Register package
Hello, I just wanted to forward this package announcement to the LyX users group. My group did all of their recent chip documentation in LyX, so this package is meant to work well with it. Matthew Lovell writes: > I have uploaded register.tar.gz to the UK incoming directory. I > would suggest that this new packaged be placed under > > macros/latex/contrib/supported/register > > The distribution is under the LPPL. > > A description of the package is as follows: > > The register package is designed for typsetting the programmable > elements in digital hardware, i.e., registers. Such registers > typically have many fields and can be quite wide; they are thus a > challenge to typeset in a consistent manner. > > Register is similar in some aspects to the bitfield package by > Reuben Thomas. Anyone doing hardware documentation using LaTeX > should examine both packages. > > Register requires a fairly recent version of the float package. -- Matthew Lovell HP Technical Computing Center
Babel in LyX 1.1.6
Hi, Lyx1.1.6 seems to be including the babel package in the resulting LaTeX code. Is there a way to turn off this behavior? It doesn't appear that I can select "none" for a language in the document settings. :) I have a thesis class which is not compatible with the babel package. All nifty features deserve an off switch, after all. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Lovell HP Scalable Computing Lab mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paragraph skip and TOC
Hi, Setting up a LyX document to block style (no paragraph indent, skip between paragraphs) also ends up affecting the Table of Contents, List of Figures, etc. The nonzero \parskip ends up getting used by @dottedtocline. I've gotten around this by putting the TOC, LOF, ... in their block and setting \parskip back to its default value inside that block. I was just wondering whether LyX should "insulate" the frontmatter lists from such document style choices. Matt -- Matthew Lovell HP Technical Solutions Lab mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Feature request
Howdy,
Don't know whether this one is already in the list...
It would be nice for LyX to support the short/long format for captions
(and perhaps for chapter/section/etc. names as well)
\caption[Short caption for TOC]{Lengthy caption for text}
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Matthew Lovell
HP Technical Solutions Lab
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Extending LyX to use paralist package
Hi, Has anyone taken a look at the paralist package available on CTAN? I'd like to extend LyX to be able to treat "compactitem", "inparaitem", and all the other new list types natively. If anyone could kindly point out the most relevant portions, I'll go RTFM. Also, is it possible to extend LyX using a file in the current working directory? I'd like the other authors using LyX in my group to pick up this "extension" without having to muck with their own .lyxrc setup. Thanks very much, Matt -- Matthew Lovell HP Technical Solutions Lab mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ghostscript zombies
Hello, I've noticed that LyX tends to leave some zombie processes around (specifically ghostscript) when using the command-line option --export. Is this a known bug? I'm using LyX-1.1.4 -- Matthew Lovell HP Technical Solutions Lab mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
twoside article
Howdy,
Lyx-1.1.4 seems to be incapable of producing an article with the
two-side option. If I select 'one side', it just produces
\documentclass{article}
but if I select 'two side' I get
\documentclass[oneside]{article}
Has anyone else seen this behavior?
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Matthew Lovell
HP Technical Solutions Lab
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Re: 2 pics on a row with both a caption
On 21 January 2000, Kees van Wijk writes:
> Does anyone know how to put two pictures next to eachother and give both the
> pictures an other caption?
>
> I allready tried to insert a table with two columns and one row to have two
> cells next to each other and then insert a figure in each cell. But the I
> can't get a caption inserted.
>
> With insert-floats-figure I get the caption to work, but I don't get
> the pictures next to each other
>
> Is there a solution??
Try minipage:
\begin{figure}[htpb]
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.45\linewidth}
{\par\centering \includegraphics{NIH/dmafig} \par}
\caption{blah blah}\label{fig:dmafig}
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.45\linewidth}
{\par\centering \includegraphics{TED/model_fit} \par}
\caption{more blah}\label{fig:model_fit}
\end{minipage}
\end{figure}
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Matthew Lovell
HP Technical Solutions Lab
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Re: vulcan?
On 14 December 1999, Matthew Lovell writes: > Has there been any discussion of supporting vulcan in LyX? > > http://www.tug.org/tug99/program/node20.html > > My question is probably premature, since I haven't even tried it out > yet. The idea itself sounds pretty good though. Sorry. The URL I provided doesn't provide much information. A PDF document can be downloaded from the URL below, however: http://www.tug.org/TUG99-web/pdf/flynn.pdf -- Matthew Lovell HP Workstation Systems Lab mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
vulcan?
Has there been any discussion of supporting vulcan in LyX? http://www.tug.org/tug99/program/node20.html My question is probably premature, since I haven't even tried it out yet. The idea itself sounds pretty good though. -- Matthew Lovell HP Workstation Systems Lab mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with multicolumn table cells
Hello,
Has anyone noticed the following problem with LyX's multicolumn
support in tables?
Choose a table cell which already has the left-edge of the column
turned on. Change it to a multicolumn cell, spanning some number of
columns. Now, take a look in preview mode (I always use postscript)
at the left edge of that cell.
The left edge of the cell is always doubled. It's as if both the
column vertical rule is present as well as rule for the multicolumn
cell itself ( \multicolumn{2}{|c|} ).
It's a very minor complaint, indeed, but it does detract from the
final document. How does one report this nit-picks to the
LyX-developer's?
Thanks!
Matt
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Matthew Lovell
HP Workstation Systems Lab
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