My ability to make documents look the way I want them to is limited.
In my personal opinion, this is the weakness of LaTeX/LyX.
LaTeX is great when you write for a medium
with a defined formatting, e.g., a journal, and they give you a
style file to use. Then you just fill out the
contents.
Has anyone tried LyX (2.0) under Mac OSX Lion? Has anyone encountered
any problems? I will wait with upgrading until I know LyX can
run under Lion.
You should be able to do this with the titlesec package.
For example, it has the following command:
and you may add a dot after the counter simply with
\titlelabel{\thetitle.\quad}
My experience is that trying to change the section labels
manually gives headaches.
I use LyX 2.0 on Mac. But I cannot find any templates.
One one computer I installed on top of LyX 1.6, on the other
computer it was a fresh install of 2.0. In either, no templates.
What can I do?
Thanks, that solved the problem!
I did this:
copy them from there (e. g. /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/templates)
to ~/Library/Application Support/LyX/templates
Of course, that is not very user friendly. In particular now that Apple has
decided to hide Library. Would it be possible to run some
kind of installation
It depends on whether or not you want to import equations as well.
I have been using Word2tex to convert word documents with
mainly equations, and it works fairly well. Some hand-editing is
required, but it is fairly limited. Word2tex is not free, though.
Still, I have found that all the free
You can hold down the shift key while you use the arrow keys, at
least on Mac.
My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well
with lots of math equations. But over the years, Word has handled math
in a bunch of different ways, so I'd recommend getting an evaluation version
first, and making sure it works for your particular word documents.
Did anyone try to run LyX under Mountain Lion? Any problems?
Thanks.
I get great PDF output, that can be scaled to
any size. The only thing I did was to set the encoding
to OT1. If you don't use international characters, that
should enable LaTeX to use vector fonts.
This is possibly more of a latex question. Is there some packet
that can place figures side by side? I know of wrap figure, but I have
never made it work very well. I always have to manually manipulate
the figure placement and settings, which is somewhat contrary to
the idea of LyX/LaTeX.
I'm
Follow up question: even if I use subfig, it's not clear how to
do that from within lyx, unless I put the figure as ERT. But
then I cannot see a preview in LyX.
Follow up question: even if I use subfig, it's not clear how to
do that from within lyx, unless I put the figure as ERT. But
then I cannot see a preview in LyX.
Oh, I see, this is actually in the manual. But not my original question.
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/FiguresSideBySide
I've been using this trick to typeset code examples and latex output and
I've been very happy so far.
Thanks. Both of these solution (minipages, subfigures) are similar to what
I have been doing so far, placing two figures (graphics) together
An alternative that I use is to use \Box in math mode.
That way font problems are avoided.
I have two figures of different height that I want side-by-side.
I use subfloats.
LyX (and Latex) always aligns them at the bottom edge. How
can I align them at the top edge (or center them)? I have tried
to insert vspace on either side, but it has no effect. Any
suggestions?
Thanks for your help. The second example (with a table cell) does work.
I'm not sure it does exactly what I wanted, as it also moves up the caption. My
idea was probably more to have the images themselves centered,
but the (sub)captions aligned. However, it's all about the visual
impression, and
A suggestion:
You could use the unsrt bibliography style. That will put
the references in order of appearance. You can then
use the \nocite command in the beginning of the
document to get the order you want.
I haven't tried this, but it should work -- but
you have to manually sort the references,
This is really a latex question, but I hope someone can answer anyway.
I redefine sections with the latex preamble
\newcommand{\tmpsection}[1]{}
\let\tmpsection=\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\vspace{-0.15in}\tmpsection{#1}\vspace{-0.1in}}
It works as it's supposed to, but it makes latex
Thanks, it seems the titlesec package is quite flexible. The
secsty package seems limited; for example it cannot redefine
spacing before and after section headings, which was exactly
what I wanted here (I needed a document to fit 15 pages).
I will try to use the titlesec package.
\usepackage[compact]{titlesec} does exactly what I want, so
that was easy.
I have one particular document where LyX just will not include certain
references from my bibtex file. When I do insert citation, they do not
show up in the list. If I insert them anyway (copying from another file),
the \cite{..} show as ?? in the pdf file. However, it's only for some
references
Just a comment here, not a solution.
A problem is, as stated, that open office produces very poor latex. It seems
that the goal of the designers of the translation module was to make
the latex output resemble the formatting of the open office document, rather
than making the contents the same.
Thanks, maybe I'll try this. I have a lot of documents in
MS Word that I continually update, and ideally I would like
to convert all of those to LyX. So far, though, it has been
too cumbersome to be worth the while, so I continue
to use MS Word.
Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes:
What I'd propose is that someone begin a proper word2lyx project based
upon Rob's ideas.
That would be great. I would be happy to donate to such a project
if it was set up as a 'donation project' as other projects on LyX's
homepage.
A lyx2word
I have a lyx and a latex question
First, is it possible to define new theorem environments in LyX?
I looked through the help manuals, but could not find anything.
If not possible in LyX, of course I can use latex \newtheorem. Here the
question is, is it possible to make this follow the style
Sorry, I think I was not quite clear about what I would like to do.
I'm using the IEEETran class. I would like to define a new
type of theorem (a property) that looks the same was as
theorems look in the IEEETran class.
Richard Heck rgheck at comcast.net writes:
Thanks, I will try that.
This is more of a latex question. Bibtex finds the location of BIB files
from the environmental variable
BIBINPUTS. This is true on both Windows and Mac, and has worked
so far. But suddenly, today, it doesn't
work on Mac anymore. What I have used until now is the
following method
In finder,
The alternative is to give direct paths to the BIB files.
However, that is an issue when you collaborate with people
on a document.
Furthermore, it seems there is a bug in LyX. When
I give direct paths to the BIB files, the citation dialog box
becomes superwide, stretching beyond the width of my
Sorry for posting to quick, the last issue with wide citation dialog box
solved itself. But still, the question is how to set
the path for bibtex.
I solved the problem through help on the Apple discussions. I will
post the solution here for reference in case others have the
same issue. Perhaps I can put it on a wiki?
1) In finder, choose Go-go to folder... /etc
2) Edit launchd.conf This file may not exist.
In that case create it. Make sure
This is also a feature I sorely miss. Unless you only have
a few changes, the LyX display quickly becomes unreadable.
The consequence is that the the resulting pdf can have errors
that are overlooked in LyX, a typical example being missing
spaces.
karl at linek.at karl at linek.at writes:
Hi,
I'm using wrapfigure. I would like to have the top of a figure adjusted
with the paragraph. Although I place the wrapfigure environment at the
beginning of the paragraph, lyx places the figure about one line below
the first line.
In my
I need to produce a paper using the ACM sig-alternate document class.
Is there anyway I can do that in LyX? I tried to import an example file to
LyX, but it gave an error.
For now it seems the only option is to write a draft in LyX, export
to Latex and then continue working there.
I found one LyX layout file at:
http://krono.act.uji.es/people/ismael/lyx-templates-1
This helps, but it lacks theorems (which is
key to what I write). Any other suggestions?
Is it possible to configure/program LyX so that whenever the LyX files is saved
by the user (not auto-save) the pdf version (and latex) version is also saved
(without the warning about overwrite)? I realized I do this hundred of times
every day: save the LyX file then export it to pdf. It would be
I have been using LyX for quite a while now, mainly on Mac.
But these days for many of my documents LyX is just extremely slow.
When I scroll, LyX just slowly scrolls line by line. I can wait for long time
while it just continues to slowly scroll. And to insert math,
it can take several seconds to
I'm running LyX 2.0.6 and OS X 10.9.1, latest version of both.
I'm downloading the beta and will try if that solves the problem.
Yes, it seems LyX 2.1 solves the problem. It is definitely
faster than LyX 2.0.6. Very good. LyX had become so
slow that I almost couldn't use it.
Hi Jerry,
I just tested again. On my computer there IS
a considerable speed up in 2.1. In 2.0.6 I do the two
finger scroll and then wait and wait. In 2.1 the
scroll is quite fluent. Not as fast as, for example,
MS Word, but acceptable.
But then, it could be a different problem. In
my case it was
This should work:
Mac
1) In finder, choose Go-go to folder... /etc
2) Edit launchd.conf This file may not exist.
In that case create it. Make sure it's called
launchd.conf and not lauchd.conf.txt
3) add setenv BIBINPUTS path(s). Separate multiple paths with :
Notice that the string after
I would like to weigh in on this (not sure if this is the
right place). I really hope it would be possible to compile
in spite of bibtex errors. I have hundreds of
LyX files, and none of them compile any more.
Let's say I collaborate with a colleague (who uses
LaTeX). The colleague gives me a
To elaborate a little further. So, to
compile my file I have to correct my
colleagues bibtex errors. But when
he then sends me an updated bibtex
file, I have to make the corrections all
over again. Of course I could send him
back his corrected bibtex file, but
that has its own set of issues, and
Sorry, another example. I'm trying to make 2.1.0 work,
and correcting in BiBTeX, so I continually encounter issues.
Say you have two bibtex
files X.bib and Y.bib. Some documents
use X.bib, some use Y.bib. Now you make
a new document that uses both X.bib and Y.bib,
but they have some entries
Pavel Sanda sanda at lyx.org writes:
It is, the change was reverted for final 2.1.0. Pavel
OK, thanks. It has given my a lot of headache.
Thanks for the tip. That solved one mystery for me.
Thanks for the tip. I was also confused about the different
behavior in different documents. This clears it up.
Unfortunately, wrapfig in latex works very poorly. Even when letting
wrapped figures float, they are often placed unfortunate. What
I do is in the final version of a document, I manually move
wrapped figures around, reduce spaces etc. so that it
looks right. This is of course against the latex
It seems enumitem and IEEETran.cls are not compatible. I
found the following solution on the web. Insert
\let\labelindent\relax
BEFORE enuitem is included. That works. The issue is
that in LyX, the latex preamble comes after enumitem
is called. Any way to include the above statement
before
Every time Apple comes out with a new version of OS X,
BIBINPUTS gets broken, and a new workaround has to be
found. I found the following works
for Yosemite, so I post here (I should I put it on a wiki)?
Mac Yosemite
Adapted from:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25385934/
I installed LyX 2.1.2 from 2.1.0. Now LyX cannot find any
classes. I kept 2.1.0, but when I run that it cannot find any
classes either. But the classes are there. It worked with 2.1.0
before I installed 2.1.2. And if I compile directly in TeXShop,
there is not problem, all the classes are there.
Anders Host-Madsen ahostmadsen at yahoo.com writes:
I installed LyX 2.1.2 from 2.1.0. Now LyX cannot find any
classes. I kept 2.1.0, but when I run that it cannot find any
classes either. But the classes are there. It worked with 2.1.0
before I installed 2.1.2. And if I compile directly
You can press the tab key.
After I upgraded to Yosemite, instant preview of math no longer works.
Is that a general issue?
Stephan Witt st.witt at gmx.net writes:
Am 21.10.2014 um 16:41 schrieb Anders Host-Madsen ahostmadsen at
yahoo.com:
After I upgraded to Yosemite, instant preview of math no longer works.
Is that a general issue?
Yes, seems so. At least you aren't the first one who reports
I'm afraid you're talking about different things.
The math preview fails silently if enabled but non-functioning.
The document preview raises an error - your case?
I'd like to help you solving this Yosemite problems.
But I don't have enough machines to try and install all releases.
At
The above works for LaTeX, but not inside LyX. When the file is compiled,
it finds the bib files in the path. However, Insert Citation inside LyX
does not respect the BIBINPUTS path. How can this be fixed?
Anders Host-Madsen ahostmadsen at yahoo.com writes:
The above works for LaTeX, but not inside LyX. When the file is compiled,
it finds the bib files in the path. However, Insert Citation inside LyX
does not respect the BIBINPUTS path. How can this be fixed?
I added the latex path
Anders Host-Madsen ahostmadsen at yahoo.com writes:
I added the latex path to the TEXINPUTS prefix. That seems to solve
the problem inside LyX.
Sorry, it didn't work. Only gave me the references from bib files in
the current directory. So, I hope someone can find a solution.
it? It may be an issue of installing it in my Latex
installation. I use gwtex.
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Anders Host-Madsen, Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822
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Anders Host-Madsen, Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822
I don't really understand how to post replies to messages on the mailing list,
so excuse me if this appears as a separate thread. Thanks to Guenter Milde for
the trick about converting latex formulas into lyx. That should work for short
pieces of latex code: just select the equation parts and
Maybe this is not the right place to ask: I just don't understand how to post
replies to previous messages (including my own, and answers to my questions) on
this kind of mail forum. Could someone let me know where to find help? I tried
mailing lyx-users-h...@lists.lyx.org for help, but it
Piero Faustini pierofaust...@... writes:
Yes, now I see, I can use gmane to post. There is some action
menu in the upper right corner.
Giovanni Bedetti giovanni_bede...@... writes:
What i mean is that i paste LaTeX code and see the layout. I'd like to paste
it in the source view.
I just started using LyX, and I had exactly the same question,
see the list below.
I feel that would be one of the most useful additions to
LyX is really a great way to write math. Therefore I would like to
convert my old MS Word documents --
with a lot of equation in Equation Editor -- to
LyX (these are documents I continually revise). Any advise
about this? I found two commercial packages for conversion
to LaTeX: Grind EQ and
Richard Heck rgh...@... writes:
OpenOffice will export LaTeX. You should be able to load your Word docs
there, and then export. Might be no worse. You WILL have to do hand
editing, one way or the other. There's just no way around it.
I tried to install open office (neo office). It does
Jens Noeckel noec...@... writes:
Hi,
yes, some of the lfun names have changed over time. For cross-
references, you now have to invoke the lengthy command dialog-show-
new-inset ref... In LyX 1.6.x you can find these function names by
searching in the Preferences Editing Shortcuts
Richard Heck rgh...@... writes:
There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if
it runs on Windows. See here:
http://wvware.sourceforge.net/
But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux.
I looked vwLatex. They refer to AbiWord,
But I couldn't make
Yakup Ayvaz yaka...@... writes:
I inserted an images, which also shows the image correctly in lyx,
but then I try to export in pdf format I get an error like ... cannot
determine size of graphic.
I would suggest specifying width and height in the LyX graphics
dialog box. This sounds like
Nikos Alexandris nikos.alexand...@... writes:
Hi Yego.
Hmm, that's a bit strange to me. I use .eps all the time without any
problem and hit the pdf button (or export PDF (pdlatex) ) and never
experienced conflicts.
Perhaps I don't understand the problem of Yakup very well, but I think
I believe you need to run sudo texhash from the terminal
after installing new packages.
jezZiFeR jezzi...@... writes:
From a few weeks of usage of LyX I find that the error messages
I get from LyX is rather meaningless. It appears to my that LyX
cuts away exactly the important parts. I would suggest you look
at the LaTeX log, or try to export to LaTeX and compile to see what
OK, I can see that there is an answer to my question
on the LyX wiki. Didn't realize that before asking here.
Installing cocoAspell worked. Great.
I badly need spell checking for my typing. LyX relies on aspell,
which I don't have. I went to the aspell web page and
downloaded, but I find no installation
instructions. I'm lost. I use LyX on a Mac, and it seems aspell
is some kind of unix thing.
I can see that cocoAspell is a Mac
version
I ran into the same problem. I just started using spellcheck.
There is a more direct solution. In Finder you can select
GoGo To Folder (or shift-command-G). Then you can type
/usr/local/etc (or just /usr and then navigate from there).
You can then change the
access privileges for aspell.conf.
First, a question to someone knowledgeable. How does LyX do it's
compilation
of LaTeX? Does it leave .aux files between compilations? I have had
this kind of errors with LaTeX. An error in compilation leaves an
invalid .aux file. That prevents compilation next time. I have had
to manually delete
Mac already has this feature as part of the
operating system. I wonder if it would be
possible without too much trouble
to activate this in the Mac interface?
For a Mac user this would be better, since
it's nice to have one systemwide dictionary.
Is there any way to search and replace in equations in LyX?
Say I want to replace x with y in all my equations. Or
\mathbf with \mathsf. If not,
is there any plans to implement this?
One of the advantages of using Latex is that it's plain text,
so it's possible to search and replace in equations.
Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@... writes:
This is currently only possible by opening a LyX file with a
text editor and then use find and replace.
Thanks, I didn't think about the fact that
LyX files are text files. That seems a better solution
than exporting to Latex and then re-importing to LyX.
It
Did you specify the elsart-harv.bst in the bibtex insert
(as style file)?
Otherwise, that would seem an obvious problem.
Is there any good way to convert LyX (or LaTeX perhaps
more to the point) to HTML? I do know LyX can export
to HTML, but the result is not pretty; it looks so
last century. Also, many packages seems to be
stripped away (such as enumitem). There is no
options to format the HTML to look nice.
I
Iain Mac Donald iainj...@... writes:
Thanks, as I stated, I did try elyxer. That
actually produces nice output, but it seems
to support a very limited set of latex/lyx.
None of my equations or numbered lists
come out correctly. But maybe this will one
day be a good tool. It appears to be new.
I
Robert Orr philip_...@... writes:
One means that I've found as an alternative has been to export .pdf,
then convert it to html by sending it to adobe.
I actually did try this earlier, using Acrobat Pro.
But the result was terrible, absolutely terrible.
Any tricks?
Typhoon typh...@... writes:
I use tex4ht or hevea. I find that either one of them does a reasonable
job if you then apply a custom CSS. But my work is always plain text,
no images. I'm using Debian Lenny.
Thanks, hevea does look interesting. But it seems to be a unix thing.
How can I use it
Alex Fernandez ely...@... writes:
Thanks for making this available. I will experiment a little
more with it, and possibly send you some files.
tex4ht works on all platforms. It is normally accessed when you
view your document as HTML from LyX.
If this is not the case tex4ht is not installed.
(it is often part of the LaTeX distribution).
Yes, the translation from within lyx works (htlatex is there). But I'm
not very satisfied
BH bewih...@... writes:
I haven't used hevea, but I have used tex4ht, which is a part of
TeXLive; LyX should already recognize it.
Bennett
I tried using tex4ht on some other documents, and the result is
better than my initial judgement made them. Equations are actually
rendered quite
rgheck rgh...@... writes:
The other possibility is plastex, which I haven't used but keep meaning
to investigate. It's pure python, so should run anywhere LyX does.
Now I tried out Plastex. The concept is a little different.
It makes the latex document into a complete, hierarchical web page.
john j...@... writes:
But looking at the web site, it looks like
latex2html was not updated since 2001. That makes
me somewhat reluctant to rely on it.
I have the same problem. However, only with SOME eps files.
In my case EPS files generated by Matlab just don't show in LyX,
but those from some other sources do show in LyX (for example
those in the user guide).
My only workaround has been to convert the EPS into PDF manually
(in OS X just use
Steve Litt sl...@... writes:
I'm not really sure I agree that it's as easy to do semantic
markup in MS Word is in Latex. There are a number of issues
First, it's much easier not to use styles. Personally, I always used
styles, but I'm the only one I know how does that. When I put
together
Talking about tables. I'm trying to import a table from excel.
I get the error this file is from an earlier version of LyX,
but LyX failed to convert it. If I try to open the file lyx created
from the CSV, LyX crashes. I tried to shorten my csv file
to a few lines, and then LyX managed to import
Guenter Milde mi...@... writes:
Pasting into a table works with table-data if it is TAB separated. The
space is too often needed inside a table cell in the general case.
Thanks for the tip. I didn't realize this was possible.
I tried exporting to csv and importing to LyX (see
my previous
Giovanni giovanni...@... writes:
It's possible to have the content inserted in line, as a paragraph?
Can't you just insert the pdf a graphic?
Anyway, I had the opposite problem. I wanted to insert whole pages
of an external pdf. I didn't know about the pdfpages package until
you posting. This
I cannot confirm this either. In my 1.6.1 Lyx, the
save as location is my working directory. There
must be something amiss in your installation.
Problem solved: There was an apostrophe (') that had been converted to a
weird character when Excel saved the file (Excel for Mac, it seems, only
has the options of Windows
format or MS-DOS format, both incompatible with Mac). After removing that,
it converted correctly. So, it was Excel's
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