file is the
one to check out. Seems like a steep learning curve, so thanks for
getting me started!
Sure, it can be a lot to learn. But then you know it, and the next
book gets much easier.
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lyx.
lyx 1.3: edit-reconfigure
lyx 1.4: tools-reconfigure
Then exit lyx, restart lyx, and try to make a portuguese
document again.
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.
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if the floats appear
near the bottom of a page, you may have to tweak placement
yourself instead of relying on auto placement.
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#LyX 1.4.0cvs created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 244
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass scrartcl
\begin_preamble
\usepackage
clean, to see if that makes things
better.
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There is currently no way to a apply a mbox in a lyxish way,
but at least the formula itself can be written the lyx way.
Currently, the lyx way would be to insert a minipage, but that
isn't exactly the same thing as minipages have a fixed width.
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in ERT or the preamble. Ask on a latex maling
list if you can't find this from here.
www.lyx.org have some links to latex tip pages, I believe.
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- then I don't know. Few people use them.
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David Soukal wrote:
If you meant -lyx macros - then I don't know. Few people use them.
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I was talking about LyX macros. I realize that they are basically a
synonym for LaTeX' \newcommand, but having them in text seemed more
user-friendly.
The other thing is that having to have
fare better.
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about the assert.
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of manpower as always.
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Gour wrote:
Helge Hafting ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Not really. The win32 version of lyx does not in any way make it a
more serious solution. More accessible of course, but no
more serious.
Who said that?
Me? Marc?
Sorry, seems I messed up the quotation. Look at earlier
. When 1.4
gets out, I'll see if I can add support for some of the stuff I like,
such as
\dotfill and multicols. :-)
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I have made a layout and a template document for brev.cls,
which is available from http://wiki.lyx.org/Layouts/Layouts
brev.cls is nice for writing letters on A4 paper, it positions the
sendto address so it is visible through the window in window envelopes.
There are folding lines also.
Helge
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:01:08PM +0100, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
suggestion: this things needs an example pdf, so you can have a look at the
result.
Example added.
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are centered. The subarray
environment is the way to do this.
How about this way:
1. Create the subscript
2. Insert a matrix into subscript - (1 column, and as many rows as you need)
You can specify a left-aligned matrix.
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On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:26:36AM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
Helge Hafting wrote:
Still, I really liked the way lyx 1.3 starts in less than a second.
Lyx 1.4 needs 5 seconds to start, even with no document and
debugging turned off.
You are probably compiling with g++'s debug iterators
- or by someone who don't know better. But of course there
may be valid and good reasons for doing so. Still, look at
some random books from ordinary publishers and I don't think you
find any set left aligned.
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the work done, but I don't envy them some of the problems
they had. I don't remember all of it, but I shook my head sometimes . . .
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features is to provide a patch
implementing them. :-) Unfortunately, only programmers can do that.
Note that nothing new will be added to lyx right now, as all work
goes into bugfixing before the re�lease of the upcomng lyx 1.4.0.
But feel free to plan future enhancements.
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);
plug-in that show a list of synonymous of a word
(again, multi-language);
will extend Lyx from mathematical authors to
the rest of world.
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Ehh! I noted that, in this letter, right border
is very ragged ;-)
Sure, people insist on ascii/unicode email with no formatting.
I can
latex commands) useful. There are many things
you may need to set up with latex commands, such as running heads
and custom page layouts. Koma-script has lots of extra commands
for these things.
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/
Thanks, lots of interesting stuff there.
Helge Hafting
not.
I'd really like to use LyX from now on. I have already infected some
of my collegues here, but it's easier to make active publicity when I
have a nice company template to work with.
Good luck! :-)
Helge Hafting
?
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about anything in a minipage,
including all sorts of alignments, multiple lines, and so on.
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if LyX actually tries to support unicode characters?
Yes - it doesn't. Lyx works with various latin encodings such as
iso8859-1, unicode support is planned for version 1.5.
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)
get the source and unpack it
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-frontend=qt --with-gnu-ld
--with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt3
And finally, make followed by make install
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there is a space after the
command.)
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without latex works fine on linux. No printing, no
view-dvi of course - but no problems editing documents. Useful
for editing only sessions, when printing (and layout checking) can
be done elsewhere.
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have other converters.)
I believe latex supports .eps, while pdflatex supports .pdf, .png, and .jpg.
For any other cases, you need a converter that lyx can use. Try a .bmp
for example - it will need conversion.
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to simultaneously allow reading and prevent copying.
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. The package authors are interested
in help with translations into more languages though.
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when opening LyX on a file that is already
open in LyX. This behaviour is common in most editors.
It is common in most editors _in windows_, which isn't the main
platform for lyx. Still, it can be done if you can interest a developer
. . .
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, but it is a lost cause.
Open-source pdf readers exists, so I can always turn that off again
even if xpdf should implement it. (And then I can distribute
this program for the benefit of the technical unsavy . . .)
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cases, any math stuff stands out as mismatched.)
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(0x2d477000)
libexpat.so.1 = /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x2d585000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x2aaab000)
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several paragraphs in a single item, then
write the additional paragraphs as type standard and
increase their environment depths. If you want an example,
try help-userguide and read the section on nesting environments
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Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 04:58:51PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
| Lars == Lars Gullik Bjønnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
|
| Lars I also tried to do some profiling on this, but failed to get
| Lars anything
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| To set optimization level you should use --enable-optimization='-O2'
|
|
| Ok, tried this. More exactly:
| $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-frontend=qt --with-gnu-ld
| --with-qt-includes=/usr/include/qt3 --disable-debug
| --disable-concept-checks
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
|
| | To set optimization level you should use --enable-optimization='-O2'
| |
| |
| | Ok, tried this. More exactly:
| | $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-frontend=qt --with-gnu-ld
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 03:46:45PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Helge == Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Helge The test method is to run time lyx while clicking the mouse
Helge fast in the place where the closing button is going to appear.
Helge Repeated clicks are used so my
in cache.
Which version of lyx is this, and does it use xforms or qt?
Helge Hafting
.
To avoid repeating this over and over, just copy the Greek \euro command around
in the document when needed.
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the lists should work.
I am sorry for the late notice.
$ cvs up
cvs [update aborted]: connect to anoncvs.us.lyx.org(62.70.27.115):2401
failed: Connection refused
Is my DNS at fault, or is the 62.70.27.115 address correct?
Helge Hafting
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 03:48:28PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
It is way wrong.
I will fix it.
Will take a while to propagate though.
cvs up
worked now, thanks!
Helge Hafting
the paragraphs with floats ends up elsewhere on the page
might help.
Consider setting the first float to top of page, and the second one
to bottom.
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Martin A. Hansen wrote:
i am still confused.
page% - that is the width of the page from paper edge to paper edge?
line% - that is the width from from margin to margin? or is that text%
and which of these settings include footer and header - that would be
pheight% as opposed to theight%?
to be there. . .
It is easy to get this wrong, and then lyx won't produce output.
For more ideas, make a lyx file with tables and export as latex.
Then you see how I found the above mentioned latex argument.
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looks good.
The keyboard have both comma and point, and the numeric keypad
may be programmed to make one or the other depending on
what you want.
Or do you need conversion because you want to publish the same set
of formulas in two different versions - one with commas and
one with points?
Helge
space)
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to use them, get a latex manual as well.
Having a look at wiki.lyx.org may also help. And if you get stuck - come
back to this list.
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properties-fonts
It will show you what fonts the pdf uses.
I have never heard of the double bookmarks. Are you using the
hyperref package, which makes pdf bookmarks? I am not sure that
this matters at all if the book is to be printed, but could be a problem
if you're also publishing as pdf.
Helge
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
Helge Hafting writes:
They actually took a lyx file? Interesting!
The problem is that there are numerous illustrations. I would prefer to
give them just the PDF, but then I have to get involved in placing the
images, etc. My original deal (and preference
, consider using putting
\usepackage{microtype} in the preamble. It really cuts
down on hyphenation. It achieves this by slightly varying the
font widht as well as the interword spacing. That gives
more room for length adjustments.
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ragged
right for a book of short stories.
Is this a matter of taste, or is there more to it? I don't see how the
length of a story makes a difference - I think a four-line joke looks
better justified than ragged. Well, if it doesn't suffer from too
much hyphenation, that is.
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where the float was defined empty. Which is not what I want.
See http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Examples/BigFigureOrTable/floatpag.sty
Here you find information about \floatpagestyle
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other cases.
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latex and have a look.
If everything is inside a single page, you may also consider sticking
it all in a minipage. You can easily move a minipage around by
putting hspace in front of it.
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to
reprint your document and must remember to do this over again.)
To see how to write a float in ERT - export your document to latex.
The remove the float from the document, and paste the .tex-float
into a ERT inset.
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the subfigure.
This sequence then repeats a few times, for every subfigure in the float.
I did not have your problem of needing page breaks, as my floats were small.
But this way, I got subfigures with referencable captions.
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fit very well.
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know if this might have other interesting
effects
or require privileges though.
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the cursor outside the now empty note
4. Paste the stuff back into the document again, this time outside the note
5. Remove the empty note if you wish
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image between these two
tex boxes.
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, so structural information will be lost if the
user tries to change one of those.
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custom letterheads and such. The distributed
templates
may be nice as a starting point, but often not useful exactly the way
they are.
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best is lyx providing
a workaround. Either approach needs a volunteer - I wonder
why nobody seems to want to fix tex though.
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Lars Olesen wrote:
When is the windows version of lyx 1.4 expected. I need it to make
some exams now :)
If you really need lyx 1.4 quickly - check out the source and compile it
yourself.
I've been using it for half a year, on linux.
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 04:00:13AM -0800, Stephen Harris wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Bo Peng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org; LyX Devel lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: sixth
fine. (I normally
use unicode though, where those filenames have illegal character
sequences.)
Also, view-dvi and view-pdf works, but the 8-bit characters
are stripped into 7-bit so ö becomes v in xdvi/gv.
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.
The alphabet really stops at m for these particular uses!
I believe most people would just dismiss such software as
useless/incomplete until fixed.
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char-non-hyphenating dash
In the main window it would be a plain dash, but colored red
the same way a nonbreaking space or hfill is red. (Light blue dash is
already used up for hyphenation points.)
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On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 06:07:40PM +0100, Anders Ekberg wrote:
On 14 jan 2006, at 17.48, Helge Hafting wrote:
I tried saving ö.lyx and ø.lyx, with todays lyx 1.4cvs.
(o with dots, and o with slash, if your email client dislike this)
The filenames were saved in iso8859 encoding, so
, or read the tex source.
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, for example.)
Also check to see that your lyx really uses ispell, lyx may
also use aspell which uses other dictionaries. In that case, install
the english dictionary for aspell.
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in or something? There is an aspell-et with Estonian
spelling, perhaps you should try that. Or is there some other reason for
sticking to ispell?
Lyx using aspell even when you specify ispell is a bug, consider registering
the bug at bugzilla.lyx.org
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relative to each other. Sometimes you may want lots of
space between such minipages, in such cases insert hfill between them.
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there is no need for
measurements. Therefore, future changes in font height
or logo size won't be a problem.
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alignment seems to align by the
real bottom - using letters like j that extends beyond the
baseline still aligns the boxes by the bottom (and the texts
are _not_ aligned)
I believe this is something I could implement myself, once 1.5
starts up.
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Herbert Voss wrote:
Helge Hafting wrote:
Latex does not seem to offer a proper way of aligning boxes by the
box top, but there is a simple workaround.
TeX offers everything ...
A minipage is nothing else than a box and it is aligned in
the same way as two characters are aligned
Gunnar wrote:
perhaps listings.sty ?
Thanks for your reply,
but I feel that highlight makes it beautiful, listings doesn't. :-(
You are sure listings can't do what you want?
The defaults may not fit your needs, but this package is
very configurable.
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after the release.
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in lyx.
Insert a table, then open the table settings and check longtable.
Short tables
does not break across a page boundary.
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. But
then - you'd have a hard time doing that with other
word processors anyway.
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to implement.
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probably have done this faster, it took me an evening.
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write your
formulas as
text, then converts it to math? That technique doesn't work in lyx 1.3.4,
although it is fixed in lyx 1.4. I recommend that you do it the other way;
Activate math mode first (press ctrl+M or use the menus) then type in
the formula.
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advantage of the fact that many letters kern the same way.
they can then be grouped to take advantage of this.
For example, various variants of A (ÂÄÀÁÅÃ) can all kern
the same way in all cases. They form an A-group.
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Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:09:40AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
Why doesn't LyX do the right thing when converting said text to
LaTeX?
Error in lyx.
I could argue about that.
I think it is an error when lyx produce invalid latex
without the user
desire. If the image is too big in
lyx, use the separate scaling factor for showing in lyx.
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can write
a chunk of plain latex.
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. :-)
Fixing this is planned for lyx 1.5.0, which will have unicode support.
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on concept, just index the
start
of it. concept may be mentioned several times in that text over several
pages - indexing all of it does not make sense. People will want to
be directed to the start - the index is normally _not_ for documenting
every occurence of some word.
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Jack M. Lyon wrote:
Helge Hafting wrote:
the index is normally _not_ for documenting
every occurence of some word.
Amen.
How about creating a real indexing feature for LyX that would allow
users to index a document in the way Helge has described:
I did it the other way around
open the file
lyx go out (aborted) with an error message.
Fixing this is planned for lyx 1.5.0, which will
have unicode support.
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Which is the date when You expect lyx 1.5.0 will be
released?
I can only guess - a year or two. The spellchecker
and rest of lyx is supposed
for asking is that the amount of installed software should be kept
at a minimum.
I don't think you need ghostscript, if you use pdflatex
for making pdf's. Of course you may need it for other
purposes, such as printing on any non-postscript printer.
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for ridiculous limits . . .
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with the spellchecker, ask again.
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