Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: --- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: Could this just be a Foxit problem? Possible but not entirely likely. Can you load a doc into LyX and then use File-Export-PDF (pdflatex) to generate a PDF output file (in the same directory)? If so, does it load into Foxit (or Acrobat Reader)? Yes, this works just fine. And since I did that it is working if I do the same from the View menu and is calling up Acrobat even if I have not set it as the default yet the file icon inidates Foxit and if I click on the icon in the folder it opens in Foxit. Very strange indeed but at least I am getting some fast PDF's now. If you have acroread32 set as the viewer for PDF (pdflatex), that would explain why View-PDF (pdflatex) now calls Acrobat Reader. Otherwise, it's probably the same phenomenon that causes your car to do strange things until you get a mechanic to look at it, at which point it abruptly sobers up and drives straight. /Paul I may have done that in the install, remove install sequence. How to I find out? I don't see anything obvious about setting a PDF reader. Car? What's a car? I ride a bicycle, mind you I still get strange noises from it but the mechanic usually can find an expensive cure. Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Preferences-Colors, LyX 1.4.3-5,WindowsXP
Hello, In Preferences-Colors the math background is brown (more exactly R 227 G 114 B 38). However LyX shows the color of the whole background. How could I make math background color brown? Regards, Sandor
Re: Lyx cookbook template
Hi Jeremy, I'm looking for a template for recipes too. Would be glad if you could send it to me too. Use my private email address given below. TIA Jeremy C. Reed schrieb: I received it off list. Thanks. Dr. Hellmut Weber Degenfeldstraße 2, D - 80803 München-Schwabing tel (+49 89) 3081172, mobil (+49 172) 8450321 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- As an alternative to MS Word or Powerpoint. LyX, OpenOffice, also useable with Windows ;-)
Re: Preferences-Colors, LyX 1.4.3-5,WindowsXP
Am Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007 15:14 schrieb Sandor Szabo: Hello, In Preferences-Colors the math background is brown (more exactly R 227 G 114 B 38). However LyX shows the color of the whole background. How could I make math background color brown? This is not possible: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2279 Of course this bug should be fixed, but until now nobody was interested enough to do so. Georg
Koma-script letter, address problem
Hello All, I've almost got a template for letters worked out, using the Koma-script scrlttr2 document class. However, what I want to do is to shift the (to) address over to the right so that it lines-up with the text of the letter. I'm stuck here, can anyone help? It would be nice if the horizontal rule at the top of the letter only extended to the width of the letter text too. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl script for renumbering equations
Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 08 February 2007 13:36, Gerard Ateshian wrote: I wrote a perl script, renumber.pl, for renumbering equations in LyX (attached). I think before you can post this on the Internet and have people use it, you need to give it a license -- GPL V2, GPL V3, BSD, whatever. Until you do that it's just proprietary software, and it's unlikely anyone will improve upon it. Assuming Gerard's script is entirely original work, why bother with a license? I'd just put it in the public domain. A license is only necessary if the author wants to restrict rights, and for a relatively small, simple program that hardly seems necessary. Of course, some authors do license such materials for ideological reasons; but even now in the AS (After Stallman) era, it's quite common to put short scripts, code snippets, and the like right into the public domain and let anyone - evil, money-grubbing corporations included - use them as they see fit. (I had a short polemic about the diminishment of the public domain ready, but this isn't the place for it.) -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3
John Kane wrote: If you have acroread32 set as the viewer for PDF (pdflatex), that would explain why View-PDF (pdflatex) now calls Acrobat Reader. Otherwise, it's probably the same phenomenon that causes your car to do strange things until you get a mechanic to look at it, at which point it abruptly sobers up and drives straight. I may have done that in the install, remove install sequence. How to I find out? I don't see anything obvious about setting a PDF reader. Tools - Preferences ... - File formats lists all the file formats LyX recognizes. For each, you can specify a program to display it in the Viewer: field. (If the program is not on your system command path, you can either specify a full path here or add the path to it to Tools - Preferences ... - Paths - PATH prefix.) After adding a viewer, click Modify and then Save. Car? What's a car? I ride a bicycle, mind you I still get strange noises from it but the mechanic usually can find an expensive cure. A car is a replacement for a team of horses, the main purposes being to (a) find a way to consume more expensive fuel and (b) trade methane exhaust for carbon exhaust. (A side benefit is that cars tend to leak fluids rather than solids.) /Paul
Table cell coloring?
I'm a fairly new user to Lyx so I apologize if this answer is already answered in a document somewhere. Is it possible to fill in a cell in a table with a solid color?
Question about bibtex and BIBINPUTS environment variable
I use lyx 1.4.3 with linux (Fedora Core 5), and in the past have found it useful to define the environment variable BIBINPUTS = /home/jim/my_bibfiles My impression was that this allowed bibtex by default to search for .bib files in this particular directory, so that when it came to adding .bib files to my document I didn't have to go hunting around directories to include them. These .bib files conveniently showed up as clickable items. However, I recently had the following problem. I put a few .bib files in a different directory and wished to include them for bibtex in some document. Since they weren't in the directory specified by BIBINPUTS, I had to click through a directory tree and specify their absolute path when I included them. Everything worked fine within the document itself. I was able to add citations and choose from a list that corresponded to the .bib files I had included. The citations appeared to show up correctly in the lyx window itself. However, when it came to viewing the document (DVI or PDF) the references were not properly included (just a bunch of ??). Lyx complained that it couldn't find the .bib files I specified, although lyx didn't complain whatsoever when I added these .bib files after my insertion of the Bibtek Generated Bibliography (from Insert -- List/TOC -- Bibtex Bibliography). To see what the problem was, I eliminated the BIBINPUTS environment variable and rebooted. After this, lyx was able to find properly the .bib files I had previously tried to include with no success. Thus, it appears that unless you double-click one of the .bib files specified in the directory of BIBINPUTS, then lyx (or bibtex) fails to find the corresponding .bib files. The solution seems to be to remove the BIBINPUTS environment variable altogether. Why is this? Shouldn't I be able to define a default BIBINPUTS directory, but still add whatever .bib files I wish from other directories? Thanks, Jim
Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: If you have acroread32 set as the viewer for PDF (pdflatex), that would explain why View-PDF (pdflatex) now calls Acrobat Reader. Otherwise, it's probably the same phenomenon that causes your car to do strange things until you get a mechanic to look at it, at which point it abruptly sobers up and drives straight. I may have done that in the install, remove install sequence. How to I find out? I don't see anything obvious about setting a PDF reader. Tools - Preferences ... - File formats lists all the file formats LyX recognizes. For each, you can specify a program to display it in the Viewer: field. (If the program is not on your system command path, you can either specify a full path here or add the path to it to Tools - Preferences ... - Paths - PATH prefix.) After adding a viewer, click Modify and then Save. Aha, I see the adobe path in PATH. The viewer command is simply PDFview.cmd . If I change the path will that give me a new PDF reader? Thanks Car? What's a car? I ride a bicycle, mind you I still get strange noises from it but the mechanic usually can find an expensive cure. A car is a replacement for a team of horses, the main purposes being to (a) find a way to consume more expensive fuel and (b) trade methane exhaust for carbon exhaust. (A side benefit is that cars tend to leak fluids rather than solids.) /Paul I take it you have not known a lot of horses? They leak solids and fluids (and methane too come to think of it. On the other hand petting horse is much more rewarding than petting a car (or even my roadbike ) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Table cell coloring?
This should help. look at the preamble. --- John Yamokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a fairly new user to Lyx so I apologize if this answer is already answered in a document somewhere. Is it possible to fill in a cell in a table with a solid color? Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index color_table_example_3.lyx Description: 966847299-color_table_example_3.lyx
Re[2]: Perl script for renumbering equations
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik apparently wrote: Assuming Gerard's script is entirely original work, why bother with a license? I'd just put it in the public domain. A license is only necessary if the author wants to restrict rights, and for a relatively small, simple program that hardly seems necessary. I agree with Michael's core sentiment. But I suggest it points to the MIT license, popular among academics. Why? 1. Licensing is unavoidable. You at least must *explicitly* place the code in the public domain. 2. Some people believe that outside the US it is difficult or impossible to actually place code in the public domain. (I do not agree, but there it is, and IANAL.) Cheers, Alan Isaac
Re: Table cell coloring?
John Yamokoski schrieb: I'm a fairly new user to Lyx so I apologize if this answer is already answered in a document somewhere. Is it possible to fill in a cell in a table with a solid color? Have a look at section 2.11 of this new LyX manual (will be part of the next LyX version): http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X/lib/doc/EmbeddedObjects.lyx (http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/LyXDevelDocumentation/EmbeddedObjects.pdf) regards Uwe
White space to the left of navigation bar of beamer presentations.
Dear list, Does anyone see the white space to the left of the navigation bar and status bar using beamer? How can I get rid of it? I have tried linux/tetex, windows/miktex, and I can not get rid of this ugly white bar. Attached is what I get from tex/latex/beamer/solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx. This looks to me like a paper size problem but setting A4 etc does not help. Any help is appreciated. Bo attachment: beamer.JPG
Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: --- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: Could this just be a Foxit problem? Possible but not entirely likely. Can you load a doc into LyX and then use File-Export-PDF (pdflatex) to generate a PDF output file (in the same directory)? If so, does it load into Foxit (or Acrobat Reader)? Yes, this works just fine. And since I did that it is working if I do the same from the View menu and is calling up Acrobat even if I have not set it as the default yet the file icon inidates Foxit and if I click on the icon in the folder it opens in Foxit. Very strange indeed but at least I am getting some fast PDF's now. If you have acroread32 set as the viewer for PDF (pdflatex), that would explain why View-PDF (pdflatex) now calls Acrobat Reader. Otherwise, it's probably the same phenomenon that causes your car to do strange things until you get a mechanic to look at it, at which point it abruptly sobers up and drives straight. /Paul I may have done that in the install, remove install sequence. How to I find out? I don't see anything obvious about setting a PDF reader. Car? What's a car? I ride a bicycle, mind you I still get strange noises from it but the mechanic usually can find an expensive cure. Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Preferences-Colors, LyX 1.4.3-5,WindowsXP
Hello, In Preferences-Colors the math background is brown (more exactly R 227 G 114 B 38). However LyX shows the color of the whole background. How could I make math background color brown? Regards, Sandor
Re: Lyx cookbook template
Hi Jeremy, I'm looking for a template for recipes too. Would be glad if you could send it to me too. Use my private email address given below. TIA Jeremy C. Reed schrieb: I received it off list. Thanks. Dr. Hellmut Weber Degenfeldstraße 2, D - 80803 München-Schwabing tel (+49 89) 3081172, mobil (+49 172) 8450321 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- As an alternative to MS Word or Powerpoint. LyX, OpenOffice, also useable with Windows ;-)
Re: Preferences-Colors, LyX 1.4.3-5,WindowsXP
Am Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007 15:14 schrieb Sandor Szabo: Hello, In Preferences-Colors the math background is brown (more exactly R 227 G 114 B 38). However LyX shows the color of the whole background. How could I make math background color brown? This is not possible: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2279 Of course this bug should be fixed, but until now nobody was interested enough to do so. Georg
Koma-script letter, address problem
Hello All, I've almost got a template for letters worked out, using the Koma-script scrlttr2 document class. However, what I want to do is to shift the (to) address over to the right so that it lines-up with the text of the letter. I'm stuck here, can anyone help? It would be nice if the horizontal rule at the top of the letter only extended to the width of the letter text too. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perl script for renumbering equations
Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 08 February 2007 13:36, Gerard Ateshian wrote: I wrote a perl script, renumber.pl, for renumbering equations in LyX (attached). I think before you can post this on the Internet and have people use it, you need to give it a license -- GPL V2, GPL V3, BSD, whatever. Until you do that it's just proprietary software, and it's unlikely anyone will improve upon it. Assuming Gerard's script is entirely original work, why bother with a license? I'd just put it in the public domain. A license is only necessary if the author wants to restrict rights, and for a relatively small, simple program that hardly seems necessary. Of course, some authors do license such materials for ideological reasons; but even now in the AS (After Stallman) era, it's quite common to put short scripts, code snippets, and the like right into the public domain and let anyone - evil, money-grubbing corporations included - use them as they see fit. (I had a short polemic about the diminishment of the public domain ready, but this isn't the place for it.) -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3
John Kane wrote: If you have acroread32 set as the viewer for PDF (pdflatex), that would explain why View-PDF (pdflatex) now calls Acrobat Reader. Otherwise, it's probably the same phenomenon that causes your car to do strange things until you get a mechanic to look at it, at which point it abruptly sobers up and drives straight. I may have done that in the install, remove install sequence. How to I find out? I don't see anything obvious about setting a PDF reader. Tools - Preferences ... - File formats lists all the file formats LyX recognizes. For each, you can specify a program to display it in the Viewer: field. (If the program is not on your system command path, you can either specify a full path here or add the path to it to Tools - Preferences ... - Paths - PATH prefix.) After adding a viewer, click Modify and then Save. Car? What's a car? I ride a bicycle, mind you I still get strange noises from it but the mechanic usually can find an expensive cure. A car is a replacement for a team of horses, the main purposes being to (a) find a way to consume more expensive fuel and (b) trade methane exhaust for carbon exhaust. (A side benefit is that cars tend to leak fluids rather than solids.) /Paul
Table cell coloring?
I'm a fairly new user to Lyx so I apologize if this answer is already answered in a document somewhere. Is it possible to fill in a cell in a table with a solid color?
Question about bibtex and BIBINPUTS environment variable
I use lyx 1.4.3 with linux (Fedora Core 5), and in the past have found it useful to define the environment variable BIBINPUTS = /home/jim/my_bibfiles My impression was that this allowed bibtex by default to search for .bib files in this particular directory, so that when it came to adding .bib files to my document I didn't have to go hunting around directories to include them. These .bib files conveniently showed up as clickable items. However, I recently had the following problem. I put a few .bib files in a different directory and wished to include them for bibtex in some document. Since they weren't in the directory specified by BIBINPUTS, I had to click through a directory tree and specify their absolute path when I included them. Everything worked fine within the document itself. I was able to add citations and choose from a list that corresponded to the .bib files I had included. The citations appeared to show up correctly in the lyx window itself. However, when it came to viewing the document (DVI or PDF) the references were not properly included (just a bunch of ??). Lyx complained that it couldn't find the .bib files I specified, although lyx didn't complain whatsoever when I added these .bib files after my insertion of the Bibtek Generated Bibliography (from Insert -- List/TOC -- Bibtex Bibliography). To see what the problem was, I eliminated the BIBINPUTS environment variable and rebooted. After this, lyx was able to find properly the .bib files I had previously tried to include with no success. Thus, it appears that unless you double-click one of the .bib files specified in the directory of BIBINPUTS, then lyx (or bibtex) fails to find the corresponding .bib files. The solution seems to be to remove the BIBINPUTS environment variable altogether. Why is this? Shouldn't I be able to define a default BIBINPUTS directory, but still add whatever .bib files I wish from other directories? Thanks, Jim
Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: If you have acroread32 set as the viewer for PDF (pdflatex), that would explain why View-PDF (pdflatex) now calls Acrobat Reader. Otherwise, it's probably the same phenomenon that causes your car to do strange things until you get a mechanic to look at it, at which point it abruptly sobers up and drives straight. I may have done that in the install, remove install sequence. How to I find out? I don't see anything obvious about setting a PDF reader. Tools - Preferences ... - File formats lists all the file formats LyX recognizes. For each, you can specify a program to display it in the Viewer: field. (If the program is not on your system command path, you can either specify a full path here or add the path to it to Tools - Preferences ... - Paths - PATH prefix.) After adding a viewer, click Modify and then Save. Aha, I see the adobe path in PATH. The viewer command is simply PDFview.cmd . If I change the path will that give me a new PDF reader? Thanks Car? What's a car? I ride a bicycle, mind you I still get strange noises from it but the mechanic usually can find an expensive cure. A car is a replacement for a team of horses, the main purposes being to (a) find a way to consume more expensive fuel and (b) trade methane exhaust for carbon exhaust. (A side benefit is that cars tend to leak fluids rather than solids.) /Paul I take it you have not known a lot of horses? They leak solids and fluids (and methane too come to think of it. On the other hand petting horse is much more rewarding than petting a car (or even my roadbike ) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Table cell coloring?
This should help. look at the preamble. --- John Yamokoski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a fairly new user to Lyx so I apologize if this answer is already answered in a document somewhere. Is it possible to fill in a cell in a table with a solid color? Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index color_table_example_3.lyx Description: 966847299-color_table_example_3.lyx
Re[2]: Perl script for renumbering equations
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik apparently wrote: Assuming Gerard's script is entirely original work, why bother with a license? I'd just put it in the public domain. A license is only necessary if the author wants to restrict rights, and for a relatively small, simple program that hardly seems necessary. I agree with Michael's core sentiment. But I suggest it points to the MIT license, popular among academics. Why? 1. Licensing is unavoidable. You at least must *explicitly* place the code in the public domain. 2. Some people believe that outside the US it is difficult or impossible to actually place code in the public domain. (I do not agree, but there it is, and IANAL.) Cheers, Alan Isaac
Re: Table cell coloring?
John Yamokoski schrieb: I'm a fairly new user to Lyx so I apologize if this answer is already answered in a document somewhere. Is it possible to fill in a cell in a table with a solid color? Have a look at section 2.11 of this new LyX manual (will be part of the next LyX version): http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X/lib/doc/EmbeddedObjects.lyx (http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/LyXDevelDocumentation/EmbeddedObjects.pdf) regards Uwe
White space to the left of navigation bar of beamer presentations.
Dear list, Does anyone see the white space to the left of the navigation bar and status bar using beamer? How can I get rid of it? I have tried linux/tetex, windows/miktex, and I can not get rid of this ugly white bar. Attached is what I get from tex/latex/beamer/solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx. This looks to me like a paper size problem but setting A4 etc does not help. Any help is appreciated. Bo attachment: beamer.JPG
Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > --- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> John Kane wrote: > > >>> Could this just be a Foxit problem? > > >> Possible but not entirely likely. Can you load a > doc into LyX and then > >> use File->Export->PDF (pdflatex) to generate a > PDF output file (in the > >> same directory)? If so, does it load into Foxit > (or Acrobat Reader)? > > > > Yes, this works just fine. And since I did that > it > > is working if I do the same from the View menu and > is > > calling up Acrobat even if I have not set it as > the > > default yet the file icon inidates Foxit and if I > > click on the icon in the folder it opens in Foxit. > > > Very strange indeed but at least I am getting some > > fast PDF's now. > > > > If you have acroread32 set as the viewer for PDF > (pdflatex), that would > explain why View->PDF (pdflatex) now calls Acrobat > Reader. Otherwise, > it's probably the same phenomenon that causes your > car to do strange > things until you get a mechanic to look at it, at > which point it > abruptly sobers up and drives straight. > > /Paul I may have done that in the install, remove install sequence. How to I find out? I don't see anything obvious about setting a PDF reader. Car? What's a car? I ride a bicycle, mind you I still get strange noises from it but the mechanic usually can find an expensive cure. Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Preferences->Colors, LyX 1.4.3-5,WindowsXP
Hello, In Preferences->Colors the math background is brown (more exactly R 227 G 114 B 38). However LyX shows the color of the whole background. How could I make math background color brown? Regards, Sandor
Re: Lyx cookbook template
Hi Jeremy, I'm looking for a template for recipes too. Would be glad if you could send it to me too. Use my private email address given below. TIA Jeremy C. Reed schrieb: > I received it off list. Thanks. Dr. Hellmut Weber Degenfeldstraße 2, D - 80803 München-Schwabing tel (+49 89) 3081172, mobil (+49 172) 8450321 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- As an alternative to MS Word or Powerpoint. LyX, OpenOffice, also useable with Windows ;-)
Re: Preferences->Colors, LyX 1.4.3-5,WindowsXP
Am Sonntag, 11. Februar 2007 15:14 schrieb Sandor Szabo: > Hello, > > In Preferences->Colors > the > math background > is brown (more exactly R 227 G 114 B 38). > However LyX shows the color of the whole background. > How could I make math background color brown? This is not possible: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2279 Of course this bug should be fixed, but until now nobody was interested enough to do so. Georg
Koma-script letter, address problem
Hello All, I've almost got a template for letters worked out, using the Koma-script scrlttr2 document class. However, what I want to do is to shift the (to) address over to the right so that it lines-up with the text of the letter. I'm stuck here, can anyone help? It would be nice if the horizontal rule at the top of the letter only extended to the width of the letter text too. Regards, Nick. -- Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton Caversham, Reading, England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Re: Perl script for renumbering equations
Steve Litt wrote: On Thursday 08 February 2007 13:36, Gerard Ateshian wrote: I wrote a perl script, renumber.pl, for renumbering equations in LyX (attached). I think before you can post this on the Internet and have people use it, you need to give it a license -- GPL V2, GPL V3, BSD, whatever. Until you do that it's just proprietary software, and it's unlikely anyone will improve upon it. Assuming Gerard's script is entirely original work, why bother with a license? I'd just put it in the public domain. A license is only necessary if the author wants to restrict rights, and for a relatively small, simple program that hardly seems necessary. Of course, some authors do license such materials for ideological reasons; but even now in the AS (After Stallman) era, it's quite common to put short scripts, code snippets, and the like right into the public domain and let anyone - evil, money-grubbing corporations included - use them as they see fit. (I had a short polemic about the diminishment of the public domain ready, but this isn't the place for it.) -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3
John Kane wrote: If you have acroread32 set as the viewer for PDF (pdflatex), that would explain why View->PDF (pdflatex) now calls Acrobat Reader. Otherwise, it's probably the same phenomenon that causes your car to do strange things until you get a mechanic to look at it, at which point it abruptly sobers up and drives straight. I may have done that in the install, remove install sequence. How to I find out? I don't see anything obvious about setting a PDF reader. Tools -> Preferences ... -> File formats lists all the file formats LyX recognizes. For each, you can specify a program to display it in the Viewer: field. (If the program is not on your system command path, you can either specify a full path here or add the path to it to Tools -> Preferences ... -> Paths -> PATH prefix.) After adding a viewer, click Modify and then Save. Car? What's a car? I ride a bicycle, mind you I still get strange noises from it but the mechanic usually can find an expensive cure. A car is a replacement for a team of horses, the main purposes being to (a) find a way to consume more expensive fuel and (b) trade methane exhaust for carbon exhaust. (A side benefit is that cars tend to leak fluids rather than solids.) /Paul
Table cell coloring?
I'm a fairly new user to Lyx so I apologize if this answer is already answered in a document somewhere. Is it possible to fill in a cell in a table with a solid color?
Question about bibtex and BIBINPUTS environment variable
I use lyx 1.4.3 with linux (Fedora Core 5), and in the past have found it useful to define the environment variable BIBINPUTS = /home/jim/my_bibfiles My impression was that this allowed bibtex by default to search for .bib files in this particular directory, so that when it came to adding .bib files to my document I didn't have to go hunting around directories to include them. These .bib files conveniently showed up as clickable items. However, I recently had the following problem. I put a few .bib files in a different directory and wished to include them for bibtex in some document. Since they weren't in the directory specified by BIBINPUTS, I had to click through a directory tree and specify their absolute path when I included them. Everything worked fine within the document itself. I was able to add citations and choose from a list that corresponded to the .bib files I had included. The citations appeared to show up correctly in the lyx window itself. However, when it came to viewing the document (DVI or PDF) the references were not properly included (just a bunch of ??). Lyx complained that it couldn't find the .bib files I specified, although lyx didn't complain whatsoever when I added these .bib files after my insertion of the Bibtek Generated Bibliography (from Insert --> List/TOC --> Bibtex Bibliography). To see what the problem was, I eliminated the BIBINPUTS environment variable and rebooted. After this, lyx was able to find properly the .bib files I had previously tried to include with no success. Thus, it appears that unless you double-click one of the .bib files specified in the directory of BIBINPUTS, then lyx (or bibtex) fails to "find" the corresponding .bib files. The solution seems to be to remove the BIBINPUTS environment variable altogether. Why is this? Shouldn't I be able to define a default BIBINPUTS directory, but still add whatever .bib files I wish from other directories? Thanks, Jim
Re: Problem generating PDF file with LyX 1.4.3
--- "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane wrote: > > >>> > >> If you have acroread32 set as the viewer for PDF > (pdflatex), that would > >> explain why View->PDF (pdflatex) now calls > Acrobat Reader. Otherwise, > >> it's probably the same phenomenon that causes > your car to do strange > >> things until you get a mechanic to look at it, at > which point it > >> abruptly sobers up and drives straight. > > > > I may have done that in the install, remove > install > > sequence. How to I find out? I don't see anything > > obvious about setting a PDF reader. > > Tools -> Preferences ... -> File formats lists all > the file formats LyX > recognizes. For each, you can specify a program to > display it in the > Viewer: field. (If the program is not on your > system command path, you > can either specify a full path here or add the path > to it to Tools -> > Preferences ... -> Paths -> PATH prefix.) After > adding a viewer, click > Modify and then Save. Aha, I see the adobe path in PATH. The viewer command is simply PDFview.cmd . If I change the path will that give me a new PDF reader? Thanks > > > > Car? What's a car? I ride a bicycle, mind you I > still > > get strange noises from it but the mechanic > usually > > can find an expensive cure. > > A car is a replacement for a team of horses, the > main purposes being to > (a) find a way to consume more expensive fuel and > (b) trade methane > exhaust for carbon exhaust. (A side benefit is that > cars tend to leak > fluids rather than solids.) > > /Paul I take it you have not known a lot of horses? They leak solids and fluids (and methane too come to think of it. On the other hand petting horse is much more rewarding than petting a car (or even my roadbike ) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Table cell coloring?
This should help. look at the preamble. --- John Yamokoski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a fairly new user to Lyx so I apologize if this > answer is already > answered in a document somewhere. Is it possible to > fill in a cell in a > table with a solid color? > Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index color_table_example_3.lyx Description: 966847299-color_table_example_3.lyx
Re[2]: Perl script for renumbering equations
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik apparently wrote: > Assuming Gerard's script is entirely original work, why > bother with a license? I'd just put it in the public > domain. A license is only necessary if the author wants > to restrict rights, and for a relatively small, simple > program that hardly seems necessary. I agree with Michael's core sentiment. But I suggest it points to the MIT license, popular among academics. Why? 1. Licensing is unavoidable. You at least must *explicitly* place the code in the public domain. 2. Some people believe that outside the US it is difficult or impossible to actually place code in the public domain. (I do not agree, but there it is, and IANAL.) Cheers, Alan Isaac
Re: Table cell coloring?
John Yamokoski schrieb: I'm a fairly new user to Lyx so I apologize if this answer is already answered in a document somewhere. Is it possible to fill in a cell in a table with a solid color? Have a look at section 2.11 of this new LyX manual (will be part of the next LyX version): http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/branches/BRANCH_1_4_X/lib/doc/EmbeddedObjects.lyx (http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/LyXDevelDocumentation/EmbeddedObjects.pdf) regards Uwe
White space to the left of navigation bar of beamer presentations.
Dear list, Does anyone see the white space to the left of the navigation bar and status bar using beamer? How can I get rid of it? I have tried linux/tetex, windows/miktex, and I can not get rid of this ugly white bar. Attached is what I get from tex/latex/beamer/solutions/conference-talks/conference-ornate-20min.en.lyx. This looks to me like a paper size problem but setting A4 etc does not help. Any help is appreciated. Bo <>
