Problem embedding graphics

2006-12-11 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Hello, I'm relatively new to LyX, but have been using it easily and with great results for the last couple of months. Until I've tried to embed graphics, that is. Here is the problem: I embed a graphic using (as recommended in the User's Guide) Insert-> Floating-> Floatflt Figure and then, ins

Consolidating the bibliography for article submissions

2009-07-12 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Dear all, Is there any easy way to convert a bibtex list of references in part of a .tex document? I know the roundabout way which consists of exporting the lyx document to LaTeX, and then copying back the list of references from the .bbl file. A Lyx plugin to do this would be extremely usef

Re: Consolidating the bibliography for article submissions

2009-07-13 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
share the .bib file independently. I would have thought many of you have gone through this problem before? Thanks again. Manolo Manolo Martí­nez escribió: Dear all, Is there any easy way to convert a bibtex list of references in part of a .tex document? I know the roundabout way which c

Re: Consolidating the bibliography for article submissions

2009-07-15 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Hi, Nobody can help me with this, then? Thx M Manolo Martí­nez escribió: To clarify what I'm asking here, I'm interested in the easiest, shortest way to go from: a) A Lyx file with a bibtex bibliography, to b) Another Lyx (or a .tex) file, where this bibliography has been res

Re: Consolidating the bibliography for article submissions

2009-07-17 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
not sure, I understood your problem. If you don't want to share the whole bib-file all.bib, but only the references cited in cited.bib, and your document is doc.lyx you could e.g. use JabRef as a reference manager and say on a command line jabref --aux doc.aux,cited.bib all.bib after having exp

Re: Consolidating the bibliography for article submissions

2009-07-20 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
, just in case anyone else finds it helpful. Cheers, Manolo Manolo Martí­nez escribió: not sure, I understood your problem. If you don't want to share the whole bib-file all.bib, but only the references cited in cited.bib, and your document is doc.lyx you could e.g. use JabRef as a refe

Classic Thesis and LyX

2009-09-03 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Hello, I'm trying to get Nick Mariette's port of André Miede's Classic Thesis style for LyX to work. I'm talking about this: http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/ in case you are not familiar with it. I'm getting several "Math formula deleted: Insufficient symbol font

Re: Classic Thesis and LyX

2009-09-06 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
It most certainly is a font issue. Could you try if this happens with every math formula, only with sub- and superscripts, maybe with formulae in headings or otherwise scaled? Actually, you need no math formula for the error to show A title in an otherwise empty file is enough. Say, \ti

Re: Classic Thesis and LyX

2009-09-07 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Did you set up some more fonts or change things after the standard installation of your TeX distribution (and which TeX distro do you use)? It turns out I had too few fonts installed. After installing the ubuntu package texlive-fonts-extra, the style works perfectly. Thanks for helping me

Figure key

2009-09-09 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Hi, Do you guys have opinions regarding which is the best place to add explanations to a figure? A longish list of things such as "the pointed line means blah, and the blue square stands for blah"... The "figure" box in the float is too small for that -and everything you put in there appears

Box arrow

2009-09-17 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Dear all, Does anyone know a way to obtain the "box arrow" symbol that is used to signal counterfactual conditionals in logic? Thanks, Manolo

Re: Box arrow

2009-09-17 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
then? Thanks! Manolo Paul Sutton escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manolo Martí­nez wrote: Dear all, Does anyone know a way to obtain the "box arrow" symbol that is used to signal counterfactual conditionals in logic? Thanks, Manolo Does this help http://

Re: Box arrow

2009-09-18 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
OK, that can be done, indeed. But my installation does not seem to understand \boxright. The pdf output simply shows "pboxrightq" where the symbol should have been... Manolo Guenter Milde escribió: shows On 2009-09-17, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: I see. Reading the link below

Re: Box arrow

2009-09-18 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
! Manolo Guenter Milde escribió: shows On 2009-09-17, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: I see. Reading the link below I've found out I need \boxright and \boxleft from txfonts; but these do not appear in the equation dialogue -although I do have txfonts installed. I cannot simply embed an

Re: Classic Thesis for Lyx

2009-09-20 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
What OS and Lyx version are you using? goodkeys escribió: Hello I'm a noob and have just made my way through the references and tutorials of Lyx. Now i'd like to use the Classic Thesis template found here (http://www.soundsorange.net/resources/classic-thesis-for-lyx/) but i just wasn't able to

The behaviour of menus

2009-10-22 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Dear list, There is a slightly annoying feature of the behaviour of my Lyx which, I have just realised, may be seen as a bug. When I open a drop-down menu -e. g., when choosing the language of a paragraph from the drop-down list of possibilities- even if I navigate to my preferred option using

Re: The behaviour of menus

2009-10-22 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
That's the one I mean, yes. It's not working fine for me, though for some reason I cannot seem to copy a screen snapshot while the menu is displayed, so I cannot show you. The way to replicate my problem is as follows. Open the text style dialog, press the language drop-down menu to unfold it

Select all part/chapter/section

2009-10-30 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Dear list, In a long document, is there any way to select a whole part, chapter or section without having to drag the cursor through it? Thanks, Manolo

Re: Select all part/chapter/section

2009-10-30 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Thanks! M Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW escribió: In a long document, is there any way to select a whole part, chapter or section without having to drag the cursor through it? Not yet. But please open an enhancement request at http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome so that such

Problems including a document

2009-11-03 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Dear list, I am working right now with a long document that has chapters as separate files, included in a master document. I'm having the following problem: chapter 5 exports to pdf perfectly on its own but, when included in the master document, this latter document does not export -although

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-03 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
That's not the problem, apparently. I have moved everything to the master document's preamble and the strange behaviour recurs. Chapter 5 compiles. Master document w/o Ch. 5 compiles, but Master document with Ch. 5 does not. Thanks for your help, Richard. Manolo rgheck escribió: Is there

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-03 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Thanks for the suggestion. Surprisingly, LaTeX does compile; with a bunch of errors in the .log, to be sure, but none of them fatal. How can I find out what the compiler was doing when it stumbled upon the things that LyX finds offending? The part of the .log file that seems relevant is: [16

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-09 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
AFAIK, this is LyX's default behaviour. Did you try with Document>LaTeX log after a compilation already No! I was relying on the error messages that appear after a failed compilation. Thanks, this is very useful. So, let me reforumulate my suggestion with this in mind: it would be nice

Re: Problems including a document

2009-11-10 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Done: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6313 Manolo So, let me reforumulate my suggestion with this in mind: it would be nice if the "Latex errors" message box that appears contained a line reading "... for more information, see Document>LaTeX log". Could you file a bug (enhancement) report

Re: Bibliography

2009-11-14 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Using Insert > List > BibTeX bibliography opens a dialog where you can add your bib document, right? Why don't you add it there? M Manolo Giulio escribió: hi I have some problems with biblatex's bibliography. Indeed when i put in ERT \printbibliography the output is empty. I have opened the

Re: "Directory path to the document cannot contain spaces"

2009-11-20 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Just in case, the document in question is the LyX document, not a BibTeX document, right? M Uwe Stöhr escribió: Adam Hoffman schrieb: I recently installed LyX 1.6.4-1 on a Windows 7 system, and I'm having an issue that is not common to my previous LyX installs (1.6.?) on an XP SP3 and Vist

Nth number

2009-11-24 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Hello, Is there an easy way in LyX to enter ordinals such as 1st, 2nd, nth? Thanks, Manolo

Re: Nth number

2009-11-24 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Thanks, yep, that's what I was doing. Maybe creating a keyboard shortcut for that is the solution; I'll look into how to do it. Cheers, M rgheck escribió: On 11/24/2009 05:51 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: Hello, Is there an easy way in LyX to enter ordinals such as 1st, 2nd, nt

Re: Nth number

2009-11-25 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
ibió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 rgheck wrote: On 11/24/2009 05:51 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: Hello, Is there an easy way in LyX to enter ordinals such as 1st, 2nd, nth? Insert>Formatting>Superscript is the easist way I know. You can also define

More equation breaking

2009-12-02 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Dear list, I'm sorry I'm asking something that has been asked before but I was hoping a way to do what I want to do has become available in the meantime: is there anyway to break an equation in two lines in a place that is inside brackets? I mean something like this: a·(b + c + d + e) Thanks fo

Re: More equation breaking

2009-12-02 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Yes, what I wanted is in 18.1.4. Thanks, and sorry about that. M James C. Sutherland escribió: On Dec 2, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Manolo Martí nez wrote: is there anyway to break an equation in two lines in a place that is inside brackets? I mean something like this: a·(b + c + d + e) Loo

Re: How does Lyx "remember" certain things?

2009-12-10 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
A similar thing happened to me some time ago and it turned out that I was ammending not the bibtex file that LyX was using, but a backup. I know I'm sillier than many, but, just in case, make sure you are ammending the bibtex file LyX is using :) Manolo danielpferreira escribió: Hi! I'm a n

Re: open several files

2009-12-22 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Why, of course. What happens when you try? Horst Jurkat escribió: Is it possible to open several files with lyx as same time? Thanks in advance. Horst Jurkat

Re: [english 100%] Re: open several files

2009-12-22 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Dear Horst, please remember to copy the list in your replies. I know that i con open several files. But i do not want to open singulary one file after the other. I have to open hundreds of files which are in the same folder and search a possivility to open them with one command (I have to con

Re: [english 100%] Re: [english 100%] Re: open several files

2009-12-22 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
I'm sorry, I know next to nothing about Windows. The Python script I'm attaching does what you need, maybe it helps? Maybe someone else can provide more relevant help. Cheers, Manolo Thanks. I have use the commands for a singel lyx-document and it funktioned. But i do not know how i can "ins

Re: question about multiple files for a book

2010-01-08 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
I'm working with a long document in multiple files, and I can tell you that most things do work very well: * Labels from any file may be used everywhere * You only need to include the bibliography once, etc. About ortography, I guess one of the points of having multiple files is being able to

Re: question about multiple files for a book

2010-01-08 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
I use Linux, yes. If you could provide that script, or a pointer where to find it, it would be great :) Manolo Steve Litt escribió: On Friday 08 January 2010 10:22:38 Manolo Martí­nez wrote: About ortography, I guess one of the points of having multiple files is being able to do this

Re: question about multiple files for a book

2010-01-09 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Of course, convert to txt and then count. That makes sense :) Pavel Sanda escribió: Pavel Sanda wrote: Manolo Martí­nez wrote: I use Linux, yes. If you could provide that script, or a pointer where to find it, it would be great :) lyx -e text your_master.lyx wc -w

Index of descriptions

2010-01-25 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
Dear list, I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has maybe programmed a script or something to automate it: I need to look for all descriptions in a file and insert an index entry with the described item as text. Thanks, Manolo

Re: Index of descriptions

2010-01-25 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
But that does not save me from going description by description adding the glossary entry manually, does it? Manolo rgheck escribió: On 01/25/2010 11:56 AM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: Dear list, I was wondering if any of you has had to do this before, and has maybe programmed a script or

Re: Index of descriptions

2010-01-25 Thread Manolo Martí­nez
OK, thanks, I'll try that. M rgheck escribió: On 01/25/2010 02:37 PM, Manolo Martí­nez wrote: But that does not save me from going description by description adding the glossary entry manually, does it? You could redefine the description environment in such a way that it handled thi