Re: Deleting in tables
On 05-Jun-2000 thomas schönhoff wrote: > > Hi Jürgen, > > Maybe I've forgotten to mention that I'm asking > for a combination of buttons because it seems to > be very uncomfortable just doing this by entering > the menu everytime !! > Well with cua-bindings: Meta-e t w With emacs-bindings: Meta-e space t w Greets Jürgen P.S.: Have a look at Edit->Table for other direct keybindings. -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._ Dr. Jürgen Vigna E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Italienallee 13/N Tel:+39-0471-450260 I-39100 Bozen Fax:+39-0471-450296 ITALY Web:http://www.sad.it/~jug A furore Normanorum libera nos, O Domine! [From the fury of the norsemen deliver us, O Lord!] -- Medieval prayer -._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._-._
Re: lyx bug at cut and paste at xsteak
> "Lars" == Lars Gullik Bjønnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Lars> Jens Stolze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hi, | | I'm sorry to say, Lars> that I found a bug in our lovely lyx...;-(. cutting | (left Lars> mouse-button) and pasting text (middle mouse-button) from LyX to Lars> | xsteak (a gtk-programm) crashes lyx. The same operation to Lars> kedit | (KDE-Programm) works all right. Lars> Without a trace it impossible to say it it is our fault or if it Lars> is XForms. There were some bugs in the xforms clipboard code which have been fixed in version 0.89. What version do you use? JMarc
Re: [internal error]
> "Laurent" == Laurent DUVAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Laurent> Hello, LyX compilation of my thesis gives me a few messages Laurent> like Laurent> LyX Internal Error Path Stack underflow Laurent> It doesn't harm since it is still able to output a Laurent> postscript, but where may this come from? It's the first time Laurent> I see that. Which version of LyX are you using? Could you check with 1.1.5 when it is released? JMarc
Re: Using pybliographic with LyX
> "Bruce" == Bruce Veidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bruce> I am trying to get pybliographic 1.0 to work with LyX 1.1.4fix3 Bruce> on a Redhat 6.2 system but without success. Here is what I have Bruce> done: Bruce> I have added this line to ~/.lyx/lyxrc: Bruce> \serverpipe "~/.lyx/lyxpipe" Bruce> Started lyx. Started pybliographic. Selected reference in Bruce> pybliographic and clicked on cite. Nothing appears in the lyx Bruce> window. What I get is a pybliographic message box that says: Bruce> "Can't connect to LyX: no input pipe `~/.lyx/lyxpipe.in'" Bruce> Checking ~/.lyx/ I can see lyxpipe.in & lyxpipe.out being Bruce> created and destroyed. (Lyx seems to be grabbing lots of cpu Bruce> cycles when lyxserver is turned on.) Bruce> Does anyone else have these versions of lyx & pybliographic Bruce> working together? What is the problem? I see the same pipe problem on my dec alpha under Tru64 4.0f. I always assumed it was due to the semantics of select() on Tru64, so I am surprised you see this on Linux too. JMarc
Re: [Q] \dot over \overline (Again)
> "Bor-Lin" == Bor-Lin Shyu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bor-Lin> Hi: I asked about \dot{\overline{a}} changed to Bor-Lin> \overline{\dot{a}}. Also \dot{\overline{ab}} becomes Bor-Lin> \overline{\dot{a}b}. I got replies saying 1.1.4 doesn't have Bor-Lin> this problem. So I installed 1.1.4. But I still have this Bor-Lin> problem. It is a problem with the handling of accents in mathed. We'll have to see how the upcoming new mathed behaves, but I suspect the fix will be difficult. The fix is probably to use a macro named for example \Dot which encapsulate \dot. JMarc
Re: Problem with Bibtex in compound documents
> "Ian" == Ian Peake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ian> Sorry if this is an FAQ.. I can't seem to get LyX to generate a Ian> bibliography from a top-level compound document. The top-level Ian> document includes a series of other lyx files, all having the Ian> document style book, plus a bibliography construct at the end. Ian> When I generate dvi/ps, I get no diagnostic output from BibTex at Ian> all, and no Bibliography section is included. Ian> If, however, I include a bibliography construct in any individual Ian> document, I get the diagnostic output and a bibliography section. Try again with the upcoming 1.1.5 version. There have been fixes in this respect. JMarc
ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5
Dear LyX users, It is my pleasure to announce the release of LyX 1.1.5. This release sports large internal changes, new features and increased stability, all in one package! Lots of internal code has been rewritten, fixed, changed and added. We are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day, this will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain and expand. We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6. You can get it at: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.1.5.tar.gz ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.5.tar.gz As usual, RPMs for Redhat Linux/i386 will be available shortly from ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/ Have fun! JMarc User-visible changes: - Paste to other programs (like emacs or xterm). Note: text only. - New TOC menu item for fast access to the table of contents. - New Refs menu item for quick insertion of cross-references. - multilingual documents (preliminary support) - Right-to-Left support for Hebrew and Arabic, this is a first attempt only and is likely to improve in future versions. - Per-paragraph spacing, currently only settable from the command-line/window: paragraph-spacing (default,single,onehalf,double,other) [float] - New visual feedback for environment depth of paragraphs (also the ! in the margin for margin notes has been removed). - End-of-proof box, for layouts where it makes sense. - labels are now editable (not in equations, though). - Much faster spellchecking (50x faster!). - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue. (And you probably had the error always.) - Better definition for LyXList style. - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy) - support for varioref and pretty ref (preliminary support) - A couple of changes to the LyX format, so that files written with 1.1.5 will not be parsed correctly by older LyX versions if protected spaces or the new per-paragraph spacing are used. Also the RtL support is of course not supported in older versions. - Removed support for XForms older than 0.88. - Some command-line options and X resources are not supported anymore (The color ones, and -mono -fastselection, -reverse) - New command-line options '-userdir' which so that you can choose to use another dir than .lyx for user configurations. (Or have many.) - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true).
problem with table of contents and document language.
I get some errors trying to view in dvi a document -article- in spanish. If I change the language to english the problem disappears. The problem happens after introducing a table of contents. The error appears before the title of the article. the error message is: Improper alphabetic constant. ...NO VERTE JES\'US\char '\@umlaut {} }{3} A one-character control sequence belongs after a ' mark. So I'm essentially inserting \0 here. I am using the final lyx-1.1.5
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 04:38:09PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > It is my pleasure to announce the release of LyX 1.1.5. This release > sports large internal changes, new features and increased stability, ^^^ Does that mean, that the 1.1.5 is considered a stable version? Or should I stay with 1.1.4fix3 in a "production environment"? Thanks in advance for a short comment. Frank
Re: problem with table of contents and document language.
> "Jacobo" == Jacobo Myerston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jacobo> I get some errors trying to view in dvi a document -article- Jacobo> in spanish. If I change the language to english the problem Jacobo> disappears. The problem happens after introducing a table of Jacobo> contents. The error appears before the title of the article. Jacobo> the error message is: Jacobo> Improper alphabetic constant. ...NO VERTE JES\'US\char Jacobo> '\@umlaut {} }{3} A one-character control sequence belongs Jacobo> after a ' mark. So I'm essentially inserting \0 here. This is probably a problem with spanish.sty redefining ~ (protected space) to an accent macro. I do not know what correct fix we could use... Could you try adding \noextrasspanish in your LaTeX preamble? JMarc
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5
Is there any point in upgrading from 1.1.5pre3 to the new release? Thanks, Olof
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5
> "Frank" == Frank Derichsweiler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >writes: Frank> On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 04:38:09PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Frank> wrote: >> It is my pleasure to announce the release of LyX 1.1.5. This >> release sports large internal changes, new features and increased >> stability, Frank> Frank> ^^^ Frank> Does that mean, that the 1.1.5 is considered a stable version? Frank> Or should I stay with 1.1.4fix3 in a "production environment"? I _think_ 1.1.5 should prove more stable than 1.1.4fix3. However, you might as well wait for a few days and see what happens :) JMarc
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5
> "Olof" == Olof Liungman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Olof> Is there any point in upgrading from 1.1.5pre3 to the new Olof> release? Thanks, Yes, since bugs have been fixed in the newer functionalities (TOC menu...). JMarc
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5
On 6 Jun 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > - The parsing of the LaTex log has improved flagging more errors that > earlier versions of LyX did not see at all. So if you suddenly have > errors in documents that used to have none, this might be the casue. > (And you probably had the error always.) > > - Better definition for LyXList style. > > - hollywood.layout and broadway.layout have improved. New classes > LLNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), svjog (Journal of Geodesy) Those includes a better way to port a LaTeX style to LyX? Sometime ago, I liked to port docs style (for tests, quiz, exams, etc.) to LyX, but the environmnet questions requires \question instead \item as usual on LyX. After that, I user LaTeX + vim for that, LyX for the others things. -- German Poo Caaman~o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/chilelindo.html
Re: lyx bug at cut and paste at xsteak
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Lars> Without a trace it impossible to say it it is our fault or if it > Lars> is XForms. > > There were some bugs in the xforms clipboard code which have been > fixed in version 0.89. What version do you use? p100:~ # rpm -qa | grep xforms xforms-0.88.1-134 xformsd-0.88.1-134 p100:~ # I am using 0.88. cu, jens
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5
> "German" == German Poo Caaman~o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: German> Those includes a better way to port a LaTeX style to LyX? No there have no been many changes in this respect. German> Sometime ago, I liked to port docs style (for tests, quiz, German> exams, etc.) to LyX, but the environmnet questions requires German> \question instead \item as usual on LyX. It is very difficult to adapt to all possible variations of syntax found in classes... JMarc
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 04:38:09PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Dear LyX users, > > It is my pleasure to announce the release of LyX 1.1.5. This release > sports large internal changes, new features and increased stability, > all in one package! > > Lots of internal code has been rewritten, fixed, changed and added. We > are taking the C++ Standard Library in greater use for each day, this > will in most cases make the code clearer and easier to maintain and > expand. > > We are also gearing up for the merge of the gui-indep branch, expect > this (but not the new gui's) in 1.1.6. > > You can get it at: > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.1.5.tar.gz > ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/lyx-1.1.5.tar.gz > > As usual, RPMs for Redhat Linux/i386 will be available shortly from > ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/ > They are ready now! Enjoy! ---Kayvan -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc.| Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena http://www.successlinks.com/kayvan | Reach your goals now! | Robin Gregory
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5
In a message dated: 06 Jun 2000 16:38:09 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes said: >Dear LyX users, > >It is my pleasure to announce the release of LyX 1.1.5. This release >sports large internal changes, new features and increased stability, >all in one package! Does this fix the problem with linuxdoc format and document includes? I know someone mentioned to me that it might be fixed with 1.1.5, so I'm wondering if this stuff made it in. -- Seeya, Paul "I always explain our company via interpretive dance. I meet lots of interesting people that way." Niall Kavanagh, 10 April, 2000 If you're not having fun, you're not doing it right!
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5
> User-visible changes: [...] > - new lyxrc variables: \show_banner [true|false] to remove the banner > screen, \backupdir_path to tell where the backup files created > by lyx should be stored, and \override_x_deadkeys to tell whether > lyx should provide its own accent keys handling (default is true). - other lyxrc variables allow to use the docbook default packages that come with Suse or Red Hat, and if already present LyX will automatically detect and use them. The same applies to linuxdoc (this allow to use other linuxdoc package as the modified debian linuxdoc package) A last note: enjoy it :) -- José
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 04:38:09PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > As usual, RPMs for Redhat Linux/i386 will be available shortly from > ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/ And DEBs for Debian Linux/woody (unstable) will be prepared next week, after my exams finish (sorry debian lyx fans!). Jules -- Jules Bean |Any sufficiently advanced jules@{debian.org,jellybean.co.uk} | technology is indistinguishable [EMAIL PROTECTED] | from a perl script
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 04:07:33PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 04:38:09PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > As usual, RPMs for Redhat Linux/i386 will be available shortly from > > ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/pub/lyx/ > > And DEBs for Debian Linux/woody (unstable) will be prepared next week, > after my exams finish (sorry debian lyx fans!). > > Jules I will be happy to host these as well on ftp.sylvan.com -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc.| Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena http://www.successlinks.com/kayvan | Reach your goals now! | Robin Gregory
Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features
Hello, I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" option that is present in LyX, as there is a need to reimplement it, I thought it would be a good idea if peoples on the list would send me the list of their needs and wants so I can collect and include them in my work. Current ideas that I read about (and need myself) is the auto-generation of EPS files from other formats (gif, fig, jpeg, tiff are the basic ones I guess, and the easiest to implement). Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS, would requiring ImageMagick (or other suitable tools) for this feature be too much? What else would you need from the Figure inclusion that you do not get currently? -- Baruch Even http://techst02.technion.ac.il/~sbaruch/ (My Site) http://rpghost.com/jindor/ (My brothers AD&D site) " Learn to laugh ... it's the path to true love! " - The Angel in the movie Michael
Postegres book written with LyX!!
Another LyX success: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/awbook.html PostgresSQL book (soon at the bookshop...so be quick! :-> ) is written using LyX. 229 pages made by our beloved and amazing LyX. You can download PDF file and thanks Bruce Momjian. You can find some tips too. Best Wishes, Emanuele
Custom document classes
Where can I find information on customizing and creating document classes? Thanks, -- Mark Gulbrandsen
lyx-1.1.5.ppc.rpm
I have build a rpm for powerpc, where can i upload it?
Re: Custom document classes
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Mark Gulbrandsen wrote: > Where can I find information on customizing and creating document classes? RTFM. (Yea! I get to say it :-) Specifically, Chapter 6 of the Customization doc. I wrote it, so let me know if it is useful. Mike
Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features
Baruch Even wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" > option that is present in LyX, as there is a need to reimplement it, I > thought it would be a good idea if peoples on the list would send me the > list of their needs and wants so I can collect and include them in my > work. > > Current ideas that I read about (and need myself) is the auto-generation > of EPS files from other formats (gif, fig, jpeg, tiff are the basic ones I > guess, and the easiest to implement). > > Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a > part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for > example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS, would > requiring ImageMagick (or other suitable tools) for this feature be too > much? I think it is Ok. Personally i use ImageMagic to convert my tiff images to eps and import them to lyx without any problems. I think that automate this whitout duplicate files (only temporal to reuse during a session) would be very fine. Regards begin:vcard n:Fornaro;Osvaldo tel;fax:+54-2293-444190 tel;work:+54-2293-442821 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Solidificacion - IFIMAT;Fac. Ciencias Exactas. Departamento de Fisica Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires adr:;;Pinto 399;Tandil;;B7000GHG;Argentina version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] note;quoted-printable:Universidad Nacional del Centro de la =0D=0AProvincia de Buenos Aires x-mozilla-cpt:;-16800 fn:Osvaldo Fornaro end:vcard
Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features
Baruch Even wrote: > Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a > part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for > example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS, would > requiring ImageMagick (or other suitable tools) for this feature be too > much? I would prefer if the configuration of LyX searched out and used the available image conversion tool on the system (ImageMagick, xv, gimp tools, etc.) the way configuration currently does for latex -> html, Postscript viewers, and other external tools. Nothing wrong with ImageMagick but it is not used on some systems which may have perfectly suitable alternate tools available. -- Ronald Florence http://members.home.net/18james
Re: lyx-1.1.5.ppc.rpm
Jacobo Myerston wrote: > > I have build a rpm for powerpc, where can i upload it? ftp://ftp.sylvan.com/incoming/ but try, sometimes is a little bit slow. Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss
Re: lyx-1.1.5.ppc.rpm
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 01:52:51PM -0400, Jacobo Myerston wrote: > I have build a rpm for powerpc, where can i upload it? Put it in ftp.sylvan.com/incoming and send me an Email. -- Kayvan A. Sylvan | Proud husband of | Father to my kids: Sylvan Associates, Inc.| Laura Isabella Sylvan | Katherine Yelena http://www.successlinks.com/kayvan | Reach your goals now! | Robin Gregory
Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features
Ronald Florence wrote: > > Baruch Even wrote: > > > Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a > > part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for > > example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS, would > > requiring ImageMagick (or other suitable tools) for this feature be too > > much? > > I would prefer if the configuration of LyX searched out and used the > available image conversion tool on the system (ImageMagick, xv, gimp > tools, etc.) the way configuration currently does for latex -> html, > Postscript viewers, and other external tools. Nothing wrong with > ImageMagick but it is not used on some systems which may have > perfectly suitable alternate tools available. the best way is to define the program in .lyx/lyxrc file. Herbert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://perce.de/voss
Re: ANNOUNCE: LyX 1.1.5
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:57:24AM -0400, Paul Lussier wrote: > > Does this fix the problem with linuxdoc format and document includes? > I know someone mentioned to me that it might be fixed with 1.1.5, so I'm > wondering if this stuff made it in. Not yet. I have a version where I have implemented it, but I haven't yet put the code in CVS. > -- > Seeya, > Paul -- José
Re: Pointer to RPMs on www.lyx.org
I agree on both counts. I used LyX for 2 years before I joined this list and become aware of Kayvans excellent service. >From: Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: LyX Users mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Pointer to RPMs on www.lyx.org >Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:38:14 +0100 (BST) > >I can't easily find a pointer to the location of RPMs on www.lyx.org. >Since Kayvan Sylvan keeps well up to date with LyX releases, and as so >many people find RPMs convenient, it's a pity that there isn't a clearer >pointer. > >-- >http://sc3d.org/rrt/ | maxim, n. wisdom for fools > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Herbert Voss wrote: > > Baruch Even wrote: > > > > > Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a > > > part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for > > > example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS, would > > > requiring ImageMagick (or other suitable tools) for this feature be too > > > much? > > the best way is to define the program in .lyx/lyxrc file. Actually my original intent was to know if an external program solution would be fine or an internal routine would be required. The first I prefer since it goes in the unix tradition and there are better (and ready) programs to do that, the later might be better since LyX is working also on windows machine where I do not know if the external program solution is applicable. Since so far no-one indicated an internal solution would be better an external solution will be the prefered way, and ofcourse I'll not limit myself to ImageMagick and allow configuration of conversion by the user, and possibly by the configurator. -- Baruch Even http://techst02.technion.ac.il/~sbaruch/ (My Site) http://rpghost.com/jindor/ (My brothers AD&D site) " Learn to laugh ... it's the path to true love! " - The Angel in the movie Michael
Re: Problem with Bibtex in compound documents
> Ian> Sorry if this is an FAQ.. I can't seem to get LyX to generate a > Ian> bibliography from a top-level compound document. The top-level > Ian> document includes a series of other lyx files, all having the > Ian> document style book, plus a bibliography construct at the end. > Ian> When I generate dvi/ps, I get no diagnostic output from BibTex at > Ian> all, and no Bibliography section is included. > > Ian> If, however, I include a bibliography construct in any individual > Ian> document, I get the diagnostic output and a bibliography section. > > Try again with the upcoming 1.1.5 version. There have been fixes in > this respect. Thanks.. seems to be working in several of the 1.1.5preX versions, including 1.1.5pre3. Ian
1) wide figures/amsart 2) adding commands to lyxrc
I am submitting a paper to the C.C.C.G. conference. I am satisfying the conferences document format requirements but using amsart document layout with some modifications. I need to use the amsart document layout because I need some of the amsfonts and things like theorems. Unfortunately I must submit my document with two columbs but amsart layout refuses to allow me use wide figures which I need for my paper. This is a difficulty with the latex class amsart and not with lyx. First question: 1) What is the simplest way to use wide figures in combination with amsart.layout? Should I instead try to build a new document class with all the features I need from the amsart document class. The conference requests that I use the command "dvips -m -D 1200 -o file.ps file.dvi " to build my postscript file. Of course I can do this by first exporting my lyx file to a latex file. This works but it clumsy. There must be command that I can add to the lyxrc file that will have this be done automatically. Second question: What command do I add to the lyxrc file to do this? I am using lyx 1.0.4 and have read the documentation. Should I pick up a a version of the documentation for a newer version of lyx or is the lyx 1.0.4 documentation the best for using lyx 1.0.4? I assume the next stable version of lyx will be 1.2. When it is released I hope to convince our sysadmin guy to install a new version of lyx. Any idea when lyx 1.2 might be released? Thanks Ralph Boland
Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features
Great, finally someone to pick this up. If I were you I'd also ask the developers, I think they have very detailed ideas of how the whole thing should be dealt with already. As far as I understand, figures should _not_ be converted into eps since this is entirely unnecessary. LaTeX can handle figures in jpeg and png for example just fine assumed that you can use the graphicx package. To represent the figure on the screen you need to convert it to a bitmap sooner or later and that's what ghostscript is doing now. Again, all this isn't really necessary but as it looks like the current code needs a fundamental rewrite. Roland
Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features
In my opinion, the insert figure should support images that could be directly used by pdflatex. pdflatex and eps figures seems to be a bad mix. Is a conversion to eps files at the moment the best strategy? Probably yes in the short run? Roland Krause wrote: > Great, finally someone to pick this up. > If I were you I'd also ask the developers, I think they have very > detailed ideas of how the whole thing should be dealt with already. As > far as I understand, figures should _not_ be converted into eps since > this is entirely unnecessary. LaTeX can handle figures in jpeg and png > for example just fine assumed that you can use the graphicx package. YES! YES! YES! > To > represent the figure on the screen you need to convert it to a bitmap > sooner or later and that's what ghostscript is doing now. Again, all > this isn't really necessary but as it looks like the current code needs > a fundamental rewrite. > > Roland Agree with Roland. Staffan P.S. Like 1.1.5. It is a good release! Thanks.
Re: Graphics/Figures in LyX, Call for Features
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Baruch Even wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to solicit requests and ideas regarding the "insert Figure" > option that is present in LyX, as there is a need to reimplement it, I > thought it would be a good idea if peoples on the list would send me the > list of their needs and wants so I can collect and include them in my > work. > > Current ideas that I read about (and need myself) is the auto-generation > of EPS files from other formats (gif, fig, jpeg, tiff are the basic ones I > guess, and the easiest to implement). > > Regarding that I have a question, would you require the conversion to be a > part of LyX, or maybe using external programs will be ok, ImageMagick for > example is freely available and can convert almost anything to EPS, would > requiring ImageMagick (or other suitable tools) for this feature be too > much? Hi, I don't think that using an external programm would be too much for an "advanced" LyXer. On the other hand IMHO LyX should be suitable for "beginners", too (M$-Worders or so...). For this reason, I'd appreciate if LyX would convert it automatically. > > What else would you need from the Figure inclusion that you do not get > currently? > > -- > Baruch Even > > http://techst02.technion.ac.il/~sbaruch/ (My Site) > http://rpghost.com/jindor/ (My brothers AD&D site) > > " Learn to laugh ... it's the path to true love! " >- The Angel in the movie Michael > > -- Stephan E. Schlierf M.A. - Product Management - PHONE: ++49 9254 960673 FAX:++49 9254 960674 CSE GmbH Germany