Re: Q: multiple lines in one table cell (newbie)

[Arcady Genkin]

Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> It is possible but only if you know a bit of LaTeX. If yes just look at the
> attached example file :)

In this example, the why do the cells (3,2) and (4,2) come out
differently in the dvi: first one as two columns in one row, and the
other one as one column, two paragraphs? They appear to have identical 
LaTeX code inserts.

-- 
Arcady Genkin
"It seems as though I had not drunk from the cup of wisdom, but had
fallen into it." (S. Kierkegaard)

Q: ghostscript errors

[Darek Kedra]

Dear Users,

after long troubles I got ghostscript 5.50 and ghostview 1.5 up and
running on DigitalUnix 4.0C. I can view postscript files included in
lyx:
/usr/local/share/lyx/doc/escher-lsd.eps
/usr/local/share/lyx/doc/mobius.eps
/usr/local/share/lyx/doc/platypus.eps

but while opening /usr/local/share/lyx/doc/UserGuide.lyx in lyx I got:
GS [17835] error 11 E:0 -1 S:1 11
GS [18003] error 11 E:0 -1 S:1 11

and no pictures in lyx window. I can see them using File>view dvi,
export postscript also work fine. It is a minor thing, but I would like
to fix it.
Any ideas?
Thanks a lot for yor help.

Darek
-- 
Darek Kedra, M.D.  e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Center of Molecular Medicine (CMM),  Karolinska Hospital, 
Building L-8.00,  S-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden
phone: +46-8-5177-3922 fax: 46-8-517 73909

Cannot quit, when tmp-dir is missing

[Jan Ulrich Hasecke]

Hello Lyxers,

i have a script which deletes from time to time things in /tmp

When lyx is running and the script deletes temporary lyx-files in
/tmp, you can not quit lyx. Lyx complains:

Error! Couldn't delete temporary directory

It is certainly a feature. But is it necessary? ;-)

Ciao!
juh

-- 
juh's Sudelbuch
Literatur und Satire per E-Mail
http://www.sudelbuch.de

Re: German fonts

[Herbert]

ctdole wrote:
> 
> I sometimes need to use German words in my documents, however every time
> I try to insert a German "ß" it shows as a "SS" when viewing (or
> printing) postscript output. I normally use American English on a Red
> Hat Linux 5.2 system, LyX 1.0.4pre4, with teTeX 1.0.
 
Choose Layout - Document - decoding latin1

Herbert 
-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss

German fonts

[ctdole]

I sometimes need to use German words in my documents, however every time
I try to insert a German "ß" it shows as a "SS" when viewing (or
printing) postscript output. I normally use American English on a Red
Hat Linux 5.2 system, LyX 1.0.4pre4, with teTeX 1.0. 
   Anybody have any ideas as to why this happens?

Thanks
Chris

-- 
Sometimes, there's just no substitute for knowing what the hell you're
doing.

Re: apa.cls

[Bill Simpson]

I use Lyx withOUT apa.cls to write APA style manuscripts and submit to APA
journals with no complaints yet.

I use natbib and BibTeX
at start of document put
\usepackage{natbib}
in latex preamble

On my system natbib is here:
/usr/lib/teTeX/texmf/tex/latex/misc/natbib.sty

I have attached my own "custom" apa.bst which I think I just modified from
someplace else. The original had some deviations from APA style in
reference format. This version is better.

Stick apa.bst somewhere. I put mine in my own home dir. But then you have
to tell LaTeX where it is. I put the following in  .bash_profile:

export BIBINPUTS=/home/wsimpson/papers/bib
export BSTINPUTS=/home/wsimpson/papers/bst

I put the .bib files in /home/wsimpson/papers/bib and the .bst files in
/home/wsimpson/papers/bst

At the top of the document to get abstract on its own page I use
(TeX--red):
/maketitle
/begin{abstract}
blah blah
/end{abstract}

Layout->Document
class: article
spacing: double
extra options: titlepage [NB one word]
section number depth: -1

Layout->paper
set the margins to 1in.
(I actually use top:0.25in and bottom 0.75in, not sure why this is nec,
but otherwise the margins are wrong)

That's it. Once I tried to get apa.cls working and couldn't. The problem
is that you need to LyXify it I think. And that is hard.

Bill


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%% generated with the docstrip utility.
%% 
%% The original source files were:
%% 
%% merlin.mbs  (with options: 
`,ay,nat,seq-lab,nm-rev,dt-beg,yr-par,note-yr,vol-it,volp-com,bkpg-par,add-pub,edpar,pp,ed,abr,amper')

%%  
%% *** APA style, e.g. Psychological Review *** 
%% 
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 % The original source file contains the following version information:
 % \ProvidesFile{merlin.mbs}[1996/05/29 3.8 (PWD)]
 %
 % NOTICE:
 % This file may be used for non-profit purposes.
 % It may not be distributed in exchange for money,
 %   other than distribution costs.
 %
 % The author provides it `as is' and does not guarantee it in any way.
 %
 % Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996 Patrick W. Daly
 %---
 %   For use with BibTeX version 0.99a or later
 %---
 % This bibliography style file is intended for texts in ENGLISH
 % This is an author-year citation style bibliography. As such, it is
 % non-standard LaTeX, and requires a special package file to function properly.
 % Such a package isnatbib.sty   by Patrick W. Daly
 % The form of the \bibitem entries is
 %   \bibitem[Jones et al.(1990)]{key}...
 %   \bibitem[Jones et al.(1990)Jones, Baker, and Smith]{key}...
 % The essential feature is that the label (the part in brackets) consists
 % of the author names, as they should appear in the citation, with the year
 % in parentheses following. There must be no space before the opening
 % parenthesis!
 % With natbib v5.3, a full list of authors may also follow the year.
 % In natbib.sty, it is possible to define the type of enclosures that is
 % really wanted (brackets or parentheses), but in either case, there must
 % be parentheses in the label.
 % The \cite command functions as follows:
 %   \cite{key} ==>>Jones et al. (1990)
 %   \cite[]{key} ==>>  (Jones et al., 1990)
 %   \cite[chap. 2]{key} ==>>   (Jones et al., 1990, chap. 2)
 %   \cite[e.g.][]{key} ==>>(e.g. Jones et al., 1990)
 %   \cite[e.g.][p. 32]{key} ==>>   (e.g. Jones et al., p. 32)
 %   \citeauthor{key}   Jones et al.
 %   \citefullauthor{key}   Jones, Baker, and Smith
 %   \citeyear{key} 1990
 %-
 % hand edited by Bill Simpson to get capitalization right for books

ENTRY
  { address
author
booktitle
chapter
edition
editor
howpublished
institution
journal
key
month
note
number
organization
pages
publisher
school
series
title
type
volume
year
  }
  {}
  { label extra.label sort.label short.list }

INTEGERS { output.state before.all mid.sentence after.sentence after.block }

FUNCTION {init.state.consts}
{ #0 'before.all :=
  #1 'mid.sentence :=
  #2 'after.sentence :=
  #3 'after.block :=
}

STRINGS { s t }

FUNCTION {output.nonnull}
{ 's :=
  output.state mid.sentence =
{ ", " * write$ }
{ output.state after.block =
{ add.period$ write$
  newline$
  "\newblock " write$
}
{ output.state before.all =
'write$
{ add.period$ " " * write$ }
  if$
}
  if$
  mid.sentence 'output.state :=
}
  if$
  s
}

FUNCTION {output}
{ duplicate$ empty$
'pop$
'output.nonnull
  if$
}

FUNCTI

apa.cls

[neath]

I'm new to both LaTeX and Lyx.  I've found a LaTeX2e class file, apa.cls,
and related files that conform to the American Psychological Publication
Manual 4th Edition (from ftp://wiesel.scilearn.com/pub/latex).

How do I install these on a Red Hat 6 system?

LaTeX and Lyx 1.0.3 are both installed and working.  I tried following the
instructions for creating layout files in the customizing doc, but am
missing something.  Lyx never seems aware of the apa.cls file.  

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Ian Neath, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Speed on old machines

[Shankar Gopalakrishnan]

> Kde is a hog for resources.
> 
> I've actually _seen_ with my own two eyes.
> Lyx running very ( acceptably anyway ) well on a 486-sx-80 --- or was it 75.
> 
> We made sure that the kernel was compiled for a 486, did not have anything in it
> which was not actually needed to be able to use the machine. No un-necessary
> daemons.  The Window Manager is fvwm/2 which while a bit of a dog to set up is
> nice and lean. LyX run ok under it.
>  

Thanks for the advice - I tried that earlier, but unfortunately there 
doesn't seem to be any change even when X is running with no 
window manager at all.  The machine is actually a 486 SX 25, as far as I
know, so maybe it isn't possible to run LyX with speed under it...
I will try switching off some of the daemons - I think they're all
necessary right now.  I can't recompile the kernel, since it was patched
for MCA by a friend and I don't have the intelligence to be able to recode
that... :))

Thanks a lot 


[...]

-Shankar

Re: quotes in mathmode?

[Bill Simpson]

OK I did your suggestion

\newcommand{\prbigger}{\mbox{$\Pr(\mbox{``bigger''})$}}

then in mathed I put
\prbigger

It works!

Seems awkward though (compared to ordinary LaTeX way of doing it), and
I don't understand why it mathed doesn't like ``

Bill

Re: quotes in mathmode?

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| So I don't understand why I can't do this in LyX.

Mathed uses is not using the same keyhandling/insertion
functions/modules as the rest of LyX.

Some time in the future this will change.

Lgb

Re: quotes in mathmode?

[Bill Simpson]

Hi J-P,

I guess I didn't understand what you wrote.
I thought you said that it was not possible to do Pr(``bigger'') in
mathmode in LaTeX. But I checked and it is possible:

--
\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
$\Pr(\mbox{``bigger''})=0.5$
\end{document}

-
This works no problem at all. (I actually want it as a numbered displayed
equation)

So I don't understand why I can't do this in LyX.

Thanks for any help!

Bill

Re: quotes in mathmode?

[Bill Simpson]

> The math text mode does not accept punctuation I guess.
Well someone on comp.text.tex told me that you can do it in LaTeX. I think
you are right and he is wrong.

I just tried editing the LyX file directly. It has

\begin_inset Formula
\[
\Pr(\mbox{``bigger''})=1-F[(c-s)/\sigma ]=F[(s-c)/\sigma ]\]

\end_inset

And it is still the same problem. The `` don't get printed.
Hmm. The LaTeX masters out there don't have a trick for me?
The only thing that occurs to me is to use a pair of \prime for for single
quotes.

Bill

Re: quotes in mathmode?

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

>>Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:21:47 + (GMT)
>>From: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: Re: quotes in mathmode?
>>
>>> 
>>> AFAIU, mathed (the equation editor) does not re-enter in paragraph or LR mode
>>> as TeX /LaTeX does, so that the keystrokes after \mbox are still in math
>>> with the corresponding restrictions.
>>I don't really understand this.
>>However using \mbox{text} seems to work--looks like normal text, not
>>italic. The problem is just the quotes

No, the problem is that you may invoke in LaTeX any legal construct allowed in a mbox,
including re-entering math mode (that is quite useful if you write math \newcommands as
\newcommand{\myadot}{\mbox{$\dot{a}$}} to be able to use \myadot in math mode AND in 
text mode).
With mathed, you don't need this anymore (have a look at the math macro mechanism)
because you can't re-enter in real text mode once you are in math mode.

>>
>>> Have you tried the math text mode (M-m m) instead of \mbox ?
>>Same problem.
>>Can't type `` or ".


The math text mode does not accept punctuation I guess.

>>
>>So is this a bug in LyX?

That's a feature of mathed :-). There are counterparts: as I mentioned above
the math macro mechanism is very powerful.

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: quotes in mathmode?

[Bill Simpson]

> 
> AFAIU, mathed (the equation editor) does not re-enter in paragraph or LR mode
> as TeX /LaTeX does, so that the keystrokes after \mbox are still in math
> with the corresponding restrictions.
I don't really understand this.
However using \mbox{text} seems to work--looks like normal text, not
italic. The problem is just the quotes

> Have you tried the math text mode (M-m m) instead of \mbox ?
Same problem.
Can't type `` or ".

So is this a bug in LyX?

Bill

Re: lyx and pdf

[Stephan E. Schlierf]

Hi,

you are very right: It seems that Ghostscript handles certain fonts as
graphics. But if you choose a font like "Times" everything seems to be
quite ok.

Regards,

Stephan


Stephan E. Schlierf M.A.
 - Product Management -
++49 9254 960332
CSE GmbH Germany

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Dirk Klugmann wrote:

> Stephan E. Schlierf wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I for myself got satisfied results using the psd2pdf that is included in
> > the Ghostscript 5.50 package. Indeed the GS 5.10-ps2pdf produces large
> > files but the GS 5.50 reduces it very well.
> > 
> > Example:
> > gs-5.10 ps2pdf: file size 1.373.051
> > gs-5.50 ps2pdf: file size   264.232
> > 
> > Anyway, I do agree with the wish to have a pdf-export possibility
> > integrated in LyX.
> > 
> 
> Another option one can try if pdf-files are large:  Use another font for
> the document.  (Choose in the Layout->Document pulldown.)  On our system
> the default font selection produces large PostScript files, and
> consequently large pdf files, too.  Choosing a different font reduces
> the file sizes significantly.
> 
>   Happy LyXing, Dirk
> 
> -- 
> 
> **
> 
>  Dr. Dirk Klugmann
> Institut fuer Troposphaerenforschung  Tel.: +49 341 235 - 2146
>  Permoserstrasse 15  FAX: +49 341 235 - 2139
>  D-04318 Leipzig  E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
>WWW: http://www.tropos.de/
> 
> **
> 

Re: LineSpacing

[Marcus Klein]

Hello JMarc,
thanks for you answer that was a good hint to look for a tex class at my
university. On the ftp server ( ftp.uni-duisburg.de/pub/local/tex ) I
found a lot of styles. I dont know wich one I can use for my purpose but
there is a interessting Class it is called Script. It provides a modern
and more european way of layout and is a mixture of book and report. 
But I thing it is not very helpfull for me because the Problem is: how
to integrate this class in LyX !and use the extra options providet by
it! and maybe if I cleard that problem I can not change linespacing
dynamic (what mas my first intention)

In general I think the customisation ducumentation is not very clear. Is
it only for customice the look of LyX or do I customice the output of
LyX? I ask this because when I change the book.layout file I see all the
changes I put in there in the LyX window and the first time that happens
I was lucky and thought everthing is all right (yes, I know it is only
WYSIWY!M!). But all this nice looking changes had no effect on the
output of the documents.

Marcus

Re: quotes in mathmode?

[Jean-Pierre.Chretien]

>>Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:57:26 + (GMT)
>>From: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: quotes in mathmode?
>>
>>I want to do, in mathmode,
>>Pr(``bigger'')
>>I tried
>>\Pr(\mbox{"bigger"}) using double quotes.
>>The quotes are absent when I veiw with dvi.
>>
>>I tried
>>\Pr(\mbox{``bigger''})
>>but I can't get Lyx to "accept" the single left-hand `` quotes.
>>When I type them they don't show up at all. (Also absent from dvi
>>view--the right hand ones '' show up fine)
>>
>>Please tell me what to do. Thanks!
>>
>>I am using Lyx 1.0.0pre2
>>
>>Bill
>>

AFAIU, mathed (the equation editor) does not re-enter in paragraph or LR mode
as TeX /LaTeX does, so that the keystrokes after \mbox are still in math
with the corresponding restrictions.
Have you tried the math text mode (M-m m) instead of \mbox ?

Regards

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: Q: multiple lines in one table cell (newbie)

[Juergen Vigna]

On 21-Sep-99 Ulrich Luttner wrote:
> It just seems to be impossible to get several paragraphs within one
> table cell...
> 

It is possible but only if you know a bit of LaTeX. If yes just look at the
attached example file :)

Greets Jürgen

-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._

Dr. Jürgen Vigna  E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gerbergasse 60Tel:+39-0471-450260
I-39100 Bozen Fax:+39-0471-970042
ITALY Web:http://www.sad.it/~jug

You will be married within a year, and divorced within two.

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quotes in mathmode?

[Bill Simpson]

I want to do, in mathmode,
Pr(``bigger'')
I tried
\Pr(\mbox{"bigger"}) using double quotes.
The quotes are absent when I veiw with dvi.

I tried
\Pr(\mbox{``bigger''})
but I can't get Lyx to "accept" the single left-hand `` quotes.
When I type them they don't show up at all. (Also absent from dvi
view--the right hand ones '' show up fine)

Please tell me what to do. Thanks!

I am using Lyx 1.0.0pre2

Bill

Re: lyx and pdf

[Dirk Klugmann]

Stephan E. Schlierf wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I for myself got satisfied results using the psd2pdf that is included in
> the Ghostscript 5.50 package. Indeed the GS 5.10-ps2pdf produces large
> files but the GS 5.50 reduces it very well.
> 
> Example:
> gs-5.10 ps2pdf: file size 1.373.051
> gs-5.50 ps2pdf: file size   264.232
> 
> Anyway, I do agree with the wish to have a pdf-export possibility
> integrated in LyX.
> 

Another option one can try if pdf-files are large:  Use another font for
the document.  (Choose in the Layout->Document pulldown.)  On our system
the default font selection produces large PostScript files, and
consequently large pdf files, too.  Choosing a different font reduces
the file sizes significantly.

Happy LyXing, Dirk

-- 

**

 Dr. Dirk Klugmann
Institut fuer Troposphaerenforschung  Tel.: +49 341 235 - 2146
 Permoserstrasse 15FAX: +49 341 235 - 2139
 D-04318 LeipzigE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

   WWW: http://www.tropos.de/

**

Re: lyx and pdf

[Stephan E. Schlierf]

Hi there,

I for myself got satisfied results using the psd2pdf that is included in
the Ghostscript 5.50 package. Indeed the GS 5.10-ps2pdf produces large
files but the GS 5.50 reduces it very well.

Example:
gs-5.10 ps2pdf: file size 1.373.051
gs-5.50 ps2pdf: file size   264.232

Anyway, I do agree with the wish to have a pdf-export possibility
integrated in LyX.

Regards,

Stephan

Stephan E. Schlierf M.A.
 - Product Management -
++49 9254 960332
CSE GmbH Germany

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Florian Cramer wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 09:31:21PM +0200, Tobias Klaus wrote:
> > Is there a way to convert a lyx file directly into pdf? 
> > Would be nice, since pdftex gets stuck with lyx-exported latex-files,
> > and ps2pdf produces very large files.
> 
> Use "pdflatex", not "pdftex". This will do the job just fine! (You can
> even trigger Acrobat Reader-specific features such as author and
> keyword signatures or the initial display zoom factor using the
> 'hyperref' latex package. All it needs is a customization line in the
> document preamble; the hyperref documentation tells you how to do it.)
> 
> Florian
> 
> -- 
> Florian Cramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, PGP public key ID 6440BA05
> combinatory poetry site: 
>