graphics path
Dear All, i'm using Lyx quite frequently and like it a lot. I need a lot of figures in my writings and i store them in several directories organized by theme. In LaTeX i use the \graphicspath command to set the path to all the image directories. Unfortunately this does not work in LyX. The editor needs an absolute or relative path, there seems to be no way to search a path. Or is there such a possibility? I would be happy already with the possibility to point to one directory that is searched recursively. Regards Rein van den Boomgaard
Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key
Hi John, when i'm looking for Symbols, i use http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf Here you ca find "almost everything" ;-} -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen Yours Sincerely Roland Schmitz
Re: Handy word list program for indexing
> The one thing this doesn't do is, upon final sort, sort by count descending > but name ascending. Can you think of a way to do that with standard Linux > commands? I am not sure I understand (or maybe I should read this again when I wake up :) Can you give a short example?
Re: LyX, SVG and PSFrag: case report [UPDATED]
On Monday 05 March 2007 18:30:13 Georg Baum wrote: > This looks like a bug in LyX. You should not need to load any package in > the preamble manually. Can you please file this at http://bugzilla.lyx.org, > together with a minimal example .lyx file (with .svg file), and a > screenshot of the correct and incorrect preview? OK. I'll try to do it today or tomorrow. > > 3. A minor but annoying issue is that, while the PS documentis OK, when > > using Veiw->PDF, the figures look very degraded (and no PSFrag, of > > course). I am still looking into this. > No need to look further. psfrags does not work with pdflatex, only with > latex, so you need to use dvi2ps or dvipdfm to produce your pdf. This is > documented. Yes, I found out about that. However, even converting PS to PDF gives slightly worse onscreen graphics. Not much, but enough to be annoying. > Why not add your information to the wiki (especially the bit about the > text-to-path switch)? Good idea. I've never edited a wiki, but this looks like a good reason to begin. I'll do it as soon as I can. Thanks everybody for their comments! - Urtzi - -- Urtzi Jauregi Fakulteta za Matematiko in Fiziko, Univerza v Ljubljani Jadranska 19, Si-1000 Ljubljana Slovenija Tel: ++386 01 540 13 53 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Handy word list program for indexing
While such utilities can be useful for the naïve user, they don't result in an index, so much as a concordance, and the difference between the two should be kept in mind. Rather than relying on such, if the project and budget warrant it, far better to employ a human indexer (who is _not_ also the author). William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications This email message and any files transmitted with it contain information which is confidential and intended only for the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), any usage, dissemination, disclosure, or action taken in reliance on it is prohibited. The reliability of this method of communication cannot be guaranteed. Email can be intercepted, corrupted, delayed, incompletely transmitted, virus-laden, or otherwise affected during transmission. Reasonable steps have been taken to reduce the risk of viruses, but we cannot accept liability for damage sustained as a result of this message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it and notify the sender.
Re: Handy word list program for indexing
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 02:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote: > > Indexing is the most distasteful, boring, and tedious part of writing a > > book. Making word lists like this at least makes it a brainless > > activity. > > I've linked to this thread from the following page > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Indexing Unable to connect Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at wiki.lyx.org. SteveT
Re: Handy word list program for indexing
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 08:25, William Adams wrote: > While such utilities can be useful for the naïve user, they don't > result in an index, so much as a concordance, and the difference > between the two should be kept in mind. > > Rather than relying on such, if the project and budget warrant it, > far better to employ a human indexer (who is _not_ also the author). > > William There's budget for a human indexer, as long as the indexer is me (the author). So as the human indexer, how do I make this thing an index instead of a concordance? My plan is to use the word list program to make sure I don't leave out things that shouldn't be left out, not to give every term page numbers. How do I make it a real index? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Indexing: Using a "see" reference to a second level entry?
Hi all,
In my index, under the first level heading "attitude", I
have "Troubleshooter's Mantra":
attitude
Troubleshooter's Mantra 10-13
I also want to have this:
Troubleshooter's Mantra, see attitude/Troubleshooter's Mantra
So I tried this:
\index{philosophy|see{attitude!Troubleshooter's Mantra}}
However, that prints nothing. What is the proper way to do a see reference
with a source of a first level index item and a second level target?
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: Indexing: Using a "see" reference to a second level entry?
Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
In my index, under the first level heading "attitude", I
have "Troubleshooter's Mantra":
attitude
Troubleshooter's Mantra 10-13
I also want to have this:
Troubleshooter's Mantra, see attitude/Troubleshooter's Mantra
So I tried this:
\index{philosophy|see{attitude!Troubleshooter's Mantra}}
However, that prints nothing. What is the proper way to do a see reference
with a source of a first level index item and a second level target?
There is no need for the exclamation point inside the "see".
"See" just prints the text, not a page number. The "see" command doesn't
resolve or check the reference in any way. It merely fails on
exclamation points.
So:
\index{philosophy|see{attitude/Troubleshooter's Mantra}}
will give you:
philosophy see attitude/Troubleshooter's Mantra
If you want the first example, try
\index{Troubleshooter's Mantra|see{attitude/Troubleshooter's Mantra}}
Helge Hafting
Re: Indexing: Using a "see" reference to a second level entry?
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 09:21, Helge Hafting wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In my index, under the first level heading "attitude", I
> > have "Troubleshooter's Mantra":
> >
> > attitude
> > Troubleshooter's Mantra 10-13
> >
> > I also want to have this:
> >
> > Troubleshooter's Mantra, see attitude/Troubleshooter's Mantra
> >
> >
> > So I tried this:
> >
> > \index{philosophy|see{attitude!Troubleshooter's Mantra}}
> >
> > However, that prints nothing. What is the proper way to do a see
> > reference with a source of a first level index item and a second level
> > target?
>
> There is no need for the exclamation point inside the "see".
> "See" just prints the text, not a page number. The "see" command doesn't
> resolve or check the reference in any way. It merely fails on
> exclamation points.
>
> So:
> \index{philosophy|see{attitude/Troubleshooter's Mantra}}
> will give you:
> philosophy see attitude/Troubleshooter's Mantra
>
> If you want the first example, try
> \index{Troubleshooter's Mantra|see{attitude/Troubleshooter's Mantra}}
>
> Helge Hafting
Thanks Helge,
That brings up my next question, which is a question of style that I'm
throwing out to all of you. What is the best way to refer to a second level
entry:
Troubleshooter's Mantra see attitude/Troubleshooter's Mantra
Troubleshooter's Mantra see attitude->Troubleshooter's Mantra
Troubleshooter's Mantra see attitude::Troubleshooter's Mantra
or something else?
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Another pdf question
Thanks to Uwe for the example file. Here's another question: How can one enable the commenting feature under Acrobat? This is really useful for proofs and the like. I'd love to be able to index comments this way on students' papers. Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://bobjweil.com/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: Handy word list program for indexing
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Steve Litt apparently wrote:
> In preparation to create my index for my book, I created a Ruby program to
> list every word in a file (in this case the .lyx file).
...
> My program, which is written in Ruby, is licensed GNU GPL
> version 2, and is included as the remainder of the body of
> this document. Have fun with it.
There are two obvious reasons not to GPL this.
1. Existing public domain code does the same thing.
2. Even if that were false, it is unfriendly to encumber
trivial scripts with licensing restrictions of any sort.
Therefore I hope we can agree that the code belongs in the
public domain.
In any case, just for purposes of comparison, I wondered
what a Python equivalent would look like. Cleaner I think.
(See below. I tried to mimic the design decisions.)
Cheers,
Alan Isaac
=
import sys
punct=set([",", ".", "/", "<", ">", "?", ";", "'", ":", '"', "[", "]", "{",
"}", "|", "`", "~", "!", "@", "#", "$", "%", "^", "&", "*", "(", ")", "_", "+"])
word_hash = dict()
for line in sys.stdin:
line.strip()
temparr = line.split()
for word in temparr:
while len(word) > 0 and word[0] in punct:
word = word[1:]
while len(word) > 0 and word[-1] in punct:
word = word[:-1]
word_hash[word] = word_hash.get(word,0) + 1
print "="
print "=== ALPHA ORDER ="
print "="
keys = sorted(word_hash.iterkeys())
for key in keys:
print "%24s %6d\n"%(key, word_hash[key])
print "="
print " FREQ ORDER ="
print "="
temparray = sorted(word_hash.iteritems(), cmp=lambda a,b:
cmp((-a[1],a[0].lower()),(-b[1],b[0].lower(
for word_freq in temparray:
print "%7d %s\n"%( word_freq[1], word_freq[0] )
Re: Handy word list program for indexing
On Mar 6, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > There's budget for a human indexer, as long as the indexer is me > (the author). Got it. > So as the human indexer, how do I make this thing an index instead > of a > concordance? A concordance is just a list of words in a document w/ reference to where they occur. An index is a structured, ordered list of the concepts and ideas and terminology in a document which allows one to determine if a desired bit of information is present in a document, and if so, where to find it. > My plan is to use the word list program to make sure I don't > leave out things that shouldn't be left out, not to give every term > page > numbers. Okay. > How do I make it a real index? The traditional thing to do is to read the text twice, once to familiarize yourself w/ it and to make notes on what people might need / want to look for, the second time, to flag all terms / concepts as desired (usually using post it notes, or index cards). You may want to look up tools like the showidx package which will help you to consider the index as you're working w/ the text. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications This email message and any files transmitted with it contain information which is confidential and intended only for the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), any usage, dissemination, disclosure, or action taken in reliance on it is prohibited. The reliability of this method of communication cannot be guaranteed. Email can be intercepted, corrupted, delayed, incompletely transmitted, virus-laden, or otherwise affected during transmission. Reasonable steps have been taken to reduce the risk of viruses, but we cannot accept liability for damage sustained as a result of this message. If you have received this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it and notify the sender.
Re: thesis touch ups...
> What do you mean that the numbering is okay for the list of tables? Do > you mean that both the right page appears and that no numbering appears > on the first page? > > I think in order for me to help you, I would need you to get the images > in the right location. Otherwise I can't tell if the problem is because > LyX is not running latex enough, or something else. Are your two > compouters networked? If so, then you can use the rsync command to keep > the images always up-to-date on both computers. Let me know if you want > to know how to do this. However, I would strongly suggest you rename all > of your files so that there is no space in them. That will save you a > lot of headaches later on, and might save you some headaches right now. > > One trick you could do right now is copy an existing jpg file to the one > that is missing. So if you run latex and it complains it can't find > ElementTable2.jpg, find an image it can find, and then just copy that > file to ElementTable2.jpg. That way latex will be able to run > sucessfully. Just remember to delete these bogus files after we are done > with our test! Make sure you make a list of what bogus files you are > creating. > > Paul Hi Paul, Sorry for the delay in replying. So, I got the thesis exported in LaTex on my Mac with all the images etc. I ran it 5-6 times, and I am still not getting anything different. Here is what I have. Pages i-iv are fine. Page v is the first page of the TOC, and it is un-numbered, as it should be. Page vi is the 2nd page of the TOC and it is now numbered, as it should be. Here is the problem. Page vii is the LOT, which is one page and isnt numbered, as it should be. BUT, in the TOC listing, it is shown as starting on page vi(which is actually the 2nd page of the TOC). Then page viii, the first Page of the LOF, is numbered(which it shouldnt be) and is listed as starting on page vii(which is wrong). The second page of the LOF is numbered ix, which it should be. So thats what I have from running it in LaTex. And I ran it several times like you said.. I can attach any text you think will help or that you will like to see since I now have the LaTex file and can run it on my Mac.(The linux version has alot of issues with images and file extension names, so that will take some time for me to go through and manually change them...) Thanks again, Charles
Equation numbering in different document classes
Hi, I'm writing my thesis using lyx. I'm not exactly sure what class to use. The problem is this: If I use the book class, the top level sectioning environment is chapter and the numbering of the equations inherit the chapter number. Equation's on chapter 1 will be numbered: 1.1, 1.2 ... and on chapter 2 they will be numbered: 2.1, 2.2... This is good. However this is not really a book and I don't want the word "Chapter" to apear in begining of each chapter. I'm more comfortable with the article class where the top level is Section. But then the equations don't inherit the section number. They are simply numbered 1,2,3... How should I go about this? thanks, Gary
Re: Equation numbering in different document classes
Gary wrote:
Hi,
I'm writing my thesis using lyx.
I'm not exactly sure what class to use. The problem is this:
If I use the book class, the top level sectioning environment is chapter and
the numbering of the equations inherit the chapter number. Equation's on
chapter 1 will be numbered: 1.1, 1.2 ... and on chapter 2 they will be
numbered: 2.1, 2.2... This is good. However this is not really a book and I
don't want the word "Chapter" to apear in begining of each chapter.
I'm more comfortable with the article class where the top level is Section. But
then the equations don't inherit the section number. They are simply numbered
1,2,3...
Add to the preamble:
\numberwithin{equation}{section}
This ought to work; it's what works for the amsart class.
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typewriters and typed long enough, eventually one of them would
reproduce the collected works of Shakespeare. The internet has
proven this not to be the case.
Re: Another pdf question
Richard Heck wrote: Thanks to Uwe for the example file. Here's another question: How can one enable the commenting feature under Acrobat? This is really useful for proofs and the like. I'd love to be able to index comments this way on students' papers. I'm pretty sure you need Acrobat Pro to enable comments. /Paul
urgent: using 'block' and '\item' in beamer presentation class?
Dear there, How can I use 'block' environment in the beamer presentation class? Simply choose 'block' environment from the drop list only gives error. I would like to have: my algorithm(block title) first step (in itemize environment) second step(in itemize environment) www.lyx.org is not accessible today -:) Thanks for your time,. -- Michael Chen
Re: Equation numbering in different document classes
Gary wrote:
> I'm writing my thesis using lyx.
> I'm not exactly sure what class to use.
All of the things you mention can be redefined fairly easily. You might
want to look at the koma-script classes, which have a lot of built-in
customization possibilities. The documentation is very complete. You'll
find it in scrguien.pdf (English) or scrguide.pdf (German).
> The problem is this:
> If I use the book class, the top level sectioning environment is chapter and
> the numbering of the equations inherit the chapter number. Equation's on
> chapter 1 will be numbered: 1.1, 1.2 ... and on chapter 2 they will be
> numbered: 2.1, 2.2... This is good. However this is not really a book and I
> don't want the word "Chapter" to apear in begining of each chapter.
>
This is trivial: \renewcommand{\chaptername}{}.
> I'm more comfortable with the article class where the top level is Section.
> But
> then the equations don't inherit the section number. They are simply numbered
> 1,2,3...
>
Something like:
\renewcommand{\theequation}{\thesection.\arabic{equation}} should do the
trick. You will want to make it a bit more complicated if you have
unnumbered sections.
Richard
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Re: Should the Index show up in your table of contents?
tocbibind: http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=tocbibind. Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > Should your index show up in your table of contents? I notice on most of the > tech books I've bought at the bookstore it does, but it seems to be missing > by default in my two LyX books. Any idea how to get it to show up? > > Thanks > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware > http://www.troubleshooters.com/ > -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://bobjweil.com/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: urgent: using 'block' and '\item' in beamer presentation class?
Michael Chen wrote: Dear there, How can I use 'block' environment in the beamer presentation class? Simply choose 'block' environment from the drop list only gives error. What error? I would like to have: my algorithm(block title) first step (in itemize environment) second step(in itemize environment) www.lyx.org is not accessible today -:) Thanks for your time,. I've attached a sample document (not sure if it's what you want). To get the block environment, I simply started a new paragraph and selected Block from the drop-down list. To add the block title, I used an ERT inset and put the title (in braces) in ERT. Items were created as usual; to put the first two items inside the block, I nested them. HTH, /Paul newfile1.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Another pdf question
Maybe this would help: AREnable (http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/). To my knowledge, the way it works is that you would compile your file as PDF (in LyX) and then run AREnable on the PDF file to allow Acrobat Reader to add notes, comments etc. I never used it, but it might work. Mircea Paul A. Rubin said the following on 3/6/2007 1:08 PM: Richard Heck wrote: Thanks to Uwe for the example file. Here's another question: How can one enable the commenting feature under Acrobat? This is really useful for proofs and the like. I'd love to be able to index comments this way on students' papers. I'm pretty sure you need Acrobat Pro to enable comments. /Paul _ Find a local pizza place, movie theater, and more .then map the best route! http://maps.live.com/?icid=hmtag1&FORM=MGAC01
Re: Another pdf question
Comments in PDF seem to be something that's only available using the official Adobe toolchain, e.g. this comment in the discussions to a recent (end of 2006) survey of PDF applications on GNU/Linux seems to sum up the situation: http://applications.linux.com/comments.pl?sid=37658&op=&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&tid=47&pid=93375#93389 It should be that with the fight over standard specifications for government documents heating up across the world Adobe will help make comments createable on GNU/Linux http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2007/01/30/iso_pdf/ For now, it seems that practically it's a very restricted format for sharing documents. Oisín
Re: Should the Index show up in your table of contents?
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
Should your index show up in your table of contents? I notice on most of
the tech books I've bought at the bookstore it does, but it seems to be
missing by default in my two LyX books. Any idea how to get it to show up?
Steve,
My book has the index listed there. You can use
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{index}
At least, I _think_ that's how I did it.
Rich
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Re: Should the Index show up in your table of contents?
Thanks Richard, Indeed that worked with a default index, but by the time I got through redefining \theindex to be 1 column, tocbibind no longer worked its magic. I think I'm looking for a much lower level solution, like some way to mark the [EMAIL PROTECTED] to insert itself in the table of contents. I know it's doable because you can insert a section* or just about anything else in the table of contents if you use the right command -- I just couldn't find that command. Thanks SteveT On Tuesday 06 March 2007 13:34, Richard Heck wrote: > tocbibind: > http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=tocbibind. > > Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Should your index show up in your table of contents? I notice on most of > > the tech books I've bought at the bookstore it does, but it seems to be > > missing by default in my two LyX books. Any idea how to get it to show > > up? > > > > Thanks > > > > SteveT > > > > Steve Litt > > Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: Should the Index show up in your table of contents?
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 13:57, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Should your index show up in your table of contents? I notice on most of
> > the tech books I've bought at the bookstore it does, but it seems to be
> > missing by default in my two LyX books. Any idea how to get it to show
> > up?
>
> Steve,
>
>My book has the index listed there. You can use
> \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{index}
>
>At least, I _think_ that's how I did it.
>
> Rich
That's it!!!
Thanks Rich. Now I have a single column index that formats very nicely and
puts itself in the table of contents.
In a separate email I'll describe how I did this so others can follow...
Thanks to you and all who helped me get this nasty index tamed!
SteveT
Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Re: Should the Index show up in your table of contents?
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 14:17, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 March 2007 13:57, Rich Shepard wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > Should your index show up in your table of contents? I notice on most
> > > of the tech books I've bought at the bookstore it does, but it seems to
> > > be missing by default in my two LyX books. Any idea how to get it to
> > > show up?
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> >My book has the index listed there. You can use
> > \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{index}
> >
> >At least, I _think_ that's how I did it.
> >
> > Rich
>
> That's it!!!
>
> Thanks Rich. Now I have a single column index that formats very nicely and
> puts itself in the table of contents.
>
> In a separate email I'll describe how I did this so others can follow...
>
> Thanks to you and all who helped me get this nasty index tamed!
>
> SteveT
Oh Oh, it's not as good as I thought. The index shows up on the table of
contents, with the right page number, but when you click on it in the .pdf,
it takes you to the beginning of the last chapter instead of to the index.
This does not happen with the other chapters -- when you click on them they
go to the right places.
Anyone have a cure for my latest problem?
Thanks
SteveT
Indexing: All my see's and seealso's no longer print index entries
Hi all, All my sees and seealsos, which are in ERT at the end of the document but before the \printindex command, no longer show up on in my index. How can I figure out what's wrong? Thanks SteveT
Re: Another pdf question
Richard Heck schrieb: Thanks to Uwe for the example file. Here's another question: How can one enable the commenting feature under Acrobat? Buy Acrobat, the commenting feature is only available in Acrobat Standard and higher. regards Uwe
Re: Another pdf question
Oisin Feeley wrote: > Comments in PDF seem to be something that's only available using the > official Adobe toolchain [snip]. Thanks. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. But it really is silly. Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://bobjweil.com/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: Equation numbering in different document classes
Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David, Richard thanks.
David your suggestion worked like a charm.
Richard, maybe I didn't understand what you were saying.
\renewcommand{\chaptername}{}
Where am I supposed to add this line? In an ERT box?
\renewcommand{\theequation}{\thesection.\arabic{equation}}
This is even less comprehensible. It looks like this code suggests I need to
enter this command somewhere for every equation which is not going to happen.
And arabic?
Sorry guys I am Latex handicapped and I ain't terribly inclined to learn it.
Don't have the time.
thanks,
Gary
Re: Equation numbering in different document classes
Gary wrote:
> Gary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Richard, maybe I didn't understand what you were saying.
> \renewcommand{\chaptername}{}
> Where am I supposed to add this line? In an ERT box?
>
You can put it in the preamble.
> \renewcommand{\theequation}{\thesection.\arabic{equation}}
> This is even less comprehensible. It looks like this code suggests I need to
> enter this command somewhere for every equation which is not going to happen.
> And arabic?
>
This would also go in the preamble. The term "arabic" means: arabic
numbers, as opposed to Roman.
> Sorry guys I am Latex handicapped and I ain't terribly inclined to learn it.
> Don't have the time.
>
Then it is all the more important you find a document class that will
pretty much do what you want or that permits easy customization.
Best,
Richard
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Re: thesis touch ups...
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:21:36 -0600
Lyx Physicist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Paul,
> Sorry for the delay in replying. So, I got the thesis exported in
> LaTex on my Mac with all the images etc. I ran it 5-6 times, and I am
> still not getting anything different. Here is what I have. Pages
> i-iv are fine. Page v is the first page of the TOC, and it is
> un-numbered, as it should be. Page vi is the 2nd page of the TOC and
> it is now numbered, as it should be. Here is the problem. Page vii
> is the LOT, which is one page and isnt numbered, as it should be.
> BUT, in the TOC listing, it is shown as starting on page vi(which is
> actually the 2nd page of the TOC). Then page viii, the first Page of
> the LOF, is numbered(which it shouldnt be) and is listed as starting
> on page vii(which is wrong). The second page of the LOF is numbered
> ix, which it should be. So thats what I have from running it in
> LaTex. And I ran it several times like you said.. I can attach any
> text you think will help or that you will like to see since I now have
> the LaTex file and can run it on my Mac.(The linux version has alot of
> issues with images and file extension names, so that will take some
> time for me to go through and manually change them...)
> Thanks again,
> Charles
>
>
One problem has an easy fix, and that is the problem of not having the
page number appear on the first page of the lof. When I gave you the
code you were supposed to put in your preamble, I forgot the line of
code \thispagestyle{empty} for the lof part. So put this in your
preamble:
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\listoffigures{%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\else
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\fi
\chapter*{\listfigurename}%
\thispagestyle{empty}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
\makeatother
As for the page numbers appearing wrong, could you show attatch the
whole latex file to an email and send it to me home address?
Paul
Re: RCS on Windows
Alan Isaac wrote: On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Michael Wojcik wrote: I'd avoid GNU RCS for Windows. I've seen it corrupt working files numerous times. Perhaps relevant: http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/rcs/faq.txt No, these are actual bugs in either RCS or GNU diff. I've worked with RCS since the late 1980s; I ported it to DOS, OS/2, and OS/400. I'm very familiar with how it works. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: degree symbol in lyx on ubuntu with the Compose key
John Pye wrote: Under Ubuntu, one can use the Keyboard preferences to set up a 'Compose' key (I chose 'right ALT'). Once that is done, I can open a text editor (gedit) and get all the accented characters é and ô and ñ etc very nicely. I can even get the degree symbol using the sequence of keys (pressed and released in sequence): right-alt ^ 0. Like so: ° But when I move over to LyX, the accented character come out correctly, but the degree symbol does not appear. Nothing appears when I use the same key sequence as above. I can copy the degree symbol and paste into LyX using Paste External Selection As Paragraphs, but I cannot generate the character directly in LyX. Try running LyX with "lyx -dbg key" and see what debug output you get when you try to insert the degree symbol using your compose key. When you paste the degree symbol into a document, does it appear correctly in DVI and PDF output? -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Indexing: All my see's and seealso's no longer print index entries
On Tuesday 06 March 2007 15:59, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> All my sees and seealsos, which are in ERT at the end of the document but
> before the \printindex command, no longer show up on in my index. How can I
> figure out what's wrong?
For some reason, if you put the ERT containing the sees and seealsos after the
\backmatter ERT, they don't work. I put them all in an include file and
brought them into the layout, like this:
\input{./seealso.inc}
They now all show up in the index.
SteveT
Re: Single column index?
On Monday 05 March 2007 20:47, curtis osterhoudt wrote:
> Hi, Steve,
>
> I haven't tried it yet for single-column mode (I use it for *forcing* a
> 3-columned index), but the package "multicol"
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html might
> work for you. In my preamble, I have the following:
>
> %%%
> % Index is 3 columns, with bold letter headers
> %%%
> \usepackage{multicol}
> \newcommand\NrCol{3}
> \renewenvironment{theindex}{%
> \columnseprule \z@
> \columnsep 35\p@
> \section*{\indexname}%
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \begin{multicols}{\NrCol}%
> \thispagestyle{plain}\parindent\z@
> \parskip\z@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> }{\clearpage\end{multicols}}
> %%%
>
>I suspect this could be adapted to your case, though I'm not entirely
> sure how.
Thanks Curtis,
After tons of experimentation and hair loss, I finally found how to make a 1
column index. Multicol didn't work, nor did your code above. But your code
gave me the idea to search for the LaTeX code for \theindex, and modify it.
After doing that, I created the following \theindex, which gives me a nice 1
column index:
% ### ONE COLUMN INDEX ###
\renewenvironment{theindex}{%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{\MakeUppercase\indexname}%
\thispagestyle{plain}%
\parindent\z@
\parskip\z@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\indexname}
}{%
\clearpage
}
Notice the \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\indexname}. That's Rich Shepard's
suggestion for getting the index to appear in the table of contents. It
appears, and it appears with the right page number printed, but when you
click on it in the .pdf, you go to the last \mainmatter chapter instead of
the index. So I'm very close, but no cigar.
Anyway, I'm attaching the index so you all can see it...
Thanks for the suggestions and encouragement.
SteveT
index.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
Re: Single column index?
On Monday 05 March 2007 20:47, curtis osterhoudt wrote:
> Hi, Steve,
>
> I haven't tried it yet for single-column mode (I use it for *forcing* a
> 3-columned index), but the package "multicol"
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html might
> work for you. In my preamble, I have the following:
>
> %%%
> % Index is 3 columns, with bold letter headers
> %%%
> \usepackage{multicol}
> \newcommand\NrCol{3}
> \renewenvironment{theindex}{%
> \columnseprule \z@
> \columnsep 35\p@
> \section*{\indexname}%
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \begin{multicols}{\NrCol}%
> \thispagestyle{plain}\parindent\z@
> \parskip\z@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> }{\clearpage\end{multicols}}
> %%%
>
>I suspect this could be adapted to your case, though I'm not entirely
> sure how.
>
> Best wishes!
>
>Curtis O.
Thanks Curtis,
The multicol package made no difference, nor did it make a difference when I
used your code above. However, you gave me an idea.
I grep searched for the source code for \theindex, found it, modified it, and
put it in my layout file. My \theindex code looks like this:
\renewenvironment{theindex}{%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{\MakeUppercase\indexname}%
\thispagestyle{plain}%
\parindent\z@
\parskip\z@ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\indexname}
}{%
\clearpage
}
The \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\indexname} is Rich Shepard's suggested way
of getting the index in the table of contents. It puts it in, showing the
right page number, but unfortunately when you click on it in the .pdf, you go
to the prior chapter instead of the index. So I have a little more debugging
to do, but the basics are done. Thank you!
I've spent this entire day indexing and solving index problems. It's some of
the most distasteful work I've done -- I had more fun back when I dug
ditches. I feel like I've worked in the sewers all day. Eeeuu!
But anyway, it's done. Thanks to all of you on the list who have been so
helpful. Here's a .pdf of my finished index...
Thanks
SteveT
index.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
Re: thesis touch ups...
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 18:21:03 -0600
Lyx Physicist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Here is the entire LaTex file... I havent tried the previous
> suggestion to fix the pages on the LOF, but I will get back to you
> when I do. Thanks, Charles
>
Hi Charles,
I've fixed all your problems. At least the formatting comes out
correct when I run your document.
Here you should use as your preamble. Get rid of the previous stuff I
told you to add.
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\tableofcontents{%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\else
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\fi
\chapter*{\contentsname
\thispagestyle{empty}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\MakeUppercase\contentsname}{\MakeUppercase\contentsname}}%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
\renewcommand\listoftables{%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\else
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\fi
\chapter*{\listtablename}%
\thispagestyle{empty}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{LIST OF TABLES}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\MakeUppercase\listtablename}%
{\MakeUppercase\listtablename}%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
\renewcommand\listoffigures{%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\else
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\fi
\chapter*{\listfigurename}%
\thispagestyle{empty}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{LIST OF FIGURES}
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
\makeatother
Let me explain what I am doing. It is simple and worth your while to
understand because as a physicist I assume you will be using latex
again.
First, in order to redefine the command, I had to start off with a
makeatletter command. This tells latex to look at symbols such as "@"
and not to choke. I end this special environment with a makeatother.
You only need to do this if you are redefining something very basic.
Next, I renenew the commands for the toc, lot, and lof. In order to
find out what these commands were, I opened up the report.cls and
simply cut and paste. So for the listoftables, every line is the
same as it was in the report class *except for 2 lines.* these two
lines are:
\thispagestyle{empty}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{LIST OF TABLES}
I added these commands right after the \chapter command, because that
is where they would normally have to go. For instance, if you wrote
this latex code:
\chapter*{Observations in the lab}
And you wanted to the page style to be empty and you wanted to add the
title to the toc, you would write:
\chapter*{Observations in the lab}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Obserations in the lab}
Again, notice how I added the apporiate lines *after* the \chapter
command.
Your code wasn't working because you were adding the
\thispagestyle{empty}
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{...}
in the wrong place. Once you issued the \listoftables command, latex
was doing a \chapter command, writing all the text, and then making an
empty page style--too late. Likewise, you tried to issue the
\addcontentsline too soon, before the \chapter was issued by latex.
That's why your page numbers showed up 1 too short.
Normally you don't have to alter the preamble in order to change page
style and to add contents to your toc. In this special case you do,
because the \chapter* command is issued *inside* the \listoftables
command.
Hope that makes sense.
Try creating a PDF document with LyX itself and see if the page
numbers still come out correct. If not, you will have to export the
document and then run latex 3 times--unless someone on this mailing
list knows how to make LyX run latex 3 times. There is a way you can
automate the whole process. I Know because I am doing that with my
girlfriend's thesis. I run:
lyx -e latex thesis.lyx
And I get a document called thesis.tex. I then run latex on this the
right number of times. However, I do all of this with a Makefile, so
really all's I have to do is type:
make
from the terminal and I get thesis.pdf
You may not need to do any of this.
Paul
PS
I notcie this code in your preamble:
\makeatletter
\let\myTOC\tableofcontents
\renewcommand{\tableofcontents}{%
\begingroup
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@empty
\pagestyle{empty}
\myTOC
\endgroup%
}
\makeatother
You can get rid of that, since we redefine toc to do what this code
does.
PSS
You probably should rename your images so they have no spaces in them.
Unix systems work much better that way, and you will save yourself
some headaches.
Re: Another pdf question
On 3/6/07, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oisin Feeley wrote: > Comments in PDF seem to be something that's only available using the > official Adobe toolchain [snip]. Thanks. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. But it really is silly. Not from the Adobe's perspective -- they're making plenty of money by monopolising the standard and producing the tools for that. I'm not quite clear as to whether you can use the ordinary Adobe Reader to produce the comments though. The second para from the bottom of this page (which is all about using Adobe Reader with the excellent Free software Scribus) seems to refer to them as "Annotations" and suggests that it may be possible without purchasing yet another closed tool: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?page=toolbox1 But, it looks like there's a Google Summer of Code project proposal to provide annotations to PDF in Evince (one of the popular GNU/Linux PDF programs that uses the underlying Poppler rendering library): http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Annotations So, some nice, talented skilled people (not unlike the LyX developers) are working on trying to make this happen. Hopefully the application for Google SoC gets accepted. Oisín
Re: Another pdf question
Mircea Trandafir wrote: Maybe this would help: AREnable (http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/). To my knowledge, the way it works is that you would compile your file as PDF (in LyX) and then run AREnable on the PDF file to allow Acrobat Reader to add notes, comments etc. I never used it, but it might work. Mircea Thanks for the tip. I just downloaded and tested it, and it worked on a test document. /Paul
Re: Another pdf question
Richard Heck wrote: Oisin Feeley wrote: Comments in PDF seem to be something that's only available using the official Adobe toolchain [snip]. On a related thread, Mircea Trandafir pointed out AREnable (http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/), which apparently transfers permissions (signed by Acrobat) from one PDF file to another. I just tested it, and it was able to enable commenting in a way that Acrobat Reader recognized. /Paul
Re: thesis touch ups...
> Hi Charles,
>
> I've fixed all your problems. At least the formatting comes out
> correct when I run your document.
>
> Here you should use as your preamble. Get rid of the previous stuff I
> told you to add.
>
> \makeatletter
> \renewcommand\tableofcontents{%
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \else
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \fi
> \chapter*{\contentsname
> \thispagestyle{empty}
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>\MakeUppercase\contentsname}{\MakeUppercase\contentsname}}%
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> }
>
> \renewcommand\listoftables{%
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \else
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \fi
> \chapter*{\listtablename}%
> \thispagestyle{empty}
> \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{LIST OF TABLES}
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \MakeUppercase\listtablename}%
> {\MakeUppercase\listtablename}%
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> }
> \renewcommand\listoffigures{%
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \else
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \fi
> \chapter*{\listfigurename}%
> \thispagestyle{empty}
> \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{LIST OF FIGURES}
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> {\MakeUppercase\listfigurename}%
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> }
> \makeatother
>
> Let me explain what I am doing. It is simple and worth your while to
> understand because as a physicist I assume you will be using latex
> again.
>
> First, in order to redefine the command, I had to start off with a
> makeatletter command. This tells latex to look at symbols such as "@"
> and not to choke. I end this special environment with a makeatother.
> You only need to do this if you are redefining something very basic.
>
> Next, I renenew the commands for the toc, lot, and lof. In order to
> find out what these commands were, I opened up the report.cls and
> simply cut and paste. So for the listoftables, every line is the
> same as it was in the report class *except for 2 lines.* these two
> lines are:
>
> \thispagestyle{empty}
> \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{LIST OF TABLES}
>
> I added these commands right after the \chapter command, because that
> is where they would normally have to go. For instance, if you wrote
> this latex code:
>
> \chapter*{Observations in the lab}
>
> And you wanted to the page style to be empty and you wanted to add the
> title to the toc, you would write:
>
> \chapter*{Observations in the lab}
> \thispagestyle{empty}
> \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Obserations in the lab}
>
> Again, notice how I added the apporiate lines *after* the \chapter
> command.
>
> Your code wasn't working because you were adding the
>
> \thispagestyle{empty}
> \addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{...}
>
> in the wrong place. Once you issued the \listoftables command, latex
> was doing a \chapter command, writing all the text, and then making an
> empty page style--too late. Likewise, you tried to issue the
> \addcontentsline too soon, before the \chapter was issued by latex.
> That's why your page numbers showed up 1 too short.
>
> Normally you don't have to alter the preamble in order to change page
> style and to add contents to your toc. In this special case you do,
> because the \chapter* command is issued *inside* the \listoftables
> command.
>
> Hope that makes sense.
>
> Try creating a PDF document with LyX itself and see if the page
> numbers still come out correct. If not, you will have to export the
> document and then run latex 3 times--unless someone on this mailing
> list knows how to make LyX run latex 3 times. There is a way you can
> automate the whole process. I Know because I am doing that with my
> girlfriend's thesis. I run:
>
> lyx -e latex thesis.lyx
>
> And I get a document called thesis.tex. I then run latex on this the
> right number of times. However, I do all of this with a Makefile, so
> really all's I have to do is type:
>
> make
>
> from the terminal and I get thesis.pdf
>
> You may not need to do any of this.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> PS
>
> I notcie this code in your preamble:
>
> \makeatletter
> \let\myTOC\tableofcontents
> \renewcommand{\tableofcontents}{%
> \begingroup
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]@empty
> \pagestyle{empty}
> \myTOC
> \endgroup%
> }
> \makeatother
>
> You can get rid of that, since we redefine toc to do what this code
> does.
>
> PSS
>
> You probably should rename your images so they have no spaces in them.
> Unix systems work much better that way, and you will save yourself
> some headaches.
>
Hi Paul,
That worked!! Thank you so much for the help and your patience. It
was a very good learning experience! I am still very new to LaTex and
Lyx, but its people like you and mailing lists like this who help make
things understandable.
I actually have a few smaller other problems that I would like to
ask, but the most annoying one right now
Re: thesis touch ups...
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 22:02:15 -0600 Lyx Physicist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That worked!! Thank you so much for the help and your patience. It > was a very good learning experience! I am still very new to LaTex and > Lyx, but its people like you and mailing lists like this who help make > things understandable. >I actually have a few smaller other problems that I would like to > ask, but the most annoying one right now has to due with figure > placement. I use the Float-figure command to insert images(which I > renamed to have no spaces, thanks paul) and sometimes the caption gets > cut off and shows up on the next page. So if the image is near the > bottom of the page, the caption wont be with with it, and will just be > a single line at the top of the next page. I have tried the various > place float here options in Lyx, but nothing seems to work. Is there > any command to insert in to fix this? > Again, thanks alot! > Charles > > Ah! Finally. That was kind of a frustrating problem. Can you generate the file directly from LyX now? I'm just curious. In the future you might want to try working with the memoir class; you can handle these problems more simply, I believe. I'm not sure about the caption problem. You might want to start another thread. I know there is a captions package which handles special captions problems. That is about all I know, though. Paul
Re: thesis touch ups...
> > Ah! Finally. That was kind of a frustrating problem. Can you generate > the file directly from LyX now? I'm just curious. In the future you > might want to try working with the memoir class; you can handle these > problems more simply, I believe. > > I'm not sure about the caption problem. You might want to start another > thread. I know there is a captions package which handles special > captions problems. That is about all I know, though. > > Paul Yes, it worked in Lyx. I can run it in both formats. And I will start a new thread up, Im sure I will have a few other problems that come up as things progress. Thanks again! Charles
