Hi Stefano;
I was missing the all important zip.exe to piece together and zip all
those files. I did not read far enough down the page on the tex4ht setup
notes!
With this now in place all works.
Many thanks
Rob S
was incomplete", No.1
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posting any more
questions.
All the best and thank you in advance,
Kevin Pfeiffer
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ested method of getting Lyx up and running on XP.
There are issues for Windows users of Lyx with the configure script and
SED.exe for which solutions can be found on this page.
Hope it helps - get back to list if not
Rob S
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Lyx can find them. Check
each at a command prompt to be sure.
Rob S
btex sort order was based on the third authors
Surname. However, the noopsort command prevents this.
Sorry to be so vague but I hope that gives you at least a pointer in the
right direction.
Rob S
Thanks a lot,
best wishes
Leo
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Ruurd;
Many, many thanks - just downloaded it and now about to have a "play"!
Over the next few days I'll amend the Wiki page to reflect the update.
It already looks as if much of the wiki page can be thinned out.
Regards
Rob S
Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
Finally, I came around to compiling a
ur mention of the inclusion of a newer version of Sed.exe has also
addressed another of my questions.
FYI, I did include the new sed.exe and fixed the path thing in
configure.bat.
Ruurd
Cheers
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annoying.
Regards,
Milos
Also:
Early attempt at Instant Preview failed although I have not given it too
much time.
Download link to a LyX icon file now on the Wiki page.
Rob S
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at the citation point
\citep[text before citation][text after citation]{you reference in bib file}
See documentation with Natbib package for more info.
Rob S
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holing python.exe is in your system PATH. Then rename the
currently shipped version of python.exe in lyx/bin
Preview then works fine.
But moving on---
I cannot now view .pdf images in 1.3.5 under windoze
I'm seeing a
convertDefault.sh Error
The script cannot find the ppm file in the temp dir
any ideas?
info:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup
Uwe and I keep this as up to date as poss.
Rob S
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Rob S wrote:
Angus Leeming wrote:
FYI, it looks like your points about 'convert.exe' are in the process of
being merged into the WindowsSetup page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Playground/RobSaundersSandbox
Ignore my last - I did not read far enough!
The convert.exe does have to be in front
feedback will be most
welcome and help us improve them as required.
Rob S
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1.3.3 installation and see it works on there
first. It not something I have noticed.
Rob S
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th another graphic format like jpeg or tiff?
also jpeg and bmp images all work well for me with Lyx under windows.
Rob S
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converter to
python /lyxpreview2ppm.py
which I believe was on your earlier advice. The windows wiki page does
however cover this step.
Rob S
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/LyX/WindowsSetup
Follow through the steps found here; it may give you further clues.
Rob S
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Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
Is it possible to use the lyxserver utility on a windows XP platform.
Not that I know of.
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Hi List;
Latex help needed.
I'm at the stage of minor corrections in my thesis and I am required to
change the "et al" in references to italics.
I'm using apalike.bst. Where and how do I ammend the .bst file?
Rob S
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itely not before here"?
I feel the use of "Here definitely" is really too strong for this.
Regards in advance
Rob S
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package Sven but I'm on the case with reading
the documentation for it. Watch this space.
Rob
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Rob S wrote:
Q. In the float Settings box which option(s) should I choose to have
the float placed "Here if possible + Definitely not before here"?
maybe others know a lyxish way to do that, but what about using the
latex package "flafter" (in the preamble)?
I'm not famili
items anyway.
You then need to add this to the bibtex generated box BEFORE your other
.bib files.
Rob S
Geoff
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@PREAMBLE{ "\newcommand{\noopsort}[1]{} "
# &q
t;Convert option in gsview32 to convert all the .pdf into
another pdf (dont ask - i have no idea!)
6. now open the newly saved version in acrobat and the ERT inserted
image will be in landscape.
It takes far less time doing than explaining!!
Rob S
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Dep
I
would like to insert a landscape page in a document with portrait
orientation !
I've just tried it again. See attached before and after pdfs.
Hope that is what you mean.
Rob S
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Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:
After using pdflatex to convert my lyx file Acrobat Reader says cannot
find file.
You need to ensure Acrobat is closed first prior to using PdfLatex.
Rob S
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Hi List;
How do I place limits above and below the summation(\sum) symbol from
within the math panel??
It's going to be obvious I know!!
Apologies and thanks in advance
Rob S
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(which is what happens now)?
Try Natbib/ERT options. First have a look at the Natbib package
documentation. I think it covers special cases like this.
http://gking.harvard.edu/files/natnotes.pdf
There is also a dvi of this in the LaTeX distribution folder.
Rob S
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) time ago where I noted that
the top item in the spell check listbox cannot be selected and used to
replace an error directly. I find you need to first select a word from
lower in the list and then reselect the top word for this to work.
1. Can this be confirmed?
2. If so where best to report
a problem in 1.3.5.
Problem solved.
I'll stick with 1.3.5 from now!
Rob
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at any time but the
ref list will only appear once at the location you specified in the
"master" document.
Rob S
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setup. Far
better to install LyX 1.3.5 for windows following the guidance on this page.
Rob S
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of assistance, maybe even correct ways of
finding a solution before posting, or do not say anything at all,
silence can be just as powerful.
Cheers!
Rob Davies
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"It is the world which makes known to us our belonging to a
subject-communtiy, especially the existence in the
igurations.
I can confirm this method works without a problem on my Windows XP
ported version of LyX 1.3.5.
Rob S
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this method works without a problem on my Windows XP
ported version of LyX 1.3.5.
Rob S
Win port LyX 1.3.5
Further to my last - Just found this method will also copy text from a
.doc or a .pdf straight into LyX - now thats saved some hassle.
Rob S
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Matt;
My Document settings has \centre in the "float placement" field, and
I've even tried {\begin center} {\end center} around the floats, but no
luck.
Any ideas?
Click in the float. Then from menu select
Layout>>Paragraph>>alignment>>center
Hope thats what you
this
without problems using ERT so I'm not too concerned if is the only option)
Rob S
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, but maybe
someone else knows of a better way.
Regards,
Milos
I'm pretty much there now (99%). A few ert boxes and an extra Style
added to the elsart layout file to define the \corauth LaTeX commannd
(same as footnote).
Cheers
Rob S
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi List;
For those interested I've attached a copy of an ammended Elsart template
which will produce(with one further tweak) authors names inline.
Ah, does not appear to be there!
2nd try
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have more questions -- this is entirely new to me.
In that case I suggest you have a google around for bib, bibtex, etc.
You may find a lot of the FAQs are already answered elsewhere.
Rob S
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e pointing to.
Thanks again,
William DeShazer
Have a look here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/WindowsSetup
You no longer need cygwin to use lyx on windows
Rob S
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one of those
directories, or configure the PATH of your teTeX binaries in
~/.MacOSX/environment.plist
<http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html>. Installation and
Configuration Products) to install the
James Nicolson
Cheers!
Rob Davies
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"It is the world w
.
Error: The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be
opened for reading.
Cheers!
Rob Davies
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"You can always tell if you're working on a Mac or a PC," he said.
"Just take your applications and stick them in and see if they run
(Gates
Cheers!
Rob Davies
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"You can always tell if you're working on a Mac or a PC," he said.
"Just take your applications and stick them in and see if they run
(Gates 05)." If it does Welcome to Mac OS X! (RJDarts 05).
y after each command.
./configure
make
make install
This installs the dictionary in the actual Aspell folder at /usr/
local/lib/aspell-0.60 and LyX should work with this dictionary now.
Cheers!
Rob Davies
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"You can always tell if you're working on a Mac or a PC," he said.
&q
through when you place dictionary in cocoAspell.
So, the compile is what will trigger the library to be usable!
Cheers!
Rob Davies
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"You can always tell if you're working on a Mac or a PC," he said.
"Just take your applications and stick them in and see if they
i Janus;
Try adding this to the document preamble - it works using \nocite{*},
apalike and Natbib producing the output as you require:
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I have no idea what this does however since I snipped it from elsewhere
but it works for me ;-)
Rob S
of a cat
but the actual caption says -
A nice picture of a cat that has recently been fed something nice blah blah
Geoff;
From toolbar select insert--short title add this just before the
original caption.
Add the short title version in this box - job done!
Rob S
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for
a win wiki anyway ;-)
Rob S
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ts one by one.
Rob S
PS I'm sure this has been mentioned in the past on the list but possibly
disguised as a Windows port problem rather than a generic problem.
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logo" kind
of company) is telling me that they only see a large black image I can't
understand why. I've done my best with inkscape and convert, but no success.
Gunnar.
See Lyx3.ico attached for us windows users
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Departmen
box.
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an eye
open for any changes which I can then reflect over on the newer group pages.
Hope that all makes sense ;-)
Cheers
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ss for my thesis.
As above - example of this on the thesismaster file attached
> c) How does one force something to start from a fresh page.
Try adding the following to a TEX box
\clearpage
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on the page?
I'm not sure if this is the best solution but I have used:
This is all in a table float;
Table title
\scriptsize (in a TEX box)
Table here
\normalsize (in a TEX box)
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command an autorun entry in the Registry so it takes effect
every time you reboot.
More info please! subst??
Can provide a more detailed step by step method for this - it may help
others, like myself, who are not that "computer jargon" literate.
Cheers
Rob S
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+ natbib without a problem
As I mentioned some time back though I have had to add:
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to the preamble but thats all.
Rob S
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University
ranslate extended ASCII" that does the necessary conversions
automatically.
Ekkehart
Not sure if this will work for all but:
I added a touch of LaTeX code directly into the .bib file entry.
i.e. Freds{\o}e in the bib file entry will produce Fredsøe in the output.
Rob S
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thanks
Dr. Rob S
For the record
I used:
Report class out of the box
Natbib from the options found within preferences
Used Apalike style (tweaked to italicise et. al.) but with no other hassle
Pdflatex to export/build
Image formats .pdf, .png, .bmp and .jpg (I never really understood
graphics
Okay, first the funny thing. I actually added that path;
reconfigured and restarted Once. Didn't work so reverted. funny eh?
Actually, just the funny,
-Rob
On Jul 23, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Bennett Helm wrote:
On Jul 23, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Rob Rogers wrote:
Hi,
I'm running OSX Tiger
Hi Geoff;
I have not had such problems with Palatino when using at size 12
Try adding these to the preamble
\usepackage{mathptmx}
\usepackage{textcomp}
I'm not sure which you need But I think one will solve your problem so
add both to start with.
Rob S
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uses a missing TeX class article
LyX will not be able to produce output.
Any clue as to what I messed up?
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for writing papers. I have used FrameMaker for many
years but it is no longer supported on a Mac so I am
looking for alternatives. Any help is appreciated.
Rob
At 6:25 AM +0100 9/8/05, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
_/ On Wed 07 Sep 2005 20:27:03 BST, [Bennett Helm] wrote : \_
On Sep 7, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Rob Managan wrote:
I got a new computer and installed LyX and TeTeX on it as
described (at least I think I did) I used the i-installer for TeX
At 8:15 AM -0700 9/8/05, Rob Managan wrote:
When I try this the problem becomes evident. It seems that the
teTeX/bin path is not on my Path and none of the executables can be
found.
[mangrove:~] managan% cd
Documents/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/
[mangrove:Contents/Resources
off of the modified LaTeX cls file, so I
don't think that is where the problem is.
Does anyone have any ideas on how I can tell LyX/LaTeX to use letters
rather than numbers for section numbering?
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
same thing for subsection and
subsubsection. This still show 1.1 and 1.1.1 respectively, but only in
LyX. The LaTeX output is correct.
Cheers,
Rob
11/02/custom-lyx-nih
The article includes links to download the files.
Cheers,
Rob
a tremendously quick overview
of the program and instructions on where to find the docs.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
that you would like to see?
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
lem as described above. I'm not getting any errors.
Any thoughts or ideas would be extremely appreciated.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
Thank you Alan,
That fixed the problem. I hadn't realized that the Java run time was a
dependency of oolatex. Export from LyX to OpenDocument now works. From
there, it's an easy conversion to Word.
Cheers,
Rob
).
For raster images, it seems like PNG works the best (though most of the
raster images I've been using are screenshots). A friend who does
layout/design has suggested that I spend some time with PDF raster images,
but I haven't yet seen the need.
Hope this is of some help.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
r solution, but nevertheless,
you might want to take a look at BibDesk or at Mendeley (which can sync
references to a BibTeX reference file).
http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
http://www.mendeley.com/
I use both programs and I've been very happy with them. They also instantly
solved by JabRef problems.
Cheers,
f the boxes unpacked.
Cheers,
Rob
-Original Message-
From: Phil Underwood [mailto:philjunderw...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:26 AM
To: Rob Oakes
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: JabRef and Lyx on Mac
Hi Rob,
I'm still having the same issue, even after Julio's
Hi Daniel,
If there is already a LaTeX class and style, then you only need to
create .layout file that points LyX in the right direction. A few weeks
ago, I wrote a simple example that you can find at:
http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/2009/11/02/custom-lyx-nih
That example is mostly
ning curve, it's pretty mild. The examples are
pretty self explanatory and LyX has a logical design. Moreover, the
members of the mailing list are very helpful. I've gotten some
wonderful guidance on the questions I've posted.
Best of luck with your project.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
? Is there something in my layout file that is causing it?
Any insights would be extremely appreciated.
Cheers,
Rob
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass{rapidBOOK}
# rapidBook Chapter File. Works with rapidBook.cls
# Author : Robert Oakes <rob.oa...@
Diavlo}
\setmonofont{Courier 10 Pitch}
I will go ahead and look through the archives. Any ideas on why the document
class font code is getting ignored?
Cheers,
Rob
hat mailing list may be a
better place to ask. As I'm researching this, is there anything else
that I should keep in mind?
Cheers,
Rob
ne document class to another. If you
should decide that "Comic-Sans" is a really ghastly font, you can easily
change it to something else without having to carefully scour your
document.
Through xetex, you can use any font installed on your computer. Just
remember to create the PDF using xel
sn't pretty. (Whenever I do
anything for the first time, it usually isn't.)
I've been poring over the fontspec guide for the past few days (it was
invaluable in helping me to get the font issues sorted in my document
class). I'll further take a look at the fontenc guide.
Cheers,
Rob
enable is
the new spell checker. Squiggly red underlines is something that I've
wanted to see in LyX for a very long time.
Cheers,
Rob
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 13:56 -0600, stefano franchi wrote:
> Richard,
>
> I wonder if the file format used in trunk (or rather the lyx2lyx
> co
Hi Vince,
I was aware that newer versions of LyX use a different file format. I
meant only that you have to manually export the document to an older
version of LyX. The lyx2lyx script is not capable of doing so on its
own.
My fault for not being clear.
Cheers,
Rob
On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 21
ource club. I hope that things work out for
you. While it took about a year for me to really get comfortable, the end
result is that I am much more productive.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/FiguresSideBySide
I've been using this trick to typeset code examples and latex output and
I've been very happy so far.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
) and cross platform.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
-Original Message-
From: Erez Yerushalmi [mailto:erezyerusha...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 9:14 AM
To: lyx-users
Cc: Izwandy Idris
Subject: Re: Suggestion for LyX
Another recommendation is to take a look at a program called Zotero.
http
it useful, I would enjoy hearing about
that too.
I will post a layout file soon. It was going to be today but because of
work commitments, soon just became undefined. Nevertheless, I wanted to
post a link while I was still excited.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
example above, using xetex allowed me to use the same
typefaces that Tufte uses -- Bembo and Gil Sans -- without creating a
font definition file for them -- which ranks right alongside major oral
surgery on my priority list.)
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
stores the previous definition
%%
This is an extremely rough solution, and I haven't tested it, but it would
generally have the effect that you're looking for.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
ing to sort this out is tremendously frustrating. (Speaking from
experience here.)
Compared to those frustrations, I finally decided that I would just delete a
few extra videos out of iTunes. Even now, months later, I still think that was
a good decision.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
-Original Mess
).
This link has some good information on Version Control in general and
Subversion in particular.
http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/science-and-technology/svn
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
, the basic syntax is the
same for the other latex engines as well.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Anders Host-Madsen
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:38 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Redefining sections
This is really
to
stick with sectsty.
Cheers,
Rob
-Original Message-
From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Anders Host-Madsen
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 10:38 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Redefining sections
This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer
and sync your reference
library to multiple machines. Zotero can do something similar, but I've
found Mendeley easier to use.
You can find more information on their web site:
http://www.mendeley.com/
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
.
Nevertheless, I would be very interest in feedback on the style,
language, or content. I would also love to hear any positive and
negative thoughts that members of the group might have.
I look forward to your emails.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
ex.php/2009/11/02/custom-lyx-nih)
Customizing LyX: Character Styles and the LyX Local Layout
(http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/2009/11/14/customize-lyx-character-styles)
Best of luck with your paper.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
h the author kit. I haven't ever used this
particular style and I'm not sure that I can give you much guidance on
how to navigate its complexities.
Cheers,
Rob
On Sun, 2010-01-10 at 09:15 -0800, Mehrdad Oveisi wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> Thanks a lot for your prompt and helpful respond!
>
. It's
pretty easy to get this running with Sun's VirtualBox and a live CD.
(Though I've personally been using VMware workstation.)
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
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Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 1:25 AM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
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