Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

[Ruurd Reitsma]

Milos Komarcevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Ruurd,
 Although there are still some minor issues with the math mode (offset of
 subscripts, accents etc. is to large and brackets are too tall), it is
 at least now rendered correctly and quite useable, so I'm able to switch
 over to 1.3.5 for real.

OK. Good. I´m still trying to figure out the differences between the various
Qt versions.

 (I should mention that sed.exe is still old in this fixed package, I
 wasn't sure if you were indenting to upgrade it or not this time around)


At this very moment, not yet. Actually, the new sed makes things worse for
me. What exactly is the new version supposed to do?

Ruurd

Re: Resetting Page Number

[Helge Hafting]

Rich Shepard wrote:
  I'm using lyx-1.3.5 on linux with the koma-script report class. The
preamble set up fancyheaders:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
I recommend you drop the above two lines, and use the support in lyx:
layout-document and set page style to fancy.  If pagestyle is
set to anything else it might override the preamble.  If it is indeed
set to fancy then this preamble stuff becomes superfluous. You will 
still need
the rest as lyx doesn't have a dialog for setting up the fancy header.

\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\slshape \rightmark}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\slshape \leftmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
%\renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
%\renewcommand{footrulewidth}{0pt}
  (I got compile errors about the foot rule so I commented those out.)
  So far I've only begun the Introduction so I have only one page 
beyond the
title page. That page is numbered (right-aligned, not centered) as 
'3'. So I
My guess is that layout-document is overriding the pagestyle.
pulled down TLC2 looking for the \resetcounter{page}{} command, but could
not find it. I did find a reference to \pagenumbering, but the 
compiler got
indigestion over that and spit it out. I also tried
\renewcommand{\thepage}{1} in a couple of locations around the first 
chapter
heading, but that too was violently regurgitated.
Use \setcounter{page}{1}.  Don't renew a counter, use \setcounter.
There are also commands for doing math on counters if you ever need that.
When doing preamble work, always take a look at the various layout-document
options to see if support (or partial support)  exists already.  If 
support exists
(such as for fancy headers) use that.  If a setting is offered for 
something but your alternative isn't listed, then you have to use the 
preamble.  In such cases, leave
the setting at default, so it doesn't override the preamble with some
explicit setting.

Helge Hafting

Re: \frontmatter and \mainmatter does not work with pdflatex.

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

R S Ananda Murthy wrote:
 Dear Jurgen,

 Thanks for help. The problem is because of hyperref. If I disable  
 hyperref it works. But how to make it work with hyperref because I want  
 to have hyperlinks if possible.

What version of hyperref do you have? Perhaps an update helps.

Jürgen

 Thanks again,

 Regards,

 Anand

Re: Resetting Page Number

[Herbert Voss]

Rich Shepard wrote:
  I'm using lyx-1.3.5 on linux with the koma-script report class. The
preamble set up fancyheaders:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\slshape \rightmark}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\slshape \leftmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
%\renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
%\renewcommand{footrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
 ^^^
attached an example for using fancy headers
Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass scrbook
\begin_preamble
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\slshape \rightmark}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\slshape \leftmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\end_preamble
\language ngerman
\inputencoding latin1
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing single 
\papersize Default
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 17cm
\paperheight 22cm
\leftmargin 1.2cm
\topmargin 1.4cm
\rightmargin 1.7cm
\bottommargin 1.4cm
\headsep 1cm
\secnumdepth 4
\tocdepth 4
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language german
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle fancy

\layout Standard


\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
frontmatter
\end_inset 


\layout Title

A demo for fancy headings
\layout Author

Herbert Voß
\layout Standard


\begin_inset LatexCommand \tableofcontents{}

\end_inset 


\layout Standard


\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
mainmatter
\end_inset 


\layout Chapter

foo
\layout Standard

bar bar bat faser label blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser label blubber
 nonsense bar bar bat faser label blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser label
 blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser label blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser
 label blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser label blubber nonsense bar bar
 bat faser label blubber nonsense 
\layout Section

bar
\layout Standard

baz
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
newpage
\end_inset 


\layout Standard

baz
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
newpage
\end_inset 


\layout Standard

baz
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
newpage
\end_inset 


\layout Standard

baz
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
newpage
\end_inset 


\layout Standard


\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
backmatter
\end_inset 


\layout Chapter
\start_of_appendix 
Foo
\layout Standard

bar baz
\the_end

Re: \underrrightarrow not working

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Andre == Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Andre On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:52:58PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
 Actually, it's something of a conscious decision. Andre didn't want
 to force the user to use AMSMath. Maybe he uses a package that
 defines \underrightarrow that we don't know about.

Andre No, I think I just forgot ams in the inset's validate. But I
Andre think I fixed this already several times...

For information, this bug is now fixed for both 1.3.6cvs and 1.4.0cvs.

JMarc

Re: Hi at all

[Alberto]

Hi again, and thanks for all your answer.

I will try to answer to all your email.


On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Alberto wrote:
  1) i selected the book style, is that correct for my thesis? i'm not
  sure of what a style involves. Probably is easier to answer to this
  question seeing the other problems. (I hope...)

 Alberto,

Does your university have either A) a defined thesis format or B) LaTeX
 class for that format?

I don't know if the my university has a fixed style...and i don't know how to 
ask this. Probably my professors as me can see if the document has a good 
layout or not, but we don't know the name of the good layout with lyx...for 
this reason i asked to this mailing-list.

  2) i'm not able to obtain a common way to see the page numbers; sometimes
  the page number is on the top-right corner of the page, sometimes on the
  bottom (the first page of each chapter, and in the index pages). Can i
  decide where the page number must be printed?

Yes. The fancyhdr package lets you control what information is seen.

I will search for it. thanks

  4) I need the bibliografy!!! :) but i'm not able to do it works. :(
  As i see i could able to put into my thesis a biblio composed of some
  books (of which i must say to lyx the path to reach them), but i has not
  that books! I only knows their names. How can i put into my bibliografy
  the name of the books that i know, but that i don't own on my hard disk?

Look for the bibtex documentation on your system.

This point is not so clear. I mean that i don't understand if i must install 
another program(s) or if it is already installed into lyx. Anyway i will 
search! 


  5) I not able to obtain a good layout with lyx of the comments to my
  images. Usually i see the image centered (as i want) but the comments
  that i obtain with wrapped box area is not just below the image, but it
  is between the text after the image. So i tried to put an hfill element
  after the wrapped area, but it does not work :( I use the wrapped
  area so i can put at the end of my thesis a figure list too.

Use a figure float for your figures. This lets the software determine
 the best placement. You can center the figure by using
 Layout-Paragraph-Center. In most books, the figure caption is placed
 beneath the figure and the table caption is placed on top of the table.

I tried as you told me, but it does not work alwaysFor the moment i has 
two images. The first is immediately followed by a different section. It that 
case the float does not appear (while the wrapped area works). In the second 
image the float works and wrapped area not. I think that i'm wrong something 
(sure with lyx works either or at least one of two ways, but i'm not able to 
use lyx as we can see)

  Some other people told me to use OpenOffice, but i beleve in lyx! ...am i
  wrong?

No. At least, that's what most of us think. However, if your university
 has format requirements that would take a lot of effort to enable in LyX
 then perhaps OO.o would be quicker for you.

I will remember of this. 
 Rich

Thanks for your answer!
Alberto


On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 3) i'm writing my thesis with some other people, but i'm not able to put 
their 
 names on the authour field. i would like something like this:
 
 cippo lippo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 lappo frappo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Use only one author paragraph and separate the names by a forced line 
break (shortcut C-Enter).

regards Uwe

Thanks this work perfectly! 
Alberto


On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Subir Singh Lamba wrote:
Hi,

I have been using lyx since some time and at present I am writing my 
thesis. For that I have downloaded a sketch of thesis from University of 
Durham. If you need I can send you in email and you will have to just 
tweak it according to your requirement as the file is really a good find.

Subir

Of course. I will appreciate that a lot. 
Thanks!
Alberto
P.S. You can mail me at the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 


On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
 I tried to use lyx some years ago, when i installed it, and now. I have
 mainly these problems:

 1) i selected the book style, is that correct for my thesis? i'm not sure
 of what a style involves. Probably is easier to answer to this question
 seeing the other problems. (I hope...)

IMO book class is o.k. The most obvious difference to the other main classes 
(article, report) is that books have real chapters that start a new page.
I'd recommend to use not the standard book but either scrbook (that is book 
(koma)) or memoir, because these two are much more flexible. KOMA has been 
designed with regard to European typesetting conventions.

Ok. I will try that too...I observed that changing from book style to some 
other styles i obtain some errors. I suppose that this is due to use 
different style imply use different headers (for section, chapter, and so 
on). So i changed the headers, but the 

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Charles == Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Charles Great. I think that Reconfigure and Preferences should be in
Charles a Configuration Menu and not in the Tools Menu.

But that would mean one more menu for just two entries...

Charles A nice usability enhancement for LyX 1.4 would be that when
Charles you create a new document, you get a wizard to choose the
Charles class of the document where we could put some explanations
Charles about the different classes. I think that here the Word-style
Charles Format-Document doesn't go well with the LateX paradigm
Charles where it is important to make the right choice at the start.

Yes, we should at least merge the New... and New from template...
dialogs to do that. However, this does not mix well with using native
filedialogs. 

Charles For KWord we have this widget (see attached file 30 kb) when
Charles you start the application (some people like it, other hate
Charles it).

I have to say I do not like it much ;)

JMarc

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

[Milos Komarcevic]

Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
At this very moment, not yet. Actually, the new sed makes things worse for
me. What exactly is the new version supposed to do?
In what way worse? I had some problems with the new sed if I just drop 
it in \lyx\bin, see my previous post:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg32795.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg32804.html
It only worked for me if I actually install the GnuWin32 package 
properly and add it to the path. Still can't figure out why the difference.

Milos

Re: Hi at all

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Alberto wrote:
 IMO book class is o.k. The most obvious difference to the other main
  classes (article, report) is that books have real chapters that start a
  new page. I'd recommend to use not the standard book but either scrbook
  (that is book (koma)) or memoir, because these two are much more
  flexible. KOMA has been designed with regard to European typesetting
  conventions.

 Ok. I will try that too...I observed that changing from book style to some
 other styles i obtain some errors. I suppose that this is due to use
 different style imply use different headers (for section, chapter, and so
 on). 

Yes, LyX yields an error if the new document class doesn't have some layouts 
elements of the old one (e.g. article doesn't have chapters, in contrary to 
book). A switch between book and book (koma) should be no problem, though 
(but vice versa, if you use koma's bonus features).

 So i changed the headers, but the errors remains. 

Do you mean the red error boxes or the error when you try to view 
dvi/postscript/pdf? The latter shouldn't be the case. Normally, the error 
boxes disappear automatically with the next latex run. 

 So to fix this  
 problem i opened a new file and i copied into that new lyx file the text.
 Isn't it a way too heuristic? ..yes of course to obtain something good from
 anything i should at least know the tools...but lyx is a pointclick
 tool so i think that user should be obtain all that they wish using the
 same policy. Am i wrong? (probably there is the way, but i don't know
 it!)

No, this shouldn't be necessary.

 Thanks...i found (i think) the right page style. I selected
 Layout-Document-Layout (from the left frame) and on the right frame at
 the text-area: page style i choosed: playn. Now all the pages of my
 document are written at bottom. The fancy option is good too, but if i has
 a long section title then the left part (in the header) overwrites the
 right part. 

You can use Insert-Short Title to pass a short version of the section title 
to the toc and the headers. Or you can tweak fancyhdr to delete one of those 
parts. But I'd postpone those things until your thesis has been written. Just 
be aware that this is all possible.

 Does this help?
 http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/MultipleAuthors

 Yes. I read it. It suggest to use C-return. Thanks.

The \and trick puts the authors side by side.

  5) I not able to obtain a good layout with lyx of the comments to my
  images. Usually i see the image centered (as i want) but the comments
  that i obtain with wrapped box area is not just below the image, but it
  is between the text after the image. So i tried to put an hfill element
  after the wrapped area, but it does not work :(
  I use the wrapped area so i can put at the end of my thesis a figure
  list too.
 
 Can you send a small example showing the misbehaviour?

 At this mailing list? I would not spam you. Can i send it?
 At present my document is 32kb weight.

Try to make a minimal example of it, i.e., remove all that is not necessary 
to reproduce the error. And send it to the list please. Or, if you have 
webspace available, post a link.

Regards,
Jürgen

Re: CV JMarc: sections without numbers

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Paul == Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Paul Dear All I am using JMarc CV class. The sections are all
Paul numbered, but I would like to get them with no number. How can I
Paul force that?

In LayoutDocumentNumbering, you should set Section numbering depth
to -1 or 0. 

I am not sure why LyX does not do that, since it is specified in the
layout file.

JMarc

RE: Hi at all

[Alberto]

hi, 
i must be short because there is a limit on the size of the mail that can be 
accept from the server of this ml. 
thanks and bye
Alberto


lyx.tar.bz2
Description: application/tbz

Re: Hi at all

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Alberto wrote:
I don't know if the my university has a fixed style...and i don't know how
to ask this. Probably my professors as me can see if the document has a
good layout or not, but we don't know the name of the good layout with
lyx...for this reason i asked to this mailing-list.
Alberto,
  It's been a couple of decades since I left grad school so things may have
changed. But, each of the two universities where I earned graduate degrees
has a 'graduate college' and that office provides a style guide for theses
and dissertations. It defines page size, margins and other details so that
each submission is exactly like all the others. Your thesis advisor can
tell you which office has these details.
   Look for the bibtex documentation on your system.
This point is not so clear. I mean that i don't understand if i must
install another program(s) or if it is already installed into lyx. Anyway
i will search!
  No, bibtex is part of the LaTeX distribution used by LyX.
Good luck!
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
http://www.appl-ecosys.com   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

[Ruurd Reitsma]

Milos Komarcevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
  At this very moment, not yet. Actually, the new sed makes things worse
for
  me. What exactly is the new version supposed to do?

 In what way worse? I had some problems with the new sed if I just drop
 it in \lyx\bin, see my previous post:

It crashes...

Anyway, I think it´s a nicer solution to include a newer ´MSYS´ sed. But I
still don´t know why this is needed.

Ruurd

Re: Hi at all

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Alberto wrote:
 hi,
 i must be short because there is a limit on the size of the mail that can
 be accept from the server of this ml.

You have to put the image _inside_ the float (above the caption text). Put the 
cursor at the beginning of the caption text and press enter. Then insert the 
image. 

Jürgen

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released - a nasty bug

[Ruurd Reitsma]

Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Ruurd Reitsma wrote:

  I have uploaded a fixed package to sourceforge. There might still be
issues,
  but the new one definately looks better.

 Many thanks for the new version. Math insets look better but the blue
 boxes are too high now, which affects sub/suberscripts, braces etc.

Again there´s a fix; I just uploaded a new package.

Could you test it?


 p.s. sed is still the old version 3.02.


What does the new sed do anyway? The old one works for me...

Ruurd

Re: CV JMarc: sections without numbers

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:46:35 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 In LayoutDocumentNumbering, you should set Section numbering depth
 to -1 or 0.

Thanks, Jean-Marc. That did the trick.
 
 I am not sure why LyX does not do that, since it is specified in the
 layout file.

I am using the layout file available at:

http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Examples/CV/cv_JMarc.layout

Maybe, this is not the most recent layout file.

Paul

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

[Milos Komarcevic]

Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
Anyway, I think it´s a nicer solution to include a newer ´MSYS´ sed. But I
still don´t know why this is needed.
Because with the current one (3.02) the creation of the file 
\lyx\share\lyx\docs\LaTeXConfig.lyx fails (0 length), so you can't view 
the LaTeX configuration from the Help menu in LyX. Are you not seeing 
this problem with your setup? Lots of people ran into it. Check out this 
thread as well:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg30994.html
The problem is with DOS's ^M characters which the old sed and libintl do 
not handle well. GnuWin32 version works, but not when it's in \lyx\bin?

This isn't a showstopper or a big deal, but should be solved and fixed 
at some point.

Milos

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

[Kent Kostuk]

First, I checked textclass.lst:  it's there and non-zero.
Second, I replace sed.
Third, I type configure at the c:\lyx32\share\lyx DOS prompt and get: a 
lot of text and then configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script

This makes me think I have an error in my PATH statment.  Here is my path:
PATH=C:\lyx32\share\lyx\..\..\bin;C:\lyx32\share\lyx\..\..\bin;c:\program 
files\imagemagick-6.1.7-q16;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\PROGRAM 
FILES\THINKPAD\UTILITIES;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk 
Shared\;C:\PROGRA~1\ULTRAE~1;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL 
Server\80\Tools\BINN;C:\Program Files\IBM\Director\bin

kjk
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
First, check the file textclass.lst.  I'm guessing it will exist but be 
zero bytes.

Next, go to the bin directory, open a DOS prompt and check which version 
of sed you have by typing sed --version.  If it's 3.02, delete sed.exe 
and replace it with a newer version.  (I think one is linked from the 
Wiki; if not, you can get it from Sourceforge, as part of the GnuWin 
project.)

Once you have a good sed in place, try running the configuration script 
(...\share\configure.bat) from a DOS prompt.  See if a non-empty 
textclass.lst is produced.  If so, I think you'll be able to start LyX.

-- Paul

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

[Charles de Miramon]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

 Charles == Charles de Miramon
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Charles Great. I think that Reconfigure and Preferences should be in
 Charles a Configuration Menu and not in the Tools Menu.
 
 But that would mean one more menu for just two entries...

Previous situations (configuration in either Edit or Option menus) was
rather illogical and caused by the fact that the average screen was much
smaller than today. Menu structure have to redesigned to the fact that we
have more horizontal space to put messages.
There are no usability reasons that I can think of to limit the number of
first level menu's items and cram them on the left side of the screen. They
are some research on the web on how fast humans (and maybe chimps) find the
right node on a tree depending on the number of levels of the tree, I
should try to find it back for you. The result was more or less that the
flater the tree was the faster humans can find an item. The explanation
must be that the brain has good geometrical memory (this object is
somewhere on the right, in the middle) but that logical classifications are
harder to memorize : to find the fish, I must first open the animal box...
But, if you have played Memory with your son, you know all that.

I guess also that in the Configuration Menu, a third option would be quickly
added : 'Plugins' :-)

 
 I have to say I do not like it much ;)

The first thing to do when you start a LaTeX document is to choose the right
class. I think the current situation that default to article without saying
anything to the user and hides the class information two level deep in the
menu is not very educative for a LaTeX beginner. 

Cheers,
Charles
-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Hi at all

[Alberto]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 16:04, Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Alberto wrote:
  I don't know if the my university has a fixed style...and i don't know
  how to ask this. Probably my professors as me can see if the document has
  a good layout or not, but we don't know the name of the good layout
  with lyx...for this reason i asked to this mailing-list.

 Alberto,

It's been a couple of decades since I left grad school so things may
 have changed. But, each of the two universities where I earned graduate
 degrees has a 'graduate college' and that office provides a style guide for
 theses and dissertations. It defines page size, margins and other details
 so that each submission is exactly like all the others. Your thesis advisor
 can tell you which office has these details.

Rich,

i wish to assure you that the things are not changed in these years. But 
probably you could not understand,  due my bad english, that i does not told 
you that there aren't layout conventions, instead i meant that i don't know 
how to setup lyx to understand what i wish
Infact i told:

Probably my professors as me can see if the document has
  a good layout or not, but we don't know the name of the good layout
  with lyx...for this reason i asked to this mailing-list.

While when i wrote this:

  I don't know if the my university has a fixed style...and i don't know
  how to ask this.

I done an error! I know the style, but i don't know its lyx name. 
Sorry for my error. 
 Is it a book, a koma-book, a newspaper article, a seminar?
With lyx i see only the layout names, not what a layout implies tooso must 
i prove all them? I hope i could use a more scientific approach
Isn't there an official guide that explains the margin convenction that a 
style implies?
I tried with the lyx site, but i was not able to see what i'm looking for...
So i just asked to the Lyx mailing listif I offended you, i'm sorry.
It was not in my intentions.

 Look for the bibtex documentation on your system.
 
  This point is not so clear. I mean that i don't understand if i must
  install another program(s) or if it is already installed into lyx. Anyway
  i will search!

No, bibtex is part of the LaTeX distribution used by LyX.

But if i installed lyx, i should have installed LaTex too.
...or not?

 Good luck!

thanks i need it.


 Rich

Alberto

Re: Hi at all

[Alberto]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 16:10, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
 Alberto wrote:
  hi,
  i must be short because there is a limit on the size of the mail that can
  be accept from the server of this ml.

 You have to put the image _inside_ the float (above the caption text). Put
 the cursor at the beginning of the caption text and press enter. Then
 insert the image.

 Jürgen

Thanks i will try.
Alberto

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

[Angus Leeming]

Kent Kostuk wrote:
 First, I checked textclass.lst:  it's there and non-zero.
 
 Second, I replace sed.
 
 Third, I type configure at the c:\lyx32\share\lyx DOS prompt and get: a
 lot of text and then configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script

I would type sh configure if you are running from a DOS prompt as 
opposed to a unix shell. Otherwise, Windows is likely to try and execute 
configure as a batch file. Which it isn't... Or it may be executing 
'configure.cmd', which is ancient, unmaintained historical cruft...

Assuming that it's running sh.exe on the right file, here's the block of 
code in configure that threw up the message:

 Guess the directory in which configure is located.
ac_prog=$0
srcdir=`echo $ac_prog|sed 's%/[^/][^/]*$%%'`
srcdir=`echo ${srcdir} | sed 's%\([^/]\)/*$%\1%'`
test x$srcdir = x$ac_prog  srcdir=.
if test ! -r ${srcdir}/chkconfig.ltx ; then
  echo configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script
  exit 1
fi

If you modify that block of code to print out some diagnostics, so:
(I've added a bunch of print (echo) statements):

ac_prog=$0
srcdir=`echo $ac_prog|sed 's%/[^/][^/]*$%%'`
echo SRCDIR $srcdir
srcdir=`echo ${srcdir} | sed 's%\([^/]\)/*$%\1%'`
echo SRCDIR $srcdir
test x$srcdir = x$ac_prog  srcdir=.
echo SRCDIR $srcdir
if test ! -r ${srcdir}/chkconfig.ltx ; then
  echo configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script
  exit 1
fi

exit 1

Then here, running sh configure I get:

SRCDIR configure
SRCDIR configure
SRCDIR .

which means that the if test ...  line becomes:

if test ! -r ./chkconfig.ltx ; then

translating into English:
if the file ./chkconfig.ltx isn't readable, then...

SO, does chkconfig.ltx exist and do you have read permission to open it up?

-- 
Angus

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released - a nasty bug

[Uwe Sthr]

Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
Again there?s a fix; I just uploaded a new package.
Could you test it?
Thanks for the new version. The math insets looks much better. But in 
comparison with LyXWin 1.3.3 the blue boxes are a bit smaller. I don't 
know what's the correct size but the fractions looks better in 1.3.3 due 
to the space between the fraction line and the de/nominator. I attached 
two screenshots to compare.

What does the new sed do anyway? The old one works for me...
The old one fails on some machines when configuring LyX, see
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup
in section  If LyX's configuration fails or was incomplete
(In section Other minor fixes you'll find a solution for the problem of 
the empty LaTeX Configuration file.)

The sed issue was often discussed on this list. I don't know the 
differences between sed 1.4 and sed 4.1.2. Hopefully both are working.

regards Uwe
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Re: error loading .ps graphics

[Stephen Buonopane]

LyX 1.3.5 Mac OS 10.3.7
When trying to load a postscript graphic, my graphic insert says
Error converting to loadable format
and my console spits out the following:
PreviewLoader::startLoading()
No converter from lyxpreview format has been defined.
Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in get
Operand stack:
  hrsyr.gsf0
Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in get
Operand stack:
  hrsyr.gsf0
convert: Postscript delegate failed.
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh 
ERROR
Execution of convert failed.

I AM ABLE to use .ps graphics on my Mac laptop running LyX 1.3.4. I 
have checked the Preferences dialogues on the two computers to make 
sure the Converters appear identical and they do appear identical.


1. Try running convert on your graphic from Terminal.
2. What program are you using to generate your ps file? If it has an 
embedded tiff/jpg preview then Latex will not be able to use it.
3. I have also run into a problem on my Mac with a graphics program 
that was using a font that Latex did not like.

Re: error loading .ps graphics

[Angus Leeming]

Stephen Buonopane wrote:

 LyX 1.3.5 Mac OS 10.3.7

 When trying to load a postscript graphic, my graphic insert says
 Error converting to loadable format

 and my console spits out the following:

 PreviewLoader::startLoading()
 No converter from lyxpreview format has been defined.

That means that you have Instant Preview turned on and yet have nothing
like

\converter lyxpreview ppm lyxpreview2ppm.py 

defined in your $PREFIX/share/lyx/lyxrc.defaults file.

You shouldn't need Instant Preview to load a postscript graphic. See here
 http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/InstantPreview
for an explanation of what the feature is and how to get it running.

Please check that the Instant Preview checkbox is not set in the 
Look and Feel-Graphics pane of the Edit-Preferences dialog.

This won't/shouldn't enable you to load your PostScript graphics, but it
should remove an 'arbitrary' error message.

-- 
Angus

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

[Matej Cepl]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 I do not know really. Let's say a few month. It really depends on
 whether some of the coders can find some time to work on it (sad,
 isn't it?).

I have two thoughts, how to give to the LyX some edge:

1) I have been happy user of SWSusp kernel patch and its development was
   partially funded by Linux Fund -- http://www.linuxfund.org/. Would it
   help if some LyX developer (possibly in between two jobs), could work on
   LyX full-time? I guess the project with many users and not enough
   developers is an ideal candidate for such funding.
2) Hey, there are many tech writers here! Why they shouldn't some good
   pro-LyX campaign (on Slashdot, Usenet, etc.) to attain more developers?
   Of course, scratching your own itch principle means that LyX would need
   some serious rebranding -- and here I think serious support of Docbook
   could really help. Just a thought.

Matej

-- 
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138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
 
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address
on it?
  -- Mark Twain

About version control under windows.

[Wang Xiangqi]

I am now using Lyx 1.3.5 for windows. Can I use the function of version
control? Or how can I use it. I have checked the help documentment but
cannot understand.
More thanks.
Regards.

about font install in lyx

[Zeng Zeng]

Hi:
I use lyx 1.3.5-qt. Now I have a kind of font, applegar, a very old font 
style ten years ago. I have .sty, and other files. I can use the package 
now, but it doesn't work. The font remains the same as before. Could 
some one teach me how to install font in linux for lyx?

Thank you very much!
Best regards
Zeng Zeng

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
From: Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:23:29 +0100

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

 Charles == Charles de Miramon
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 


The first thing to do when you start a LaTeX document is to choose the right
class. 

IMHO, the right template would be more efficient, a class by itself does not 
contain a user point of view.

A template could be seen as a plugin giving access to a class (with an 
accompanying example illustrating
what can be done with it).

Open example = learn about a type of document
Open fron template = use a known type of document

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

[Ruurd Reitsma]

Milos Komarcevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Ruurd,
 Although there are still some minor issues with the math mode (offset of
 subscripts, accents etc. is to large and brackets are too tall), it is
 at least now rendered correctly and quite useable, so I'm able to switch
 over to 1.3.5 for real.

OK. Good. I´m still trying to figure out the differences between the various
Qt versions.

 (I should mention that sed.exe is still old in this fixed package, I
 wasn't sure if you were indenting to upgrade it or not this time around)


At this very moment, not yet. Actually, the new sed makes things worse for
me. What exactly is the new version supposed to do?

Ruurd

Re: Resetting Page Number

[Helge Hafting]

Rich Shepard wrote:
  I'm using lyx-1.3.5 on linux with the koma-script report class. The
preamble set up fancyheaders:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
I recommend you drop the above two lines, and use the support in lyx:
layout-document and set page style to fancy.  If pagestyle is
set to anything else it might override the preamble.  If it is indeed
set to fancy then this preamble stuff becomes superfluous. You will 
still need
the rest as lyx doesn't have a dialog for setting up the fancy header.

\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\slshape \rightmark}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\slshape \leftmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
%\renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
%\renewcommand{footrulewidth}{0pt}
  (I got compile errors about the foot rule so I commented those out.)
  So far I've only begun the Introduction so I have only one page 
beyond the
title page. That page is numbered (right-aligned, not centered) as 
'3'. So I
My guess is that layout-document is overriding the pagestyle.
pulled down TLC2 looking for the \resetcounter{page}{} command, but could
not find it. I did find a reference to \pagenumbering, but the 
compiler got
indigestion over that and spit it out. I also tried
\renewcommand{\thepage}{1} in a couple of locations around the first 
chapter
heading, but that too was violently regurgitated.
Use \setcounter{page}{1}.  Don't renew a counter, use \setcounter.
There are also commands for doing math on counters if you ever need that.
When doing preamble work, always take a look at the various layout-document
options to see if support (or partial support)  exists already.  If 
support exists
(such as for fancy headers) use that.  If a setting is offered for 
something but your alternative isn't listed, then you have to use the 
preamble.  In such cases, leave
the setting at default, so it doesn't override the preamble with some
explicit setting.

Helge Hafting

Re: \frontmatter and \mainmatter does not work with pdflatex.

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

R S Ananda Murthy wrote:
 Dear Jurgen,

 Thanks for help. The problem is because of hyperref. If I disable  
 hyperref it works. But how to make it work with hyperref because I want  
 to have hyperlinks if possible.

What version of hyperref do you have? Perhaps an update helps.

Jürgen

 Thanks again,

 Regards,

 Anand

Re: Resetting Page Number

[Herbert Voss]

Rich Shepard wrote:
  I'm using lyx-1.3.5 on linux with the koma-script report class. The
preamble set up fancyheaders:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\slshape \rightmark}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\slshape \leftmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
%\renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
%\renewcommand{footrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
 ^^^
attached an example for using fancy headers
Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass scrbook
\begin_preamble
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\slshape \rightmark}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\slshape \leftmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\end_preamble
\language ngerman
\inputencoding latin1
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing single 
\papersize Default
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 17cm
\paperheight 22cm
\leftmargin 1.2cm
\topmargin 1.4cm
\rightmargin 1.7cm
\bottommargin 1.4cm
\headsep 1cm
\secnumdepth 4
\tocdepth 4
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language german
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle fancy

\layout Standard


\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
frontmatter
\end_inset 


\layout Title

A demo for fancy headings
\layout Author

Herbert Voß
\layout Standard


\begin_inset LatexCommand \tableofcontents{}

\end_inset 


\layout Standard


\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
mainmatter
\end_inset 


\layout Chapter

foo
\layout Standard

bar bar bat faser label blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser label blubber
 nonsense bar bar bat faser label blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser label
 blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser label blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser
 label blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser label blubber nonsense bar bar
 bat faser label blubber nonsense 
\layout Section

bar
\layout Standard

baz
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
newpage
\end_inset 


\layout Standard

baz
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
newpage
\end_inset 


\layout Standard

baz
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
newpage
\end_inset 


\layout Standard

baz
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
newpage
\end_inset 


\layout Standard


\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
backmatter
\end_inset 


\layout Chapter
\start_of_appendix 
Foo
\layout Standard

bar baz
\the_end

Re: \underrrightarrow not working

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Andre == Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Andre On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:52:58PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
 Actually, it's something of a conscious decision. Andre didn't want
 to force the user to use AMSMath. Maybe he uses a package that
 defines \underrightarrow that we don't know about.

Andre No, I think I just forgot ams in the inset's validate. But I
Andre think I fixed this already several times...

For information, this bug is now fixed for both 1.3.6cvs and 1.4.0cvs.

JMarc

Re: Hi at all

[Alberto]

Hi again, and thanks for all your answer.

I will try to answer to all your email.


On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Alberto wrote:
  1) i selected the book style, is that correct for my thesis? i'm not
  sure of what a style involves. Probably is easier to answer to this
  question seeing the other problems. (I hope...)

 Alberto,

Does your university have either A) a defined thesis format or B) LaTeX
 class for that format?

I don't know if the my university has a fixed style...and i don't know how to 
ask this. Probably my professors as me can see if the document has a good 
layout or not, but we don't know the name of the good layout with lyx...for 
this reason i asked to this mailing-list.

  2) i'm not able to obtain a common way to see the page numbers; sometimes
  the page number is on the top-right corner of the page, sometimes on the
  bottom (the first page of each chapter, and in the index pages). Can i
  decide where the page number must be printed?

Yes. The fancyhdr package lets you control what information is seen.

I will search for it. thanks

  4) I need the bibliografy!!! :) but i'm not able to do it works. :(
  As i see i could able to put into my thesis a biblio composed of some
  books (of which i must say to lyx the path to reach them), but i has not
  that books! I only knows their names. How can i put into my bibliografy
  the name of the books that i know, but that i don't own on my hard disk?

Look for the bibtex documentation on your system.

This point is not so clear. I mean that i don't understand if i must install 
another program(s) or if it is already installed into lyx. Anyway i will 
search! 


  5) I not able to obtain a good layout with lyx of the comments to my
  images. Usually i see the image centered (as i want) but the comments
  that i obtain with wrapped box area is not just below the image, but it
  is between the text after the image. So i tried to put an hfill element
  after the wrapped area, but it does not work :( I use the wrapped
  area so i can put at the end of my thesis a figure list too.

Use a figure float for your figures. This lets the software determine
 the best placement. You can center the figure by using
 Layout-Paragraph-Center. In most books, the figure caption is placed
 beneath the figure and the table caption is placed on top of the table.

I tried as you told me, but it does not work alwaysFor the moment i has 
two images. The first is immediately followed by a different section. It that 
case the float does not appear (while the wrapped area works). In the second 
image the float works and wrapped area not. I think that i'm wrong something 
(sure with lyx works either or at least one of two ways, but i'm not able to 
use lyx as we can see)

  Some other people told me to use OpenOffice, but i beleve in lyx! ...am i
  wrong?

No. At least, that's what most of us think. However, if your university
 has format requirements that would take a lot of effort to enable in LyX
 then perhaps OO.o would be quicker for you.

I will remember of this. 
 Rich

Thanks for your answer!
Alberto


On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 3) i'm writing my thesis with some other people, but i'm not able to put 
their 
 names on the authour field. i would like something like this:
 
 cippo lippo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 lappo frappo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Use only one author paragraph and separate the names by a forced line 
break (shortcut C-Enter).

regards Uwe

Thanks this work perfectly! 
Alberto


On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Subir Singh Lamba wrote:
Hi,

I have been using lyx since some time and at present I am writing my 
thesis. For that I have downloaded a sketch of thesis from University of 
Durham. If you need I can send you in email and you will have to just 
tweak it according to your requirement as the file is really a good find.

Subir

Of course. I will appreciate that a lot. 
Thanks!
Alberto
P.S. You can mail me at the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 


On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
 I tried to use lyx some years ago, when i installed it, and now. I have
 mainly these problems:

 1) i selected the book style, is that correct for my thesis? i'm not sure
 of what a style involves. Probably is easier to answer to this question
 seeing the other problems. (I hope...)

IMO book class is o.k. The most obvious difference to the other main classes 
(article, report) is that books have real chapters that start a new page.
I'd recommend to use not the standard book but either scrbook (that is book 
(koma)) or memoir, because these two are much more flexible. KOMA has been 
designed with regard to European typesetting conventions.

Ok. I will try that too...I observed that changing from book style to some 
other styles i obtain some errors. I suppose that this is due to use 
different style imply use different headers (for section, chapter, and so 
on). So i changed the headers, but the 

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Charles == Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Charles Great. I think that Reconfigure and Preferences should be in
Charles a Configuration Menu and not in the Tools Menu.

But that would mean one more menu for just two entries...

Charles A nice usability enhancement for LyX 1.4 would be that when
Charles you create a new document, you get a wizard to choose the
Charles class of the document where we could put some explanations
Charles about the different classes. I think that here the Word-style
Charles Format-Document doesn't go well with the LateX paradigm
Charles where it is important to make the right choice at the start.

Yes, we should at least merge the New... and New from template...
dialogs to do that. However, this does not mix well with using native
filedialogs. 

Charles For KWord we have this widget (see attached file 30 kb) when
Charles you start the application (some people like it, other hate
Charles it).

I have to say I do not like it much ;)

JMarc

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

[Milos Komarcevic]

Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
At this very moment, not yet. Actually, the new sed makes things worse for
me. What exactly is the new version supposed to do?
In what way worse? I had some problems with the new sed if I just drop 
it in \lyx\bin, see my previous post:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg32795.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg32804.html
It only worked for me if I actually install the GnuWin32 package 
properly and add it to the path. Still can't figure out why the difference.

Milos

Re: Hi at all

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Alberto wrote:
 IMO book class is o.k. The most obvious difference to the other main
  classes (article, report) is that books have real chapters that start a
  new page. I'd recommend to use not the standard book but either scrbook
  (that is book (koma)) or memoir, because these two are much more
  flexible. KOMA has been designed with regard to European typesetting
  conventions.

 Ok. I will try that too...I observed that changing from book style to some
 other styles i obtain some errors. I suppose that this is due to use
 different style imply use different headers (for section, chapter, and so
 on). 

Yes, LyX yields an error if the new document class doesn't have some layouts 
elements of the old one (e.g. article doesn't have chapters, in contrary to 
book). A switch between book and book (koma) should be no problem, though 
(but vice versa, if you use koma's bonus features).

 So i changed the headers, but the errors remains. 

Do you mean the red error boxes or the error when you try to view 
dvi/postscript/pdf? The latter shouldn't be the case. Normally, the error 
boxes disappear automatically with the next latex run. 

 So to fix this  
 problem i opened a new file and i copied into that new lyx file the text.
 Isn't it a way too heuristic? ..yes of course to obtain something good from
 anything i should at least know the tools...but lyx is a pointclick
 tool so i think that user should be obtain all that they wish using the
 same policy. Am i wrong? (probably there is the way, but i don't know
 it!)

No, this shouldn't be necessary.

 Thanks...i found (i think) the right page style. I selected
 Layout-Document-Layout (from the left frame) and on the right frame at
 the text-area: page style i choosed: playn. Now all the pages of my
 document are written at bottom. The fancy option is good too, but if i has
 a long section title then the left part (in the header) overwrites the
 right part. 

You can use Insert-Short Title to pass a short version of the section title 
to the toc and the headers. Or you can tweak fancyhdr to delete one of those 
parts. But I'd postpone those things until your thesis has been written. Just 
be aware that this is all possible.

 Does this help?
 http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/MultipleAuthors

 Yes. I read it. It suggest to use C-return. Thanks.

The \and trick puts the authors side by side.

  5) I not able to obtain a good layout with lyx of the comments to my
  images. Usually i see the image centered (as i want) but the comments
  that i obtain with wrapped box area is not just below the image, but it
  is between the text after the image. So i tried to put an hfill element
  after the wrapped area, but it does not work :(
  I use the wrapped area so i can put at the end of my thesis a figure
  list too.
 
 Can you send a small example showing the misbehaviour?

 At this mailing list? I would not spam you. Can i send it?
 At present my document is 32kb weight.

Try to make a minimal example of it, i.e., remove all that is not necessary 
to reproduce the error. And send it to the list please. Or, if you have 
webspace available, post a link.

Regards,
Jürgen

Re: CV JMarc: sections without numbers

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Paul == Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Paul Dear All I am using JMarc CV class. The sections are all
Paul numbered, but I would like to get them with no number. How can I
Paul force that?

In LayoutDocumentNumbering, you should set Section numbering depth
to -1 or 0. 

I am not sure why LyX does not do that, since it is specified in the
layout file.

JMarc

RE: Hi at all

[Alberto]

hi, 
i must be short because there is a limit on the size of the mail that can be 
accept from the server of this ml. 
thanks and bye
Alberto


lyx.tar.bz2
Description: application/tbz

Re: Hi at all

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Alberto wrote:
I don't know if the my university has a fixed style...and i don't know how
to ask this. Probably my professors as me can see if the document has a
good layout or not, but we don't know the name of the good layout with
lyx...for this reason i asked to this mailing-list.
Alberto,
  It's been a couple of decades since I left grad school so things may have
changed. But, each of the two universities where I earned graduate degrees
has a 'graduate college' and that office provides a style guide for theses
and dissertations. It defines page size, margins and other details so that
each submission is exactly like all the others. Your thesis advisor can
tell you which office has these details.
   Look for the bibtex documentation on your system.
This point is not so clear. I mean that i don't understand if i must
install another program(s) or if it is already installed into lyx. Anyway
i will search!
  No, bibtex is part of the LaTeX distribution used by LyX.
Good luck!
Rich
--
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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
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Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

[Ruurd Reitsma]

Milos Komarcevic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
  At this very moment, not yet. Actually, the new sed makes things worse
for
  me. What exactly is the new version supposed to do?

 In what way worse? I had some problems with the new sed if I just drop
 it in \lyx\bin, see my previous post:

It crashes...

Anyway, I think it´s a nicer solution to include a newer ´MSYS´ sed. But I
still don´t know why this is needed.

Ruurd

Re: Hi at all

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Alberto wrote:
 hi,
 i must be short because there is a limit on the size of the mail that can
 be accept from the server of this ml.

You have to put the image _inside_ the float (above the caption text). Put the 
cursor at the beginning of the caption text and press enter. Then insert the 
image. 

Jürgen

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released - a nasty bug

[Ruurd Reitsma]

Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Ruurd Reitsma wrote:

  I have uploaded a fixed package to sourceforge. There might still be
issues,
  but the new one definately looks better.

 Many thanks for the new version. Math insets look better but the blue
 boxes are too high now, which affects sub/suberscripts, braces etc.

Again there´s a fix; I just uploaded a new package.

Could you test it?


 p.s. sed is still the old version 3.02.


What does the new sed do anyway? The old one works for me...

Ruurd

Re: CV JMarc: sections without numbers

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:46:35 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 In LayoutDocumentNumbering, you should set Section numbering depth
 to -1 or 0.

Thanks, Jean-Marc. That did the trick.
 
 I am not sure why LyX does not do that, since it is specified in the
 layout file.

I am using the layout file available at:

http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Examples/CV/cv_JMarc.layout

Maybe, this is not the most recent layout file.

Paul

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

[Milos Komarcevic]

Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
Anyway, I think it´s a nicer solution to include a newer ´MSYS´ sed. But I
still don´t know why this is needed.
Because with the current one (3.02) the creation of the file 
\lyx\share\lyx\docs\LaTeXConfig.lyx fails (0 length), so you can't view 
the LaTeX configuration from the Help menu in LyX. Are you not seeing 
this problem with your setup? Lots of people ran into it. Check out this 
thread as well:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg30994.html
The problem is with DOS's ^M characters which the old sed and libintl do 
not handle well. GnuWin32 version works, but not when it's in \lyx\bin?

This isn't a showstopper or a big deal, but should be solved and fixed 
at some point.

Milos

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

[Kent Kostuk]

First, I checked textclass.lst:  it's there and non-zero.
Second, I replace sed.
Third, I type configure at the c:\lyx32\share\lyx DOS prompt and get: a 
lot of text and then configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script

This makes me think I have an error in my PATH statment.  Here is my path:
PATH=C:\lyx32\share\lyx\..\..\bin;C:\lyx32\share\lyx\..\..\bin;c:\program 
files\imagemagick-6.1.7-q16;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\PROGRAM 
FILES\THINKPAD\UTILITIES;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk 
Shared\;C:\PROGRA~1\ULTRAE~1;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL 
Server\80\Tools\BINN;C:\Program Files\IBM\Director\bin

kjk
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
First, check the file textclass.lst.  I'm guessing it will exist but be 
zero bytes.

Next, go to the bin directory, open a DOS prompt and check which version 
of sed you have by typing sed --version.  If it's 3.02, delete sed.exe 
and replace it with a newer version.  (I think one is linked from the 
Wiki; if not, you can get it from Sourceforge, as part of the GnuWin 
project.)

Once you have a good sed in place, try running the configuration script 
(...\share\configure.bat) from a DOS prompt.  See if a non-empty 
textclass.lst is produced.  If so, I think you'll be able to start LyX.

-- Paul

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

[Charles de Miramon]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

 Charles == Charles de Miramon
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Charles Great. I think that Reconfigure and Preferences should be in
 Charles a Configuration Menu and not in the Tools Menu.
 
 But that would mean one more menu for just two entries...

Previous situations (configuration in either Edit or Option menus) was
rather illogical and caused by the fact that the average screen was much
smaller than today. Menu structure have to redesigned to the fact that we
have more horizontal space to put messages.
There are no usability reasons that I can think of to limit the number of
first level menu's items and cram them on the left side of the screen. They
are some research on the web on how fast humans (and maybe chimps) find the
right node on a tree depending on the number of levels of the tree, I
should try to find it back for you. The result was more or less that the
flater the tree was the faster humans can find an item. The explanation
must be that the brain has good geometrical memory (this object is
somewhere on the right, in the middle) but that logical classifications are
harder to memorize : to find the fish, I must first open the animal box...
But, if you have played Memory with your son, you know all that.

I guess also that in the Configuration Menu, a third option would be quickly
added : 'Plugins' :-)

 
 I have to say I do not like it much ;)

The first thing to do when you start a LaTeX document is to choose the right
class. I think the current situation that default to article without saying
anything to the user and hides the class information two level deep in the
menu is not very educative for a LaTeX beginner. 

Cheers,
Charles
-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Hi at all

[Alberto]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 16:04, Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Alberto wrote:
  I don't know if the my university has a fixed style...and i don't know
  how to ask this. Probably my professors as me can see if the document has
  a good layout or not, but we don't know the name of the good layout
  with lyx...for this reason i asked to this mailing-list.

 Alberto,

It's been a couple of decades since I left grad school so things may
 have changed. But, each of the two universities where I earned graduate
 degrees has a 'graduate college' and that office provides a style guide for
 theses and dissertations. It defines page size, margins and other details
 so that each submission is exactly like all the others. Your thesis advisor
 can tell you which office has these details.

Rich,

i wish to assure you that the things are not changed in these years. But 
probably you could not understand,  due my bad english, that i does not told 
you that there aren't layout conventions, instead i meant that i don't know 
how to setup lyx to understand what i wish
Infact i told:

Probably my professors as me can see if the document has
  a good layout or not, but we don't know the name of the good layout
  with lyx...for this reason i asked to this mailing-list.

While when i wrote this:

  I don't know if the my university has a fixed style...and i don't know
  how to ask this.

I done an error! I know the style, but i don't know its lyx name. 
Sorry for my error. 
 Is it a book, a koma-book, a newspaper article, a seminar?
With lyx i see only the layout names, not what a layout implies tooso must 
i prove all them? I hope i could use a more scientific approach
Isn't there an official guide that explains the margin convenction that a 
style implies?
I tried with the lyx site, but i was not able to see what i'm looking for...
So i just asked to the Lyx mailing listif I offended you, i'm sorry.
It was not in my intentions.

 Look for the bibtex documentation on your system.
 
  This point is not so clear. I mean that i don't understand if i must
  install another program(s) or if it is already installed into lyx. Anyway
  i will search!

No, bibtex is part of the LaTeX distribution used by LyX.

But if i installed lyx, i should have installed LaTex too.
...or not?

 Good luck!

thanks i need it.


 Rich

Alberto

Re: Hi at all

[Alberto]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 16:10, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
 Alberto wrote:
  hi,
  i must be short because there is a limit on the size of the mail that can
  be accept from the server of this ml.

 You have to put the image _inside_ the float (above the caption text). Put
 the cursor at the beginning of the caption text and press enter. Then
 insert the image.

 Jürgen

Thanks i will try.
Alberto

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

[Angus Leeming]

Kent Kostuk wrote:
 First, I checked textclass.lst:  it's there and non-zero.
 
 Second, I replace sed.
 
 Third, I type configure at the c:\lyx32\share\lyx DOS prompt and get: a
 lot of text and then configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script

I would type sh configure if you are running from a DOS prompt as 
opposed to a unix shell. Otherwise, Windows is likely to try and execute 
configure as a batch file. Which it isn't... Or it may be executing 
'configure.cmd', which is ancient, unmaintained historical cruft...

Assuming that it's running sh.exe on the right file, here's the block of 
code in configure that threw up the message:

 Guess the directory in which configure is located.
ac_prog=$0
srcdir=`echo $ac_prog|sed 's%/[^/][^/]*$%%'`
srcdir=`echo ${srcdir} | sed 's%\([^/]\)/*$%\1%'`
test x$srcdir = x$ac_prog  srcdir=.
if test ! -r ${srcdir}/chkconfig.ltx ; then
  echo configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script
  exit 1
fi

If you modify that block of code to print out some diagnostics, so:
(I've added a bunch of print (echo) statements):

ac_prog=$0
srcdir=`echo $ac_prog|sed 's%/[^/][^/]*$%%'`
echo SRCDIR $srcdir
srcdir=`echo ${srcdir} | sed 's%\([^/]\)/*$%\1%'`
echo SRCDIR $srcdir
test x$srcdir = x$ac_prog  srcdir=.
echo SRCDIR $srcdir
if test ! -r ${srcdir}/chkconfig.ltx ; then
  echo configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script
  exit 1
fi

exit 1

Then here, running sh configure I get:

SRCDIR configure
SRCDIR configure
SRCDIR .

which means that the if test ...  line becomes:

if test ! -r ./chkconfig.ltx ; then

translating into English:
if the file ./chkconfig.ltx isn't readable, then...

SO, does chkconfig.ltx exist and do you have read permission to open it up?

-- 
Angus

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released - a nasty bug

[Uwe Sthr]

Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
Again there?s a fix; I just uploaded a new package.
Could you test it?
Thanks for the new version. The math insets looks much better. But in 
comparison with LyXWin 1.3.3 the blue boxes are a bit smaller. I don't 
know what's the correct size but the fractions looks better in 1.3.3 due 
to the space between the fraction line and the de/nominator. I attached 
two screenshots to compare.

What does the new sed do anyway? The old one works for me...
The old one fails on some machines when configuring LyX, see
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup
in section  If LyX's configuration fails or was incomplete
(In section Other minor fixes you'll find a solution for the problem of 
the empty LaTeX Configuration file.)

The sed issue was often discussed on this list. I don't know the 
differences between sed 1.4 and sed 4.1.2. Hopefully both are working.

regards Uwe
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Re: error loading .ps graphics

[Stephen Buonopane]

LyX 1.3.5 Mac OS 10.3.7
When trying to load a postscript graphic, my graphic insert says
Error converting to loadable format
and my console spits out the following:
PreviewLoader::startLoading()
No converter from lyxpreview format has been defined.
Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in get
Operand stack:
  hrsyr.gsf0
Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in get
Operand stack:
  hrsyr.gsf0
convert: Postscript delegate failed.
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh 
ERROR
Execution of convert failed.

I AM ABLE to use .ps graphics on my Mac laptop running LyX 1.3.4. I 
have checked the Preferences dialogues on the two computers to make 
sure the Converters appear identical and they do appear identical.


1. Try running convert on your graphic from Terminal.
2. What program are you using to generate your ps file? If it has an 
embedded tiff/jpg preview then Latex will not be able to use it.
3. I have also run into a problem on my Mac with a graphics program 
that was using a font that Latex did not like.

Re: error loading .ps graphics

[Angus Leeming]

Stephen Buonopane wrote:

 LyX 1.3.5 Mac OS 10.3.7

 When trying to load a postscript graphic, my graphic insert says
 Error converting to loadable format

 and my console spits out the following:

 PreviewLoader::startLoading()
 No converter from lyxpreview format has been defined.

That means that you have Instant Preview turned on and yet have nothing
like

\converter lyxpreview ppm lyxpreview2ppm.py 

defined in your $PREFIX/share/lyx/lyxrc.defaults file.

You shouldn't need Instant Preview to load a postscript graphic. See here
 http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/InstantPreview
for an explanation of what the feature is and how to get it running.

Please check that the Instant Preview checkbox is not set in the 
Look and Feel-Graphics pane of the Edit-Preferences dialog.

This won't/shouldn't enable you to load your PostScript graphics, but it
should remove an 'arbitrary' error message.

-- 
Angus

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

[Matej Cepl]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
 I do not know really. Let's say a few month. It really depends on
 whether some of the coders can find some time to work on it (sad,
 isn't it?).

I have two thoughts, how to give to the LyX some edge:

1) I have been happy user of SWSusp kernel patch and its development was
   partially funded by Linux Fund -- http://www.linuxfund.org/. Would it
   help if some LyX developer (possibly in between two jobs), could work on
   LyX full-time? I guess the project with many users and not enough
   developers is an ideal candidate for such funding.
2) Hey, there are many tech writers here! Why they shouldn't some good
   pro-LyX campaign (on Slashdot, Usenet, etc.) to attain more developers?
   Of course, scratching your own itch principle means that LyX would need
   some serious rebranding -- and here I think serious support of Docbook
   could really help. Just a thought.

Matej

-- 
Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej
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138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488
 
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address
on it?
  -- Mark Twain

About version control under windows.

[Wang Xiangqi]

I am now using Lyx 1.3.5 for windows. Can I use the function of version
control? Or how can I use it. I have checked the help documentment but
cannot understand.
More thanks.
Regards.

about font install in lyx

[Zeng Zeng]

Hi:
I use lyx 1.3.5-qt. Now I have a kind of font, applegar, a very old font 
style ten years ago. I have .sty, and other files. I can use the package 
now, but it doesn't work. The font remains the same as before. Could 
some one teach me how to install font in linux for lyx?

Thank you very much!
Best regards
Zeng Zeng

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
From: Charles de Miramon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:23:29 +0100

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

 Charles == Charles de Miramon
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 


The first thing to do when you start a LaTeX document is to choose the right
class. 

IMHO, the right template would be more efficient, a class by itself does not 
contain a user point of view.

A template could be seen as a plugin giving access to a class (with an 
accompanying example illustrating
what can be done with it).

Open example = learn about a type of document
Open fron template = use a known type of document

-- 
Jean-Pierre

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

[Ruurd Reitsma]

"Milos Komarcevic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ruurd,
> Although there are still some minor issues with the math mode (offset of
> subscripts, accents etc. is to large and brackets are too tall), it is
> at least now rendered correctly and quite useable, so I'm able to switch
> over to 1.3.5 for real.
>
OK. Good. I´m still trying to figure out the differences between the various
Qt versions.

> (I should mention that sed.exe is still old in this fixed package, I
> wasn't sure if you were indenting to upgrade it or not this time around)
>

At this very moment, not yet. Actually, the new sed makes things worse for
me. What exactly is the new version supposed to do?

Ruurd

Re: Resetting Page Number

[Helge Hafting]

Rich Shepard wrote:
  I'm using lyx-1.3.5 on linux with the koma-script report class. The
preamble set up fancyheaders:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
I recommend you drop the above two lines, and use the support in lyx:
layout->document and set "page style" to "fancy".  If pagestyle is
set to anything else it might override the preamble.  If it is indeed
set to "fancy" then this preamble stuff becomes superfluous. You will 
still need
the rest as lyx doesn't have a dialog for setting up the fancy header.

\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\slshape \rightmark}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\slshape \leftmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
%\renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
%\renewcommand{footrulewidth}{0pt}
  (I got compile errors about the foot rule so I commented those out.)
  So far I've only begun the Introduction so I have only one page 
beyond the
title page. That page is numbered (right-aligned, not centered) as 
'3'. So I
My guess is that layout->document is overriding the pagestyle.
pulled down TLC2 looking for the \resetcounter{page}{} command, but could
not find it. I did find a reference to \pagenumbering, but the 
compiler got
indigestion over that and spit it out. I also tried
\renewcommand{\thepage}{1} in a couple of locations around the first 
chapter
heading, but that too was violently regurgitated.
Use \setcounter{page}{1}.  Don't "renew" a counter, use \setcounter.
There are also commands for doing math on counters if you ever need that.
When doing preamble work, always take a look at the various layout->document
options to see if support (or partial support)  exists already.  If 
support exists
(such as for fancy headers) use that.  If a setting is offered for 
something but your alternative isn't listed, then you have to use the 
preamble.  In such cases, leave
the setting at "default", so it doesn't override the preamble with some
explicit setting.

Helge Hafting

Re: \frontmatter and \mainmatter does not work with pdflatex.

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

R S Ananda Murthy wrote:
> Dear Jurgen,
>
> Thanks for help. The problem is because of hyperref. If I disable  
> hyperref it works. But how to make it work with hyperref because I want  
> to have hyperlinks if possible.

What version of hyperref do you have? Perhaps an update helps.

Jürgen

> Thanks again,
>
> Regards,
>
> Anand

Re: Resetting Page Number

[Herbert Voss]

Rich Shepard wrote:
  I'm using lyx-1.3.5 on linux with the koma-script report class. The
preamble set up fancyheaders:
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\slshape \rightmark}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\slshape \leftmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
%\renewcommand{headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
%\renewcommand{footrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
 ^^^
attached an example for using fancy headers
Herbert
--
http://TeXnik.de/
http://PSTricks.de/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
http://www.dante.de/faq/de-tex-faq/
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass scrbook
\begin_preamble
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\slshape \rightmark}
\fancyhead[LO,RE]{\slshape \leftmark}
\fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}
\end_preamble
\language ngerman
\inputencoding latin1
\fontscheme default
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 10
\spacing single 
\papersize Default
\paperpackage a4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 17cm
\paperheight 22cm
\leftmargin 1.2cm
\topmargin 1.4cm
\rightmargin 1.7cm
\bottommargin 1.4cm
\headsep 1cm
\secnumdepth 4
\tocdepth 4
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language german
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle fancy

\layout Standard


\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
frontmatter
\end_inset 


\layout Title

A demo for fancy headings
\layout Author

Herbert Voß
\layout Standard


\begin_inset LatexCommand \tableofcontents{}

\end_inset 


\layout Standard


\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
mainmatter
\end_inset 


\layout Chapter

foo
\layout Standard

bar bar bat faser label blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser label blubber
 nonsense bar bar bat faser label blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser label
 blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser label blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser
 label blubber nonsense bar bar bat faser label blubber nonsense bar bar
 bat faser label blubber nonsense 
\layout Section

bar
\layout Standard

baz
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
newpage
\end_inset 


\layout Standard

baz
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
newpage
\end_inset 


\layout Standard

baz
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
newpage
\end_inset 


\layout Standard

baz
\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
newpage
\end_inset 


\layout Standard


\begin_inset ERT
status Collapsed

\layout Standard

\backslash 
backmatter
\end_inset 


\layout Chapter
\start_of_appendix 
Foo
\layout Standard

bar baz
\the_end

Re: \underrrightarrow not working

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Andre> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 02:52:58PM +, Angus Leeming wrote:
>> Actually, it's something of a conscious decision. Andre didn't want
>> to force the user to use AMSMath. Maybe he uses a package that
>> defines \underrightarrow that we don't know about.

Andre> No, I think I just forgot ams in the inset's validate. But I
Andre> think I fixed this already several times...

For information, this bug is now fixed for both 1.3.6cvs and 1.4.0cvs.

JMarc

Re: Hi at all

[Alberto]

Hi again, and thanks for all your answer.

I will try to answer to all your email.


On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Alberto wrote:
> > 1) i selected the book "style", is that correct for my thesis? i'm not
> > sure of what a style involves. Probably is easier to answer to this
> > question seeing the other problems. (I hope...)
>
> Alberto,
>
>Does your university have either A) a defined thesis format or B) LaTeX
> class for that format?

I don't know if the my university has a fixed style...and i don't know how to 
ask this. Probably my professors as me can see if the document has a good 
layout or not, but we don't know the name of the "good layout" with lyx...for 
this reason i asked to this mailing-list.

> > 2) i'm not able to obtain a common way to see the page numbers; sometimes
> > the page number is on the top-right corner of the page, sometimes on the
> > bottom (the first page of each chapter, and in the index pages). Can i
> > decide where the page number must be printed?
>
>Yes. The fancyhdr package lets you control what information is seen.

I will search for it. thanks

> > 4) I need the bibliografy!!! :) but i'm not able to do it works. :(
> > As i see i could able to put into my thesis a biblio composed of some
> > books (of which i must say to lyx the path to reach them), but i has not
> > that books! I only knows their names. How can i put into my bibliografy
> > the name of the books that i know, but that i don't own on my hard disk?
>
>Look for the bibtex documentation on your system.

This point is not so clear. I mean that i don't understand if i must install 
another program(s) or if it is already installed into lyx. Anyway i will 
search! 


> > 5) I not able to obtain a good layout with lyx of the comments to my
> > images. Usually i see the image centered (as i want) but the comments
> > that i obtain with wrapped box area is not just below the image, but it
> > is between the text after the image. So i tried to put an hfill element
> > after the wrapped area, but it does not work :( I use the wrapped
> > area so i can put at the end of my thesis a figure list too.
>
>Use a figure float for your figures. This lets the software determine
> the best placement. You can center the figure by using
> Layout->Paragraph->Center. In most books, the figure caption is placed
> beneath the figure and the table caption is placed on top of the table.

I tried as you told me, but it does not work alwaysFor the moment i has 
two images. The first is immediately followed by a different section. It that 
case the float does not appear (while the wrapped area works). In the second 
image the float works and wrapped area not. I think that i'm wrong something 
(sure with lyx works either or at least one of two ways, but i'm not able to 
use lyx as we can see)

> > Some other people told me to use OpenOffice, but i beleve in lyx! ...am i
> > wrong?
>
>No. At least, that's what most of us think. However, if your university
> has format requirements that would take a lot of effort to enable in LyX
> then perhaps OO.o would be quicker for you.

I will remember of this. 
> Rich

Thanks for your answer!
Alberto


On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
>> 3) i'm writing my thesis with some other people, but i'm not able to put 
>>their 
>> names on the authour field. i would like something like this:
>> 
>> cippo lippo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> lappo frappo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Use only one author paragraph and separate the names by a forced line 
>break (shortcut C-Enter).
>
>regards Uwe

Thanks this work perfectly! 
Alberto


On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Subir Singh Lamba wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have been using lyx since some time and at present I am writing my 
>thesis. For that I have downloaded a sketch of thesis from University of 
>Durham. If you need I can send you in email and you will have to just 
>tweak it according to your requirement as the file is really a good find.
>
>Subir

Of course. I will appreciate that a lot. 
Thanks!
Alberto
P.S. You can mail me at the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 


On Wed, 6 Jan 2005, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
>> I tried to use lyx some years ago, when i installed it, and now. I have
>> mainly these problems:
>>
>> 1) i selected the book "style", is that correct for my thesis? i'm not sure
>> of what a style involves. Probably is easier to answer to this question
>> seeing the other problems. (I hope...)
>
>IMO book class is o.k. The most obvious difference to the other main classes 
>(article, report) is that books have real chapters that start a new page.
>I'd recommend to use not the standard book but either scrbook (that is "book 
>(koma)") or memoir, because these two are much more flexible. KOMA has been 
>designed with regard to European typesetting conventions.

Ok. I will try that too...I observed that changing from book style to some 
other "styles" i obtain some errors. I suppose that this is due to use 

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Charles" == Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Charles> Great. I think that Reconfigure and Preferences should be in
Charles> a Configuration Menu and not in the Tools Menu.

But that would mean one more menu for just two entries...

Charles> A nice usability enhancement for LyX 1.4 would be that when
Charles> you create a new document, you get a wizard to choose the
Charles> class of the document where we could put some explanations
Charles> about the different classes. I think that here the Word-style
Charles> Format->Document doesn't go well with the LateX paradigm
Charles> where it is important to make the right choice at the start.

Yes, we should at least merge the New... and New from template...
dialogs to do that. However, this does not mix well with using native
filedialogs. 

Charles> For KWord we have this widget (see attached file 30 kb) when
Charles> you start the application (some people like it, other hate
Charles> it).

I have to say I do not like it much ;)

JMarc

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

[Milos Komarcevic]

Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
At this very moment, not yet. Actually, the new sed makes things worse for
me. What exactly is the new version supposed to do?
In what way worse? I had some problems with the new sed if I just drop 
it in \lyx\bin, see my previous post:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg32795.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg32804.html
It only worked for me if I actually install the GnuWin32 package 
properly and add it to the path. Still can't figure out why the difference.

Milos

Re: Hi at all

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Alberto wrote:
> >IMO book class is o.k. The most obvious difference to the other main
> > classes (article, report) is that books have real chapters that start a
> > new page. I'd recommend to use not the standard book but either scrbook
> > (that is "book (koma)") or memoir, because these two are much more
> > flexible. KOMA has been designed with regard to European typesetting
> > conventions.
>
> Ok. I will try that too...I observed that changing from book style to some
> other "styles" i obtain some errors. I suppose that this is due to use
> different style imply use different "headers" (for section, chapter, and so
> on). 

Yes, LyX yields an error if the new document class doesn't have some layouts 
elements of the old one (e.g. article doesn't have chapters, in contrary to 
book). A switch between book and book (koma) should be no problem, though 
(but vice versa, if you use koma's bonus features).

> So i changed the headers, but the errors remains. 

Do you mean the red error boxes or the error when you try to view 
dvi/postscript/pdf? The latter shouldn't be the case. Normally, the error 
boxes disappear automatically with the next latex run. 

> So to fix this  
> problem i opened a new file and i copied into that new lyx file the text.
> Isn't it a way too heuristic? ..yes of course to obtain something good from
> anything i should at least know the tools...but lyx is a point
> tool so i think that user should be obtain all that they wish using the
> same "policy". Am i wrong? (probably there is the way, but i don't know
> it!)

No, this shouldn't be necessary.

> Thanks...i found (i think) the right page style. I selected
> Layout->Document->Layout (from the left frame) and on the right frame at
> the text-area: "page style" i choosed: "playn". Now all the pages of my
> document are written at bottom. The fancy option is good too, but if i has
> a long section title then the left part (in the header) overwrites the
> right part. 

You can use "Insert->Short Title" to pass a short version of the section title 
to the toc and the headers. Or you can tweak fancyhdr to delete one of those 
parts. But I'd postpone those things until your thesis has been written. Just 
be aware that this is all possible.

> >Does this help?
> >http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/FAQ/MultipleAuthors
>
> Yes. I read it. It suggest to use C-return. Thanks.

The \and trick puts the authors side by side.

> >> 5) I not able to obtain a good layout with lyx of the comments to my
> >> images. Usually i see the image centered (as i want) but the comments
> >> that i obtain with wrapped box area is not just below the image, but it
> >> is between the text after the image. So i tried to put an hfill element
> >> after the wrapped area, but it does not work :(
> >> I use the wrapped area so i can put at the end of my thesis a figure
> >> list too.
> >
> >Can you send a small example showing the misbehaviour?
>
> At this mailing list? I would not "spam" you. Can i send it?
> At present my document is 32kb weight.

Try to make a "minimal example" of it, i.e., remove all that is not necessary 
to reproduce the error. And send it to the list please. Or, if you have 
webspace available, post a link.

Regards,
Jürgen

Re: CV JMarc: sections without numbers

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Paul" == Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Paul> Dear All I am using JMarc CV class. The sections are all
Paul> numbered, but I would like to get them with no number. How can I
Paul> force that?

In Layout>Document>Numbering, you should set Section numbering depth
to -1 or 0. 

I am not sure why LyX does not do that, since it is specified in the
layout file.

JMarc

RE: Hi at all

[Alberto]

hi, 
i must be short because there is a limit on the size of the mail that can be 
accept from the server of this ml. 
thanks and bye
Alberto


lyx.tar.bz2
Description: application/tbz

Re: Hi at all

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Alberto wrote:
I don't know if the my university has a fixed style...and i don't know how
to ask this. Probably my professors as me can see if the document has a
good layout or not, but we don't know the name of the "good layout" with
lyx...for this reason i asked to this mailing-list.
Alberto,
  It's been a couple of decades since I left grad school so things may have
changed. But, each of the two universities where I earned graduate degrees
has a 'graduate college' and that office provides a style guide for theses
and dissertations. It defines page size, margins and other details so that
each submission is exactly like all the others. Your thesis advisor can
tell you which office has these details.
   Look for the bibtex documentation on your system.
This point is not so clear. I mean that i don't understand if i must
install another program(s) or if it is already installed into lyx. Anyway
i will search!
  No, bibtex is part of the LaTeX distribution used by LyX.
Good luck!
Rich
--
Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

[Ruurd Reitsma]

"Milos Komarcevic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
> > At this very moment, not yet. Actually, the new sed makes things worse
for
> > me. What exactly is the new version supposed to do?
>
> In what way worse? I had some problems with the new sed if I just drop
> it in \lyx\bin, see my previous post:
>
It crashes...

Anyway, I think it´s a nicer solution to include a newer ´MSYS´ sed. But I
still don´t know why this is needed.

Ruurd

Re: Hi at all

[Juergen Spitzmueller]

Alberto wrote:
> hi,
> i must be short because there is a limit on the size of the mail that can
> be accept from the server of this ml.

You have to put the image _inside_ the float (above the caption text). Put the 
cursor at the beginning of the caption text and press enter. Then insert the 
image. 

Jürgen

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released - a nasty bug

[Ruurd Reitsma]

"Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
>
> > I have uploaded a fixed package to sourceforge. There might still be
issues,
> > but the new one definately looks better.
>
> Many thanks for the new version. Math insets look better but the blue
> boxes are too high now, which affects sub/suberscripts, braces etc.

Again there´s a fix; I just uploaded a new package.

Could you test it?

>
> p.s. sed is still the old version 3.02.
>

What does the new sed do anyway? The old one works for me...

Ruurd

Re: CV JMarc: sections without numbers

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:46:35 +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In Layout>Document>Numbering, you should set Section numbering depth
> to -1 or 0.

Thanks, Jean-Marc. That did the trick.
 
> I am not sure why LyX does not do that, since it is specified in the
> layout file.

I am using the layout file available at:

http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Examples/CV/cv_JMarc.layout

Maybe, this is not the most recent layout file.

Paul

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released

[Milos Komarcevic]

Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
Anyway, I think it´s a nicer solution to include a newer ´MSYS´ sed. But I
still don´t know why this is needed.
Because with the current one (3.02) the creation of the file 
\lyx\share\lyx\docs\LaTeXConfig.lyx fails (0 length), so you can't view 
the LaTeX configuration from the Help menu in LyX. Are you not seeing 
this problem with your setup? Lots of people ran into it. Check out this 
thread as well:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg30994.html
The problem is with DOS's ^M characters which the old sed and libintl do 
not handle well. GnuWin32 version works, but not when it's in \lyx\bin?

This isn't a showstopper or a big deal, but should be solved and fixed 
at some point.

Milos

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

[Kent Kostuk]

First, I checked textclass.lst:  it's there and non-zero.
Second, I replace sed.
Third, I type configure at the c:\lyx32\share\lyx> DOS prompt and get: a 
lot of text and then "configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script"

This makes me think I have an error in my PATH statment.  Here is my path:
PATH=C:\lyx32\share\lyx\..\..\bin;C:\lyx32\share\lyx\..\..\bin;c:\program 
files\imagemagick-6.1.7-q16;C:\texmf\miktex\bin;C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem;C:\PROGRAM 
FILES\THINKPAD\UTILITIES;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Autodesk 
Shared\;C:\PROGRA~1\ULTRAE~1;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL 
Server\80\Tools\BINN;C:\Program Files\IBM\Director\bin

kjk
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
First, check the file textclass.lst.  I'm guessing it will exist but be 
zero bytes.

Next, go to the bin directory, open a DOS prompt and check which version 
of sed you have by typing sed --version.  If it's 3.02, delete sed.exe 
and replace it with a newer version.  (I think one is linked from the 
Wiki; if not, you can get it from Sourceforge, as part of the GnuWin 
project.)

Once you have a good sed in place, try running the configuration script 
(...\share\configure.bat) from a DOS prompt.  See if a non-empty 
textclass.lst is produced.  If so, I think you'll be able to start LyX.

-- Paul

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

[Charles de Miramon]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

>> "Charles" == Charles de Miramon
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Charles> Great. I think that Reconfigure and Preferences should be in
> Charles> a Configuration Menu and not in the Tools Menu.
> 
> But that would mean one more menu for just two entries...

Previous situations (configuration in either Edit or Option menus) was
rather illogical and caused by the fact that the average screen was much
smaller than today. Menu structure have to redesigned to the fact that we
have more horizontal space to put messages.
There are no usability reasons that I can think of to limit the number of
first level menu's items and cram them on the left side of the screen. They
are some research on the web on how fast humans (and maybe chimps) find the
right node on a tree depending on the number of levels of the tree, I
should try to find it back for you. The result was more or less that the
flater the tree was the faster humans can find an item. The explanation
must be that the brain has good geometrical memory (this object is
somewhere on the right, in the middle) but that logical classifications are
harder to memorize : to find the fish, I must first open the animal box...
But, if you have played Memory with your son, you know all that.

I guess also that in the Configuration Menu, a third option would be quickly
added : 'Plugins' :-)

> 
> I have to say I do not like it much ;)

The first thing to do when you start a LaTeX document is to choose the right
class. I think the current situation that default to article without saying
anything to the user and hides the class information two level deep in the
menu is not very educative for a LaTeX beginner. 

Cheers,
Charles
-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Hi at all

[Alberto]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 16:04, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Alberto wrote:
> > I don't know if the my university has a fixed style...and i don't know
> > how to ask this. Probably my professors as me can see if the document has
> > a good layout or not, but we don't know the name of the "good layout"
> > with lyx...for this reason i asked to this mailing-list.
>
> Alberto,
>
>It's been a couple of decades since I left grad school so things may
> have changed. But, each of the two universities where I earned graduate
> degrees has a 'graduate college' and that office provides a style guide for
> theses and dissertations. It defines page size, margins and other details
> so that each submission is exactly like all the others. Your thesis advisor
> can tell you which office has these details.

Rich,

i wish to assure you that the things are not changed in these years. But 
probably you could not understand,  due my bad english, that i does not told 
you that there aren't layout conventions, instead i meant that i don't know 
how to setup lyx to understand what i wish
Infact i told:

>>Probably my professors as me can see if the document has
> > a good layout or not, but we don't know the name of the "good layout"
> > with lyx...for this reason i asked to this mailing-list.

While when i wrote this:

> > I don't know if the my university has a fixed style...and i don't know
> > how to ask this.

I done an error! I know the style, but i don't know its lyx name. 
Sorry for my error. 
 Is it a book, a koma-book, a newspaper article, a seminar?
With lyx i see only the layout names, not what a layout implies tooso must 
i prove all them? I hope i could use a more scientific approach
Isn't there an official guide that explains the margin convenction that a 
style implies?
I tried with the lyx site, but i was not able to see what i'm looking for...
So i just asked to the "Lyx mailing list"if I offended you, i'm sorry.
It was not in my intentions.

> >>Look for the bibtex documentation on your system.
> >
> > This point is not so clear. I mean that i don't understand if i must
> > install another program(s) or if it is already installed into lyx. Anyway
> > i will search!
>
>No, bibtex is part of the LaTeX distribution used by LyX.

But if i installed lyx, i should have installed LaTex too.
...or not?

> Good luck!

thanks i need it.

>
> Rich

Alberto

Re: Hi at all

[Alberto]

On Thursday 06 January 2005 16:10, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
> Alberto wrote:
> > hi,
> > i must be short because there is a limit on the size of the mail that can
> > be accept from the server of this ml.
>
> You have to put the image _inside_ the float (above the caption text). Put
> the cursor at the beginning of the caption text and press enter. Then
> insert the image.
>
> Jürgen

Thanks i will try.
Alberto

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 - install error

[Angus Leeming]

Kent Kostuk wrote:
> First, I checked textclass.lst:  it's there and non-zero.
> 
> Second, I replace sed.
> 
> Third, I type configure at the c:\lyx32\share\lyx> DOS prompt and get: a
> lot of text and then "configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script"

I would type "sh configure" if you are running from a DOS prompt as 
opposed to a unix shell. Otherwise, Windows is likely to try and execute 
configure as a batch file. Which it isn't... Or it may be executing 
'configure.cmd', which is ancient, unmaintained historical cruft...

Assuming that it's running sh.exe on the right file, here's the block of 
code in configure that threw up the message:

 Guess the directory in which configure is located.
ac_prog=$0
srcdir=`echo $ac_prog|sed 's%/[^/][^/]*$%%'`
srcdir=`echo "${srcdir}" | sed 's%\([^/]\)/*$%\1%'`
test "x$srcdir" = "x$ac_prog" && srcdir=.
if test ! -r ${srcdir}/chkconfig.ltx ; then
  echo "configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script"
  exit 1
fi

If you modify that block of code to print out some diagnostics, so:
(I've added a bunch of print (echo) statements):

ac_prog=$0
srcdir=`echo $ac_prog|sed 's%/[^/][^/]*$%%'`
echo "SRCDIR $srcdir"
srcdir=`echo "${srcdir}" | sed 's%\([^/]\)/*$%\1%'`
echo "SRCDIR $srcdir"
test "x$srcdir" = "x$ac_prog" && srcdir=.
echo "SRCDIR $srcdir"
if test ! -r ${srcdir}/chkconfig.ltx ; then
  echo "configure: error: cannot find chkconfig.ltx script"
  exit 1
fi

exit 1

Then here, running "sh configure" I get:

SRCDIR configure
SRCDIR configure
SRCDIR .

which means that the "if test ... " line becomes:

if test ! -r ./chkconfig.ltx ; then

translating into English:
if the file "./chkconfig.ltx" isn't readable, then...

SO, does chkconfig.ltx exist and do you have read permission to open it up?

-- 
Angus

Re: LyX 1.3.5 for Win32 released - a nasty bug

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ruurd Reitsma wrote:
Again there?s a fix; I just uploaded a new package.
Could you test it?
Thanks for the new version. The math insets looks much better. But in 
comparison with LyXWin 1.3.3 the blue boxes are a bit smaller. I don't 
know what's the correct size but the fractions looks better in 1.3.3 due 
to the space between the fraction line and the de/nominator. I attached 
two screenshots to compare.

What does the new sed do anyway? The old one works for me...
The old one fails on some machines when configuring LyX, see
http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/WindowsSetup
in section " If LyX's configuration fails or was incomplete"
(In section "Other minor fixes you'll find a solution for the problem of 
the empty LaTeX Configuration file.)

The sed issue was often discussed on this list. I don't know the 
differences between sed 1.4 and sed 4.1.2. Hopefully both are working.

regards Uwe
<><><><>

Re: error loading .ps graphics

[Stephen Buonopane]

LyX 1.3.5 Mac OS 10.3.7
When trying to load a postscript graphic, my graphic insert says
"Error converting to loadable format"
and my console spits out the following:
PreviewLoader::startLoading()
No converter from "lyxpreview" format has been defined.
Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in get
Operand stack:
  hrsyr.gsf0
Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in get
Operand stack:
  hrsyr.gsf0
convert: Postscript delegate failed.
/Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyx/scripts/convertDefault.sh 
ERROR
Execution of "convert" failed.

I AM ABLE to use .ps graphics on my Mac laptop running LyX 1.3.4. I 
have checked the Preferences dialogues on the two computers to make 
sure the Converters appear identical and they do appear identical.


1. Try running "convert" on your graphic from Terminal.
2. What program are you using to generate your ps file? If it has an 
embedded tiff/jpg preview then Latex will not be able to use it.
3. I have also run into a problem on my Mac with a graphics program 
that was using a font that Latex did not like.

Re: error loading .ps graphics

[Angus Leeming]

Stephen Buonopane wrote:

>> LyX 1.3.5 Mac OS 10.3.7
>>
>> When trying to load a postscript graphic, my graphic insert says
>> "Error converting to loadable format"
>>
>> and my console spits out the following:
>>
>> PreviewLoader::startLoading()
>> No converter from "lyxpreview" format has been defined.

That means that you have Instant Preview turned on and yet have nothing
like

\converter lyxpreview ppm "lyxpreview2ppm.py" ""

defined in your $PREFIX/share/lyx/lyxrc.defaults file.

You shouldn't need Instant Preview to load a postscript graphic. See here
 http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/InstantPreview
for an explanation of what the feature is and how to get it running.

Please check that the "Instant Preview" checkbox is not set in the 
"Look and Feel->Graphics" pane of the Edit->Preferences dialog.

This won't/shouldn't enable you to load your PostScript graphics, but it
should remove an 'arbitrary' error message.

-- 
Angus

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

[Matej Cepl]

Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> I do not know really. Let's say a few month. It really depends on
> whether some of the coders can find some time to work on it (sad,
> isn't it?).

I have two thoughts, how to give to the LyX some edge:

1) I have been happy user of SWSusp kernel patch and its development was
   partially funded by Linux Fund -- http://www.linuxfund.org/. Would it
   help if some LyX developer (possibly in between two jobs), could work on
   LyX full-time? I guess the project with many users and not enough
   developers is an ideal candidate for such funding.
2) Hey, there are many tech writers here! Why they shouldn't some good
   pro-LyX campaign (on Slashdot, Usenet, etc.) to attain more developers?
   Of course, "scratching your own itch" principle means that LyX would need
   some serious rebranding -- and here I think serious support of Docbook
   could really help. Just a thought.

Matej

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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address
on it?
  -- Mark Twain

About version control under windows.

[Wang Xiangqi]

I am now using Lyx 1.3.5 for windows. Can I use the function of version
control? Or how can I use it. I have checked the help documentment but
cannot understand.
More thanks.
Regards.

about font install in lyx

[Zeng Zeng]

Hi:
I use lyx 1.3.5-qt. Now I have a kind of font, applegar, a very old font 
style ten years ago. I have .sty, and other files. I can use the package 
now, but it doesn't work. The font remains the same as before. Could 
some one teach me how to install font in linux for lyx?

Thank you very much!
Best regards
Zeng Zeng

Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life

[Jean-Pierre Chretien]

>>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
>>From: Charles de Miramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: Comments on structured authoring, LyX, OpenOffice, and life
>>Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 18:23:29 +0100
>>
>>Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>
 "Charles" == Charles de Miramon
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> 

>>
>>The first thing to do when you start a LaTeX document is to choose the right
>>class. 

IMHO, the right template would be more efficient, a class by itself does not 
contain a user point of view.

A template could be seen as a plugin giving access to a class (with an 
accompanying example illustrating
what can be done with it).

Open example = learn about a type of document
Open fron template = use a known type of document

-- 
Jean-Pierre