Re: "why lyx when there's word?"
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 19:44, Rich Drewes wrote: > Serious Word users would point to EndNote and say that tools like > BibTex/Pybliographic are toys in comparison. (EndNote supports importing > BibTex, BTW.) For certain things they are right--BibTex+Pybliographic > handles the basics well, but there are some very powerful features that > EndNote and associated packages can do like create maps of references so > you can identify key sources. One big issue here is that such third party add-ons for Word are usually paid their LOC in gold. Another problem is the quite frequent instabillity derived by "overloading" word with such bells and whistles. I can't tell anything about EndNote since I haven't used it, but ReferenceManager in its days had blown up in my face more than once. I would also be rather careful in dismissing bibtex and latex's support for bibliography in general as a toy. Please keep in mind that you can rather easily change "formatting" of the references anytime you please while still not messing (and thus loosing time) with the actual archive. You can also SQL-query for references if your university library offers such service. I for one, consider the TexMed web interface a god send. > There are good equation packages (third party) for Word as well, I am > told. It depends on what you consider as good. The main problem with math under word is mainly the "point & click" paradigm that will cost you hours to no end before you can format half a dozen equations (e.g. "boxed", center-aligned and equation number "right-aligned"), while in LaTeX these things in most cases work "out-of-the-box". > For my thesis I chose to go with Lyx and Pybliographic because OpenOffice > wasn't up to the bibliographic task as far as I can tell. OO.org's bibliography is far better than whatever "hack" you can get with the native MS Word endnotes. Wether that's good enough of course depends on your necessities, since LaTeX is even better. > I will probably > use Beamer for my thesis defense (all my other presentations so far have > been with OO Impress). Beamer all the way! The graphic quality obtained is not even dreamed of for most office-suite users (MS or otherwise). Choose the right theme for you, spend a couple of minutes fine-tuning colours and then type away in the most casual way. You have a thesis presentation in about an hour (as personal experience teaches me). > It has been quite a bit of work getting Lyx to > conform to my University's formatting conventions but I managed it all, > finally, with appropriate ERT in the Lyx doc. I did not have the time to > spend writing my own document class. In the enrd it is working out well, > and the result looks great, but I would not recommend this approach at > this point to someone who wasn't really into open source and fiddling with > software. On this point I'll have to agree that a LaTeX class-generating dialog application of some sort would do miracles in improving user-friendliness and ease-of-deployment for either Lyx or any other LaTeX-based solution. As for not reccomending TeX to people that have no idea about software, I think we all agree. That's why office-suites are so succesful and popular to begin with: the pesky typewritter emulation environment requires much less of the user than understanding the basic workings of a markup language. Now Lyx and other editors (like Kile which is not WYSIWG but offers most LaTeX options on dropdown menus and auto-completes code) provide us with the ability to write LaTeX-based documents without knowing by heart the ins and outs of the language and without opening HOW-TOs and browsing books every couple of lines, but still, some basic knowledge is required to get you going.
Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran
On 20.04.05, LB wrote: > I'm not very experienced with this: How do I apply a patch in Windows XP? This patch adds just one line (the one with the + before it), so the easisest way is: copy IEEEtran.layout to your local LyX directory and insert the line with a simple text editor. the numbers in the @@ @@ enclosed line give you the line-number of the change, the remaining lines are context. (There should be a DOS version of Gnu diff/patch that could be used with the run_program prompt if you ever happen to apply larger patches...) GM > >The Right Thing is to copy IEEEtran.layout to your local lyx directory > >(usually ~/.lyx/layouts) and apply the following patch: > > > >--- /usr/share/lyx/layouts/IEEEtran.layout 2004-07-25 07:39:20.0 > >+0200 > >+++ /home/milde/.lyx/layouts/IEEEtran.layout 2005-04-20 10:34:59.0 > >+0200 > >@@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ > > LatexType Command > > InTitle 0 > > LatexName appendices > >+ KeepEmpty 1 > > ParSkip 0.4 > > BottomSep 1.5 > > ParSep 1.5 -- G.Milde web.de
Re: Case equations
Angus Leeming wrote:
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:37:14PM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote:
Hi!
How do you write a case equation in LyX? I mean an equation like
B = { 1 if x > 0;
0 if x = 0
so that the brace covers multiple lines?
I think that you can use the math panel and then click on the button that
looks like a blue box surrounded by brackets. Then you can change the
left bracket to your braces and change the right one to blank.
In the inner blue square, insert a math matrix and fill in the parts.
Actually, it's even easier:
Create a math inset: Insert->Math->Display formula
Type:
B=\cases1\textrmif Math->Inline
formula>x>00\textrmif Math->Inline formula>x=0
Looks horrible, but really it isn't!
Easier still: in a display environment, try Insert->Math->Cases
environment, and use control-enter to add cases as needed. You still
need to switch to textrm font for the "if"s (alt-m m or type ).
-- Paul
Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5
Joerg Hau wrote: > That was my point ... the "old" LyX version did not have the scaling > option (upper part of the graphics dialogue); the on-screen display was > just adapted to the desired output size (lower part). > > The new "scaling" option does the job; I was just confused that this > refers to the scaling of the _original_ graphics where I would have > expected a scaling relative to the _output_ size ;-) Problem is --- LyX has litle idea what the _output_ size is. That's because the graphics code has been re-written from scratch since 1.1.x. Trust me, that's a good thing :) Sure LyX could get this info, but extraction of data from PostScript files is error-prone at best without a proper PostScript parser. We just decided to go for simpler code. -- Angus
Re: Should this behavior be expected?
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:10:20 +0200 Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Smith wrote: > > > On 4/18/05, Michael Scottaline > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> PS>When two LyX windows are open (after having run the command lyx > >> PS>twice), copying from a document in a window to a document in the other > >> PS>one is not possible. Is this behavior expected as normal? Or is this a > >> PS>bug? > > Yes it is normal, cut&paste is very primitive in LyX. Also, you cannot cut a > piece a LyX text with ctrl-C and paste it in another application like your > mailer with ctrl-V. > > Cut&paste is a sad example of the results of the over-engineered and > under-staffed toolkit independent LyX Sonderweg. Well, I'm running on my > hobby horse here ;-) I have managed to copy equations to/from emacs (when I need highly twicked documents I usually handle the latex directly and use lyx only as an equation editor). The problem is probably with the limitation of the X-windows copy system where Ctrl-C/V, middle click and shift-insert aren't 100% linked. > > Cheers, > Charles > -- > http://www.kde-france.org > > > +++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > +++ This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System at the Tel-Aviv University CC.
Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5
Hi All, > You can't insert a graphic in a list item. Looking at the original, you > had that wrong there too, so you just got lucky. All that has happened > is that LyX has got better at spotting errors in the LaTeX log file. > > To fix your document, I changed all those list items containing > graphics, so: > > > item > > text > > > to > > > item > > > > graphic > text > > > > item > Thanks a lot for spotting this .. yet: technically this gets rid of the error message, but practically the problem is replaced by another one: the graphics is no longer where it belongs. Indeed I need the graphics (here, a symbolic mouse button) to be the list item, with its corresponding text to the right. In other words, the first of the above representations is correct, but not the second. Since this worked in previous versions, it seems that this construct as such is at least "LaTeX-compatible" ... now, JMarc's fix seems to apply to LaTeX only, so if there is a solution for LyX I would truly appreciate more details :-) Best regards! - Joerg -- joerg.hau(at)dplanet.ch * Lausanne, Switzerland http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/joerg.hau/ "All standard disclaimers apply." Never take life seriously. You won't get out alive anyway.
Re: Tip for viewing pdf-files
On 4/20/05, samar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find that if you do update as opposed to view, the page stays at the same > place but you have to "redraw" the screen. > This you can do by a quick page up/down. I dont know if that fits your bill. Thanks, Samar. It would be perfect if it redrew automatically likewise xdvi. Paul
Re: Problem converting from LyX 1.1.x to 1.3.5
Hi, > > Another, related question: The LyX file mentioned above includes > > numerous symbols of mouse buttons, which I formatted as small "inline" > > graphics in the original document (2.5 mm width). In the LyX 1.3.5 > > editing screen, these are _huge_; is this intended behaviour? > > However, if you're worried about it, you can set the size of hte image > on the LyX screen indenpendent of its size in the output. See the > graphics dialog. That was my point ... the "old" LyX version did not have the scaling option (upper part of the graphics dialogue); the on-screen display was just adapted to the desired output size (lower part). The new "scaling" option does the job; I was just confused that this refers to the scaling of the _original_ graphics where I would have expected a scaling relative to the _output_ size ;-) Thanks and best regards! - Joerg -- joerg.hau(at)dplanet.ch * Lausanne, Switzerland "All standard disclaimers apply." Never take life seriously. You won't get out alive anyway.
Re: Underlining URL environment
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 12:35 pm, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > Using the above code, I still have the problem that when I put it into an
> > environment, it only underlines the first character of the paragraph.
>
> where is the sense to have an environment here???
>
> \newenvironment{UUrl}{%
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \ttfamily%
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Herbert
Thanks Herbert,
The abovereferenced code did the trick. I changed it to \footnotesize and
\rmfamily to conserve horizontal space, and am now very happy with the
result. The underlining is perfect. Thanks.
As far as the sense in an environment -- that's how I do styles when I'm in
Author Mode -- I format the paragraph with an environment.
Herbert -- could you please explain to me (and probably 100 others) why what
you did above worked, when all else failed? What is the purpose of the lrbox?
Why is the \underline placed in a different place than the \ttfamily? And
perhaps most important, by what mental process do you come up with such
solutions? Whatever you're doing, I want to be able to do it too.
Thanks
SteveT
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Re: Case equations
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> Cool! Thanks. I did not ask the question, but I am sure I will have
> occasion to use stuff like this... Is there any documentation that goes
> over all the mysterious math stuff (like "\cases")?
I believe that André's goal was to support the whole of AMSLaTeX. He didn't
quite succeed, but he was getting quite close.
Something that isn't supported?
\sum \begin{Sb}
x \leq 0 \\
y \leq x
\end{Sb}
André was playing with environment insets at one stage, but other things
intruded. Babies. Life.
--
Angus
Re: Case equations
Angus Leeming wrote: Create a math inset: Insert->Math->Display formula Type: B=\cases1\textrmif Math->Inline only the "if" should be text, then you do not need this "math inside text inside math" ... Herbert -- http://TeXnik.de/ http://PSTricks.de/ ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
Re: Case equations
Cool! Thanks. I did not ask the question, but I am sure I will have occasion
to use stuff like this... Is there any documentation that goes over all the
mysterious math stuff (like "\cases")?
---Kayvan
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:49:13AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:37:14PM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> How do you write a case equation in LyX? I mean an equation like
> >>
> >> B = { 1 if x > 0;
> >> 0 if x = 0
> >>
> >> so that the brace covers multiple lines?
> >
> > I think that you can use the math panel and then click on the button that
> > looks like a blue box surrounded by brackets. Then you can change the
> > left bracket to your braces and change the right one to blank.
> >
> > In the inner blue square, insert a math matrix and fill in the parts.
>
> Actually, it's even easier:
>
> Create a math inset: Insert->Math->Display formula
> Type:
> B=\cases1\textrmif Math->Inline
> formula>x>0 arrow>0\textrmif Math->Inline formula>x=0
>
> Looks horrible, but really it isn't!
>
> --
> Angus
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Re: Underlining URL environment
Steve Litt wrote:
Using the above code, I still have the problem that when I put it into an
environment, it only underlines the first character of the paragraph.
where is the sense to have an environment here???
\newenvironment{UUrl}{%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\ttfamily%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Herbert
Re: "why lyx when there's word?"
Steve Litt wrote: I think a person should use Word (or in my case OpenOffice) for most stuff. Oh, goody. Now we start the Battle of Improperly-Generalized Anecdotes. Here's mine: > If it's under 10,000 words, LyX is a hassle unless you're willing to accept ALL LyX's defaults. Here's why... In WordPerfect 5.1, Word or OpenOffice, modifying a style is a 5 minute procedure. For very sophisticated styles it might take an hour. I've spent more than an hour trying to coerce Word - without luck - into fixing some glaring formatting error. It's particularly bad about mysteriously deciding to screw with the left indent, in my experience, and particularly prone to trouble when editing a document originally produced by someone else on another system (and so with different customizations applied to "normal.dot", aka Word's Dungeon of Mystery). > But in LyX, I've spent 2 days modifying one paragraph style (Environment in LyX speak). My sympathies, but this hardly defines the LyX experience for everyone, any more than my Word experience does. Meanwhile, although WordPerfect 5.0 had character styles in May 1988, and Word had styles at least as early as the early 1990's, LyX still does not have character styles (something I keep urging the developers to put in). Sure, and that's a problem for people who want character styles. There's quite a jump from "don't need character styles" to "willing to accept ALL LyX's defaults", don't you think? > In summary, changing the default look of a document class is a HUGE time sink. I've made a number of changes to the default layout of my dissertation, and the time spent doing that is a negligible fraction of my writing time. And this is the first time I've used LyX or LaTeX (though I admit I'm not new to markup languages in general). I haven't used LyX for a short document, because all of the short documents I've created since I started using it are HTML, except for a couple that had to be Word due to outside requirements. But I'd have no qualms about using it for one. Certainly *I* find it far less annoying than Word, which as far as I can tell (and I've been using it since the free demo that shipped as a 5 1/2" floppy bound into an issue of _PC Magazine_) is nothing but a nasty collection of ad hoc formatting functions thrown on top of a virtual typewriter. And there's my anecdote, which I imagine is irrelevant for the vast majority of Word and LyX users. Some people survey the tools available to them, and weigh their advantages and costs; but most use the first one that comes to hand, or the one that their friends use, or the one that seems to offer the path of least resistance, or the one chosen for any number of contingent reasons that have nothing to do with quality. Marshalling arguments about LyX's superiority, under whatever conditions, isn't going to achieve much, because the operative conditions vary among users (as the difference between Steve's opinion and mine shows), and more importantly because most users aren't interested in those arguments or indeed in the relative merits of available tools. For most users, good enough - even by the slimmest of margins, even with gross compromise - is good enough, and there simply isn't any impetus to change. Furthermore, most Word users, I believe, want to get some text on a page (whether it's paper or just on screen - I see lots of Word documents that will never be printed). They don't particularly care if it looks good, so long as it looks as if something's been done to it - that they've done due diligence to pretty it up. Separating content and presentation may be elegant and efficient and maintainable, but most Word documents are write-once anyway. And, of course, there are the realities of document interchange. If you're writing academic articles in the humanities, good luck submitting in anything Word can't digest. Sometimes PDF is an option, but that's still relatively rare. And for students that often applies as well, since professors are increasingly requesting electronic submission of papers, and many of them won't take anything but Word. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Underlining URL environment
On Wednesday 20 April 2005 11:37 am, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > I have a special LyX URL environment that references LaTeX URLL
> > environment that redefines quote, but no matter how hard I try, I can't
> > get it to underline more than the first character of the URL. I already
> > have the ulem package loaded, not that it's helped me.
> >
> > Here's one of the things I tried:
> >
> > \let\URLL=\quote
> > \let\endURLL=\endquote
> > \renewenvironment{URLL}{%
> > \begin{quote}%
> > \small\begin{uline}%
> > }{%
> > %modifications in the end of the environment
> > \end{uline}%
> > \end{quote}%
> > }
> >
> > I also tried removing the \begin, and the entire \end{uline} -- no joy.
> > What can I do?
>
> write into the preamble:
>
> \usepackage{url}
> \let\OldUrl\url
> \renewcommand\url[1]{\underline{\OldUrl{#1}}}
>
> and use insert->url in the usual way
>
> Herbert
Thanks Herbert,
Using the above code, I still have the problem that when I put it into an
environment, it only underlines the first character of the paragraph.
SteveT
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Re: Tip for viewing pdf-files
Hi Paul I find that if you do update as opposed to view, the page stays at the same place but you have to "redraw" the screen. This you can do by a quick page up/down. I dont know if that fits your bill. samar - Original Message - From: "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:05 PM Subject: Re: Tip for viewing pdf-files On 4/14/05, Johan Ingvast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The standard viewer for pdf files is acrobat but, there seem to be no way of making it update the view automatically. Here is a way of viewing pdf-files using xpdf. Put this as your viewer for pdf (instead of acroread) xpdf -remote $$i $$p$$i It features: * if the file is not already open it will start a new window * if there is a window with the file open it will reload it. Indeed, if there is a window with the file open it will reload it, but the xpdf will show the first page and not the current one. Is there some way of getting the current page automatically shown up after reloading the file? Paul
Re: Underlining URL environment
Steve Litt wrote:
I have a special LyX URL environment that references LaTeX URLL environment
that redefines quote, but no matter how hard I try, I can't get it to
underline more than the first character of the URL. I already have the ulem
package loaded, not that it's helped me.
Here's one of the things I tried:
\let\URLL=\quote
\let\endURLL=\endquote
\renewenvironment{URLL}{%
\begin{quote}%
\small\begin{uline}%
}{%
%modifications in the end of the environment
\end{uline}%
\end{quote}%
}
I also tried removing the \begin, and the entire \end{uline} -- no joy. What
can I do?
write into the preamble:
\usepackage{url}
\let\OldUrl\url
\renewcommand\url[1]{\underline{\OldUrl{#1}}}
and use insert->url in the usual way
Herbert
Re: Tip for viewing pdf-files
On 4/14/05, Johan Ingvast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The standard viewer for pdf files is acrobat but, there seem to be no way > of making it update the view automatically. Here is a way of viewing > pdf-files using xpdf. Put this as your viewer for pdf (instead of acroread) > > xpdf -remote $$i $$p$$i > > It features: > * if the file is not already open it will start a new window > * if there is a window with the file open it will reload it. Indeed, if there is a window with the file open it will reload it, but the xpdf will show the first page and not the current one. Is there some way of getting the current page automatically shown up after reloading the file? Paul
Re: Underlining URL environment
Steve Litt wrote:
I have a special LyX URL environment that references LaTeX URLL environment
that redefines quote, but no matter how hard I try, I can't get it to
underline more than the first character of the URL. I already have the ulem
package loaded, not that it's helped me.
Attached a possible solution using the package "hyperref" for the url
command "\href" (produces a real hyperlink in the output) and the
package "soul" for proper underlining also if the URL runs over a linebreak.
regards Uwe
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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%enable underlining together with linebreaks
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\renewcommand{\underbar}[1]{\ul{#1}}
%generate real hyperlinks
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\end_preamble
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\graphics default
\paperfontsize 12
\spacing single
\papersize a4paper
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\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 1
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\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 4
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation skip
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language german
\quotes_times 2
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\papersides 1
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hello
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\end_inset
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LyX-adress
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olleh
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newfile1.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran
I'm not very experienced with this: How do I apply a patch in Windows XP?
Leo
Yes. LyX automatically closes empty paragraphs if not told otherwise by
the
KeepEmpty keyword in the layout file.
A fast workaround is to fool LyX by putting something invisible into the
APPENDICES paragraph, e.g. "{}" or "% some comment" as ERT.
The Right Thing is to copy IEEEtran.layout to your local lyx directory
(usually ~/.lyx/layouts) and apply the following patch:
--- /usr/share/lyx/layouts/IEEEtran.layout 2004-07-25 07:39:20.0
+0200
+++ /home/milde/.lyx/layouts/IEEEtran.layout 2005-04-20 10:34:59.0
+0200
@@ -440,6 +440,7 @@
LatexType Command
InTitle 0
LatexName appendices
+ KeepEmpty 1
ParSkip 0.4
BottomSep 1.5
ParSep 1.5
Guenter
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Re: "why lyx when there's word?"
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:33:56AM +0200, Alexander Blüm wrote: > But I've also met a few very stubborn people, like most of my school. > They say that you can solve any problem you're approaching with > WORD2000... > I'm running out of arguments.. They've not even tried LyX and knock it > already. There are people that don't want to be disturbed in the world they are comfortable with. It's a waste of time to argue with them. > Any good arguments why one should use LyX instead of word? There have been such answers in the past, should be in the archives. Most advantages of LyX can be attributed to its use of LaTeX as its formatting backend. Main point in a LaTeX-Word comparison is usually LaTeX's superior output (formulas, spacing in general, line breaking), stability (both of the program itself and its file format) and the ease of creating tables of contents, indices, etc., automatically without numbering going wrong. And nobody ever heard of LaTeX eating a thesis paper a day before deadline... Andre'
Re: Should this behavior be expected?
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:51:21AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > I guess we just need to look at a kde app to see how they stuff the > clipboard. Plain Qt should be sufficient as far as I can tell.. Andre'
Re: Should this behavior be expected?
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:43:41AM +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > On 4/18/05, Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cut&paste is a sad example of the results of the over-engineered and > > under-staffed toolkit independent LyX Sonderweg. > > In spite of being few, LyX staff deserves a high commendation for > having greatly simplified, in an intelligent way, the task of battling > with LaTeX when writing our documents. Describing the GUII effort beyond plain GUI-core separation (which was sucessful and necessary) as 'over-engineered and under-staffed' is nevertheless appropriate. The project just can't effort to continue that effort, but I have the suspicion that this is becoming consensus... Andre'
Re: "why lyx when there's word?"
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:44:08AM -0700, Rich Drewes wrote: > There are good equation packages (third party) for Word as well, I am > told. I've seen a couple of them. I would even admit that most of them look better than LyX _on screen_. But when the criteria are either quality of print output or the amount of time/number of keystrokes needed to enter a formula I still have to see any coming close. [Of course, the former is not LyX's doing, but rather TeX's, so if you use Word to write .tex sources you can get the same kind of output...] Andre'
Re: \hyphenation
Tim Michelsen wrote: I am currently encountering numerous problems in my document. I wrote the hints from http://www.texnik.de/language/hyphen.phtml#sloppy in my preamble but still get some ugly things like: [I write in German...] Un- instead ofUnter- ternehmen nehmen This is correct hyphenated. Wirtschaft-instead of Wirtschafts- sraumes raumes This is bad. Do you use the language "german (new spelling)"? If yes, what is your version of the LaTeX-package "babel"? Determinan- ten pro- jektbezogen both are correct inländis- sche possibly a typo, use only one "s" If you don't like (correct) hyphenations, you can insert a hyphenation character (menu Insert -> Special Character) at the position where you want the word to be hyphenated. regards Uwe
Installing class documents
I know this has been asked before, that there are answers in the mailing list archive and some info on this in the tutorials but I can't get it to work for me. So you could someone give me a recap on what I need to do when I get a myfile.cls and myfile.tex (template) and I want to make them available in LyX but do not have superuser privileges. Specifically: Into which subdirectory of .lyx does the .cls file go? How/where do I get a layout document (text class file) that I can use with myfile.cls and how do I associate the two files? At which stage of this process do I need to call "Reconfigure"? Do any environment variables need to be set? Thanks for your help. Tim.
Re: Case equations
Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:37:14PM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> How do you write a case equation in LyX? I mean an equation like
>>
>> B = { 1 if x > 0;
>> 0 if x = 0
>>
>> so that the brace covers multiple lines?
>
> I think that you can use the math panel and then click on the button that
> looks like a blue box surrounded by brackets. Then you can change the
> left bracket to your braces and change the right one to blank.
>
> In the inner blue square, insert a math matrix and fill in the parts.
Actually, it's even easier:
Create a math inset: Insert->Math->Display formula
Type:
B=\cases1\textrmif Math->Inline
formula>x>00\textrmif Math->Inline formula>x=0
Looks horrible, but really it isn't!
--
Angus
Re: More than one appendix in IEEEtran
On 19.04.05, LB wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thank you for the help. I can get \appendices to work using ERT. If I
> inserted the environment APPENDICES using LyX drop down menu the word
> APPENDICES appears in the document, but it disappears as soon as I move the
> cursor to any other line. Is it a bug in LyX?
Yes. LyX automatically closes empty paragraphs if not told otherwise by the
KeepEmpty keyword in the layout file.
A fast workaround is to fool LyX by putting something invisible into the
APPENDICES paragraph, e.g. "{}" or "% some comment" as ERT.
The Right Thing is to copy IEEEtran.layout to your local lyx directory
(usually ~/.lyx/layouts) and apply the following patch:
--- /usr/share/lyx/layouts/IEEEtran.layout 2004-07-25 07:39:20.0
+0200
+++ /home/milde/.lyx/layouts/IEEEtran.layout2005-04-20 10:34:59.0
+0200
@@ -440,6 +440,7 @@
LatexTypeCommand
InTitle 0
LatexNameappendices
+ KeepEmpty1
ParSkip 0.4
BottomSep1.5
ParSep 1.5
Guenter
--
G.Milde web.de
Re: Should this behavior be expected?
On 18.04.05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Paul Smith wrote: > > When two LyX windows are open (after having run the command lyx > > twice), copying from a document in a window to a document in the > > other one is not possible. > > Assuming *NIX, and X, open xclipboard, "copy" from one LyX, "paste" into > xclipboard. Now do the same from xclipboard to the 2d LyX. Drag-and-drop with the mouse works also without xclipboard. In some LyX versions, you need to copy (C-c with cua.bind) the marked region, before you can paste it somewhere else (with the middle mouse button). However, you will loose information this way as the x-selection only gets an ASCII version of the document. > Document to document within one LyX session (window) works without a hitch > and *almost* never looses formatting information. Feature request --- I would greatly appreciate a lyx-function (say x-copy) that passes a "stringified" version of the region with full formatting information to the selection and an accompanying x-paste that inserts this again. The same would be a great help for the lyx-server (say server-copy and server-paste). Günter -- G.Milde web.de
Re: Case equations
Hi Myriam,
You could also write in math-mode \cases and a space. With the use of
Control + Enter you could control the number of lines in the case.
Hope its helps.
Hannan
On 4/20/05, Myriam Abramson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> How do you write a case equation in LyX? I mean an equation like
>
> B = { 1 if x > 0;
> 0 if x = 0
>
> so that the brace covers multiple lines?
>
> I looked everywhere and read the Users' guide but it did not cover
> that.
>
> TIA
> --
>myriam
>
>
Thesis example (was: "why lyx when there's word?")
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Rich Drewes wrote: > For my thesis I chose to go with Lyx and Pybliographic ... > It has been quite a bit of work getting Lyx to conform to my > University's formatting conventions but I managed it all, finally, with > appropriate ERT in the Lyx doc. Perhaps it'd be a good idea to upload a stripped version of your thesis to the wiki? That should at least be useful for fellow students at your university, possible also some other universiteis? > I did not have the time to spend writing my own document class. In the > end it is working out well, great, but I would not recommend this > approach at this point to someone who wasn't really into open source and > fiddling with software. Less fiddling should be required if you have something to start from, right? regards /Christian PS. If you need help in choosing where or how to upload an example, just let me know. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
