Re: how to force a straight quote (") ??
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > String = Streng ? > > i.e. Ctrl+Shift+" Yes, sorry. Ctrl ("Strg" on my German keyboard). Jürgen
Re: how to force a straight quote (") ??
Juergen Spitzmueller writes: > Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > > How do I force straight quote marks? As in: 5'-0" > > In LyX: String+Shift+" String = Streng ? i.e. Ctrl+Shift+" ? (well, I guess I could go try this) Thanks to all who posted! -K -- Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tiros-Translations
Re: how to force a straight quote (") ??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karsten Heymann schrieb: | Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: |> \verb+"+ | Maybe better (\verb is not allowed everywhere): \dq{} in ERT I have to correct myself: \dq is definded only for (n)german. Better use \textquotedbl as suggested by the other posters. Yours, Karsten -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD6j5kKLkXHxOeP2ERArYGAJ9doTLnw4G0pwvvQAyYDKOCtvSlvgCcC8IY 5Vi9/zW0d62O85Zfh7E3AeU= =OI7a -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: how to force a straight quote (") ??
Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: > How do I force straight quote marks? As in: 5'-0" In LyX: String+Shift+" Jürgen
Searching for a cite in the lyx code
Hello all, How can I search for a bibliographic reference inside the lyx code ? If I use the option inside "Edit" menu, it doesn't find references I know exist in the document. Thanks in advance.
Re: Convert framemaker to docbook-lyx -- safest path?
- Original Message - From: "John Pye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Georg Baum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:42 AM Subject: Re: Convert framemaker to docbook-lyx -- safest path? Hi Georg, Georg Baum wrote: John Pye wrote: Can anyone offer any comments on what would be the 'safest path' for converting Framemaker files into Docbook Lyx files? I thought you might have a chance with Infty http://www.inftyproject.org/en/demo.html#0002 "3. Online Recognition Test of InftyReader Ver.2.4.3d You can test the recognition of YOUR math documents by InftyReader, ONLINE,. Click HERE" SH: You can use Omnipage Pro(or other?) to convert your docs to png or tiff. Infty claims that it can convert those formats at 400 or 600 dpi to several formats including tex. I tested the Online conversion with English selected and it used Japanese anyway. I download Infty and it output tex but only a soso (English) conversion. One can also save pdf as ps. I've seen ps2html and html2latex scripts but they appear to have been abandoned, hard to find. I think your best chance is an OCR/image conversion to latex. http://www.susqu.edu/brakke/PlateauBook/PlateauBook.html I've had some success using Acrobat's Snapshot tool which can copy a table and be saved ->->as an image file. Perhaps that could be inserted as a LyX graphic, if that helps at all. Regards, Stephen OCR breaks even at 94% accuracy (or rekey), Stephen
Re: how to force a straight quote (") ??
On Feb 8, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Hi all, (in a bit of a panic here) How do I force straight quote marks? As in: 5'-0" I used the Insert -> Special Character -> Ordinary Quote ... and this worked fine in a simple test doc, but while checking the last book proof I discovered that these (which are inside a table) were converted to _closing curly_ quotes (English). (Help, please?) -Kevin -- Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tiros-Translations you can also use in ERT \textquotesingle and \textquotedbl
Re: how to force a straight quote (") ??
Hi Kevin, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote: Kevin Pfeiffer writes: How do I force straight quote marks? As in: 5'-0" Found! \verb+"+ Maybe better (\verb is not allowed everywhere): \dq{} in ERT Yours, Karsten
Re: how to force a straight quote (") ??
Kevin Pfeiffer writes: > How do I force straight quote marks? As in: 5'-0" > > I used the Insert -> Special Character -> Ordinary Quote > > ... and this worked fine in a simple test doc, but while checking the > last book proof I discovered that these (which are inside a table) > were converted to _closing curly_ quotes (English). Found! (slightly less panicky now) \verb+"+ -- Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tiros-Translations
how to force a straight quote (") ??
Hi all, (in a bit of a panic here) How do I force straight quote marks? As in: 5'-0" I used the Insert -> Special Character -> Ordinary Quote ... and this worked fine in a simple test doc, but while checking the last book proof I discovered that these (which are inside a table) were converted to _closing curly_ quotes (English). (Help, please?) -Kevin -- Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tiros-Translations
Re: Macdvix does not work properly
On Feb 8, 2006, at 7:06 AM, jerome666 wrote: Hello I have installed Lyx and Macdvix on MacOS X Tiger. I would like to use the reverse dvi function from Macdvix to Lyx. To do that, I have include the line \usepackage[active]{srcltx} in the preamble of my lyx document. It does not enable the reverse dvi. I have aldso tried to modify the script of the calleditor as mentioned here : http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnMac?from=LyX.Mac (search for "reverse dvi" to see the related sentences). It failed. Could someone help me to configure lyx or macdvix to enable the reverse dvi function ? Jerome - There are apparently several problems, 2 of which I've solved. (I need help on the third.) 1. It looks like you need to add "exit 1" to the end of macdvix's calleditor.script in order for it actually to call lyxeditor. 2. The lyxeditor script needs to have some quoting to accommodate filenames and paths with spaces. I've attached a newer version of lyxeditor that should solve this problem. You'll need to put it in the .../LyX.app/Contents/MacOSX folder. (Note that since this is inside the LyX.app bundle, you'll need to select LyX.app in the finder, control-click to bring up the contextual menu, and select the "Show Package Contents" option.) Also, you may need to make this file executable by entering the following in the terminal, making the appropriate substitution for /Applications/LyX.app if you keep it somewhere different: chmod +x /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOSX/lyxeditor 3. When the lyxeditor script is invoked, it sends to lyxpipe.in something like the following: LYXCMD:macdvix:server-goto-file-row:"filename.tex" 32 (where "32" is the line number it should go to). However, LyX seems to misinterpret this, and brings up a dialog saying, "Cannot open specified file: filename.lyx. Create a new document with this name?" (Note the different file extension: .tex versus .lyx.) Clicking "No" is the proper thing to do: it will take you to the proper place in the document. Does anyone know the proper way to avoid this spurious dialog? Bennett lyxeditor Description: Binary data
Re: Chinese caracter
Eric Germaneau wrote: Does someone know how to use Chinese caracter in a lyx document (so in Latex as well ). If you only need a few Chinese characters, rather than an entire document's worth, you can use conventional LyX (rather than LyX-CJK and a CJK version of LaTeX). Here's what I've done to insert a single Japanese kanji into a conventional LyX document: 1. Install the LaTeX "cjk" and "cjk-fonts" packages, if you don't have them already. (I use MiTeX on Windows, so I can't give you any advice for doing this for Slackware.) 2. In the preamble, include the CJK package with \usepackage{cjk}. See the cjk package's documentation (installed with the package) for information on options; I'm not setting any in my documents, but you may want some. 3. Where you need a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean character, insert ERT with the appropriate CJK macro. Here again you'll have to consult the cjk package documentation to find out how to enter Chinese in the encoding of your choice. The CJK package allows you to enter characters directly in various encodings, or as their hex equivalent, which is useful if you want to keep the document pure ASCII (eg so you can edit it in other editors). For my single Japanese kanji, I took the latter route: \begin{CJK}{JIS}{song} \CJKchar{"3B}{"52} \end{CJK}. That inserts the character corresponding to JIS codepoint 3B52 at that point in the document. It's a real character in an appropriate font, so it scales with the rest of the text and so forth. This works well for DVI and PDF, in my tests. I'd like to thank several people on the list who offered advice when I asked how to do this a while back, by the way, particularly Helge Hafting, who pointed me down this path. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Convert framemaker to docbook-lyx -- safest path?
On Feb 8, 2006, at 02:28, John Pye wrote: Hi all, Can anyone offer any comments on what would be the 'safest path' for converting Framemaker files into Docbook Lyx files? I can only give my own experience and don't know wether that's the safest path but it did work for me. I converted a paper from framemaker to lyx which did not require much tweaking afterwards. The paper contained equations, figures and references but (unfortunately) no tables, therefore I cannot comment on that specific problem. Once I wrote a XSLT stylesheet to transform a mif-file into an xml- file; I think this is a safe route since the mif-file contains everything. But since framemaker became framemaker+sgml I use the xml-export feature of framemaker. My only problem here are the equations which are by default exported as pictures (not acceptable to me). The only solution was to write a plug-in for framemaker which exports the mathfullform-expression instead of the picture. I then convert the resulting xml-file in a 2-step process: 1) with a first stylesheet the mathfullform expressions are converted to mathml; 2) with a 2nd stylesheet the resulting xml-file (with mathml- equations) is converted to tex using the xsltml package (http:// xsltml.sourceforge.net/) to convert the mathml equations. Regards Patrick De Visschere ... Any suggestions? Would I have more luck trying this with new new 1.4 version? Cheers JP PS the document's I'm trying to transform are actually these: http://ascend.cheme.cmu.edu/pdfhelp.htm for which the source material is at https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/svn-view/ascend/documentation/trunk/mif/? rev=338
Macdvix does not work properly
Hello I have installed Lyx and Macdvix on MacOS X Tiger. I would like to use the reverse dvi function from Macdvix to Lyx. To do that, I have include the line \usepackage[active]{srcltx} in the preamble of my lyx document. It does not enable the reverse dvi. I have aldso tried to modify the script of the calleditor as mentioned here : http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnMac?from=LyX.Mac (search for "reverse dvi" to see the related sentences). It failed. Could someone help me to configure lyx or macdvix to enable the reverse dvi function ? jerome
Re: Convert framemaker to docbook-lyx -- safest path?
John Pye wrote: > The perl module cited as prereq doesn't exist on CPAN. Not that I could > find with search. from the first google hit for perlmif: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/EHOOD/ > Nope. Converting from frame to latex is a flakey process. No point going > via latex here. You will need that at least for the formulas, since LyX stores formulas in LaTeX syntax. > That might be interesting. Is there no XML-based Lyx file format yet? This is planned, and Lars Gullik Bjønnes did some experiments with it, but nothing more. > What does lyx2lyx do, I can't see any documentation on the net. It translates old .lyx files to the current format. The other way round does also work, but only for 1.4 -> 1.3 conversions. The LyX class I already mentioned has also limited capabilities for creating .lyx files from scratch. > Come to that, is there a lyx file format reference somewhere? AFAIK only in the sources :-( > My best best really does seem to be to write an XSLT to convert from > either mif2xml output (or the direct Framemaker XML-export output) to a > *structured file format* that Lyx can read reliably. I tried to write > out XML directly but it seemed really hard to resolve the whitespace > problems. It might also be possible to use LyX itself to write the file and do the conversion via commands sent to the lyxpipe. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/PyClient Georg
Re: Convert framemaker to docbook-lyx -- safest path?
Hi Georg, Georg Baum wrote: John Pye wrote: Can anyone offer any comments on what would be the 'safest path' for converting Framemaker files into Docbook Lyx files? You know http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~pablo/mif2lyx/ ? It is somewhat limited, but it might be possible to extend it. The perl module cited as prereq doesn't exist on CPAN. Not that I could find with search. Is a (nearly) lossless conversion from framemaker to latex possible? Then you could use tex2lyx (see http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx) to produce the LyX files. If tex2lyx fails to convert something then it is probably easy to fix. The big advantage of this method is that you don't have to worry about the LyX format. Nope. Converting from frame to latex is a flakey process. No point going via latex here. Another possibility would be to read the MIF or XML files with a python script and use $LYXDIR/lib/lyx2lyx/LyX.py to create the LyX document. LyX.py has no support for tables yet, so you'll have to write that, but this would need to happen sometimes anyway. That might be interesting. Is there no XML-based Lyx file format yet? What does lyx2lyx do, I can't see any documentation on the net. Come to that, is there a lyx file format reference somewhere? My best best really does seem to be to write an XSLT to convert from either mif2xml output (or the direct Framemaker XML-export output) to a *structured file format* that Lyx can read reliably. I tried to write out XML directly but it seemed really hard to resolve the whitespace problems. You can see my efforts at https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/svn-view/ascend/documentation/trunk/xml/fm2lyx.xsl?rev=310&view=markup also, see my somewhat more successful https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/svn-view/ascend/documentation/trunk/xml/fm2html.xsl?rev=310&view=markup Cheers JP
Re: multicolumn and texlive
Am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2006 11:05 schrieb Herbert Voss: > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2006 10:14 schrieb Herbert Voss: > >>makes no sense together with package multicol. Disable it > > > > thanks, Herbert. > > > > So I am adding \begin{multicols}{2} > > at the begin of the document (at the very begin or after the title?) > > The title should be in onecolumn mode, insert it > after your title/author/date lines. > > > and > > \end{multicols} > > \begin{multicols}{1} > > Wolfgang, look at my mail. There was nothing about such a > statement. Onecolumn is the default, therefore you should > disable the twocolumn option in the document layout. As usual, you are right. It was from Karsten: okay, then don't load multicol and do what I wrote above. \onecolumn and \twocolumn are standard latex commands and have nothing to do with the multicol package. Yours, Karsten and in addition I missunderstood it. Now I have grasped it, I hope. Thanks for the help and your patience with me Wolfgang
Re: Unexpected problem for a document with a lot of pages
_/ On Mon 06 Feb 2006 19:20:58 GMT, [Horacio] wrote : \__ Hello all, I use LyX 1.3.5 in suse 9.0. I'm writing a scientific document that will have around 200 pages or more, with a lot of equations, figures and tables. One month ago there was no problem for my to work with the document, although it took some minutes to "render" the document to PDF (using option View ---> PDF). So after I considered the possibility to work with different files for every new section of the document because in this way it would be faster the individual compilation. I added the new lyx files into the big document using the option "Insert--->File", and selecting after "External" or "Include", indifferently. Using this method each new section was written very fast, because I could compile only these part and see the changes. After I had included 4 new sections (4 new files) I tried to compile the whole document with no problem, but it took a lot of time, more than an hour. Anyway I continued working, but my problem now is that I have 10 new section and the compilation of the document is not feasible. Last weekend I left my computer compiling during 2 days and today it was already working in it !! I've tried with "View--->DVI", but it takes also a lot of time. I've searched for info in the lyx mail list, but nothing related with my case. Later I've done a test; I've removed all the "includes", so the document doesn't has to "load" the external lyx files, and in this case the compilation was OK and it took some minutes. In other test I've created a new empty lyx document and I've added the 10 sections with the "Insert--->File" option, and in this case the document was compiled on one minute !!! So now I'm blocked and I don't know what to do. Maybe there is a bug with lyx or I think that as I use a lot of different figure formats (jpg,bmp and eps) the program can't handle this, but I don't think so; lyx is announced capable of working with very big documents. I've also observed that telling lyx not to use the "temp" directory, sometimes the compilation is faster, am I right ? Using a temporary directory makes the compilation of a document slower ? Could somebody help me ? Thanks in advance. Hi, I once used LyX to compile a 200-page report, which contained many (~40) detailed figures in encapsulated PostScript format. The whole beast took about 1-2 minutes to compile and view as PDF. What hardware are you run- ning this on? At later stages, I considered running LyX remotely (via SSH) on idle computational servers and I now do so exclusively. Is the separation into multiple files (a notoriety attributed to bloat like page-preview-on-the-fly WYSIWYG) not conflicting with TOC's? What about the need to search the entire document (all chapters at once)? I am not criticising your choice, but I think you might be overcomplicating matters for yourself. If the primary issue is LyX grinding to a halt (getting locked) throughout compilation, consider workarounds like multiple sessions of LyX or editing the commands to enable pipelining ('&' in *nix). To digress, let us think of some workaround. Choose not to generate and revierw every small change as you go along because it is time-consuming. Iterate entire pages instead. If it helps, open a small new document, write the necessary bits in isolation and view as DVI. When happy, copy and paste to large document. Hope it helps, Roy -- Roy S. Schestowitz http://Schestowitz.com |SuSE Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E 10:20am up 22 days 5:36, 12 users, load average: 0.30, 0.35, 0.35
Re: Creating a .layout file with two command arguments
Jeremy Daily a écrit : Mael, Thanks for the suggestion. The logic made sense, but your suggestion did not work. LyX generated an extra line between the commands in the tex file. This is now possible by using character styles (available in LyX 1.4.0pre3). The following layout sample won't produce any extra line between the two commands: CharStyle Author MarginStatic LatexType Command InTitle 1 LatexName AddAuthor End CharStyle Affiliation MarginStatic LatexType Command InTitle 1 LatexName donothing Preamble \newcommand{\donothing}[1]{#1} EndPreamble End Note: I don't know if "InTitle" works with character styles -- you'll have to test it... In order to use these character styles, make a new paragraph (Standard), go to "Insert>Character style>Author", type in the author name, put the cursor at the right of the author name (out of the Author character style) and then go to "Insert>Character style>Affiliation", and type in the author's affiliation. You'll then have the following displayed into LyX window: Mael IFTS |___||_| AuthorAffiliation Compile your document. That's it! LyX then actually generates the right LaTeX code: \AddAuthor{Mael}\donothing{IFTS} This workaround can be used to manage LaTeX macros with any number of arguments. It also has the advantage of allowing the user to combine commands with environments, which may be useful for example in order to manage packages such as "acronym.sty". Regards, Mael. -- Mael Hilléreau
Re: multicolumn and texlive
Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb: > So I am adding > \begin{multicols}{2} > at the begin of the document yes > (at the very begin or after the title?) Try both and decide yourself :) > and \end{multicols} > \begin{multicols}{1} here onecolumn text \end{multicols} You can leave that one out, onecoumn is the default outside a multicols environment. > \begin{multicols}{2} here twocolumn text \end{multicols} at the end > of the document Yes. Yours, Karsten
Re: Editors for LaTeX-files with syntax highlighting
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:51:26AM -0500, Dimitrios Diamantaras wrote: > [...] In fact I am liking the > Emacs-AUCTeX-preview-latex combination so much that I have been working > on it exclusively lately, even though about a year ago I thought I would > never need anything but Lyx (I am a LaTeX user for many years, though, > and know quite a few of the commands I need---Lyx is perfect for those > who don't). Thanks for saying this. I had been feeling, in a funny kind of way, guilty because I've also been using Emacs et al. almost exclusively for a while now despite being a long time LyX user (but a longer time LaTeX user, I must admit). What's done it for me, at the moment, is reftex which provides an easier interface to references for somebody like me that does not like using the mouse. But I still think LyX is absolutely fantastic and it's my first port-of-call when I can't remember how to do something in LaTeX!! cheers, eric -- Eric S. Fraga, Department of Chemical Engineering, UCL, London ***.*..**.*.*...***.***.*...*...***.*...
Re: multicolumn and texlive
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2006 10:14 schrieb Herbert Voss: makes no sense together with package multicol. Disable it thanks, Herbert. So I am adding \begin{multicols}{2} at the begin of the document (at the very begin or after the title?) The title should be in onecolumn mode, insert it after your title/author/date lines. and \end{multicols} \begin{multicols}{1} Wolfgang, look at my mail. There was nothing about such a statement. Onecolumn is the default, therefore you should disable the twocolumn option in the document layout. here onecolumn text \end{multicols} \begin{multicols}{2} here twocolumn text \end{multicols} at the end of the document is this correct? yes, except the above Herbert
Re: multicolumn and texlive
Am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2006 10:14 schrieb Herbert Voss: > > makes no sense together with package multicol. Disable it > thanks, Herbert. So I am adding \begin{multicols}{2} at the begin of the document (at the very begin or after the title?) and \end{multicols} \begin{multicols}{1} here onecolumn text \end{multicols} \begin{multicols}{2} here twocolumn text \end{multicols} at the end of the document is this correct? Wolfgang
Re: multicolumn and texlive
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Still problems with multicol the info at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html does not say enough. to repeat my situation: I have a twocolumn koma-book document I have selected twocolumn in document>page makes no sense together with package multicol. Disable it I have added in the preample \usepackage{multicol} in order to avoid an empty page which is inserted with the twocolumn selection (as recommended on this list, thanks again) \begin{multicols}{2} x xxx x xxx x xxx x xxx \end{multicols} here should come a onecolumn-part x x and here twocolumn again \begin{multicols}{2} x xxx x xxx x xxx x xxx \end{multicols} Herbert
Re: multicolumn and texlive
Still problems with multicol the info at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html does not say enough. to repeat my situation: I have a twocolumn koma-book document I have selected twocolumn in document>page I have added in the preample \usepackage{multicol} in order to avoid an empty page which is inserted with the twocolumn selection (as recommended on this list, thanks again) x xxx x xxx x xxx x xxx here should come a onecolumn-part \begin{multicols} x x \end{multicols} and here twocolumn again x xxx x xxx x xxx x xxx LaTeX Error: \begin{document} ended by \end{multicols}. \end{multicols} Your command was ignored. Type Ito replace it with another command, orto continue without it. If I use \begin{multicols}{1} I get no error, but the onecolumn part is put in the right column of my basic setting twocolumn in document>page According to Herbert, multicol is a separate prg and has nothing to do with the twocolumn setting. Where is my mental blackout? Wolfgang
Re: Convert framemaker to docbook-lyx -- safest path?
John Pye wrote: > Can anyone offer any comments on what would be the 'safest path' for > converting Framemaker files into Docbook Lyx files? You know http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~pablo/mif2lyx/ ? It is somewhat limited, but it might be possible to extend it. Is a (nearly) lossless conversion from framemaker to latex possible? Then you could use tex2lyx (see http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx) to produce the LyX files. If tex2lyx fails to convert something then it is probably easy to fix. The big advantage of this method is that you don't have to worry about the LyX format. Another possibility would be to read the MIF or XML files with a python script and use $LYXDIR/lib/lyx2lyx/LyX.py to create the LyX document. LyX.py has no support for tables yet, so you'll have to write that, but this would need to happen sometimes anyway. > Would I have more luck trying this with new new 1.4 version? Maybe, since you might use one of the new features of 1.4, e.g. character styles or extended boxes. Apart from that, both LyX.py and tex2lyx produce 1.4 files. They can be converted by lyx2lyx to 1.3 format. This conversion is lossless if no new 1.4 features are used. Georg