Re: lyx and latex style guides.
> "Jason" == Jason Crosswhite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jason> Hi, I hope you can suffer the questions of an abject beginner Jason> at lyx and latex. Lyx seems great, and I was hoping it might Jason> soften or remove my need to learn latex. Here's the question: Jason> I'm a scientist, and the biggest thing I need to write are Jason> journal articles. All the publications I am interested in Jason> already have latex style files. How easy would it be to use Jason> these in Lyx? I know people have made different styles under Jason> lyx for aapg, I'd like to do the same for publications I write Jason> for. How about it? Can somebody describe the process or a Jason> good reference to the process? I've tried to find Jason> documentation or a howto about it, but I can't seem to find a Jason> good one. Hello, The only documentation on the subject is in Help->Customization. You might want too to study a bit the journal textclasses which have been provided with LyX. If your textclasses are not too different from the basic article class, it should not be difficult. But of course, you'll need a bit of LaTeX knowledge to do it... Fell free to ask if you have specific questions. JMarc -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: Feedback from LyX presentation at Linuxtage Berlin
> "Florian" == Florian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Florian> In case some people (LyX-developers?) like to hear about it: Florian> LyX 1.0 got overwhelming feedback during a public Florian> demonstration in Berlin. Personally, I really *love* to hear about it :) Florian> At the end, I mentioned some features planned for future LyX Florian> versions, with particular emphasis on the effort to make LyX Florian> GUI-independent. You can probably imagine that the prospect Florian> of a reunited LyX and KLyX and a Gnome version of LyX made Florian> all people happy, but you may not have expected this: Florian> The audience _freaked out_ of enthusiasm when I mentioned the Florian> project of a curses frontend to LyX! Good. And did you find volunteers to help with the port? :P JMarc -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: [zp6kfx@amsat.org] LyX Feedback
> "Pino" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pino> I need to write in spanish which is not my mother language... Pino> so I need the spellchecker expecially for accents I olways miss. Pino> I configure my italian keyboard to accept doble-stroke accented Pino> vawels with the command: Pino> setxkbmap es What is this? Is it a command to change the keyboard at the system level? Pino> Now when I do a spellcheck and I replace a wrong word I get it Pino> like if setxkbmap where not set: i.e. Pino> instead of sìntesis I get s'intesis. Do you type the replacement by yourself or select it in a list provided by ispell? The xforms toolkit seems to have problems for supporting international keyboards, unfortunately. JMarc -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: lyx and latex style guides.
If your style file is mystyle.sty, I think you have to add
\usepackage{mystyle}
to the latex preamble (in layout menu).
For example if I use natbib.sty, I use article class and use the latex
preamble
\usepackage{natbib}
BTW your style file has to be in place where latex knows about it (might
need to run texhash). This is somewhat tricky.
If you are writing scientific papers you will need to figure out BibTeX
too. Seems pointless to use latex and not use bibtex. Then you will also
need to get a bibliography style too (.bst file).
You might also like to lurk in comp.text.tex for info on these things.
Bill
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Re: controlling enumerations
> "David" == David Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> Hi Folks, I've got a newbie question: I'd like to be able to
David> control the numbering in my enumerations, so they don't always
David> start at 1.
David> (I'm typesetting some competition rules, using enumerations for
David> each article; there are 6 sections, but the articles are
David> numbered continuously from the beginning of the document to the
David> end. Personally I think it'd make more sense to do it the way
David> Lyx wants to do it now, starting over again at 1 for each
David> section. But they didn't ask me. ;-)
Do you really use an enumeration for that? What you present looks
rather like sections... Keeping the counter is possible, but it
requires to know a bit more about what you are doing.
David> It'd also be really cool if I could change the enumeration
David> thing so that instead of saying:
David> 15. Awards
David> for the 15th thing in the enumeration, it'd do this:
David> Article 15. Awards
If you use enumerations, you can probably do:
\renewcommand{\theenumi}{Article \arabic{enumi}.}
in the preamble. You will not see the label on screen, though.
JMarc
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Re: Table of Contents/Footnotes
> "Red" == Redvers Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Table of contents The problem: If the heading of a section, >> subsection ... is longer than one line, there is no line-break in >> the table of contents. The text will be printed till the right edge >> of the paper. I tried it with different document-classes (book and >> koma-book), but the effect seems to be the same. Red> I have the same problems with regular tables. The table Red> disapears off the sheet of paper into oblivion ;). I've tried Red> or something similer to try and force it (which I Red> shouldn't have to do I know) but even that doesn't work. Red> I have trawled through the manuals and the mailing list archives Red> looking for similer questions but been unable to find an answer. Red> I can only assume I am missing something so obvious no-one else Red> has needed to ask ;) I just tried it and did not see what you describe. Could you send a (short) example file? JMarc -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Directory problem
I compiled and installed lyx from the 1.0.1 sources. I am running RedHat 5.2 with the 2.2.2 kernel. When I run "lyx" from a terminal window, I get a popup window that sayes it cannot find some .lst file (textclass.lst?). When I run "lyx -sysdir /usr/X11/share/lyx" the program runs and I can read the help files, edit files, etc. However, when I try to print to "View dpi," I get an error that says "Cannot change to directory . . . ." It is a temp directory which I can find and which my login owns. I get this popup several times in a row, then the program crashes. Any ideas? Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: Directory problem
> "Travis" == Travis Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Travis> I compiled and installed lyx from the 1.0.1 sources. I am Travis> running RedHat 5.2 with the 2.2.2 kernel. Could you give some information on how you compiled LyX? Travis> When I run "lyx" from a terminal window, I get a popup window Travis> that sayes it cannot find some .lst file (textclass.lst?). You can try to run 'lyx -dbg 2' to see in which directory LyX is looking for its files. Travis> When I run "lyx -sysdir /usr/X11/share/lyx" the program runs Travis> and I can read the help files, edit files, etc. However, when Travis> I try to print to "View dpi," I get an error that says "Cannot Travis> change to directory . . . ." It is a temp directory which I Travis> can find and which my login owns. I get this popup several Travis> times in a row, then the program crashes. This one is more problematic... It might be an interference with kernel 2.2.2. Do you still have 2.0.x around, to check whether this fails too? JMarc -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Call to mmap() failed - TEXT /usr/lib/libforms.sl
Hi, I have installed lyx on HP. Everything seems OK, configure, make, make install. But when Itry src/lyx I get the following error message: > src/lyx /usr/lib/dld.sl: Call to mmap() failed - TEXT /usr/lib/libforms.sl /usr/lib/dld.sl: Permission denied IOT trap (core dumped) What is the problem? Thanks -- Ali Tolou Service Informatique Département de Génie Mécanique Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: Call to mmap() failed - TEXT /usr/lib/libforms.sl
You maybe don't have libforms.sl mode 555? -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: Includig package g-brief
"Jean-Marc" ==Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
Jean-Marc>Could you show us what you did put in your layout file?
1. g-brief.sty and g-brief.cls are in a location where LaTeX finds it
(...texmf/tex/latex/g-brief/g-brief.sty and .cls)
2. I created a minimal g-brief.layout:
---
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass{g-brief (Geschaeftsbrief)}
# German DIN-Brief textclass definition file.
# Author : Martin Rose
# Input general definitions
Input g-brief
---
3. I reconfigured LyX and found the document-class in the Layout,
Dokument menu. But, when choosing this class, an error message appears
with the folowing console log:
LyX: Error reading inputfile:
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout [around line 8 of file
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout]
LyX: Error reading inputfile:
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout [around line 8 of file
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout]
LyX: Error reading inputfile:
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout [around line 8 of file
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout]
LyX: Error reading inputfile:
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout [around line 8 of file
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout]
LyX: Error reading inputfile:
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout [around line 8 of file
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout]
LyX: Error reading inputfile:
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout [around line 8 of file
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout]
LyX: Error reading inputfile:
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout [around line 8 of file
/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout]
Error reading `/usr/local/share/lyx/layouts/g-brief.layout'
(Check `g-brief')
This error appears more times than shown here. The line 8 of input file
is the command "Input g-brief"
What I intended to to:
Load the Latex textclass g-brief and create Labels to enter user data
into the document as done in din-brief. I expected it to be that simple.
I´m to less an expert to recreate that documentclass into a
LyX-Textclass.
Jean-Marc>Did you try the dinbrief layout? Is it less powerful? In this
case,
Jean-Marc>having supprot for g-brief would be a very good thing...
g-brief is MUCH BETTER and comes with a german TeX/LaTeX installation,
but emacs and vi are hard to handle for my wife. she wants to install
microsoft cd´s on my pc but i don´t give her anny root password for
gates-stuff and similar apps drive me cracy, wasting my time.
please world wide LyX-Users, help me !!! (meanwile i take a valium)
Martin.
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Suggestion about \mathrm{}, etc
Is it possible to simplify font-changing in math mode?
Right now I am trying to do in LyX something that is easy in plain LaTeX:
\begin{equation}
\Pr(\mathrm{system fails in $[0,\tau)$ and this is covered} $|$ \mathrm{system
was up at $t=0$})
\end{equation}
I'm having a hard time doing this with LyX's protected spaces and automatic
switching to default font, to the point that I'm tempted to go back to ascii
input and plain LaTeX. It seems to me it would be much easier to do if, for
example, C-c f r did the equivalent of \mathrm{ and C-c f space did the
equivalent of } (closing the brace). The only problem I see is the switching
back into math mode inside the \mathrm{}.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Kostas Oikonomou
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Re: Includig package g-brief
additionaly to my problem i tried to reLyX a LaTeX document written with g-brief which didn´t work. Martin. Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: Suggestion about \mathrm{}, etc
> "Kostas" == Kostas Oikonomou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kostas> Is it possible to simplify font-changing in math mode? Right
Kostas> now I am trying to do in LyX something that is easy in plain
Kostas> LaTeX:
Kostas> \begin{equation} \Pr(\mathrm{system fails in $[0,\tau)$ and
Kostas> this is covered} $|$ \mathrm{system was up at $t=0$})
Kostas> \end{equation}
You should make it the equivalent of:
\Pr(\textrm{system fails in }[0,\tau)\textrm{ and this is covered }|
\textrm{system was up at }t=0)
Where the \textrm is obtained by the so-called 'math text mode' (type
M-m m while in the formula).
I believe this is covered either in the tutorial or the user guide.
JMarc
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Changing standard font in layouts
Hi, I'm pretty new to this LyX-stuff (and a total pedal-head on TeX or LaTeX, BTW), so maybe this is a really really stupid question. But here goes anyway: I try to use LyX 1.0 (downloaded the binary .tgz and installed it on a SuSE 5.3 system). The templates are really cool, but I kinda bummed when the letter-template defaulted to a Roman font: I prefer to send my letters in a typewriter-style font. Funny thing is: if I select some text and change the font (with Layout-Character), it _still_ prints in Roman, although it shows typewriter in the LyX screen. So I went through all the docs, and finally delved into the letter.layout file, which refers to the stletter.inc file. I changed the default font from Roman to Typewriter and now my letters look OK in the LyX screen, but they _still_ print in Roman. I don't get any of this with the other templates (they print typewriter styles OK), so what gives? Thx Karel Jansens jansens_at_ibm_dot_net PS: I really really went through all of the online docs. Promise. -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
