Re: Harvard referencing style with Bibdesk
As I said, I don't know the details about Harvard style. But if it does not show up in the LyX dialog box there is a good chance it is not present in your TeX installation. If you look on CTAN (the TeX repository), you'll find the Harvard biblio styles there (try this for a start: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/harvard/) You'll have to follow the instruction in the INSTALL file, then rehash TeX and reconfigure LyX (Edit>Reconfigure) . After which it should show up in your LyX dialog. Read carefully the INSTALL file for the Harvard style, though, because there are different TeX systems available for the Mac and they do put stuff in very different places. Cheers, Stefano On Feb 9, 2005, at 8:58 PM, James Bennett wrote: Thanks Stephano - I've got LyX and Bibdesk talking to each other okay (in the manner you described), but I can't get it to produce the referencing style I'm after: I should have made myself clearer. Basically my problem is that I can't find the style I'm after in the Insert>Lists & Toc> BibTex Reference dialogue box (after I have selected my .bib file). I want to add the Harvard referencing style to this box, but I have no idea how to do this, or whether I can even do this in LyX. If anyone is nifty with this sort of thing, I'd greatly appreciate any advice. Cheers, James - Original Message - From: Stefano Franchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:40 pm Subject: Re: Harvard referencing style with Bibdesk James, I don't know about the Harvard style ( I use Oxford), but the Mac/Lyx + BibDesk combination is exactly what I use and it works fine. Assuming you're asking for help on the interaction between the two, here it goes. BibDesk is a reference manager: you use it to enter and update your references and save to save them to a .bib file. All the editing (and only the editing) of references is done in BibDesk. In Lyx, you need to insert the file containing the references (which you have edited in BibDesk) somewhere in the document--usually at the end. The command is Insert>Lists & Toc> BibTex Reference. In the dialog box that pops up you select the file and the biblio style. Once you have selected the .bib file, you'll have all your references available. When you need to insert one in your text, the command is Insert> Citation reference. Someone else will have to help you with the Harvard style, I am afraid. Cheers, Stefano On Feb 9, 2005, at 6:26 PM, James Bennett wrote: I can't work out how to get my references in LyX into the style I want> (Harvard - (Author, Date)). I'm using LyX on Mac OSX (v10.3.7) with the BibTeX-based referencing program bibdesk (v0.97.8). As I am painfully> ignorant, I am not even certain whether I need to change/insert things in LyX or in Bibdesk. Can anyone help? __ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (64) 9 373-7599 x83940 University Of Auckland Fax: (64) 9 373-7408 Private Bag 92019 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Auckland New Zealand __ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (64) 9 373-7599 x83940 University Of Auckland Fax: (64) 9 373-7408 Private Bag 92019 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Auckland New Zealand
Re: Annoying problem with Babel
Stefano Franchi wrote: unfortunately the suggested fix does not help. I installed the file (it was not on my distro: fink on MacOs 10.3), rehashed TeX and reconfigured LyX, but I still get the same error message. LaTeX Error: File `iso-8859-7.def' not found. \endinput ^^M *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes) there is a package which wants to read something from the console, which is not possible with LyX, which runs in batchmode (nonstop mode) give an example file 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
Re: Harvard referencing style with Bibdesk
Thanks Stephano - I've got LyX and Bibdesk talking to each other okay (in the manner you described), but I can't get it to produce the referencing style I'm after: I should have made myself clearer. Basically my problem is that I can't find the style I'm after in the Insert>Lists & Toc> BibTex Reference dialogue box (after I have selected my .bib file). I want to add the Harvard referencing style to this box, but I have no idea how to do this, or whether I can even do this in LyX. If anyone is nifty with this sort of thing, I'd greatly appreciate any advice. Cheers, James - Original Message - From: Stefano Franchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:40 pm Subject: Re: Harvard referencing style with Bibdesk > James, > > I don't know about the Harvard style ( I use Oxford), but the > Mac/Lyx + > BibDesk combination is exactly what I use and it works fine. > Assuming > you're asking for help on the interaction between the two, here it > goes. > BibDesk is a reference manager: you use it to enter and update your > references and save to save them to a .bib file. All the editing > (and > only the editing) of references is done in BibDesk. > In Lyx, you need to insert the file containing the references > (which > you have edited in BibDesk) somewhere in the document--usually at > the > end. The command is Insert>Lists & Toc> BibTex Reference. In the > dialog > box that pops up you select the file and the biblio style. Once you > have selected the .bib file, you'll have all your references > available. > When you need to insert one in your text, the command is Insert> > Citation reference. > > Someone else will have to help you with the Harvard style, I am > afraid. > > Cheers, > > Stefano > > > On Feb 9, 2005, at 6:26 PM, James Bennett wrote: > > > I can't work out how to get my references in LyX into the style I > want> (Harvard - (Author, Date)). I'm using LyX on Mac OSX > (v10.3.7) with > > the > > BibTeX-based referencing program bibdesk (v0.97.8). As I am > painfully> ignorant, I am not even certain whether I need to > change/insert things > > in LyX or in Bibdesk. Can anyone help? > > > __ > Stefano Franchi > Department of Philosophy Ph: (64) 9 373-7599 x83940 > University Of AucklandFax: (64) 9 373-7408 > Private Bag 92019 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Auckland > New Zealand > >
Re: Harvard referencing style with Bibdesk
James, I don't know about the Harvard style ( I use Oxford), but the Mac/Lyx + BibDesk combination is exactly what I use and it works fine. Assuming you're asking for help on the interaction between the two, here it goes. BibDesk is a reference manager: you use it to enter and update your references and save to save them to a .bib file. All the editing (and only the editing) of references is done in BibDesk. In Lyx, you need to insert the file containing the references (which you have edited in BibDesk) somewhere in the document--usually at the end. The command is Insert>Lists & Toc> BibTex Reference. In the dialog box that pops up you select the file and the biblio style. Once you have selected the .bib file, you'll have all your references available. When you need to insert one in your text, the command is Insert> Citation reference. Someone else will have to help you with the Harvard style, I am afraid. Cheers, Stefano On Feb 9, 2005, at 6:26 PM, James Bennett wrote: I can't work out how to get my references in LyX into the style I want (Harvard - (Author, Date)). I'm using LyX on Mac OSX (v10.3.7) with the BibTeX-based referencing program bibdesk (v0.97.8). As I am painfully ignorant, I am not even certain whether I need to change/insert things in LyX or in Bibdesk. Can anyone help? __ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (64) 9 373-7599 x83940 University Of Auckland Fax: (64) 9 373-7408 Private Bag 92019 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Auckland New Zealand
Re: Definition float?
Steve Litt wrote:
What caption do you want?
Probably Definition of instead of Algorithm
Then add the line
\floatname{algorithm}{Definition}
to the preamble.
(You should also have a look to the book "The LaTeX Companion Second
Edition".)
Who's it by?, who is the author?
by Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens, Johannes Braams, David Carlisle,
Chris Rowley, see
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201362996/qid=1108004163/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/002-7994822-6004841
Are there other LaTeX books that are good?
Of course there are some other good books, but you should go to a book
store to form your own opinion about their quality.
I like the LaTeX companion, because it also describes the LaTeX-packages
that make live easier.
regards Uwe
Re: How to create keybindings for ERT
> Johan Ingvast wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, samar j. singh wrote:
> >
>
> >>2. In beamer is it possible to create macros that insert ERT with a
specific
> >>keypress?
> >
> > I guess that you mean in the beamer class. Right?
> > Lyx lacks the possibility to have class sensitive key-bindings. But you
> > can always make a binding that inserts something, but then the binding
will be
> > valid in all documents.
> > This is what I have in my personal bind-file to create an ERT
> > \bind M-r "command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \\rb{} ;
inset-toggle"
> > So by pressing M-r the macro creates a ERT put \rb{} into it and closes
it.
> >
>
> There's a work-around if you want, for instance, bindings unique to the
> beamer class. Create a separated document home directory for beamer
> presentations. The first time you start LyX in that directory, it
> should create another copy of the local file tree. (If you've edited
> preferences, you'll either need to do so again here, or copy the
> preferences file from your usual document home.) Now copy your key
> bindings file into the ./bind folder of the new directory and edit that
> copy to contain beamer-specific bindings.
Hi Paul
Yes, that sounds neat. However, as beamer has become my default presentaiton
maker
these documents are all over the place, so it may have a lot of value for
someone who
actually has a presentations directory. However, I appreciate the
suggestion.
samar
Re: Definition float?
On Wednesday 09 February 2005 03:07 pm, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > I'd like a definition float so I can have a list of definitions at the > > front of my book. However, when I tried to use an algorithm float for the > > purpose: > > > > 1) The caption said "Algorithm" > > What caption do you want? Probably Definition of instead of Algorithm: > > > 2) On some of the floats I got wierd errors, and when I looked at the LyX > > code in Vim, I could see no differences between the floats that errored > > out and those that didn't. > > Wee need an example files with the erroneous floats. > > > Any ideas on how to make a definition float > > It depends on the properties of the float that you need. > A good starting point is the LaTeX-package "float". > (You should also have a look to the book "The LaTeX Companion Second > Edition".) Who's it by?, who is the author? Are there other LaTex books that are good? It's time for me to byte the bullet and become a LaTeX experts. SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Webmaster * Troubleshooters.Com * http://www.troubleshooters.com (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk.
Harvard referencing style with Bibdesk
I can't work out how to get my references in LyX into the style I want (Harvard - (Author, Date)). I'm using LyX on Mac OSX (v10.3.7) with the BibTeX-based referencing program bibdesk (v0.97.8). As I am painfully ignorant, I am not even certain whether I need to change/insert things in LyX or in Bibdesk. Can anyone help?
Re: XML data formatting
Have a look here. http://texnik.de/listings/listings.phtml#title --- lamikr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Orr wrote: > > >You might want to have a look at the "listings" > >package. > > > > > Hi Robert > > Do you mean that I should hilight the XML and select > "listing" from the > lyx combobox in the left? I tried that and I was > able to indent lines > more left so it kind of worked. > It however put "-" marks in the beginning of every > line so I instead > desired to use > "lyx code element" instead of "list". > > And I was actually trying to find more automatic > feature which would > take care from > the details how to indent xml elements on behalf of > me. (I would just > copy/paste the XML, hilight it and mark it to be > xml-package". > > Mika > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Graphics that takes up a whole page.
I am preparing LyX document and I want to insert a graphics file that takes up precisely one page. Whatever I do I always seem to be left with a small margin on the left hand side. What can I do about this? Thanks in advance, Bernard -- Bernard Hurley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Annoying problem with Babel
Hi Uwe and Herbert, unfortunately the suggested fix does not help. I installed the file (it was not on my distro: fink on MacOs 10.3), rehashed TeX and reconfigured LyX, but I still get the same error message. Best, Stefano On Feb 9, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Herbert Voss wrote: Uwe Stöhr wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: LaTeX Error: File `iso-8859-7.def' not found. \endinput ^^M *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes) This is interesting. I also don't have this file. Seems that new versions of babel changed. But what happens if you downlod the file from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> kpsewhich iso-8859-7.def /opt/texlive8/texmf-dist/tex/latex/greek/iso-8859-7.def it is on every TeXlive 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 __ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (64) 9 373-7599 x83940 University Of Auckland Fax: (64) 9 373-7408 Private Bag 92019 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Auckland New Zealand
Re: XML data formatting
Robert Orr wrote: You might want to have a look at the "listings" package. Hi Robert Do you mean that I should hilight the XML and select "listing" from the lyx combobox in the left? I tried that and I was able to indent lines more left so it kind of worked. It however put "-" marks in the beginning of every line so I instead desired to use "lyx code element" instead of "list". And I was actually trying to find more automatic feature which would take care from the details how to indent xml elements on behalf of me. (I would just copy/paste the XML, hilight it and mark it to be xml-package". Mika
Re: XML data formatting
Mika, Highlight the block then select the Lyx-code environment from the pull-down list on the extreme left. Thanks, that helped a bit. Now I can use "->" character for indenting sub-elements to left. I am just wondering that could there be even more automatic feature in lyx which could do the indenting automatically for the sub-elements. So that I could just copy paste the text, mark it as a XML block and lyx/latex would take care from the rest of the formatting. Mika
RE: How to add new fonts to LyX, esp. in Win32 port
Thanks! I was referring to the Document Settings since the font chosen there affects the printed output. I'm not so concerned about the on-screen fonts. I used MikTeX to install new font packages, and ran LyX Edit-->Reconfigure, with no discernible affect. Oh well, I guess it's probably a MikTeX issue. I'll figure it out somehow. Thanks again. Cheers, David -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 1:11 PM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: How to add new fonts to LyX, esp. in Win32 port [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > How do I add new fonts to LyX, so that they become available in the > "Font & size:" listbox in the "Document Settings" dialog box (reached > from the menu via Layout-->Document)? > > The User Guide says this about fonts, in Subsection 3.5.2: "The > possible options under Fonts include 'default' and a list of fonts > available on your system." What is meant by "fonts available on your > system", especially w.r.t. the Win32 port? In Windows, under > Settings-->Control Panel-->Fonts, there are a great many more fonts > than appear in the LyX listbox. Is there a configuration setting or > file that governs what fonts are available in LyX? > > Thanks! Cheers, David > We need to distinguish between the fonts LyX uses to display your document in the GUI and the fonts used to produce the final product (DVI, PDF, whatever). The fonts used for the GUI need to be installed as Windows fonts, and will be a (small) subset of the fonts you see in the Windows fonts applet. The fonts in the document settings menu (and those referred to in the User Guide) are the fonts used by LaTeX to render the document. The latter fonts must be supplied as TeX/LaTeX packages and properly installed in your TeX distribution, so that TeX can find the appropriate metric files etc. (We're approaching the limits of what I know about TeX fonts, so I'm going to stop before I insert my foot in my mouth.) If your distribution is MiKTeX, use the MiKTeX package manager to install additional TeX fonts as desired. That done, you may need to run Edit->Reconfigure from LyX to get LyX to see them. (I'm not sure if that's necessary or not.) HTH, Paul
Re: Annoying problem with Babel
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Stefano Franchi wrote: LaTeX Error: File `iso-8859-7.def' not found. \endinput ^^M *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes) This is interesting. I also don't have this file. Seems that new versions of babel changed. But what happens if you downlod the file from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> kpsewhich iso-8859-7.def /opt/texlive8/texmf-dist/tex/latex/greek/iso-8859-7.def it is on every TeXlive 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
Re: Annoying problem with Babel
Stefano Franchi wrote: LaTeX Error: File `iso-8859-7.def' not found. \endinput ^^M *** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes) This is interesting. I also don't have this file. Seems that new versions of babel changed. But what happens if you downlod the file from ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/greek/package-babel/encodings/ copy it to the folder /tex/generic/babel and then refresh LaTeX's file name database (for MikTeX) or run texhash (for teTeX)? regards Uwe
Re: How to add new fonts to LyX, esp. in Win32 port
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How do I add new fonts to LyX, so that they become available in the "Font & size:" listbox in the "Document Settings" dialog box (reached from the menu via Layout-->Document)? The User Guide says this about fonts, in Subsection 3.5.2: "The possible options under Fonts include 'default' and a list of fonts available on your system." What is meant by "fonts available on your system", especially w.r.t. the Win32 port? In Windows, under Settings-->Control Panel-->Fonts, there are a great many more fonts than appear in the LyX listbox. Is there a configuration setting or file that governs what fonts are available in LyX? Thanks! Cheers, David We need to distinguish between the fonts LyX uses to display your document in the GUI and the fonts used to produce the final product (DVI, PDF, whatever). The fonts used for the GUI need to be installed as Windows fonts, and will be a (small) subset of the fonts you see in the Windows fonts applet. The fonts in the document settings menu (and those referred to in the User Guide) are the fonts used by LaTeX to render the document. The latter fonts must be supplied as TeX/LaTeX packages and properly installed in your TeX distribution, so that TeX can find the appropriate metric files etc. (We're approaching the limits of what I know about TeX fonts, so I'm going to stop before I insert my foot in my mouth.) If your distribution is MiKTeX, use the MiKTeX package manager to install additional TeX fonts as desired. That done, you may need to run Edit->Reconfigure from LyX to get LyX to see them. (I'm not sure if that's necessary or not.) HTH, Paul
Re: How to create crop marks
Johan Ingvast wrote:
Hi
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, samar j. singh wrote:
2. In beamer is it possible to create macros that insert ERT with a specific
keypress?
I guess that you mean in the beamer class. Right?
Lyx lacks the possibility to have class sensitive key-bindings. But you
can always make a binding that inserts something, but then the binding will be
valid in all documents.
This is what I have in my personal bind-file to create an ERT
\bind M-r "command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \\rb{} ; inset-toggle"
So by pressing M-r the macro creates a ERT put \rb{} into it and closes it.
There's a work-around if you want, for instance, bindings unique to the
beamer class. Create a separated document home directory for beamer
presentations. The first time you start LyX in that directory, it
should create another copy of the local file tree. (If you've edited
preferences, you'll either need to do so again here, or copy the
preferences file from your usual document home.) Now copy your key
bindings file into the ./bind folder of the new directory and edit that
copy to contain beamer-specific bindings.
I think. (Haven't actually done this myself.)
-- Paul
Re: Export (Windows XP/ LyX 1.3.5)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Paul, I have just upgraded LyX to v 1.3.5 on a Windows XP machine. Works well except for the export function. I cannot even export latex. Can anyone suggest what I need to do? I take "works well" to mean you can view documents in DVI form? If so, it sounds like a path or permission problem. Correct. Open a command window (in the LyX bin directory if it's not on your command path, or any directory if it is) and start LyX in debug mode: lyx -dbg 262144 -userdir Then open a document and try to export to LaTeX. (I'm assuming that the File->Export->LaTeX option exists and is not grayed out on the File menu.) What does the command window show in the way of debugging messages? When I followed this prescription, the export function worked correctly. So I shut down LyX and tried again by clicking on my file. Now the export fails. That's pretty much a given in the Windows version. I don't know why it happens, but when you invoke a file by double-clicking on the file, LyX inserts path information into the file name, with separators replaced by underscores. I see from one of your recent posts that you encountered this. The path and file names are correct, but apparently some portion of LyX chokes on them. Among other things, if you open a file this way, View->DVI works, but if you then modify the document and try to update the DVI view, updating fails. The pdf is produced I think (latex runs twice and there is a buffer export according to the commentary on the bottom left of the LyX window), but then vanishes into the ether. I am beginning to suspect that there is a problem with a configuration file. Can I return to default settings somehow? You can, but I doubt this is the culprit. When you run LyX, it will create a directory tree under whatever folder you start in, or whatever folder you declare to be your home directory. Any customization you do is stored in this tree; the default "out of the box" setup information is preserved in the LyX ...\share\lyx\... tree. There's a file named "preferences" (no extension) in the home directory. Delete that and LyX should restart using the default preferences. If that's not sufficient, delete all the files and folders LyX created in your home directory, and then restart LyX. I'm pretty sure this is overkill, though. Is the Windows registry used? No. That's one virtue of this being a Unix port -- Unix has no registry, so unless Ruurd goes out of his way, his LyX port won't use the Windows registry. Looking at your recent posts raises a question. If you open LyX first, then use the File->Open command to open a document, view it (successfully) and try to export it (unsuccessfully), does the copy of the file in the temp directory have an unqualified file name and extension, or are there underscores and path information? The latter should occur only when you open the file by double-clicking. (Well, it shouldn't happen at all, but at worst it should only happen with the double-click approach.) One other thing, which may or may not be relevant to your setup: Unix does not allow spaces in path names, and so portions of LyX and/or parts of your LaTeX distribution will choke on spaces. In particular, if you open a document living in a directory whose path contains spaces, bad things will happen. I've been assuming this is not the case for you, because typically you get a message that latex.exe cannot process the file, but I should confirm this with you. -- Paul Andrew . *--* Andrew Horsfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom Phone:+44-(0)20-7679-7701 FAX:+44-(0)20-7679-1360 *--* -- ** Paul A. RubinPhone: (517) 432-3509 Department of ManagementFax: (517) 432- The Eli Broad Graduate School of ManagementE-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) ** Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different.J. W. v. GOETHE
Re: Annoying problem with Babel
Stefano Franchi wrote:
I am having troubles convincing Babel to use English for "Chapter"
"References" etc.
In the LyX preamble of my chapter I have
\usepackage{greek, french, italian, german, english]{babel}
The correect one would be
\usepackage[greek, french, italian, german, english]{babel}
(note the first bracket)
But why are you using this command? I assume you want to write a
multilanguage document. To get rid of the babel command, choose a
standard language in which all section headings should appear in the
menu Layout -> Document -> Language. Mark the text parts that should be
in another language and use the menu Layout -> Character -> Language to
set the text to the language you want. The text in non-standard language
will be be underlined blue inside LyX to make the difference visible.
LyX will now insert the correct babel commands in the background to
switch between the languages inside your document.
regards Uwe
Re: updating dvi's and using package
Jose Capco wrote: Arigatou! .. Oh, it also doesn't work when you try opening a file from the history in the file menu. Please try that too, and if it's the same for you then probably add this to the wiki too. I can't reproduce this, it works for me. (Possibly you have the file opened from the file explorer in the history. regards Uwe
Re: Definition float?
Steve Litt wrote: I'd like a definition float so I can have a list of definitions at the front of my book. However, when I tried to use an algorithm float for the purpose: 1) The caption said "Algorithm" What caption do you want? 2) On some of the floats I got wierd errors, and when I looked at the LyX code in Vim, I could see no differences between the floats that errored out and those that didn't. Wee need an example files with the erroneous floats. Any ideas on how to make a definition float It depends on the properties of the float that you need. A good starting point is the LaTeX-package "float". (You should also have a look to the book "The LaTeX Companion Second Edition".) regards Uwe
Re: Export (Windows XP)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) When I exit LyX after trying to export a PDF, it clearly removes it from the tmp space, so it has been generated correctly (I can view it also). So the problem is the copying to the user directory. Seems to be a write permission problem. Assure that LyX's install AND working/user directory (with all subdirectories and files) have write permissions for "everybody". (This assumes that you've set a user directory in LyX's preferences.) I hope this helps. regards Uwe
Annoying problem with Babel
Hi all,
I am having troubles convincing Babel to use English for "Chapter"
"References" etc.
In the LyX preamble of my chapter I have
\usepackage{greek, french, italian, german, english]{babel}
Babel should use the last language (i.e. English) for chapter, etc..
However, I do get "Kapitel" "Literaturverzeichnis" etc. If I try to
switch the options around, things do not improve: Babel seems to always
get always the last language __that is not English__(i.e. If I put
"italian" as last or next to last option, I get "capitolo" "Riferimenti
bibliografici" etc,).
Any idea?
Best,
Stefano
__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy Ph: (64) 9 373-7599 x83940
University Of Auckland Fax: (64) 9 373-7408
Private Bag 92019 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Auckland
New Zealand
How to add new fonts to LyX, esp. in Win32 port
Hello, How do I add new fonts to LyX, so that they become available in the "Font & size:" listbox in the "Document Settings" dialog box (reached from the menu via Layout-->Document)? The User Guide says this about fonts, in Subsection 3.5.2: "The possible options under Fonts include 'default' and a list of fonts available on your system." What is meant by "fonts available on your system", especially w.r.t. the Win32 port? In Windows, under Settings-->Control Panel-->Fonts, there are a great many more fonts than appear in the LyX listbox. Is there a configuration setting or file that governs what fonts are available in LyX? Thanks! Cheers, David
key-binding numbers
Hi all, I am trying to modify some key binding files to get the following: if I press regular "1" insert "x" (for example) if I press numeric "1" insert "1" I am struggling with the following: If I use \kmap: it does not distinguish regular and numeric "1". If I use: \bind "1" "self-insert x" \bind "KP_1" "self-insert 1" I am getting always 1, If I use: \bind "KP_1" "self-insert 1" \bind "1" "self-insert x" I am getting always x. Any thoughts, workarounds? Thanks, Vasek -- - Ing. Vaclav Smidl, Ph.D.tel: +420 26605 2420 AS department, Institute web: http://www.utia.cas.cz/AS/smidl/ of Information Theory and Automation, fax: +420 26605 2068 Prague, Czech Republic
Definition float?
Hi all, I'd like a definition float so I can have a list of definitions at the front of my book. However, when I tried to use an algorithm float for the purpose: 1) The caption said "Algorithm" 2) On some of the floats I got wierd errors, and when I looked at the LyX code in Vim, I could see no differences between the floats that errored out and those that didn't. Any ideas on how to make a definition float, or is there a better way to count and table the book's definitions? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Webmaster * Troubleshooters.Com * http://www.troubleshooters.com
an input bug
LyX 1.3.5
-> insert->include a file in input mode
-> choose a file in the same dir as the doc
-> LyX chooses not the doc dir for this file
when it runs the tex file in the temp dir
example: \input{rot.tex} -> I'll get
an error.
a solution is to choose always an absolute path,
or to copy the file into the temp dir.
Herbert
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ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/math/voss/Voss-Mathmode.pdf
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http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
Re: Tex to Lyx
Bruce Pourciau wrote: > A colleague sent me a .tex file as an attachment to an email. How do I > go about importing this into a LyX document? I saved the attachment as > a text only file, but Import > LateX doesn't see it. > > Bruce The extension should be .tex Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Export (Windows XP)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just noticed that the name of the exported file in the tmp directory is different when it is copied from when it is not. When it _is_ copied, it just has the name it appears with in the working directory. When it _fails_ to be copied it has a full path to the working directory attached to it with \ replaced by _ This is exactly what I get after launching files directly and is the known path issue on win (I think). You wrote about using the command line and launching files; what happens if you just launch lyx by double-click and from within lyx open your file?
Re: Using Pstricks Within LyX
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:03:50 +, Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can send you an example of a LyX file with a PSTricks figure, in case > > > you want it. > > > > How about putting the example .lyx-file on the wiki? I've prepared a > > page with an 'attach'-link, so you can just upload it here > > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PSTricks > > I will do it very soon, Christian. Done! Paul
Re: Export (Windows XP)
Hi, Am I allowed to respond to my own posting? 2) When I exit LyX after trying to export a PDF, it clearly removes it from the tmp space, so it has been generated correctly (I can view it also). So the problem is the copying to the user directory. I have just noticed that the name of the exported file in the tmp directory is different when it is copied from when it is not. When it _is_ copied, it just has the name it appears with in the working directory. When it _fails_ to be copied it has a full path to the working directory attached to it with \ replaced by _ Any help? Andrew . *--* Andrew Horsfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom Phone:+44-(0)20-7679-7701 FAX:+44-(0)20-7679-1360 *--*
Re: Export (Windows XP)
Hi Sven, 1) lyx.exe This picks up my preferences correctly, but will not export anything. 2) lyx.exe -userdir C:\ This fails to pick up my preferences, but will export files. Clicking on files operates like 1). Since afaik clicking on files is known not to work correctly on win, maybe you should concentrate on the preference issue and provide more information (account permissions, any error messages, where do you think your prefs are stored, where they're really stored ;-) etc. ) 1) I now understand why I was not picking up prefereneces. The -userdir was pointing to the wrong place. My apologies. So only export is a problem. But from this we learn that being able to access the .lyx directory causes the problem with export. 2) When I exit LyX after trying to export a PDF, it clearly removes it from the tmp space, so it has been generated correctly (I can view it also). So the problem is the copying to the user directory. Andrew . *--* Andrew Horsfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom Phone:+44-(0)20-7679-7701 FAX:+44-(0)20-7679-1360 *--*
Re: Using Pstricks Within LyX
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:53:43 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can send you an example of a LyX file with a PSTricks figure, in case > > you want it. > > How about putting the example .lyx-file on the wiki? I've prepared a > page with an 'attach'-link, so you can just upload it here > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PSTricks I will do it very soon, Christian. Paul
Re: Export (Windows XP)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) lyx.exe This picks up my preferences correctly, but will not export anything. 2) lyx.exe -userdir C:\ This fails to pick up my preferences, but will export files. Clicking on files operates like 1). Since afaik clicking on files is known not to work correctly on win, maybe you should concentrate on the preference issue and provide more information (account permissions, any error messages, where do you think your prefs are stored, where they're really stored ;-) etc. )
Export (Windows XP)
Hi, I have tried running LyX from the command prompt in two different ways, and obtain different behaviours. 1) lyx.exe This picks up my preferences correctly, but will not export anything. 2) lyx.exe -userdir C:\ This fails to pick up my preferences, but will export files. Clicking on files operates like 1). Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong. I use LyX for a great deal of my work, so all suggestions very gratefully received. Andrew . *--* Andrew Horsfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom Phone:+44-(0)20-7679-7701 FAX:+44-(0)20-7679-1360 *--*
Re: Export (Windows XP/ LyX 1.3.5)
Hi Paul, I have just upgraded LyX to v 1.3.5 on a Windows XP machine. Works well except for the export function. I cannot even export latex. Can anyone suggest what I need to do? I take "works well" to mean you can view documents in DVI form? If so, it sounds like a path or permission problem. Correct. Open a command window (in the LyX bin directory if it's not on your command path, or any directory if it is) and start LyX in debug mode: lyx -dbg 262144 -userdir Then open a document and try to export to LaTeX. (I'm assuming that the File->Export->LaTeX option exists and is not grayed out on the File menu.) What does the command window show in the way of debugging messages? When I followed this prescription, the export function worked correctly. So I shut down LyX and tried again by clicking on my file. Now the export fails. The pdf is produced I think (latex runs twice and there is a buffer export according to the commentary on the bottom left of the LyX window), but then vanishes into the ether. I am beginning to suspect that there is a problem with a configuration file. Can I return to default settings somehow? Is the Windows registry used? Andrew . *--* Andrew Horsfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom Phone:+44-(0)20-7679-7701 FAX:+44-(0)20-7679-1360 *--*
Re: Using Pstricks Within LyX
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Paul Smith wrote: > I can send you an example of a LyX file with a PSTricks figure, in case > you want it. How about putting the example .lyx-file on the wiki? I've prepared a page with an 'attach'-link, so you can just upload it here http://wiki.lyx.org/Examples/PSTricks /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Using Pstricks Within LyX
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:15:37 +0100 (MET), Jean-Pierre Chretien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>From reading the pstricks manual I learn that it will do a great job of > >>> creating figures and plots for use in LaTeX documents and beamer > >>> presentations. Can it be used within LyX? Is there a HOWTO I could read? > >> > >>Indeed, PSTricks can be used within LyX and PSTricks is very powerful > >>with creating figures and plots for use in LaTeX documents and beamer. > > I compile beamer with pdflatex (much faster than latex+ps2pdf). > Does pdftricks provide similar functionalities ? Jean-Pierre, To get pdf output, the best solution seems to be using ps4pdf (please, notice that I wrote ps4pdf and not ps2pdf). You can get more information at: http://www.pstricks.de/pdf/pdfoutput.phtml#ps4pdf Regards, Paul
Re: Using Pstricks Within LyX
>>Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:58:40 + >>From: Paul Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Subject: Re: Using Pstricks Within LyX >> >>On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:45:37 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard >><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>From reading the pstricks manual I learn that it will do a great job of >>> creating figures and plots for use in LaTeX documents and beamer >>> presentations. Can it be used within LyX? Is there a HOWTO I could read? >> >>Rich, >> >>Indeed, PSTricks can be used within LyX and PSTricks is very powerful >>with creating figures and plots for use in LaTeX documents and beamer. I compile beamer with pdflatex (much faster than latex+ps2pdf). Does pdftricks provide similar functionalities ? I know I can read the fine manual, but if anyone can give feedback... -- Jean-Pierre
Re: Using Pstricks Within LyX
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:45:37 -0800 (PST), Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From reading the pstricks manual I learn that it will do a great job of > creating figures and plots for use in LaTeX documents and beamer > presentations. Can it be used within LyX? Is there a HOWTO I could read? Rich, Indeed, PSTricks can be used within LyX and PSTricks is very powerful with creating figures and plots for use in LaTeX documents and beamer. I do not know about any HOWTO for LyX users, but the following site has quite a lot of examples: http://www.pstricks.de/ Try to start off with implementing one of the simplest examples there with LyX and you will end up, after a short time, able to use PSTricks within LyX. There is also a mailing list for PSTricks. I can send you an example of a LyX file with a PSTricks figure, in case you want it. Regards, Paul
Re: updating dvi's and using package
--- Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Ruurd's port and clicking on a LyX-file within > the file explorer > doesn't work. This a well known bug of all LyXWin > versions. > (LyX uses internally the "/" character as folder > separator, but when you > doublecklick on a LyX-file it uses the "\" > character.) > I'll add this to the LyX wiki. > > regards Uwe > Arigatou! .. Oh, it also doesn't work when you try opening a file from the history in the file menu. Please try that too, and if it's the same for you then probably add this to the wiki too. Yours, Jose Capco __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
Re: How to create crop marks
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, samar j. singh wrote:
> > 1. In the "Insert Graphics" is it possible to change the defaults in the
> > fields that come up. For instance,
> > I invariably prefer to have the "Output Width" occupy 100 per cent of
the
> > "col%". At the moment it comes up with "scale%".
>
> I rarely scale my figures and instead tries to make them the right size
> from beginning, so I don't think col% should be default.
> But I agree there should be a possibility to change the default values by
> some settings.
I agree that in the perfect world of a graduate school setting this is a
good philosophy.
Regrettably the world outside forces compromises. Point taken about good
practice, though.
>
> > 2. In beamer is it possible to create macros that insert ERT with a
specific
> > keypress?
> I guess that you mean in the beamer class. Right?
> Lyx lacks the possibility to have class sensitive key-bindings. But you
> can always make a binding that inserts something, but then the binding
will be
> valid in all documents.
> This is what I have in my personal bind-file to create an ERT
> \bind M-r "command-sequence ert-insert; self-insert \\rb{} ;
inset-toggle"
> So by pressing M-r the macro creates a ERT put \rb{} into it and closes
it.
> Johan Ingvast, PhD student http://www.md.kth.se/~ingvast
> Department of Machine Design, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
> http://www.md.kth.se, http://www.md.kth.se/~cas <--- Walking robot proj
> tel +46 (0)8 790 95 36 mob. +46 (0)70 34 34 498
Thank you Johan. This is what I was looking for and its not a problem with
it being true of all documents.
The little example you have given is of great practical help. Never quite
figured out these bind files though
I understand the concept - I think.
samar
