formatting a book
I am using Lyx 1.1.6fix4 (NetBSD package lyx-1.1.6.4nb2). I am formatting a 70-page book. First I used Document Class book and then tried the other two book types. I am now using book (koma-script). I see it at layouts/scrbook.layout, but where is the documentation? The Paper section didn't show the default values for the margins or Foot/Head margins. Where are these defined (so I can have something to base my changes on)? Also, I don't see Headheight, Headsep, and Footskip in my documentation. Where are these explained? (I guess I should try newer Lyx docs.) I want over an inch of blank space between the bottom of my test on each page and the actual end of the page. But I still wnat the the page numbers near the bottom. How can I choose the amount of whitespace between the bottom of the text and the page numbers at the bottom? Where is the documentation for Pagestyle fancy? It makes my headers usually look nice, but then I noticed that it has the section text and the chapter name at the same place at top and one overwrites the other. How can I make it so the chapter is on the even left pages and the section is on the right odd pages? Is there a way to place crop marks so the printer can know where to cut the papers? The drop down has many choices like: Addchap, Addsec, minisec, Extratitle. Where are all these explained? I sure like the LyX footnotes, indexing, and table of contents tools. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
inserting preformated text
I am trying to figure out how to include performatted text.
I am using old LyX 1.1.6fix4.
I have been using LaTeX like:
\begin{verbatim}
% setenv BLOCKSIZE 1M
% swapinfo Device 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/da0b 2047 0 2047 0% Interleaved
\end{verbatim}
But it doesn't preserve the formatting that uses spaces or tabs. (For
example, the Capacity and the 0% should be lined up above.)
Any suggestions on how I can include tab or space formatted text in my
books and handouts?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
Re: ASCII export
Max == Max Bian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Max There is problem with the ASCII export function. When I have Max multiple files included, those files are not exported. Max It will be nice to be able to export those together. ASCII export is not really in a useful state... It has lots of shortcoming and nobody touched it for a long time. JMarc
Re: formatting a book
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I am using Lyx 1.1.6fix4 (NetBSD package lyx-1.1.6.4nb2). Consider upgrading. The most recent version is 1.3.0 I am formatting a 70-page book. First I used Document Class book and then tried the other two book types. I am now using book (koma-script). I see it at layouts/scrbook.layout, but where is the documentation? A short introduction is in Extended.lyx, Section 2.7 There is a long english documentation for koma-script available. I'd recommend reading this, since all your questions will be answered there: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script/scrguien.pdf Please make shure to update to a recent koma-script version. The Paper section didn't show the default values for the margins or Foot/Head margins. Where are these defined (so I can have something to base my changes on)? Also, I don't see Headheight, Headsep, and Footskip in my documentation. Where are these explained? (I guess I should try newer Lyx docs.) LyX uses the geometry package. But if you use KOMA, I would recommend to use komas sophisticated page setting tools, which are explained in the scrguide documentation. I want over an inch of blank space between the bottom of my test on each page and the actual end of the page. But I still wnat the the page numbers near the bottom. How can I choose the amount of whitespace between the bottom of the text and the page numbers at the bottom? Where is the documentation for Pagestyle fancy? http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.pdf Again, I'd recommend to use KOMAs own package, scrpage2, instaed, which is much better and easier. This is described in the KOMA docu. It makes my headers usually look nice, but then I noticed that it has the section text and the chapter name at the same place at top and one overwrites the other. How can I make it so the chapter is on the even left pages and the section is on the right odd pages? See scrpage2 documentation. Is there a way to place crop marks so the printer can know where to cut the papers? Package crop.sty http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop/ The drop down has many choices like: Addchap, Addsec, minisec, Extratitle. Where are all these explained? Extended LyX, scrguide. See above. HTH, Jürgen
pdf figures in lyx
Hi! I have Lyx 1.2.1. Is there a way to make pdf figures appear in the document while editing it? THX, Alexander Please reply to alexander(at)wackazong.com
Compiling LyX 1.3.0 in SuSE Linux 8.1
I was unable to compile LyX 1.3.0 in SuSE Linux 8.1, although previous vesions of LyX have been compiled succesfully in the same system. I have upgraded xforms to version 1.0, so this is not the reason of the problem. The LyX configure script says that everything is ok, but compilation of the program stops with an Internal compiler error. Does anyone have any idea? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Re: Compiling LyX 1.3.0 in SuSE Linux 8.1
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:12:13AM -0800, Panayotis Papassotiriou wrote: The LyX configure script says that everything is ok, but compilation of the program stops with an Internal compiler error. Does anyone have any idea? Compiler bug. What compiler are you using and where does it happen? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Problem after updating to lyx 1.3.0
Hi all,
I have been using lyx for a few months (in windows and in linux). I
looked at the web page yesterday and I found that lyx 1.3.0 was
available. I downloaded the new version and follow the procedure step
by step to install it in windows. I also changed my latex from Miktex
to fptex.
Lyx opens normally, but when I try to view my old documents using view
- dvi, I have latex errors which where not present before:
There were errors during the LaTex run
One error detected
You should try to fix it
and the error is:
LaTeX Error: File 'Float.sty' not found.
\usepackage
{graphicx}^^M
***(cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)
When I create a new document it works perfectly. Does someone has an
idea how to fix this problem because I cannot use my old files...
Regards
Jose
Re: Compiling LyX 1.3.0 in SuSE Linux 8.1
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:12:13AM -0800, Panayotis Papassotiriou wrote: The LyX configure script says that everything is ok, but compilation of the program stops with an Internal compiler error. Does anyone have any idea? Compiler bug. Known bug. You need to update the compiler suite with the packages from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/gcc/8.1/ Or its mirrors. That's the version I used to create the RPM's with the qt frontend. They are not in the online update system Paul
Re: pdf figures in lyx
alexander wrote: Hi! Hello, Alexander. I have Lyx 1.2.1. Consider upgrading to 1.2.3 which is a bugfix release, squashing several bugs in 1.2.1 or to the recently released 1.3 release whose graphics handling is far less clunky. Is there a way to make pdf figures appear in the document while editing it? Yes. However, LyX does not do this itself but rather uses an external 'converter' to create an image file in a format that it can load. LyX has two possible graphics loaders in the 1.2 series. If your version of the xforms GUI library is old, the we supply our own, limited graphics loader which can load only XPM format images. If you are using a more recent version of the xforms library, then we use the image loader supplied with it. This loader is more powerful and can load several different graphics formats. Running from the console: $ lyx -dbg graphics I get the following message: The image loader can load the following directly: Windows/OS2 BMP file, extension bmp NASA/NOST FITS, extension fits CompuServ GIF, extension gif JPEG/JFIF format, extension jpg Portable Pixmap, extension ppm Portable Graymap, extension pgm Portable Bitmap, extension pbm SGI Iris, extension sgi Tag Image File Format, extension tif X11 Bitmap, extension xbm X Window Dump, extension xwd which shows I have a 'modern' xforms library. In fact, I'm running LyX 1.3 here which supports only versions of the xforms library modern enough to have this graphics loader. So, how do you define your converter? If no converters are defined, then LyX uses a simple script convertDefault.sh to perform these conversions. You'll find it in /usr/local/share/lyx/scripts (if you installed LyX in /usr/local). In turn, this script is a wrapper for ImageMagick's 'convert' program. So, question 1: do you have Imagemagick installed? Here I find from 'man ImageMagick' that it supports conversion from PDF format, so I suspect that the reason why things are failing for you is that you don't have 'convert'. 'lyx -dbg graphics' should produce a large amount of information to help you track down what's going wrong. You can specify your own converter by defining formats and converter in the Edit-Preferences dialog. Something like From: PDF To: PPM Converter: convert $$i PPM:$$o would work for me. If you are using an old version of the xforms GUI library, you should also define From: PPM To: XPM Converter: ppmtoxpm $$i $$o You should NOT try and use 'convert' to go all the way to XPM format; 'convert' can produce XPM files that cannot be read by the xforms image loader and, indeed, can crash both xforms and LyX. If you decide to upgrade to LyX 1.3 and also decide to use the Qt frontend, then you'll be able to define a converter to PNG format which results in far smaller files than the equivalent PPM format. HTH, -- Angus
Re: Problem after updating to lyx 1.3.0
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:26:38AM -0600, Jose wrote: I have been using lyx for a few months (in windows and in linux). I looked at the web page yesterday and I found that lyx 1.3.0 was available. I downloaded the new version and follow the procedure step by step to install it in windows. I also changed my latex from Miktex to fptex. What happens with new LyX and Miktex? One error detected You should try to fix it and the error is: LaTeX Error: File 'Float.sty' not found. I don't think usual style files contain uppercase characters in their name. What does your .tex look like? Does it contain the 'Float.sty'? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: Problem after updating to lyx 1.3.0
Hi Andre,
I changed my latex editor from Miktex to fptex because in the web page
they say it is more complete, other than that nothing. I noticed that I
made a mistake posting the error, you are right it is 'float.sty' and
not 'Float.sty'
I am not an expert with latex...
When I use the function export to latex this is the file I got, I post
here only the header
%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\makeatletter
%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Bold symbol macro for standard LaTeX users
\newcommand{\boldsymbol}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath $#1$}}
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\title{\textbf{Formation Control Using Sliding Mode Control}}
thanks and I hope you could help me
Jose
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:26:38AM -0600, Jose wrote:
I have been using lyx for a few months (in windows and in linux). I
looked at the web page yesterday and I found that lyx 1.3.0 was
available. I downloaded the new version and follow the procedure step
by step to install it in windows. I also changed my latex from Miktex
to fptex.
What happens with new LyX and Miktex?
One error detected
You should try to fix it
and the error is:
LaTeX Error: File 'Float.sty' not found.
I don't think usual style files contain uppercase characters in their name.
What does your .tex look like? Does it contain the 'Float.sty'?
Andre'
Re: Problem after updating to lyx 1.3.0
Hi all,
I reinstall the fptex and it work alright, seems it was incorrectly
installed. thanks
Jose
Jose wrote:
Hi Andre,
I changed my latex editor from Miktex to fptex because in the web page
they say it is more complete, other than that nothing. I noticed that
I made a mistake posting the error, you are right it is 'float.sty'
and not 'Float.sty'
I am not an expert with latex...
When I use the function export to latex this is the file I got, I post
here only the header
%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\makeatletter
%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Bold symbol macro for standard LaTeX users
\newcommand{\boldsymbol}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath $#1$}}
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\title{\textbf{Formation Control Using Sliding Mode Control}}
thanks and I hope you could help me
Jose
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:26:38AM -0600, Jose wrote:
I have been using lyx for a few months (in windows and in linux). I
looked at the web page yesterday and I found that lyx 1.3.0 was
available. I downloaded the new version and follow the procedure
step by step to install it in windows. I also changed my latex from
Miktex to fptex.
What happens with new LyX and Miktex?
One error detected
You should try to fix it
and the error is:
LaTeX Error: File 'Float.sty' not found.
I don't think usual style files contain uppercase characters in their
name.
What does your .tex look like? Does it contain the 'Float.sty'?
Andre'
Several theorem-like environnements following each other
I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible to do this ? Nicolas
Re: Several theorem-like environnements following each other
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:43:57PM +, roy nicolas wrote: I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible to do this ? Not really... Try to insert a empty note in a Standard paragraph in between. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
RE : Several theorem-like environnements following each other
I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible to do this ? Nicolas You must increment the depth of the current environment (there is a button on the toolbar for doing this quickly) Pierrick Mellerin.
Help Missing number, treated as zero float errors
I use ver1.3.0 Lyx support ver 1.7 on cygwin with windows XP Professional All was fine until today I added about 20 new figure floats. some of these were floats with two figures inside one on top of the other and these were inserted with captions under the figures. On running view DVI I got inundated with errors about 66 of them each starts with the first error saying Missing number treated as zero some say latex error not in outer par mode. Can anyone help, i don't want to go to word with my thesis having come so far Thanks vivek
Re: Several theorem-like environnements following each other
roy nicolas wrote: I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible to do this ? Probably inserting paragraph in Standard style containing only hard space (Ctrl-Space in CUA mode) would help. Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Several theorem-like environnements following each other
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:05:01AM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: roy nicolas wrote: I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible to do this ? Probably inserting paragraph in Standard style containing only hard space (Ctrl-Space in CUA mode) would help. No, as this would create space in the output. The correct solution is to add an empty note or an ERT inset containing '%'.
manually editing postscript file to cut off whitespace
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have used Staroffice 6.0 to create some graphics for inclusion in my dissertation in Lyx. Whenever I print to file (postscript) from SO/OO it produces very nice looking postscript images but they invariably include too much whitespace in the bounding box such that running ps2ps to try to cut it down to size doesn't work. By extension, clipping to bounding box in Lyx doesn't work either. The particular graphic in question has the bounding box coordinates of 0 0 612 792. Which of these numbers, if these are the numbers to deal with, should be altered to cut off the whitspace at the bottom of the image? praedor -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+XPEmwDUPEkSvRHERAgmhAJ92TIcY4YR61SkmCm76PEALCltOoACgzzvA iGwrPREjRP0YKvpYiowvsTM= =Wo3H -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: manually editing postscript file to cut off whitespace
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:53:58AM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have used Staroffice 6.0 to create some graphics for inclusion in my dissertation in Lyx. Whenever I print to file (postscript) from SO/OO it produces very nice looking postscript images but they invariably include too much whitespace in the bounding box such that running ps2ps to try to cut it down to size doesn't work. By extension, clipping to bounding box in Lyx doesn't work either. The particular graphic in question has the bounding box coordinates of 0 0 612 792. Which of these numbers, if these are the numbers to deal with, should be altered to cut off the whitspace at the bottom of the image? Use ps2eps to automatically clip the image: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ps2eps.html
Problems importing latex documents
Hi, I have always had this problem, could someone explain me how I have to import a latex file to lyx. I have always tried with import latex but it gives me the following error: Cannot convert file Error while executing reLyX -f 'vvv.tex' and thats is all. What should I do. That is when I am using windows Regards Jose
Re: Problems importing latex documents
Jose wrote: Hi, I have always had this problem, could someone explain me how I have to import a latex file to lyx. I have always tried with import latex but it gives me the following error: Cannot convert file Error while executing reLyX -f 'vvv.tex' and thats is all. What should I do. That is when I am using windows Hello, Jose do you have perl installed? If you run $ reLyX -d -f 'vvv.tex' from the command line, do the debug messages provide you with any useful information? If non of htis helps, perhaps you could post a minimal example of a failing document to the lyx-devel list, or file a bug report on bugzilla.lyx.org and attach this example doc. -- Angus
No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
Hello, I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 from 1.2.1. Everything works fine, except that when I type $a \leq b$, LyX displays a . b, i.e. the \leq shows up like a dot. Similar problems happen with other symbols , e.g. \sim shows up as . The greek \alpha, \beta, \gamma also show up as weird symbols (can't type them in ascii). What could be the cause of this? Thanks very much. Kostas Oikonomou
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:47:55PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 from 1.2.1. You forgot to mention what frontend you're using, or if you're using fontconfig etc. Everything works fine, except that when I type $a \leq b$, LyX displays a . b, i.e. the \leq shows up like a dot. please create a document with only \leq in it. Then load it again after starting lyx as lyx -dbg any, and send me the entire output privately. Similar problems happen with other symbols , e.g. \sim shows up as . You probably need to install the latex-ttf-fonts as found on ftp.lyx.org btw, Dekel, you said you asked the fontconfig list about the pfb fonts, but I cannot find your message in the archives. Did you do this ? regards john
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 14:52, John Levon wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:47:55PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 from 1.2.1. You forgot to mention what frontend you're using, or if you're using fontconfig etc. Everything works fine, except that when I type $a \leq b$, LyX displays a . b, i.e. the \leq shows up like a dot. please create a document with only \leq in it. Then load it again after starting lyx as lyx -dbg any, and send me the entire output privately. Similar problems happen with other symbols , e.g. \sim shows up as . You probably need to install the latex-ttf-fonts as found on ftp.lyx.org btw, Dekel, you said you asked the fontconfig list about the pfb fonts, but I cannot find your message in the archives. Did you do this ? regards john I am having the same problem (on debian unstable wi/ qt frontend and qt 3.1). I just installed latex-ttf-fonts, but it hasn't helped. They seem to be installed properly -- they show up in xfontsel, and I can choose them as my screen font in lyx -- but I am still not getting proper math symbols. Nathan
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:02:56PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: I am having the same problem (on debian unstable wi/ qt frontend and qt 3.1). I just installed latex-ttf-fonts, but it hasn't helped. They seem to be installed properly -- they show up in xfontsel, and I can choose them as my screen font in lyx -- but I am still not getting proper math symbols. ldd lyx | grep fontconfig (sanity check) please create a document with only \leq in it. Then load it again after starting lyx as lyx -dbg any, and send me the entire output privately. Do the same... regards, john
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 20:39, John Levon wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:02:56PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: I am having the same problem (on debian unstable wi/ qt frontend and qt 3.1). I just installed latex-ttf-fonts, but it hasn't helped. They seem to be installed properly -- they show up in xfontsel, and I can choose them as my screen font in lyx -- but I am still not getting proper math symbols. ldd lyx | grep fontconfig (sanity check) please create a document with only \leq in it. Then load it again after starting lyx as lyx -dbg any, and send me the entire output privately. Do the same... regards, john The directory where the fonts were installed was not in my XftConfig. I was thrown off by the fact that a) the fonts showed up in xfontsel, etc and b) my other font directories are not listed there either (debian has some weird way of managing fonts, but it mostly works so I don't ask questions ;-) ) Anyway, adding the path for the latex-ttx fonts to XftConfig fixed the problem. Thanks, Nathan
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:23:57PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: The directory where the fonts were installed was not in my XftConfig. I was thrown off by the fact that a) the fonts showed up in xfontsel, etc and b) my other font directories are not listed there either (debian has some weird way of managing fonts, but it mostly works so I don't ask questions ;-) ) Anyway, adding the path for the latex-ttx fonts to XftConfig fixed the problem. This still leaves us with the question why you ever got wrong symbols (ie lyx/qt thought the fonts were available, when they are not) in the first place. We've had a few people have that, but I do not know why. When you don't have the fonts available, you *should* get \alpha in red text, not some other symbol. regards john
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:47:55PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 from 1.2.1. xforms or qt frontend? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:23:57PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: Anyway, adding the path for the latex-ttx fonts to XftConfig fixed the problem. In any case the fallback would have been to show alpha in red text, not to use arbitrary symbols from arbitrary fonts. Is this xforms or Qt frontend? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
formatting a book
I am using Lyx 1.1.6fix4 (NetBSD package lyx-1.1.6.4nb2). I am formatting a 70-page book. First I used Document Class book and then tried the other two book types. I am now using book (koma-script). I see it at layouts/scrbook.layout, but where is the documentation? The Paper section didn't show the default values for the margins or Foot/Head margins. Where are these defined (so I can have something to base my changes on)? Also, I don't see Headheight, Headsep, and Footskip in my documentation. Where are these explained? (I guess I should try newer Lyx docs.) I want over an inch of blank space between the bottom of my test on each page and the actual end of the page. But I still wnat the the page numbers near the bottom. How can I choose the amount of whitespace between the bottom of the text and the page numbers at the bottom? Where is the documentation for Pagestyle fancy? It makes my headers usually look nice, but then I noticed that it has the section text and the chapter name at the same place at top and one overwrites the other. How can I make it so the chapter is on the even left pages and the section is on the right odd pages? Is there a way to place crop marks so the printer can know where to cut the papers? The drop down has many choices like: Addchap, Addsec, minisec, Extratitle. Where are all these explained? I sure like the LyX footnotes, indexing, and table of contents tools. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
inserting preformated text
I am trying to figure out how to include performatted text.
I am using old LyX 1.1.6fix4.
I have been using LaTeX like:
\begin{verbatim}
% setenv BLOCKSIZE 1M
% swapinfo Device 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/da0b 2047 0 2047 0% Interleaved
\end{verbatim}
But it doesn't preserve the formatting that uses spaces or tabs. (For
example, the Capacity and the 0% should be lined up above.)
Any suggestions on how I can include tab or space formatted text in my
books and handouts?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
Re: ASCII export
Max == Max Bian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Max There is problem with the ASCII export function. When I have Max multiple files included, those files are not exported. Max It will be nice to be able to export those together. ASCII export is not really in a useful state... It has lots of shortcoming and nobody touched it for a long time. JMarc
Re: formatting a book
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I am using Lyx 1.1.6fix4 (NetBSD package lyx-1.1.6.4nb2). Consider upgrading. The most recent version is 1.3.0 I am formatting a 70-page book. First I used Document Class book and then tried the other two book types. I am now using book (koma-script). I see it at layouts/scrbook.layout, but where is the documentation? A short introduction is in Extended.lyx, Section 2.7 There is a long english documentation for koma-script available. I'd recommend reading this, since all your questions will be answered there: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script/scrguien.pdf Please make shure to update to a recent koma-script version. The Paper section didn't show the default values for the margins or Foot/Head margins. Where are these defined (so I can have something to base my changes on)? Also, I don't see Headheight, Headsep, and Footskip in my documentation. Where are these explained? (I guess I should try newer Lyx docs.) LyX uses the geometry package. But if you use KOMA, I would recommend to use komas sophisticated page setting tools, which are explained in the scrguide documentation. I want over an inch of blank space between the bottom of my test on each page and the actual end of the page. But I still wnat the the page numbers near the bottom. How can I choose the amount of whitespace between the bottom of the text and the page numbers at the bottom? Where is the documentation for Pagestyle fancy? http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.pdf Again, I'd recommend to use KOMAs own package, scrpage2, instaed, which is much better and easier. This is described in the KOMA docu. It makes my headers usually look nice, but then I noticed that it has the section text and the chapter name at the same place at top and one overwrites the other. How can I make it so the chapter is on the even left pages and the section is on the right odd pages? See scrpage2 documentation. Is there a way to place crop marks so the printer can know where to cut the papers? Package crop.sty http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop/ The drop down has many choices like: Addchap, Addsec, minisec, Extratitle. Where are all these explained? Extended LyX, scrguide. See above. HTH, Jürgen
pdf figures in lyx
Hi! I have Lyx 1.2.1. Is there a way to make pdf figures appear in the document while editing it? THX, Alexander Please reply to alexander(at)wackazong.com
Compiling LyX 1.3.0 in SuSE Linux 8.1
I was unable to compile LyX 1.3.0 in SuSE Linux 8.1, although previous vesions of LyX have been compiled succesfully in the same system. I have upgraded xforms to version 1.0, so this is not the reason of the problem. The LyX configure script says that everything is ok, but compilation of the program stops with an Internal compiler error. Does anyone have any idea? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Re: Compiling LyX 1.3.0 in SuSE Linux 8.1
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:12:13AM -0800, Panayotis Papassotiriou wrote: The LyX configure script says that everything is ok, but compilation of the program stops with an Internal compiler error. Does anyone have any idea? Compiler bug. What compiler are you using and where does it happen? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Problem after updating to lyx 1.3.0
Hi all,
I have been using lyx for a few months (in windows and in linux). I
looked at the web page yesterday and I found that lyx 1.3.0 was
available. I downloaded the new version and follow the procedure step
by step to install it in windows. I also changed my latex from Miktex
to fptex.
Lyx opens normally, but when I try to view my old documents using view
- dvi, I have latex errors which where not present before:
There were errors during the LaTex run
One error detected
You should try to fix it
and the error is:
LaTeX Error: File 'Float.sty' not found.
\usepackage
{graphicx}^^M
***(cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)
When I create a new document it works perfectly. Does someone has an
idea how to fix this problem because I cannot use my old files...
Regards
Jose
Re: Compiling LyX 1.3.0 in SuSE Linux 8.1
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:12:13AM -0800, Panayotis Papassotiriou wrote: The LyX configure script says that everything is ok, but compilation of the program stops with an Internal compiler error. Does anyone have any idea? Compiler bug. Known bug. You need to update the compiler suite with the packages from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/gcc/8.1/ Or its mirrors. That's the version I used to create the RPM's with the qt frontend. They are not in the online update system Paul
Re: pdf figures in lyx
alexander wrote: Hi! Hello, Alexander. I have Lyx 1.2.1. Consider upgrading to 1.2.3 which is a bugfix release, squashing several bugs in 1.2.1 or to the recently released 1.3 release whose graphics handling is far less clunky. Is there a way to make pdf figures appear in the document while editing it? Yes. However, LyX does not do this itself but rather uses an external 'converter' to create an image file in a format that it can load. LyX has two possible graphics loaders in the 1.2 series. If your version of the xforms GUI library is old, the we supply our own, limited graphics loader which can load only XPM format images. If you are using a more recent version of the xforms library, then we use the image loader supplied with it. This loader is more powerful and can load several different graphics formats. Running from the console: $ lyx -dbg graphics I get the following message: The image loader can load the following directly: Windows/OS2 BMP file, extension bmp NASA/NOST FITS, extension fits CompuServ GIF, extension gif JPEG/JFIF format, extension jpg Portable Pixmap, extension ppm Portable Graymap, extension pgm Portable Bitmap, extension pbm SGI Iris, extension sgi Tag Image File Format, extension tif X11 Bitmap, extension xbm X Window Dump, extension xwd which shows I have a 'modern' xforms library. In fact, I'm running LyX 1.3 here which supports only versions of the xforms library modern enough to have this graphics loader. So, how do you define your converter? If no converters are defined, then LyX uses a simple script convertDefault.sh to perform these conversions. You'll find it in /usr/local/share/lyx/scripts (if you installed LyX in /usr/local). In turn, this script is a wrapper for ImageMagick's 'convert' program. So, question 1: do you have Imagemagick installed? Here I find from 'man ImageMagick' that it supports conversion from PDF format, so I suspect that the reason why things are failing for you is that you don't have 'convert'. 'lyx -dbg graphics' should produce a large amount of information to help you track down what's going wrong. You can specify your own converter by defining formats and converter in the Edit-Preferences dialog. Something like From: PDF To: PPM Converter: convert $$i PPM:$$o would work for me. If you are using an old version of the xforms GUI library, you should also define From: PPM To: XPM Converter: ppmtoxpm $$i $$o You should NOT try and use 'convert' to go all the way to XPM format; 'convert' can produce XPM files that cannot be read by the xforms image loader and, indeed, can crash both xforms and LyX. If you decide to upgrade to LyX 1.3 and also decide to use the Qt frontend, then you'll be able to define a converter to PNG format which results in far smaller files than the equivalent PPM format. HTH, -- Angus
Re: Problem after updating to lyx 1.3.0
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:26:38AM -0600, Jose wrote: I have been using lyx for a few months (in windows and in linux). I looked at the web page yesterday and I found that lyx 1.3.0 was available. I downloaded the new version and follow the procedure step by step to install it in windows. I also changed my latex from Miktex to fptex. What happens with new LyX and Miktex? One error detected You should try to fix it and the error is: LaTeX Error: File 'Float.sty' not found. I don't think usual style files contain uppercase characters in their name. What does your .tex look like? Does it contain the 'Float.sty'? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: Problem after updating to lyx 1.3.0
Hi Andre,
I changed my latex editor from Miktex to fptex because in the web page
they say it is more complete, other than that nothing. I noticed that I
made a mistake posting the error, you are right it is 'float.sty' and
not 'Float.sty'
I am not an expert with latex...
When I use the function export to latex this is the file I got, I post
here only the header
%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\makeatletter
%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Bold symbol macro for standard LaTeX users
\newcommand{\boldsymbol}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath $#1$}}
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\title{\textbf{Formation Control Using Sliding Mode Control}}
thanks and I hope you could help me
Jose
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:26:38AM -0600, Jose wrote:
I have been using lyx for a few months (in windows and in linux). I
looked at the web page yesterday and I found that lyx 1.3.0 was
available. I downloaded the new version and follow the procedure step
by step to install it in windows. I also changed my latex from Miktex
to fptex.
What happens with new LyX and Miktex?
One error detected
You should try to fix it
and the error is:
LaTeX Error: File 'Float.sty' not found.
I don't think usual style files contain uppercase characters in their name.
What does your .tex look like? Does it contain the 'Float.sty'?
Andre'
Re: Problem after updating to lyx 1.3.0
Hi all,
I reinstall the fptex and it work alright, seems it was incorrectly
installed. thanks
Jose
Jose wrote:
Hi Andre,
I changed my latex editor from Miktex to fptex because in the web page
they say it is more complete, other than that nothing. I noticed that
I made a mistake posting the error, you are right it is 'float.sty'
and not 'Float.sty'
I am not an expert with latex...
When I use the function export to latex this is the file I got, I post
here only the header
%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\makeatletter
%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Bold symbol macro for standard LaTeX users
\newcommand{\boldsymbol}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath $#1$}}
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\title{\textbf{Formation Control Using Sliding Mode Control}}
thanks and I hope you could help me
Jose
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:26:38AM -0600, Jose wrote:
I have been using lyx for a few months (in windows and in linux). I
looked at the web page yesterday and I found that lyx 1.3.0 was
available. I downloaded the new version and follow the procedure
step by step to install it in windows. I also changed my latex from
Miktex to fptex.
What happens with new LyX and Miktex?
One error detected
You should try to fix it
and the error is:
LaTeX Error: File 'Float.sty' not found.
I don't think usual style files contain uppercase characters in their
name.
What does your .tex look like? Does it contain the 'Float.sty'?
Andre'
Several theorem-like environnements following each other
I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible to do this ? Nicolas
Re: Several theorem-like environnements following each other
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:43:57PM +, roy nicolas wrote: I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible to do this ? Not really... Try to insert a empty note in a Standard paragraph in between. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
RE : Several theorem-like environnements following each other
I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible to do this ? Nicolas You must increment the depth of the current environment (there is a button on the toolbar for doing this quickly) Pierrick Mellerin.
Help Missing number, treated as zero float errors
I use ver1.3.0 Lyx support ver 1.7 on cygwin with windows XP Professional All was fine until today I added about 20 new figure floats. some of these were floats with two figures inside one on top of the other and these were inserted with captions under the figures. On running view DVI I got inundated with errors about 66 of them each starts with the first error saying Missing number treated as zero some say latex error not in outer par mode. Can anyone help, i don't want to go to word with my thesis having come so far Thanks vivek
Re: Several theorem-like environnements following each other
roy nicolas wrote: I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible to do this ? Probably inserting paragraph in Standard style containing only hard space (Ctrl-Space in CUA mode) would help. Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Several theorem-like environnements following each other
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:05:01AM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: roy nicolas wrote: I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible to do this ? Probably inserting paragraph in Standard style containing only hard space (Ctrl-Space in CUA mode) would help. No, as this would create space in the output. The correct solution is to add an empty note or an ERT inset containing '%'.
manually editing postscript file to cut off whitespace
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have used Staroffice 6.0 to create some graphics for inclusion in my dissertation in Lyx. Whenever I print to file (postscript) from SO/OO it produces very nice looking postscript images but they invariably include too much whitespace in the bounding box such that running ps2ps to try to cut it down to size doesn't work. By extension, clipping to bounding box in Lyx doesn't work either. The particular graphic in question has the bounding box coordinates of 0 0 612 792. Which of these numbers, if these are the numbers to deal with, should be altered to cut off the whitspace at the bottom of the image? praedor -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+XPEmwDUPEkSvRHERAgmhAJ92TIcY4YR61SkmCm76PEALCltOoACgzzvA iGwrPREjRP0YKvpYiowvsTM= =Wo3H -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: manually editing postscript file to cut off whitespace
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:53:58AM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: I have used Staroffice 6.0 to create some graphics for inclusion in my dissertation in Lyx. Whenever I print to file (postscript) from SO/OO it produces very nice looking postscript images but they invariably include too much whitespace in the bounding box such that running ps2ps to try to cut it down to size doesn't work. By extension, clipping to bounding box in Lyx doesn't work either. The particular graphic in question has the bounding box coordinates of 0 0 612 792. Which of these numbers, if these are the numbers to deal with, should be altered to cut off the whitspace at the bottom of the image? Use ps2eps to automatically clip the image: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ps2eps.html
Problems importing latex documents
Hi, I have always had this problem, could someone explain me how I have to import a latex file to lyx. I have always tried with import latex but it gives me the following error: Cannot convert file Error while executing reLyX -f 'vvv.tex' and thats is all. What should I do. That is when I am using windows Regards Jose
Re: Problems importing latex documents
Jose wrote: Hi, I have always had this problem, could someone explain me how I have to import a latex file to lyx. I have always tried with import latex but it gives me the following error: Cannot convert file Error while executing reLyX -f 'vvv.tex' and thats is all. What should I do. That is when I am using windows Hello, Jose do you have perl installed? If you run $ reLyX -d -f 'vvv.tex' from the command line, do the debug messages provide you with any useful information? If non of htis helps, perhaps you could post a minimal example of a failing document to the lyx-devel list, or file a bug report on bugzilla.lyx.org and attach this example doc. -- Angus
No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
Hello, I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 from 1.2.1. Everything works fine, except that when I type $a \leq b$, LyX displays a . b, i.e. the \leq shows up like a dot. Similar problems happen with other symbols , e.g. \sim shows up as . The greek \alpha, \beta, \gamma also show up as weird symbols (can't type them in ascii). What could be the cause of this? Thanks very much. Kostas Oikonomou
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:47:55PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 from 1.2.1. You forgot to mention what frontend you're using, or if you're using fontconfig etc. Everything works fine, except that when I type $a \leq b$, LyX displays a . b, i.e. the \leq shows up like a dot. please create a document with only \leq in it. Then load it again after starting lyx as lyx -dbg any, and send me the entire output privately. Similar problems happen with other symbols , e.g. \sim shows up as . You probably need to install the latex-ttf-fonts as found on ftp.lyx.org btw, Dekel, you said you asked the fontconfig list about the pfb fonts, but I cannot find your message in the archives. Did you do this ? regards john
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 14:52, John Levon wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:47:55PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 from 1.2.1. You forgot to mention what frontend you're using, or if you're using fontconfig etc. Everything works fine, except that when I type $a \leq b$, LyX displays a . b, i.e. the \leq shows up like a dot. please create a document with only \leq in it. Then load it again after starting lyx as lyx -dbg any, and send me the entire output privately. Similar problems happen with other symbols , e.g. \sim shows up as . You probably need to install the latex-ttf-fonts as found on ftp.lyx.org btw, Dekel, you said you asked the fontconfig list about the pfb fonts, but I cannot find your message in the archives. Did you do this ? regards john I am having the same problem (on debian unstable wi/ qt frontend and qt 3.1). I just installed latex-ttf-fonts, but it hasn't helped. They seem to be installed properly -- they show up in xfontsel, and I can choose them as my screen font in lyx -- but I am still not getting proper math symbols. Nathan
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:02:56PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: I am having the same problem (on debian unstable wi/ qt frontend and qt 3.1). I just installed latex-ttf-fonts, but it hasn't helped. They seem to be installed properly -- they show up in xfontsel, and I can choose them as my screen font in lyx -- but I am still not getting proper math symbols. ldd lyx | grep fontconfig (sanity check) please create a document with only \leq in it. Then load it again after starting lyx as lyx -dbg any, and send me the entire output privately. Do the same... regards, john
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 20:39, John Levon wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:02:56PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: I am having the same problem (on debian unstable wi/ qt frontend and qt 3.1). I just installed latex-ttf-fonts, but it hasn't helped. They seem to be installed properly -- they show up in xfontsel, and I can choose them as my screen font in lyx -- but I am still not getting proper math symbols. ldd lyx | grep fontconfig (sanity check) please create a document with only \leq in it. Then load it again after starting lyx as lyx -dbg any, and send me the entire output privately. Do the same... regards, john The directory where the fonts were installed was not in my XftConfig. I was thrown off by the fact that a) the fonts showed up in xfontsel, etc and b) my other font directories are not listed there either (debian has some weird way of managing fonts, but it mostly works so I don't ask questions ;-) ) Anyway, adding the path for the latex-ttx fonts to XftConfig fixed the problem. Thanks, Nathan
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:23:57PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: The directory where the fonts were installed was not in my XftConfig. I was thrown off by the fact that a) the fonts showed up in xfontsel, etc and b) my other font directories are not listed there either (debian has some weird way of managing fonts, but it mostly works so I don't ask questions ;-) ) Anyway, adding the path for the latex-ttx fonts to XftConfig fixed the problem. This still leaves us with the question why you ever got wrong symbols (ie lyx/qt thought the fonts were available, when they are not) in the first place. We've had a few people have that, but I do not know why. When you don't have the fonts available, you *should* get \alpha in red text, not some other symbol. regards john
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:47:55PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 from 1.2.1. xforms or qt frontend? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:23:57PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: Anyway, adding the path for the latex-ttx fonts to XftConfig fixed the problem. In any case the fallback would have been to show alpha in red text, not to use arbitrary symbols from arbitrary fonts. Is this xforms or Qt frontend? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
formatting a book
I am using Lyx 1.1.6fix4 (NetBSD package lyx-1.1.6.4nb2). I am formatting a 70-page book. First I used Document Class "book" and then tried the other two book types. I am now using "book (koma-script)". I see it at layouts/scrbook.layout, but where is the documentation? The Paper section didn't show the default values for the margins or Foot/Head margins. Where are these defined (so I can have something to base my changes on)? Also, I don't see Headheight, Headsep, and Footskip in my documentation. Where are these explained? (I guess I should try newer Lyx docs.) I want over an inch of blank space between the bottom of my test on each page and the actual end of the page. But I still wnat the the page numbers near the bottom. How can I choose the amount of whitespace between the bottom of the text and the page numbers at the bottom? Where is the documentation for Pagestyle "fancy"? It makes my headers usually look nice, but then I noticed that it has the section text and the chapter name at the same place at top and one overwrites the other. How can I make it so the chapter is on the even left pages and the section is on the right odd pages? Is there a way to place crop marks so the printer can know where to cut the papers? The drop down has many choices like: Addchap, Addsec, minisec, Extratitle. Where are all these explained? I sure like the LyX footnotes, indexing, and table of contents tools. Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
inserting preformated text
I am trying to figure out how to include performatted text.
I am using old LyX 1.1.6fix4.
I have been using LaTeX like:
\begin{verbatim}
% setenv BLOCKSIZE 1M
% swapinfo Device 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/da0b 2047 0 2047 0% Interleaved
\end{verbatim}
But it doesn't preserve the formatting that uses spaces or tabs. (For
example, the "Capacity" and the "0%" should be lined up above.)
Any suggestions on how I can include tab or space formatted text in my
books and handouts?
Thanks,
Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
Re: ASCII export
> "Max" == Max Bian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Max> There is problem with the ASCII export function. When I have Max> multiple files included, those files are not exported. Max> It will be nice to be able to export those together. ASCII export is not really in a useful state... It has lots of shortcoming and nobody touched it for a long time. JMarc
Re: formatting a book
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I am using Lyx 1.1.6fix4 (NetBSD package lyx-1.1.6.4nb2). Consider upgrading. The most recent version is 1.3.0 > I am formatting a 70-page book. > > First I used Document Class "book" and then tried the other two book > types. I am now using "book (koma-script)". > > I see it at layouts/scrbook.layout, but where is the documentation? A short introduction is in Extended.lyx, Section 2.7 There is a long english documentation for koma-script available. I'd recommend reading this, since all your questions will be answered there: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/koma-script/scrguien.pdf Please make shure to update to a recent koma-script version. > The Paper section didn't show the default values for the margins or > Foot/Head margins. Where are these defined (so I can have something to > base my changes on)? > Also, I don't see Headheight, Headsep, and Footskip in my documentation. > Where are these explained? (I guess I should try newer Lyx docs.) LyX uses the geometry package. But if you use KOMA, I would recommend to use komas sophisticated page setting tools, which are explained in the scrguide documentation. > I want over an inch of blank space between the bottom of my test on each > page and the actual end of the page. But I still wnat the the page numbers > near the bottom. How can I choose the amount of whitespace between the > bottom of the text and the page numbers at the bottom? > > Where is the documentation for Pagestyle "fancy"? http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/fancyhdr/fancyhdr.pdf Again, I'd recommend to use KOMAs own package, scrpage2, instaed, which is much better and easier. This is described in the KOMA docu. > It makes my headers usually look nice, but then I noticed that it has the > section text and the chapter name at the same place at top and one > overwrites the other. How can I make it so the chapter is on the even > left pages and the section is on the right odd pages? See scrpage2 documentation. > Is there a way to place crop marks so the printer can know where to cut > the papers? Package crop.sty http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/crop/ > The drop down has many choices like: Addchap, Addsec, minisec, Extratitle. > Where are all these explained? Extended LyX, scrguide. See above. HTH, Jürgen
pdf figures in lyx
Hi! I have Lyx 1.2.1. Is there a way to make pdf figures appear in the document while editing it? THX, Alexander Please reply to alexander(at)wackazong.com
Compiling LyX 1.3.0 in SuSE Linux 8.1
I was unable to compile LyX 1.3.0 in SuSE Linux 8.1, although previous vesions of LyX have been compiled succesfully in the same system. I have upgraded xforms to version 1.0, so this is not the reason of the problem. The LyX configure script says that everything is ok, but compilation of the program stops with an "Internal compiler error". Does anyone have any idea? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Re: Compiling LyX 1.3.0 in SuSE Linux 8.1
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:12:13AM -0800, Panayotis Papassotiriou wrote: > The LyX configure script says that everything is ok, > but compilation of the program stops with an "Internal > compiler error". > Does anyone have any idea? Compiler bug. What compiler are you using and where does it happen? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Problem after updating to lyx 1.3.0
Hi all,
I have been using lyx for a few months (in windows and in linux). I
looked at the web page yesterday and I found that lyx 1.3.0 was
available. I downloaded the new version and follow the procedure step
by step to install it in windows. I also changed my latex from Miktex
to fptex.
Lyx opens normally, but when I try to view my old documents using view
-> dvi, I have latex errors which where not present before:
>There were errors during the LaTex run
> One error detected
>You should try to fix it
and the error is:
>LaTeX Error: File 'Float.sty' not found.
>\usepackage
{graphicx}^^M
***(cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)
When I create a new document it works perfectly. Does someone has an
idea how to fix this problem because I cannot use my old files...
Regards
Jose
Re: Compiling LyX 1.3.0 in SuSE Linux 8.1
Andre Poenitz wrote: On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 06:12:13AM -0800, Panayotis Papassotiriou wrote: > The LyX configure script says that everything is ok, > but compilation of the program stops with an "Internal > compiler error". > Does anyone have any idea? Compiler bug. Known bug. You need to update the compiler suite with the packages from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/gcc/8.1/ Or its mirrors. That's the version I used to create the RPM's with the qt frontend. They are not in the online update system Paul
Re: pdf figures in lyx
alexander wrote: > Hi! Hello, Alexander. > I have Lyx 1.2.1. Consider upgrading to 1.2.3 which is a bugfix release, squashing several bugs in 1.2.1 or to the recently released 1.3 release whose graphics handling is far less clunky. > Is there a way to make pdf figures appear in the > document while editing it? Yes. However, LyX does not do this itself but rather uses an external 'converter' to create an image file in a format that it can load. LyX has two possible graphics loaders in the 1.2 series. If your version of the xforms GUI library is old, the we supply our own, limited graphics loader which can load only XPM format images. If you are using a more recent version of the xforms library, then we use the image loader supplied with it. This loader is more powerful and can load several different graphics formats. Running from the console: $ lyx -dbg graphics I get the following message: The image loader can load the following directly: Windows/OS2 BMP file, extension "bmp" NASA/NOST FITS, extension "fits" CompuServ GIF, extension "gif" JPEG/JFIF format, extension "jpg" Portable Pixmap, extension "ppm" Portable Graymap, extension "pgm" Portable Bitmap, extension "pbm" SGI Iris, extension "sgi" Tag Image File Format, extension "tif" X11 Bitmap, extension "xbm" X Window Dump, extension "xwd" which shows I have a 'modern' xforms library. In fact, I'm running LyX 1.3 here which supports only versions of the xforms library modern enough to have this graphics loader. So, how do you define your converter? If no converters are defined, then LyX uses a simple script convertDefault.sh to perform these conversions. You'll find it in /usr/local/share/lyx/scripts (if you installed LyX in /usr/local). In turn, this script is a wrapper for ImageMagick's 'convert' program. So, question 1: do you have Imagemagick installed? Here I find from 'man ImageMagick' that it supports conversion from PDF format, so I suspect that the reason why things are failing for you is that you don't have 'convert'. 'lyx -dbg graphics' should produce a large amount of information to help you track down what's going wrong. You can specify your own converter by defining formats and converter in the Edit->Preferences dialog. Something like From: PDF To: PPM Converter: convert $$i PPM:$$o would work for me. If you are using an old version of the xforms GUI library, you should also define From: PPM To: XPM Converter: ppmtoxpm $$i > $$o You should NOT try and use 'convert' to go all the way to XPM format; 'convert' can produce XPM files that cannot be read by the xforms image loader and, indeed, can crash both xforms and LyX. If you decide to upgrade to LyX 1.3 and also decide to use the Qt frontend, then you'll be able to define a converter to PNG format which results in far smaller files than the equivalent PPM format. HTH, -- Angus
Re: Problem after updating to lyx 1.3.0
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:26:38AM -0600, Jose wrote: > I have been using lyx for a few months (in windows and in linux). I > looked at the web page yesterday and I found that lyx 1.3.0 was > available. I downloaded the new version and follow the procedure step > by step to install it in windows. I also changed my latex from Miktex > to fptex. What happens with new LyX and Miktex? > > One error detected > >You should try to fix it > > and the error is: > >LaTeX Error: File 'Float.sty' not found. I don't think usual style files contain uppercase characters in their name. What does your .tex look like? Does it contain the 'Float.sty'? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: Problem after updating to lyx 1.3.0
Hi Andre,
I changed my latex editor from Miktex to fptex because in the web page
they say it is more complete, other than that nothing. I noticed that I
made a mistake posting the error, you are right it is 'float.sty' and
not 'Float.sty'
I am not an expert with latex...
When I use the function export to latex this is the file I got, I post
here only the header
%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\makeatletter
%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Bold symbol macro for standard LaTeX users
\newcommand{\boldsymbol}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath $#1$}}
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\title{\textbf{Formation Control Using Sliding Mode Control}}
thanks and I hope you could help me
Jose
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:26:38AM -0600, Jose wrote:
I have been using lyx for a few months (in windows and in linux). I
looked at the web page yesterday and I found that lyx 1.3.0 was
available. I downloaded the new version and follow the procedure step
by step to install it in windows. I also changed my latex from Miktex
to fptex.
What happens with new LyX and Miktex?
One error detected
You should try to fix it
and the error is:
LaTeX Error: File 'Float.sty' not found.
I don't think usual style files contain uppercase characters in their name.
What does your .tex look like? Does it contain the 'Float.sty'?
Andre'
Re: Problem after updating to lyx 1.3.0
Hi all,
I reinstall the fptex and it work alright, seems it was incorrectly
installed. thanks
Jose
Jose wrote:
Hi Andre,
I changed my latex editor from Miktex to fptex because in the web page
they say it is more complete, other than that nothing. I noticed that
I made a mistake posting the error, you are right it is 'float.sty'
and not 'Float.sty'
I am not an expert with latex...
When I use the function export to latex this is the file I got, I post
here only the header
%% LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info, see http://www.lyx.org/.
%% Do not edit unless you really know what you are doing.
\documentclass[12pt,letterpaper,english]{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{float}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\makeatletter
%% LyX specific LaTeX commands.
%% Bold symbol macro for standard LaTeX users
\newcommand{\boldsymbol}[1]{\mbox{\boldmath $#1$}}
%% Because html converters don't know tabularnewline
\providecommand{\tabularnewline}{\\}
\usepackage{babel}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\title{\textbf{Formation Control Using Sliding Mode Control}}
thanks and I hope you could help me
Jose
Andre Poenitz wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:26:38AM -0600, Jose wrote:
I have been using lyx for a few months (in windows and in linux). I
looked at the web page yesterday and I found that lyx 1.3.0 was
available. I downloaded the new version and follow the procedure
step by step to install it in windows. I also changed my latex from
Miktex to fptex.
What happens with new LyX and Miktex?
One error detected
You should try to fix it
and the error is:
LaTeX Error: File 'Float.sty' not found.
I don't think usual style files contain uppercase characters in their
name.
What does your .tex look like? Does it contain the 'Float.sty'?
Andre'
Several theorem-like environnements following each other
I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible to do this ? Nicolas
Re: Several theorem-like environnements following each other
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 04:43:57PM +, roy nicolas wrote: > I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each > other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible > to do this ? Not really... Try to insert a empty note in a "Standard" paragraph in between. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
RE : Several theorem-like environnements following each other
>I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) >following each other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. >Is it possible to do this ? >Nicolas You must increment the depth of the current environment (there is a button on the toolbar for doing this quickly) Pierrick Mellerin.
Help Missing number, treated as zero float errors
I use ver1.3.0 Lyx support ver 1.7 on cygwin with windows XP Professional All was fine until today I added about 20 new figure floats. some of these were floats with two figures inside one on top of the other and these were inserted with captions under the figures. On running view DVI I got inundated with errors about 66 of them each starts with the first error saying Missing number treated as zero some say latex error not in outer par mode. Can anyone help, i don't want to go to word with my thesis having come so far Thanks vivek
Re: Several theorem-like environnements following each other
roy nicolas wrote: > I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each > other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible > to do this ? Probably inserting paragraph in Standard style containing only hard space (Ctrl-Space in CUA mode) would help. Matej -- Matej Cepl, Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Several theorem-like environnements following each other
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:05:01AM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > roy nicolas wrote: > > I want to have several theorems (or lemma, definitions..) following each > > other. But Lyx merge them into one theorem environnemnt. Is it possible > > to do this ? > > Probably inserting paragraph in Standard style containing only > hard space (Ctrl-Space in CUA mode) would help. No, as this would create space in the output. The correct solution is to add an empty note or an ERT inset containing '%'.
manually editing postscript file to cut off whitespace
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have used Staroffice 6.0 to create some graphics for inclusion in my dissertation in Lyx. Whenever I print to file (postscript) from SO/OO it produces very nice looking postscript images but they invariably include too much whitespace in the bounding box such that running ps2ps to try to cut it down to size doesn't work. By extension, clipping to bounding box in Lyx doesn't work either. The particular graphic in question has the bounding box coordinates of 0 0 612 792. Which of these numbers, if these are the numbers to deal with, should be altered to cut off the whitspace at the bottom of the image? praedor -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+XPEmwDUPEkSvRHERAgmhAJ92TIcY4YR61SkmCm76PEALCltOoACgzzvA iGwrPREjRP0YKvpYiowvsTM= =Wo3H -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: manually editing postscript file to cut off whitespace
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:53:58AM -0500, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > I have used Staroffice 6.0 to create some graphics for inclusion in my > dissertation in Lyx. Whenever I print to file (postscript) from SO/OO it > produces very nice looking postscript images but they invariably include too > much whitespace in the bounding box such that running ps2ps to try to cut it > down to size doesn't work. By extension, clipping to bounding box in Lyx > doesn't work either. The particular graphic in question has the bounding box > coordinates of 0 0 612 792. Which of these numbers, if these are the numbers > to deal with, should be altered to cut off the whitspace at the bottom of the > image? Use ps2eps to automatically clip the image: http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/ps2eps.html
Problems importing latex documents
Hi, I have always had this problem, could someone explain me how I have to import a latex file to lyx. I have always tried with import latex but it gives me the following error: Cannot convert file Error while executing reLyX -f 'vvv.tex' and thats is all. What should I do. That is when I am using windows Regards Jose
Re: Problems importing latex documents
Jose wrote: > Hi, I have always had this problem, could someone explain me how I have > to import a latex file to lyx. I have always tried with import latex > but it gives me the following error: > > Cannot convert file > > Error while executing > reLyX -f 'vvv.tex' > > and thats is all. What should I do. That is when I am using windows Hello, Jose do you have perl installed? If you run $ reLyX -d -f 'vvv.tex' from the command line, do the debug messages provide you with any useful information? If non of htis helps, perhaps you could post a minimal example of a failing document to the lyx-devel list, or file a bug report on bugzilla.lyx.org and attach this example doc. -- Angus
No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
Hello, I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 from 1.2.1. Everything works fine, except that when I type $a \leq b$, LyX displays "a . b", i.e. the \leq shows up like a dot. Similar problems happen with other symbols , e.g. \sim shows up as >>. The greek \alpha, \beta, \gamma also show up as weird symbols (can't type them in ascii). What could be the cause of this? Thanks very much. Kostas Oikonomou
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:47:55PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 from 1.2.1. You forgot to mention what frontend you're using, or if you're using fontconfig etc. > Everything works fine, except that when I type $a \leq b$, LyX displays "a . b", > i.e. the \leq shows up like a dot. please create a document with only \leq in it. Then load it again after starting lyx as lyx -dbg any, and send me the entire output privately. > Similar problems happen with other symbols , e.g. \sim shows up as >>. You probably need to install the latex-ttf-fonts as found on ftp.lyx.org btw, Dekel, you said you asked the fontconfig list about the pfb fonts, but I cannot find your message in the archives. Did you do this ? regards john
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 14:52, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:47:55PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > > I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 from > > 1.2.1. > > You forgot to mention what frontend you're using, or if you're using > fontconfig etc. > > > Everything works fine, except that when I type $a \leq b$, LyX displays > > "a . b", i.e. the \leq shows up like a dot. > > please create a document with only \leq in it. Then load it again after > starting lyx as lyx -dbg any, and send me the entire output privately. > > > Similar problems happen with other symbols , e.g. \sim shows up as >>. > > You probably need to install the latex-ttf-fonts as found on > ftp.lyx.org > > btw, Dekel, you said you asked the fontconfig list about the pfb fonts, > but I cannot find your message in the archives. Did you do this ? > > regards > john I am having the same problem (on debian unstable wi/ qt frontend and qt 3.1). I just installed latex-ttf-fonts, but it hasn't helped. They seem to be installed properly -- they show up in xfontsel, and I can choose them as my screen font in lyx -- but I am still not getting proper math symbols. Nathan
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:02:56PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: > I am having the same problem (on debian unstable wi/ qt frontend and qt 3.1). > I just installed latex-ttf-fonts, but it hasn't helped. They seem to be > installed properly -- they show up in xfontsel, and I can choose them as my > screen font in lyx -- but I am still not getting proper math symbols. ldd lyx | grep fontconfig (sanity check) > > please create a document with only \leq in it. Then load it again after > > starting lyx as lyx -dbg any, and send me the entire output privately. Do the same... regards, john
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)
On Wednesday 26 February 2003 20:39, John Levon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:02:56PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: > > I am having the same problem (on debian unstable wi/ qt frontend and qt > > 3.1). I just installed latex-ttf-fonts, but it hasn't helped. They seem > > to be installed properly -- they show up in xfontsel, and I can choose > > them as my screen font in lyx -- but I am still not getting proper math > > symbols. > > ldd lyx | grep fontconfig (sanity check) > > > > please create a document with only \leq in it. Then load it again after > > > starting lyx as lyx -dbg any, and send me the entire output privately. > > Do the same... > > regards, > john The directory where the fonts were installed was not in my XftConfig. I was thrown off by the fact that a) the fonts showed up in xfontsel, etc and b) my other font directories are not listed there either (debian has some weird way of managing fonts, but it mostly works so I don't ask questions ;-) ) Anyway, adding the path for the latex-ttx fonts to XftConfig fixed the problem. Thanks, Nathan
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:23:57PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: > The directory where the fonts were installed was not in my XftConfig. I was > thrown off by the fact that a) the fonts showed up in xfontsel, etc and b) > my other font directories are not listed there either (debian has some weird > way of managing fonts, but it mostly works so I don't ask questions ;-) ) > > Anyway, adding the path for the latex-ttx fonts to XftConfig fixed the > problem. This still leaves us with the question why you ever got wrong symbols (ie lyx/qt thought the fonts were available, when they are not) in the first place. We've had a few people have that, but I do not know why. When you don't have the fonts available, you *should* get "\alpha" in red text, not some other symbol. regards john
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:47:55PM -0500, Kostas Oikonomou wrote: > I am using lyx 1.3.0 on a Solaris 8 Sparc system. I moved to 1.3.0 > from 1.2.1. xforms or qt frontend? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: No display of math symbols with lyx 1.3.0 (fixed)
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:23:57PM -0500, Nathan Weston wrote: > Anyway, adding the path for the latex-ttx fonts to XftConfig fixed the > problem. In any case the fallback would have been to show "alpha" in red text, not to use arbitrary symbols from arbitrary fonts. Is this xforms or Qt frontend? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
