Re: PDF conversion tips and tricks
On Jan 8, 2008 7:30 AM, Filippo Zangheri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm asking this question to all of you, experienced LaTeX gurus, to know what are the little big tricks and special configurations you adopt for the best PDF conversion. It seems that documents written in a lot of fonts are not displayed very well by xpdf, so very frequently I'm forced to use ae package. Are there better ways to convert PDF in a good-fashioned form? There's some good information in the official LyX wiki here: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF Point #5 especially may be helpful: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 Thanks for this great resource to all contributors (including the prolific unknown!) especially Jurgen Spitzmuller (sorry about the absence of umlauts!). Oisin Feeley
Re: PDF conversion tips and tricks
On Jan 8, 2008 7:30 AM, Filippo Zangheri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm asking this question to all of you, experienced LaTeX gurus, to know what are the little big tricks and special configurations you adopt for the best PDF conversion. It seems that documents written in a lot of fonts are not displayed very well by xpdf, so very frequently I'm forced to use ae package. Are there better ways to convert PDF in a good-fashioned form? There's some good information in the official LyX wiki here: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF Point #5 especially may be helpful: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 Thanks for this great resource to all contributors (including the prolific unknown!) especially Jurgen Spitzmuller (sorry about the absence of umlauts!). Oisin Feeley
Re: PDF conversion tips and tricks
On Jan 8, 2008 7:30 AM, Filippo Zangheri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm asking this question to all of you, experienced LaTeX gurus, to know what > are the > little big tricks and special configurations you adopt for the best PDF > conversion. > > It seems that documents written in a lot of fonts are not displayed very well > by xpdf, so > very frequently I'm forced to use ae package. > > Are there better ways to convert PDF in a good-fashioned form? There's some good information in the official LyX wiki here: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF Point #5 especially may be helpful: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/PDF#toc5 Thanks for this great resource to all contributors (including the prolific "unknown"!) especially Jurgen Spitzmuller (sorry about the absence of umlauts!). Oisin Feeley
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
On Dec 28, 2007 5:18 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' input. Fedora 8: TeXLive, LyX-1.5.2 CentOS5: LyX-1.4.1 Happy New Year, Oisin Feeley
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
On Dec 28, 2007 5:18 PM, Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' input. Fedora 8: TeXLive, LyX-1.5.2 CentOS5: LyX-1.4.1 Happy New Year, Oisin Feeley
Re: fun poll: your linux distro
On Dec 28, 2007 5:18 PM, Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was just curious what everyone is using. If you'd like to respond > that's fine, if not, just ignore the message. Also, could you include > if you're running the latest LyX 1.5.3. Thanks in advance for anyones' > input. Fedora 8: TeXLive, LyX-1.5.2 CentOS5: LyX-1.4.1 Happy New Year, Oisin Feeley
TeXLive rpm packages available to Fedora 8 users
Hi, For those of us running Fedora 8 it's now easy to install TeXLive (the replacement to the no longer maintained teTeX) thanks to Red Hat's Jindrich Novy. As part of the work he's doing for the upcoming Fedora 9 Jindrich has released RPMs which are available at his personal page in a repository which can be activated as detailed here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureTexLive#head-694fe23a06614cef1588905ead64d7f2cf9edd74 Best wishes, Oisin Feeley
TeXLive rpm packages available to Fedora 8 users
Hi, For those of us running Fedora 8 it's now easy to install TeXLive (the replacement to the no longer maintained teTeX) thanks to Red Hat's Jindrich Novy. As part of the work he's doing for the upcoming Fedora 9 Jindrich has released RPMs which are available at his personal page in a repository which can be activated as detailed here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureTexLive#head-694fe23a06614cef1588905ead64d7f2cf9edd74 Best wishes, Oisin Feeley
TeXLive rpm packages available to Fedora 8 users
Hi, For those of us running Fedora 8 it's now easy to install TeXLive (the replacement to the no longer maintained teTeX) thanks to Red Hat's Jindrich Novy. As part of the work he's doing for the upcoming Fedora 9 Jindrich has released RPMs which are available at his personal page in a repository which can be activated as detailed here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/FeatureTexLive#head-694fe23a06614cef1588905ead64d7f2cf9edd74 Best wishes, Oisin Feeley
Re: jabber room
On Nov 11, 2007 12:55 PM, e-letter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a new user of lyx, intending to use it with bibtex for a phd thesis (moving from openoffice writer). I thought I'd create a jabber room for real time communication: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yours, René. I don't understand the purpose of your post. Are you asking participants on this list to move off of the list and onto using the Jabber room? If so, then I hope you're going to provide archives of the logs. That's one of the main advantages of this mailing list: people can search it's archives for solutions. Best wishes, Oisin
Re: jabber room
On Nov 11, 2007 12:55 PM, e-letter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a new user of lyx, intending to use it with bibtex for a phd thesis (moving from openoffice writer). I thought I'd create a jabber room for real time communication: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yours, René. I don't understand the purpose of your post. Are you asking participants on this list to move off of the list and onto using the Jabber room? If so, then I hope you're going to provide archives of the logs. That's one of the main advantages of this mailing list: people can search it's archives for solutions. Best wishes, Oisin
Re: jabber room
On Nov 11, 2007 12:55 PM, e-letter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a new user of lyx, intending to use it with bibtex for a phd > thesis (moving from openoffice writer). > > I thought I'd create a jabber room for real time communication: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Yours, > > René. I don't understand the purpose of your post. Are you asking participants on this list to move off of the list and onto using the Jabber room? If so, then I hope you're going to provide archives of the logs. That's one of the main advantages of this mailing list: people can search it's archives for solutions. Best wishes, Oisin
Re: accentuated classical Greek
On 10/14/07, Ad Nicole Meskens Van der Auwera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 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? If you're happy not to use betacode and instead use babel then the following might help: http://ofeeley.freeshell.org/teubner.html Best, Oisin
Re: accentuated classical Greek
On 10/14/07, Ad Nicole Meskens Van der Auwera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 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? If you're happy not to use betacode and instead use babel then the following might help: http://ofeeley.freeshell.org/teubner.html Best, Oisin
Re: accentuated classical Greek
On 10/14/07, Ad & Nicole Meskens Van der Auwera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > 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? If you're happy not to use betacode and instead use babel then the following might help: http://ofeeley.freeshell.org/teubner.html Best, Oisin
Re: MS Word to LyX?
On 9/4/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:34, Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:45, John Kane wrote: Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you might then able to import to LyX http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/index.html . I suspect the results will be VERY ugly. This looks like what I need. Oops, maybe not. I just read the specifications -- it's a Windows based program requiring Word 2002 (I have Word 97 on Windows 98) and .Net 1.1 or .Net 2.0 (I have neither, and don't want to take the time to install them because I no longer use Windows). I don't spoze there's an rtf to LaTeX converter that doesn't require Word or .Net? There are more suggestions in the FAQ section of the wiki which may be useful: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Compatibility Best wishes, Oisin Feeley
Re: MS Word to LyX?
On 9/4/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:34, Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:45, John Kane wrote: Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you might then able to import to LyX http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/index.html . I suspect the results will be VERY ugly. This looks like what I need. Oops, maybe not. I just read the specifications -- it's a Windows based program requiring Word 2002 (I have Word 97 on Windows 98) and .Net 1.1 or .Net 2.0 (I have neither, and don't want to take the time to install them because I no longer use Windows). I don't spoze there's an rtf to LaTeX converter that doesn't require Word or .Net? There are more suggestions in the FAQ section of the wiki which may be useful: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Compatibility Best wishes, Oisin Feeley
Re: MS Word to LyX?
On 9/4/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:34, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:45, John Kane wrote: > > > Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you > > > might then able to import to LyX > > > http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/index.html > > > . I suspect the results will be VERY ugly. > > > > This looks like what I need. > > Oops, maybe not. I just read the specifications -- it's a Windows based > program requiring Word 2002 (I have Word 97 on Windows 98) and .Net 1.1 > or .Net 2.0 (I have neither, and don't want to take the time to install them > because I no longer use Windows). > > I don't spoze there's an rtf to LaTeX converter that doesn't require Word > or .Net? There are more suggestions in the FAQ section of the wiki which may be useful: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/Compatibility Best wishes, Oisin Feeley
Re: Problème de téléchargement
On 8/28/07, Charlotte Bernard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bonjour, Je suis une fidèle utilisatrice de Lyx. Cependant, ce matin, j'ai eu un problème avec la version 1.5.1 que j'avais sur mon PC. Bonjour Charlotte, Quelle système d'exploitation? Je l'ai donc désinstallé mais quand je me suis connectée sur le site de Lyx pour télécharger à nouveau cette version, aucun lien de téléchargement n'est actif, comme si le serveur ftp avait des problèmes pour établir la connexion. Oui, cette matin ça ne marche pas pour mous aussi. Mais les mirrors marche bien maintenant, par example: ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/ Tu peux l'essayer? (Je m'excuse le trés mauvais Français que j'apprendre lentement), Oisin Feeley Sherbrooke, Québec
Re: Problème de téléchargement
On 8/28/07, Charlotte Bernard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bonjour, Je suis une fidèle utilisatrice de Lyx. Cependant, ce matin, j'ai eu un problème avec la version 1.5.1 que j'avais sur mon PC. Bonjour Charlotte, Quelle système d'exploitation? Je l'ai donc désinstallé mais quand je me suis connectée sur le site de Lyx pour télécharger à nouveau cette version, aucun lien de téléchargement n'est actif, comme si le serveur ftp avait des problèmes pour établir la connexion. Oui, cette matin ça ne marche pas pour mous aussi. Mais les mirrors marche bien maintenant, par example: ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/ Tu peux l'essayer? (Je m'excuse le trés mauvais Français que j'apprendre lentement), Oisin Feeley Sherbrooke, Québec
Re: Problème de téléchargement
On 8/28/07, Charlotte Bernard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bonjour, > Je suis une fidèle utilisatrice de Lyx. Cependant, ce matin, j'ai eu un > problème avec la version 1.5.1 que j'avais sur mon PC. Bonjour Charlotte, Quelle système d'exploitation? > Je l'ai donc désinstallé mais quand je me suis connectée sur le site de Lyx > pour télécharger à nouveau cette version, aucun lien de téléchargement > n'est actif, comme si le serveur ftp avait des problèmes pour établir la > connexion. Oui, cette matin ça ne marche pas pour mous aussi. Mais les mirrors marche bien maintenant, par example: ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/lyx/ Tu peux l'essayer? (Je m'excuse le trés mauvais Français que j'apprendre lentement), Oisin Feeley Sherbrooke, Québec
Re: How to export to RTF (Lyx 1.5.1, Mac OS X)
On 8/20/07, Isaac Pante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm asking myself if I shouldn't uninstall my MacTex installation and reinstall everything (any other solution is welcome). No need for that yet! Just try and see whether latex2rtf even runs at a basic level. It should do seeing as it's in your $PATH as you showed above, but let's eliminate problems one step at a time starting at the lowest level. So, just try a quick test like latex2rtf -v This is what I get when I try that: [EMAIL PROTECTED] testinglatex2rtf]$ latex2rtf -v latex2rtf 1.9.16a (Wed Aug 8 13:30:31 2007) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Written by Prahl, Lehner, Granzer, Dorner, Polzer, Trisko, Schlatterbeck. If you see output similar to the above then you have latex2rtf installed correctly and the problem is that LyX is not configured to run the command properly using the Converter. Best wishes, Oisin
Re: How to export to RTF (Lyx 1.5.1, Mac OS X)
On 8/20/07, Isaac Pante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm asking myself if I shouldn't uninstall my MacTex installation and reinstall everything (any other solution is welcome). No need for that yet! Just try and see whether latex2rtf even runs at a basic level. It should do seeing as it's in your $PATH as you showed above, but let's eliminate problems one step at a time starting at the lowest level. So, just try a quick test like latex2rtf -v This is what I get when I try that: [EMAIL PROTECTED] testinglatex2rtf]$ latex2rtf -v latex2rtf 1.9.16a (Wed Aug 8 13:30:31 2007) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Written by Prahl, Lehner, Granzer, Dorner, Polzer, Trisko, Schlatterbeck. If you see output similar to the above then you have latex2rtf installed correctly and the problem is that LyX is not configured to run the command properly using the Converter. Best wishes, Oisin
Re: How to export to RTF (Lyx 1.5.1, Mac OS X)
On 8/20/07, Isaac Pante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm asking myself if I shouldn't uninstall my MacTex installation and > reinstall everything (any other solution is welcome). No need for that yet! Just try and see whether latex2rtf even runs at a basic level. It should do seeing as it's in your $PATH as you showed above, but let's eliminate problems one step at a time starting at the lowest level. So, just try a quick test like "latex2rtf -v" This is what I get when I try that: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] testinglatex2rtf]$ latex2rtf -v latex2rtf 1.9.16a (Wed Aug 8 13:30:31 2007) Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Written by Prahl, Lehner, Granzer, Dorner, Polzer, Trisko, Schlatterbeck. " If you see output similar to the above then you have latex2rtf installed correctly and the problem is that LyX is not configured to run the command properly using the Converter. Best wishes, Oisin
Annotate PDFs with comments
A quick FYI: A while ago there was a thread on this list discussing the possibility of adding annotations to a PDF [1] using Free software, mainly as a way in which an editor can add comments on a manuscript. It seemed that there were three options: 1) purchasing Adobe Acrobat Standard; 2) waiting for the poppler library and associated tools (KDE's okular and GNOME's evince) to add this functionality; 3) using a Windows program. It seems that there's now another possibility which is a PostScript annotator flpsed [2] which has the ability to convert to/from PDF. This was mentioned in the comments to a recent Linux Journal article on working with PDFs in GNU/Linux [3]. 1. http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg54320.html 2. http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/flpsed.html 3. http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000235
Annotate PDFs with comments
A quick FYI: A while ago there was a thread on this list discussing the possibility of adding annotations to a PDF [1] using Free software, mainly as a way in which an editor can add comments on a manuscript. It seemed that there were three options: 1) purchasing Adobe Acrobat Standard; 2) waiting for the poppler library and associated tools (KDE's okular and GNOME's evince) to add this functionality; 3) using a Windows program. It seems that there's now another possibility which is a PostScript annotator flpsed [2] which has the ability to convert to/from PDF. This was mentioned in the comments to a recent Linux Journal article on working with PDFs in GNU/Linux [3]. 1. http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg54320.html 2. http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/flpsed.html 3. http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000235
Annotate PDFs with comments
A quick FYI: A while ago there was a thread on this list discussing the possibility of adding annotations to a PDF [1] using Free software, mainly as a way in which an editor can add comments on a manuscript. It seemed that there were three options: 1) purchasing Adobe Acrobat Standard; 2) waiting for the poppler library and associated tools (KDE's okular and GNOME's evince) to add this functionality; 3) using a Windows program. It seems that there's now another possibility which is a PostScript annotator "flpsed" [2] which has the ability to convert to/from PDF. This was mentioned in the comments to a recent Linux Journal article on working with PDFs in GNU/Linux [3]. 1. http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg54320.html 2. http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/flpsed.html 3. http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000235
Re: moving to linux...
On 6/6/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps some of your fonts weren't embedded, and maybe they were truetype. You can install Truetype fonts on your Linux computer. Forgive me if this is OT, but I was reminded of it it by your post. Red Hat just released replacements for the common Microsoft proprietary fonts: https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ including replacements for TimesNewRoman, Aerial and CourierNew. The second release towards the end of the year will include the full hinting necessary for perfect presentation. Anyway, a bit irrelevant to the OP, but I've been waiting for this for a while and wanted to share it! Oisin
Re: moving to linux...
On 6/6/07, Ares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] When I view my old documents (i.e. the pdf files generated by LyX on Windows) on Linux (Ubuntu 7.04) the quality is very bad. I guess this is related to the installed fonts. [snip] . Anyway you can view a sample pdf generated on my machine (BTW with pdflatex) at: http://ares001.altervista.org/job/downloads/dispense.pdf When I look at that using an Adobe7.0 plugin to Firefox it looks very nice. Perhaps you could post a screenshot indicating the problem? Otherwise you could receive as many different responses as there are combinations of PDF viewer and OS! Best wishes, Oisin
Re: moving to linux...
On 6/6/07, Steve Litt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps some of your fonts weren't embedded, and maybe they were truetype. You can install Truetype fonts on your Linux computer. Forgive me if this is OT, but I was reminded of it it by your post. Red Hat just released replacements for the common Microsoft proprietary fonts: https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ including replacements for TimesNewRoman, Aerial and CourierNew. The second release towards the end of the year will include the full hinting necessary for perfect presentation. Anyway, a bit irrelevant to the OP, but I've been waiting for this for a while and wanted to share it! Oisin
Re: moving to linux...
On 6/6/07, Ares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] When I view my old documents (i.e. the pdf files generated by LyX on Windows) on Linux (Ubuntu 7.04) the quality is very bad. I guess this is related to the installed fonts. [snip] . Anyway you can view a sample pdf generated on my machine (BTW with pdflatex) at: http://ares001.altervista.org/job/downloads/dispense.pdf When I look at that using an Adobe7.0 plugin to Firefox it looks very nice. Perhaps you could post a screenshot indicating the problem? Otherwise you could receive as many different responses as there are combinations of PDF viewer and OS! Best wishes, Oisin
Re: moving to linux...
On 6/6/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps some of your fonts weren't embedded, and maybe they were truetype. You can install Truetype fonts on your Linux computer. Forgive me if this is OT, but I was reminded of it it by your post. Red Hat just released replacements for the common Microsoft proprietary fonts: https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ including replacements for TimesNewRoman, Aerial and CourierNew. The second release towards the end of the year will include the full hinting necessary for perfect presentation. Anyway, a bit irrelevant to the OP, but I've been waiting for this for a while and wanted to share it! Oisin
Re: moving to linux...
On 6/6/07, Ares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > When I view my old documents (i.e. the pdf files generated by LyX on > Windows) on Linux (Ubuntu 7.04) the quality is very bad. I guess this > is related to the installed fonts. [snip] . Anyway you can view a sample pdf generated on my machine (BTW with pdflatex) at: http://ares001.altervista.org/job/downloads/dispense.pdf When I look at that using an Adobe7.0 plugin to Firefox it looks very nice. Perhaps you could post a screenshot indicating the problem? Otherwise you could receive as many different responses as there are combinations of PDF viewer and OS! Best wishes, Oisin
Re: Another pdf question
Comments in PDF seem to be something that's only available using the official Adobe toolchain, e.g. this comment in the discussions to a recent (end of 2006) survey of PDF applications on GNU/Linux seems to sum up the situation: http://applications.linux.com/comments.pl?sid=37658op=threshold=0commentsort=0mode=threadtid=47pid=93375#93389 It should be that with the fight over standard specifications for government documents heating up across the world Adobe will help make comments createable on GNU/Linux http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/30/iso_pdf/ For now, it seems that practically it's a very restricted format for sharing documents. Oisín
Re: Another pdf question
Comments in PDF seem to be something that's only available using the official Adobe toolchain, e.g. this comment in the discussions to a recent (end of 2006) survey of PDF applications on GNU/Linux seems to sum up the situation: http://applications.linux.com/comments.pl?sid=37658op=threshold=0commentsort=0mode=threadtid=47pid=93375#93389 It should be that with the fight over standard specifications for government documents heating up across the world Adobe will help make comments createable on GNU/Linux http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/30/iso_pdf/ For now, it seems that practically it's a very restricted format for sharing documents. Oisín
Re: Another pdf question
Comments in PDF seem to be something that's only available using the official Adobe toolchain, e.g. this comment in the discussions to a recent (end of 2006) survey of PDF applications on GNU/Linux seems to sum up the situation: http://applications.linux.com/comments.pl?sid=37658==0=0=thread=47=93375#93389 It should be that with the fight over standard specifications for government documents heating up across the world Adobe will help make comments createable on GNU/Linux http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/30/iso_pdf/ For now, it seems that practically it's a very restricted format for sharing documents. Oisín
Re: makebst urgent!
On 2/20/07, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First off, I haven't looked at this stuff for a while as I just got
what I wanted working, so these are just things to consider and I'm
throwing them out to you because you seem like you need whatever
suggestions you can get. You say:
And I did not manage to get the dbj working to change things for a slightly
changed bst. There is a diff- menu appearing when running latex djb
It's probably best that this is sorted out as the first priority!
You need to make sure that custom-bib is installed then
latex makebst
follow the prompts and the result is a yourfile.bst which is a
bibstyle definition file. You need to ensure that the package
babelbst.tex is installed and is visible to TeX (run texhash after
placing the package in the tex path (which can be determined using
kpse). If you can't find the babelbst.tex file on your distro then
make a file called e.g. babelbst.ins with these contents:
% This is babelbst.ins
\input docstrip.tex
\keepsilent
\askforoverwritefalse
\generate{%
\file{babelbst.tex}{\from{merlin.mbs}{bblbst}}%
}
\endbatchfile
\endinput
Then latex babelbst.ins and the resulting file is babelbst.tex, run
texhash etc, then can take either the (whatever you call
yourstyle.bst and place it in the tex path or else generate it from
the yourstyle.dbj using
latex yourstyle.dbj
Then go to Regenerate in LyX and then quit/restart and select this
custom style file in the bibliography button.
I have tried to make a bst file using makebst.
Unfortunately I am not familiar with all the English terms
and must have missed the place where I tell the idention
I got
Somers, D., Devlin, P. and Kay, S. (1998) Phytochromes and cryptochromes
in the entrainment of the Arabidopsis circadian clock. Science 282, 1488–
1490.
But wanted the first line left and the next lines right.
Is it acceptable to have a citation-key to the left? If so then you
might be able to use e.g. one of the authordate styles depicted
here: http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html
If you don't want e.g. [1] or [Author2022] appearing in each work
cited entry in the bibliography then you probably want to modify the
natbib style as you're doing and look into changing the values of
bibhang and bibsep (see e.g. _The LaTeX Companion_, 2nd Edition Frank
Mittelback, Michael Goosens, Johannes Brahms, David Carlisle, Chris
Rowley
12.3.2 Customizing the bibliography layout)
I hope some of the above is useful. I suspect that the problem is
that your TeX path doesn't include the new bib style or you haven't
generated it fully. That may be producing a blank indentation at the
start of each line. (You can examine some of these values using e.g.
kpsepath bib to see which directories are examined by TeX for
bibliographies or kpsepath tex to see the directories examined for
installed TeX packages. info kpsepath gives further details on
GNU/Linux or UNIX systems).
The easiest thing is that the publisher provides you with the .bst file
HTH,
Oisin Feeley
Re: makebst urgent!
On 2/20/07, Wolfgang Engelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First off, I haven't looked at this stuff for a while as I just got
what I wanted working, so these are just things to consider and I'm
throwing them out to you because you seem like you need whatever
suggestions you can get. You say:
And I did not manage to get the dbj working to change things for a slightly
changed bst. There is a diff- menu appearing when running latex djb
It's probably best that this is sorted out as the first priority!
You need to make sure that custom-bib is installed then
latex makebst
follow the prompts and the result is a yourfile.bst which is a
bibstyle definition file. You need to ensure that the package
babelbst.tex is installed and is visible to TeX (run texhash after
placing the package in the tex path (which can be determined using
kpse). If you can't find the babelbst.tex file on your distro then
make a file called e.g. babelbst.ins with these contents:
% This is babelbst.ins
\input docstrip.tex
\keepsilent
\askforoverwritefalse
\generate{%
\file{babelbst.tex}{\from{merlin.mbs}{bblbst}}%
}
\endbatchfile
\endinput
Then latex babelbst.ins and the resulting file is babelbst.tex, run
texhash etc, then can take either the (whatever you call
yourstyle.bst and place it in the tex path or else generate it from
the yourstyle.dbj using
latex yourstyle.dbj
Then go to Regenerate in LyX and then quit/restart and select this
custom style file in the bibliography button.
I have tried to make a bst file using makebst.
Unfortunately I am not familiar with all the English terms
and must have missed the place where I tell the idention
I got
Somers, D., Devlin, P. and Kay, S. (1998) Phytochromes and cryptochromes
in the entrainment of the Arabidopsis circadian clock. Science 282, 1488–
1490.
But wanted the first line left and the next lines right.
Is it acceptable to have a citation-key to the left? If so then you
might be able to use e.g. one of the authordate styles depicted
here: http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html
If you don't want e.g. [1] or [Author2022] appearing in each work
cited entry in the bibliography then you probably want to modify the
natbib style as you're doing and look into changing the values of
bibhang and bibsep (see e.g. _The LaTeX Companion_, 2nd Edition Frank
Mittelback, Michael Goosens, Johannes Brahms, David Carlisle, Chris
Rowley
12.3.2 Customizing the bibliography layout)
I hope some of the above is useful. I suspect that the problem is
that your TeX path doesn't include the new bib style or you haven't
generated it fully. That may be producing a blank indentation at the
start of each line. (You can examine some of these values using e.g.
kpsepath bib to see which directories are examined by TeX for
bibliographies or kpsepath tex to see the directories examined for
installed TeX packages. info kpsepath gives further details on
GNU/Linux or UNIX systems).
The easiest thing is that the publisher provides you with the .bst file
HTH,
Oisin Feeley
Re: makebst urgent!
On 2/20/07, Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
First off, I haven't looked at this stuff for a while as I just got
what I wanted working, so these are just things to consider and I'm
throwing them out to you because you seem like you need whatever
suggestions you can get. You say:
And I did not manage to get the dbj working to change things for a slightly
changed bst. There is a diff- menu appearing when running latex djb
It's probably best that this is sorted out as the first priority!
You need to make sure that custom-bib is installed then
latex makebst
follow the prompts and the result is a yourfile.bst which is a
bibstyle definition file. You need to ensure that the package
babelbst.tex is installed and is visible to TeX (run texhash after
placing the package in the tex path (which can be determined using
"kpse). If you can't find the babelbst.tex file on your distro then
make a file called e.g. babelbst.ins with these contents:
% This is babelbst.ins
\input docstrip.tex
\keepsilent
\askforoverwritefalse
\generate{%
\file{babelbst.tex}{\from{merlin.mbs}{bblbst}}%
}
\endbatchfile
\endinput
Then latex babelbst.ins and the resulting file is babelbst.tex, run
texhash etc, then can take either the (whatever you call
"yourstyle.bst" and place it in the tex path or else generate it from
the yourstyle.dbj using
latex yourstyle.dbj
Then go to Regenerate in LyX and then quit/restart and select this
custom style file in the bibliography button.
I have tried to make a bst file using makebst.
Unfortunately I am not familiar with all the English terms
and must have missed the place where I tell the idention
I got
Somers, D., Devlin, P. and Kay, S. (1998) Phytochromes and cryptochromes
in the entrainment of the Arabidopsis circadian clock. Science 282, 1488–
1490.
But wanted the first line left and the next lines right.
Is it acceptable to have a citation-key to the left? If so then you
might be able to use e.g. one of the "authordate" styles depicted
here: http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html
If you don't want e.g. [1] or [Author2022] appearing in each work
cited entry in the bibliography then you probably want to modify the
natbib style as you're doing and look into changing the values of
bibhang and bibsep (see e.g. _The LaTeX Companion_, 2nd Edition Frank
Mittelback, Michael Goosens, Johannes Brahms, David Carlisle, Chris
Rowley
12.3.2 Customizing the bibliography layout)
I hope some of the above is useful. I suspect that the problem is
that your TeX path doesn't include the new bib style or you haven't
generated it fully. That may be producing a blank indentation at the
start of each line. (You can examine some of these values using e.g.
"kpsepath bib" to see which directories are examined by TeX for
bibliographies or "kpsepath tex" to see the directories examined for
installed TeX packages. "info kpsepath" gives further details on
GNU/Linux or UNIX systems).
The easiest thing is that the publisher provides you with the .bst file
HTH,
Oisin Feeley
