> Yeah! And to prove this statement I've attached some examples.
I couldn't open your attachment with 7zip on Windows.
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
> That looks beautiful. AS I have no idea how python works, co-author
> would probably better.
Python is the best scripting (and general purpose programming) language
ever invented. Not only for scientists.
If you're using a computer intensively to earn your living, you *should*
learn it. Otherw
> Should you experience any difficulties, please
> send an email to the user list (lyx-users@lists.lyx.org), the
> development list (lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org), or file a bug report
> (http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome).
The installer LyX-2.1.0-Installer-2.exe seems to be flawed. It wants
> Thanks, I was not aware of that LyTeX is still alive.
> Apparently this version writes something to the registry (this can
> also be done by portable versions). However, I wonder that they
> provided a beta version as portable LyTeX
They don't, at least not for me.
I installed the version they
> > LyX is already installed.
> > Please uninstall LyX first.
> >
> > WTF?!
> >
> > First, this error message is *wrong*, since I don't have LyX
> > "installed". I use it in portable mode.
>
> Can you give me more information please. What LyX version are you
> using?
LyX Version 2.1.0beta2
(Sonnt
> You can download LyX 2.1.0rc1 from ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/.
>
> We hope you will enjoy the result!
LyX is already installed.
Please uninstall LyX first.
WTF?!
First, this error message is *wrong*, since I don't have LyX
"installed". I use it in portable mode.
Second, what's that bul
> > When working on a specific large document (about 50 pages as a PDF),
> > LyX does a very annoying thing where it freezes for about 4-5
> > seconds about once a minute.
Can you switch to other running applications during those 4-5 seconds?
Are those applications responsive or are they frozen,
> I am Arun from www.ilovefreesoftware.com. We recently reviewed Lyx on
> our website here:
And it seems that you've missed the *essential* distinctive advantages
of LyX/LaTeX such as
- structure markup (instead of "finger painting")
- typographic quality of the (PDF) output
SIncerely,
Wolfgan
> You think you are owed an explanation of how everything you download
> and run works. That could be a mistake. These licenses generally
> state, "AS IS WITH NO WARRANTY OR MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A
> PARTICULAR PURPOSE". Its usually printed all or in part in all
> captial letters.
And tha
> LyX strives to offer an authoring environment that requires no (or
> truly minimal) knowledge of LaTeX.
And this feature is pretty foolproof.
As proven by this fool. >;->
> In practice, however, rudimentary LaTeX knowledge is always required
> when working with LyX,
You can learn all that fr
> > > And I say this as a LyX-only writer for the past 15 years or so.
> >
> > The first public LyX version was when? Can't have been much longer
> > than 10 years ago.
That was a typo and should have been 15, as the original message said.
I know Lyrix was implemented first using XForms some tim
> Version 1.0.0 of the software was released in 1999.
> by the way, in Tübingen, my home town
And it's hosted at one of my almae matres.
At least the FTP server.
>;->
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
> Today I read about Microsoft planning to unleash polychromatic fonts
> on the world. What do you make of them? As far as I can see, they're
> an ungodly monstrosity:
> http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2013/08/polychromatic-digital-type
What does MS know of typography.
It took them somethi
> The new (4.0 IIRC) version of LibreOffice had problems on the Mac
I'm at 4.1.
But I don't have a clue of its math support, since I wouldn't use it
for writing documents anyway.
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
> BTW, not to tamper enthusiasms, but the "standard" output of
> LaTeX/TeX is not quite (yet) at the level that a professional
> typesetter would produce.
Obviously, an experienced competent human being will (almost) always be
able to deliver better results than *any* algorithm.
But since I am a
> > The only case where I still prefer to use LO over LyX is
> > generation of documents from databases.
>
> That I do with LaTeX and Perl (such as pulling out VAT out of my
> accounting package SQL-Ledger and printing it onto the scanned
> form :-)-O
That's exactly why I prefer to use LO for such
I forgot to mention one "minus", btw:
Compared to XML, with LyX/LaTeX you can't *enforce* compliance of
documents with a given structure, like with XML schemas and validating
editors. That can be a nuisance in an environment with several authors.
> I literally cannot use Word or its clones for an
> I'm always looking for software that fits me better, giving me the
> output I'm looking for.
>
> I'm interested in knowing what users of LyX think of the idea of
> using it as a general word processor, instead of MS Word, Libre
> Office, Apple's Pages, etc.
>
> Pluses? Minuses?
Since I've st
> Now I'd like to ask another favor: a quicker way to apply character
> styles. As it stands now,
>
> * Highlight
> * rightclick
> * Select Text Style to pop up the text style menu
> * Select your character style off that popup.
Applications with a well-dsigned GUI use a listbox that can be floa
> No, I'm using a derivative of the LaTeX Book style. Shouldn't I be
> able to export to docbook anyway?
Of course not, since the document structure(s) won't match.
To be able to export to docbook, you need to use a LaTeX document class
that matches the docbook structure.
And even then, LyX afai
> I think also inkscape can export to tikz via some plugin.
http://code.google.com/p/inkscape2tikz/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eps2pgf/
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
> > of course he's right, but then he can google what DILLIGAF stands
> > for :-)-O
> No he can't, with comments like
> /"open source programs have great appeal for people who want to
> tinker with computers but almost none for those who actually want to
> do something."/
>
> He would not be able
> Where could I find beamer documentation on how to customize or adjust
> a template according to my liking (in the document's preamble)? The
> user guide is quite long still superficial regarding this. For
> example I would like to change the sizes and positioning of the
> headline and footline, c
> But I can tell you this guy is going to come back and say he's a great
> and mighty best selling author, ask how many books have I sold. While
> books provide a part of my income, I have no best sellers, either now
> or in the past.
>
> So, when he comes back and asks that, it would be *wonderfu
> Anyone here using LuaTeX with LyX?
Me.
The reason is the combined support for opentype typefaces and microtype.
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
> > Personally, I hate ribbon menus from the bottom of my heart. I find
> > them quite difficult to use, it takes ages to find what you are
> > looking for. Quite probably they are ok when you get used to them,
> > but there is really no need for all to go the M$ way.
>
> This is also my judgeme
> I have a feature request if this is not already requested to you:
> Ribbon Menus.
> What are your opinions about this? Is this approach correct to you?
Anti-ergonomic garbage.
"Ribbon menus" are a cerebral flatulance emanating from some product
manager's "brain" at MS.
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
> I occasionally teach a "How to use MS Word"
That would be a rather short lesson:
*Not*.
SCNR.
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
> The selling point to adopting LyX, at least for some tasks, was the
> table editing.
*cough*
This is one of the issues where LyX still needs quite a bit of work
imho.
As it is now, it's pretty unusable, unless you hard-code column (or
table) widths in your document.
LyX doesn't even show a ho
> just tried to typeset an article with two-column layout and am now
> faced with the problem that the text rows on the right hand are not
> vertically aligned to the one on the left hand (probably because of
> section titles?).
>
> Is there any option to force Lyx / Latex to ensure that the text
ffamily\upshape}
In LyX, this command would have to be included in the preamble, in
Documents->Settings->Preamble. Preferably at the last line.
Sincerely,
Wolfgang Keller
> I would like lyx to track my changes without showing
> them to me (and clatter the editor).
>
> What am I missing?
Use of Subversion?
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
Hint: This list is international, so english language is preferred.
At least if you would like to get an answer. >;->
> - dann unter "Dateiformate" "pdflatex" ausgewählt und als
> Anzeigeporgramm "SumatraPDF" eingetragen.
Hier habe ich den vollen Pfad zu SumatraPDF eingegeben. Bei mir
funktioni
> Perhaps the best for now is dia.
Have you tried yEd?
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
> Can you please make a few suggestions.
Depends on what you need. Some that haven't been mentioned yet:
- yEd www.yworks.com
- sK1 sk1project.org
- Xara www.xaraxtreme.org
- On MacOS X: Omnigraffle, of course
Wikipedia is very helpful when searching for (especially
free open-source-)software.
> I'm getting this strange compilation error.
Compiles perfectly here with LyX 2.0.4 and up-to-date TeX Live 2011.
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
> As you know I use Vim for Beamer authoring instead of LyX. Is there a
> good mailing list that specializes in Beamer?
The only one I know is beamer-cl...@googlegroups.com
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
Hello,
and yet another issue with beamer and LyX:
Somehow, the list item bullets in the attached document get lost when
compiling to PDF. And this seems to be independent of whether I use
XeTeX or not.
Any idea what I have overseen?
TIA,
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
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Hello,
in a beamer presentation (see attached minimal example), I want to
uncover a (labelled) list line by line, _including_ the labels for each
line. If I place the ERT with \uncover{ in front of the label, this
yields an error due to mismatching of ] and }.
How do I place the ERT with \uncover
Hello,
I couldn't fin dany usable documentation on the "advanced search"
function in LyX. The document at
http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/lib/doc/AdvancedSearch.lyx
seems to be corrupt, at least my Lyx couldn't open it. The Youtube
video is not understandable to me.
The thing I am
Hello,
and thanks for your reply.
> What is your document class?
Beamer, but the problem is independent from the document.
> What LyX version?
2.0.2, the latest one from the LyX FTP server, for Windows.
> What language?
German.
> Enumitem does not define a "List" layout.
>From the documen
> Are you sure that you have loaded the 'enumitem' module in the
> document where you're inserting the customized list?
Yes I am sure that I have loaded it.
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
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Hello,
what could be wrong when Lyx (2.0.2 on Windows) tells me that
"Layout List not known" (in the status bar)
when I want to insert a "customised list"?
I have read the user guide and tried out the enumitem example. The
example works, I can even copy a customised list into my document and
i
Sorry, the previous message should have been translated to english
before accidently hitting "Send".
Hello,
for a given document, I need to use XeTeX (OTF-font). LyX claims in the
protocol that:
> Babel and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
> nohyphenation, ge rman-x-2011-07-01, ngerman
Hallo,
für ein bestimmtes Dokument muß ich (OTF-Schrift) leider XeTeX
verwenden. LyX behauptet zwar im Protokoll, daß:
> Babel and hyphenation patterns for english, dumylang,
> nohyphenation, ge rman-x-2011-07-01, ngerman-x-2011-07-01, basque,
> ukenglish, usenglishmax, frenc h, german, ngerman,
> Example situation: user_1 writes the text and sends it to user_2 and
> user_3; they both simultaneously make changes and return their
> corrections to user_1.
Seems that you want to learn the basics of how to use a revision
control system. Just read the Subversion book. It's freely available
as
Hello,
I've been successfully using LyX (currently 2.0) as a portable
application together with TeXlive 2010 on Windows (XP & Vista) for
quite some time. After switching to XeTeX for some documents with
Opentype fonts, and only on some computers, XeTeX will not run through
but immediately exit a
> Is there a way to use LyX in Portable Mode without installing MiKTeX?
Yes [1].
> I want to be able to edit TeX files
While LyX uses (La)TeX to produce PDF, it does not use "native" (La)TeX
internally. And importing (La)TeX into LyX is not exactly seamless.
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
[1] I'm using
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:02:49 +0100
Wolfgang Keller wrote:
> > Note that this installer is based on fresh new code different from
> > 1.6 series and needs some testing from you.
>
> This doesn't work with SumatraPDF(portable). It simply won't open the
> viewer wind
> Note that this installer is based on fresh new code different from
> 1.6 series and needs some testing from you.
This doesn't work with SumatraPDF(portable). It simply won't open the
viewer window when I hit the "view" button.
With 1.6.9, it did.
So with 2.0, I can only use Adobe Reader X-( --
> LyTeX included portable versions of MikTeX and LyX and works fine. No
> other LaTeX-Distribution is needed.
I'm using LyX together with TexLive, both "portable".
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
> > > If someone try it, please give some feedback about how it is
> > > working.
> > It doesn't. At least not for me. When I double-click the lyx.exe
> > in ./bin, it complains that it cannot find some msvcp100d.dll.
> Probably you don't have MSVC Runtime installed.
> http://www.microsoft.com/do
> If someone try it, please give some feedback about how it is working.
It doesn't. At least not for me. When I double-click the lyx.exe
in ./bin, it complains that it cannot find some msvcp100d.dll.
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
> How can I change the vertical space between list items and also the
> row height in tables?
\duck{
The "spaghetti" approach would be to manually insert vertical space.
}
The more "structured" approach to "custom" list formatting is probably
by \usepackage{enumitem}.
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
Hello,
I've asked for this already, and I will keep reposting this question...
Could PLEASE someone finally upload either:
- an installer that works WITHOUT ADMIN RIGHTS
or
- an installer-less (zip) package
for Lyx 1.6.8 (and also for 2.0beta) to ftp.lyx.org?
These used to be available for a
Hello,
would it be possible to put also an installer-less zip archive (for
Windows) for LyX 2.0alpha on ftp.lyx.org?
\rant{
I have no clue what those "installers" are meant to be good for - Oh,
wait, maybe they are meant to prevent users from being able to use the
software they need to get thei
Hello,
> A decent latex editor built on top of google docs.
"Decent" and "Google apps" are mutually exclusive.
Google apps is just yet another proof how ridiculously unusable _all_ "web
apps" are for getting actual work done efficiently. And all that with
ridiculously high development effort a
> If I choose Times Roman for roman font, what font I must to choose for sans
> serif font If I want to obtain an aesthetically coherent aspect?
Linux Libertine is a very nice replacement for Times. It's also quite narrow,
so it's perfect for a two-column layout.
And it comes with a correspon
> Does anybody use LyX to document python code? Any hints?
PyLit already allows to round-trip between Python code with embedded ReST
comments and ReST documents with embedded Python code blocks. From ReST, you
can then convert to LaTeX, which should be somewhat importable to LyX.
However, I hav
Hello,
sorry for replying sooo late.
> I do not have administrative privileges at work computers but am so dependent
> on using lyx for my writing and want to be able to use it on a USB drive or a
> network drive that I have access to. I wondered if anyone has used Lytex as
> suggested in the
> > Personally, I like Linux Libertine. But I'm just an amateur.
>
> Can libertine be used without having to mess with xetex? Is there good
> latex support for it?
"Good"? It depends. For me the version from CTAN is ok. >;->
Sincerely,
Wolfgang
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Hello,
> What are the best fonts fdor readability.
It depends. >;->
On the output medium, the output process, the specific application...
If you can afford it, Sabon (Next) has an excellent reputation as book font.
And Syntax (Next) is generally considered the sans-serif counterpart to Sabon.
Hello,
> But before I start writing, I'd like to ask if there are any good
> resources on using LyX for writing what is essentially a book on
> programming.
You'd probably want to have a look at koma-script:
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/koma-script/scrguien.pdf
Sincerely,
> > In fact in collaborative environments (e.g. companies), where several
> > people work together on the same document, Word documents _always_ end up
> > like that - A hopelessly tangled spaghetti mess. In fact I never managed
> > to figure out how to copy and paste content from two different ver
> Just the same as I do on the LyX list, I brought up the fact that if you want
> to, you can do styles based authoring on MS Word just as easily as on TeX or
> LaTeX or LyX, and in fact I've written a complete book in WordPerfect 5.1 and
> another in MS Word, using nothing but styles. And of co
> A pretty example can be seen at
> http://vecinos-productions.com/rayleigh/book.html
It even validates.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fvecinos-productions.com%2Frayleigh%2Fbook.html&charset=
(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0&verbose=1
Please make sure this remains s
> > perhaps a live CD with a whatever-Lyx would be helpful to
> > demonstrate its merrit to those who care
>
> Actually, a complete installation of LyX, LaTeX and various software
> on a CD could be a good idea, assuming it can be run without
> installing it. I'm not sure it's feasible though.
I'
> could you post a small example file? I'm unable to reproduce the
> problem.
I've narrowed the source of the problem down to the use of a symbol I
use: \textopenbullet{}, together with the kpfonts.
The workaround is to use the ifsym package.
Try this:
% Quellcode vorschauen
%% LyX 1.6.1 creat
> > where can I tell Lyx once forever that it shall load the "textcomp"
> > package always with the option "full", because this is required by
> > certain other packages?
>
> You can pass the "full" option to Document>Settings>Class Options.
> Class options will be passed down to the packages by L
Hello,
where can I tell Lyx once forever that it shall load the "textcomp"
package always with the option "full", because this is required by
certain other packages?
Exporting, hand-editing and re-importing all the time doesn't work as
LyX will overwrite the modification.
I'm writing a scrartcl,
> You have to load these fonts manually in the preamble.
And /how/ must this be done?
> The list of GUI- supported fonts is currently hardcoded.
Ouch. Just like the list of colors. X-(
Hello,
I've installed the additional (not really entirely free) fonts using the
"getnonfreefonts-sys" script in TeX Live.
LyX doesn't offer them in the popup menu in the document settings
dialog box however. At least not e.g. Garamond and URW Classico (alias
Optima). Luxi Mono however somehow see
> >> The other way around: Can't we use this to visualize our track
> >> changes in the output document ?
> >
> > Wouldn't you want the review/accept/reject functionality?
> >
> I think the suggestion was to use these macros in our output, not to
> change anything that happens inside LyX.
Nop
> This is a bug in the example bibtex file which is shipped with LyX
> and included in the modernCV example.
Thanks. Who need Bibtex entries in a CV, after all.
If I just remove the whole references section and then generate the PDF
file, it puts the "Interests" title on the first page, but the a
If it helps, here's the LaTeX protocol:
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7)
(format=pdflatex 2009.1.8) 8 JAN 2009 20:12 entering extended mode
%&-line parsing enabled.
**modernCV.tex
(./modernCV.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishma
27;), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
Any help?
TIA,
Sincerely,
Wolfgang Keller
Hello,
is it possible to use LaTeXDB (http://privat.hgesser.com/software/latexdb/)
with LyX?
TIA,
Sincerely,
Wolfgang Keller
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Wolfgang Keller
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Hello,
is there some documentation available about how the "Change Tracking"
features in LyX work? Especially merging?
BTW: Is the LyX file format subversion-friendly (i.e. diff-able)?
TIA,
Sincerely,
Wolfgang Keller
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the required files are simply not included in the
MacOs X installer or is SGML support not yet available again in 1.4 after it
had apparently been "broken" with 1.3?
TIA,
Sincerely,
Wolfgang Keller
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ately it is there, because
then you couldn't quit LyX >;->
- and closing the last open document window shouldn't quit the application
TIA,
Sincerely,
Wolfgang Keller
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t-Classes?
TIA,
Best regards
Wolfgang Keller
Hello,
if this happens to be an FAQ item, thanks for pointing me to the relevant
FAQ.
Is there an easy way to convert the content of a LyX document to XML (and
vice-versa)? And are there XSD and XSL(-FO) equivalent to e.g. the
Koma-Script package?
TIA,
Wolfgang Keller
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