Re: formula numbering

[curtis osterhoudt]

I *like* the way LyX handles it. I give my equations labels which _make_sense_ 
to me as a physicist---like Poisson-Eqn---not having to coddle to the 
structure of the paper. If I want to refer to the equation 20 pages later, I 
don't have to go back and find the number and adapt the label or the 
references, nor do I have to worry about renumbering if anything changes. The 
cross-reference system built into Lyx/LaTeX takes care of that. 

   My only objection is the (perhaps apocryphal, but lodged in my brain since 
I've used LyX for about a decade now) requirement/suggestion to put dashes in 
place of spaces in one's labels.





 From: bieniasz nbbie...@cyf-kr.edu.pl
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: formula numbering
 

Richard Heck rgheck at lyx.org writes:

 What happens, then, when you add a new equation somewhere in
 the middle of the document?

This is what LyX already does - it updates automatically the equation
numbers. My point is why one cannot use these numbers for referencing
the equations in the text, since they are already there, up-to-date.

 There has often been talk about automatic labelling, so that the
 equation would have its own magic label, so to speak, and you
 could reference it without needing to make up a label. But no one
 has found the need pressing enough to do it.

This is difficult to understand for me. LaTeX users are primarily
scientists who write scientific texts. In such text one ALWAYS
refers to equations by numbers, and not by any peculiar labels.

 Still, making up a label isn't that hard, and it can make it easier
 to remeber which equation you want to reference later. You can
 of course just use numbers if you wish.

Well, yes and no. If I use my own labels, like
E1, E2, E3 etc., then I am in trouble when I need to add something
between E1 and E2, let's say. The problem is that user-defined labels
are not automatically updated, whereas the real equation numbers are.
Hence, I have a mess in which labels are in no clear relation to
the numbers.

So, in conclusion, I daresay the LaTeX/LyX system for equation numbering
needs a reasonable revision. If there are any LyX programmers out there,
please do something about this!!!

Leslaw

Re: formula numbering

[curtis osterhoudt]

I *like* the way LyX handles it. I give my equations labels which _make_sense_ 
to me as a physicist---like Poisson-Eqn---not having to coddle to the 
structure of the paper. If I want to refer to the equation 20 pages later, I 
don't have to go back and find the number and adapt the label or the 
references, nor do I have to worry about renumbering if anything changes. The 
cross-reference system built into Lyx/LaTeX takes care of that. 

   My only objection is the (perhaps apocryphal, but lodged in my brain since 
I've used LyX for about a decade now) requirement/suggestion to put dashes in 
place of spaces in one's labels.





 From: bieniasz nbbie...@cyf-kr.edu.pl
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: formula numbering
 

Richard Heck rgheck at lyx.org writes:

 What happens, then, when you add a new equation somewhere in
 the middle of the document?

This is what LyX already does - it updates automatically the equation
numbers. My point is why one cannot use these numbers for referencing
the equations in the text, since they are already there, up-to-date.

 There has often been talk about automatic labelling, so that the
 equation would have its own magic label, so to speak, and you
 could reference it without needing to make up a label. But no one
 has found the need pressing enough to do it.

This is difficult to understand for me. LaTeX users are primarily
scientists who write scientific texts. In such text one ALWAYS
refers to equations by numbers, and not by any peculiar labels.

 Still, making up a label isn't that hard, and it can make it easier
 to remeber which equation you want to reference later. You can
 of course just use numbers if you wish.

Well, yes and no. If I use my own labels, like
E1, E2, E3 etc., then I am in trouble when I need to add something
between E1 and E2, let's say. The problem is that user-defined labels
are not automatically updated, whereas the real equation numbers are.
Hence, I have a mess in which labels are in no clear relation to
the numbers.

So, in conclusion, I daresay the LaTeX/LyX system for equation numbering
needs a reasonable revision. If there are any LyX programmers out there,
please do something about this!!!

Leslaw

Re: formula numbering

[curtis osterhoudt]

I *like* the way LyX handles it. I give my equations labels which _make_sense_ 
to me as a physicist---like "Poisson-Eqn"---not having to coddle to the 
structure of the paper. If I want to refer to the equation 20 pages later, I 
don't have to go back and find the number and adapt the label or the 
references, nor do I have to worry about renumbering if anything changes. The 
cross-reference system built into Lyx/LaTeX takes care of that. 

   My only objection is the (perhaps apocryphal, but lodged in my brain since 
I've used LyX for about a decade now) requirement/suggestion to put dashes in 
place of spaces in one's labels.





 From: bieniasz 
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: formula numbering
 

Richard Heck  lyx.org> writes:

> What happens, then, when you add a new equation somewhere in
> the middle of the document?

This is what LyX already does - it updates automatically the equation
numbers. My point is why one cannot use these numbers for referencing
the equations in the text, since they are already there, up-to-date.

> There has often been talk about automatic labelling, so that the
> equation would have its own "magic" label, so to speak, and you
> could reference it without needing to make up a label. But no one
> has found the need pressing enough to do it.

This is difficult to understand for me. LaTeX users are primarily
scientists who write scientific texts. In such text one ALWAYS
refers to equations by numbers, and not by any peculiar labels.

> Still, making up a label isn't that hard, and it can make it easier
> to remeber which equation you want to reference later. You can
> of course just use numbers if you wish.

Well, yes and no. If I use my own labels, like
E1, E2, E3 etc., then I am in trouble when I need to add something
between E1 and E2, let's say. The problem is that user-defined labels
are not automatically updated, whereas the real equation numbers are.
Hence, I have a mess in which labels are in no clear relation to
the numbers.

So, in conclusion, I daresay the LaTeX/LyX system for equation numbering
needs a reasonable revision. If there are any LyX programmers out there,
please do something about this!!!

Leslaw

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Re: Compilation problem

[curtis osterhoudt]

I ran into this problem just this weekend (using the 2.1.0 dev version of LyX 
on a debian-based system). I happen to have figured out what I did wrong, 
though it didn't have anything to do with forward/reverse searches; I thought 
the condition was interesting: I put some ERT into my document to change some 
enumeration settings (explicitly, the following command to change numbering to 
a lowercase letter surrounded by parentheses: 
\renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\alph{enumi})}). Later on, though, in playing with 
that command, I changed it to the following: 
\renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\theenumi)}. This, I think, is a sort of circular 
definition, and pdflatex chokes on it, and LyX appears to be frozen (I think 
it's waiting for pdflatex to finish its compilation). 

  If you haven't started LyX from the command line (so that you can simply 
ctrl-c it), then you can use the following to kill the process:

From a command window, run top or htop, and find the process (likely gs or 
pdflatex) which is eating up resources and kill it that way.
OR
run the command ps -ef | grep pdflatex (or whatever process you suspect of 
hanging), which will return the process number of the program running. Then you 
can run kill process number (or, for extreme maliciousness, kill -9 
process number) to make LyX useable again. 

  Hope that helps!





 From: Emil Pavlov emil.p.pav...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 1:15 PM
Subject: Compilation problem
 

I have a large lyx document (several child documents, together around 60
pages) and sometimes I have problems compiling the pdf. I even cannot
close lyx, because it says it is still compiling.
1. How can I interrupt the compilation?
2. How can I fix this?

I have Lyx 2.0.5.1 on Linux mint 13. The problem usually occurs when I
enable forward/reverse search (I really need this feature).

Best regards,
Emil

Re: Compilation problem

[curtis osterhoudt]

I ran into this problem just this weekend (using the 2.1.0 dev version of LyX 
on a debian-based system). I happen to have figured out what I did wrong, 
though it didn't have anything to do with forward/reverse searches; I thought 
the condition was interesting: I put some ERT into my document to change some 
enumeration settings (explicitly, the following command to change numbering to 
a lowercase letter surrounded by parentheses: 
\renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\alph{enumi})}). Later on, though, in playing with 
that command, I changed it to the following: 
\renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\theenumi)}. This, I think, is a sort of circular 
definition, and pdflatex chokes on it, and LyX appears to be frozen (I think 
it's waiting for pdflatex to finish its compilation). 

  If you haven't started LyX from the command line (so that you can simply 
ctrl-c it), then you can use the following to kill the process:

From a command window, run top or htop, and find the process (likely gs or 
pdflatex) which is eating up resources and kill it that way.
OR
run the command ps -ef | grep pdflatex (or whatever process you suspect of 
hanging), which will return the process number of the program running. Then you 
can run kill process number (or, for extreme maliciousness, kill -9 
process number) to make LyX useable again. 

  Hope that helps!





 From: Emil Pavlov emil.p.pav...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 1:15 PM
Subject: Compilation problem
 

I have a large lyx document (several child documents, together around 60
pages) and sometimes I have problems compiling the pdf. I even cannot
close lyx, because it says it is still compiling.
1. How can I interrupt the compilation?
2. How can I fix this?

I have Lyx 2.0.5.1 on Linux mint 13. The problem usually occurs when I
enable forward/reverse search (I really need this feature).

Best regards,
Emil

Re: Compilation problem

[curtis osterhoudt]

I ran into this problem just this weekend (using the 2.1.0 dev version of LyX 
on a debian-based system). I happen to have figured out what I did wrong, 
though it didn't have anything to do with forward/reverse searches; I thought 
the condition was interesting: I put some ERT into my document to change some 
enumeration settings (explicitly, the following command to change numbering to 
a lowercase letter surrounded by parentheses: 
\renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\alph{enumi})}). Later on, though, in playing with 
that command, I changed it to the following: 
\renewcommand{\theenumi}{(\theenumi)}. This, I think, is a sort of circular 
definition, and pdflatex chokes on it, and LyX appears to be frozen (I think 
it's waiting for pdflatex to finish its compilation). 

  If you haven't started LyX from the command line (so that you can simply 
ctrl-c it), then you can use the following to kill the process:

From a command window, run "top" or "htop", and find the process (likely gs or 
pdflatex) which is eating up resources and kill it that way.
OR
run the command "ps -ef | grep pdflatex" (or whatever process you suspect of 
hanging), which will return the process number of the program running. Then you 
can run "kill " (or, for extreme maliciousness, "kill -9 
") to make LyX useable again. 

  Hope that helps!




>
> From: Emil Pavlov 
>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
>Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 1:15 PM
>Subject: Compilation problem
> 
>
>I have a large lyx document (several child documents, together around 60
>pages) and sometimes I have problems compiling the pdf. I even cannot
>close lyx, because it says it is still compiling.
>1. How can I interrupt the compilation?
>2. How can I fix this?
>
>I have Lyx 2.0.5.1 on Linux mint 13. The problem usually occurs when I
>enable forward/reverse search (I really need this feature).
>
>Best regards,
>Emil
>
>
>
>

Re: Beamer Class: Controlling \alert

[curtis osterhoudt]

Hi, Rich, 

   At least in the 2.1 development build (which I've been using for nearly a 
year now), I highlight what text I want to change the style of, and either 
choose (a) the main Edit menu and the Text Style sub-menu, or (b) 
right-click and choose Text Style directly. Then I can pick Alert from the 
choices which appear, or choose Customized and pick a combination of text 
sizes, colors, underlining, and so forth.

   You'll also see a Reset command in the deepest menus, which apparently 
throws all of the options back to the Beamer default styles.

   Exactly how it'll look is always sort of a gamble, as I still don't have a 
good feeling for how big Larger is vs. Huge, nor do I know how to set a 
default text style for my documents which differs from the Beamer defaults (for 
example). 

 Hope that helps, 
         Curtis




 From: Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 7:27 AM
Subject: Beamer Class: Controlling \alert
 

  Writing a presentation with the beamer class template. The summary section
has certain words shown in red which is controlled in LaTeX with the \alert
command. The beamer doc notes that for LyX, The \alert command needs to be
entered in TEX-mode, which is awkward. It's easier to just paint the text in
red. I'm trying to un-paint a string and not finding a menu option or icon
that's relevant.

  The LyX User Guide tells me in Section B.10, Here you can alter the font
color for the main text (default: black) and for Greyed out notes (default:
light grey). The button Reset sets the color back to the default.

  I cannot find the \alert command or a 'Reset' button anywhere. Please
point me to the control for text color in a beamer class document.

TIA,

Rich

-- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.          |   Integrity - Credibility - Innovation
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.   |
http://www.appl-ecosys.com     Voice: 503-667-4517      Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Beamer Class: Controlling \alert

[curtis osterhoudt]

Hi, Rich, 

   At least in the 2.1 development build (which I've been using for nearly a 
year now), I highlight what text I want to change the style of, and either 
choose (a) the main Edit menu and the Text Style sub-menu, or (b) 
right-click and choose Text Style directly. Then I can pick Alert from the 
choices which appear, or choose Customized and pick a combination of text 
sizes, colors, underlining, and so forth.

   You'll also see a Reset command in the deepest menus, which apparently 
throws all of the options back to the Beamer default styles.

   Exactly how it'll look is always sort of a gamble, as I still don't have a 
good feeling for how big Larger is vs. Huge, nor do I know how to set a 
default text style for my documents which differs from the Beamer defaults (for 
example). 

 Hope that helps, 
         Curtis




 From: Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 7:27 AM
Subject: Beamer Class: Controlling \alert
 

  Writing a presentation with the beamer class template. The summary section
has certain words shown in red which is controlled in LaTeX with the \alert
command. The beamer doc notes that for LyX, The \alert command needs to be
entered in TEX-mode, which is awkward. It's easier to just paint the text in
red. I'm trying to un-paint a string and not finding a menu option or icon
that's relevant.

  The LyX User Guide tells me in Section B.10, Here you can alter the font
color for the main text (default: black) and for Greyed out notes (default:
light grey). The button Reset sets the color back to the default.

  I cannot find the \alert command or a 'Reset' button anywhere. Please
point me to the control for text color in a beamer class document.

TIA,

Rich

-- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.          |   Integrity - Credibility - Innovation
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.   |
http://www.appl-ecosys.com     Voice: 503-667-4517      Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Beamer Class: Controlling \alert

[curtis osterhoudt]

Hi, Rich, 

   At least in the 2.1 development build (which I've been using for nearly a 
year now), I highlight what text I want to change the style of, and either 
choose (a) the main "Edit" menu and the "Text Style" sub-menu, or (b) 
right-click and choose "Text Style" directly. Then I can pick "Alert" from the 
choices which appear, or choose "Customized" and pick a combination of text 
sizes, colors, underlining, and so forth.

   You'll also see a "Reset" command in the deepest menus, which apparently 
throws all of the options back to the Beamer default styles.

   Exactly how it'll look is always sort of a gamble, as I still don't have a 
good feeling for how big "Larger" is vs. "Huge", nor do I know how to set a 
default text style for my documents which differs from the Beamer defaults (for 
example). 

 Hope that helps, 
         Curtis



>
> From: Rich Shepard 
>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
>Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 7:27 AM
>Subject: Beamer Class: Controlling \alert
> 
>
>  Writing a presentation with the beamer class template. The summary section
>has certain words shown in red which is controlled in LaTeX with the \alert
>command. The beamer doc notes that for LyX, "The \alert command needs to be
>entered in TEX-mode, which is awkward. It's easier to just paint the text in
>red." I'm trying to un-paint a string and not finding a menu option or icon
>that's relevant.
>
>  The LyX User Guide tells me in Section B.10, "Here you can alter the font
>color for the main text (default: black) and for Greyed out notes (default:
>light grey). The button Reset sets the color back to the default."
>
>  I cannot find the \alert command or a 'Reset' button anywhere. Please
>point me to the control for text color in a beamer class document.
>
>TIA,
>
>Rich
>
>-- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.          |   Integrity - Credibility - Innovation
>Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.   |
>     Voice: 503-667-4517      Fax: 503-667-8863
>
>
>
>

Re: customizing bullets in lists: I got Simpsons now, you could too

[curtis osterhoudt]

SNPP, I'm sure, is Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Love all of this, and 
the documentation you've done. It's nice to know what's possible, even if there 
are unsolved problems. 


From: Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 1:14 PM
Subject: customizing bullets in lists: I got Simpsons now, you could too
 
Without further adieu!  Working example output:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/scraps/simpsons/simpsons-2.pdf

Lyx file:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/scraps/simpsons/simpsons-2.lyx

Even if you don't want the Simpsons as your bullets in lists, you
might still look this over because it shows how you can put in ANY
valid LaTeX symbol a the bullet for a particular item or for an entire
list. And each list in a presentation can have different bullet
symbols.

I did not find any easy LyX documentation on this. If there is some,
and you wrote it, I'm sorry to overlook you. .

1. Easy, direct way, no LyX module or new package required:

In case you did not know this yet, in LyX, after you create a list
item, and the bullet symbol is showing, you can enter ERT mode and
just put the name of a symbol in brackets, like [\Bart]. That replaces
the default bullet with your symbol.  Also things like [$\gamma$] work
if you don't have the Simpson's characters. You can intersperse those
customized bullet symbols with regular bullets. If you go shopping in
the MASSIVE LaTeX symbol collection (see slide 1 in the pdf), you will
probably see symbols you would love in your lists.

2. Use enumitem, gain ability to change bullet for entire list easily:
ERT [label=\Bart]

If you turn on the LyX module to Customize Itemized Lists (enumitem),
then you gain some new powers, such as the ability to declare a label
in the first item of any list and that is used automatically for all
remaining list items.

I could use your help.

Here are problems I did not solve. They are listed in the pdf, but in
case you miss them

1. I can't find a way to re-size the metafont symbols, some (Marge)
are way too big

2. The bullets are aligned with the bottom of the text line, but it
would be more usual to have them aligned with the center of the
multi-line item. Ideas?

3. In Lyx-2.0.3, at least in this example file, as soon as I turn on
the module to Customize lists, then all default bullet symbols are
lost.  If I don't specify a label for each list, I get no bullets.
That is a new feature/bug for me, I've not seen it before.

If anybody has ideas about these things, let me know. I may post that
example into the LyX Wiki, if I can reach the conclusion about whether
1 and 2 can be solved and if 3 is a problem unique to this document
(probably because I've damaged some default setting somewhere).

pj

-- 
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science      Assoc. Director
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504      Center for Research Methods
University of Kansas                 University of Kansas
http://pj.freefaculty.org              http://quant.ku.edu

Re: customizing bullets in lists: I got Simpsons now, you could too

[curtis osterhoudt]

SNPP, I'm sure, is Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. Love all of this, and 
the documentation you've done. It's nice to know what's possible, even if there 
are unsolved problems. 


From: Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 1:14 PM
Subject: customizing bullets in lists: I got Simpsons now, you could too
 
Without further adieu!  Working example output:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/scraps/simpsons/simpsons-2.pdf

Lyx file:

http://pj.freefaculty.org/scraps/simpsons/simpsons-2.lyx

Even if you don't want the Simpsons as your bullets in lists, you
might still look this over because it shows how you can put in ANY
valid LaTeX symbol a the bullet for a particular item or for an entire
list. And each list in a presentation can have different bullet
symbols.

I did not find any easy LyX documentation on this. If there is some,
and you wrote it, I'm sorry to overlook you. .

1. Easy, direct way, no LyX module or new package required:

In case you did not know this yet, in LyX, after you create a list
item, and the bullet symbol is showing, you can enter ERT mode and
just put the name of a symbol in brackets, like [\Bart]. That replaces
the default bullet with your symbol.  Also things like [$\gamma$] work
if you don't have the Simpson's characters. You can intersperse those
customized bullet symbols with regular bullets. If you go shopping in
the MASSIVE LaTeX symbol collection (see slide 1 in the pdf), you will
probably see symbols you would love in your lists.

2. Use enumitem, gain ability to change bullet for entire list easily:
ERT [label=\Bart]

If you turn on the LyX module to Customize Itemized Lists (enumitem),
then you gain some new powers, such as the ability to declare a label
in the first item of any list and that is used automatically for all
remaining list items.

I could use your help.

Here are problems I did not solve. They are listed in the pdf, but in
case you miss them

1. I can't find a way to re-size the metafont symbols, some (Marge)
are way too big

2. The bullets are aligned with the bottom of the text line, but it
would be more usual to have them aligned with the center of the
multi-line item. Ideas?

3. In Lyx-2.0.3, at least in this example file, as soon as I turn on
the module to Customize lists, then all default bullet symbols are
lost.  If I don't specify a label for each list, I get no bullets.
That is a new feature/bug for me, I've not seen it before.

If anybody has ideas about these things, let me know. I may post that
example into the LyX Wiki, if I can reach the conclusion about whether
1 and 2 can be solved and if 3 is a problem unique to this document
(probably because I've damaged some default setting somewhere).

pj

-- 
Paul E. Johnson
Professor, Political Science      Assoc. Director
1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504      Center for Research Methods
University of Kansas                 University of Kansas
http://pj.freefaculty.org              http://quant.ku.edu

Re: customizing bullets in lists: I got Simpsons now, you could too

[curtis osterhoudt]

"SNPP", I'm sure, is "Springfield Nuclear Power Plant". Love all of this, and 
the documentation you've done. It's nice to know what's possible, even if there 
are unsolved problems. 


From: Paul Johnson 
>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
>Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 1:14 PM
>Subject: customizing bullets in lists: I got Simpsons now, you could too
> 
>Without further adieu!  Working example output:
>
>http://pj.freefaculty.org/scraps/simpsons/simpsons-2.pdf
>
>Lyx file:
>
>http://pj.freefaculty.org/scraps/simpsons/simpsons-2.lyx
>
>Even if you don't want the Simpsons as your bullets in lists, you
>might still look this over because it shows how you can put in ANY
>valid LaTeX symbol a the bullet for a particular item or for an entire
>list. And each list in a presentation can have different bullet
>symbols.
>
>I did not find any easy LyX documentation on this. If there is some,
>and you wrote it, I'm sorry to overlook you. .
>
>1. Easy, direct way, no LyX module or new package required:
>
>In case you did not know this yet, in LyX, after you create a list
>item, and the bullet symbol is showing, you can enter ERT mode and
>just put the name of a symbol in brackets, like [\Bart]. That replaces
>the default bullet with your symbol.  Also things like [$\gamma$] work
>if you don't have the Simpson's characters. You can intersperse those
>customized bullet symbols with regular bullets. If you go shopping in
>the MASSIVE LaTeX symbol collection (see slide 1 in the pdf), you will
>probably see symbols you would love in your lists.
>
>2. Use enumitem, gain ability to change bullet for entire list easily:
>ERT [label=\Bart]
>
>If you turn on the LyX module to Customize Itemized Lists (enumitem),
>then you gain some new powers, such as the ability to declare a label
>in the first item of any list and that is used automatically for all
>remaining list items.
>
>I could use your help.
>
>Here are problems I did not solve. They are listed in the pdf, but in
>case you miss them
>
>1. I can't find a way to re-size the metafont symbols, some (Marge)
>are way too big
>
>2. The bullets are aligned with the bottom of the text line, but it
>would be more usual to have them aligned with the center of the
>multi-line item. Ideas?
>
>3. In Lyx-2.0.3, at least in this example file, as soon as I turn on
>the module to Customize lists, then all default bullet symbols are
>lost.  If I don't specify a label for each list, I get no bullets.
>That is a new feature/bug for me, I've not seen it before.
>
>If anybody has ideas about these things, let me know. I may post that
>example into the LyX Wiki, if I can reach the conclusion about whether
>1 and 2 can be "solved" and if 3 is a problem unique to this document
>(probably because I've damaged some default setting somewhere).
>
>pj
>
>-- 
>Paul E. Johnson
>Professor, Political Science      Assoc. Director
>1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504      Center for Research Methods
>University of Kansas                 University of Kansas
>http://pj.freefaculty.org              http://quant.ku.edu
>
>
>

Re: Setting Up Longtable

[curtis osterhoudt]

Hi, Rich, 

   I recently had to do this (in the 2.1.0 development version of LyX).

   I inserted a table, and got the caption typed in. Then, near that caption 
box (and within the demarcations marking the table), I can right-click. At the 
bottom of the pop-up menu is a More... option, which brings up yet another 
pop-up menu, with Settings Choosing that finally has the Longtable tab.

   Hope that helps!

               Curtis
 
/**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Terry Pratchett
***/



 From: Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:49 PM
Subject: Setting Up Longtable
 
  I have a table with 65 rows and want to define it as a long table. The
Users Guide tells me, If the table is too long to fit on one page, you can
use the option Use long table in the tab Longtable of the table dialog to
split the table automatically over more pages. Doing this enables some check
boxes and you can now define.

  But, I cannot find the 'tab Longtable of the table dialog.' It does not
appear to be on the table tool bar and clicking in the table does not bring
up a table dialog. I'm not seeing how to access do the job.

Rich

Re: Setting Up Longtable

[curtis osterhoudt]

Ah. A slightly easier way of getting there is to place the mouse cursor within 
the table, and then go to the Edit menu at the top of the LyX window, choose 
Table Settings, and then the dialog which appears includes the Longtable 
tab.
 
/**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Terry Pratchett
***/



 From: Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:49 PM
Subject: Setting Up Longtable
 
  I have a table with 65 rows and want to define it as a long table. The
Users Guide tells me, If the table is too long to fit on one page, you can
use the option Use long table in the tab Longtable of the table dialog to
split the table automatically over more pages. Doing this enables some check
boxes and you can now define.

  But, I cannot find the 'tab Longtable of the table dialog.' It does not
appear to be on the table tool bar and clicking in the table does not bring
up a table dialog. I'm not seeing how to access do the job.

Rich

Re: Setting Up Longtable

[curtis osterhoudt]

Hi, Rich, 

   I recently had to do this (in the 2.1.0 development version of LyX).

   I inserted a table, and got the caption typed in. Then, near that caption 
box (and within the demarcations marking the table), I can right-click. At the 
bottom of the pop-up menu is a More... option, which brings up yet another 
pop-up menu, with Settings Choosing that finally has the Longtable tab.

   Hope that helps!

               Curtis
 
/**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Terry Pratchett
***/



 From: Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:49 PM
Subject: Setting Up Longtable
 
  I have a table with 65 rows and want to define it as a long table. The
Users Guide tells me, If the table is too long to fit on one page, you can
use the option Use long table in the tab Longtable of the table dialog to
split the table automatically over more pages. Doing this enables some check
boxes and you can now define.

  But, I cannot find the 'tab Longtable of the table dialog.' It does not
appear to be on the table tool bar and clicking in the table does not bring
up a table dialog. I'm not seeing how to access do the job.

Rich

Re: Setting Up Longtable

[curtis osterhoudt]

Ah. A slightly easier way of getting there is to place the mouse cursor within 
the table, and then go to the Edit menu at the top of the LyX window, choose 
Table Settings, and then the dialog which appears includes the Longtable 
tab.
 
/**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Terry Pratchett
***/



 From: Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:49 PM
Subject: Setting Up Longtable
 
  I have a table with 65 rows and want to define it as a long table. The
Users Guide tells me, If the table is too long to fit on one page, you can
use the option Use long table in the tab Longtable of the table dialog to
split the table automatically over more pages. Doing this enables some check
boxes and you can now define.

  But, I cannot find the 'tab Longtable of the table dialog.' It does not
appear to be on the table tool bar and clicking in the table does not bring
up a table dialog. I'm not seeing how to access do the job.

Rich

Re: Setting Up Longtable

[curtis osterhoudt]

Hi, Rich, 

   I recently had to do this (in the 2.1.0 development version of LyX).

   I inserted a table, and got the caption typed in. Then, near that caption 
box (and within the demarcations marking the table), I can right-click. At the 
bottom of the pop-up menu is a "More..." option, which brings up yet another 
pop-up menu, with "Settings...". Choosing that finally has the "Longtable" tab.

   Hope that helps!

               Curtis
 
/**
"As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff." ~~Terry Pratchett
***/


>
> From: Rich Shepard 
>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
>Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:49 PM
>Subject: Setting Up Longtable
> 
>  I have a table with 65 rows and want to define it as a long table. The
>Users Guide tells me, "If the table is too long to fit on one page, you can
>use the option Use long table in the tab Longtable of the table dialog to
>split the table automatically over more pages. Doing this enables some check
>boxes and you can now define".
>
>  But, I cannot find the 'tab Longtable of the table dialog.' It does not
>appear to be on the table tool bar and clicking in the table does not bring
>up a table dialog. I'm not seeing how to access do the job.
>
>Rich
>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: Setting Up Longtable

[curtis osterhoudt]

Ah. A slightly easier way of getting there is to place the mouse cursor within 
the table, and then go to the "Edit" menu at the top of the LyX window, choose 
"Table Settings", and then the dialog which appears includes the "Longtable" 
tab.
 
/**
"As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff." ~~Terry Pratchett
***/


>
> From: Rich Shepard 
>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
>Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 12:49 PM
>Subject: Setting Up Longtable
> 
>  I have a table with 65 rows and want to define it as a long table. The
>Users Guide tells me, "If the table is too long to fit on one page, you can
>use the option Use long table in the tab Longtable of the table dialog to
>split the table automatically over more pages. Doing this enables some check
>boxes and you can now define".
>
>  But, I cannot find the 'tab Longtable of the table dialog.' It does not
>appear to be on the table tool bar and clicking in the table does not bring
>up a table dialog. I'm not seeing how to access do the job.
>
>Rich
>
>
>
>
>
>

pdfpages inclusion with forms blanks the forms information

[curtis osterhoudt]

Dear LyXers, 

   I'm producing a few files (via pdflatex) in the 2.1.0 version of lyx (I grab 
it from the -devel git repository and compile it locally). This is on a debian 
system, running a 3.5 (sid) kernel. 

   When I include an already-produced .pdf document (via Insert -- File -- 
External Material) and then choose the template as PDF pages, everything 
looks great, and the preview on screen shows that all information is in the 
forms in the original .pdf.

   However, upon exporting from LyX, either doing a View (which I have set to 
compile via pdflatex), or through File -- Export -- PDF (pdflatex), the 
resulting document has the forms as blank (viewing in Okular or acroread). Is 
this a limitation of pdflatex, or something wacky that LyX is doing?

             Many thanks, 
                Curtis O. 

pdfpages inclusion with forms blanks the forms information

[curtis osterhoudt]

Dear LyXers, 

   I'm producing a few files (via pdflatex) in the 2.1.0 version of lyx (I grab 
it from the -devel git repository and compile it locally). This is on a debian 
system, running a 3.5 (sid) kernel. 

   When I include an already-produced .pdf document (via Insert -- File -- 
External Material) and then choose the template as PDF pages, everything 
looks great, and the preview on screen shows that all information is in the 
forms in the original .pdf.

   However, upon exporting from LyX, either doing a View (which I have set to 
compile via pdflatex), or through File -- Export -- PDF (pdflatex), the 
resulting document has the forms as blank (viewing in Okular or acroread). Is 
this a limitation of pdflatex, or something wacky that LyX is doing?

             Many thanks, 
                Curtis O. 

pdfpages inclusion with forms blanks the forms information

[curtis osterhoudt]

Dear LyXers, 

   I'm producing a few files (via pdflatex) in the 2.1.0 version of lyx (I grab 
it from the -devel git repository and compile it locally). This is on a debian 
system, running a 3.5 (sid) kernel. 

   When I include an already-produced .pdf document (via Insert --> File --> 
External Material) and then choose the template as "PDF pages", everything 
looks great, and the preview on screen shows that all information is in the 
forms in the original .pdf.

   However, upon exporting from LyX, either doing a View (which I have set to 
compile via pdflatex), or through File --> Export --> PDF (pdflatex), the 
resulting document has the forms as blank (viewing in Okular or acroread). Is 
this a limitation of pdflatex, or something wacky that LyX is doing?

             Many thanks, 
                Curtis O. 

Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again

[curtis osterhoudt]

This *may* be what you want: 
http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html#captfont

As it describes a more global way of doing things, it may override (or 
be overridden by?) the local ERT at each inset. It's all a bit of waving a dead 
chicken at it to me, though, and I could be way off base. Still, hope it helps!


From: Michael Bach pha...@gmail.com

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 4:41 AM
Subject: Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again
 
On 7/29/2012 2:16 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Try this:

 ---

 InsetLayout ERT
 Font
      Size Small
      Color latex
      Family typewriter
 EndFont
 End

 Style Plain_Layout
      Align Left
 End

 ---


This worked well for my ERT insets, Thanks!

One last thing though: How can I change the layout (e.g. font size) for 
captions inside float insets?

I tried e.g. for figures:

---

InsetLayout Figure
Font
     Size Small
EndFont
End

---

Michael

Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again

[curtis osterhoudt]

You're right! Mea culpa. I didn't read the original stackexchange question, and 
I should have. Apologies for the static.

From: Michael Bach pha...@gmail.com

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again
 
On 7/29/2012 6:47 PM, curtis osterhoudt wrote:
 This *may* be what you want:
 http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html#captfont
 
 As it describes a more global way of doing things, it may override (or
 be overridden by?) the local ERT at each inset. It's all a bit of waving
 a dead chicken at it to me, though, and I could be way off base. Still,
 hope it helps!

Thanks for your input.

As far as I can see, your link points to general LaTeX advice on the actual 
typesetting of the captions. I use the caption package for this.

For me, I wanted to have readable and visually different ERT and caption 
insets within the LyX GUI - thus alignment and font size questions.

Maybe I am missing something, but for me these layout settings do not affect 
the pdf output. Please correct me if that is wrong / should / could be 
different. As I said, new to LyX.

Cheers,
Michael

Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again

[curtis osterhoudt]

This *may* be what you want: 
http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html#captfont

As it describes a more global way of doing things, it may override (or 
be overridden by?) the local ERT at each inset. It's all a bit of waving a dead 
chicken at it to me, though, and I could be way off base. Still, hope it helps!


From: Michael Bach pha...@gmail.com

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 4:41 AM
Subject: Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again
 
On 7/29/2012 2:16 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
 Try this:

 ---

 InsetLayout ERT
 Font
      Size Small
      Color latex
      Family typewriter
 EndFont
 End

 Style Plain_Layout
      Align Left
 End

 ---


This worked well for my ERT insets, Thanks!

One last thing though: How can I change the layout (e.g. font size) for 
captions inside float insets?

I tried e.g. for figures:

---

InsetLayout Figure
Font
     Size Small
EndFont
End

---

Michael

Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again

[curtis osterhoudt]

You're right! Mea culpa. I didn't read the original stackexchange question, and 
I should have. Apologies for the static.

From: Michael Bach pha...@gmail.com

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 9:17 AM
Subject: Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again
 
On 7/29/2012 6:47 PM, curtis osterhoudt wrote:
 This *may* be what you want:
 http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html#captfont
 
 As it describes a more global way of doing things, it may override (or
 be overridden by?) the local ERT at each inset. It's all a bit of waving
 a dead chicken at it to me, though, and I could be way off base. Still,
 hope it helps!

Thanks for your input.

As far as I can see, your link points to general LaTeX advice on the actual 
typesetting of the captions. I use the caption package for this.

For me, I wanted to have readable and visually different ERT and caption 
insets within the LyX GUI - thus alignment and font size questions.

Maybe I am missing something, but for me these layout settings do not affect 
the pdf output. Please correct me if that is wrong / should / could be 
different. As I said, new to LyX.

Cheers,
Michael

Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again

[curtis osterhoudt]

This *may* be what you want: 
http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html#captfont

As it describes a more "global" way of doing things, it may override (or 
be overridden by?) the local ERT at each inset. It's all a bit of waving a dead 
chicken at it to me, though, and I could be way off base. Still, hope it helps!


From: Michael Bach 

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
>Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 4:41 AM
>Subject: Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again
> 
>On 7/29/2012 2:16 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>> Try this:
>>
>> ---
>>
>> InsetLayout ERT
>> Font
>>      Size Small
>>      Color latex
>>      Family typewriter
>> EndFont
>> End
>>
>> Style Plain_Layout
>>      Align Left
>> End
>>
>> ---
>>
>
>This worked well for my ERT insets, Thanks!
>
>One last thing though: How can I change the layout (e.g. font size) for 
>captions inside float insets?
>
>I tried e.g. for figures:
>
>---
>
>InsetLayout Figure
>Font
>     Size Small
>EndFont
>End
>
>---
>
>Michael
>
>
>
>
>

Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again

[curtis osterhoudt]

You're right! Mea culpa. I didn't read the original stackexchange question, and 
I should have. Apologies for the static.

From: Michael Bach <pha...@gmail.com>

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
>Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2012 9:17 AM
>Subject: Re: Layout: ERT alignment yet again
> 
>On 7/29/2012 6:47 PM, curtis osterhoudt wrote:
>> This *may* be what you want:
>> http://dcwww.camd.dtu.dk/~schiotz/comp/LatexTips/LatexTips.html#captfont
>> 
>> As it describes a more "global" way of doing things, it may override (or
>> be overridden by?) the local ERT at each inset. It's all a bit of waving
>> a dead chicken at it to me, though, and I could be way off base. Still,
>> hope it helps!
>
>Thanks for your input.
>
>As far as I can see, your link points to general LaTeX advice on the actual 
>typesetting of the captions. I use the caption package for this.
>
>For me, I wanted to have readable and visually different ERT and caption 
>insets within the LyX GUI - thus alignment and font size questions.
>
>Maybe I am missing something, but for me these layout settings do not affect 
>the pdf output. Please correct me if that is wrong / should / could be 
>different. As I said, new to LyX.
>
>Cheers,
>Michael
>
>
>
>

Re: Beamer files have faint symbols at lower border

[curtis osterhoudt]

If using Okular as a viewer, either forward/up or back/down arrows, spacebar, 
etc. If one has left TOC-type links around (my presentations happen to have 
them at the top of each slide) one can use those to quickly go to the relevant 
sections. 


    ~ C





 From: Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: Beamer files have faint symbols at lower border
 
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote:

 All the slides I make with lyx+beamer have faint grey symbols along the
 lower edge. These are clickable to move around in the slides but I want to
 eliminate them. I think there is something one can put in the preamble to
 do this but I don't know what to search for in google. Anyone know what it
 is?

  So, if you have a beamer presentation set to full screen, how will you
navigate from one slide to another?

Rich

Re: Beamer files have faint symbols at lower border

[curtis osterhoudt]

If using Okular as a viewer, either forward/up or back/down arrows, spacebar, 
etc. If one has left TOC-type links around (my presentations happen to have 
them at the top of each slide) one can use those to quickly go to the relevant 
sections. 


    ~ C





 From: Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 7:20 AM
Subject: Re: Beamer files have faint symbols at lower border
 
On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote:

 All the slides I make with lyx+beamer have faint grey symbols along the
 lower edge. These are clickable to move around in the slides but I want to
 eliminate them. I think there is something one can put in the preamble to
 do this but I don't know what to search for in google. Anyone know what it
 is?

  So, if you have a beamer presentation set to full screen, how will you
navigate from one slide to another?

Rich

Re: Beamer files have faint symbols at lower border

[curtis osterhoudt]

If using Okular as a viewer, either forward/up or back/down arrows, spacebar, 
etc. If one has left TOC-type links around (my presentations happen to have 
them at the top of each slide) one can use those to quickly go to the relevant 
sections. 


    ~ C




>
> From: Rich Shepard 
>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org 
>Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 7:20 AM
>Subject: Re: Beamer files have faint symbols at lower border
> 
>On Sat, 21 Jan 2012, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
>> All the slides I make with lyx+beamer have faint grey symbols along the
>> lower edge. These are clickable to move around in the slides but I want to
>> eliminate them. I think there is something one can put in the preamble to
>> do this but I don't know what to search for in google. Anyone know what it
>> is?
>
>  So, if you have a beamer presentation set to full screen, how will you
>navigate from one slide to another?
>
>Rich
>
>
>

Re: lyx 2.0.1 and relative paths to tex files

[curtis osterhoudt]

Have you tried NOT including the '.tex' extension on the \input{} command, 
whether or not you're using a relative path? If I remember correctly, you have 
to leave that bit off (for which reason I don't know, but that's how TeX 
expects it). Include everything else, though.

 




On Thu 20 Oct 2011 05:25:57 PM EEST, Oscar Lopez wrote:
 Dear LyXers

 I have recenty updated my lyx version to lyx 2.0.1 and I have found that
 using relative paths to tex files at the lyx preamble does not work anymore.

 I have directory structures where lyx files are at some directories, bib
 files at other, latex preamble commands at othes, and so on ... The lyx
 preamble contains some input commands to take the corresponding latex
 preamble, i.e.
 \input{../common/preamble.tex}.

 In this way I can share project directories with other colleagues (for
 instance using svn). We always use relative paths in order to ensure that the
 compilation does not break.

 Now when I am trying to compile some documents from lyx 1.6.10 I have found
 that lyx 2.0.1 stops the compilation saying
 LaTeX Error: File `../common/preamble.tex' not found

 If I export the latex file using Export-latex (pdflatex) and from a terminal
 I run pdflatex:
 $pdflatex test.tex

 everything is ok!

 Attached to this message you can find a minimal example showing the problem.
 Look at the file located at test/doc/test.lyx and try to pdflatex it from lyx
 and after from a terminal.

 Please has something changed regarding the treatment that lyx gibes to
 absolute versus relative paths? Hope not! I am completely puzzled with this
 behaviour and perhaps I am missing something evident.

 Best regards
 TIA
 Oscar

Re: lyx 2.0.1 and relative paths to tex files

[curtis osterhoudt]

Have you tried NOT including the '.tex' extension on the \input{} command, 
whether or not you're using a relative path? If I remember correctly, you have 
to leave that bit off (for which reason I don't know, but that's how TeX 
expects it). Include everything else, though.

 




On Thu 20 Oct 2011 05:25:57 PM EEST, Oscar Lopez wrote:
 Dear LyXers

 I have recenty updated my lyx version to lyx 2.0.1 and I have found that
 using relative paths to tex files at the lyx preamble does not work anymore.

 I have directory structures where lyx files are at some directories, bib
 files at other, latex preamble commands at othes, and so on ... The lyx
 preamble contains some input commands to take the corresponding latex
 preamble, i.e.
 \input{../common/preamble.tex}.

 In this way I can share project directories with other colleagues (for
 instance using svn). We always use relative paths in order to ensure that the
 compilation does not break.

 Now when I am trying to compile some documents from lyx 1.6.10 I have found
 that lyx 2.0.1 stops the compilation saying
 LaTeX Error: File `../common/preamble.tex' not found

 If I export the latex file using Export-latex (pdflatex) and from a terminal
 I run pdflatex:
 $pdflatex test.tex

 everything is ok!

 Attached to this message you can find a minimal example showing the problem.
 Look at the file located at test/doc/test.lyx and try to pdflatex it from lyx
 and after from a terminal.

 Please has something changed regarding the treatment that lyx gibes to
 absolute versus relative paths? Hope not! I am completely puzzled with this
 behaviour and perhaps I am missing something evident.

 Best regards
 TIA
 Oscar

Re: lyx 2.0.1 and relative paths to tex files

[curtis osterhoudt]

Have you tried NOT including the '.tex' extension on the \input{} command, 
whether or not you're using a relative path? If I remember correctly, you have 
to leave that bit off (for which reason I don't know, but that's how TeX 
expects it). Include everything else, though.

 




On Thu 20 Oct 2011 05:25:57 PM EEST, Oscar Lopez wrote:
>> Dear LyXers
>>
>> I have recenty updated my lyx version to lyx 2.0.1 and I have found that
>> using relative paths to tex files at the lyx preamble does not work anymore.
>>
>> I have directory structures where lyx files are at some directories, bib
>> files at other, latex preamble commands at othes, and so on ... The lyx
>> preamble contains some input commands to take the corresponding latex
>> preamble, i.e.
>> \input{../common/preamble.tex}.
>>
>> In this way I can share project directories with other colleagues (for
>> instance using svn). We always use relative paths in order to ensure that the
>> compilation does not break.
>>
>> Now when I am trying to compile some documents from lyx 1.6.10 I have found
>> that lyx 2.0.1 stops the compilation saying
>> LaTeX Error: File `../common/preamble.tex' not found
>>
>> If I export the latex file using Export->latex (pdflatex) and from a terminal
>> I run pdflatex:
>> $pdflatex test.tex
>>
>> everything is ok!
>>
>> Attached to this message you can find a minimal example showing the problem.
>> Look at the file located at test/doc/test.lyx and try to pdflatex it from lyx
>> and after from a terminal.
>>
>> Please has something changed regarding the treatment that lyx gibes to
>> absolute versus relative paths? Hope not! I am completely puzzled with this
>> behaviour and perhaps I am missing something evident.
>>
>> Best regards
>> TIA
>> Oscar
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

[curtis osterhoudt]

I would second everything that Liviu has said. I'd especially like to amplify 
his mention of the mailing lists. 90% of the time I've had a problem, I could 
immediately find mention of it on the lists, and very helpful responses. 10% of 
the time, I figured it out myself, usually right after asking a question to the 
list. The people are helpful and pretty prompt, even when questions have to do 
with LaTeX code instead of LyX-specific stuff.

I started using LyX in graduate school, just because it was different and fun, 
and now I use it for nearly all of my writing. It's immensely powerful for 
everything from letter-writing to producing long works, and powerful without 
having to learn a lot of esoteric coding or formatting. I think that trying to 
use it for a week, just to see if you like it, will be very useful to you in 
the long run.

   Curtis O.






From: Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com
To: Johnston81 johnsto...@gmail.com
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Johnston81 johnsto...@gmail.com wrote:
 To the ones that can and will help,

 I apologize if this has already been covered in another topic; I have
 searched but been unable to find any such. If, however, you know of such
 topics, if you could please point me in the right direction?

 My current situation is this: I am working on my Master Thesis and currently
 doing my research and such. As it is now, I am uncertain how large my final
 project will be - I imagine that the final document will probably exceed 100
 pages, but where I am uncertain of size I am certain that the document will
 contain considerable amounts of graphs and tables - rather more than I am
 comfortable working with in Word 2010.

 My questions are fairly simple to ask, I am not certain that everybody will
 agree on the answers but rough estimates are all I am looking for anyway. So
 here goes:

 1. Considering LyX over Word, how much time would I approximately need to
 learn LyX to the extent that I can actually produce text, including graphics
 and formulas(!), from a template?

LyX excels and formulas, numbering graphics and at leaving you worry
about writing text instead of constantly tinkering with the
formatting.

It depends on the effort that you're willing to put in and on your
penchant for technical things. You could get working knowledge in less
than two weeks, I guess, especially if you're up for a challenge
(which you seem to be).

Once you get used to the LyX (LaTeX) ways of doing things, you will
find that generating a professional-looking document in LyX is much
easier than in Word. And LyX automatically takes care of lots of stuff
that Word will force you to deal with manually.

For starters, I would suggest to read Help  Intro and Help  Tutorial
along with LyX Essentials [1]. Then, as you get more familiar with
working in LyX take a look at templates for theses, such as File  New
From Template  Thesis (folder) or the one proposed in [1]. There may
be some more on the wiki. Tweak them as needed, and once your happy
with the general document output start filling it in with actual text.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/tsewiki/resources/latex

 2. What can I reasonably expect my learning curve to be after having learned
 the bare basics; what I mean is, is it simple to teach LyX to oneself and
 how easy is it to solve problems when encountered?

Can be, if you put in a decent effort. Once a threshold is passed, LyX
seems (and really is) very easy to use. After you exhausted the usual
documentation Help menu, wiki, LyX Essentials, try your luck on the
very helpful lyx-users. Some forums should be available, too.


 3. And finally, being a skilled user of Word would I - ultimately - save or
 spend time if I did try my luck on LyX?

Using LyX would ultimately increase your productivity and improve your
typesetting results. Give it a spin, and if in a week or two you still
feel lost and don't know where to begin with then revert to Word. But
given your interest in this, I feel that you're up to the challenge
and won't need to revert, ever.


 I have many more similar questions, but for now this will have to do - I
 shouldn't take to much of your time! But if you have any other advice or
 experiences that relate to my post, that you feel could help me or others
 that are doing the same kind of contemplations, please do not hesitate and
 do share!

As far as I'm concerned LyX Essentials is a decent effort in giving
true beginners a general sense of how LyX works and how it differs
from the Word paradigm. But then, I co-wrote it, so I would be biased.

Good luck and feel free to ask questions on this list. Regards
Liviu


 Thank you very much for time. I look forward to read your replies!

 Johnston81

 --
 View this message in context: 
 

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

[curtis osterhoudt]

I would second everything that Liviu has said. I'd especially like to amplify 
his mention of the mailing lists. 90% of the time I've had a problem, I could 
immediately find mention of it on the lists, and very helpful responses. 10% of 
the time, I figured it out myself, usually right after asking a question to the 
list. The people are helpful and pretty prompt, even when questions have to do 
with LaTeX code instead of LyX-specific stuff.

I started using LyX in graduate school, just because it was different and fun, 
and now I use it for nearly all of my writing. It's immensely powerful for 
everything from letter-writing to producing long works, and powerful without 
having to learn a lot of esoteric coding or formatting. I think that trying to 
use it for a week, just to see if you like it, will be very useful to you in 
the long run.

   Curtis O.






From: Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com
To: Johnston81 johnsto...@gmail.com
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Johnston81 johnsto...@gmail.com wrote:
 To the ones that can and will help,

 I apologize if this has already been covered in another topic; I have
 searched but been unable to find any such. If, however, you know of such
 topics, if you could please point me in the right direction?

 My current situation is this: I am working on my Master Thesis and currently
 doing my research and such. As it is now, I am uncertain how large my final
 project will be - I imagine that the final document will probably exceed 100
 pages, but where I am uncertain of size I am certain that the document will
 contain considerable amounts of graphs and tables - rather more than I am
 comfortable working with in Word 2010.

 My questions are fairly simple to ask, I am not certain that everybody will
 agree on the answers but rough estimates are all I am looking for anyway. So
 here goes:

 1. Considering LyX over Word, how much time would I approximately need to
 learn LyX to the extent that I can actually produce text, including graphics
 and formulas(!), from a template?

LyX excels and formulas, numbering graphics and at leaving you worry
about writing text instead of constantly tinkering with the
formatting.

It depends on the effort that you're willing to put in and on your
penchant for technical things. You could get working knowledge in less
than two weeks, I guess, especially if you're up for a challenge
(which you seem to be).

Once you get used to the LyX (LaTeX) ways of doing things, you will
find that generating a professional-looking document in LyX is much
easier than in Word. And LyX automatically takes care of lots of stuff
that Word will force you to deal with manually.

For starters, I would suggest to read Help  Intro and Help  Tutorial
along with LyX Essentials [1]. Then, as you get more familiar with
working in LyX take a look at templates for theses, such as File  New
From Template  Thesis (folder) or the one proposed in [1]. There may
be some more on the wiki. Tweak them as needed, and once your happy
with the general document output start filling it in with actual text.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/tsewiki/resources/latex

 2. What can I reasonably expect my learning curve to be after having learned
 the bare basics; what I mean is, is it simple to teach LyX to oneself and
 how easy is it to solve problems when encountered?

Can be, if you put in a decent effort. Once a threshold is passed, LyX
seems (and really is) very easy to use. After you exhausted the usual
documentation Help menu, wiki, LyX Essentials, try your luck on the
very helpful lyx-users. Some forums should be available, too.


 3. And finally, being a skilled user of Word would I - ultimately - save or
 spend time if I did try my luck on LyX?

Using LyX would ultimately increase your productivity and improve your
typesetting results. Give it a spin, and if in a week or two you still
feel lost and don't know where to begin with then revert to Word. But
given your interest in this, I feel that you're up to the challenge
and won't need to revert, ever.


 I have many more similar questions, but for now this will have to do - I
 shouldn't take to much of your time! But if you have any other advice or
 experiences that relate to my post, that you feel could help me or others
 that are doing the same kind of contemplations, please do not hesitate and
 do share!

As far as I'm concerned LyX Essentials is a decent effort in giving
true beginners a general sense of how LyX works and how it differs
from the Word paradigm. But then, I co-wrote it, so I would be biased.

Good luck and feel free to ask questions on this list. Regards
Liviu


 Thank you very much for time. I look forward to read your replies!

 Johnston81

 --
 View this message in context: 
 

Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis

[curtis osterhoudt]

I would second everything that Liviu has said. I'd especially like to amplify 
his mention of the mailing lists. 90% of the time I've had a problem, I could 
immediately find mention of it on the lists, and very helpful responses. 10% of 
the time, I figured it out myself, usually right after asking a question to the 
list. The people are helpful and pretty prompt, even when questions have to do 
with LaTeX code instead of LyX-specific stuff.

I started using LyX in graduate school, just because it was different and fun, 
and now I use it for nearly all of my writing. It's immensely powerful for 
everything from letter-writing to producing long works, and powerful without 
having to learn a lot of esoteric coding or formatting. I think that trying to 
use it for a week, just to see if you like it, will be very useful to you in 
the long run.

   Curtis O.





>
>From: Liviu Andronic 
>To: Johnston81 
>Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
>Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 1:53 PM
>Subject: Re: Engineering student considering LyX for Thesis
>
>On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Johnston81  wrote:
>> To the ones that can and will help,
>>
>> I apologize if this has already been covered in another topic; I have
>> searched but been unable to find any such. If, however, you know of such
>> topics, if you could please point me in the right direction?
>>
>> My current situation is this: I am working on my Master Thesis and currently
>> doing my research and such. As it is now, I am uncertain how large my final
>> project will be - I imagine that the final document will probably exceed 100
>> pages, but where I am uncertain of size I am certain that the document will
>> contain considerable amounts of graphs and tables - rather more than I am
>> comfortable working with in Word 2010.
>>
>> My questions are fairly simple to ask, I am not certain that everybody will
>> agree on the answers but rough estimates are all I am looking for anyway. So
>> here goes:
>>
>> 1. Considering LyX over Word, how much time would I approximately need to
>> learn LyX to the extent that I can actually produce text, including graphics
>> and formulas(!), from a template?
>>
>LyX excels and formulas, numbering graphics and at leaving you worry
>about writing text instead of constantly tinkering with the
>formatting.
>
>It depends on the effort that you're willing to put in and on your
>penchant for technical things. You could get working knowledge in less
>than two weeks, I guess, especially if you're up for a challenge
>(which you seem to be).
>
>Once you get used to the LyX (LaTeX) ways of doing things, you will
>find that generating a professional-looking document in LyX is much
>easier than in Word. And LyX automatically takes care of lots of stuff
>that Word will force you to deal with manually.
>
>For starters, I would suggest to read Help > Intro and Help > Tutorial
>along with LyX Essentials [1]. Then, as you get more familiar with
>working in LyX take a look at templates for theses, such as File > New
>From Template > Thesis (folder) or the one proposed in [1]. There may
>be some more on the wiki. Tweak them as needed, and once your happy
>with the general document output start filling it in with actual text.
>
>[1] https://sites.google.com/site/tsewiki/resources/latex
>
>> 2. What can I reasonably expect my learning curve to be after having learned
>> the bare basics; what I mean is, is it simple to teach LyX to oneself and
>> how easy is it to solve problems when encountered?
>>
>Can be, if you put in a decent effort. Once a threshold is passed, LyX
>seems (and really is) very easy to use. After you exhausted the usual
>documentation Help menu, wiki, LyX Essentials, try your luck on the
>very helpful lyx-users. Some forums should be available, too.
>
>
>> 3. And finally, being a skilled user of Word would I - ultimately - save or
>> spend time if I did try my luck on LyX?
>>
>Using LyX would ultimately increase your productivity and improve your
>typesetting results. Give it a spin, and if in a week or two you still
>feel lost and don't know where to begin with then revert to Word. But
>given your interest in this, I feel that you're up to the challenge
>and won't need to revert, ever.
>
>
>> I have many more similar questions, but for now this will have to do - I
>> shouldn't take to much of your time! But if you have any other advice or
>> experiences that relate to my post, that you feel could help me or others
>> that are doing the same kind of contemplations, please do not hesitate and
>> do share!
>>
>As far as I'm concerned LyX Essentials is a decent effort in giving
>true beginners a general sense of how LyX works and how it differs
>from the Word paradigm. But then, I co-wrote it, so I would be biased.
>
>Good luck and feel free to ask questions on this list. Regards
>Liviu
>
>
>> Thank you very much for time. 

Re: PDF won't generate

[curtis osterhoudt]

Yes, I've started getting this error with the 2.1 svn version. If I export the 
pdflatex code, that's fine, and it'll compile correctly from the command line. 
LyX isn't doing a step it probably should.

 
/**
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the unknowable. ~~Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light
***/



From: Kevin Buchs kevin.buchs.j...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: PDF won't generate


I have a similar problem with Lyx 2.0 on Windows 7. I have a custom style and 
some required .JPG files that are inserted by that style. Lyx does not copy 
them to its temporary directory. Ideally, I'd like Lyx to run latex in my 
working directory. If I find the temporary directory, I can copy the files 
manually to that directory, and then a second PDF generate command will 
provide results, but this is sort of klunky. Anyone have suggestions?

 
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Gabriel Hurley gabriel.hur...@gmail.com 
wrote:

With a fresh install of LyX, I create a new document and attempt to
convert it to PDF. It never converts (after 30 minutes of waiting).
The debug messages say the following:

21:15:56.373: Previewing ...
21:15:56.379: (buffer-view: Ctrl+R)
21:15:56.402: pdflatex  newfile1.tex
21:15:56.472: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX 2.8)
21:15:56.482: entering extended mode
21:15:56.483: ! I can't find file `newfile1.tex'.

Re: PDF won't generate

[curtis osterhoudt]

Yes, I've started getting this error with the 2.1 svn version. If I export the 
pdflatex code, that's fine, and it'll compile correctly from the command line. 
LyX isn't doing a step it probably should.

 
/**
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the unknowable. ~~Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light
***/



From: Kevin Buchs kevin.buchs.j...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: PDF won't generate


I have a similar problem with Lyx 2.0 on Windows 7. I have a custom style and 
some required .JPG files that are inserted by that style. Lyx does not copy 
them to its temporary directory. Ideally, I'd like Lyx to run latex in my 
working directory. If I find the temporary directory, I can copy the files 
manually to that directory, and then a second PDF generate command will 
provide results, but this is sort of klunky. Anyone have suggestions?

 
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Gabriel Hurley gabriel.hur...@gmail.com 
wrote:

With a fresh install of LyX, I create a new document and attempt to
convert it to PDF. It never converts (after 30 minutes of waiting).
The debug messages say the following:

21:15:56.373: Previewing ...
21:15:56.379: (buffer-view: Ctrl+R)
21:15:56.402: pdflatex  newfile1.tex
21:15:56.472: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX 2.8)
21:15:56.482: entering extended mode
21:15:56.483: ! I can't find file `newfile1.tex'.

Re: PDF won't generate

[curtis osterhoudt]

Yes, I've started getting this error with the 2.1 svn version. If I export the 
pdflatex code, that's fine, and it'll compile correctly from the command line. 
LyX isn't doing a step it probably should.

 
/**
"The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the unknowable." ~~Roger Zelazny, in "Lord of Light"
***/


>
>From: Kevin Buchs 
>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
>Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 3:26 PM
>Subject: Re: PDF won't generate
>
>
>I have a similar problem with Lyx 2.0 on Windows 7. I have a custom style and 
>some required .JPG files that are inserted by that style. Lyx does not copy 
>them to its temporary directory. Ideally, I'd like Lyx to run latex in my 
>working directory. If I find the temporary directory, I can copy the files 
>manually to that directory, and then a second PDF generate command will 
>provide results, but this is sort of klunky. Anyone have suggestions?
>
> 
>On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Gabriel Hurley  
>wrote:
>
>With a fresh install of LyX, I create a new document and attempt to
>>convert it to PDF. It never converts (after 30 minutes of waiting).
>>The debug messages say the following:
>>
>>21:15:56.373: Previewing ...
>>21:15:56.379: (buffer-view: Ctrl+R)
>>21:15:56.402: pdflatex  "newfile1.tex"
>>21:15:56.472: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (MiKTeX 2.8)
>>21:15:56.482: entering extended mode
>>21:15:56.483: ! I can't find file `newfile1.tex'.
>>
>
>

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

[curtis osterhoudt]

An _excellent_ idea, Steve.


/***/





From: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 12:47:26 PM
Subject: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:
 On 05/12/2011 11:56 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
  I'm working on a book. Consist of ordinary text and poems, each
  poem having to be in its own chapter. I'd like these chapters to
  start on odd or even page, without eventually leaving blank
  pages between them. How to achieve that ?
 
 Add the option openany to the class options under
 DocumentSettings.
 
 rh

See Richard, you and probably 20 other people on this list ALWAYS know 
what's available. I've used Openany but didn't remember it. People 
regularly reply to a question How do I make it do such and such?, 
you guys reply oh, you just \usepackage{so_and_so} and you're right, 
it works. You guys have spectacular memories.

Frustrating for me is I have no such memory, and unless I can review 
all my layout files and find an answer, I'll have to re-ask the 
question. CTAN is no help because it lists hundreds of packages, but 
not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
didn't know about a simple package.

I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
old questions.

I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy. A good example is my Linux 
Library page:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm

The beautiful thing about this page is you can either drill down, or 
if that doesn't work, you can search the single page for keywords.

Another wonderful thing about it is it's actually maintained as a tab 
indented outline (by VimOutliner or Emacs org mode or with any text 
editor). So adding a new resource is almost instantaneous. Then you 
just run an export program that turns it into an HTML page. In my 
opinion this is much cleaner, easier, and faster than the traditional 
Wiki page.

If you guys want to do it this way I'll be glad to give you the source 
for Linux Library's HTML export, and I'll modify it so that for each 
group you see the navigation down to it. I'll also take a primary role 
in putting this hierarchical list of links together and pointing to 
existing documentation resources, and maybe writing some new ones for 
the project.

If we do this, people with great memories won't be the only ones who 
know everything, and people with great memories will have much more 
time to do real work rather than ask repetitive questions.

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

[curtis osterhoudt]

An _excellent_ idea, Steve.


/***/





From: Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 12:47:26 PM
Subject: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:
 On 05/12/2011 11:56 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
  I'm working on a book. Consist of ordinary text and poems, each
  poem having to be in its own chapter. I'd like these chapters to
  start on odd or even page, without eventually leaving blank
  pages between them. How to achieve that ?
 
 Add the option openany to the class options under
 DocumentSettings.
 
 rh

See Richard, you and probably 20 other people on this list ALWAYS know 
what's available. I've used Openany but didn't remember it. People 
regularly reply to a question How do I make it do such and such?, 
you guys reply oh, you just \usepackage{so_and_so} and you're right, 
it works. You guys have spectacular memories.

Frustrating for me is I have no such memory, and unless I can review 
all my layout files and find an answer, I'll have to re-ask the 
question. CTAN is no help because it lists hundreds of packages, but 
not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
didn't know about a simple package.

I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
old questions.

I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy. A good example is my Linux 
Library page:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm

The beautiful thing about this page is you can either drill down, or 
if that doesn't work, you can search the single page for keywords.

Another wonderful thing about it is it's actually maintained as a tab 
indented outline (by VimOutliner or Emacs org mode or with any text 
editor). So adding a new resource is almost instantaneous. Then you 
just run an export program that turns it into an HTML page. In my 
opinion this is much cleaner, easier, and faster than the traditional 
Wiki page.

If you guys want to do it this way I'll be glad to give you the source 
for Linux Library's HTML export, and I'll modify it so that for each 
group you see the navigation down to it. I'll also take a primary role 
in putting this hierarchical list of links together and pointing to 
existing documentation resources, and maybe writing some new ones for 
the project.

If we do this, people with great memories won't be the only ones who 
know everything, and people with great memories will have much more 
time to do real work rather than ask repetitive questions.

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

[curtis osterhoudt]

An _excellent_ idea, Steve.


/***/





From: Steve Litt 
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, May 12, 2011 12:47:26 PM
Subject: Knowing everything: was Chapters beginning on even pages

On Thursday 12 May 2011 13:02:01 Richard Heck wrote:
> On 05/12/2011 11:56 AM, Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
> > I'm working on a book. Consist of "ordinary" text and poems, each
> > poem having to be in its own chapter. I'd like these chapters to
> > start on odd or even page, without eventually leaving blank
> > pages between them. How to achieve that ?
> 
> Add the option "openany" to the class options under
> Document>Settings.
> 
> rh

See Richard, you and probably 20 other people on this list ALWAYS know 
what's available. I've used Openany but didn't remember it. People 
regularly reply to a question "How do I make it do such and such?", 
you guys reply "oh, you just \usepackage{so_and_so}" and you're right, 
it works. You guys have spectacular memories.

Frustrating for me is I have no such memory, and unless I can review 
all my layout files and find an answer, I'll have to re-ask the 
question. CTAN is no help because it lists hundreds of packages, but 
not by function. For whatever reason Google ends up listing solutions 
like I do -- writing a bunch of LaTeX to do the job because the author 
didn't know about a simple package.

I'm thinking if there's a way we can create a document that lists 
packages and other little tricks (openany for instance) **BY 
FUNCTIONALITY**, newbies stand a fighting chance, people like me can 
remember in a matter of minutes rather than hours (or worse yet, 
reinventing the wheel), and people like you will get less of the same 
old questions.

I think the format of this resource should be a single web page with 
lots of links, arranged in a hierarchy. A good example is my Linux 
Library page:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/index.htm

The beautiful thing about this page is you can either drill down, or 
if that doesn't work, you can search the single page for keywords.

Another wonderful thing about it is it's actually maintained as a tab 
indented outline (by VimOutliner or Emacs org mode or with any text 
editor). So adding a new resource is almost instantaneous. Then you 
just run an export program that turns it into an HTML page. In my 
opinion this is much cleaner, easier, and faster than the traditional 
Wiki page.

If you guys want to do it this way I'll be glad to give you the source 
for Linux Library's HTML export, and I'll modify it so that for each 
group you see the navigation down to it. I'll also take a primary role 
in putting this hierarchical list of links together and pointing to 
existing documentation resources, and maybe writing some new ones for 
the project.

If we do this, people with great memories won't be the only ones who 
know everything, and people with great memories will have much more 
time to do real work rather than ask repetitive questions.

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

In order of preference, I vote:

1. Oxygen
2. The old set
3. Libreoffice


On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote:
 Dear LyX users and developers,

 after long struggle the new relase contains two new icon themes and
 and some people want to give to LyX 2.0 new and shiny face.

 Please have a look at
 http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/NewInLyX20/themes.png

 These are the three themes available and we want to know which
 should be the default one. So I'm opening the poll right now,
 anyone interested can reply to this thread with

 - old

 - libreoffice

 - oxygen

 vote.

 At the end (perhaps tomorrow night) we will count them and winner will
 become the default.

 Pavel




  

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

In order of preference, I vote:

1. Oxygen
2. The old set
3. Libreoffice


On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org wrote:
 Dear LyX users and developers,

 after long struggle the new relase contains two new icon themes and
 and some people want to give to LyX 2.0 new and shiny face.

 Please have a look at
 http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/NewInLyX20/themes.png

 These are the three themes available and we want to know which
 should be the default one. So I'm opening the poll right now,
 anyone interested can reply to this thread with

 - old

 - libreoffice

 - oxygen

 vote.

 At the end (perhaps tomorrow night) we will count them and winner will
 become the default.

 Pavel




  

Re: Poll for the default icon theme in LyX 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

In order of preference, I vote:

1. Oxygen
2. The old set
3. Libreoffice


On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Pavel Sanda  wrote:
> Dear LyX users and developers,
>
> after long struggle the new relase contains two new icon themes and
> and some people want to give to LyX 2.0 new and shiny face.
>
> Please have a look at
> http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/NewInLyX20/themes.png
>
> These are the three themes available and we want to know which
> should be the default one. So I'm opening the poll right now,
> anyone interested can reply to this thread with
>
> - old
>
> - libreoffice
>
> - oxygen
>
> vote.
>
> At the end (perhaps tomorrow night) we will count them and winner will
> become the default.
>
> Pavel
>



  

Inserted .pdf loses active hyperlinks

[curtis osterhoudt]

Dear LyXers, 

   I've recently discovered that some .pdf documents I produced have lost their 
active hyperlinks. Specifically, I produced some documents with (successfully) 
active hyperlinks, and included these in a master document via the External 
Material insertion. Once this is done, the compiled (using pdflatex) .pdf 
which 
is produced has what at first appear to be hyperlinks (same color, etc.) at the 
correct locations, but these aren't active in the sense that they go to URLs or 
mailto:s or, indeed, references in the same document.

   Is there a trick to this?

 /**
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the 
unknowable. ~~Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light
***/



  

Inserted .pdf loses active hyperlinks

[curtis osterhoudt]

Dear LyXers, 

   I've recently discovered that some .pdf documents I produced have lost their 
active hyperlinks. Specifically, I produced some documents with (successfully) 
active hyperlinks, and included these in a master document via the External 
Material insertion. Once this is done, the compiled (using pdflatex) .pdf 
which 
is produced has what at first appear to be hyperlinks (same color, etc.) at the 
correct locations, but these aren't active in the sense that they go to URLs or 
mailto:s or, indeed, references in the same document.

   Is there a trick to this?

 /**
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the 
unknowable. ~~Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light
***/



  

Inserted .pdf loses active hyperlinks

[curtis osterhoudt]

Dear LyXers, 

   I've recently discovered that some .pdf documents I produced have lost their 
active hyperlinks. Specifically, I produced some documents with (successfully) 
active hyperlinks, and included these in a "master" document via the "External 
Material" insertion. Once this is done, the compiled (using pdflatex) .pdf 
which 
is produced has what at first appear to be hyperlinks (same color, etc.) at the 
correct locations, but these aren't active in the sense that they go to URLs or 
mailto:s or, indeed, references in the same document.

   Is there a trick to this?

 /**
"The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the 
unknowable." ~~Roger Zelazny, in "Lord of Light"
***/



  

Re: Multiple references to one footnote?

[curtis osterhoudt]

Hi, Tim, 

   I recently had occasion to do this, in a table. I ended up using the ctable 
package. I think there are much more elegant/robust solutions out there, but 
this worked for me.



1. In the preamble: \usepackage{ctable}
2. Insert a table in lyx
3. Before you make the table, insert a Box (minipage)
4. Before the table (in the Box), place the latex command (in Evil Red 
Text): 
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\thempfootnote}
5. Place your first footnote wherever it needs to go in the table
6. At each successive footnote position, place some ERT which reads: 
\footnotemark[\value{mpfootnote}]Unfortunately, I haven't taken the time to 
figure out what you need to do if you have to do something like 

Stuff (footnote a here)
More stuff (footnote b here)
Yet more stuff (footnote a again here).

The way I describe in the 6 steps above means that all of the footnotes 
inserted 
using the \footnotemark command will refer to the most-recently inserted (via 
LyX commands) footnote.

   Not sure if that makes sense until you try it. In any case, if someone 
else has a response, I'd greatly love to know it!

 /**
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the 
unknowable. ~~Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light
***/





From: Tim Wescott t...@wescottdesign.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Tue, November 23, 2010 4:04:47 PM
Subject: Multiple references to one footnote?

Is there a way to reference a footnote multiple times?  I.e., when you have 
multiple entries in a table, all needing the same note?

Thanks.

-- Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
Voice: 503-631-7815
Cell:  503-349-8432
http://www.wescottdesign.com


  

Re: Multiple references to one footnote?

[curtis osterhoudt]

Hi, Tim, 

   I recently had occasion to do this, in a table. I ended up using the ctable 
package. I think there are much more elegant/robust solutions out there, but 
this worked for me.



1. In the preamble: \usepackage{ctable}
2. Insert a table in lyx
3. Before you make the table, insert a Box (minipage)
4. Before the table (in the Box), place the latex command (in Evil Red 
Text): 
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\thempfootnote}
5. Place your first footnote wherever it needs to go in the table
6. At each successive footnote position, place some ERT which reads: 
\footnotemark[\value{mpfootnote}]Unfortunately, I haven't taken the time to 
figure out what you need to do if you have to do something like 

Stuff (footnote a here)
More stuff (footnote b here)
Yet more stuff (footnote a again here).

The way I describe in the 6 steps above means that all of the footnotes 
inserted 
using the \footnotemark command will refer to the most-recently inserted (via 
LyX commands) footnote.

   Not sure if that makes sense until you try it. In any case, if someone 
else has a response, I'd greatly love to know it!

 /**
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the 
unknowable. ~~Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light
***/





From: Tim Wescott t...@wescottdesign.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Tue, November 23, 2010 4:04:47 PM
Subject: Multiple references to one footnote?

Is there a way to reference a footnote multiple times?  I.e., when you have 
multiple entries in a table, all needing the same note?

Thanks.

-- Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
Voice: 503-631-7815
Cell:  503-349-8432
http://www.wescottdesign.com


  

Re: Multiple references to one footnote?

[curtis osterhoudt]

Hi, Tim, 

   I recently had occasion to do this, in a table. I ended up using the ctable 
package. I think there are much more elegant/robust solutions out there, but 
this worked for me.



1. In the preamble: \usepackage{ctable}
2. Insert a table in lyx
3. Before you make the table, insert a Box (minipage)
4. Before the table (in the Box), place the latex command (in Evil Red 
Text): 
\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\thempfootnote}
5. Place your first footnote wherever it needs to go in the table
6. At each successive footnote position, place some ERT which reads: 
\footnotemark[\value{mpfootnote}]Unfortunately, I haven't taken the time to 
figure out what you need to do if you have to do something like 

Stuff (footnote "a" here)
More stuff (footnote "b" here)
Yet more stuff (footnote "a" again here).

The way I describe in the 6 steps above means that all of the footnotes 
inserted 
using the \footnotemark command will refer to the most-recently inserted (via 
LyX commands) footnote.

   Not sure if that makes sense until you try it. In any case, if someone 
else has a response, I'd greatly love to know it!

 /**
"The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the 
unknowable." ~~Roger Zelazny, in "Lord of Light"
***/





From: Tim Wescott 
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Tue, November 23, 2010 4:04:47 PM
Subject: Multiple references to one footnote?

Is there a way to reference a footnote multiple times?  I.e., when you have 
multiple entries in a table, all needing the same note?

Thanks.

-- Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
Voice: 503-631-7815
Cell:  503-349-8432
http://www.wescottdesign.com


  

Re: placing the figure number

[curtis osterhoudt]

The way I do this is to press Enter before putting the actual xfig picture 
(or 
any picture) in the frame. This makes the figure number (and caption, if 
needed) 
go below the figure. My very rough rule-of-thumb is that if the 'figure #' 
appears to (say) the immediate right of the actual picture, the Fig. # + 
caption 
will be to the right when the file is compiled, etc.
 /**
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the 
unknowable. ~~Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light
***/





From: xPol xtek...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sun, November 21, 2010 6:03:11 AM
Subject: placing the figure number

I have just inserted a (xfig) picture in a float frame. The  'figure #' 
title has been placed on the left side. 
How to place the figure number on the bottom of the figure?

thank you 
-p


  

Re: placing the figure number

[curtis osterhoudt]

Ah. Sorry for not being clear. Here's the sequence I use:


1. Insert - Float - Figure (or Figure Wrap Float).
2. Cursor is left in the Figure Caption box. I type something in here 
(even if 
I haven't thought up a caption yet).
3. Move the cursor (with mouse or arrow keys) so that it's just to the 
left of 
Figure #:.
4. Press 'Enter' (I don't know if this step is strictly required, but 
it 
works).
5. Insert - Graphics (or Insert - File - External Material if I want 
to put 
in an XFig figure).
6. Browse to the file to insert.If I've already done these steps for a 
figure 
and want to repeat for more figures, it's often easier for me to select the 
float box and simply copy the whole damned thing to where I want another figure 
to sit, and paste it in, then go back and change the figure and caption, etc.

Tuning the figure to be centered above the caption is often a matter of moving 
the cursor to the inside of the float box and setting the paragraph settings 
to Alignment - Center.

   Hope that helps, and that I've understood your original question!

   C


 /**
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the 
unknowable. ~~Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light
***/





From: xPol xtek...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sun, November 21, 2010 11:05:28 AM
Subject: Re: placing the figure number

curtis osterhoudt wrote:

 The way I do this is to press Enter before putting the actual xfig
 picture (or any picture) in the frame. This makes the figure number (and
 caption, if needed) go below the figure.

Sorry, i fear i have not clearly understood your sequence 
At which stage do you press enter?

thank you 

---p


  

Re: placing the figure number

[curtis osterhoudt]

The way I do this is to press Enter before putting the actual xfig picture 
(or 
any picture) in the frame. This makes the figure number (and caption, if 
needed) 
go below the figure. My very rough rule-of-thumb is that if the 'figure #' 
appears to (say) the immediate right of the actual picture, the Fig. # + 
caption 
will be to the right when the file is compiled, etc.
 /**
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the 
unknowable. ~~Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light
***/





From: xPol xtek...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sun, November 21, 2010 6:03:11 AM
Subject: placing the figure number

I have just inserted a (xfig) picture in a float frame. The  'figure #' 
title has been placed on the left side. 
How to place the figure number on the bottom of the figure?

thank you 
-p


  

Re: placing the figure number

[curtis osterhoudt]

Ah. Sorry for not being clear. Here's the sequence I use:


1. Insert - Float - Figure (or Figure Wrap Float).
2. Cursor is left in the Figure Caption box. I type something in here 
(even if 
I haven't thought up a caption yet).
3. Move the cursor (with mouse or arrow keys) so that it's just to the 
left of 
Figure #:.
4. Press 'Enter' (I don't know if this step is strictly required, but 
it 
works).
5. Insert - Graphics (or Insert - File - External Material if I want 
to put 
in an XFig figure).
6. Browse to the file to insert.If I've already done these steps for a 
figure 
and want to repeat for more figures, it's often easier for me to select the 
float box and simply copy the whole damned thing to where I want another figure 
to sit, and paste it in, then go back and change the figure and caption, etc.

Tuning the figure to be centered above the caption is often a matter of moving 
the cursor to the inside of the float box and setting the paragraph settings 
to Alignment - Center.

   Hope that helps, and that I've understood your original question!

   C


 /**
The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the 
unknowable. ~~Roger Zelazny, in Lord of Light
***/





From: xPol xtek...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sun, November 21, 2010 11:05:28 AM
Subject: Re: placing the figure number

curtis osterhoudt wrote:

 The way I do this is to press Enter before putting the actual xfig
 picture (or any picture) in the frame. This makes the figure number (and
 caption, if needed) go below the figure.

Sorry, i fear i have not clearly understood your sequence 
At which stage do you press enter?

thank you 

---p


  

Re: placing the figure number

[curtis osterhoudt]

The way I do this is to press "Enter" before putting the actual xfig picture 
(or 
any picture) in the frame. This makes the figure number (and caption, if 
needed) 
go below the figure. My very rough rule-of-thumb is that if the 'figure #' 
appears to (say) the immediate right of the actual picture, the Fig. # + 
caption 
will be to the right when the file is compiled, etc.
 /**
"The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the 
unknowable." ~~Roger Zelazny, in "Lord of Light"
***/





From: xPol 
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sun, November 21, 2010 6:03:11 AM
Subject: placing the figure number

I have just inserted a (xfig) picture in a float frame. The  'figure #' 
title has been placed on the left side. 
How to place the figure number on the bottom of the figure?

thank you 
-p


  

Re: placing the figure number

[curtis osterhoudt]

Ah. Sorry for not being clear. Here's the sequence I use:


1. Insert -> Float -> Figure (or Figure Wrap Float).
2. Cursor is left in the Figure Caption box. I type something in here 
(even if 
I haven't thought up a caption yet).
3. Move the cursor (with mouse or arrow keys) so that it's just to the 
left of 
"Figure #:".
4. Press 'Enter' (I don't know if this step is strictly required, but 
it 
works).
5. Insert -> Graphics (or Insert -> File -> External Material if I want 
to put 
in an XFig figure).
6. Browse to the file to insert.If I've already done these steps for a 
figure 
and want to repeat for more figures, it's often easier for me to select the 
float box and simply copy the whole damned thing to where I want another figure 
to sit, and paste it in, then go back and change the figure and caption, etc.

Tuning the figure to be centered above the caption is often a matter of moving 
the cursor to the inside of the float box and setting the "paragraph settings" 
to "Alignment -> Center".

   Hope that helps, and that I've understood your original question!

   C


 /**
"The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown. 
Some do bow in that final direction. Others advance upon it. To bow before the 
one is to lose sight of the three. I may submit to the unknown, but never to 
the 
unknowable." ~~Roger Zelazny, in "Lord of Light"
***/





From: xPol <xtek...@gmail.com>
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Sun, November 21, 2010 11:05:28 AM
Subject: Re: placing the figure number

curtis osterhoudt wrote:

> The way I do this is to press "Enter" before putting the actual xfig
> picture (or any picture) in the frame. This makes the figure number (and
> caption, if needed) go below the figure.

Sorry, i fear i have not clearly understood your sequence 
At which stage do you press enter?

thank you 

---p


  

Re: Lyx web site

[curtis osterhoudt]

lyx.org now responds to pings, but the attempt to svn update gives the dreaded 
svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error problem. It's likely 
that the server's /tmp directory or / is full or corrupted. 


  In any case, those blokes will probably have it figured out in the next 
couple 
of days. They usually do.



 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Charlie aries...@clearmail.com.au
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, August 18, 2010 4:18:06 PM
Subject: Re: Lyx web site

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:23:10 +0200 Paul Francis pfran...@avis.co.za
shared this with is all on the Lyx users list:

Dear all

 

Does anyone perhaps know what is up with the Lyx web site? Seems as if
it has been down for the past number of days already.

Regards

Paul Francis  

Can't say about a couple of days but it was certainly unreachable all
day long for me yesterday.

HTH
Charlie
-- 
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***
Having no destination, I am never lost. IKKYU

***
Debian, just the best way to create magic
___



  

Re: Lyx web site

[curtis osterhoudt]

lyx.org now responds to pings, but the attempt to svn update gives the dreaded 
svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error problem. It's likely 
that the server's /tmp directory or / is full or corrupted. 


  In any case, those blokes will probably have it figured out in the next 
couple 
of days. They usually do.



 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Charlie aries...@clearmail.com.au
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, August 18, 2010 4:18:06 PM
Subject: Re: Lyx web site

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:23:10 +0200 Paul Francis pfran...@avis.co.za
shared this with is all on the Lyx users list:

Dear all

 

Does anyone perhaps know what is up with the Lyx web site? Seems as if
it has been down for the past number of days already.

Regards

Paul Francis  

Can't say about a couple of days but it was certainly unreachable all
day long for me yesterday.

HTH
Charlie
-- 
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***
Having no destination, I am never lost. IKKYU

***
Debian, just the best way to create magic
___



  

Re: Lyx web site

[curtis osterhoudt]

lyx.org now responds to pings, but the attempt to svn update gives the dreaded 
"svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error" problem. It's likely 
that the server's /tmp directory or / is full or corrupted. 


  In any case, those blokes will probably have it figured out in the next 
couple 
of days. They usually do.



 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Charlie 
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, August 18, 2010 4:18:06 PM
Subject: Re: Lyx web site

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:23:10 +0200 "Paul Francis" 
shared this with is all on the Lyx users list:

>Dear all
>
> 
>
>Does anyone perhaps know what is up with the Lyx web site? Seems as if
>it has been down for the past number of days already.

>Regards

>Paul Francis  

Can't say about a couple of days but it was certainly unreachable all
day long for me yesterday.

HTH
Charlie
-- 
Registered Linux User:- 329524
***
Having no destination, I am never lost. IKKYU

***
Debian, just the best way to create magic
___



  

Re: lyx.org down?

[curtis osterhoudt]

Confirmed. The SVN server seems down, too.



 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Jack Tanner i...@hotmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Mon, August 16, 2010 10:09:17 AM
Subject: lyx.org down?

www.lyx.org is not responding for me.


  

Re: lyx.org down?

[curtis osterhoudt]

Confirmed. The SVN server seems down, too.



 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Jack Tanner i...@hotmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Mon, August 16, 2010 10:09:17 AM
Subject: lyx.org down?

www.lyx.org is not responding for me.


  

Re: lyx.org down?

[curtis osterhoudt]

Confirmed. The SVN server seems down, too.



 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Jack Tanner 
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Mon, August 16, 2010 10:09:17 AM
Subject: lyx.org down?

www.lyx.org is not responding for me.


  

Re: LyX 2.0 alpha 4 - Right-Click on Mac broken

[curtis osterhoudt]

Right-click context seems to work for the QT4 version in KDE.

  And ditto my thanks for the spellchecker support and new features. I've been 
using the svn version for a while now, and like it very, very much!

 
  Curtis


/**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: James C. Sutherland james.sutherl...@utah.edu
To: LyX devel lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org; lyx-users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 10:02:32 AM
Subject: LyX 2.0 alpha 4 - Right-Click on Mac broken

I have found another bug in 2.0 alpha for Mac.  
Right-clicking a text selection does not work properly.  No context menu comes 
up when right-clicking.  Can anyone else confirm?  If so I can file a bug 
report.

By the way, I really like the new spell checking capabilities in LyX 2.0.  I 
never succeeded in getting a fully functional spell checker with previous LyX 
versions, and this works out of the box!

Thanks to all of the developers for their hard work - 2.0 will surely be a 
major step forward once the kinks are worked out!

James



  

Re: LyX 2.0 alpha 4 - Right-Click on Mac broken

[curtis osterhoudt]

Right-click context seems to work for the QT4 version in KDE.

  And ditto my thanks for the spellchecker support and new features. I've been 
using the svn version for a while now, and like it very, very much!

 
  Curtis


/**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: James C. Sutherland james.sutherl...@utah.edu
To: LyX devel lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org; lyx-users lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 10:02:32 AM
Subject: LyX 2.0 alpha 4 - Right-Click on Mac broken

I have found another bug in 2.0 alpha for Mac.  
Right-clicking a text selection does not work properly.  No context menu comes 
up when right-clicking.  Can anyone else confirm?  If so I can file a bug 
report.

By the way, I really like the new spell checking capabilities in LyX 2.0.  I 
never succeeded in getting a fully functional spell checker with previous LyX 
versions, and this works out of the box!

Thanks to all of the developers for their hard work - 2.0 will surely be a 
major step forward once the kinks are worked out!

James



  

Re: LyX 2.0 alpha 4 - Right-Click on Mac broken

[curtis osterhoudt]

Right-click context seems to work for the QT4 version in KDE.

  And ditto my thanks for the spellchecker support and new features. I've been 
using the svn version for a while now, and like it very, very much!

 
  Curtis


/**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: James C. Sutherland 
To: LyX devel ; lyx-users 
Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 10:02:32 AM
Subject: LyX 2.0 alpha 4 - Right-Click on Mac broken

I have found another bug in 2.0 alpha for Mac.  
Right-clicking a text selection does not work properly.  No context menu comes 
up when right-clicking.  Can anyone else confirm?  If so I can file a bug 
report.

By the way, I really like the new spell checking capabilities in LyX 2.0.  I 
never succeeded in getting a fully functional spell checker with previous LyX 
versions, and this works out of the box!

Thanks to all of the developers for their hard work - 2.0 will surely be a 
major step forward once the kinks are worked out!

James



  

Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)

[curtis osterhoudt]

  You might try inkscape (www.inkscape.org) for the value chain diagrams. I 
used to use XFig for that sort of thing, but I'm learning inkscape more. Of 
course, it won't automatically generate the diagrams, but it'll be a lot easier 
to use (in my opinion) than GiMP.

   1) Running headers is no problem. You may have to modify the document 
preamble to get things just as you want; it'll be something like

   \lhead{}
   \chead{Short title here}
   \rhead{name}

   2) Numbering and labeling of figures and tables should be automatic. Once 
you've chosen to (for example) insert a figure (say by Insert - Float - 
Figure), and typed in the figure caption, you can place the cursor at the 
beginning of the caption and choose Insert - Label, and give it a short label. 
Then the cross-referencing will be fine if you want to refer to that figure or 
table or whatever. (The same applies to placing labels almost anywhere, as for 
Section heads.)

3) I like using JabRef for bibliography management, though I've used 
Zotero, too, which is handy for pulling in papers and references 
semi-automatically from web-pages. 



 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, June 16, 2010 10:18:35 AM
Subject: Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)


Oops, 

I trailed off on a question near the end, it was: Also, I need to insert 
diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex and I forgot to add the GiMP, MAYBE scribus, or just using a 
table in Lyx...

Anyways, the Latex for something as complex as my example appears to be REALLY 
complicated. I'm guessing the GiMP is probably what I'll have to use.

If it helps, here's my priorities, highest = 1, lowest = 5: 
1) ***running header***
2) **numbering and labeling tables and figures (numbered separately). 
3) *best bibliography recommendation
4) if I used a bad approach to workaround any of my other issues
5) if you can recommend an easy approach to getting a similar diagram (I'm 
actually using a table inside of Lyx at the moment, but a pgf/TikZ signal type 
graphic, perhaps overlaid? might be very helpful, and I might like to use 
several of them in a row with words inside, but again, this is a low 
priority...)

Again, thanks so much for your attention!  I'm going to stop researching Lyx 
and Latex for a bit and get back to writing.  Should I cross post this in the 
Latex Lyx forums?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com wrote:


From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
Subject: APA style manuscript? Please help format!
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4:57 AM


I'm trying to format an article class document for submission as an assignment 
which requires a running header, 1 inch margins, double spaces, etc... under 
APA format. 

Headings style is set to default, should I change it? I'd like to have a short 
title at the top middle, and my name at one edge...

I'm using Lyz and Zotero to handle my bibliography (fyi, seems to work), and 
I'm using the natbib option in Document Settings, and the apalike2 style on 
the right click bibliography setting. Should I use apa style? It works too, 
and I'm not sure which one is best. Also, will I have problems using the 
natbib setting? According to 

http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite/apacite.pdf
apacite may be the best implementation to date, but it's incompatible with 
natbib, and I think part of my problem is that I have very long abstracts, 
which are basically my notes on the works, and include %'s 's /'s and ()'s.  
I erased the %'s but it still didn't work, and my notes heavily rely on the 
other symbols for diagrams and formulas...

To get rid of the huge gutter I had to unclick default margins and give it 1 
inch margins. I'm not sure what the other defaults are, so I said 1mm for head 
sep, and 1cm for head hight and 1cm for foot skip (please correct these if 
wrong, I'm not sure what they do...)

My preamble in the document settings reads: 
 
\usepackage{indentfirst}
%\rhead{\textsc{Financial Services Operations Management} ~ \thepage}
The first line indents the first paragraph in section (which is usually not 
indented)
The commented code was an non-working attempt to create a running header. I 
really need a running header.

How do I center the level 1 heading? (I might not 

Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)

[curtis osterhoudt]

  You might try inkscape (www.inkscape.org) for the value chain diagrams. I 
used to use XFig for that sort of thing, but I'm learning inkscape more. Of 
course, it won't automatically generate the diagrams, but it'll be a lot easier 
to use (in my opinion) than GiMP.

   1) Running headers is no problem. You may have to modify the document 
preamble to get things just as you want; it'll be something like

   \lhead{}
   \chead{Short title here}
   \rhead{name}

   2) Numbering and labeling of figures and tables should be automatic. Once 
you've chosen to (for example) insert a figure (say by Insert - Float - 
Figure), and typed in the figure caption, you can place the cursor at the 
beginning of the caption and choose Insert - Label, and give it a short label. 
Then the cross-referencing will be fine if you want to refer to that figure or 
table or whatever. (The same applies to placing labels almost anywhere, as for 
Section heads.)

3) I like using JabRef for bibliography management, though I've used 
Zotero, too, which is handy for pulling in papers and references 
semi-automatically from web-pages. 



 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, June 16, 2010 10:18:35 AM
Subject: Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)


Oops, 

I trailed off on a question near the end, it was: Also, I need to insert 
diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex and I forgot to add the GiMP, MAYBE scribus, or just using a 
table in Lyx...

Anyways, the Latex for something as complex as my example appears to be REALLY 
complicated. I'm guessing the GiMP is probably what I'll have to use.

If it helps, here's my priorities, highest = 1, lowest = 5: 
1) ***running header***
2) **numbering and labeling tables and figures (numbered separately). 
3) *best bibliography recommendation
4) if I used a bad approach to workaround any of my other issues
5) if you can recommend an easy approach to getting a similar diagram (I'm 
actually using a table inside of Lyx at the moment, but a pgf/TikZ signal type 
graphic, perhaps overlaid? might be very helpful, and I might like to use 
several of them in a row with words inside, but again, this is a low 
priority...)

Again, thanks so much for your attention!  I'm going to stop researching Lyx 
and Latex for a bit and get back to writing.  Should I cross post this in the 
Latex Lyx forums?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com wrote:


From: Aaron Hall aaronch...@yahoo.com
Subject: APA style manuscript? Please help format!
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4:57 AM


I'm trying to format an article class document for submission as an assignment 
which requires a running header, 1 inch margins, double spaces, etc... under 
APA format. 

Headings style is set to default, should I change it? I'd like to have a short 
title at the top middle, and my name at one edge...

I'm using Lyz and Zotero to handle my bibliography (fyi, seems to work), and 
I'm using the natbib option in Document Settings, and the apalike2 style on 
the right click bibliography setting. Should I use apa style? It works too, 
and I'm not sure which one is best. Also, will I have problems using the 
natbib setting? According to 

http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite/apacite.pdf
apacite may be the best implementation to date, but it's incompatible with 
natbib, and I think part of my problem is that I have very long abstracts, 
which are basically my notes on the works, and include %'s 's /'s and ()'s.  
I erased the %'s but it still didn't work, and my notes heavily rely on the 
other symbols for diagrams and formulas...

To get rid of the huge gutter I had to unclick default margins and give it 1 
inch margins. I'm not sure what the other defaults are, so I said 1mm for head 
sep, and 1cm for head hight and 1cm for foot skip (please correct these if 
wrong, I'm not sure what they do...)

My preamble in the document settings reads: 
 
\usepackage{indentfirst}
%\rhead{\textsc{Financial Services Operations Management} ~ \thepage}
The first line indents the first paragraph in section (which is usually not 
indented)
The commented code was an non-working attempt to create a running header. I 
really need a running header.

How do I center the level 1 heading? (I might not 

Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)

[curtis osterhoudt]

  You might try inkscape (www.inkscape.org) for the value chain diagrams. I 
used to use XFig for that sort of thing, but I'm learning inkscape more. Of 
course, it won't automatically generate the diagrams, but it'll be a lot easier 
to use (in my opinion) than GiMP.

   1) Running headers is no problem. You may have to modify the document 
preamble to get things just as you want; it'll be something like

   \lhead{}
   \chead{Short title here}
   \rhead{name}

   2) Numbering and labeling of figures and tables should be automatic. Once 
you've chosen to (for example) insert a figure (say by Insert -> Float -> 
Figure), and typed in the figure caption, you can place the cursor at the 
beginning of the caption and choose Insert -> Label, and give it a short label. 
Then the cross-referencing will be fine if you want to refer to that figure or 
table or whatever. (The same applies to placing labels almost anywhere, as for 
Section heads.)

3) I like using JabRef for bibliography management, though I've used 
Zotero, too, which is handy for pulling in papers and references 
semi-automatically from web-pages. 



 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Aaron Hall 
To: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" 
Sent: Wed, June 16, 2010 10:18:35 AM
Subject: Re: APA style manuscript? Please help format! (follow up)


Oops, 

I trailed off on a question near the end, it was: "Also, I need to insert 
diagrams that look like 
this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Porter_Value_Chain.png
My options: Latex" and I forgot to add the GiMP, MAYBE scribus, or just using a 
table in Lyx...

Anyways, the Latex for something as complex as my example appears to be REALLY 
complicated. I'm guessing the GiMP is probably what I'll have to use.

If it helps, here's my priorities, highest = 1, lowest = 5: 
1) ***running header***
2) **numbering and labeling tables and figures (numbered separately). 
3) *best bibliography recommendation
4) if I used a bad approach to workaround any of my other issues
5) if you can recommend an easy approach to getting a similar diagram (I'm 
actually using a table inside of Lyx at the moment, but a pgf/TikZ signal type 
graphic, perhaps overlaid? might be very helpful, and I might like to use 
several of them in a row with words inside, but again, this is a low 
priority...)

Again, thanks so much for your attention!  I'm going to stop researching Lyx 
and Latex for a bit and get back to writing.  Should I cross post this in the 
Latex Lyx forums?

Aaron

--- On Wed, 6/16/10, Aaron Hall  wrote:


>From: Aaron Hall 
>Subject: APA style manuscript? Please help format!
>To: "lyx-users@lists.lyx.org" 
>Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010, 4:57 AM
>
>
>I'm trying to format an article class document for submission as an assignment 
>which requires a running header, 1 inch margins, double spaces, etc... under 
>APA format. 
>
>Headings style is set to default, should I change it? I'd like to have a short 
>title at the top middle, and my name at one edge...
>
>I'm using Lyz and Zotero to handle my bibliography (fyi, seems to work), and 
>I'm using the natbib option in Document Settings, and the "apalike2" style on 
>the right click bibliography setting. Should I use "apa" style? It works too, 
>and I'm not sure which one is best. Also, will I have problems using the 
>natbib setting? According to 
>
>http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/contrib/apacite/apacite.pdf
>apacite may be the best implementation to date, but it's incompatible with 
>natbib, and I think part of my problem is that I have very long abstracts, 
>which are basically my notes on the works, and include %'s >'s /'s and ()'s.  
>I erased the %'s but it still didn't work, and my notes heavily rely on the 
>other symbols for diagrams and formulas...
>
>To get rid of the huge gutter I had to unclick default margins and give it 1 
>inch margins. I'm not sure what the other defaults are, so I said 1mm for head 
>sep, and 1cm for head hight and 1cm for foot skip (please correct these if 
>wrong, I'm not sure what they do...)
>
>My preamble in the document settings reads: "
> 
>\usepackage{indentfirst}
>%\rhead{\textsc{Financial Services Operations Management} ~ \thepage}"
>The first line indents the first paragraph in section (which is usually not 
>indented)
>The commented code was an non-working attempt to create a running header. I 
>really need a 

Re: Lower-res PDFs

[curtis osterhoudt]

I suspect the full Foxit version works fine under Wine, though.






From: Philiрp Rеichmuth phil.ipp.reich.m...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 6:27:22 AM
Subject: Re: Lower-res PDFs

Am Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:34 +0100 schrieb Liviu Andronic:
 On 5/21/10, Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote:
  Do Acrobat and Foxit PDF Editor work with GNU/Linux? FN

 Foxit ships a version for Linux [1], and apparently Adobe Acrobat is
 cross-platform [2].

Foxit PDF Editor is available only for Windows, and Acrobat only for
Windows and Mac. On Linux you only get the reader-only versions as far as I
can see.

Philipp


  

Re: Lower-res PDFs

[curtis osterhoudt]

I suspect the full Foxit version works fine under Wine, though.






From: Philiрp Rеichmuth phil.ipp.reich.m...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 6:27:22 AM
Subject: Re: Lower-res PDFs

Am Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:34 +0100 schrieb Liviu Andronic:
 On 5/21/10, Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote:
  Do Acrobat and Foxit PDF Editor work with GNU/Linux? FN

 Foxit ships a version for Linux [1], and apparently Adobe Acrobat is
 cross-platform [2].

Foxit PDF Editor is available only for Windows, and Acrobat only for
Windows and Mac. On Linux you only get the reader-only versions as far as I
can see.

Philipp


  

Re: Lower-res PDFs

[curtis osterhoudt]

I suspect the full Foxit version works fine under Wine, though.






From: Philiрp Rеichmuth 
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 6:27:22 AM
Subject: Re: Lower-res PDFs

Am Fri, 21 May 2010 13:19:34 +0100 schrieb Liviu Andronic:
> On 5/21/10, Frederick Noronha  wrote:
>>  Do Acrobat and Foxit PDF Editor work with GNU/Linux? FN
>>
> Foxit ships a version for Linux [1], and apparently Adobe Acrobat is
> cross-platform [2].

Foxit PDF Editor is available only for Windows, and Acrobat only for
Windows and Mac. On Linux you only get the reader-only versions as far as I
can see.

Philipp


  

Re: Typographical devices, instead of numbers, for footnotes

[curtis osterhoudt]

I may be wrong here, but in looking at an old preamble file I have for which 
typograpical footnote devices work as you'd like, try the following: 

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}


 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, May 20, 2010 3:26:32 PM
Subject: Typographical devices, instead of numbers, for footnotes

Is it possible for me to use typographical devices [like *, †, ‡, §,
‖, ¶] instead of number for footnotes, as I have end-notes as well
using numbers? Many thanks! FN

Frederick Noronha
+91-9822122436
+91-832-2409490



  

Re: Typographical devices, instead of numbers, for footnotes

[curtis osterhoudt]

I may be wrong here, but in looking at an old preamble file I have for which 
typograpical footnote devices work as you'd like, try the following: 

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}


 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Frederick Noronha fredericknoro...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, May 20, 2010 3:26:32 PM
Subject: Typographical devices, instead of numbers, for footnotes

Is it possible for me to use typographical devices [like *, †, ‡, §,
‖, ¶] instead of number for footnotes, as I have end-notes as well
using numbers? Many thanks! FN

Frederick Noronha
+91-9822122436
+91-832-2409490



  

Re: Typographical devices, instead of numbers, for footnotes

[curtis osterhoudt]

I may be wrong here, but in looking at an old preamble file I have for which 
typograpical footnote devices work as you'd like, try the following: 

\renewcommand{\thefootnote}{\fnsymbol{footnote}}


 /**
As a species, we are forever sticking our fingers into the electric socket of 
the Universe to see what'll happen next. It's a trait that'll either save us or 
kill us, but by god it's what makes us human beings. I'd rather be in the 
company of people who look at Mars than people who contemplate humanity's navel 
-- other worlds are better than fluff. ~~Sir Terence David John Pratchett
***/





From: Frederick Noronha 
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, May 20, 2010 3:26:32 PM
Subject: Typographical devices, instead of numbers, for footnotes

Is it possible for me to use typographical devices [like *, †, ‡, §,
‖, ¶] instead of number for footnotes, as I have end-notes as well
using numbers? Many thanks! FN

Frederick Noronha
+91-9822122436
+91-832-2409490



  

Re: Lyx 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

  I would like to mention that the server which hosts the LyX svn development 
trunk is configured in such a way that some places may have problems pulling in 
the code. For example, from home, I have no problems downloading LyX using svn. 
From work (a very security-conscious place), the same commands will fail, 
giving virtually no clues as to why, and yet svn checkouts and updates work 
from *other servers* when used from my workplace. What I have to do there is 
ssh into yet another computer on the outside, svn update from there, and then 
snag the results to my work computer. Despite the hassle, 2.0 has been worth it.

   I have no idea why this happens, despite several concerted days of trying 
different things, emailing both the LyX server maintainer and our security 
people, etc., who all had good suggestions but no definitive answers. My best 
guess at this point is that our work firewall/proxy system was somehow hung up 
on particular configuration flags from the svn server.

   So, fellow LyXers, if your svn commands fail somehow (some recent messages 
have indicated that they might), it might just not be your fault!

 Regards, 
C.O.

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com
To: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com
Cc: EK ehud.kap...@mssm.edu; LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 3:17:33 AM
Subject: Re: Lyx 2.0

Get the trunk from:
svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk lyx-devel

Configure with:
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-version-suffix=-svn --enable-build-type=release

And the the usual:
make
sudo make install

Good luck.

-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
 Where can I download the current 2.0-testing tarball? I'd love to help
 test and report issues with BiDi and RTL issues.



 --
 Dotan Cohen

 http://bido.com
 http://what-is-what.com

 Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not
 read all list mail.




  

Re: Lyx 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

Thank you, Manveru. If I remember correctly, this was pretty much my 
conclusion, too. Anyway, after working at it, I got used to my ssh - svn - 
rsync routine, and it works well enough for me. 

  Thanks again, 
   C.O.

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Manveru manv...@manveru.pl
To: curtis osterhoudt flutz...@yahoo.com
Cc: LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 7:58:19 AM
Subject: Re: Lyx 2.0




2010/2/25 curtis osterhoudt flutz...@yahoo.com

  I would like to mention that the server which hosts the LyX svn development 
 trunk is configured in such a way that some places may have problems pulling 
 in the code. For example, from home, I have no problems downloading LyX using 
 svn. From work (a very security-conscious place), the same commands will 
 fail, giving virtually no clues as to why, and yet svn checkouts and updates 
 work from *other servers* when used from my workplace. What I have to do 
 there is ssh into yet another computer on the outside, svn update from 
 there, and then snag the results to my work computer. Despite the hassle, 2.0 
 has been worth it.

   I have no idea why this happens, despite several concerted days of trying 
 different things, emailing both the LyX server maintainer and our security 
 people, etc., who all had good suggestions but no definitive answers. My 
 best guess at this point is that our work firewall/proxy system was somehow 
 hung up on particular configuration flags from the svn server.

   So, fellow LyXers, if your svn commands fail somehow (some recent messages 
 have indicated that they might), it might just not be your fault!
 


  
Well known issue - svn protocol itself does not support (and probably will not) 
proxying of any kind. This causes problems in offices where your PC is behind 
proxied firewall (as in my case). Only solution to that is to host svn+http or 
svn+https or svn+ssh (if your SSH may work through your proxy; in my case not 
currently). Generally it is not non-standard to host svn protocol alone as the 
LyX project do.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
gg: 1624001
  http://www.manveru.pl



  

Re: Lyx 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

  I would like to mention that the server which hosts the LyX svn development 
trunk is configured in such a way that some places may have problems pulling in 
the code. For example, from home, I have no problems downloading LyX using svn. 
From work (a very security-conscious place), the same commands will fail, 
giving virtually no clues as to why, and yet svn checkouts and updates work 
from *other servers* when used from my workplace. What I have to do there is 
ssh into yet another computer on the outside, svn update from there, and then 
snag the results to my work computer. Despite the hassle, 2.0 has been worth it.

   I have no idea why this happens, despite several concerted days of trying 
different things, emailing both the LyX server maintainer and our security 
people, etc., who all had good suggestions but no definitive answers. My best 
guess at this point is that our work firewall/proxy system was somehow hung up 
on particular configuration flags from the svn server.

   So, fellow LyXers, if your svn commands fail somehow (some recent messages 
have indicated that they might), it might just not be your fault!

 Regards, 
C.O.

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com
To: Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com
Cc: EK ehud.kap...@mssm.edu; LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 3:17:33 AM
Subject: Re: Lyx 2.0

Get the trunk from:
svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk lyx-devel

Configure with:
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-version-suffix=-svn --enable-build-type=release

And the the usual:
make
sudo make install

Good luck.

-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote:
 Where can I download the current 2.0-testing tarball? I'd love to help
 test and report issues with BiDi and RTL issues.



 --
 Dotan Cohen

 http://bido.com
 http://what-is-what.com

 Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not
 read all list mail.




  

Re: Lyx 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

Thank you, Manveru. If I remember correctly, this was pretty much my 
conclusion, too. Anyway, after working at it, I got used to my ssh - svn - 
rsync routine, and it works well enough for me. 

  Thanks again, 
   C.O.

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Manveru manv...@manveru.pl
To: curtis osterhoudt flutz...@yahoo.com
Cc: LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 7:58:19 AM
Subject: Re: Lyx 2.0




2010/2/25 curtis osterhoudt flutz...@yahoo.com

  I would like to mention that the server which hosts the LyX svn development 
 trunk is configured in such a way that some places may have problems pulling 
 in the code. For example, from home, I have no problems downloading LyX using 
 svn. From work (a very security-conscious place), the same commands will 
 fail, giving virtually no clues as to why, and yet svn checkouts and updates 
 work from *other servers* when used from my workplace. What I have to do 
 there is ssh into yet another computer on the outside, svn update from 
 there, and then snag the results to my work computer. Despite the hassle, 2.0 
 has been worth it.

   I have no idea why this happens, despite several concerted days of trying 
 different things, emailing both the LyX server maintainer and our security 
 people, etc., who all had good suggestions but no definitive answers. My 
 best guess at this point is that our work firewall/proxy system was somehow 
 hung up on particular configuration flags from the svn server.

   So, fellow LyXers, if your svn commands fail somehow (some recent messages 
 have indicated that they might), it might just not be your fault!
 


  
Well known issue - svn protocol itself does not support (and probably will not) 
proxying of any kind. This causes problems in offices where your PC is behind 
proxied firewall (as in my case). Only solution to that is to host svn+http or 
svn+https or svn+ssh (if your SSH may work through your proxy; in my case not 
currently). Generally it is not non-standard to host svn protocol alone as the 
LyX project do.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
gg: 1624001
  http://www.manveru.pl



  

Re: Lyx 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

  I would like to mention that the server which hosts the LyX svn development 
trunk is configured in such a way that some places may have problems pulling in 
the code. For example, from home, I have no problems downloading LyX using svn. 
From work (a very security-conscious place), the same commands will fail, 
giving virtually no clues as to why, and yet svn checkouts and updates work 
from *other servers* when used from my workplace. What I have to do there is 
ssh into yet another computer on the "outside", svn update from there, and then 
snag the results to my work computer. Despite the hassle, 2.0 has been worth it.

   I have no idea why this happens, despite several concerted days of trying 
different things, emailing both the LyX server maintainer and our security 
people, etc., who all had good suggestions but no definitive answers. My best 
guess at this point is that our work firewall/proxy system was somehow hung up 
on particular configuration flags from the svn server.

   So, fellow LyXers, if your svn commands fail somehow (some recent messages 
have indicated that they might), it might just not be your fault!

 Regards, 
C.O.

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Julio Rojas 
To: Dotan Cohen 
Cc: EK ; LyX User 
Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 3:17:33 AM
Subject: Re: Lyx 2.0

Get the trunk from:
svn co svn://svn.lyx.org/lyx/lyx-devel/trunk lyx-devel

Configure with:
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-version-suffix=-svn --enable-build-type=release

And the the usual:
make
sudo make install

Good luck.

-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Dotan Cohen  wrote:
> Where can I download the current 2.0-testing tarball? I'd love to help
> test and report issues with BiDi and RTL issues.
>
>
>
> --
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://bido.com
> http://what-is-what.com
>
> Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not
> read all list mail.
>



  

Re: Lyx 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

Thank you, Manveru. If I remember correctly, this was pretty much my 
conclusion, too. Anyway, after working at it, I got used to my ssh -> svn -> 
rsync routine, and it works well enough for me. 

  Thanks again, 
   C.O.

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Manveru <manv...@manveru.pl>
To: curtis osterhoudt <flutz...@yahoo.com>
Cc: LyX User <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>
Sent: Thu, February 25, 2010 7:58:19 AM
Subject: Re: Lyx 2.0




2010/2/25 curtis osterhoudt <flutz...@yahoo.com>

>  I would like to mention that the server which hosts the LyX svn development 
> trunk is configured in such a way that some places may have problems pulling 
> in the code. For example, from home, I have no problems downloading LyX using 
> svn. From work (a very security-conscious place), the same commands will 
> fail, giving virtually no clues as to why, and yet svn checkouts and updates 
> work from *other servers* when used from my workplace. What I have to do 
> there is ssh into yet another computer on the "outside", svn update from 
> there, and then snag the results to my work computer. Despite the hassle, 2.0 
> has been worth it.
>
>>   I have no idea why this happens, despite several concerted days of trying 
>> different things, emailing both the LyX server maintainer and our security 
>> people, etc., who all had good suggestions but no definitive answers. My 
>> best guess at this point is that our work firewall/proxy system was somehow 
>> hung up on particular configuration flags from the svn server.
>
>>   So, fellow LyXers, if your svn commands fail somehow (some recent messages 
>> have indicated that they might), it might just not be your fault!
>> 
>
>
>>  
Well known issue - svn protocol itself does not support (and probably will not) 
proxying of any kind. This causes problems in offices where your PC is behind 
proxied firewall (as in my case). Only solution to that is to host svn+http or 
svn+https or svn+ssh (if your SSH may work through your proxy; in my case not 
currently). Generally it is not non-standard to host svn protocol alone as the 
LyX project do.

-- 
Manveru
jabber: manv...@manveru.pl
gg: 1624001
  http://www.manveru.pl



  

Re: Lyx 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

   I've been downloading and compiling the svn sources for 2.0 about once a 
week for, oh, several months now. It's the only version of LyX I've used 
recently, and I think it's brilliant. I've been on the lookout for problems, 
but don't have a developer's eye, and haven't seen any. There *is* an issue 
with backwards compatibility, so I'd make copies of the .lyx files one wants to 
edit, and work on the copies, just in case they can't be reopened with an 
earlier version.

   I understand that it won't be released until it's ready, but for me, it's 
ready. 

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl
To: EK ehud.kap...@mssm.edu; LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, February 24, 2010 7:59:50 AM
Subject: RE: Lyx 2.0

When is Lyx 2 coming out?
EK

We don't know yet.

Vincent



  

Re: Lyx 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

Under the Tools - Preferences - Language Settings - Spellchecker menu, the 
Spellcheck continuously checkbox can be checked or -- contrariwise -- 
unchecked. 

  (This is in the 2.0 development version, for anyone accessing this message 
without context)

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, February 24, 2010 12:39:45 PM
Subject: Re: Lyx 2.0

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Stefano Franchi wrote:

 But is there a tentative date for a version of Lyx that includes
 continuous spelling? Or will it come with version 2.0?
 
 I don't think I am the only one who has been fervently waiting for this
 feature for quite some time. (Or so I hope. I can't be the only typing-
 challenged user...)

Stefano,

  Please allow a contrarian opinion. While I'm a touch-typist and do hit the
wrong keys on occasion, I _strongly_ dislike runtime spell checking as well
as any other intrusive corrections. I find it quite distracting whether
typing from hand-written text or creating anew. I also don't like software
that pretends to be smarter than I am by, for example, automatically
changing case after punctuation. It cannot recognize abbreviations or other
contexts where an uppercase letter is inappropriate.

  When I'm done for a bit I'll manually check spelling (unless I forget, of
course), but much prefer to determine when it's done.

  If there's a switch to turn off continuous checking I'll have no issues;
it'll just be another feature for me to disable.

Rich

-- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863



  

Re: Lyx 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

   I've been downloading and compiling the svn sources for 2.0 about once a 
week for, oh, several months now. It's the only version of LyX I've used 
recently, and I think it's brilliant. I've been on the lookout for problems, 
but don't have a developer's eye, and haven't seen any. There *is* an issue 
with backwards compatibility, so I'd make copies of the .lyx files one wants to 
edit, and work on the copies, just in case they can't be reopened with an 
earlier version.

   I understand that it won't be released until it's ready, but for me, it's 
ready. 

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl
To: EK ehud.kap...@mssm.edu; LyX User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, February 24, 2010 7:59:50 AM
Subject: RE: Lyx 2.0

When is Lyx 2 coming out?
EK

We don't know yet.

Vincent



  

Re: Lyx 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

Under the Tools - Preferences - Language Settings - Spellchecker menu, the 
Spellcheck continuously checkbox can be checked or -- contrariwise -- 
unchecked. 

  (This is in the 2.0 development version, for anyone accessing this message 
without context)

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, February 24, 2010 12:39:45 PM
Subject: Re: Lyx 2.0

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Stefano Franchi wrote:

 But is there a tentative date for a version of Lyx that includes
 continuous spelling? Or will it come with version 2.0?
 
 I don't think I am the only one who has been fervently waiting for this
 feature for quite some time. (Or so I hope. I can't be the only typing-
 challenged user...)

Stefano,

  Please allow a contrarian opinion. While I'm a touch-typist and do hit the
wrong keys on occasion, I _strongly_ dislike runtime spell checking as well
as any other intrusive corrections. I find it quite distracting whether
typing from hand-written text or creating anew. I also don't like software
that pretends to be smarter than I am by, for example, automatically
changing case after punctuation. It cannot recognize abbreviations or other
contexts where an uppercase letter is inappropriate.

  When I'm done for a bit I'll manually check spelling (unless I forget, of
course), but much prefer to determine when it's done.

  If there's a switch to turn off continuous checking I'll have no issues;
it'll just be another feature for me to disable.

Rich

-- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863



  

Re: Lyx 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

   I've been downloading and compiling the svn sources for 2.0 about once a 
week for, oh, several months now. It's the only version of LyX I've used 
recently, and I think it's brilliant. I've been on the lookout for problems, 
but don't have a developer's eye, and haven't seen any. There *is* an issue 
with backwards compatibility, so I'd make copies of the .lyx files one wants to 
edit, and work on the copies, just in case they can't be reopened with an 
earlier version.

   I understand that it won't be released until it's ready, but for me, it's 
ready. 

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW 
To: EK ; LyX User 
Sent: Wed, February 24, 2010 7:59:50 AM
Subject: RE: Lyx 2.0

>When is Lyx 2 coming out?
>EK

We don't know yet.

Vincent



  

Re: Lyx 2.0

[curtis osterhoudt]

Under the Tools -> Preferences -> Language Settings -> Spellchecker menu, the 
"Spellcheck continuously" checkbox can be checked or -- contrariwise -- 
unchecked. 

  (This is in the 2.0 development version, for anyone accessing this message 
without context)

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Rich Shepard 
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, February 24, 2010 12:39:45 PM
Subject: Re: Lyx 2.0

On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Stefano Franchi wrote:

> But is there a tentative date for a version of Lyx that includes
> continuous spelling? Or will it come with version 2.0?
> 
> I don't think I am the only one who has been fervently waiting for this
> feature for quite some time. (Or so I hope. I can't be the only typing-
> challenged user...)

Stefano,

  Please allow a contrarian opinion. While I'm a touch-typist and do hit the
wrong keys on occasion, I _strongly_ dislike runtime spell checking as well
as any other intrusive corrections. I find it quite distracting whether
typing from hand-written text or creating anew. I also don't like software
that pretends to be smarter than I am by, for example, automatically
changing case after punctuation. It cannot recognize abbreviations or other
contexts where an uppercase letter is inappropriate.

  When I'm done for a bit I'll manually check spelling (unless I forget, of
course), but much prefer to determine when it's done.

  If there's a switch to turn off continuous checking I'll have no issues;
it'll just be another "feature" for me to disable.

Rich

-- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863



  

Re: Issue in Bibliography

[curtis osterhoudt]

My *guess* is some sort of unclosed tag, or malformed entry, in the 
bibliography file, for Reference [4]. Note that the page numbers are italicized 
at the end of [4], and that the [5] is also italicized (and overlays the [6]). 
That's what I'd look at first, anyway.



 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Sajjad dosto.wa...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Fri, February 19, 2010 9:52:42 AM
Subject: Issue in Bibliography

Hello Folks,

Image says almost everything. I uploaded an image to  the following site.

http://www.student.itn.liu.se/~sajis997/LyXIssue.jpg


As you can see in the bibliography section the [5] in front of the fifth
reference is missing.

And the numbering of the sixth reference looks a bit odd.


Any idea what could have caused that?


Regards
Sajjad



  

Re: Issue in Bibliography

[curtis osterhoudt]

My *guess* is some sort of unclosed tag, or malformed entry, in the 
bibliography file, for Reference [4]. Note that the page numbers are italicized 
at the end of [4], and that the [5] is also italicized (and overlays the [6]). 
That's what I'd look at first, anyway.



 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Sajjad dosto.wa...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Fri, February 19, 2010 9:52:42 AM
Subject: Issue in Bibliography

Hello Folks,

Image says almost everything. I uploaded an image to  the following site.

http://www.student.itn.liu.se/~sajis997/LyXIssue.jpg


As you can see in the bibliography section the [5] in front of the fifth
reference is missing.

And the numbering of the sixth reference looks a bit odd.


Any idea what could have caused that?


Regards
Sajjad



  

Re: Issue in Bibliography

[curtis osterhoudt]

My *guess* is some sort of unclosed tag, or malformed entry, in the 
bibliography file, for Reference [4]. Note that the page numbers are italicized 
at the end of [4], and that the [5] is also italicized (and overlays the [6]). 
That's what I'd look at first, anyway.



 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Sajjad 
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Fri, February 19, 2010 9:52:42 AM
Subject: Issue in Bibliography

Hello Folks,

Image says almost everything. I uploaded an image to  the following site.

http://www.student.itn.liu.se/~sajis997/LyXIssue.jpg


As you can see in the bibliography section the [5] in front of the fifth
reference is missing.

And the numbering of the sixth reference looks a bit odd.


Any idea what could have caused that?


Regards
Sajjad



  

Re: TikZ in LyX

[curtis osterhoudt]

I've just tried a few TikZ scripts in the 2.0.0 svn version of LyX. 

   The more complicated ones tend to fail for me (I'm not sure why; I don't 
have time to track down what is going wrong at the moment). However, the one 
here: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/nav1d/ works, possibly because it's 
so simple. 

  Does it work for you?

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Robert_Schiemann robert_schiem...@freenet.de
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 11:07:05 AM
Subject: TikZ in LyX

Hello to all,

I am quite new to using LaTeX and even newer to using it with LyX. However,
I tried to use the
http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/free-body-diagrams/ TikZ package
from LyX. 

I did it the following way:
1. download the package and extract the file content to Program
Files\MikTeX\
2. Insert one of the example codes (see link above) in TeXnic Center -
works.
3. Insert the same example code as a new TeX code block ('Insert TeX code')
into LyX. When Compiling, i get a few errors, mainly 'Can be used only in
preamble' and 'Environment tikzpicture undefined', and a few others. 
4. I fixed these errors by deleting the \documentclass and \enddocument
commands. In addition, I inserted the \usepackage and the \usetikzlibrary
commands in the document settings (Document - Settings - Latex preamble).
Of course, i deleted these lines from the code.
5. I still get errors when compiling:
A few of them are like 'Missing } or \cr' inserted.
The others go like 'Package error: No shape named base is known'. Sometimes,
it says 'M' instead of 'shape'.

What can i do to solve these problems? 

Thank you a lot in advance for your help!


  

Re: Thanks, problem solved

[curtis osterhoudt]

Perfect. Thanks for the feedback, Robert, and Vincent. All works fine on the 
2.0.0 svn version with TikZ, too.

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Robert_Schiemann robert_schiem...@freenet.de
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 11:43:49 AM
Subject: Thanks, problem solved

Hey everybody,



thanks to anyone who tried to contribute to a solution fort he given
problem. I am very glad that I could be helpen *very* fast!



For all those who are interested: I used control + v to insert the tikz code
into lyx, which overwrote newline-characters so that the code inserted was
mutated. I learnt that it is better to use edit-paste-special-plain text.



Thanks again!



Robert


  

Re: TikZ in LyX

[curtis osterhoudt]

I've just tried a few TikZ scripts in the 2.0.0 svn version of LyX. 

   The more complicated ones tend to fail for me (I'm not sure why; I don't 
have time to track down what is going wrong at the moment). However, the one 
here: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/nav1d/ works, possibly because it's 
so simple. 

  Does it work for you?

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Robert_Schiemann robert_schiem...@freenet.de
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 11:07:05 AM
Subject: TikZ in LyX

Hello to all,

I am quite new to using LaTeX and even newer to using it with LyX. However,
I tried to use the
http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/free-body-diagrams/ TikZ package
from LyX. 

I did it the following way:
1. download the package and extract the file content to Program
Files\MikTeX\
2. Insert one of the example codes (see link above) in TeXnic Center -
works.
3. Insert the same example code as a new TeX code block ('Insert TeX code')
into LyX. When Compiling, i get a few errors, mainly 'Can be used only in
preamble' and 'Environment tikzpicture undefined', and a few others. 
4. I fixed these errors by deleting the \documentclass and \enddocument
commands. In addition, I inserted the \usepackage and the \usetikzlibrary
commands in the document settings (Document - Settings - Latex preamble).
Of course, i deleted these lines from the code.
5. I still get errors when compiling:
A few of them are like 'Missing } or \cr' inserted.
The others go like 'Package error: No shape named base is known'. Sometimes,
it says 'M' instead of 'shape'.

What can i do to solve these problems? 

Thank you a lot in advance for your help!


  

Re: Thanks, problem solved

[curtis osterhoudt]

Perfect. Thanks for the feedback, Robert, and Vincent. All works fine on the 
2.0.0 svn version with TikZ, too.

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Robert_Schiemann robert_schiem...@freenet.de
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 11:43:49 AM
Subject: Thanks, problem solved

Hey everybody,



thanks to anyone who tried to contribute to a solution fort he given
problem. I am very glad that I could be helpen *very* fast!



For all those who are interested: I used control + v to insert the tikz code
into lyx, which overwrote newline-characters so that the code inserted was
mutated. I learnt that it is better to use edit-paste-special-plain text.



Thanks again!



Robert


  

Re: TikZ in LyX

[curtis osterhoudt]

I've just tried a few TikZ scripts in the 2.0.0 svn version of LyX. 

   The more complicated ones tend to fail for me (I'm not sure why; I don't 
have time to track down what is going wrong at the moment). However, the one 
here: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/nav1d/ works, possibly because it's 
so simple. 

  Does it work for you?

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Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
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From: Robert_Schiemann 
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 11:07:05 AM
Subject: TikZ in LyX

Hello to all,

I am quite new to using LaTeX and even newer to using it with LyX. However,
I tried to use the
 TikZ package
from LyX. 

I did it the following way:
1. download the package and extract the file content to Program
Files\MikTeX\
2. Insert one of the example codes (see link above) in TeXnic Center -
works.
3. Insert the same example code as a new TeX code block ('Insert TeX code')
into LyX. When Compiling, i get a few errors, mainly 'Can be used only in
preamble' and 'Environment tikzpicture undefined', and a few others. 
4. I fixed these errors by deleting the \documentclass and \enddocument
commands. In addition, I inserted the \usepackage and the \usetikzlibrary
commands in the document settings (Document -> Settings -> Latex preamble).
Of course, i deleted these lines from the code.
5. I still get errors when compiling:
A few of them are like 'Missing } or \cr' inserted.
The others go like 'Package error: No shape named base is known'. Sometimes,
it says 'M' instead of 'shape'.

What can i do to solve these problems? 

Thank you a lot in advance for your help!


  

Re: Thanks, problem solved

[curtis osterhoudt]

Perfect. Thanks for the feedback, Robert, and Vincent. All works fine on the 
2.0.0 svn version with TikZ, too.

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Robert_Schiemann 
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wed, January 13, 2010 11:43:49 AM
Subject: Thanks, problem solved

Hey everybody,



thanks to anyone who tried to contribute to a solution fort he given
problem. I am very glad that I could be helpen *very* fast!



For all those who are interested: I used control + v to insert the tikz code
into lyx, which overwrote newline-characters so that the code inserted was
mutated. I learnt that it is better to use edit->paste->special->plain text.



Thanks again!



Robert


  

Re: How many use Linux:

[curtis osterhoudt]

I also use it predominantly on Linux, but occasionally use it on Windows, too. 
Have used LyX since, about, oh, 2000, for letters, articles, notes, and a 
dissertation. 

 /
Down with categorical imperative!
flutz...@yahoo.com
/





From: Ralph Boland rpbol...@gmail.com
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 12:17:25 PM
Subject: Re: How many use Linux:

 I've always assumed that fraction was about 4/5 but never examined that
 assumption. Does anyone know the percentages of LyX users on:

 Linux
 Windows
 Mac
 BSD
 Other

 Just to start the ball rolling, I've always used LyX on Linux (since 2001) and
 am currently using it on Ubuntu 9.0.4.

I've used Lyx on Linux since 1999.  Wrote a thesis, a few papers, and numerous
resumes and cover letters.


Ralph Boland

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When a man becomes sexually aroused, the necessary blood is removed
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