Small caps italic revisited

[Sam Lewis]

On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:13:16 GMT
Steve Litt wrote:

 URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38713
 I'm pretty sure you can do this: Create an environment that makes its
 paragraph italic. Then create a character style that puts its
 characters in smallcaps. Apply the environemnt to the paragraph, and
 apply the character styles to the character styles. By using this
 styles based method, you can repeat it over and over again, and if
 you ever want to change the appearance of either, you can change it
 globally by changing your layout file. SteveT Steve Litt Author:
 Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
 http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Steve,

Thanks for the effort! Not really sure if we are talking about the same
issue (might be my incomprehensibility). AFAIK, small caps
italic (i.e. sc-i) need to physically exist on your tex distro.
Previous discussions showed there is an conspicuous lack of this font
type as open type. We only heard of commercial examples such as Scala
and the likes of Adobe.

However, some further discussion with someone who typesets text in the
Polish language and a tip from the French LyX list revealed that this
deficiency does not appear prominent outside the world of typesetting
English texts.

For example, interesting developments can be reported in The TeX Gyre
(TG) Collection of Fonts which `aims at remaking and extending of the
freely available fonts distributed with Ghostscript. The important
aspect of the project is providing not only the support for TeX but
also the cross-platform OpenType format of the fonts.'

www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/

I'm interested what are other peoples experience generally in terms of
Open Type and more specifically with small caps italic. What's
happening Font wise on the German side for example?

Cheers, Sam

Re: problems with Lyx multi-language document under Windows

[Ludek Borovansky]

Hi Maria,

thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately it doesn't work for me that way. When I have a Russian 
document with some English words in it, everything works just fine. 
Problem is, when I write Russian document with another language which 
has some special characters also (for example Czech, Deutsch) then I get 
the error specified earlier. This error shows up only when specific 
characters for the second language are used (for example when I write 
only numbers with Deutsch or Czech language in Russian document, 
everything is OK). It seems to be that Lyx 1.4.4 under windows doesn't 
like two foreign languages  with their specific characters on the same 
line in one document :-(


Any other suggestion, could this be solved with ERT for example?

thank you

Ludek

Maria Gouskova napsal(a):

Hi Ludek,

I can switch from Russian to English on the same line. I am using a 
Mac so things aren't exactly the same, but here is how I do it (LyX 
1.4.4, Intel/Mac OS 10.4.9):


1. LyXDocumentSettingsLanguage, set Language to Russian.
2. In your OS, switch to a Cyrillic/Russian keyboard layout when you 
need the Russian text. This works whether it's on the same line or 
not. English/Roman text appears when you switch back to the Roman 
keyboard layout.
3. View file through PDFLatex or any other method--it should render 
both English and Russian correctly.


There is also another method, describe on 
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX#toc19 
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX#toc19.


Maria


On 5/21/07, *Ludek Borovansky* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi all,

I have a problem with Lyx 1.4.4 under Windows (and Miktex) writing
multi
language documents. I  have my document set up as Deutsch, but I need
from time to time to type in a Russian language  for example.But
when I
change a language via menu Edit/Text Style and also I change keyboard
layout under windows, I am able to write in Russian only when there is
no other language on the same line in the document. If there is for
example a text in Deutsch at the beginning of the  line and then I try
to type something in Cyrillic, I get error when trying to view
document
as a PDF file. It says something like:
Missing $ inserted -  ...\foreignlanguage{russian}{45Ů×ÁĐŮ×ÁĐÁ×ĐÁ×}
and Latex error: command \DH unavailable in encoding T2A etc.

This error is not showing up if I write only Russian
document  or  if  I
keep  different languages on separate lines (not mixing languages
on the
same lines of text).

I have babel installed and enabled, also I have tried to switch to 1.5
beta 3 version of Lyx where I don't have this problem, but
unfortunately
this  version is not stable  for me yet and it keeps crashing now
and then.


Any help would be appreciated, I like Lyx and its layout of documents
very much.

Ludek Borovansky

Re: Fully contained lyx + miktex distribution!

[John Pye]

These issues relating to single-file installers just keep coming up
repeatedly across different unix/linux originated projects that are
being ported to Windows. Off the top of my head: GIMP, Inkscape, MinGW,
LyX,GAIM, K-3D, and scipy.

The problem is that each project tackles the problem in isolation --
each one has a bespoke way of providing a one-file installer. So many
better things could have been done instead if a common approach had be
available.

I would like to see some kind of general solution, a dependency-handling
program for FOSS on Windows that plays nice with 'add/remove programs'
in some way... but that also works with Wine...

Dieter Krachtus wrote:
 Hi,

 With the first release of lyx on Windows I build a home-cooked fully
 contained lyx + miktex distribution in a single zip-file. Moving from a
 desktop to laptop was as easy as extracting this zip-file.

 Why can't it be that easy with the new Lyx bundle at
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows ? It somehow does everything
 automatically, e.g. gets missing parts of MikTex etc. I don't like that,
 since you don't always have an internet connection, especially on travels
 and it is somehow stupid to download and launch the installer on every
 computer you have at home and then download the necessary MikTex
 packages.
 Even worse, when working with Lyx and you use some special Latex
 features,
 sometimes Lyx needs to download these missing featrues - this is
 user-unfriendly and annoying.

 Therefore, I suggest that there is a big lyx distribution in the form
 of a
 single zip-file or CD .iso that contains really everything - MikTex
 (everything) + Lyx + pdf viewer + etc. I guess it is difficult it
 would also
 be beneficial to have an lyx-.iso distribution which you simply mount and
 start working - a.k.a. PortableLYX.

 Cheers,
 Dieter

Re: problems with Lyx multi-language document under Windows

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Ludek == Ludek Borovansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Ludek Hi Maria, thank you for your reply.

Ludek Unfortunately it doesn't work for me that way. When I have a
Ludek Russian document with some English words in it, everything
Ludek works just fine. Problem is, when I write Russian document with
Ludek another language which has some special characters also (for
Ludek example Czech, Deutsch) then I get the error specified earlier.
Ludek This error shows up only when specific characters for the
Ludek second language are used (for example when I write only numbers
Ludek with Deutsch or Czech language in Russian document, everything
Ludek is OK). It seems to be that Lyx 1.4.4 under windows doesn't
Ludek like two foreign languages with their specific characters on
Ludek the same line in one document :-(

Ludek Any other suggestion, could this be solved with ERT for
Ludek example?

Being able to do such things is one of the goal of version 1.5.

JMarc

How to use 'block' in beamer?

[Neal Becker]

This is lyx-1.5.0b3.
I selected 'block' and I get something that says:
block ( ERT[{title}] body ): my text here...

There is no way to select that block... with the mouse.  How do I edit it?

If I do nothing, then pdflatex will pick up the first letter of the
following text and highlight it.

This is the latex code that would correspond to what I want:
\begin{itemize}
\item Key idea: 
\end{itemize}
\begin{block}{Key Idea}
 \alert{Remove Modulation and then filter}
\end{block}

Re: Equation resizing bug?

[James]

I should have mentioned that this is on a Mac.  I haven't tried the windows
version...


On 5/21/07 5:10 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 James schrieb:
 
 In 1.50 beta 3, there may be a bug in resizing equations.  If I go to
 preferences - screen fonts and change the zoom from 150% (the default) to
 anything else, the text is resized properly but the equations are not.  This
 was not a problem in the beta 2 version.
 
 Works for mere on Windows with beta3.
 
 regarsd Uwe

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lyx template for IEEE proceedings

[Chuming Chen]

Dear List,

Does anybody have the lyx template for the IEEE proceedings format like this 
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf?

Thanks,

Chuming Chen

Re: Small caps italic revisited

[Charles de Miramon]

Sam Lewis wrote:

 I'm interested what are other peoples experience generally in terms of
 Open Type and more specifically with small caps italic. What's
 happening Font wise on the German side for example?

In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are no
italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer, you
should not used italic small caps.

The fact is that with the wordprocessor, it became possible to slant any
letter and slanted small caps and people are getting used of these slanted
small caps but for typographers they are considered an heresy.

In the common teX fonts there are no italic small caps so the only solution
is to use the trick I've mentionned on the list to create slanted (fake
italic) small caps. Another solution would be to buy a font with a small
cap italic variant but I don't think they are many of them.

Cheers,
Charles

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Re: Small caps italic revisited

[William Adams]

On May 22, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Charles de Miramon wrote:



In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are no
italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer, you
should not used italic small caps.

The fact is that with the wordprocessor, it became possible to  
slant any
letter and slanted small caps and people are getting used of these  
slanted

small caps but for typographers they are considered an heresy.



Right.

After all, no one would ever use ``A.D.'' or ``B.C.'' in a title (I  
must be imagining _The Moorlands of England and Wales: An  
Environmental History 8000 BC to AD 2000_) and no one would ever have  
a need to emphasize a time (I said {7:00\textsc{pm} and I meant \emph 
{7:00\textsc{pm}}).



In the common teX fonts there are no italic small caps so the only  
solution
is to use the trick I've mentionned on the list to create slanted  
(fake
italic) small caps. Another solution would be to buy a font with a  
small

cap italic variant but I don't think they are many of them.



There're a few and there will be more of course. From a cursory search:

Eldorado Text
PMN Caecilia
Minion (incl. Pro)
Albertan
Garamond Premier Pro
Arno Pro

William

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LyX/Mac-1.5.0 beta 3

[Anders Ekberg]

A third issue concerns typesetting. Before you run LyX for the  
first time, make sure you run the installer. Then run LyX and check  
the View menu to make sure options like PDF (pdflatex) appear. If  
the menu is mostly empty, you'll probably be able to fix it by  
reconfiguring LyX (LyX  Reconfigure) and then restarting. If you  
have this problem, please report it to the list along with details  
concerning your setup: Intel or PPC Mac as well as how you  
installed LaTeX (i-Installer, MacTeX, fink, macports, etc.).


For the record:
Problem with OSX 10.4.9, PPC and i-Installer.

/Anders

Re: bug in lyx 1.5.0

[Anders Ekberg]

Richard Heck
Mon, 21 May 2007 07:29:57 -0700
Marcelo Acuña wrote:
 May be a version of error 3382, but this error is in
 1.4.4 version, and I have not problem in that version,
 only in 1.5.0

This bug is very, very sensitive to details of how the LyX file is
written. So this is not surprising.

rh


Can confirm that...
Using the details in bugzilla, I can reproduce the bug (MacPPC,  
LyX1.5svn), but it is dependent on when the font size is applied.  
That's the reason I failed to reproduce before. So, sorry if my  
previous mail caused confusion.


Anders 

Re: bug in lyx 1.5.0

[Richard Heck]

Anders Ekberg wrote:
 This bug is very, very sensitive to details of how the LyX file is
 written. So this is not surprising.
 Can confirm that...
 Using the details in bugzilla, I can reproduce the bug (MacPPC,
 LyX1.5svn), but it is dependent on when the font size is applied.
 That's the reason I failed to reproduce before. So, sorry if my
 previous mail caused confusion.
Yes. If you do large, then italic, you get one behavior; italic then
large, the other. That's the bug, basically.

rh

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Re: Small caps italic revisited

[Sam Lewis]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:24:35 GMT
Charles de Miramon wrote:

 URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38724
 In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are
 no italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer,
 you should not used italic small caps. The fact is that with the
 wordprocessor, it became possible to slant any letter and slanted
 small caps and people are getting used of these slanted small caps
 but for typographers they are considered an heresy. In the common teX
 fonts there are no italic small caps so the only solution is to use
 the trick I've mentionned on the list to create slanted (fake italic)
 small caps. Another solution would be to buy a font with a small cap
 italic variant but I don't think they are many of them. Cheers,
 Charles

Thanks for shedding light on this! Appreciated!

I think, I'd like to be a heretic :). Although I agree that double
emphasis is not useful and should be avoided, I think my use of use
small caps italic differs significantly from traditional use.

Imagine a scientific text in form of a narrative (as you find in
ethnographic writing). In this text there would be many sequences of
abbreviations. I.e.:

`In inpatients treated by PTA a significant rise in ABPI was seen at ABC
levels...' 

As a way to improve the typographical appearance of such a sentence
(unless one would be prepared to spell out words
ankle/brachial-pressure-index), I have constantly throughout a book
used small caps for these kind of abbreviations. All fine -- remember
this is a story not a medical report! However, when it comes to the
point of citing my informants, I would place a paragraph in italic to
indicate the difference in text that someone is speaking. Common
practice. Yet, this is where the trouble starts, as speech may contain
abbreviations too.

So would this mean, in a strict sense, if in italic such sentence
would then would not have the benefit of small caps abbreviations
anymore. In essence, I would say  small caps italic are legitimate at
the point of de-emphasising which constraints of modern textuality may
require.

Any thoughts. Thanks!

Cheers, Sam

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5.0 beta 3

[Bob Lounsbury]

On 5/22/07, Anders Ekberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 A third issue concerns typesetting. Before you run LyX for the
 first time, make sure you run the installer. Then run LyX and check
 the View menu to make sure options like PDF (pdflatex) appear. If
 the menu is mostly empty, you'll probably be able to fix it by
 reconfiguring LyX (LyX  Reconfigure) and then restarting. If you
 have this problem, please report it to the list along with details
 concerning your setup: Intel or PPC Mac as well as how you
 installed LaTeX (i-Installer, MacTeX, fink, macports, etc.).

For the record:
Problem with OSX 10.4.9, PPC and i-Installer.



Same problem with OSX 10.4.9, PPC, and Fink.

Bob

/Anders

error on install mac book pro

[Emilio Gagliardi]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if someone had experienced problems installing Lyx onto mac
os x (os x 1.4.9 on a mac book pro)?  I've tried installing several times
and I get an error which prevents all the document classes from being
installed...
I downloaded this file :
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.4/LyX-1.4.4-Mac-Intel-3.dmg
I put the lyx.app in applications, and ran the installer.
-remove works
-move user directory works
-clean up preferences works
-install default templates works
error
cannot run texhash to update tex installation

it says it installed all the files, but when i open a document that uses any
document type it says the document uses a missing tex class 'report.' Lyx
will not produce output.

When I go to Document  Settings  the drop-down 'document class'  each item
is listed as unavailable.

I tried opening Help  Tutorial and the error message was the document uses
the missing tex class 'book.' Lyx will not be able to produce output

Can someone help me install this correctly?

Thanks very much.
emilio

Re: error on install mac book pro

[Bennett Helm]

On May 22, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Emilio Gagliardi wrote:


Hi everyone,

I was wondering if someone had experienced problems installing Lyx  
onto mac
os x (os x 1.4.9 on a mac book pro)?  I've tried installing several  
times

and I get an error which prevents all the document classes from being
installed...
I downloaded this file :
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.4/LyX-1.4.4-Mac-Intel-3.dmg
I put the lyx.app in applications, and ran the installer.
-remove works
-move user directory works
-clean up preferences works
-install default templates works
error
cannot run texhash to update tex installation


Do you have any sense of why not? Did you enter the proper admin  
password when prompted? Was there any relevant text in the report  
generated after running the installer? ... Try running the installer  
again to see what happens.


By the way, what's your TeX installation?

it says it installed all the files, but when i open a document that  
uses any
document type it says the document uses a missing tex class  
'report.' Lyx

will not produce output.

When I go to Document  Settings  the drop-down 'document class'   
each item

is listed as unavailable.

I tried opening Help  Tutorial and the error message was the  
document uses

the missing tex class 'book.' Lyx will not be able to produce output


From within LyX, try Tools  Reconfigure, then quit and restart LyX.  
Ideally this should be done *after* the installer has done its job,  
but it should work without that.


Bennett

htlatex won't accept existing .png image

[Andrew Harrington]

I could not get htlatex to accept my png images.  Conversion to pdf with 
pdflatex worked fine.  It is strange, since nothing needs to be done to 
the png images to use them in html.


The beginning and the end of the console output are shown below.  It was 
not willing to consider png images.  One of the links, with the file 
included in the same directory, is IdleEditWindow.png.  If I force 
continuation, it just leaves the pictures out of the final html file.


I am running Lyx 1.4.4 on Windows XP, with all the standard extra 
downloads, including miktex 2.5.


As I remember, I had no such problem with html output under Lyx 1.3.7.

Thanks!

- - - - - - - - - - - -

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmlcall htlatex handson.tex html,1

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmllatex  
\makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HCha

r}\def\HChar{\ifx\HCode\def\HCode##1{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode\else\expanda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
e[#1,html]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode\documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle
\HCode\expandafter\def\csname 
tex4ht\endcsname{#1,html}\def\HCode1{\document

style[tex4ht,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
html.a.b.c.\input  handson.tex


...


! LaTeX Error: File `IdleEditWindow' not found.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H return  for immediate help.
...

l.554 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}

? h
I could not locate the file with any of these extensions:
.eps,.ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z
Try typing  return  to proceed.

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htlatex won't accept existing .png image

[Andrew Harrington]

I just sent a message on this topic, and I have a partial answer:
In Lyx my graphics file names are listed with the .png suffix.  In the 
export of the tex file (plain or pdflatex), the .png gets dropped.


I went back in and manually changed the tex file from Lyx in all places like
   \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}
to
   \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow.png}

Then htlatex worked fine.

The new question is, why does the Lyx's tex conversion drop the .png? 
Is there a way to stop it without resorting to manual conversions?


Thanks

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

previous email:

I could not get htlatex to accept my png images.  Conversion to pdf with
pdflatex worked fine.  It is strange, since nothing needs to be done to
the png images to use them in html.

The beginning and the end of the console output are shown below.  It was
not willing to consider png images.  One of the links, with the file
included in the same directory, is IdleEditWindow.png.  If I force
continuation, it just leaves the pictures out of the final html file.

I am running Lyx 1.4.4 on Windows XP, with all the standard extra
downloads, including miktex 2.5.

As I remember, I had no such problem with html output under Lyx 1.3.7.

Thanks!

- - - - - - - - - - - -

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmlcall htlatex handson.tex html,1

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmllatex
\makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HCha
r}\def\HChar{\ifx\HCode\def\HCode##1{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode\else\expanda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
e[#1,html]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode\documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle
\HCode\expandafter\def\csname
tex4ht\endcsname{#1,html}\def\HCode1{\document
style[tex4ht,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
html.a.b.c.\input  handson.tex


...


! LaTeX Error: File `IdleEditWindow' not found.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H return  for immediate help.
...

l.554 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}

? h
I could not locate the file with any of these extensions:
.eps,.ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z
Try typing  return  to proceed.

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 Andrew N. Harrington
 Computer Science Department  Director of Academic Programs
 Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
 512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
 Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
 820 North Michigan Avenue[EMAIL PROTECTED] for graduate admin
 Chicago, Illinois 60611  [EMAIL PROTECTED] for undergrad admin
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5.0 beta 3

[Maria Gouskova]

Bennett,

(Intel Mac OS 10.4.9, MacTeX).

I can confirm the font display problem for Times. The font looks fine
in the PDF file.

I didn't notice the View menu issue right away, because I usually view
PDFs by hitting Cmd+T (ps2pdf), which apparently works in 1.5.0 even
if the option doesn't appear in the View menu. Before reconfiguring,
only Open/Close Insets, View source, Update, and Toolbars
appeared in the View menu (the Update submenu was empty).
Reconfiguring added DVI, ps2pdf, HTML, and Postscript. Still
no PDFLatex, dvipdfm, or RTF.

I am still experiencing the old problem with line breaks. It is
impossible to select and delete just the line break--instead, the
character immediately before it gets deleted.

Progress report on IPA/unicode: unicode characters like schwa and
upside down r now work fine without any tweaking under default
settings now. Others, like theta, don't. Attempts to view PDF (ps2pdf)
get the message some characters are probably not representable in
chosen encoding, changing encoding to utf8 could help. Changing
encoding to utf8 produces Package Inputenc errors. Changing encoding
to UTF8 produces an empty file was generated plus LaTeX error: file
`UTF8.def' not found.

Finally, while playing around with the qtree package, I discovered a
small instant preview bug that is present both in 1.4.4 and in
1.5.0b3. A tree like \Tree [.a b c] will display without lines in
instant preview, but it shows up correctly in PDF (with
\usepackage[noeepic]{qtree} in the preamble). This is not a high
priority issue.

Other than that, LyX 1.5.0 looks great.

Maria


On 5/21/07, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

A binary has now been posted for LyX/Mac 1.5.0 beta 3, available here:

ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/LyX-1.5.0-beta3-Mac.dmg

The usual cautions apply: this is beta software, and things can go
disastrously wrong leading to data loss. While I don't expect there
to be any problems, and while I have been using developmental
versions LyX-1.5.0 on my own documents without any trouble, I also
religiously make backups.

Three issues for Mac deserve special mention, the first two
concerning the display fonts (LyX  Preferences  Screen fonts).
First, Times does not display properly. (Some sans-serif font is
displayed instead.) Second, with some fonts pressing down-arrow
(and sometimes up-arrow as well) will cause the cursor to skip
lines. Times New Roman seems to work well, but it would be good to
know which fonts work and which don't.

A third issue concerns typesetting. Before you run LyX for the first
time, make sure you run the installer. Then run LyX and check the
View menu to make sure options like PDF (pdflatex) appear. If the
menu is mostly empty, you'll probably be able to fix it by
reconfiguring LyX (LyX  Reconfigure) and then restarting. If you
have this problem, please report it to the list along with details
concerning your setup: Intel or PPC Mac as well as how you installed
LaTeX (i-Installer, MacTeX, fink, macports, etc.).

In spite of these warnings and cautions, LyX-1.5.0 has come a long
way since beta 2. I urge you to try it and report your experiences
with it to the list.

Thanks.

Bennett

Lyx to Docbook

[Lars Olesen]

Hi,

How do I translate a lyx document to docbook - and the other way
around? I am on windows vista with the newest beta of lyx.

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Gratis backup https://mozy.com/?code=9MYJPF

Re: htlatex won't accept existing .png image

[Typhoon]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 13:22:34 -0500
Andrew Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I just sent a message on this topic, and I have a partial answer:
 In Lyx my graphics file names are listed with the .png suffix.  In
 the export of the tex file (plain or pdflatex), the .png gets dropped.
 
 I went back in and manually changed the tex file from Lyx in all
 places like \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}
 to
 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow.png}
 
 Then htlatex worked fine.
 
 The new question is, why does the Lyx's tex conversion drop the .png? 
 Is there a way to stop it without resorting to manual conversions?

I'm not sure that this is the same problem, but it looks similar to a
problem that I had exporting pdflatex from LyX. The resulting file
wouldn't compile because the graphic files did not have .jpeg as part
of the name.

I solved it with \DeclareGraphicsRule{.jpeg}{jpg}{.jpeg}{} and
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpeg,.png,.jpg,} commands in the Preamble.

This suggests that something similar might work for you. See the
documentation that you get with a texdoc graphicx command.

HTH,
Alan

 
 Thanks
 
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 
 previous email:
 
 I could not get htlatex to accept my png images.  Conversion to pdf
 with pdflatex worked fine.  It is strange, since nothing needs to be
 done to the png images to use them in html.
 
 The beginning and the end of the console output are shown below.  It
 was not willing to consider png images.  One of the links, with the
 file included in the same directory, is IdleEditWindow.png.  If I
 force continuation, it just leaves the pictures out of the final html
 file.
 
 I am running Lyx 1.4.4 on Windows XP, with all the standard extra
 downloads, including miktex 2.5.
 
 As I remember, I had no such problem with html output under Lyx 1.3.7.
 
 Thanks!
 
 - - - - - - - - - - - -
 
 C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmlcall htlatex handson.tex html,1
 
 C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmllatex
 \makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HCha
 r}\def\HChar{\ifx\HCode\def\HCode##1{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode
 \else\expanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]@macro
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] e[#1,html]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode
 \documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle \HCode\expandafter
 \def\csname tex4ht\endcsname{#1,html}\def\HCode1{\document
 style[tex4ht,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 \makeatother\HCode html.a.b.c.\input  handson.tex
 
 
 ...
 
 
 ! LaTeX Error: File `IdleEditWindow' not found.
 
 See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
 Type  H return  for immediate help.
 ...
 
 l.554 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}
 
 ? h
 I could not locate the file with any of these extensions:
 .eps,.ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z
 Try typing  return  to proceed.
 
 -- 
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   Computer Science Department  Director of Academic Programs
   Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
   512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
   Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
   820 North Michigan Avenue[EMAIL PROTECTED] for graduate admin
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor
 
 
 

Re: lyx template for IEEE proceedings

[Uwe Stöhr]

Chuming Chen schrieb:

Does anybody have the lyx template for the IEEE proceedings format like 
this ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf?


Install the LaTeX-package IEEEtran and then reconfigure LyX. then you can use in LyX the document 
class article (IEEEtran).


I have no template because I cannot send you a paper but creating an IEEtran article is the same as 
for other article classes in LyX.


regards Uwe

Re: Equation resizing bug?

[Uwe Stöhr]

James schrieb:


I should have mentioned that this is on a Mac.  I haven't tried the windows
version...


Then plese file a bug report at
bugzilla.lyx.org

thanks and regards
Uwe

Re: Lyx to Docbook

[Lars Olesen]

2007/5/22, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Lars Olesen wrote:
 How do I translate a lyx document to docbook
Open DocumentSettingsDocumentClass. In the Document Class drop box,
choose DocBook (article) or whatever. Choose OK. (You may get some
conversion errors depending upon the document.) Now look under
FileExport. You should see DocBook... as an option.


It is not available on my clean install. How can I install missin
document classes on Windows Vista.


 - and the other way around?
FileImportDocBook


Guess, it wont appear until document class is installed.

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Re: htlatex won't accept existing .png image

[Andrew Harrington]

Thanks, adding this to the preamble stopped the errors:

\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.png,}

Alan L Tyree wrote:

On Tue, 22 May 2007 13:22:34 -0500
Andrew Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  

I just sent a message on this topic, and I have a partial answer:
In Lyx my graphics file names are listed with the .png suffix.  In
the export of the tex file (plain or pdflatex), the .png gets dropped.

I went back in and manually changed the tex file from Lyx in all
places like \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}
to
\includegraphics{IdleEditWindow.png}

Then htlatex worked fine.

The new question is, why does the Lyx's tex conversion drop the .png? 
Is there a way to stop it without resorting to manual conversions?



I'm not sure that this is the same problem, but it looks similar to a
problem that I had exporting pdflatex from LyX. The resulting file
wouldn't compile because the graphic files did not have .jpeg as part
of the name.

I solved it with \DeclareGraphicsRule{.jpeg}{jpg}{.jpeg}{} and
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpeg,.png,.jpg,} commands in the Preamble.

This suggests that something similar might work for you. See the
documentation that you get with a texdoc graphicx command.

HTH,
Alan

  

Thanks

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

previous email:

I could not get htlatex to accept my png images.  Conversion to pdf
with pdflatex worked fine.  It is strange, since nothing needs to be
done to the png images to use them in html.

The beginning and the end of the console output are shown below.  It
was not willing to consider png images.  One of the links, with the
file included in the same directory, is IdleEditWindow.png.  If I
force continuation, it just leaves the pictures out of the final html
file.

I am running Lyx 1.4.4 on Windows XP, with all the standard extra
downloads, including miktex 2.5.

As I remember, I had no such problem with html output under Lyx 1.3.7.

Thanks!

- - - - - - - - - - - -

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmlcall htlatex handson.tex html,1

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmllatex
\makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HCha
r}\def\HChar{\ifx\HCode\def\HCode##1{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode
\else\expanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]@macro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] e[#1,html]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode
\documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle \HCode\expandafter
\def\csname tex4ht\endcsname{#1,html}\def\HCode1{\document
style[tex4ht,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\makeatother\HCode html.a.b.c.\input  handson.tex


...


! LaTeX Error: File `IdleEditWindow' not found.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H return  for immediate help.
...

l.554 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}

? h
I could not locate the file with any of these extensions:
.eps,.ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z
Try typing  return  to proceed.

--
  Andrew N. Harrington
  Computer Science Department  Director of Academic Programs
  Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
  512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
  Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
  820 North Michigan Avenue[EMAIL PROTECTED] for graduate admin
  Chicago, Illinois 60611  [EMAIL PROTECTED] for undergrad admin
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor







  



--
 Andrew N. Harrington
 Computer Science Department  Director of Academic Programs
 Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
 512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
 Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
 820 North Michigan Avenue[EMAIL PROTECTED] for graduate admin
 Chicago, Illinois 60611  [EMAIL PROTECTED] for undergrad admin
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor

Small caps italic revisited

[Sam Lewis]

On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:13:16 GMT
Steve Litt wrote:

 URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38713
 I'm pretty sure you can do this: Create an environment that makes its
 paragraph italic. Then create a character style that puts its
 characters in smallcaps. Apply the environemnt to the paragraph, and
 apply the character styles to the character styles. By using this
 styles based method, you can repeat it over and over again, and if
 you ever want to change the appearance of either, you can change it
 globally by changing your layout file. SteveT Steve Litt Author:
 Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
 http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Steve,

Thanks for the effort! Not really sure if we are talking about the same
issue (might be my incomprehensibility). AFAIK, small caps
italic (i.e. sc-i) need to physically exist on your tex distro.
Previous discussions showed there is an conspicuous lack of this font
type as open type. We only heard of commercial examples such as Scala
and the likes of Adobe.

However, some further discussion with someone who typesets text in the
Polish language and a tip from the French LyX list revealed that this
deficiency does not appear prominent outside the world of typesetting
English texts.

For example, interesting developments can be reported in The TeX Gyre
(TG) Collection of Fonts which `aims at remaking and extending of the
freely available fonts distributed with Ghostscript. The important
aspect of the project is providing not only the support for TeX but
also the cross-platform OpenType format of the fonts.'

www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/

I'm interested what are other peoples experience generally in terms of
Open Type and more specifically with small caps italic. What's
happening Font wise on the German side for example?

Cheers, Sam

Re: problems with Lyx multi-language document under Windows

[Ludek Borovansky]

Hi Maria,

thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately it doesn't work for me that way. When I have a Russian 
document with some English words in it, everything works just fine. 
Problem is, when I write Russian document with another language which 
has some special characters also (for example Czech, Deutsch) then I get 
the error specified earlier. This error shows up only when specific 
characters for the second language are used (for example when I write 
only numbers with Deutsch or Czech language in Russian document, 
everything is OK). It seems to be that Lyx 1.4.4 under windows doesn't 
like two foreign languages  with their specific characters on the same 
line in one document :-(


Any other suggestion, could this be solved with ERT for example?

thank you

Ludek

Maria Gouskova napsal(a):

Hi Ludek,

I can switch from Russian to English on the same line. I am using a 
Mac so things aren't exactly the same, but here is how I do it (LyX 
1.4.4, Intel/Mac OS 10.4.9):


1. LyXDocumentSettingsLanguage, set Language to Russian.
2. In your OS, switch to a Cyrillic/Russian keyboard layout when you 
need the Russian text. This works whether it's on the same line or 
not. English/Roman text appears when you switch back to the Roman 
keyboard layout.
3. View file through PDFLatex or any other method--it should render 
both English and Russian correctly.


There is also another method, describe on 
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX#toc19 
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX#toc19.


Maria


On 5/21/07, *Ludek Borovansky* [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi all,

I have a problem with Lyx 1.4.4 under Windows (and Miktex) writing
multi
language documents. I  have my document set up as Deutsch, but I need
from time to time to type in a Russian language  for example.But
when I
change a language via menu Edit/Text Style and also I change keyboard
layout under windows, I am able to write in Russian only when there is
no other language on the same line in the document. If there is for
example a text in Deutsch at the beginning of the  line and then I try
to type something in Cyrillic, I get error when trying to view
document
as a PDF file. It says something like:
Missing $ inserted -  ...\foreignlanguage{russian}{45Ů×ÁĐŮ×ÁĐÁ×ĐÁ×}
and Latex error: command \DH unavailable in encoding T2A etc.

This error is not showing up if I write only Russian
document  or  if  I
keep  different languages on separate lines (not mixing languages
on the
same lines of text).

I have babel installed and enabled, also I have tried to switch to 1.5
beta 3 version of Lyx where I don't have this problem, but
unfortunately
this  version is not stable  for me yet and it keeps crashing now
and then.


Any help would be appreciated, I like Lyx and its layout of documents
very much.

Ludek Borovansky

Re: Fully contained lyx + miktex distribution!

[John Pye]

These issues relating to single-file installers just keep coming up
repeatedly across different unix/linux originated projects that are
being ported to Windows. Off the top of my head: GIMP, Inkscape, MinGW,
LyX,GAIM, K-3D, and scipy.

The problem is that each project tackles the problem in isolation --
each one has a bespoke way of providing a one-file installer. So many
better things could have been done instead if a common approach had be
available.

I would like to see some kind of general solution, a dependency-handling
program for FOSS on Windows that plays nice with 'add/remove programs'
in some way... but that also works with Wine...

Dieter Krachtus wrote:
 Hi,

 With the first release of lyx on Windows I build a home-cooked fully
 contained lyx + miktex distribution in a single zip-file. Moving from a
 desktop to laptop was as easy as extracting this zip-file.

 Why can't it be that easy with the new Lyx bundle at
 http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows ? It somehow does everything
 automatically, e.g. gets missing parts of MikTex etc. I don't like that,
 since you don't always have an internet connection, especially on travels
 and it is somehow stupid to download and launch the installer on every
 computer you have at home and then download the necessary MikTex
 packages.
 Even worse, when working with Lyx and you use some special Latex
 features,
 sometimes Lyx needs to download these missing featrues - this is
 user-unfriendly and annoying.

 Therefore, I suggest that there is a big lyx distribution in the form
 of a
 single zip-file or CD .iso that contains really everything - MikTex
 (everything) + Lyx + pdf viewer + etc. I guess it is difficult it
 would also
 be beneficial to have an lyx-.iso distribution which you simply mount and
 start working - a.k.a. PortableLYX.

 Cheers,
 Dieter

Re: problems with Lyx multi-language document under Windows

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

 Ludek == Ludek Borovansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Ludek Hi Maria, thank you for your reply.

Ludek Unfortunately it doesn't work for me that way. When I have a
Ludek Russian document with some English words in it, everything
Ludek works just fine. Problem is, when I write Russian document with
Ludek another language which has some special characters also (for
Ludek example Czech, Deutsch) then I get the error specified earlier.
Ludek This error shows up only when specific characters for the
Ludek second language are used (for example when I write only numbers
Ludek with Deutsch or Czech language in Russian document, everything
Ludek is OK). It seems to be that Lyx 1.4.4 under windows doesn't
Ludek like two foreign languages with their specific characters on
Ludek the same line in one document :-(

Ludek Any other suggestion, could this be solved with ERT for
Ludek example?

Being able to do such things is one of the goal of version 1.5.

JMarc

How to use 'block' in beamer?

[Neal Becker]

This is lyx-1.5.0b3.
I selected 'block' and I get something that says:
block ( ERT[{title}] body ): my text here...

There is no way to select that block... with the mouse.  How do I edit it?

If I do nothing, then pdflatex will pick up the first letter of the
following text and highlight it.

This is the latex code that would correspond to what I want:
\begin{itemize}
\item Key idea: 
\end{itemize}
\begin{block}{Key Idea}
 \alert{Remove Modulation and then filter}
\end{block}

Re: Equation resizing bug?

[James]

I should have mentioned that this is on a Mac.  I haven't tried the windows
version...


On 5/21/07 5:10 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 James schrieb:
 
 In 1.50 beta 3, there may be a bug in resizing equations.  If I go to
 preferences - screen fonts and change the zoom from 150% (the default) to
 anything else, the text is resized properly but the equations are not.  This
 was not a problem in the beta 2 version.
 
 Works for mere on Windows with beta3.
 
 regarsd Uwe

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lyx template for IEEE proceedings

[Chuming Chen]

Dear List,

Does anybody have the lyx template for the IEEE proceedings format like this 
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf?

Thanks,

Chuming Chen

Re: Small caps italic revisited

[Charles de Miramon]

Sam Lewis wrote:

 I'm interested what are other peoples experience generally in terms of
 Open Type and more specifically with small caps italic. What's
 happening Font wise on the German side for example?

In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are no
italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer, you
should not used italic small caps.

The fact is that with the wordprocessor, it became possible to slant any
letter and slanted small caps and people are getting used of these slanted
small caps but for typographers they are considered an heresy.

In the common teX fonts there are no italic small caps so the only solution
is to use the trick I've mentionned on the list to create slanted (fake
italic) small caps. Another solution would be to buy a font with a small
cap italic variant but I don't think they are many of them.

Cheers,
Charles

-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Small caps italic revisited

[William Adams]

On May 22, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Charles de Miramon wrote:



In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are no
italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer, you
should not used italic small caps.

The fact is that with the wordprocessor, it became possible to  
slant any
letter and slanted small caps and people are getting used of these  
slanted

small caps but for typographers they are considered an heresy.



Right.

After all, no one would ever use ``A.D.'' or ``B.C.'' in a title (I  
must be imagining _The Moorlands of England and Wales: An  
Environmental History 8000 BC to AD 2000_) and no one would ever have  
a need to emphasize a time (I said {7:00\textsc{pm} and I meant \emph 
{7:00\textsc{pm}}).



In the common teX fonts there are no italic small caps so the only  
solution
is to use the trick I've mentionned on the list to create slanted  
(fake
italic) small caps. Another solution would be to buy a font with a  
small

cap italic variant but I don't think they are many of them.



There're a few and there will be more of course. From a cursory search:

Eldorado Text
PMN Caecilia
Minion (incl. Pro)
Albertan
Garamond Premier Pro
Arno Pro

William

--
William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications

LyX/Mac-1.5.0 beta 3

[Anders Ekberg]

A third issue concerns typesetting. Before you run LyX for the  
first time, make sure you run the installer. Then run LyX and check  
the View menu to make sure options like PDF (pdflatex) appear. If  
the menu is mostly empty, you'll probably be able to fix it by  
reconfiguring LyX (LyX  Reconfigure) and then restarting. If you  
have this problem, please report it to the list along with details  
concerning your setup: Intel or PPC Mac as well as how you  
installed LaTeX (i-Installer, MacTeX, fink, macports, etc.).


For the record:
Problem with OSX 10.4.9, PPC and i-Installer.

/Anders

Re: bug in lyx 1.5.0

[Anders Ekberg]

Richard Heck
Mon, 21 May 2007 07:29:57 -0700
Marcelo Acuña wrote:
 May be a version of error 3382, but this error is in
 1.4.4 version, and I have not problem in that version,
 only in 1.5.0

This bug is very, very sensitive to details of how the LyX file is
written. So this is not surprising.

rh


Can confirm that...
Using the details in bugzilla, I can reproduce the bug (MacPPC,  
LyX1.5svn), but it is dependent on when the font size is applied.  
That's the reason I failed to reproduce before. So, sorry if my  
previous mail caused confusion.


Anders 

Re: bug in lyx 1.5.0

[Richard Heck]

Anders Ekberg wrote:
 This bug is very, very sensitive to details of how the LyX file is
 written. So this is not surprising.
 Can confirm that...
 Using the details in bugzilla, I can reproduce the bug (MacPPC,
 LyX1.5svn), but it is dependent on when the font size is applied.
 That's the reason I failed to reproduce before. So, sorry if my
 previous mail caused confusion.
Yes. If you do large, then italic, you get one behavior; italic then
large, the other. That's the bug, basically.

rh

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Re: Small caps italic revisited

[Sam Lewis]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:24:35 GMT
Charles de Miramon wrote:

 URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38724
 In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are
 no italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer,
 you should not used italic small caps. The fact is that with the
 wordprocessor, it became possible to slant any letter and slanted
 small caps and people are getting used of these slanted small caps
 but for typographers they are considered an heresy. In the common teX
 fonts there are no italic small caps so the only solution is to use
 the trick I've mentionned on the list to create slanted (fake italic)
 small caps. Another solution would be to buy a font with a small cap
 italic variant but I don't think they are many of them. Cheers,
 Charles

Thanks for shedding light on this! Appreciated!

I think, I'd like to be a heretic :). Although I agree that double
emphasis is not useful and should be avoided, I think my use of use
small caps italic differs significantly from traditional use.

Imagine a scientific text in form of a narrative (as you find in
ethnographic writing). In this text there would be many sequences of
abbreviations. I.e.:

`In inpatients treated by PTA a significant rise in ABPI was seen at ABC
levels...' 

As a way to improve the typographical appearance of such a sentence
(unless one would be prepared to spell out words
ankle/brachial-pressure-index), I have constantly throughout a book
used small caps for these kind of abbreviations. All fine -- remember
this is a story not a medical report! However, when it comes to the
point of citing my informants, I would place a paragraph in italic to
indicate the difference in text that someone is speaking. Common
practice. Yet, this is where the trouble starts, as speech may contain
abbreviations too.

So would this mean, in a strict sense, if in italic such sentence
would then would not have the benefit of small caps abbreviations
anymore. In essence, I would say  small caps italic are legitimate at
the point of de-emphasising which constraints of modern textuality may
require.

Any thoughts. Thanks!

Cheers, Sam

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5.0 beta 3

[Bob Lounsbury]

On 5/22/07, Anders Ekberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


 A third issue concerns typesetting. Before you run LyX for the
 first time, make sure you run the installer. Then run LyX and check
 the View menu to make sure options like PDF (pdflatex) appear. If
 the menu is mostly empty, you'll probably be able to fix it by
 reconfiguring LyX (LyX  Reconfigure) and then restarting. If you
 have this problem, please report it to the list along with details
 concerning your setup: Intel or PPC Mac as well as how you
 installed LaTeX (i-Installer, MacTeX, fink, macports, etc.).

For the record:
Problem with OSX 10.4.9, PPC and i-Installer.



Same problem with OSX 10.4.9, PPC, and Fink.

Bob

/Anders

error on install mac book pro

[Emilio Gagliardi]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if someone had experienced problems installing Lyx onto mac
os x (os x 1.4.9 on a mac book pro)?  I've tried installing several times
and I get an error which prevents all the document classes from being
installed...
I downloaded this file :
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.4/LyX-1.4.4-Mac-Intel-3.dmg
I put the lyx.app in applications, and ran the installer.
-remove works
-move user directory works
-clean up preferences works
-install default templates works
error
cannot run texhash to update tex installation

it says it installed all the files, but when i open a document that uses any
document type it says the document uses a missing tex class 'report.' Lyx
will not produce output.

When I go to Document  Settings  the drop-down 'document class'  each item
is listed as unavailable.

I tried opening Help  Tutorial and the error message was the document uses
the missing tex class 'book.' Lyx will not be able to produce output

Can someone help me install this correctly?

Thanks very much.
emilio

Re: error on install mac book pro

[Bennett Helm]

On May 22, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Emilio Gagliardi wrote:


Hi everyone,

I was wondering if someone had experienced problems installing Lyx  
onto mac
os x (os x 1.4.9 on a mac book pro)?  I've tried installing several  
times

and I get an error which prevents all the document classes from being
installed...
I downloaded this file :
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.4/LyX-1.4.4-Mac-Intel-3.dmg
I put the lyx.app in applications, and ran the installer.
-remove works
-move user directory works
-clean up preferences works
-install default templates works
error
cannot run texhash to update tex installation


Do you have any sense of why not? Did you enter the proper admin  
password when prompted? Was there any relevant text in the report  
generated after running the installer? ... Try running the installer  
again to see what happens.


By the way, what's your TeX installation?

it says it installed all the files, but when i open a document that  
uses any
document type it says the document uses a missing tex class  
'report.' Lyx

will not produce output.

When I go to Document  Settings  the drop-down 'document class'   
each item

is listed as unavailable.

I tried opening Help  Tutorial and the error message was the  
document uses

the missing tex class 'book.' Lyx will not be able to produce output


From within LyX, try Tools  Reconfigure, then quit and restart LyX.  
Ideally this should be done *after* the installer has done its job,  
but it should work without that.


Bennett

htlatex won't accept existing .png image

[Andrew Harrington]

I could not get htlatex to accept my png images.  Conversion to pdf with 
pdflatex worked fine.  It is strange, since nothing needs to be done to 
the png images to use them in html.


The beginning and the end of the console output are shown below.  It was 
not willing to consider png images.  One of the links, with the file 
included in the same directory, is IdleEditWindow.png.  If I force 
continuation, it just leaves the pictures out of the final html file.


I am running Lyx 1.4.4 on Windows XP, with all the standard extra 
downloads, including miktex 2.5.


As I remember, I had no such problem with html output under Lyx 1.3.7.

Thanks!

- - - - - - - - - - - -

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmlcall htlatex handson.tex html,1

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmllatex  
\makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HCha

r}\def\HChar{\ifx\HCode\def\HCode##1{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode\else\expanda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
e[#1,html]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode\documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle
\HCode\expandafter\def\csname 
tex4ht\endcsname{#1,html}\def\HCode1{\document

style[tex4ht,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
html.a.b.c.\input  handson.tex


...


! LaTeX Error: File `IdleEditWindow' not found.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H return  for immediate help.
...

l.554 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}

? h
I could not locate the file with any of these extensions:
.eps,.ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z
Try typing  return  to proceed.

--
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 Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
 512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
 Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
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  [EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor

htlatex won't accept existing .png image

[Andrew Harrington]

I just sent a message on this topic, and I have a partial answer:
In Lyx my graphics file names are listed with the .png suffix.  In the 
export of the tex file (plain or pdflatex), the .png gets dropped.


I went back in and manually changed the tex file from Lyx in all places like
   \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}
to
   \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow.png}

Then htlatex worked fine.

The new question is, why does the Lyx's tex conversion drop the .png? 
Is there a way to stop it without resorting to manual conversions?


Thanks

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

previous email:

I could not get htlatex to accept my png images.  Conversion to pdf with
pdflatex worked fine.  It is strange, since nothing needs to be done to
the png images to use them in html.

The beginning and the end of the console output are shown below.  It was
not willing to consider png images.  One of the links, with the file
included in the same directory, is IdleEditWindow.png.  If I force
continuation, it just leaves the pictures out of the final html file.

I am running Lyx 1.4.4 on Windows XP, with all the standard extra
downloads, including miktex 2.5.

As I remember, I had no such problem with html output under Lyx 1.3.7.

Thanks!

- - - - - - - - - - - -

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmlcall htlatex handson.tex html,1

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmllatex
\makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HCha
r}\def\HChar{\ifx\HCode\def\HCode##1{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode\else\expanda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
e[#1,html]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode\documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle
\HCode\expandafter\def\csname
tex4ht\endcsname{#1,html}\def\HCode1{\document
style[tex4ht,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
html.a.b.c.\input  handson.tex


...


! LaTeX Error: File `IdleEditWindow' not found.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H return  for immediate help.
...

l.554 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}

? h
I could not locate the file with any of these extensions:
.eps,.ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z
Try typing  return  to proceed.

--
 Andrew N. Harrington
 Computer Science Department  Director of Academic Programs
 Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
 512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
 Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
 820 North Michigan Avenue[EMAIL PROTECTED] for graduate admin
 Chicago, Illinois 60611  [EMAIL PROTECTED] for undergrad admin
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5.0 beta 3

[Maria Gouskova]

Bennett,

(Intel Mac OS 10.4.9, MacTeX).

I can confirm the font display problem for Times. The font looks fine
in the PDF file.

I didn't notice the View menu issue right away, because I usually view
PDFs by hitting Cmd+T (ps2pdf), which apparently works in 1.5.0 even
if the option doesn't appear in the View menu. Before reconfiguring,
only Open/Close Insets, View source, Update, and Toolbars
appeared in the View menu (the Update submenu was empty).
Reconfiguring added DVI, ps2pdf, HTML, and Postscript. Still
no PDFLatex, dvipdfm, or RTF.

I am still experiencing the old problem with line breaks. It is
impossible to select and delete just the line break--instead, the
character immediately before it gets deleted.

Progress report on IPA/unicode: unicode characters like schwa and
upside down r now work fine without any tweaking under default
settings now. Others, like theta, don't. Attempts to view PDF (ps2pdf)
get the message some characters are probably not representable in
chosen encoding, changing encoding to utf8 could help. Changing
encoding to utf8 produces Package Inputenc errors. Changing encoding
to UTF8 produces an empty file was generated plus LaTeX error: file
`UTF8.def' not found.

Finally, while playing around with the qtree package, I discovered a
small instant preview bug that is present both in 1.4.4 and in
1.5.0b3. A tree like \Tree [.a b c] will display without lines in
instant preview, but it shows up correctly in PDF (with
\usepackage[noeepic]{qtree} in the preamble). This is not a high
priority issue.

Other than that, LyX 1.5.0 looks great.

Maria


On 5/21/07, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

A binary has now been posted for LyX/Mac 1.5.0 beta 3, available here:

ftp://ftp.devel.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/LyX-1.5.0-beta3-Mac.dmg

The usual cautions apply: this is beta software, and things can go
disastrously wrong leading to data loss. While I don't expect there
to be any problems, and while I have been using developmental
versions LyX-1.5.0 on my own documents without any trouble, I also
religiously make backups.

Three issues for Mac deserve special mention, the first two
concerning the display fonts (LyX  Preferences  Screen fonts).
First, Times does not display properly. (Some sans-serif font is
displayed instead.) Second, with some fonts pressing down-arrow
(and sometimes up-arrow as well) will cause the cursor to skip
lines. Times New Roman seems to work well, but it would be good to
know which fonts work and which don't.

A third issue concerns typesetting. Before you run LyX for the first
time, make sure you run the installer. Then run LyX and check the
View menu to make sure options like PDF (pdflatex) appear. If the
menu is mostly empty, you'll probably be able to fix it by
reconfiguring LyX (LyX  Reconfigure) and then restarting. If you
have this problem, please report it to the list along with details
concerning your setup: Intel or PPC Mac as well as how you installed
LaTeX (i-Installer, MacTeX, fink, macports, etc.).

In spite of these warnings and cautions, LyX-1.5.0 has come a long
way since beta 2. I urge you to try it and report your experiences
with it to the list.

Thanks.

Bennett

Lyx to Docbook

[Lars Olesen]

Hi,

How do I translate a lyx document to docbook - and the other way
around? I am on windows vista with the newest beta of lyx.

--
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Gratis backup https://mozy.com/?code=9MYJPF

Re: htlatex won't accept existing .png image

[Typhoon]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 13:22:34 -0500
Andrew Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I just sent a message on this topic, and I have a partial answer:
 In Lyx my graphics file names are listed with the .png suffix.  In
 the export of the tex file (plain or pdflatex), the .png gets dropped.
 
 I went back in and manually changed the tex file from Lyx in all
 places like \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}
 to
 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow.png}
 
 Then htlatex worked fine.
 
 The new question is, why does the Lyx's tex conversion drop the .png? 
 Is there a way to stop it without resorting to manual conversions?

I'm not sure that this is the same problem, but it looks similar to a
problem that I had exporting pdflatex from LyX. The resulting file
wouldn't compile because the graphic files did not have .jpeg as part
of the name.

I solved it with \DeclareGraphicsRule{.jpeg}{jpg}{.jpeg}{} and
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpeg,.png,.jpg,} commands in the Preamble.

This suggests that something similar might work for you. See the
documentation that you get with a texdoc graphicx command.

HTH,
Alan

 
 Thanks
 
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 
 previous email:
 
 I could not get htlatex to accept my png images.  Conversion to pdf
 with pdflatex worked fine.  It is strange, since nothing needs to be
 done to the png images to use them in html.
 
 The beginning and the end of the console output are shown below.  It
 was not willing to consider png images.  One of the links, with the
 file included in the same directory, is IdleEditWindow.png.  If I
 force continuation, it just leaves the pictures out of the final html
 file.
 
 I am running Lyx 1.4.4 on Windows XP, with all the standard extra
 downloads, including miktex 2.5.
 
 As I remember, I had no such problem with html output under Lyx 1.3.7.
 
 Thanks!
 
 - - - - - - - - - - - -
 
 C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmlcall htlatex handson.tex html,1
 
 C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmllatex
 \makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HCha
 r}\def\HChar{\ifx\HCode\def\HCode##1{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode
 \else\expanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]@macro
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] e[#1,html]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode
 \documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle \HCode\expandafter
 \def\csname tex4ht\endcsname{#1,html}\def\HCode1{\document
 style[tex4ht,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 \makeatother\HCode html.a.b.c.\input  handson.tex
 
 
 ...
 
 
 ! LaTeX Error: File `IdleEditWindow' not found.
 
 See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
 Type  H return  for immediate help.
 ...
 
 l.554 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}
 
 ? h
 I could not locate the file with any of these extensions:
 .eps,.ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z
 Try typing  return  to proceed.
 
 -- 
   Andrew N. Harrington
   Computer Science Department  Director of Academic Programs
   Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
   512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
   Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
   820 North Michigan Avenue[EMAIL PROTECTED] for graduate admin
   Chicago, Illinois 60611  [EMAIL PROTECTED] for undergrad admin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor
 
 
 

Re: lyx template for IEEE proceedings

[Uwe Stöhr]

Chuming Chen schrieb:

Does anybody have the lyx template for the IEEE proceedings format like 
this ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf?


Install the LaTeX-package IEEEtran and then reconfigure LyX. then you can use in LyX the document 
class article (IEEEtran).


I have no template because I cannot send you a paper but creating an IEEtran article is the same as 
for other article classes in LyX.


regards Uwe

Re: Equation resizing bug?

[Uwe Stöhr]

James schrieb:


I should have mentioned that this is on a Mac.  I haven't tried the windows
version...


Then plese file a bug report at
bugzilla.lyx.org

thanks and regards
Uwe

Re: Lyx to Docbook

[Lars Olesen]

2007/5/22, Richard Heck [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Lars Olesen wrote:
 How do I translate a lyx document to docbook
Open DocumentSettingsDocumentClass. In the Document Class drop box,
choose DocBook (article) or whatever. Choose OK. (You may get some
conversion errors depending upon the document.) Now look under
FileExport. You should see DocBook... as an option.


It is not available on my clean install. How can I install missin
document classes on Windows Vista.


 - and the other way around?
FileImportDocBook


Guess, it wont appear until document class is installed.

--
Lars Olesen
Gratis backup https://mozy.com/?code=9MYJPF

Re: htlatex won't accept existing .png image

[Andrew Harrington]

Thanks, adding this to the preamble stopped the errors:

\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.png,}

Alan L Tyree wrote:

On Tue, 22 May 2007 13:22:34 -0500
Andrew Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  

I just sent a message on this topic, and I have a partial answer:
In Lyx my graphics file names are listed with the .png suffix.  In
the export of the tex file (plain or pdflatex), the .png gets dropped.

I went back in and manually changed the tex file from Lyx in all
places like \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}
to
\includegraphics{IdleEditWindow.png}

Then htlatex worked fine.

The new question is, why does the Lyx's tex conversion drop the .png? 
Is there a way to stop it without resorting to manual conversions?



I'm not sure that this is the same problem, but it looks similar to a
problem that I had exporting pdflatex from LyX. The resulting file
wouldn't compile because the graphic files did not have .jpeg as part
of the name.

I solved it with \DeclareGraphicsRule{.jpeg}{jpg}{.jpeg}{} and
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpeg,.png,.jpg,} commands in the Preamble.

This suggests that something similar might work for you. See the
documentation that you get with a texdoc graphicx command.

HTH,
Alan

  

Thanks

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

previous email:

I could not get htlatex to accept my png images.  Conversion to pdf
with pdflatex worked fine.  It is strange, since nothing needs to be
done to the png images to use them in html.

The beginning and the end of the console output are shown below.  It
was not willing to consider png images.  One of the links, with the
file included in the same directory, is IdleEditWindow.png.  If I
force continuation, it just leaves the pictures out of the final html
file.

I am running Lyx 1.4.4 on Windows XP, with all the standard extra
downloads, including miktex 2.5.

As I remember, I had no such problem with html output under Lyx 1.3.7.

Thanks!

- - - - - - - - - - - -

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmlcall htlatex handson.tex html,1

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtmllatex
\makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HCha
r}\def\HChar{\ifx\HCode\def\HCode##1{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode
\else\expanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]@macro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] e[#1,html]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode
\documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle \HCode\expandafter
\def\csname tex4ht\endcsname{#1,html}\def\HCode1{\document
style[tex4ht,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\makeatother\HCode html.a.b.c.\input  handson.tex


...


! LaTeX Error: File `IdleEditWindow' not found.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H return  for immediate help.
...

l.554 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}

? h
I could not locate the file with any of these extensions:
.eps,.ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z
Try typing  return  to proceed.

--
  Andrew N. Harrington
  Computer Science Department  Director of Academic Programs
  Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
  512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
  Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
  820 North Michigan Avenue[EMAIL PROTECTED] for graduate admin
  Chicago, Illinois 60611  [EMAIL PROTECTED] for undergrad admin
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor







  



--
 Andrew N. Harrington
 Computer Science Department  Director of Academic Programs
 Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
 512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
 Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
 820 North Michigan Avenue[EMAIL PROTECTED] for graduate admin
 Chicago, Illinois 60611  [EMAIL PROTECTED] for undergrad admin
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor

Small caps italic revisited

[Sam Lewis]

On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:13:16 GMT
Steve Litt wrote:

> URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38713
> I'm pretty sure you can do this: Create an environment that makes its
> paragraph italic. Then create a character style that puts its
> characters in smallcaps. Apply the environemnt to the paragraph, and
> apply the character styles to the character styles. By using this
> styles based method, you can repeat it over and over again, and if
> you ever want to change the appearance of either, you can change it
> globally by changing your layout file. SteveT Steve Litt Author:
> Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/

Steve,

Thanks for the effort! Not really sure if we are talking about the same
issue (might be my incomprehensibility). AFAIK, "small caps
italic" (i.e. sc-i) need to physically exist on your tex distro.
Previous discussions showed there is an conspicuous lack of this font
type as open type. We only heard of commercial examples such as "Scala"
and the likes of Adobe.

However, some further discussion with someone who typesets text in the
Polish language and a tip from the French LyX list revealed that this
deficiency does not appear prominent outside the world of typesetting
English texts.

For example, interesting developments can be reported in "The TeX Gyre
(TG) Collection of Fonts" which `aims at remaking and extending of the
freely available fonts distributed with Ghostscript. The important
aspect of the project is providing not only the support for TeX but
also the cross-platform OpenType format of the fonts.'

www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/

I'm interested what are other peoples experience generally in terms of
Open Type and more specifically with small caps italic. What's
happening Font wise on the German side for example?

Cheers, Sam

Re: problems with Lyx multi-language document under Windows

[Ludek Borovansky]

Hi Maria,

thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately it doesn't work for me that way. When I have a Russian 
document with some English words in it, everything works just fine. 
Problem is, when I write Russian document with another language which 
has some special characters also (for example Czech, Deutsch) then I get 
the error specified earlier. This error shows up only when specific 
characters for the second language are used (for example when I write 
only numbers with Deutsch or Czech language in Russian document, 
everything is OK). It seems to be that Lyx 1.4.4 under windows doesn't 
like two foreign languages  with their specific characters on the same 
line in one document :-(


Any other suggestion, could this be solved with ERT for example?

thank you

Ludek

Maria Gouskova napsal(a):

Hi Ludek,

I can switch from Russian to English on the same line. I am using a 
Mac so things aren't exactly the same, but here is how I do it (LyX 
1.4.4, Intel/Mac OS 10.4.9):


1. LyX>Document>Settings>Language, set "Language" to Russian.
2. In your OS, switch to a Cyrillic/Russian keyboard layout when you 
need the Russian text. This works whether it's on the same line or 
not. English/Roman text appears when you switch back to the Roman 
keyboard layout.
3. View file through PDFLatex or any other method--it should render 
both English and Russian correctly.


There is also another method, describe on 
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX#toc19 
.


Maria


On 5/21/07, *Ludek Borovansky* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> wrote:


Hi all,

I have a problem with Lyx 1.4.4 under Windows (and Miktex) writing
multi
language documents. I  have my document set up as Deutsch, but I need
from time to time to type in a Russian language  for example.But
when I
change a language via menu Edit/Text Style and also I change keyboard
layout under windows, I am able to write in Russian only when there is
no other language on the same line in the document. If there is for
example a text in Deutsch at the beginning of the  line and then I try
to type something in Cyrillic, I get error when trying to view
document
as a PDF file. It says something like:
Missing $ inserted - " ...\foreignlanguage{russian}{45Ů×ÁĐŮ×ÁĐÁ×ĐÁ×}"
and Latex error: command \DH unavailable in encoding T2A etc.

This error is not showing up if I write only Russian
document  or  if  I
keep  different languages on separate lines (not mixing languages
on the
same lines of text).

I have babel installed and enabled, also I have tried to switch to 1.5
beta 3 version of Lyx where I don't have this problem, but
unfortunately
this  version is not stable  for me yet and it keeps crashing now
and then.


Any help would be appreciated, I like Lyx and its layout of documents
very much.

Ludek Borovansky

Re: Fully contained lyx + miktex distribution!

[John Pye]

These issues relating to single-file installers just keep coming up
repeatedly across different unix/linux originated projects that are
being ported to Windows. Off the top of my head: GIMP, Inkscape, MinGW,
LyX,GAIM, K-3D, and scipy.

The problem is that each project tackles the problem in isolation --
each one has a bespoke way of providing a one-file installer. So many
better things could have been done instead if a common approach had be
available.

I would like to see some kind of general solution, a dependency-handling
program for FOSS on Windows that plays nice with 'add/remove programs'
in some way... but that also works with Wine...

Dieter Krachtus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> With the first release of lyx on Windows I build a home-cooked fully
> contained lyx + miktex distribution in a single zip-file. Moving from a
> desktop to laptop was as easy as extracting this zip-file.
>
> Why can't it be that easy with the new Lyx bundle at
> http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows ? It somehow does everything
> automatically, e.g. gets missing parts of MikTex etc. I don't like that,
> since you don't always have an internet connection, especially on travels
> and it is somehow stupid to download and launch the installer on every
> computer you have at home and then download the necessary MikTex
> packages.
> Even worse, when working with Lyx and you use some special Latex
> features,
> sometimes Lyx needs to download these missing featrues - this is
> user-unfriendly and annoying.
>
> Therefore, I suggest that there is a big lyx distribution in the form
> of a
> single zip-file or CD .iso that contains really everything - MikTex
> (everything) + Lyx + pdf viewer + etc. I guess it is difficult it
> would also
> be beneficial to have an lyx-.iso distribution which you simply mount and
> start working - a.k.a. PortableLYX.
>
> Cheers,
> Dieter
>

Re: problems with Lyx multi-language document under Windows

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

> "Ludek" == Ludek Borovansky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Ludek> Hi Maria, thank you for your reply.

Ludek> Unfortunately it doesn't work for me that way. When I have a
Ludek> Russian document with some English words in it, everything
Ludek> works just fine. Problem is, when I write Russian document with
Ludek> another language which has some special characters also (for
Ludek> example Czech, Deutsch) then I get the error specified earlier.
Ludek> This error shows up only when specific characters for the
Ludek> second language are used (for example when I write only numbers
Ludek> with Deutsch or Czech language in Russian document, everything
Ludek> is OK). It seems to be that Lyx 1.4.4 under windows doesn't
Ludek> like two foreign languages with their specific characters on
Ludek> the same line in one document :-(

Ludek> Any other suggestion, could this be solved with ERT for
Ludek> example?

Being able to do such things is one of the goal of version 1.5.

JMarc

How to use 'block' in beamer?

[Neal Becker]

This is lyx-1.5.0b3.
I selected 'block' and I get something that says:
block ( ERT[{title}] body ): 

There is no way to select that block... with the mouse.  How do I edit it?

If I do nothing, then pdflatex will pick up the first letter of the
following text and highlight it.

This is the latex code that would correspond to what I want:
\begin{itemize}
\item Key idea: 
\end{itemize}
\begin{block}{Key Idea}
 \alert{Remove Modulation and then filter}
\end{block}

Re: Equation resizing bug?

[James]

I should have mentioned that this is on a Mac.  I haven't tried the windows
version...


On 5/21/07 5:10 PM, "Uwe Stöhr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> James schrieb:
> 
>> In 1.50 beta 3, there may be a bug in resizing equations.  If I go to
>> preferences -> screen fonts and change the zoom from 150% (the default) to
>> anything else, the text is resized properly but the equations are not.  This
>> was not a problem in the beta 2 version.
> 
> Works for mere on Windows with beta3.
> 
> regarsd Uwe

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lyx template for IEEE proceedings

[Chuming Chen]

Dear List,

Does anybody have the lyx template for the IEEE proceedings format like this 
ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf?

Thanks,

Chuming Chen

Re: Small caps italic revisited

[Charles de Miramon]

Sam Lewis wrote:

> I'm interested what are other peoples experience generally in terms of
> Open Type and more specifically with small caps italic. What's
> happening Font wise on the German side for example?

In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are no
italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer, you
should not used italic small caps.

The fact is that with the wordprocessor, it became possible to slant any
letter and slanted small caps and people are getting used of these slanted
small caps but for typographers they are considered an heresy.

In the common teX fonts there are no italic small caps so the only solution
is to use the trick I've mentionned on the list to create slanted (fake
italic) small caps. Another solution would be to buy a font with a small
cap italic variant but I don't think they are many of them.

Cheers,
Charles

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http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Small caps italic revisited

[William Adams]

On May 22, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Charles de Miramon wrote:



In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are no
italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer, you
should not used italic small caps.

The fact is that with the wordprocessor, it became possible to  
slant any
letter and slanted small caps and people are getting used of these  
slanted

small caps but for typographers they are considered an heresy.



Right.

After all, no one would ever use ``A.D.'' or ``B.C.'' in a title (I  
must be imagining _The Moorlands of England and Wales: An  
Environmental History 8000 BC to AD 2000_) and no one would ever have  
a need to emphasize a time (I said {7:00\textsc{pm} and I meant \emph 
{7:00\textsc{pm}}).



In the common teX fonts there are no italic small caps so the only  
solution
is to use the trick I've mentionned on the list to create slanted  
(fake
italic) small caps. Another solution would be to buy a font with a  
small

cap italic variant but I don't think they are many of them.



There're a few and there will be more of course. From a cursory search:

Eldorado Text
PMN Caecilia
Minion (incl. Pro)
Albertan
Garamond Premier Pro
Arno Pro

William

--
William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications

LyX/Mac-1.5.0 beta 3

[Anders Ekberg]

A third issue concerns typesetting. Before you run LyX for the  
first time, make sure you run the installer. Then run LyX and check  
the View menu to make sure options like PDF (pdflatex) appear. If  
the menu is mostly empty, you'll probably be able to fix it by  
reconfiguring LyX (LyX > Reconfigure) and then restarting. If you  
have this problem, please report it to the list along with details  
concerning your setup: Intel or PPC Mac as well as how you  
installed LaTeX (i-Installer, MacTeX, fink, macports, etc.).


For the record:
Problem with OSX 10.4.9, PPC and i-Installer.

/Anders

Re: bug in lyx 1.5.0

[Anders Ekberg]

Richard Heck
Mon, 21 May 2007 07:29:57 -0700
Marcelo Acuña wrote:
> May be a version of error 3382, but this error is in
> 1.4.4 version, and I have not problem in that version,
> only in 1.5.0
>
This bug is very, very sensitive to details of how the LyX file is
written. So this is not surprising.

rh


Can confirm that...
Using the details in bugzilla, I can reproduce the bug (MacPPC,  
LyX1.5svn), but it is dependent on when the font size is applied.  
That's the reason I failed to reproduce before. So, sorry if my  
previous mail caused confusion.


Anders 

Re: bug in lyx 1.5.0

[Richard Heck]

Anders Ekberg wrote:
>> This bug is very, very sensitive to details of how the LyX file is
>> written. So this is not surprising.
> Can confirm that...
> Using the details in bugzilla, I can reproduce the bug (MacPPC,
> LyX1.5svn), but it is dependent on when the font size is applied.
> That's the reason I failed to reproduce before. So, sorry if my
> previous mail caused confusion.
Yes. If you do large, then italic, you get one behavior; italic then
large, the other. That's the bug, basically.

rh

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Re: Small caps italic revisited

[Sam Lewis]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:24:35 GMT
Charles de Miramon wrote:

> URL: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/38724
> In traditional European typography (before the computer), there are
> no italic (or bold) small capitals. If you are a purist typographer,
> you should not used italic small caps. The fact is that with the
> wordprocessor, it became possible to slant any letter and slanted
> small caps and people are getting used of these slanted small caps
> but for typographers they are considered an heresy. In the common teX
> fonts there are no italic small caps so the only solution is to use
> the trick I've mentionned on the list to create slanted (fake italic)
> small caps. Another solution would be to buy a font with a small cap
> italic variant but I don't think they are many of them. Cheers,
> Charles

Thanks for shedding light on this! Appreciated!

I think, I'd like to be a "heretic" :). Although I agree that double
emphasis is not useful and should be avoided, I think my use of use
small caps italic differs significantly from traditional use.

Imagine a scientific text in form of a narrative (as you find in
ethnographic writing). In this text there would be many sequences of
abbreviations. I.e.:

`In inpatients treated by PTA a significant rise in ABPI was seen at ABC
levels...' 

As a way to improve the typographical appearance of such a sentence
(unless one would be prepared to spell out words
ankle/brachial-pressure-index), I have constantly throughout a book
used small caps for these kind of abbreviations. All fine -- remember
this is a "story" not a medical report! However, when it comes to the
point of citing my informants, I would place a paragraph in italic to
indicate the difference in text that someone is speaking. Common
practice. Yet, this is where the trouble starts, as speech may contain
abbreviations too.

So would this mean, in a strict sense, if in italic such sentence
would then would not have the "benefit" of small caps abbreviations
anymore. In essence, I would say  small caps italic are legitimate at
the point of de-emphasising which constraints of modern textuality may
require.

Any thoughts. Thanks!

Cheers, Sam

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5.0 beta 3

[Bob Lounsbury]

On 5/22/07, Anders Ekberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> A third issue concerns typesetting. Before you run LyX for the
> first time, make sure you run the installer. Then run LyX and check
> the View menu to make sure options like PDF (pdflatex) appear. If
> the menu is mostly empty, you'll probably be able to fix it by
> reconfiguring LyX (LyX > Reconfigure) and then restarting. If you
> have this problem, please report it to the list along with details
> concerning your setup: Intel or PPC Mac as well as how you
> installed LaTeX (i-Installer, MacTeX, fink, macports, etc.).

For the record:
Problem with OSX 10.4.9, PPC and i-Installer.



Same problem with OSX 10.4.9, PPC, and Fink.

Bob

/Anders

error on install mac book pro

[Emilio Gagliardi]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if someone had experienced problems installing Lyx onto mac
os x (os x 1.4.9 on a mac book pro)?  I've tried installing several times
and I get an error which prevents all the document classes from being
installed...
I downloaded this file :
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.4/LyX-1.4.4-Mac-Intel-3.dmg
I put the lyx.app in applications, and ran the installer.
-remove works
-move user directory works
-clean up preferences works
-install default templates works
error
cannot run texhash to update tex installation

it says it installed all the files, but when i open a document that uses any
document type it says "the document uses a missing tex class 'report.' Lyx
will not produce output."

When I go to Document > Settings > the drop-down 'document class'  each item
is listed as unavailable.

I tried opening Help > Tutorial and the error message was "the document uses
the missing tex class 'book.' Lyx will not be able to produce output"

Can someone help me install this correctly?

Thanks very much.
emilio

Re: error on install mac book pro

[Bennett Helm]

On May 22, 2007, at 12:18 PM, Emilio Gagliardi wrote:


Hi everyone,

I was wondering if someone had experienced problems installing Lyx  
onto mac
os x (os x 1.4.9 on a mac book pro)?  I've tried installing several  
times

and I get an error which prevents all the document classes from being
installed...
I downloaded this file :
ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.4.4/LyX-1.4.4-Mac-Intel-3.dmg
I put the lyx.app in applications, and ran the installer.
-remove works
-move user directory works
-clean up preferences works
-install default templates works
error
cannot run texhash to update tex installation


Do you have any sense of why not? Did you enter the proper admin  
password when prompted? Was there any relevant text in the report  
generated after running the installer? ... Try running the installer  
again to see what happens.


By the way, what's your TeX installation?

it says it installed all the files, but when i open a document that  
uses any
document type it says "the document uses a missing tex class  
'report.' Lyx

will not produce output."

When I go to Document > Settings > the drop-down 'document class'   
each item

is listed as unavailable.

I tried opening Help > Tutorial and the error message was "the  
document uses

the missing tex class 'book.' Lyx will not be able to produce output"


From within LyX, try Tools > Reconfigure, then quit and restart LyX.  
Ideally this should be done *after* the installer has done its job,  
but it should work without that.


Bennett

htlatex won't accept existing .png image

[Andrew Harrington]

I could not get htlatex to accept my png images.  Conversion to pdf with 
pdflatex worked fine.  It is strange, since nothing needs to be done to 
the png images to use them in html.


The beginning and the end of the console output are shown below.  It was 
not willing to consider png images.  One of the links, with the file 
included in the same directory, is IdleEditWindow.png.  If I force 
continuation, it just leaves the pictures out of the final html file.


I am running Lyx 1.4.4 on Windows XP, with all the standard extra 
downloads, including miktex 2.5.


As I remember, I had no such problem with html output under Lyx 1.3.7.

Thanks!

- - - - - - - - - - - -

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtml>call htlatex handson.tex "html,1"

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtml>latex  
\makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HCha

r}\def\HChar{\ifx"\HCode\def\HCode"##1"{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode\else\expanda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
e[#1,html]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode\documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle
\HCode\expandafter\def\csname 
tex4ht\endcsname{#1,html}\def\HCode1{\document

style[tex4ht,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
html.a.b.c.\input  handson.tex


...


! LaTeX Error: File `IdleEditWindow' not found.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H   for immediate help.
...

l.554 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}

? h
I could not locate the file with any of these extensions:
.eps,.ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z
Try typingto proceed.

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 Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
 512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
 Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
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  [EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor

htlatex won't accept existing .png image

[Andrew Harrington]

I just sent a message on this topic, and I have a partial answer:
In Lyx my graphics file names are listed with the .png suffix.  In the 
export of the tex file (plain or pdflatex), the .png gets dropped.


I went back in and manually changed the tex file from Lyx in all places like
   \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}
to
   \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow.png}

Then htlatex worked fine.

The new question is, why does the Lyx's tex conversion drop the .png? 
Is there a way to stop it without resorting to manual conversions?


Thanks

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

previous email:

I could not get htlatex to accept my png images.  Conversion to pdf with
pdflatex worked fine.  It is strange, since nothing needs to be done to
the png images to use them in html.

The beginning and the end of the console output are shown below.  It was
not willing to consider png images.  One of the links, with the file
included in the same directory, is IdleEditWindow.png.  If I force
continuation, it just leaves the pictures out of the final html file.

I am running Lyx 1.4.4 on Windows XP, with all the standard extra
downloads, including miktex 2.5.

As I remember, I had no such problem with html output under Lyx 1.3.7.

Thanks!

- - - - - - - - - - - -

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtml>call htlatex handson.tex "html,1"

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtml>latex
\makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HCha
r}\def\HChar{\ifx"\HCode\def\HCode"##1"{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode\else\expanda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
e[#1,html]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode\documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle
\HCode\expandafter\def\csname
tex4ht\endcsname{#1,html}\def\HCode1{\document
style[tex4ht,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
html.a.b.c.\input  handson.tex


...


! LaTeX Error: File `IdleEditWindow' not found.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H   for immediate help.
...

l.554 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}

? h
I could not locate the file with any of these extensions:
.eps,.ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z
Try typingto proceed.

--
 Andrew N. Harrington
 Computer Science Department  Director of Academic Programs
 Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
 512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
 Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
 820 North Michigan Avenue[EMAIL PROTECTED] for graduate admin
 Chicago, Illinois 60611  [EMAIL PROTECTED] for undergrad admin
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor

Re: LyX/Mac-1.5.0 beta 3

[Maria Gouskova]

Bennett,

(Intel Mac OS 10.4.9, MacTeX).

I can confirm the font display problem for Times. The font looks fine
in the PDF file.

I didn't notice the View menu issue right away, because I usually view
PDFs by hitting Cmd+T (ps2pdf), which apparently works in 1.5.0 even
if the option doesn't appear in the View menu. Before reconfiguring,
only "Open/Close Insets," "View source," "Update," and "Toolbars"
appeared in the View menu (the Update submenu was empty).
Reconfiguring added "DVI", "ps2pdf", "HTML," and "Postscript." Still
no PDFLatex, dvipdfm, or RTF.

I am still experiencing the old problem with line breaks. It is
impossible to select and delete just the line break--instead, the
character immediately before it gets deleted.

Progress report on IPA/unicode: unicode characters like schwa and
upside down "r" now work fine without any tweaking under default
settings now. Others, like theta, don't. Attempts to view PDF (ps2pdf)
get the message "some characters are probably not representable in
chosen encoding, changing encoding to utf8 could help." Changing
encoding to utf8 produces Package Inputenc errors. Changing encoding
to UTF8 produces "an empty file was generated" plus "LaTeX error: file
`UTF8.def' not found."

Finally, while playing around with the qtree package, I discovered a
small instant preview bug that is present both in 1.4.4 and in
1.5.0b3. A tree like \Tree [.a b c] will display without lines in
instant preview, but it shows up correctly in PDF (with
\usepackage[noeepic]{qtree} in the preamble). This is not a high
priority issue.

Other than that, LyX 1.5.0 looks great.

Maria


On 5/21/07, Bennett Helm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

A binary has now been posted for LyX/Mac 1.5.0 beta 3, available here:



The usual cautions apply: this is beta software, and things can go
disastrously wrong leading to data loss. While I don't expect there
to be any problems, and while I have been using developmental
versions LyX-1.5.0 on my own documents without any trouble, I also
religiously make backups.

Three issues for Mac deserve special mention, the first two
concerning the display fonts (LyX > Preferences > Screen fonts).
First, Times does not display properly. (Some sans-serif font is
displayed instead.) Second, with some fonts pressing 
(and sometimes  as well) will cause the cursor to skip
lines. Times New Roman seems to work well, but it would be good to
know which fonts work and which don't.

A third issue concerns typesetting. Before you run LyX for the first
time, make sure you run the installer. Then run LyX and check the
View menu to make sure options like PDF (pdflatex) appear. If the
menu is mostly empty, you'll probably be able to fix it by
reconfiguring LyX (LyX > Reconfigure) and then restarting. If you
have this problem, please report it to the list along with details
concerning your setup: Intel or PPC Mac as well as how you installed
LaTeX (i-Installer, MacTeX, fink, macports, etc.).

In spite of these warnings and cautions, LyX-1.5.0 has come a long
way since beta 2. I urge you to try it and report your experiences
with it to the list.

Thanks.

Bennett

Lyx to Docbook

[Lars Olesen]

Hi,

How do I translate a lyx document to docbook - and the other way
around? I am on windows vista with the newest beta of lyx.

--
Lars Olesen
Gratis backup https://mozy.com/?code=9MYJPF

Re: htlatex won't accept existing .png image

[Typhoon]

On Tue, 22 May 2007 13:22:34 -0500
Andrew Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I just sent a message on this topic, and I have a partial answer:
> In Lyx my graphics file names are listed with the .png suffix.  In
> the export of the tex file (plain or pdflatex), the .png gets dropped.
> 
> I went back in and manually changed the tex file from Lyx in all
> places like \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}
> to
> \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow.png}
> 
> Then htlatex worked fine.
> 
> The new question is, why does the Lyx's tex conversion drop the .png? 
> Is there a way to stop it without resorting to manual conversions?

I'm not sure that this is the same problem, but it looks similar to a
problem that I had exporting pdflatex from LyX. The resulting file
wouldn't compile because the graphic files did not have .jpeg as part
of the name.

I solved it with \DeclareGraphicsRule{.jpeg}{jpg}{.jpeg}{} and
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpeg,.png,.jpg,} commands in the Preamble.

This suggests that something similar might work for you. See the
documentation that you get with a "texdoc graphicx" command.

HTH,
Alan

> 
> Thanks
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 
> previous email:
> 
> I could not get htlatex to accept my png images.  Conversion to pdf
> with pdflatex worked fine.  It is strange, since nothing needs to be
> done to the png images to use them in html.
> 
> The beginning and the end of the console output are shown below.  It
> was not willing to consider png images.  One of the links, with the
> file included in the same directory, is IdleEditWindow.png.  If I
> force continuation, it just leaves the pictures out of the final html
> file.
> 
> I am running Lyx 1.4.4 on Windows XP, with all the standard extra
> downloads, including miktex 2.5.
> 
> As I remember, I had no such problem with html output under Lyx 1.3.7.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 
> C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtml>call htlatex handson.tex "html,1"
> 
> C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtml>latex
> \makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HCha
> r}\def\HChar{\ifx"\HCode\def\HCode"##1"{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode
> \else\expanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]@macro
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] e[#1,html]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode
> \documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle \HCode\expandafter
> \def\csname tex4ht\endcsname{#1,html}\def\HCode1{\document
> style[tex4ht,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> \makeatother\HCode html.a.b.c.\input  handson.tex
> 
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> ! LaTeX Error: File `IdleEditWindow' not found.
> 
> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> Type  H   for immediate help.
> ...
> 
> l.554 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}
> 
> ? h
> I could not locate the file with any of these extensions:
> .eps,.ps,.eps.gz,.ps.gz,.eps.Z
> Try typingto proceed.
> 
> -- 
>   Andrew N. Harrington
>   Computer Science Department  Director of Academic Programs
>   Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
>   512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
>   Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
>   820 North Michigan Avenue[EMAIL PROTECTED] for graduate admin
>   Chicago, Illinois 60611  [EMAIL PROTECTED] for undergrad admin
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor
> 
> 
> 

Re: lyx template for IEEE proceedings

[Uwe Stöhr]

Chuming Chen schrieb:

Does anybody have the lyx template for the IEEE proceedings format like 
this ftp://pubftp.computer.org/press/outgoing/proceedings/instruct.pdf?


Install the LaTeX-package "IEEEtran" and then reconfigure LyX. then you can use in LyX the document 
class "article (IEEEtran)".


I have no template because I cannot send you a paper but creating an IEEtran article is the same as 
for other article classes in LyX.


regards Uwe

Re: Equation resizing bug?

[Uwe Stöhr]

James schrieb:


I should have mentioned that this is on a Mac.  I haven't tried the windows
version...


Then plese file a bug report at
bugzilla.lyx.org

thanks and regards
Uwe

Re: Lyx to Docbook

[Lars Olesen]

2007/5/22, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Lars Olesen wrote:
> How do I translate a lyx document to docbook
Open Document>Settings>DocumentClass. In the Document Class drop box,
choose "DocBook (article)" or whatever. Choose OK. (You may get some
conversion errors depending upon the document.) Now look under
File>Export. You should see "DocBook..." as an option.


It is not available on my clean install. How can I install missin
document classes on Windows Vista.


> - and the other way around?
File>Import>DocBook


Guess, it wont appear until document class is installed.

--
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Re: htlatex won't accept existing .png image

[Andrew Harrington]

Thanks, adding this to the preamble stopped the errors:

\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.png,}

Alan L Tyree wrote:

On Tue, 22 May 2007 13:22:34 -0500
Andrew Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

  

I just sent a message on this topic, and I have a partial answer:
In Lyx my graphics file names are listed with the .png suffix.  In
the export of the tex file (plain or pdflatex), the .png gets dropped.

I went back in and manually changed the tex file from Lyx in all
places like \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}
to
\includegraphics{IdleEditWindow.png}

Then htlatex worked fine.

The new question is, why does the Lyx's tex conversion drop the .png? 
Is there a way to stop it without resorting to manual conversions?



I'm not sure that this is the same problem, but it looks similar to a
problem that I had exporting pdflatex from LyX. The resulting file
wouldn't compile because the graphic files did not have .jpeg as part
of the name.

I solved it with \DeclareGraphicsRule{.jpeg}{jpg}{.jpeg}{} and
\DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpeg,.png,.jpg,} commands in the Preamble.

This suggests that something similar might work for you. See the
documentation that you get with a "texdoc graphicx" command.

HTH,
Alan

  

Thanks

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

previous email:

I could not get htlatex to accept my png images.  Conversion to pdf
with pdflatex worked fine.  It is strange, since nothing needs to be
done to the png images to use them in html.

The beginning and the end of the console output are shown below.  It
was not willing to consider png images.  One of the links, with the
file included in the same directory, is IdleEditWindow.png.  If I
force continuation, it just leaves the pictures out of the final html
file.

I am running Lyx 1.4.4 on Windows XP, with all the standard extra
downloads, including miktex 2.5.

As I remember, I had no such problem with html output under Lyx 1.3.7.

Thanks!

- - - - - - - - - - - -

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtml>call htlatex handson.tex "html,1"

C:\anh\hands-on\handsonHtml>latex
\makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HCha
r}\def\HChar{\ifx"\HCode\def\HCode"##1"{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode
\else\expanda [EMAIL PROTECTED]@macro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] e[#1,html]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode
\documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle \HCode\expandafter
\def\csname tex4ht\endcsname{#1,html}\def\HCode1{\document
style[tex4ht,[EMAIL PROTECTED]
\makeatother\HCode html.a.b.c.\input  handson.tex


...


! LaTeX Error: File `IdleEditWindow' not found.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H   for immediate help.
...

l.554 \includegraphics{IdleEditWindow}

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  Andrew N. Harrington
  Computer Science Department  Director of Academic Programs
  Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
  512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
  Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
  820 North Michigan Avenue[EMAIL PROTECTED] for graduate admin
  Chicago, Illinois 60611  [EMAIL PROTECTED] for undergrad admin
   [EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor







  



--
 Andrew N. Harrington
 Computer Science Department  Director of Academic Programs
 Loyola University Chicagohttp://www.cs.luc.edu/~anh
 512B Lewis Towers (office)   Phone: 312-915-7999
 Snail mail to Lewis Towers 416   Fax:312-915-7998
 820 North Michigan Avenue[EMAIL PROTECTED] for graduate admin
 Chicago, Illinois 60611  [EMAIL PROTECTED] for undergrad admin
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] as professor