Re: Strange behavior LyxWin qt 1.3.5 - possibly relating to Bibtex - solved: bug in babel.def and correction

[Ekkehart Schlicht]

Piet van Ostrum has solved the problem. It is
due to a bug in babel.def. See the thread

*babel + fancyhdr + natbib = ! Extra \else

*in the comp.text.tex group.

He suggests the following correction:
In babel.def replace the three occurrences of

\noexpand\bbl(at)restore(at)actives

with

\protect\bbl(at)restore(at)actives

with (at) to be replaced by the "at"character.

I tried this over several weeks. It works just fine. I suggest that you
try this if Latex complains about an extra \else.

Ekkehart

beamerlyxexample1.lyx

[Myriam Abramson]

Hi!

I started to use Beamer. 

I get this error with Beamer 3.05 and LyX 1.3.5 on the example file
beamerlyxexample1.lyx provided with Beamer:

Package xcolor Error: Undefined color `averagebackgroundcolor'.
 ...beamerexample!10!averagebackgroundcolor)}

I do have xcolor installed in the texmf tree and I did a texhash. 

Thanks for any info.
-- 
   myriam

Re: Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote:


Also, if I read the manual correctly, overlays are not allowed within
multi-page frames.


Paul,

  An interesting discovery: without pauses between the seven items they all
fit comfortably on one slide. With pauses, they're spaced vertially apart and
run off the bottom of the slide. Hmmm-m-m-m.

Rich

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Re: Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Paul A. Rubin wrote:


Insert in an ERT box at the start of the frame title "[allowframebreaks]"
(minus the quotes). Note that (a) there's no command backslash and (b) it
goes in square brackets, not braces.


Paul,

  D'oh! Of course! It's an option to the \frame command. Sigh. I _knew_ it
was something simple.


Also, if I read the manual correctly, overlays are not allowed within
multi-page frames.


  That's true. I already changed that.

Many thanks,

Rich

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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

[Paul A. Rubin]

Rich Shepard wrote:
  I have a couple of frames with content that spills over the bottom 
edge of

the slide. According to the manual (page 43 ff), if I put the ERT,
\allowframebreaks, as the first thing in a \frame title, the content 
will be

apportioned among multiple pages but retain the same frame title.

  It ain't workin' here.

  If I create an ERT box and put in "\allowframebreaks" (without the
quotation marks, of course). I get error messages:

"Undefined control sequence.
 \lyxframeend
  {}\lyxframe{Significance Components}
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. "

  If I place the \allowframebreaks within braces, {}, I get additional 
error

messages that I have too many braces.

  Check mate.

  I'm sure the errors are user generated. Please, someone, pass me a clue
stick.


[rummage, rummage ... aha, found a clue stick in the back of the drawer]

Insert in an ERT box at the start of the frame title 
"[allowframebreaks]" (minus the quotes).  Note that (a) there's no 
command backslash and (b) it goes in square brackets, not braces.


Also, if I read the manual correctly, overlays are not allowed within 
multi-page frames.


-- Paul

Beamer Presentation: Multi-slide Frames

[Rich Shepard]

  I have a couple of frames with content that spills over the bottom edge of
the slide. According to the manual (page 43 ff), if I put the ERT,
\allowframebreaks, as the first thing in a \frame title, the content will be
apportioned among multiple pages but retain the same frame title.

  It ain't workin' here.

  If I create an ERT box and put in "\allowframebreaks" (without the
quotation marks, of course). I get error messages:

"Undefined control sequence.
 \lyxframeend
  {}\lyxframe{Significance Components}
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. "

  If I place the \allowframebreaks within braces, {}, I get additional error
messages that I have too many braces.

  Check mate.

  I'm sure the errors are user generated. Please, someone, pass me a clue
stick.

Thanks

Rich

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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. (TM)
   Voice: 503-667-4517   Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: missing Export PDF option

[Paul A. Rubin]

Go to Edit | Preferences | Converters.  Per Angus's first reply, you 
need the following converters:


LaTeX -> DVI (converter is latex $$i, with extra flag latex);
DVI -> Postscript (converter is dvips -o $$o $$i);
Postscript -> PDF (converter is ps2pdf13 $$i, on my system at least).

Are all three of those entries present and correctly filled in?

I assume that both latex and dvips run correctly from a command prompt. 
 What about ps2pdf13?


-- Paul

Re: missing Export PDF option

[Martin A. Hansen]

It is


m



On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 07:42:32PM +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 6/16/05, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > yes
> > 
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> > >
> > > > i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing
> > > > something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now
> > > > installed all sorts of pdf related stuff, recompiled lyx, restarted lyx
> > > > and no ...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > still no File->Export->PDF and
> > > >   no File->Export->Postscript either ... ?
> > >
> > > Did you do the Edit->Reconfigure  (and then restart LyX)?
> > >
> > > > > yourself by firing up lyx from a console window and hitting the
> > > > > Edit->Reconfigure button. The output to console should be
> > > > > illuminating.
> 
> When you run dvips on the command line, can you see that dvips is
> present and installed?
> 
> Paul

Re: missing Export PDF option

[Paul Smith]

On 6/16/05, Martin A. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> yes
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> >
> > > i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing
> > > something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now
> > > installed all sorts of pdf related stuff, recompiled lyx, restarted lyx
> > > and no ...
> > >
> > >
> > > still no File->Export->PDF and
> > >   no File->Export->Postscript either ... ?
> >
> > Did you do the Edit->Reconfigure  (and then restart LyX)?
> >
> > > > yourself by firing up lyx from a console window and hitting the
> > > > Edit->Reconfigure button. The output to console should be
> > > > illuminating.

When you run dvips on the command line, can you see that dvips is
present and installed?

Paul

Re: missing Export PDF option

[Martin A. Hansen]

yes


m



On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 11:09:38AM -0700, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> 
> > i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing
> > something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now
> > installed all sorts of pdf related stuff, recompiled lyx, restarted lyx
> > and no ...
> >
> >
> > still no File->Export->PDF and
> >   no File->Export->Postscript either ... ?
> 
> Did you do the Edit->Reconfigure  (and then restart LyX)?
> 
> > > yourself by firing up lyx from a console window and hitting the
> > > Edit->Reconfigure button. The output to console should be
> > > illuminating.
> 
>  Jeremy C. Reed
> 
>technical support & remote administration
>http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/

Re: missing Export PDF option

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Martin A. Hansen wrote:

> i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing
> something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now
> installed all sorts of pdf related stuff, recompiled lyx, restarted lyx
> and no ...
>
>
> still no File->Export->PDF and
>   no File->Export->Postscript either ... ?

Did you do the Edit->Reconfigure  (and then restart LyX)?

> > yourself by firing up lyx from a console window and hitting the
> > Edit->Reconfigure button. The output to console should be
> > illuminating.

 Jeremy C. Reed

 technical support & remote administration
 http://www.pugetsoundtechnology.com/

Re: missing Export PDF option

[Martin A. Hansen]

i am aware of lyx way of finding things, however, i seem to missing
something on my box, which was lost during a recent upgrade. i have now
installed all sorts of pdf related stuff, recompiled lyx, restarted lyx
and no ...


still no File->Export->PDF and
  no File->Export->Postscript either ... ?




martin





On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:35:26PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Let's return this to the lyx-users list...
> 
> On Thursday 16 June 2005 15:21, Martin wrote:
> > i do have tetex-bin, and gs-common installed, which provides these.
> >
> > however, i only have:
> >
> > File->Export->PDF(dvipdfm)
> > File->Export->PDF(pdflatex)
> >
> > there is no
> > File->Export->PDF - which i have at my home box - and that seems to
> > be essential to allow change bars?
> 
> That's correct. The changebar stuff post processes the dvi file.
> 
> There is no magic here, lyx runs its configure script 
> ($PREFIX/share/lyx/configure) to see what's on your box. Run it 
> yourself by firing up lyx from a console window and hitting the 
> Edit->Reconfigure button. The output to console should be 
> illuminating.
> 
> Maybe that's all that's missing --- Exit->Reconfigure ? Don't forget 
> to restart LyX afterwards. Is the missing item now present?
> 
> Angus

Re: My versions won't control

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Todd Denniston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| There may be no way in LyX to specify which one LyX uses, but as I just
| confirmed with a LyX document I have under CVS, LyX knows how to interface
| with CVS.  I believe (have not looked in the LyX code) it makes the choice
| of which VCS to use based on the "meta data" directory available, i.e., is
| there an RCS directory or a CVS directory. Now as I have never used SVN, or
| looked in the LyX code, I don't know if SVN is supported.

SVN is not supported. That will be a 1.5.x issue.
(with the possible backport to 1.4.x)

-- 
Lgb

Re: known bug in beamer?

[Angus Leeming]

Fernando Gisbert Cervera wrote:

> I don't know if this has been commented before, anyway, I expose it here.
> I am creating a presentation with the beamer class, and I have inserted
> a figure with insert graphics, but the path to the figure is relative.
> When I want to view the pdf with pdflatex, the pdflatex hangs. This does
> not happen if the figure path is absolute. Although the problem is
> pdflatex-related, it would be desirable that lyx took this situation
> into acount, and, if possible, tried to avoid it.
> Has anyone experienced this before?
> Thanks in advance.

I'd drop a line to the latex-beamer author. He's incredibly responsive.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/latex-beamer/

-- 
Angus

Re: missing Export PDF option

[Angus Leeming]

Let's return this to the lyx-users list...

On Thursday 16 June 2005 15:21, Martin wrote:
> i do have tetex-bin, and gs-common installed, which provides these.
>
> however, i only have:
>
> File->Export->PDF(dvipdfm)
> File->Export->PDF(pdflatex)
>
> there is no
> File->Export->PDF - which i have at my home box - and that seems to
> be essential to allow change bars?

That's correct. The changebar stuff post processes the dvi file.

There is no magic here, lyx runs its configure script 
($PREFIX/share/lyx/configure) to see what's on your box. Run it 
yourself by firing up lyx from a console window and hitting the 
Edit->Reconfigure button. The output to console should be 
illuminating.

Maybe that's all that's missing --- Exit->Reconfigure ? Don't forget 
to restart LyX afterwards. Is the missing item now present?

Angus

known bug in beamer?

[Fernando Gisbert Cervera]

I don't know if this has been commented before, anyway, I expose it here.
I am creating a presentation with the beamer class, and I have inserted 
a figure with insert graphics, but the path to the figure is relative. 
When I want to view the pdf with pdflatex, the pdflatex hangs. This does 
not happen if the figure path is absolute. Although the problem is 
pdflatex-related, it would be desirable that lyx took this situation 
into acount, and, if possible, tried to avoid it.

Has anyone experienced this before?
Thanks in advance.

Re: lmodern, ae and missing fonts

[Matej Cepl]

Martijn Brouwer wrote:
> As far as I know type1 fonts (such as lmodern) scale just by multiplying
> the width and height by the same factor. The CM and EC fonts are scaled
> more subtle depending on the size. I assume that the lmodern fonts
> look the same as EC modern at all font sizes. How doest that work?

You are right, that expressibe abilities of Metafont are much bigger than
Type1's. Therefore there are two options how to create Type1 fonts
emulating Computer Modern fonts -- either just to select some most used
size of tons (which is I assume what lmodern does), or to generate A LOT of
Type1 fonts. There IS the font which does the latter
, but
the result is that fonts itself is huge (whole tarball with many thousands
fonts has over 70MB) and the resulting documents (if you use many fonts)
are big as well.

Matej
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Re: Beamer troubles

[Paul A. Rubin]

John O'Gorman wrote:

I expect that the beamer.layout file is the problem. Does anyone know 
where to get the kosher version of this file for beamer?


regards
John O'Gorman


The latest version of Beamer installs everything you need in the texmf 
tree.  Install the latest Beamer, then look in 
.../tex/latex/beamer/lyx/, where you'll find a layouts folder containing 
the new layout file (which you should copy to the LyX layouts folder), a 
templates folder (empty on my machine) and an examples folder 
(containing, unsurprisingly, examples).


-- Paul

Re: missing Export PDF option

[Angus Leeming]

Martin A. Hansen wrote:

hi


something seems to be missing on this box, since File->Export->PDF(LaTaX)
is the only PDF export option - File->Export->PDF is missing (and that one 
supports change bars).

what may i have forgotten to install? (linux/debian)


The conversion path is:

lyx file -> latex file --(latex)--> dvi file --(dvips)--> postscript file 
--(ps2pdf)--> pdf file


HTH,
Angus

missing Export PDF option

[Martin A. Hansen]

hi


something seems to be missing on this box, since File->Export->PDF(LaTaX)
is the only PDF export option - File->Export->PDF is missing (and that one 
supports change bars).

what may i have forgotten to install? (linux/debian)


best regards


martin

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

[Rob S]

Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, 
which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB 
generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), 
cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory).  You can make 
the subst command an autorun entry in the Registry so it takes effect 
every time you reboot.





More info please! subst??

Can provide a more detailed step by step method for this - it may help 
others, like myself, who are not that "computer jargon" literate.


Cheers

Rob S
--


R D Saunders
Hydraulic Research Group
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Southampton
UK

Bibliographies, footnotes and other stories

[Declan O'Byrne]

Hi all,

Just beginning to use Lyx.  I have it running (version 1.3.4) on
ubuntu linux.  I have installed pybliographer, and am now trying to
figure out how to coordinate the various bits and pieces.

Excuse me if I spell it out step by step, so you kind technical people
will be able to see what steps I am missing.

1) I use the pybliographic interface to collect my references together
in a .bib file.
2) I establish a lyxpipe.
3) I Insert>Lists and TOC>Bibtex reference at the bottom of the
document.  This will start inserting and ordering works referred to in
the body of the document in an ordered bibliography.
4) In the dialogue brought up by Insert>Lists and TOC>Bibtex
reference, I Browse to find the .bib file I want to use.  I select
Open, and then press OK.
5) This inserts the box "BibTex Generated References" at the bottom of
the document.
6) Having thus indicated what bibliography I am using, when I want to
insert a citation (for example, in a footnote) I choose
Insert>Citation Reference, and then choose from the codes available
the one for the work I want to cite.

That's the procedure as I understand it.  But I've clearly missed
something, since it doesn't work.  I would expect the full title,
author details and publication details to be inserted both at the
point of the insertion and in the bibliography.
Instead I get closed and empty square brackets.

When I've overcome this difficulty, I gather the next difficulty will
be to get it to format the references correctly.  Since I am working
in the humanities, I think this will mean trying to figure out
jurabib.

I've been looking around for a while for a tutorial for non-technical
beginners on all of this, but whatever I've found is way beyond my
comprehension.

Hopefully someone can offer some guidance?

Thanks,

Declan

Re: LyXWin not working on XP

[Michael Wojcik]

Brian Williams wrote:


If it could deal with spaces in the user directory, surely it
wouldn't need that restriction?

The way I get around this is to map a local network drive (X:) to the
Documents and Settings directory so as to avoid having to create yet
another top level directory.


Quick Windows tip: rather than mapping a local network drive, try subst, 
which is faster (operates directly at the filesystem level - no SMB 
generation and parsing, no transfers through the loopback interface), 
cleaner, and safer (no unnecessarily-shared directory).  You can make 
the subst command an autorun entry in the Registry so it takes effect 
every time you reboot.


(Personally, I don't use the "Documents and Settings" directory at all 
if I can help it.  I have a sensible user directory with a non-spacey path.)


--
Michael Wojcik

Re: lmodern, ae and missing fonts

[Martijn Brouwer]

Although my thesis looks nice now with only type 1 fonts, I have few
more questions. Just for curiosity.

As far as I know type1 fonts (such as lmodern) scale just by multiplying
the width and height by the same factor. The CM and EC fonts are scaled
more subtle depending on the size. I assume that the lmodern fonts
look the same as EC modern at all font sizes. How doest that work?

Second one. Do the lmfonts completely cover the EC fonts? From what I
have read, the EC fonts cover many different fonts. Is this also true
for the lmfonts?

I have a colleague who is also writing his thesis. He uses T1 encoding 
and the ae package, which means that he has scalable computer modern fonts.
However, when he switches off the ae package, he still has computer 
modern fonts, even though he uses T1 encoding. This surprises me, since 
I understood that when you use T1, latex uses the EC fonts.

Is this some special trick of MikTeX?

bye,

Martijn Brouwer



Martijn Brouwer wrote:

Hi,
I have finished my PhD thesis (Many thanks to all contributers to LyX).
When I went with my postscript file to the printer we found that the
resolution of the fonts was too small.

It turned out that I had the standard EC bitmap fonts with a resolution
of 600dpi.

After a day playing with latex and dvips I have now five versions of my
thesis:
1) With low resolution bitmap fonts
2) With higher resolution bitmap fonts (by defining another printer for
dvips)
3) With scalable CM (bluesky) fonts. For this I had to swith off T1
encoding
4) With scalable CM fonts and T1 encoding using the ae package
5) With scalable lmodern fonts

I have a few questions:
With Version 3-5, I cannot use large, bold, smallcaps font. Latex uses
the default font instead. I have worked around it by switching to large
small caps. Is there a way to get this combination of font attributes?

- Am I correct when I say that lmodern is to EC fonts what bluesky is to
CM?
- Why is ae considered bad? Because it is a pseudofont that performs
tricks to make accented glyphs?

I have concluded that lmfonts are the way to go. I only found this after
nearly a day searching internet, an experimentning. I think that LyX
should automatically load lmodern whan T1 encoding is used and the fonts
are available.

Bye,

Martijn Brouwer

Re: My versions won't control

[Micha Feigin]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:11:04 -0400
Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > As a sidenote: RCS has been (sort of) superseded by CVS a dozen years
> > ago which in turn is in the process of being superseded by SVN as far
> > as I can tell. Things might be bearable on a single-user system, though.
> 
> Aren't CVS (and even more SVN) kind of overkill for personal one-user
> editing (which is what most people do with LyX)? I happily use RCS for all
> my needs and I haven't found a reason why to switch to CVS (I do not know
> much about SVN though).
> 

In my opinion they are generally not an overkill, but that depends on what you
are doing.

I use CVS myself. The upside is that you can recursively update directories to
see whats changed, checkout whole directory trees etc. Its main advantage over
rcs for the single user is the ability to handle directory trees instead of
single files (not sure about branches in rcs). central repository could be a
bit more cumbersome for single use and you may not need the network update
ability if you use a single computer. On the other hand a central repository
allows for easier periodical backup of your data. As for networks, I work on
two different computers in UNI (one a dual boot) and two machines at home,
thats four I need to keep synchronized, so I just put cvs on my gateway computer
and synchronize all my work through cvs.

On the other hand I also do quite a bit of programing so handling multiple
files, directory trees and branches is more of an issue for me also as a single
user of the repository.

> Matej
> 
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> with incomplete success.
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> 
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Re: A box over a sum

[Paul Smith]

On 6/16/05, Nicolas Ferré <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>How would you obtain in math mode such a thing in lyx ?
> >>
> >> bla
> >>   blibli
> >>\sum x
> >>
> >>I mean, the 2 words over the sum sign are one above the other, both
> >>centered.
> >
> > Nicolas: try the command \stackrel twice inside math mode.
> 
> Thanks, that works.

In case, you want both words written with the same size, write inside
the respective box the following command:

\scriptstyle

and then the word.

Paul

Re: A box over a sum

[Paul Smith]

On 6/16/05, Nicolas Ferré <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How would you obtain in math mode such a thing in lyx ?
> 
>  bla
>blibli
> \sum x
> 
> I mean, the 2 words over the sum sign are one above the other, both
> centered.

Nicolas: try the command \stackrel twice inside math mode.

Paul

A box over a sum

[Nicolas Ferré]

How would you obtain in math mode such a thing in lyx ?

bla
  blibli
   \sum x

I mean, the 2 words over the sum sign are one above the other, both 
centered.


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Re: Problem with special characters

[Jose' Matos]

On Thursday 16 June 2005 07:33, Kimmo Elo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since the KDE 3.4->3.4.1 update I have a problem with special characters
> with Lyx 1.3.5 in SuSE 9.2. Before that I could easily write e.g. ü or
> é in Lyx, now there appear "u and 'e instead. I have to use Lyx-code
> (\"{u}) to get this chars straight. In all other programs (OO, Konsole
> etc.) these characters appear just fine. I have tried to reconfigure my
> keyboard with xkeycaps and the reconfigure LyX, but nothing helps. Any
> ideas?

  This will be fixed in 1.3.6

> Best regards,
>
> Kimmo

-- 
José Abílio

Abstract in 3 languages?

[Jean-Claude Christnach]

dear Lyxers,

I have to provide an abstract for my resume in 3 different languages. I can use 
the abstract environment several times, but there must be another environment 
in between, but which one does provide only a blank skip? And what about the 
title of the abstract which would be three times "Zusammenfassung" but should 
be "Résumé" the second and "Abstract" the third time.

Many thanks for any help. I don't have the time to do Latex research and read 
many manuals.

best regards
Jay

Re: Beamer Presentation: Getting Blocks Properly Displayed

[G. Milde]

On 15.06.05, Paul A. Rubin wrote:
> Rich Shepard wrote:
> >
> >  My goal is to have each title/itemized list as a separate block. If
> >I do not indent the itemized lines, both "chunks" are preceeded by the
> >"block" command and display in separate boxes. As soon as I specify
> >"itemized" for the details, I lose the "block" command for the second
> >chunk. However, if I insert a blank line as a "Standard" environment,
> >the second "Block" command appears; that blank line is eliminated by
> >LyX as soon as the cursor is moved elsewhere.
> >

> ...  make the next line a standard environment (no increase in depth)
> and put in a protected space (C-space or S-C-space).

As current workaround, I'd recommend a pair of {} or a % (latex comment
sign) as ERT instead of the protected space. LaTeX will then see
virtually nothign and not insert any additional space.

However, you are touching an old problem of mine, described in bug report
# 341 ( http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341 ) 


I suggest a new tag for layout styles or LatexType "Environment", called
"SeparateEnvironment" or "NextNoAppend" or "NoCompound" that keeps the
\end \begin sequence between consecutive paragraphs of the same layout
style. (Of course defaulting to the current "compound environments"
behaviour.)


Needed for environments that serve as a container for other stuff (that gets
nested inside) and take some action with every new start of an environment
e.g. start a new slide with "LandscapeSlide" and "PortraitSlide" in
seminar.cls, start a new letter with "letter" in dinbrief.cls, or a new
article with "clanek" in the CSTUG bulletin layout. Currently, a dummy
paragraph (say {} in ERT and standard mode) is needed to separate the
environments.

The beamer presentation class adds more examples where a hack is needed
to separate environments of the same type.  Also, the beamer.layout
contains a lot of complicated code (e.g. EndFrame) just to circumvent the
restriction.

Günter



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