Greetings to all.
I am very new to Lyx but have had some experience with Latex.
I have to write monthly reports/meeting minutes. Have looked at the
templates for report/articles/proceedings and have found that none
of them is what I need. So I tried making a .lyx file with the layout
My thanks for the advice given by several contributors.
I am making progress now.
Gordon.
Tauranga N.Z.
What is the correct way to pronounce 'Lyx' in
a country speaking English?
Thanks,
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
in the morning up until
the insertion
of the text file.
Gordon Cooper.
Adding to my previous comment about problem with
1.6.7., I get these error messages for all .lyx files.
Attempting to view dvi
'An error occurred whilst running dvipdfmx -p a4 -o filename'
and view PDFLateX error
'File does not exist
On 06/24/2011 11:41 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Make sure that you have texlive installed.
THANK YOU! Re-installing texlive has restored
the PDF. Now to work on learning more.
Gordon
Another way, and I will admit to not having tested it,
could be to produce a PDF from the Lyx file, then convert
the PDF to Word, which can be read by Libre Office, tidied
up, then saved as an odt.
Gordon Cooper
Hi Rich,
I have not had that problem with Lyx, but am at present
trying to remove it - or something very similar from Libre Office.
OS is Kubuntu 13.04 but it first cropped up in 12.04. If a word, a
phrase and sometimes a whole paragraph is copied, or cut during
editing it is
On 02/09/13 17:02, Alan L Tyree wrote:
You can become productive with LyX*very*
quickly without knowing anything about LaTeX.
Agreed! I wish that Lyx had been available back in the
1960's when we had to produce a heap of technical training
manuals - very quickly.
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
This requirement should be simple, but the method
escapes me.
I wish to include several pages of photos, with captions
into a text document. They will be in two or three blocks,
separate from the text but using the same page numbering
sequence.
Have ploughed through the User Manual seeking
Is there a simple answer to the typesetting widow orphan
problem in Lyx/latex? I see that there are various suggestions
offered in the manuals but they all seem to result in the need
for a bit of text adjustment (fiddling) as the final step before
printing.
Gordon
Tauranga.
for the information.
Gordon Cooper
On 11/09/13 00:57, Richard Heck wrote:
Generally, it really is best to leave this until everything else
is done, and then make adjustments if necessary.
Marcelo,
Remove the stop after org
and send your email to
lyx-es-subscribe@;ists.lyx.org
That works properly,
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
On 05/06/2014 02:44 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote:
I can't send a mail to the address lyx-es-subscr...@lists.lyx.org.
Is rejected for yahoo.
What
Typo in first send sorry.
Marcelo,
Remove the stop after org
and send your email to
lyx-es-subscr...@lists.lyx.org
That works properly,
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
On 05/06/2014 02:44 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote:
I can't send a mail to the address
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Oliver Frost frost.oli...@yahoo.de
wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm using Windows 7 and Lyx 2.12. My problem is: Anytime I click the third
mouse button in Lyx, Lyx pastes the previously selected text into the
document where the cursor is at that point. This is terribly
First, a comment. I have submitted two queries to the group recently,
and did not
receive any replies. Hopefully, it might be better this time.
Currently I am formatting a Technical Manual, written by others, in
Lyx. This will be
available on-line as both pdf and html, with the
On 18/01/15 22:47, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
You need to set the vertical positioning of the box to center (this
sets the vertical position of the box with regard to the baseline of
the surrounding text). You also might want to adjust the box
padding. See attached example. Jürgen PS: For your
On 18/01/15 18:31, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
Hi Gordon,
Are you able to give a reproducible example? For example, if you can
give a small .lyx file and give exactly the behavior (you mention
previously), and the behavior you see now, perhaps with screen
shots, that would give us a better idea
Cured thank you. Do not know how I overlooked that setting,
perhaps new spectacles are needed.
Cheers,
Gordon.
On 18/01/15 22:47, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
For your purpose, the tcolorbox package might be more suitable. See
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tcolorbox. Forthcoming LyX 2.1.3 will introduce
support for this package.
May I ask when Lyx 2.1.3 will arrive?
Gordon.
While using Lyx to edit a moderately long technical manual (being
written by others) and exporting it as pdf and html, Latex errors
have become difficult to find. Previously I could select an error and
it would be highlighted in the Lyx script. That highlighting has
disappeared. Is this
Hello Anders, (also Guenter and Chris)
The platform is Mx-Linux using Lyx 2.1.3. Mx
is based upon Debian. Am actually
working on a 100+ page user manual for Mx, being written in Lyx. Koma
script and published in
html and pdf.
(Refer the Lyx Users post from
Herewith an extract from the Lyx file :
– Click Start menu System Htop, which brings up a terminal showing
all running process. Locate the program you want to stop, highlight it,
and press F9 then Return.
and here is how it appears in pdf and odt.
Click Start menu ¿ System ¿ Htop, which
Many thanks to Guenter for the comment about OT1. Followed this
path and have changed to using non-Tex fonts. This has solved the
and | conversion errors and seems to have fixed an inconsistency
in handling quotation marks.
Rather oddly the older Lyx 2.0.6 on Kubuntu uses OT1 but has no
Blacklisting 'lithasa' has worked for me.
Gordon.
On 29/03/15 10:04, Gordon Cooper wrote:
I have blacklisted that sender at my ISP so should not get any more.
Gordon.
The list moderator is aware of the issue. It is hard to resolve
though because it is not SPAM that is sent to the list
On 28/03/15 22:04, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
If I send a mail to the Lyx User Group, each time I am getting
immediately afterward this:
Weitergeleitete Nachricht
Datum: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 09:46:01 +0100
Von:Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de
I have blacklisted that sender at my ISP so should not get any more.
Gordon.
The list moderator is aware of the issue. It is hard to resolve though
because it is not SPAM that is sent to the list. It is SPAM sent to
you directly. So it is not a question of blocking the user from
sending
Hi Eduardo.
In, DocumentSettingsPDF Properties, on the Hyperlinks Tab,
you could check 'Break Links over Lines' box.
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
Hello Chris,
No, they don't, we get an inverted exclamation
mark for and inverted question mark for . The font that
appears to display them correctly in pdf is Typewriter.
I tried from Lyx to Open Document format and had
the same result ! and ? inverted.
Gordon.
On
Greetings.
The great list of Lyx symbols has a couple of omissions.
and the basic 'less than' and 'greater than' symbols. These
shapes do appear in the Latin list, but do not convert when a
pdf output is sought.
The Maths symbols do contain symbols for not less than,
less than
I would certainly use it. Have had a couple of instances
when I have been comparing documents with shared
authorship and accidentally edited the wrong one.
Thanks,
Gordon
On 24/03/15 05:57, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
Dear LyX users,
What are your thoughts on having an option in the menu called
On 06/05/15 09:57, Will Furnass wrote:
That works perfectly if the error is in the master document but not if
the error is in a child document (of which I have quite a few).
I have been having similar problems with errors, mainly relating to
producing printable pdf versions
of a Software
On 12/04/15 10:17, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
I have not made heavy use of child/master documents so I'm just getting
started with the basics.
If I compile only the child then is the LaTeX preamble still inherited
from the master?
Scott
Hi Scott,
Adding to Richard's reply, I'm using a
On 12/04/15 16:43, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
I still don't completely understand. You're saying that if you have the
master document load (so say you have both the master and child open in
tabs) then if you're on the child and you click on preview, then the
child is compiled with the master's
A comment.
Running Lyx on MX-Linux 14.4, to write a user manual about
the said 14.4, we have had the reverse problem with ems.
In examples of command line instructions we needed multiple
dashes to be separate, only to find that they became ems in the
pdf copy.
The fix is simple, use
Hi Timo,
This is possible in some Scripts. Suggest you look at
Section 3.10 of
Embedded Objects in Lyx Help.
Gordon.
On 19/04/15 09:41, Langer, Tino wrote:
Hello,
I have to put the caption of a table (using a floating object) at the
top of the table. Is this possible using
Thanks for that Steve, although I've been working with Koma
Script with the only extra step needed to prevent overlong
lines in PDF was to allow hyperlinks to break over a line end.
Gordon.
HI Michael,
I am running Mx-Linux 14.4. There is no sign of ulem
in any of the repositories.
Thanks,
Gordon.
Hi Gordon,
no idea about your platform etc.
If you use openSUSE see the screenshot.
Michael
Thanks for the advice to use apt, I should thought of that earlier.
In fact I did use the GUI version : Package Search which is in the
repos.
Gordon
Thanks for the suggestion Michael. MX-Linux is Debian based
so the RPM search did not work. However, I have learned a lot
more about the ulem package, and am now looking for a
method of finding it in the repository packages.
Gordon
N.Z.
Gordo, you may try an RPM Search:
For Debian based systems ulem.sty is in the package
texlive-generic-recommended.
Gordon
N,Z,
Greetings to all,
The ulem.sty filename appears several times in the lyx-users archive
with most requests reporting that the file was absent. It happened to
me today when a conversion to pdf stalled because ulem was missing.
All the dependency files were present and the problem difficult
The Lyx Team,
Have upgraded from 2.1.3 to 2.1.4 on MX14 Linux. Had an initial problem
with a graphic being misplaced but this error disappeared after a reboot.
All is now behaving.
Many thanks for the work put into 2.1.4
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
Greetings to all.
I am very new to Lyx but have had some experience with Latex.
I have to write monthly reports/meeting minutes. Have looked at the
templates for report/articles/proceedings and have found that none
of them is what I need. So I tried making a .lyx file with the layout
My thanks for the advice given by several contributors.
I am making progress now.
Gordon.
Tauranga N.Z.
What is the correct way to pronounce 'Lyx' in
a country speaking English?
Thanks,
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
in the morning up until
the insertion
of the text file.
Gordon Cooper.
Adding to my previous comment about problem with
1.6.7., I get these error messages for all .lyx files.
Attempting to view dvi
'An error occurred whilst running dvipdfmx -p a4 -o filename'
and view PDFLateX error
'File does not exist
On 06/24/2011 11:41 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Make sure that you have texlive installed.
THANK YOU! Re-installing texlive has restored
the PDF. Now to work on learning more.
Gordon
Another way, and I will admit to not having tested it,
could be to produce a PDF from the Lyx file, then convert
the PDF to Word, which can be read by Libre Office, tidied
up, then saved as an odt.
Gordon Cooper
Hi Rich,
I have not had that problem with Lyx, but am at present
trying to remove it - or something very similar from Libre Office.
OS is Kubuntu 13.04 but it first cropped up in 12.04. If a word, a
phrase and sometimes a whole paragraph is copied, or cut during
editing it is
On 02/09/13 17:02, Alan L Tyree wrote:
You can become productive with LyX*very*
quickly without knowing anything about LaTeX.
Agreed! I wish that Lyx had been available back in the
1960's when we had to produce a heap of technical training
manuals - very quickly.
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
This requirement should be simple, but the method
escapes me.
I wish to include several pages of photos, with captions
into a text document. They will be in two or three blocks,
separate from the text but using the same page numbering
sequence.
Have ploughed through the User Manual seeking
Is there a simple answer to the typesetting widow orphan
problem in Lyx/latex? I see that there are various suggestions
offered in the manuals but they all seem to result in the need
for a bit of text adjustment (fiddling) as the final step before
printing.
Gordon
Tauranga.
for the information.
Gordon Cooper
On 11/09/13 00:57, Richard Heck wrote:
Generally, it really is best to leave this until everything else
is done, and then make adjustments if necessary.
Marcelo,
Remove the stop after org
and send your email to
lyx-es-subscribe@;ists.lyx.org
That works properly,
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
On 05/06/2014 02:44 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote:
I can't send a mail to the address lyx-es-subscr...@lists.lyx.org.
Is rejected for yahoo.
What
Typo in first send sorry.
Marcelo,
Remove the stop after org
and send your email to
lyx-es-subscr...@lists.lyx.org
That works properly,
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
On 05/06/2014 02:44 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote:
I can't send a mail to the address
While using Lyx to edit a moderately long technical manual (being
written by others) and exporting it as pdf and html, Latex errors
have become difficult to find. Previously I could select an error and
it would be highlighted in the Lyx script. That highlighting has
disappeared. Is this
First, a comment. I have submitted two queries to the group recently,
and did not
receive any replies. Hopefully, it might be better this time.
Currently I am formatting a Technical Manual, written by others, in
Lyx. This will be
available on-line as both pdf and html, with the
On 18/01/15 22:47, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
You need to set the vertical positioning of the box to center (this
sets the vertical position of the box with regard to the baseline of
the surrounding text). You also might want to adjust the box
padding. See attached example. Jürgen PS: For your
On 18/01/15 18:31, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
Hi Gordon,
Are you able to give a reproducible example? For example, if you can
give a small .lyx file and give exactly the behavior (you mention
previously), and the behavior you see now, perhaps with screen
shots, that would give us a better idea
Cured thank you. Do not know how I overlooked that setting,
perhaps new spectacles are needed.
Cheers,
Gordon.
On 18/01/15 22:47, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
For your purpose, the tcolorbox package might be more suitable. See
http://www.ctan.org/pkg/tcolorbox. Forthcoming LyX 2.1.3 will introduce
support for this package.
May I ask when Lyx 2.1.3 will arrive?
Gordon.
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Oliver Frost frost.oli...@yahoo.de
wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm using Windows 7 and Lyx 2.12. My problem is: Anytime I click the third
mouse button in Lyx, Lyx pastes the previously selected text into the
document where the cursor is at that point. This is terribly
Hi Eduardo.
In, DocumentSettingsPDF Properties, on the Hyperlinks Tab,
you could check 'Break Links over Lines' box.
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
Greetings.
The great list of Lyx symbols has a couple of omissions.
and the basic 'less than' and 'greater than' symbols. These
shapes do appear in the Latin list, but do not convert when a
pdf output is sought.
The Maths symbols do contain symbols for not less than,
less than
Hello Chris,
No, they don't, we get an inverted exclamation
mark for and inverted question mark for . The font that
appears to display them correctly in pdf is Typewriter.
I tried from Lyx to Open Document format and had
the same result ! and ? inverted.
Gordon.
On
Hello Anders, (also Guenter and Chris)
The platform is Mx-Linux using Lyx 2.1.3. Mx
is based upon Debian. Am actually
working on a 100+ page user manual for Mx, being written in Lyx. Koma
script and published in
html and pdf.
(Refer the Lyx Users post from
Herewith an extract from the Lyx file :
– Click Start menu System Htop, which brings up a terminal showing
all running process. Locate the program you want to stop, highlight it,
and press F9 then Return.
and here is how it appears in pdf and odt.
Click Start menu ¿ System ¿ Htop, which
Many thanks to Guenter for the comment about OT1. Followed this
path and have changed to using non-Tex fonts. This has solved the
and | conversion errors and seems to have fixed an inconsistency
in handling quotation marks.
Rather oddly the older Lyx 2.0.6 on Kubuntu uses OT1 but has no
I would certainly use it. Have had a couple of instances
when I have been comparing documents with shared
authorship and accidentally edited the wrong one.
Thanks,
Gordon
On 24/03/15 05:57, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
Dear LyX users,
What are your thoughts on having an option in the menu called
On 28/03/15 22:04, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
If I send a mail to the Lyx User Group, each time I am getting
immediately afterward this:
Weitergeleitete Nachricht
Datum: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 09:46:01 +0100
Von:Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de
I have blacklisted that sender at my ISP so should not get any more.
Gordon.
The list moderator is aware of the issue. It is hard to resolve though
because it is not SPAM that is sent to the list. It is SPAM sent to
you directly. So it is not a question of blocking the user from
sending
Blacklisting 'lithasa' has worked for me.
Gordon.
On 29/03/15 10:04, Gordon Cooper wrote:
I have blacklisted that sender at my ISP so should not get any more.
Gordon.
The list moderator is aware of the issue. It is hard to resolve
though because it is not SPAM that is sent to the list
On 12/04/15 10:17, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
I have not made heavy use of child/master documents so I'm just getting
started with the basics.
If I compile only the child then is the LaTeX preamble still inherited
from the master?
Scott
Hi Scott,
Adding to Richard's reply, I'm using a
On 12/04/15 16:43, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
I still don't completely understand. You're saying that if you have the
master document load (so say you have both the master and child open in
tabs) then if you're on the child and you click on preview, then the
child is compiled with the master's
A comment.
Running Lyx on MX-Linux 14.4, to write a user manual about
the said 14.4, we have had the reverse problem with ems.
In examples of command line instructions we needed multiple
dashes to be separate, only to find that they became ems in the
pdf copy.
The fix is simple, use
Hi Timo,
This is possible in some Scripts. Suggest you look at
Section 3.10 of
Embedded Objects in Lyx Help.
Gordon.
On 19/04/15 09:41, Langer, Tino wrote:
Hello,
I have to put the caption of a table (using a floating object) at the
top of the table. Is this possible using
On 06/05/15 09:57, Will Furnass wrote:
That works perfectly if the error is in the master document but not if
the error is in a child document (of which I have quite a few).
I have been having similar problems with errors, mainly relating to
producing printable pdf versions
of a Software
Greetings to all,
The ulem.sty filename appears several times in the lyx-users archive
with most requests reporting that the file was absent. It happened to
me today when a conversion to pdf stalled because ulem was missing.
All the dependency files were present and the problem difficult
HI Michael,
I am running Mx-Linux 14.4. There is no sign of ulem
in any of the repositories.
Thanks,
Gordon.
Hi Gordon,
no idea about your platform etc.
If you use openSUSE see the screenshot.
Michael
Thanks for the suggestion Michael. MX-Linux is Debian based
so the RPM search did not work. However, I have learned a lot
more about the ulem package, and am now looking for a
method of finding it in the repository packages.
Gordon
N.Z.
Gordo, you may try an RPM Search:
For Debian based systems ulem.sty is in the package
texlive-generic-recommended.
Gordon
N,Z,
Thanks for the advice to use apt, I should thought of that earlier.
In fact I did use the GUI version : Package Search which is in the
repos.
Gordon
Thanks for that Steve, although I've been working with Koma
Script with the only extra step needed to prevent overlong
lines in PDF was to allow hyperlinks to break over a line end.
Gordon.
Dear Bert,
I have had this problem, without finding the cause.
I use
Compare quite often on a 100 page document (which has multiple
maintainers and regular updates), and usually, the Differences
file is generated in a few minutes.
Twice, Compare has behaved as you describe
Hello Liviu,
My use of Compare is fairly frequent. Document is the User
Manual for an operating system which may be changed/updated
several times a year, then released in html and pdf.
Manual is written in Lyx. My task is producing the pdf and because
of aspect ratio differences between
Thanks for the replies. The file is the help section of
a CAD programme with 400 pages and many graphics.
I can print it directly to pdf but it needs editing, which
would be easier in Lyx, hence the question.
Richard, will look at importing into LO.
Gordon.
I need to edit an elderly .chm help file and produce it in pdf. The
easiest edit looks to be with Lyx.
Has anyone done this conversion? I have looked in the archive,
with a negative result.
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
Certainly, will do. Files are a software manual and readily
available.
Gordon.
On 11/15/2015 06:57 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
If you come up with an example where Compare fails, and if the files
are not confidential, we'd appreciate to have a copy (at least in
private if this is
Greetings to all.
I am very new to Lyx but have had some experience with Latex.
I have to write monthly reports/meeting minutes. Have looked at the
templates for report/articles/proceedings and have found that none
of them is what I need. So I tried making a .lyx file with the layout
My thanks for the advice given by several contributors.
I am making progress now.
Gordon.
Tauranga N.Z.
What is the correct way to pronounce 'Lyx' in
a country speaking English?
Thanks,
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
aving in the morning up until
the insertion
of the text file.
Gordon Cooper.
Adding to my previous comment about problem with
1.6.7., I get these error messages for all .lyx files.
Attempting to view dvi
'An error occurred whilst running dvipdfmx -p a4 -o filename'
and view PDFLateX error
'File does not exist
On 06/24/2011 11:41 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
Make sure that you have texlive installed.
THANK YOU! Re-installing texlive has restored
the PDF. Now to work on learning more.
Gordon
Another way, and I will admit to not having tested it,
could be to produce a PDF from the Lyx file, then convert
the PDF to Word, which can be read by Libre Office, tidied
up, then saved as an odt.
Gordon Cooper
Hi Rich,
I have not had that problem with Lyx, but am at present
trying to remove it - or something very similar from Libre Office.
OS is Kubuntu 13.04 but it first cropped up in 12.04. If a word, a
phrase and sometimes a whole paragraph is copied, or cut during
editing it is
On 02/09/13 17:02, Alan L Tyree wrote:
You can become productive with LyX*very*
quickly without knowing anything about LaTeX.
Agreed! I wish that Lyx had been available back in the
1960's when we had to produce a heap of technical training
manuals - very quickly.
Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.
This requirement should be simple, but the method
escapes me.
I wish to include several pages of photos, with captions
into a text document. They will be in two or three blocks,
separate from the text but using the same page numbering
sequence.
Have ploughed through the User Manual seeking
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