lyx and latex style guides.

[Jason Crosswhite]

Hi,

I hope you can suffer the questions of an abject beginner at lyx and
latex.  Lyx seems great, and I was hoping it might soften or remove my
need to learn latex.  Here's the question: I'm a scientist, and the
biggest thing I need to write are journal articles.  All the
publications I am interested in already have latex style files.  How
easy would it be to use these in Lyx?  I know people have made different
styles under lyx for aapg, I'd like to do the same for publications I
write for.  How about it?  Can somebody describe the process or a good
reference to the process?  I've tried to find documentation or a howto
about it, but I can't seem to find a good one.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: LyX-LateX-(font?)-problem: Unable to read an entire...

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

>> Subject: LyX-LateX-(font?)-problem: Unable to read an entire...
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:23:41 +0100 (CET)
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Berkun Culha)
>> 
>> Hi...
>> I am using version 1.0.0pre6 and have the following problem:
>> 
>> ! Unable to read an entire line---bufsize=3000.
>> Please ask a wizard to enlarge me.
>> dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened.
[snip]

This strongly points to an end of line problem.
Where do the figures come from ?

If this is the problem, the simplest solution IMHO
is to use zip, extract with -a option
unzip -a

If you get into trouble with the nunber of figures, insert
a \clearpage at appropriate locations: same as \newpage, but clears
the buffer of floats.

Hope that helps

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LyX-LateX-(font?)-problem: Unable to read an entire...

[Berkun Culha]

Hi...
I am using version 1.0.0pre6 and have the following problem:

! Unable to read an entire line---bufsize=3000.
Please ask a wizard to enlarge me.
dvips: ! DVI file can't be opened.

/opt/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd 
is the point where it seems to stop compiling.

Although this looks like a LateX-problem this happened (I'm not 100% sure
though) pretty soon after changing float placement in document layout.
There are lots of figures in floats in my document.

I am planning to use LyX writing a paper of apprx. 100 pages and 
50 screenshots. Being at the beginning, I experienced lots of emergency
saves and my inserted figures are causing big trouble. Is this too much for
LyX to handle? 

Should I begin to learn more LateX and keep on the puristic track?
Any Ideas?  

Sorry, I'm in a clueless mood...  
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Feedback from LyX presentation at Linuxtage Berlin

[Florian Cramer]

In case some people (LyX-developers?) like to hear about it: LyX 1.0 got
overwhelming feedback during a public demonstration in Berlin.

Last weekend, the Berlin Linux User Group  held its
traditional Linuxtage ("Linux days"), a public and free event intended to
give visitors a practical impression of Linux. As every year, BeLUG members
had brought their own computers for public display to Akademischer Verein
Hütte in central Western Berlin, the longtime Linux-supporting bookstore
J.F. Lehmanns offered related literature, two representatives of SuSE did
their best to get their distribution running on a brandnew IBM computer, and
there was a series of lectures and demonstrations on Linux-related topics.

My own presentation of LyX 1.0, scheduled for Sunday at 1:30 p.m., was
addressed at users of traditional word processing software and not at
TeXperts. Of all Linuxtag presentations, it drew by far the most attention -
the presentation room was packed! (I guess there were around 40-50
listeners.)

After explaining the WYSIWYM concept and loosing (too many) words on
configuration caveats, I practically demonstrated LyX/LaTeXs power in
handling complex structured documents and its excellence in footnotes,
margin notes, cross-references, sectioning in combination with table of
contents creation and page headers, nested lists, split documents and
export/re-import of LaTeX code, split documents, bibliographical entries,
and its collaboration with BibTeX/Barracuda. With the help of a data beam
and a networked X11 display from my own PC and some foils I had made with
LyX and FoilTeX, I could show how LyX works. Some people seemed to have
merely read about LyX (perhaps in the current issue of the German computer
magazine c't?), others only knew it from earlier versions they installed
from the Linux distributions they used, and they were truly impressed of
what they saw!

At the end, I mentioned some features planned for future LyX versions, with
particular emphasis on the effort to make LyX GUI-independent. You can
probably imagine that the prospect of a reunited LyX and KLyX and a Gnome
version of LyX made all people happy, but you may not have expected this:

The audience _freaked out_ of enthusiasm when I mentioned the project of a
curses frontend to LyX!

(I still keep receiving E-Mail from people who ask me for more details about
this, and unfortunately I couldn't tell much more than the above.) So, if
any LyX developers are reading, be assured that your work is being highly,
very highly appreciated! Kudos to you all. My statement that the Gimp and
LyX were the two killer apps of the Linux/Free Software community found
unanimous consent. Don't let your view be skewed from Slashdot-type,
Quake/Gimp/MP3-fixated geek-chic kids who put the LyX 1.0 release somewhere
under "Friday quickies". I am sure that user adoption of LyX will gain
additional momentum once LyX 1.0 has made it onto the major distribution
CD-ROMs.

Florian

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Re: Includig package g-brief

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Martin" == Martin Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Martin> Can anybody help me to include the LaTeX-package g-brief (.sty
Martin> and .cls) into LyX as a textclass? I tryed this over the whole
Martin> weekend using the latest documentation coming with LyX and
Martin> didn´t get it working. I´m not a TeX expert but I love using
Martin> LaTeX and mostly LyX. Is anybody perhaps working on that? If
Martin> not, who can tell me the major steps?

There are some explanations about that in Customization.lyx (I guess
you found that out). Othe rthan that, the best thing to do is too look
at existing classes (letter classes in this case) and try to
understand how to modify them for your own use.

Martin> I tried to create a file g-brief.layout, declared the
Martin> textclass and wanted to Include g-brief. This caused an error
Martin> reading inputfile with no further reasons.

Could you show us what you did put in your layout file?

Martin> g-brief is a very nice LaTeX package creating very good
Martin> looking business letters according to german rules.

Did you try the dinbrief layout? Is it less powerful? In this case,
having supprot for g-brief would be a very good thing...

JMarc

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Includig package g-brief

[Martin Rose]

Can anybody help me to include the LaTeX-package g-brief (.sty and .cls) 
into LyX as a textclass? I tryed this over the whole weekend using the 
latest documentation coming with LyX and didn´t get it working. I´m not 
a TeX expert but I love using LaTeX and mostly LyX. Is anybody perhaps 
working on that? If not, who can tell me the major steps?

I tried to create a file g-brief.layout, declared the textclass and 
wanted to Include g-brief. This caused an error reading inputfile with 
no further reasons.

g-brief is a very nice LaTeX package creating very good looking business 
letters according to german rules.

Martin.

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Includig package g-brief

[Martin Rose]

Can anybody help me to include the LaTeX-package g-brief (.sty and .cls) 
into LyX as a textclass? I tryed this over the whole weekend using the 
latest documentation coming with LyX and didn´t get it working. I´m not 
a TeX expert but I love using LaTeX and mostly LyX. Is anybody perhaps 
working on that? If not, who can tell me the major steps?

I tried to create a file g-brief.layout, declared the textclass and 
wanted to Include g-brief. This caused an error reading inputfile with 
no further reasons.

g-brief is a very nice LaTeX package creating very good looking business 
letters according to german rules.

Martin.

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Re: Feature

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Bruce" == Bruce M Beach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>>  Among other things, yes. You could also bind a complex command
>> with loops, test and whatever to a single key.

Bruce>I eagerly await this feature

Don't we all ? :)

Bruce>Ps I always get your email twice

Sorry, it is because I am too lazy to remove you name by hand when I
reply... And rmail does not do it for me.

JMarc

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Re: Feature

[Bruce M Beach]

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> >>  There is no interpreter because it is not done yet. I think we
> >> will include a small scheme implementation like SIOD in LyX 1.2.
> 
> Bruce>   Does this mean that I would be able to group keystrokes into
> Bruce> one command and execute them with some hotkey that I have
> Bruce> assigned?
> 
> Among other things, yes. You could also bind a complex command with
> loops, test and whatever to a single key. 
> 
> JMarc

   I eagerly await this feature

   Bruce

   Ps I always get your email twice


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Re: Feature

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Bruce" == Bruce M Beach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>>  There is no interpreter because it is not done yet. I think we
>> will include a small scheme implementation like SIOD in LyX 1.2.

Bruce>   Does this mean that I would be able to group keystrokes into
Bruce> one command and execute them with some hotkey that I have
Bruce> assigned?

Among other things, yes. You could also bind a complex command with
loops, test and whatever to a single key. 

JMarc

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Re: Feature

[Bruce M Beach]

On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> "Thierry" == Thierry Michalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Thierry> Hello!  I don't know even the first bit of how the Lyx code
> Thierry> is organized, but this leads me to a reflexion: why is there
> Thierry> no embedded interpreter (or may I have missed it?) in Lyx?
> Thierry> This could be an easy - ok, maybe not _that_ easy - way to
> Thierry> allow expanding the capabilities of this wonderful tool.
> Thierry> Emacs is just build around this concept, which makes it so
> Thierry> powerful! (I agree that it somehow interfaces with humans in
> Thierry> a strange fashion, though) Just to say it...
> 
> There is no interpreter because it is not done yet. I think we will
> include a small scheme implementation like SIOD in LyX 1.2.
> 
> JMarc
> 
  Does this mean that I would be able to group keystrokes into
  one command and execute them with some hotkey that I have assigned?

  Bruce


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Re: Feature

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Thierry" == Thierry Michalowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Thierry> Hello!  I don't know even the first bit of how the Lyx code
Thierry> is organized, but this leads me to a reflexion: why is there
Thierry> no embedded interpreter (or may I have missed it?) in Lyx?
Thierry> This could be an easy - ok, maybe not _that_ easy - way to
Thierry> allow expanding the capabilities of this wonderful tool.
Thierry> Emacs is just build around this concept, which makes it so
Thierry> powerful! (I agree that it somehow interfaces with humans in
Thierry> a strange fashion, though) Just to say it...

There is no interpreter because it is not done yet. I think we will
include a small scheme implementation like SIOD in LyX 1.2.

JMarc

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Re: Feature

[Thierry Michalowski]

Hello!

I don't know even the first bit of how the Lyx code is organized, but this
leads me to a reflexion:
why is there no embedded interpreter (or may I have missed it?) in Lyx?
This could be an easy - ok, maybe not _that_ easy - way to allow expanding the
capabilities of this wonderful tool.
Emacs is just build around this concept, which makes it so powerful! (I agree
that it somehow interfaces with humans in a strange fashion, though)
Just to say it...


>
> Even better would be a general editor for customizing sequences of commands.
> Then I could make this thing myself.  I think you have done a GREAT job in
> letting the user define those layouts; and you could do the same with

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