I'm using the lyx "file input" control to input a child.lyx
document within a master foo.lyx
The child is being worked on and updated elswhere.
The only way I can get the master, foo.pdf,
output to find changes in the child.lyx is to restart lyx.
q. Is there an easier way?
Rob
Hi Wolfgang,
I'm glad they were helpful:
On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 10:36 +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
> Am Montag, 10. Dezember 2012, 21:31:25 schrieben Sie:
>
> Hi, Rob,
>
> has this been done already:
>
> TeXLive 2009 is included with Ubuntu 10.04, if you are ab
If you're going to go the customization route, this might be of help:
http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2009/11/02/custom-lyx-nih
It talks about creating a custom layout for an existing document class.
Related posts with more examples can be found at:
http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2009/11/1
On Wed, 2012-11-21 at 16:36 +0100, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Alan R. Bleier wrote:
> > I agree completely with Trevor.
> >
> I completely disagree with Trevor. Hitting double space [to get a full
> stop] is as unnatural and unhelpful as it gets. This may make some
>
symbols used in the text.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Rob
been
using aging copies of Maple for symbolic computation, and this looks
like it will allow me to modernize. (I don't actually have to do much
symbolic math, so it hasn't been that big of a deal.)
Being able to work from within LyX, in a manner very similar to the way
I work with R cod
would appear to compile, but new documents might not?
I'm using LyX 2.1 (SVN) on Ubuntu 12.04, with a custom TeX Live 2011
install.
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Rob
roperties dialog. Right click on the Table > Settings > Longtable (Tab).
>From there, you'll see an option for Caption at the bottom of the "Row"
settings. Just enable "Use long table" box, and then click on the
"Caption" box. It will add in a label for you t
t's still a workaround, but I think it's much cleaner than requiring
markup/markdown/chickenscratch inside of LyX (even if the option is
complete optional controlled by a deeply buried preference somewhere).
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Rob
encies. If
so, it might be downloading a lot of extra TeX packages that aren't needed.
Regardless, I would definitely get in touch with the Ubuntu project. To
the best of my knowledge, they don't subscribe to this list, and it's
something that they will want to hear about.
Cheers,
Rob
er.
As a first pass, I'd recommend supporting paragraph and character
styles, tables, images, and footnotes. Once you've got the basics
started, it's pretty to add additional features as you go (or at least,
that's what I've found).
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Rob
to:
https://code.launchpad.net/~lyx-outline-devel/lyx-outline/lyx-word
If there is anyone who might be interested in helping work on the code, please
let me know and I'll give you access to the repository. merge requests are very
welcome.
Cheers,
Rob
o make it work
correctly. It's also a larger problem set that I want to right now. Once I've
got the Word import working, including track changes and notes (and probably
maths, too), I'll be more willing to come back and take a look at it.
But as I said earlier, if there's someone who would like to jump on board and
work with Word export (lyx2word), I'll be happy to coordinate and work with
them, too.
Cheers,
Rob
Leopard uses Python 2.6, whereas I tested it against Python 2.7 (which can be
found in Lion and in most Linux distributions). The problem is how I'm
importing the XML module and needs to be reworked.
I'll get to this a little bit later today and post a fix as soon as I can.
Cheers,
Rob
please let me know. (Mostly so I can
fix the problems.)
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Rob
the same file with a colleague and track the whole change
history, that's very, very difficult. Possible, but really hard.
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Rob
;inputfile.docx" "outputfile.lyx"
Is there any way to look at the debug output to try and track what might
be causing the error.
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Rob
as it requires quite a bit more infrastructure to support.
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Rob
;ll release the 0.1 version (which will still
need quite some cleaning up) early next week.
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Rob
on for the LyX document? If possible, I'd like to be able to
get some sort of iterable object that could be used to translate the
structure into the XML structure used by Microsoft Word.
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Rob
ribing how to translate the XHTML.
Which brings us to an important point: there's already a pretty good LyX ->
XHTML -> LibreOffice -> Word pathway for translating documents. Unless I
directly implement Word as another backend (which, while a lot of work, isn't
difficult), I'm not sure there's much reason for a direct MS Word export. The
real need seems to be for an MS Word import, anyway.
Cheers,
Rob
ably be slower, and it will be much more hard to write, but for
> practical purposes there won't be an upper limit on input file size.
Good points. The python library makes use of lxml, which supports sax. After
I've got a better handle on my constraints, I'll spend the time required to
design something more robust.
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Rob
head
around them, I thought I would ask.
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Rob
ugh, I would appreciate
comments on the posts or private mail. (I don't want to spam uninterested
parties.)
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Rob
remove the
placeholder entries, or define them further.
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Rob
uld be supported would be very
nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only docx support) would
also be very helpful.
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Rob
es"?
5. Just how important do you consider "round-tripping" a document,
e.g., going from LyX to Word and back to LyX.
6. Is there anyone who might be interested in collaborating on this?
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
One of the
input formats is HTML/XHTML. It would probably be pretty easy to add a
converter for it.
Cheers,
Rob
ist.front();
>footlist.pop_front();
>...
>// Something like this must be legal
>// I think this trick should simplify much of your code...
>xs << foot->InsetFootlike::xhtml();
I'll look into implementing this tonight. Having this stuff working for the
demo I'm doing tomorrow would be great
Cheers,
Rob
t reasons? (I'm currently looking into the situations
raised by Steve.)
I've been delving into various ePub resources and I'm cleaning up the HTML
based on HTML5 best practices, but it would be useful to know where else I can
focus my attention.
Cheers,
Rob
I'd appreciate any comments.
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Rob Oakes
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I am working on an ePub compatible module right now (document class at any
rate). It's for a talk I'm giving at a publishing conference next week. I will
try and post something about it next week.
Does anyone know of a visual CSS editor that is open source? I'm trying to find
something that can
-Script, Memoir, Standard Book)?
How did you end up working with the references? Was BibLaTeX somehow
involved?
Cheers,
Rob
#x27;m not quite sure what the best way to fix it is (short of
preventing the package from loading).
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Rob
h matters because I've been testing the outline additions,
and it makes updating other people's install of LyX-Outline rather than having
to package it, which I haven't had time to work out.)
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Rob
eX distribution
installed alongside LyX.
> I had some problems with biblatex/biber (which I also used instead of
> bibtex) but no problems with Lualatex.
I'd be really interested in hearing about using biber and biblatex. I'm really
interested in moving away from bibtex to something else, and I've heard really
good things.
Cheers,
Rob
implement and probably not worth the trouble.
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Rob
ges which might be helpful, but they aren't
specifically tied to invoices or quotes. What sorts of features were you
specifically looking for.
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Rob
le to move the shortcut between systems without always needing to
create it where I happen to be working.
Anyone know if this is possible?
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Rob
g similar to these [2]. Having help would be
marvelous.
Any interest?
Cheers,
Rob
_
Legal Note (Since I know someone will ask):
I plan on releasing nearly all of the templates, videos and other materials
from the book under a Creative Commons Attribution license. Hopeful
I have searched and not found and answer, so apologise if there is one.
We use Lyx 2.0.1 compiled from source on Ubuntu 10.10 with JabRef to manage
biblatex bibliography. In the last few days, in numeric quotation style we use
for masters assignments, has started adding the author before the numbe
> Rob Oakes has also done some work along these lines, but starting with
> LyX's internal XHTML export.
Yes, and still working on it. For plain vanilla books, LyX does a fantastic job
for exporting to XHTML (and from there to ePub). But there are a couple of
sticking points that aren
> website: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/19/latex-cv-part4 and used
>> the .zip there provided. After that, I tried to make a PDF output of the
>> example
>> LyX's file included. Won't compile, the legend "No \title given." pops up. I
>&g
that it doesn't preserve color quite as
well.
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Rob
heers,
Rob
ot;exclusive branding."
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Rob
to PDF.
I understand this isn't perfect, but it will let you target both print and web
with the same text. It also lets you add other components to your web branch
that might not make sense in a print document or vice/versa.
Cheers,
Rob
o cents, though.
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Rob
:
/etc/texmf/dvipdfm/dvipdfmx.cfg
Comment out: "f pdftex.map"
Uncomment: "f dvipdfm.map"
I haven't had any trouble with newer versions (either that shipped in TeX Live
2009, or 2010).
Cheers,
Rob
x27;m curious about, though, is if there is an HTML import script. That's a
part of LyX I haven't played with at all.
Cheers,
Rob
user base.
Many of the other projects who were accepted seem to have dedicated
marketing/promotion teams. Would it be worth trying to organize such an
endeavor for LyX? It might provide a great way for less code savvy types to
contribute to the project.
Cheers,
Rob
>
> This is just one man's opinion, but I never use the document class's features
> for the front matter. I just use custom environments and ERT (embedded LaTeX)
> to place all elements of the front matter -- the title, the author, the cover
> image, the copyright page, the dedication and ackno
ph text and then the source.
Like in the case of the last example, is there a way to create a custom "opt"
inset that could have "Epigraph Source" for the label and could be added from
"Insert > Custom > Epgraph Source". I wasn't able to find a readily obvious
answer.
Cheers,
Rob
t; Short Title" in order to
add a caption. This seems confusing, from a usability standpoint. I would
prefer to have a custom inset that they can add that says
"Custom:Side_Caption". Is there any way to create a custom "opt" inset? Even
after RTFMing, I was not able to find one.
Thoughts would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Rob
uld be a very
nice addition to the memoir layout that currently ships with LyX 2. Would it be
too late to incorporate it?)
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Rob
t be converted. I also had good luck with
the conversion detailed in the article link that I sent. Again, it produced
very clean input, though there were some limitations.
Any thoughts on how we might make it more approachable for the casual LyX user?
Cheers,
Rob
ls as well so that you can automate the entire process.
Cheers,
Rob
them packaged with Sigil is a little onerous. Being able to tell LyX to
create a separate stylesheet to which we link would be a much better solution.
Cheers,
Rob
orted, would this be a very complicated addition to the
existing code, might it be possible to submit a patch (now that we're in beta
testing)? If not too complicated, I would be happy to take a stab at
implementing a patch. (Unfortunately, I'm not very familiar with the HTML code.)
Cheers,
Rob
;t seem to find an option in the Document Settings, Preferences or Menus.
Cheers,
Rob
This is a stupid question, but I'll go ahead and ask it anyway. What happens
when you to export to PDF? Is there any particular reason you need a DVI file?
(It's an old format and not very well supported. PDF is a much better
alternative.)
Cheers,
Rob
s pretty
straightforward, but requires a bit of additional work in LyX 1.6.
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Rob
heads (e.g. Illustration Here | Chapter Heading),
this command is something of a godsend. It would be awesome if I could create
an "Even Page" break, in much the same way that the "Clear Double Page" break
works now.
Anyone have ideas? I didn't see anything on it in the advanced manual.
Cheers,
Rob
the same page. It will also use a different numbering
scheme (a,b,c ... if using the standard classes) and not screw up your document
footnote numbering.
Cheers,
Rob Oakes
would be helpful, I would be happy to send
them. The flip side of this particular bargain, though, is that I need
feedback on their content (cue diabolical music). It would be wonderful to
get that from someone in the target audience. If interested, please email
me privately and I'll se
ut I should probably include the
requisite disclaimer: your mileage may vary.
If you have any troubles or if something isn't clear, let me know. I'm off
work this week to try and get the book done and will be watching the list.
Cheers,
Rob
Attached:
1.) Sample LyX document,
agreeable here, but I think you underestimate the
quality of your own work. When LyX 2 is finally released, you deserve a party.
LyX has gone from being a good program to being an exceptional one and I, for
one, applaud you for that.
Cheers,
Rob
He preaches frontmatter design in a layout tool --
fingerpainting -- as gospel.)
Hope this is of some help.
Cheers,
Rob
cuments this morning, they looked
noticeably better. (Which isn't to say they looked poor last night.)
Also, it seems to work very well with LyX. I have not yet had any trouble,
even when compiling absurdly complicated things (like my book draft).
Anyway, I thought I would let you know.
Cheers,
Rob
e with UTF characters, though. I
probably could have gotten it sorted out, but didn't really want to fuss with
it.
I will update the wiki when I get a moment. (I'm also going to have a go with
fontspec and see if I can get the problems sorted).
Cheers,
Rob
pecific with your earlier questions, i will also try and
provide additional help for those as well.
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Rob
break
terribly, and that it might corrupt my mind and force me to sacrifice my first
born. But I'm kind of curious to experiment. Has anyone spent any time using
luaTeX from within LyX? Care to comment on just how broken things were?
Cheers,
Rob
erting code with the TeX Code Inset (Insert >
TeX Code). I've never really used this particular package, so I don't know how
complicated it is. If it's somewhat ugly, I could possibly help create a module
to simplify things.
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Rob Oakes
the same thing while keeping the text clean and readable.
The goal should be to focus attention, not create additional work.
Just my two cents, though.
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Rob
MikTeX problem.)
Anyone seen something similar and come up with a way to remedy the
problem? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Rob
equest for references is mostly so that I can describe the conventions
correctly. I'm probably going to need to re-write a major section.)
Again, thanks for responding. I appreciate that the information is only
tangentially related to LyX (and of only marginal interest to most), but I'd
really like to get things right.
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Rob
there anyone who's had a contrary experience?
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Rob
confirm
it.
Does anyone know definitively or know of reference that says?
Thanks,
Rob
sonally familiar. I'm interested in picking the collective mind to see
if there is anything obvious that I've missed.
Of course, incorporating examples is even better. It's one thing to discuss
what's possible, it's much better to show it.
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Rob
d, though, you've made this chapter very hard to write
and I consider that greatly unfair, albeit in a very good way.)
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Rob
e is a clear use-case where it can be
helpful, count me interested. I'd just like to see it done "right."
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Rob
o, if the feature doesn't fit
within LyX, perhaps we could send the use case scenarios and discussion to
another project where it did fit? The natural fit, at least to my mind, would
be one of the IM clients. Perhaps Empathy?
Anyone else have any thoughts?
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Rob Oakes
are all
very nice people.
Cheers,
Rob
On Sep 16, 2010, at 6:58 PM, emant777 wrote:
>
> This might be an obvious question but I can't figure out how to make the
> layout file itself.
> I was reading http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/CreatingLayouts
> and I
feel free to let me know.
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Rob
Crazy-Ones.lyx
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happy.
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Rob
On Aug 31, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2010-08-31, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>
>> This is due to the fact how frames are defined in LyX. Unfortunately, this
>> rules out native support for fragile frames (unless someone comes up with
character/paragraph styles in addition to custom insets.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to write back to the list.
Most of the people here are very nice (I might be the one major
exception) and are willing to help.
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Rob
me to the question in the front of my mind. Should we create
another Ubuntu/Debian package for LyX that doesn't require the system LaTeX
packages?
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Rob
en SuSe
equivalents) and post installation instructions somewhere on the website. If
an advanced user is willing to set up a custom LaTeX distribution, surely they
are motivated enough to seek out LyX options that don't require system packages?
Just my two cents, though.
Cheers,
Rob
/speaking notes.
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Rob
dy been installing from source, though, you may wish to
continue with that. It makes updating to newer versions significantly
easier, and it sounds as though you've already made the initial time
investment (which is what I find killer).
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Rob
ro, BibTeX, Mendely, LaTeX,
Inkscape and Scribus) and describing how they work together.
If this interests you at all, and you are in the Salt Lake area, please
come. It would be wonderful to put faces to email addresses.
/End Shameless Self Promotion
Cheers,
Rob
Warnock Engineering Buildin
blems,
please let me know.
Cheers,
Rob
PS, if there is interest from the developer/user community, I would also
be happy to create a PPA for the latest alpha of LyX 2 (or we on the
betas yet?). To prevent it from destroying your system, though, I would
need to patch the packaging files and in
port for fancyhdr in the
Document Settings pane. It's not something I've experimented with much, but
you could probably get a long ways without needing to write much ERT.
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Rob
ven't been able to check trac.
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Rob
Begin forwarded message:
> From: StefanPotyra
> Date: August 16, 2010 9:42:45 AM MDT
> To: lyx-de...@oak-tree.us
> Subject: [Bug 618690] Re: Sync lyx 1.6.7-1 (universe) from Debian testing
> (main)
> Reply-To: Bug 618690 <618
nd I get a wide range of feedback that helps to improve my various
projects.
Cheers,
Rob
On Aug 16, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Hellmut Weber wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> thanks for your quick answer ;-)
>
> Now i got the layout file.
>
> I ran into little problems because it seems the docume
the
process is somewhat complicated, it wouldn't be too hard to automate it with
python or similar language. It also has the advantage of not relying on a copy
of OpenOffice (which given the recent Oracle/Google nastiness, I'm not sure
that I trust anymore).
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Rob
On Aug 16
problems, or any other feedback you
might have. I'm an attention whore and love hearing about how things work
(especially if they don't work, so that I can fix any problems).
Cheers,
Rob
On Aug 15, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Hellmut Weber wrote:
> Hi Rob
> thanks for sharing th
ok.
Just wait until you are finished, though, and know what type of effect
you want to achieve. It will save you hours of tinkering. For working
drafts, use Latin Modern.
Cheers,
Rob
I also, couldn't agree more. I tend to hide my modifications as new
document classes ... but front-matter should be finger painted. After
that, though, I don't want to see or think about ERT.
On 08/11/2010 12:40 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:19:43 -0400
Steve Litt wrote:
ged the source again this morning. It incorporates a lot of
bugfixes that may have been specific to your problems. (In addition to
fixing a small memory leak that I found with the Corkboard.)
Might be worth a try to see if it speeds up LyX for you.
Cheers,
Rob
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