QT fonts Blurry
Hey, I have recently installed Lyx 1.5.1 for windows from here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Windows. All of the window fonts are blurry. A screen shot can be found here: http://lynet.ca/~alumb/lyx.bmp. How do you change the font used by Lyx for widgets? is it possible to turn anti-aliasing off? Thanks, Andy Lumb
Re: Verse margin
On Oct 2, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Donn Ingle wrote: While I have your help, how do I stack minipages on below the other so that if a poem is short enough for two or three to fit in the height of the page, they do? I have been mucking around with minipages and there's a large random element involved -- not much info in the help. At the moment they either insist on a page to themselves or they sort of overlap other text or the bottom of the page. I'm not sure precisely what the difficulty is, but here's another example with several poems right on top of each other. The first 2 poems that are side-by-side; this was obtained by adjusting the sum of their widths to be < 100% of the line width, and by putting them on the same line, separated by a single space. All other poems are in their own paragraphs, which results in them getting stacked on top of each other. Note that minipages will not break across pages, as is clear from the 3rd poem -- the longer one -- that's in my example. I'm not sure what to tell you to do if you have really long poems that you want to break across pages. Bennett Poetry-example.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Verse margin
On Oct 2, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Donn Ingle wrote: Bennet - Thanks a million for that file. It comes hot on the heels of Christian's advice about a minipage and from the looks of things it's a winner! I'm closing OpenOffice right now! Yes -- it was his advice I thought I'd provide an example of, since it's not an obvious way of doing what you seemed to want until you see it done. Notice that you can right-click on the "Box (Minipage)" button to get a Box Settings dialog, where you can change things like the width of the box. Bennett
Re: Section orphans
Christian Liesen wrote: Yes it should, but I continue to experience problems with widows and orphans, too. I think that in many cases manually fine-tuning the document is inevitable. Widowed and orphaned section titles should be extremely rare. I don't know how your \poemtitle macro is defined, but the long-term solution should be to tweak that. The standard classes handle this via: [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the section definitions. You could presumably get this automatically if you had \poemtitle tweaking some settings and then calling, say, \section*. 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: TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
Mahesh schrieb: I tried to Install the Latest Lyx 1.5.1 for windows Vista, but its giving me the error, when trying to run the program. TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! Completed Could you please try to reinstall LyX using this installer?: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall (http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller) Please report me if it works or not. But anyway, we hope that this problem is fixed in the next Version LyX 1.5.2, no matter what installer you use. regards Uwe
Re: Verse margin
Bennet - Thanks a million for that file. It comes hot on the heels of Christian's advice about a minipage and from the looks of things it's a winner! I'm closing OpenOffice right now! \d
TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found!
DEar Every one I tried to Install the Latest Lyx 1.5.1 for windows Vista, but its giving me the error, when trying to run the program. I used the Installer so everything was done automatically _ TextClassList::Read: no textclasses found! Completed ___ I would love the convinience of being able to use windows with Lyx. Can some show me the light! Thank you in Advance, Mahesh
Re: Verse margin
On Oct 2, 2007, at 11:40 AM, Bennett Helm wrote: On Oct 2, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Donn Ingle wrote: Les, I have been using that manual all along. If that's the best that Lyx & Co. can do for my layout needs, then I really am doomed. I don't want to learn latex right now, it's just a learning-curve too far for me. Forget poetry -- how would you inset a block of text (and it's subsection title) so that it's deeply indented into the page? I haven't really been following this thread, but perhaps this is what you want. Oops -- that version has some junk in the preamble that will cause you problems. Here is a corrected version that should typeset for you. Bennett Poetry-example.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Verse margin
On Oct 2, 2007, at 11:26 AM, Donn Ingle wrote: Les, I have been using that manual all along. If that's the best that Lyx & Co. can do for my layout needs, then I really am doomed. I don't want to learn latex right now, it's just a learning-curve too far for me. Forget poetry -- how would you inset a block of text (and it's subsection title) so that it's deeply indented into the page? I haven't really been following this thread, but perhaps this is what you want. Bennett Poetry-example.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Some formatting questions
Rayne wrote: Hi all, I'm new to Lyx, and and some questions regarding how the layout looks after conversion to PDF. I realize that a page number is added to the PDF file. How do I remove that? Change the page style in Document>Settings to "Empty". If you just want to remove the page number on the first page, see the wiki. Is there a way to reduce the margins in the PDF file? I'm forced to write some of my expressions on the second line because the left and right margins are too narrow. Change the margins in Document>Settings. Lastly, is there a way to increase the font size of the text/symbols in the PDF file? Change the font size in Document>Settings. 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: Verse margin
Les, I have been using that manual all along. If that's the best that Lyx & Co. can do for my layout needs, then I really am doomed. I don't want to learn latex right now, it's just a learning-curve too far for me. Forget poetry -- how would you inset a block of text (and it's subsection title) so that it's deeply indented into the page? I have tried 2 column mode, but can't figure a way to clear the first column. I have tried a table (in true old-fashioned html table-design fashion) with blank columns (to get the indenting), but it seems one can't have a subsection env. within a table cell. I thought there may be a boffin out there who can tell me which .inc or .layout file, and where, and how, to edit so that verse env. simply uses a larger indent. Thanks anyway :) \d
Re: Verse margin
Two suggestions:
(1) Try to put the verse in a minipage (Box), then center the box or use
an Hfill before it.
(2) Only if that fails, try something like
\setlength{\unitlength}{1cm}
\begin{picture}(width, height)
\put(x_coord,y_coord){\makebox(x_dim,y_dim)[position]{My verse.}}
\end{picture}
in ERT and replace the measures with useful numbers. "position" refers
to the text's position in the box and can be l,r,b and so on. For
example rb will give you text that is aligned with the right and bottom
side of the makebox.
I'm not sure if that works with \verse, though.
Cheers,
-- Christian
Donn Ingle wrote:
Hello again,
How could I shift the left edge (margin?) of the verse environment
across to the right? I would like to have it further across the page.
I'm not sure what class is the best for setting verse. Memoir seems to
work, but each poem is oddly staggered left and right.
Ideally, I want:
1. Poems and titles (which appear in toc) centered on page, left
aligned to a set margin.
2. The option to center-align some poems (so they are symetrical) -
but still central to poems above and below it.
3. The option to stagger lines (using hspace maybe) for interesting layouts.
Please give me a hand. I am thinking that OpenOffice might be the way
to go, but I don't want that kind of pain!
\d
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Re: Verse margin
On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Donn Ingle wrote: > Hello again, > How could I shift the left edge (margin?) of the verse environment > across to the right? I would like to have it further across the page. > > I'm not sure what class is the best for setting verse. Memoir seems to > work, but each poem is oddly staggered left and right. > > Ideally, I want: > 1. Poems and titles (which appear in toc) centered on page, left > aligned to a set margin. > 2. The option to center-align some poems (so they are symetrical) - > but still central to poems above and below it. > 3. The option to stagger lines (using hspace maybe) for interesting > layouts. > > Please give me a hand. I am thinking that OpenOffice might be the way > to go, but I don't want that kind of pain! > Donn, There is an extensive discussion of verse formatting in the manual for the Memoir class (http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/memman.pdf) starting on page 195. It isn't a trivial problem, and it will require some use of Latex, but judging from the examples given can produce some very acceptable layouts. Les -- L. R. Denham Gentoo Linux 2007.1 Kernel 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 KDE 3.5.7
Re: Verse margin
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, Donn Ingle wrote: Please give me a hand. I am thinking that OpenOffice might be the way to go, but I don't want that kind of pain! Have you searched for LaTeX packages or styles that are suitable for poems? Maybe it's better if you find those, and then try to make them work with LyX? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Section orphans
Yes it should, but I continue to experience problems with widows and orphans, too. I think that in many cases manually fine-tuning the document is inevitable. Tweaking the layout is always the very last thing I do to a document once the content is settled. Then -- if at all necessary -- I start thinking about type area calculation, page margins, club- and widowpenalty and the like. From what I've read about widows and orphans this is not at all LyX's fault but something that many TeX and LaTeX users experience. I have to admit that I was disappointed when I started using LyX and found widows and orphans in my documents. But I learned how to get rid of them -- preventing most of them to occur and wiping out whatever few remained. Try this with a well-known word processor and a 300+ pages book and you're in for a lot of alcohol abuse. So it's unlovely, but it's no drama. :-) Cheers, -- Christian Donn Ingle wrote: But maybe I did not even get the problem? You say the poem's title is orphaned, so I suppose there's other text, too. Then why not simply insert a page break before the poem's title? I thought of that, and of course it works, but I wanted Lyx to handle the odd case of orphaned sections automatically. I go back and forth, editing this and that and after a while pagebreaks become a problem. It's a solution, but it's not ideal -- and Lyx *should* be handling sections properly. No? \d
Re: Section orphans
... well yes, LyX handles these commands well. I was wondering if there
were optional commands to be called with the verse package that could
solve your problem.
But maybe I did not even get the problem? You say the poem's title is
orphaned, so I suppose there's other text, too. Then why not simply
insert a page break before the poem's title?
-- Christian
Donn Ingle wrote:
On 02/10/2007, Christian Liesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Does \usepackage{verse} have to be called in the preamble?
Don't know. I would think that if it was expected then there would be
an error. I think memoir is refering it somehow.
Why?
\d
Verse margin
Hello again, How could I shift the left edge (margin?) of the verse environment across to the right? I would like to have it further across the page. I'm not sure what class is the best for setting verse. Memoir seems to work, but each poem is oddly staggered left and right. Ideally, I want: 1. Poems and titles (which appear in toc) centered on page, left aligned to a set margin. 2. The option to center-align some poems (so they are symetrical) - but still central to poems above and below it. 3. The option to stagger lines (using hspace maybe) for interesting layouts. Please give me a hand. I am thinking that OpenOffice might be the way to go, but I don't want that kind of pain! \d
Re: Some formatting questions
Rayne wrote:
Hi all, I'm new to Lyx, and and some questions
regarding how the layout looks after conversion to
PDF.
Document -> Settings... is your friend.
I realize that a page number is added to the PDF file.
How do I remove that?
If you have no other headers/footers beside the page number, you can
change Document -> Settings... -> Page layout -> Page style to 'empty'.
This will suppress numbering almost everywhere, one exception being a
title page. If your document has a title page, you will need to insert
'\thispagestyle{empty}' (without the quotes) in ERT somewhere in the
text of the title page. (To get an ERT inset, click the 'TeX' button on
the toolbar.)
Alternatively, if you have headers/footers you want to keep, and just
need to eliminate the page number, you can try adding the line
'\renewcommand\thepage{}' to Document -> Settings... -> LaTeX preamble.
Note that if your document puts punctuation around the page number
(for instance, -2-), this won't work -- you'll lose the page number but
still have the punctuation.
Is there a way to reduce the margins in the PDF file?
I'm forced to write some of my expressions on the
second line because the left and right margins are too
narrow.
Document -> Settings... -> Page Margins: deselect 'Default Margins' and
fill in the margins you want.
Lastly, is there a way to increase the font size of
the text/symbols in the PDF file?
Document -> Settings... -> Fonts -> Base Size.
/Paul
Re: Section orphans
Does \usepackage{verse} have to be called in the preamble?
-- Christian
Donn Ingle wrote:
Hi,
(I post with trepidation; having searched the wiki -- I promise.)
I am setting poems with this kind of approach (using memoir class.)
---
\poemtitle{Blah}
\settowidth{\versewidth}{xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx }
\begin{verse}[\versewidth] Line 1 \\
Line 2 \\
Line 3 \\
\hspace{2.5em}Line 4 \end{verse}
--
What's happening is that "Blah" (the title) is being orphaned on the
page and I want it to (automatically) break to the next page.
I have this in the preamble:
--
\newcommand{\extratablespace}[1]{\noalign{\vskip#1}}
\flushbottom
\newcommand{\myrule}{\rule{5cm}{.1pt}}
\raggedbottom
\widowpenalty=1
\clubpenalty=1
-
Which (I think) is the big-stick approach to the problem, but it's not working.
Any ideas?
\d
Section orphans
Hi,
(I post with trepidation; having searched the wiki -- I promise.)
I am setting poems with this kind of approach (using memoir class.)
---
\poemtitle{Blah}
\settowidth{\versewidth}{xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx }
\begin{verse}[\versewidth] Line 1 \\
Line 2 \\
Line 3 \\
\hspace{2.5em}Line 4 \end{verse}
--
What's happening is that "Blah" (the title) is being orphaned on the
page and I want it to (automatically) break to the next page.
I have this in the preamble:
--
\newcommand{\extratablespace}[1]{\noalign{\vskip#1}}
\flushbottom
\newcommand{\myrule}{\rule{5cm}{.1pt}}
\raggedbottom
\widowpenalty=1
\clubpenalty=1
-
Which (I think) is the big-stick approach to the problem, but it's not working.
Any ideas?
\d
Re: Some formatting questions
Rayne wrote:
Hi all, I'm new to Lyx, and and some questions
regarding how the layout looks after conversion to
PDF.
The way your document looks like depends on the latex class that you use to format it. Such class is (indirectly) chosen when you
select the LyX layout for your document. Some layouts come by default with no page numbering, for example. You can choose the layout
you want via Document->Settings->Document class
I realize that a page number is added to the PDF file.
How do I remove that?
There are several ways (look here:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nopageno)
If you want absolutely no page numbering and no headers, you may install the nopageno.sty latex package (using MikTex) and use it in
your document by adding in the preamble (Document->Settings->Latex Preamble) the following line:
\usepackage{nopageno}
Alternatively, you can add these two lines to the preamble:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@empty
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there a way to reduce the margins in the PDF file?
I'm forced to write some of my expressions on the
second line because the left and right margins are too
narrow.
Document->Settings->Page Margins
Lastly, is there a way to increase the font size of
the text/symbols in the PDF file?
To change the font size all over the document, you may try to specify the font size (e.g. 12pt)you want in Document->Settings->Document
class->Options
To change the size of a piece of text, select it and choose the size via
Edit->Text Style->Customized
Cheers,
Nicolás
Thank you!
Regards,
Rayne
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