Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Oh--I figured out the right address thing--the right address setting! Who da thunk? I guess I am now fully operational. :-) Careful. The Gods of Computing regard statements like that as a challenge. /Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Oh--I figured out the right address thing--the right address setting! Who da thunk? I guess I am now fully operational. :-) Careful. The Gods of Computing regard statements like that as a challenge. /Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Oh--I figured out the right address thing--the "right address" setting! Who da thunk? I guess I am now fully operational. :-) Careful. The Gods of Computing regard statements like that as a challenge. /Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Attached is a sample document, with a pdf (dvipdfm) I made from it. (Save As..is grayed out in Yap. Why??) Don't know why, but that's true here too, and not just for your document. I'd never noticed it before, because I've never had a reason to try to save a DVI file from Yap. (The file already exists, else Yap couldn't be displaying it, and AFAIK Yap cannot modify a file.) To save a DVI from LyX, you can just use File-Export-DVI. Here is the outcome Right--Single--wrong Justified--Single Left--Single--wrong Center--Single--wrong Justified--Default Justified--Double Right--Double Right--Custom-3 Any thoughts? I'm pretty sure you're bumping into a LaTeX issue. (Disclaimer: I'm not a TeXpert, so believe the following at your own peril.) The attached revision of your file displays the way I think you intended (other than that the justified/default spaced paragraphs have a somewhat funky spacing of the first line, which I think would be improved if you turned off the option to indent the first line of each paragraph). What's going on is that each of your verses, as typed into your original document, is actually four paragraphs (one per line). Using default spacing, and with the setting that paragraphs start with an indented line rather than with extra vertical space, this works ok, because when you left-align or justify them each line indents the same amount as its mates (and of course the indentation is irrelevant when you center- or right-align). When you deviate from default spacing, however, LaTeX automatically inserts some extra vertical space before and after the spacing changes. Since each line is a new paragraph for you, this extra spacing is inserted around each line, hence the distinct deviation from single-spacing in the output. In the attached version, I merged each verse into a single paragraph by changing paragraph breaks to line breaks (C-enter rather than enter), as signified by the arrows at the ends of the lines. The fourth line of each verse ends with a paragraph break (enter rather than C-enter). Hope that makes sense. /Paul help2.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: single spacing does not work
Aha! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! I thought there might be some difference between a regular line return and a paragraph break, but since the behavior differed only with different alignments I rejected that hypothesis without looking into it. Actually, I still don't understand why a justified alignment is treated differently than any other kind in terms of line spacing, but that might be a decision by the TeX gods, and I shall not question it any further. I suppose one line paragraphs is not really a good design choice for me... While I have you on the line, can I ask a related question? When I have a paragraph that I want to justify right, but I want the *left* side to be flush, what sort of TeX-fu am I supposed to invoke? Say for a name and address I want on the top right hand corner. Thanks! --Urijah Paul A. Rubin wrote: Urijah Kaplan wrote: Attached is a sample document, with a pdf (dvipdfm) I made from it. (Save As..is grayed out in Yap. Why??) Don't know why, but that's true here too, and not just for your document. I'd never noticed it before, because I've never had a reason to try to save a DVI file from Yap. (The file already exists, else Yap couldn't be displaying it, and AFAIK Yap cannot modify a file.) To save a DVI from LyX, you can just use File-Export-DVI. Here is the outcome Right--Single--wrong Justified--Single Left--Single--wrong Center--Single--wrong Justified--Default Justified--Double Right--Double Right--Custom-3 Any thoughts? I'm pretty sure you're bumping into a LaTeX issue. (Disclaimer: I'm not a TeXpert, so believe the following at your own peril.) The attached revision of your file displays the way I think you intended (other than that the justified/default spaced paragraphs have a somewhat funky spacing of the first line, which I think would be improved if you turned off the option to indent the first line of each paragraph). What's going on is that each of your verses, as typed into your original document, is actually four paragraphs (one per line). Using default spacing, and with the setting that paragraphs start with an indented line rather than with extra vertical space, this works ok, because when you left-align or justify them each line indents the same amount as its mates (and of course the indentation is irrelevant when you center- or right-align). When you deviate from default spacing, however, LaTeX automatically inserts some extra vertical space before and after the spacing changes. Since each line is a new paragraph for you, this extra spacing is inserted around each line, hence the distinct deviation from single-spacing in the output. In the attached version, I merged each verse into a single paragraph by changing paragraph breaks to line breaks (C-enter rather than enter), as signified by the arrows at the ends of the lines. The fourth line of each verse ends with a paragraph break (enter rather than C-enter). Hope that makes sense. /Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Oh--I figured out the right address thing--the right address setting! Who da thunk? I guess I am now fully operational. :-) --Urijah
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Attached is a sample document, with a pdf (dvipdfm) I made from it. (Save As..is grayed out in Yap. Why??) Don't know why, but that's true here too, and not just for your document. I'd never noticed it before, because I've never had a reason to try to save a DVI file from Yap. (The file already exists, else Yap couldn't be displaying it, and AFAIK Yap cannot modify a file.) To save a DVI from LyX, you can just use File-Export-DVI. Here is the outcome Right--Single--wrong Justified--Single Left--Single--wrong Center--Single--wrong Justified--Default Justified--Double Right--Double Right--Custom-3 Any thoughts? I'm pretty sure you're bumping into a LaTeX issue. (Disclaimer: I'm not a TeXpert, so believe the following at your own peril.) The attached revision of your file displays the way I think you intended (other than that the justified/default spaced paragraphs have a somewhat funky spacing of the first line, which I think would be improved if you turned off the option to indent the first line of each paragraph). What's going on is that each of your verses, as typed into your original document, is actually four paragraphs (one per line). Using default spacing, and with the setting that paragraphs start with an indented line rather than with extra vertical space, this works ok, because when you left-align or justify them each line indents the same amount as its mates (and of course the indentation is irrelevant when you center- or right-align). When you deviate from default spacing, however, LaTeX automatically inserts some extra vertical space before and after the spacing changes. Since each line is a new paragraph for you, this extra spacing is inserted around each line, hence the distinct deviation from single-spacing in the output. In the attached version, I merged each verse into a single paragraph by changing paragraph breaks to line breaks (C-enter rather than enter), as signified by the arrows at the ends of the lines. The fourth line of each verse ends with a paragraph break (enter rather than C-enter). Hope that makes sense. /Paul help2.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: single spacing does not work
Aha! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! I thought there might be some difference between a regular line return and a paragraph break, but since the behavior differed only with different alignments I rejected that hypothesis without looking into it. Actually, I still don't understand why a justified alignment is treated differently than any other kind in terms of line spacing, but that might be a decision by the TeX gods, and I shall not question it any further. I suppose one line paragraphs is not really a good design choice for me... While I have you on the line, can I ask a related question? When I have a paragraph that I want to justify right, but I want the *left* side to be flush, what sort of TeX-fu am I supposed to invoke? Say for a name and address I want on the top right hand corner. Thanks! --Urijah Paul A. Rubin wrote: Urijah Kaplan wrote: Attached is a sample document, with a pdf (dvipdfm) I made from it. (Save As..is grayed out in Yap. Why??) Don't know why, but that's true here too, and not just for your document. I'd never noticed it before, because I've never had a reason to try to save a DVI file from Yap. (The file already exists, else Yap couldn't be displaying it, and AFAIK Yap cannot modify a file.) To save a DVI from LyX, you can just use File-Export-DVI. Here is the outcome Right--Single--wrong Justified--Single Left--Single--wrong Center--Single--wrong Justified--Default Justified--Double Right--Double Right--Custom-3 Any thoughts? I'm pretty sure you're bumping into a LaTeX issue. (Disclaimer: I'm not a TeXpert, so believe the following at your own peril.) The attached revision of your file displays the way I think you intended (other than that the justified/default spaced paragraphs have a somewhat funky spacing of the first line, which I think would be improved if you turned off the option to indent the first line of each paragraph). What's going on is that each of your verses, as typed into your original document, is actually four paragraphs (one per line). Using default spacing, and with the setting that paragraphs start with an indented line rather than with extra vertical space, this works ok, because when you left-align or justify them each line indents the same amount as its mates (and of course the indentation is irrelevant when you center- or right-align). When you deviate from default spacing, however, LaTeX automatically inserts some extra vertical space before and after the spacing changes. Since each line is a new paragraph for you, this extra spacing is inserted around each line, hence the distinct deviation from single-spacing in the output. In the attached version, I merged each verse into a single paragraph by changing paragraph breaks to line breaks (C-enter rather than enter), as signified by the arrows at the ends of the lines. The fourth line of each verse ends with a paragraph break (enter rather than C-enter). Hope that makes sense. /Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Oh--I figured out the right address thing--the right address setting! Who da thunk? I guess I am now fully operational. :-) --Urijah
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Attached is a sample document, with a pdf (dvipdfm) I made from it. (Save As..is grayed out in Yap. Why??) Don't know why, but that's true here too, and not just for your document. I'd never noticed it before, because I've never had a reason to try to save a DVI file from Yap. (The file already exists, else Yap couldn't be displaying it, and AFAIK Yap cannot modify a file.) To save a DVI from LyX, you can just use File->Export->DVI. Here is the outcome Right--Single--wrong Justified--Single Left--Single--wrong Center--Single--wrong Justified--Default Justified--Double Right--Double Right--Custom-3 Any thoughts? I'm pretty sure you're bumping into a LaTeX issue. (Disclaimer: I'm not a TeXpert, so believe the following at your own peril.) The attached revision of your file displays the way I think you intended (other than that the justified/default spaced paragraphs have a somewhat funky spacing of the first line, which I think would be improved if you turned off the option to indent the first line of each paragraph). What's going on is that each of your verses, as typed into your original document, is actually four paragraphs (one per line). Using default spacing, and with the setting that paragraphs start with an indented line rather than with extra vertical space, this works ok, because when you left-align or justify them each line indents the same amount as its mates (and of course the indentation is irrelevant when you center- or right-align). When you deviate from default spacing, however, LaTeX automatically inserts some extra vertical space before and after the spacing changes. Since each line is a new paragraph for you, this extra spacing is inserted around each line, hence the distinct deviation from single-spacing in the output. In the attached version, I merged each verse into a single paragraph by changing paragraph breaks to line breaks (C-enter rather than enter), as signified by the arrows at the ends of the lines. The fourth line of each verse ends with a paragraph break (enter rather than C-enter). Hope that makes sense. /Paul help2.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: single spacing does not work
Aha! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! I thought there might be some difference between a regular line return and a paragraph break, but since the behavior differed only with different alignments I rejected that hypothesis without looking into it. Actually, I still don't understand why a justified alignment is treated differently than any other kind in terms of line spacing, but that might be a decision by the TeX gods, and I shall not question it any further. I suppose one line paragraphs is not really a good design choice for me... While I have you on the line, can I ask a related question? When I have a paragraph that I want to justify right, but I want the *left* side to be flush, what sort of TeX-fu am I supposed to invoke? Say for a name and address I want on the top right hand corner. Thanks! --Urijah Paul A. Rubin wrote: Urijah Kaplan wrote: Attached is a sample document, with a pdf (dvipdfm) I made from it. (Save As..is grayed out in Yap. Why??) Don't know why, but that's true here too, and not just for your document. I'd never noticed it before, because I've never had a reason to try to save a DVI file from Yap. (The file already exists, else Yap couldn't be displaying it, and AFAIK Yap cannot modify a file.) To save a DVI from LyX, you can just use File->Export->DVI. Here is the outcome Right--Single--wrong Justified--Single Left--Single--wrong Center--Single--wrong Justified--Default Justified--Double Right--Double Right--Custom-3 Any thoughts? I'm pretty sure you're bumping into a LaTeX issue. (Disclaimer: I'm not a TeXpert, so believe the following at your own peril.) The attached revision of your file displays the way I think you intended (other than that the justified/default spaced paragraphs have a somewhat funky spacing of the first line, which I think would be improved if you turned off the option to indent the first line of each paragraph). What's going on is that each of your verses, as typed into your original document, is actually four paragraphs (one per line). Using default spacing, and with the setting that paragraphs start with an indented line rather than with extra vertical space, this works ok, because when you left-align or justify them each line indents the same amount as its mates (and of course the indentation is irrelevant when you center- or right-align). When you deviate from default spacing, however, LaTeX automatically inserts some extra vertical space before and after the spacing changes. Since each line is a new paragraph for you, this extra spacing is inserted around each line, hence the distinct deviation from single-spacing in the output. In the attached version, I merged each verse into a single paragraph by changing paragraph breaks to line breaks (C-enter rather than enter), as signified by the arrows at the ends of the lines. The fourth line of each verse ends with a paragraph break (enter rather than C-enter). Hope that makes sense. /Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Oh--I figured out the right address thing--the "right address" setting! Who da thunk? I guess I am now fully operational. :-) --Urijah
Re: single spacing does not work
Your document renders correctly. Attached is a sample document, with a pdf (dvipdfm) I made from it. (Save As..is grayed out in Yap. Why??) Here is the outcome Right--Single--wrong Justified--Single Left--Single--wrong Center--Single--wrong Justified--Default Justified--Double Right--Double Right--Custom-3 Any thoughts? --Urijah help.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document help.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: single spacing does not work
Your document renders correctly. Attached is a sample document, with a pdf (dvipdfm) I made from it. (Save As..is grayed out in Yap. Why??) Here is the outcome Right--Single--wrong Justified--Single Left--Single--wrong Center--Single--wrong Justified--Default Justified--Double Right--Double Right--Custom-3 Any thoughts? --Urijah help.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document help.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: single spacing does not work
Your document renders correctly. Attached is a sample document, with a pdf (dvipdfm) I made from it. (Save As..is grayed out in Yap. Why??) Here is the outcome Right--Single--wrong Justified--Single Left--Single--wrong Center--Single--wrong Justified--Default Justified--Double Right--Double Right--Custom-3 Any thoughts? --Urijah help.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document help.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Cheers-- I did everything you suggested, and there are no more error messages. Jeers-- It only kinda works. The original document rendered as dvi without complaint, but did not heed my single spacing instructions. I thought that might be something to do with my original file, so I made a new one with just three lines, and no other formatting but single spacing. It worked! If the entire document is single-spaced, then the setspace package is not used. But when I right, left, or center align it (with the paragraph dialog) it doesn't work (It double spaces, I think). It only works with the default alignment of justified. B! Is there any kind of example LyX document with different formatting tests? For all I know there might be many other problems with my installation preventing documents from rendering correctly. I've attached a document that is double-spaced by default, but the middle paragraph is single-spaced and right-justified. I used the paragraph settings dialog both from the Edit menu and from the tool button (not that it should matter), and it worked both ways. Thanks so much for your help. (And no, I was not fully operational either even before using LyX.) Well, perhaps LyX will set you right. :-) spacing.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Cheers-- I did everything you suggested, and there are no more error messages. Jeers-- It only kinda works. The original document rendered as dvi without complaint, but did not heed my single spacing instructions. I thought that might be something to do with my original file, so I made a new one with just three lines, and no other formatting but single spacing. It worked! If the entire document is single-spaced, then the setspace package is not used. But when I right, left, or center align it (with the paragraph dialog) it doesn't work (It double spaces, I think). It only works with the default alignment of justified. B! Is there any kind of example LyX document with different formatting tests? For all I know there might be many other problems with my installation preventing documents from rendering correctly. I've attached a document that is double-spaced by default, but the middle paragraph is single-spaced and right-justified. I used the paragraph settings dialog both from the Edit menu and from the tool button (not that it should matter), and it worked both ways. Thanks so much for your help. (And no, I was not fully operational either even before using LyX.) Well, perhaps LyX will set you right. :-) spacing.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Cheers-- I did everything you suggested, and there are no more error messages. Jeers-- It only kinda works. The original document rendered as dvi without complaint, but did not heed my single spacing instructions. I thought that might be something to do with my original file, so I made a new one with just three lines, and no other formatting but single spacing. It worked! If the entire document is single-spaced, then the setspace package is not used. But when I right, left, or center align it (with the paragraph dialog) it doesn't work (It double spaces, I think). It only works with the default alignment of "justified". B! Is there any kind of example LyX document with different formatting tests? For all I know there might be many other problems with my installation preventing documents from rendering correctly. I've attached a document that is double-spaced by default, but the middle paragraph is single-spaced and right-justified. I used the paragraph settings dialog both from the Edit menu and from the tool button (not that it should matter), and it worked both ways. Thanks so much for your help. (And no, I was not fully operational either even before using LyX.) Well, perhaps LyX will set you right. :-) spacing.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: single spacing does not work
Thank you for the reply; alas I am still not fully operational. I didn't have setspace.sty on my system (I did a full system search) so I went to the MikTeX package manager to download it. I downloaded it (after a few of the listed repositories bounced me for some reason) but when I went to the LaTeX Configuration 7.13 was a no, as were quite a few other packages (4.x 6.x 7.x I think) I decided to update MikTeX to 2.5 and see if that would help, no go. I went to the LyX-Tools-Reconfigure and after many many pop-up to download files, it seems to have finished. I shut down LyX and restarted my computer. I went to LaTeX Configuration and Lo! there were many more yeses, including 7.13. I went to my little document (it's just three lines, nothing special) selected single spacing, tried to render to dvi, and now get a brand new error the package download pop-ups I saw when I reconfigured saying that the required file tex\latex\setspace\setspace.sty is missing and needs to be downloaded. I press install, it pops up again, the document renders, but without the single spacing I wanted. I close down yap, make a change (so I don't get the cached dvi) CTRL-D, and the same download pop-up appears. If I press cancel instead of install I get a pop-up that say an empty output file was generated click okay, get a familiar LaTeX error message that File 'setspace.sty' not found. By the way, I checked, and it *is* in the E:\texmf\tex\latex\setspace folder (E: is my boot drive.) Any suggestions?
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Thank you for the reply; alas I am still not fully operational. Not to worry, I haven't been for years. ;-) I didn't have setspace.sty on my system (I did a full system search) so I went to the MikTeX package manager to download it. I downloaded it (after a few of the listed repositories bounced me for some reason) but when I went to the LaTeX Configuration 7.13 was a no, as were quite a few other packages (4.x 6.x 7.x I think) I decided to update MikTeX to 2.5 and see if that would help, no go. Sorry, I forgot to say that if you had to install setspace you would also have to reconfigure and restart LyX. I see you got there on your own eventually. I went to the LyX-Tools-Reconfigure and after many many pop-up to download files, it seems to have finished. I shut down LyX and restarted my computer. I went to LaTeX Configuration and Lo! there were many more yeses, including 7.13. I went to my little document (it's just three lines, nothing special) selected single spacing, tried to render to dvi, and now get a brand new error the package download pop-ups I saw when I reconfigured saying that the required file tex\latex\setspace\setspace.sty is missing and needs to be downloaded. I press install, it pops up again, the document renders, but without the single spacing I wanted. I close down yap, make a change (so I don't get the cached dvi) CTRL-D, and the same download pop-up appears. If I press cancel instead of install I get a pop-up that say an empty output file was generated click okay, get a familiar LaTeX error message that File 'setspace.sty' not found. By the way, I checked, and it *is* in the E:\texmf\tex\latex\setspace folder (E: is my boot drive.) Any suggestions? The pop-ups are coming from MikTeX, not LyX, so apparently MikTeX is confused about the status of setspace -- although if LyX has a yes next to it in the LaTeX Configuration page, it means that MikTeX knew it was there when LyX reconfigured. If you run 'kpsewhich setspace.sty' from a DOS prompt, does it find the copy in E:\...\setspace? You can try the following (although it shouldn't be necessary): Run the MikTeX Options program from the Start menu, and on the General tab click Refresh FNDB. (No restart or reconfiguring of LyX is required after this.) /Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Cheers-- I did everything you suggested, and there are no more error messages. Jeers-- It only kinda works. The original document rendered as dvi without complaint, but did not heed my single spacing instructions. I thought that might be something to do with my original file, so I made a new one with just three lines, and no other formatting but single spacing. It worked! But when I right, left, or center align it (with the paragraph dialog) it doesn't work (It double spaces, I think). It only works with the default alignment of justified. B! Is there any kind of example LyX document with different formatting tests? For all I know there might be many other problems with my installation preventing documents from rendering correctly. Thanks so much for your help. (And no, I was not fully operational either even before using LyX.) --Urijah
Re: single spacing does not work
Thank you for the reply; alas I am still not fully operational. I didn't have setspace.sty on my system (I did a full system search) so I went to the MikTeX package manager to download it. I downloaded it (after a few of the listed repositories bounced me for some reason) but when I went to the LaTeX Configuration 7.13 was a no, as were quite a few other packages (4.x 6.x 7.x I think) I decided to update MikTeX to 2.5 and see if that would help, no go. I went to the LyX-Tools-Reconfigure and after many many pop-up to download files, it seems to have finished. I shut down LyX and restarted my computer. I went to LaTeX Configuration and Lo! there were many more yeses, including 7.13. I went to my little document (it's just three lines, nothing special) selected single spacing, tried to render to dvi, and now get a brand new error the package download pop-ups I saw when I reconfigured saying that the required file tex\latex\setspace\setspace.sty is missing and needs to be downloaded. I press install, it pops up again, the document renders, but without the single spacing I wanted. I close down yap, make a change (so I don't get the cached dvi) CTRL-D, and the same download pop-up appears. If I press cancel instead of install I get a pop-up that say an empty output file was generated click okay, get a familiar LaTeX error message that File 'setspace.sty' not found. By the way, I checked, and it *is* in the E:\texmf\tex\latex\setspace folder (E: is my boot drive.) Any suggestions?
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Thank you for the reply; alas I am still not fully operational. Not to worry, I haven't been for years. ;-) I didn't have setspace.sty on my system (I did a full system search) so I went to the MikTeX package manager to download it. I downloaded it (after a few of the listed repositories bounced me for some reason) but when I went to the LaTeX Configuration 7.13 was a no, as were quite a few other packages (4.x 6.x 7.x I think) I decided to update MikTeX to 2.5 and see if that would help, no go. Sorry, I forgot to say that if you had to install setspace you would also have to reconfigure and restart LyX. I see you got there on your own eventually. I went to the LyX-Tools-Reconfigure and after many many pop-up to download files, it seems to have finished. I shut down LyX and restarted my computer. I went to LaTeX Configuration and Lo! there were many more yeses, including 7.13. I went to my little document (it's just three lines, nothing special) selected single spacing, tried to render to dvi, and now get a brand new error the package download pop-ups I saw when I reconfigured saying that the required file tex\latex\setspace\setspace.sty is missing and needs to be downloaded. I press install, it pops up again, the document renders, but without the single spacing I wanted. I close down yap, make a change (so I don't get the cached dvi) CTRL-D, and the same download pop-up appears. If I press cancel instead of install I get a pop-up that say an empty output file was generated click okay, get a familiar LaTeX error message that File 'setspace.sty' not found. By the way, I checked, and it *is* in the E:\texmf\tex\latex\setspace folder (E: is my boot drive.) Any suggestions? The pop-ups are coming from MikTeX, not LyX, so apparently MikTeX is confused about the status of setspace -- although if LyX has a yes next to it in the LaTeX Configuration page, it means that MikTeX knew it was there when LyX reconfigured. If you run 'kpsewhich setspace.sty' from a DOS prompt, does it find the copy in E:\...\setspace? You can try the following (although it shouldn't be necessary): Run the MikTeX Options program from the Start menu, and on the General tab click Refresh FNDB. (No restart or reconfiguring of LyX is required after this.) /Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Cheers-- I did everything you suggested, and there are no more error messages. Jeers-- It only kinda works. The original document rendered as dvi without complaint, but did not heed my single spacing instructions. I thought that might be something to do with my original file, so I made a new one with just three lines, and no other formatting but single spacing. It worked! But when I right, left, or center align it (with the paragraph dialog) it doesn't work (It double spaces, I think). It only works with the default alignment of justified. B! Is there any kind of example LyX document with different formatting tests? For all I know there might be many other problems with my installation preventing documents from rendering correctly. Thanks so much for your help. (And no, I was not fully operational either even before using LyX.) --Urijah
Re: single spacing does not work
Thank you for the reply; alas I am still not fully operational. I didn't have setspace.sty on my system (I did a full system search) so I went to the MikTeX package manager to download it. I downloaded it (after a few of the listed repositories bounced me for some reason) but when I went to the LaTeX Configuration 7.13 was a no, as were quite a few other packages (4.x 6.x 7.x I think) I decided to update MikTeX to 2.5 and see if that would help, no go. I went to the LyX->Tools->Reconfigure and after many many pop-up to download files, it seems to have finished. I shut down LyX and restarted my computer. I went to LaTeX Configuration and Lo! there were many more yeses, including 7.13. I went to my little document (it's just three lines, nothing special) selected single spacing, tried to render to dvi, and now get a brand new error the package download pop-ups I saw when I "reconfigured" saying that the required file "tex\latex\setspace\setspace.sty" is missing and needs to be downloaded. I press install, it pops up again, the document renders, but without the single spacing I wanted. I close down yap, make a change (so I don't get the cached dvi) CTRL-D, and the same download pop-up appears. If I press cancel instead of install I get a pop-up that say "an empty output file was generated" click okay, get a familiar LaTeX error message that File 'setspace.sty' not found. By the way, I checked, and it *is* in the E:\texmf\tex\latex\setspace folder (E: is my boot drive.) Any suggestions?
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote: Thank you for the reply; alas I am still not fully operational. Not to worry, I haven't been for years. ;-) I didn't have setspace.sty on my system (I did a full system search) so I went to the MikTeX package manager to download it. I downloaded it (after a few of the listed repositories bounced me for some reason) but when I went to the LaTeX Configuration 7.13 was a no, as were quite a few other packages (4.x 6.x 7.x I think) I decided to update MikTeX to 2.5 and see if that would help, no go. Sorry, I forgot to say that if you had to install setspace you would also have to reconfigure and restart LyX. I see you got there on your own eventually. > I went to the LyX->Tools->Reconfigure and after many many pop-up to download files, it seems to have finished. I shut down LyX and restarted my computer. I went to LaTeX Configuration and Lo! there were many more yeses, including 7.13. I went to my little document (it's just three lines, nothing special) selected single spacing, tried to render to dvi, and now get a brand new error the package download pop-ups I saw when I "reconfigured" saying that the required file "tex\latex\setspace\setspace.sty" is missing and needs to be downloaded. I press install, it pops up again, the document renders, but without the single spacing I wanted. I close down yap, make a change (so I don't get the cached dvi) CTRL-D, and the same download pop-up appears. If I press cancel instead of install I get a pop-up that say "an empty output file was generated" click okay, get a familiar LaTeX error message that File 'setspace.sty' not found. By the way, I checked, and it *is* in the E:\texmf\tex\latex\setspace folder (E: is my boot drive.) Any suggestions? The pop-ups are coming from MikTeX, not LyX, so apparently MikTeX is confused about the status of setspace -- although if LyX has a yes next to it in the LaTeX Configuration page, it means that MikTeX knew it was there when LyX reconfigured. If you run 'kpsewhich setspace.sty' from a DOS prompt, does it find the copy in E:\...\setspace? You can try the following (although it shouldn't be necessary): Run the MikTeX Options program from the Start menu, and on the General tab click Refresh FNDB. (No restart or reconfiguring of LyX is required after this.) /Paul
Re: single spacing does not work
Cheers-- I did everything you suggested, and there are no more error messages. Jeers-- It only kinda works. The original document rendered as dvi without complaint, but did not heed my single spacing instructions. I thought that might be something to do with my original file, so I made a new one with just three lines, and no other formatting but single spacing. It worked! But when I right, left, or center align it (with the paragraph dialog) it doesn't work (It double spaces, I think). It only works with the default alignment of "justified". B! Is there any kind of example LyX document with different formatting tests? For all I know there might be many other problems with my installation preventing documents from rendering correctly. Thanks so much for your help. (And no, I was not fully operational either even before using LyX.) --Urijah
single spacing does not work
Hello,
I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph
to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the paragraph
settings button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error
message and does not work. The first time I did this and tried rendering to dvi,
it complained about a missing setspace.sty. I reinstalled LyX this time with
the bundled installer (lyx-142-1-bundle.exe.) and this time it gives me a
different error, LaTeX Error: Environment singlespace undefined and LaTeX
Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{singlespace}. When installing, I was
Administrator, and set installation for all users with the packages. The only
other non-default setting I used was by indicating I was also using Hebrew.
I am using Windows Server 2003 (32-bit). Rendering the included documents (like
the tutorial) to dvi works fine.
Thank you very much for your help, and for what looks like to be a great
program!
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote:
Hello,
I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph
to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the paragraph
settings button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error
message and does not work. The first time I did this and tried rendering to dvi,
it complained about a missing setspace.sty. I reinstalled LyX this time with
the bundled installer (lyx-142-1-bundle.exe.) and this time it gives me a
different error, LaTeX Error: Environment singlespace undefined and LaTeX
Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{singlespace}. When installing, I was
Administrator, and set installation for all users with the packages. The only
other non-default setting I used was by indicating I was also using Hebrew.
I am using Windows Server 2003 (32-bit). Rendering the included documents (like
the tutorial) to dvi works fine.
Thank you very much for your help, and for what looks like to be a great
program!
Works for me (albeit on Win XP, not WinServer 03). The first error
sounds like you don't have the setspace package installed, which you
need if you're going to vary the spacing of pieces of the document. If
you open a DOS windows and type 'kpsewhich setspace.sty', do you get
back a path to the file? If not, try installing it. (If you're using
MikTeX, you can run MikTeX's Package Manager from the program menu and
use it to install setspace. If you're using a different LaTeX
distribution, it may mean downloading the package yourself and manually
installing it.)
If you have setspace.sty, in LyX click Help-LaTeX Configuration, scroll
down to section 7.13 (or just search for setspace), and see if it says
'yes'. If not, LyX didn't find setspace during installation, which
means (assuming you have it installed) something burped during the
installation.
If you have setspace and LyX knows you have setspace, the best I can
suggest is cutting down your document to a minimal example that screws
up and then posting it to the list. Sometimes things get out of order,
or the document gets damaged, but the only way I know to diagnose that
is to look at the source code, and you have to know what you're
looking for. Which means consulting the experts on the list. (Which
excludes me.)
/Paul
single spacing does not work
Hello,
I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph
to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the paragraph
settings button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error
message and does not work. The first time I did this and tried rendering to dvi,
it complained about a missing setspace.sty. I reinstalled LyX this time with
the bundled installer (lyx-142-1-bundle.exe.) and this time it gives me a
different error, LaTeX Error: Environment singlespace undefined and LaTeX
Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{singlespace}. When installing, I was
Administrator, and set installation for all users with the packages. The only
other non-default setting I used was by indicating I was also using Hebrew.
I am using Windows Server 2003 (32-bit). Rendering the included documents (like
the tutorial) to dvi works fine.
Thank you very much for your help, and for what looks like to be a great
program!
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote:
Hello,
I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph
to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the paragraph
settings button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error
message and does not work. The first time I did this and tried rendering to dvi,
it complained about a missing setspace.sty. I reinstalled LyX this time with
the bundled installer (lyx-142-1-bundle.exe.) and this time it gives me a
different error, LaTeX Error: Environment singlespace undefined and LaTeX
Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{singlespace}. When installing, I was
Administrator, and set installation for all users with the packages. The only
other non-default setting I used was by indicating I was also using Hebrew.
I am using Windows Server 2003 (32-bit). Rendering the included documents (like
the tutorial) to dvi works fine.
Thank you very much for your help, and for what looks like to be a great
program!
Works for me (albeit on Win XP, not WinServer 03). The first error
sounds like you don't have the setspace package installed, which you
need if you're going to vary the spacing of pieces of the document. If
you open a DOS windows and type 'kpsewhich setspace.sty', do you get
back a path to the file? If not, try installing it. (If you're using
MikTeX, you can run MikTeX's Package Manager from the program menu and
use it to install setspace. If you're using a different LaTeX
distribution, it may mean downloading the package yourself and manually
installing it.)
If you have setspace.sty, in LyX click Help-LaTeX Configuration, scroll
down to section 7.13 (or just search for setspace), and see if it says
'yes'. If not, LyX didn't find setspace during installation, which
means (assuming you have it installed) something burped during the
installation.
If you have setspace and LyX knows you have setspace, the best I can
suggest is cutting down your document to a minimal example that screws
up and then posting it to the list. Sometimes things get out of order,
or the document gets damaged, but the only way I know to diagnose that
is to look at the source code, and you have to know what you're
looking for. Which means consulting the experts on the list. (Which
excludes me.)
/Paul
single spacing does not work
Hello,
I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph
to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the "paragraph
settings" button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error
message and does not work. The first time I did this and tried rendering to dvi,
it complained about a missing "setspace.sty". I reinstalled LyX this time with
the bundled installer (lyx-142-1-bundle.exe.) and this time it gives me a
different error, "LaTeX Error: Environment singlespace undefined" and "LaTeX
Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{singlespace}." When installing, I was
Administrator, and set installation for all users with the packages. The only
other non-default setting I used was by indicating I was also using Hebrew.
I am using Windows Server 2003 (32-bit). Rendering the included documents (like
the tutorial) to dvi works fine.
Thank you very much for your help, and for what looks like to be a great
program!
Re: single spacing does not work
Urijah Kaplan wrote:
Hello,
I just installed LyX for the first time yesterday. Whenever I select a paragraph
to be single-spaced (I highlighted the paragraph, pressed the "paragraph
settings" button, and changed spacing from default to single) it gives an error
message and does not work. The first time I did this and tried rendering to dvi,
it complained about a missing "setspace.sty". I reinstalled LyX this time with
the bundled installer (lyx-142-1-bundle.exe.) and this time it gives me a
different error, "LaTeX Error: Environment singlespace undefined" and "LaTeX
Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{singlespace}." When installing, I was
Administrator, and set installation for all users with the packages. The only
other non-default setting I used was by indicating I was also using Hebrew.
I am using Windows Server 2003 (32-bit). Rendering the included documents (like
the tutorial) to dvi works fine.
Thank you very much for your help, and for what looks like to be a great
program!
Works for me (albeit on Win XP, not WinServer 03). The first error
sounds like you don't have the setspace package installed, which you
need if you're going to vary the spacing of pieces of the document. If
you open a DOS windows and type 'kpsewhich setspace.sty', do you get
back a path to the file? If not, try installing it. (If you're using
MikTeX, you can run MikTeX's Package Manager from the program menu and
use it to install setspace. If you're using a different LaTeX
distribution, it may mean downloading the package yourself and manually
installing it.)
If you have setspace.sty, in LyX click Help->LaTeX Configuration, scroll
down to section 7.13 (or just search for "setspace"), and see if it says
'yes'. If not, LyX didn't find setspace during installation, which
means (assuming you have it installed) something burped during the
installation.
If you have setspace and LyX knows you have setspace, the best I can
suggest is cutting down your document to a minimal example that screws
up and then posting it to the list. Sometimes things get out of order,
or the document gets damaged, but the only way I know to diagnose that
is to look at the "source code", and you have to know what you're
looking for. Which means consulting the experts on the list. (Which
excludes me.)
/Paul
