DF,
it's almost certainly not due to the PDF reader -- it's probably
due to a
problem in the document. Try the following:
Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the
file from being over-written.
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On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Adams wrote:
Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the
file from
being over-written.
What ones?
But now I read that Adobe reader locks files. (I don't use Adobe.)
So I
gues
ican style settings, or if your English is better
than your German (or whatever other languages the koma-script docs
have been translated to by native speakers) you may find Memoir a
good choice.
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tion
of my process for this sort of thing to the Typo-L mailing list ---
mostly common-sense derived from experience you might find it useful
to save you from some working at cross-purposes.
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ing so is left as an exercise for the reader.
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sage of LaTeX.
Here's a page w/ specific instructions:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/XeTeX
(which need to be up-dated re: LyX handling UTF8 if I understand the
new features of LyX v1.5)
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at they should accept
the probably low-resolution images
That said, the best option is re-creating or re-drawing the
screengrabs so that they're resolution independent or can be
rendered / scanned at print resolution --- Michael Harvey did the
latter for his book _Creative Lettering
http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/kakuto/win32-ptex/web2c75-e.html
will allow you to download and install xetex which will include xelatex.
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ll include xelatex.
Thanks. I will try with last site.
I'm afraid that last is for Windows (didn't realise you were on Linux)
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On Aug 21, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Marcelo Acuña wrote:
I download from xetex site rpm with bin and with
sources. None work.
In that case, I'd suggest joining the xetex mailing list:
http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
Or you could try TeXlive which now includes xetex.
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rk w/ MikTeX, but haven't investigated, since I already had w32tex
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w the last line of a paragraph to be only one word,
esp. a word shorter than the paragraph indent (e.g., ``it'' on pg.
19) --- don't hyphenate the penultimate line of a paragraph (pg. 21)
Using memoir would fix some of the above, but a lot of it would have
to be done by hand.
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Babbage (among others) advocated strongly for the additional
differentiation which osf provide in tabular material.
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ripting.indesign/msg/
4da089d8e1739be1'
If you handle special characters and character styles by search-
replacing them first, then apply the above code suitably adapted to
your needs I believe you'll be all set.
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).
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27;' in the
manual.
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Figures were placed across the marginal notes column if they were
wider than the text column.
The basic technique is:
- insert the graphic into a box
- measure the box
- do an if then on the measurement of the box, re-using it if
desired (which is slightly more efficient)
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http://www.stixfonts.org/
Has there been any thought to using these for display of math in LyX?
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epetitive tasks slowly,
then, undo back to the beginning (FH allowed one to set undo levels up
to 100) and step through so that I could explain things slowly.
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l get one quite large type.
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ngler can as well.
If you'd liefer stick w/ opensource, smultron can.
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Although the other issues aren't addressed AFAIK in LyX (yet),
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concepts as desired (usually using post it notes, or index cards).
You may want to look up tools like the showidx package which will
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nd, while \vspace (and \addvspace) are the
appropriate commands to use in LaTeX.
I believe there's a discussion of the difficulties using vskip can
result in in _The LaTeX Companion_ --- I'd thought there was a
discussion of this in the FAQ, perhaps it's in lshort?
William
closed in the pdflatex
generated .pdf at their original quality and w/ no changes ---
what .pdf viewing program are you using?
> Anyone else with a solution?
That is the solution, and one which I've used often and w/ good results.
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eling.pdf) is converted into an RGB bitmap.
Are you sure you've got LyX set to call pdflatex to make a .pdf? I
thought the default was latex->dvi->dvips->ghostscript which would
yield the result you have belike.
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y and embed it without compression artifacts. Problem:
All PNGs embedde by pdflatex have an ugly black border on the right
and bottom of the image. I have no idea what causes this or how to
fix it. Any idea's?
Convert from the svg to a .pdf and place that instead.
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VGs in the first place? Can it go directly
to .pdf? Or some other format which can be easily made into a .pdf?
(.eps would be ideal, converting from .eps to .pdf is well understood)
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or who used LyX at a
previous job went off w/o a hitch.
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ay of Quantitative Information_
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
use booktabs (support has been added in v1.5) and read its
documentation as well:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktabs/
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On May 21, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
William Adams schrieb:
On May 21, 2007, at 5:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(re: GSview and Adobe Reader)
Are there any alternatives to these for Windows?
One free alternative is SumatraPDF:
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
which
ncl. Pro)
Albertan
Garamond Premier Pro
Arno Pro
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On May 24, 2007, at 12:07 AM, Alan G Isaac wrote:
On Mon, 21 May 2007, William Adams apparently wrote:
One free alternative is SumatraPDF:
http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
which shows promise for being a tex-oriented pdf previewing app/util.
Very impressive!
It's ni
, it, like all Plain
TeX references has to be looked at as documentation for the
programmatic underpinnings of LaTeX and used in concert w/ an
understanding of the LaTeX2e source so as to avoid strange
interactions and difficulties.
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Henrik Edlund said:
>This is a jungle and nobody seems to know anything about it. Not
>even the people responsible. Sigh.
>I am going to talk to the university printers tomorrow and see if
>they can shed some light on this.
That's the proper place for an authoritative answer.
Belike the inconsis
such backwards characters and install it.
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version from CTAN)
- afm2tfm (a bit limited in capabilities, but may serve)
- download them from various sites which collect / provide such.
Here's a very good tutorial for FontInst if you need to go that route:
http://lehman.virtualave.net/files/ltxfonts.pdf
Which fonts specifically?
Will
ks fine of course.
>now i would to solve the problem on my lyx/latex using something like
>true type fonts but i really don't know a start point
I recently posted a message of pointers on how to install fonts
for (La)TeX
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on
house specializing in math, physics, &c. textbooks)
You should be able to submit a .pdf for direct printing though,
unless the publisher has specific style recommendations you're unable
to accomplish in LaTeX?
Let me second the suggestion of Peter Wilson's Memoir class.
William
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Those are called crop marks.
get crop or poligraf from CTAN and use your choice.
Memoir has this built in, probably komascript as well.
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Marcin asked:
>Is it possible to put footnotes in footer? (Normaly footnotes are
>appended to the body.) This will probably solve the problem. It is
>possible to set footer dimentions, ruler, and space between bootom of
>footer and bottom of 'body text'. But I don't know how to get this -
>goog
have
here for posterity)
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/index/indexstyle.phtml
explains this, and is just three-four clicks from www.lyx.org
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in
the past on this list and is a very tough nut to crack. I was
actually thinking about a project to address things like that, but am
beginning to think I'd not like the potential customer base, so am
disinclined to continue on it.
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voice
Alexandre asked:
>In other words, how do all you people come up with this stuff? Where
does one
>learn tex and latex and all this miscellaneous stuff? What books, docs,
or
>other reference materials would the gurus out there counsel, for
somebody who
>would like to get on his own two feet on thi
Well drat.
I tried installing it and got:
``There were errors installing the software
Could not set file attributes.
Please try installing again.''
I'm guessing this is 'cause I had the X Qt version installed previously?
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1:Could not set
permissions on . - Operation not permitted
and continues like that.
Now that I think further, I'm guessing that this is 'cause I'm
running Mac OS X 10.1.5 and not Jaguar or something later?
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John asked:
>Can latex accept utf8 (or whatever) encoded source files ?
This was recently announced:
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=batokq%245cj%241%40online.de&output=gplain
From: Frank Mittelbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: announce: inputenc support for utf8
Da
Dia, Kontour,
Scribus are all free tools.
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h.
Interestingly, I first learned of LyX in the comp.sys.next.* groups, a
person asking if it could be made to run there...
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ough)
Alan Hoenig's wonderful book _TeX Unbound_ is in many ways a paean to
the virtues of running TeX in NeXTstep.
So there :/
William
(who thinks LyX is the coolest / most innovative / most useful
opensource project going, with even GNUstep merely a close second ;)
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sideration is LaTeX's figure environment which affords some
facilities along these lines.
You may find Eukleides of interest as well.
http://membres.lycos.fr/euklides/
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ey'll get Arial subbed in at
their end.
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Jean-Pierre said:
>I've read the thread on this mail, and I confirm that
>bitmap eps gives poor results on diagrams and screen saves,
>unless the original size is retained.
A way to improve the appearance of bitmap .eps files is to load them
into PhotoShop 6 or later and save them out with ``Imag
out to compare / contrast. (Irritatingly Adobe Reader 6 seems to apply
the same scaling / interpolation technique to all the images w/ a
default install / settings)
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hem
somewhere other than your ~/Library/texmf subtree
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[This was sent to me but I think it was destined to the list - José Matos]
From: William Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (ATLIS Graphics & Design)
Parallel.sty achieves something of this.
You'd be best served I suspect gathering together a group of people w/
similar needs and paying D
Interesting post / problem, and reminiscent of Pages Corp. Pages program
for NeXTstep.
It's my understanding that some such concepts are being considered (were
considered?) in LaTeX 3.
Peter Wilson's Memoir Class shows that one can have a wonderfully
flexible documentclass w/ a lot of options w/
Well, there's option 4:
- create an über class / layout which encompasses all possible layout
variations allowing the user to pick / choose from the myriad options
which could then be wired up in a LyX dialogue box.
William
Matej said:
>You are trying to beat dead horse to run. Not that LaTeX would be
>dead, but it is absolutely not suited for being the backend for
>typesetting general layouts.
But there's no better tool for high-quality automated typesetting.
>That's not what it was prepared for.
>You should inste
f thing---I've always
just fixed this sort of thing by hand though.
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iography on my web site (ob. discl. I'm an Amazon
Associate and may profit).
I'd especially recommend Adrian Wilson's _The Design of Books_ and
Bringhurst's _Elements of Typographic Style_
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kill at typography and an awareness of
it, even if that means some hand-work.
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X or no, but if
it could be made to, that'd be fabulous.
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s-e-tex.html (my own list of free
references for LaTeX)
http://www.latex-project.org/guides/
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eyond the ``gentlemen's
agreement'' to hide the back room dealings.
\end{typographichistorynitpicking}
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needs it but
can't wait for Stix.
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On Aug 29, 2008, at 6:30 AM, G. Milde wrote:
There is no Palatino Sans
Actually, the new Palatino Nova family introduces Palatino Sans and
Palatino Sans Informal:
http://www.linotype.com/2567/palatinonova.html
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- Save File As and choose as Format: PDF/A
- choose pdf/a-1b in the pop-up
- quit Acrobat
- re-open the file
- preflight (successfully) as PDF/A-1b
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, PDF/A-1b:2005 (CMYK)
Or switch to using pdflatex.
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On Sep 10, 2008, at 7:23 AM, William Adams wrote:
Or switch to using pdflatex.
Also, Martin Heller mentioned on texhax that the hyperref package as a
pdfa option which may help as well.
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t
doesn't have any hyperrefs; even the minimal file I posted earlier
fails...
The hyperref package now has an option which will tag text so that one
could use a PDF/A standard other than PDF/A-1b (which is for untagged
text).
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aTeX.
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problems found'' when using Adobe Acrobat Professional 8
--- I'm going to d/l the demo for v9, but I really think either
Acrobat on your machine or Acrobat on Windows is broken.
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hanging package to get
hanging punctuation --- not quite as configurable as microtype, but it
could be pretty easily built into LyX I'd think --- just enable a way
to define styles to also be hanging environments.
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whined and they quit doing so).
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Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
DEC's
COMPOSE.EXE which emulated the Compose key on their dedicated word
processing equipment.
Unfortunately, Microsoft broke it sometime during the Windows 95 beta.
There is a free successor, ``AllChars'', now available at:
http://allchars.zwolnet.com/
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ual has an example of using
hphantom in a verse environment.
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Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
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