Re: A source for document class layouts?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Dave Hewitt wrote:
Yes, it repeats that same error message and reversion to article with 
your file (and three other things I subsequently tried). Can you explain 
the proper line for the layout file that would implement the nrc1.sty as 
a package, as you suggested?


As Richard suggested, let's debug this approach first.

One thing that comes to mind, but may be totally irrelevant, is the 
location of the User directory. I am an administrator on the machine but 
have a directory of my own:


C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\lyx15

The Administrator one is of course:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\lyx15

All LyX tells me about the user directory is "~\Application Data\lyx15"


The tilde is Latin for "logged in user".  Assuming you're logged in as 
dhewitt (and not using the local administrator account), the first 
directory you listed is your home.


In any case, if LyX does not see a layout file for nrc1, you won't find 
it on the drop down list of classes.  If it sees a layout file, when you 
reconfigure it will test whether LaTeX has the class installed.  If that 
test fails, you'll see the NRC class listed on the drop down list, but 
it will be prefixed with "Unavailable".  So if it's there and not marked 
unavailable, then (theoretically) LyX can find the layout file, LaTeX 
can find the class file, and LyX knows that LaTeX can find the class file.


This is a bit of a long shot, but maybe you should try the following:

1.  Open LyX and use File -> New to start a new document.

2.  Save the (empty) document someplace.

3.  Go to Document -> Settings... -> Document Class and confirm that the 
document is initially article class.  (This is the norm, but I think 
it's possible that you could have changed the default document class to 
something funky.)


4.  Select the NRC class and click Ok.

4.  Assuming that LyX snaps at you and switches to article, save that as 
well, then post the before and after saved documents here.  I'd like to 
try converting them to NRC here just to see what happens.



Dave Hewitt
Fisheries Science/Crustacean Ecology


Aha, this may the culprit.  Perhaps LyX just can't resist crabbing at you.

/Paul

Self-publishing with LyX - thanks for the feedback

[Typhoon]

Dear everyone,
Thanks very much to all who have given me comments on the book, both
on-list and off. Very much appreciated, and I will make suggested
amendments as time goes on.

To clarify availability:

Printed and download versions available from Lulu:
http://www.lulu.com/content/1085870

Download version available from: http://web.aanet.com.au/sage/lyx.pdf

Both are now the same, compiled with \usepackage{lmodern}.

I apologise to community members who took exception to Lulu's
requirements of registration, etc. I never noticed it since I have an
account there anyway.

And special thanks to the developers of LyX. You guys are terrific!

Cheers,
Alan

Re: A source for document class layouts?

[Richard Heck]

Dave Hewitt wrote:

Paul,

Yes, it repeats that same error message and reversion to article with 
your file (and three other things I subsequently tried).
Sorry, but can you say again EXACTLY what error message you are getting? 
That will at least let me know which error is happening here. If you're 
having problems even with the simple file Paul sent, then there must be 
a problem elsewhere in your installation.
Can you explain the proper line for the layout file that would 
implement the nrc1.sty as a package, as you suggested? 

Let's try this later.
One thing that comes to mind, but may be totally irrelevant, is the 
location of the User directory. I am an administrator on the machine 
but have a directory of my own:

C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\lyx15
The Administrator one is of course:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\lyx15
All LyX tells me about the user directory is "~\Application Data\lyx15"
Perhaps I am loading in the wrong spot? I am guessing not since it's 
finding the new class definition.
Right: It's finding it, so it's there. That said, you might want to 
modify the one Paul sent just a touch on the first line---make something 
a capital, whatever---just so you're sure you're seeing that one.


Richard

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Re: texhash

[Paul A. Rubin]

Karen Chang wrote:

Hi Richard / Bennett,

I installed MacTex and when I type "sudo texhash" in the terminal with the
admin acct I get:

texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ls-R...
texhash: Done.

However, when I try to open a .lyx document in LyX, I get the following
error:

"This layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not
usable.  This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it
is not available.  See the Customizaiton documentation for more
information.  LyX will not be able to produce output. "

Thanks,
Karen



Did you reconfigure (Tools -> Reconfigure) and then restart LyX after 
running texhash?


/Paul

Re: texhash

[Karen Chang]

That worked, thanks guys!

On 8/30/07, Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 8/30/07, Karen Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Richard / Bennett,
> >
> > I installed MacTex and when I type "sudo texhash" in the terminal with
> the
> > admin acct I get:
> >
> > texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/ls-R...
> > texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/ls-R...
> > texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/ls-R...
> > texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/ls-R...
> > texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ls-R...
> > texhash: Done.
> >
> > However, when I try to open a .lyx document in LyX, I get the following
> > error:
> >
> > "This layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not
> > usable.  This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required
> by it
> > is not available.  See the Customizaiton documentation for more
> > information.  LyX will not be able to produce output. "
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Karen
>
>
> Did you install MacTeX after LyX? If so, you would need to open LyX
> and reconfigure so that LyX recognizes your newly installed TeX
> distribution. On Mac I don't remember if it's Tools->Reconfigure or
> LyX->Reconfigure.
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>

Re: texhash

[Bob Lounsbury]

On 8/30/07, Karen Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Richard / Bennett,
>
> I installed MacTex and when I type "sudo texhash" in the terminal with the
> admin acct I get:
>
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/ls-R...
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/ls-R...
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/ls-R...
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/ls-R...
> texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ls-R...
> texhash: Done.
>
> However, when I try to open a .lyx document in LyX, I get the following
> error:
>
> "This layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not
> usable.  This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it
> is not available.  See the Customizaiton documentation for more
> information.  LyX will not be able to produce output. "
>
> Thanks,
> Karen


Did you install MacTeX after LyX? If so, you would need to open LyX
and reconfigure so that LyX recognizes your newly installed TeX
distribution. On Mac I don't remember if it's Tools->Reconfigure or
LyX->Reconfigure.

Cheers,
Bob

Re: texhash

[Karen Chang]

Hi Richard / Bennett,

I installed MacTex and when I type "sudo texhash" in the terminal with the
admin acct I get:

texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/../texmf-local/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-config/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-var/ls-R...
texhash: Done.

However, when I try to open a .lyx document in LyX, I get the following
error:

"This layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not
usable.  This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it
is not available.  See the Customizaiton documentation for more
information.  LyX will not be able to produce output. "

Thanks,
Karen

On 8/30/07, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Aug 30, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
>
> > Karen Chang wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I just installed LyX onto a Mac and got the following error:
> >>
> >> Cannot run texhash command to update Tex installation.  Run Manually.
> >>
> >> How would I go about doing that?  Have I done something wrong
> >> during the
> >> installation?
> >>
> > Open a terminal window (maybe it has some special Mac name, I don't
> > know) and type "texhash", return. But if LyX couldn't run it, I'm
> > doubtful you can, either. Do you have LaTeX installed? If not, you
> > need to install that first before LyX will give you any output.
>
> On Mac, it's Terminal.app (in /Applications/Utilities/). If you
> simply run "texhash", you'll get some warnings about certain
> directories not being writable (because you don't have permission).
> They can safely be ignored or, if you like, you can run "sudo
> texhash" from an administrative account and give your administrative
> password.
>
> I agree with Richard: if the LyX installer couldn't run texhash,
> there's likely something wrong with the TeX installation. (Did you
> install MacTeX, e.g.? -- .)
>
> Bennett
>

Re: texhash

[Bennett Helm]

On Aug 30, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Richard Heck wrote:


Karen Chang wrote:

Hi,

I just installed LyX onto a Mac and got the following error:

Cannot run texhash command to update Tex installation.  Run Manually.

How would I go about doing that?  Have I done something wrong  
during the

installation?

Open a terminal window (maybe it has some special Mac name, I don't  
know) and type "texhash", return. But if LyX couldn't run it, I'm  
doubtful you can, either. Do you have LaTeX installed? If not, you  
need to install that first before LyX will give you any output.


On Mac, it's Terminal.app (in /Applications/Utilities/). If you  
simply run "texhash", you'll get some warnings about certain  
directories not being writable (because you don't have permission).  
They can safely be ignored or, if you like, you can run "sudo  
texhash" from an administrative account and give your administrative  
password.


I agree with Richard: if the LyX installer couldn't run texhash,  
there's likely something wrong with the TeX installation. (Did you  
install MacTeX, e.g.? -- .)


Bennett

Re: A source for document class layouts?

[Dave Hewitt]

Paul,

Yes, it repeats that same error message and reversion to article with your 
file (and three other things I subsequently tried). Can you explain the 
proper line for the layout file that would implement the nrc1.sty as a 
package, as you suggested?


One thing that comes to mind, but may be totally irrelevant, is the 
location of the User directory. I am an administrator on the machine but 
have a directory of my own:


C:\Documents and Settings\dhewitt\Application Data\lyx15

The Administrator one is of course:

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\lyx15

All LyX tells me about the user directory is "~\Application Data\lyx15"

Perhaps I am loading in the wrong spot? I am guessing not since it's 
finding the new class definition.


Dave


Dave Hewitt wrote:
I copied "article.layout" from the LyX\Resources\layouts directory and 
renamed it "nrc1.layout", then I pasted it into my user layout directory. 
Following along with Customization -> Ch. 5, I altered the second line in 
the file this way:

# \DeclareLaTeXClass[nrc1,nrc1.sty]{article (nrc1)}
(the nrc package comes with nrc1.cls, nrc1.sty, nrc2.cls, nrc2.sty, plus a 
bunch of other files including a PDF "user's guide", which probably means 
something to people that know LaTeX)
The PDF manual is actually quite well written, but oddly enough it gives no 
clue what nrc1.sty and nrc2.sty would be used for. Maybe you can use 
article.cls and load nrc1.sty as a package?? Anyway, you'll want to use 
nrc1.cls (one column) or nrc2.cls (two column). So the optional arguments 
(inside the brackets) above are almost surely wrong.

I also tried simply:
# \DeclareLaTeXClass{article (nrc1)}
This is the way to go (and works for me).
I also tried adding various combinations of package names into the brackets 
of example 1 (as I sort of deduced the User's Guide was telling me to do), 
but unsurprisingly they didn't work either.
I added some Preamble code to the file on one attempt as per the UG, but 
that didn't help (and I really had no clue what I was doing anyway).

Probably a good idea to delete that, then.
In no attempt did I alter anything else down in the file.
Either way, YES, the document class shows up in the LyX drop-down, but when 
I choose it, LyX generates an error window with a red 'X' on it and a 
warning that says "The document could not be converted into the document 
class nrc1" -- I click OK and it reverts to "article" in the drop-down. 
This is what happened with two other classes I tried as well.
This happens when you create a new document (ctrl-N or File -> New) and 
then switch it to NRC1 using Document -> Settings... -> Document Class?
Odd that it doesn't happen for me. I'm attaching the layout file I kludged 
(from article.layout), although it should exactly match your most 
parsimonious attempt. I don't know that it exposes all the bells and 
whistles of the NRC class (such as journal name), but it doesn't blow up in 
my face.
There's one bit of funkiness I came across. It shouldn't cause LyX to 
revert to article, but it will cause a minor headache trying to get output. 
By default, LyX adds \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} to every document. According 
to the NRC manual, this is a bozo no-no. So you need to go to Tools -> 
Preferences... -> Outputs -> LaTeX and change "TeX encoding" from "T1" to 
"default". At this point, you have two choices. If all you're ever going to 
use is the NRC classes, click Save. That gets rid of the encoding line in 
every LyX document. If you plan to use other classes, though, you're 
probably going to want to click Apply but not Save. That applies it only to 
the current session. Unfortunately, that also means you have to remember to 
do this every time you futz with an NRC document. (Maybe Richard or 
somebody knows a way to make this document-specific, or to slip it into the 
layout file. I don't.)
One last thing. There are some options for each of the NRC packages, such 
as 'leqno' for NRC1 (which I assume moves equations numbers from the right 
margin to the left). If you want to specify any of those for a document, 
just go to Document -> Settings... -> Document Class and stuff the options, 
separated by commas, into the aptly named Options field. No need to mess 
with the layout file.

Let us know if the attached layout file blows up on you.
/Paul

#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass{article (NRC)}
# Article textclass definition file. Taken from initial LyX source code
# Author : Matthias Ettrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Transposed by Pascal André <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Heavily modifed and enhanced by serveral developers.
Format 4
Input stdclass.inc
SecNumDepth 3
TocDepth 3
NoStyle Chapter
NoStyle Chapter*

Style Part
Align Left
AlignPossible Left
TopSep 2
BottomSep 1.5
Font
Size Larger
EndFont
End

Style Part*
Align Left
AlignPossible Left
TopSep 2
BottomSep 1.5
Font
Size Larger
EndFont
End


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Re: texhash

[Richard Heck]

Karen Chang wrote:

Hi,

I just installed LyX onto a Mac and got the following error:

Cannot run texhash command to update Tex installation.  Run Manually.

How would I go about doing that?  Have I done something wrong during the
installation?
  
Open a terminal window (maybe it has some special Mac name, I don't 
know) and type "texhash", return. But if LyX couldn't run it, I'm 
doubtful you can, either. Do you have LaTeX installed? If not, you need 
to install that first before LyX will give you any output.


Richard

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texhash

[Karen Chang]

Hi,

I just installed LyX onto a Mac and got the following error:

Cannot run texhash command to update Tex installation.  Run Manually.

How would I go about doing that?  Have I done something wrong during the
installation?

Thanks,
Karen

Re: How to change Citation Style

[Richard Heck]

KTl wrote:

Hello everybody,

since I updated from Lyx 1.4.5 to 1.5.1 my citations look different. I
used to get numbered citations ( e.g [1] ...) and now I see something
like "Author et. al (2007) [1]". I used to be able to set the
reference style where I included the .bib file (e.g. apsrev), and now
it seems I can choose the reference style in each citation.
Unfortunately I cannot choose the style I would like to use.

So I checked Documents->Preferences->Bibliography and saw that
"Natbib" is selected and what is really unexpected, I cannot change to
"Default (numerical)". Each time I select "Default", close the window
by pressing OK, "Natbib" is selected the next time I check this
settings.

Any suggestions if selecting "Defualt (numerical)" would solve the
problem and how I could convince LyX to accept my selection?
  
Yes, that probably would fix the problem. You could also set Natbib and 
choose "Numerical" in the drop-down box.


But the problem is you can't select Default. Can you run LyX this from a 
terminal window and see what error messages you're getting? I'm guessing 
there's some ill-formed parameter being passed out of the dialog before 
the Bibliography Engine parameter is read, and that is causing LyX to choke.


If you can't run from a window or don't know how, you can send me the 
file privately, and I'll check it out.


Richard



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Re: Self-publishing with LyX

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Steve Litt wrote:

> On Thursday 30 August 2007 10:14, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> [clip]
> > Page 28 need a period and space before "Here".
> 
> Jeremy -- how do you see and remember things like that. Do you proofread 
> professionally? If so, how much do you charge?

I see it from practice :) I went to journalism school and we practiced in 
classes. (And I tried to report every error in our school newspaper.)

And I've helped edit probably a couple thousand pages of books and 
documentation.

Sometimes I do it professionally. I don't know what to charge though as I 
have charged in the past based on my open source Unix consulting rate.

I have also paid for book editing. But I don't know what it broke down to 
hourly.

> [clip]
> > p.s. I recently read Shepard's book. Your book is a good supplement to it.
> 
> What is Shepard's book?

This new LyX book has it in referenced. It is "Aiming at Amazon".

  Jeremy C. Reed

Re: the ftp server (ftp.lyx.org) is down

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Michael Ramati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> see ftp://ftp.lyx.org/‎

Seems to be back now.

JMarc

Re: [SPAM] Re: Read only as default.

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Tim Michelsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Is there any chnace that the developers reconsider to offer a toggle
> read-only /write for the Edit menu?

I do not think so. "Open as read-only would be more useful".

JMarc

Re: Exporting

[John Kane]

Thank you Paul.  
I have tried your suggestion and it looks like there
may be a font problem although I'm not good enough at
reading the terminal output to be sure. I have posted
the output at
http://ca.geocities.com/jrkrideau/LyX/lyx.ooo.pdf . 

I am not getting any error messages but two warnings
instead.  

I have tried changing the fonts with no success.  What
did you change the font setting to?  

 As before, tex file is working just fine

--- Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I just tried export to OpenDocument format with the
> new LyX and have
> some advice that may help.  Run LyX from a terminal
> window.  That way,
> you can watch the error messages. emitted by the
> programs that do the
> translation.
> 
> For me, the first export to ODT frailed--tex4ht
> crashed because it
> could not find a font.  WHen I went to LyX
> document->settings and
> changed the default font, then the export to ODT did
> work.
> 
> If you just run lyx from a menu, you don't see the
> error messages.  If
> you run it from a terminal, you see stuff like this:
> 
> 
> 
> --- error --- Can't find/open file `ecbx1000.tfm'
> 
> t4ht.c (2006-09-13-14:28 kpathsea)
> t4ht -f/descriptions.tex
>   -coo
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex4ht/base/unix/tex4ht.env)
> Entering descriptions.lg
> Error: Cannot view file
> 
> File does not exist:
>
/tmp/lyx_tmpdir9646cneuJa/lyx_tmpbuf0/descriptions.odt
> 
> Apparently I lack whatever package has the ecbx
> fonts, so it dies.
> But If I change the font to TimesRoman, then it does
> work.
> 
> But you don't see these errors unless you run LyX
> from a Terminal.
> 
> 
> -- 
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> University of Kansas
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Re: qt4 dir?

[Andre Poenitz]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:32:13PM +1000, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> As far as I can tell the compilation and installation of QT4 should be ok.
> moc and uic is located at ~/lib/bin

And .h files are there, too?

Andre'

Re: Self-publishing with LyX

[William Adams]

Mostly this is commentary on the default LaTeX settings, but more  
feedback:


 - pg. xvi should be truly blank (no need for a folio) --- ditto for  
xviii &c.


 - Synch .pdf page numbers w/ those used in the text --- either re- 
set the page numbering so that roman numerals are used for the pdf  
page numbering, or since it's only going to be electronically set  
from an entire file, renumber using Arabic numerals from the  
beginning --- this latter would mean that Chapter 1 would start on  
pg. 21


 - pg. 1 --- ``If you sent it to a professional publisher, and if it  
were

accepted for publication, it would be edited by a professional
editor, made into a book by a professional designer and set into
type by a professional typesetter.''
  I'd say ``...designed by a professional book designer...'' instead  
--- in general, they don't make books, only a layout sample and a set  
of specifications.


 - pg. 2 --- the quote block has an overfull first line --- set it  
w/ no indent?


 - pg. 3 --- _four_ hyphens in a row! Set the quoted material  
smaller or don't indent it so much


 - pg. 4 --- I know some professionals who do enjoy indexing

 - pg. 6 & 7 --- list separated from preceding text --- run chapter  
(or preceding spread) short or make other adjustment to get at least  
two lines from pg. 6 onto pg. 7


 - pg. 15 --- two word stack on lines 7 and 8

 - pgs. 18 & 19 --- don't allow a colon to fall at the bottom of a  
page, separated from the material it precedes


 - pg. 24 --- Figure captions are indistinguishable from text ---  
set them off somehow


 - pg. 25 --- I strongly disagree w/ the recommendation to resample  
screen graphics --- see previous discussion on this list


 - pg. 28 --- use typographer's, not shilling fraction

 - pg. 28 --- don't break between page number and identifier ``page~ 
\pageref{whatever}


 - pg. 29 --- please don't overbox tables --- see the booktabs  
documentation for a discussion of this and a good toolkit for setting  
nice tables.


 - pg. 30 --- please have at least 6 or 7 lines on the last page ---  
run the chapter short by a line, or the previous spread long to fix this


 - pg. 41 --- (and elsewhere) don't allow a figure to float on a  
page like that --- tighten up the preceding text or slightly adjust  
the figures to make them fit where they fall.


Throughout:

 - use pdftex and the microtype package and hanging punctuation?

 - clean up the edges of your screen grabs --- the first one has a  
black line to the left, others don't


 - spreads don't cross-align --- why not?

 - don't allow 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.


William


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Re: Indented paragraph in description list.

[Rudi Gaelzer]

On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> For a more aesthetically pleasing solution, I think you would need
> either to redefine the itemize environment or create your own (and then
> add you new environment to the layout file).  Specification of a value
> for \listparindent has to be done in an argument to the begin command
> for the list environment, which is why LaTeX turned its nose up at your
> attempts.  (But at least it did so solemnly.)

Thanks for the input, guys.

Paul, if I go and try to do what you're suggesting above, I'd have to edit the 
stdlists.inc file, right?

If I look at "Style Description", I notice several options that have the same 
name as the list parameters like \topsep, \labelsep, etc, though capitalized 
(TopSep, LabelSep, etc).  Am I wrong to think that all I have to do is to 
include the line:
ListParIndent  

Or is this just absurd?


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Re: Self-publishing with LyX

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 30 August 2007 10:14, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
[clip]
> Page 28 need a period and space before "Here".

Jeremy -- how do you see and remember things like that. Do you proofread 
professionally? If so, how much do you charge?

[clip]
> p.s. I recently read Shepard's book. Your book is a good supplement to it.

What is Shepard's book?

Thanks

SteveT
 
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Re: Documentation

[Richard Heck]

Hartmut Haase wrote:

Hi,
to complete the UserGuide I need explanations/informations about the following 
items:

Tools->Preferences->Colors->
command inset
command inset backgroun
command inset frame
  
These three all have to do with insets like URL, that don't have any 
text area associated with them. So put in a URL and change these and 
you'll see what they do.

inset background
inset frame
  

Similar, but for general insets.

collapsable inset text
collapsable inset frame
  

Similar, but for collapsable insets like Footnote.

graphics background
button background
frame of button
button background under focus
LaTeX error
caption frame
Math
math corners
  

The little corners you see in math mode, surrounding an inset.

math background
  

The background for math insets.

math line
math frame
Math macro background
  

Similar but for macros.

top/bottom line
Shadow box
bottom area
previewed snippet
Tools->Preferences->Paths->
Backup directory
  

Where backups of saved files are stored, if LyX is set to do that.

LyXServer pipe
  
The pipe used for inter-process communication, e.g., with JabRef. 
Probably should link to that part of the manual.

PATH prefix
Tools->Preferences->Language settings->Language->
Language package
Command start
Command end
Use babel
Global
Auto begin
Auto end
Tools->Preferences->Output->Printer->
Adapt output to printer
  
Ack! We had a long talk about this a while ago. See this thread: 
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg119520.html.

Tools->Preferences->Converter
Converter File Cache
  
Whether to cache (save) the results of conversions. This would mean e.g. 
that a graphic wouldn't have to be converted every time you open the 
document: It could just be read from the cache.

Tools->Preferences->File formats->
  
I think all of this is in 3.5 of the (English) Customization manual. I'd 
leave it there and link to it. If it's not all there, can you update it 
based on what I'm about to write?

Document format
  
Whether this kind of file can contain a document (as opposed to a 
graphic, or music file, or whatever).

Vector graphics format
  
Whether this kind of file format can contain vector graphics (as opposed 
to raster graphics, etc).

Format
  
Whether the file format can be a vector graphics format (as opposed to a 
raster graphics format)



GUI name
  

The name that appears on File>Export, View>, etc.

Shortcut
  

The shortcut associated with this format on those same menus.

Extension
  

The file extension for this kind of file (pdf, ps, etc).

Editor
  
The program you want to use to edit this kind of file (used when you can 
do that from within LyX). Same goes for Viewer of course.

Tools->Preferences->File formats->Copiers->
Format
  

Reference 3.5.2 of the Customization guide.


Document->Preferences->Fonts->
  

You mean Settings.

Base Size
  

The font size used for the document, in points.

Scale (%)
  
Say you're using 11pt with Palatino for the serif font, and you want to 
use Helvetica for sans serif. This may look too big at 11pt, so you can 
scale it down to 95%, so it looks right.

Use true Small Caps
  
This means to use an actual small caps font for small caps, as opposed 
to fake small caps, which you get by scaling the lower case letters 
down, more or less.

Use Old Style Figures
  
Old style figures are numerals, like "3", that descend below the 
baseline. See 
http://www.fonts.com/AboutFonts/Articles/fyti/OldstyleFigs.htm.


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Re: date-insert again

[John Kane]

--- Pavel Sanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > date-insert command still exists in LyX 1.5.1 and
> is listed in
> > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions
> > it doesn't work for me. Is it my problem (I have a
> ~amd64 Gentoo install) or is
> > more general ? let me know...
> 
> works on ~x86 gentoo.
> is Insert->Date working for you ?
> 
> pavel

It works okay on Windows XP except I'm getting the
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Re: Self-publishing with LyX

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Typhoon wrote:

> But, any feedback appreciated.

I read your book (PDF version) just now.

Thanks for writing it.

Here is my feedback:

Ch.4 suggests jpeg -- maybe suggest use png instead since it is lossless

Page 28 need a period and space before "Here".

Also tell how to make shadowbox there (I have never done it before. I may 
have missed in your book Insert -> Box and then right click to modify it)

9.2 rewrite slightly to keep interspace discussion together -- don't
separate interspace with "There is another common ... " paragraph

9.4 maybe explain "ex" unit better -- example? (Isn't it the size of "X" 
character?)

11.2.3 For Lulu, I have used pdflatex to create my PDFs fine. I have even used
pdftk as the Creator. Lulu printed them fine without complaint.

Thanks for teaching me: \raggedbottom

  Jeremy C. Reed

p.s. I recently read Shepard's book. Your book is a good supplement to it.

p.p.s. At one time I wanted to publish the official LyX book and I got it 
formatted for book but it had a lot of improvements needed. If I recall, 
Uwe was doing a lot of good work on it then. I need to see his new 
improvements.

Re: Exporting

[John Kane]

I have no idea of what version of tex4th is on the
machine. Any suggestions on how to check this?

I am assuming that the tex4ht was installed when I
installed MiKTex 2.5 which I think was about 6 months
ago. This is the first LaTeX & LyX installation on the
machine that I am aware of (corporate machine that I
inherited and everybody seems to use Word here). If I
downloaded and installed it myself I don't remember
doing so

Thanks


--- Pavel Sanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > The closest I seem to come to that is a file
> entitled
> > : estimates.4od with 2 bytes  where estimates.lyx
> is
> > the orginal file at 13k in LyX and TeX forms.  OOo
> > refuses to open it. 
> 
> what version of tex4ht do you have ? i vaguely
> remember such problems
> on linux with old versions of converter, but i'm not
> sure whether it 
> was importing or exporting to odf.
> 
> pavel
> 



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Re: Lyx on XP crashes when trying to create a new file

[Michael Clerx]

Thanks for your continued interest, I can no longer check though since it's
working now. I installed the previous version (1.4) and then upgraded to the
new version again using the default installer and now everything is working
perfectly.
Another difference is that I left out a few of the dictionaries and only
installed english & dutch (previously I'd also installed spanish, french,
italian & german).

Thanks for your help!


On 8/30/07, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I get the exact same error though (as well as the 'textclass not found'
> one)
>
> Hm, what happens when you open a console and then start LyX with the
> command
>
> lyx -dbg 3
>
> Uwe
>

Re: \newtheorem and \newtheoremstyle

[Richard Heck]

Daniel Lohmann wrote:

Hi,

I got further ahead. I could solve 2)  by using the ntheorem package 
instead of amsthm. 1) is partly solved: Adding a  "OptionalArgs 1" 
line to my style definition enabled the "Insert->Short Title" command 
in LyX. However, the optional argument is not written out to LaTeX.

Yes, that's buggy.
Is there any way to pass an optional argument (in square brackets) 
from LyX to the \begin{xxx} of the internally used LaTeX environment?
Use ERT at the very beginning, and put the optarg in square brackets. I 
think that works. If not, then no idea. ;-)


rh


Thanks

Daniel

Daniel Lohmann schrieb:

Hi,

In my thesis I have to define a couple of terms and I thought about 
using the amsthm package which offers the \newtheorem and 
\newtheoremstyle commands to generate environments for theorem-like 
structures.


So I added to my layout file a new style $Definition to my layout file:

Counter
  Name defn
End
Style $Definition
  Margin  First_Dynamic
  LatexType   Environment
  LatexName   defn
  LabelSepxx
  NextNoIndent  1
  ParIndent   MMM
  ParSkip 0.8
  ItemSep 0.2
  TopSep  0.5
  BottomSep   0.5
  ParSep  0.3
  Align   Block
  AlignPossible   block, left, center, right
  LabelType   Counter
  LabelCounterdefn
  LabelString "Definition @[EMAIL PROTECTED]:"
  LeftMargin  MM
  RightMargin MM
  LabelFont
FamilySans
Shape Up
SeriesBold
Size  Small
  EndFont
  Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
\newtheoremstyle{mydefinition}{\topsep}{\topsep}{}{}{\sffamily\bfseries}{:}{1em}{} 


\theoremstyle{mydefinition}
\newtheorem{defn}{Definition}[chapter]
  EndPreamble
End

All this works fine so far. However, so far I have not been able to 
solve two issues, a LyX-related (1.4.5) and a more LaTeX-related:


1) How can I pass the optional title parameter from LyX to the "defn" 
environment? The "Insert->Short Title" command I usually use for this 
purpose is always disabled (greyed) when I am editing a definition. 
Is there a specific flag I can give in the layout definition to 
enable it?


2) How can I indent the whole thing? The \newtheoremstyle command 
offers a parameter for first line indentation, but I would like to 
indent the whole thing by, lets say, 2em. Any idea how to achieve 
that with theorems?


Thanks a lot!

Daniel



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Re: lyxpipe, jabref and windows with LyX 1.5.1

[Abdelrazak Younes]

S. Teinturier wrote:

Hi everyone!

I've installed Lyx 1.5.1 and JabRef 2.3b (win XP SP1).

When I try to insert a citation from JabRef to LyX document, through the 
direct icon "LyX" in JabRef, an error message appears about LyxPipe.


Is the following message (2007-01-01, LyX 1.4.3-5 and JabRef 2.2b) still 
valid for the LyX 1.5.1???


Yes, unfortunately.

Abdel.

lyxpipe, jabref and windows with LyX 1.5.1

[S. Teinturier]

Hi everyone!

I've installed Lyx 1.5.1 and JabRef 2.3b (win XP SP1).

When I try to insert a citation from JabRef to LyX document, through the 
direct icon "LyX" in JabRef, an error message appears about LyxPipe.


Is the following message (2007-01-01, LyX 1.4.3-5 and JabRef 2.2b) still 
valid for the LyX 1.5.1???


You cannot use this feature on windows, since the pipe is implemented using

UNIX specific functions that are not available on windows.


(http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg52716.html)

It doesn't work either using the "c-k" function (the final dvi document 
has a "\cite{BLABLAXXX}").


So, if I want to use my biblio.bib  with LyX and JabRef (and I want to!) 
I have first to 'insert' the bibliography in the LyX repertories, and 
then using the LyX tool "Insert > Citation..." ??


Thanks for your help,

Regards,
Sara

Re: Documentation

[Uwe Stöhr]

Hartmut Haase schrieb:

to complete the UserGuide I need explanations/informations about the following 
items: ...


Some of them are described in the new English Userguide that is in SVN trunk.
(Appendix B)

regards Uwe

Re: Exporting

[Pavel Sanda]

> The closest I seem to come to that is a file entitled
> : estimates.4od with 2 bytes  where estimates.lyx is
> the orginal file at 13k in LyX and TeX forms.  OOo
> refuses to open it. 

what version of tex4ht do you have ? i vaguely remember such problems
on linux with old versions of converter, but i'm not sure whether it 
was importing or exporting to odf.

pavel

Re: date-insert again

[Pavel Sanda]

> date-insert command still exists in LyX 1.5.1 and is listed in
> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxFunctions
> it doesn't work for me. Is it my problem (I have a ~amd64 Gentoo install) or 
> is
> more general ? let me know...

works on ~x86 gentoo.
is Insert->Date working for you ?

pavel

Re: qt4 dir?

[Martin A. Hansen]

As far as I can tell the compilation and installation of QT4 should be ok.
moc and uic is located at ~/lib/bin



Martin

On 8/30/07, Jeremy C. Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
>
> > I don't want all the qt crap in my home dir. The resulting ~/lib will
> just
> > contain another lib - but still I don't get the path correct.
>
> You say "just". Maybe that is part of the problem. Have a look at your
> config.log output. Maybe it is missing your ~/lib/bin/moc or other
> QT tool(s)?
>
>   Jeremy C. Reed
>

How to change Citation Style

[KTl]

Hello everybody,

since I updated from Lyx 1.4.5 to 1.5.1 my citations look different. I
used to get numbered citations ( e.g [1] ...) and now I see something
like "Author et. al (2007) [1]". I used to be able to set the
reference style where I included the .bib file (e.g. apsrev), and now
it seems I can choose the reference style in each citation.
Unfortunately I cannot choose the style I would like to use.

So I checked Documents->Preferences->Bibliography and saw that
"Natbib" is selected and what is really unexpected, I cannot change to
"Default (numerical)". Each time I select "Default", close the window
by pressing OK, "Natbib" is selected the next time I check this
settings.

Any suggestions if selecting "Defualt (numerical)" would solve the
problem and how I could convince LyX to accept my selection?

Best regards and thanks in advance,
Kurt P.

Documentation

[Hartmut Haase]

Hi,
to complete the UserGuide I need explanations/informations about the following 
items:
Tools->Preferences->Colors->
added space markers
command inset
command inset backgroun
command inset frame
inset background
inset frame
collapsable inset text
collapsable inset frame
graphics background
button background
frame of button
button background under focus
LaTeX error
caption frame
Math
math corners
math background
math line
math frame
Math macro background
top/bottom line
Shadow box
bottom area
previewed snippet
Tools->Preferences->Paths->
Backup directory
LyXServer pipe
PATH prefix
Tools->Preferences->Language settings->Language->
Language package
Command start
Command end
Use babel
Global
Auto begin
Auto end
Tools->Preferences->Output->Printer->
Adapt output to printer
Tools->Preferences->Converter
Converter File Cache
Tools->Preferences->File formats->
Document format
Vector graphics format
Format
GUI name
Shortcut
Extension
Editor
Tools->Preferences->File formats->Copiers->
Format

Document->Preferences->Fonts->
Base Size
Scale (%)
Use true Small Caps
Use Old Style Figures
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Re: qt4 dir?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Martin A. Hansen wrote:

> I don't want all the qt crap in my home dir. The resulting ~/lib will just
> contain another lib - but still I don't get the path correct.

You say "just". Maybe that is part of the problem. Have a look at your 
config.log output. Maybe it is missing your ~/lib/bin/moc or other 
QT tool(s)?

  Jeremy C. Reed

Re: \newtheorem and \newtheoremstyle

[Daniel Lohmann]

Hi,

I got further ahead. I could solve 2)  by using the ntheorem package 
instead of amsthm. 1) is partly solved: Adding a  "OptionalArgs 1" line to 
my style definition enabled the "Insert->Short Title" command in LyX. 
However, the optional argument is not written out to LaTeX.


Is there any way to pass an optional argument (in square brackets) from LyX 
to the \begin{xxx} of the internally used LaTeX environment?


Thanks

Daniel

Daniel Lohmann schrieb:

Hi,

In my thesis I have to define a couple of terms and I thought about 
using the amsthm package which offers the \newtheorem and 
\newtheoremstyle commands to generate environments for theorem-like 
structures.


So I added to my layout file a new style $Definition to my layout file:

Counter
  Name defn
End
Style $Definition
  Margin  First_Dynamic
  LatexType   Environment
  LatexName   defn
  LabelSepxx
  NextNoIndent  1
  ParIndent   MMM
  ParSkip 0.8
  ItemSep 0.2
  TopSep  0.5
  BottomSep   0.5
  ParSep  0.3
  Align   Block
  AlignPossible   block, left, center, right
  LabelType   Counter
  LabelCounterdefn
  LabelString "Definition @[EMAIL PROTECTED]:"
  LeftMargin  MM
  RightMargin MM
  LabelFont
FamilySans
Shape Up
SeriesBold
Size  Small
  EndFont
  Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
\newtheoremstyle{mydefinition}{\topsep}{\topsep}{}{}{\sffamily\bfseries}{:}{1em}{} 


\theoremstyle{mydefinition}
\newtheorem{defn}{Definition}[chapter]
  EndPreamble
End

All this works fine so far. However, so far I have not been able to 
solve two issues, a LyX-related (1.4.5) and a more LaTeX-related:


1) How can I pass the optional title parameter from LyX to the "defn" 
environment? The "Insert->Short Title" command I usually use for this 
purpose is always disabled (greyed) when I am editing a definition. Is 
there a specific flag I can give in the layout definition to enable it?


2) How can I indent the whole thing? The \newtheoremstyle command offers 
a parameter for first line indentation, but I would like to indent the 
whole thing by, lets say, 2em. Any idea how to achieve that with theorems?


Thanks a lot!

Daniel

Re: export--> pdf -> FIXED

[Hauser Helmut]

Richard Heck wrote:




Have you ever attempted to customize the menus of your LyX?

Old settings from a previous LyX might confuse the new version.
I had exactly this problem. Editing ~/.lyx/preferences and removing 
the PDF customization lines solved it.

Thank you Richard and Helge,

I removed the  the entries in the  # FORMATS SECTION 
##

in the ./lyx/preference file a Richard has suggested and it works.

Again thank for your fast help and have a nice day,
- helmut





Richard




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Hallo,
in den anhängen des Benutzerhandbuches habe ich einige stellen mit ??? 
markiert, weil ich nicht wußte, was sie bedeuten. Vielleicht kann mir ja der 
eine oder andere helfen, die ??? durch text zu ersetzen.
Außerdem wäre es nicht schlecht, wenn der eine oder andere sich die deutsche 
doku zu gemüte führen würde, um leichen oder ungereimtheiten auszumerzen.
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\newtheorem and \newtheoremstyle

[Daniel Lohmann]

Hi,

In my thesis I have to define a couple of terms and I thought about using 
the amsthm package which offers the \newtheorem and \newtheoremstyle 
commands to generate environments for theorem-like structures.


So I added to my layout file a new style $Definition to my layout file:

Counter
  Name defn
End
Style $Definition
  Margin  First_Dynamic
  LatexType   Environment
  LatexName   defn
  LabelSepxx
  NextNoIndent  1
  ParIndent   MMM
  ParSkip 0.8
  ItemSep 0.2
  TopSep  0.5
  BottomSep   0.5
  ParSep  0.3
  Align   Block
  AlignPossible   block, left, center, right
  LabelType   Counter
  LabelCounterdefn
  LabelString "Definition @[EMAIL PROTECTED]:"
  LeftMargin  MM
  RightMargin MM
  LabelFont
FamilySans
Shape Up
SeriesBold
Size  Small
  EndFont
  Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
\newtheoremstyle{mydefinition}{\topsep}{\topsep}{}{}{\sffamily\bfseries}{:}{1em}{}
\theoremstyle{mydefinition}
\newtheorem{defn}{Definition}[chapter]
  EndPreamble
End

All this works fine so far. However, so far I have not been able to solve 
two issues, a LyX-related (1.4.5) and a more LaTeX-related:


1) How can I pass the optional title parameter from LyX to the "defn" 
environment? The "Insert->Short Title" command I usually use for this 
purpose is always disabled (greyed) when I am editing a definition. Is 
there a specific flag I can give in the layout definition to enable it?


2) How can I indent the whole thing? The \newtheoremstyle command offers a 
parameter for first line indentation, but I would like to indent the whole 
thing by, lets say, 2em. Any idea how to achieve that with theorems?


Thanks a lot!

Daniel