Hi
Does anyone have a computer bibliography or know where I can get one?
I'd like all the classics: K&R, Knuth, Lamport, Eric S Raymond, etc
regards
John O'Gorman
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 15:16 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > I am trying to put a logo at the top left of the page. Alongside the logo,
> > I want my business name in \Huge letters. (This is mainly for the purpose
> > of b
output.
Unfortunately latex2html now stuffs up the logo (making it too big).
But I am getting there.
Sheer dogged doctrinaire persistence will, I hope, reap its just reward!
regards
John O'Gorman
>
> Rich
>
vspace command defeated it. So the logo appeared above the name.
Sigh! Back to the drawing board.
John O'Gorman
>
> -Kevin
>
>
t "
Then he stepped back and thought deeply for a while. Then he left the
room. We waited. 5 minutes later he returned smiling and said:
"Yes it is obvious." and contiunued to outline the proof.
regards
John O'Gorman
le the graphic logo to the right size when
given just the width and asked to preserve aspect ratio..
I will experiment further with the minipage solution. If I can make it
work with all 3 formats, it will be a more elegant solution.
regards
John O'Gorman
> That's it! Minipages is the
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:18 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > I have 6 books on Tex/LaTeX but not that one! Can you give us a brief
> > pointer to how to fix it (or is it not fixable)?
>
> John,
>
>Yes, it's
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 10:50 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> john wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:18 -0800, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >
> >
> >>On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, John O'Gorman wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I have 6
minipages when using latex2html.
He kindly supplied sample LaTeX code for me to try. I will see if I can
plug this into my LyX doc as ERT.
I'll keep you posted
regards
John O'Gorman
is no tabular
statement).
regards
John O'Gorman
miniog2.lyx
Description: application/lyx
minipage (rather than the baseline of a space with a
physical size.
I had never heard of this, but found it in Knuth's TeXbook (Appendix A,
12.6).
regards
John O'Gorman
between letters on the screen?
Would it displace all the text to its right?
John O'Gorman
>
n Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:28:57AM +0200, Sara Stymne wrote:
> If I put the page break before or between the floats the
> pages get right, but then the page with the last table gets the empty
> heading, and the library page gets a normal heading. Or neither of
> them
> gets any headings if I use pag
s
> applied to the last table page instead of the library page.
It seems strange that is would be the case, even if the
\thispagestyle{empty} was placed at the end of the library page.
Could you mail me a file where this occurs so that I can see what is
happening?
> /Sara
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
Masters Student
where the figure used to be.
You can use Layout->Tabular->Borders to remove the borders from the 1x1
tabular so that you do not have a second set of borders around the
tabular.
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
Masters Student
s one. http://ipe.compgeom.org/ Could this or
> something like it be Incorporated? Exporting the EPS is fine but
> sometimes I find I made tiny errors and it would be pretty cool to
> edit it from within LyX.
Looks cool.
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
Masters Student
s. Is there any way to do this in lyx ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
I am sure that it is possible, but probably requires using a bit of
LaTeX in your preamble "Layout->Document->Preamble"
See e.g.
http://www.kronto.org/thesis/tips/custom-headers.html
for how to use the fancyhdr
On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 01:21:01PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.81 \scalebox
> {0.5}{
You'll need to put
\usepackage{graphicx}
in your preamble to be able to use scalebox.
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
Masters Student
n Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 01:54:25PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> Thanks, John, but I do not observe any size reduction with \scalebox.
> (Please, see the attached example.)
Scalebox does not work with DVI preview, but should work once you
convert the document to PS or PDF.
--
John C. McCabe-D
utside
the current document.
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
Masters Student
As I understand The suggestion was that we have a key that behaves much
like Alt-Tab does on windows. I.e. if you tap Alt-Tab twice you go back
where you started from.
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
Masters Student
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:24:09PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi John
>
> There are three pages with almost the same name on the wiki... I assume
> they're accidental triplicates, would you mind deleting two(?) of them:
>
> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX-GrammarChe
able number but before the colon.
For example
"Table 3.4.: Title of Table".
It seems rather untidy to have a "." and a ":" right next to each other.
Is there any way I can get rid of the trailing dot without removing
the appendix?
--
John C. McCabe-Dansted
Masters Student
r many years of relying on the middle mouse button for pasting text, I
recently upgraded one of my machines to openSUSE 10.3 and the middle button
no longer works quickly or reliably for any app (not just LyX). I now need to
click up to 4 times and wait before it works.
John O'Gorman
be one of those people (all too common
nowadays) who slavishly follows 'procedure' without regard to purpose.
John O'Gorman
>
> Is there a way to tell LyX to add an empty lmine after a list?
>
> Jean
On Saturday 22 March 2008 08:36:24 am Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, John wrote:
> > After many years of relying on the middle mouse button for pasting text,
> > I recently upgraded one of my machines to openSUSE 10.3 and the middle
> > button no longer works qu
e to implement whatever look you want, please
> ensure that all text is in colors that strongly contrast with the
Hear Hear!
(But I suspect you're showing your age Rich -- and mine!)
John O'Gorman
> background.
>
> Rich
MS Office, and the others
John O'Gorman
>
> rh
sically supplied a list of database records, and the LyX filename to a perl
program which read the database record (which was a set of variable
assignments of the form ${firstname}='John' ) and replaced the ${tags} with
the data. When it encountered a PERL tag it executed the {} delimited
tinker with the logo, please make it resemble a platypus!
Probably just changing the beak shape, and toning down those awful cartoon
colours would be enough.
John O'Gorman
> So, to sum up,
> we should have a color scheme that will be shared between site template
> and splas
love the gold ambiance of
platypus-splash2.png which conveys to everyone what LyX epitomises:
trudging through a hostile world dredging in the mud and producing gold!
If I didn't know better I would have sworn it was a painting by Rembrandt.
Oh the chiaroscuro! - oh - oh!
John O'Gorman
&g
plash2.png, it also represents light shining
in the darkness which does not comprehend it!
John O'Gorman
>
> It could work, but maybe the logotype should be there as well, making the
> connection stronger.
>
> /Christian
you can still indulge your love of (or need for)
the arcana of the TeX language and LaTeX macros for special effects and
tinkering via LyX's Evil Red TeX (ERT) dialogue box.
John O'Gorman
> Rex
al Printing business can use directly.
regards
John O'Gorman
printer
but I have not got the arguments quite right.
regards
John O'Gorman
hanks, John.
start ispell!
I searched Google for solutions, but only found:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/67262
Can anyone offer help?
John
same thing (loaded backport 2.3.2 on top of my existing debian
stretch lyx) I did not first remove lyx. New version just updated and works
fine. And
I think it solved my extra spacing problem as well.
John
stall this one before doing it?
> > > >
> > > > If both are packaged by debian, I would think you do not need to
> > > >
> > > > uninstall.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > JMarc
> > >
>
so.
Of course the type of binding can affect how well that book can open out and
this may mean that the inner margins need to compensate for this by being
increased a little. But the visible width of the two inner margins should
still look equal to one outer margin
John O'Gorman
>
>
is called xmlstarlet and comes with
the installation CDs or DVD.
These should make it easy to translate to and from LyX (when it finally goes
fully XML).
John O'Gorman
> >
> > My understanding is that, whatever happens with the LyX file format, we
> > want it to remain possib
Christian Ridderström wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I guess the following will require some LaTeX. Any tips on how to get
> the filename appear in the footer?
>
> I'm using \cfoot{...} to create the center text of the footer.
\cfoot{\scriptsize{\jobname.lyx}}}
John O'Gorman
>
d included images correctly (although earlier
versions needed a patch from Ross Moore to translate tables).
I believe it can run wherever perl is installed (but I have no
experience of using MS or OSX).
John O'Gorman
Rich Shepard wrote:
> Usenet used to be OK. Now, unfortunately, it's jammed with spam and
> folks
> with attitudes. Mail lists tend to be more polite and helpful.
Amen to that.
And the LyX list is extraordinarily polite, helpful, relevant, and
knowledgable.
I have used several lists related to L
I fixed it by dashing off a sed command to delete all the \language
english lines from the LyX file.
Something like:
sed '/\language english/d' botched.lyx > good.lyx
John O'Gorman
> mark-up.
>
> Sincerely,
> Hubert
>
>
chunks of text (say a whole
chapter).
3. Is there any way to mark places in a document then delete to the mark
(as in vi)
John O'Gorman
se solutions work brilliantly. Thanks to all!
This list is really brilliant.
Are these methods of selection in the LyX help documents?
Or are they artefacts of the Qt library?
John O'Gorman
>
> Abdel.
>
>
>
on: Do you still maintain the LyX perl packages for current
versions of LyX or have you abandoned them in favour of the new religion
Python.
My application is a more natural fit for perl than for Python.
John O'Gorman
Woops
After a little reflection, I downloaded the 1.6.2 source files and voila
There they were under development/lyxserver.
Sorry people.
John O'Gorman
john wrote:
> A question for the developers
>
> For many years I have been using LyX as the document processor for
> Ins
;~.lyxpipe"
But should the Client.pm program be altered to read the file: preferences?
I am willing to make the necessary changes and submit them.
John O'Gorman
Hi,
I have KOMA-Script instaled in Miktex, but Lyx dont find it.
Unavailable Book (Koma-Script)
What I do?
John
Ross Moore (Maths dept, McQuarrie University) had fixed the bug in
latex2html which was bodging tables. Unfortunately this fix was not
carried through into some Linux distros.
Current and recent versions of OpenSUSE have incorporated the fix
into their downloads.
The fix is quite simple and t
ou
> whomp out content. It's great.
>
> Thanks to the developers for making this great bookmaking software, and the
> community for making it better and providing information.
>
Amen to that!
It's my favourite piece of software and has been for more than a decade
Will the upcoming export to HTML support making separate web pages for
each subsection and provide overall navigation (in the manner of
latex2html) ?
John O'Gorman
found anything (apart
from scripts to convert PDF to and PS and back.
John O'Gorman
..
When I click on the View DVI button, LyX behaves as though I had hit the
View PDF document.
Is this expected behaviour?
Or do I have to find and install the OSX version of Xdvi?
John O'Gorman
quot; then "Close"
The program "convert" is very general so I think that the same technique
should be able to convert any image format to EPS.
Thanks again for the help and I hope that this is useful to others in the
future.
Cheers,
Van
**;
Then I restarted Lyx. It seems to work now.
Good luck,
John B.
Hello,
I am trying to install lyx1.4.4 on a redhat enterprise 4 ws -
workstation.
I got it down to one dependencies:
# rpm -ivh lyx-1.4.4-1.el4.i386.rpm
warning: lyx-1.4.4-1.el4.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
ff6382fa
error: Failed dependencies:
lyx-frontend = 1.4.4 is needed
Sorry
I didnot notice the reply-to was not the list.
John O'Gorman
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User-A
rep2lyx.xsl yourfile.xml | sed s '/^ *//' > outfile.lyx
You will need to change the tagnames in the xsl file to match the tags
in your xml format.
regards
John O'Gorman
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 22:29, Daniel wrote:
>Hello,
>
> Apologies by my poor English.
>
>
Slightly off thread but related question.
Is there an easy way to alternate the colours of rows in a table
(e.g. so it looks like traditional tractor-feed fanfold paper if any of
you are old enough to remember)
regards
John O'Gorman
I have happily used LyX with latex2html for years to create web pages.
Now I find that with the version which comes with SuSE 9.3, the
latex2html is broken.
Has anyone else met, and solved this problem?
regards
John O'Gorman
0 hours, taking very good care of the
projector (no vibrations, correct switch-on/off etc). Say 200 days at
8hrs/day.
John
ynamically (like images), or as a first step, just on command.
Most, if not all databases export CSV, and it would open a wealth of
other possibilities, like import data from experiments, spreadsheets,
address books, etc.
Just .02$
John
m also interested, but
I'll surely need a hand, as I am not an ace programmer. Can someone
indicate what has to be done?
John
s the world a colorful place.
Anyway, I see there is some interest (mine included) for a native GTK+
version, so I'll try and compile one (I suspect it compiles at least?).
Who is the person to take contact with for hints/diffs/ etc? Is that John
Spray?
John
I have just tried to install LyX 1.3.6 under Windows
XP. I like what I have seen but I have a problem. As
the heading says: I cannot produce any output because
LyX has marked all the layouts apparently as not
existing.
I have installed
ImageMagick-6.2.5-4-Q16-windows-dll
Ghostscript gs853w32
Act
--- Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:43 AM
> Subject: Installation Problem. All entries in
> Textclass.lst are "fals
--- Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 7:43 AM
> Subject: Installation Problem. All entries in
> Textclass.lst are "fals
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Kane wrote:
> Hang on. The ~2.8 MB file in Stephen's directory
> listing is probably
> the installer, which you don't need once
> installation is done (and which
> wouldn't necessarily
--- Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 2:05 PM
> Subject: Re: Installation Problem. All entries in
> Textclass.lst
>
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Kane wrote:
> > The file is there, all 43K of it, but sh
configure
> > simply gives me an error message
> > 'sh' is not recognized as an internal or external
> > command, operable progra
--- Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "John Kane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Users LyX"
>
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 8:57 AM
> Subject: R
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Kane wrote:
> > Path=C:\Perl\bin\;c:program
files\imanemagick-6.2.5_q16;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;c:\WINDOWS\system32;C:WINDOWS;C;\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:Program
> > Files\Common Files\MDL Shared\ISIS
>
> I'
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Kane wrote:
> >> I think you said that the MinSYS bin directory
> >>(c:\msys\1.0\bin?) was on the LyX internal path
> >
> > No it was not. I've added it. Still getting the
error
>
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Kane wrote:
>
> > Obviously, as a student you, did not have the card
> > reader shred your computer deck ½ hours before
the
> > assignment was due and all you needed was a clean
> > printout.
the help so far. I certainly have learned a lot (most of
it useful :) and recalled a bunch of DOS commands I would happily had remain
forgotten.
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada
-
Find your next car at Yahoo! Canada Autos
"Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John,
Did you try updating your format files using the MiKTeX Options program
(General tab, Format files section, Update Now button) and, if so, did
anything on your computer melt?
Paul
Arghh! I was afraid I'd forgotte
file "latex.efmt" could not be found." And as far as I can tell latex.efmt is not on my hard drive BTW I have not been able to find a Lyx file in the Applications Data file under User after I have installed, created and saved a file in Lyx. ARRGH! John Kane, Kingston ON Canada
Find your next car at Yahoo! Canada Autos
boards: mine seems not
> to have one. Only Ctrl, Alt and Shift).
I'm not quite sure, I seem to remember that by default Ctrl-. (the 'full
stop' or decimal point) is the compose key. I put:
keycode 116 = Multi_key
keycode 115 = Multi_key
in my ./Xmodmap file, which defines both Windooze keys as Compose.
John
!)
Also note that the compose key is sequential (not like Shift/Ctrl). You
have to release it before typing the letters.
John
ead of CR _and_ LF). This was on a Linux machine
though (I used fromdos to convert the file)/
John
ery common problem with PDFs produced on Linux which
are then used by Windows people. Is there a known solution? I've tried
to find information on this but haven't seen anything relevant. I can
send screenshots if you need.
Cheers
JP
--
John Pye
School of Mechanical and Manufactu
amateurish.
There are exceptions of course. If you have a preponderance of very long
words (unlikely in short stories), then you my end up with excessive and
annoying hyphenation.
John O'Gorman
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Author:
>* Universal Troubleshooting Process
e omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has
> solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
>
> Which justification of the above 3 pagragraphs do you alike?
They all appear ragged right on my mail client (Ximian Evolution)!
John O'Gorman
>
> Born with an Chomskian instinctual dislike for hyphenation (-, ;)
> Stephen
>
>
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 17:53, Stephen Harris wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "john" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 6:55 PM
> Subject: Re: bibliographies
>
>
> > Hi
> > Does anyone have a computer bibli
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 01:35, Subir Singh Lamba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried to install powerdot package following the installation advice from
> the help menu of lyx.
How does powerdot compare with beamer?
regards
John O'Gorman
documentation).
In all cases, despite setting top alignment, I get cetre alignment
vertically.
I have tried putting a vfill beneath the elements.
Any ideas?
regards
John O'Gorman
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 03:12, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> > This sounds good, but when I try it I get:
> >
> > XX
> > XX
> > XX
> > XX
> > John Hancock
> >
t;
>>on OSX and just transferred to LyX137
>>so i changed my JabRef lyxpipe entry to..
>>
>>~/Library/Application Support/LyX/.lyxpipe
>>
>>gave me an error that i ought to verify that lxypipe is valid
>>
>>
>
>have you checked that /.lyx
Sven Schreiber wrote:
>If other users are also concerned about the copy&paste-situation, please
>make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a friendly way, of
>course)
>
>
This has been an issue for me too. Other programs like ms office,
mozilla/thunderbird and openoffice do a great job
Mistakenly sent off-list by Dr. Hellmut Weber:
> Hi list,
>
>>> If other users are also concerned about the copy&paste-situation,
>>> please
>>> make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a friendly way, of
>>> course)
>>
>
> I've been a LaTeX user for many years until I found LyX which i
Hellmut Weber wrote:
> For business reasons I'm obliged to produce some documents in
> Word-Format. The copy/paste-comfort offered by Windows is to be
> considered THE reference for any system which wants to compete.
>
I think that the 'rich' copy/paste technology clearly exists on Linux,
but it s
he ones
>would be represented in black, say, and the zeros in yellow. Does
>somebody know of a program (for Linux) to create my picture?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Paul
>
>
>
--
John Pye
School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
The University of New South Wales
Syd
Hi Paul
Just to specify a bit, you should take a look at the 'spy' and 'spy2'
commands from matplotlib
JP
Paul Smith wrote:
On 2/3/06, John Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You should try Matplotlib under python. You've got a lot of the MATLAB
functionality
Hi all,
Can anyone offer any comments on what would be the 'safest path' for
converting Framemaker files into Docbook Lyx files?
I have the exported 'MIF' and 'XML' files from Framemaker version 5. I
also have the original .fm5 files, and I have the PDFs that were
generated by Framemaker. Th
n simply
embed these images into the LyX file.
Cheers
JP
Krishnan Chittur wrote:
>
> John,
>
> My limited experience is that when there are equations and
> references to sections/chapters and so on - I have not had
> a lot of luck in going from one format to another -
> (my pe
Hi Georg,
Georg Baum wrote:
John Pye wrote:
Can anyone offer any comments on what would be the 'safest path' for
converting Framemaker files into Docbook Lyx files?
You know http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~pablo/mif2lyx/ ? It is somewhat
limited, but it might be possible to
interesting project though.
Cheers
JP
Stephen Harris wrote:
- Original Message - From: "John Pye"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:42 AM
Subject: Re: Convert framemaker to docbook-lyx -- safes
list who has actually created an index advise if
this is really the best approach?
regards
John O'Gorman
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