Re: Import and export to many formats...

[Ethan Metsger]

On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:51:50 -0500, Νίκος Αλεξανδρής  
 wrote:




(
I also load the packages {lscape}{graphicx}{epsfig} in the Preamble. Any
possible conflict here?
)


I don't know of any reason this would be a problem--like I said, Beamer  
presentations were converted, although the formatting was lost and very  
ugly.  I don't use ODF much at all, so I honestly can't tell you what  
could be wrong.  You can check the output of the tex4ht process if you run  
lyx in a terminal.  Maybe it will provide some additional clues.


Best,

Ethan

Re: Import and export to many formats...

[Ethan Metsger]

On Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:21:24 -0500, Νίκος Αλεξανδρής  
 wrote:



Seriously, I really would like to see it, just one example please under
Ubuntu/ Debian somebody?


It worked for me out of the box with LyX 1.6.4 / Ubuntu 9.10.

The transformation of a multi-page internal design document went smoothly,  
including some equations I threw in just for fun.  The formatting needs  
minor tweaks as OO.org doesn't include spacings for some of the styles  
that are attractive, but otherwise it seemed to work pretty well.


Just for fun, I ran a beamer presentation through just to see if I could  
break it, and it seemed to handle it ok.  The formatting was certainly  
FUBAR, as you might expect, but the text and graphics were all there.


Best,

Ethan

OpenDocument export [was Re: too long]

[Ethan Metsger]

On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:19:54 -0500, Waluyo Adi Siswanto  
 wrote:



I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to
OpenDocument easily  (from File>Export>OpenDocument) and it creates
*,odt. When I open this file using OpenOffice and if I double click
the equations created by LyX it will be in OpenOffice equation, all
equations can be edited and continued in OpenOffice without any
problems.


I can confirm this works out of the box on Ubuntu Karmic.  Whether it  
works on more complicated documents, I don't know.  I also note that  
OO.org has a LaTeX exporter, but regretfully cannot import LaTeX.  It's  
supposed to support DocBook imports, but I haven't tried it.


Best,

Ethan
(emets...@obj-sys.com)

Re: problema di greco

[Ethan Metsger]

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:06:36 -0500, Luca De Marini  
 wrote:



Lyx doesn't support Greek language.
Any other program I tried can, using extra greek fonts, that I have,  
allow

me to insert in my book Greek sentences.
In the latest email Felice sent, he's just saying that he needs to  
insert in

his book some prays in ancient Greek.


It is possible to use XeTeX to write polytonic Greek.  The Linux Libertine  
font is fairly appealing (favorably compares with Minion Pro) with good  
support for Greek characters (it can be used both as a screen font and a  
PDF font), and I've used it in the past for such work.


I know that newer versions of LyX will support XeTeX directly, but if  
you're using Linux or Mac (not sure about Windows) it's not too bad to set  
up.


-Ethan

Re: [Lyx] explicit mail subject

[Ethan Metsger]

On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:40:44 -0400, Sam Liddicott   
wrote:



Your message has:
From: "Manveru" 
which is not helpful.


I've been using Opera mail for a long time, which automatically sorts out  
mailing list mail.  But I note the following headers:


Mailing-List: contact lyx-users-h...@lists.lyx.org; run by ezmlm
List-Post: 
List-Help: 
List-Unsubscribe:  



It should be possible to look at any one of them to decide that you're  
dealing with LyX-related mail; if you don't receive it from the mailing  
list, presumably these headers should be missing, and you'll have it in  
the main inbox (or other filter of your choice).



Best,

Ethan
(emets...@obj-sys.com)

Re: How to have 3 types of quotation marks

[Ethan Metsger]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:44:21 -0400, Stefano Franchi  
 wrote:



However, I am on Linux with personalized keyboard settings.


On my Linux machine, I set the compose key to the left windows key  
(super_l); super_l + > + > == »; super_l + < + < == «.


So at least for me, there's no extra work to be done to compose extended  
characters.  Not all of them work that way, but it's fairly easy on Linux  
to install different keyboard maps, too.  I occasionally write with  
polytonic Greek, and having the keyboard map for it with XeTeX makes life  
a lot easier.  (I bind different keymaps to r_shift + l_shift.)


The last key to the puzzle for me has been to use the SCIM input methods  
for the rare cases I do any work with CJK fonts.


My solution really only works because I've got XeTeX playing nicely on my  
system (Ubuntu 9.04).  Without knowing the OP's operating system, I'm not  
sure how much help my response gives, but by and large it solves most of  
my problems with extended characters.


-Ethan

Re: DocBook in LyX 2.0 ? (was: Re: r29997 - lyx-devel/trunk/src)

[Ethan Metsger]

On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:13:50 -0400, Pavel Sanda  wrote:

its my impression that some of the problems people have to tackle now  
when
using docbook would be in fact just a few lines of code change. the  
problem is
that i basically know nothing about the issues around docbook/sgml etc.  
but it
may be easy for for people using docbook agree on what is to be changed  
wrt the

lyx output?


I actually still owe Jose an email about this--it's been sitting in my  
inbox for several months now.


We decided to use Docbook here since it's an industry standard among our  
peers, and it seemed a reasonable thing to do to stay current with them  
all.  I had hoped to spur the adoption of LyX (I've been using it for  
awhile), but it turns out that the Docbook support wasn't quite mature  
enough to get us there.


In particular, we were looking for Docbook 5.0 support, and I think that  
LyX for awhile has been stuck at 4.2.  The XML elements for 5.0 are  
somewhat different (my knowledge of 4.2 is pretty slim, so I can't say  
exactly how they differ--but I had some validation issues when doing  
document conversion).


I would think that one priority would be producing XML that complies with  
version 5.0.  I'm hardly an expert on this, but if I can be of some  
reasonable help, I'll do it.



I confess that my vision was essentially having LyX to produce PDFs that  
were easier to work with (munging stylesheets and tweaking FO output is  
not at all something I'm interested in doing, but I've had to) and XML  
that can be more easily transformed into nice HTML--something that's an  
absolute must if you're going to publish documentation in multiple forms.


If LyX could provide even a basic (but valid) output to Docbook XML (with  
minimal stylistic markup--the normal ones like emphasis, bold, code, et  
c.), transforming the HTML wouldn't be such a difficult thing using free  
toolchains.


As it stands, we use Oxygen's XML editor for writing our documentation; we  
probably won't change any time soon, but it would be fantastic if there  
were a reasonable workflow for using LyX.



Best,

Ethan
(emets...@obj-sys.com)

Re: Slowness Question

[Ethan Metsger]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:36:36 -0400, rgheck  wrote:

Just a silly question, probably: But (other than Vincent), the people  
who are experiencing slowness don't have the View Source widget open, do  
they?


I haven't.  I noticed a bit of slowness in 1.6.0 (I haven't upgraded since  
then), but I just adjusted the window size to be smaller, and it sped up  
for me considerably.  (I'm using LyX 1.6.0 on Intrepid Ibex, 1GB RAM and a  
Core2Duo clocked at 1.8GHz.)


Best,

Ethan

Re: Lyx to Booksurge Success

[Ethan Metsger]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:48:13 -0500, Steve Litt   
wrote:



if you can view it online, why should you
pay for the book?


For my part, I hate reading electronic copy.  I'm willing to scan it to  
see if the content is worth reading, but I would much rather turn to a  
paper library than an electronic one.


Best,

Ethan

(PS - José, I haven't forgotten the Docbook stuff--I'm pretty swamped at  
the moment and don't expect to get out until after the holidays.)

Re: LyX and Docbook/XML

[Ethan Metsger]

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:48:26 -0500, José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I would have done before if I had not been victim of a cold. :-)


I'm currently recovering from one, too--no worries about the delay.

What are the problems that you have encountered. I am interested to fix  
them

in both the stable and the development series.

I am specially interested in the problems you are having with the xml
generated docbook.


I'll file some bug reports (and throw them back in this thread), but in  
general it looks like the  tag is improperly generated (using  
'lang="EN_US"' appears to be invalid), and I have not been able to get  
graphics properly embedded in the HTML output.  The  section  
is also not properly outputted; I suspect this can be fixed pretty easily  
by layout changes, but I'm not sure.


The user-customized preamble is put into the doctype declaration, too--I  
don't really consider this a bug, but I was a little surprised to find it  
in the output.


LyX is also a few revisions behind in its DocBook support, at least  
according to the doctype (I think 4.4 is the last 4.x revision, and 5.x is  
current; the generated XML says that it's using 4.2).


I've used both the sgmltools package and the sgml2x package.  I'll make  
sure to describe the pertinent information in the bugzilla filings when  
the time comes, as the two seem to work slightly differently.


Thanks again for all your hard work, guys; I really do appreciate it.

Best,

Ethan
([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: LyX and Docbook/XML

[Ethan Metsger]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:30:47 -0500, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:



I considered both LyX and DocBook. At the time, the only free
software front end I could find for DocBook was Emacs, and my wrists just
aren't that flexible.


Hi, Steve.

Thanks for your comments.  My issue at this point isn't converting to  
LyX--I already know I *want* to use it.  The issue is that management  
prefers to avoid LaTeX and instead opt for our local industry standard,  
which is DocBook.  We're also involved in the XML databinding business, so  
spending some extra time with XML-related technologies is more comfortable  
in general.


LyX works well with DocBook/SGML (save for a few problems I've had with  
images).  DocBook, however, is transitioning away from SGML to XML, and  
LyX doesn't support the XML format as well as I need.  My attempts to  
transform the XML export into HTML failed, and I think this is because the  
XML export from LyX is not compatible.


If LyX isn't DocBook/XML-ready, that's fine--I'll continue using it for my  
one-off docs that I write for our customers.  But if it can be fairly  
easily used to produce DocBook/XML, I'll press a bit harder for its  
adoption through the rest of the office.



Thanks again for your thoughts,

Ethan
([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: LyX and Docbook/XML

[Ethan Metsger]

Hi, all.

I promise I'll be quiet after this post--I don't mean to pester (or imply  
by any stretch that I'm unhappy with LyX in general!).  But can anyone  
comment on this?


For what it's worth, I really do like LyX, and I'm not trying to troll or  
put on anyone.  I'm just curious about the capabilities and hoping not a  
little to spur its adoption among my general work populace.


Thanks again,

Ethan

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:43:43 -0500, Ethan Metsger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:




Hi, all.

I figured I'd send a quick query to the list about using LyX with  
Docbook/XML.  I know there's been a little bit of traffic on this in the  
past, but I haven't seen anything recently, and my searches online  
haven't turned up much else, either.


We're in the process of evaluating some tools for transitioning our  
documentation away from Frame, and my bid to use LaTeX with LyX as a  
front-end and pdflatex/plastex as the backend didn't really gain much  
traction.


My boss prefers to use Docbook--a number of our customers use it, and  
it's an accepted standard in our industry.  There are some commercial  
products for Docbook editing that we're investigating, but I remembered  
that LyX provides some support for it also.



I was able to make some HTML and PDFs out of the basic document I  
created when using SGML tools, but I wasn't able to get similar results  
from the exported XML.  Some online reading leads me to believe that  
this is a somewhat more difficult task than I'm really willing to  
undertake, but I thought I would ask here.  Is there a good workflow for  
using Docbook/XML with LyX, or are we still kind of waiting on it?


Thanks much,

Ethan
([EMAIL PROTECTED])

LyX and Docbook/XML

[Ethan Metsger]

Hi, all.

I figured I'd send a quick query to the list about using LyX with  
Docbook/XML.  I know there's been a little bit of traffic on this in the  
past, but I haven't seen anything recently, and my searches online haven't  
turned up much else, either.


We're in the process of evaluating some tools for transitioning our  
documentation away from Frame, and my bid to use LaTeX with LyX as a  
front-end and pdflatex/plastex as the backend didn't really gain much  
traction.


My boss prefers to use Docbook--a number of our customers use it, and it's  
an accepted standard in our industry.  There are some commercial products  
for Docbook editing that we're investigating, but I remembered that LyX  
provides some support for it also.



I was able to make some HTML and PDFs out of the basic document I created  
when using SGML tools, but I wasn't able to get similar results from the  
exported XML.  Some online reading leads me to believe that this is a  
somewhat more difficult task than I'm really willing to undertake, but I  
thought I would ask here.  Is there a good workflow for using Docbook/XML  
with LyX, or are we still kind of waiting on it?


Thanks much,

Ethan
([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Holy Moly!

[Ethan Metsger]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:41:32 -0400, Jürgen Spitzmüller  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


[...]


"2.1  Subscribing with different addresses


[...]

I note that this address is contained in the headers for each email that  
arrives from the list:


   List-Unsubscribe:  



So it should be possible to simply copy and paste this address into the  
To: field of a new email and send it out.  (This is also a handy way to  
confirm what address the list is using to send you emails, in case you use  
a different address for lists, et c.)



Best,

Ethan

Re: ERT to inline by command

[Ethan Metsger]

On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:04:16 -0400, Daniel Lohmann  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



AFAIK there is, unfortunately, no LFUN for this
I too would really appreciate a keyboard shortcut.


I was under the impression that using CTRL-I would do the job.  I just  
tested it on 1.5.2/Ubuntu and it seems to work just fine.



Best,

Ethan (http://uppertank.net/ethanm)

Re: okay, can't resist one more bit of "feedback"

[Ethan Metsger]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:42:39 -0400, Bill King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Yes, it's me again, the same guy who couldn't get lyx to work in Ubuntu  
7.10.  Just downloaded and installed what is supposed to be a COMPLETE  
operative LyX/LaTeX/Tex system in windows (from your download  
page--vers. 1.5.4).  It also DOESN'T WORK!


Bill,

It looks like you've posted four messages, none of which provided  
significant details of the failure, the system that you're using, or any  
constructive criticism.


Why not simply use lyx 1.5.1 (the latest version in Ubuntu's repositories)  
if you're having so much trouble:


   [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show lyx
   Package: lyx
   Priority: optional
   Section: universe/editors
   Installed-Size: 8432
   Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
   Original-Maintainer: Debian LyX Maintainers  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   Architecture: i386
   Version: 1.5.3-1~gutsy1

You can install it easily with

   sudo apt-get install lyx


This list is a more than suitable resource for help and information, even  
when frustrated -- as plenty of the list members can tell you.


Best,

Ethan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://uppertank.net/ethanm/

Re: Why do Inkscape drawing pixellate in LyX?

[Ethan Metsger]

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:28:38 -0400, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:



What's the best way to put an Inkcape drawn drawing into LyX?


There are a couple ways to do this that will probably get you where you  
want to go.


First, you can change the DPI settings in the export dialog in Inkscape--I  
think the default is 90dpi, which is passable for screen resolutions but  
otherwise unacceptable.  If you're going to be printing the document, I'd  
set it at at least 300 (which will increase the filesize considerably,  
unfortunately).  600 is better.


Second, you could save the file as another type, like EPS; LyX may be able  
to import this directly (it's been awhile since I've tried; I usually use  
pdflatex, and I think that it won't import EPS files).  If it cannot, you  
can open the EPS file in something like the Gimp, which will allow you to  
specify the resolution when you open the file; you can then export it to  
any LyX-compatible format.



Best,

Ethan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://uppertank.net/ethanm/

Re: Why oh why did you drop xforms?

[Ethan Metsger]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:16:36 -0500, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:


My one remaining problem is that the fonts on the menu, scrollbars and  
dialog

boxes are too small for me to read. I'll be looking up how to make them
larger in the next few days.


Hi, Steve.

You might be able to get the fonts larger using qtconfig.  I run a  
GNOME-based desktop with some qt-dependent programs and have been able to  
modify font sizes that way without any trouble.


Best,

Ethan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://uppertank.net/ethanm

Re: Creating Logotype Letterhead

[Ethan Metsger]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:28:19 -0500, Rich Shepard  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



  Years ago I started the long, painful process of adding an additional
Type1 typeface to LaTeX. Gave up when the process took too much time,
effort, and re-reading of multiple docs.


Hi, Rich.

I haven't done this much myself, but I know there's been some discussion  
on the list before about using Xetex, which should allow you to  
incorporate regular truetype fonts without any extra work (aside from  
installation and configuration).


It might be worth a look through the archives (and the wiki?) to see if  
anyone has some advice for you.  It may involve a little bit of TeX  
hacking in your LyX files, but I think you can do it with considerably  
less work than trying to convert the typeface.


Best,

Ethan
http://uppertank.net/ethanm

Re: Spell check on the fly?

[Ethan Metsger]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 05:06:23 -0500, Hellmut Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:


Be sure no high quality document can be produced just hacking in the  
text, correcting typos on the fly .. and that's it.


This is absolutely correct.  Good writers are not necessarily grammatical  
writers or good spellers; but they're all adept at turning off the  
internal critic.  Spell-check "on the fly" is simply an extension of the  
internal critic.


IMHO,

Ethan

Re: Select Branch from Command line?

[Ethan Metsger]

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:15:12 -0500, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:


I don't see any LFUN for this at the moment, but it shouldn't be  
terribly difficult to add one. File an enhancement request.


Done.

Well, that depends upon your OS. On Linux, HTML export works pretty  
well, though of course your results depend upon what LaTeX to HTML  
converter you use. On other OS's, mileage seems to vary, mostly because  
htlatex is buggy on Windows. But you might try the relatively new  
Plastex converter, which is written in Python and so ought to be more  
portable. I've been meaning to add a line to configure.py that would  
detect and install it but just haven't gotten around to it.


I'm using Ubuntu, and I've tried htlatex, tex4ht, and tth.  I also just  
downloaded plasTeX; it'll take a little bit of fiddling for me to evaluate  
it properly, but it looks like it could be a reasonable solution.  It  
seems like it chokes on using babel and koma-script classes (the latter  
also broke tex4ht, if I recall correctly).  Using the default document  
settings I've set up breaks plasTeX, but it shouldn't be too difficult to  
transform the output LaTeX document if needed.


All that aside, plasTeX does look really interesting--and I'll definitely  
pursue it.  LyX has been a great tool for me personally (I got started  
using it for my thesis) and I'm really hoping that I can spur its adoption  
in the office.



Best,

Ethan
([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Select Branch from Command line?

[Ethan Metsger]

Hi, all.

I have a quick question.  I've been developing a bit of documentation for  
one of our products using LyX.  It's a small project, and I'm hoping to  
spur adoption of LyX by demonstrating some nice clean results here.


One of the really nice features of LyX is the ability to do exports from  
the command-line using something like 'lyx -e pdf2 document.lyx'.   
However, I have found it necessary to use different branches to separate  
PDF formatting from, e.g., HTML formatting, so as not to confuse some of  
the conversion programs like tex4ht and so on.  (At least part of my  
efforts for this particular project will be generating reasonable HTML  
versions of our documentation; we do this through Framemaker already, but  
Frame has proven somewhat annoying to use, and we're gradually trending  
towards OSS products anyway.)


So I'm curious if there is a way to activate a branch through the  
command-line, e.g., using '-x '.


Any pointers on doing lyx-to-HTML conversion would be helpful also, if  
anyone is so inclined.



Best,

Ethan Metsger
([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: accentuated classical Greek

[Ethan Metsger]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:28:54 -0400, Ad & Nicole Meskens Van der Auwera  
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


I'm new to LyX. I would like to typeset classical Greek in LyX. In Latex  
the package betacode is used. Can I implement this in LYX and how do I  
use it?


Funny you should ask--I did some interlinear work this weekend.

I don't know precisely how betacode works, but using the regular Babel  
packages seemed to work well enough.  Some of the accents (e.g., a rough  
breathing+circumflex) are not properly set, but you can work around it  
using character codes.


I'm toying with my configuration; time was of the essence, so I didn't  
make any significant changes (it would've been significantly better if I'd  
used the psgreek fonts, but I haven't configured them yet).



Best,

Ethan
([EMAIL PROTECTED]; uppertank.net/ethanm)

Re: question: a way of tying paragraphs together

[Ethan Metsger]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:13:39 -0400, killermike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Is there a way of tying two paragraphs together in Lyx? That is,  
assuring that
the page will not be broken at a certain point. For example, I quite  
often
have something along the lines of "Consider this example:" followed by a  
new

paragraph that uses the quote environment.


You can probably achieve something by using the TeX widow and orphan  
penalties in the preamble:


\widowpenalty=
\clubpenalty=

may have the desired effect.

Best,

Ethan

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