beamer trouble in 1.6.2
hank you for LyX 1.6.2.
The beamer in LyX 1.6.2 doesn't seem to convert correctly from the LyX
code to the latex code.
But The beamer in LyX 1.6.1 is OK.
I think that geometry part is different between 1.6.1 and 1.6.2.
The exported latex codes show as follows:
%% LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[table]{beamer}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[paperwidth=128mm,paperheight=96mm]{geometry}
\geometry{verbose}
\usepackage{relsize}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\makeatletter
%% LyX 1.6.1 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[table]{beamer}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{geometry}
\geometry{verbose,paperwidth=128mm,paperheight=96mm}
\usepackage{relsize}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\makeatletter
Re: Weird problem with bibtex from LyX (but not from Latex)--> SOLVED
On Monday 16 March 2009 04:59:18 Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-03-15, Stefano Franchi wrote: > > 3. The preamble of the master document calls the \bibliography commands > >with 4 .bib files > > As the preamble is "free LaTeX source" (like ERT), lyx is not aware of > the \bibliography call there. > > Where are your .bib files? > > > launching lyx from console and looking at the output reveals that the > > problem is that bibtex cannot find the bib files: > > > > However, If I export to the whole manuscript to latex (plain) and > > compile from the command line everything works fine, all the bib > > references are found, etcetera. > > LyX uses a temporary directory. This might be the cause. You can try to > disable the temporary directory (I don't know how exactly but guess > that giving an empty path for the TempDir in Tools>settings helps). > > > 2. I tried creating soft links to the actual files in the local > >directory and substituting just file names for absolute paths. No > >difference. > > I would try to put (or link) the *.bib files into a directory in the > BIBINPUTS path, so it is found by LaTeX/BibTeX from everywhere. > > .. and substituting just file names for absolute paths. > > > Günter Problem solved. It tuned out to be two small problems, actually, which is why I was lost. I am typing what I found out for future reference and general posterity: 1. Thanks to Richard's and Gunter's explanations I know now what LyX does behind the scene when it compiles a .lyx to .pdf Result: LyX will not find the bib files if both these conditions are true (Of course they both were in my case...): a- BibLatex is used for the bib references b- the bib files are located in the document's directory and referred to by relative pathnames This is because LyX does its behind the scene work by copying all the files it needs to a remote directory (/tmp/ on Linux) and doing the latex compilation there. If b is true and a is false, LyX strategy will work: the bib files declared within LyX will be copied as well, and everything is fine. When using BibLatex, however, the files are declared in the preamble, which LyX ignores, and will not get copied. BibTex will then use the relative pathnames from a remote directory and fail Exporting to Latex, on the other hand, will work, because the exported .tex files are located in the original directory alongside the .bib files. Moral of the story: never use relative pathnames with BibLatex unless you want to export to Latex everytime you want your references to come out right. 2. Second problem: It turns out that the preamble command needed to specify .bib files in Biblatex can accept comma-separated multiple files ONLY IF there are no spaces separating them. Otherwise BibteX will fail with a rather cryptic error message which it took me a while to decode. Of course, the "comma space" sequence is so deeply engrained in my fingers that I hadn't even noticed I was typing extra spaces. Moral of the story: Never put spaces in the \bibliography command Cheers, S. __ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211 Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458 305B Bolton Hall fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu College Station, TX 77843-4237
Re: Why does lyx use it's own keyboard instead of the systems?
Micha Feigin wrote:
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 11:44:46 +0200
Ronen Abravanel wrote:
Before you rush into this change - Consider the following usecase:
Switching to math - When I'm in math-mode, I always want my keyboard layout
to be English. While In windows, The current keyboard layout override the
global one (If you put the cursor in an Hebrew context, the language will
switch to Hebrew, If you put your cursor in English context - you'll write
in English).
When I'm writing document, I want the Ctrl+m will be the only thing I need
to do in order to start typing math. "Ctrl-m Alt-Shift" Is match to
expensive..
good point, but you also have two input senarios in math.
1. Entering parameters (regular typing). AFAIK it should always be in english
because I don't think that latex can handle anything else
2. in text mode inside math mode, where you want to be able to type both
(although at the moment it requires explicitly entering the \R{} macro to get
hebrew in there
Does everyone agree on the first point and are you willing to manually change
in the second case or do you want some other behviour?
So - If LyX will use the native-system-keyboard-layout - It will have to be
able to change it depending the current context (Math\Regular) - And in
every OS.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Micha Feigin wrote:
Sorry, sent off list by mistake
On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:05:51 +0100
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
There are two issues. For running the dictionary you need to know the
language.
For hebrew and arabic it's another issue, you need to know the system
language
so that you know directionality. Hebrew is right to left. For hebrew
characters
it may be easy to decide, for what about spaces and numbers? For these
we need
to know the system keyboard language and not guess it from the
character.
Under windows I know it's possible since for example word does it.
Question is
whether this is possible to know under linux (I guess so since there
are panel
applets that show the language). Which again comes down to the question
whether
there is a technical issue why to work this way or not.
So you want to change language when the keyboard layout is changed at
system level, right?
I never thought of these layouts as indicators of the actual language.
If Qt gives us
this information, we should be able to do it.
JMarc
For every other program the system language is used for input (alt-shift
in my
case). So for example when writing mail or using oowriter I change the
system
language to change input. Lyx is the only exeption where I __have__ to
keep the
system language for english and bind (f12 in this case) to language
hebrew. It
makes things incosistent and non-intuitive, esspecially for new users.
I agree. For RTL languages, it makes a lot of sense to change the current
language together with the system. Advanced users wishing to change the
language independently should be able to disable this feature though.
Now, you have to find someone willing to implement this feature ;-)
FYI, a year or two ago I advocated that the text direction should be based
uniquely on the encoding, independently of the language settings, like Qt
does. But I failed to convince other developers.
Dov, are you reading this? ;-)
Abdel.
A little late, but yes, I am still lurking on the mailing lists... ;)
I think the main reason (to answer the title question) is that we don't know how
to get/set the system-wide keyboard language in a cross-platform way. If it's
possible to do that, then I think it should be fairly simple to implement a
solution along the following lines:
Ideally, if it *were* possible to detect the system-wide keyboard language
setting, then LyX should (optionally! for users that *want* this feature) set
it's internal language to the system-wide setting, plain and simple. The only
thing to make sure, though, is that in the same manner, whenever LyX chooses to
change it's internal language, it should also *set* the system-wide keyboard
setting to that language. I think that that would solve the issue raised by
Ronen: when entering a math inset, LyX would set the internal, as well as the
system-wide, language to english (or latex, technically? I forget the exact
details), which would mean that the math text would be set correctly; and when
exiting that inset, LyX automatically sets the language back to whatever it was
before entering the inset. Similarly, when moving the cursor over existing text,
LyX changes the language to match the underlying text. I'm almost certain that
LyX already does all of this language setting --- except that not at the
system-wide level, that's what would have to be added.
Note, however, that even if this is implemented, I think I would *still* choose
to use LyX's keymaps, for reasons that I've explained elsewhere (last time
around was at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/48426). And
while some of the reasons menti
Re: How to make a single list environment
On 2009-03-17, Steve Litt wrote: > I want to make a clone of the Itemize environment, only with narrower > spacing. ... > What's the correct way to do this? a) if you want vertical space for separating paragraphs, use the 'parskip' package and not the LyX GUI setting (there is a bugreport about this on bugzilla). b) use a LaTeX package that provides for this, e.g. 'enumitem'. Hint: search for the LyX module for enumitem on wiki.lyx.org. Günter
Re: Classic Vs. Alternative Windows Installers
Reuven Segev schrieb: With the 1.6.2 unavailable yet im the classic version: - Does it make sense to wait? Both installers should work in every case, so I think you can give it a try. (OK, I'm not objective, because I provide the alternative installer ;-) .) - Will the "alternative" installer remove the 1.6.1 "classic" or co-exist with it? It should leave LyX 1.6.1 installed, but note that this could lead to intereferences between LyX 1.6.1 and 1.6.2 in general. So I recommend to uninstall LyX 1.6.1 and install 1.6.2 afterwards. - In case I use the alternative installer, will I have to insert all my preferences, customization, etc. again? Your preferences should be kept as they are, even when you uninstall LyX. (The uninstaller has a checkbox for this feature). To be sure, safe your preferences (look in LyX's preferences to see the path where they are stored. regards Uwe
Re: Cannot view pdf help-math: (xargs.sty not found)
Waluyo Adi Siswanto schrieb: I just compile 1.6.2 from source in Ubuntu 8.04, and I try to view pdf help-math, but Error List dialog appear: LateX Error:File'xargs.sty' not found. I don't explicitly load this package in Math.lyx, so it seems that another package needs this. What you need is to install this LaTeX-package. Since TeXLive 208 this is easy: open teXLive's package manager, select there the LaTeX-package named "xargs", and install it. (I don't know how a package is installed with TeXLive 2007 on Linux. regards Uwe
Re: Cannot view pdf help-math: (xargs.sty not found)
Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:59:41 -0700 Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote > I just compile 1.6.2 from source in Ubuntu 8.04, and I try to view pdf > help-math, but Error List dialog appear: LateX Error:File'xargs.sty' not > found. > I have the same problem in 1.6.1. > I don't know how to view pdf this help-math. Is it a bug or something > missing in my Texlive (2007). xargs is not included in texlive 2007 You can download and install it from CTAN http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/xargs/ (Or you can install texlive-2008 manually, as it is not available in Ubuntu 8.04 .deb repos) Regards Ignacio
How to make a single list environment
Hi all,
I want to make a clone of the Itemize environment, only with narrower spacing.
After didlling around with some Itemize LaTeX found in non-book environments,
I figured I'd just roll my own. I already know how to make a 2 environment
list, with the outer environment defining the list, and each instance of the
inner environment defining one item.
That would be just fine in LaTeX, but it's inconvenient in LyX. So I'm trying
to make something like Itemize, which both creates the list and makes each
paragraph an item. The following simple LaTeX came dang close to working:
\newcommand*{\starlabel}{*}
% ### Vertically denser than Itemize Outline ###
\newenvironment{outlineL}{
\list{}{
\let\makelabel\starlabel
\setlength\parsep{-2pt}
\setlength\labelsep{0.2in}
}
\item[]
}{
\endlist
}
The preceding is close but no cigar, because it prints the star only on the
first item of each list or sublist, as shown in the attached graphic. I
experimented with putting the star in the first arg of the list, nothing
showed up. I put it in the squarebrackets following item, no joy.
What's the correct way to do this?
Thanks
Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
Classic Vs. Alternative Windows Installers
Hi, I have been using LyX for about 5 years now and was always mystified by the existence of the two versions of the installer. I have the 1.6.1 "classical" installed at the moment and in the past I used also the "alternative" one. With the 1.6.2 unavailable yet im the classic version: - Does it make sense to wait? - Will the "alternative" installer remove the 1.6.1 "classic" or co-exist with it? (I understand I cannot use the updater.) - In case I use the alternative installer, will I have to insert all my preferences, customization, etc. again? Will appreciate you help on the matter. AND THANKS A LOT FOR THE GREAT PIECE OF SOFTWARE AND USEFUL WORK ENVIRONMENT. Reuven
Cannot view pdf help-math: (xargs.sty not found)
I just compile 1.6.2 from source in Ubuntu 8.04, and I try to view pdf help-math, but Error List dialog appear: LateX Error:File'xargs.sty' not found. I have the same problem in 1.6.1. I don't know how to view pdf this help-math. Is it a bug or something missing in my Texlive (2007). Regards was
Re: some beamer questions
s nedunuri wrote:
Just started using beamer. I think its great. I was unable to find a beamer
manual [entry] for lyx but i've been able to figure out most of what i need
from looking at the examples. Couple of qs:
1. When i create a block, how do i get the block contents to actually appear
inside the block. So what i currently have is:
Block (ERT[{title}] body): [[ {some heading} ]]
where [[ and ]] indicate a red ERT box. There seems to be some way of
letting lyx know that the contents belong inside the blue box that appears
on the output (b/c i see it done in the examples) but i cant figure it out
Nest the content under the Block environment (Edit > Increase List
Depth). The content can be a different environment (e.g., enumeration).
2. Suppose you have a program listing or a math array, and you want to
animate the replacement of certain sections of the code or the introduction
of certain pieces of code, how might that be done. I see a reference to
overlays but the examples i looked at didn't contain them
See sections 9.2 and 9.3 of the Beamer user guide. You'll need to
surround the animated material with ERT, using one of the commands
(\onslide, \only, \visible etc.) described in the manual. If you need
something to occupy the space when the material is not visible, you
might try \alt. I've attached a small example.
/Paul
animated equation.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: document>structure
Am Tuesday 17 March 2009 09:23:24 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > somehow I managed to get the document>structure (Gliederung) of my lyx > > (1.6) document on top of my text. It used to be at the left of the > > document and I would like to have it back this way but can't find the way > > how to do it. > > You can drag it with the mouse. > > Jürgen So easy! Should have thought of it. Thanks, Jürgen Wolfgang
Re: document>structure
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > somehow I managed to get the document>structure (Gliederung) of my lyx > (1.6) document on top of my text. It used to be at the left of the document > and I would like to have it back this way but can't find the way how to do > it. You can drag it with the mouse. Jürgen
document>structure
somehow I managed to get the document>structure (Gliederung) of my lyx (1.6) document on top of my text. It used to be at the left of the document and I would like to have it back this way but can't find the way how to do it. Wolfgang
