Re: compiling lyx on aix

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Sailesh == Sailesh Krishnamurthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Sailesh Hi folks I have the AIX toolbox for Linux apps installed on
Sailesh my aix 4.3.3 box and I have g++ 2.9 installed using this.

What is the exact version of your gcc?

Sailesh I'm trying to compile lyx-1.1.3 .. I ran into a few errors
Sailesh which I managed to surmount using other people's tips:

You should probably try something newer than 1.1.3, like 1.1.5fix2 (to
be safe) or 1.1.6fix2 (with lots of new feature, but a table code
which is not perfect).

JMarc

Fwd: Float caption beside figure

[Andreas Döring]

The common behaviour of positioning the caption of a figure-float is
below the figure, which doesn´t look very nice for small pictures. I
wanted to put the caption on the right side of the figure like

22Figure 1: Blabla
222figure2
22

So I tried

it's the same situation like two figures or two tables or the
combination of them:
1. open wide float
2. insert caption and float as usual
3. put cursor left or right from image
4. layout-paragraph-extra-Minipage
and Begin new Minipage (only needed,
when caption under image, but it's
a good thing to do it anyway)
5. put cursor inside caption line
4. layout-paragraph-extra-Minipage
and Begin new Minipage
and hfill between minipage paragraphs
 ^
like Herbert Voss told in this mailing list.

But if I do it that way, the caption is not positioned on the right top,
but on the right bottom. Posistioning in the paragraph-more-menu
doesn´t work. It looks like there is no connection between the caption
and the figure, thus a completely new minipage is created below the
figure-minipage containing the caption, like

22   
222figure2
22
  Figure 1: Bla


What do I wrong? 

Andi

lyx-1-1-6fix2 verry slow on solaris 8

[Frank Naumann]

Hello,
on my sun box (blade 100, 256MB ram) lyx runs verry slow. As soon as
i include only one postscript image into my text, viewing dvi or
postcript takes minutes. On my linux system the same text takes only
seconds to process (PIII 500, 128MB ram).

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Greetings,
Frank

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Re: lyx-1-1-6fix2 verry slow on solaris 8

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Frank == Frank Naumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Frank Hello, on my sun box (blade 100, 256MB ram) lyx runs verry
Frank slow. As soon as i include only one postscript image into my
Frank text, viewing dvi or postcript takes minutes. On my linux
Frank system the same text takes only seconds to process (PIII 500,
Frank 128MB ram).

What is your version of gcc/libstdc++?

JMarc

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

[Reuben Thomas]

   Anyway, past discussions have usually ended up with Python as best because
   it's readable/writable even for newbies.  Scheme/Lisp usually dropped as a
   bad idea because no-one cares to type all the ()'s and Perl as a possible
   second language.

There's also Lua (www.lua.org), which is much smaller than python, rather
simpler, and was specifically designed a) to be embedded in applications and
b) as an application extension language. A typical build of the compiler/
run-time-system and standard library shared libraries is about 100kb (hence
you can easily link it statically if that's easier without much bloat).

It's a lovely little language with clean syntax, such that configuration
files can be written directly in it (if you like), and reflection of C
functions into Lua is extrememly easy.

Lua is BSD-ish licensed, and written in pure (and I do mean pure) ANSI C. It
compiles out of the box on almost anything (and it has been ported, among
other odd environments, to Palm OS, EPOC and RISC OS; indeed, on the last
two it compiles without alteration).

It is widely used as an embedded application control language, especially
for scripting game engines.

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Graphics in pdflatex

[Robin]

I'm sorry if this has come up before ...

I've just tried exporting a seminar presentation in pdflatex, as the
fonts in a normal PDF export come out rather wobbly on the screen.  To
do this, I needed to convert my .eps figures to .pdf, which worked fine,
except that in the exported document they come out in white on black,
and skewed across the screen.  This doesn't happen when I view the
converted figure on its own, only in the exported pdflatex document. 
Any ideas?   (this is with 1.1.6fix2, PDF output viewed with gv and
xpdf).

Robin

Re: acknowledgements environment

[Alejandro Fernandez]

Thanks Dekel

For the record I got an error with your first suggestion, and tried this
instead, which worked, so I'm sticking with it. I don't know why it
works, but it does...:

Style Acknowledgement
  MarginStatic
  LatexType Environment
  LatexName acknowledgements
  NextNoIndent  1
  LeftMarginMMM
  RightMargin   MMM
  ParIndent MM
  ItemSep   0
  TopSep0.7
  BottomSep 0.7
  ParSep0
  Align Block
  AlignPossible Block
  LabelType Centered_Top_Environment
  LabelString   Acknowledgements
  LabelBottomSep0.5

  # standard font definition
  Font
SizeSmall
  EndFont

  # label font definition
  LabelFont
Series  Bold
SizeLarge
  EndFont
  Preamble
\newcommand\ackname{Acknowledgements}
\newenvironment{acknowledgements}{%
 \titlepage
  \null\vfil
  \@beginparpenalty\@lowpenalty
  \begin{center}%
\bfseries \ackname
\@endparpenalty\@M
  \end{center}}%
EndPreamble
End


Dekel Tsur wrote:
 
 On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:17:20PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote:
  Assuming you want the acknowledgement paragraph to be similar to abstract,
  you need following lines:
 
 I forgot about CopyStyle.
 What you need is just
 
 Style Acknowledgement
   CopyStyle   Abstract
   LatexName   ack
   LabelString Acknowledgements
   Preamble
 \newenvironment{ack}%
   {\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Acknowledgements}\begin{abstract}}%
   {\end{abstract}}
   EndPreamble
 End

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dvi2pdf

[EagleIce]

Hello all!

Is there such a thing as dvi2pdf (or dvi2ps) program?

Cheers,
ei


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Table problem in 6fix2 ?

[Joao B. Oliveira]

Hi,

we know that the table code has been changing a lot in the past
versions, and I just want to report a bug.

The thing is: when I am in the last column of a table and try to
append another column, LyX crashe with SEGSEV. This does not happen
when columns are appended inside the table.

I suppose more people have noticed this?

j. b.

Re: lyx xfig

[Matias Freytes]

Hello,

  I have Xfig 3.2.3 patchlevel beta-1 (Protocol 3.2) and when I try
  to export eps I get the following error message:
 Unknown graphics language eps
 Known languages are: acad box epic eepic eepicemu gif ibmgl
jpeg latex pcx pic pitex
 
 What is your version of fig2dev?

 What happens if you try to run it from the
 command line (e.g. fig2dev -L eps myfile.fig  myfile.eps)?

It works. I can use transfig to build the Makefile or just
fig2dev.

 Is postscript generally working on your system? (e.g., can you see the
 postscript preview in LyX?)

Yes, it's working. I'm also using LaTex and things like 'dvips',
'ghostview' work perfectly well. I can also see the ps preview in
LyX. I'll download xfig-3.2.3d and transfig-3.2.3d from
www.xfig.org and try again.

 Look at www.lyx.org for new versions.

Ok. Thank you.



Matias

Re: dvi2pdf

[stephan . schlierf]

Yes, they are called dvipdf (converts dvi to pdf) and dvips (converts dvi
to ps)

cu

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EagleIce   
 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]  
ia.com  cc:   
 
 Subject: dvi2pdf  
 
06/01/01   
 
01:22 PM   
 
   
 
   
 




Hello all!

Is there such a thing as dvi2pdf (or dvi2ps) program?

Cheers,
ei


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Re: Graphics in pdflatex

[stephan . schlierf]

Maybe it's not exactly what you want to know but ...



   
 
Robin  
 
robin@bilkenTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   
 
t.edu.trcc:   
 
Sent by: Subject: Graphics in pdflatex 
 
robin@bilkent  
 
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06/01/01   
 
12:23 PM   
 
   
 
   
 




 as the fonts in a normal PDF export come out rather wobbly on the screen.

... did you try another font (Layout - Document - Font) like default or
times to export directly to pdf ?
Which version of Ghostscript do you use (my recommendation: = 5.5 and =
6.5)

cu

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FAX: +49 921 99 00 86 70
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RE: Table problem in 6fix2 ?

[Juergen Vigna]

On 01-Jun-2001 Joao B. Oliveira wrote:

 The thing is: when I am in the last column of a table and try to
 append another column, LyX crashe with SEGSEV. This does not happen
 when columns are appended inside the table.
 
 I suppose more people have noticed this?

Well no and I cannot reproduce this. Here the columns are added flawlessly!
What compiler are you using?

Jürgen

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Music sheets LyX

[EagleIce]

Hello all!

I need to put some music notation in a book document layout. I have tried to 
convert picture files (bmp,jpg f.ex.) to eps but that doesn't work at all, 
some bar lines dissappear etc.
What is the best way to do this for example if the sheets are in dvi, ps or 
pdf format (made by Lilypond)?

Cheers,
ei
 

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Re: Table problem in 6fix2 ?

[Chris Green]

Juergen Vigna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On 01-Jun-2001 Joao B. Oliveira wrote:
 
 The thing is: when I am in the last column of a table and try to
 append another column, LyX crashe with SEGSEV. This does not happen
 when columns are appended inside the table.
 
 I suppose more people have noticed this?
 
 Well no and I cannot reproduce this. Here the columns are added flawlessly!
 What compiler are you using?
 

I see that using gcc-2.95.2 on Linux Mandrake 7.2 using Fix1
sometimes.  Whenever I go back and recover with emergency and try
doing it again though, it works fine so describing it in a bug report
was difficult. 
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Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever.

Re: dvi2pdf

[EagleIce]

On Friday 01 June 2001 14:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Yes, they are called dvipdf (converts dvi to pdf) and dvips (converts dvi
 to ps)

 cu

 Stephan

Thank's a lot, they were even installed on my system...:-)
IMO it would be nice if the programmers agreed on some standard concerning
the file converters run command, to me it seems for example quite logical if
they all included 2 between the file extensions (like ps2pdf, html2ps).

Cheers,

ei


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Re: Music sheets LyX

[Niklas Werner]

EagleIce wrote:

 Hello all!
 
 I need to put some music notation in a book document layout. I have tried to 
 convert picture files (bmp,jpg f.ex.) to eps but that doesn't work at all, 
 some bar lines dissappear etc.
 What is the best way to do this for example if the sheets are in dvi, ps or 
 pdf format (made by Lilypond)?

Hey well!
I thought i was the only one including music in LyX-Documents...

I always include the resulting TeX-Files from lilypond inside a float as 
input (set linewidth in the ly-file to something according to your 
document) or in the text (for short stuff like chords or motifs) with 
linewidth=-1
BTW: Check out lilypond 1.4.2! it's marvellous ;-)

If you have really much music in the book, consider using lilypond-book 
(I'd be very interested in getting a lyx-layout file for it...).

Have fun*

Niklas

Re: Prosper question

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:41:45AM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote:

 I'm using Prosper with the layout provided by Dekel Tsur (thanks). 
 How do I specify the transition effect from slide to slide in lyx? 

\PDFtransition{tran} in latex mode, when tran is one of Split, Blinds, Box,
Wipe, Dissolve, Glitter, Replace.
It is also possible to add the following lines to prosper.layout, and then
use the Transition paragraph style for entering the transition.

Style Transition
  MarginDynamic
  LatexType Command
  LatexName PDFtransition
  LabelType Static
  LabelString   Transition:
  LabelSep  xx
  BottomSep 0.5
  TopSep0.5
End

Re: dvi2pdf

[Dekel Tsur]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:22:23PM +0200, EagleIce wrote:
 Hello all!
 
 Is there such a thing as dvi2pdf (or dvi2ps) program?

Yes.
http://gaspra.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/

Re: Graphics in pdflatex

[Dekel Tsur]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:23:25PM +0300, Robin wrote:
 I'm sorry if this has come up before ...
 
 I've just tried exporting a seminar presentation in pdflatex, as the
 fonts in a normal PDF export come out rather wobbly on the screen.  To
 do this, I needed to convert my .eps figures to .pdf, which worked fine,
 except that in the exported document they come out in white on black,
 and skewed across the screen.  This doesn't happen when I view the
 converted figure on its own, only in the exported pdflatex document. 
 Any ideas?   (this is with 1.1.6fix2, PDF output viewed with gv and
 xpdf).

I guess that this is a bug in pdflatex.
However, it is easy to create a PDF with nice fonts using
latex+dvips+ps2pdf or latex+dvipdfm.

Re: Lyx1.1.6fix2 RPMs for SUSE?

[Peter Suetterlin]

Martin Bernreuther wrote:

 I found 1.1.6fix1 rpms for SuSe at
 ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx-1.1.6fix1-40.i386.rpm
 through a link at http://www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~pit/LyX/

Keep in mind that those are for SuSE 6.4 (although they should work on
7.x, too).
Since today there's also lyx-1.1.6fix2-50.i386.rpm at the same place.

  Pit

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Vertical alignment in tables and table in table don´t work

[Andreas Döring]

If have one problem concerning vertical centering in tables.

I tried the methods, I found at Herbert´s great page and also at this
mailing list:

I have a table of three column and one row.

1. I fixed the width of the first two columns to 20mm
2 Then I tried to set the valign to center by using
Layout-Paragraph-Extra.
But the problem is, that I´m not able to activate the center-option.

Thus I downloaded the expamle file from

 http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/vertical.html

but I was not able to open it with Lyx 1.1.5fix1, because it crashed,
when opening the file.

Another question about this expample is the use of a table inside
another table. I also tried this, but it looks like it only works on
older versions of Lyx. Is there a workaround for this, because
linebreaks within columns doesn´t work (or I´m to dummy), because the
linebreak affected the whole table and not only the column of interest.

Thanks in advance

Andi

Mandrake's RPM

[German Poo Caaman~o]

I don't know if mandrake's rpm are available.

But I built some of them I uploaded to 
http://cronos.dci.ubiboio.cl/~gpoo/lyx as before version.

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Re: Vertical alignment in tables and table in table don´t work

[Herbert Voss]

Andreas Döring wrote:
 
 If have one problem concerning vertical centering in tables.
 
 I tried the methods, I found at Herbert´s great page and also at this
 mailing list:
 
 I have a table of three column and one row.
 
 1. I fixed the width of the first two columns to 20mm
 2 Then I tried to set the valign to center by using
 Layout-Paragraph-Extra.
 But the problem is, that I´m not able to activate the center-option.
 
 Thus I downloaded the expamle file from
 
  http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/vertical.html
 
 but I was not able to open it with Lyx 1.1.5fix1, because it crashed,
 when opening the file.

it's 1.1.6, which has especially a new format for tables.

HErbert


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Re: Music sheets LyX

[EagleIce]

On Friday 01 June 2001 15:58, Niklas Werner wrote:
 EagleIce wrote:
 Hey well!
 I thought i was the only one including music in LyX-Documents...

 I always include the resulting TeX-Files from lilypond inside a float as
 input (set linewidth in the ly-file to something according to your
 document) or in the text (for short stuff like chords or motifs) with
 linewidth=-1
 BTW: Check out lilypond 1.4.2! it's marvellous ;-)

 If you have really much music in the book, consider using lilypond-book
 (I'd be very interested in getting a lyx-layout file for it...).

 Have fun*

 Niklas
Thank's a lot for your interesting information, and now I've downloaded 
lilypond 1.4.2 to check it out. Usually I don't bother checking any updates 
because SuSE itself updates the whole distro a couple of times a year anyway, 
and they always include Lilypond (and LyX...:-)

Cheers,
ei

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Bibtex reference with linebreaks

[Andreas Döring]

I´m sorry for asking this non-Lyx-question here, but I looked around and
couldn´t find an answer to my question. Maybe one of yours could help me
out:

I´m managing my citations by using Sixpack´s pipe-feature for Lyx.
Everything is fine, exept for the style of the created reference.
I need a reference style, that looks like

A. Dödel, B. Dada
The secrets of the secrets
Secret Newspapers 36 (6), S. 120-123 (1999)

but I only found styles without any linebreaks. For example gerplain
works fine with me, exept for the missing linebreaks. I did some
dummy-style-hacking, but I only got a linebreak behind the author´s
name, that´s because I´m not used to the programming language and I hope
I don´t need to understand it completely (if there is a
ready-to-go-style ).
Thus I looked at

   www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html

and a bunch of other sites, but I couldn´t find any linebreak-style or
information, how to add these linebreaks.

Could somebody point me to a location, there I can find a bibtex mailing
list or style-hacking howtos (for low level hackers)?

Thanks

Andi

Re: Bibtex reference with linebreaks

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Andreas == Andreas Döring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Andreas I´m sorry for asking this non-Lyx-question here, but I looked
Andreas around and couldn´t find an answer to my question. Maybe one
Andreas of yours could help me out:

Andreas I´m managing my citations by using Sixpack´s pipe-feature for
Andreas Lyx. Everything is fine, exept for the style of the created
Andreas reference. I need a reference style, that looks like

Andreas A. Dödel, B. Dada The secrets of the secrets Secret
Andreas Newspapers 36 (6), S. 120-123 (1999)

Andreas but I only found styles without any linebreaks. For example
Andreas gerplain works fine with me, exept for the missing
Andreas linebreaks. 

Try to add openbib in the extra options of the Document layout.

JMarc

Antwort: Re: Vertical alignment in tables and table in tabledon´t work

[Andreas_Doering]

 Thus I downloaded the expamle file from

  http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/vertical.html

 but I was not able to open it with Lyx 1.1.5fix1, because it crashed,
 when opening the file.

 Another question about this expample is the use of a table inside
 another table. I also tried this, but it looks like it only works on
 older versions of Lyx. Is there a workaround for this, because
 linebreaks within columns doesn´t work (or I´m to dummy), because the
 linebreak affected the whole table and not only the column of interest.

I've encountered the same problem.
Try to nest a matrix (instead a table) inside the table.
It works fine.
Maybe Herbert could consider to update his useful lyx-tips with this
correction

Giorgio

Thanks, my first problem is almost fixed, but how can I change the
Math-font-Style for this
specific math-inset to standard?

Andi

PS: Do you have any idea how to vertically center the text inside the cells
without your matrix-trick (for columns, there width of neighboring cells is
been fixed and linebreaks within these cells are done automatically)?

Antwort: Re: Vertical alignment in tables and table in tabledon´t work

[Andreas_Doering]

 Thus I downloaded the expamle file from

  http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/vertical.html

 but I was not able to open it with Lyx 1.1.5fix1, because it crashed,
 when opening the file.

 Another question about this expample is the use of a table inside
 another table. I also tried this, but it looks like it only works on
 older versions of Lyx. Is there a workaround for this, because
 linebreaks within columns doesn´t work (or I´m to dummy), because the
 linebreak affected the whole table and not only the column of interest.

I've encountered the same problem.
Try to nest a matrix (instead a table) inside the table.
It works fine.
Maybe Herbert could consider to update his useful lyx-tips with this
correction

Giorgio

Thanks, my first problem is almost fixed, but how can I change the
Math-font-Style for this
specific math-inset to standard?

At the moment I wrote this, the answer showed up in the list: Just go
inside the matrix and change to math-mode. That´s it.

Andi


PS: Do you have any idea how to vertically center the text inside the cells
without your matrix-trick (for columns, there width of neighboring cells is
been fixed and linebreaks within these cells are done automatically)?

us keyboard + compose + accent problem

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

Hi to all and sorry for the disturb, I'm not subscribed to the ML so
please Cc me the answers.
I'm in trouble with compose keys (those keys that permit to hit in
sequence the keys ALTGR + ` + a and obtain à.
This feature works in all of the program I use under X, but does not
work under LyX: if I press the sequence above I obtain `a printed in
the LyX window.
Note that if I set a keyboard layout that have the accents (like the
italian one) all works well and LyX display a à that is correctly
formatted in the postscript document, but I want use the us keyboard!

TIA for the answers,
Cheers.

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us keyboard + compose + accent problem

[Ronald Florence]

Stefano Zacchiroli writes:

  I'm in trouble with compose keys [...]
  This feature works in all of the program I use under X, but does not
  work under LyX: if I press the sequence above I obtain `a printed in
  the LyX window.

You don't say what OS or window-manager you're using.  I've sometimes
seen that problem with CDE on Solaris, where the compose key works
with all X programs except LyX.  The fix here was to put `LANG=en_US'
in ~/.dtprofile.  You might try a similar approach to indicate to the
window-manager that you're using a US keyboard.

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Re: compiling lyx on aix

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Sailesh == Sailesh Krishnamurthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Sailesh Hi folks I have the AIX toolbox for Linux apps installed on
Sailesh my aix 4.3.3 box and I have g++ 2.9 installed using this.

What is the exact version of your gcc?

Sailesh I'm trying to compile lyx-1.1.3 .. I ran into a few errors
Sailesh which I managed to surmount using other people's tips:

You should probably try something newer than 1.1.3, like 1.1.5fix2 (to
be safe) or 1.1.6fix2 (with lots of new feature, but a table code
which is not perfect).

JMarc

Fwd: Float caption beside figure

[Andreas Döring]

The common behaviour of positioning the caption of a figure-float is
below the figure, which doesn´t look very nice for small pictures. I
wanted to put the caption on the right side of the figure like

22Figure 1: Blabla
222figure2
22

So I tried

it's the same situation like two figures or two tables or the
combination of them:
1. open wide float
2. insert caption and float as usual
3. put cursor left or right from image
4. layout-paragraph-extra-Minipage
and Begin new Minipage (only needed,
when caption under image, but it's
a good thing to do it anyway)
5. put cursor inside caption line
4. layout-paragraph-extra-Minipage
and Begin new Minipage
and hfill between minipage paragraphs
 ^
like Herbert Voss told in this mailing list.

But if I do it that way, the caption is not positioned on the right top,
but on the right bottom. Posistioning in the paragraph-more-menu
doesn´t work. It looks like there is no connection between the caption
and the figure, thus a completely new minipage is created below the
figure-minipage containing the caption, like

22   
222figure2
22
  Figure 1: Bla


What do I wrong? 

Andi

lyx-1-1-6fix2 verry slow on solaris 8

[Frank Naumann]

Hello,
on my sun box (blade 100, 256MB ram) lyx runs verry slow. As soon as
i include only one postscript image into my text, viewing dvi or
postcript takes minutes. On my linux system the same text takes only
seconds to process (PIII 500, 128MB ram).

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Greetings,
Frank

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Re: lyx-1-1-6fix2 verry slow on solaris 8

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Frank == Frank Naumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Frank Hello, on my sun box (blade 100, 256MB ram) lyx runs verry
Frank slow. As soon as i include only one postscript image into my
Frank text, viewing dvi or postcript takes minutes. On my linux
Frank system the same text takes only seconds to process (PIII 500,
Frank 128MB ram).

What is your version of gcc/libstdc++?

JMarc

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

[Reuben Thomas]

   Anyway, past discussions have usually ended up with Python as best because
   it's readable/writable even for newbies.  Scheme/Lisp usually dropped as a
   bad idea because no-one cares to type all the ()'s and Perl as a possible
   second language.

There's also Lua (www.lua.org), which is much smaller than python, rather
simpler, and was specifically designed a) to be embedded in applications and
b) as an application extension language. A typical build of the compiler/
run-time-system and standard library shared libraries is about 100kb (hence
you can easily link it statically if that's easier without much bloat).

It's a lovely little language with clean syntax, such that configuration
files can be written directly in it (if you like), and reflection of C
functions into Lua is extrememly easy.

Lua is BSD-ish licensed, and written in pure (and I do mean pure) ANSI C. It
compiles out of the box on almost anything (and it has been ported, among
other odd environments, to Palm OS, EPOC and RISC OS; indeed, on the last
two it compiles without alteration).

It is widely used as an embedded application control language, especially
for scripting game engines.

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Graphics in pdflatex

[Robin]

I'm sorry if this has come up before ...

I've just tried exporting a seminar presentation in pdflatex, as the
fonts in a normal PDF export come out rather wobbly on the screen.  To
do this, I needed to convert my .eps figures to .pdf, which worked fine,
except that in the exported document they come out in white on black,
and skewed across the screen.  This doesn't happen when I view the
converted figure on its own, only in the exported pdflatex document. 
Any ideas?   (this is with 1.1.6fix2, PDF output viewed with gv and
xpdf).

Robin

Re: acknowledgements environment

[Alejandro Fernandez]

Thanks Dekel

For the record I got an error with your first suggestion, and tried this
instead, which worked, so I'm sticking with it. I don't know why it
works, but it does...:

Style Acknowledgement
  MarginStatic
  LatexType Environment
  LatexName acknowledgements
  NextNoIndent  1
  LeftMarginMMM
  RightMargin   MMM
  ParIndent MM
  ItemSep   0
  TopSep0.7
  BottomSep 0.7
  ParSep0
  Align Block
  AlignPossible Block
  LabelType Centered_Top_Environment
  LabelString   Acknowledgements
  LabelBottomSep0.5

  # standard font definition
  Font
SizeSmall
  EndFont

  # label font definition
  LabelFont
Series  Bold
SizeLarge
  EndFont
  Preamble
\newcommand\ackname{Acknowledgements}
\newenvironment{acknowledgements}{%
 \titlepage
  \null\vfil
  \@beginparpenalty\@lowpenalty
  \begin{center}%
\bfseries \ackname
\@endparpenalty\@M
  \end{center}}%
EndPreamble
End


Dekel Tsur wrote:
 
 On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:17:20PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote:
  Assuming you want the acknowledgement paragraph to be similar to abstract,
  you need following lines:
 
 I forgot about CopyStyle.
 What you need is just
 
 Style Acknowledgement
   CopyStyle   Abstract
   LatexName   ack
   LabelString Acknowledgements
   Preamble
 \newenvironment{ack}%
   {\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Acknowledgements}\begin{abstract}}%
   {\end{abstract}}
   EndPreamble
 End

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dvi2pdf

[EagleIce]

Hello all!

Is there such a thing as dvi2pdf (or dvi2ps) program?

Cheers,
ei


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Table problem in 6fix2 ?

[Joao B. Oliveira]

Hi,

we know that the table code has been changing a lot in the past
versions, and I just want to report a bug.

The thing is: when I am in the last column of a table and try to
append another column, LyX crashe with SEGSEV. This does not happen
when columns are appended inside the table.

I suppose more people have noticed this?

j. b.

Re: lyx xfig

[Matias Freytes]

Hello,

  I have Xfig 3.2.3 patchlevel beta-1 (Protocol 3.2) and when I try
  to export eps I get the following error message:
 Unknown graphics language eps
 Known languages are: acad box epic eepic eepicemu gif ibmgl
jpeg latex pcx pic pitex
 
 What is your version of fig2dev?

 What happens if you try to run it from the
 command line (e.g. fig2dev -L eps myfile.fig  myfile.eps)?

It works. I can use transfig to build the Makefile or just
fig2dev.

 Is postscript generally working on your system? (e.g., can you see the
 postscript preview in LyX?)

Yes, it's working. I'm also using LaTex and things like 'dvips',
'ghostview' work perfectly well. I can also see the ps preview in
LyX. I'll download xfig-3.2.3d and transfig-3.2.3d from
www.xfig.org and try again.

 Look at www.lyx.org for new versions.

Ok. Thank you.



Matias

Re: dvi2pdf

[stephan . schlierf]

Yes, they are called dvipdf (converts dvi to pdf) and dvips (converts dvi
to ps)

cu

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EagleIce   
 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]  
ia.com  cc:   
 
 Subject: dvi2pdf  
 
06/01/01   
 
01:22 PM   
 
   
 
   
 




Hello all!

Is there such a thing as dvi2pdf (or dvi2ps) program?

Cheers,
ei


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Re: Graphics in pdflatex

[stephan . schlierf]

Maybe it's not exactly what you want to know but ...



   
 
Robin  
 
robin@bilkenTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]   
 
t.edu.trcc:   
 
Sent by: Subject: Graphics in pdflatex 
 
robin@bilkent  
 
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06/01/01   
 
12:23 PM   
 
   
 
   
 




 as the fonts in a normal PDF export come out rather wobbly on the screen.

... did you try another font (Layout - Document - Font) like default or
times to export directly to pdf ?
Which version of Ghostscript do you use (my recommendation: = 5.5 and =
6.5)

cu

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FAX: +49 921 99 00 86 70
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RE: Table problem in 6fix2 ?

[Juergen Vigna]

On 01-Jun-2001 Joao B. Oliveira wrote:

 The thing is: when I am in the last column of a table and try to
 append another column, LyX crashe with SEGSEV. This does not happen
 when columns are appended inside the table.
 
 I suppose more people have noticed this?

Well no and I cannot reproduce this. Here the columns are added flawlessly!
What compiler are you using?

Jürgen

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Music sheets LyX

[EagleIce]

Hello all!

I need to put some music notation in a book document layout. I have tried to 
convert picture files (bmp,jpg f.ex.) to eps but that doesn't work at all, 
some bar lines dissappear etc.
What is the best way to do this for example if the sheets are in dvi, ps or 
pdf format (made by Lilypond)?

Cheers,
ei
 

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Re: Table problem in 6fix2 ?

[Chris Green]

Juergen Vigna [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On 01-Jun-2001 Joao B. Oliveira wrote:
 
 The thing is: when I am in the last column of a table and try to
 append another column, LyX crashe with SEGSEV. This does not happen
 when columns are appended inside the table.
 
 I suppose more people have noticed this?
 
 Well no and I cannot reproduce this. Here the columns are added flawlessly!
 What compiler are you using?
 

I see that using gcc-2.95.2 on Linux Mandrake 7.2 using Fix1
sometimes.  Whenever I go back and recover with emergency and try
doing it again though, it works fine so describing it in a bug report
was difficult. 
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Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever.

Re: dvi2pdf

[EagleIce]

On Friday 01 June 2001 14:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Yes, they are called dvipdf (converts dvi to pdf) and dvips (converts dvi
 to ps)

 cu

 Stephan

Thank's a lot, they were even installed on my system...:-)
IMO it would be nice if the programmers agreed on some standard concerning
the file converters run command, to me it seems for example quite logical if
they all included 2 between the file extensions (like ps2pdf, html2ps).

Cheers,

ei


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Re: Music sheets LyX

[Niklas Werner]

EagleIce wrote:

 Hello all!
 
 I need to put some music notation in a book document layout. I have tried to 
 convert picture files (bmp,jpg f.ex.) to eps but that doesn't work at all, 
 some bar lines dissappear etc.
 What is the best way to do this for example if the sheets are in dvi, ps or 
 pdf format (made by Lilypond)?

Hey well!
I thought i was the only one including music in LyX-Documents...

I always include the resulting TeX-Files from lilypond inside a float as 
input (set linewidth in the ly-file to something according to your 
document) or in the text (for short stuff like chords or motifs) with 
linewidth=-1
BTW: Check out lilypond 1.4.2! it's marvellous ;-)

If you have really much music in the book, consider using lilypond-book 
(I'd be very interested in getting a lyx-layout file for it...).

Have fun*

Niklas

Re: Prosper question

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:41:45AM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote:

 I'm using Prosper with the layout provided by Dekel Tsur (thanks). 
 How do I specify the transition effect from slide to slide in lyx? 

\PDFtransition{tran} in latex mode, when tran is one of Split, Blinds, Box,
Wipe, Dissolve, Glitter, Replace.
It is also possible to add the following lines to prosper.layout, and then
use the Transition paragraph style for entering the transition.

Style Transition
  MarginDynamic
  LatexType Command
  LatexName PDFtransition
  LabelType Static
  LabelString   Transition:
  LabelSep  xx
  BottomSep 0.5
  TopSep0.5
End

Re: dvi2pdf

[Dekel Tsur]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:22:23PM +0200, EagleIce wrote:
 Hello all!
 
 Is there such a thing as dvi2pdf (or dvi2ps) program?

Yes.
http://gaspra.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/

Re: Graphics in pdflatex

[Dekel Tsur]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:23:25PM +0300, Robin wrote:
 I'm sorry if this has come up before ...
 
 I've just tried exporting a seminar presentation in pdflatex, as the
 fonts in a normal PDF export come out rather wobbly on the screen.  To
 do this, I needed to convert my .eps figures to .pdf, which worked fine,
 except that in the exported document they come out in white on black,
 and skewed across the screen.  This doesn't happen when I view the
 converted figure on its own, only in the exported pdflatex document. 
 Any ideas?   (this is with 1.1.6fix2, PDF output viewed with gv and
 xpdf).

I guess that this is a bug in pdflatex.
However, it is easy to create a PDF with nice fonts using
latex+dvips+ps2pdf or latex+dvipdfm.

Re: Lyx1.1.6fix2 RPMs for SUSE?

[Peter Suetterlin]

Martin Bernreuther wrote:

 I found 1.1.6fix1 rpms for SuSe at
 ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx-1.1.6fix1-40.i386.rpm
 through a link at http://www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~pit/LyX/

Keep in mind that those are for SuSE 6.4 (although they should work on
7.x, too).
Since today there's also lyx-1.1.6fix2-50.i386.rpm at the same place.

  Pit

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Vertical alignment in tables and table in table don´t work

[Andreas Döring]

If have one problem concerning vertical centering in tables.

I tried the methods, I found at Herbert´s great page and also at this
mailing list:

I have a table of three column and one row.

1. I fixed the width of the first two columns to 20mm
2 Then I tried to set the valign to center by using
Layout-Paragraph-Extra.
But the problem is, that I´m not able to activate the center-option.

Thus I downloaded the expamle file from

 http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/vertical.html

but I was not able to open it with Lyx 1.1.5fix1, because it crashed,
when opening the file.

Another question about this expample is the use of a table inside
another table. I also tried this, but it looks like it only works on
older versions of Lyx. Is there a workaround for this, because
linebreaks within columns doesn´t work (or I´m to dummy), because the
linebreak affected the whole table and not only the column of interest.

Thanks in advance

Andi

Mandrake's RPM

[German Poo Caaman~o]

I don't know if mandrake's rpm are available.

But I built some of them I uploaded to 
http://cronos.dci.ubiboio.cl/~gpoo/lyx as before version.

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Re: Vertical alignment in tables and table in table don´t work

[Herbert Voss]

Andreas Döring wrote:
 
 If have one problem concerning vertical centering in tables.
 
 I tried the methods, I found at Herbert´s great page and also at this
 mailing list:
 
 I have a table of three column and one row.
 
 1. I fixed the width of the first two columns to 20mm
 2 Then I tried to set the valign to center by using
 Layout-Paragraph-Extra.
 But the problem is, that I´m not able to activate the center-option.
 
 Thus I downloaded the expamle file from
 
  http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/vertical.html
 
 but I was not able to open it with Lyx 1.1.5fix1, because it crashed,
 when opening the file.

it's 1.1.6, which has especially a new format for tables.

HErbert


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Re: Music sheets LyX

[EagleIce]

On Friday 01 June 2001 15:58, Niklas Werner wrote:
 EagleIce wrote:
 Hey well!
 I thought i was the only one including music in LyX-Documents...

 I always include the resulting TeX-Files from lilypond inside a float as
 input (set linewidth in the ly-file to something according to your
 document) or in the text (for short stuff like chords or motifs) with
 linewidth=-1
 BTW: Check out lilypond 1.4.2! it's marvellous ;-)

 If you have really much music in the book, consider using lilypond-book
 (I'd be very interested in getting a lyx-layout file for it...).

 Have fun*

 Niklas
Thank's a lot for your interesting information, and now I've downloaded 
lilypond 1.4.2 to check it out. Usually I don't bother checking any updates 
because SuSE itself updates the whole distro a couple of times a year anyway, 
and they always include Lilypond (and LyX...:-)

Cheers,
ei

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Bibtex reference with linebreaks

[Andreas Döring]

I´m sorry for asking this non-Lyx-question here, but I looked around and
couldn´t find an answer to my question. Maybe one of yours could help me
out:

I´m managing my citations by using Sixpack´s pipe-feature for Lyx.
Everything is fine, exept for the style of the created reference.
I need a reference style, that looks like

A. Dödel, B. Dada
The secrets of the secrets
Secret Newspapers 36 (6), S. 120-123 (1999)

but I only found styles without any linebreaks. For example gerplain
works fine with me, exept for the missing linebreaks. I did some
dummy-style-hacking, but I only got a linebreak behind the author´s
name, that´s because I´m not used to the programming language and I hope
I don´t need to understand it completely (if there is a
ready-to-go-style ).
Thus I looked at

   www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html

and a bunch of other sites, but I couldn´t find any linebreak-style or
information, how to add these linebreaks.

Could somebody point me to a location, there I can find a bibtex mailing
list or style-hacking howtos (for low level hackers)?

Thanks

Andi

Re: Bibtex reference with linebreaks

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Andreas == Andreas Döring [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Andreas I´m sorry for asking this non-Lyx-question here, but I looked
Andreas around and couldn´t find an answer to my question. Maybe one
Andreas of yours could help me out:

Andreas I´m managing my citations by using Sixpack´s pipe-feature for
Andreas Lyx. Everything is fine, exept for the style of the created
Andreas reference. I need a reference style, that looks like

Andreas A. Dödel, B. Dada The secrets of the secrets Secret
Andreas Newspapers 36 (6), S. 120-123 (1999)

Andreas but I only found styles without any linebreaks. For example
Andreas gerplain works fine with me, exept for the missing
Andreas linebreaks. 

Try to add openbib in the extra options of the Document layout.

JMarc

Antwort: Re: Vertical alignment in tables and table in tabledon´t work

[Andreas_Doering]

 Thus I downloaded the expamle file from

  http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/vertical.html

 but I was not able to open it with Lyx 1.1.5fix1, because it crashed,
 when opening the file.

 Another question about this expample is the use of a table inside
 another table. I also tried this, but it looks like it only works on
 older versions of Lyx. Is there a workaround for this, because
 linebreaks within columns doesn´t work (or I´m to dummy), because the
 linebreak affected the whole table and not only the column of interest.

I've encountered the same problem.
Try to nest a matrix (instead a table) inside the table.
It works fine.
Maybe Herbert could consider to update his useful lyx-tips with this
correction

Giorgio

Thanks, my first problem is almost fixed, but how can I change the
Math-font-Style for this
specific math-inset to standard?

Andi

PS: Do you have any idea how to vertically center the text inside the cells
without your matrix-trick (for columns, there width of neighboring cells is
been fixed and linebreaks within these cells are done automatically)?

Antwort: Re: Vertical alignment in tables and table in tabledon´t work

[Andreas_Doering]

 Thus I downloaded the expamle file from

  http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/vertical.html

 but I was not able to open it with Lyx 1.1.5fix1, because it crashed,
 when opening the file.

 Another question about this expample is the use of a table inside
 another table. I also tried this, but it looks like it only works on
 older versions of Lyx. Is there a workaround for this, because
 linebreaks within columns doesn´t work (or I´m to dummy), because the
 linebreak affected the whole table and not only the column of interest.

I've encountered the same problem.
Try to nest a matrix (instead a table) inside the table.
It works fine.
Maybe Herbert could consider to update his useful lyx-tips with this
correction

Giorgio

Thanks, my first problem is almost fixed, but how can I change the
Math-font-Style for this
specific math-inset to standard?

At the moment I wrote this, the answer showed up in the list: Just go
inside the matrix and change to math-mode. That´s it.

Andi


PS: Do you have any idea how to vertically center the text inside the cells
without your matrix-trick (for columns, there width of neighboring cells is
been fixed and linebreaks within these cells are done automatically)?

us keyboard + compose + accent problem

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

Hi to all and sorry for the disturb, I'm not subscribed to the ML so
please Cc me the answers.
I'm in trouble with compose keys (those keys that permit to hit in
sequence the keys ALTGR + ` + a and obtain à.
This feature works in all of the program I use under X, but does not
work under LyX: if I press the sequence above I obtain `a printed in
the LyX window.
Note that if I set a keyboard layout that have the accents (like the
italian one) all works well and LyX display a à that is correctly
formatted in the postscript document, but I want use the us keyboard!

TIA for the answers,
Cheers.

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us keyboard + compose + accent problem

[Ronald Florence]

Stefano Zacchiroli writes:

  I'm in trouble with compose keys [...]
  This feature works in all of the program I use under X, but does not
  work under LyX: if I press the sequence above I obtain `a printed in
  the LyX window.

You don't say what OS or window-manager you're using.  I've sometimes
seen that problem with CDE on Solaris, where the compose key works
with all X programs except LyX.  The fix here was to put `LANG=en_US'
in ~/.dtprofile.  You might try a similar approach to indicate to the
window-manager that you're using a US keyboard.

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Re: compiling lyx on aix

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Sailesh" == Sailesh Krishnamurthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Sailesh> Hi folks I have the AIX toolbox for Linux apps installed on
Sailesh> my aix 4.3.3 box and I have g++ 2.9 installed using this.

What is the exact version of your gcc?

Sailesh> I'm trying to compile lyx-1.1.3 .. I ran into a few errors
Sailesh> which I managed to surmount using other people's tips:

You should probably try something newer than 1.1.3, like 1.1.5fix2 (to
be safe) or 1.1.6fix2 (with lots of new feature, but a table code
which is not perfect).

JMarc

Fwd: Float caption beside figure

[Andreas Döring]

The common behaviour of positioning the caption of a figure-float is
below the figure, which doesn´t look very nice for small pictures. I
wanted to put the caption on the right side of the figure like

22Figure 1: Blabla
222figure2
22

So I tried

   > it's the same situation like two figures or two tables or the
   > combination of them:
   > 1. open wide float
   > 2. insert caption and float as usual
   > 3. put cursor left or right from image
   > 4. layout->paragraph->extra->Minipage
   > and Begin new Minipage (only needed,
   > when caption under image, but it's
   > a good thing to do it anyway)
   > 5. put cursor inside caption line
   > 4. layout->paragraph->extra->Minipage
   > and Begin new Minipage
   > and hfill between minipage paragraphs
 ^
like Herbert Voss told in this mailing list.

But if I do it that way, the caption is not positioned on the right top,
but on the right bottom. Posistioning in the paragraph->more-menu
doesn´t work. It looks like there is no connection between the caption
and the figure, thus a completely new minipage is created below the
figure-minipage containing the caption, like

22   
222figure2
22
  Figure 1: Bla


What do I wrong? 

Andi

lyx-1-1-6fix2 verry slow on solaris 8

[Frank Naumann]

Hello,
on my sun box (blade 100, 256MB ram) lyx runs verry slow. As soon as
i include only one postscript image into my text, viewing dvi or
postcript takes minutes. On my linux system the same text takes only
seconds to process (PIII 500, 128MB ram).

Any ideas what could be wrong?

Greetings,
Frank

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Re: lyx-1-1-6fix2 verry slow on solaris 8

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Frank" == Frank Naumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Frank> Hello, on my sun box (blade 100, 256MB ram) lyx runs verry
Frank> slow. As soon as i include only one postscript image into my
Frank> text, viewing dvi or postcript takes minutes. On my linux
Frank> system the same text takes only seconds to process (PIII 500,
Frank> 128MB ram).

What is your version of gcc/libstdc++?

JMarc

Re: Languages (was Re: sorting tables?)

[Reuben Thomas]

> > > Anyway, past discussions have usually ended up with Python as best because
> > > it's readable/writable even for newbies.  Scheme/Lisp usually dropped as a
> > > bad idea because no-one cares to type all the ()'s and Perl as a possible
> > > second language.

There's also Lua (www.lua.org), which is much smaller than python, rather
simpler, and was specifically designed a) to be embedded in applications and
b) as an application extension language. A typical build of the compiler/
run-time-system and standard library shared libraries is about 100kb (hence
you can easily link it statically if that's easier without much bloat).

It's a lovely little language with clean syntax, such that configuration
files can be written directly in it (if you like), and reflection of C
functions into Lua is extrememly easy.

Lua is BSD-ish licensed, and written in pure (and I do mean pure) ANSI C. It
compiles out of the box on almost anything (and it has been ported, among
other odd environments, to Palm OS, EPOC and RISC OS; indeed, on the last
two it compiles without alteration).

It is widely used as an embedded application control language, especially
for scripting game engines.

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Graphics in pdflatex

[Robin]

I'm sorry if this has come up before ...

I've just tried exporting a seminar presentation in pdflatex, as the
fonts in a normal PDF export come out rather wobbly on the screen.  To
do this, I needed to convert my .eps figures to .pdf, which worked fine,
except that in the exported document they come out in white on black,
and skewed across the screen.  This doesn't happen when I view the
converted figure on its own, only in the exported pdflatex document. 
Any ideas?   (this is with 1.1.6fix2, PDF output viewed with gv and
xpdf).

Robin

Re: acknowledgements environment

[Alejandro Fernandez]

Thanks Dekel

For the record I got an error with your first suggestion, and tried this
instead, which worked, so I'm sticking with it. I don't know why it
works, but it does...:

Style Acknowledgement
  MarginStatic
  LatexType Environment
  LatexName acknowledgements
  NextNoIndent  1
  LeftMarginMMM
  RightMargin   MMM
  ParIndent MM
  ItemSep   0
  TopSep0.7
  BottomSep 0.7
  ParSep0
  Align Block
  AlignPossible Block
  LabelType Centered_Top_Environment
  LabelString   Acknowledgements
  LabelBottomSep0.5

  # standard font definition
  Font
SizeSmall
  EndFont

  # label font definition
  LabelFont
Series  Bold
SizeLarge
  EndFont
  Preamble
\newcommand\ackname{Acknowledgements}
\newenvironment{acknowledgements}{%
 \titlepage
  \null\vfil
  \@beginparpenalty\@lowpenalty
  \begin{center}%
\bfseries \ackname
\@endparpenalty\@M
  \end{center}}%
EndPreamble
End


Dekel Tsur wrote:
> 
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 08:17:20PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> > Assuming you want the acknowledgement paragraph to be similar to abstract,
> > you need following lines:
> 
> I forgot about CopyStyle.
> What you need is just
> 
> Style Acknowledgement
>   CopyStyle   Abstract
>   LatexName   ack
>   LabelString Acknowledgements
>   Preamble
> \newenvironment{ack}%
>   {\renewcommand{\abstractname}{Acknowledgements}\begin{abstract}}%
>   {\end{abstract}}
>   EndPreamble
> End

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dvi2pdf

[EagleIce]

Hello all!

Is there such a thing as dvi2pdf (or dvi2ps) program?

Cheers,
ei


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Table problem in 6fix2 ?

[Joao B. Oliveira]

Hi,

we know that the table code has been changing a lot in the past
versions, and I just want to report a bug.

The thing is: when I am in the last column of a table and try to
append another column, LyX crashe with SEGSEV. This does not happen
when columns are appended "inside" the table.

I suppose more people have noticed this?

j. b.

Re: lyx & xfig

[Matias Freytes]

Hello,

> > I have Xfig 3.2.3 patchlevel beta-1 (Protocol 3.2) and when I try
> > to export eps I get the following error message:
> >Unknown graphics language eps
> >Known languages are: acad box epic eepic eepicemu gif ibmgl
> >   jpeg latex pcx pic pitex
> 
> What is your version of fig2dev?

> What happens if you try to run it from the
> command line (e.g. fig2dev -L eps myfile.fig > myfile.eps)?

It works. I can use transfig to build the Makefile or just
fig2dev.

> Is postscript generally working on your system? (e.g., can you see the
> postscript preview in LyX?)

Yes, it's working. I'm also using LaTex and things like 'dvips',
'ghostview' work perfectly well. I can also see the ps preview in
LyX. I'll download xfig-3.2.3d and transfig-3.2.3d from
www.xfig.org and try again.

> Look at www.lyx.org for new versions.

Ok. Thank you.



Matias

Re: dvi2pdf

[stephan . schlierf]

Yes, they are called dvipdf (converts dvi to pdf) and dvips (converts dvi
to ps)

cu

Stephan
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Hello all!

Is there such a thing as dvi2pdf (or dvi2ps) program?

Cheers,
ei


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Re: Graphics in pdflatex

[stephan . schlierf]

Maybe it's not exactly what you want to know but ...



   
 
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> as the fonts in a normal PDF export come out rather wobbly on the screen.

... did you try another font (Layout -> Document -> Font) like "default" or
"times" to export directly to pdf ?
Which version of Ghostscript do you use (my recommendation: >= 5.5 and <=
6.5)

cu

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FAX: +49 921 99 00 86 70
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RE: Table problem in 6fix2 ?

[Juergen Vigna]

On 01-Jun-2001 Joao B. Oliveira wrote:

> The thing is: when I am in the last column of a table and try to
> append another column, LyX crashe with SEGSEV. This does not happen
> when columns are appended "inside" the table.
> 
> I suppose more people have noticed this?

Well no and I cannot reproduce this. Here the columns are added flawlessly!
What compiler are you using?

Jürgen

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Music sheets & LyX

[EagleIce]

Hello all!

I need to put some music notation in a book document layout. I have tried to 
convert picture files (bmp,jpg f.ex.) to eps but that doesn't work at all, 
some bar lines dissappear etc.
What is the best way to do this for example if the sheets are in dvi, ps or 
pdf format (made by Lilypond)?

Cheers,
ei
 

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Re: Table problem in 6fix2 ?

[Chris Green]

Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 01-Jun-2001 Joao B. Oliveira wrote:
> 
>> The thing is: when I am in the last column of a table and try to
>> append another column, LyX crashe with SEGSEV. This does not happen
>> when columns are appended "inside" the table.
>> 
>> I suppose more people have noticed this?
> 
> Well no and I cannot reproduce this. Here the columns are added flawlessly!
> What compiler are you using?
> 

I see that using gcc-2.95.2 on Linux Mandrake 7.2 using Fix1
sometimes.  Whenever I go back and recover with emergency and try
doing it again though, it works fine so describing it in a bug report
was difficult. 
-- 
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Fame may be fleeting but obscurity is forever.

Re: dvi2pdf

[EagleIce]

On Friday 01 June 2001 14:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yes, they are called dvipdf (converts dvi to pdf) and dvips (converts dvi
> to ps)
>
> cu
>
> Stephan

Thank's a lot, they were even installed on my system...:-)
IMO it would be nice if the programmers agreed on some standard concerning
the file converters run command, to me it seems for example quite logical if
they all included 2 between the file extensions (like ps2pdf, html2ps).

Cheers,

ei


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Re: Music sheets & LyX

[Niklas Werner]

EagleIce wrote:

> Hello all!
> 
> I need to put some music notation in a book document layout. I have tried to 
> convert picture files (bmp,jpg f.ex.) to eps but that doesn't work at all, 
> some bar lines dissappear etc.
> What is the best way to do this for example if the sheets are in dvi, ps or 
> pdf format (made by Lilypond)?

Hey well!
I thought i was the only one including music in LyX-Documents...

I always include the resulting TeX-Files from lilypond inside a float as 
input (set linewidth in the ly-file to something according to your 
document) or in the text (for short stuff like chords or motifs) with 
linewidth=-1
BTW: Check out lilypond 1.4.2! it's marvellous ;-)

If you have really much music in the book, consider using lilypond-book 
(I'd be very interested in getting a lyx-layout file for it...).

Have fun*

Niklas

Re: Prosper question

[Dekel Tsur]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 09:41:45AM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote:

> I'm using Prosper with the layout provided by Dekel Tsur (thanks). 
> How do I specify the transition effect from slide to slide in lyx? 

\PDFtransition{tran} in latex mode, when tran is one of Split, Blinds, Box,
Wipe, Dissolve, Glitter, Replace.
It is also possible to add the following lines to prosper.layout, and then
use the Transition paragraph style for entering the transition.

Style Transition
  MarginDynamic
  LatexType Command
  LatexName PDFtransition
  LabelType Static
  LabelString   "Transition:"
  LabelSep  xx
  BottomSep 0.5
  TopSep0.5
End

Re: dvi2pdf

[Dekel Tsur]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:22:23PM +0200, EagleIce wrote:
> Hello all!
> 
> Is there such a thing as dvi2pdf (or dvi2ps) program?

Yes.
http://gaspra.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/

Re: Graphics in pdflatex

[Dekel Tsur]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 01:23:25PM +0300, Robin wrote:
> I'm sorry if this has come up before ...
> 
> I've just tried exporting a seminar presentation in pdflatex, as the
> fonts in a normal PDF export come out rather wobbly on the screen.  To
> do this, I needed to convert my .eps figures to .pdf, which worked fine,
> except that in the exported document they come out in white on black,
> and skewed across the screen.  This doesn't happen when I view the
> converted figure on its own, only in the exported pdflatex document. 
> Any ideas?   (this is with 1.1.6fix2, PDF output viewed with gv and
> xpdf).

I guess that this is a bug in pdflatex.
However, it is easy to create a PDF with "nice" fonts using
latex+dvips+ps2pdf or latex+dvipdfm.

Re: Lyx1.1.6fix2 RPMs for SUSE?

[Peter Suetterlin]

Martin Bernreuther wrote:

> I found 1.1.6fix1 rpms for SuSe at
> ftp://hst33127.phys.uu.nl/pub/LyX/lyx-1.1.6fix1-40.i386.rpm
> through a link at http://www.uni-sw.gwdg.de/~pit/LyX/

Keep in mind that those are for SuSE 6.4 (although they should work on
7.x, too).
Since today there's also lyx-1.1.6fix2-50.i386.rpm at the same place.

  Pit

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Universitaets-Sternwarte Goettingen
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Vertical alignment in tables and table in table don´t work

[Andreas Döring]

If have one problem concerning vertical centering in tables.

I tried the methods, I found at Herbert´s great page and also at this
mailing list:

I have a table of three column and one row.

1. I fixed the width of the first two columns to 20mm
2 Then I tried to set the valign to center by using
Layout-Paragraph-Extra.
But the problem is, that I´m not able to activate the center-option.

Thus I downloaded the expamle file from

 http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/vertical.html

but I was not able to open it with Lyx 1.1.5fix1, because it crashed,
when opening the file.

Another question about this expample is the use of a table inside
another table. I also tried this, but it looks like it only works on
older versions of Lyx. Is there a workaround for this, because
linebreaks within columns doesn´t work (or I´m to dummy), because the
linebreak affected the whole table and not only the column of interest.

Thanks in advance

Andi

Mandrake's RPM

[German Poo Caaman~o]

I don't know if mandrake's rpm are available.

But I built some of them I uploaded to 
http://cronos.dci.ubiboio.cl/~gpoo/lyx as before version.

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Re: Vertical alignment in tables and table in table don´t work

[Herbert Voss]

Andreas Döring wrote:
> 
> If have one problem concerning vertical centering in tables.
> 
> I tried the methods, I found at Herbert´s great page and also at this
> mailing list:
> 
> I have a table of three column and one row.
> 
> 1. I fixed the width of the first two columns to 20mm
> 2 Then I tried to set the valign to center by using
> Layout-Paragraph-Extra.
> But the problem is, that I´m not able to activate the center-option.
> 
> Thus I downloaded the expamle file from
> 
>  http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/vertical.html
> 
> but I was not able to open it with Lyx 1.1.5fix1, because it crashed,
> when opening the file.

it's 1.1.6, which has especially a new format for tables.

HErbert


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Re: Music sheets & LyX

[EagleIce]

On Friday 01 June 2001 15:58, Niklas Werner wrote:
> EagleIce wrote:
> Hey well!
> I thought i was the only one including music in LyX-Documents...
>
> I always include the resulting TeX-Files from lilypond inside a float as
> input (set linewidth in the ly-file to something according to your
> document) or in the text (for short stuff like chords or motifs) with
> linewidth=-1
> BTW: Check out lilypond 1.4.2! it's marvellous ;-)
>
> If you have really much music in the book, consider using lilypond-book
> (I'd be very interested in getting a lyx-layout file for it...).
>
> Have fun*
>
> Niklas
Thank's a lot for your interesting information, and now I've downloaded 
lilypond 1.4.2 to check it out. Usually I don't bother checking any updates 
because SuSE itself updates the whole distro a couple of times a year anyway, 
and they always include Lilypond (and LyX...:-)

Cheers,
ei

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Bibtex reference with linebreaks

[Andreas Döring]

I´m sorry for asking this non-Lyx-question here, but I looked around and
couldn´t find an answer to my question. Maybe one of yours could help me
out:

I´m managing my citations by using Sixpack´s pipe-feature for Lyx.
Everything is fine, exept for the style of the created reference.
I need a reference style, that looks like

A. Dödel, B. Dada
The secrets of the secrets
Secret Newspapers 36 (6), S. 120-123 (1999)

but I only found styles without any linebreaks. For example gerplain
works fine with me, exept for the missing linebreaks. I did some
dummy-style-hacking, but I only got a linebreak behind the author´s
name, that´s because I´m not used to the programming language and I hope
I don´t need to understand it completely (if there is a
ready-to-go-style ).
Thus I looked at

   www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/software/latex/showbst.html

and a bunch of other sites, but I couldn´t find any linebreak-style or
information, how to add these linebreaks.

Could somebody point me to a location, there I can find a bibtex mailing
list or style-hacking howtos (for low level hackers)?

Thanks

Andi

Re: Bibtex reference with linebreaks

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Andreas" == Andreas Döring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Andreas> I´m sorry for asking this non-Lyx-question here, but I looked
Andreas> around and couldn´t find an answer to my question. Maybe one
Andreas> of yours could help me out:

Andreas> I´m managing my citations by using Sixpack´s pipe-feature for
Andreas> Lyx. Everything is fine, exept for the style of the created
Andreas> reference. I need a reference style, that looks like

Andreas> A. Dödel, B. Dada The secrets of the secrets Secret
Andreas> Newspapers 36 (6), S. 120-123 (1999)

Andreas> but I only found styles without any linebreaks. For example
Andreas> gerplain works fine with me, exept for the missing
Andreas> linebreaks. 

Try to add "openbib" in the extra options of the Document layout.

JMarc

Antwort: Re: Vertical alignment in tables and table in tabledon´t work

[Andreas_Doering]

>> Thus I downloaded the expamle file from
>>
>>  http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/vertical.html
>>
>> but I was not able to open it with Lyx 1.1.5fix1, because it crashed,
>> when opening the file.
>>
>> Another question about this expample is the use of a table inside
>> another table. I also tried this, but it looks like it only works on
>> older versions of Lyx. Is there a workaround for this, because
>> linebreaks within columns doesn´t work (or I´m to dummy), because the
>> linebreak affected the whole table and not only the column of interest.

>I've encountered the same problem.
>Try to nest a matrix (instead a table) inside the table.
>It works fine.
>Maybe Herbert could consider to update his useful lyx-tips with this
>correction

>Giorgio

Thanks, my first problem is almost fixed, but how can I change the
Math-font-Style for this
specific math-inset to standard?

Andi

PS: Do you have any idea how to vertically center the text inside the cells
without your matrix-trick (for columns, there width of neighboring cells is
been fixed and linebreaks within these cells are done automatically)?

Antwort: Re: Vertical alignment in tables and table in tabledon´t work

[Andreas_Doering]

>>> Thus I downloaded the expamle file from
>>>
>>>  http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/table/vertical.html
>>>
>>> but I was not able to open it with Lyx 1.1.5fix1, because it crashed,
>>> when opening the file.
>>>
>>> Another question about this expample is the use of a table inside
>>> another table. I also tried this, but it looks like it only works on
>>> older versions of Lyx. Is there a workaround for this, because
>>> linebreaks within columns doesn´t work (or I´m to dummy), because the
>>> linebreak affected the whole table and not only the column of interest.

>>I've encountered the same problem.
>>Try to nest a matrix (instead a table) inside the table.
>>It works fine.
>>Maybe Herbert could consider to update his useful lyx-tips with this
>>correction

>>Giorgio

>Thanks, my first problem is almost fixed, but how can I change the
Math-font-Style for this
>specific math-inset to standard?

At the moment I wrote this, the answer showed up in the list: Just go
inside the matrix and change to math-mode. That´s it.

Andi


PS: Do you have any idea how to vertically center the text inside the cells
without your matrix-trick (for columns, there width of neighboring cells is
been fixed and linebreaks within these cells are done automatically)?

us keyboard + compose + accent problem

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

Hi to all and sorry for the disturb, I'm not subscribed to the ML so
please Cc me the answers.
I'm in trouble with compose keys (those keys that permit to hit in
sequence the keys ALTGR + "`" + "a" and obtain "à".
This feature works in all of the program I use under X, but does not
work under LyX: if I press the sequence above I obtain "`a" printed in
the LyX window.
Note that if I set a keyboard layout that have the accents (like the
italian one) all works well and LyX display a "à" that is correctly
formatted in the postscript document, but I want use the us keyboard!

TIA for the answers,
Cheers.

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us keyboard + compose + accent problem

[Ronald Florence]

Stefano Zacchiroli writes:

  I'm in trouble with compose keys [...]
  This feature works in all of the program I use under X, but does not
  work under LyX: if I press the sequence above I obtain "`a" printed in
  the LyX window.

You don't say what OS or window-manager you're using.  I've sometimes
seen that problem with CDE on Solaris, where the compose key works
with all X programs except LyX.  The fix here was to put `LANG=en_US'
in ~/.dtprofile.  You might try a similar approach to indicate to the
window-manager that you're using a US keyboard.

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