Re: Spaces in math formulae

2019-07-01 Thread Steve Hnizdur
On 01/07/2019 18:50, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 7/1/19 2:43 AM, Steve Hnizdur wrote: On 01/07/2019 00:58, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 6/30/19 3:55 AM, Steve Hnizdur wrote: On 29/06/2019 17:24, Paul A. Rubin wrote: On 6/29/19 7:43 AM, Steve Hnizdur wrote: Hi I need to use this code \[\newdir

Re: pdfoutput user guide error

2019-07-17 Thread Steve Litt
Once a year it needs a complete overhaul to bring it up to the next year's code. I'll leave it to others on this list to give the tlmgr commands to make that happen. SteveT Steve Litt July 2019 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

More input problems with xy-pic

2019-07-18 Thread Steve Hnizdur
fine. The problem is with Lyx math mode. I can get over the ^ character by entering A\ar[r]\sp*+\txt{XY} but Lyx will not allow the \\ between the X and Y and so the linefeed doesn't work. Is there some Lyx magic I'm missing or do I just need to ERT. Many thanks -- Steve Hnizdur

Re: Configuration of LyXHTML

2019-08-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:42:40 -0300 Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > I have just tested LyXHTML with a complex document (lots of childs, > cross- references, listings, etc) and found that the result is fairly > good. However, all the files that were generated were stored in the > same directory as the source

Re: Configuration of LyXHTML

2019-08-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 07:28:27 + Baris Erkus wrote: > On 12-Aug-19 4:48 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Aug 2019 14:42:40 -0300 > > Rudi Gaelzer wrote: > > > >> I have just tested LyXHTML with a complex document (lots of childs, > >> cross- refere

Re: Adding label to all headings automatically

2019-09-19 Thread Steve Litt
an intelligently named label to each heading that doesn't yet have a label. Such a program would probably take 1 to 4 seconds to run, depending on the size of the LyX file. Obviously, you'd need to close the document in LyX before running the external program on it. SteveT Steve Litt Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence http://www.troubleshooters.com/key Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: fixing tiny font on laptop

2019-11-16 Thread Steve Litt
r handling is bad, but with Bluetrace mice Linux performs brilliantly. SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: How to suppress blank page before graphic

2019-11-24 Thread Steve Litt
eaning-of-fussy-sloppy-emergencystretch-tolerance-hbadness . Experiment with exact placement of these codes. SteveT Steve Litt November 2019 featured book: Manager's Guide to Technical Troubleshooting Second edition http://www.troubleshooters.com/mgr -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@list

Re: Problem with quotes signs in Pandoc conversion

2020-02-06 Thread Steve Litt
k in, and bang, problem solved. Perhaps it's pandoc's job to fix this problem. But if it's as simple as I think it is, it's just too easy to do it on the LyX end to wait for pandoc to do their job. SteveT Steve Litt February 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Hyperref support

2020-03-18 Thread Steve Hnizdur
they hard coded? Setting "unicode=false" in additional options doesn't seem to override the "unicode=true". So if unicode=true is causing a problem (in particular trying to redefine \C or \G) then this all has to added manually. MWE attached. Using Lyx 2.3.4.2 on Ubuntu

Re: Hyperref support

2020-03-26 Thread Steve Hnizdur
On 19/03/2020 13:55, Daniel wrote: On 2020-03-19 14:42, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 3/19/20 3:01 AM, Daniel wrote: On 2020-03-18 14:59, Steve Hnizdur wrote: Hi When "Use Hyperref Support" is checked in PDF properties Lyx automatically inserts \usepackage[unicode=true,    bookm

Brazilian Portuguese

2020-04-01 Thread Steve Hnizdur
own option. The same error occurs if the whole document is set in Brazilian Portuguese. Any way round this other than editing the tex file or using another language? Cheers. -- Steve Hnizdur -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Brazilian Portuguese

2020-04-01 Thread Steve Hnizdur
On Wednesday, 1 April 2020 08.55.06 WEST Steve Hnizdur wrote: > Hi > > I need to included some Brazilian Portuguese in an English document. > When I do this through standard Lyx methods, Lyx automatically adds the > option "brazil" to the document class in the pr

Re: Brazilian Portuguese

2020-04-01 Thread Steve Hnizdur
4150 Sep 19 2017 babel-pt.ini -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4260 Sep 19 2017 babel-pt-PT.ini which is identical to yours. Hope that helps, thanks for your speedy replies. On 01/04/2020 09:34, José Abílio Matos wrote: On Wednesday, 1 April 2020 09.21.39 WEST Steve Hnizdur wrote: > Hi > &g

Re: Brazilian Portuguese

2020-04-01 Thread Steve Hnizdur
Hi Solved. Needed texlive-lang-portuguese. Thought I had it but apparently not! Thanks for your help. On 01/04/2020 09:34, José Abílio Matos wrote: On Wednesday, 1 April 2020 09.21.39 WEST Steve Hnizdur wrote: > Hi > > Attached is a MWE. > > Error is: > > &

Re: Let it run

2020-05-01 Thread Steve Litt
now. Void Linux. Not an ancient cripple, but by no means state of the art. I think your first question isn't "how can I turn off the dialog", but "why does this compile take so long, and what can I do about it?" SteveT Steve Litt March 2020 featured book: Troubleshooti

Re: Let it run

2020-05-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 1 May 2020 12:12:39 +0200 Daniel wrote: > On 2020-05-01 09:10, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:29:04 +0200 > > Daniel wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> > >> I have a large document that takes more than 10 minutes to compile. > &g

Re: Let it run

2020-05-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 2 May 2020 07:16:25 +0200 Daniel wrote: > On 2020-05-01 21:18, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Fri, 1 May 2020 12:12:39 +0200 > > If doing all these things doesn't bring it down to under a minute, > > try to eyeball where in the compile it slows down, and investigate

How to change paragraph spacing of Standard paragraph style in UI only?

2020-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
Standard ParSep -5ex End Is the preceding correct? It did the right thing in the UI while leaving the PDF unchanged. Was the use of CopyStyle necessary or even correct? Is there a better way to do it? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt May 2020 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the

Re: How to change paragraph spacing of Standard paragraph style in UI only?

2020-06-11 Thread Steve Litt
Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 6/12/20 12:07 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I think I knew this once, but long since forgot. For the style of > > readability optimal for me, I need paragraphs of Standard paragraph > > style to be both indente

Re: How to break long equations with LyX

2020-06-20 Thread Steve Litt
equation has distinct meaning > and how the equation is broken and aligned can help the reader > interpret it (e.g., breaking at "logical" places). One thing I've been known to do is to put in a lot of intermediate steps, so each equation is short. SteveT Steve Litt M

Re: A LyX success

2020-07-25 Thread Steve Litt
Nice! SteveT On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 10:55:37 -0500 Les wrote: > My memoir "Blizzards and Broken Grousers -- a Year of Antarctic > Glaciology" has been accepted in its final form for publication by the > Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). > > The form in which it has been accepted is a

LyX not completely importing new class/layout

2020-08-08 Thread Steve Burnham
LyX into a glorified TeX editor rather than what it should be doing. Below is the contents of my layout file which is quite minimal: #% comment line # \DeclareLaTeXClass{resume} Input stdclass.inc -Steve -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: LyX --> markdown

2020-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
and run several places. It won't wrap on the fly like ePub, and it's not hip like ePub, but it's readable, and IMHO a lot less pain than trying to make high quality ePubs with LyX in any part of the stack. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: LyX --> markdown

2020-08-15 Thread Steve Litt
h you converted LyX to HTML via Pandoc and Markdown? I'll try it, and if it works well for my purposes, I'll use it and quit griping about LyX' horrible HTML export. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.

Re: LyX --> markdown

2020-08-18 Thread Steve Litt
't need write once display everywhere, use LyX for PDF and Bluefish for HTML. Life will be much simpler, and your HTML will be much less junkified. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-u

Re: LyX --> markdown

2020-08-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:49:14 +0200 Saša Janiška wrote: > On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 03:05:21 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > One man's opinion: If you don't need write once display everywhere, > > use LyX for PDF and Bluefish for HTML. > > Bluefish is stil

Re: Changes to LaTeX

2020-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
ere supposed to upgrade with tlmgr once a week. I've been upgrading only when things went wrong. Could you please tell me the exact tlmgr command to use in this once a week upgrade so I can do it too? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubl

Re: change superscript or subscript to normal font

2020-11-25 Thread Steve Litt
(I > know it's old but works for me.) > > Thanks, > > bcsikos Be sure to back up that file before trying any extraordinary measures! After backing it up, you could always try a text editor. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www

How to make an A4 presentation with Beamer?

2020-12-13 Thread Steve Litt
n a big A4 paper, some caused the printing to be portrait, when I could print landscape it printed upside down, what a mess. Does anyone have a way to use Beamer (not LyX/Beamer) to create a PDF that can print correctly on a European printer? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: T

Re: How to make an A4 presentation with Beamer?

2020-12-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 14:54:37 +0300 Baris Erkus wrote: > On 13-Dec-20 2:52 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I live in the US, so all my computer's defaults are set to the US, > > including paper size. I have a customer in Europe for whom I need to >

You might like texlive.sh

2020-12-18 Thread Steve Litt
ad trouble with texlive. I think by uninstalling my distro's texlive package, relying entirely on the one from cpan, and creating my texlive.sh shellscript, I've eliminated 90% of my problems with texlive. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times

Has anybody lost their book's index when switching to lualatex?

2020-12-31 Thread Steve Litt
ex in between your two compiles. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Has anybody lost their book's index when switching to lualatex?

2021-01-02 Thread Steve Litt
> > On 2020-12-31 18:24 , Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I switched from compiling with LaTeX to compiling with LuaLaTeX, > > and my book's index went away. Upon further research, I found that > > I had forgotten to run makeindex between the fir

Re: help with error message

2021-01-05 Thread Steve Litt
from upstream. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Please make LyX native language well formed and valid XML

2021-01-16 Thread Steve Litt
finish the transition? SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Please make LyX native language well formed and valid XML

2021-01-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:30:00 +0100 Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:30:10PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Le 17/01/2021 ?? 00:36, Steve Litt a écrit : > > >Having LyX native language be XML would allow write once, publish > > >anywhere, wit

Re: Please make LyX native language well formed and valid XML

2021-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
grammatically was the simplest thing in the world. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Unwanted spacing in Table of Contents

2021-01-25 Thread Steve Litt
\small\setlength{\parskip}{4pt}\setstretch{0.8}% \@starttoc{toc}% } \if@restonecol\twocolumn\fi } I just put it in my layout file and I'm good to go. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive --

LyX will be mentioned at the 2/3/2021 GoLUG meeting

2021-02-02 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, The 2/3/2021 GoLUG meeting highlights about 10 web authoring tools, with a considerable emphasis on Inkscape. LyX will be mentioned and briefly demonstrated. Details on the meeting are at http://golug.info . Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough

Re: best route for org-mode --> LyX

2021-02-07 Thread Steve Litt
your program. I've done this to make most of the headers in a 50,000 word book. I suspect it would be as easy to write such a program for org-mode as it would be for VimOutliner. I'd recommend using Python3 to write the program. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving

Re: Nomenclature with Sections

2021-04-10 Thread Steve Litt
Wolfgang Engelmann said on Sat, 10 Apr 2021 09:09:48 +0200 >I would like to have parts of the nomenclature as a separate section, I know the word "nomenclature" means "a system of names", but what does it mean as applied in LyX? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Sp

Re: Nomenclature with Sections

2021-04-13 Thread Steve Litt
Wolfgang Engelmann said on Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:06:08 +0200 >Am 11.04.21 um 03:23 schrieb Steve Litt: >> Wolfgang Engelmann said on Sat, 10 Apr 2021 09:09:48 +0200 >> >>> I would like to have parts of the nomenclature as a separate >>> section, >> >

Re: 3D graphics for LYX

2021-04-14 Thread Steve Litt
Andreas Plihal said on Wed, 14 Apr 2021 21:18:14 +0200 >Hi folks, >  >Is there anybody going to listen to my story >All about the PROBS who came to stay? I see what you did there Andreas. Do I get my Boomer credentials now? :-) SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Tro

Re: Nomenclature with Sections

2021-04-14 Thread Steve Litt
Wolfgang Engelmann said on Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:07:09 +0200 >Am 13.04.21 um 22:44 schrieb Steve Litt: >> Wolfgang Engelmann said on Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:06:08 +0200 >> >> One happy prospect I see is that it can be done in LaTeX, and the >> Additional Features manual s

Layout based on "Book (Standard Class with Extra Font Sizes)"

2021-04-27 Thread Steve Litt
t do I need to do so I can get the sizes afforded by extbook.cls? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Layout based on "Book (Standard Class with Extra Font Sizes)"

2021-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
Richard Kimberly Heck said on Wed, 28 Apr 2021 10:33:28 -0400 >On 4/28/21 2:52 AM, Steve Litt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm making a layout file, based on Document Class "Book (Standard >> Class with Extra Font Sizes)". After investigation on my Void Li

Installing LyX from (stable) source?

2021-05-01 Thread Steve Litt
hould know about ./configure;make;make install that might mess me up? Where should I procure the latest *stable* LyX --- I don't want to download the latest Git thing that will change tomorrow. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the

Re: Installing LyX from (stable) source?

2021-05-01 Thread Steve Litt
Richard Kimberly Heck said on Sat, 1 May 2021 20:30:51 -0400 >On 5/1/21 7:43 PM, Steve Litt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I use Void Linux and am not satisfied with their LyX package, because >> it apparently contains hard links to the 2020 TeXLive, which of >> course i

Why can't I post to #lyx on freenode?

2021-05-01 Thread Steve Litt
me is stevelitt Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

New document on colored and clickable wrapping URLs

2021-05-03 Thread Steve Litt
http://troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/urlwrap.htm SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

I need an environment similar to, but not identical to LyX-Code

2021-06-10 Thread Steve Litt
. But I've searched for 1/2 hour and cannot find the TeX definition of the latexname part of LyX-Code, nor can I find the LyX user interface part of LyX-Code. So where can I find the definition of LyX-Code? SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-06-16 Thread Steve Litt
d and well formed XML. Do that and I'll make a LyX to (x)HTML converter that drops no styles nor adds styles for silly stuff like not indenting the first paragraph in a sequence of same-styled paragraphs, and is suitable for a high quality ePub and other flowing text eBooks. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes said on Thu, 17 Jun 2021 10:24:06 +0200 >Le 17/06/2021 à 03:24, Steve Litt a écrit : >> What we need, and we've needed for over a decade is a real, style for >> style, syntactically complete HTML export, or lacking that, finally >> finish the job

Re: Converting markdown to PDF

2021-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
Dr Eberhard Lisse said on Thu, 17 Jun 2021 13:03:39 +0200 >I wrote a 15 line template file, Could you please post the template file, as well as the exact command you used to implement the template file for conversion? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshoot

LyX says Tex Gyra Schola is not installed, but I installed it

2021-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
ettings on Document->Settings->Fonts are "Use Non-TeX Fonts" is unchecked, LaTeX font encoding is Default. What can I do to start to figure out this problem? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist htt

Re: LyX says Tex Gyra Schola is not installed, but I installed it

2021-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
Ricardo Berlasso said on Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:02:08 +0200 >El jue, 17 jun 2021 a las 16:15, Steve Litt >() escribió: > >> Hi all, >> >> The only font readable enough for my books is Century Schoolbook. All >> the rest are too faint. Most Century Schoolbook imple

Re: LyX says Tex Gyra Schola is not installed, but I installed it

2021-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
Ricardo Berlasso said on Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:02:08 +0200 >El jue, 17 jun 2021 a las 16:15, Steve Litt >() escribió: > >> Hi all, >> >> The only font readable enough for my books is Century Schoolbook. All >> the rest are too faint. Most Century Schoolbook imple

Re: LyX says Tex Gyra Schola is not installed, but I installed it

2021-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
Kornel Benko said on Thu, 17 Jun 2021 16:35:01 +0200 >Am Thu, 17 Jun 2021 10:14:18 -0400 >schrieb Steve Litt : > >> Hi all, >> >> The only font readable enough for my books is Century Schoolbook. All >> the rest are too faint. Most Century Schoolbook implementati

Re: LyX says Tex Gyra Schola is not installed, but I installed it

2021-06-18 Thread Steve Litt
Wolfgang Engelmann said on Fri, 18 Jun 2021 08:35:39 +0200 >Hi, Steve, >if you have solved the font questions for your book, could you kindly >give a summary for those who might like to try it? Yes. If I don't announce it within 5 days, please remind me again. SteveT Steve Lit

Command to put string in both the LyX authoring environment and the finished PDF?

2021-06-20 Thread Steve Litt
what I can do to make the text appear inline, instead of underneath, within the LyX authoring environment? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list lyx

Re: Command to put string in both the LyX authoring environment and the finished PDF?

2021-06-22 Thread Steve Litt
Steve Litt said on Sun, 20 Jun 2021 17:39:52 -0400 >Hi all, > >I have a local layout, based on Book-extsizes, for my new book. I have >no idea what the book's title will be yet, and I sure nuff don't want >to have to search all instances of that title and replace them e

Re: Command to put string in both the LyX authoring environment and the finished PDF?

2021-06-22 Thread Steve Litt
here's a long-standing request for non-math macros, which is exactly >what's needed here. Someday when I have time to work on LyX again, I >might take that on. Nice! SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://ww

Re: LyX says Tex Gyra Schola is not installed, but I installed it

2021-06-22 Thread Steve Litt
Baris Erkus said on Mon, 21 Jun 2021 09:22:11 +0300 >On 18-Jun-21 9:35 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: >> Hi, Steve, >> if you have solved the font questions for your book, could you >> kindly give a summary for those who might like to try it? >> Thanks, >>

Re: Empty backup directory

2021-06-27 Thread Steve Litt
No problem, once every 2 weeks, run a program that searches every directory under the backup root (/scratch/bup in my case), and rm -rf on any tree not containing a file less than 8 days old, on the theory that by that time, you will have backed up all your data and don't need the bupsky-cr

Re: Empty backup directory

2021-06-28 Thread Steve Litt
ontrast this with applications' ability to undo multiple times, which saves my bacon every day of my life. By the way, on most applications save is either Ctrl+S or Alt+F->Save , so saving every few minutes doesn't interfere with my workflow or my concentration. SteveT Steve L

Re: Empty backup directory

2021-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
Daniel said on Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:26:20 +0200 >On 28/6/21 16:40, Steve Litt wrote: >> Daniel said on Mon, 28 Jun 2021 14:58:10 +0200 >> > >I am actually also in the habit of saving files regularly via shortcut >mainly because I don't fully understand/trust

Solution: Section numbers don't reset

2021-07-04 Thread Steve Litt
and fixed the symptom. So then I went to the original layout file and document, inserted "Input book.layout" into the layout file, re-compiled the document, and bang, the symptom was gone. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Tech

Re: SOLVED> Libertinus font and AnonymousPro

2021-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
ex) >That caused the export failure in LyX. >Wolfgang :-) :-) I've made that mistake several times :-) :-) SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list

Re: SOLVED> Libertinus font and AnonymousPro

2021-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
s the TeX fonts, >otherwise xelatex finds only the fonts by its file name and _not_ >by the symbolic name. Herbert, given the preceding two paragraphs, is there any reason to use anything BUT lualatex? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Success

Section references

2021-07-21 Thread Steve Hnizdur
e to avoid this if possible. Hopefully this makes sense and any thoughts would be very welcome. I'm using 2.3.6.1 on Ubuntu 18.04. -- Steve Hnizdur -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Click feedback for reconfigure

2021-07-21 Thread Steve Litt
figure output. Second best would be at least a window somewhere saying "This process takes up to one minute to complete", and have that message pop up the instant the person clicks reconfigure. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Succes

How to superscript within a date environment

2021-07-24 Thread Steve Litt
'm sure most of you know this already, but for anyone who doesn't, this is how it's done. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@list

Re: How to superscript within a date environment

2021-07-27 Thread Steve Litt
Daniel said on Tue, 27 Jul 2021 07:34:05 +0200 >On 2021-07-25 07:22, Daniel wrote: >> On 2021-07-25 07:09, Steve Litt wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> On my book, I used the date environment to write "A >>> Troubleshooters.Com(R) book, except I used \

Re: How to assign a key code to a local layout

2021-08-08 Thread Steve Litt
; Custom insert -> mycustominsert. If I understand the preceding several posts correctly, this can give me a capability I've been wanting for years. If anybody has the code to make a custom insert in a local layout file, could you please post it so I can replicate your work? To me, it&#x

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-09-30 Thread Steve Litt
ot of vital value, and you want to author it in LibreOffice, just print it from LibreOffice. LibreOffice is a great quick and dirty for anything below 1000 words. If there's any chance a document will grow beyond 1000 words, use LyX or some other genuine authoring environment right from the s

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-03 Thread Steve Litt
Tobias Hilbricht said on Fri, 01 Oct 2021 19:07:02 +0200 >Am Donnerstag, den 30.09.2021, 21:38 -0400 schrieb Steve Litt: >> >> converting to LyX, the answer is don't. LibreOffice is a bug ridden >> program that tries to be all things to all people and fails >> mis

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-04 Thread Steve Litt
brings the real possibility of writing fairly simple books in Markdown, which would be fast as a bat out of hell. If there's a markdown to slide conversion, my stack could also be used to create slides with styles. In theory, I think Beamer is best for slides, but sometimes Beamer can get

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-06 Thread Steve Litt
a certain point it collapses under its own weight. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-09 Thread Steve Litt
les for the rest of their lives. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Preamble header issues

2021-10-10 Thread Steve Litt
nts", and had to compile it with LuaTeX and LuaLaTeX. These Century Schoolbook lookalikes look great on paper too. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-

Re: LibreOffice to LyX

2021-10-10 Thread Steve Litt
Alan Tyree said on Sun, 10 Oct 2021 08:06:24 +1100 >Oh, Steve, how I wish that were true! > >What really happens is that they see a word they would like to >emphasise, so they use direct formatting to do it. No need to use a >style when you only want to change one word, right? The

Re: END-OF-FRAME, once again..

2021-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
more complexity than it removes. When I use Beamer at all, I just edit the LaTeX in an editor. Doing that would be the kiss of death writing a book, but Beamer/LaTeX uses only a small subset of LaTeX. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Succe

Re: How to convert LyX doc to LaTeX

2021-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
on 2.3.6.2 (7 January >2021) lyx --export latex myfile.lyx or, if you're using lualatex to compile: lyx --export luatex myfile.lyx Be sure your journal knows which program to compile it with, and that they have to compile to get your index and bibliography right. SteveT Steve Li

Re: Bibliography styles

2021-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
#x27;s no Bibliography in the PDF. Did you remember to compile it twice? SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Compile error [FIXED]

2021-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
's important enough for me to remove all punctuation and replace spaces with underscores. Unless I remember to quote every variable in every shellscript, space or punctuation within filenames cause malfunction. Life's too short. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troub

Re: LuaTeX vs XeTeX

2021-11-08 Thread Steve Litt
strongarm things. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

How to paste into LyX-Code ?

2021-11-17 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I have a C program I want to show in a book. So I use the LyX-Code environment, but when I copy the C file to the clipboard and paste it into the LyX-Code environment, all the newlines are removed. What's the right way to show a C program file within LyX? Thanks, SteveT Steve

Re: How to paste into LyX-Code ?!!

2021-11-17 Thread Steve Litt
Daniel said on Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:44:23 +0100 >On 17/11/2021 10:01, Steve Litt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a C program I want to show in a book. So I use the LyX-Code >> environment, but when I copy the C file to the clipboard and paste it >> into the LyX-C

Re: How to paste into LyX-Code ?!!

2021-11-18 Thread Steve Litt
Daniel said on Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:48:07 +0100 >On 2021-11-17 23:28, Steve Litt wrote: >> Daniel said on Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:44:23 +0100 >> >>> On 17/11/2021 10:01, Steve Litt wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I have a C program I wa

Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon can only display in qpdfview

2021-11-25 Thread Steve Litt
= linkcolor, %Colour for external hyperlinks linkcolor= linkcolor, %Colour of internal links citecolor = green %Colour of citations } So, how does one set the viewer when presses Ctrl+R or clicks the eyeballs? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting T

Re: Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon can only display in qpdfview

2021-11-26 Thread Steve Litt
Paul A. Rubin said on Thu, 25 Nov 2021 23:11:34 -0500 >On 11/25/21 8:49 PM, Steve Litt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> No matter what I've tried, Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon >> displays the PDF version of the document only in qpdfview. I changed >> tools=>

Re: Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon can only display in qpdfview

2021-11-27 Thread Steve Litt
Paul A. Rubin said on Thu, 25 Nov 2021 23:11:34 -0500 >On 11/25/21 8:49 PM, Steve Litt wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> No matter what I've tried, Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon >> displays the PDF version of the document only in qpdfview. I changed >> tools=>

Re: Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon can only display in qpdfview

2021-11-27 Thread Steve Litt
Paul A. Rubin said on Sat, 27 Nov 2021 17:57:57 -0500 >On 11/27/21 4:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: >> >> Armed with the knowledge that reconfigure.py writes to >> lyxrc.defaults, and the fact that I could find no other way to >> change the PDF viewer, I edited reconfigure.p

Re: Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon can only display in qpdfview

2021-11-28 Thread Steve Litt
Kornel Benko said on Sun, 28 Nov 2021 11:58:56 +0100 >Am Sat, 27 Nov 2021 20:53:34 -0500 >schrieb Steve Litt : > >> Here's the thing. LyX exhibited this symptom for *every* previewer >> except for qpdfview. When I temporarily uninstalled qpdfview so it >> cou

Re: Ctrl+R and the little eyeballs icon can only display in qpdfview

2021-11-28 Thread Steve Litt
this thread and see a very thorough symptom description from me. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: Page numbers not showing in place

2021-11-30 Thread Steve Litt
shes with \hyperref, requiring all sorts of hoop jumping. In my opinion, the document class should be chosen based on the overall look you want to achieve, and then tweak the rest of the features you absolutely need "your way". Also, if you intend to write multiple books,

Re: Page numbers not showing in place

2021-11-30 Thread Steve Litt
x27;d suggest you do a few experiments with page margins and foot-sep to make sure your page numbers aren't printing below the document. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques -- lyx-u

Re: Graphic file formatsx

2021-12-07 Thread Steve Litt
alternatives. The last step for the shellscript is to place the newly converted and processed PDF in the images directory. To do this, of course, you need to set your LyX document to load the PDF, not the SVG. The benefit of the shellscript is you can continue to work while the software converts a

Re: Graphic file formats

2021-12-07 Thread Steve Litt
Rich Shepard said on Tue, 7 Dec 2021 16:05:09 -0800 (PST) >On Tue, 7 Dec 2021, Steve Litt wrote: > >> As far as my diagrams created in Inkscape, I put them in the images >> folder as .svg, and tell LyX to compile each to PDF. PDF completely >> saves the vector information

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