Re: debian compile and speed
Am/At Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 19:31 Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: I'm running debian etch on a 600MHz iBook and I have 1.4.3 from the repositories and I've compiled 1.5rc1 from source. When I'm using 1.5rc1 there is a very noticeable typing lag (kind of frustrating to work with), ... My questions are: Is this a 1.5 issue, a compiling issue, a qt issue, or am I missing something? Dear Bob Lounsbury, You may try my 1.5rc1-packages at http://apt.klaumikli.de/testing I haven't noticed a typing lag till now, but I'm working on an AMD 1800 machine. Good luck! Klaumi -- Klaus-M. Klingsporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.klaumikli.de
Re: How to build LyX on Windows
hzluo schrieb: I got the SVN to compile fine with the instructions, but after copying the .exe over lyxc.exe of a completed 1.4.4 install, a dialog appears Runtime Error R6034, An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. Please contact the application's support team for more information. In the installer you used to install LyX 1.4.4 lyxc.exe is the real lyx.exe while the lyx.exe there is a wrapper for the lyxc.exe. Confusing? - indeed. You can reinstall LyX 1.4.4 using this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller Then you can simply replace the lyx.exe with the one you compiled. regards Uwe I know this problem. The solution is pretty, strange. I mean strange, because it's one of the M$ disgusting thing... And it can't be solved even you install 1.5rc1 and replace the lyx.exe and tex2lyx.exe with the one you just compiled. FYI, I now solved the problem. I had even built an installer and it wouldn't run from a fresh install with it. The problem was that in the Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest file, there is a line noInheritable/ which should be noInherit/ With that change, it runs fine. (may be that's another of these M$ disgusting things...) Georg
Re: How to build LyX on Windows
Georg Brandl schrieb: FYI, I now solved the problem. I had even built an installer and it wouldn't run from a fresh install with it. The problem was that in the Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest file, there is a line noInheritable/ which should be noInherit/ With that change, it runs fine. (may be that's another of these M$ disgusting things...) Oh, and additionally, I had to embed the manifest into the .exe file with mt.exe. Georg
Re: Importance of Mathed seems to be underestimated
Heiko Schröder wrote: Dear list, there is no question: LyX 1.5.0 is a very great jump in improvement if you think about the whole thing. But it seems to me that the importance of a very quick Mathed is underestimated by the development. Rest assured that it is not and that the new features didn't come at the expense of these new mathed deficiencies. Hopefully these problems will be solved before 1.5.0. Abdel.
Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a pdf. No errors, no warnings, no file. At least, that is the only change to my system that I can think of, and returning to Acrobat as default reader makes everything work. Should changing the default reader make such a difference? Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Thursday 14 June 2007 08:01, John Kane wrote: Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a pdf. No errors, no warnings, no file. At least, that is the only change to my system that I can think of, and returning to Acrobat as default reader makes everything work. Should changing the default reader make such a difference? Thanks I can't imagine how using a different reader would prevent LyX from creating a pdf. That would be like being blind preventing the sun from rising. I'd suggest you perform an ls command to find the PDF. If there's really no PDF, it's almost certainly not due to the PDF reader -- it's probably due to a problem in the document. Try the following: 1) lyx --export latex test.lyx 2) latex test.tex 3) dvipdf test.dvi If #1 fails, you have something basic wrong with your lyx file. If #2 fails, your LyX is producing bad LaTeX -- troubleshoot the LaTeX til you find the root cause, and then go back to the LyX and fix it there. If #3 fails, that's bizarre. If none of them fail, find out what LyX is doing when you View-Pdf that's different from what you did manually. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
problems with aspell
All dictionary seem not working on my lyx setup. I have installed lyxwininstall 1.5, the setup download english and italian dictionary but they don't work in lyx and no error message appers. what's wrong? anyone can help me? thanks in advance.
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Steve Litt wrote: I can't imagine how using a different reader would prevent LyX from creating a pdf. That would be like being blind preventing the sun from rising. I'd suggest you perform an ls command to find the PDF. If there's really no PDF, it's almost certainly not due to the PDF reader -- it's probably due to a problem in the document. Try the following: Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from being over-written. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications
Re: LyX Outline feature - screenshot short explanation
Steve Litt wrote: Is there a stable 1.5.x? Does 1.5.x use the same native format as 1.4.2? Is 1.5.x as reliable and stable as 1.4.2 (meaning it never screws up)? I'm using Mandriva 2007. Anyone know how difficult it would be for me to install 1.5.x in /usr/local/bin without trashing /usr/bin/lyx, which is 1.4.2? It is not well tested, so no guaranteees. I use 1.5 daily for my writing though, and compile a new one about once a week. If I get a bad LyX this way, I just go back to the previous one. (Before installing a new test LyX, just rename the old one to a different name based on timestamp, i.e. lyx15-june12. If you compile yourself, you have the option of using a version prefix. So your tested and true lyx 1.4 will be named lyx, while you can have the experimental 1.5 named lyx15 You then write lyx15 to invoke it. This way, you can start using lyx15 for texts of less importance. You can get familiar with the new features, and find out if 1.5 is sufficiently stable for your use. And of course you can report any faults you find and get them fixed before the release. :-) Helge Hafting
Re: Logo
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 11:53, Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández wrote: I need to insert a logo, that is an .eps graphic, in the upper left of all pages for to compose a very large corporative document. I think that the best idea for do it is to put something in the preamble, but I don't know what packages are needed or the commands for this work. Can you help me? Thanks in advance. My first reaction is to put it in the header, so use the fancyheader package (Document-settings-page_layout-page_style-fancy), and put the commands provided by fancyheader in the preamble. The one problem with using the header is that you can't have the graphic descend into the text, if that's what you want to do. But otherwise, I think it's ideal. A \raisebox with a negative number can lower such an image below the rest of the header line, if need be. It should not _overlap_ the text of course, as latex won't make room for it. But such trick can be used to let the logo potrude into margins or the spacing between running heads and text if need be. Helge Hafting
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
William Adams wrote: On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Steve Litt wrote: I can't imagine how using a different reader would prevent LyX from creating a pdf. That would be like being blind preventing the sun from rising. I'd suggest you perform an ls command to find the PDF. If there's really no PDF, it's almost certainly not due to the PDF reader -- it's probably due to a problem in the document. Try the following: Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from being over-written. Strange and stupid. A good viewer should notice the overwriting and reload automatically. Helge Hafting
Re: LyX Outline feature - screenshot short explanation
Is there a stable 1.5.x? Does 1.5.x use the same native format as 1.4.2? Is 1.5.x as reliable and stable as 1.4.2 (meaning it never screws up)? I'm using Mandriva 2007. Anyone know how difficult it would be for me to install 1.5.x in /usr/local/bin without trashing /usr/bin/lyx, which is 1.4.2? It is not well tested, so no guaranteees. I use 1.5 daily for my writing though, and compile a new one about once a week. If I get a bad LyX this way, I just go back to the previous one. (Before installing a new test LyX, just rename the old one to a different name based on timestamp, i.e. lyx15-june12. If you compile yourself, you have the option of using a version prefix. So your tested and true lyx 1.4 will be named lyx, while you can have the experimental 1.5 named lyx15 You then write lyx15 to invoke it. This way, you can start using lyx15 for texts of less importance. You can get familiar with the new features, and find out if 1.5 is sufficiently stable for your use. And of course you can report any faults you find and get them fixed before the release. :-) Helge Hafting For me, lyx 1.5.0 rc1 is very stable for production but have several bugs. Marcelo __ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas
Re: bibtex page numbering
first page of TOC, first page of new chapter, etc) have no number and the
numbering starts on the next page. I used \thispagestyle{empty} to
accomplish this and it worked fine. After the last page of text in the
thesis, I did a page break and then put \thispagestyle{empty} before
inserting my bibtex bibliography, but the page number still appears on the
first page of the bib... How can I remove this?
All these page numering sound very complicated to me. Why not using the
report of koma script class.
Once you want to have a new section you can put
\cleardoublepage in ERT
OK, maybe I misunderstood you here...
Secondly, I had bibtex insert the bibliography in the TOC, but it writes
bibliography in lower case letters, and all my other chapters etc are
written in all caps. How can I change what bibtex calls the
bibliography in
the TOC?
I donno how to solve this but I know that this is either mentioned in
the manuals or the wiki. Sorry, I don't know the exact location.
Regards,
Timmie
Re[2]: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Adams apparently wrote: Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from being over-written. Yes, which is horrible. Exceptions: GSView/GhostScript and SumatraPDF. The latter is very fast. Currently it will not automatically reload your PDF: just press 'r' to reload. Cheers, Alan Isaac
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Adams wrote: Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from being over-written. What ones? I'd guess most LyX users do like I do and create new PDFs continually while their PDF viewer is still open. Some PDF viewers have behaviour to reload updated PDFs automatically (which is just the opposite of forcing a file lock). My experience is with evince, xpdf, epdfview, gv, ggv, gpdf, and others and I don't recall this locking issue. Also how is the file lock done? File locking makes a lot of assumptions and often doesn't work on some systems for some file systems. A reliable way of doing file locking is to create a lock file (a separate dummy file); if that is the case, what is it called? Attempting to google for this topic mostly turns up about PDFs that are protected so others can't view without authenticating. But now I read that Adobe reader locks files. (I don't use Adobe.) So I guess the solution is not to use Adobe :) Jeremy C. Reed
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Adams wrote: Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from being over-written. What ones? But now I read that Adobe reader locks files. (I don't use Adobe.) So I guess the solution is not to use Adobe :) ``Most pdf viewers'' was probably a bit strong --- probably should've said something like, ``The most commonly used pdf viewer, Adobe Acrobat (and probably others, incl. apparently PDF-Viewer)'' As Alan noted, SumatraPDF is one Windows viewer which doesn't --- one can also work around this by viewing the local .pdf using the Acrobat pdf plug-in in a web-browser and re-loading it. Unfortunately SumatraPDF doesn't handle certain unusual .pdf sizes well and doesn't handle noticing the overwriting and reloading automatically as Helge notes is highly desirable. It also opens a new instance of itself when re-invoked --- I handle this by just always closing it when switching back to an editor. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications
Re: debian compile and speed
On 6/13/07, Klaumi Klingsporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am/At Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 19:31 Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: I'm running debian etch on a 600MHz iBook and I have 1.4.3 from the repositories and I've compiled 1.5rc1 from source. When I'm using 1.5rc1 there is a very noticeable typing lag (kind of frustrating to work with), ... My questions are: Is this a 1.5 issue, a compiling issue, a qt issue, or am I missing something? Dear Bob Lounsbury, You may try my 1.5rc1-packages at http://apt.klaumikli.de/testing I haven't noticed a typing lag till now, but I'm working on an AMD 1800 machine. Good luck! Klaumi -- Klaus-M. Klingsporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.klaumikli.de From my first post I'm using an iBook with powerpc processor. I assume since your package is for i386 then it would not be compatible. Thanks anyways, Bob
moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... So, let's go with the poll! -- Diego http://www.ares001.altervista.org/
Change of language
Hi I have noticed that in some cases a change of language does not work properly. I had an english document whci I copied and used for a similar one in german. I changed the language Document Settings Languge to ngerman. When I tried to generate the pdf i got an error message of some babel stuff missing. When I look at the lyx file with gvim I see that '\language ngerman' has been changed correctly, whereas '\quotes_language english' has not been changed. IIRC this is not a new effect, and since it is relatively easy to cope with that I didn't bother so far to report it. But now here is the info. Greetings Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
Ares wrote: Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... JabRef seems to be the most popular around here. It runs fine under Linux, but you have to install Sun's JVM, as it won't work under Gnu's. One reason to prefer JabRef is that the developer of BibLaTeX, soon to be the new standard, is paying attention to JabRef. But there are a lot of options, as always with Linux: pybliographer, kbibtex, etc. Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: line break or wrapping text in tabular
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 20:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I see several pages mentioning about line breaks within a tabular.
I have tables where I have a lot of text in a cell so then the tabnle is
wider than my printed page.
How can I get that text to wrap automatically?
Or by manually putting in line breaks?
Jeremy C. Reed
Hi Jeremy,
The quick way to do this is to set the width of that particular column
to a fixed amount. Right click on the column in question, and in the
dialog box enter a value. Be sure to hit the Enter key to register the
value.
Thanks.
Also can anyone point me to a webpage or document (maybe already on my
system included with teTeX install) that documents the tabular features.
Googling for it doesn't give me a lot. Or can't find correct search terms.
For example, I want to know what greater-than is for in the tabular.
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|{\centering}p{2in}|}
And what {\centering} is for.
I know what | and c and p (for paragraph) are for.
A couple please have pointed to some LaTeX docs lately -- I need to look
at them.
Jeremy C. Reed
You might have a look at
http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/tex/array.pdf, particularly Table
1. It's labeled a preliminary draft (from 1991), but my untrained eye
didn't spot anything in Table 1 that seemed wrong.
/Paul
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
John Kane wrote: Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a pdf. No errors, no warnings, no file. At least, that is the only change to my system that I can think of, and returning to Acrobat as default reader makes everything work. Should changing the default reader make such a difference? Does this mean that the *first* time yoiu try View - PDF (whatever) you get a silent failure, or only when you do an update to a doc you've already viewed? (The rest of the thread seems to be headed in the latter direction.) If it fails on the first try, go to Tools - Preferences... - File formats - PDF (pdflatex) [you'll need to repeat this for each type of PDF export you use], and look in the viewer field. If it says 'pdfview', try changing it to 'auto' (if you've installed PDF-Viewer as the Windows default for PDF files) or else change it to the name of the PDF-Viewer executable (and probably add the path to PDF-Viewer to Tools - Preferences... - Paths - PATH prefix to be safe). PDFView is a work-around to circumvent the file lock that Acrobat Reader slaps on your output file (which prevents updating the view). I'm not positive, but I think it's hard-coded to use Acrobat, in the sense that it looks for a window named Acrobat or Acrobat Reader to close/reopen. HTH, Paul
Re: pdflatex postscript handling
LB wrote: With Uwe suggestion, I upgraded to MiKTeX 2.6 all of these problems got resolved, but a new appeared. When pdflatex converts *.eps files to pdf I get errors that these figures can't be converted and are not shown in the final pdf. When .ps files get converted, their boundingboxes are ignored so figures are not displayed properly. Any suggestions? I'm using Lyx1.4.4 on WinXP I'm not having that problem with .eps files here (LyX 1.4.4, WinXP, MikTeX 2.6). I don't have any .ps image files to test. Have you tried running the MikTeX update wizard? I switched to 2.6 later than you did; perhaps there was a bug that was corrected between when you switched and when I did. If you're still having the problem, can you post a small example (.lyx file plus .eps file) so that I can test it? /Paul
Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... I am also quite pleased with JabRef. See: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JabRef put the java binary into /opt/jabref and create a starter file in your path: #! /bin/sh ###script to start JabRef export JABREF_BASE_DIR='/opt/local/jabref' ; #cd $JABREF_BASE_DIR ; java -jar $JABREF_BASE_DIR/JabRef.jar ;
Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
On Thu, 14. June 2007 17:50:08 Ares wrote: Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... So, let's go with the poll! gBib and pybliographer are able to insert citations into a LyX document. I would recommend pybliographer. Regards, Wolfgang gBib - gnome 1.x (oldfashioned) User-friendly editor and browser for BibTeX databases. You can use it also to insert citations inside a LyX document. gBib is able to import and export BiBTeX databases. pybliographic / pybliographer Tool for manipulating bibliographic databases It currently supports BibTeX, Medline, Ovid and Refer files. It is useful for viewing, editing and searching, but also to convert bibliographic databases into HTML pages for example. And some other GUI applications: referencer - Gnome Document Organiser Referencer is a Gnome application to organise documents or references, and ultimately generate a BibTeX bibliography file. Referencer includes a number of features to make this process easier: * Automatic metadata retrieval * Smart web links * Import from BibTeX, Reference Manager and EndNote * Tagging Homepage: http://icculus.org/referencer/index.html kbibtex - BibTeX editor for KDE An application to manage bibliography databases in the BibTeX format. KBibTeX can be used as a standalone program, but can also be embedded into other KDE applications (e.g. as bibliography editor into Kile). KBibTeX can query online ressources (e.g. Google scholar) via customizable search URLs. It is also able to import complete datasets from NCBI Pubmed. BibTeX files can be exported into HTML, XML, PDF, PS and RTF format using a number of citation styles. Homepage: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kbibtex referencer - Gnome Document Organiser Referencer is a Gnome application to organise documents or references, and ultimately generate a BibTeX bibliography file. Referencer includes a number of features to make this process easier: * Automatic metadata retrieval * Smart web links * Import from BibTeX, Reference Manager and EndNote * Tagging Homepage: http://icculus.org/referencer/index.html
Re: Question - theorem numbering
Hmm, I think it's interacting weirdly with some other stuff. Also, I want
definitions to be numbered within chapters (and not within sections).
Is there a good general guide to numbering somewhere?
Thanks much again!
Nathan
On 6/12/07, Nicolás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I am not wrong, inserting the following line into your preamble should
do the trick:
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[chapter]
Cheers,
Nicolás
Nathan Russell wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on my thesis in lyx, it's a document of class book-AMS (so
that
I can use theorem, definition... formats)
I want both theorems and definitions to be numbered within each chapter,
not
section (so, for example, the fifth definition in chapter 3 is defintion
3.5).
Is there a way to do this at all?
Thanks much
Nathan
Question wrt to key board use
Hi, I'm beginning to use the new TOC with the outlining faetures more often. Absolutely great for me. Questions: 1) Is there a key kombination to switch between the text pane and the TOC pane, if not how can I define one? 2) (evidently) Is it possible to activate the toc outlining functionality with key combinations? Practically all of the rest I do without using the mouse whcih gives me much more productivity when working with my documents. BTW I'm using RC1 now for two weeks without problems ;-) TIA Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Numbering MANY sections
Hi, I have a document that has grown over time to have more than 100 sections (it's the protocol of all the installation and configuration activities of my machine, I know I'm a bit compulsive ;-) In the TOC for the sections starting from 100 there is no white space left between the number and the section title, same effect for the subsections. Can anybody give me a hint how to modify the corresponding LaTeX command? TIA Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Re: Numbering MANY sections
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Hellmut Weber wrote:
In the TOC for the sections starting from 100 there is no white space left
between the number and the section title, same effect for the subsections.
This has been asked a few times this year. And it has happened to me.
Maybe this email below can help:
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 00:20:11 -0400
From: Steve Litt
To: lyx-users
Subject: Re: Problem: TOC section 2 digit numbers crash into text
On Friday 18 May 2007 22:17, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
LyX 1.4.2, Mandriva 2007 Linux.
I'm wondering if any of you have solved this already. I'm using a
derivative ofthe Book document class.
In my table of contents, every section whose number ends in 2 digits
(like 10.12), or maybe it's every section whose number is 5 chars
including the dot, crashes into the text for that contents line. This
happens even if the text is incredibly short.
Anyone experienced this yet? Anyone solved it yet?
I think you are talking about same problem I have had a few times.
See the archives for Subject: space needed in table of contents in
January of 2006.
Jeremy C. Reed
Thanks Jeremy,
That was exactly it.
%%% PREVENT TOC NUMBERS FROM CRASHING INTO TEXT
\usepackage{tocloft}% %%% Customize TOC
\addtolength{\cftsecnumwidth}{1em}% %%% Make space for long numbers in toc
lines
\setlength{\cftbeforechapskip}{1ex}% %%% 1 ex above each chapter
Your entry in the LyX Users mailing list archive is here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg44621.html
WARNING! Use of package tocloft eliminates the page break before the table of
contents. To get such a page break, insert ERT \newline.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Jeremy C. Reed
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a pdf. No errors, no warnings, no file. At least, that is the only change to my system that I can think of, and returning to Acrobat as default reader makes everything work. Should changing the default reader make such a difference? Does this mean that the *first* time yoiu try View - PDF (whatever) you get a silent failure, or only when you do an update to a doc you've already viewed? First time. Your instructions to change PDFview.cmd to auto works perfectly with no need to change Paths. Thank you . (The rest of the thread seems to be headed in the latter direction.) If it fails on the first try, go to Tools - Preferences... - File formats - PDF (pdflatex) [you'll need to repeat this for each type of PDF export you use], and look in the viewer field. If it says 'pdfview', try changing it to 'auto' (if you've installed PDF-Viewer as the Windows default for PDF files) or else change it to the name of the PDF-Viewer executable (and probably add the path to PDF-Viewer to Tools - Preferences... - Paths - PATH prefix to be safe). PDFView is a work-around to circumvent the file lock that Acrobat Reader slaps on your output file (which prevents updating the view). I'm not positive, but I think it's hard-coded to use Acrobat, in the sense that it looks for a window named Acrobat or Acrobat Reader to close/reopen. HTH, Paul Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com
Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor: Zotero
I use a combination of Zotero, a firefox plugin (www.zotero.org), and Jabref. In the future Zotero itself might hopefully be able to directly push citations to lyx which will probably mean the end for jabref on my laptop. Until now it has at least a direct copy function (ctrl+alt+c) which allows you to insert a citation in Bibtex format. At the moment I use Zotero to collect citations and pdf files (which is very easy with the built in attachment function. When I'm done I export the database from Zotero to Jabref (either via ctrl+alt+c or the export to Bibtex mode) and use JR only to store the database and to push to lyx. Zotero makes my life a lot easier as I'm able to manage my literature while browsing without having to klick around between several programs. The plugin is able to grab citations directly from webpages and from the most important online Databases (e.g. WebOfScience, Jstor, Blackwell, Wikipedia and many more) with one single click! Amazon is also supported which is very nice for books. I think Zotero is one of the most promising programs in the field of literature management. The only thing that I miss is a push to lyx function from within firefox. I've filed a feature request a while ago (http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/537/lyx-support/#Item_0) and one of the developers wrote that he thinks it wouldn't be very difficult to program a lyx integration for Zotero and they would guide someone through it. But I've got no programming experience at all, so I don't think that someone is working on that at the moment. Is there maybe someone here in lyx community who has the knowledge and is interested to make that work (and probably many scientists happy)? If one day Zotero can communicate with lyx I'm pretty sure that a whole bunch of MSWord/Endnote people would switch to lyx as the combination offers a huge potential to save some time and trouble when writing scientific papers. But thats just me dreaming ... :-) Cheers! Michael Ares schrieb: Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... So, let's go with the poll!
Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:50:08 +0200 Ares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... So, let's go with the poll! Emacs. No contest :-) Alan -- Diego http://www.ares001.altervista.org/
Re: How to build LyX on Windows
Georg Brandl schrieb: FYI, I now solved the problem. I had even built an installer and it wouldn't run from a fresh install with it. The problem was that in the Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest file, there is a line noInheritable/ which should be noInherit/ With that change, it runs fine. This is no solution because this introduces other problems. This line is correct and in all versions of the Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest delivered with MSVC I know. I think the problem is that the version number in the file doesn't fit to the DLLs listed in the manifest. I therefore ship with LyXWinInstaller this manifest file: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8 standalone=yes? !-- Copyright © 1981-2001 Microsoft Corporation -- assembly xmlns=urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1 manifestVersion=1.0 noInheritable/ assemblyIdentity type=win32 name=Microsoft.VC80.CRT version=8.0.50608.0 processorArchitecture=x86 publicKeyToken=1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b / file name=msvcr80.dll/ file name=msvcp80.dll/ file name=msvcm80.dll/ /assembly The version number is a bit older while the manifest in LyX's SVN is version=8.0.50727.762 So when you are using an older DLL version than this, it will fail. Ideally the version of the DLLs and the one in the manifest should be identic. I can do this for SVN, but before I want to know if it works when you install LyX using LyXWinInstaller and replace then 1. the lyx.exe with the version you have compiled. Does this work? 2. if 1. fails, replace the msv**80.dll in LyX's bin older with the ones delivered in your MSVC installation. Please report me the results of this test. --- Astonishingly nobody ever reported me this problem: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=239935 regards Uwe
Re: Change of language
Hellmut Weber schrieb: I had an english document which I copied and used for a similar one in german. I changed the language Document Settings Languge to ngerman. When I tried to generate the pdf i got an error message of some babel stuff missing. When I look at the lyx file with gvim I see that '\language ngerman' has been changed correctly, whereas '\quotes_language english' has not been changed. Could you please report this at bugzilla.lyx.org. I thought this bug has benn fixed some months ago. regards Uwe
Re: problems with aspell
Filippo Ottone schrieb: All dictionary seem not working on my lyx setup. I have installed lyxwininstall 1.5, the setup download english and italian dictionary but they don't work in lyx and no error message appers. what's wrong? You have installed LyX 1.5rc1 from here, right?: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12904 What is the error message you get when you create an English document and start then the spellchecker? regards Uwe
Re: captions for longables
gwyn hopkins schrieb: I know that there is an ugly hack for getting numbered captions Do you mean the one given in the EmbeddedObjects manual of LyX 1.4.4? In LyX 1.5 (will be released in two weeks or so) you will be able to insert captions to longtables nearly as for all other captions. regards Uwe
Re: debian compile and speed
Am/At Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 19:31 Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: I'm running debian etch on a 600MHz iBook and I have 1.4.3 from the repositories and I've compiled 1.5rc1 from source. When I'm using 1.5rc1 there is a very noticeable typing lag (kind of frustrating to work with), ... My questions are: Is this a 1.5 issue, a compiling issue, a qt issue, or am I missing something? Dear Bob Lounsbury, You may try my 1.5rc1-packages at http://apt.klaumikli.de/testing I haven't noticed a typing lag till now, but I'm working on an AMD 1800 machine. Good luck! Klaumi -- Klaus-M. Klingsporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.klaumikli.de
Re: How to build LyX on Windows
hzluo schrieb: I got the SVN to compile fine with the instructions, but after copying the .exe over lyxc.exe of a completed 1.4.4 install, a dialog appears Runtime Error R6034, An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library incorrectly. Please contact the application's support team for more information. In the installer you used to install LyX 1.4.4 lyxc.exe is the real lyx.exe while the lyx.exe there is a wrapper for the lyxc.exe. Confusing? - indeed. You can reinstall LyX 1.4.4 using this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller Then you can simply replace the lyx.exe with the one you compiled. regards Uwe I know this problem. The solution is pretty, strange. I mean strange, because it's one of the M$ disgusting thing... And it can't be solved even you install 1.5rc1 and replace the lyx.exe and tex2lyx.exe with the one you just compiled. FYI, I now solved the problem. I had even built an installer and it wouldn't run from a fresh install with it. The problem was that in the Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest file, there is a line noInheritable/ which should be noInherit/ With that change, it runs fine. (may be that's another of these M$ disgusting things...) Georg
Re: How to build LyX on Windows
Georg Brandl schrieb: FYI, I now solved the problem. I had even built an installer and it wouldn't run from a fresh install with it. The problem was that in the Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest file, there is a line noInheritable/ which should be noInherit/ With that change, it runs fine. (may be that's another of these M$ disgusting things...) Oh, and additionally, I had to embed the manifest into the .exe file with mt.exe. Georg
Re: Importance of Mathed seems to be underestimated
Heiko Schröder wrote: Dear list, there is no question: LyX 1.5.0 is a very great jump in improvement if you think about the whole thing. But it seems to me that the importance of a very quick Mathed is underestimated by the development. Rest assured that it is not and that the new features didn't come at the expense of these new mathed deficiencies. Hopefully these problems will be solved before 1.5.0. Abdel.
Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a pdf. No errors, no warnings, no file. At least, that is the only change to my system that I can think of, and returning to Acrobat as default reader makes everything work. Should changing the default reader make such a difference? Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Thursday 14 June 2007 08:01, John Kane wrote: Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a pdf. No errors, no warnings, no file. At least, that is the only change to my system that I can think of, and returning to Acrobat as default reader makes everything work. Should changing the default reader make such a difference? Thanks I can't imagine how using a different reader would prevent LyX from creating a pdf. That would be like being blind preventing the sun from rising. I'd suggest you perform an ls command to find the PDF. If there's really no PDF, it's almost certainly not due to the PDF reader -- it's probably due to a problem in the document. Try the following: 1) lyx --export latex test.lyx 2) latex test.tex 3) dvipdf test.dvi If #1 fails, you have something basic wrong with your lyx file. If #2 fails, your LyX is producing bad LaTeX -- troubleshoot the LaTeX til you find the root cause, and then go back to the LyX and fix it there. If #3 fails, that's bizarre. If none of them fail, find out what LyX is doing when you View-Pdf that's different from what you did manually. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
problems with aspell
All dictionary seem not working on my lyx setup. I have installed lyxwininstall 1.5, the setup download english and italian dictionary but they don't work in lyx and no error message appers. what's wrong? anyone can help me? thanks in advance.
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Steve Litt wrote: I can't imagine how using a different reader would prevent LyX from creating a pdf. That would be like being blind preventing the sun from rising. I'd suggest you perform an ls command to find the PDF. If there's really no PDF, it's almost certainly not due to the PDF reader -- it's probably due to a problem in the document. Try the following: Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from being over-written. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications
Re: LyX Outline feature - screenshot short explanation
Steve Litt wrote: Is there a stable 1.5.x? Does 1.5.x use the same native format as 1.4.2? Is 1.5.x as reliable and stable as 1.4.2 (meaning it never screws up)? I'm using Mandriva 2007. Anyone know how difficult it would be for me to install 1.5.x in /usr/local/bin without trashing /usr/bin/lyx, which is 1.4.2? It is not well tested, so no guaranteees. I use 1.5 daily for my writing though, and compile a new one about once a week. If I get a bad LyX this way, I just go back to the previous one. (Before installing a new test LyX, just rename the old one to a different name based on timestamp, i.e. lyx15-june12. If you compile yourself, you have the option of using a version prefix. So your tested and true lyx 1.4 will be named lyx, while you can have the experimental 1.5 named lyx15 You then write lyx15 to invoke it. This way, you can start using lyx15 for texts of less importance. You can get familiar with the new features, and find out if 1.5 is sufficiently stable for your use. And of course you can report any faults you find and get them fixed before the release. :-) Helge Hafting
Re: Logo
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 11:53, Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández wrote: I need to insert a logo, that is an .eps graphic, in the upper left of all pages for to compose a very large corporative document. I think that the best idea for do it is to put something in the preamble, but I don't know what packages are needed or the commands for this work. Can you help me? Thanks in advance. My first reaction is to put it in the header, so use the fancyheader package (Document-settings-page_layout-page_style-fancy), and put the commands provided by fancyheader in the preamble. The one problem with using the header is that you can't have the graphic descend into the text, if that's what you want to do. But otherwise, I think it's ideal. A \raisebox with a negative number can lower such an image below the rest of the header line, if need be. It should not _overlap_ the text of course, as latex won't make room for it. But such trick can be used to let the logo potrude into margins or the spacing between running heads and text if need be. Helge Hafting
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
William Adams wrote: On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Steve Litt wrote: I can't imagine how using a different reader would prevent LyX from creating a pdf. That would be like being blind preventing the sun from rising. I'd suggest you perform an ls command to find the PDF. If there's really no PDF, it's almost certainly not due to the PDF reader -- it's probably due to a problem in the document. Try the following: Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from being over-written. Strange and stupid. A good viewer should notice the overwriting and reload automatically. Helge Hafting
Re: LyX Outline feature - screenshot short explanation
Is there a stable 1.5.x? Does 1.5.x use the same native format as 1.4.2? Is 1.5.x as reliable and stable as 1.4.2 (meaning it never screws up)? I'm using Mandriva 2007. Anyone know how difficult it would be for me to install 1.5.x in /usr/local/bin without trashing /usr/bin/lyx, which is 1.4.2? It is not well tested, so no guaranteees. I use 1.5 daily for my writing though, and compile a new one about once a week. If I get a bad LyX this way, I just go back to the previous one. (Before installing a new test LyX, just rename the old one to a different name based on timestamp, i.e. lyx15-june12. If you compile yourself, you have the option of using a version prefix. So your tested and true lyx 1.4 will be named lyx, while you can have the experimental 1.5 named lyx15 You then write lyx15 to invoke it. This way, you can start using lyx15 for texts of less importance. You can get familiar with the new features, and find out if 1.5 is sufficiently stable for your use. And of course you can report any faults you find and get them fixed before the release. :-) Helge Hafting For me, lyx 1.5.0 rc1 is very stable for production but have several bugs. Marcelo __ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas
Re: bibtex page numbering
first page of TOC, first page of new chapter, etc) have no number and the
numbering starts on the next page. I used \thispagestyle{empty} to
accomplish this and it worked fine. After the last page of text in the
thesis, I did a page break and then put \thispagestyle{empty} before
inserting my bibtex bibliography, but the page number still appears on the
first page of the bib... How can I remove this?
All these page numering sound very complicated to me. Why not using the
report of koma script class.
Once you want to have a new section you can put
\cleardoublepage in ERT
OK, maybe I misunderstood you here...
Secondly, I had bibtex insert the bibliography in the TOC, but it writes
bibliography in lower case letters, and all my other chapters etc are
written in all caps. How can I change what bibtex calls the
bibliography in
the TOC?
I donno how to solve this but I know that this is either mentioned in
the manuals or the wiki. Sorry, I don't know the exact location.
Regards,
Timmie
Re[2]: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Adams apparently wrote: Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from being over-written. Yes, which is horrible. Exceptions: GSView/GhostScript and SumatraPDF. The latter is very fast. Currently it will not automatically reload your PDF: just press 'r' to reload. Cheers, Alan Isaac
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Adams wrote: Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from being over-written. What ones? I'd guess most LyX users do like I do and create new PDFs continually while their PDF viewer is still open. Some PDF viewers have behaviour to reload updated PDFs automatically (which is just the opposite of forcing a file lock). My experience is with evince, xpdf, epdfview, gv, ggv, gpdf, and others and I don't recall this locking issue. Also how is the file lock done? File locking makes a lot of assumptions and often doesn't work on some systems for some file systems. A reliable way of doing file locking is to create a lock file (a separate dummy file); if that is the case, what is it called? Attempting to google for this topic mostly turns up about PDFs that are protected so others can't view without authenticating. But now I read that Adobe reader locks files. (I don't use Adobe.) So I guess the solution is not to use Adobe :) Jeremy C. Reed
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Adams wrote: Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from being over-written. What ones? But now I read that Adobe reader locks files. (I don't use Adobe.) So I guess the solution is not to use Adobe :) ``Most pdf viewers'' was probably a bit strong --- probably should've said something like, ``The most commonly used pdf viewer, Adobe Acrobat (and probably others, incl. apparently PDF-Viewer)'' As Alan noted, SumatraPDF is one Windows viewer which doesn't --- one can also work around this by viewing the local .pdf using the Acrobat pdf plug-in in a web-browser and re-loading it. Unfortunately SumatraPDF doesn't handle certain unusual .pdf sizes well and doesn't handle noticing the overwriting and reloading automatically as Helge notes is highly desirable. It also opens a new instance of itself when re-invoked --- I handle this by just always closing it when switching back to an editor. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications
Re: debian compile and speed
On 6/13/07, Klaumi Klingsporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am/At Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 19:31 Bob Lounsbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb/wrote: I'm running debian etch on a 600MHz iBook and I have 1.4.3 from the repositories and I've compiled 1.5rc1 from source. When I'm using 1.5rc1 there is a very noticeable typing lag (kind of frustrating to work with), ... My questions are: Is this a 1.5 issue, a compiling issue, a qt issue, or am I missing something? Dear Bob Lounsbury, You may try my 1.5rc1-packages at http://apt.klaumikli.de/testing I haven't noticed a typing lag till now, but I'm working on an AMD 1800 machine. Good luck! Klaumi -- Klaus-M. Klingsporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.klaumikli.de From my first post I'm using an iBook with powerpc processor. I assume since your package is for i386 then it would not be compatible. Thanks anyways, Bob
moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... So, let's go with the poll! -- Diego http://www.ares001.altervista.org/
Change of language
Hi I have noticed that in some cases a change of language does not work properly. I had an english document whci I copied and used for a similar one in german. I changed the language Document Settings Languge to ngerman. When I tried to generate the pdf i got an error message of some babel stuff missing. When I look at the lyx file with gvim I see that '\language ngerman' has been changed correctly, whereas '\quotes_language english' has not been changed. IIRC this is not a new effect, and since it is relatively easy to cope with that I didn't bother so far to report it. But now here is the info. Greetings Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
Ares wrote: Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... JabRef seems to be the most popular around here. It runs fine under Linux, but you have to install Sun's JVM, as it won't work under Gnu's. One reason to prefer JabRef is that the developer of BibLaTeX, soon to be the new standard, is paying attention to JabRef. But there are a lot of options, as always with Linux: pybliographer, kbibtex, etc. Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: line break or wrapping text in tabular
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 20:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I see several pages mentioning about line breaks within a tabular.
I have tables where I have a lot of text in a cell so then the tabnle is
wider than my printed page.
How can I get that text to wrap automatically?
Or by manually putting in line breaks?
Jeremy C. Reed
Hi Jeremy,
The quick way to do this is to set the width of that particular column
to a fixed amount. Right click on the column in question, and in the
dialog box enter a value. Be sure to hit the Enter key to register the
value.
Thanks.
Also can anyone point me to a webpage or document (maybe already on my
system included with teTeX install) that documents the tabular features.
Googling for it doesn't give me a lot. Or can't find correct search terms.
For example, I want to know what greater-than is for in the tabular.
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|{\centering}p{2in}|}
And what {\centering} is for.
I know what | and c and p (for paragraph) are for.
A couple please have pointed to some LaTeX docs lately -- I need to look
at them.
Jeremy C. Reed
You might have a look at
http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/tex/array.pdf, particularly Table
1. It's labeled a preliminary draft (from 1991), but my untrained eye
didn't spot anything in Table 1 that seemed wrong.
/Paul
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
John Kane wrote: Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a pdf. No errors, no warnings, no file. At least, that is the only change to my system that I can think of, and returning to Acrobat as default reader makes everything work. Should changing the default reader make such a difference? Does this mean that the *first* time yoiu try View - PDF (whatever) you get a silent failure, or only when you do an update to a doc you've already viewed? (The rest of the thread seems to be headed in the latter direction.) If it fails on the first try, go to Tools - Preferences... - File formats - PDF (pdflatex) [you'll need to repeat this for each type of PDF export you use], and look in the viewer field. If it says 'pdfview', try changing it to 'auto' (if you've installed PDF-Viewer as the Windows default for PDF files) or else change it to the name of the PDF-Viewer executable (and probably add the path to PDF-Viewer to Tools - Preferences... - Paths - PATH prefix to be safe). PDFView is a work-around to circumvent the file lock that Acrobat Reader slaps on your output file (which prevents updating the view). I'm not positive, but I think it's hard-coded to use Acrobat, in the sense that it looks for a window named Acrobat or Acrobat Reader to close/reopen. HTH, Paul
Re: pdflatex postscript handling
LB wrote: With Uwe suggestion, I upgraded to MiKTeX 2.6 all of these problems got resolved, but a new appeared. When pdflatex converts *.eps files to pdf I get errors that these figures can't be converted and are not shown in the final pdf. When .ps files get converted, their boundingboxes are ignored so figures are not displayed properly. Any suggestions? I'm using Lyx1.4.4 on WinXP I'm not having that problem with .eps files here (LyX 1.4.4, WinXP, MikTeX 2.6). I don't have any .ps image files to test. Have you tried running the MikTeX update wizard? I switched to 2.6 later than you did; perhaps there was a bug that was corrected between when you switched and when I did. If you're still having the problem, can you post a small example (.lyx file plus .eps file) so that I can test it? /Paul
Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... I am also quite pleased with JabRef. See: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JabRef put the java binary into /opt/jabref and create a starter file in your path: #! /bin/sh ###script to start JabRef export JABREF_BASE_DIR='/opt/local/jabref' ; #cd $JABREF_BASE_DIR ; java -jar $JABREF_BASE_DIR/JabRef.jar ;
Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
On Thu, 14. June 2007 17:50:08 Ares wrote: Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... So, let's go with the poll! gBib and pybliographer are able to insert citations into a LyX document. I would recommend pybliographer. Regards, Wolfgang gBib - gnome 1.x (oldfashioned) User-friendly editor and browser for BibTeX databases. You can use it also to insert citations inside a LyX document. gBib is able to import and export BiBTeX databases. pybliographic / pybliographer Tool for manipulating bibliographic databases It currently supports BibTeX, Medline, Ovid and Refer files. It is useful for viewing, editing and searching, but also to convert bibliographic databases into HTML pages for example. And some other GUI applications: referencer - Gnome Document Organiser Referencer is a Gnome application to organise documents or references, and ultimately generate a BibTeX bibliography file. Referencer includes a number of features to make this process easier: * Automatic metadata retrieval * Smart web links * Import from BibTeX, Reference Manager and EndNote * Tagging Homepage: http://icculus.org/referencer/index.html kbibtex - BibTeX editor for KDE An application to manage bibliography databases in the BibTeX format. KBibTeX can be used as a standalone program, but can also be embedded into other KDE applications (e.g. as bibliography editor into Kile). KBibTeX can query online ressources (e.g. Google scholar) via customizable search URLs. It is also able to import complete datasets from NCBI Pubmed. BibTeX files can be exported into HTML, XML, PDF, PS and RTF format using a number of citation styles. Homepage: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kbibtex referencer - Gnome Document Organiser Referencer is a Gnome application to organise documents or references, and ultimately generate a BibTeX bibliography file. Referencer includes a number of features to make this process easier: * Automatic metadata retrieval * Smart web links * Import from BibTeX, Reference Manager and EndNote * Tagging Homepage: http://icculus.org/referencer/index.html
Re: Question - theorem numbering
Hmm, I think it's interacting weirdly with some other stuff. Also, I want
definitions to be numbered within chapters (and not within sections).
Is there a good general guide to numbering somewhere?
Thanks much again!
Nathan
On 6/12/07, Nicolás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I am not wrong, inserting the following line into your preamble should
do the trick:
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[chapter]
Cheers,
Nicolás
Nathan Russell wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on my thesis in lyx, it's a document of class book-AMS (so
that
I can use theorem, definition... formats)
I want both theorems and definitions to be numbered within each chapter,
not
section (so, for example, the fifth definition in chapter 3 is defintion
3.5).
Is there a way to do this at all?
Thanks much
Nathan
Question wrt to key board use
Hi, I'm beginning to use the new TOC with the outlining faetures more often. Absolutely great for me. Questions: 1) Is there a key kombination to switch between the text pane and the TOC pane, if not how can I define one? 2) (evidently) Is it possible to activate the toc outlining functionality with key combinations? Practically all of the rest I do without using the mouse whcih gives me much more productivity when working with my documents. BTW I'm using RC1 now for two weeks without problems ;-) TIA Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Numbering MANY sections
Hi, I have a document that has grown over time to have more than 100 sections (it's the protocol of all the installation and configuration activities of my machine, I know I'm a bit compulsive ;-) In the TOC for the sections starting from 100 there is no white space left between the number and the section title, same effect for the subsections. Can anybody give me a hint how to modify the corresponding LaTeX command? TIA Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Re: Numbering MANY sections
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Hellmut Weber wrote:
In the TOC for the sections starting from 100 there is no white space left
between the number and the section title, same effect for the subsections.
This has been asked a few times this year. And it has happened to me.
Maybe this email below can help:
Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 00:20:11 -0400
From: Steve Litt
To: lyx-users
Subject: Re: Problem: TOC section 2 digit numbers crash into text
On Friday 18 May 2007 22:17, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
LyX 1.4.2, Mandriva 2007 Linux.
I'm wondering if any of you have solved this already. I'm using a
derivative ofthe Book document class.
In my table of contents, every section whose number ends in 2 digits
(like 10.12), or maybe it's every section whose number is 5 chars
including the dot, crashes into the text for that contents line. This
happens even if the text is incredibly short.
Anyone experienced this yet? Anyone solved it yet?
I think you are talking about same problem I have had a few times.
See the archives for Subject: space needed in table of contents in
January of 2006.
Jeremy C. Reed
Thanks Jeremy,
That was exactly it.
%%% PREVENT TOC NUMBERS FROM CRASHING INTO TEXT
\usepackage{tocloft}% %%% Customize TOC
\addtolength{\cftsecnumwidth}{1em}% %%% Make space for long numbers in toc
lines
\setlength{\cftbeforechapskip}{1ex}% %%% 1 ex above each chapter
Your entry in the LyX Users mailing list archive is here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg44621.html
WARNING! Use of package tocloft eliminates the page break before the table of
contents. To get such a page break, insert ERT \newline.
SteveT
Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Jeremy C. Reed
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
--- Paul A. Rubin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane wrote: Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a pdf. No errors, no warnings, no file. At least, that is the only change to my system that I can think of, and returning to Acrobat as default reader makes everything work. Should changing the default reader make such a difference? Does this mean that the *first* time yoiu try View - PDF (whatever) you get a silent failure, or only when you do an update to a doc you've already viewed? First time. Your instructions to change PDFview.cmd to auto works perfectly with no need to change Paths. Thank you . (The rest of the thread seems to be headed in the latter direction.) If it fails on the first try, go to Tools - Preferences... - File formats - PDF (pdflatex) [you'll need to repeat this for each type of PDF export you use], and look in the viewer field. If it says 'pdfview', try changing it to 'auto' (if you've installed PDF-Viewer as the Windows default for PDF files) or else change it to the name of the PDF-Viewer executable (and probably add the path to PDF-Viewer to Tools - Preferences... - Paths - PATH prefix to be safe). PDFView is a work-around to circumvent the file lock that Acrobat Reader slaps on your output file (which prevents updating the view). I'm not positive, but I think it's hard-coded to use Acrobat, in the sense that it looks for a window named Acrobat or Acrobat Reader to close/reopen. HTH, Paul Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com
Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor: Zotero
I use a combination of Zotero, a firefox plugin (www.zotero.org), and Jabref. In the future Zotero itself might hopefully be able to directly push citations to lyx which will probably mean the end for jabref on my laptop. Until now it has at least a direct copy function (ctrl+alt+c) which allows you to insert a citation in Bibtex format. At the moment I use Zotero to collect citations and pdf files (which is very easy with the built in attachment function. When I'm done I export the database from Zotero to Jabref (either via ctrl+alt+c or the export to Bibtex mode) and use JR only to store the database and to push to lyx. Zotero makes my life a lot easier as I'm able to manage my literature while browsing without having to klick around between several programs. The plugin is able to grab citations directly from webpages and from the most important online Databases (e.g. WebOfScience, Jstor, Blackwell, Wikipedia and many more) with one single click! Amazon is also supported which is very nice for books. I think Zotero is one of the most promising programs in the field of literature management. The only thing that I miss is a push to lyx function from within firefox. I've filed a feature request a while ago (http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/537/lyx-support/#Item_0) and one of the developers wrote that he thinks it wouldn't be very difficult to program a lyx integration for Zotero and they would guide someone through it. But I've got no programming experience at all, so I don't think that someone is working on that at the moment. Is there maybe someone here in lyx community who has the knowledge and is interested to make that work (and probably many scientists happy)? If one day Zotero can communicate with lyx I'm pretty sure that a whole bunch of MSWord/Endnote people would switch to lyx as the combination offers a huge potential to save some time and trouble when writing scientific papers. But thats just me dreaming ... :-) Cheers! Michael Ares schrieb: Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... So, let's go with the poll!
Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:50:08 +0200 Ares [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... So, let's go with the poll! Emacs. No contest :-) Alan -- Diego http://www.ares001.altervista.org/
Re: How to build LyX on Windows
Georg Brandl schrieb: FYI, I now solved the problem. I had even built an installer and it wouldn't run from a fresh install with it. The problem was that in the Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest file, there is a line noInheritable/ which should be noInherit/ With that change, it runs fine. This is no solution because this introduces other problems. This line is correct and in all versions of the Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest delivered with MSVC I know. I think the problem is that the version number in the file doesn't fit to the DLLs listed in the manifest. I therefore ship with LyXWinInstaller this manifest file: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8 standalone=yes? !-- Copyright © 1981-2001 Microsoft Corporation -- assembly xmlns=urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1 manifestVersion=1.0 noInheritable/ assemblyIdentity type=win32 name=Microsoft.VC80.CRT version=8.0.50608.0 processorArchitecture=x86 publicKeyToken=1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b / file name=msvcr80.dll/ file name=msvcp80.dll/ file name=msvcm80.dll/ /assembly The version number is a bit older while the manifest in LyX's SVN is version=8.0.50727.762 So when you are using an older DLL version than this, it will fail. Ideally the version of the DLLs and the one in the manifest should be identic. I can do this for SVN, but before I want to know if it works when you install LyX using LyXWinInstaller and replace then 1. the lyx.exe with the version you have compiled. Does this work? 2. if 1. fails, replace the msv**80.dll in LyX's bin older with the ones delivered in your MSVC installation. Please report me the results of this test. --- Astonishingly nobody ever reported me this problem: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=239935 regards Uwe
Re: Change of language
Hellmut Weber schrieb: I had an english document which I copied and used for a similar one in german. I changed the language Document Settings Languge to ngerman. When I tried to generate the pdf i got an error message of some babel stuff missing. When I look at the lyx file with gvim I see that '\language ngerman' has been changed correctly, whereas '\quotes_language english' has not been changed. Could you please report this at bugzilla.lyx.org. I thought this bug has benn fixed some months ago. regards Uwe
Re: problems with aspell
Filippo Ottone schrieb: All dictionary seem not working on my lyx setup. I have installed lyxwininstall 1.5, the setup download english and italian dictionary but they don't work in lyx and no error message appers. what's wrong? You have installed LyX 1.5rc1 from here, right?: http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5117release_id=12904 What is the error message you get when you create an English document and start then the spellchecker? regards Uwe
Re: captions for longables
gwyn hopkins schrieb: I know that there is an ugly hack for getting numbered captions Do you mean the one given in the EmbeddedObjects manual of LyX 1.4.4? In LyX 1.5 (will be released in two weeks or so) you will be able to insert captions to longtables nearly as for all other captions. regards Uwe
Re: debian compile and speed
Am/At Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 19:31 Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote: > I'm running debian etch on a 600MHz iBook and I have 1.4.3 from the > repositories and I've compiled 1.5rc1 from source. > > When I'm using 1.5rc1 there is a very noticeable typing lag (kind of > frustrating to work with), > ... > My questions are: Is this a 1.5 issue, a compiling issue, a qt > issue, or am I missing something? Dear Bob Lounsbury, You may try my 1.5rc1-packages at http://apt.klaumikli.de/testing I haven't noticed a typing lag till now, but I'm working on an AMD 1800 machine. Good luck! Klaumi -- Klaus-M. Klingsporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.klaumikli.de
Re: How to build LyX on Windows
hzluo schrieb: >>>I got the SVN to compile fine with the instructions, but after >>>copying the .exe >>>over lyxc.exe of a completed 1.4.4 install, a dialog appears >>> >>>"Runtime Error R6034, >>>An application has made an attempt to load the C runtime library >>>incorrectly. >>>Please contact the application's support team for more information." > >>In the installer you used to install LyX 1.4.4 "lyxc.exe" is the real >>lyx.exe while the "lyx.exe" there is a wrapper for the lyxc.exe. >>Confusing? - indeed. >>You can reinstall LyX 1.4.4 using this installer: >>http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller >> >>Then you can simply replace the lyx.exe with the one you compiled. >> >>regards Uwe > > I know this problem. The solution is pretty, strange. > I mean strange, because it's one of the M$ disgusting thing... > And it can't be solved even you install 1.5rc1 and replace the > lyx.exe and tex2lyx.exe with the one you just compiled. FYI, I now solved the problem. I had even built an installer and it wouldn't run from a fresh install with it. The problem was that in the Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest file, there is a line which should be With that change, it runs fine. (may be that's another of these M$ disgusting things...) Georg
Re: How to build LyX on Windows
Georg Brandl schrieb: > FYI, I now solved the problem. > > I had even built an installer and it wouldn't run from a fresh install with > it. > > The problem was that in the Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest file, there is a > line > > > > which should be > > > > With that change, it runs fine. (may be that's another of these M$ disgusting > things...) Oh, and additionally, I had to embed the manifest into the .exe file with mt.exe. Georg
Re: Importance of Mathed seems to be underestimated
Heiko Schröder wrote: Dear list, there is no question: LyX 1.5.0 is a very great jump in improvement if you think about the whole thing. But it seems to me that the importance of a very quick Mathed is underestimated by the development. Rest assured that it is not and that the new features didn't come at the expense of these new mathed deficiencies. Hopefully these problems will be solved before 1.5.0. Abdel.
Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a pdf. No errors, no warnings, no file. At least, that is the only change to my system that I can think of, and returning to Acrobat as default reader makes everything work. Should changing the default reader make such a difference? Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Thursday 14 June 2007 08:01, John Kane wrote: > Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader > called PDF-Viewer > http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows > only I believe) > > I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to > Acrobat reader. However with both installed and > PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create > a pdf. No errors, no warnings, no file. > > At least, that is the only change to my system that I > can think of, and returning to Acrobat as default > reader makes everything work. > > Should changing the default reader make such a > difference? > > Thanks I can't imagine how using a different reader would prevent LyX from creating a pdf. That would be like being blind preventing the sun from rising. I'd suggest you perform an ls command to find the PDF. If there's really no PDF, it's almost certainly not due to the PDF reader -- it's probably due to a problem in the document. Try the following: 1) lyx --export latex test.lyx 2) latex test.tex 3) dvipdf test.dvi If #1 fails, you have something basic wrong with your lyx file. If #2 fails, your LyX is producing bad LaTeX -- troubleshoot the LaTeX til you find the root cause, and then go back to the LyX and fix it there. If #3 fails, that's bizarre. If none of them fail, find out what LyX is doing when you View->Pdf that's different from what you did manually. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware http://www.troubleshooters.com/
problems with aspell
All dictionary seem not working on my lyx setup. I have installed lyxwininstall 1.5, the setup download english and italian dictionary but they don't work in lyx and no error message appers. what's wrong? anyone can help me? thanks in advance.
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Steve Litt wrote: I can't imagine how using a different reader would prevent LyX from creating a pdf. That would be like being blind preventing the sun from rising. I'd suggest you perform an ls command to find the PDF. If there's really no PDF, it's almost certainly not due to the PDF reader -- it's probably due to a problem in the document. Try the following: Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from being over-written. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications
Re: LyX Outline feature - screenshot & short explanation
Steve Litt wrote: Is there a "stable" 1.5.x? Does 1.5.x use the same native format as 1.4.2? Is 1.5.x as reliable and stable as 1.4.2 (meaning it never screws up)? I'm using Mandriva 2007. Anyone know how difficult it would be for me to install 1.5.x in /usr/local/bin without trashing /usr/bin/lyx, which is 1.4.2? It is not well tested, so no guaranteees. I use 1.5 daily for my writing though, and compile a new one about once a week. If I get a bad LyX this way, I just go back to the previous one. (Before installing a new "test LyX", just rename the old one to a different name based on timestamp, i.e. lyx15-june12. If you compile yourself, you have the option of using a version prefix. So your tested and true lyx 1.4 will be named "lyx", while you can have the experimental 1.5 named "lyx15" You then write lyx15 to invoke it. This way, you can start using lyx15 for texts of less importance. You can get familiar with the new features, and find out if 1.5 is sufficiently stable for your use. And of course you can report any faults you find and get them fixed before the release. :-) Helge Hafting
Re: Logo
Steve Litt wrote: On Wednesday 13 June 2007 11:53, Jaime Díaz-Deus Fernández wrote: I need to insert a logo, that is an .eps graphic, in the upper left of all pages for to compose a very large corporative document. I think that the best idea for do it is to put something in the preamble, but I don't know what packages are needed or the commands for this work. Can you help me? Thanks in advance. My first reaction is to put it in the header, so use the fancyheader package (Document->settings->page_layout->page_style->fancy), and put the commands provided by fancyheader in the preamble. The one problem with using the header is that you can't have the graphic descend into the text, if that's what you want to do. But otherwise, I think it's ideal. A \raisebox with a negative number can lower such an image below the rest of the header line, if need be. It should not _overlap_ the text of course, as latex won't make room for it. But such trick can be used to let the logo potrude into margins or the spacing between running heads and text if need be. Helge Hafting
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
William Adams wrote: On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Steve Litt wrote: I can't imagine how using a different reader would prevent LyX from creating a pdf. That would be like being blind preventing the sun from rising. I'd suggest you perform an ls command to find the PDF. If there's really no PDF, it's almost certainly not due to the PDF reader -- it's probably due to a problem in the document. Try the following: Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from being over-written. Strange and stupid. A good viewer should notice the overwriting and reload automatically. Helge Hafting
Re: LyX Outline feature - screenshot & short explanation
> > Is there a "stable" 1.5.x? Does 1.5.x use the same > native format as 1.4.2? Is > > 1.5.x as reliable and stable as 1.4.2 (meaning it > never screws up)? > > > > I'm using Mandriva 2007. Anyone know how difficult > it would be for me to > > install 1.5.x in /usr/local/bin without trashing > /usr/bin/lyx, which is > > 1.4.2? > > > It is not well tested, so no guaranteees. > I use 1.5 daily for my writing though, and compile a > new one > about once a week. If I get a bad LyX this way, I > just go back to > the previous one. (Before installing a new "test > LyX", just rename > the old one to a different name based on timestamp, > i.e. lyx15-june12. > > If you compile yourself, you have the option of > using a version prefix. > So your tested and true lyx 1.4 will be named "lyx", > while you > can have the experimental 1.5 named "lyx15" > > You then write lyx15 to invoke it. > This way, you can start using lyx15 for texts of > less importance. > You can get familiar with the new features, and find > out if > 1.5 is sufficiently stable for your use. And of > course you can > report any faults you find and get them fixed before > the release. :-) > > Helge Hafting > For me, lyx 1.5.0 rc1 is very stable for production but have several bugs. Marcelo __ Preguntá. Respondé. Descubrí. Todo lo que querías saber, y lo que ni imaginabas, está en Yahoo! Respuestas (Beta). ¡Probalo ya! http://www.yahoo.com.ar/respuestas
Re: bibtex page numbering
first page of TOC, first page of new chapter, etc) have no number and the
numbering starts on the next page. I used \thispagestyle{empty} to
accomplish this and it worked fine. After the last page of text in the
thesis, I did a page break and then put \thispagestyle{empty} before
inserting my bibtex bibliography, but the page number still appears on the
first page of the bib... How can I remove this?
All these page numering sound very complicated to me. Why not using the
report of koma script class.
Once you want to have a new section you can put
\cleardoublepage in ERT
OK, maybe I misunderstood you here...
Secondly, I had bibtex insert the bibliography in the TOC, but it writes
bibliography in lower case letters, and all my other chapters etc are
written in all caps. How can I change what bibtex calls the
bibliography in
the TOC?
I donno how to solve this but I know that this is either mentioned in
the manuals or the wiki. Sorry, I don't know the exact location.
Regards,
Timmie
Re[2]: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Adams apparently wrote: > Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will > prevent the file from being over-written. Yes, which is horrible. Exceptions: GSView/GhostScript and SumatraPDF. The latter is very fast. Currently it will not automatically reload your PDF: just press 'r' to reload. Cheers, Alan Isaac
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Adams wrote: > Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from > being over-written. What ones? I'd guess most LyX users do like I do and create new PDFs continually while their PDF viewer is still open. Some PDF viewers have behaviour to reload updated PDFs automatically (which is just the opposite of forcing a file lock). My experience is with evince, xpdf, epdfview, gv, ggv, gpdf, and others and I don't recall this locking issue. Also how is the file lock done? File locking makes a lot of assumptions and often doesn't work on some systems for some file systems. A reliable way of doing file locking is to create a lock file (a separate dummy file); if that is the case, what is it called? Attempting to google for this topic mostly turns up about PDFs that are protected so others can't view without authenticating. But now I read that Adobe reader locks files. (I don't use Adobe.) So I guess the solution is not to use Adobe :) Jeremy C. Reed
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, William Adams wrote: Most pdf viewers will maintain a file lock which will prevent the file from being over-written. What ones? But now I read that Adobe reader locks files. (I don't use Adobe.) So I guess the solution is not to use Adobe :) ``Most pdf viewers'' was probably a bit strong --- probably should've said something like, ``The most commonly used pdf viewer, Adobe Acrobat (and probably others, incl. apparently PDF-Viewer)'' As Alan noted, SumatraPDF is one Windows viewer which doesn't --- one can also work around this by viewing the local .pdf using the Acrobat pdf plug-in in a web-browser and re-loading it. Unfortunately SumatraPDF doesn't handle certain unusual .pdf sizes well and doesn't handle noticing the overwriting and reloading automatically as Helge notes is highly desirable. It also opens a new instance of itself when re-invoked --- I handle this by just always closing it when switching back to an editor. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications
Re: debian compile and speed
On 6/13/07, Klaumi Klingsporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am/At Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 19:31 Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb/wrote: > I'm running debian etch on a 600MHz iBook and I have 1.4.3 from the > repositories and I've compiled 1.5rc1 from source. > > When I'm using 1.5rc1 there is a very noticeable typing lag (kind of > frustrating to work with), > ... > My questions are: Is this a 1.5 issue, a compiling issue, a qt > issue, or am I missing something? Dear Bob Lounsbury, You may try my 1.5rc1-packages at http://apt.klaumikli.de/testing I haven't noticed a typing lag till now, but I'm working on an AMD 1800 machine. Good luck! Klaumi -- Klaus-M. Klingsporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.klaumikli.de From my first post I'm using an iBook with powerpc processor. I assume since your package is for i386 then it would not be compatible. Thanks anyways, Bob
moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... So, let's go with the poll! -- Diego http://www.ares001.altervista.org/
Change of language
Hi I have noticed that in some cases a change of language does not work properly. I had an english document whci I copied and used for a similar one in german. I changed the language >>Document >Settings >Languge to ngerman. When I tried to generate the pdf i got an error message of some babel stuff missing. When I look at the lyx file with gvim I see that '\language ngerman' has been changed correctly, whereas '\quotes_language english' has not been changed. IIRC this is not a new effect, and since it is relatively easy to cope with that I didn't bother so far to report it. But now here is the info. Greetings Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
Ares wrote: Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... JabRef seems to be the most popular around here. It runs fine under Linux, but you have to install Sun's JVM, as it won't work under Gnu's. One reason to prefer JabRef is that the developer of BibLaTeX, soon to be the new standard, is paying attention to JabRef. But there are a lot of options, as always with Linux: pybliographer, kbibtex, etc. Richard -- == Richard G Heck, Jr Professor of Philosophy Brown University http://frege.brown.edu/heck/ == Get my public key from http://sks.keyserver.penguin.de Hash: 0x1DE91F1E66FFBDEC Learn how to sign your email using Thunderbird and GnuPG at: http://dudu.dyn.2-h.org/nist/gpg-enigmail-howto
Re: line break or wrapping text in tabular
Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 20:20 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
I see several pages mentioning about line breaks within a tabular.
I have tables where I have a lot of text in a cell so then the tabnle is
wider than my printed page.
How can I get that text to wrap automatically?
Or by manually putting in line breaks?
Jeremy C. Reed
Hi Jeremy,
The quick way to do this is to set the width of that particular column
to a fixed amount. Right click on the column in question, and in the
dialog box enter a value. Be sure to hit the Enter key to register the
value.
Thanks.
Also can anyone point me to a webpage or document (maybe already on my
system included with teTeX install) that documents the "tabular" features.
Googling for it doesn't give me a lot. Or can't find correct search terms.
For example, I want to know what ">" greater-than is for in the tabular.
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|>{\centering}p{2in}|}
And what {\centering} is for.
I know what | and c and p (for paragraph) are for.
A couple please have pointed to some LaTeX docs lately -- I need to look
at them.
Jeremy C. Reed
You might have a look at
http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/software/tex/array.pdf, particularly Table
1. It's labeled a preliminary draft (from 1991), but my untrained eye
didn't spot anything in Table 1 that seemed wrong.
/Paul
Re: Problem with PDF output with different pdf reader.
John Kane wrote: Someone in an OOo forum recommended a PDF reader called PDF-Viewer http://www.docu-track.com/?act[69]=download (Windows only I believe) I gave it a try and it is very nice, far superior to Acrobat reader. However with both installed and PDF-Viewer as default I find that LyX does not create a pdf. No errors, no warnings, no file. At least, that is the only change to my system that I can think of, and returning to Acrobat as default reader makes everything work. Should changing the default reader make such a difference? Does this mean that the *first* time yoiu try View -> PDF (whatever) you get a silent failure, or only when you do an update to a doc you've already viewed? (The rest of the thread seems to be headed in the latter direction.) If it fails on the first try, go to Tools -> Preferences... -> File formats -> PDF (pdflatex) [you'll need to repeat this for each type of PDF export you use], and look in the viewer field. If it says 'pdfview', try changing it to 'auto' (if you've installed PDF-Viewer as the Windows default for PDF files) or else change it to the name of the PDF-Viewer executable (and probably add the path to PDF-Viewer to Tools -> Preferences... -> Paths -> PATH prefix to be safe). PDFView is a work-around to circumvent the file lock that Acrobat Reader slaps on your output file (which prevents updating the view). I'm not positive, but I think it's hard-coded to use Acrobat, in the sense that it looks for a window named "Acrobat" or "Acrobat Reader" to close/reopen. HTH, Paul
Re: pdflatex postscript handling
LB wrote: With Uwe suggestion, I upgraded to MiKTeX 2.6 all of these problems got resolved, but a new appeared. When pdflatex converts *.eps files to pdf I get errors that these figures can't be converted and are not shown in the final pdf. When .ps files get converted, their boundingboxes are ignored so figures are not displayed properly. Any suggestions? I'm using Lyx1.4.4 on WinXP I'm not having that problem with .eps files here (LyX 1.4.4, WinXP, MikTeX 2.6). I don't have any .ps image files to test. Have you tried running the MikTeX update wizard? I switched to 2.6 later than you did; perhaps there was a bug that was corrected between when you switched and when I did. If you're still having the problem, can you post a small example (.lyx file plus .eps file) so that I can test it? /Paul
Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... I am also quite pleased with JabRef. See: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/JabRef put the java binary into /opt/jabref and create a starter file in your path: #! /bin/sh ###script to start JabRef export JABREF_BASE_DIR='/opt/local/jabref' ; #cd $JABREF_BASE_DIR ; java -jar $JABREF_BASE_DIR/JabRef.jar ;
Re: moving to linux...part3: preferred bibtex editor
On Thu, 14. June 2007 17:50:08 Ares wrote: > Here I am back with a new, silly question: what is the most favourite > bibtex editor under GNU/linux? I have been using JabRef under Windows, > but I realised that it runs under the Java Runtime Environment, and I > do not want to install new components if I do not really need them... > > So, let's go with the poll! gBib and pybliographer are able to insert citations into a LyX document. I would recommend pybliographer. Regards, Wolfgang gBib - gnome 1.x (oldfashioned) User-friendly editor and browser for BibTeX databases. You can use it also to insert citations inside a LyX document. gBib is able to import and export BiBTeX databases. pybliographic / pybliographer Tool for manipulating bibliographic databases It currently supports BibTeX, Medline, Ovid and Refer files. It is useful for viewing, editing and searching, but also to convert bibliographic databases into HTML pages for example. And some other GUI applications: referencer - Gnome Document Organiser Referencer is a Gnome application to organise documents or references, and ultimately generate a BibTeX bibliography file. Referencer includes a number of features to make this process easier: * Automatic metadata retrieval * Smart web links * Import from BibTeX, Reference Manager and EndNote * Tagging Homepage: http://icculus.org/referencer/index.html kbibtex - BibTeX editor for KDE An application to manage bibliography databases in the BibTeX format. KBibTeX can be used as a standalone program, but can also be embedded into other KDE applications (e.g. as bibliography editor into Kile). KBibTeX can query online ressources (e.g. Google scholar) via customizable search URLs. It is also able to import complete datasets from NCBI Pubmed. BibTeX files can be exported into HTML, XML, PDF, PS and RTF format using a number of citation styles. Homepage: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~fischer/kbibtex referencer - Gnome Document Organiser Referencer is a Gnome application to organise documents or references, and ultimately generate a BibTeX bibliography file. Referencer includes a number of features to make this process easier: * Automatic metadata retrieval * Smart web links * Import from BibTeX, Reference Manager and EndNote * Tagging Homepage: http://icculus.org/referencer/index.html
Re: Question - theorem numbering
Hmm, I think it's interacting weirdly with some other stuff. Also, I want
definitions to be numbered within chapters (and not within sections).
Is there a good general guide to numbering somewhere?
Thanks much again!
Nathan
On 6/12/07, Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If I am not wrong, inserting the following line into your preamble should
do the trick:
\newtheorem{theorem}{Theorem}[chapter]
Cheers,
Nicolás
Nathan Russell wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on my thesis in lyx, it's a document of class book-AMS (so
that
> I can use theorem, definition... formats)
>
> I want both theorems and definitions to be numbered within each chapter,
> not
> section (so, for example, the fifth definition in chapter 3 is defintion
> 3.5).
>
>
> Is there a way to do this at all?
>
> Thanks much
> Nathan
>
Question wrt to key board use
Hi, I'm beginning to use the new TOC with the outlining faetures more often. Absolutely great for me. Questions: 1) Is there a key kombination to switch between the text pane and the TOC pane, if not how can I define one? 2) (evidently) Is it possible to activate the toc outlining functionality with key combinations? Practically all of the rest I do without using the mouse whcih gives me much more productivity when working with my documents. BTW I'm using RC1 now for two weeks without problems ;-) TIA Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
Numbering MANY sections
Hi, I have a document that has grown over time to have more than 100 sections (it's the protocol of all the installation and configuration activities of my machine, I know I'm a bit compulsive ;-) In the TOC for the sections starting from 100 there is no white space left between the number and the section title, same effect for the subsections. Can anybody give me a hint how to modify the corresponding LaTeX command? TIA Hellmut -- Dr. Hellmut Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Degenfeldstraße 2 tel +49-89-3081172 D-80803 München-Schwabing mobil +49-172-8450321 please: No DOCs, no PPTs. why: tinyurl.com/cbgq
