[ANNOUNCE] LyX 2.0.5
We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 2.0.5. This is the fifth
maintenance release in the 2.0.x series.
LyX 2.0.5 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version
even more reliable and stable. We have fixed a number of bugs and made
a number of improvements. These are detailed below. We encourage all
LyX users to upgrade to this version.
LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based
on the structure of your documents and not simply their appearance. It is
released under a Free and Open Source Software license.
You can download LyX 2.0.5 from http://www.lyx.org/Download/.
If you think you found a bug in LyX 2.0.5, either e-mail the LyX
developers' mailing list (lyx-devel lists.lyx.org), or open a bug
report at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome.
If you have trouble using LyX or have a question, consult the
documentation that comes with LyX and the LyX wiki, which lives at
http://wiki.lyx.org/. If you can't find the answer there, e-mail the LyX
users' list (lyx-users at lists.lyx.org).
We hope you enjoy using LyX 2.0.5.
The LyX team.
http://www.lyx.org
What's new in LyX 2.0.5
===
The View>Source widget now allows you to select the backend to display,
e.g., LaTeX or XHTML, rather than the output format. The previous choice
really made no sense: You didn't see a PDF there if you chose one of the
PDF output formats, but rather LaTeX. This solves some long-standing issues
with View>Source.
There has been an important change in how the "language" lfun works.
- "language " now toggles between languages
(status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
- "language set" sets to language
(meaning of "language " as of LyX 2.0.2)
- "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
- Menu functions are unchanged.
What's new
==
** Updates:
***
* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- Add explicit dvilualatex output format.
- Add support for some IPA diacritics.
- Enclose underlined \ref{} commands in \mbox{} to protect them when
using the package soul in place of (or together with) ulem.
* TEX2LYX IMPROVEMENTS
- The polyglossia/XeTeX language commands are now supported (bug 8212).
- It is now recognized if syncTeX is used (bug 8217).
* USER INTERFACE
- Reset only the top-level counter when starting the appendix.
- Show backends, not formats, in menu View->Source (bug #7652).
- Allow native LyX format to be shown in menu View->Source.
- Implementation of spell check of current selection (bug #2511).
- Add property list entries for high resolution display on Mac.
- Semantic change of the "language" lfun (bug 8175):
- "language " now toggles between languages
(status quo ante LyX 2.0.2)
- "language set" sets to language
(meaning of "language " as of LyX 2.0.2)
- "language [reset]" resets to the document language.
- Menu functions are unchanged.
* DOCUMENTATION AND LOCALIZATION
- Updated French, German, Interlingua, Italian, Nynorsk, Polish,
Slovak, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian user interface localizations.
- New Spanish example files europeCV.lyx and modernCV.lyx.
- Updated Spanish translation of the LyX manuals.
- Updated french translation of the linguistics manual.
- Updated information about literate programming (noweb).
** Bug fixes:
*
* DOCUMENT INPUT/OUTPUT
- Fix assertion when start of appendix is in ERT (bug 8271).
- Do not output empty language switch commands (bug 8216).
- Do not let the master document interfere when a child is compiled
standalone
(bug 8000).
- When using Turkish language, use the xkeyval package to avoid
incompatibilities (bug 2005).
- Do not ignore polyglossia commands in partial source preview (bug 8209).
- Show enabled child-only branches content in source preview (bug 8001).
- Export correct language change commands if document contains different
CJK languages (bug 8215).
- Fix encoding problems in hyperlink name field (bug 8357).
- Fix bug that Elsevier documents became uncompilable when using
refstyle for
cross-references.
- Fixed the layout and template file for scientific articles published
by the
American Psychological Association (APA) (bug 8187).
- Write correct DTD for MathML (bug 8160).
- Make the ~ char in Basque, Estonian and Galician non-active (bug 8265).
- Embrace babel settings to \makeatletter ... \makeatother if they contain
an @ glyph.
- Improve the external file monitor. LyX should now also honor changes in
graphics that are included via ERT or generated via knitr (bug 8336).
- Fix LaTeX errors with right-to-left text when using XeTeX/Polyglossia
(part of bug 8251).
- Fix brackets direction in Hebrew documents when using XeTeX/Polyglossia
and in Arabic documents on plain text output (part of bug 8251).
- Fix bracket output with RTL languages (bug 8278).
- Fix babel call with Arabic (arabi).
- Fix suppression of language package.
- Fix forward search with the Okular viewer. If
Re: Layout for changing font within a paragraph?
On 05/04/2012 01:46 PM, James Sutherland wrote:
FYI, I found a solution using "InsetLayout"
InsetLayout "Flex:Revision"
LyXType charstyle
MultiPar true
LatexName textcolor
LatexParam {red}
LatexType Command
Font
Color Red
EndFont
End
This forces you to use "Text Style" to modify the text, but works fine.
That's the difference between Layout and InsetLayout: The former is
paragraph level; the latter is word level.
There's a proposal to put some kind of combo box on the toolbar to allow
easier access to these things.
By the way, you don't need the quotes around "Flex:Revision".
Richard
Re: Update text
On 04/20/2010 11:18 AM, Shirley Ong wrote: Hi all, Can someone show me how I can update text using Lyx or Tex code? Basically, what I want is similar to the Bookmark + cross reference features in MS Word. For example, I create a bookmark with text "update me". Then I create a cross reference somewhere else in the document. The cross reference also shows "update me". When I change the bookmark text to "you are updated" and select to update the whole document, the cross referenced text now shows "you are updated". Just put a label: Insert>Label, with whatever text you want. Then put a cross reference to the label where you want. Change the label and the cross-ref will change, too, automatically, though of course all the labels have to have different names. If you don't want the label to show in output, just put it in a note (Insert>Note>LyX Note). You can put the label in a note, too, if you really don't want it to be output. rh
Re: Formatting numbered equations
On 04/19/2010 04:57 PM, Marshall Feldman wrote: Here's an example of what the CMS is talking about: "The meal consisted of soup, salad, and macaroni and cheese." Of course, the better known case is the panda, who eats, shoots and leaves. rh
Re: Formatting numbered equations
On 04/19/2010 02:25 PM, Marshall Feldman wrote:
Hello,
I have several questions regarding numbered equations:
1. How does one add punctuation to numbered equations?
2. How does one make the equations be part of a paragraph that begins
before and continues after them?
3. How does one continue a numbered equation across multiple lines?
That's a lot of questions. ;-)
For example:
_
Three of the most often quoted elementary mathematical
equations are
2 + 2 = 4(1),
C = 2 x pi x r (2), and
A = (1/2) b x h (3).
As you can see, Equation 2 is the most complex.
_
In the above example, I can't figure out how to add the commas,
period, and conjunction adjacent to the equation numbers.
If you're using an equation array or something of the sort to format
this, then you cannot add punctuation after the labels. There simply
isn't any way to do this, so far as I know, not unless you define (or
find) your own environments that allow it. An option is to turn on the
"fleqn" option by putting "fleqn" in the Options field under
Document>Settings>Document Class>Custom. This moves the numbers to the
left, and then you can add the text in the usual way. Alternatively,
change your syntax. "These are three...:".
Also notice that the sentence beginning with "As" is part of the
paragraph beginning with "Three." I can't get Lyx to format them
right. The sentence beginning with "Three" is indented because it
starts a paragraph. When I add anything after an equation number, LyX
automatically treats it as a new paragraph. So in the above example,
the line beginning with "As you can" is treated as the start of a new
paragraph and indented.
I'm not sure I fully understand this, but compare the two paragraphs in
the attached document. In the second case, where the paragraph is
indented, there is a return after the formula. If you put the cursor at
the beginning of "what" and backspace, you will delete that return.
Regarding my third question, I have a long equation that should span
multiple lines. Instead, LyX keeps it on one line that runs off the
right side of the page, when it should look like:
5 = 1 + 5 = 2 + 3 = 3 + 2 = 4 + 1 = 10/2
= 50/10 = 100/20 (4)
Thanks for your help.
You'll have to use something like the gather environment, or maybe an
align environment, to format this correctly. Example in the file, again.
rh
#LyX 1.6.6svn created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 345
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass paper
\begin_preamble
\usepackage{heck}
\end_preamble
\use_default_options false
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\font_roman times
\font_sans helvet
\font_typewriter courier
\font_default_family default
\font_sc false
\font_osf false
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 11
\spacing single
\use_hyperref false
\papersize letterpaper
\use_geometry false
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 0
\cite_engine natbib_authoryear
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\leftmargin 1in
\topmargin 1in
\rightmargin 1in
\bottommargin 1in
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip smallskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle plain
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\author ""
\author ""
\end_header
\begin_body
\begin_layout Standard
this.
\begin_inset Formula \begin{gather}
a=b\\
b=a\end{gather}
\end_inset
that.
and now more
\begin_inset Formula \begin{gather}
a=b\\
b=a\end{gather}
\end_inset
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
what happened? Uh oh.
\begin_inset Formula \[
a=b=c=d=e=f=g=h=i=j=k=l=m=n=o=p=q=r=s=t=u=v=w=x=y=z=0=1=2=3=4=5=6=7=8=9=0\]
\end_inset
Let's fix that.
\begin_inset Formula \begin{align*}
a & =b=c=d=e=f=g=h=i=j=k=l\\
& =m=n=o=p=q=r=s=t=u=v=w\\
& =x=y=z=0=1=2=3=4=5=6=7=8=9=0\end{align*}
\end_inset
Much better.
\end_layout
\end_body
\end_document
Re: Theoreme Enumeration by subsection
On 04/17/2010 04:42 PM, iustifico wrote:
Am 17.04.2010 um 20:45 schrieb Philiрp Rеichmuth:
Am Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:54:05 +0200 schrieb iustifico:
I am using "book (KOMA-script)" as documentclass and I want to
enumerate my propositions, definitions etc. by subsection, like this:
I. Section
I.1 Subsection
Definition I.1.1
Proposition I.1.2
You can use the chngcntr package to control which counters get reset when
and where. For example in my preamble I use
\usepackage{chngcntr}
\counterwithout{footnote}{chapter}
for continuous numbering of footnotes across chapter boundaries.
So you could use something like \counterwithin*{defn}{subsection} etc.,
substituting "defn" for the names of all the environments whose counter you
want to redefine.
When I do
\usepackage{chngcntr}
\counterwithin{definition}{subsection}
in the preamble of Lyx, it tells me definition is not a counter. I assume, that e.g.
propositions or definitions have a "counter variable".
But how do I get their names?
The counters are shared with theorem, lemma, etc. I think what you want is:
\counterwithin{thm}{subsection}
See the theorems-std.inc or theorems-ams.inc file for how the theorem
environments are defined.
By the way, I don't know why it didn't occur to me before, but the
attached is a module for this. It's the obvious adaptation of the the
"Theorems by Section" module. Put it in your LyX user directory (e.g.,
~/.lyx/layouts/ on Linux), reconfigure LyX, and it will appear under
Document>Settings>Modules. Select it, and your theorems will be numbered
by subsection.
Richard
#\DeclareLyXModule{Theorems (Numbered by Subsection)}
#DescriptionBegin
#Numbers theorems and the like by subsection (i.e., the counter is reset at
#each subsection start).
#DescriptionEnd
#Requires: theorems-std | theorems-ams
#Excludes: theorems-chap theorems-sec
# Author: Richard Heck
# Tweaked by Paul Rubin June '09 (added theoremstyle)
Format 11
Counter theorem
Within subsection
End
Style Theorem
Preamble
\theoremstyle{plain}
\newtheorem{thm}{Theorem}[subsection]
EndPreamble
End
Re: Theoreme Enumeration by subsection
On 04/17/2010 02:45 PM, Philiрp Rеichmuth wrote: Am Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:54:05 +0200 schrieb iustifico: I am using "book (KOMA-script)" as documentclass and I want to enumerate my propositions, definitions etc. by subsection, like this: I. Section I.1 Subsection Definition I.1.1 Proposition I.1.2 You can use the chngcntr package to control which counters get reset when and where. Good suggestion. The koma-script packages may have options to control this, too, but I don't know. Check the koma-script documentation. rh
Re: grammar check?
On 04/17/2010 11:44 AM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: It is in schedule a grammar check in future versions of lyx? No. If there is a good open source one, it could perhaps be linked into LyX, if someone wanted to do that work. Richard
Re: Access LyX version number from within a document
On 04/16/2010 07:44 AM, nore...@augrime.net wrote: Hi, I would like to "stamp" documents with the version number of LyX which produces them, i.e. a PDF should contain something like this: "This document was produced with LyX 1.6.4.1" Is this currently possible? I've just added this facility to LyX 2.0, via InsetInfo. To enter it, use the mini buffer and enter: info-insert lyx version rh
Re: windows update error in document (conversion back from PDF to LYX)
On 04/15/2010 04:06 AM, katrine wex wrote: Hey there, My computer decided to do a windows update last night, and when i oppened the computer this morning my lyx documents said format error, plus the newest file seems to be lost. However i have the newest saved as PDF any chance you can convert this back to LYX, because theres alot of formulas and stuff so it'll take forever to rewrite?? I really hope you guys can help me! There's no way to convert PDF to LyX. You can extract the plain text from the file, which will help some, but you won't get the formulas in a form LyX can use them. That said, it's a little unclear how a Windows update could cause errors in the LyX document format. Can you post one of those files here, or send it to me? Richard
Re: Elseartice on Lyx
On 04/13/2010 02:11 PM, Bruno Cocciaro wrote:
Hello all,
I am very new on Lyx (and on Latex too), I hope anyone may help me.
I use Win 7, Lyx 1.6.5, MixTex 2.8.
Opening the template elsearticle and trying to view the dvi (same problems if I
ask for the pdf or for the ps) I always obtain this:
{\Pifont{psy}
}
I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
Apparently, you are missing the info for this font. I'm not sure why the
elsearticle template wants it, but you can try installing it however
MikTeX allows you to do that.
rh
Re: new google docs interface, with wave backend. (collaboration trends)
On 04/13/2010 01:34 PM, Charles de Miramon wrote: rgheck wrote: It'd be nice to hear precisely what people would want that version control does not provide. I have a hard time myself seeing why it is any more than an "isn't that cool" feature for two people simultaneously to edit a single document. I.e., fun, but hardly revolutionary as far as actual productivity goes, at least for the sort of work most LyX users actually do. After using LyX for a long time. What I would like is a possibility to manage the life cycle of an article. My paper starts as a working paper, and handout and maybe a beamer presentation, then a long version, a short version, a version formatted for X, proofs, printed version, my additions and corrections to the printed version, a version for an online repository, bits and pieces discarded from the article that I want to keep with it, etc. For this kind of thing, VC is precisely what you want, I think, i.e., a record of the evolution of your document, the ability to rewind to older versions, see a record of your changes, etc. Richard
Re: Subscript in a chemical symbol and lyx formula
On 04/13/2010 12:25 PM, YURENA MENDOZA wrote:
I want to put a subscript in a chemical symbol using the mhchem package, for
example CO2pc. On the other hand, Can I put into by the same way as I enter
in a paragraph (using a box in lyx to introduce lyx code) in a Lyx formula?
In formulas, you can just enter raw LaTeX if you like. E.g., you can
type "\hello{hi}", and that is precisely what you will see. If you had
in your preamble:
\newcommand\hello[1]{2^{#1}}
Then you'd get the output you expect.
Note that you do need to be careful about whether the brackets are
escaped, i.e., whether the LaTeX is: {, or \{. LyX displays "argument
brackets" in red, and "delimiter brackets" in blue. To get the former,
you type \{, ironically enough, though you will get them automatically
immediately after a command.
Richard
Re: Subscript in a chemical symbol and lyx formula
On 04/13/2010 12:25 PM, YURENA MENDOZA wrote:
I want to put a subscript in a chemical symbol using the mhchem package, for
example CO2pc. On the other hand, Can I put into by the same way as I enter
in a paragraph (using a box in lyx to introduce lyx code) in a Lyx formula?
In formulas, you can just enter raw LaTeX if you like. E.g., you can
type "\hello{hi}", and that is precisely what you will see. If you had
in your preamble:
\newcommand\hello[1]{2^{#1}}
Then you'd get the output you expect.
Note that you do need to be careful about whether the brackets are
escaped, i.e., whether the LaTeX is: {, or \{. LyX displays "argument
brackets" in red, and "delimiter brackets" in blue. To get the former,
you type \{, ironically enough, though you will get them automatically
immediately after a command.
Richard
Re: new google docs interface, with wave backend. (collaboration trends)
On 04/13/2010 10:43 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: rgheck wrote: It'd be nice to hear precisely what people would want that version control does not provide. I have a hard time myself seeing why it is any more than an "isn't that cool" feature for two people simultaneously to edit a single document. I.e., fun, but hardly revolutionary as far as actual productivity goes, at least for the sort of work most LyX users actually do. There's no doubt that LyXs' VC support could be improved, and it has been in some significant ways for 2.0, so we'd happily hear suggestions about that, too. I also think that VC probably provides all you need for collaboration (although a closer integration of VC, comparision and CT would be cool). For me, a main obstacle is the lack of a suitable web service. My Faculty does not provide svn or other VC repositories, and I did not find a suitable service on the web yet, where I can savely store my data in such a way that only selected people can access it. But maybe I just didn't search long enough. I looked into some of this a while ago, and there aren't great options for the sort of thing we're discussing: I.e., not programming, and not open to everyone's eyes. Brown, as it happens, does provide such a facility, though I haven't yet found the time even to move our website code over there. Have you asked the IS people if they'd think about supporting svn on their servers? Richard
Re: insert custom layout
On 04/13/2010 06:12 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
The problem occured also in the dinbrief class. It's solved by
defining two styles. From dinbrief.layout::
# dinbrief's \phone has 2 args, area and number. We define an empty
# command that can be set by the Area_Code style
Preamble
\newcommand{\areacode}{}
EndPreamble
...
# dinbrief's \phone has 2 args, area and number,
# define both as distinct styles
Style "Area code"
CopyStyle DinBrief
LabelString "Vorwahl:"
LatexName "renewcommand{\areacode}"
End
Style Telephone
CopyStyle DinBrief
LabelString "Telefon:"
LatexName phone
LatexParam {\areacode}
End
It should be possible to adapt this technique to liuthesis if the ERT
hack is too hackish.
That's impressive, but pretty hackish itself! Perhaps for 2.1 I'll try
to get actual multi-argument commands working.
rh
Re: new google docs interface, with wave backend. (collaboration trends)
On 04/13/2010 06:31 AM, Jose Quesada wrote: Thanks Sam, That's good to know. But I think the point here is that if all other tools do collaboration, sooner or later LyX should offer something along the lines. Maybe builnding on top of mercurial vcs (good multiplatform support, python) and sites such as bitbucket would be a way to implement this. It'd be nice to hear precisely what people would want that version control does not provide. I have a hard time myself seeing why it is any more than an "isn't that cool" feature for two people simultaneously to edit a single document. I.e., fun, but hardly revolutionary as far as actual productivity goes, at least for the sort of work most LyX users actually do. There's no doubt that LyXs' VC support could be improved, and it has been in some significant ways for 2.0, so we'd happily hear suggestions about that, too. Richard
Re: como evitar espacios en blanco entre párraf os
On 04/12/2010 05:27 PM, Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: 2010/4/12 José Miguel Canino: Hola. Estoy usando Lyx para redactar mi tesis en la que aparecen bastantes dibujos. Con cierta frecuencia el espacio entre párrafo y parrafo se expande y quedan espacios en blanco que no consigo eliminar. Aunque he estudiado un poco las distintas opciones para colocar las figuras así como las posibles maneras de saltar de página no logro incluir en una página los párrafos que en teoría deberían caber en la misma si no fuera por los espacios que deja en blanco. Alguien me podría indicar una manera de hacerlo? Gracias Jose M. Jose M, You should really try to write in english, in spanish only few people can help you! And, no offense intended, the language of this list is English. There's a French list, and of course others can always be started. The English doesn't have to be great, just readable. If I understand, and my Spanish is terrible, was the problem that the space between paragraphs varies? If so, then of course LaTeX does that on purpose, and if there are a lot of floats, you can see this kind of thing quite often. Richard
Re: insert custom layout
On 04/10/2010 06:24 PM, Julien Rioux wrote:
Sajjad writes:
then i choose the Title Environment and set the title of the thesis work
and then i select the author and put my name there.
By the way, there is a problem here because liuthesis redefines \title
to take 2 arguments:
"You must always provide both a Swedish (first argument) and an English
title (second argument), \title{Svensk titel}{English Title}."
but LyX will output \title{YOUR TITLE} no matter what (i.e., only 1 argument).
A workaround is to write your Swedish title like usual and then, at the end
of the line, insert a TeX box and write "}{English title" inside it (with the
braces).
This is a hack, but I am not sure how you would do this elegantly in LyX.
There isn't at present any good way to do this. Multi-argument commands
aren't directly supported. I've been thinking about this for a while,
but haven't done anything.
rh
Re: insert custom layout
On 04/08/2010 03:29 PM, Sajjad wrote:
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Julien Riouxwrote:
On 07/04/2010 7:08 PM, Sajjad wrote:
6. The liuthesis.layout file contain the following:
#% Do not delete this line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass{liuthesis}
If that's all you have in there, this is not sufficient. As suggested, a
good starting point for you would be to copy the book.layout file.
If it not then , i did copy the contents of book.layout and put it into the
liuthesis.layout.
What should i do now? Any reference ?
Yes. Do this:
If that is what you did, I don't know what the matter is. If you start LyX
from a console you might get useful information for debugging.
You probably have an error somewhere in the layout file.
rh
Re: interesting narrowing feature in a text editor
On 04/09/2010 03:49 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 04/09/2010 07:31 AM, Jose Quesada wrote: What I would like to know is... is this narrowing feature interesting for people here? Yes. Or is it just me who thinks that it would improve workflow and reduce mental load? Not just you. The good thing with LyX is that you can navigate easily from paragraph to paragraph with the keyboard. But in order to make that feature really useful without being forced to use the mouse, you would also need shortcuts for navigating between sections. In case it's interesting, I'll file an enhancement request. Doesn't sound terribly difficult to implement, but I may be wrong... Should not be terribly hard indeed. All the code for scrolling settings is in BufferView class if you want to experiment. The other thing I've considered, along these lines, is the ability to collapse sections, a la the ability to collapse for loops, functions, etc, in any decent programming editor. That would in some ways serve a very similar purpose, especially if you could just hit "Collapse All" and then use the outliner to uncollapse what you actually wanted to edit. Little triangles at the side, like in QtCreator, would work too. rh
Re: Question: making a custom Koma report with colors
On 04/08/2010 05:52 PM, Néstor wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to make a document with some colors, and it's a report, so I took a look at the Customization Manual of Lyx (chapter 5), and based my new style in Koma report. I have created a new sty file, named myreport.sty, and a new layout, including both scrreprt (for Koma report) and my own style, myreport.sty. Everything loads correctly when generating a PDF, and if myreport.sty is empty, I get no errors (and no improvements, just a normal Koma report). The question is: now, what do I have to write in myreport.sty to change, for instance, the document's title's color to Blue? Look at the komascript documentation, which you can find here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/ There's a lot of it, so you may have to search. But one of the nice things about those classes is that they provide a lot of "hooks" for you to change things, without having to get deep into the LaTeX internals. As for changing the color of the title, I do not know, as I have never had to do anything like that. Richard
Re: LaTeX Linebreaking Question
On 04/08/2010 09:48 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
rgheck wrote:
I need to refer to a book entitled "The Semantics/Pragmatics
Distinction". I'd like to inform LaTeX that it is OK to break after the
slash, but without a hyphen. How?
\slash, or in LyX: Insert> Special Character> Breakable Slash
I usually use the following redefinition of the slash macro in the preamble:
\def\slash{/\penalty\exhyphenpenalty\hski...@skip}
Contrary to the original (which is defined in the LaTeX kernel), this one
allows also hyphenations after the slash, as in Semantics/Pragma-tics
Thanks to you and to the others who replied.
rh
LaTeX Linebreaking Question
I need to refer to a book entitled "The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction". I'd like to inform LaTeX that it is OK to break after the slash, but without a hyphen. How? rh
Re: insert custom layout
On 04/06/2010 04:27 PM, Sajjad wrote:
Hello,
In most of the report writing i used the report class. The university that i
am studying in have own class and i want to import it into LyX's document
class by importing custom layout. The custom layout accepts only one .layout
file,
where as the my university 'liuthesis' contains several .tex file.
Since liuthesis is a document class, it is provided as a .cls file,
liuthesis.cls. The .tex files that are provided with it are examples,
documentation, and the like, and have nothing to do with layout.
What you will need to be able to use liuthesis with LyX is a file
liuthesis.layout. Since liuthesis is based upon book, you can get
started simply by copying book.layout to liuthesis.layout and changing
the second line to:
\DeclareLaTeXClass{liuthesis}
This will not give you access in LyX to the special constructs of
liuthesis, but it will get you started. You should then be able to
import the .tex files provided as examples.
Richard
Re: Track Changes with Word
On 04/06/2010 05:36 PM, Jack Desert wrote: I am helping someone edit their book that is currently in Microsoft Word format. I imported it into LyX to work on it. Plenty of people here would like to know how you managed this. What is a good way for me to give feedback? Can I track changes and at least export a pdf that highlights my changes? Yes: Document>Change Tracking>Show C Or can I put LyX notes in my copy and print out somehow and have the notes show up? Greyed out notes will show, and of course you can define custom notes or use margin pars, or whatever seems to work. rh
Re: Lyx HTML conversion problem - while using polynom package
On 04/06/2010 01:30 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: rgheck schrieb: Perhaps you should read to the end of the message before replying. I said this myself. And anyone reading this with any degree of charity at all would have realized that what was meant here was: do with the current version of elyxer. Richard, please don't overreact. Requesting a feature from developers _for the next version_ is not a wrong advice. I mean in an Ubuntu forum you would also get the advice to open a LyX enhancement request when LyX is not supporting a certain feature. Had he simply made that suggestion, I wouldn't have reacted at all. As I said, I made the same suggestion and conceded that, at present, LyX's output is no better off. So please explain why it was necessary for Guenter to preface the remark with "WRONG" in capital letters and how that was supposed to be taken? rh
Re: Lyx HTML conversion problem - while using polynom package
On 04/06/2010 05:19 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-04-05, rgheck wrote: If you're using elyxer, then there is not really anything you can do. WRONG: you can ask the elyxer developer whether support for these constructs, providing sample input (and preferabely expected output). Perhaps you should read to the end of the message before replying. I said this myself. And anyone reading this with any degree of charity at all would have realized that what was meant here was: do with the current version of elyxer. elyxer's math support is pretty basic; but steadily improving (and for this depends on user feedback). Which is irrelevant to the user's question. Or instead of uninstalling elyxer, define htlatex as an alternative HMTL converter in Tools>Settings. Perhaps you should try this yourself before giving such advice. (Perhaps you do not understand how the converter chain works.) rh
Re: Lyx HTML conversion problem - while using polynom package
On 04/05/2010 01:14 PM, baqijan1 wrote:
When I use polynom package in lyx. The html output does not show that parts
where macros from polynom package is used. For example, if I have something lik
\polylongdiv{x^2-2x+1}{x-1}
When I convert lyxt to pdf, there is no problem. Only html does not work. I
assume, it should convert these instances to images, which it does not.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Since, I am stuck at this and can't
move on.
Is this LyX 1.6.x or the alpha release of 2.0? Either way, what HTML
converter are you using? It sounds as if it is either elyxer or, if
you're in 2.0, then LyX's native XHTML output.
If you're using elyxer, then there is not really anything you can do.
elyxer's math support is pretty basic; it doesn't even support all of
the constructs that are available in LyX. It certainly does not support
arbitrary packages, such as polynom. You might therefore want to
uninstall elyxer (I'm sorry, but that is what you would have to do),
reconfigure LyX, and try using htlatex, which has its own issues but
handles math better, since it does it all via images. (Of course, that
can lead to scaling problems, etc, but at least you get decent output.)
If you are using 2.0, then you will run into the same problem right now,
since XHTML support is not yet complete. Eventually, however, LyX will
do precisely what you suggest: If it encounters something that it
doesn't understand, then it will output an image. There's nothing
stopping elyxer from doing the same, of course, so it that is what you
are using then you might want to report the issue to the elyxer developer.
Richard
Re: Insert word count at end of the document
On 04/04/2010 03:16 PM, Kevin Li wrote: Hi, Is there a way to make the word count automatically appear at the end of the document (perhaps like a variable)? Not really. I suppose that the Info inset could be adapted to this purpose---it's basically used to display things LyX knows about---but at present it isn't. rh
Re: References style
On 04/03/2010 11:23 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
On 4/3/2010 11:15 AM, rgheck wrote:
On 04/03/2010 10:54 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Insert
\renewcommand{\refname}{\rmfamily\mdseries\begin{center}
References\end{center}}
in ERT early in the document.
Or put it in the preamble, where it won't clutter the text.
Doesn't seem to work in the preamble -- I think something (not sure
what) loads or is processed after the preamble and asserts the
standard heading format at that point.
Hmm. Perhaps this is done at the beginning of the document.
rh
Re: things that I miss in lyx
On 04/03/2010 11:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Saturday 03 April 2010 15:13:22 schrieb rgheck: On 04/03/2010 02:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Just wondering: Would the following be difficult to implement in Lyx or to use it via enter>file> 'external material' ? Wolfgang From http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/texdirflatten.html Collect files related to a LaTeX job in a single directory. The Perl script parses a LaTeX file recursively, scanning all child files, and collects details of any included and other data files. These component files, are then all put into a single directory (thus “flattening” the document’s directory tree). The author is Cengiz Gunay. This looks like something that one would call as part of the converter chain. and how could I do it? Define a new format, ltxpak, and then declare texdirflatten as a latex-->ltxpak converter. With appropriate arguments, of course. This all gets done under Tools>Preferences>File Handling. There is a complication, namely, that everything is going to happen here in LyX's temporary directory. So what I think will happen is that texdirflatten will create its directory at e.g. /tmp/lyx_tmpdir.X0765/lyx_tmpbuf0/flat/ and now the question is: How do we export this? i.e., copy it to the original file location? Answer: We define a "copier", and tell it to copy this directory to the original document directory. Have a look at the ext_copy.py copier that is used with the LaTeX-->HTML converters. You may be able to use that, or at least to adapt it to your purposes. Copiers, etc, are all discussed in the Customization manual. rh
Re: References style
On 04/03/2010 10:54 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
On 4/1/2010 11:32 AM, Carlos Ramirez wrote:
Does anyone know how to center and un-bold the "References" title using
bibtext ?
Insert
\renewcommand{\refname}{\rmfamily\mdseries\begin{center}
References\end{center}}
in ERT early in the document.
Or put it in the preamble, where it won't clutter the text.
also how to avoid the blank page after the references is inserted ?
I don't think this is a general phenomenon. It probably is a function
either of the document class you are using or something specific in
your file. If I write a short test file using the article class,
insert a BibTeX bibliography, and add some text after the
bibliography, the extra text occurs on the same page as the
bibliography (with a little extra vertical space separating them.
In some classes, chapters always start on an odd page, and the
references are formatted in such classes as an unnumbered chapter usually.
rh
Re: Offer... for technical writing
On 04/02/2010 07:54 PM, Frederick Noronha wrote: Dear all: I am a journalist and writer, and a heavy user of Lyx. Please let me know if you need any help (volunteering, without fee) to help write or edit Lyx help files for users. I am not a techie, but understand the software ... with guidance I could do it. My English skills are near-native speaker level. FN Thanks for the offer. My first suggestion would be to describe to the LyX documentation list. It's low volume, but issues relating to the docs tend to get discussed there. Generally, though, the documentation is written by whoever has the initiative to do it. So if there's something you think isn't clear, could be better explained, or just isn't included, then try to do better and post your changes to the docs list. The maintainer of the relevant manual will then discuss them with you. For the tutorial, user's guide, and math manual, that's Uwe Stohr; for the customization and additional features manuals (I think), that's me. Others don't have a dedicated maintainer. Hint: Use change tracking when you make these sorts of changes, so it's easy for us to identify them. Richard
Re: things that I miss in lyx
On 04/03/2010 02:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Just wondering: Would the following be difficult to implement in Lyx or to use it via enter>file> 'external material' ? Wolfgang From http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/texdirflatten.html Collect files related to a LaTeX job in a single directory. The Perl script parses a LaTeX file recursively, scanning all child files, and collects details of any included and other data files. These component files, are then all put into a single directory (thus “flattening” the document’s directory tree). The author is Cengiz Gunay. This looks like something that one would call as part of the converter chain. rh
Re: Footnote location
On 04/02/2010 05:23 AM, Sandro Portmann wrote:
Hi,
I'm writing a longer work for my history studies, but the footnotes come right
after the text. How can I manage, that between the main text and the footnote
comes a space from about 1cm? I'm writing my document in article style.
Put something like this in your preamble:
| \setlength{\skip\footins}{2cm}
rh|
Re: fail running Lyx
On 03/31/2010 06:36 PM, Eugenio Raliuga wrote: I have installed Lyx from synaptic in Ubuntu 9.10 but when I want to run it the next window appears Could not launch application Failed to execute child process "/tmp/lyx_tmpdir.TJ9571/lyxsocket" (No such file or directory) Anyone could give me a hint or better a way to solve this problem? Hmm. Can you try starting LyX from a terminal, via "lyx -dbg all"? rh
Re: double quotes
On 03/31/2010 06:10 PM, Rodrigo Fresneda wrote:
Hi lyx-users,
whenever I use double quotes " in lyx, I get instead the expression
\textquotedbl{} in the plain latex file. Strangely enough, lyx does not
translate \textquotedbl{} to " if I attempt to import the tex file.
This behavior does not affect latex compilation, but it does strain my
collaborations with scientific workplace users.
Why doesn't lyx simply export " to "?
You are talking about the " character, which is not a double quote at
all. Rather, it is the "inch" character, or something of the sort.
Still, you are right that \textquotedbl ought to be imported as ", since
the impossible ideal is to have roundtrip export and import. I'd suggest
you file a bug about this at
http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome
Click on "Report New Bug".
rh
Re: 64bit Lyx 1.6.4 cannot view postscript
On 03/31/2010 04:18 PM, george legge wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:19 AM, rgheck wrote: The first step towards debugging this is to see if dvips will run from outside LyX. So (i) export your LyX file to LaTeX; (ii) run the following, from within the directory where that file now is: latex newfile1.tex dvips -t a4 -o newfile1.ps newfile1.dvi Do you get the same error? Thank you for that quick response to my problem. Yes, I started a new file (newfile5) in LyX and followed your instructions. I got essentially the same error, running outside LyX: This is dvips(k) 5.98 Copyright 2009 Radical Eye Software ( www.radicaleye.com) dvips: ! Couldn't find header file tex.pro. Note that an absolute path or a relative path with .. are denied in -R2 mode. What is the next step in debugging? I don't know myself. Let me try to bring Uwe in here. He knows more about this kind of thing. Or JMarc? rh
Re: 64bit Lyx 1.6.4 cannot view postscript
Sorry to top-post, but this is a long message. On 03/30/2010 11:50 PM, george legge wrote: Hello to you all -- This is my first message to the list. I have the 64bit version of Lyx 1.6.4 running on 64bit SUSE 11.1 together with Texlive. Lyx would not convert to pdf until I installed kdegraphics3-pdf and kdegraphics3-postscript. Are you sure that LyX would not convert to PDF? This sounds like... Without those packages, it seems the 64bit installation does not have a version of kpdf (information off the web). Fine, I can now view as pdf and print that. I can also view as dvi; but that's as far as it goes. ...what it wouldn't do is View>PDF. Would File>Export>PDF work? Whether kpdf (or any other pdf viewer) is installed should be irrelevant to LyX's export capabilities, though it is of course relevant to its viewing capabilities. I cannot view as postscript. I get a window with an error message: An error occurred whilst running dvips -t a4 -o 'newfile1.ps' 'newfile1.dvi'. In the terminal window, I get the same error message followed by: This is dvips(k) 5.98 Copyright 2009 Radical Eye Software ( www.radicaleye.com) dvips: ! Couldn't find header file tex.pro Note that an absolute path or a relative path with .. are denied in -R2 mode. Error: Cannot convert file. The first step towards debugging this is to see if dvips will run from outside LyX. So (i) export your LyX file to LaTeX; (ii) run the following, from within the directory where that file now is: latex newfile1.tex dvips -t a4 -o newfile1.ps newfile1.dvi Do you get the same error? rh
Re: Include file
On 03/30/2010 12:58 PM, Sajjad wrote: Hello, It has to be merged as a single pdf file and front front pages are in the Miicrosoft Office Word format. So after merging all the front and title pages to the main report , it must be compiled as a single pdf file. Then this option One option is to create them in OpenOffice or something, as these often are supposed to have a very particular format. Then print them and put them on the front. If you have to adjust page numbers in the LyX file, that is fairly easy to do. will work. Just substitute Word for OpenOffice. rh
Re: Include file
On 03/30/2010 11:53 AM, Sajjad wrote: Hello forum, I have written the thesis in a single .lyx file. Now to comply with the university standard i have to include front page, the title page and then the main report that i have written. Any hint how to do that from LyX interface ? What format do you have those pages in? Or is the question how to create them? One option is to create them in OpenOffice or something, as these often are supposed to have a very particular format. Then print them and put them on the front. If you have to adjust page numbers in the LyX file, that is fairly easy to do. rh
Re: Compiling LyX on Ubuntu/Debian (was Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04)
On 03/30/2010 03:50 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: I followed your instructions and got at point 4 an error, which I posted there. What went wrong? Wolfgang Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. ECN Weidong Hello Weidong, Here is a short Howto that I wrote for compiling LyX and using GNU Stow to keep it out of the way of your existing LyX installation. - === Compiling LyX on Ubuntu or Debian === And using GNU Stow Getting the tools = 1. y...@yourmachine:~$ sudo apt-get build-dep lyx 2. y...@yourmachine:~$ sudo apt-get install stow 3. y...@yourmachine:~$ sudo apt-get install automake 4. y...@yourmachine:~$ sudo atp-get install autoconf This should get most or all of what you need. There may be a substantial download if you have no building tools already installed. Getting LyX === You want the "source code". Download the source tarball from http://www.lyx.org/Download. The downloaded file will be named lyx-1.6.5.tar.gz. Local directory === 1. y...@yourmachine:~$ mkdir local 2. y...@yourmachine:~$ mv lyx-1.6.5.tar.gz ./local (Note: the tarball may be downloaded to some special directory, usually either Desktop or Downloads. You may need to adjust the above command line accordingly) 3. y...@yourmachine:~$ cd local 4. y...@yourmachine:~$ tar xovzf lyx-1.6.5.tar.gz This will create a new sub-directory under ~/local and will unpack the source files for lyx. 4. y...@yourmachine:~$ cd lyx-1.6.5 Compiling = 1. y...@yourmachine:~$ ./autogen.sh Check the output - if it says something is missing, then use apt-get to install it. 2. y...@yourmachine:~$ ./configure --with-version-suffix=165 We give it a different suffix so that it doesn't conflict with your existing LyX installation. You can use both the new version and the previously installed version. Check the output - if it says something is missing, then install using apt-get. Repeat items 1 and 2. 3. y...@yourmachine:~$ make Depending on your machine, this may take some time. If there is an error, then read the output. You probably need to use apt-get to install some new piece of software. 4. y...@yourmachine:~$ sudo make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/lyx165 wolfgang:/home/wolfgang# make install prefix=/usr/local/stow/lyx165 make: *** Keine Regel, um »install« zu erstellen. Schluss. (no rule to produce 'install'. end) ps: I used su instead of sudo. Unless you are compiling from your home directory, which isn't really a good idea, then you need to get into the directory where the sources live, which in these instructions would be ~/local/lyx165. rh
Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04
On 03/29/2010 06:22 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM, rgheck wrote: On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be honest, I began with lyx1.6.4, so now all of my old lyx documents could not be opened. In addition, in the new version of lyx after 1.64 they really added more useful features, easy to use. So if any suggestion will be appreciated. I assume you could compile 1.6.4 yourself? This is not that hard to do, as long as you can install the various dependencies. rh Thanks for your suggestions, I am afraid it is not that easy to install these various dependencies. It is more complex, I need to install many packages and remove many packages to satisfy the decencies between packages. I added one source list of lyx 1.64 of ubuntu9.10 to my source list, and I tried the command 'sudo aptitude install lyx', it got several solutions to install lyx 1.64, but it seemed that I will remove nearly all of packages in my ubuntu 8.04 and install new packages. so I did not dare to try that, it may harm my current system. If someone had experienced a successful case like this, please give me some suggestions, thanks in advance. And also any other solution will be welcomed. I don't think this is what people were suggesting at all. Trying to install packages from the 9.10 directories to an 8.04 install is definitely not going to work, for exactly the reason you see. The dependencies you need to compile LyX should not be that bad, just a bunch of -devel or -dev packages, which are often not very large. Did you try that suggestion? If so, what happened? rh
Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04
On 03/29/2010 06:22 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM, rgheck wrote: On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be honest, I began with lyx1.6.4, so now all of my old lyx documents could not be opened. In addition, in the new version of lyx after 1.64 they really added more useful features, easy to use. So if any suggestion will be appreciated. I assume you could compile 1.6.4 yourself? This is not that hard to do, as long as you can install the various dependencies. rh Thanks for your suggestions, I am afraid it is not that easy to install these various dependencies. It is more complex, I need to install many packages and remove many packages to satisfy the decencies between packages. I added one source list of lyx 1.64 of ubuntu9.10 to my source list, and I tried the command 'sudo aptitude install lyx', it got several solutions to install lyx 1.64, but it seemed that I will remove nearly all of packages in my ubuntu 8.04 and install new packages. so I did not dare to try that, it may harm my current system. If someone had experienced a successful case like this, please give me some suggestions, thanks in advance. And also any other solution will be welcomed. I don't think this is what people were suggesting at all. Trying to install packages from the 9.10 directories to an 8.04 install is definitely not going to work, for exactly the reason you see. The dependencies you need to compile LyX should not be that bad, just a bunch of -devel or -dev packages, which are often not very large. Did you try that suggestion? If so, what happened? rh
Re: Badly needly for lyx 1.6.4 under ubuntu 8.04
On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or even higher version under ubuntu 8.04. By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be honest, I began with lyx1.6.4, so now all of my old lyx documents could not be opened. In addition, in the new version of lyx after 1.64 they really added more useful features, easy to use. So if any suggestion will be appreciated. I assume you could compile 1.6.4 yourself? This is not that hard to do, as long as you can install the various dependencies. rh
Re: writer2latex Packages under Ubuntu
On 03/29/2010 01:38 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: Ubuntu lists not one, but _two_ writer2latex packages: writer2latex, and openoffice.org-writer2latex. Anyone know whazzup? Is one free-standing, the other a plugin? Yes, exactly. Do I need just one, both, the first if I install the second, but not the other way around? If you want just to export from OOo, install the plugin. If you want to do it from the command line, install that one. rh
Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX
On 03/29/2010 01:23 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 29 March 2010 11:34:49 rgheck wrote: So I couldn't get PyODConverter to work---I kept getting an error about not connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ I can't get the LaTeX export option to work there, but one could use this to convert from DOC (or anything else OOo can import) to ODT and then use writer2latex to convert ODT to LaTeX. rh Hi Richard, In the conversion to OO, does unoconv preserve styles, or does it just convert each application of each style to equivalent fingerpainting? In the conversion from OO to LaTeX, have you found a way to have the conversion preserve styles, or does it just convert each application of each style to equivalent fingerpainting? If a way is found to preserve style application all the way through the conversion, that's a huge win, or as VP Biden would say, "a big bleepin deal!" I know that writer2latex (which exists standalone and as as an OOo extension) will preserve at least some styling, such as section headings. What else it will do, I don't know. But it is under active development and so requests could be made. But I would guess there are some limits here. Getting something to convert OOo styles to LaTeX styles (commands or environments) would be non-trivial. rh
Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX
On 03/29/2010 01:19 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 29 March 2010 12:27:54 Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/29/10, rgheck wrote: connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ There is a second possibility to convert anything that OpenOffice can chew: jodconverter. From the description: "JODConverter, the Java OpenDocument Converter, leverages OpenOffice.org to provide import/export filters for various office formats including OpenDocument and Microsoft Office. This package provides a command-line frontend." Would it make sense to provide menu entries in LyX for these two converters? Liviu I'd tend to answer "no". As years go by, tons of converters are going to come and go. Tons of formats are going to come and go. If interfaces to all these converters and formats are put in LyX, LyX will become big and bloated, and that will give bugs more places to hide. My suggestion would be to put converter interfaces in a separate executable that outputs either LyX or LaTeX, and maybe have that callable from LyX. There's actually not much cost with adding such interfaces, except that, in 1.6.x, the Import and Export menu can become kind of crowded, as more and more options become available. But making the options available involve adds almost nothing to LyX, except the memory to store a few strings. rh
Re: Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX
On 03/29/2010 12:27 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On 3/29/10, rgheck wrote: connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ There is a second possibility to convert anything that OpenOffice can chew: jodconverter. From the description: "JODConverter, the Java OpenDocument Converter, leverages OpenOffice.org to provide import/export filters for various office formats including OpenDocument and Microsoft Office. This package provides a command-line frontend." Would it make sense to provide menu entries in LyX for these two converters? If we can get them working reliably. rh
Convert Almost Anything To LaTeX
So I couldn't get PyODConverter to work---I kept getting an error about not connecting to my running OpenOffice instance---but then I found UnoConv: http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/unoconv/ I can't get the LaTeX export option to work there, but one could use this to convert from DOC (or anything else OOo can import) to ODT and then use writer2latex to convert ODT to LaTeX. rh
Re: Importing doc documents
On 03/28/2010 10:37 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Tim Wescott writes: rgheck wrote: OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this can be done with a script, such as the exceedingly trivial sed script attached. My version of OpenOffice -- 3.1, on Ubuntu 9.10, did not seem to have this capability, either as a "save as" or "export to". Haven't used it myself, but you might try http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net/. Exactly. On Fedora, this is in the openoffice.org-writer2latex package. Once it is installed, you can Export to LaTeX. But what I described has already been done: http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/pyodconverter Unfortunately, I can't yet get it to work rh
Re: Letters floating- Low quality
On 03/29/2010 08:08 AM, YURENA MENDOZA wrote: Hello, when my work is transfered to pdf the quality of the letters in the pdf (version 8) is very low specially letters of the floating. What can I do? In addition I can only choose between three kind of letter: time roman, sans-serif and typewriter, which package can I install, which is its actual name? Because I have read that the "lmodern" contains several types of letters but I dont know which lmodern package I should download. You are right that this is a font issue. Look under Document>Settings>Fonts, and see if you do not have more options under Roman. rh
Re: Importing doc documents
On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: Dear all, those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lix format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files and save them in various other formats, .tex included. Unfortunately the LaTeX file thus obtained is pittyful. OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this can be done with a script, such as the exceedingly trivial sed script attached. >From the wiki page of LyX it is possible to download of a Word2LyXMacro that works well for on Windows platformas, but I did not succeed to make it work on a Mac with MSOffice2004. On Windows the macro performs very well and the LyX code produced allows LyX to view the file without problems and possibly to save it in .lyx format, of course but also in a pretty good LaTeX format, which in general requires just a few minor adjustments, for language, input encoding, output font encoding, font usage (Latin Modern would be a better default then EC if the pdflatex option is selected), and few other small things. Somewhere on the package description for the Debian/Ubuntu package the wv software is suggested; apparently this software has so many dependencies that even on a Ubuntu platform it's difficult to compile and install it, even if the wv libraries are already installed. I would kindly suggest to examine the possibility of integrating into LyX the necessary code to open, read, edit a .doc file on any LyX implementation (Linux, Mac, Windows), so as to be able to save it in .lyx format. Any user can reopen the .lyx file and do with it anything LyX is capable of. I have thought for a while about writing some sort of doc2tex script using OpenOffice. You could use PyUno to run OpenOffice headless, import the doc file and then export it as LaTeX. Then one could try to do some cleanup and, optionally, pass the resulting file to tex2lyx. But I haven't found the time or willpower to mess with PyUno. Still, I don't think it would be very hard for someone who knew a bit of Java. rh s/^\\backslash.*$//g s/^\\latex.*$//g s/^\\newline\s+$//g s/\\protected_separator\s+$//g s/\\align.*$//g s/\\series.*$//g #/^$/d
Re: Dimension too large
On 03/25/2010 10:54 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 25.03.2010 23:49, schrieb Marcelo Acuña: I have a koma-script book in US letter page. When I try to go to A5 size I get this error when run latex: Dimension too large. Very strange. Do you have a _small_ LyX example file? A5 is a small page. I'd suspect a float too large to fit. rh
Re: Layout file not usable
On 03/25/2010 05:53 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-03-24, rgheck wrote: On 03/24/2010 12:17 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: You might file an enhancement/bug report to ask for disabling not-supported templates (or a warning) similar to what is done if you select a non-supported document class under Document>Settings. I don't think this is very easy to do. Templates are just files, and what shows them is just a file browser. We can't ask the file browser not to show files that don't have associated LaTeX classes. Then, we could consider grouping templates in sub-directories like e.g. templates/ # standard document classes templates/letter.lyx templates/slides.lyx ... templates/texlive # document classes in texlive templates/texlive/dinbrief.lyx ... templates/other/ # "exotic" document classes or in every template clearly state in a LyX-Note the required LaTeX documentclass (and its home URL). Exotic is in the eye of the beholder, I'm afraid, and what's standard varies from TeX distribution to TeX distribution. There's really no telling what someone might have installed. The issue here, or so it seems to me, is just a simple confusion about what LyX provides, how it relates to LaTeX, and what LaTeX provides. The fact that the dialog that pops up when you don't have the document class is so confusing doesn't help. But this, I believe, is now resolved in trunk. Richard
Re: Interline Space
On 03/25/2010 07:28 AM, YURENA MENDOZA wrote: Hi, I have a problem with Lyx and the spaces between paragraphs. For some reason despite the fact that I have selected the optional of "default" in space between paragraphs there are paragraphs that appear with a greater space between them. What could be due to? Are there strange things about the pages where this happens? LaTeX will sometimes stretch the space between paragraphs, if that is necessary due to page breaking issues. rh
Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx
On 03/25/2010 06:20 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-03-23, Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 17:43:10 Julio Rojas wrote: I'm thinking the best way to address the difficulty of new environments and character styles might be to start a public collection of them. ... Don't we already have that with the CTAN archive? Why create a separate LyX one when the LaTeX part of CTAN already exists? Because CTAN contains the *LaTeX* packages/classes while for using them in LyX, we need *in addition to them* also LyX modules/layouts. This need for definitions on both, LyX and LaTeX levels is a main reason why creating/editing LyX layouts is such a complex task. (And also the base for much frustation for people with either a just a LyX layout or just a LaTeX class or package.) That said, beamer includes a LyX layout, and I would expect that many other classes would be happy to include layouts, too, if someone provided one. Alternatively, or additionally, we could ask the CTAN folks to create a place for LyX layouts, rather than hosting them on our own server. rh
Re: things that I miss in lyx
On 03/25/2010 06:14 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-03-23, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Considering the amount of time I had to spend in documents which did not run through LyX smoothly it had to do with references containing some characters which bothered the program. I realize that this is not Lyx's fault, but it would be nice to have a feature (or an external prg) checking for those characters. A generic error reporting for all programs called by LyX would be a great help indeed. For the "Unicode in bibtex database problem", the solution might be to use a unicode aware processor, e.g. * CrossTeX_, a backwards-compatible, improved bibtex re-implementation in Python (including HTML export). (development stalled since 2 years) * Pybtex_,a drop-in replacement for BibTeX written in Python. * BibTeX styles& (experimental) pythonic style API. * Database in BibTeX, BibTeXML and YAML formats. * full Unicode support. * Write to TeX, HTML and plain text. .. _CrossTeX: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/egs/crosstex/ .. _Pybtex: http://pybtex.sourceforge.net/ You can also use biber with biblatex: http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/. rh
Re: Opening LyX-2.0 Files in LyX-1.6.5
On 03/24/2010 06:55 PM, Jack Desert wrote: I found myself wanting to open the same document sometimes in LyX 2.0 and sometimes in LyX 1.6.5. Oh sure, a LyX 1.6.5 document opens fine in LyX 2.0, but I ran into an error when trying open a LyX 2.0 document in LyX 1.6.5. So I did a little experimentation. I copied the LyX 2.0 lyx/lib/lyx2lyx folder into the LyX 1.6.5 lyx/lib/ directory. Then recompiled LyX 1.6.5. Voilá. Now I can open the same file with either version of LyX. Am I violating any taboo here? Does this void the LyX warranty? This is normal. The lyx2lyx script shipped with 1.6.5 converts PRIOR formats to the 1.6 format and vice versa. The version of lyx2lyx presently in trunk will convert *any* (existing) format to any other (existing) format. Since it's a self-contained python script, you can indeed do precisely what you've done. rh
Re: Layout file not usable
On 03/24/2010 12:17 PM, Tim Wescott wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: On 22.03.10, Tim Wescott wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: You will need to install more of texlive than just the basics (which are auto-installed as a LyX dependency). I think I have a handle on this, but it sure changes the meaning of "create from template" away from "oh look at all these handy, helpful templates!" Something more like "Oh look at this ready-made minefield!" You might file an enhancement/bug report to ask for disabling not-supported templates (or a warning) similar to what is done if you select a non-supported document class under Document>Settings. I don't think this is very easy to do. Templates are just files, and what shows them is just a file browser. We can't ask the file browser not to show files that don't have associated LaTeX classes. If you have enough disk-space and a fast internet connection, you can also consider installing the full texlive suite (I don't remember the name of the meta package just now). I generally don't start filing enhancement/bug reports on software until I've had at least a little bit of mileage with it. As an absolute newbie it's an even bet between whether my problems stem from a real issue with the software or from my own ignorance. I think this may be an exception, though -- it certainly would be helpful for everyone, and far less confusing for newbies, to do this. And you _do_ want newbies to have a positive experience, lest they run screaming back to their nice, comfortable WSIWYG editor, and fail to lend their support to your community. What do you mean here by "do this"? Do you mean, "install the full texlive suite"? If so, then, first, LyX has no control over this. It's a packaging question and, on Linux, that means that each distribution gets to decide for itself what LyX's dependencies are. Similarly, the Windows and Mac packagers decide about this on their platforms. Second, it's arguable that LaTeX shouldn't be a dependency of LyX at all. Helge Hafting, who often posts here, frequently points out that LyX can be used as an editor without LaTeX. You might want to install it that way, for example, on a netbook that had minimal disk space so you could work on LyX files on your netbook. You wouldn't be able to view them as pdf or whatever, but you don't always need to do that. Third, even if we do want LaTeX to be a dependency, you really don't want to install absolutely every package that texlive makes available. That is a huge number of packages. And, finally, I don't know what texlive includes these days, but until not very long ago, some of the templates LyX ships were for use with document classes that weren't available at all through texlive. You have to go get them yourself if you want to use them. That's in the nature of an extensible system like LaTeX. rh
Re: things that I miss in lyx
On 03/23/2010 09:43 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Considering the amount of time I had to spend in documents which did not run through LyX smoothly it had to do with references containing some characters which bothered the program. I realize that this is not Lyx's fault, but it would be nice to have a feature (or an external prg) checking for those characters. I am often searching in a data bank such as medline for references which I enter into Jabref, my reference manager. Exporting it into the lyx document is easy, just a click on the lyx icon in Jabref, but finding the bothering reference(s) after trying to export the pdf file is in my hands often very time consuming and frustrating. I'd suggest reporting this to the JabRef folks. Perhaps they should have an option to save in something other than UTF-8, and even to convert illegal characters to LaTeX equivalents. rh
Re: things that I miss in lyx
On 03/23/2010 05:22 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-03-22, rgheck wrote: As he said, this is highly non-trivial. And the better the website, the harder it is, since a good website will use semantic markup that is styled by CSS. Then what do you do? Of course transform semantic markup to semantic markup. This implies that the website uses "really good" markup (text with HTML markup indicating its logical structure), not CSS-styled and soups. The difficulty is that HTML is very limited in what it is capable of marking, for the simple reason that there aren't very many tags. LyX character styles, for example, would almost uniformly correspond to "span", except for the handful of obvious exceptions. That, it seems to me, is why "use div and span for everything" has become almost the norm. See e.g. elyxer's HTML output. LyX's is more flexible, because it is specifiable in the layout. But the problem remains. Richard
Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx
On 03/22/2010 10:52 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
It would appear that on Mar 22, Julio Rojas did say:
The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy
would it be to program one, but that would be one good addition.
Don't know much about that... I just use LyX, I don't really understand it
very well, so I'm not grasping the advantages of this "feature" ?
I would recommend learning about layouts, as that is where the real
power of LyX lies.
The second one I miss, mostly because I'm not a native English speaker,
is online spell checking, but that is coming in 2.0.
Oh Gawd no! That is if I understand you to mean that it will check my
spelling as I type, and interrupt my creative flow to inform me that it
thinks I misspelled something.
It will do this if you turn on continuous spell-checking. It won't if
you don't.
{or even worse silently replacing
misspelled or unknown words with what it thinks is the best matching
replacement word}
It will not do this.
rh
Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx
On 03/22/2010 05:43 PM, Julio Rojas wrote: The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy would it be to program one, but that would be one good addition. This has been discussed often, and I don't know how hard it would be, either. I actually suspect that getting something basic working wouldn't take much work at all. By basic, I mean: Something that would look like a database editor, with lots of combo boxes, text boxes, and the like, where you could choose things for the various legal tags. It would load a layout file for you, and then you could choose stuff to modify. When you were done, it would write the file out. The reading code is of course there. The writing code is not. Most of the work would go into defining the options, which ones are allowed in which cases, etc. I'm not even sure what sort of data structure one would want to use for that. As a bonus, though this would be a *bit* harder, LyX could show you what your new style would look like. Even this wouldn't be too hard, though, because of "embeddable work areas", such as will be used in the advanced search and replace feature. These are little windows that work exactly like document windows, except that they don't represent the contents of documents. The display one would presumably be marked read-only and show some standard example text. rh
Re: things that I miss in lyx
On 03/22/2010 06:50 AM, Olivier Ripoll wrote: Jose Quesada wrote: 7. the rest of the world operates on rich text/html. LyX doesn't (clipboard integration is poor, copy-pasting from/to web loses formatting) That is the most annoying "feature" I've seen appearing in 10 years. When using software offering this "feature", I now must paste to a text editor, then copy it from here and finally paste to the target document (I'm not talking about LyX here). I know this problem! I see it all the time when I try to paste from Firefox into Thunderbird, e.g. rh
Re: things that I miss in lyx
On 03/21/2010 10:14 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 21.03.2010 22:12, schrieb Jose Quesada: 2. sentence autocapitalization Hmm. Most of us hate that. Let me try to motivate this feature. 1- It's trivial to implement it, and then make it optional. Indeed, we should let the users decide. Please open an enhancement report in our bug tracking system. It is important to remember that this sort of feature is not cost-free, even if it can be turned off. It complicates the code and therefore makes maintenance more difficult. rh
Re: things that I miss in lyx
On 03/22/2010 05:30 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: Let me try to motivate this feature. 1- It's trivial to implement it, and then make it optional. 2- The only way to check whether you have missed a capital is by loading all your lyx files on a text editor that supports regex and painfully check results of \.\s+[a-z] one by one. Not efficient. 3- I hate to do keyboard combos. they are bad for rsi and slower overall. Autocapitalization would save thousands of those a month. What's wrong with pressing the Shift key as you type? That way you have complete control of where capitalisation occurs. Those word processors where it is enable by default make a piss poor attempt at. And your regex hits things that are *not* sentence starts, e. g. this example, which includes abbreviations e. g. like e. g. Which is one of the major problems with autocaps. Yes, you can have some list of exceptions, but then you need a list of exceptions to the exceptions. say copy-paste from browsers. keeping basic formatting (headings, bold) would be good., but I bet this is non-trivial. Running some html parser on clipboard contents, then convert html to lyx... then paste. I don't do that in LyX but I've seen OpenOffice.org make a real hash of pasting HTMLised text on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. As he said, this is highly non-trivial. And the better the website, the harder it is, since a good website will use semantic markup that is styled by CSS. Then what do you do? rh
Re: view pdf file in acrobat
On 03/20/2010 10:06 PM, Nusret BALCI wrote: Hello, Until today, when I clicked on the view button, the pdf output used to be opened in acrobat, which is my default viewer. Today I installed KDE just for casual use, and now pdf files are opened in Okular when I click on the Lyx view button in the toolbar. Outside LyX, this does not happen (in Gnome: haven't checked KDE yet at all). Is there a way I can configure this? Thank you for your help in advance. Tools>Preferences>File Formats. Choose PDF. rh
Re: things that I miss in lyx
On 03/20/2010 09:23 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: Hi all, In no special order, things that I miss in lyx... All of this is personal, but... 1. incremental search Do you mean F3? 2. sentence autocapitalization Hmm. Most of us hate that. 3. grammar check (not crucial) Same. 4. search highlight occurences You could file an enhancement request for this. 5. bold, color background on outline. A way for the eyes to fixate landmarks in long outlines. I'm not sure what you mean here. 6. edit history (go back to last edits). We seem to have only one step back? You can go back a very long way. 7. the rest of the world operates on rich text/html. LyX doesn't (clipboard integration is poor, copy-pasting from/to web loses formatting) I'm not sure which rest of the world you have in mind, but I agree that LyX's external clipboard handling could be improved. We generally use plaintext for this, because no-one has cared enough to change it since it was implemented eons ago. 8. 'pasted from' and url for every paste from the web (onenote uses this and it's damn inspired) Don't understand this either. rh
Re: roman numbering & enumeration in Lyx
On 03/20/2010 09:57 AM, Lolom wrote:
Hi,
I write a dissertation with the class of document "Report" of Lyx and I
encounter some issue :
First, I would like to change the numbering of chapter in roman type (I,
II,...). Do you know if it's possible ?
The number is printed using the "\thechapter" macro. If you look in
report.cls, you will find this line:
\renewcommand \thechapter {...@arabic\c@chapter}
So we just need to do:
\renewcommand\thechapter{\roma...@chapter}
in the preamble.
And I also would like to enumerate some things in the same line.
Like a)... b)...
And not a)...
b)...
Do you have an idea how to do that ?
I think the paralist package supports this. LyX does not have native
support for it, though, so this will be ERT.
rh
Re: I can´t to compile lyx
On 03/17/2010 07:48 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote: Ok. But, previous to ./configure I run make clean and get same error. Maybe not everything is cleaned. Please manually remove the following *_moc.cpp files: src/support/SignalSlotPrivate_moc.cpp Src/frontends/qt4/Action_moc.cpp Src/frontends/qt4/BulletsModule_moc.cpp Src/frontends/qt4/CustomizedWidgets_moc.cpp Src/frontends/qt4/EmptyTable_moc.cpp .. Etc. And all other files ending with _moc.cpp in the src/frontends/qt4/ directory. If you open one of these files you'll see the following: #error "This file was generated using the moc from 4.5.1. It" #error "cannot be used with the include files from this version of Qt." #error "(The moc has changed too much.)" Which is probably the error message you get. Vincent Yes! This is the error message. Try make clean && make distclean, or even try a fresh checkout. rh
Re: I can´t to compile lyx
On 03/17/2010 07:14 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: Marcelo Acu?a wrote: Hello, I can´t to compile lyx 1.6.5 with qt 4.6.2. How I can solve it? by fixing it? :) seriously, when you dont report the exact error there is no way how to help. I can compile branch with Qt 4.6.2, so it isn't 4.6.2. What's the gcc version? And, as Pavel said, what's the error? rh
Re: Faster access to character styles
On 03/13/2010 10:50 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I'd like to suggest something be done to provide faster access to character style selection. Right now every time you use a character style you must click Edit->Text_style and then select the character style from a list that includes other junk like Caps and the like. There is Alt-E+S, to get to that menu. That's what I usually do. If you have specific character styles you use a lot, you can also define keyboard shortcuts for them. Given LyX's ability to do long key sequences, you could define lots of these. I'd like to suggest either an always-there text style dropdown similar to the current environment dropdown, or a toolbar icon that brings up a character style list (without extraneous stuff like Caps and Custom and all that stuff). Feel free to file and enhancement request. Or, better yet, to code it. rh
Re: How to tell Lyx to use a different Tex installation?
On 03/11/2010 10:58 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: Suppose I have two complete TeX installation trees: 1. /usr/share/texlive/* 2. /usr/local/texlive/2009/* Is there any way to tell Lyx to switch from (1) to (2) (and back)? Reading the manuals proved unhelpful. Perhaps I am looking in the wrong places? You could give the complete path in the LaTex-->DVI converter settings, I think. rh
Re: How can I edit the LaTeX code?
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Chaka Ben wrote: Hello Lyx-Users, I am a total newbie to LyX from Germany. I really appreciate the ability of LyX as an WYSIWYG-Program and the possibility to see how LyX converts inputs to the LaTeX-Code. But is there a possibility to change the LaTeX-Code within LyX? If not, how do you change the LaTeX-Code if necessary? This is not possible. You can enter raw LaTeX code where you need it using Insert>TeX Code. And if you want to make large scale changes---say, some search and replace on the LaTeX---then you can export to LaTeX, do what you need to do, and then import the result back into LyX. But the results may not always be what you expect. All of this is because LyX's own internal format is not LaTeX. (Look at a LyX file in a text editor to see what I mean.) And that is because LyX is not *just* a front-end to LaTeX. It can also create DocBook files, and LyX 2.0 will be able to export HTML natively. So in a sense LyX aims to be format-neutral. Richard
Re: Problems with the TOC
On 03/05/2010 02:00 PM, Daniele_P wrote: Dear LyX users, I am writing a essay in LyX and have a problem with the document class “Book” and the buitl-in option to create the TOC. In particular, when I introduce the TOC LyX automatically adds the titles of the chapters also at the top of each page (actually with an interval of 1 page, let's say the odd pages). This would be actually nice if the whole title fit into the page.. Indeed, the titles of some chapters are quite long and LyX keeps writing them in one single, with the result that in the pdf format, only part of the title fits into the page. Do you have any clues about how to tell LyX not to report the title of the paraghraph at the top of the pages along the document? The page style can be changed under Document>Settings>Page Layout, but there is another option. Where you have begun a chapter, put the cursor at the beginning of the line. Then do Insert>Short Title. The short title is used for the page heading. rh
Re: Bibtex question. How do I insert scans of covers.
On 03/03/2010 12:22 PM, mario wrote:
hello
I have a new question on bibtex/biblatex.
How do I do when a bibliographic item refers to another one:
[1] -- Author, Title, in [2]
[2]-- BlaBla, edited by Joe Doe
This is what the crossref field is for. Put the key of the other entry,
e.g.:
@INCOLLECTION{HeckMay:FregesContribution,
author = {Richard Heck and Robert May},
title = {Frege's Contribution to Philosophy of Language},
pages = {3--39},
crossref = {LeporeSmith:PhilLang},
owner = {rgheck},
timestamp = {2008.06.18}
}
rh
Re: Branches…
On 03/02/2010 10:07 AM, jezZiFeR wrote: What I mean is, just disabling the main text, not the branches in it. That´s why the way to add a branch for the main text would be a little difficult, as every separated part of the main text, beween the branches, would have to be nested in a branch. I would like to have the possibility to just enable output only for the different branches in the document. Yes, I understood what you meant, and what the problem was. But the issue is the same: If you're disabling the main text, presumably you want to disable footnotes in the main text, too, right? Well, branches in the main text are just like footnotes in the main text, conceptually. rh
Re: References not numbering correctly
On 03/01/2010 08:50 AM, timswait wrote: Hi, I've written my thesis with LyX, and it's I've been really impressed by it, I've got everything the way I want it except for one little thing that I just can't get to work. My document's laid out with a ToC, List of Figures, List of Tables and then the main body of the text. My problem is with reference numbering. I want the reference numbering to start at number 1 with the first reference in the main body of the text. The problem is that since some of my Table and Figure captions also contain references, and since these captions are listed in the Lists at the front of the document the numbering starts with them, so the first reference in the main body of the text is number 14! There must be some way I can make it start the numbering at the start of the main body, but I can't work it out. What you have to do, if I remember correctly, is use the "short title" option in any caption where you have a reference. I.e., go to such a caption, then hit Insert>Short Title, then put whatever you want to appear in the TOC/LoF/LoT, etc. rh
Re: Outlines fallback plan
On 02/26/2010 12:13 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I'm sure it won't come to this, but if nobody else does the outline mode
improvement I'll have to do it.
We'd welcome it. It may not be that bad, and we can help you clean up
the code.
Could someone please tell me the source files encompassing the current outline
functionality, as well as the source files implementing an input box with
buttons and a text box? Basically the change involves the addition of a couple
buttons and a text box.
The outliner is in GuiToc.{h,cpp} and TocWidget.{h,cpp}, both in
src/frontends/qt4/. You probably need to deal with TocWidget more.
The easiest way to add the buttons is to load src/frontends/ui/TocUi.ui
into QtDesigner and put them in. Note that, if you're going to have them
add sections, they should only be active when we're in that mode. To get
them to do what you want, see such routines as on_MoveDownTB_clicked().
You'll presumably need to do a series of things: Create a new paragraph
(you are already in one); type out the section stuff; break the
paragraph again (since you may have been in the middle of a paragraph);
then set the layout.
The text box could just be a QInputDialog, such as is used in the
askForText routine in GuiAlert. Or maybe you could just call askForText.
But you may want to allow the user to choose what kind of section to
create, and that would be more complex. You could also just create what
"makes sense" at that point and then the user can change it if it isn't
right.
rh
PS Obviously, future questions should go to devel.
Re: text-mode macros?
On 02/26/2010 04:26 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-02-25, rgheck wrote: On 02/25/2010 10:13 AM, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: I use math-macros in lyx but I was wondering if there is any way to achieve macros in text-mode. There's a bug about this, an enhancement request. So no. While there is no direct analogon to math-macros, you can define text macros as custom insets in *.layout or *.module files. I'm not sure what you mean. What the bug requests is something akin to math macros. I'm not sure how using custom insets helps. rh
Re: text-mode macros?
On 02/25/2010 10:13 AM, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote:
> Hi users,
>
> I use math-macros in lyx but I was wondering if there is any way to
> achieve macros in text-mode.
>
>
There's a bug about this, an enhancement request. So no.
> A use-case that I frequently encounter is to use
> either "Eqn." or "equation" in front of equation-reference numbers when
> cross-referencing depending on which journal I am submitting my paper to.
> Right now, I am achieving this with branches for each journal that modify ERT
> definitions of a new latex command (eg. \newcommand{\eq}{Eqn.})
>
>
In this case, you can use the "formatted ref" feature and then use the
facilities provided by prettyref to do this.
rh
Re: Export latex - any way to inline bibtex formatted refs? [YES!]
On 02/24/2010 02:54 PM, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: Hi Richard, Ehud (and other lyx users), Based on Richard's suggestions below, I have worked out a way to inline the refs. 2. How and when is a copier invoked? For exporting latex with inline bibliography, I will need to: (1) generate the latex file from lyx, (2) run latex on this file to generate the .aux file, (3) run bibtex on the .aux file, (4) replace the bibtex bibliography command with the .bbl file text as you mentioned. The first two are easy. We define a new format, say ltx2, and define a LyX-->ltx2 converter, with the "needaux" extra flag set. (See Customization, section 3.3.) The last is of course what your python script will do. The third will probably also have to be done from your python script, though this shouldn't be very difficult. You might also want to suggest a new flag, bibtex, that would cause LyX to run bibtex as well as latex. This would be useful in other situations, I am sure. I created a new output format like you mentioned in Tools->Preferences->File handling->File formats and then created a new converter definition in Tools->Preferences->File handling->Converters providing the command: python/IncludeBib.py $$i $$o I got the file IncludeBib.py from the log for issue #4624 in trac: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/4624 I can now choose File->Export->ltx2 and I get my .tex file with references inlined. Since the IncludeBib.py takes care of running latex to get the .aux I didn't need the "needaux" flag. I get a status-bar message saying conversion failed but the .tex is created just fine so this issue can be lived with. I'm in the process of creating a FAQ item that I intend to post on the wiki, with screenshots. This is common enough that we should think about including this in LyX. Can you post this message to #4624? rh
Re: Lyx 2.0
On 02/24/2010 02:39 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: If there's a switch to turn off continuous checking I'll have no issues; Of course there will be. rh
Re: Lyx 2.0
On 02/24/2010 02:26 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On 02/24/10, rgheck wrote: On 02/24/2010 12:26 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: PS, Can anyone comment on the new table code? I've noticed quite a bit of discussion on the developer list about it and I've been scared to update to the newest sources. (I suppose this illustrates the folly of using a piece of alpha software in a production environment ... ) If you're using this for production purposes, then I'd not update for a bit. Abdel has done some major re-working of some very basic parts of the GUI, and, as he said, a period of instability is to be expected. I understand there is no release date for Lyx 2.0. But is there a tentative date for a version of Lyx that includes continuous spelling? Or will it come with version 2.0? It'll be in 2.0, and I guess we're hoping for a late spring/early summer release. But don't quote me. rh
Re: Lyx 2.0
On 02/24/2010 12:26 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: PS, Can anyone comment on the new table code? I've noticed quite a bit of discussion on the developer list about it and I've been scared to update to the newest sources. (I suppose this illustrates the folly of using a piece of alpha software in a production environment ... ) If you're using this for production purposes, then I'd not update for a bit. Abdel has done some major re-working of some very basic parts of the GUI, and, as he said, a period of instability is to be expected. rh
Re: problem installing lyx
On 02/24/2010 05:33 AM, franck.me...@orange-ftgroup.com wrote: Hi, I have installed Lyx (last version 1.6) on a Miktex 2.8 version and Lyx is unable to find any document class (see below the copy of the textclass.lst). I tried the lyx installation twice. Miktex'installation doesn't seem to be wrong. Do you know where should be the problem? Do I have to register on the mailing list to receive an answer? (I 'm not currently registered ) No, not if I reply privately. The first thing to try is Tools>Reconfigure. The next is to look at the mailing list archives. This issue comes up all the time. Just two days ago, if I remember right. rh
Re: Automatically open child documents when loading master
On 02/18/2010 01:46 PM, Heiner Peter Jansen wrote: Hello fellow LyX users, I think in an older version of LyX (running on Kubuntu 08.04, I think) I could use Ctrl+PgDown to cycle through child documents after loading a master document. It would automatically open the child documents in new tabs. This behavior seems to have changed (currently using LyX 1.6.4 on Kubuntu 9.10). Using Ctrl+PgDown only switches opened (as in "visible") tabs. Is there a way to have LyX show/open all referenced child documents upon loading the master? Using the View-menu to open them all individually is very cumbersome and I have more then 8 child documents (so I can't use Alt+V + NUM to access them quickly). I think you'd need to file an enhancement request for this. rh
Re: Newbie questions: templates -> Document Settings -> ?
On 02/09/2010 01:28 AM, Marshall Feldman wrote:
Hi,
As a newbie to Lyx, I'm almost there in understanding how to use LyX
and have a few basic questions. Here's what I think I know:
Hello from down the way at Brown.
1. Templates are just LyX documents saved in the place where templates
live.
Right. Think of them as examples you can customize.
2. Document classes are types of documents (books, articles, etc.)
3. But document classes are not just types of documents. They also can
come in multiple versions for each document type. (E.g., there can be
a dozen or more versions of an "article.") The distinction between the
different versions are largely stylistic, although they also can
reflect content. For example, a Springer article has a "Conjecture"
style, but most other article styles do not make conjectures.
Yes, and this makes more sense when you realize that LyX's document
classes map more or less onto LaTeX class files. The mapping isn't
perfect, because a LyX d.c. map actually map to a class file plus one or
more packages.
4. Modules yet a lower level of granularity, and individual modules
may correspond to individual styles.
Yes, and again you can think of modules as mapping to LaTeX packages,
though again that isn't exactly right.
I hope this understanding is correct. Even so, I still can't
completely connect the dots. Here are two things I still don't
understand.
1. I'm writing a conference paper. LyX has a few
conference/proceedings templates, but none suit my needs. Several
document classes could work for me, but they're not complete. For
example, a conference paper should list the conference, location,
etc., and most likely this information should have a distinct style.
How should one handle this? By adding a style to the document class?
(How?) By manually adjusting the appearance of text?
Here it is crucial to remember that LyX knows nothing about the
appearance of output. What it knows is how to "translate" a LyX document
into LaTeX. It is LaTeX that then controls output. That's the sense in
which LyX is a "frontend to LaTeX" (though also to other things). So in
any case where you want to do a lot of customization, you have to think
first in terms of LaTeX.
LaTeX will allow you to declare new commands and environments, which
will include information about how they are to be displayed in the
output. Once you know what you want to do as far as the LaTeX goes, then
you can create a layout file that will tell LyX about it. I.e., you'd
have something like:
Style Location
LaTeXType command
LaTeXName location
Preamble
\newcommand\location{...LaTeX Stuff Here...}
EndPremable
...More stuff to tell LyX how to display it
End
in a module, or in a new document class extending an old one if you
prefer. The LaTeX part is where the real work is. The LyX stuff can
actually be left at default, if you want. It won't look fancy, but it
will work.
2. I'd like to design a template for a working paper series. The cover
page would have a few graphics, a title, author, date, institutional
affiliation, and contact information. The first following right page
would have a title, abstract, and keywords. The second even page would
start the actual paper. It would have a title, abstract, and author,
followed by the text itself. What's the best way to do this?
This is a LaTeX issue again. So if you want to do this, you will need to
learn a good bit of LaTeX.
3. How do the various templates and document classes know when to
insert a page break? In other words, how do they control front and
back matter?
This is all done through the magic of LaTeX. LaTeX knows that certain
commands (\title, \author, etc) belong to the front matter, and in most
classes these commands do not actually output anything. They just define
certain variables to store the title, author, etc. Only when the command
\maketitle is the title page output, and its format is defined by the
document class. (LyX issues \maketitle when you stop doing things it
thinks go in the front matter, i.e., for which the InTitle flag is
true.) You can see this for yourself by putting the author before the
title. This is bad form, but it won't affect output. I.e.,
\title{My Title}
\author{John B. Author}
\maketitle
and
\author{John B. Author}
\title{My Title}
\maketitle
do the same thing.
Can the user customize or override this?
Hence, the answer to this is "yes, but doing so means modifying the
LaTeX document class file".
Richard
Re: uiucthesis layout help
On 02/08/2010 10:26 AM, Stephen Anthony wrote:
rgheck wrote:
On 02/07/2010 02:14 PM, Stephen Anthony wrote:
I am new to LATEX/LYX, and I am interested in trying it out for my
thesis. I have found the LATEX style and class for my thesis
(http://physics.illinois.edu/grad/thesis-templates.asp). They appear
to be appropriately installed, I can see them both in MiKTeX 2.8 and
they also appear in LYX in Tools:TeX Information.
Where I seem to be running into problems is with the Layout file. I
have tried following the instructions in Help:Customization
regarding creating a new layout file, and haven't managed to get it
to work. When I go to Document:Settings:Document Class, uiucthesis
does not appear. When I try "Local Layout" there, it tells me
"Unable to read local layout file". Can someone either generate a
layout for me from the uiucthesis2009 class/style provided, or help
me figure out how to do that properly myself?
Can you post the layout file you have so far?
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLATEXClass[uiucthesis,book]{uiucthesis}
I'd do just:
# \DeclareLATEXClass[book]{UIUC Thesis Class}
to start. You can add the other back if you need to do so. It may also
need to be:
# \DeclareLATEXClass[book,uiucthesis]{UIUC Thesis Class}
in that order. I'm not sure.
# UIUC Thesis textclass definition file.
# Author :
# Transposed by
# Heavily modifed and enhanced by serveral developers.
Preamble
\usepackage{uiucthesis}
EndPreamble
Format 11
The format line MUST be the first non-empty, non-comment line.
Input stdclass.inc
Input numreport.inc
Sides 2
PageStyle Headings
NoStyle Abstract
Style Bibliography
TopSep 4
LabelString "Bibliography"
LabelFont
Series Bold
Size Huge
EndFont
End
The rest looks as if it should be OK. Make sure you have put this in the
right place, namely, in the layouts/ subdirectory of your user
directory, whose location you can find in Help>About LyX. Then do
Tools>Reconfigure.
Richard
Re: uiucthesis layout help
On 02/07/2010 02:14 PM, Stephen Anthony wrote: I am new to LATEX/LYX, and I am interested in trying it out for my thesis. I have found the LATEX style and class for my thesis (http://physics.illinois.edu/grad/thesis-templates.asp). They appear to be appropriately installed, I can see them both in MiKTeX 2.8 and they also appear in LYX in Tools:TeX Information. Where I seem to be running into problems is with the Layout file. I have tried following the instructions in Help:Customization regarding creating a new layout file, and haven't managed to get it to work. When I go to Document:Settings:Document Class, uiucthesis does not appear. When I try "Local Layout" there, it tells me "Unable to read local layout file". Can someone either generate a layout for me from the uiucthesis2009 class/style provided, or help me figure out how to do that properly myself? Can you post the layout file you have so far? rh
Re: Removing Copyright information from the bottom of a layout file
On 02/05/2010 12:43 AM, John Adams wrote: Hi, I was trying to use the siggraph layout to prepare a report for my class. I am trying to remove the Copyright information present at the bottom of the generated pdf but can't find any associated text in the editor. Can someone please tell me how to achieve this? I'm not sure exactly what copyright information this involves, since I don't know the siggraph class. But that line is presumably generated by the acmsiggraph.cls file itself. To remove it, you'd have to edit that file. Richard
Re: Saving Preferences
On 02/04/2010 04:30 AM, Barak Sh wrote: Hello fellow LyX users, I would like to save a backup of my preferences (especially keyboard shortcuts), so that I can instantly load them when (re)installing or upgrading. How can this be done? I'm using LyX 1.6.4 on Windows 7. Find you LyX user directory by looking at Help>About. Copy the entire directory somewhere else. This will include the preferences file and lots of other things. Richard
Re: Lyx problem printing
On 02/02/2010 11:11 AM, Dean Chandler wrote: I am brand new to lyx/latex/tex. I installed lyx 1.61 under Ubuntu 8.04, using the Ubuntu backports repository. When I tried to print the tutorial, I got the following error: Lyx: Cannot convert file An error occurred whilst running python -tt '/usr/share/lyx/lyx2lyx/lyx2lyx' -cbig Have you ever had LyX installed before? If not, this is very odd indeed. The lyx2lyx script is called only to convert files from older versions of LyX to the current format, and the Tutorial surely ought to be in the current format. You might want to uninstall and then reinstall, on the theory that maybe something was corrupted. Richard
Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.
On 02/01/2010 05:42 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
rgheck wrote:
One question: isn't it possible to handle this case like the other
external-material objects ?
I mean, imagine you define another kind of external-material object,
the "External Equation" type (e.g., a '*.eq' file), imagine you
associate a text editor to such a type, and imagine you define a set
of filters which just invoke externally LaTeX for computing the .eps
of the file for both preview and print purposes. This way, for
example, clicking on the image of the equation, would pop-up the
external text editor on the .eq file, and after exiting it would be
updated on the screen.
Wouldn't you achieve exactly what this user is looking for ?
In fact, the attached patch achieves such behaviour easily. If you
have a ".eq" file with a contents such as:
\begin{equation}
U = \frac{C}{T}
\end{equation}
then you can do Insert->File->External Material->[Equation (LaTeX)],
then select your .eq file. Now, if you have "Instant Preview" enabled
in preferences, you can see the formatted equation on the screen.
Furthermore, right-click on it and select "External Editor" and you
can edit it with emacs.
The difference w.r.t. an ERT block is that you can see the formatted
result on the screen (but editing through an external editor is not as
comfortable as a collapsable inset).
Was kind of a learning excercise -- just in case anyone finds such
patch useful (btw, I find the built-in LyX WYSIWYG/M equation editor
extraordinary).
I think you should post this to devel and commit it. In the case of very
complex equations, which would basically be nothing but ERT, it could be
very useful. LyX can handle it, of course, but perhaps not with the
kinds of comments and so forth one might want. I'm sure there are some
people in this sort of predicament.
I hate to be greedy here, but does this handle math macros defined
earlier in the document? That would be a good addition, if not. And it
would, as it happens, allow me to use exactly this script for exporting
little math images during XHTML output (if someone wanted a given
equation to be output that way).
Richard
Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.
On 02/01/2010 03:44 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: rgheck wrote: Ah yes, I did that in an equation and it is almost exactly what I want - just need to be able to edit the text. Without looking at the code, it doesn't look like you'd have to do much to make it editable. I might have a go some time. It's harder than you think, in the general case, because *reading* the LaTeX back is not trivial. In the math case, however, it isn't so hard, and it'd be easier to do it in the editing pane. All you have to do is have a special mode where LyX displays the raw LaTeX, which it knows how to generate. This would be kind of like the "preview" mode, where it displays a little picture. Switching back to "LyX" mode would then read the LaTeX---LyX knows how to do this in the math case---and display the LyX form. One question: isn't it possible to handle this case like the other external-material objects ? I mean, imagine you define another kind of external-material object, the "External Equation" type (e.g., a '*.eq' file), imagine you associate a text editor to such a type, and imagine you define a set of filters which just invoke externally LaTeX for computing the .eps of the file for both preview and print purposes. This way, for example, clicking on the image of the equation, would pop-up the external text editor on the .eq file, and after exiting it would be updated on the screen. Wouldn't you achieve exactly what this user is looking for ? I think this might be useful in some cases, assuming you just included the LaTeX, rather than an image. But my thought was that it should actually be fairly easy to switch back and forth between LaTeX mode and LyX mode, which many people might like. And then you can do this right inside LyX. Richard
Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.
On 02/01/2010 02:29 PM, Tim Hutt wrote: On 1 February 2010 19:22, rgheck wrote: Try View>Source if you want to *see* the LaTeX. Ah yes, I did that in an equation and it is almost exactly what I want - just need to be able to edit the text. Without looking at the code, it doesn't look like you'd have to do much to make it editable. I might have a go some time. It's harder than you think, in the general case, because *reading* the LaTeX back is not trivial. In the math case, however, it isn't so hard, and it'd be easier to do it in the editing pane. All you have to do is have a special mode where LyX displays the raw LaTeX, which it knows how to generate. This would be kind of like the "preview" mode, where it displays a little picture. Switching back to "LyX" mode would then read the LaTeX---LyX knows how to do this in the math case---and display the LyX form. rh
Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.
On 02/01/2010 01:54 PM, Tim Hutt wrote: Hi, I've searched but I can't find an answer: Is it possible to edit the source latex code of equations rather than edit the equations in a graphical way? I much prefer this method for equations and in my mind it is one of the things that makes latex superior to for example, MS Word. This is possible. First, you can enter LaTeX code at the keyboard, and then LyX will display it as "graphical". So just type Ctrl-M to enter math mode and then start typing: 2^x + \sqrt 3 = \frac ... Anything LyX doesn't understand it will display as raw commands. If this isn't a feature I'd suggest something like CTRL-clicking on an equation (also accessible by right-click->Edit Source) shows you the source of the equation and lets you edit it. Try View>Source if you want to *see* the LaTeX. There is no provision for editing it directly. However, if you really want to edit LaTeX, try this. Highlight just the *inside* of a math inset. Now exit it and paste. You should get the raw LaTeX code. Edit it. Now highlight it and hit Ctrl-M again. The request for "roundtrip" LaTeX editing is longstanding and difficult to implement. But the math case is special and actually wouldn't be that hard to do. As the workaround just given shows, LyX can essentially do this already. So you might file this special case, of math, as an enhancement request here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome. rh
Re: Don't understand LaTeX Error
On 01/25/2010 12:52 PM, Matthias Schmidt wrote:
yes, I didn't think about the table of contents, ok.
But I would like to understand, what is happening there:
I get the LaTeX error only with "\citet{GieslerG1990}" but not with
"\cite{GieslerG1990}". Why doesn't Lyx accept this one citation style
but the other one is ok?
I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that.
rh
