user (who opts for the latest version of LyX) do you envisage? All the packages clearly state in the README file that they are checkinstall. [...] > > > bb) Maintainer scripts have a reason > > > For example somebody doing QA work recently noticed that we've > > > left an /etc/lyxrc file on the system with the 1.4.x->1.5.x > > > upgrade which should not happen. So we're now cleaning up behind > > > us with a maintainer script which is of course bound to special > > > versions. You'll break if you install your current package an try > > > to upgrade it at a later point to a Debian version again. In this > > > case it's only an unused old file but it could of course be > > > anything more important. > > > > So how about a recommendation that users when installing a > > checkinstall binary should uses the following command line: > > > > sudo dpkg -r lyx && sudo dpkg -i lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_etch.deb && sudo > > apt-get -f install > > Here you missed the point. The error (actually an error we made in > the Debian package) is in the 1.4.x packages and will be resolved > with a maintainer script in the latest revision of the 1.5.x package. > In this special case the file will be left on the system even if you > purge the package. So your proposed fiddling won't solve anything. OK, I see. [...] > > > bc) Dependencies don't exist for fun. > > > > See above. > > The toolchain with dpkg and apt were build to resolve the > dependencies for you and you're ignoring that part completly. > Installing the checkinstall package you can even remove latex (maybe > some clean up mechanism even suggest to remove them because they look > unused now) without anything complaining. That's what I was trying to say. You might be surprised I've seen people running LyX on a tiny system without any latex for the purpose of writing and managing lyx files. I personally have used TexLive for years and was precisely only able to do this as I complied source myself rather than using an "official" LyX version linked to tetex in some distro. Again, what kind of LyX users are there? Why link LyX to a specific latex? Would there be anyone who does not know the relationship between LyX and latex, I wonder? Btw, you might like to read the following discussion on checkinstall stating that some consider the absence of dependencies in checkinstall packages as *either a bug or a feature* ! http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/147 > > > Bds..) i386? And where is the rest? > > > > Yep that would be good, but to make it clear, this is an > > instrumental move. I'm not a developer or maintainer; I am a social > > scientist, who uses LyX on a daily basis on computers that happen > > to be i386. For the benefit of others, I am providing my own > > compiled binaries, for others who don't have the knowledge or the > > resources to compile the source themselves. > > I might count that in as the only small benefit. Thanks! [...] > What I don't get is why you waste your time with this broken > checkinstall crap? It's only a very small step you've to make to get > the source package and create a backport. The Debian source packages > are free for everyone to use (that's essentialy what Ubuntu and other > distributions are based upon). I thought I was saving time, by just typing checkinstall rather make install. > The prefered solution for Debian would be to find a DD will
Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions
Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > To be clear there are two sides of the story to consider: Thank you for your comprehensive account, trying to shed light on the situation! > a) The social/trust problem > There's someone providing binarys build on an unknown system with under > unknown conditions and you've to install those binarys as superuser. > So someone I don't know and by definition don't trust will do things > with superuser rights. That can't be good. You don't need to have to > be evil but you or your tool might do something bad. Indeed (as I had mentioned on the development list earlier today) any installation soever --from an "unknown"-- presents a serious security issues. To say it again: `At present all that can be "known", is that someone from a specific email address sends an announcement to the LyX list about a new binary being available. This indeed is not very safe, yet with each day that passes (without someone complaining on the list about the binary) and with every new binary announced--from one an the same email address--it becomes more and more "safe".' In addition, the more time passes, the more like it might be that someone will notice errors, malicious or not. What solution could you think of? Does the development team use key? > b) Technical problems I guess this is a specific debian issue you're raising and might differ at each distro (my apologies to for the possibly off-list-topic discussion here). > ba) You're breaking the upgrade path. > Let's say under bad conditions the next Debian stable release will be > delivered with LyX 1.5.3 packages. What do you guess happens on a > system with etch running your packages on the upgrade? Bingo nothing > for the LyX package because it has the same version number. > So there will be users with an untrusted package compiled with some > completly different libs not matching there current system. True, if you are using checkinstall binaries and (in the unlikely event of) your stable debian release upgrading to this specific lyx release, libraries might most probably not match. All you need to do is to reinstall, through the comfort of checkinstall the offending lyx package. sudo dpkg -r lyx > bb) Maintainer scripts have a reason > If you take a look at the diff.gz of the Debian packages you'll find > out that there are maintainer scripts for post/pre install execution. > That these scripts exists has a reason and the reason is not that > the package maintainers like to add some strange scripts to make > their packages look cool. > > For example somebody doing QA work recently noticed that we've left > an /etc/lyxrc file on the system with the 1.4.x->1.5.x upgrade which > should not happen. So we're now cleaning up behind us with a maintainer > script which is of course bound to special versions. You'll break if > you install your current package an try to upgrade it at a later point > to a Debian version again. In this case it's only an unused old file > but it could of course be anything more important. So how about a recommendation that users when installing a checkinstall binary should uses the following command line: sudo dpkg -r lyx && sudo dpkg -i lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_etch.deb && sudo apt-get -f install > bc) Dependencies don't exist for fun. See above. > bd) i386? And where is the rest? Yep that would be good, but to make it clear, this is an instrumental move. I'm not a developer or maintainer; I am a social scientist, who uses LyX on a daily basis on computers that happen to be i386. For the benefit of others, I am providing my own compiled binaries, for others who don't have the knowledge or the resources to compile the source themselves. > At least I don't see any benefit in the checkinstall crap Checkinstall is a very safe way to install your own complied source, for the very reason that you can remove it in a simple and safe way, which is important as you rightly pointed out. If you choose to install someone else binary relates back to the point of trust. > I might be one of the rare cases of users who used one installation for > seven years with several hardware changes. If you'd like to reinstall > a clean system with every stable release of your distribution of choice > go ahead and use broken packages. Impressive -- this deserves applause! Don't get my wrong, your concerns are valid, but there are many pragmatic and practical reason as to why people compile their own software rather than waiting for a backport or using a rather old version of it. Perhaps this has shed more light on the issues of user-built packages, in general and debian in specific. What do other people think? Cheers, Sam
Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions
Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just uploaded them to ftp.lyx.org. Thanks! Cheers, Sam
Re: Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions
Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not > use those checkinstall packages for Debian/etch. The same reasoning > apply for Ubuntu so you might want to read on as an Ubuntu user > aswell. Hi Sven, Thank you for your concern! To clarify these are not official packages, but made available by me for other LyX users, on debian-based distros, who don't want to wait until official releases included these versions. I've provided packages for several years and there have been no complaints. They are built on non-modified releases of etch and dapper and by reading the README file (that are also uploaded) one gets a good idea about build dependencies. If 1.5.3 is is already available on backports.org that's great, and my packages are not be needed then. If not, than responsible users might choose to uses these. > One backdraw is that you're forced to migrate to texlive from tetex > if you're still using tetex. This will happen with lenny anyway but > it will force you to download a few hundred MiB of texlive packages > along with the new LyX and boost packages. There are no tex-distro decencies set on my packages, one can uses whatever one likes. Indeed, I thought, it was in the very spirit of LyX, that some users provide there binaries for other users without predefining every interacting software. Cheers, Sam -- etch: Build information: ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt4 --enable-optimization=-O3 --prefix=/us r/local Configuration Host type:i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags: pch use-aspell use-ispell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags: -O3 C++ Compiler: g++ (4.1.2) C++ Compiler LyX flags: C++ Compiler flags: -O3 Linker flags: Linker user flags: Qt 4 Frontend: Qt 4 version: 4.2.1 Packaging:posix LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir:/usr/local/share/lyx make sudo checkinstall make install-strip dapper: Build information: ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt4 --enable-optimization=-O3 --prefix=/usr/local Configuration Host type:i586-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags: aiksaurus pch use-aspell use-ispell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags: -O3 C++ Compiler: g++ (4.0.3) C++ Compiler LyX flags: C++ Compiler flags: -O3 Linker flags: Linker user flags: Qt 4 Frontend: Qt 4 version: 4.2.1 Packaging:posix LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir:/usr/local/share/lyx make sudo checkinstall make install-strip
Incoming 1.5.3 binaries for debian/ubuntu distributions
Hi, Available LyX 1.5.3 checkinstall packages for *etch* and *dapper* on ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/incoming/ lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_dapper.deb lyx_1.5.3-1_i386_etch.deb lyx_1.5.3_i386_dapper.README lyx_1.5.3_i386_etch.README Could someone please move them to the appropriate place. Many thanks! Cheers, Sam
Re: DVI sem imagens [displaying images in DVI]
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:27:29 -0300 Waldir Leôncio wrote: > Olá, pessoal! Estou com problemas para mostrar imagens quando exporto > meu documento LyX para DVI. Já tentei diversos formatos (BMP, JPG, > GIF, TIF, EPS e até PDF), mas nada. Tudo o que aparece é um retângulo > com as bordas pretas ao redor de onde deveria aparecer a imagem. > Quando exporto o documento para PS, as imagens aparecem normalmente, > mas realmente gostaria que elas aparecessem no DVI também. Alguém > pode me ajudar? > Olá Waldir, Sorry this list is an English speaking list. I do sometimes experience the same thing (using jpg), where images only appear as box outline in the DVI viewer. Closing the DVI viewer and just generating another DVI will often work. It's rather random in my experience. Is this a bug, I wonder? Anybody? Cheers, Sam
Re: language settings
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:15:47 +0200 Helge Hafting wrote: > If the file now is wrong on both computers, then the error > likely is in the file itself. Move the cursor to the cross reference, > check if it gets an underline there, indicating a language change. > In this case, select the region with wrong language, and go > edit->text style->custom and revert language changes from there. Thanks for your reply! This is more complex than I had anticipated. I guess, it's not an issue with the latex setup, but a problem with the file(s). The master doc including child docs compiles fine and produces pdflatex. Yet, despite, the master doc in its Documents --> Settings --> Language being set to "British" produces German output for cross references (e.g. 'Siehe naechste Seite') for the entire document. However, table of content produces the word "Contents" as one would expect. A child doc, compiled individually, with the same Document settings produces the expect result (i.e. 'On the following page'). I'm puzzled -- how could this be fixed? Cheers, Sam
language settings
Hi, I've worked on a document that includes cross-references, on one computer; now on another, "fig n on the next page" appears in a different language, despite that the document settings for language is set to "British". Why is this the case and how could I change this? Cheers, Sam
Re: PracTex Journal: Issue 2007-3: New Issue Contents Notification (fwd)
Appreciated! Cheers, Sam
Re: On the fly spellcheck?
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Nicely phrased! I think it should be added somewhere to the wiki, although > I don't know where. Perhaps a page discussing the focus/purpose/idea of > LyX and WYSIWYM? Any ideas of where? > > I'm thinking that such a page would be a good reference when explaining > what LyX is about. > > /C > > > Either way, one thing for sure out of this discussion is that perhaps the > > boundaries between "style" and "mere writing" are not as clear cut. How about here? http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Introduction#toc1 Perhaps there could be link in that section to a page on "focus/purpose/idea". I'll see what I can do, later. Cheers, Sam
Re: On the fly spellcheck?
Richard, lets agree to differ for the time being and see how resources can be best used for continuing the project in a meaningful way. Cheers, Sam
Re: On the fly spellcheck?
> Of course. And anyone who wants to code this can do so. This was in > response to the suggestion that LyX lacked this incredibly wonderful and > painfully obvious feature. My point was that it isn't obviously > wonderful. Indeed, I'd go so far as to say that, if you think you want > it, you're either wrong or not very focused on writing. But to each his > or her own. Thanks Richard for the discursive effort! I'm seriously reconsidering my understanding of WYSIWYG and its typesetting counterpart. I used to think that focusing on writing means also paying attention to the order of letters, rather than assuming that this something to do with "style". Either way, one thing for sure out of this discussion is that perhaps the boundaries between "style" and "mere writing" are not as clear cut. Also, of course, if your texts consists of many formula or a mass of strings of letters which are not in your dictionary, a on the fly spellcheck becomes utterly pointless (yes distracting!) and should be switched off. However, this is exactly what I was trying to say with my (in hindsight probably not very clever) example of "humanities" writing. For some people, there might not be much distraction (in form of occasional wavily lines), but rather a continually indication of your document writing status, which I consider is a basic feature. Hope this makes sense. Thank you for your patience with me on bringing this point across. Cheers, Sam
Re: On the fly spellcheck?
Hi Mike (and others), > My spelling is so bad, that it's usually better to just get one with what > I want to write and then correct at the end. On a side note, my spelling is not very good either, but I found that it has improved through the use of an "immediate indication". This also gives me confidence for correctly spelled words as I write. (One a good day, writing with gvim, I have found myself checking --in disbelieve-- if the checker hasn't failed if no mistakes showed up). I think one of the crucial differences, is the "naturally" high number of mathematics, logisticians, etc. in the LyX user and developer community, who have a very different approach to *writing* than one finds humanities. This presumably has resulted in this peculiar situation that up to now --at this highly advanced stage of LyX-- this rather basic feature has never emerged. Cheers, Sam
Re: On the fly spellcheck?
I also would like to express my support for a on-the-fly-spellchecker. It would bring LyX in line with other similar editors, where such a feature has been standard for many year. A feature poll in our wiki has indicated an overwhelming support for it by many LyX users. Although the implementation of new features needs to be carefully weighted in terms of required work effort, consideration for finally implementing an on-the-fly-spellchecker in the 1.6. series should also take into account its neccessity and common place. Many thanks to the brave team of LyX developers, who are always confronted with hard decisions to make! Cheers, Sam
Dock widgets
LyX is great! And the recent developments are indeed very impressive. Thanks to the whole development team and supporters. I'm particularly taken by the new outliner being implemented as dock widget. Thanks Able! By gone the "labourous" days of shifting windows back and forth, the drudgery of organising visibility. Perhaps this steep leap forward, could be our "visionary concept" for reorganising *find/replace* as well as the *spellchecker*, without great effort, neatly docking our widgets. In in the highest anticipation -- Cheers, Sam
Re: Small caps italic revisited
Charles wrote: URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38743 > > Normally, in English typography, acronyms are set in upper case. But > rules are made to be bent and the invention of computer typography > gave new possibilities and wordprocessor gave bad habits to writers > and readers (for example the use and abuse of bold). > > If you want to improve your typography : The Elements of Typographic > Style of Robert Bringhurst is a nice book. Thanks for the splendid recommendation! Interestingly, I just found on the wiki a link to a whole reading list for typesetting & typography: Bringhurst number one -- key reading. http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SuggestedReading Although I don't have a copy of Bringhurst 1992, I've just found a page on the web that refers to Bringhurst's on the use of small caps for abbreviations and acronyms in sentences (see below). In terms of small caps italic, Bringhurst apparently does not give a rule, but on cases like using a small caps for abbreviations at the beginning of sentences. Cheers, Sam -- www.nbcs.rutgers.edu/~hedrick/typography/disputed.html `[Small caps] Now we come to the question of when to use them. Bringhurst's rules are sort of interesting. He starts by saying use them for all abbreviations and acronyms except (1) personal names, and (2) 2-letter geographical abbreviations. But he then notes that many people use small caps for 2-letter postal codes, and that in a document where there are lots of acronyms and abbreviations near each other, you're best to be consistent, and not treat 2-letter ones differently.'
Re: Small caps italic revisited
On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:24:35 GMT Charles de Miramon wrote: > URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38724 > In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are > no italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer, > you should not used italic small caps. The fact is that with the > wordprocessor, it became possible to slant any letter and slanted > small caps and people are getting used of these slanted small caps > but for typographers they are considered an heresy. In the common teX > fonts there are no italic small caps so the only solution is to use > the trick I've mentionned on the list to create slanted (fake italic) > small caps. Another solution would be to buy a font with a small cap > italic variant but I don't think they are many of them. Cheers, > Charles Thanks for shedding light on this! Appreciated! I think, I'd like to be a "heretic" :). Although I agree that double emphasis is not useful and should be avoided, I think my use of use small caps italic differs significantly from traditional use. Imagine a scientific text in form of a narrative (as you find in ethnographic writing). In this text there would be many sequences of abbreviations. I.e.: `In inpatients treated by PTA a significant rise in ABPI was seen at ABC levels...' As a way to improve the typographical appearance of such a sentence (unless one would be prepared to spell out words ankle/brachial-pressure-index), I have constantly throughout a book used small caps for these kind of abbreviations. All fine -- remember this is a "story" not a medical report! However, when it comes to the point of citing my informants, I would place a paragraph in italic to indicate the difference in text that someone is speaking. Common practice. Yet, this is where the trouble starts, as speech may contain abbreviations too. So would this mean, in a strict sense, if in italic such sentence would then would not have the "benefit" of small caps abbreviations anymore. In essence, I would say small caps italic are legitimate at the point of de-emphasising which constraints of modern textuality may require. Any thoughts. Thanks! Cheers, Sam
Small caps italic revisited
On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:13:16 GMT Steve Litt wrote: > URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38713 > I'm pretty sure you can do this: Create an environment that makes its > paragraph italic. Then create a character style that puts its > characters in smallcaps. Apply the environemnt to the paragraph, and > apply the character styles to the character styles. By using this > styles based method, you can repeat it over and over again, and if > you ever want to change the appearance of either, you can change it > globally by changing your layout file. SteveT Steve Litt Author: > Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware > http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Steve, Thanks for the effort! Not really sure if we are talking about the same issue (might be my incomprehensibility). AFAIK, "small caps italic" (i.e. sc-i) need to physically exist on your tex distro. Previous discussions showed there is an conspicuous lack of this font type as open type. We only heard of commercial examples such as "Scala" and the likes of Adobe. However, some further discussion with someone who typesets text in the Polish language and a tip from the French LyX list revealed that this deficiency does not appear prominent outside the world of typesetting English texts. For example, interesting developments can be reported in "The TeX Gyre (TG) Collection of Fonts" which `aims at remaking and extending of the freely available fonts distributed with Ghostscript. The important aspect of the project is providing not only the support for TeX but also the cross-platform OpenType format of the fonts.' www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/ I'm interested what are other peoples experience generally in terms of Open Type and more specifically with small caps italic. What's happening Font wise on the German side for example? Cheers, Sam
Re: Lyx with Texlive?
Urtzi Jauregi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > switch to Texlive & LyX, will I find any surprises the evening before I > submit my thesis to press? What are your experiences? TexLive2007 work well for me! Cheers, Sam
Re: Installation Troubles Lyx 1.4.4 - Printing
Bob Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My system is Windows XP Pro with all updates, Lyx 1.4.4 > > I managed to get Lyx on my machine, but it doesn't work. When I try to > open a template it says "Document has a missing Tex class article" or > what ever template I am trying to open. No output is possible. I have > run recongfigure but nothing changes. > Make sure you get your latex distribution and gsprint (ghostview) installed. Check the whether you got the large bundle Cheers, Sam
Re: emphasis on small caps
> Tricky, as latex doesn't seem to support italicised small caps fonts. > I guess you can acheive this if you have such a font, and insert > all the latex commands necessary to switch it on and off as necessary. Thanks Helge for your neat ERT tip! Support for italicised small caps fonts is what I'm interested. When you say latex doesn't support this, do you mean standard distributions? (I use TexLive). I'm reading a book at the mo which is typeset in Scala and Scala Sans and italicised small caps are used there. What other fonts would allow this and what would be the next step in terms of latex commands? Cheers, Sam PS: So small caps turning normal *and* upright (on screen) when italicised is a bug? (Shall I send it to bugzilla.)
emphasis on small caps
Hi, What is the best way to emphasise (italicise) a whole paragraph while retaining abbreviations in small caps? Cheers, Sam
Re: Fwd: [jurabib] Freeze
> Take a serious look at the biblatex package. It is an amazing new tool > without the mistakes that were made in the early years of jurabib. Thanks for the info. The biblatex development does indeed sound very interesting. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/exptl/biblatex/ Cheers, Sam
Re: list of figures [was: "Multi-Boxed-Table" Float?]
Juergen Spitzmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Insert->Short Title Excellent - thanks! Cheers, Sam
list of figures [was: "Multi-Boxed-Table" Float?]
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [] > The only difference between "figure" floats and "table" floats is the > captions they get - and the former may be listed in the "list of figures" > while the latter may be listed in the "list of tables". They don't Thanks! I somehow received lost of latex errors on these nestled boxes (which complied fine outside), but didn't when I put them in a float. After removing a long string of some special formatting, which I simplified, it then worked *within* the float. Another question, if I may: I use rather long captions for these "box" floats. When I then insert list of figures, it overruns the list page. Is there a way to have a (short) summary that appears in the list of figures? Cheers, Sam
Re: "Multi-Boxed-Table" Float?
Yes it is possible! I can report it's possible to float (with figure float or text wrap float) a "Box (Shadowbox)" that contains another "Box (minipage)" containing a table. To avoid latex errors attention to usage of special formatting features (such as protect spaces, etc.) might has to be paid though. Cheers Sam
"Multi-Boxed-Table" Float?
Hi, I've assembled a complex construct of tables and boxes (see lyx14 file). Ideally, this "construct" (a simplified version of a textual artifact) should "float" like any figure and ideally be listed as a figure. Is this possible and if so what effort would it require? Any imaginative/ creative solutions are welcome. Many thanks! Cheers, Sam -- #LyX 1.5.0beta1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 245 \begin_document \begin_header \textclass scrbook \language english \inputencoding auto \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize default \use_geometry false \use_amsmath 1 \cite_engine basic \use_bibtopic false \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation skip \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \tracking_changes false \output_changes false \author "sam,,," \end_header \begin_body \begin_layout Standard Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut laoreet dolore magna aliquam erat volutpat. \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \align center \begin_inset Box Frameless position "t" hor_pos "c" has_inner_box 1 inner_pos "t" use_parbox 0 width "100col%" special "none" height "1in" height_special "totalheight" status collapsed \begin_layout Standard \align left \begin_inset Box Shadowbox position "t" hor_pos "c" has_inner_box 1 inner_pos "t" use_parbox 0 width "100col%" special "none" height "1in" height_special "totalheight" status open \begin_layout Standard \align center \lang british \begin_inset Box Frameless position "t" hor_pos "c" has_inner_box 1 inner_pos "t" use_parbox 0 width "80col%" special "none" height "1in" height_special "totalheight" status open \begin_layout Standard \lang british \InsetSpace ~ \newline \end_layout \begin_layout Standard \lang british \begin_inset Tabular \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \bar under \lang british Details \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british CD no. \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british Permanent Address \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british Home phone \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british Hospital no. \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british \InsetSpace ~ \InsetSpace ~ \InsetSpace ~ Post Code \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british Work Phone \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british NHS no. \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british District of Residence \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british Title \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british Next of Kin \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british Sex \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british Relationship \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british Surname \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british Admission Address \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british NoK Phone \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british Forename(s) \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british \InsetSpace ~ \InsetSpace ~ \InsetSpace ~ Post Code \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british NoK Address \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british Date of Birth \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british \InsetSpace ~ \InsetSpace ~ \InsetSpace ~ Post Code \end_layout \end_inset \begin_inset Text \begin_layout Standard \size footnotesize \lang british Religion \end_lay
Re: Lyx's Site down?
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:10:13 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It might actually be so silly that the address we have for the person > with access goes via the server that's down. So we need the server > working in order to contact the person who can fix the server... > catch 22. How about a quick post card to Norway? I'm sure people are always delighted to receive a card in the post. Address see attachment. > I think we'll make some progress this week though! Royal Mail from the UK two days... I'll raise postage on list approval. Cheers, Sam PS: No attachments via gmane posting? Here the contact address: The LyX Project c/o Lars Gullik Bjønnes Neuberggata 19B, leil. 61 N-0367 OSLO NORWAY
Re: Lyx's Site down?
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:10:13 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It might actually be so silly that the address we have for the person > with access goes via the server that's down. So we need the server > working in order to contact the person who can fix the server... > catch 22. How about a quick post card to Norway? I'm sure people are always delighted to receive a card in the post. Address see attachment. > I think we'll make some progress this week though! Royal Mail from the UK two days... I'll raise postage on list approval. Cheers, Sam
Re: Current mirror list (was: Server Mirror (was: LyX-1.5.0 for Mac))
Currently there are these mirrors (in Germany, France, and the US): http://lyx.cybermirror.org/ http://lyx.mirror.fr/ ftp://ftp.via.ecp.fr/pub/lyx/ ftp://ftp.sdsc.edu/pub/other/lyx/ Cheers, Sam
Re: wiki: FeaturePoll vs Complaints
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps a better description of the purpose of each page is needed? Sounds good! I guess, then, 'Complaints' really just some general voicing of ideas and concerns (presumably unstructured), whereas 'FeaturePoll' specific suggestion within a more structured setting of existing requests and ideas. > Other than that, I guss the 'complaints' page ought to be edited to see if > things are still relevant. That requires a knowlegdeable user or developer > though. (My suggestion would be to move things that seem irrelevant or > old to a new page called... http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Complaints-old ) OK, but I'd say some of the complaints (if relevant) could also be be incorporated in the FeaturePoll. > PS. As for the general disparitiness of the wiki, it could certainly do > with some editors that guide and decide on the overall structure. I'm happy to do some editing and would start with these two pages here. Cheers, Sam PS: Further (specific or generic) comments are very welcome!
wiki: FeaturePoll vs Complaints
The LyX wiki is great! But quite a bit of overlap (as one would expect with disparate authorship). How about merging these two sections: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Complaints http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll Or perhaps any other suggestions for more cohrerent sturcture? Cheers, Sam
Re: xdvik TexLive [solved]
> xdvik control panel reappeared after deleting .xdvirc in my home directory. > No > idea why this file --which included the line "expert mode 0"-- came to be in > this dir though. And indeed "x" toggles between expert mode 0 and 1 while closing xdvik in mode 0 creates xdvirc remembering your preferences for the next time. Perfect!
Re: xdvik TexLive [solved]
Sam Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > previously working fine, my DVI viewer is missing its right-side *page navigation panel*. Anybody any idea. > > Cheers, Sam > xdvik control panel reappeared after deleting .xdvirc in my home directory. No idea why this file --which included the line "expert mode 0"-- came to be in this dir though.
xdvik TexLive
Hi, previously working fine, my DVI viewer is missing its right-side *page navigation panel*. Anybody any idea. Cheers, Sam
1.4.x (bin) on Dapper?
In the world of ubuntu, are there any binaries for Dapper main? Somewhere? Anyone, any idea? Cheers, Sam
Re: Managing Large, Disparate Bibliographic Databases
Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>I used natbib to manage the citations for my book. I'm now writing a couple
> of monographs that will be part of the take-home package from a water quality
> workshop in which I'll be lecturing. The references for the latter are
> distinctly different from those of the former, and I'm considering how best
> to accommodate them. Right now I have no comprehensive science library
> database on my linux network, just books on shelves and journal
> articles/agency reports in file cabinets and other shelves.
>
>My initial thought is to build a new, separate natbib database for the
> lectures. Almost certainly, each citation database will be specific to an
> individual project, and entries in one would not be used for a different
> project.
>
>Regardless, I wanted to gain outside opinions from you fine folks who have
> solved this problem in many different ways. Your thoughts and suggestions are
> solicited. A while back I spent a little time seeking a bibliographic
> database that ran on linux and that I liked. Didn't find anything then that
> was worth the effort to build.
>
Hi Rich,
I presume the emphasis is on "large" and "disparate" databases here.
Within the remit of my ethnographic work, I'm involved in a diverse range of
projects that rely on a broad range of sources from applied practitioners'
literature to abstract academic writings. For some reports I write, I merely
resort to one type of literature, whereas for others I might have to cite a
completely different cannon. Nonetheless, all bibliographical entries are
"lumped" into one single large bibtex database.
This is very convenient, particularly since LyX has such an excellent 'Add
citation' interface with a very straight forward search function. If your bibtex
entries are organised by the author + year i.e.
@book{Shepard05,
[...]
}
then you might be able to find the relevant citation within LyX with two clicks.
For complying and managing a bibtex database I recommend Pybliographer.
Hope this helps.
Cheers, Sam
Re: PortableLyX?
[...] > > AFAIK, the problem is not within LyX but in Aspell. Indeed Aspell > dictionaries are not relocatable (under Windows); this means that they > must be installed in the same path where they have been compiled. One > needs to investigate Aspell source code as to know if this could be fixed. > > Abdel. Thanks Abdel for shedding light onto the Aspell design. Yet, how does aspell work with LyX 1.3.3-Win32? There you find dictionaries in lyx\share\aspell and dynamically linked aspell libraries in \lyx\bin .
Re: PortableLyX?
Robert Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Sam, > > I wonder if you might be able to provide some > instructions on how to make a usbstick compatible LyX? > No problem; it's rather straight forward. You could just install directly onto your usb stick. Alternatively, create a directory on your desktop called (e.g. PortableLyX) install everything in there (msys, python, lyx, etc.) and drag the folder directly onto your usb stick. I have not installed a latex distribution, as I only need LyX outside my office to organise my notes. I would assume that miktex might also work on a stick, but I can’t confirm this. However, I tested LyX 1.3.3-Win32 on a USB stick with a latex distro on a network drive. It was rather slow but enabled me to export pdflatex, after reconfiguring LyX. Hope this helps. Let me know your results. Cheers, Sam
Re: PortableLyX?
Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > > Regarding the C:\Aspell limitation to portability, perhaps the > dos subst or label command would serve as a workaround. Suppose > your USB drive was "J", then > > label J: C: > > I think would change J:\Aspell into C:\Aspell > if not perhaps the subst command would suffice called from J: > Thanks for this Stephen! Sounds interesting. I've no experience with dos commands, but does subst not require adding a line to a file in the root directory, which appears to defeat portability? Likewise, does the "label" command not require admin rights too? Cheers, Sam
PortableLyX?
"LyX works extremely well under the Windows operating system!" Outside the office away from the ones own computer, I've been using LyX 1.3.3-Win32 on a USB stick. It works "extremely well" and enables me to access, edit and spell check my fieldnotes, in visiting institutions, by running LyX on public workstations where I've no administrator rights. Now, having experienced the latest version of LyX, I've tested 1.4.1 on a USB stick. All good, if there wouldn't be the aspell dilemma! As LyX is compiled against libaspell.a and expects to find aspell dictionaries and data files in a predefined location portability has been lost. I'm interested in underlying decisions of having complied LyX Windows in this specific way nowadays. Are there considerations about integrating aspell in a different way and moreover is there generally a wider interest in the community in a portable LyX? Cheers, Sam
Re: Table of Contents - fine tuning
Solved! Using "Addchap" instead of "Chapter*" produces a table of content entry without numbering -- as superb documentation (Extended.lyx) revealed. Sam On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:44:59 + Sam Lewis wrote: > Hi there, > > using report (koma-script) the following: > > --- > \layout Chapter > Aim of Evaluation > > \layout Chapter > Value of Patient Involvement > --- > > produces a table of contents accordingly: > 1. Aim of Evaluation > 2. Value of Patient Involvement > > Assuming I would like to add a summary to the report preceding all > chapters that appears in the table of contents but without a number > entry. > --- > \layout Chapter* > Executive Summary > > \layout Chapter > Aim of Evaluation > > \layout Chapter > Value of Patient Involvement > --- > > How would I be able to produce the following output for the table of > contents: > Executive Summary > 1. Aim of Evaluation > 2. Value of Patient Involvement > > Many thanks! > Sam
Table of Contents - fine tuning
Hi there, using report (koma-script) the following: --- \layout Chapter Aim of Evaluation \layout Chapter Value of Patient Involvement --- produces a table of contents accordingly: 1. Aim of Evaluation 2. Value of Patient Involvement Assuming I would like to add a summary to the report preceding all chapters that appears in the table of contents but without a number entry. --- \layout Chapter* Executive Summary \layout Chapter Aim of Evaluation \layout Chapter Value of Patient Involvement --- How would I be able to produce the following output for the table of contents: Executive Summary 1. Aim of Evaluation 2. Value of Patient Involvement Many thanks! Sam
latex makebst
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 09:02:55 +0200 Martin A. Hansen wrote: > you can make your own .bst file with the program called makebst: > > latex makebst > Very useful -- many thanks! Can anyone report of experience using generated BSTs, for book or article class, which are based on merlin.mbs? Beyond mere help and slightly off lyx topic, but in quest of knowledge: What author--year support system meets what need? What are the significant differences? % ,nat%: Natbib % %: (def) Older Natbib % ,alk%: Apalike % ,har%: Harvard % ,ast%: Astronomy % ,cay%: Chicago % ,nmd%: Named % ,cn%: Author-date Cheers, Sam
Re: Overview of the NatBib styles - which is the right one for me?
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:32:19 +0100 Geoffrey Lloyd wrote: > I see > > Sorry my misunderstanding - you could always chose not to use the > natbib style and just use apalike.bst See editoral note of apalike.bst: "... using an author-date style like `apalike' ..."[sic] From this I would say apalike requires NatBib. Any suggestions, anyone else? Cheers, Sam editorial_note Description: Binary data
Re: Problems with BibTex and LyX
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:14:57 +0200 Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
>
> Still a little puzzled with the difference between apalike.bst and
> apalike.bst (for Natbib). ;-) There has been postings mealier with a
> guy who experienced near-deadline problems as the numbers of
> references grew to a certain number. Maybe because he used a style
> not compatible with natbib. I use natbib with autor-year style right
> now (and it is working), but I am am afraid that I am also using an
> apalike.bst which was not written for NatBib.
Good question! I'm not sure here either, but I think NatBib covers
Harvard style of reference, which is common for social science. So
far as I understand this means you only need to use a BST that was
written for the \usepackage {harvard} .
I personally would like to see a greater range of Harvard style BSTs, as
the existing ones are often only for a few Journals that involve
mathematics or statistics. Of course, is this understandable from the
sociotechnical history of the coming together of artifacts like LaTex,
Tex, or LyX, but it makes it less accessible for people who don't work
in these fields or don't have the skills to revamp a BST from scratch.
Any comprehensive list of BSTs somewhere?
Cheers, Sam
Re: Problems with BibTex and LyX
Hi,
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:13:00 +0200 Janus Sandsgaard wrote:
> 2) Am an not happy with the way my bibliography looks if I use
> literature
> published by an organisations. Example: I refer to a report by "The
> Danish
> Board of Technology" and in my reference section it becomes "of
> technology,
> T. D. B.". This is fine if I refer to a person, but not if I refer to
> an
> organisation, a ministry etc.
Try to enter {the name of the author} in brackets, as in the following
example. This should ensure that the output in your reference section
and throughout the text will be in the desired format.
@Article{BMJ56,
Author = {{British Medical Journal}},
Whereas this
@Article{BMJ56,
Author = {British Medical Journal},
produces the effect you have described. Depending on your bibtex data
management application this might not need to done in code, but could
possibly be achieved in via an interface, or even automatically by the
application itself.
> Remember: I am from social science (I am not a hacker or a LaTeX
> pro), so I
> prefer clear cut, main stream solutions (in contrast to strange hacks
> I do
> not understand and will cause me problems in the middle of the night
> just
> before deadline) :-)
>
> I am using LyX 1.3.4 and JabRef to do my bib file.
LyX is perfectly fine for social scientists and in conjunction with a
reasonable bibtext application pre-deadline problems might
be even further reducible :-)
Cheers, Sam
Re: Screenplays
On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 08:33:23 +1000 Robert Thorsby wrote: > On 2004.07.17 00:48 Elver Loho wrote: > > There are two different kinds of screenplays in this world. One is > > the... screenplay. And the other is the shooting script. The former > > is what a screenwriter writes, sells and what the actors get. The > > latter is based on the former and includes technical information > > such as camera angles, scene numbers, notes about sound, lighting, > > the scene, etc. > > > > I would like to write both at the same time, but then later export > > versions with and without the extra information. Is there a way to > > do it? > Perhaps the easiest way would be to run the raw LyX file through a > text utility such as sed or awk which would write lines ending with > "//'Director' style" to one file, those ending with "//'Description' > style" to a second file, and everything else to both files. > > This would give you two "complete" LyX files. > > You could use key bindings to map one or more unused keys to the > relevant line endings. Good call! Our commendation, here at Morecambe Bay. Cheers, Sam
Re: Screenplays
On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:40:16 +0100 Angus Leeming wrote: > Sam Lewis wrote: > > > Hi Elver, > > > > an interesting problem. I've encountered something similar in using > > lyx for writing ethnographic fieldnotes. I think, if I understand > > you correctly, producing two different version should be possible > > (though in a bit of a round about way). > > > > Add your so-called 'descriptions' as you type along, highlight them > > and press Insert -> Notes for each. This way they will not be > > visible in the output (version 1), but you still see them on screen > > and can review and change them throughout the writing process. > LyX 1.4 will support "Branches" allowing you to do exactly this. > Activate Branch "Shooting" and the shooting directions will be > printed. Thanks Angus! I shall look forward to these promising new developments. Sam
Re: Screenplays
Hi Elver, an interesting problem. I've encountered something similar in using lyx for writing ethnographic fieldnotes. I think, if I understand you correctly, producing two different version should be possible (though in a bit of a round about way). Add your so-called 'descriptions' as you type along, highlight them and press Insert -> Notes for each. This way they will not be visible in the output (version 1), but you still see them on screen and can review and change them throughout the writing process. Once you've completed your work, make a second copy (version 2) and with any standard source editor, with a 'change-all' function, remove in the source code the appropriate strings (e.g. ' /begin_insert Notes collapsed false' etc.). Make sure before you produce the second copy that all boxes are consistently collapsed or open and that you don't use any other insert functions like 'lables'. Although this requires a bit of knowledge about the lyx or latex source, it should not be too convoluted. About your second concern to how maintain the same layout, I speculate that you've to somehow create some 'place holders'. How that works I'm afraid I couldn't tell you. I guess your desired idea requires the 'commissioning' of a perl script. Hope this helps. Cheers, Sam On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:48:06 +0300 Elver Loho wrote: > Hi. > > There are two different kinds of screenplays in this world. One is > the... screenplay. And the other is the shooting script. The former is > what a screenwriter writes, sells and what the actors get. The latter > is based on the former and includes technical information such as > camera angles, scene numbers, notes about sound, lighting, the scene, > etc. > > I would like to write both at the same time, but then later export > versions with and without the extra information. Is there a way to do > it? Here's an example of what I'd like to do, with comments after //. > > INT. "EXAMPLE" CAFE - MORNING // "INT." style. Scene nr. 42. // > "Director" style. Fade in, sunny, run titles during speech. // > "Director" style. Two guys sit by the window in a small cafe. One of > them, PETER has a laptop open in front of him and is looking at > something on the screen. The other, DANNY, is eating a piece of pie. > // "Description" style. Both men have a cup of coffee as well. // > "Director" style. > > Now, what I'd like is for the (currently non-existing) "Director" > style to look exactly like the "Description" style, but act in such a > way that it could be "hidden" during some exports. Something like > "export screenplay" and "export shooting script" and the first one > would ignore the "Director" lines. > > The only problem that I can think of is that the "Description" style > makes sure that there is no page break between it and the former > INT/EXT line. I don't know how it does this, but I'd like if there was > a way to make sure that when a non-technical version is exported and > the "Director" lines between INT/EXT and the "Description" lines are > ignored, that the "Description" lines would still hug the INT/EXT line > and make sure that there is no page break between those. > > So, could someone explain to me how to create a "Director" style, > that's based on the "Description" style, to modify the "Description" > style so that it wouldn't let a page break come between it and the > INT/EXT lines and to have two PDF export functions -- one that would > export a version where the "Director" lines are ignored and one where > the "Director" lines are still there. > > Elver Complex LyX Problems Ltd.
Re: View of Lyx
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:08:00 +0200 Jan Smid wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 30. Juni 2004 19:27 schrieb Sam Lewis: > > > The shortcut c-f presents you with a search function. Just type > > the'to-be-corrected-string', followed by pressing alt-n and you will > > instantly be at the appropriate passage of your text, without having > > to move your cursor. You may even take advantage of the replace > > feature to expedite the process. > good idea! Thanks! No problem! As you may have gathered and as Angus was just about to explain in his original reply, LyX is not a WYSIWYG (that do exist in another place), but a document processor. The emphasis here is on structure rather than appearance. Hence, the fact it is not possible to have a direct representation. The aforementioned new developments or the above trick might compensate for this little 'inconvenience'. > > > No. > > Always wondered how meaningful the term WYSIWYM is for our superb > > document processor, LyX. > :-) Cheers, Sam
Re: View of Lyx
On 30 Jun 2004 09:50:41 +0100 Angus Leeming spake thusly: > Jan Smid wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > because I can better concentrate when reading a real piece of paper, > > I often print out several pages of my thesis to correct them > > manually and then transfer the corrections back into the lyx Sounds reasonable. > > document. When doing this, it is a little bit annonying to orientate > > in the text on the screen because the screen view is totally > > different from the print version. Is it somehow configurable to let > > the text on screen appear a little bit more like the printed > > version? The shortcut c-f presents you with a search function. Just type the 'to-be-corrected-string', followed by pressing alt-n and you will instantly be at the appropriate passage of your text, without having to move your cursor. You may even take advantage of the replace feature to expedite the process. > No. Always wondered how meaningful the term WYSIWYM is for our superb document processor, LyX. Cheers, Sam
