Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?
Agoldenquill wrote: > > > dirac14 wrote: >> >> Hello there! >> I am a relatively new lyx user and this is my first post so please >> forgive my total ignorance.. >> >> I ve searched for at least 3 hours to give myself the answer to the >> subject's question . . . what do i have to do in order to install a new >> package and make it work as if it were preinstalled in lyx? > > I am in the same position as dirac14. I began using LyX about a month ago, > but in that time I have yet to figure out how to install new packages. I > searched everywhere, but all the LyX information seems written for > programmer-types, or people who know LaTeX. Yet the LyX webpages said one > does not need to know LaTeX in order to use LyX. > > Does anyone have simple, regular, end-user English instructions for > installing new packages? > Any help is appreciated. > > you should have the packages installed into MikTex (that is where all my packages are stored). In Lyx, go to Documents->Settings. In Settings, go to the bottom of the list on the left side, "Latex Preamble." highlight that and there should be a big blank box to the right instead of other options. In this box you write, \usepackage{packagename} where packagename is the name of the package you downloaded from CTAN. Hope this works. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/How-to-install-new-packages-to-Lyx-tp3549182p3638057.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?
I'm sorry to tell you this, but there is not such thing as Lyx packages. All of them are Latex packages. So unfortunately you need to, at least, know how to install and use a package in LaTeX, as there is no easy way to interface a LaTeX package with Lyx. Installation depends on your OS and LaTeX distribution. Usage is OS independent. Please check this: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Packages/Installing_Extra_Packages http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/LaTeX/AoPS_L_GuidePack.php http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm http://www.stat.rice.edu/~helpdesk/howto/lyxguide.html - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Agoldenquill wrote: > > > dirac14 wrote: >> >> Hello there! >> I am a relatively new lyx user and this is my first post so please forgive >> my total ignorance.. >> >> I ve searched for at least 3 hours to give myself the answer to the >> subject's question . . . what do i have to do in order to install a new >> package and make it work as if it were preinstalled in lyx? > > I am in the same position as dirac14. I began using LyX about a month ago, > but in that time I have yet to figure out how to install new packages. I > searched everywhere, but all the LyX information seems written for > programmer-types, or people who know LaTeX. Yet the LyX webpages said one > does not need to know LaTeX in order to use LyX. > > Does anyone have simple, regular, end-user English instructions for > installing new packages? > Any help is appreciated. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/How-to-install-new-packages-to-Lyx-tp3549182p3579462.html > Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?
dirac14 wrote: > > Hello there! > I am a relatively new lyx user and this is my first post so please forgive > my total ignorance.. > > I ve searched for at least 3 hours to give myself the answer to the > subject's question . . . what do i have to do in order to install a new > package and make it work as if it were preinstalled in lyx? I am in the same position as dirac14. I began using LyX about a month ago, but in that time I have yet to figure out how to install new packages. I searched everywhere, but all the LyX information seems written for programmer-types, or people who know LaTeX. Yet the LyX webpages said one does not need to know LaTeX in order to use LyX. Does anyone have simple, regular, end-user English instructions for installing new packages? Any help is appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/How-to-install-new-packages-to-Lyx-tp3549182p3579462.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?
On 08/31/2009 06:59 PM, Christian Liesen wrote: You will need to install the hep package just as you would with any additional TeX package on your system, i.e. by downloading it from CTAN, processing it with latex and putting the results in your texmf-folder. See http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/systems/tex/new-packages.html and also http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Packages/Installing_Extra_Packages for instructions. It may look intimidating at first, but it's really not that hard. Once installed, you need to reconfigure LyX and restart it -- otherwise LyX will not know that there's a new package around. If it's just a random package that LyX doesn't know about, then you don't have to reconfigure LyX. LyX isn't "hep aware", so it What you will need to do, as always, is run texhash, or whatever, to update the LaTeX databases. rh
Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?
On 08/31/2009 06:22 PM, ilias andronos wrote: sorry for insisting but i tried searching with google how to enter these characters and i came accross hep package again..i don't understand..what is ERT?what exactly do i have to type in math mode in order to get the slashed characters?? Let's say a slashed "a" is entered in LaTeX as: \slasheda. (I have no idea what it really is. Presumably the hep manual will tell you.) Then in math mode, enter "\slasheda" and then a space. You'll see exactly that, but if you View>DVI ir View>PDF or whatever (and have \usepackage{hep} in your preamble), then you'll see the slashed character in the output. It's just that LyX doesn't know how to display it, so it displays the raw LaTeX. As for ERT, this is also called "TeX Mode", and it's activated by Insert>TeX Mode. It again allows you to insert raw LaTeX into the document. rh
Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?
Hi, > > sorry for insisting but i tried searching with google how to enter these > characters and i came accross hep package again..i don't > understand.. You will need to install the hep package just as you would with any additional TeX package on your system, i.e. by downloading it from CTAN, processing it with latex and putting the results in your texmf-folder. See http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/systems/tex/new-packages.html and also http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Packages/Installing_Extra_Packages for instructions. It may look intimidating at first, but it's really not that hard. Once installed, you need to reconfigure LyX and restart it -- otherwise LyX will not know that there's a new package around. You can then call the package in your document's preamble with \usepackage{hep} or whatever's its name. Then, and only then, you can make use of ERT to produce the characters you want. > what is ERT?what exactly do i have to type in math mode in > order to get the slashed characters?? > ERT is explained in the LyX wiki (and many other very useful things are as well), see http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ERT. The basic idea is that you can enter raw LaTeX-code anywhere in your document, an option that does come in handy from time to time. For example, your hep package may allow for something like, say, \coolsymbol as a raw LaTeX-command in order to produce, well -- some cool symbol in the PDF output. Simply enter \coolsymbol in ERT in your LyX document where you want it (as explained by Nikos a couple minutes ago) to get the same result. Hope this helps, -- Christian
Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?
dirac14: > > >>> I am a relatively new lyx user and this is my first post so please > > >>> forgive > > >>> my total ignorance.. > > >>> > > >>> I ve searched for at least 3 hours to give myself the answer to the > > >>> subject's question and there are two possible scenarios : either it is > > >>> kind > > >>> of trivial to install new packages to lyx and therefore i couldn't find > > >>> any > > >>> answer or i did find it but i wasn't able to make it work !!! > > >>> > > >>> The whole story began when i found out an outstanding package on CTAN > > >>> for my > > >>> work, called hep(high energy physics) which promised to let me use > > >>> Feynman > > >>> slashed characters and many more. But then i dealt with that horrible > > >>> problem! How to do it work properly and use it through the lyx menus > > >>> like > > >>> all other stuff preinstalled in lyx??? And in general, what do i have > > >>> to do > > >>> in order to install a new package and make it work as if it were > > >>> preinstalled in lyx? rgheck: > > >> I'm afraid that this is not in general possible---unless you want to > > >> write the source code yourself and contribute it to LyX, which of course > > >> would be welcome. That is to say: Every package that LyX natively > > >> supports, it supports only because someone wrote the code that makes LyX > > >> support it. To get the various particle names to display properly, for > > >> example, the names have to be added to the unicodesymbols file, together > > >> with code points in various fonts, etc. So it's not a trivial matter at > > >> all. ilias andronos: > > > I 'm afraid that i can't write the source code for this... But then > > > could you please find me any way to use slashed characters? That is any > > > character(mainly letters) with a "/" on it. Thanks for the reply. rgheck: > > You can use them as you wish, by entering whatever the raw LaTeX is. In > > math mode, you just type it; in non-math mode, you can enter the > > characters in ERT. You can do this with any LaTeX stuff that LyX does > > not support. ilias andronos: > sorry for insisting but i tried searching with google how to enter these > characters and i came accross hep package again..i don't > understand..what is ERT?what exactly do i have to type in math mode in > order to get the slashed characters?? Ηλία, an ERT means (for some people) "Evil Red Text" that does the (La)TeX magic within a LyX document [1]. Basically you press Ctrl+L ( or via the menu you go Insert > TeX Code ) and you enter... well, TeX Code! For example, if you press Ctrl+L and enter within the (Evil) red box the command "\dots" (without the double quotes) you will get three dots. However, I have no idea what exactly you have to type to get the "/" over a(ny) character. Nikos --- [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ERT ( Ufortunately the link "A Brief History of ERT" seems to be broken :-( )
Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?
Στις 31-08-2009, ημέρα Δευ, και ώρα 13:08 -0400, ο/η rgheck έγραψε: > On 08/31/2009 09:17 AM, ilias andronos wrote: > > Στις 30-08-2009, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 17:58 -0400, ο/η rgheck έγραψε: > > > >> On 08/30/2009 05:13 PM, dirac14 wrote: > >> > >>> I am a relatively new lyx user and this is my first post so please forgive > >>> my total ignorance.. > >>> > >>> I ve searched for at least 3 hours to give myself the answer to the > >>> subject's question and there are two possible scenarios : either it is > >>> kind > >>> of trivial to install new packages to lyx and therefore i couldn't find > >>> any > >>> answer or i did find it but i wasn't able to make it work !!! > >>> > >>> The whole story began when i found out an outstanding package on CTAN for > >>> my > >>> work, called hep(high energy physics) which promised to let me use Feynman > >>> slashed characters and many more. But then i dealt with that horrible > >>> problem! How to do it work properly and use it through the lyx menus like > >>> all other stuff preinstalled in lyx??? And in general, what do i have to > >>> do > >>> in order to install a new package and make it work as if it were > >>> preinstalled in lyx? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> I'm afraid that this is not in general possible---unless you want to > >> write the source code yourself and contribute it to LyX, which of course > >> would be welcome. That is to say: Every package that LyX natively > >> supports, it supports only because someone wrote the code that makes LyX > >> support it. To get the various particle names to display properly, for > >> example, the names have to be added to the unicodesymbols file, together > >> with code points in various fonts, etc. So it's not a trivial matter at > >> all. > >> > >> rh > >> > >> > > I 'm afraid that i can't write the source code for this... But then > > could you please find me any way to use slashed characters? That is any > > character(mainly letters) with a "/" on it. Thanks for the reply. > > > > > You can use them as you wish, by entering whatever the raw LaTeX is. In > math mode, you just type it; in non-math mode, you can enter the > characters in ERT. You can do this with any LaTeX stuff that LyX does > not support. > > rh > > sorry for insisting but i tried searching with google how to enter these characters and i came accross hep package again..i don't understand..what is ERT?what exactly do i have to type in math mode in order to get the slashed characters??
Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?
On 08/31/2009 09:17 AM, ilias andronos wrote: Στις 30-08-2009, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 17:58 -0400, ο/η rgheck έγραψε: On 08/30/2009 05:13 PM, dirac14 wrote: I am a relatively new lyx user and this is my first post so please forgive my total ignorance.. I ve searched for at least 3 hours to give myself the answer to the subject's question and there are two possible scenarios : either it is kind of trivial to install new packages to lyx and therefore i couldn't find any answer or i did find it but i wasn't able to make it work !!! The whole story began when i found out an outstanding package on CTAN for my work, called hep(high energy physics) which promised to let me use Feynman slashed characters and many more. But then i dealt with that horrible problem! How to do it work properly and use it through the lyx menus like all other stuff preinstalled in lyx??? And in general, what do i have to do in order to install a new package and make it work as if it were preinstalled in lyx? I'm afraid that this is not in general possible---unless you want to write the source code yourself and contribute it to LyX, which of course would be welcome. That is to say: Every package that LyX natively supports, it supports only because someone wrote the code that makes LyX support it. To get the various particle names to display properly, for example, the names have to be added to the unicodesymbols file, together with code points in various fonts, etc. So it's not a trivial matter at all. rh I 'm afraid that i can't write the source code for this... But then could you please find me any way to use slashed characters? That is any character(mainly letters) with a "/" on it. Thanks for the reply. You can use them as you wish, by entering whatever the raw LaTeX is. In math mode, you just type it; in non-math mode, you can enter the characters in ERT. You can do this with any LaTeX stuff that LyX does not support. rh
Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?
Στις 30-08-2009, ημέρα Κυρ, και ώρα 17:58 -0400, ο/η rgheck έγραψε: > On 08/30/2009 05:13 PM, dirac14 wrote: > > I am a relatively new lyx user and this is my first post so please forgive > > my total ignorance.. > > > > I ve searched for at least 3 hours to give myself the answer to the > > subject's question and there are two possible scenarios : either it is kind > > of trivial to install new packages to lyx and therefore i couldn't find any > > answer or i did find it but i wasn't able to make it work !!! > > > > The whole story began when i found out an outstanding package on CTAN for my > > work, called hep(high energy physics) which promised to let me use Feynman > > slashed characters and many more. But then i dealt with that horrible > > problem! How to do it work properly and use it through the lyx menus like > > all other stuff preinstalled in lyx??? And in general, what do i have to do > > in order to install a new package and make it work as if it were > > preinstalled in lyx? > > > > > I'm afraid that this is not in general possible---unless you want to > write the source code yourself and contribute it to LyX, which of course > would be welcome. That is to say: Every package that LyX natively > supports, it supports only because someone wrote the code that makes LyX > support it. To get the various particle names to display properly, for > example, the names have to be added to the unicodesymbols file, together > with code points in various fonts, etc. So it's not a trivial matter at all. > > rh > I 'm afraid that i can't write the source code for this... But then could you please find me any way to use slashed characters? That is any character(mainly letters) with a "/" on it. Thanks for the reply.
Re: How to install new packages to Lyx?
On 08/30/2009 05:13 PM, dirac14 wrote: I am a relatively new lyx user and this is my first post so please forgive my total ignorance.. I ve searched for at least 3 hours to give myself the answer to the subject's question and there are two possible scenarios : either it is kind of trivial to install new packages to lyx and therefore i couldn't find any answer or i did find it but i wasn't able to make it work !!! The whole story began when i found out an outstanding package on CTAN for my work, called hep(high energy physics) which promised to let me use Feynman slashed characters and many more. But then i dealt with that horrible problem! How to do it work properly and use it through the lyx menus like all other stuff preinstalled in lyx??? And in general, what do i have to do in order to install a new package and make it work as if it were preinstalled in lyx? I'm afraid that this is not in general possible---unless you want to write the source code yourself and contribute it to LyX, which of course would be welcome. That is to say: Every package that LyX natively supports, it supports only because someone wrote the code that makes LyX support it. To get the various particle names to display properly, for example, the names have to be added to the unicodesymbols file, together with code points in various fonts, etc. So it's not a trivial matter at all. rh
How to install new packages to Lyx?
Hello there! I am a relatively new lyx user and this is my first post so please forgive my total ignorance.. I ve searched for at least 3 hours to give myself the answer to the subject's question and there are two possible scenarios : either it is kind of trivial to install new packages to lyx and therefore i couldn't find any answer or i did find it but i wasn't able to make it work !!! The whole story began when i found out an outstanding package on CTAN for my work, called hep(high energy physics) which promised to let me use Feynman slashed characters and many more. But then i dealt with that horrible problem! How to do it work properly and use it through the lyx menus like all other stuff preinstalled in lyx??? And in general, what do i have to do in order to install a new package and make it work as if it were preinstalled in lyx? (actually i found some weird instructions here : http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/html/chapter5.htmlbut in no way could i use them in lyx..) Thank you all in advance for your time and your answers! -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/How-to-install-new-packages-to-Lyx-tp3549182p3549182.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.