F/OSS software choices: was Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Steve Litt
o me, this customization opportunity to implement my choice of workflow and product is what makes F/OSS so wonderful. SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Steve Litt
rse, if you already have it done in LyX and like it that way, well, that's the way you should do it. SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Re: chktex [RESOLVED]

2017-12-24 Thread Steve Litt
in American English), and the one saying I terminated a command with a space. I can suppress any warning number with -n: Did you suppress some warnings? Anyway, how strictly are you taking all these warnings? SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Re: Creating a statement of account [RESOVED]L

2017-12-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:47:22 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > > I tend to agree with Steve's points. > > Joel, > >I fail to understand why you and Steve think LyX/LaTeX is not > suitable for producing a

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-20 Thread Steve Litt
uch tool for the concise and specific task of writing a report or invoice. When you're creating your company's accounting statements for stockholders within your yearly report, THAT's the time to use LyX (probably with plenty of replacement tokens). SteveT Steve Litt December 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Mixing math formula types

2017-11-03 Thread Steve Hnizdur
Hi I want to enter a series of equations in an align format, with the = sign aligned. However the first line is too long for the page and so needs to be a multiline format. Is there a way to mix multiline and align formats. Cheers -- Steve Hnizdur

Re: Cannot get Externam Material: Inkscape figure to work

2017-10-10 Thread Steve Litt
e to $newname if ! test -f $orgname; then echo "$orgname doesn't exist: Aborting." exit 1 fi inkscape --export-background=#ff \ --export-text-to-path \ --export-use-hints \ --export-plain-svg=$newname $orgname gpicview $newname ==

Re: Is this crash a bug?

2017-10-05 Thread Steve Hnizdur
Bug filed On 05/10/17 14:14, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 2017-10-05 15:09 GMT+02:00 Joel Kulesza <mailto:jkule...@gmail.com>>: On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 6:01 AM, Steve Hnizdur mailto:hound...@gmail.com>> wrote: Is this local to me? Any thoughts. I can reproduce on

Is this crash a bug?

2017-10-05 Thread Steve Hnizdur
risks) Assertion false violated in file: ../../src/CoordCache.cpp, line: 31 There has been an error with this document. LyX will attempt to close it safely. LyX: Attempting to save document newfile1.lyx Saved to /home/steve/newfile1.lyx.emergency. Phew. The cu

Re: Strange compile error

2017-09-12 Thread Steve Hnizdur
On 03/09/17 21:20, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 09/03/2017 04:10 PM, Steve Hnizdur wrote: Hi Thanks for replying. Ctrl-R does pdflatex. Attached is the tex file produced by exporting from lyx, and I get the same error by running pdflatex directly on it. I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 with every

Re: Strange compile error

2017-09-03 Thread Steve Hnizdur
d, it seems to be the \dots that are causing the problem. Cheers On 03/09/17 21:00, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 09/03/2017 01:06 PM, Steve Hnizdur wrote: Hi Attached is a lyx file which when complied with ctrl-R gives the error below copied from the error log. It also fails if I try to compile it

Strange compile error

2017-09-03 Thread Steve Hnizdur
incomplete) (\end occurred when \ifx on line 20 was incomplete) Here is how much of TeX's memory you used: -- Steve Hnizdur test_error.lyx Description: application/lyx

Re: Error File '/var/folders/lw/lwhvvr995qd496m04pr11sp80000gn/T/lyx_tmpdir.zuVLBxb13258/lyx_tmpbuf0/Diss121.tex' was not closed properly.

2017-08-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 27 Aug 2017 13:15:41 +0200 Mark Hempelmann wrote: > Dear Lyx-Wizards, > > I researched on above error and the closest I got was the discussion > between Wolfgang and Jürgen in 2010. However, my text compiled fine > with Lyx 2.1.5, now with the 2.2.3 update I get above error. I’m > using

Re: texlive2017 and lyx

2017-08-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:34:25 +0200 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Two questions: > > What do I have to do to get the texlive2017 working If your older texlive is working (like 2016), I'd imagine there's a tlmgr command to bring everything up to 2017. > > I have installed texlive2017 from the CTA

Re: Grammar checking

2017-08-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:35:38 +0200 "Patrick Dupre" wrote: > Hello, > > lyx offers a language checker, but not a grammar checker. > I installed the check-Tex option, but the results are not convincing > (at least in English). The suggestion are really poor. > Is there any way to install a more ef

Re: all-inclusive file format

2017-08-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 15:41:17 +0200 Roberto wrote: > On 04/08/2017 17:35, Cris Fuhrman wrote: > > I support abstracting file details because it makes using LyX > > easier, but at the same time I would not like to give up control > > over the modular aspects, such as the custom converters, which I

Re: LyX native format stuck in the middle

2017-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 09:23:06 +0100 José Abílio Matos wrote: > On Monday, 31 July 2017 18.30.31 WEST Steve Litt wrote: > > I know what I'm asking for is monsterously difficult, and I know I > > certainly don't have the technical chops to do it. But when it gets > >

Re: Tips on LaTeX addons

2017-08-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:37:21 +0100 Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > Steve, > > so you upgraded TeX and lost some packages? No, I just sat down to work one day and my books didn't compile. I hadn't upgraded TeX. The day before I'd suffered a big data loss on a different partit

Re: Tips on LaTeX addons

2017-08-10 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:37:21 +0100 Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > > Before I ever upgrade I do something like > > tlmgr list --only-installed \ > | awk '{gsub(/:/, ""); print $2}' > tl.installed Nice! > > and after upgrade > > tlmgr install $(cat tl.installed) Very nice, as

Tips on LaTeX addons

2017-08-09 Thread Steve Litt
et past that: tlmgr install pstricks texhash One of the worst things about LyX back in the day was getting your texlive situation squared away, but today doing so is much easier. SteveT Steve Litt July 2017 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz

Re: all-inclusive file format

2017-08-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 1 Aug 2017 21:56:33 +0200 Roberto wrote: > On 31/07/2017 19:10, Steve Litt wrote: > > The ability to directly edit graphics within a LyX file would be a > > nice *option*: > Hi Steve, I hope I am quoting you correctly by only reporting the > sentence I want to c

LyX native format stuck in the middle

2017-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
inly don't have the technical chops to do it. But when it gets done, LyX will be a brand new world, finally living up to its promise of write once, deploy everywhere. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt July 2017 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz

Re: all-inclusive file format

2017-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
d a real project ready in 50. When it comes to GUIizing the program, try Python Kivy: VERY fast development. Or you could make it a browser app with Python Bottle. SteveT Steve Litt July 2017 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz

Re: cache

2017-07-16 Thread Steve Litt
't cause you to delete all sorts of stuff outside that directory. SteveT Steve Litt July 2017 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz

Re: Issues using lyx

2017-06-18 Thread Steve Litt
you take a System Rescue CD and run all the hardware tests on your Win10 computer. Be sure to test the RAM and the disk. SteveT Steve Litt June 2017 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key

Re: how to add new environment to LyX

2017-06-16 Thread Steve Litt
de it from the Document > > Settings... > Modules menu. > > Paul > Yes! This is a newer way that what I suggested, creating a layout file. I've never used modules so I can't speak to which is better. SteveT Steve Litt June 2017 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key

Re: how to add new environment to LyX

2017-06-16 Thread Steve Litt
that doesn't prematurely convert styles to appearance and create different paragraph types (class=) just to specify which body text doesn't get indented, LyX would be the perfect overall authoring machine. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt June 2017 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key

Re: Help improve LyX's defaults by sharing your preferences

2017-06-06 Thread Steve Burnham
e to contribute my preferences file. The one default I am surprised by is the screen zoom/font size. I set my zoom to 200%. It's just far too small by default. I'm not that old either (31) and do have good vision. -Steve preferences Description: Binary data

Re: Extra long chapter title causing problems in TOC

2017-04-28 Thread Steve Litt
monument of modern netiquette asks the same question again. Maybe some day he'll think to check the archives. Nahh. SteveT Steve Litt April 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: How do I copy text from LyX to xterm/rxvt?

2017-04-20 Thread Steve Litt
lessen these problems, but the clipboard application should be: 1) Window manager/Desktop environment agnostic 2) Quick and easy to see history of both clipboards and paste any of them into a document 3) Extra credit for a clipboard application that strongarms both clipboards to anything

Bibliography keys

2017-04-11 Thread Steve Hnizdur
ed, if key-10 is inserted into document A key-11 will then be inserted into document B and then key-12 in document A etc. Is this local to me, a feature or what? Cheers -- Steve Hnizdur

Re: Including a hyperlink removes coloring from my URLs

2017-03-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:25:18 -0400 "Paul A. Rubin" wrote: > On 03/30/2017 03:45 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Including one hyperlink in my document removes the color for all my > > URLs. What I really want is my hyperlinks colored the same

Re: Including a hyperlink removes coloring from my URLs

2017-03-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:25:18 -0400 "Paul A. Rubin" wrote: > On 03/30/2017 03:45 PM, Steve Litt wrote: [snip Steve's symptom description] > I made a small test document (attached) using the standard book > class. When I added the hyperlink to the document, I got an

Including a hyperlink removes coloring from my URLs

2017-03-30 Thread Steve Litt
EVANT FACTS: Linux, 64 bit Void distro LyX version 2.2.2 Document class based on document class "book". \usepackage{soul} \usepackage[bookmarks, plainpages=false,pdfpagelabels,colorlinks=true,bookmarksnumbered=true]{hyperref} \usepackage{color} Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt March 201

Mouse pointer

2017-03-28 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, On my copy of LyX, (2.2.2), the mouse pointer is a text pointer and is so thin and so small that I have to click or drag it to know where it is. Can't you make it bigger or add an option or something? The mouse pointer is much bigger on most other apps. SteveT Steve Litt March

Re: indented list of tables

2017-03-27 Thread Steve Burnham
On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 7:09 PM Jacob Bishop wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Steve Burnham wrote: > > In my list of tables it appears to be every so slightly indented which my > thesis editor is not happy with. In the link for a MWE you can see that the > numbers 1.1 li

Re: is Lyx support multiple cpus?

2017-03-18 Thread Steve Litt
n order to proofread: If there's another reason, please let us know. And finally, congratulations on writing a >300 page document. Very few people have actually done that. SteveT Steve Litt March 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb

indented list of tables

2017-03-17 Thread Steve Burnham
.475766.n2.nabble.com/No-indent-in-LOF-LOT-and-tables-td479678.html that suggests adding "listsleft" to the options. I have done that but with no success in un-indenting the list of tables. Are there any other options that I can change? -Steve https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ryk9ihpiwoudmj/list_of_

Re: List of Figures

2017-03-14 Thread Steve Burnham
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 4:10 AM CarLaTeX wrote: 2017-03-13 8:27 GMT+01:00 Guenter Milde : On 2017-03-12, Steve Burnham wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:35 PM CarLaTeX wrote: >> Il 12 Mar 2017 4:05 AM, "Steve Burnham" ha scritto: >> I'm having a hard time f

Re: List of Figures

2017-03-12 Thread Steve Burnham
On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:35 PM CarLaTeX wrote: > Il 12 Mar 2017 4:05 AM, "Steve Burnham" ha scritto: > > I'm having a hard time figuring an error out LyX gives on compilation. I'm > trying to include a list of figures in my document. One document base

List of Figures

2017-03-11 Thread Steve Burnham
s undefined. The \tableofcontents and \listoftables works just fine but \listoffigures won't cooperate. Thanks for any insight, -Steve

Re: Failed to generate PDF?

2017-03-05 Thread Steve Litt
ex fonts" checkmark, and bang, my books compiled under LyX. Trying different main fonts on your smallest symptom-displaying example might be a quick way to rule this in or out. SteveT Steve Litt February 2017 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive

Re: Footnote question

2017-02-18 Thread Steve Burnham
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 4:12 PM Steve Burnham wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:48 PM Steve Burnham wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:38 PM Steve Burnham wrote: > > Dear Forum, > > I am putting together my dissertation and having a problem with footnote > forma

Re: Footnote question

2017-02-17 Thread Steve Burnham
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 3:48 PM Steve Burnham wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 2:38 PM Steve Burnham wrote: > > Dear Forum, > > I am putting together my dissertation and having a problem with footnote > formatting. I have enclosed a minimal example with the necessary style an

Re: unfair business practices: Hamrick Software USA

2017-01-25 Thread Steve Litt
hat the OP's experience isn't universal. > They offer a free version for download which is identical but prints > watermarks, so one wonders if one should not have tested this before, > never mind a charge back. Was a "sold as is, no refunds" policy *prominently*

Re: Fragility

2016-11-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 20:45:11 + (UTC) Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2016-11-18, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:36:08 + > > F M Salter wrote: > > >> I would like to raise a question for everyone about what I am > >> describing as fragi

Re: Fragility

2016-11-18 Thread Steve Litt
_vo.otl * http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200310/200310.htm HTH, SteveT Steve Litt November 2016 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz

Re: my physics book Gpl lyx

2016-10-11 Thread Steve Litt
ame/files/Books/physics.pdf/download > > source code > https://sourceforge.net/projects/ohodquizgame/files/Books/physics2.2.1.zip/download > > best regards Very nice! I like the breakouts and the graphical sidenotes. Congratulations on a job well done. SteveT Steve Litt September

Re: Update

2016-10-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 23:15:54 -0400 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 04:26:26PM +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > > I am not sure to understand why lyx uses the default viewer of > > gnome ! > > I don't understand. What would be the ideal behavior fo

Re: the note box over bottom margin

2016-09-19 Thread Steve Hnizdur
nload the source code: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ohodquizgame/files/Books/ regards -- Steve Hnizdur

Re: Remote X11 is slow for typing

2016-09-09 Thread Steve Litt
rough the wire is changes to files. Also, I don't have to run ssh as the dangerous -X or -Y. If I'm on OpenBSD or some other system that doesn't have the fuse-foo to do sshfs, I can just rsync the files to my local hard disk, and rsync them back. SteveT Steve Litt September 2016 fea

Re: LyX GUI unresponsive over ssh

2016-08-25 Thread Steve Litt
7;re describing sounds consistent with the results I've gotten running X programs over ssh, especially over the Internet. Perhaps you could install LyX and the sshfs client on your laptop, mount the directory with the LyX file via sshfs, and then have all your X on the laptop side. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Brand new, second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr

Re: problem with creating layout file for some class

2016-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
> > Format 35 See, this has boggled my mind since the 20th century. How did you just knowingly pick format 35 out of thin air? There are quadrillions of formats: How did you know to use 35? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshoot

My first device-sized PDF book

2016-08-05 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, A couple days ago I published my first-ever mobile device sized PDF (3"x5"). So far it seems to have worked out very well. To all of you who helped me with my LyX problems doing this, thank you! SteveT Steve Litt August 2016 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical

Re: Strange xxx-lyxformat-474.lyx files

2016-08-02 Thread Steve Litt
is more like "You asked for it, you got it." Did I mention that I make mistakes. SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: [DNG] [Dng] What do you guys think about "Suggest" and "Recommends" dependency?

2016-08-01 Thread Steve Litt
(within its limits). TeX is **HUGE**, and you don't want it unless you need it. And any author using asciidoc with the idea of outputting to PDF knows he needs either TeX (LaTeX probably) or some ugly XSLT transform, and can install the necessary stuff. SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: Where to put the index entry?

2016-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 03:54:59 -0400 Richard Heck wrote: > On 07/31/2016 02:36 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I think I asked the question wrong before. Here's all I want to > > know: You have an entire subsection, about carrier pigeons, and you > >

Where to put the index entry?

2016-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
If the answer is C, could you please elaborate? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Bad index paging

2016-07-30 Thread Steve Litt
ubsection line, am I supposed to put the index entry (tag) at the beginning of that line, or the end of it, or in the middle? What's the LyX approved "best practice?" Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: Cursor width

2016-07-29 Thread Steve Litt
ee, and I had to do things like dragging to find it. So I set: Tools>preferences>Editing>Control>Cursor width from its initial 1px to 4px, and it became unmistakeable, while still appearing to fit "between" characters. Thanks Frank (and Kornel) SteveT Steve Litt July 2016

How to get a more visible mouse cursor?

2016-07-28 Thread Steve Litt
prominent? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: Lyx-Pdf problem

2016-07-25 Thread Steve Litt
ople post it to imgur.com. I was always taught that, when asking questions, I should make it trivially convenient for others to understand and answer. Oh well, it could be worse. About 5 years ago a guy posted a ~ 1MB "minimum working example" to the list, wrapped up i an RAR fil

Re: Lyx-Pdf problem

2016-07-25 Thread Steve Litt
To make more work for those who want to help him. On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 10:31:06 +0100 Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > Why are you sending this in a Microsoft format? > > el > > > > On 2016-07-25 07:46, Abhinav Narayanan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been using Lyx for some years now. Recently, I

Small books: was KOMAscript book workaround?

2016-07-22 Thread Steve Litt
and and came to the same conclusion. I'll be interested to hear how your small book progresses. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: KOMAscript book workaround?

2016-07-19 Thread Steve Litt
ss and added what I needed. That way I wasn't choosing a whole new document class to get two or three needed features. Everyone's mileage varies: I just thought I'd present this viewpoint. SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: leftside superscript

2016-07-18 Thread Steve Burnham
It'd be great if leftside > prescripts were supported directly by Lyx. > > Kiuhnm > > Just type them the same way you would super scripts in LyX. If you wanted 5 to the power of two it would be 5^2 if you wanted a 2 as a prescript then ^2 5 or use the underscore for subscripts.That's what works for me. -Steve

Re: epub output in version 2.2?

2016-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 12:36:36 +0100 Guillaume Munch wrote: > Hi Steve, > > There is a lot of wishes in your message. But I must warn, if you > ever happen to find this one person for the task, that their time is > better used within the project than outside of it. You can have

Re: epub output in version 2.2?

2016-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 12:36:36 +0100 Guillaume Munch wrote: > Le 07/07/2016 19:25, Steve Litt a écrit : > > On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 16:57:23 -0400 > > Richard Heck wrote: > > > >> On 07/06/2016 04:45 PM, Robert Alvarez wrote: > >>> Epub output question

Re: epub output in version 2.2?

2016-07-07 Thread Steve Litt
types of paragraphs. Converting LyX native format to a valid and well formed XML would make export to ***ALL*** formats, those known and those yet to be discovered, easy. And the converters would exist completely outside of LyX and therefore would be small and modular. SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

How to line break URLs?

2016-07-04 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Anyone here know how to line-break URLs in a LyX produced PDF? Ideally after a slash? Hopefully, my URLs will be links that can be followed with a click. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt July 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http

How to prevent a paragraph spanning pages?

2016-07-04 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have a specific paragraph style (environment) that has TeX "Large" print and is used only on single sentences. I'd like to incorporate something in this environment's LaTeX code to prevent it breaking in the middle. Anyone know how to do that? Thanks, SteveT S

Re: Has font usage changed between 2.03 and 2.14

2016-07-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 9 Oct 2015 20:40:02 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm moving from Debian Wheezy with LyX 2.03 to Void Linux with LyX > 2.14. None of my books compile on the Void machine. They all gripe > about T1 fonts when the exported latex is compiled with the latex >

License on TeX-Gyre-Schola embedded in document??

2016-07-02 Thread Steve Litt
erived" from TeX-Gyre-Schola, or whether it simply includes a copy of TeX-Gyre-Schola. Also, it doesn't include ALL of TeX-Gyre-Schola, so I don't know whether *that's* violating the license. Anyone know whom I could ask regarding these things? Thanks, SteveT Steve Lit

Free as in speech fonts?

2016-07-02 Thread Steve Litt
ially readable. What other fonts are completely free to give away embedded inside a document you sell? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb

How to run LyX on Void Linux

2016-07-01 Thread Steve Litt
yX on Void Linux, I think there's a lot more hope than initially appears. SteveT Steve Litt June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb

LyX with Liberation fonts doesn't respect the ASCII quote symbol

2016-06-28 Thread Steve Litt
d via either Ctrl+R within LyX, or by lyx --export pdf4, the two instances of ascii quotes become two closing smart quotes. If one wants to use the Liberation fonts (they're very safe from a legal standpoint), how does one get the PDF conversion to leave ascii quotes as ascii quotes? Thanks, Ste

Re: How to keep page header text from crashing into page numbers?

2016-06-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:25:20 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:39:43 +0200 > Liviu Andronic wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Steve Litt > > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm using LyX 2.1.4, fancyhdr, I&#x

Re: How to keep page header text from crashing into page numbers?

2016-06-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 13:39:43 +0200 Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm using LyX 2.1.4, fancyhdr, I've customized even and odd page > > headers to report current chapter and current sec

How to keep page header text from crashing into page numbers?

2016-06-27 Thread Steve Litt
.55 Bottom: .3 Inner: .2 Outer: .2 Head sep: .2 Head height: .3 Foot skip: .1 SteveT Steve Litt June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb

Re: Script to repeatedly compile a document

2016-06-27 Thread Steve Litt
.lyx #lyx --export pdf5 $mainname.lyx if [ -f $mainname.pdf ]; then inform_success $mainname.pdf else inform_failure $mainname.pdf fi === You'll note the export to PDF4, which, you're right, is MUCH faster than the alt

Re: Script to repeatedly compile a document

2016-06-27 Thread Steve Litt
ou'll see the label "pdf4" under "Short Name". Confirmed! This is probably the greatest demonstration that this feature is underdocumented. Nobody could guess or blunder into that in any reasonable time: They'd need to know it from documentation, and I could find none

Re: Script to repeatedly compile a document

2016-06-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 26 Jun 2016 23:15:00 -0400 Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 10:57:22PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The following is a script to repeatedly compile a LyX document > > that's

Script to repeatedly compile a document

2016-06-26 Thread Steve Litt
tant update. Or if you really want automatic updates, write a little script to loop inotifywait and rerun mupdf every time the PDF changes. SteveT Steve Litt June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb

Re: LyX questions on LaTeX-community.org

2016-06-09 Thread Steve Litt
to you instead of having to go out and get it. I can understand adding a Forum, but can't fathom the logic behind in any way demoting an existing and well used mailing list. I'm copying the Devuan mailing list because some of these same issues have come up there. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb

Re: Package fontenc Error: Encoding file `eu2enc.def' not found

2016-06-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 18:12:09 + (UTC) Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2016-06-06, Kornel Benko wrote: > > Am Montag, 6. Juni 2016 um 12:29:05, schrieb Steve Litt > > > >> Hi all, > > >> The short symptom description is "Lyx 2.081 can't bu

Package fontenc Error: Encoding file `eu2enc.def' not found

2016-06-06 Thread Steve Litt
messing with it. Could somebody please tell me what you did to overcome this issue in 2.081 (or similar)? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb

Re: LyX problem - I need your help

2016-04-26 Thread Steve Burnham
tten some help from: http://www.aarondefazio.com/tangentially/?p=19 Once you've tried some things report back with what you've done and what is going wrong and someone will be able to help you. Last of all don't give up. Once you get it working it is well worth the effort. -Steve

Re: IEEE: The paper PDF file cannot be accepted

2016-04-01 Thread Steve Litt
ca/3433873 . Notice the ps2pdf12 command. That's the secret of embedding fonts. You need control of the step that converts from Postscript to PDF. Here's another article that pretty much says the same thing: http://www.boekenenproefschriften.nl/proefschriften/sites/default/files/EmbedLaTeXfon

Re: LyX is really slow over ssh -X

2016-03-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016 01:45:05 + (UTC) Nishan Jain wrote: > Steve Litt troubleshooters.com> writes: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I had to use a GUI ssh connection to edit my LyX document. It was > > slow. Like 300 baud modem slow. I type about 45 wp

Layout file syntax

2016-01-21 Thread Steve Hnizdur
Hi The customisation help file shows the "provides" parameter with the syntax Provides [string][0,1] but doesn't say what the 0,1 do. Am I missing something obvious? What do the 0,1 do? Cheers -- Steve Hnizdur

Re: Reference in TOC as upper-case

2016-01-03 Thread Steve Hnizdur
s, >> Rajil > > > > Hi, > > what document class do you use? > > David I am using the article class. -- Steve Hnizdur

Re: Splitting long eqution

2015-12-07 Thread Steve Burnham
On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 9:58 AM Jacob Bishop wrote: > On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Steve Burnham wrote: > >> >> In regard to the ams multiline, when I use it in the two column format my >> equations then get rather messed up. The first half of the equation is lef

Re: Splitting long eqution

2015-12-05 Thread Steve Burnham
On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 4:08 AM Anders Ekberg wrote: > On 04 Dec 2015, at 02:30, Jacob Bishop wrote: > > > > > -Steve Burnham > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Anders Ekberg wrote: > >> see the extended minimal example attached. >> > > This exampl

Re: Splitting long eqution

2015-12-02 Thread Steve Burnham
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:47 AM Anders Ekberg wrote: > On 01 Dec 2015, at 00:16, Steve Burnham wrote: > > I have a long numbered formula that I am trying to split into two lines. I > am using 2.1.4 on OSX 10.11. Following the instructions in the wiki ( > http://wiki.l

Splitting long eqution

2015-12-01 Thread Steve Burnham
should all be part of the same equation. See attached minimal working example. Thanks, -Steve minimal.lyx Description: Binary data

Re: Problem with sorting nomenclature entries...

2015-11-25 Thread Steve Hnizdur
ected file where I simple used the default page margins. regards Uwe -- Steve Hnizdur

Re: Problem with sorting nomenclature entries...

2015-11-24 Thread Steve Hnizdur
Hi Try removing the \textsf{\textbf{ }} around each label i.e. RMS,RMSE,RMSE*. This should allow proper sorting. If you want the font defined by \textsf{\textbf{ }} then put \renewcommand{\nomlabel}[1]{\textsf{\textbf{#1}}} in your preamble. Good luck. Steve On 24/11/15 18:11, Daisuke

Re: thispagestyle empty not working

2015-11-10 Thread Steve Burnham
-Steve Burnham On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 1:55 PM Jacob Bishop wrote: > I am having a problem. I put \thispagestyle{empty} into my LyX preamble, > expecting it to suppress the page number on the first page (as per the > wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Numbering#noPageNumberOnFirstPage)

Re: article.cls installed but not found by lyx

2015-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:56:29 +0200 Michael Berger wrote: > On 10/21/2015 05:16 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 04:45:07PM +0200, Michael Berger wrote: > >> On 10/21/2015 04:03 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > >>> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 09:3

Re: article.cls installed but not found by lyx

2015-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
Hi Michael, Just for fun, try running texhash. I've always had to on Mandrake/Mandriva, Ubuntu and Debian. Takes only 1 minute, can't hurt. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/ (Legal Disclaimer) Fo

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