letters margins

2001-10-17 Thread Rodney K

HI,

I have created a new letter from the letter template, but I have huge margins 
on the top which I cannot  get rid of for some reason. I would like to get 1 
margins all around if possible.

Thanks,
Rodney



Re: updating dvi

2001-10-17 Thread Allan Rae

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Davide Cavallari wrote:

 In an older version it was possible to update the DVI, without calling a
 new xdvi window. In version 1.1.6 fix3 this doesn't seem to be possible
 anymore. Or am I missing something..?

View-Update-DVI

Allan. (ARRae)




Re: Still having troubles with my bibliography

2001-10-17 Thread Dave Chapeskie

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:13:21PM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote:
 I have attached a lyx file, 2 different bib files and a bst file.  The bst
 I created using makebst.tex.

You only included one of the bib files in your LyX file, you can include
both by separating their names with a comma in the BibTeX Generated
References popup.

 I have created one citation reference in the lyx file.  What I get when I
 run the DVI preview is [?] and no list of references.

Also useful for testing bib and bst files is using \nocite{*} in ERT, it
causes every bib entry to get included in the bibliography.

 So, possibly I have been asking the wrong question.  Does anyone know of a
 bst that will do the job for me, or is rolling my own the solution?

I don't know the answer to that, but I found the makebst options that
are causing the errors.


 %% merlin.mbs  (with options: 
`,ay,har,harnm,nm-rvv,ed-rev,keyxyr,dt-beg,yr-per,note-yr,jwdpg,jwdvol,pre-pub,isbn,issn,url,url-blk,blk-tit,pp,xedn,nfss')
 %% 
 %% *** This is to follow the CSCE format ***

I could find no documentation on 'har' and 'harnm' options (but I didn't
look very hard), I had to remove both of them to get rid of the errors :-(.

The 'jwdpg' and 'jwdvol' options don't seem to play well with each
other.  Removing either one (in addition to removing the har* options)
made the resulting in your files formatting without any errors.

  % Name and version information of the main mbs file:
  % \ProvidesFile{merlin.mbs}[1999/05/28 3.89 (PWD)]
  %   For use with BibTeX version 0.99a or later

I happened to be using the exact same versions.  Perhaps look for a newer
version (or even an older version) of the merlin.mbs or makebst.text
files.  Alternatively try a different *.mbs file.  I don't know much
about makebst or *.mbs files, I just know that my TeX distribution has
several of them.

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Re: RE: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-17 Thread Guenter Milde

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:17:01 +0200 wrote Saalfeld, Christoph 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 
1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have 
  a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for 
  footnotes, which supports cut and paste and everything like 
  normal text. Every text in this box should be automatically 
  understood as red text, and if you close the box, your screen 
  is clean (except of a small label). Of course that has 
  nothing to do with functionality, it's just a way to hide ERT.
   
   This is in version 1.2.
   
  That's good news
 
 Yeah, really. Is it possible to give these boxes a name, that will be
 displayed in LyX only ?
 E.g. List of Listings for inserting the list of listings
 (\lstlistoflistings) included with listings.sty
 
 Christoph


This is what you do by writing a .layout file. An example for the seminar
style would be

Style ListOfSlides
  KeepEmpty1
  NextNoIndent1
  LatexTypeCommand
  LatexNamelistofslides
  LabelTypeCentered_Top_Environment
  LabelStringList Of Slides
  LabelBottomSep 0
End

See the files in the /layout dir of LyX and the Customization guide.

Guenter


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Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-17 Thread Gerhard Schuck

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:42:00 +0200 (CEST)
Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:54:26 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
  On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:42:05 +0200 (CEST)
  Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
   
1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for
latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and
paste and everything like normal text. Every text in this box should be
automatically understood as red text, and if you close the box, your screen
is clean (except of a small label). Of course that has nothing to do with
functionality, it's just a way to hide ERT.
   
   This is already possible with the undocumented ERT-inset, see the attached
   example.
  
  Thanks, that sounds nice. But I didn't find your attachment (perhaps because of 
the immaturity of sylpheed, my mail program).
 
 More likely becouse I forgot to attch.
 
 Here it comes included
 
 #LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
 \lyxformat 218
 \textclass scrartcl_srh
 \begin_preamble
  \renewcommand{\Im}{\mathrm{Im}}
 \renewcommand{\Re}{\mathrm{Re}}
  \renewcommand{\vec}[1]{\textbf{\itshape #1}}
 \end_preamble
 \language german
 \inputencoding latin1
 \fontscheme default
 \graphics default
 \paperfontsize default
 \spacing single 
 \papersize a4paper
 \paperpackage a4
 \use_geometry 1
 \use_amsmath 0
 \paperorientation portrait
 \leftmargin 2cm
 \topmargin 1cm
 \rightmargin 2cm
 \bottommargin 1cm
 \secnumdepth 3
 \tocdepth 3
 \paragraph_separation skip
 \defskip medskip
 \quotes_language german
 \quotes_times 2
 \papercolumns 1
 \papersides 1
 \paperpagestyle plain
 
 \layout Standard
 
 The 
 \family typewriter 
 ert-inset
 \family default 
  command produces an ERT-box you can use ERT you want to hide:
 \layout Standard
 
 It normaly comes in Standard Style - which is not ERT! 
 \layout Standard
 
 Ein Test der ERT_box 
 \begin_inset ERT
 collapsed true
 
 \layout Standard
 
 
 \backslash 
 small kleiner Text
 \end_inset 
 
  und normaler Text.
 \layout Standard
 
 It works, if you set the Paragraph Style to LaTeX (changing font attributes
  doesnot work):
 \layout Standard
 
 Ein Test der ERT_box 
 \begin_inset ERT
 collapsed true
 
 \layout LaTeX
 
 {
 \backslash 
 small kleiner Text}
 \end_inset 
 
  und normaler Text.
 \layout Standard
 
 Latex directives in the box affect the following text.
 \layout Standard
 
 Ein Test der ERT_box 
 \begin_inset ERT
 collapsed true
 
 \layout LaTeX
 
 
 \backslash 
 small kleiner Text
 \end_inset 
 
  und normaler Text.
 \the_end
 
 
 GM
 
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Yes, that worked. Thank you. But is it safe to use? Are there problems to expect, e.g. 
if you want to open a document with this ert-inset with a future version of lyx?

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Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

 Matej == Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Matej Now when pressing some hotkey, I would love that LyX would
Matej insert -18 (determinant of the matrix A). I believe that such
Matej functionality would be something further moving LyX from just
Matej better editor to real killer-application.

LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If you
provide a script which does lyx-octave conversion, then it should do
something similar to what you need...

JMarc



Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Tuukka Toivonen

On 17 Oct 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If you
provide a script which does lyx-octave conversion, then it should do

I suppose it would work also with Maxima (a symbolic algebra system),
given a proper conversion script? Really great!

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Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Ben Logan

 This is a highly non-trivial task to accomplish. The real kicker wouldn't
 be so much to integrate with a numerics-only package like octave, but
 rather with a full-fledged technical computing environment like Mathematica
 or Maple. Unfortunately there's no real open source equivalent to these
 two, but they both offer well defined low-level communication interfaces.
 So it's not impossible, and in fact quite interesting. But a lot of work.
 Maybe when Lyx 2.0 with clean qt/gtk front ends is out and stable, the
 developers will turn their attention to such esoteric projects. But don't
 hold your breath, you might turn purple...

How about SciLab?

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Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss

Zailong Bian wrote:
 
 I use the trick quiet often until recently I discovered a conflict.  If I
 put hyperref in the preamble, the short caption will not show up in LOF! The
 long caption show up instead.  If I remove hyperref, then it all becomes
 normal.  But I need hyperref!
 
 Please see the attached example file.
 
 The short caption trick I mentioned is here (the nicer solution):
 
 http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/floats/caption.html#short
 
 I looked at the hyperref package and got only headache.  I am not sure what
 to change to make it work.  Can anyone help?

I have no problem to run your example:

lyx 1.1.6fix3

but of course I had to omment out
%\usepackage{bibunits}

because I don't have this package.
the hyperref package should always be load at the last package.

Herbert

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Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

 Tuukka == Tuukka Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Tuukka On 17 Oct 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If
 you provide a script which does lyx-octave conversion, then it
 should do

Tuukka I suppose it would work also with Maxima (a symbolic algebra
Tuukka system), given a proper conversion script? Really great!

Andre' (our new mathed guru) could probably comment more intelligently
than I do, but the main problem AFAIK is that LaTeX (and thus LyX)
does not have enough structure for some things. For example, if you
write
  x = ab
macsima/octave/maple will have to guess that there is an implied *
between a and b. Similarly for
  x = \int_0^1 f(x)dx

JMarc



RE: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Zailong Bian

Thanks.

What I tried to do is to export to latex and edit the stuff by hand.  I
change the order of the usepackages and the inserted code from that trick.
I discovered that I need to load the trick code last.  If I put it in
stdlayours.inc or scrreport.inc, that code will be loaded before hyperref,
which causes the problem.

So what I did:  split the trick mentioned, one part goes to scrreprt.inc:

Style ShortCaption
 CopyStyle Caption
 LatexName setshortcaption
 LabelString   SCaption:
 LabelType Static
End

And all the actual code goes to latex premeable (menu).  After that, the
problem is gone.

I will try to put hyperref at the end to see if that works too.

Zailong

-Original Message-
From: Herbert Voss
To: Zailong Bian
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '
Sent: 10/17/2001 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

Zailong Bian wrote:
 
 I use the trick quiet often until recently I discovered a conflict.
If I
 put hyperref in the preamble, the short caption will not show up in
LOF! The
 long caption show up instead.  If I remove hyperref, then it all
becomes
 normal.  But I need hyperref!
 
 Please see the attached example file.
 
 The short caption trick I mentioned is here (the nicer solution):
 
 http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/floats/caption.html#short
 
 I looked at the hyperref package and got only headache.  I am not sure
what
 to change to make it work.  Can anyone help?

I have no problem to run your example:

lyx 1.1.6fix3

but of course I had to omment out
%\usepackage{bibunits}

because I don't have this package.
the hyperref package should always be load at the last package.

Herbert

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Re: multiple files

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:27:11PM +0200, Davide Cavallari wrote:
 On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 07:17:24PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote:
  Even symbolic links are unnecessary.
  You can put
  
  \usepackage{graphics,epsfig}
  \newcommand{\setpath}[1]{
   \def\input@path{{PATH/#1//}}
   \graphicspath{{PATH/#1//}}
  }
  
  Where PATH is the path to the directory of the master file e.g /home/me/thesis
  and then put \setpath{chap1} in latex mode before including chapter1.
 
 I have used this method and till today it worked. Now I have a figure
 composed by both a .tex part and a .ps one. These parts are generated by
 gnuplot and the .tex part calls the .ps one with:
 
 \special{psfile=figure.ps llx=0 lly=0 urx=720 ury=504 rwi=7200}

Why do you generate two files ?
When I tried using the pslatex output of gnuplot, I got only one .tex file
which embed the Postscript file into it.
There is no problem with such a file.



Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss

Zailong Bian wrote:
 
 Hello.  I double checked, putting hyperref at the last won't fix my problem.
 When you ran my sample, did you really see This one should be there! in
 the LOF?  If you saw My figure, that's exactly my problem.

can't remember, deleted all files ...

Herbert

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Re: Title customization...

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:50:02PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
  * Put the chapter/section/etc. titles in Arial (or Helvetica, isn't it
  the same?).
 
 no! arial is something from the micros$ft world.
 choose package helvet

This will not change the font in the section titles.

 
  * Reduce the space between the title and the first paragraph.
 
 should be possible with cursor in the first line of the
 paragraph and than
 layout-paragraph-space over-length--1cm

As I understand, Ben wanted reduce the spacing around section titles, so
this is a bad solution.

A simple solution for both of the above is to put the following line in the
preamble:
\usepackage[sf,compact]{titlesec}



Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Mark Esplin

My dream of the future would would be that all software that displays or 
uses mathematical equations would support a common interchange format like 
MathML at the clipboard level.  That way we could cut and past equations from 
any application to any other application.  MathML is an XML based description 
language (See http://www.w3.org/Math/).  However, I am not sure that even 
MathML has enough information to actually describe the math of the equation 
and not just how it appears on the screen.  

  -Mark Esplin

 However, I would have some much less complicated proposal. Would it be
 possible to persuade Mathed, that it would insert in Clipboard (Ctrl-C)
 matrix, equation, formula, etc. so that it may be easily inserted into
 octave? I mean, that for above shown matrix, a content of clipboard
 (when whole first line is selected) would be a=[1,2,3;2,3,1;3,1,2]?

 Thanks anyway -- I shock all my classmates (economists usually work with
 M$ trash) with super beautiful equatioins in Computer Modern fonts (and
 advertising LyX by that)!

   Have a nice day

   Matej

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Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:33:40AM -0400, Zailong Bian wrote:

 Style ShortCaption
  CopyStyle Caption
  LatexName setshortcaption
  LabelString   SCaption:
  LabelType Static
 End
 
 And all the actual code goes to latex premeable (menu).  After that, the
 problem is gone.

You can use the following (and nothing in the preamble):

Style ShortCaption
  CopyStyle Caption
  LatexName setshortcaption
  LabelString   SCaption:
  LabelType Static
  Preamble
\AtBeginDocument{
\let\oldcaption=\caption
\renewcommand{\caption}[1]{
\ifx \shortcaption \undefined%
   \oldcaption{#1}%
\else%
   \oldcaption[\shortcaption]{#1}%
\fi%
}}
\newcommand{\setshortcaption}[1]{
\newcommand{\shortcaption}{#1}
}
  EndPreamble
End



updating dvi

2001-10-17 Thread Davide Cavallari

In an older version it was possible to update the DVI, without calling a
new xdvi window. In version 1.1.6 fix3 this doesn't seem to be possible
anymore. Or am I missing something..?
Thkz
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-- C. Glymour.



Re: Still having troubles with my bibliography

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:13:21PM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote:
 I have created one citation reference in the lyx file.  What I get when I
 run the DVI preview is [?] and no list of references.

I tried it (after adding \usepackage{natbib} to the preamble), and it worked
correctly.

 I want my references to look like this (Howard 1960).  Or possibly, blah,
 blah, yakety yak by Howard. (1960).
 
 With the Bibliography to follow this format.
 
 Howard, R.A. 1960. Dynamic programming and Markov processes.  M.I.T.
 Press. Cambridge, MA.
 
 So, possibly I have been asking the wrong question.  Does anyone know of a
 bst that will do the job for me, or is rolling my own the solution?

Use one of the .bst file harvard (agsm, apsr, dcu etc.)



Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Matej Cepl

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:28:16AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If you
 provide a script which does lyx-octave conversion, then it should do
 something similar to what you need...

I am probably not enough courageous to try *cvs version (I need LyX for
real work and I do not want to compile anyway), but I promise, that I
shall go for *pre1 version, when it will be available.

Thanks

Matej Cepl

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Re: multiple files

2001-10-17 Thread Davide Cavallari

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:13:05PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote:
 On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:27:11PM +0200, Davide Cavallari wrote:
  
  I have used this method and till today it worked. Now I have a figure
  composed by both a .tex part and a .ps one. These parts are generated by
  gnuplot and the .tex part calls the .ps one with:
  
  \special{psfile=figure.ps llx=0 lly=0 urx=720 ury=504 rwi=7200}
 
 Why do you generate two files ?
 When I tried using the pslatex output of gnuplot, I got only one .tex file
 which embed the Postscript file into it.
 There is no problem with such a file.

I have tried with the standard 'pslatex' terminal, but with some huge 
graphs latex goes out of memory. I don't know the reason, but using the
'auxfile' option (getting so the PS code in a separate file) fixes this
problem.
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Re: Longtable increases table number

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss

Rainer Dorsch wrote:
 
 float environments like figure and table have their respective counters. If a
 longtable occurs not within such an environment, it increases the
 float-counter for tables anyway.
 
 A reference document ist at
 
 http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~rainer/Download/table.lyx
 
 The tables are numbered 1, 2, 4 instead of 1, 2, 3.
 
 Is that a lyx or a longtable bug?
 
 Does anybody know a workaround?

lontable uses the same counter than tabular. 
write in preamble:

\let\myEnd\endlongtable
\renewcommand\endlongtable{\myEnd\addtocounter{table}{-1}}

if you have a mix of longtable with and without captions,
than write after every longtable:

\addtocounter{table}{-1}

Herbert

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two column standard-style

2001-10-17 Thread morten




hi

I would like to do the following

Title

Section 1
xx xxx
xx xxx
xx xx

Section 2
xx xxx
xx xxx
xx xx

Like in each section is seperated and two columns. 
Something like a Standard (two column)-style is what I seek.

any easy way of doing this? I have found the two-columns checkbox under
documents, but it works for making everything into two colums.

mo




Re: two column standard-style

2001-10-17 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan

Use the multicols package.

This is all detailed in the Extended.lyx

---Kayvan

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:34:55PM +0200, morten wrote:
 
 
 
 hi
 
 I would like to do the following
 
 Title
 
 Section 1
 xx xxx
 xx xxx
 xx xx
 
 Section 2
 xx xxx
 xx xxx
 xx xx
 
 Like in each section is seperated and two columns. 
 Something like a Standard (two column)-style is what I seek.
 
 any easy way of doing this? I have found the two-columns checkbox under
 documents, but it works for making everything into two colums.
 
 mo

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vcard2bib

2001-10-17 Thread Torben Lund

Has anybody got a small script for converting a collection of vcards to
a bib file. This could be very useful for generating address books with
hyperlinks in PDF with pdflatex.

Regards torben


begin:vcard 
n:Lund;Torben Ellegaard
tel;work:+45 3632 3324
x-mozilla-html:FALSE
url:www.drcmr.dk
org:Danish Research Centre for MR
adr:;;Præstøgade 7A 2.;Copenhagen East;;2100;Denmark
version:2.1
email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
title:M.Sc.
x-mozilla-cpt:;30016
fn:Torben Ellegaard Lund
end:vcard



Dictionary

2001-10-17 Thread Glauber Tomaz

Hi,

I've been working with Lyx in Portuguese(Brazil). I'd like to know where I 
can find a dictionary for this language to run the Lyx spelling checker.

Thanks,
Tomaz.

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Book class: preface to TOC

2001-10-17 Thread Mark Hansel

I think this is a wish list item.

With the requisite ERT, I have the preface entry (where preface is
Chapter* environment) properly entered in the TOC and the
\pagenumbering{style} for front matter and regular pages set as desired.

Did I miss a way to do this within lyx?

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Re: Title customization...

2001-10-17 Thread ben

Dekel Tsur a écrit :


 A simple solution for both of the above is to put the following line in the
 preamble:
 \usepackage[sf,compact]{titlesec}

That is exactly what I need! What a wonderful package. Thanks a lot!

BG




Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:38:38AM -0400, Mark Esplin wrote:
   My dream of the future would would be that all software that displays or 
 uses mathematical equations would support a common interchange format like 
 MathML at the clipboard level.  That way we could cut and past equations from 
 any application to any other application.  MathML is an XML based description 
 language (See http://www.w3.org/Math/).  However, I am not sure that even 
 MathML has enough information to actually describe the math of the equation 
 and not just how it appears on the screen.  
 
   -Mark Esplin
  It has, for most of it. There are two flavors, presentational and
content-based. Think of presentational as latex-like and the content-based
as algebraic manipulator like.

  But since this isn't a perfect world, you will not fulfill your dream so
soon, but not as late as you are afraid. ;-)

-- 
José



Reference for US letter layout

2001-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard

  I cannot find information in the users guide (basic or advanced) or the
reference manual (not even the tutorial!) that tells me how to define the
components of a letter.

  I was sent a letter via e-mail and imported it into LyX. I selected the
letter document class but I cannot get the send to address or the
signature to show up when I preview the printed output via ^d. Also, I
cannot get the date (which is not today's) to show up.

  Where do I find a detailed reference to the components of a letter? I
figured that this would be a good way for a LyX newcomer to learn the letter
documant class (I'm already working on a book and an article). But, I cannot
find the information by myself.

TIA,

Rich

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Pagination and current date in header

2001-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard

  I've looked at Herbert Voss' web site and some of the more recent mail
list messages without finding the answer to these questions.

  For many US business letters, the second and subsequent pages contain a
header that looks like this:

Recipient Name
current date
page page_number

  From what I've learned, I can use either \lhead for each of those lines,
or \fancyhead[LO,RO] {} for each line. I don't understand how these two
forms differ in results. But, what I'd like to do is have the send-to name
and date automatically picked up from page one, and the pagination start
with '2'. Of course, this is suppressed on page 1.

  Is there a reference I can read to learn how to do this? If not, can
someone please provide me with the preamble code to use?

Thanks,

Rich

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Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Fernando Pérez

  This is a highly non-trivial task to accomplish. The real kicker wouldn't
  be so much to integrate with a numerics-only package like octave, but
  rather with a full-fledged technical computing environment like Mathematica
  or Maple. Unfortunately there's no real open source equivalent to these
  two, but they both offer well defined low-level communication interfaces.
  So it's not impossible, and in fact quite interesting. But a lot of work.
  Maybe when Lyx 2.0 with clean qt/gtk front ends is out and stable, the
  developers will turn their attention to such esoteric projects. But don't
  hold your breath, you might turn purple...
 
 How about SciLab?

Well, to be honest I've only briefly played with it so I may be way off.
But my impression is that nothing in the open source world comes even close
to Mathematica or Maple. Unfortunately the kind of expertise needed for
that stuff is quite esoteric and it just isn't that easy to gather enough
voluntary contributors for such a complex project. As I said, maybe Scilab
will become competitive, I'm just not too hopeful. Very specialized
software is one of those ecological niches where I think proprietary
software has a good chance of survival. Not that I like it, mind you (If
you've ever dealt with Wolfram about a bug or licensing you know what I
mean) but I just think it's the way it goes.

Cheers,

f




letters margins

2001-10-17 Thread Rodney K

HI,

I have created a new letter from the letter template, but I have huge margins 
on the top which I cannot  get rid of for some reason. I would like to get 1 
margins all around if possible.

Thanks,
Rodney



Re: updating dvi

2001-10-17 Thread Allan Rae

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Davide Cavallari wrote:

 In an older version it was possible to update the DVI, without calling a
 new xdvi window. In version 1.1.6 fix3 this doesn't seem to be possible
 anymore. Or am I missing something..?

View-Update-DVI

Allan. (ARRae)




Re: Still having troubles with my bibliography

2001-10-17 Thread Dave Chapeskie

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:13:21PM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote:
 I have attached a lyx file, 2 different bib files and a bst file.  The bst
 I created using makebst.tex.

You only included one of the bib files in your LyX file, you can include
both by separating their names with a comma in the BibTeX Generated
References popup.

 I have created one citation reference in the lyx file.  What I get when I
 run the DVI preview is [?] and no list of references.

Also useful for testing bib and bst files is using \nocite{*} in ERT, it
causes every bib entry to get included in the bibliography.

 So, possibly I have been asking the wrong question.  Does anyone know of a
 bst that will do the job for me, or is rolling my own the solution?

I don't know the answer to that, but I found the makebst options that
are causing the errors.


 %% merlin.mbs  (with options: 
`,ay,har,harnm,nm-rvv,ed-rev,keyxyr,dt-beg,yr-per,note-yr,jwdpg,jwdvol,pre-pub,isbn,issn,url,url-blk,blk-tit,pp,xedn,nfss')
 %% 
 %% *** This is to follow the CSCE format ***

I could find no documentation on 'har' and 'harnm' options (but I didn't
look very hard), I had to remove both of them to get rid of the errors :-(.

The 'jwdpg' and 'jwdvol' options don't seem to play well with each
other.  Removing either one (in addition to removing the har* options)
made the resulting in your files formatting without any errors.

  % Name and version information of the main mbs file:
  % \ProvidesFile{merlin.mbs}[1999/05/28 3.89 (PWD)]
  %   For use with BibTeX version 0.99a or later

I happened to be using the exact same versions.  Perhaps look for a newer
version (or even an older version) of the merlin.mbs or makebst.text
files.  Alternatively try a different *.mbs file.  I don't know much
about makebst or *.mbs files, I just know that my TeX distribution has
several of them.

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Re: RE: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-17 Thread Guenter Milde

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:17:01 +0200 wrote Saalfeld, Christoph 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 
1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have 
  a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for 
  footnotes, which supports cut and paste and everything like 
  normal text. Every text in this box should be automatically 
  understood as red text, and if you close the box, your screen 
  is clean (except of a small label). Of course that has 
  nothing to do with functionality, it's just a way to hide ERT.
   
   This is in version 1.2.
   
  That's good news
 
 Yeah, really. Is it possible to give these boxes a name, that will be
 displayed in LyX only ?
 E.g. List of Listings for inserting the list of listings
 (\lstlistoflistings) included with listings.sty
 
 Christoph


This is what you do by writing a .layout file. An example for the seminar
style would be

Style ListOfSlides
  KeepEmpty1
  NextNoIndent1
  LatexTypeCommand
  LatexNamelistofslides
  LabelTypeCentered_Top_Environment
  LabelStringList Of Slides
  LabelBottomSep 0
End

See the files in the /layout dir of LyX and the Customization guide.

Guenter


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Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-17 Thread Gerhard Schuck

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:42:00 +0200 (CEST)
Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:54:26 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 
  On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:42:05 +0200 (CEST)
  Guenter Milde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  
   On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
   
1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for
latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and
paste and everything like normal text. Every text in this box should be
automatically understood as red text, and if you close the box, your screen
is clean (except of a small label). Of course that has nothing to do with
functionality, it's just a way to hide ERT.
   
   This is already possible with the undocumented ERT-inset, see the attached
   example.
  
  Thanks, that sounds nice. But I didn't find your attachment (perhaps because of 
the immaturity of sylpheed, my mail program).
 
 More likely becouse I forgot to attch.
 
 Here it comes included
 
 #LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
 \lyxformat 218
 \textclass scrartcl_srh
 \begin_preamble
  \renewcommand{\Im}{\mathrm{Im}}
 \renewcommand{\Re}{\mathrm{Re}}
  \renewcommand{\vec}[1]{\textbf{\itshape #1}}
 \end_preamble
 \language german
 \inputencoding latin1
 \fontscheme default
 \graphics default
 \paperfontsize default
 \spacing single 
 \papersize a4paper
 \paperpackage a4
 \use_geometry 1
 \use_amsmath 0
 \paperorientation portrait
 \leftmargin 2cm
 \topmargin 1cm
 \rightmargin 2cm
 \bottommargin 1cm
 \secnumdepth 3
 \tocdepth 3
 \paragraph_separation skip
 \defskip medskip
 \quotes_language german
 \quotes_times 2
 \papercolumns 1
 \papersides 1
 \paperpagestyle plain
 
 \layout Standard
 
 The 
 \family typewriter 
 ert-inset
 \family default 
  command produces an ERT-box you can use ERT you want to hide:
 \layout Standard
 
 It normaly comes in Standard Style - which is not ERT! 
 \layout Standard
 
 Ein Test der ERT_box 
 \begin_inset ERT
 collapsed true
 
 \layout Standard
 
 
 \backslash 
 small kleiner Text
 \end_inset 
 
  und normaler Text.
 \layout Standard
 
 It works, if you set the Paragraph Style to LaTeX (changing font attributes
  doesnot work):
 \layout Standard
 
 Ein Test der ERT_box 
 \begin_inset ERT
 collapsed true
 
 \layout LaTeX
 
 {
 \backslash 
 small kleiner Text}
 \end_inset 
 
  und normaler Text.
 \layout Standard
 
 Latex directives in the box affect the following text.
 \layout Standard
 
 Ein Test der ERT_box 
 \begin_inset ERT
 collapsed true
 
 \layout LaTeX
 
 
 \backslash 
 small kleiner Text
 \end_inset 
 
  und normaler Text.
 \the_end
 
 
 GM
 
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Yes, that worked. Thank you. But is it safe to use? Are there problems to expect, e.g. 
if you want to open a document with this ert-inset with a future version of lyx?

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Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

 Matej == Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Matej Now when pressing some hotkey, I would love that LyX would
Matej insert -18 (determinant of the matrix A). I believe that such
Matej functionality would be something further moving LyX from just
Matej better editor to real killer-application.

LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If you
provide a script which does lyx-octave conversion, then it should do
something similar to what you need...

JMarc



Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Tuukka Toivonen

On 17 Oct 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If you
provide a script which does lyx-octave conversion, then it should do

I suppose it would work also with Maxima (a symbolic algebra system),
given a proper conversion script? Really great!

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Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Ben Logan

 This is a highly non-trivial task to accomplish. The real kicker wouldn't
 be so much to integrate with a numerics-only package like octave, but
 rather with a full-fledged technical computing environment like Mathematica
 or Maple. Unfortunately there's no real open source equivalent to these
 two, but they both offer well defined low-level communication interfaces.
 So it's not impossible, and in fact quite interesting. But a lot of work.
 Maybe when Lyx 2.0 with clean qt/gtk front ends is out and stable, the
 developers will turn their attention to such esoteric projects. But don't
 hold your breath, you might turn purple...

How about SciLab?

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Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss

Zailong Bian wrote:
 
 I use the trick quiet often until recently I discovered a conflict.  If I
 put hyperref in the preamble, the short caption will not show up in LOF! The
 long caption show up instead.  If I remove hyperref, then it all becomes
 normal.  But I need hyperref!
 
 Please see the attached example file.
 
 The short caption trick I mentioned is here (the nicer solution):
 
 http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/floats/caption.html#short
 
 I looked at the hyperref package and got only headache.  I am not sure what
 to change to make it work.  Can anyone help?

I have no problem to run your example:

lyx 1.1.6fix3

but of course I had to omment out
%\usepackage{bibunits}

because I don't have this package.
the hyperref package should always be load at the last package.

Herbert

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Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

 Tuukka == Tuukka Toivonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Tuukka On 17 Oct 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If
 you provide a script which does lyx-octave conversion, then it
 should do

Tuukka I suppose it would work also with Maxima (a symbolic algebra
Tuukka system), given a proper conversion script? Really great!

Andre' (our new mathed guru) could probably comment more intelligently
than I do, but the main problem AFAIK is that LaTeX (and thus LyX)
does not have enough structure for some things. For example, if you
write
  x = ab
macsima/octave/maple will have to guess that there is an implied *
between a and b. Similarly for
  x = \int_0^1 f(x)dx

JMarc



RE: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Zailong Bian

Thanks.

What I tried to do is to export to latex and edit the stuff by hand.  I
change the order of the usepackages and the inserted code from that trick.
I discovered that I need to load the trick code last.  If I put it in
stdlayours.inc or scrreport.inc, that code will be loaded before hyperref,
which causes the problem.

So what I did:  split the trick mentioned, one part goes to scrreprt.inc:

Style ShortCaption
 CopyStyle Caption
 LatexName setshortcaption
 LabelString   SCaption:
 LabelType Static
End

And all the actual code goes to latex premeable (menu).  After that, the
problem is gone.

I will try to put hyperref at the end to see if that works too.

Zailong

-Original Message-
From: Herbert Voss
To: Zailong Bian
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '
Sent: 10/17/2001 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

Zailong Bian wrote:
 
 I use the trick quiet often until recently I discovered a conflict.
If I
 put hyperref in the preamble, the short caption will not show up in
LOF! The
 long caption show up instead.  If I remove hyperref, then it all
becomes
 normal.  But I need hyperref!
 
 Please see the attached example file.
 
 The short caption trick I mentioned is here (the nicer solution):
 
 http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/floats/caption.html#short
 
 I looked at the hyperref package and got only headache.  I am not sure
what
 to change to make it work.  Can anyone help?

I have no problem to run your example:

lyx 1.1.6fix3

but of course I had to omment out
%\usepackage{bibunits}

because I don't have this package.
the hyperref package should always be load at the last package.

Herbert

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Re: multiple files

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:27:11PM +0200, Davide Cavallari wrote:
 On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 07:17:24PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote:
  Even symbolic links are unnecessary.
  You can put
  
  \usepackage{graphics,epsfig}
  \newcommand{\setpath}[1]{
   \def\input@path{{PATH/#1//}}
   \graphicspath{{PATH/#1//}}
  }
  
  Where PATH is the path to the directory of the master file e.g /home/me/thesis
  and then put \setpath{chap1} in latex mode before including chapter1.
 
 I have used this method and till today it worked. Now I have a figure
 composed by both a .tex part and a .ps one. These parts are generated by
 gnuplot and the .tex part calls the .ps one with:
 
 \special{psfile=figure.ps llx=0 lly=0 urx=720 ury=504 rwi=7200}

Why do you generate two files ?
When I tried using the pslatex output of gnuplot, I got only one .tex file
which embed the Postscript file into it.
There is no problem with such a file.



Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss

Zailong Bian wrote:
 
 Hello.  I double checked, putting hyperref at the last won't fix my problem.
 When you ran my sample, did you really see This one should be there! in
 the LOF?  If you saw My figure, that's exactly my problem.

can't remember, deleted all files ...

Herbert

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Re: Title customization...

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:50:02PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
  * Put the chapter/section/etc. titles in Arial (or Helvetica, isn't it
  the same?).
 
 no! arial is something from the micros$ft world.
 choose package helvet

This will not change the font in the section titles.

 
  * Reduce the space between the title and the first paragraph.
 
 should be possible with cursor in the first line of the
 paragraph and than
 layout-paragraph-space over-length--1cm

As I understand, Ben wanted reduce the spacing around section titles, so
this is a bad solution.

A simple solution for both of the above is to put the following line in the
preamble:
\usepackage[sf,compact]{titlesec}



Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Mark Esplin

My dream of the future would would be that all software that displays or 
uses mathematical equations would support a common interchange format like 
MathML at the clipboard level.  That way we could cut and past equations from 
any application to any other application.  MathML is an XML based description 
language (See http://www.w3.org/Math/).  However, I am not sure that even 
MathML has enough information to actually describe the math of the equation 
and not just how it appears on the screen.  

  -Mark Esplin

 However, I would have some much less complicated proposal. Would it be
 possible to persuade Mathed, that it would insert in Clipboard (Ctrl-C)
 matrix, equation, formula, etc. so that it may be easily inserted into
 octave? I mean, that for above shown matrix, a content of clipboard
 (when whole first line is selected) would be a=[1,2,3;2,3,1;3,1,2]?

 Thanks anyway -- I shock all my classmates (economists usually work with
 M$ trash) with super beautiful equatioins in Computer Modern fonts (and
 advertising LyX by that)!

   Have a nice day

   Matej

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Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:33:40AM -0400, Zailong Bian wrote:

 Style ShortCaption
  CopyStyle Caption
  LatexName setshortcaption
  LabelString   SCaption:
  LabelType Static
 End
 
 And all the actual code goes to latex premeable (menu).  After that, the
 problem is gone.

You can use the following (and nothing in the preamble):

Style ShortCaption
  CopyStyle Caption
  LatexName setshortcaption
  LabelString   SCaption:
  LabelType Static
  Preamble
\AtBeginDocument{
\let\oldcaption=\caption
\renewcommand{\caption}[1]{
\ifx \shortcaption \undefined%
   \oldcaption{#1}%
\else%
   \oldcaption[\shortcaption]{#1}%
\fi%
}}
\newcommand{\setshortcaption}[1]{
\newcommand{\shortcaption}{#1}
}
  EndPreamble
End



updating dvi

2001-10-17 Thread Davide Cavallari

In an older version it was possible to update the DVI, without calling a
new xdvi window. In version 1.1.6 fix3 this doesn't seem to be possible
anymore. Or am I missing something..?
Thkz
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Re: Still having troubles with my bibliography

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:13:21PM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote:
 I have created one citation reference in the lyx file.  What I get when I
 run the DVI preview is [?] and no list of references.

I tried it (after adding \usepackage{natbib} to the preamble), and it worked
correctly.

 I want my references to look like this (Howard 1960).  Or possibly, blah,
 blah, yakety yak by Howard. (1960).
 
 With the Bibliography to follow this format.
 
 Howard, R.A. 1960. Dynamic programming and Markov processes.  M.I.T.
 Press. Cambridge, MA.
 
 So, possibly I have been asking the wrong question.  Does anyone know of a
 bst that will do the job for me, or is rolling my own the solution?

Use one of the .bst file harvard (agsm, apsr, dcu etc.)



Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Matej Cepl

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:28:16AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If you
 provide a script which does lyx-octave conversion, then it should do
 something similar to what you need...

I am probably not enough courageous to try *cvs version (I need LyX for
real work and I do not want to compile anyway), but I promise, that I
shall go for *pre1 version, when it will be available.

Thanks

Matej Cepl

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Re: multiple files

2001-10-17 Thread Davide Cavallari

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:13:05PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote:
 On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:27:11PM +0200, Davide Cavallari wrote:
  
  I have used this method and till today it worked. Now I have a figure
  composed by both a .tex part and a .ps one. These parts are generated by
  gnuplot and the .tex part calls the .ps one with:
  
  \special{psfile=figure.ps llx=0 lly=0 urx=720 ury=504 rwi=7200}
 
 Why do you generate two files ?
 When I tried using the pslatex output of gnuplot, I got only one .tex file
 which embed the Postscript file into it.
 There is no problem with such a file.

I have tried with the standard 'pslatex' terminal, but with some huge 
graphs latex goes out of memory. I don't know the reason, but using the
'auxfile' option (getting so the PS code in a separate file) fixes this
problem.
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Re: Longtable increases table number

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss

Rainer Dorsch wrote:
 
 float environments like figure and table have their respective counters. If a
 longtable occurs not within such an environment, it increases the
 float-counter for tables anyway.
 
 A reference document ist at
 
 http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~rainer/Download/table.lyx
 
 The tables are numbered 1, 2, 4 instead of 1, 2, 3.
 
 Is that a lyx or a longtable bug?
 
 Does anybody know a workaround?

lontable uses the same counter than tabular. 
write in preamble:

\let\myEnd\endlongtable
\renewcommand\endlongtable{\myEnd\addtocounter{table}{-1}}

if you have a mix of longtable with and without captions,
than write after every longtable:

\addtocounter{table}{-1}

Herbert

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two column standard-style

2001-10-17 Thread morten




hi

I would like to do the following

Title

Section 1
xx xxx
xx xxx
xx xx

Section 2
xx xxx
xx xxx
xx xx

Like in each section is seperated and two columns. 
Something like a Standard (two column)-style is what I seek.

any easy way of doing this? I have found the two-columns checkbox under
documents, but it works for making everything into two colums.

mo




Re: two column standard-style

2001-10-17 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan

Use the multicols package.

This is all detailed in the Extended.lyx

---Kayvan

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:34:55PM +0200, morten wrote:
 
 
 
 hi
 
 I would like to do the following
 
 Title
 
 Section 1
 xx xxx
 xx xxx
 xx xx
 
 Section 2
 xx xxx
 xx xxx
 xx xx
 
 Like in each section is seperated and two columns. 
 Something like a Standard (two column)-style is what I seek.
 
 any easy way of doing this? I have found the two-columns checkbox under
 documents, but it works for making everything into two colums.
 
 mo

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vcard2bib

2001-10-17 Thread Torben Lund

Has anybody got a small script for converting a collection of vcards to
a bib file. This could be very useful for generating address books with
hyperlinks in PDF with pdflatex.

Regards torben


begin:vcard 
n:Lund;Torben Ellegaard
tel;work:+45 3632 3324
x-mozilla-html:FALSE
url:www.drcmr.dk
org:Danish Research Centre for MR
adr:;;Præstøgade 7A 2.;Copenhagen East;;2100;Denmark
version:2.1
email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
title:M.Sc.
x-mozilla-cpt:;30016
fn:Torben Ellegaard Lund
end:vcard



Dictionary

2001-10-17 Thread Glauber Tomaz

Hi,

I've been working with Lyx in Portuguese(Brazil). I'd like to know where I 
can find a dictionary for this language to run the Lyx spelling checker.

Thanks,
Tomaz.

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Book class: preface to TOC

2001-10-17 Thread Mark Hansel

I think this is a wish list item.

With the requisite ERT, I have the preface entry (where preface is
Chapter* environment) properly entered in the TOC and the
\pagenumbering{style} for front matter and regular pages set as desired.

Did I miss a way to do this within lyx?

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Re: Title customization...

2001-10-17 Thread ben

Dekel Tsur a écrit :


 A simple solution for both of the above is to put the following line in the
 preamble:
 \usepackage[sf,compact]{titlesec}

That is exactly what I need! What a wonderful package. Thanks a lot!

BG




Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:38:38AM -0400, Mark Esplin wrote:
   My dream of the future would would be that all software that displays or 
 uses mathematical equations would support a common interchange format like 
 MathML at the clipboard level.  That way we could cut and past equations from 
 any application to any other application.  MathML is an XML based description 
 language (See http://www.w3.org/Math/).  However, I am not sure that even 
 MathML has enough information to actually describe the math of the equation 
 and not just how it appears on the screen.  
 
   -Mark Esplin
  It has, for most of it. There are two flavors, presentational and
content-based. Think of presentational as latex-like and the content-based
as algebraic manipulator like.

  But since this isn't a perfect world, you will not fulfill your dream so
soon, but not as late as you are afraid. ;-)

-- 
José



Reference for US letter layout

2001-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard

  I cannot find information in the users guide (basic or advanced) or the
reference manual (not even the tutorial!) that tells me how to define the
components of a letter.

  I was sent a letter via e-mail and imported it into LyX. I selected the
letter document class but I cannot get the send to address or the
signature to show up when I preview the printed output via ^d. Also, I
cannot get the date (which is not today's) to show up.

  Where do I find a detailed reference to the components of a letter? I
figured that this would be a good way for a LyX newcomer to learn the letter
documant class (I'm already working on a book and an article). But, I cannot
find the information by myself.

TIA,

Rich

Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President

   Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
2404 SW 22nd Street | Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 | U.S.A.
 + 1 503-667-4517 (voice) | + 1 503-667-8863 (fax) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 http://www.appl-ecosys.com




Pagination and current date in header

2001-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard

  I've looked at Herbert Voss' web site and some of the more recent mail
list messages without finding the answer to these questions.

  For many US business letters, the second and subsequent pages contain a
header that looks like this:

Recipient Name
current date
page page_number

  From what I've learned, I can use either \lhead for each of those lines,
or \fancyhead[LO,RO] {} for each line. I don't understand how these two
forms differ in results. But, what I'd like to do is have the send-to name
and date automatically picked up from page one, and the pagination start
with '2'. Of course, this is suppressed on page 1.

  Is there a reference I can read to learn how to do this? If not, can
someone please provide me with the preamble code to use?

Thanks,

Rich

Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President

   Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
2404 SW 22nd Street | Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 | U.S.A.
 + 1 503-667-4517 (voice) | + 1 503-667-8863 (fax) | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 http://www.appl-ecosys.com




Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Fernando Pérez

  This is a highly non-trivial task to accomplish. The real kicker wouldn't
  be so much to integrate with a numerics-only package like octave, but
  rather with a full-fledged technical computing environment like Mathematica
  or Maple. Unfortunately there's no real open source equivalent to these
  two, but they both offer well defined low-level communication interfaces.
  So it's not impossible, and in fact quite interesting. But a lot of work.
  Maybe when Lyx 2.0 with clean qt/gtk front ends is out and stable, the
  developers will turn their attention to such esoteric projects. But don't
  hold your breath, you might turn purple...
 
 How about SciLab?

Well, to be honest I've only briefly played with it so I may be way off.
But my impression is that nothing in the open source world comes even close
to Mathematica or Maple. Unfortunately the kind of expertise needed for
that stuff is quite esoteric and it just isn't that easy to gather enough
voluntary contributors for such a complex project. As I said, maybe Scilab
will become competitive, I'm just not too hopeful. Very specialized
software is one of those ecological niches where I think proprietary
software has a good chance of survival. Not that I like it, mind you (If
you've ever dealt with Wolfram about a bug or licensing you know what I
mean) but I just think it's the way it goes.

Cheers,

f




letters & margins

2001-10-17 Thread Rodney K

HI,

I have created a new letter from the letter template, but I have huge margins 
on the top which I cannot  get rid of for some reason. I would like to get 1" 
margins all around if possible.

Thanks,
Rodney



Re: updating dvi

2001-10-17 Thread Allan Rae

On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Davide Cavallari wrote:

> In an older version it was possible to update the DVI, without calling a
> new xdvi window. In version 1.1.6 fix3 this doesn't seem to be possible
> anymore. Or am I missing something..?

View->Update->DVI

Allan. (ARRae)




Re: Still having troubles with my bibliography

2001-10-17 Thread Dave Chapeskie

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:13:21PM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote:
> I have attached a lyx file, 2 different bib files and a bst file.  The bst
> I created using makebst.tex.

You only included one of the bib files in your LyX file, you can include
both by separating their names with a comma in the "BibTeX Generated
References" popup.

> I have created one citation reference in the lyx file.  What I get when I
> run the DVI preview is [?] and no list of references.

Also useful for testing bib and bst files is using \nocite{*} in ERT, it
causes every bib entry to get included in the bibliography.

> So, possibly I have been asking the wrong question.  Does anyone know of a
> bst that will do the job for me, or is rolling my own the solution?

I don't know the answer to that, but I found the makebst options that
are causing the errors.


> %% merlin.mbs  (with options: 
>`,ay,har,harnm,nm-rvv,ed-rev,keyxyr,dt-beg,yr-per,note-yr,jwdpg,jwdvol,pre-pub,isbn,issn,url,url-blk,blk-tit,pp,xedn,nfss')
> %% 
> %% *** This is to follow the CSCE format ***

I could find no documentation on 'har' and 'harnm' options (but I didn't
look very hard), I had to remove both of them to get rid of the errors :-(.

The 'jwdpg' and 'jwdvol' options don't seem to play well with each
other.  Removing either one (in addition to removing the har* options)
made the resulting in your files formatting without any errors.

>  % Name and version information of the main mbs file:
>  % \ProvidesFile{merlin.mbs}[1999/05/28 3.89 (PWD)]
>  %   For use with BibTeX version 0.99a or later

I happened to be using the exact same versions.  Perhaps look for a newer
version (or even an older version) of the merlin.mbs or makebst.text
files.  Alternatively try a different *.mbs file.  I don't know much
about makebst or *.mbs files, I just know that my TeX distribution has
several of them.

-- 
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Re: RE: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-17 Thread Guenter Milde

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 18:17:01 +0200 wrote "Saalfeld, Christoph" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> 
> > > > 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have 
> > a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for 
> > footnotes, which supports cut and paste and everything like 
> > normal text. Every text in this box should be automatically 
> > understood as red text, and if you close the box, your screen 
> > is clean (except of a small label). Of course that has 
> > nothing to do with functionality, it's just a way to hide ERT.
> > > 
> > > This is in version 1.2.
> > > 
> > That's good news
> 
> Yeah, really. Is it possible to give these boxes a name, that will be
> displayed in LyX only ?
> E.g. "List of Listings" for inserting the list of listings
> (\lstlistoflistings) included with "listings.sty"
> 
> Christoph


This is what you do by writing a .layout file. An example for the seminar
style would be

Style ListOfSlides
  KeepEmpty1
  NextNoIndent1
  LatexTypeCommand
  LatexNamelistofslides
  LabelTypeCentered_Top_Environment
  LabelString"List Of Slides"
  LabelBottomSep 0
End

See the files in the /layout dir of LyX and the Customization guide.

Guenter


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Re: Some observations and suggestions

2001-10-17 Thread Gerhard Schuck

On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:42:00 +0200 (CEST)
Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:54:26 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:42:05 +0200 (CEST)
> > Guenter Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 11:19:09 +0900 wrote Gerhard Schuck 
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > 
> > > > 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for
> > > > latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and
> > > > paste and everything like normal text. Every text in this box should be
> > > > automatically understood as red text, and if you close the box, your screen
> > > > is clean (except of a small label). Of course that has nothing to do with
> > > > functionality, it's just a way to hide ERT.
> > > 
> > > This is already possible with the undocumented ERT-inset, see the attached
> > > example.
> > 
> > Thanks, that sounds nice. But I didn't find your attachment (perhaps because of 
>the immaturity of sylpheed, my mail program).
> 
> More likely becouse I forgot to attch.
> 
> Here it comes included
> 
> #LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
> \lyxformat 218
> \textclass scrartcl_srh
> \begin_preamble
> > \renewcommand{\Im}{\mathrm{Im}}
> \renewcommand{\Re}{\mathrm{Re}}
> > \renewcommand{\vec}[1]{\textbf{\itshape #1}}
> \end_preamble
> \language german
> \inputencoding latin1
> \fontscheme default
> \graphics default
> \paperfontsize default
> \spacing single 
> \papersize a4paper
> \paperpackage a4
> \use_geometry 1
> \use_amsmath 0
> \paperorientation portrait
> \leftmargin 2cm
> \topmargin 1cm
> \rightmargin 2cm
> \bottommargin 1cm
> \secnumdepth 3
> \tocdepth 3
> \paragraph_separation skip
> \defskip medskip
> \quotes_language german
> \quotes_times 2
> \papercolumns 1
> \papersides 1
> \paperpagestyle plain
> 
> \layout Standard
> 
> The 
> \family typewriter 
> ert-inset
> \family default 
>  command produces an ERT-box you can use ERT you want to hide:
> \layout Standard
> 
> It normaly comes in Standard Style - which is not ERT! 
> \layout Standard
> 
> Ein Test der ERT_box 
> \begin_inset ERT
> collapsed true
> 
> \layout Standard
> 
> 
> \backslash 
> small kleiner Text
> \end_inset 
> 
>  und normaler Text.
> \layout Standard
> 
> It works, if you set the Paragraph Style to LaTeX (changing font attributes
>  doesnot work):
> \layout Standard
> 
> Ein Test der ERT_box 
> \begin_inset ERT
> collapsed true
> 
> \layout LaTeX
> 
> {
> \backslash 
> small kleiner Text}
> \end_inset 
> 
>  und normaler Text.
> \layout Standard
> 
> Latex directives in the box affect the following text.
> \layout Standard
> 
> Ein Test der ERT_box 
> \begin_inset ERT
> collapsed true
> 
> \layout LaTeX
> 
> 
> \backslash 
> small kleiner Text
> \end_inset 
> 
>  und normaler Text.
> \the_end
> 
> 
> GM
> 
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 


Yes, that worked. Thank you. But is it safe to use? Are there problems to expect, e.g. 
if you want to open a document with this ert-inset with a future version of lyx?

Gerhard Schuck
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Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

> "Matej" == Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Matej> Now when pressing some hotkey, I would love that LyX would
Matej> insert -18 (determinant of the matrix A). I believe that such
Matej> functionality would be something further moving LyX from "just
Matej> better editor" to real killer-application.

LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If you
provide a script which does lyx<->octave conversion, then it should do
something similar to what you need...

JMarc



Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Tuukka Toivonen

On 17 Oct 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

>LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If you
>provide a script which does lyx<->octave conversion, then it should do

I suppose it would work also with Maxima (a symbolic algebra system),
given a proper conversion script? Really great!

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Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Ben Logan

> This is a highly non-trivial task to accomplish. The real kicker wouldn't
> be so much to integrate with a numerics-only package like octave, but
> rather with a full-fledged technical computing environment like Mathematica
> or Maple. Unfortunately there's no real open source equivalent to these
> two, but they both offer well defined low-level communication interfaces.
> So it's not impossible, and in fact quite interesting. But a lot of work.
> Maybe when Lyx 2.0 with clean qt/gtk front ends is out and stable, the
> developers will turn their attention to such esoteric projects. But don't
> hold your breath, you might turn purple...

How about SciLab?

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Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss

Zailong Bian wrote:
> 
> I use the trick quiet often until recently I discovered a conflict.  If I
> put hyperref in the preamble, the short caption will not show up in LOF! The
> long caption show up instead.  If I remove hyperref, then it all becomes
> normal.  But I need hyperref!
> 
> Please see the attached example file.
> 
> The short caption trick I mentioned is here (the nicer solution):
> 
> http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/floats/caption.html#short
> 
> I looked at the hyperref package and got only headache.  I am not sure what
> to change to make it work.  Can anyone help?

I have no problem to run your example:

lyx 1.1.6fix3

but of course I had to omment out
%\usepackage{bibunits}

because I don't have this package.
the hyperref package should always be load at the last package.

Herbert

-- 
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Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes

> "Tuukka" == Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Tuukka> On 17 Oct 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If
>> you provide a script which does lyx<->octave conversion, then it
>> should do

Tuukka> I suppose it would work also with Maxima (a symbolic algebra
Tuukka> system), given a proper conversion script? Really great!

Andre' (our new mathed guru) could probably comment more intelligently
than I do, but the main problem AFAIK is that LaTeX (and thus LyX)
does not have enough structure for some things. For example, if you
write
  x = ab
macsima/octave/maple will have to guess that there is an implied *
between a and b. Similarly for
  x = \int_0^1 f(x)dx

JMarc



RE: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Zailong Bian

Thanks.

What I tried to do is to export to latex and edit the stuff by hand.  I
change the order of the usepackages and the inserted code from that trick.
I discovered that I need to load the trick code last.  If I put it in
stdlayours.inc or scrreport.inc, that code will be loaded before hyperref,
which causes the problem.

So what I did:  split the trick mentioned, one part goes to scrreprt.inc:

Style ShortCaption
 CopyStyle Caption
 LatexName setshortcaption
 LabelString   "SCaption:"
 LabelType Static
End

And all the actual code goes to latex premeable (menu).  After that, the
problem is gone.

I will try to put hyperref at the end to see if that works too.

Zailong

-Original Message-
From: Herbert Voss
To: Zailong Bian
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '
Sent: 10/17/2001 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

Zailong Bian wrote:
> 
> I use the trick quiet often until recently I discovered a conflict.
If I
> put hyperref in the preamble, the short caption will not show up in
LOF! The
> long caption show up instead.  If I remove hyperref, then it all
becomes
> normal.  But I need hyperref!
> 
> Please see the attached example file.
> 
> The short caption trick I mentioned is here (the nicer solution):
> 
> http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/floats/caption.html#short
> 
> I looked at the hyperref package and got only headache.  I am not sure
what
> to change to make it work.  Can anyone help?

I have no problem to run your example:

lyx 1.1.6fix3

but of course I had to omment out
%\usepackage{bibunits}

because I don't have this package.
the hyperref package should always be load at the last package.

Herbert

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



Re: multiple files

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:27:11PM +0200, Davide Cavallari wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 07:17:24PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> > Even symbolic links are unnecessary.
> > You can put
> > 
> > \usepackage{graphics,epsfig}
> > \newcommand{\setpath}[1]{
> >  \def\input@path{{PATH/#1//}}
> >  \graphicspath{{PATH/#1//}}
> > }
> > 
> > Where PATH is the path to the directory of the master file e.g /home/me/thesis
> > and then put \setpath{chap1} in latex mode before including chapter1.
> 
> I have used this method and till today it worked. Now I have a figure
> composed by both a .tex part and a .ps one. These parts are generated by
> gnuplot and the .tex part calls the .ps one with:
> 
> \special{psfile=figure.ps llx=0 lly=0 urx=720 ury=504 rwi=7200}

Why do you generate two files ?
When I tried using the pslatex output of gnuplot, I got only one .tex file
which embed the Postscript file into it.
There is no problem with such a file.



Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss

Zailong Bian wrote:
> 
> Hello.  I double checked, putting hyperref at the last won't fix my problem.
> When you ran my sample, did you really see "This one should be there!" in
> the LOF?  If you saw "My figure", that's exactly my problem.

can't remember, deleted all files ...

Herbert

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




Re: Title customization...

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 07:50:02PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> > * Put the chapter/section/etc. titles in Arial (or Helvetica, isn't it
> > the same?).
> 
> no! arial is something from the micros$ft world.
> choose package helvet

This will not change the font in the section titles.

> 
> > * Reduce the space between the title and the first paragraph.
> 
> should be possible with cursor in the first line of the
> paragraph and than
> layout->paragraph->space over->length->-1cm

As I understand, Ben wanted reduce the spacing around section titles, so
this is a bad solution.

A simple solution for both of the above is to put the following line in the
preamble:
\usepackage[sf,compact]{titlesec}



Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Mark Esplin

My dream of the future would would be that all software that displays or 
uses mathematical equations would support a common interchange format like 
MathML at the clipboard level.  That way we could cut and past equations from 
any application to any other application.  MathML is an XML based description 
language (See http://www.w3.org/Math/).  However, I am not sure that even 
MathML has enough information to actually describe the math of the equation 
and not just how it appears on the screen.  

  -Mark Esplin

> However, I would have some much less complicated proposal. Would it be
> possible to persuade Mathed, that it would insert in Clipboard (Ctrl-C)
> matrix, equation, formula, etc. so that it may be easily inserted into
> octave? I mean, that for above shown matrix, a content of clipboard
> (when whole first line is selected) would be a=[1,2,3;2,3,1;3,1,2]?
>
> Thanks anyway -- I shock all my classmates (economists usually work with
> M$ trash) with super beautiful equatioins in Computer Modern fonts (and
> advertising LyX by that)!
>
>   Have a nice day
>
>   Matej

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Re: Conflict between hyperref and shortcaption trick!

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 08:33:40AM -0400, Zailong Bian wrote:

> Style ShortCaption
>  CopyStyle Caption
>  LatexName setshortcaption
>  LabelString   "SCaption:"
>  LabelType Static
> End
> 
> And all the actual code goes to latex premeable (menu).  After that, the
> problem is gone.

You can use the following (and nothing in the preamble):

Style ShortCaption
  CopyStyle Caption
  LatexName setshortcaption
  LabelString   "SCaption:"
  LabelType Static
  Preamble
\AtBeginDocument{
\let\oldcaption=\caption
\renewcommand{\caption}[1]{
\ifx \shortcaption \undefined%
   \oldcaption{#1}%
\else%
   \oldcaption[\shortcaption]{#1}%
\fi%
}}
\newcommand{\setshortcaption}[1]{
\newcommand{\shortcaption}{#1}
}
  EndPreamble
End



updating dvi

2001-10-17 Thread Davide Cavallari

In an older version it was possible to update the DVI, without calling a
new xdvi window. In version 1.1.6 fix3 this doesn't seem to be possible
anymore. Or am I missing something..?
Thkz
-- 
A presto,
Davide Cavallari
The price of success in philosophy is triviality.
-- C. Glymour.



Re: Still having troubles with my bibliography

2001-10-17 Thread Dekel Tsur

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 11:13:21PM -0600, Kent Kostuk wrote:
> I have created one citation reference in the lyx file.  What I get when I
> run the DVI preview is [?] and no list of references.

I tried it (after adding \usepackage{natbib} to the preamble), and it worked
correctly.

> I want my references to look like this (Howard 1960).  Or possibly, blah,
> blah, yakety yak by Howard. (1960).
> 
> With the Bibliography to follow this format.
> 
> Howard, R.A. 1960. Dynamic programming and Markov processes.  M.I.T.
> Press. Cambridge, MA.
> 
> So, possibly I have been asking the wrong question.  Does anyone know of a
> bst that will do the job for me, or is rolling my own the solution?

Use one of the .bst file harvard (agsm, apsr, dcu etc.)



Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Matej Cepl

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 11:28:16AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> LyX 1.2.0cvs already has an experimental math-extern feature. If you
> provide a script which does lyx<->octave conversion, then it should do
> something similar to what you need...

I am probably not enough courageous to try *cvs version (I need LyX for
real work and I do not want to compile anyway), but I promise, that I
shall go for *pre1 version, when it will be available.

Thanks

Matej Cepl

-- 
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individual `crime'
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Re: multiple files

2001-10-17 Thread Davide Cavallari

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 03:13:05PM +0200, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:27:11PM +0200, Davide Cavallari wrote:
> > 
> > I have used this method and till today it worked. Now I have a figure
> > composed by both a .tex part and a .ps one. These parts are generated by
> > gnuplot and the .tex part calls the .ps one with:
> > 
> > \special{psfile=figure.ps llx=0 lly=0 urx=720 ury=504 rwi=7200}
> 
> Why do you generate two files ?
> When I tried using the pslatex output of gnuplot, I got only one .tex file
> which embed the Postscript file into it.
> There is no problem with such a file.

I have tried with the standard 'pslatex' terminal, but with some huge 
graphs latex goes out of memory. I don't know the reason, but using the
'auxfile' option (getting so the PS code in a separate file) fixes this
problem.
-- 
A presto,
Davide Cavallari
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1.  sono Dead Man;
2.  non cercare di fottere Dead Man.



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Re: Longtable increases table number

2001-10-17 Thread Herbert Voss

Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> 
> float environments like figure and table have their respective counters. If a
> longtable occurs not within such an environment, it increases the
> float-counter for tables anyway.
> 
> A reference document ist at
> 
> http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~rainer/Download/table.lyx
> 
> The tables are numbered 1, 2, 4 instead of 1, 2, 3.
> 
> Is that a lyx or a longtable bug?
> 
> Does anybody know a workaround?

lontable uses the same counter than tabular. 
write in preamble:

\let\myEnd\endlongtable
\renewcommand\endlongtable{\myEnd\addtocounter{table}{-1}}

if you have a mix of longtable with and without captions,
than write after every longtable:

\addtocounter{table}{-1}

Herbert

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



two column standard-style

2001-10-17 Thread morten




hi

I would like to do the following

Title

Section 1
xx xxx
xx xxx
xx xx

Section 2
xx xxx
xx xxx
xx xx

Like in each section is seperated and two columns. 
Something like a "Standard (two column)"-style is what I seek.

any easy way of doing this? I have found the two-columns checkbox under
documents, but it works for making everything into two colums.

mo




Re: two column standard-style

2001-10-17 Thread Kayvan A. Sylvan

Use the multicols package.

This is all detailed in the Extended.lyx

---Kayvan

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 10:34:55PM +0200, morten wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> hi
> 
> I would like to do the following
> 
> Title
> 
> Section 1
> xx xxx
> xx xxx
> xx xx
> 
> Section 2
> xx xxx
> xx xxx
> xx xx
> 
> Like in each section is seperated and two columns. 
> Something like a "Standard (two column)"-style is what I seek.
> 
> any easy way of doing this? I have found the two-columns checkbox under
> documents, but it works for making everything into two colums.
> 
> mo

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vcard2bib

2001-10-17 Thread Torben Lund

Has anybody got a small script for converting a collection of vcards to
a bib file. This could be very useful for generating address books with
hyperlinks in PDF with pdflatex.

Regards torben


begin:vcard 
n:Lund;Torben Ellegaard
tel;work:+45 3632 3324
x-mozilla-html:FALSE
url:www.drcmr.dk
org:Danish Research Centre for MR
adr:;;Præstøgade 7A 2.;Copenhagen East;;2100;Denmark
version:2.1
email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
title:M.Sc.
x-mozilla-cpt:;30016
fn:Torben Ellegaard Lund
end:vcard



Dictionary

2001-10-17 Thread Glauber Tomaz

Hi,

I've been working with Lyx in Portuguese(Brazil). I'd like to know where I 
can find a dictionary for this language to run the Lyx spelling checker.

Thanks,
Tomaz.

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Book class: "preface" to TOC

2001-10-17 Thread Mark Hansel

I think this is a "wish list" item.

With the requisite ERT, I have the preface entry (where preface is
Chapter* environment) properly entered in the TOC and the
\pagenumbering{style} for front matter and regular pages set as desired.

Did I miss a way to do this within lyx?

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Re: Title customization...

2001-10-17 Thread ben

Dekel Tsur a écrit :

>
> A simple solution for both of the above is to put the following line in the
> preamble:
> \usepackage[sf,compact]{titlesec}

That is exactly what I need! What a wonderful package. Thanks a lot!

BG




Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos

On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 09:38:38AM -0400, Mark Esplin wrote:
>   My dream of the future would would be that all software that displays or 
> uses mathematical equations would support a common interchange format like 
> MathML at the clipboard level.  That way we could cut and past equations from 
> any application to any other application.  MathML is an XML based description 
> language (See http://www.w3.org/Math/).  However, I am not sure that even 
> MathML has enough information to actually describe the math of the equation 
> and not just how it appears on the screen.  
> 
>   -Mark Esplin
  It has, for most of it. There are two flavors, presentational and
content-based. Think of presentational as latex-like and the content-based
as algebraic manipulator like.

  But since this isn't a perfect world, you will not fulfill your dream so
soon, but not as late as you are afraid. ;-)

-- 
José



Reference for US letter layout

2001-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard

  I cannot find information in the users guide (basic or advanced) or the
reference manual (not even the tutorial!) that tells me how to define the
components of a letter.

  I was sent a letter via e-mail and imported it into LyX. I selected the
"letter" document class but I cannot get the "send to address" or the
"signature" to show up when I preview the printed output via ^d. Also, I
cannot get the date (which is not today's) to show up.

  Where do I find a detailed reference to the components of a letter? I
figured that this would be a good way for a LyX newcomer to learn the letter
documant class (I'm already working on a book and an article). But, I cannot
find the information by myself.

TIA,

Rich

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Pagination and current date in header

2001-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard

  I've looked at Herbert Voss' web site and some of the more recent mail
list messages without finding the answer to these questions.

  For many US business letters, the second and subsequent pages contain a
header that looks like this:



page 

  From what I've learned, I can use either \lhead for each of those lines,
or \fancyhead[LO,RO] {} for each line. I don't understand how these two
forms differ in results. But, what I'd like to do is have the "send-to name"
and date automatically picked up from page one, and the pagination start
with '2'. Of course, this is suppressed on page 1.

  Is there a reference I can read to learn how to do this? If not, can
someone please provide me with the preamble code to use?

Thanks,

Rich

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   Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
2404 SW 22nd Street | Troutdale, OR 97060-1247 | U.S.A.
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Re: Octave support -- a wish

2001-10-17 Thread Fernando Pérez

> > This is a highly non-trivial task to accomplish. The real kicker wouldn't
> > be so much to integrate with a numerics-only package like octave, but
> > rather with a full-fledged technical computing environment like Mathematica
> > or Maple. Unfortunately there's no real open source equivalent to these
> > two, but they both offer well defined low-level communication interfaces.
> > So it's not impossible, and in fact quite interesting. But a lot of work.
> > Maybe when Lyx 2.0 with clean qt/gtk front ends is out and stable, the
> > developers will turn their attention to such esoteric projects. But don't
> > hold your breath, you might turn purple...
> 
> How about SciLab?

Well, to be honest I've only briefly played with it so I may be way off.
But my impression is that nothing in the open source world comes even close
to Mathematica or Maple. Unfortunately the kind of expertise needed for
that stuff is quite esoteric and it just isn't that easy to gather enough
voluntary contributors for such a complex project. As I said, maybe Scilab
will become competitive, I'm just not too hopeful. Very specialized
software is one of those ecological niches where I think proprietary
software has a good chance of survival. Not that I like it, mind you (If
you've ever dealt with Wolfram about a bug or licensing you know what I
mean) but I just think it's the way it goes.

Cheers,

f