Re: Converting lyx to odt
I had tried to convert from a Lyx document (a Ph.D. thesis, ~140 pages) to LibreOffice (File/Export/HTML). Much of it worked, but there were many problems: 1. Equation numbers moved from right to left 2. Figures were totally distorted (size scaled up), 3. Some equations and algorithms were mangled 4. Several sections appeared centered instead of being left justified as they were originally. Using File/Export/LYXHTML produced similar results, although the equation numbers were not mangled. In short, such conversions do a lot, but they also leave a lot for manual fixing. I suspect that if such a path were available, many more people would use Lyx. -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules & Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor Director, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience Director, Center for Excellence in Computational & Systems Neuroscience The Friedman Brain Institute Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical Biology, The Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai One Gustave Levy Place, NY, NY, 10029 On 04/29/2013 08:52 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: On 29 April 2013 07:02, Sotiris Hasapis wrote: I ' m trying to convert lyx to odt file using the methods described here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice but nothing seems to work. In fact when taking the convert option : Latex(plain) to openoffice nothing happens and responds : "Error while exporting format: odtFile 'C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/Local Settings/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp4792/lyx_tmpbuf3/Some_aspects_of_group-based_cryptograhpy.tex' was not closed properly." Any help please? I'm using windows xp, lyx 2.0. Thank you. Sotiris. From experience this has never proven useful. Interoperability is an issue here with LyX and other word processors. Even if one conversion succeeds (to either a .doc, .docx, .odt or .rtf), you'd likely need to do some clean-up here and there. A fine compromise I have found is to use elyxer¹ as an intermediary tool. Its HTML output is beautiful, and it works with complex parent-child lyx documents including figures. You could also take a look at pandoc (via LaTeX).² ¹ http://elyxer.nongnu.org/ ² http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
Problems after upgrading to texlive 2012
I have upgraded to texlive 2012 (from texlive 2009) on ubuntu 12.04, 32 bit. I did it by adding a ppa for backport of texlive 2012, followed by sudo apt-get install texlive and all seemed to go without a hitch. However, when I tried to compile some Lyx files that have worked fine with texlive 2009, I got error messages: subscript.sty not found, or movie15.sty not found. I ran sudo texhash and reconfigured Lyx, but the errors persist. I then exported the Lyx file to plain latex and it compiled without a problem, including the subscripts. When I look at the Lyx /Tools/Texinfo and look for Latex styles, I do not see subscript.sty. What is going on? Thanks EK
margin comments in a pdf output file
It is often desirable to leave comments in the margins of a document. The various TODOnotes facilities work fine, but I have now found that they do NOT work in the abstract environment. Is this a feature or a bug? EK -- Ehud Kaplan,
Re: Anyone convert LyX to ODT or docx using pandoc?
It returned an error message about expecting something-- neither Lyx nor Latex had any problem with the file. EK On 08/03/2012 08:57 PM, Jerry wrote: How did it fail? I'm currently working with the pandoc OS X packager on a problem with the installer. Jerry On Aug 3, 2012, at 10:26 AM, UD wrote: I tried it a couple of times (lyx --> anything or Latex --> anything. It failed with files that presented no problems to either Lyx or Texworks. This was under Lubuntu 12.04, using the version that was in the repositories. Ehud On 08/02/2012 04:01 AM, Jerry wrote: Has anyone used LyX -> LaTeX -> ODT or LyX -> LaTeX -> docx using pandoc http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/index.html ? This is an easy-to-use (it says) command line tool. This in particular caught my attention: "LaTeX math is rendered in docx using native Word equation objects." Is this (pandoc) too good to be true? Jerry -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *Director*, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience *Director*, Center for Excellence in Computational & Systems Neuroscience /Friedman Brain Institute/ Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical Biology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place, NY, NY, 10029
Re: testers needed for LyX's Windows installer
If I understand correctly, the Windows version will have features that are not available in the Linux or Mac versions. I hope this is not true-- those of us who have been living in the MS-free world hope that /all/ the features will be available in all the versions. EK On 06/03/2012 06:28 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Dear LyXers, LyX 2.0.4 is coming soon and it will fix some Windows-specific bugs: - It is now possible to use LyX's "split index" feature (several indexes for a document) on Windows - Spell checking dictionaries are now also available for Basque, Upper Sorbian and Interlingua - Spell checking now also works for Esperanto, Farsi, Korean and Latin, In order to fix this, the upcoming new LyX for Windows installer was modified so that you can select which dictionaries you want to install. This saves a lot of download and disk space as nobody needs all dictionaries (would be 300 MB). To get the split index feature working the installer comes now with an as small as possible Perl script interpreter which will be installed to MiKTeX. As the changes in the installer are a lot and as I cannot test all possible language/dictionary combinations, I would like if interested LyXers could help me testing. Especially for the split index feature, I expect some things that are not yet working. (This LyX feature is described in sec. 6.6.7 of the UserGuide) Here is the testing installer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lyxwininstaller/files/TestRelease/ It will install the upcoming LyX 2.0.4 and should be fully functional and stable as LyX 2.0.3. If you find any problem, please report back. To test it you don't have to uninstall LyX 2.0.3. thanks in advance and regards Uwe -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *Director*, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience *Director*, Center for Excellence in Computational & Systems Neuroscience /Friedman Brain Institute/ Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical Biology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place, NY, NY, 10029
Re: color url ONLY
Perfect-- that did it. Thanks a lot, Paul. Incidentally, where does one find out about all these wonders? Do we have to do the unthinkable and read a manual? Yours, Ehud Kaplan On 05/10/2012 10:33 AM, Paul A. Rubin wrote: UD gmail.com> writes: Is there a way to color (and make clickable) only URLs, but not citations? When I use the Document/Settings/PDF properties, both URLs and citations are colored and are clickable. Thanks, Ehud Kaplan Assuming your text is black, you can add 'citecolor=black' as an additional option for hyperref. Citations will still be clickable, but they'll be "colored" black. Paul -- Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein /Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *Director*, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience *Director*, Center for Excellence in Computational & Systems Neuroscience /Friedman Brain Institute/ Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical Biology, The Mount Sinai School of Medicine One Gustave Levy Place, NY, NY, 10029
compatibility
Should files created with Lyx 1.6 be readable by version 1.5X? It seems they are not. EK
