Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

  Anyway, would those of you who use the LyX wiki like a section which
  isn't related to LyX at all?  If so, we could create a separate group
  for this, or you can create your own personal group (preferably
  prefixed with 'Personal', as in 'PersonalAlston').

 Personally, I'd rather keep the LyX Wiki just LyX (particularly if I
 ever have to run another link check for you -- last one took long
 enough!).

In case I forgot earlier, many thanks for running the link check!

Would a completely separate wiki be an option? It's not that I want a wiki
for non-related LyX stuff, it's only that it'd be nice to be able to refer
LyX users to some place. In addition, I suspect that LyX users learning to
edit wiki pages will eventually benefit the documentation project as a
whole. A third benefit is that people more actively editing a wiki
automatically means more feedback to me about the site's usuabiliy and any
bugs - this is of course both good and bad ;-)

regards
/Christian

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Re: Missing Shortcut in Navigation Menu?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Michael == Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Michael Hi guys, I want to gather your feedback before I submit the
Michael following feature request: The keyboard bindings in the LyX
Michael navigation menu are great, you get to the section 5.2 by just
Michael typing (for instance) ALT-N-5-2. Since I have a really large
Michael document (dissertation thesis for example), this is pretty
Michael helpful. However I can't find a keyboard binding to jump to
Michael the beginning of a chapter - I find myself having to use the
Michael mouse to activate the chapter submenu in the navigation menu.
Michael Having a '0' keyboard shortcut would be a welcome feature. In
Michael that case you could jump to the beginning of chapter 5 with
Michael ALT-N-5-0.

What about this?
Alt-N 5 Right Enter

It means more keys, but it works.

Adding a 0 as shortcut is difficult, because it has to be visible in
the menu label.

JMarc

babel problem using IEEEtran.cls

[archiv_maus]

Hi,

I'm using Lyx 1.4.0 (on a Knoppix 4.0.2 hd installation with tetex 3.0) and 
have installed IEEEtran.cls to my tetex local directory as it is written on 
several sites in the internet. Opening the IEEEtran.lyx works fine but when I 
try to look at the dvi output I get the following error Package babel Error: 
You haven't defined the langugae ENGLISH yet.. For each other document style I 
can create this dvi output.
Being a Linux beginner with no latex knowledge I'm quite confused and don't 
know what to try. Searching the net with google also didn't give me any idea. 
How can I fix the problem?

Bye,
Katja
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bookstab package in lyx

[Marcelo Acuña]

Hello,
I want to use bookstab package for nices tables,
doc came with example, this example work in kile
but in lyx I only get errors and errors like
You haven´t defined [EMAIL PROTECTED] yet
and many others.
I try with example in or out ERT,
in or out of float, etc.,
but I can´t get bookstab work.
What I make bad?

Thanks
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Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied

[Sreekumar Bhaskaran {msbad084}]

I get the message  file not found when I try to download 1.4.1. Has it
been removed from the server.

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



In case I forgot earlier, many thanks for running the link check!


You didn't forget, but in any case you're quite welcome.


Would a completely separate wiki be an option? It's not that I want a wiki
for non-related LyX stuff, it's only that it'd be nice to be able to refer
LyX users to some place. In addition, I suspect that LyX users learning to
edit wiki pages will eventually benefit the documentation project as a
whole. A third benefit is that people more actively editing a wiki
automatically means more feedback to me about the site's usuabiliy and any
bugs - this is of course both good and bad ;-)


Well, if you have capacity (both disk and bandwidth) and are willing to 
offer this, I guess why not?  I'm a bit fuzzy on what it would look 
like, though.  My impression was that wikis were typically themed; the 
LyX wiki, for instance, deals pretty much exclusively with things 
related to LyX.  Would an unthemed wiki draw visitors?


Anyway, the only concern I would have would be with legal issues 
relating to what got posted.  Would you monitor the content (and reserve 
editorial rights)?  If not, what are the relevant laws (and for that 
matter, what's the relevant jurisdiction -- you're in Sweden but the 
wiki is hosted in Norway)?  We're still trying to sort this stuff out 
over here, as the recent flap over the Wikipedia attests.


Cheers,
/Paul

Re: Formatting character dialog

[Helge Hafting]

Charles de Miramon wrote:


Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


 


We could do a poll of how other apps (ooo, word, kword, abiword...)
and decide how to change this behaviour.

   


OpenOffice follows the same behaviour than LyX. Kword, Abiword and if I
remember right MsWord are in the opposite group.

I think LyX actual behaviour is quite nice. You generally want to change the
format of the whole word, not of 3 letters in the middle of it.
Nevertheless, I was wondering if it would be possible when you put your
cursor in the middle of a word and select the formatting character dialog
that LyX highlights the whole word, to make it clearer where you formatting
change will apply.


Some kind of highlight would be ok, but not a selection.
After changing formating I am going to type more, and don't
want to erase the word by overwriting the selection.

Helge Hafting

Re: Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: Sreekumar Bhaskaran {msbad084} Sreekumar.Bhaskaran-Nair@

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 5:04 AM
Subject: Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied



I get the message  file not found when I try to download 1.4.1. Has it
been removed from the server?

SH: The original location which no longer works was,
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX141pre/lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe

This executable file has been moved, not removed to,
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX14x/lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe

But the parent directory of this .exe link, 
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX14x

contains a red caution,
WARNING
This page is a work-in-progress. Do not use.

This information answers your question above. It should not be construed
as a recommendation by me to download the file. Perhaps the link to the
file, lyx-1.4.x_win32_setup_19mar2006.exe, which does not work, persists
because it was done deliberately, rather than some type of forgetful editing
of links or renaming files due to being busy.

Discretion is the better part of valor,
Stephen

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  
  In case I forgot earlier, many thanks for running the link check!
 
 You didn't forget, but in any case you're quite welcome.
 
  Would a completely separate wiki be an option? It's not that I want a wiki
  for non-related LyX stuff, it's only that it'd be nice to be able to refer
  LyX users to some place. In addition, I suspect that LyX users learning to
  edit wiki pages will eventually benefit the documentation project as a
  whole. A third benefit is that people more actively editing a wiki
  automatically means more feedback to me about the site's usuabiliy and any
  bugs - this is of course both good and bad ;-)
 
 Well, if you have capacity (both disk and bandwidth) and are willing to 
 offer this, I guess why not?  I'm a bit fuzzy on what it would look 
 like, though.

Hmm... even though the disk (1 MB) and bandwith (normal web server)
requirements would be very small, I can't really offer anything as it's
not my server.

 My impression was that wikis were typically themed; the LyX wiki, for
 instance, deals pretty much exclusively with things related to LyX.  

As for the theme, I guess it'd still be for the LyX community, although
the material might not be directly related to LyX... that's a theme of
sorts.

 Would an unthemed wiki draw visitors?

I don't actually care :-)  It was just that the spam about CV writing
made me wonder why someone would place it there in the first place. There
is also some stuff that is sort of LyX-related. A lot of stuff discussing
LaTeX in general could fall in that category.

 Anyway, the only concern I would have would be with legal issues
 relating to what got posted.  Would you monitor the content (and reserve
 editorial rights)?  If not, what are the relevant laws (and for that
 matter, what's the relevant jurisdiction -- you're in Sweden but the
 wiki is hosted in Norway)?  We're still trying to sort this stuff out
 over here, as the recent flap over the Wikipedia attests.

I honestly don't know... in a sense I monitor some of the stuff what goes
on the LyX wiki, primarily in order to watch out for spam abuse etc. But 
it's not a very strict process. Still, I suspect that these issues aren't 
a big problem in our particular case - at least not any worse than the 
current wiki.

However, since no one else has given an opinion on this I'll just let it 
rest. It's not like I can't create a separate wiki later on :-)

cheers
/Christian

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Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[Stephen Harris]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

However, since no one else has given an opinion on this I'll just let it 
rest. It's not like I can't create a separate wiki later on :-)


cheers
/Christian



We could have a section of the current LyX Wiki devoted to:
Accoutrements for the LyX Publicist

Some pdf files are created in reverse order. The last page
is first. There is a free tool which changes the order of
the pages. Just the other day John Baez referenced a paper
like this in This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics
A few newcomers may have forgotten my post about this tool.

Maybe accoutrements is a bit grandiose and Tips, would do. :-)

You do a remarkably conscientious job,
Stephen (who has converted to: What's the Word? Thunderbird!)

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

| Stephen (who has converted to: What's the Word? Thunderbird!)

So now I can read your mails again without being completely confused
wrt quoting style :-)

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Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[Georg Baum]

Am Donnerstag, 23. März 2006 20:32 schrieb Stephen Harris:

 Stephen (who has converted to: What's the Word? Thunderbird!)

Wow!


Georg

Book cover in LyX file

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the 
final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come before 
the title page.

I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this?

Thanks

SteveT

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Wiki upload area

[Paul A. Rubin]

First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be 
indexed anywhere I can find, although you can find it if you know to 
search for '14x'), there's a broken link (Christian, you reading this?) 
to the 19.03.2006 snapshot.


Second, would it be possible (and desirable) to create index pages for 
the upload area, so that someone looking to download a file (but lacking 
a valid URL or the exact file name) could manually hunt for it?


/Paul

Re: Book cover in LyX file

[Jose' Matos]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:03, Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,

 I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the
 final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come
 before the title page.

 I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this?

 pdfpages?
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfpages.html

  I remember this advice from Herbert's previous answers to similar questions. 
Notice that I could remember wrong. :-)
http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdf#a5

 Thanks

 SteveT

 Steve Litt
 Author:
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Re: Wiki upload area

[Stephen Harris]

Paul A. Rubin wrote:
First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be 
indexed anywhere I can find, although you can find it if you know to 
search for '14x'), there's a broken link (Christian, you reading this?) 
to the 19.03.2006 snapshot.


Second, would it be possible (and desirable) to create index pages for 
the upload area, so that someone looking to download a file (but lacking 
a valid URL or the exact file name) could manually hunt for it?


/Paul




The broken link points to
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX14x/
lyx-1.4.x_win32_setup_19mar2006.exe {on one line}

The webpage containing the link is, as Paul stated,
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x

But the executable is actually named/found on,
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX14x/
lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe {/uploads}

This is easy to fix with the Edit button
at the bottom of the page, but I did not
want to change the link without permission
from Angus. It is the 19March snapshot.

Apache sent me at least 50 notifications.

Intended as clarification,
Stephen

Re: Wiki upload area

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

 Second, would it be possible (and desirable) to create index pages for
 the upload area, so that someone looking to download a file (but lacking
 a valid URL or the exact file name) could manually hunt for it?

I used good old 'tree' to generate a listing and placed it here for now:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Playground/UploadedFiles

It's a temporary reprieve at least.

For a more permanent solution, I'd need a snippet of PHP code that lists
the contents of a directory (recursively). If someone would like to help
with that, I could give a more precise specification of the function. With
this function I could then very easily integrate it with the wiki and have
the list of files be generated automatically whenever you look at the
page.

/Christian

-- 
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Re: Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied

[Paul A. Rubin]

Stacia Hartleben wrote:

Is instant preview supposed to work with this version? When I open a
document with math fomulas, instead of previewing, they all disapear.


It seems to work with 1.4.1pre1 (Win XP Pro).  Mostly.  I have a 
recurring problem with symbols either disappearing or displaying 
incorrectly (although the DVI is fine).  So far, the following fix has 
not failed:  change the document font to default, save, exit the 
document, reload the document, make sure IP now displays correctly, then 
change the document font back to whatever I want and save again.


I have not seen entire formulas disappear, though, just bits and pieces 
of each.


/Paul

Re: Wiki upload area

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

 First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be 
 indexed anywhere I can find,

Maybe that's because of the big fat red text

Warning: This page is work in progress. Do not use 

According to the page's history, Angus is working on it. :-)

Having said that, here are the steps used to 'index' the page in the lyx
wiki:

* Edit the page 'PageList' in the current group (Windows/ in this case)
* Add a link to the page to be 'indexed', i.e. add something like this:
** [[Windows/LyX14x]]: About LyX 1.4.x

That's basically it, although I recommend adding something like this 
instead:

T** [[Windows/LyX14x]]

and then editing Windows/LyX14x and making sure that the first line on 
that page is a good description (teaser) of the page. This teaser is then 
automatically shown in the page list.

 although you can find it if you know to search for '14x'), there's a
 broken link (Christian, you reading this?)  to the 19.03.2006 snapshot.

There is no uploaded file called anything like that... the only thing 
close enough is something called:

lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe

But I think we should simply wait for Angus to announce this thing.

/Christian

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charstyle-insert

[Stacia Hartleben]

How do you use the new feature charstyle-insert? I tried running it
from the command buffer in the 1.4.1 pre for windows but I get
Command disabled. How can I turn this back on? I was looking forward
to it being an easy way to mark font styles and so on...

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 3/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hmm... even though the disk (1 MB) and bandwith (normal web server)
 requirements would be very small, I can't really offer anything as it's
 not my server.

Have you had a look at existing Wiki farms?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_farms

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Re: Wiki upload area

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be 
indexed anywhere I can find,


Maybe that's because of the big fat red text

	Warning: This page is work in progress. Do not use 


According to the page's history, Angus is working on it. :-)


Right, but I thought his intent was to distribute his compilation of 
1.4.1 for Windows to alpha -er- beta testers here.  So I took the do 
not use sign to be an attempt to warn off people looking for a 
production version.







although you can find it if you know to search for '14x'), there's a
broken link (Christian, you reading this?)  to the 19.03.2006 snapshot.


There is no uploaded file called anything like that... the only thing 
close enough is something called:


lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe

But I think we should simply wait for Angus to announce this thing.


Since Angus apparently created the link, I assume that he was under the 
impression at some point that the file was there (although when he 
announced it to the developer mail list, it was with the ..._setup_v1... 
name).  Anyhow, we'll just let him sort out what will/won't be linked 
there.


/Paul

Re: Wiki upload area

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


For a more permanent solution, I'd need a snippet of PHP code that lists
the contents of a directory (recursively). If someone would like to help
with that, I could give a more precise specification of the function. With
this function I could then very easily integrate it with the wiki and have
the list of files be generated automatically whenever you look at the
page.



If you'd care to post the spec here, I'll take a whack at it when time 
permits.


/Paul

Re: Book cover in LyX file

[Bruce Muirhead]

You also can use pdftk. It is a command line utility, but very powerfula and 
easy to use. What is needed is to create the cover and extra pages in a 
separate programme as a pdf, and then joing th e two pdf files using pdftk.


see  http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php?topic=pdftk

It is my preferred tool for that type of thing because it is easy and lets 
me design the cover and frontispiece however I want.




Cheers



Bruce

- Original Message - 


From: Jose' Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: Book cover in LyX file


On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:03, Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the
final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come
before the title page.

I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this?


pdfpages?
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfpages.html

 I remember this advice from Herbert's previous answers to similar 
questions.

Notice that I could remember wrong. :-)
http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdf#a5


Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author:
   * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware
   * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
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Webmaster
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Re: charstyle-insert

[Paul A. Rubin]

Stacia Hartleben wrote:

How do you use the new feature charstyle-insert? I tried running it
from the command buffer in the 1.4.1 pre for windows but I get
Command disabled. How can I turn this back on? I was looking forward
to it being an easy way to mark font styles and so on...



Your layout file has to be aware of the character styles you intend to 
use.  My understanding (watching from a safe distance) is that 
eventually the developers intend character styles to be definable from 
the GUI, but right now you need to hack the layout file.


If you look in the .../layouts directory for 1.4.x, you'll see a file 
db_stdcharstyle.inc, which José Matos apparently cooked up for the 
docbook class.  The docbook.layout file inputs db_stdclass.inc, which in 
turn inputs db_stdcharstyles.inc.


Once your layout file contains (or loads) character styles, the buffer 
command to insert them will work.  Whether the character styles 
themselves will is another question entirely.  I'm not a docbook user, 
but I assume that the LatexName entries in db_stdcharstyles.inc (for 
instance, filename) correspond to docbook macros (\filename).  If 
your character styles use macros not already known to LaTeX, you'll need 
to define them in the Preamble subsection of each CharStyle section.  I 
think.  (Confession:  Haven't tried yet myself.)


/Paul

don't show page numbers

[Nagy Gabor]

Hi, I wrote a paper. I have used komascript article.

Now I see that every page is numbered, the very first one, and the table
of contents too.

I'd prefer not to have page numbers shown until the first page of the
first section.

Well, if the numbers stay under the TOC, so be it, but I really hate the 1
on the first page.

How can I get rid of those?

Cheers,
Gabor

indentation

[Nagy Gabor]

Hi, I have just noticed, that the paragraphs after a list (itemize env) or
a LyX-Code env are not indented. I'd like them to be indented, just like
every other paragraphs.

Regards,
Gabor

orphans, keep-with-next thing

[Nagy Gabor]

Hi, I have noticed another thing.

I have a paragraph, and the last half line (actually 5 words) has gone on
the top of a new page.

Why? I have read the LyX user's guide and it says that LaTeX will not
allow widows and orphans. How come that I have one then right here?

And how can I cure it?

Cheers,
Gabor

keep-with-next

[Nagy Gabor]

Eh, I forgot to include this in my previous mail:

So I have a subsubsection, then 5 lines of standard text, then a
paragraph, then immediately a subparagraph, and then some standard text.

So something like this:

2.3.2 SubSubSection

Standard Text, Text, Text
Standard Text.

2.3.2.1 A Paragraph

Subparagraph   Standard Text again.

Okay, now the problem: the new page is where I have put the line. I would
like to have 2.3.2.1 on the other page with its subparagraph and stuff.

At least now it is quite ugly to have a title part (paragraph) on one
page, and its standard lines are all on that other.

Cheers,
Gabor

Re: charstyle-insert

[Stacia Hartleben]

Cool, I got it to work with TIPA using the following code:

CharStyle ipa
LatexType Environment
LatexName textipa
Font
  Family  Sans
EndFont
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   red
EndFont
End

Neat. I just wish there were an easier way to mark text. I posted a
feature request on bugzilla that requested drop down menus for things
like colors, font sizes, and hopefully char styles. That would be
really cool.

Just one more question though - I put a true type font in using MTFI,
for which I have the following clunky ERT every time I want to use it:

\usefont{T1}{stacish}{m}{n} \selectfont hello \usefont{T1}{ae}{m}{n} \selectfont

How can I make this a simple charstyle-insert?

On 3/23/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Stacia Hartleben wrote:
  How do you use the new feature charstyle-insert? I tried running it
  from the command buffer in the 1.4.1 pre for windows but I get
  Command disabled. How can I turn this back on? I was looking forward
  to it being an easy way to mark font styles and so on...
 

 Your layout file has to be aware of the character styles you intend to
 use.  My understanding (watching from a safe distance) is that
 eventually the developers intend character styles to be definable from
 the GUI, but right now you need to hack the layout file.

 If you look in the .../layouts directory for 1.4.x, you'll see a file
 db_stdcharstyle.inc, which José Matos apparently cooked up for the
 docbook class.  The docbook.layout file inputs db_stdclass.inc, which in
 turn inputs db_stdcharstyles.inc.

 Once your layout file contains (or loads) character styles, the buffer
 command to insert them will work.  Whether the character styles
 themselves will is another question entirely.  I'm not a docbook user,
 but I assume that the LatexName entries in db_stdcharstyles.inc (for
 instance, filename) correspond to docbook macros (\filename).  If
 your character styles use macros not already known to LaTeX, you'll need
 to define them in the Preamble subsection of each CharStyle section.  I
 think.  (Confession:  Haven't tried yet myself.)

 /Paul

Can I have bounding box around floating images?

[Nagy Gabor]

Hi, I have some floating figures in my paper, and I would like to have a
rectangle around the fload (or around the picture inside the float.

How can I do that?

Cheers,
Gabor

Background images

[Bruce Muirhead]

I am interested to know if it is possible to create a document (PDF) in
which there is a background image. That is, the text appears over a
background image which may -or may not- cover the entrire page.

I am thinking about the type of ebook created by such windows programmes
such as exebook and ybookmaker.

If this is possible, how would I go about doing it?

Bruce

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

  Anyway, would those of you who use the LyX wiki like a section which
  isn't related to LyX at all?  If so, we could create a separate group
  for this, or you can create your own personal group (preferably
  prefixed with 'Personal', as in 'PersonalAlston').

 Personally, I'd rather keep the LyX Wiki just LyX (particularly if I
 ever have to run another link check for you -- last one took long
 enough!).

In case I forgot earlier, many thanks for running the link check!

Would a completely separate wiki be an option? It's not that I want a wiki
for non-related LyX stuff, it's only that it'd be nice to be able to refer
LyX users to some place. In addition, I suspect that LyX users learning to
edit wiki pages will eventually benefit the documentation project as a
whole. A third benefit is that people more actively editing a wiki
automatically means more feedback to me about the site's usuabiliy and any
bugs - this is of course both good and bad ;-)

regards
/Christian

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Re: Missing Shortcut in Navigation Menu?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Michael == Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Michael Hi guys, I want to gather your feedback before I submit the
Michael following feature request: The keyboard bindings in the LyX
Michael navigation menu are great, you get to the section 5.2 by just
Michael typing (for instance) ALT-N-5-2. Since I have a really large
Michael document (dissertation thesis for example), this is pretty
Michael helpful. However I can't find a keyboard binding to jump to
Michael the beginning of a chapter - I find myself having to use the
Michael mouse to activate the chapter submenu in the navigation menu.
Michael Having a '0' keyboard shortcut would be a welcome feature. In
Michael that case you could jump to the beginning of chapter 5 with
Michael ALT-N-5-0.

What about this?
Alt-N 5 Right Enter

It means more keys, but it works.

Adding a 0 as shortcut is difficult, because it has to be visible in
the menu label.

JMarc

babel problem using IEEEtran.cls

[archiv_maus]

Hi,

I'm using Lyx 1.4.0 (on a Knoppix 4.0.2 hd installation with tetex 3.0) and 
have installed IEEEtran.cls to my tetex local directory as it is written on 
several sites in the internet. Opening the IEEEtran.lyx works fine but when I 
try to look at the dvi output I get the following error Package babel Error: 
You haven't defined the langugae ENGLISH yet.. For each other document style I 
can create this dvi output.
Being a Linux beginner with no latex knowledge I'm quite confused and don't 
know what to try. Searching the net with google also didn't give me any idea. 
How can I fix the problem?

Bye,
Katja
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bookstab package in lyx

[Marcelo Acuña]

Hello,
I want to use bookstab package for nices tables,
doc came with example, this example work in kile
but in lyx I only get errors and errors like
You haven´t defined [EMAIL PROTECTED] yet
and many others.
I try with example in or out ERT,
in or out of float, etc.,
but I can´t get bookstab work.
What I make bad?

Thanks
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Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied

[Sreekumar Bhaskaran {msbad084}]

I get the message  file not found when I try to download 1.4.1. Has it
been removed from the server.

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



In case I forgot earlier, many thanks for running the link check!


You didn't forget, but in any case you're quite welcome.


Would a completely separate wiki be an option? It's not that I want a wiki
for non-related LyX stuff, it's only that it'd be nice to be able to refer
LyX users to some place. In addition, I suspect that LyX users learning to
edit wiki pages will eventually benefit the documentation project as a
whole. A third benefit is that people more actively editing a wiki
automatically means more feedback to me about the site's usuabiliy and any
bugs - this is of course both good and bad ;-)


Well, if you have capacity (both disk and bandwidth) and are willing to 
offer this, I guess why not?  I'm a bit fuzzy on what it would look 
like, though.  My impression was that wikis were typically themed; the 
LyX wiki, for instance, deals pretty much exclusively with things 
related to LyX.  Would an unthemed wiki draw visitors?


Anyway, the only concern I would have would be with legal issues 
relating to what got posted.  Would you monitor the content (and reserve 
editorial rights)?  If not, what are the relevant laws (and for that 
matter, what's the relevant jurisdiction -- you're in Sweden but the 
wiki is hosted in Norway)?  We're still trying to sort this stuff out 
over here, as the recent flap over the Wikipedia attests.


Cheers,
/Paul

Re: Formatting character dialog

[Helge Hafting]

Charles de Miramon wrote:


Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


 


We could do a poll of how other apps (ooo, word, kword, abiword...)
and decide how to change this behaviour.

   


OpenOffice follows the same behaviour than LyX. Kword, Abiword and if I
remember right MsWord are in the opposite group.

I think LyX actual behaviour is quite nice. You generally want to change the
format of the whole word, not of 3 letters in the middle of it.
Nevertheless, I was wondering if it would be possible when you put your
cursor in the middle of a word and select the formatting character dialog
that LyX highlights the whole word, to make it clearer where you formatting
change will apply.


Some kind of highlight would be ok, but not a selection.
After changing formating I am going to type more, and don't
want to erase the word by overwriting the selection.

Helge Hafting

Re: Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: Sreekumar Bhaskaran {msbad084} Sreekumar.Bhaskaran-Nair@

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 5:04 AM
Subject: Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied



I get the message  file not found when I try to download 1.4.1. Has it
been removed from the server?

SH: The original location which no longer works was,
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX141pre/lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe

This executable file has been moved, not removed to,
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX14x/lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe

But the parent directory of this .exe link, 
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX14x

contains a red caution,
WARNING
This page is a work-in-progress. Do not use.

This information answers your question above. It should not be construed
as a recommendation by me to download the file. Perhaps the link to the
file, lyx-1.4.x_win32_setup_19mar2006.exe, which does not work, persists
because it was done deliberately, rather than some type of forgetful editing
of links or renaming files due to being busy.

Discretion is the better part of valor,
Stephen

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  
  In case I forgot earlier, many thanks for running the link check!
 
 You didn't forget, but in any case you're quite welcome.
 
  Would a completely separate wiki be an option? It's not that I want a wiki
  for non-related LyX stuff, it's only that it'd be nice to be able to refer
  LyX users to some place. In addition, I suspect that LyX users learning to
  edit wiki pages will eventually benefit the documentation project as a
  whole. A third benefit is that people more actively editing a wiki
  automatically means more feedback to me about the site's usuabiliy and any
  bugs - this is of course both good and bad ;-)
 
 Well, if you have capacity (both disk and bandwidth) and are willing to 
 offer this, I guess why not?  I'm a bit fuzzy on what it would look 
 like, though.

Hmm... even though the disk (1 MB) and bandwith (normal web server)
requirements would be very small, I can't really offer anything as it's
not my server.

 My impression was that wikis were typically themed; the LyX wiki, for
 instance, deals pretty much exclusively with things related to LyX.  

As for the theme, I guess it'd still be for the LyX community, although
the material might not be directly related to LyX... that's a theme of
sorts.

 Would an unthemed wiki draw visitors?

I don't actually care :-)  It was just that the spam about CV writing
made me wonder why someone would place it there in the first place. There
is also some stuff that is sort of LyX-related. A lot of stuff discussing
LaTeX in general could fall in that category.

 Anyway, the only concern I would have would be with legal issues
 relating to what got posted.  Would you monitor the content (and reserve
 editorial rights)?  If not, what are the relevant laws (and for that
 matter, what's the relevant jurisdiction -- you're in Sweden but the
 wiki is hosted in Norway)?  We're still trying to sort this stuff out
 over here, as the recent flap over the Wikipedia attests.

I honestly don't know... in a sense I monitor some of the stuff what goes
on the LyX wiki, primarily in order to watch out for spam abuse etc. But 
it's not a very strict process. Still, I suspect that these issues aren't 
a big problem in our particular case - at least not any worse than the 
current wiki.

However, since no one else has given an opinion on this I'll just let it 
rest. It's not like I can't create a separate wiki later on :-)

cheers
/Christian

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Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[Stephen Harris]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

However, since no one else has given an opinion on this I'll just let it 
rest. It's not like I can't create a separate wiki later on :-)


cheers
/Christian



We could have a section of the current LyX Wiki devoted to:
Accoutrements for the LyX Publicist

Some pdf files are created in reverse order. The last page
is first. There is a free tool which changes the order of
the pages. Just the other day John Baez referenced a paper
like this in This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics
A few newcomers may have forgotten my post about this tool.

Maybe accoutrements is a bit grandiose and Tips, would do. :-)

You do a remarkably conscientious job,
Stephen (who has converted to: What's the Word? Thunderbird!)

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

| Stephen (who has converted to: What's the Word? Thunderbird!)

So now I can read your mails again without being completely confused
wrt quoting style :-)

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Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[Georg Baum]

Am Donnerstag, 23. März 2006 20:32 schrieb Stephen Harris:

 Stephen (who has converted to: What's the Word? Thunderbird!)

Wow!


Georg

Book cover in LyX file

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the 
final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come before 
the title page.

I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this?

Thanks

SteveT

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Wiki upload area

[Paul A. Rubin]

First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be 
indexed anywhere I can find, although you can find it if you know to 
search for '14x'), there's a broken link (Christian, you reading this?) 
to the 19.03.2006 snapshot.


Second, would it be possible (and desirable) to create index pages for 
the upload area, so that someone looking to download a file (but lacking 
a valid URL or the exact file name) could manually hunt for it?


/Paul

Re: Book cover in LyX file

[Jose' Matos]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:03, Steve Litt wrote:
 Hi all,

 I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the
 final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come
 before the title page.

 I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this?

 pdfpages?
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfpages.html

  I remember this advice from Herbert's previous answers to similar questions. 
Notice that I could remember wrong. :-)
http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdf#a5

 Thanks

 SteveT

 Steve Litt
 Author:
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Re: Wiki upload area

[Stephen Harris]

Paul A. Rubin wrote:
First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be 
indexed anywhere I can find, although you can find it if you know to 
search for '14x'), there's a broken link (Christian, you reading this?) 
to the 19.03.2006 snapshot.


Second, would it be possible (and desirable) to create index pages for 
the upload area, so that someone looking to download a file (but lacking 
a valid URL or the exact file name) could manually hunt for it?


/Paul




The broken link points to
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX14x/
lyx-1.4.x_win32_setup_19mar2006.exe {on one line}

The webpage containing the link is, as Paul stated,
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x

But the executable is actually named/found on,
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX14x/
lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe {/uploads}

This is easy to fix with the Edit button
at the bottom of the page, but I did not
want to change the link without permission
from Angus. It is the 19March snapshot.

Apache sent me at least 50 notifications.

Intended as clarification,
Stephen

Re: Wiki upload area

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

 Second, would it be possible (and desirable) to create index pages for
 the upload area, so that someone looking to download a file (but lacking
 a valid URL or the exact file name) could manually hunt for it?

I used good old 'tree' to generate a listing and placed it here for now:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Playground/UploadedFiles

It's a temporary reprieve at least.

For a more permanent solution, I'd need a snippet of PHP code that lists
the contents of a directory (recursively). If someone would like to help
with that, I could give a more precise specification of the function. With
this function I could then very easily integrate it with the wiki and have
the list of files be generated automatically whenever you look at the
page.

/Christian

-- 
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Re: Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied

[Paul A. Rubin]

Stacia Hartleben wrote:

Is instant preview supposed to work with this version? When I open a
document with math fomulas, instead of previewing, they all disapear.


It seems to work with 1.4.1pre1 (Win XP Pro).  Mostly.  I have a 
recurring problem with symbols either disappearing or displaying 
incorrectly (although the DVI is fine).  So far, the following fix has 
not failed:  change the document font to default, save, exit the 
document, reload the document, make sure IP now displays correctly, then 
change the document font back to whatever I want and save again.


I have not seen entire formulas disappear, though, just bits and pieces 
of each.


/Paul

Re: Wiki upload area

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

 First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be 
 indexed anywhere I can find,

Maybe that's because of the big fat red text

Warning: This page is work in progress. Do not use 

According to the page's history, Angus is working on it. :-)

Having said that, here are the steps used to 'index' the page in the lyx
wiki:

* Edit the page 'PageList' in the current group (Windows/ in this case)
* Add a link to the page to be 'indexed', i.e. add something like this:
** [[Windows/LyX14x]]: About LyX 1.4.x

That's basically it, although I recommend adding something like this 
instead:

T** [[Windows/LyX14x]]

and then editing Windows/LyX14x and making sure that the first line on 
that page is a good description (teaser) of the page. This teaser is then 
automatically shown in the page list.

 although you can find it if you know to search for '14x'), there's a
 broken link (Christian, you reading this?)  to the 19.03.2006 snapshot.

There is no uploaded file called anything like that... the only thing 
close enough is something called:

lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe

But I think we should simply wait for Angus to announce this thing.

/Christian

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charstyle-insert

[Stacia Hartleben]

How do you use the new feature charstyle-insert? I tried running it
from the command buffer in the 1.4.1 pre for windows but I get
Command disabled. How can I turn this back on? I was looking forward
to it being an easy way to mark font styles and so on...

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 3/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hmm... even though the disk (1 MB) and bandwith (normal web server)
 requirements would be very small, I can't really offer anything as it's
 not my server.

Have you had a look at existing Wiki farms?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_farms

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Re: Wiki upload area

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be 
indexed anywhere I can find,


Maybe that's because of the big fat red text

	Warning: This page is work in progress. Do not use 


According to the page's history, Angus is working on it. :-)


Right, but I thought his intent was to distribute his compilation of 
1.4.1 for Windows to alpha -er- beta testers here.  So I took the do 
not use sign to be an attempt to warn off people looking for a 
production version.







although you can find it if you know to search for '14x'), there's a
broken link (Christian, you reading this?)  to the 19.03.2006 snapshot.


There is no uploaded file called anything like that... the only thing 
close enough is something called:


lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe

But I think we should simply wait for Angus to announce this thing.


Since Angus apparently created the link, I assume that he was under the 
impression at some point that the file was there (although when he 
announced it to the developer mail list, it was with the ..._setup_v1... 
name).  Anyhow, we'll just let him sort out what will/won't be linked 
there.


/Paul

Re: Wiki upload area

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


For a more permanent solution, I'd need a snippet of PHP code that lists
the contents of a directory (recursively). If someone would like to help
with that, I could give a more precise specification of the function. With
this function I could then very easily integrate it with the wiki and have
the list of files be generated automatically whenever you look at the
page.



If you'd care to post the spec here, I'll take a whack at it when time 
permits.


/Paul

Re: Book cover in LyX file

[Bruce Muirhead]

You also can use pdftk. It is a command line utility, but very powerfula and 
easy to use. What is needed is to create the cover and extra pages in a 
separate programme as a pdf, and then joing th e two pdf files using pdftk.


see  http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php?topic=pdftk

It is my preferred tool for that type of thing because it is easy and lets 
me design the cover and frontispiece however I want.




Cheers



Bruce

- Original Message - 


From: Jose' Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: Book cover in LyX file


On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:03, Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the
final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come
before the title page.

I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this?


pdfpages?
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfpages.html

 I remember this advice from Herbert's previous answers to similar 
questions.

Notice that I could remember wrong. :-)
http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdf#a5


Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author:
   * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware
   * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
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Webmaster
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Re: charstyle-insert

[Paul A. Rubin]

Stacia Hartleben wrote:

How do you use the new feature charstyle-insert? I tried running it
from the command buffer in the 1.4.1 pre for windows but I get
Command disabled. How can I turn this back on? I was looking forward
to it being an easy way to mark font styles and so on...



Your layout file has to be aware of the character styles you intend to 
use.  My understanding (watching from a safe distance) is that 
eventually the developers intend character styles to be definable from 
the GUI, but right now you need to hack the layout file.


If you look in the .../layouts directory for 1.4.x, you'll see a file 
db_stdcharstyle.inc, which José Matos apparently cooked up for the 
docbook class.  The docbook.layout file inputs db_stdclass.inc, which in 
turn inputs db_stdcharstyles.inc.


Once your layout file contains (or loads) character styles, the buffer 
command to insert them will work.  Whether the character styles 
themselves will is another question entirely.  I'm not a docbook user, 
but I assume that the LatexName entries in db_stdcharstyles.inc (for 
instance, filename) correspond to docbook macros (\filename).  If 
your character styles use macros not already known to LaTeX, you'll need 
to define them in the Preamble subsection of each CharStyle section.  I 
think.  (Confession:  Haven't tried yet myself.)


/Paul

don't show page numbers

[Nagy Gabor]

Hi, I wrote a paper. I have used komascript article.

Now I see that every page is numbered, the very first one, and the table
of contents too.

I'd prefer not to have page numbers shown until the first page of the
first section.

Well, if the numbers stay under the TOC, so be it, but I really hate the 1
on the first page.

How can I get rid of those?

Cheers,
Gabor

indentation

[Nagy Gabor]

Hi, I have just noticed, that the paragraphs after a list (itemize env) or
a LyX-Code env are not indented. I'd like them to be indented, just like
every other paragraphs.

Regards,
Gabor

orphans, keep-with-next thing

[Nagy Gabor]

Hi, I have noticed another thing.

I have a paragraph, and the last half line (actually 5 words) has gone on
the top of a new page.

Why? I have read the LyX user's guide and it says that LaTeX will not
allow widows and orphans. How come that I have one then right here?

And how can I cure it?

Cheers,
Gabor

keep-with-next

[Nagy Gabor]

Eh, I forgot to include this in my previous mail:

So I have a subsubsection, then 5 lines of standard text, then a
paragraph, then immediately a subparagraph, and then some standard text.

So something like this:

2.3.2 SubSubSection

Standard Text, Text, Text
Standard Text.

2.3.2.1 A Paragraph

Subparagraph   Standard Text again.

Okay, now the problem: the new page is where I have put the line. I would
like to have 2.3.2.1 on the other page with its subparagraph and stuff.

At least now it is quite ugly to have a title part (paragraph) on one
page, and its standard lines are all on that other.

Cheers,
Gabor

Re: charstyle-insert

[Stacia Hartleben]

Cool, I got it to work with TIPA using the following code:

CharStyle ipa
LatexType Environment
LatexName textipa
Font
  Family  Sans
EndFont
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   red
EndFont
End

Neat. I just wish there were an easier way to mark text. I posted a
feature request on bugzilla that requested drop down menus for things
like colors, font sizes, and hopefully char styles. That would be
really cool.

Just one more question though - I put a true type font in using MTFI,
for which I have the following clunky ERT every time I want to use it:

\usefont{T1}{stacish}{m}{n} \selectfont hello \usefont{T1}{ae}{m}{n} \selectfont

How can I make this a simple charstyle-insert?

On 3/23/06, Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Stacia Hartleben wrote:
  How do you use the new feature charstyle-insert? I tried running it
  from the command buffer in the 1.4.1 pre for windows but I get
  Command disabled. How can I turn this back on? I was looking forward
  to it being an easy way to mark font styles and so on...
 

 Your layout file has to be aware of the character styles you intend to
 use.  My understanding (watching from a safe distance) is that
 eventually the developers intend character styles to be definable from
 the GUI, but right now you need to hack the layout file.

 If you look in the .../layouts directory for 1.4.x, you'll see a file
 db_stdcharstyle.inc, which José Matos apparently cooked up for the
 docbook class.  The docbook.layout file inputs db_stdclass.inc, which in
 turn inputs db_stdcharstyles.inc.

 Once your layout file contains (or loads) character styles, the buffer
 command to insert them will work.  Whether the character styles
 themselves will is another question entirely.  I'm not a docbook user,
 but I assume that the LatexName entries in db_stdcharstyles.inc (for
 instance, filename) correspond to docbook macros (\filename).  If
 your character styles use macros not already known to LaTeX, you'll need
 to define them in the Preamble subsection of each CharStyle section.  I
 think.  (Confession:  Haven't tried yet myself.)

 /Paul

Can I have bounding box around floating images?

[Nagy Gabor]

Hi, I have some floating figures in my paper, and I would like to have a
rectangle around the fload (or around the picture inside the float.

How can I do that?

Cheers,
Gabor

Background images

[Bruce Muirhead]

I am interested to know if it is possible to create a document (PDF) in
which there is a background image. That is, the text appears over a
background image which may -or may not- cover the entrire page.

I am thinking about the type of ebook created by such windows programmes
such as exebook and ybookmaker.

If this is possible, how would I go about doing it?

Bruce

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

> > Anyway, would those of you who use the LyX wiki like a section which
> > isn't related to LyX at all?  If so, we could create a separate group
> > for this, or you can create your own personal group (preferably
> > prefixed with 'Personal', as in 'PersonalAlston').

> Personally, I'd rather keep the LyX Wiki just LyX (particularly if I
> ever have to run another link check for you -- last one took long
> enough!).

In case I forgot earlier, many thanks for running the link check!

Would a completely separate wiki be an option? It's not that I want a wiki
for non-related LyX stuff, it's only that it'd be nice to be able to refer
LyX users to some place. In addition, I suspect that LyX users learning to
edit wiki pages will eventually benefit the documentation project as a
whole. A third benefit is that people more actively editing a wiki
automatically means more feedback to me about the site's usuabiliy and any
bugs - this is of course both good and bad ;-)

regards
/Christian

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Re: Missing Shortcut in Navigation Menu?

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Michael" == Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Michael> Hi guys, I want to gather your feedback before I submit the
Michael> following feature request: The keyboard bindings in the LyX
Michael> navigation menu are great, you get to the section 5.2 by just
Michael> typing (for instance) ALT-N-5-2. Since I have a really large
Michael> document (dissertation thesis for example), this is pretty
Michael> helpful. However I can't find a keyboard binding to jump to
Michael> the beginning of a chapter - I find myself having to use the
Michael> mouse to activate the chapter submenu in the navigation menu.
Michael> Having a '0' keyboard shortcut would be a welcome feature. In
Michael> that case you could jump to the beginning of chapter 5 with
Michael> ALT-N-5-0.

What about this?
Alt-N 5  

It means more keys, but it works.

Adding a 0 as shortcut is difficult, because it has to be visible in
the menu label.

JMarc

babel problem using IEEEtran.cls

[archiv_maus]

Hi,

I'm using Lyx 1.4.0 (on a Knoppix 4.0.2 hd installation with tetex 3.0) and 
have installed IEEEtran.cls to my tetex local directory as it is written on 
several sites in the internet. Opening the IEEEtran.lyx works fine but when I 
try to look at the dvi output I get the following error "Package babel Error: 
You haven't defined the langugae ENGLISH yet.". For each other document style I 
can create this dvi output.
Being a Linux beginner with no latex knowledge I'm quite confused and don't 
know what to try. Searching the net with google also didn't give me any idea. 
How can I fix the problem?

Bye,
Katja
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bookstab package in lyx

[Marcelo Acuña]

Hello,
I want to use bookstab package for nices tables,
doc came with example, this example work in kile
but in lyx I only get errors and errors like
You haven´t defined [EMAIL PROTECTED] yet
and many others.
I try with example in or out ERT,
in or out of float, etc.,
but I can´t get bookstab work.
What I make bad?

Thanks
Marcelo







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Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied

[Sreekumar Bhaskaran {msbad084}]

I get the message " file not found" when I try to download 1.4.1. Has it
been removed from the server.

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



In case I forgot earlier, many thanks for running the link check!


You didn't forget, but in any case you're quite welcome.


Would a completely separate wiki be an option? It's not that I want a wiki
for non-related LyX stuff, it's only that it'd be nice to be able to refer
LyX users to some place. In addition, I suspect that LyX users learning to
edit wiki pages will eventually benefit the documentation project as a
whole. A third benefit is that people more actively editing a wiki
automatically means more feedback to me about the site's usuabiliy and any
bugs - this is of course both good and bad ;-)


Well, if you have capacity (both disk and bandwidth) and are willing to 
offer this, I guess why not?  I'm a bit fuzzy on what it would look 
like, though.  My impression was that wikis were typically "themed"; the 
LyX wiki, for instance, deals pretty much exclusively with things 
related to LyX.  Would an unthemed wiki draw visitors?


Anyway, the only concern I would have would be with legal issues 
relating to what got posted.  Would you monitor the content (and reserve 
editorial rights)?  If not, what are the relevant laws (and for that 
matter, what's the relevant jurisdiction -- you're in Sweden but the 
wiki is hosted in Norway)?  We're still trying to sort this stuff out 
over here, as the recent flap over the Wikipedia attests.


Cheers,
/Paul

Re: Formatting character dialog

[Helge Hafting]

Charles de Miramon wrote:


Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:


 


We could do a poll of how other apps (ooo, word, kword, abiword...)
and decide how to change this behaviour.

   


OpenOffice follows the same behaviour than LyX. Kword, Abiword and if I
remember right MsWord are in the opposite group.

I think LyX actual behaviour is quite nice. You generally want to change the
format of the whole word, not of 3 letters in the middle of it.
Nevertheless, I was wondering if it would be possible when you put your
cursor in the middle of a word and select the formatting character dialog
that LyX highlights the whole word, to make it clearer where you formatting
change will apply.


Some kind of highlight would be ok, but not a selection.
After changing formating I am going to type more, and don't
want to erase the word by overwriting the "selection".

Helge Hafting

Re: Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied

[Stephen Harris]

- Original Message - 
From: "Sreekumar Bhaskaran {msbad084}" 

To: 
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 5:04 AM
Subject: Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied



I get the message " file not found" when I try to download 1.4.1. Has it
been removed from the server?

SH: The original location which no longer works was,
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX141pre/lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe

This executable file has been moved, not removed to,
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX14x/lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe

But the parent directory of this .exe link, 
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX14x

contains a red caution,
WARNING
This page is a work-in-progress. Do not use.

This information answers your question above. It should not be construed
as a recommendation by me to download the file. Perhaps the link to the
file, lyx-1.4.x_win32_setup_19mar2006.exe, which does not work, persists
because it was done deliberately, rather than some type of forgetful editing
of links or renaming files due to being busy.

Discretion is the better part of valor,
Stephen

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > 
> > In case I forgot earlier, many thanks for running the link check!
> 
> You didn't forget, but in any case you're quite welcome.
> 
> > Would a completely separate wiki be an option? It's not that I want a wiki
> > for non-related LyX stuff, it's only that it'd be nice to be able to refer
> > LyX users to some place. In addition, I suspect that LyX users learning to
> > edit wiki pages will eventually benefit the documentation project as a
> > whole. A third benefit is that people more actively editing a wiki
> > automatically means more feedback to me about the site's usuabiliy and any
> > bugs - this is of course both good and bad ;-)
> 
> Well, if you have capacity (both disk and bandwidth) and are willing to 
> offer this, I guess why not?  I'm a bit fuzzy on what it would look 
> like, though.

Hmm... even though the disk (<1 MB) and bandwith (normal web server)
requirements would be very small, I can't really offer anything as it's
not my server.

> My impression was that wikis were typically "themed"; the LyX wiki, for
> instance, deals pretty much exclusively with things related to LyX.  

As for the theme, I guess it'd still be for the LyX community, although
the material might not be directly related to LyX... that's a theme of
sorts.

> Would an unthemed wiki draw visitors?

I don't actually care :-)  It was just that the "spam" about CV writing
made me wonder why someone would place it there in the first place. There
is also some stuff that is sort of LyX-related. A lot of stuff discussing
LaTeX in general could fall in that category.

> Anyway, the only concern I would have would be with legal issues
> relating to what got posted.  Would you monitor the content (and reserve
> editorial rights)?  If not, what are the relevant laws (and for that
> matter, what's the relevant jurisdiction -- you're in Sweden but the
> wiki is hosted in Norway)?  We're still trying to sort this stuff out
> over here, as the recent flap over the Wikipedia attests.

I honestly don't know... in a sense I monitor some of the stuff what goes
on the LyX wiki, primarily in order to watch out for spam abuse etc. But 
it's not a very strict process. Still, I suspect that these issues aren't 
a big problem in our particular case - at least not any worse than the 
current wiki.

However, since no one else has given an opinion on this I'll just let it 
rest. It's not like I can't create a separate wiki later on :-)

cheers
/Christian

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Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[Stephen Harris]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

However, since no one else has given an opinion on this I'll just let it 
rest. It's not like I can't create a separate wiki later on :-)


cheers
/Christian



We could have a section of the current LyX Wiki devoted to:
Accoutrements for the LyX Publicist

Some pdf files are created in reverse order. The last page
is first. There is a free tool which changes the order of
the pages. Just the other day John Baez referenced a paper
like this in "This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics"
A few newcomers may have forgotten my post about this tool.

Maybe accoutrements is a bit grandiose and Tips, would do. :-)

You do a remarkably conscientious job,
Stephen (who has converted to: What's the Word? Thunderbird!)

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| Stephen (who has converted to: What's the Word? Thunderbird!)

So now I can read your mails again without being completely confused
wrt quoting style :-)

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Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[Georg Baum]

Am Donnerstag, 23. März 2006 20:32 schrieb Stephen Harris:

> Stephen (who has converted to: What's the Word? Thunderbird!)

Wow!


Georg

Book cover in LyX file

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the 
final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come before 
the title page.

I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this?

Thanks

SteveT

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Wiki upload area

[Paul A. Rubin]

First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be 
indexed anywhere I can find, although you can find it if you know to 
search for '14x'), there's a broken link (Christian, you reading this?) 
to the 19.03.2006 snapshot.


Second, would it be possible (and desirable) to create index pages for 
the upload area, so that someone looking to download a file (but lacking 
a valid URL or the exact file name) could manually hunt for it?


/Paul

Re: Book cover in LyX file

[Jose' Matos]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:03, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the
> final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come
> before the title page.
>
> I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this?

 pdfpages?
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfpages.html

  I remember this advice from Herbert's previous answers to similar questions. 
Notice that I could remember wrong. :-)
http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdf#a5

> Thanks
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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Re: Wiki upload area

[Stephen Harris]

Paul A. Rubin wrote:
First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be 
indexed anywhere I can find, although you can find it if you know to 
search for '14x'), there's a broken link (Christian, you reading this?) 
to the 19.03.2006 snapshot.


Second, would it be possible (and desirable) to create index pages for 
the upload area, so that someone looking to download a file (but lacking 
a valid URL or the exact file name) could manually hunt for it?


/Paul




The broken link points to
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX14x/
lyx-1.4.x_win32_setup_19mar2006.exe {on one line}

The webpage containing the link is, as Paul stated,
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x

But the executable is actually named/found on,
http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Windows/LyX14x/
lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe {/uploads}

This is easy to fix with the Edit button
at the bottom of the page, but I did not
want to change the link without permission
from Angus. It is the 19March snapshot.

Apache sent me at least 50 notifications.

Intended as clarification,
Stephen

Re: Wiki upload area

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

> Second, would it be possible (and desirable) to create index pages for
> the upload area, so that someone looking to download a file (but lacking
> a valid URL or the exact file name) could manually hunt for it?

I used good old 'tree' to generate a listing and placed it here for now:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Playground/UploadedFiles

It's a temporary reprieve at least.

For a more permanent solution, I'd need a snippet of PHP code that lists
the contents of a directory (recursively). If someone would like to help
with that, I could give a more precise specification of the function. With
this function I could then very easily integrate it with the wiki and have
the list of files be generated automatically whenever you look at the
page.

/Christian

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Re: Testing WinLyX1.4.0 with some patches applied

[Paul A. Rubin]

Stacia Hartleben wrote:

Is instant preview supposed to work with this version? When I open a
document with math fomulas, instead of previewing, they all disapear.


It seems to work with 1.4.1pre1 (Win XP Pro).  Mostly.  I have a 
recurring problem with symbols either disappearing or displaying 
incorrectly (although the DVI is fine).  So far, the following fix has 
not failed:  change the document font to default, save, exit the 
document, reload the document, make sure IP now displays correctly, then 
change the document font back to whatever I want and save again.


I have not seen entire formulas disappear, though, just bits and pieces 
of each.


/Paul

Re: Wiki upload area

[christian . ridderstrom]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

> First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be 
> indexed anywhere I can find,

Maybe that's because of the big fat red text

Warning: This page is work in progress. Do not use 

According to the page's history, Angus is working on it. :-)

Having said that, here are the steps used to 'index' the page in the lyx
wiki:

* Edit the page 'PageList' in the current group (Windows/ in this case)
* Add a link to the page to be 'indexed', i.e. add something like this:
** [[Windows/LyX14x]]: About LyX 1.4.x

That's basically it, although I recommend adding something like this 
instead:

T** [[Windows/LyX14x]]

and then editing Windows/LyX14x and making sure that the first line on 
that page is a good description (teaser) of the page. This teaser is then 
automatically shown in the page list.

> although you can find it if you know to search for '14x'), there's a
> broken link (Christian, you reading this?)  to the 19.03.2006 snapshot.

There is no uploaded file called anything like that... the only thing 
close enough is something called:

lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe

But I think we should simply wait for Angus to announce this thing.

/Christian

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charstyle-insert

[Stacia Hartleben]

How do you use the new feature charstyle-insert? I tried running it
from the command buffer in the 1.4.1 pre for windows but I get
"Command disabled". How can I turn this back on? I was looking forward
to it being an easy way to mark font styles and so on...

Re: Wiki question: What is spam? And, separate group for non-LyX stuff?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On 3/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm... even though the disk (<1 MB) and bandwith (normal web server)
> requirements would be very small, I can't really offer anything as it's
> not my server.

Have you had a look at existing Wiki farms?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_farms

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Re: Wiki upload area

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Paul A. Rubin wrote:

First, http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyX14x (which does not seem to be 
indexed anywhere I can find,


Maybe that's because of the big fat red text

	Warning: This page is work in progress. Do not use 


According to the page's history, Angus is working on it. :-)


Right, but I thought his intent was to distribute his compilation of 
1.4.1 for Windows to alpha -er- beta testers here.  So I took the "do 
not use" sign to be an attempt to warn off people looking for a 
production version.







although you can find it if you know to search for '14x'), there's a
broken link (Christian, you reading this?)  to the 19.03.2006 snapshot.


There is no uploaded file called anything like that... the only thing 
close enough is something called:


lyx-1.4.1-pre_win32_setup_v1.exe

But I think we should simply wait for Angus to announce this thing.


Since Angus apparently created the link, I assume that he was under the 
impression at some point that the file was there (although when he 
announced it to the developer mail list, it was with the ..._setup_v1... 
name).  Anyhow, we'll just let him sort out what will/won't be linked 
there.


/Paul

Re: Wiki upload area

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


For a more permanent solution, I'd need a snippet of PHP code that lists
the contents of a directory (recursively). If someone would like to help
with that, I could give a more precise specification of the function. With
this function I could then very easily integrate it with the wiki and have
the list of files be generated automatically whenever you look at the
page.



If you'd care to post the spec here, I'll take a whack at it when time 
permits.


/Paul

Re: Book cover in LyX file

[Bruce Muirhead]

You also can use pdftk. It is a command line utility, but very powerfula and 
easy to use. What is needed is to create the cover and extra pages in a 
separate programme as a pdf, and then joing th e two pdf files using pdftk.


see  http://www.accesspdf.com/index.php?topic=pdftk

It is my preferred tool for that type of thing because it is easy and lets 
me design the cover and frontispiece however I want.




Cheers



Bruce

- Original Message - 


From: "Jose' Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: Book cover in LyX file


On Thursday 23 March 2006 21:03, Steve Litt wrote:

Hi all,

I'm making my first Ebook, and want to have the front cover be part of the
final PDF file. That means it, and a following blank page, has to come
before the title page.

I'd like the cover page to be a graphic. How do I do this?


pdfpages?
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/pdfpages.html

 I remember this advice from Herbert's previous answers to similar 
questions.

Notice that I could remember wrong. :-)
http://tug.org/PSTricks/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdf#a5


Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author:
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   * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
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Re: charstyle-insert

[Paul A. Rubin]

Stacia Hartleben wrote:

How do you use the new feature charstyle-insert? I tried running it
from the command buffer in the 1.4.1 pre for windows but I get
"Command disabled". How can I turn this back on? I was looking forward
to it being an easy way to mark font styles and so on...



Your layout file has to be aware of the character styles you intend to 
use.  My understanding (watching from a safe distance) is that 
eventually the developers intend character styles to be definable from 
the GUI, but right now you need to hack the layout file.


If you look in the .../layouts directory for 1.4.x, you'll see a file 
db_stdcharstyle.inc, which José Matos apparently cooked up for the 
docbook class.  The docbook.layout file inputs db_stdclass.inc, which in 
turn inputs db_stdcharstyles.inc.


Once your layout file contains (or loads) character styles, the buffer 
command to insert them will work.  Whether the character styles 
themselves will is another question entirely.  I'm not a docbook user, 
but I assume that the LatexName entries in db_stdcharstyles.inc (for 
instance, "filename") correspond to docbook macros ("\filename").  If 
your character styles use macros not already known to LaTeX, you'll need 
to define them in the Preamble subsection of each CharStyle section.  I 
think.  (Confession:  Haven't tried yet myself.)


/Paul

don't show page numbers

[Nagy Gabor]

Hi, I wrote a paper. I have used komascript article.

Now I see that every page is numbered, the very first one, and the table
of contents too.

I'd prefer not to have page numbers shown until the first page of the
first section.

Well, if the numbers stay under the TOC, so be it, but I really hate the 1
on the first page.

How can I get rid of those?

Cheers,
Gabor

indentation

[Nagy Gabor]

Hi, I have just noticed, that the paragraphs after a list (itemize env) or
a LyX-Code env are not indented. I'd like them to be indented, just like
every other paragraphs.

Regards,
Gabor

orphans, keep-with-next thing

[Nagy Gabor]

Hi, I have noticed another thing.

I have a paragraph, and the last half line (actually 5 words) has gone on
the top of a new page.

Why? I have read the LyX user's guide and it says that LaTeX will not
allow widows and orphans. How come that I have one then right here?

And how can I cure it?

Cheers,
Gabor

keep-with-next

[Nagy Gabor]

Eh, I forgot to include this in my previous mail:

So I have a subsubsection, then 5 lines of standard text, then a
paragraph, then immediately a subparagraph, and then some standard text.

So something like this:

2.3.2 SubSubSection

Standard Text, Text, Text
Standard Text.

2.3.2.1 A Paragraph

Subparagraph   Standard Text again.

Okay, now the problem: the new page is where I have put the line. I would
like to have 2.3.2.1 on the other page with its subparagraph and stuff.

At least now it is quite ugly to have a title part (paragraph) on one
page, and its standard lines are all on that other.

Cheers,
Gabor

Re: charstyle-insert

[Stacia Hartleben]

Cool, I got it to work with TIPA using the following code:

CharStyle ipa
LatexType Environment
LatexName textipa
Font
  Family  Sans
EndFont
LabelFont
  Family  Roman
  Color   red
EndFont
End

Neat. I just wish there were an easier way to mark text. I posted a
feature request on bugzilla that requested drop down menus for things
like colors, font sizes, and hopefully char styles. That would be
really cool.

Just one more question though - I put a true type font in using MTFI,
for which I have the following clunky ERT every time I want to use it:

\usefont{T1}{stacish}{m}{n} \selectfont hello \usefont{T1}{ae}{m}{n} \selectfont

How can I make this a simple charstyle-insert?

On 3/23/06, Paul A. Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stacia Hartleben wrote:
> > How do you use the new feature charstyle-insert? I tried running it
> > from the command buffer in the 1.4.1 pre for windows but I get
> > "Command disabled". How can I turn this back on? I was looking forward
> > to it being an easy way to mark font styles and so on...
> >
>
> Your layout file has to be aware of the character styles you intend to
> use.  My understanding (watching from a safe distance) is that
> eventually the developers intend character styles to be definable from
> the GUI, but right now you need to hack the layout file.
>
> If you look in the .../layouts directory for 1.4.x, you'll see a file
> db_stdcharstyle.inc, which José Matos apparently cooked up for the
> docbook class.  The docbook.layout file inputs db_stdclass.inc, which in
> turn inputs db_stdcharstyles.inc.
>
> Once your layout file contains (or loads) character styles, the buffer
> command to insert them will work.  Whether the character styles
> themselves will is another question entirely.  I'm not a docbook user,
> but I assume that the LatexName entries in db_stdcharstyles.inc (for
> instance, "filename") correspond to docbook macros ("\filename").  If
> your character styles use macros not already known to LaTeX, you'll need
> to define them in the Preamble subsection of each CharStyle section.  I
> think.  (Confession:  Haven't tried yet myself.)
>
> /Paul
>
>
>

Can I have bounding box around floating images?

[Nagy Gabor]

Hi, I have some floating figures in my paper, and I would like to have a
rectangle around the fload (or around the picture inside the float.

How can I do that?

Cheers,
Gabor

Background images

[Bruce Muirhead]

I am interested to know if it is possible to create a document (PDF) in
which there is a background image. That is, the text appears over a
background image which may -or may not- cover the entrire page.

I am thinking about the type of ebook created by such windows programmes
such as exebook and ybookmaker.

If this is possible, how would I go about doing it?

Bruce