Re: Feature
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 09:56:55 +0100 From: Uwe Assmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: lyx-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Feature Hello, what I miss very much from Lyx (which you have in Word and others) is to mark a text, and then to drag it with held left mouse to another place in the document. For me, this saves a lot of cut/paste work. Any plans to support it? Hmm, I think I have it there (no drag, but quite similar) - mark the text - go where I want to put it - center click on the mouse -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: memory problem with view dvi?
From: Bill Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Roland Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: memory problem with view dvi? Hi Roland, Thanks for your helpful comments. Bill, have you tried to save the LyX file as Latex then run Latex by hand as to exactly see what the problem is. It chokes at this point: figs/singles/wsdfig.ps figs/singles/wsresfig.ps figs/singles/mmlnbeta.ps figs/singles/wslnbeta.ps [8] [9] [10] [11] figs/singles/mmdfig1.ps figs/singles/mmresfig1.ps figs/singles/wsdfig1.ps! Unable to read an entire line---bufsize=3000. Please ask a wizard to enlarge me. I looked at this file wsdfig1.ps but don't know postscript well enough to see anything unusual. Is there a wizard out there who can tell me how to enlarge bufsize? I asked once on the list, but there was no comment, so I come again :-) Did you check that the temporary was not full ? AFAIR, this is one of the reasons for the wizard enlarger question. The other one is a ps file in which the Windows newlines have not been removed, so that the file is seen as a line. This is easy to detect: files end with ^M in xemacs. tr -d "\015" foo.ps bar.ps removes these ^M. Hope that helps -- Jean-Pierre -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: memory problem with view dvi?
From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: memory problem with view dvi? "Bill" == Bill Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Thanks Jean-Marc and Martin. However I examined the eps files in Bill question and they are OK--no weird Mac characters (ctrl-M) at Bill end of lines. Bill I still have the problem that view ps and view dvi don't work if Bill I include all the figs, but do work if I include only a few. I Bill guess the next step is to try each fig at a time. But I don't Bill think there is anything wrong with the indiv files, because if Bill there were the figs would not render correctly in LyX, but they Bill DO render fine. I have a feeling that the total memory Bill requirements by all the figs is the problem somehow. Bill I also have a problem that I noticed before: when I first open Bill the file I am unable to scroll through it. If I open and close Bill another file, then all is well. I have to admit that that I have no idea about what is going on :( JMarc Has the file system full on /tmp been ruled out ? -- Jean-Pierre -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
RE: line separation in lists
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:22:26 -0600 (CST)
From: Roland Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: line separation in lists
Have you tried a negative number :-) e.g. -0.1in ?
You may have to set \parsep0pt too.
There is certainly something on line try lookin on CTAN.
Roland
PS: The online thing I know is in german, that wouldnt hepp you ?
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Mithras wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Roland Krause wrote:
Try to set \itemsep0pt in either your preamble or as ERT (Latex)
right before your list.
Hth
Roland
Unfortunately \itemsep0pt (or \itemsep 0pt, or \itemsep 0 pt) entered into
the preample or in a LaTeX environment or into a TeX file with my text
editor didn't change the typesetting.
Can I find documentation for all of the LaTeX commands online? I haven't
got access to any hardcopy TeX books. I found some documentation at
www.emerson.emory.edu but apparently it isn't comprehensive. (It doesn't
document \itemsep, for instance.)
Try this piece of code (stolen from the french LaTeX FAQ) in the preamble.
Then \doitemsep \noitemsep in TeX mode toggles between spacing
and no spacing in lists.
\makeatletter
debut macro
%%
%% Copyright (c) 1993 Hydro-Quebec [EMAIL PROTECTED]
%%
%% Bring items closer together in list environments
% Prevent infinite loops
\let\orig@Itemize =\itemize
\let\orig@Enumerate =\enumerate
\let\orig@Description =\description
% Zero the vertical spacing parameters
\def\Nospacing{\itemsep=0pt\topsep=0pt\partopsep=0pt%
\parskip=0pt\parsep=0pt}
% Redefinition de art12.sty pour commencer a la marge de gauche
%\leftmargini 1.2em % 2.5em
\def\noitemsep{
% Redefine the environments in terms of the original values
\renewenvironment{itemize}{\orig@Itemize\Nospacing}{\endlist}
\renewenvironment{enumerate}{\orig@Enumerate\Nospacing}{\endlist}
\renewenvironment{description}{\orig@Description\Nospacing}%
{\endlist}
}
\def\doitemsep{
% Redefine the environments to the original values
\renewenvironment{itemize}{\orig@Itemize}{\endlist}
\renewenvironment{enumerate}{\orig@Enumerate}{\endlist}
\renewenvironment{description}{\orig@Description}{\endlist}
}
fin macro
\makeatother
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Re: Some layout problems
From: Markus Baeurle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Some layout problems
Below are some LaTeX workarounds (what about a dedicated FAQ in the LyX list ?
The few contributions there could be a start. If contributors are willing
to write their answers in the unpersonal style below, I may collect them
and repost periodically).
I must say I'm not using very much LyX myself, so I may propose
a workaround for a solution which has been implemented in LyX 1.0.
There are a few minor things I don't like so much, especially I'd like more
control about where figure floats are placed in the text. I have set the
placement rules to "htbp" in the Layout - Document dialog already but the
result doesn't always satisfy me. Well, I'm still used to WYSIWYG too much I
guess.
Float placement control:
++ put a ! before h to insist upon the float being here
Example: !ht in the Layout - Document dialog forces the floats to be here,
if *really* not possible, then on top
Now for my real "problems". I'm not sure if they're rather LaTeX problems but
I know very little about it.
The first one is that I my document ends with a few chapters of appendixes (I
selected "Start of Appendix" before them so everything is OK with them)
followed by a table of figures and a bibliography. Both of them don't show up
in the table of contents but I really need them to be in there!
Missing entries in the toc (*sectioning or extraneous entries):
++ type in (in TeX mode)
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\protect\numberline {}Bibliography}
to get the Bibliography entry in the TOC in the chapter style.
The second one has to do with page layout. I chose the fancy layout in
Layout - Document. As you probably know, it puts the chapter heading on the
left and the section heading on the right of the top of each page. If these
headings are long, they run into each other and thus become unreadable.
This has disappointed me quite a bit and led to some jokes from colleagues in
the department ("Are you sure you're using the right tool?"). How can I
correct this? I think the best way would be if the section heading on the
right was simply truncated to fit.
Overload of the running headers:
++ use the LaTeX construct (for a chapter, same mechanism for a section)
\chapter[Short title]{Full title}
instead of calling the chapter style (but then the short construct will be
the one in the toc)
[snip]
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Re: Some layout problems
Sorry if this mail went through correctly this morning, I had an error from
alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de for an incoorect message ID.
From: Markus Baeurle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Some layout problems
Below are some LaTeX workarounds (what about a dedicated FAQ in the LyX list ?
The few contributions there could be a start. If contributors are willing
to write their answers in the unpersonal style below, I may collect them
and repost periodically).
I must say I'm not using very much LyX myself, so I may propose
a workaround for a solution which has been implemented in LyX 1.0.
There are a few minor things I don't like so much, especially I'd like more
control about where figure floats are placed in the text. I have set the
placement rules to "htbp" in the Layout - Document dialog already but the
result doesn't always satisfy me. Well, I'm still used to WYSIWYG too much I
guess.
Float placement control:
++ put a ! before h to insist upon the float being here
Example: !ht in the Layout - Document dialog forces the floats to be here,
if *really* not possible, then on top
Now for my real "problems". I'm not sure if they're rather LaTeX problems but
I know very little about it.
The first one is that I my document ends with a few chapters of appendixes (I
selected "Start of Appendix" before them so everything is OK with them)
followed by a table of figures and a bibliography. Both of them don't show up
in the table of contents but I really need them to be in there!
Missing entries in the toc (*sectioning or extraneous entries):
++ type in (in TeX mode)
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\protect\numberline {}Bibliography}
to get the Bibliography entry in the TOC in the chapter style.
The second one has to do with page layout. I chose the fancy layout in
Layout - Document. As you probably know, it puts the chapter heading on the
left and the section heading on the right of the top of each page. If these
headings are long, they run into each other and thus become unreadable.
This has disappointed me quite a bit and led to some jokes from colleagues in
the department ("Are you sure you're using the right tool?"). How can I
correct this? I think the best way would be if the section heading on the
right was simply truncated to fit.
Overload of the running headers:
++ use the LaTeX construct (for a chapter, same mechanism for a section)
\chapter[Short title]{Full title}
instead of calling the chapter style (but then the short construct will be
the one in the toc)
[snip]
Regards
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RE: xforms troubles
X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 23:14:50 +0100 (CET) From: Francesco Lamonica [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: xforms troubles On 03-Dec-98 Bill Simpson wrote: I am installing lyx-1.0.0pre2 on a new machine (Linux Slackware 3.5). I installed xforms 0.88 first. And that seemed OK. Then I did ./configure and make for lyx. At the end it said: "Can't find libforms or libxforms" Then I went to /usr/local/xforms/FORMS I checked my other machine where LyX works and saw that a couple of files in there should be moved. So I moved them to: /usr/include/forms.h /usr/lib/libforms.so.0.88 This works fine on the other machine. But rerunning ./configure and make, I still get the same message. I don't know what the problem is. Please help me. btw, have you removed the config.cache file, before of re-running ./configure? A make clean is even better I think, you really restart from scratch. Regards, -- Jean-Pierre -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: xfig and pstex
From: "Andre' Poenitz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: xfig and pstex To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:10:32 MET I'm not so sure that pstex is the best way to get figures with formulas to latex/lyx. My favorite method is export as eps and the use of psfrag. Some time ago I posted detailed instructions, that can be found in the list archive (I hope so). Advantages are: I had tried the pstex way with some problems, so I decided to try psfrag. It works well, and has all advantages you mention, but for some reason the figure appears rotated 90 degrees in the final ps output (and in the dvi also). In lyx the figure shows up in the correct orientation, though. Even if I look at the postscript figure, e.g. with the Full Screen Preview feature in the lyx figure popup, I see the correct orientation. Any insight? Try fiddling with portrait/landsape inside xfig or in the .fig file. AFAIR, the landscape/portrait feature in .eps export disappeared between xfig3.1 and xfig 3.2 (I should say fig2dev rather than xfig): the figure is exported as it is in the window (and the orientation option disappeared from the menu). The rotating behaviour may thus depend on the version of xfig. If it comes from 3.1 behaviour, it is worth upgrading I think, because I understood that 3.2 was the LAST release. Regards -- Jean-Pierre -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: Bibliography in TOC?
From: Tuukka Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Bibliography in TOC?
On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Soulby Jackson wrote:
I would like to get the Bibliography included in the Table of Contents. Is
there a way to do this? Thank you.
Few months ago I asked this question myself here... and I got the solution
(thanks, people).
The way to do it is to add line
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline {}My_References \hfill
}
right before your Bibliography section begins and mark it in TeX mode
(red).
[snip]
This works probably best with article class.
No problem with report class, but to susbstitute "chapter"
instead of "section", as you will probably prefer chapter style
for the presentation of the "My-References" entry in the toc.
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\protect\numberline {}My_References \hfill
For book class, it would be possible to substitute "part" I suppose, but you
will often want a bibliography for each part, so you will need
more elaborate styles and more insight into LaTeX (not too complicated
either, IMHO).
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Re: xfig and pstex
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 18:11:57 +0100 (MET) From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: xfig and pstex This is needed when you want to have your text to be output as real TeX, for example, if one text is $\lambda_k$. Then xfig is able to output text and figures separately, and to tell LaTeX to put text over the picture. A (might be useful) complement: be sure to use the SAME version of xfig to create all the pstex files: the transfig specifications changed from 3.1 to 3.2. Everything works fine with all files exported with 3.1 or 3.2, but mixing will fail. The problem rises then when upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2. Regards, -- Jean-Pierre -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: Latex2HTML of a Lyx generated latex file?
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 13:48:51 +0100 From: Ruben Schattevoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Latex2HTML of a Lyx generated latex file? Hi, I have a lyx-document (lyx-1.0.0pre2) which I would like to translate into HTML format. I thought it might be a good idea to export as latex file and and process this file with latex2html (latex2html-98.1, February 19th, 1998). The document is a talk for which I used the slides/foiltex style. latex2html does its job not too well on the lyx-exported latex file (i.e. virtually it dumps each page into a gif...). Is there a (mini)-HOWTO available for this kind of problems? Seems all right... dumped .gif suite is fine for Web publishing (perhaps some filtering needed to provide compacted thumbnail access) You can publish .ps or .pdf files for archive reference or local print. That's what I do with xfig (one file/viewgraph) LyX/LateX is better to deal with a whole set, with your class. Here I have a local LaTeX class which provides only the text, not the gif image. Regards -- Jean-Pierre -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: IRIX6.2 binary of lyx
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 16:31:40 +0100 From: "Dr." Dirk Engelbart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Non Receipt Notification Requested IPM Return Requested) Subject: IRIX6.2 binary of lyx Hi, Is there anyone out, who knows whether there is an ftp site having an compiled (binary) version of lyx-0.12.0 or maybe lyx-1.0.0pre2 for an SGI running IRIX6.2? Unfortunately, there seems to be no precompiled SGI version at the moment according to the official LYX www site and its ftp locations respectively. (I'd like to avoid the longshot of compiling the source etc. due to a lack of a C++ compiler). Suggestions? I have made recently a static binary of 0.12.1pre8, located at ftp://ftp.cert.fr/pub/chretien/LYX In there you have lyx-0.12.1pre8.tar.gz distribution lyx-IRIX-comp.gz* static binary The idea is: - uncompress/untar the distrib - uncompress the binary - patch it as src/lyx - make install A ./configure is perhaps required Have a look at the README or INSTALL of other binaries, I personnaly always compiled lyx fron the sources. You should not need xforms nor xpm. The binary runs here, but I never tested the above procedure, being a Sun/Solaris user, please keep us informed if you try it. Regards -- Jean-Pierre -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: Current Stable release
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:07:43 +0100 (MET) From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Current Stable release "Jean-Pierre" == Jean-Pierre Chretien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jean-Pierre What about Java ? Any plans ? You mean rewritting 70k+ lines of code in Java? Yuck. JMarc Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 22:17:25 -0600 (CST) From: "Robert J. Sprawls" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Jean-Pierre.Chretien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Current Stable release What about Java ? Any plans ? No offense to all you Java lovers out there, but I just can't see changing from C to Java. From what I've experienced, Java is still not stable. I see so many applets crash because of some missing part, or some difference. I didn't mean Java as a tool to write downloadable code on the Web, I meant Java as an Object Oriented tool to set up portable User Interfaces, just to replace the xforms part. The problem with the applets comes mostly from the version of the code embedded with the WWW client, that the user cannot control. Seems to me that there is the same amount of work to turn xforms into Java than in any other UI. I do not know about kde, but I suppose that the job was done once to get the kde interface ? I'm sorry if my question raises an unappropriate debate here. Perhaps the question of the portability of the UI has been discussed and settled already (in the doc ? :-)). -- Jean-Pierre -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Static binary for IRIX = 6.2
Hello, I found in the list a pointer to a dynamic binary for SGI IRIX =6.2. Is there any static version available, allowing to avoid importing xforms and Xpm libraries ? Regards -- Jean-Pierre -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
Re: Space before inlined equations ?
From: Abdelrazak YOUNES [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Space before inlined equations ? Hi, I'm writing a two-columns article-class document and I have two little questions that will maybe get answered here : First, I would like to reduce the size of empty spaces before (and maybe after also) inlined equations which are way too large in my documents. Second, how can I reduce vertical spacing betwen two items of a list without affecting the whole document (maybe with a latex command that will redefine list layout ?). Thanks in advance for any help. Abdel. I do not know if these style modifications can be made from inside LyX, bu they are easy to get by including appropriate changes in the preamble. See a LaTeX book or a LaTeX FAQ; in French, two good pointers: LaTeX Navigator: http://www.loria.fr/services/tex/ french LaTeX FAQ http://www.lri.fr/Francais/Recherche/ia/stuff/FAQ-LaTeX/ Regards -- Jean-Pierre -- +++ the lyx project user mailing list +++ To unsubscribe from this list send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the **Subject** unsubscribe.
