Re: Website re-design ideas
On Saturday 22 March 2008 23:01:35 Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. So that our graphic designer can know what kind of general design style would look good, which ones of the following look best to you guys? http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ This one looks a bit old fashioned to me. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ A bit too busy for my tastes. http://www.python.org/ I like this one. Modern but understated as well. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, writing, music, gender, geek sitcom Previous three articles: Linux for mother - http://www.linux.com/feature/125799 IBM refuse to open source OS/2 - http://www.osnews.com/story/19298/ iPhone: I don't want one - http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18959/
Re: Request for screenshots
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Rex C. Eastbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be great if some people could send in some images, along the lines of the attached image, that are nice graphical demonstrations of some functionality of LyX (equations, images, references, bibliography, you name it). especially if you have a nice, beautiful equation to send in :) That would be indeed great, but I would like you all to make sure that you're using one very neat feature: instant previews inside of LyX. When this option is enabled, you should see this kind of ugly representation of equations only when you're editing them. LyX renders them instantly and shows the rendered version instead. Thus, your text should look like it is, but the equation should correspond exactly to the one in the pdf. That makes the WYSIWYG (or WYSIWYM)-experience even better I think. However, I like your proposal. Maybe some screenshots of how LyX handles tables would be useful, too, as tables are a pain with plain LaTeX. Dominik
Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
Hi, Is there a report class available for LyX that is an analogue of the article(ams) class that is present in LyX? I am writing a report and couldn't find a LyX report class with the AMS environments (Algorithm, Theorem, Lemma, Corollary, ...) built into it. Thanks, Philip
Re: Request for screenshots
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Depending on our final website design, I think it might be nice to include couple of small image snippets of what LyX looks like on the front page. I like the way the following site has several images of the software in action: http://www.r-project.org/ Would you like people to send them to you directly? It might help if you gave some specific list of the kind of screenshots you'd like, at least as a starter. Best regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
Anybody an idea? Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. Thanks, Daniel Begin forwarded message: From: Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 20. März 2008 19:58:10 MEZ To: LyXFolks User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: How to open the dialog for label / reference inset by keyboard Hi, Is there any LFUN or pre-assigned shortcut to open the settings dialog for the label / reference / bib reference inset under the cursor? Thanks! Daniel
Re: Precompiled binaries for LyX1.5.x on Linux
Richard Heck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 21 March 2008 02:14, rgheck wrote: Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, I have no root permission on my Linux machine, and I would like to install LyX1.5.x on it. Is there a way to get precompiled binaries for Lyx1.5.x that can be installed in my home directory without root permissions, and which has all the dependencies built in to it? Or, you can do what I sometimes do -- don't do the make install at all, and just run it out of the directory where it was compiled (whatever/lyx-1.5.x/src, I think). Indeed. I should have mentioned that. I do this for all the development versions. For this to work, I should be able to do the make successfully: but this requires that I need all the prerequisites installed, which I cannot ensure since I don't have root permissions. -- Philip
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. Definitely. Jürgen
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
On 23.03.2008, at 13:50, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. Definitely. That's it, thanks Jürgen! Daniel
Question about 'keep with next'
Hi, I have a writing 'style' that tends to use a lot of bullet lists. I've been using 'Itemize' in my Koma-script book. The style tends to be: * with a point * or two In word annd OOo I use 'keep with next' and 'don't break paragraph' and widow and orphan control and the layout engine generally Does The Right Thing and the whole group gets put on one page. (I sometimes fiddle with inter-paragraph spacing for these too) I'm finding that doing the same thing in LyX is often breaking the page between the elements though. Is there a straightforward way to prevent this? James
Suggestion for bibliography
I find it distracting to have to go to the bibliography section and use the (handy!) bibiography editor and then go back to where I was to add a Citation. It would be really handy if the Add Citation dialog had an option to create a new one and pop in a reference to it in one go. I'm using 1.5.3 by the way. James
Re: Request for screenshots
My snippet... A labeled table float with two tables inside table cells and a big multiline equation inside another cell. P.S.: 3rd time I try to send this message. File size limits sucks!!! ;) -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] attachment: Fuzzy.JPG
Re: Website re-design ideas
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. So that our graphic designer can know what kind of general design style would look good, which ones of the following look best to you guys? http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ http://www.python.org/ http://www.scipy.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ If there are other websites that you guys think are particularly well designed, please let us know! Rex [Disclaimer: I have old eyes.] I like the Octave and SciPy designs; the organization is clear and they are not too cluttered. Octave is my first choice mainly for the color scheme (the blues are easy on the eyes). The Ruby and GNU Emacs sites are ok, but I find the reds a bit too bold (to the point of being distracting, although for Ruby at least it's thematic). I can't quite pin it down, but something about the combination of fonts and font colors on the Python page makes my eyes water. /Paul
Announcement: Screencasts in the wiki
Hello everyone, I would like to inform you, that there is a new section in the wiki with screencasts (recordings of the screen) that demonstrate and document certain features of LyX. You can find it here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Screencasts At the moment there are just a few screencasts that illustrate the use of auto-completion, math-macros and figures, but hopefully this section will thrive and prosper. You are invited to create screencasts of features that you like particularly and upload them on your own (or also send them to me with a short description and a screenshot). Please have a look at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Screencasts-HowToCreateThem for instructions on how to create screencasts. If you need any assistance, please feel free to ask on one of the lists. Best regards Dominik
Re: Website re-design ideas
For me SciPy and Ruby (in that order) are the best. Both look really professionally designed, but ScyPy site uses all the screen, letting you spread the information in a better way. All you have to do is pick the color scheme, which at least by my tastes should include blue, put the logo/mascot in place, design the menu with content in mind, and voila, a beautiful new site for LyX will emerge. Great idea to change the site, BTW. On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Rex C. Eastbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. So that our graphic designer can know what kind of general design style would look good, which ones of the following look best to you guys? http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ http://www.python.org/ http://www.scipy.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ If there are other websites that you guys think are particularly well designed, please let us know! Rex -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about 'keep with next'
James Mansion wrote: Hi, I have a writing 'style' that tends to use a lot of bullet lists. I've been using 'Itemize' in my Koma-script book. The style tends to be: * with a point * or two In word annd OOo I use 'keep with next' and 'don't break paragraph' and widow and orphan control and the layout engine generally Does The Right Thing and the whole group gets put on one page. (I sometimes fiddle with inter-paragraph spacing for these too) I'm finding that doing the same thing in LyX is often breaking the page between the elements though. Is there a straightforward way to prevent this? No Good Can Come Of This. Inevitably, you'll end up with funky vertical spacing. That said, it's a LaTeX issue (not a LyX issue), and LaTeX provides an assortment of ways to screw with page breaking. Since AFAIK LaTeX assumes that breaking a page between items in a list is always fair, the simplest solution might be to put your bullet list inside a parbox (Insert - Box, then right click the box handle and change from the default minipage to parbox). You could even bind that to a key combination, I think (not sure if there's an LFUN for switching to a parbox) or hack the stdlists.inc file in the layout directory to include a new boxed-bullet-list environment (wrapping the list in a parbox in the preamble stuff). /Paul
Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
Geevarghese Philip wrote:
Hi,
Is there a report class available for LyX that is an analogue of the
article(ams) class that is present in LyX? I am writing a report and
couldn't find a LyX report class with the AMS environments (Algorithm,
Theorem, Lemma, Corollary, ...) built into it.
No, there's nothing like this at the moment. But the attached will do.
In 1.6, this will be much easier: Use report as your document class, and
choose the Theorems (AMS) module to use with it.
rh
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport}
# Report textclass definition file. Taken from initial LyX source code
# Author : Matthias Ettrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Transposed by Pascal André [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Heavily modifed and enhanced by serveral developers.
Format 4
Input stdclass.inc
Input amsdefs.inc
Input numreport.inc
Style Bibliography
TopSep4
LabelString Bibliography
LabelFont
Series Bold
SizeHuge
EndFont
End
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. If the cursor is directly in front of the citation inset, then Ctrl-I (next-inset-toggle) will open the dialog. If you want something more flexible, you are welcome to bugzilla it. rh
Re: Suggestion for bibliography
James Mansion wrote: I find it distracting to have to go to the bibliography section and use the (handy!) bibiography editor and then go back to where I was to add a Citation. It would be really handy if the Add Citation dialog had an option to create a new one and pop in a reference to it in one go. The Bibliography environment is not really what you want. It's more a one-off sort of thing. If you're doing this as often as you seem to be, then you should be using BibTeX. Get a copy of JabRef and start creating your database. Include it via the InsetTOCBibliography, and then you'll have access to it at every citation. You'll also be able to use it in other documents. You can keep JabRef open alongside LyX for when you need to add a new citation. But after a while, you'll build up a database, and you won't have to add things very often. rh
Re: Website re-design ideas
In addition to my other comments, I like the SciPy.org site too. For some reason, I couldn't access that site this morning. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, writing, music, gender, geek sitcom Previous three articles: Linux for mother - http://www.linux.com/feature/125799 IBM refuse to open source OS/2 - http://www.osnews.com/story/19298/ iPhone: I don't want one - http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18959/
Re: Website re-design ideas
SciPy Rex Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. So that our graphic designer can know what kind of general design style would look good, which ones of the following look best to you guys? http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ http://www.python.org/ http://www.scipy.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ If there are other websites that you guys think are particularly well designed, please let us know! Rex - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Website-re-design-ideas-tp16228419p16236559.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
rgheck wrote:
Geevarghese Philip wrote:
Hi,
Is there a report class available for LyX that is an analogue of the
article(ams) class that is present in LyX? I am writing a report and
couldn't find a LyX report class with the AMS environments (Algorithm,
Theorem, Lemma, Corollary, ...) built into it.
No, there's nothing like this at the moment. But the attached will do.
Thanks, but there is something wrong with the layout: LyX has no problem
processing (using Ctrl-D) the attached file nodef.lyx , in which a
Definition is included using tex code. But it gives the error Undefined
control sequence. with the detail
\theoremstyle
{plain}
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
for the file withdef.lyx, in which I used LyX's Definition Layout for
including a Definition.
-- Philip
nodef.lyx
Description: application/lyx
withdef.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: Website re-design ideas
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:01 -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. So that our graphic designer can know what kind of general design style would look good, which ones of the following look best to you guys? http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ http://www.python.org/ http://www.scipy.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ If there are other websites that you guys think are particularly well designed, please let us know! Rex, Certainly, all of these look better than the current LyX site. My personal favorite is www.ruby-lang.org. But perhaps more important than the appearance is how the site is built. I would suggest the following rules: 1. Use DOCTYPE XHTML (it's the future). 2. Define the appearance entirely in CSS (and keep it reasonably simple). That makes it easy to change if necessary. 3. Avoid using script if possible. Les
Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1
Uwe Stöhr wrote: William B. King schrieb: Don't particularly want this posted. Don't want replies. Don't want to join any lists. You asked for feedback, and I'm sending to the only address you gave me. What are you talking about? I believe he meant: I have some comments regarding the LyX tutorial. I do not want to join a mailing list. I do not want my comments posted to a mailing list. I am not interested in replies to my comments. However, the only address I have to which I might send my feedback is a mailing list, so that is where I will send it. Alas, I am not particularly good at composing clear email messages. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Using a network printer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Mark Hansel wrote: A restriction to print exclusively through viewers breaks lyx! There are circumstances where printing an exported ps file makes sense (e.g., multiple collated copies, transmit). All of that can be done through viewers. I don't think anyone proposes that we remove the ability to produce .ps-files... Personally, I think it'd be nice to be able to rpint directly from LyX. Out of curiosity, why? I print my documents on a Postscript-capable laser printer, and I've never bothered printing from LyX, because I always review the rendered document in a viewer before printing it. If I need to print an existing document without editing it, I generally have a copy of the final rendered version already available, so why re-render it? And if I don't, I'd just as soon run LyX in batch mode to produce one, than go through the GUI. The question as I see it is if it's worth spending time trying to fix bugs in LyX that are related to printing. (And that are probably specific to the GNU/Linux distribution etc) The worst one isn't: File Print simply doesn't make sense, and that's true on all platforms. The design is broken. LyX supports multiple back ends, and as long as that's true, File Print is at best ambiguous. At worst, it's simply broken, for example if I have pdflatex-specific packages or commands in my document (in the preamble or in ERT). At the very least, the menu item should be named something like Print (Postscript) or Print (dvips). An unqualified Print menu action isn't meaningful for LyX. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Using a network printer
Dave Wood wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. I have tried using the cups printer name, the server address:port etc to no avail. It is all set up in tools-preferences-printer. If you haven't done anything there, then the default is to create a .ps file using dvips, and then hand that file to lp and use whatever printer lp consider default. This works for many, but not all. Perhaps you simply have to add the printer name in the right place. Some people have lpr instead of lp, consider replacing lp then. Cups (in debian: the package cupsys-client) provides a lp binary that lyx can use. This will print to whatever printer cups considers default. It can also print to non-default printers if you specify them in LyX. Make sure this program actually is installed. It is possible to have the cups server without client software installed. At least with debian/ubuntu. If this doesn't work - either change the preferences so LyX prints using whatever command line utility you have that can get a postscript file to the printer, or change things so lp works. For experimentation, export a .ps file from LyX and try to print it manually from the command line. When you have a command that works, change LyX to use that. The details of the lyx printer setup dialog is perhaps not that easy to understand - ask again if you get more trouble. Helge Hafting
Re: Website re-design ideas
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Les Denham wrote: I would suggest the following rules: I did not comment on the various designs because everyone's going to like something different, so just pick whatever looks good to you. Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design criterion I urge you to follow: high contrast between text and background. I've seen too many sites (e.g., those presenting python code examples and fragments) that use light grey text on a white background, and other light colors on the same white background. They're almost impossible to read, even when enlarged. Same with the light grey on back pages I've seen. So, however you deside to implement whatever look you want, please ensure that all text is in colors that strongly contrast with the background. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1
Michael Wojcik schrieb: I believe he meant: I have some comments regarding the LyX tutorial. I do not want to join a mailing list. I do not want my comments posted to a mailing list. I am not interested in replies to my comments. Why does he posting then his comments? Why sending comments when he don't want a reply? - All in all a senseless email. regards Uwe
Re: Long table settings problem
Julio Rojas schrieb: Hi, I have been using the long table settings in the attached sample document with two tables, ... You inserted the longtable into a float. But longtables are desgned to be longer than a page while floats are not. A longtble can therefore not really be floated. So take it out of the float and it should work. The actual EmbeddedObjects manual explains how to insert caption to longtables and much more. regards Uwe
Re: Request for screenshots
Would you like people to send them to you directly? It might help if you gave some specific list of the kind of screenshots you'd like, at least as a starter. Best regards, /Christian Right. It would be best if you sent them to me directly. Format: I think it would be most useful if people sent me the work in .lyx files. That way, I could decide whether to show the PDF output (to show people what the final product looks like) or to show the internal works if LyX (so people can see the intricacies of the editing environment). You don't have to send the entire original LyX file; you can just send a LyX file with the bit that would be relevant to the screenshot. Specific requests: anything that showcases cool things you can do in LyX. Some of my ideas: -Complex math structures (equation arrays, cool equations, matrices, etc) -Tables, figures,... -Cross-references, bibliography stuff -LyX comments, ERT, etc. -Syntax highlighted code/algorithms -Different types of documents: mathematical proofs/ -Something in a different language Feel free to add onto this. Rex
Re: Request for screenshots
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 02:48:26PM -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Would you like people to send them to you directly? It might help if you gave some specific list of the kind of screenshots you'd like, at least as a starter. Best regards, /Christian Right. It would be best if you sent them to me directly. Format: I think it would be most useful if people sent me the work in .lyx files. That way, I could decide whether to show the PDF output (to show people what the final product looks like) or to show the internal works if LyX (so people can see the intricacies of the editing environment). You don't have to send the entire original LyX file; you can just send a LyX file with the bit that would be relevant to the screenshot. Specific requests: anything that showcases cool things you can do in LyX. Some of my ideas: -Complex math structures (equation arrays, cool equations, matrices, etc) -Tables, figures,... -Cross-references, bibliography stuff -LyX comments, ERT, etc. -Syntax highlighted code/algorithms -Different types of documents: mathematical proofs/ -Something in a different language Feel free to add onto this. Since you are at it: Feel free to make proposals how LyX appearance might be improved. After all, some (most... all...?) of the visual appearance of the main LyX canvas looks a bit old-fashioned, too. Andre'
Re: Request for screenshots
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you are at it: Feel free to make proposals how LyX appearance might be improved. After all, some (most... all...?) of the visual appearance of the main LyX canvas looks a bit old-fashioned, too. To be honest with you, I first also thought that the main canvas looked old-fashioned, particularly the background color looked somehow like dirty old parchment to me. But it is very gentle to my eyes as the contrast between text and background isn't as high as in MS Word. That being said, I see no need to change the appearance of the main canvas of LyX. But the toolbars look compared to Word 2007 pretty old-fashioned. I think a change of the icons would enhance the appearance of LyX substantially, but the general look is neither old-fashioned nor in need of improvement.
Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
Geevarghese Philip wrote:
but there is something wrong with the layout: LyX has no problem
processing (using Ctrl-D) the attached file nodef.lyx , in which a
Definition is included using tex code. But it gives the error Undefined
control sequence.
This is fixed now. See the layout file attached. The fix was to add:
Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
EndPreamble
to the layout file.
This results in an output file where the theorems etc have the section
numbers in their numbering. Eg: Theorem 1.2.1 . I would like to have the
theorems etc numbered sequentially,eg:- Theorem 5. I tried replacing
Input amsmaths.inc with Input amsmaths-seq.inc, but that resulted in
similar errors as before.
Thanks for the help, I guess I will do with Theorem 1.2.1 etc for now.
-- Philip
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport}
# Report textclass definition file. Taken from initial LyX source code
# Author : Matthias Ettrich ettrich-jNDFPZUTrfQQDnmTUQnR1uqEdJ8o/[EMAIL
PROTECTED]
# Transposed by Pascal André [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Heavily modifed and enhanced by serveral developers.
Format 4
Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
EndPreamble
Input stdclass.inc
Input amsmaths.inc
Input numreport.inc
Style Bibliography
TopSep4
LabelString Bibliography
LabelFont
Series Bold
SizeHuge
EndFont
End
Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
Geevarghese Philip wrote:
Geevarghese Philip wrote:
but there is something wrong with the layout: LyX has no problem
processing (using Ctrl-D) the attached file nodef.lyx , in which a
Definition is included using tex code. But it gives the error
Undefined control sequence.
This is fixed now. See the layout file attached. The fix was to add:
Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
EndPreamble
to the layout file.
Yes, sorry. That's elsewhere in the ams class files. Put that in the
theorem environment and it will be picked up elsewhere, too.
This results in an output file where the theorems etc have the section
numbers in their numbering. Eg: Theorem 1.2.1 . I would like to have
the theorems etc numbered sequentially,eg:- Theorem 5. I tried
replacing Input amsmaths.inc with Input amsmaths-seq.inc, but that
resulted in similar errors as before.
Change the Input amsmaths.inc line to Input amsmaths-seq.inc.
rh
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
On Sunday 23 March 2008 08:30, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. Thanks, Daniel Hi Daniel, I don't understand what you're saying here. If you're speaking of connecting an arbitrary keystroke to an arbitrary LFUN, I think that's a great idea. Better still would be something that would do a character style with a keystroke. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
Steve Litt wrote:
On Sunday 23 March 2008 08:30, Daniel Lohmann wrote:
Anybody an idea?
Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted
(bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO,
possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard.
Thanks,
Daniel
I don't understand what you're saying here. If you're speaking of connecting
an arbitrary keystroke to an arbitrary LFUN, I think that's a great idea.
Better still would be something that would do a character style with a
keystroke.
LyX 1.6. will make some of this easier: There's a GUI keybindings
editor, thanks to Bo Peng. And it is possible to bind character styles
to keystrokes. In 1.6, it's something like
flex-insert CharStyle:Code
Or whatever else you like.
Steve, you'll also appreciate this: It will shortly be possible to embed
document-specific layout information into the document itself. The GUI
is still on my to-do list---initially, it'll just be like the Preamble
bit under DocumnetSettings---but the backend is almost done. So the
beginning of a LyX file might look like this:
#LyX 1.6.0alpha1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 321
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass article
\begin_local_layout
Style Objection
CopyStyleStandard
Margin First_Dynamic
LatexTypeEnvironment
LatexNameobjection
LabelTypeStatic
LabelString Objection:
LabelSep M
ParIndent
ParSkip 0.4
ParSep 0.4
TopSep 1.4
LabelFont
Series Bold
EndFont
EndLabelType No_Label
Preamble
\usepackage{objrep}
EndPreamble
End
stuf
Style Reply
CopyStyleStandard
Margin First_Dynamic
LatexTypeEnvironment
LatexNamereply
LabelTypeStatic
LabelString Reply:
LabelSep M
ParIndent
ParSkip 0.4
ParSep 0.4
TopSep 0.4
LabelFont
Series Bold
EndFont
EndLabelType No_Label
Preamble
\usepackage{objrep}
EndPreamble
End
\end_local_layout
\language english
\inputencoding auto
...
And it works!
rh
Re: Question about 'keep with next'
On Sunday 23 March 2008 09:56, Paul A. Rubin wrote: James Mansion wrote: Hi, I have a writing 'style' that tends to use a lot of bullet lists. I've been using 'Itemize' in my Koma-script book. The style tends to be: * with a point * or two In word annd OOo I use 'keep with next' and 'don't break paragraph' and widow and orphan control and the layout engine generally Does The Right Thing and the whole group gets put on one page. (I sometimes fiddle with inter-paragraph spacing for these too) I'm finding that doing the same thing in LyX is often breaking the page between the elements though. Is there a straightforward way to prevent this? No Good Can Come Of This. Inevitably, you'll end up with funky vertical spacing. That said, it's a LaTeX issue (not a LyX issue), and LaTeX provides an assortment of ways to screw with page breaking. Since AFAIK LaTeX assumes that breaking a page between items in a list is always fair, the simplest solution might be to put your bullet list inside a parbox (Insert - Box, then right click the box handle and change from the default minipage to parbox). You could even bind that to a key combination, I think (not sure if there's an LFUN for switching to a parbox) or hack the stdlists.inc file in the layout directory to include a new boxed-bullet-list environment (wrapping the list in a parbox in the preamble stuff). I think some good can come of this, assuming the author is reasonable about what he puts in the box. For instance, my 10 step Universal Troubleshooting Process really should be on one page, along with its header, even if it creates a gap on a page. One technique I personally use to minimize the likelihood of an intra-list break is to tweak my layout file so that list items are closer together. Here's an oversimplified example: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200210/200210.htm#_ChangingVerticalSpacing HTH SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Issue with LyX 1.5.3
Gents, I am a new user of the LyX system, which I find outstanding. I face the following issue: - when I try to open the User's Guide from the LyX Help menu, I get the following error message : Document class not available : layout file requested by this document is not available : scrbook.layout is not usable. LyX will not be able to produce output, - actually I cannot find this layout in the MiKteX distribution, but it exists in the LyK/resource folder, - I try to change the Document class to a simpler one, Book for example, but it still does not want to produce any output and yields the following message LaTeX Error: File `floatflt.sty' not found. Please can someone help me or provide solving hints? Environment: - LyX 1.5.3 - Windows XP Pro SP2 - MikTek 2.7.2845 Kind regards, Thank you and Happy Easter, Bruno Paris, France
Re: Website re-design ideas
On Monday 24 March 2008 06:09:32 am Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Les Denham wrote: I would suggest the following rules: I did not comment on the various designs because everyone's going to like something different, so just pick whatever looks good to you. Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design criterion I urge you to follow: high contrast between text and background. I've seen too many sites (e.g., those presenting python code examples and fragments) that use light grey text on a white background, and other light colors on the same white background. They're almost impossible to read, even when enlarged. Same with the light grey on back pages I've seen. So, however you deside to implement whatever look you want, please ensure that all text is in colors that strongly contrast with the Hear Hear! (But I suspect you're showing your age Rich -- and mine!) John O'Gorman background. Rich
Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
rgheck wrote: This results in an output file where the theorems etc have the section numbers in their numbering. Eg: Theorem 1.2.1 . I would like to have the theorems etc numbered sequentially,eg:- Theorem 5. I tried replacing Input amsmaths.inc with Input amsmaths-seq.inc, but that resulted in similar errors as before. Change the Input amsmaths.inc line to Input amsmaths-seq.inc. As I said, I tried doing this, but it gave similar error messages as before, about \theoremstyle not being defined. -- Philip
Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Michael Wojcik schrieb: I believe he meant: I have some comments regarding the LyX tutorial. I do not want to join a mailing list. I do not want my comments posted to a mailing list. I am not interested in replies to my comments. Why does he posting then his comments? Why sending comments when he don't want a reply? - All in all a senseless email. To me it sounded like he'd been in a private conversation with someone, and that he'd been asked to provide details or something... Was there perhaps an attachment with his first post? /C regards Uwe -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
This is fixed now. See the layout file attached. The fix was to add:
Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
EndPreamble
to the layout file.
Yes, sorry. That's elsewhere in the ams class files. Put that in the
theorem environment and it will be picked up elsewhere, too.
Put what in the theorem environment? How do I put something in the
theorem environment(Without root permissions)?
-- Philip
Re: Using a network printer
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Michael Wojcik wrote: .ps-files... Personally, I think it'd be nice to be able to rpint directly from LyX. Out of curiosity, why? Different work flows I guess... I was writing a bit of math, more or less doing the derivations inside LyX. Now and then I want a hard copy to work on and proof read. In this case the document was purely for internal use, and I _know_ don't have to worry about checking it's appearance. Only the content mattered, so I never bothered with viewiers. Why should I? Even if the LyX screen doesn't show it exactly correct, it's still WYSIWYM, which was very good in this case. However, I did need the hard copy as I'm often more creative with plain pen and paper - as are most people I suspect! The question as I see it is if it's worth spending time trying to fix bugs in LyX that are related to printing. (And that are probably specific to the GNU/Linux distribution etc) The worst one isn't: File Print simply doesn't make sense, and that's true on all platforms. The design is broken. LyX supports multiple back ends, and as long as that's true, File Print is at best ambiguous. At worst, it's simply broken, for example if I have pdflatex-specific packages or commands in my document (in the preamble or in ERT). At the very least, the menu item should be named something like Print (Postscript) or Print (dvips). An unqualified Print menu action isn't meaningful for LyX. I'm inclined to agree with you... the drawback would be confusion for people that are used to other systems. If someone else thinks it's a good idea, I'll move this discussion to the developers' list and possibly make a bugzilla entry out of it. Regards, /christian PS. I saw that Helge had some tips on getting printing to work, I'll look at that later. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Upload screenshots to wiki! (Was: Request for screenshots)
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Julio Rojas wrote: P.S.: 3rd time I try to send this message. File size limits sucks!!! ;) Hi, This is just a reminder that you can upload the screenshots (or screencasts!) directly to the wiki. Just ask me, or any other developer, for the upload password. /Christian PS. This wiki page has information about uploading. If it's still not clear, _please_ ask me about it so that I can improve that page! http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading PPS. Because of spam, that page is protected from editing. If you'd like to improve it directly, just ask for the password! -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: UI changes
Whoops, didn't reply all: On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Rex C. Eastbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Personally, I would change the default background color from pink to some other color -- white, light grey, light blue, ... -When I first inserted TeX code, I found the label ERT confusing, since I didn't know what it meant. (However, it is a pretty funny label.) Rex On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you are at it: Feel free to make proposals how LyX appearance might be improved. After all, some (most... all...?) of the visual appearance of the main LyX canvas looks a bit old-fashioned, too. Andre'
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) With a patch I have prepared (see another thread), inset-settings would work for InsetGraphics, and InsetLabel, InsetRef etc that are derived from InsetCommand. Bo
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) this behaviour is intended? i find the naming confusing. wouldn't be better to have clear distinction between toggling and dialog showing? also what is the relation to dialog-show lfun? pavel
Re: UI changes
-When I first inserted TeX code, I found the label ERT confusing, since I didn't know what it meant. (However, it is a pretty funny label.) evil red tex(t) :)) p
Fix to quality of screencasts
Hello, Important note for anyone making flash screencasts using Wink: when you upload to the Wiki, make sure to upload not just the SWF file, but also the .htm file and .js file that Wink generates. Then link to the .htm file. This should improve the video quality. For example, compare the quality the following two screencasts, both of which use the exact same swf: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/Screencasts/LyXIntroPalette.htm http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/Screencasts/LyXIntroPalette.swf At least in my browser, the second one looks much grainier. I think the explanation is here: http://www.debugmode.com/userforums/viewtopic.php?t=1207highlight=htm++quality I'll add these instructions to the wiki page. Rex
Ask for help!
Dear LyX Developer, I am a LyX user from China. At first, thank you for giving us such a useful tool. I have some question about the template of LyX. I need to write my thesis in Chinese, so I can't use the inherent template. How can I construct my own template? Could you help me? Thank you very much! Best Regards Your sincerely Wu Tao
Re: Website re-design ideas
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. Hi Rex, I asked my girlfriend who has some experience in this matter for her input, here are her impressions (she added slashdot to the list) in a grade where 5 is the best. Unfortunately she didn't think any of the sites were great, so none of them got full marks... Look and feel Navigation Useability Overall www.lyx.org 1 1 1 1 wiki.lyx.org2 2 2 2 Octave 1 2 3 1 Emacs 1 1 1 1 Python 2 3 3 3 Ruby4 2 2 3 SciPy 3 3 3 3 Slashdot4 4 4 4 * Look and feel means the level of design * Navigation means how easy they are to navigate, and how easy it is to see where you are (within the site). Also how intuitivie navigation is. * Useability means e.g. that a small number of clicks is needed to easily reach your desitnation. Do you have to scroll? Do you have to look for the links on the page, or do you see them at once? Do you need more than three clicks to reach your destination? * Overall means the overall impression of the site. Does it look professional? In other words, her spontaneous reaction to the original www.lyx.org and the wiki is that they currently suck. Guess I should be glad that the wiki wasn't worst at least... Slashdot got some good comments from her though. cheers, Christian http://www.slashdot.org http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ http://www.python.org/ http://www.scipy.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Fix to quality of screencasts
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 11:14 PM, Rex C. Eastbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Important note for anyone making flash screencasts using Wink: when you upload to the Wiki, make sure to upload not just the SWF file, but also the .htm file and .js file that Wink generates. Then link to the .htm file. This should improve the video quality. For example, compare the quality the following two screencasts, both of which use the exact same swf: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/Screencasts/LyXIntroPalette.htm http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/LyX/Screencasts/LyXIntroPalette.swf Good point, I just changed my screencasts accordingly. I think the explanation is here: http://www.debugmode.com/userforums/viewtopic.php?t=1207highlight=htm++quality I'll add these instructions to the wiki page. Great work there, Rex. Dominik
Re: Issue with LyX 1.5.3
Bruno Azria wrote: Gents, I am a new user of the LyX system, which I find outstanding. I face the following issue: - when I try to open the User's Guide from the LyX Help menu, I get the following error message : Document class not available : layout file requested by this document is not available : scrbook.layout is not usable. LyX will not be able to produce output, The scrbook class is part of the Komascript package. There's a good chance this is a result of your not having that package installed. Try the following: a. Run MiKTeX's package manager (Browse Package) and install koma-script. (If the package is already installed, forget the rest of this and let us know; the problem then lies elsewhere.) Also install floatflt (see below). b. Run LyX, do Tools - Reconfigure, then exit and restart LyX. - actually I cannot find this layout in the MiKteX distribution, but it exists in the LyK/resource folder, Layouts are not part of the MiKTeX distribution; they are files that LyX uses to determine how documents of a particular class (Koma book in this case) should be handled in the LyX GUI. - I try to change the Document class to a simpler one, Book for example, but it still does not want to produce any output and yields the following message LaTeX Error: File `floatflt.sty' not found. This is another missing MiKTeX package. While in the package manager, install it. In fact, I suggest that before running the package manager you look at Help - LaTeX Configuration in LyX. This shows the availability of a number of LaTeX packages that LyX considers important. Start with section 1 (the current LaTeX version). If the date is not at least 1995/12/01, your copy of MiKTeX is archaic. (I very much doubt this will happen.) If there is no date, it means LyX could not find a working copy of LaTeX. Assuming MiKTeX is correctly installed, you will need to add its bin directory to Tools - Preferences... - Paths - PATH prefix and then reconfigure LyX. (I also doubt this will happen, but it is not unheard of.) Assuming LyX sees a working copy of LaTeX, look through the remaining sections (fonts, classes, packages, ...) and make note of any that sound possibly useful and have Found: no. Many of the article classes may be of no particular use to you, in which case feel free to skip them. Once you have a list in hand, use MiKTeX's package manager to find and install all of the listed packages at once, then reconfigure and restart LyX. Let us know if this does not solve the problem. /Paul
Re: Long table settings problem
Ok. Thx. On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julio Rojas schrieb: Hi, I have been using the long table settings in the attached sample document with two tables, ... You inserted the longtable into a float. But longtables are desgned to be longer than a page while floats are not. A longtble can therefore not really be floated. So take it out of the float and it should work. The actual EmbeddedObjects manual explains how to insert caption to longtables and much more. regards Uwe -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
On 23.03.2008, at 22:53, Pavel Sanda wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) this behaviour is intended? i find the naming confusing. wouldn't be better to have clear distinction between toggling and dialog showing? also what is the relation to dialog-show lfun? Pavel is probably right... Before posting, I did look through the list of LFUNs (as offered by the Alt+X command bar). However, I couldn't imagine next-inset-toggle as the one I was looking for. Luckily, we have a great community on the lyx-users list willing to help! Daniel
Possible bug on document encoding.
I want to report this first here. If you agree that this is a bug, I can file a report... I want to export a LyX file containing figure floats to LaTeX using ASC II language encoding. However, I detected something strange. If I process (view dvi) and/or export the file using LaTeX default encoding (or utf8), everything works fine. This is the case of the yadas.lyx file attached. However, if I change the language encoding at Document - Settings - Language - Encoding to ascii, I can neither process nor export the text to LaTeX. This is the case of the yadas_ascii.lyx file attached. On the last file, if I remove the figure float and/or the accented letters, then I can process/export the file again... this bug seems to occur when I have both, the float and the accented letters. Is anyone detecting the same problem? -- Rudi Gaelzer Department of Physics Institute of Physics and Mathematics Federal University of Pelotas BRAZIL Registered linux user # 153741 yadas.lyx Description: application/lyx yadas_ascii.lyx Description: application/lyx
Non-starter
Good Morning All, Not sure who can best advise me so I am sending to both suggested addresses. I cannot get past the first example/test in the Tutorial (2.1.1 et seq). I type in the suggested sentence and whether I hit the view - dvi item in the drop down menu or the square toolbar dvi button I get a pop-up box with the following error message:- An error occurred whilst running db2dvi newfile1,sgml I am using LyX version 1.5.4 on Fedora 7 Where do I look for a solution please? Cheers, Les. -- Les Sharpe Tel (08) 9193 1335 Mob 0439860047 Fax (manual) (08) 9193 1335 http://members.westnet.com.au/ljsharpe On the subject of C program indentation: In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt. -- Blair P. Houghton
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
Before posting, I did look through the list of LFUNs (as offered by the Alt+X command bar). However, I couldn't imagine next-inset-toggle as the one I was looking for. Me neither, and I spent a whole day re-inventing the wheels. Bo
Re: Website re-design ideas
On Saturday 22 March 2008 23:01:35 Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. So that our graphic designer can know what kind of general design style would look good, which ones of the following look best to you guys? http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ This one looks a bit old fashioned to me. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ A bit too busy for my tastes. http://www.python.org/ I like this one. Modern but understated as well. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, writing, music, gender, geek sitcom Previous three articles: Linux for mother - http://www.linux.com/feature/125799 IBM refuse to open source OS/2 - http://www.osnews.com/story/19298/ iPhone: I don't want one - http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18959/
Re: Request for screenshots
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Rex C. Eastbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be great if some people could send in some images, along the lines of the attached image, that are nice graphical demonstrations of some functionality of LyX (equations, images, references, bibliography, you name it). especially if you have a nice, beautiful equation to send in :) That would be indeed great, but I would like you all to make sure that you're using one very neat feature: instant previews inside of LyX. When this option is enabled, you should see this kind of ugly representation of equations only when you're editing them. LyX renders them instantly and shows the rendered version instead. Thus, your text should look like it is, but the equation should correspond exactly to the one in the pdf. That makes the WYSIWYG (or WYSIWYM)-experience even better I think. However, I like your proposal. Maybe some screenshots of how LyX handles tables would be useful, too, as tables are a pain with plain LaTeX. Dominik
Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
Hi, Is there a report class available for LyX that is an analogue of the article(ams) class that is present in LyX? I am writing a report and couldn't find a LyX report class with the AMS environments (Algorithm, Theorem, Lemma, Corollary, ...) built into it. Thanks, Philip
Re: Request for screenshots
On Sat, 22 Mar 2008, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Depending on our final website design, I think it might be nice to include couple of small image snippets of what LyX looks like on the front page. I like the way the following site has several images of the software in action: http://www.r-project.org/ Would you like people to send them to you directly? It might help if you gave some specific list of the kind of screenshots you'd like, at least as a starter. Best regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
Anybody an idea? Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. Thanks, Daniel Begin forwarded message: From: Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 20. März 2008 19:58:10 MEZ To: LyXFolks User lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: How to open the dialog for label / reference inset by keyboard Hi, Is there any LFUN or pre-assigned shortcut to open the settings dialog for the label / reference / bib reference inset under the cursor? Thanks! Daniel
Re: Precompiled binaries for LyX1.5.x on Linux
Richard Heck wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Friday 21 March 2008 02:14, rgheck wrote: Geevarghese Philip wrote: Hi, I have no root permission on my Linux machine, and I would like to install LyX1.5.x on it. Is there a way to get precompiled binaries for Lyx1.5.x that can be installed in my home directory without root permissions, and which has all the dependencies built in to it? Or, you can do what I sometimes do -- don't do the make install at all, and just run it out of the directory where it was compiled (whatever/lyx-1.5.x/src, I think). Indeed. I should have mentioned that. I do this for all the development versions. For this to work, I should be able to do the make successfully: but this requires that I need all the prerequisites installed, which I cannot ensure since I don't have root permissions. -- Philip
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. Definitely. Jürgen
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
On 23.03.2008, at 13:50, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Yes: next-inset-toggle (Ctrl-i with cua.bind) Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. Definitely. That's it, thanks Jürgen! Daniel
Question about 'keep with next'
Hi, I have a writing 'style' that tends to use a lot of bullet lists. I've been using 'Itemize' in my Koma-script book. The style tends to be: * with a point * or two In word annd OOo I use 'keep with next' and 'don't break paragraph' and widow and orphan control and the layout engine generally Does The Right Thing and the whole group gets put on one page. (I sometimes fiddle with inter-paragraph spacing for these too) I'm finding that doing the same thing in LyX is often breaking the page between the elements though. Is there a straightforward way to prevent this? James
Suggestion for bibliography
I find it distracting to have to go to the bibliography section and use the (handy!) bibiography editor and then go back to where I was to add a Citation. It would be really handy if the Add Citation dialog had an option to create a new one and pop in a reference to it in one go. I'm using 1.5.3 by the way. James
Re: Request for screenshots
My snippet... A labeled table float with two tables inside table cells and a big multiline equation inside another cell. P.S.: 3rd time I try to send this message. File size limits sucks!!! ;) -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] attachment: Fuzzy.JPG
Re: Website re-design ideas
Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. So that our graphic designer can know what kind of general design style would look good, which ones of the following look best to you guys? http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ http://www.python.org/ http://www.scipy.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ If there are other websites that you guys think are particularly well designed, please let us know! Rex [Disclaimer: I have old eyes.] I like the Octave and SciPy designs; the organization is clear and they are not too cluttered. Octave is my first choice mainly for the color scheme (the blues are easy on the eyes). The Ruby and GNU Emacs sites are ok, but I find the reds a bit too bold (to the point of being distracting, although for Ruby at least it's thematic). I can't quite pin it down, but something about the combination of fonts and font colors on the Python page makes my eyes water. /Paul
Announcement: Screencasts in the wiki
Hello everyone, I would like to inform you, that there is a new section in the wiki with screencasts (recordings of the screen) that demonstrate and document certain features of LyX. You can find it here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Screencasts At the moment there are just a few screencasts that illustrate the use of auto-completion, math-macros and figures, but hopefully this section will thrive and prosper. You are invited to create screencasts of features that you like particularly and upload them on your own (or also send them to me with a short description and a screenshot). Please have a look at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Screencasts-HowToCreateThem for instructions on how to create screencasts. If you need any assistance, please feel free to ask on one of the lists. Best regards Dominik
Re: Website re-design ideas
For me SciPy and Ruby (in that order) are the best. Both look really professionally designed, but ScyPy site uses all the screen, letting you spread the information in a better way. All you have to do is pick the color scheme, which at least by my tastes should include blue, put the logo/mascot in place, design the menu with content in mind, and voila, a beautiful new site for LyX will emerge. Great idea to change the site, BTW. On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Rex C. Eastbourne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. So that our graphic designer can know what kind of general design style would look good, which ones of the following look best to you guys? http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ http://www.python.org/ http://www.scipy.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ If there are other websites that you guys think are particularly well designed, please let us know! Rex -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question about 'keep with next'
James Mansion wrote: Hi, I have a writing 'style' that tends to use a lot of bullet lists. I've been using 'Itemize' in my Koma-script book. The style tends to be: * with a point * or two In word annd OOo I use 'keep with next' and 'don't break paragraph' and widow and orphan control and the layout engine generally Does The Right Thing and the whole group gets put on one page. (I sometimes fiddle with inter-paragraph spacing for these too) I'm finding that doing the same thing in LyX is often breaking the page between the elements though. Is there a straightforward way to prevent this? No Good Can Come Of This. Inevitably, you'll end up with funky vertical spacing. That said, it's a LaTeX issue (not a LyX issue), and LaTeX provides an assortment of ways to screw with page breaking. Since AFAIK LaTeX assumes that breaking a page between items in a list is always fair, the simplest solution might be to put your bullet list inside a parbox (Insert - Box, then right click the box handle and change from the default minipage to parbox). You could even bind that to a key combination, I think (not sure if there's an LFUN for switching to a parbox) or hack the stdlists.inc file in the layout directory to include a new boxed-bullet-list environment (wrapping the list in a parbox in the preamble stuff). /Paul
Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
Geevarghese Philip wrote:
Hi,
Is there a report class available for LyX that is an analogue of the
article(ams) class that is present in LyX? I am writing a report and
couldn't find a LyX report class with the AMS environments (Algorithm,
Theorem, Lemma, Corollary, ...) built into it.
No, there's nothing like this at the moment. But the attached will do.
In 1.6, this will be much easier: Use report as your document class, and
choose the Theorems (AMS) module to use with it.
rh
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport}
# Report textclass definition file. Taken from initial LyX source code
# Author : Matthias Ettrich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Transposed by Pascal André [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Heavily modifed and enhanced by serveral developers.
Format 4
Input stdclass.inc
Input amsdefs.inc
Input numreport.inc
Style Bibliography
TopSep4
LabelString Bibliography
LabelFont
Series Bold
SizeHuge
EndFont
End
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. If the cursor is directly in front of the citation inset, then Ctrl-I (next-inset-toggle) will open the dialog. If you want something more flexible, you are welcome to bugzilla it. rh
Re: Suggestion for bibliography
James Mansion wrote: I find it distracting to have to go to the bibliography section and use the (handy!) bibiography editor and then go back to where I was to add a Citation. It would be really handy if the Add Citation dialog had an option to create a new one and pop in a reference to it in one go. The Bibliography environment is not really what you want. It's more a one-off sort of thing. If you're doing this as often as you seem to be, then you should be using BibTeX. Get a copy of JabRef and start creating your database. Include it via the InsetTOCBibliography, and then you'll have access to it at every citation. You'll also be able to use it in other documents. You can keep JabRef open alongside LyX for when you need to add a new citation. But after a while, you'll build up a database, and you won't have to add things very often. rh
Re: Website re-design ideas
In addition to my other comments, I like the SciPy.org site too. For some reason, I couldn't access that site this morning. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk - about me, writing, music, gender, geek sitcom Previous three articles: Linux for mother - http://www.linux.com/feature/125799 IBM refuse to open source OS/2 - http://www.osnews.com/story/19298/ iPhone: I don't want one - http://www.osnews.com/story.php/18959/
Re: Website re-design ideas
SciPy Rex Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. So that our graphic designer can know what kind of general design style would look good, which ones of the following look best to you guys? http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ http://www.python.org/ http://www.scipy.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ If there are other websites that you guys think are particularly well designed, please let us know! Rex - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Website-re-design-ideas-tp16228419p16236559.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
rgheck wrote:
Geevarghese Philip wrote:
Hi,
Is there a report class available for LyX that is an analogue of the
article(ams) class that is present in LyX? I am writing a report and
couldn't find a LyX report class with the AMS environments (Algorithm,
Theorem, Lemma, Corollary, ...) built into it.
No, there's nothing like this at the moment. But the attached will do.
Thanks, but there is something wrong with the layout: LyX has no problem
processing (using Ctrl-D) the attached file nodef.lyx , in which a
Definition is included using tex code. But it gives the error Undefined
control sequence. with the detail
\theoremstyle
{plain}
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
for the file withdef.lyx, in which I used LyX's Definition Layout for
including a Definition.
-- Philip
nodef.lyx
Description: application/lyx
withdef.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: Website re-design ideas
On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 19:01 -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Hello all, Over on lyx-devel, I've been discussing doing some re-design to the look and feel of www.lyx.org. I'd like to get some feedback so we know what people think looks best. Here are some links to some other websites with designs that all look nice, although there's a wide range in their design style. So that our graphic designer can know what kind of general design style would look good, which ones of the following look best to you guys? http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ http://www.python.org/ http://www.scipy.org/ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ If there are other websites that you guys think are particularly well designed, please let us know! Rex, Certainly, all of these look better than the current LyX site. My personal favorite is www.ruby-lang.org. But perhaps more important than the appearance is how the site is built. I would suggest the following rules: 1. Use DOCTYPE XHTML (it's the future). 2. Define the appearance entirely in CSS (and keep it reasonably simple). That makes it easy to change if necessary. 3. Avoid using script if possible. Les
Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1
Uwe Stöhr wrote: William B. King schrieb: Don't particularly want this posted. Don't want replies. Don't want to join any lists. You asked for feedback, and I'm sending to the only address you gave me. What are you talking about? I believe he meant: I have some comments regarding the LyX tutorial. I do not want to join a mailing list. I do not want my comments posted to a mailing list. I am not interested in replies to my comments. However, the only address I have to which I might send my feedback is a mailing list, so that is where I will send it. Alas, I am not particularly good at composing clear email messages. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Using a network printer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Mark Hansel wrote: A restriction to print exclusively through viewers breaks lyx! There are circumstances where printing an exported ps file makes sense (e.g., multiple collated copies, transmit). All of that can be done through viewers. I don't think anyone proposes that we remove the ability to produce .ps-files... Personally, I think it'd be nice to be able to rpint directly from LyX. Out of curiosity, why? I print my documents on a Postscript-capable laser printer, and I've never bothered printing from LyX, because I always review the rendered document in a viewer before printing it. If I need to print an existing document without editing it, I generally have a copy of the final rendered version already available, so why re-render it? And if I don't, I'd just as soon run LyX in batch mode to produce one, than go through the GUI. The question as I see it is if it's worth spending time trying to fix bugs in LyX that are related to printing. (And that are probably specific to the GNU/Linux distribution etc) The worst one isn't: File Print simply doesn't make sense, and that's true on all platforms. The design is broken. LyX supports multiple back ends, and as long as that's true, File Print is at best ambiguous. At worst, it's simply broken, for example if I have pdflatex-specific packages or commands in my document (in the preamble or in ERT). At the very least, the menu item should be named something like Print (Postscript) or Print (dvips). An unqualified Print menu action isn't meaningful for LyX. -- Michael Wojcik
Re: Using a network printer
Dave Wood wrote: How do I set up Lyx to use a network printer? At the moment I can print by viewing as pdf in kpdf which sees my printer. I would like to be able to print direct from Lyx though, as I sometimes want to print old files and not have to preview them first. I have tried using the cups printer name, the server address:port etc to no avail. It is all set up in tools-preferences-printer. If you haven't done anything there, then the default is to create a .ps file using dvips, and then hand that file to lp and use whatever printer lp consider default. This works for many, but not all. Perhaps you simply have to add the printer name in the right place. Some people have lpr instead of lp, consider replacing lp then. Cups (in debian: the package cupsys-client) provides a lp binary that lyx can use. This will print to whatever printer cups considers default. It can also print to non-default printers if you specify them in LyX. Make sure this program actually is installed. It is possible to have the cups server without client software installed. At least with debian/ubuntu. If this doesn't work - either change the preferences so LyX prints using whatever command line utility you have that can get a postscript file to the printer, or change things so lp works. For experimentation, export a .ps file from LyX and try to print it manually from the command line. When you have a command that works, change LyX to use that. The details of the lyx printer setup dialog is perhaps not that easy to understand - ask again if you get more trouble. Helge Hafting
Re: Website re-design ideas
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Les Denham wrote: I would suggest the following rules: I did not comment on the various designs because everyone's going to like something different, so just pick whatever looks good to you. Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design criterion I urge you to follow: high contrast between text and background. I've seen too many sites (e.g., those presenting python code examples and fragments) that use light grey text on a white background, and other light colors on the same white background. They're almost impossible to read, even when enlarged. Same with the light grey on back pages I've seen. So, however you deside to implement whatever look you want, please ensure that all text is in colors that strongly contrast with the background. Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1
Michael Wojcik schrieb: I believe he meant: I have some comments regarding the LyX tutorial. I do not want to join a mailing list. I do not want my comments posted to a mailing list. I am not interested in replies to my comments. Why does he posting then his comments? Why sending comments when he don't want a reply? - All in all a senseless email. regards Uwe
Re: Long table settings problem
Julio Rojas schrieb: Hi, I have been using the long table settings in the attached sample document with two tables, ... You inserted the longtable into a float. But longtables are desgned to be longer than a page while floats are not. A longtble can therefore not really be floated. So take it out of the float and it should work. The actual EmbeddedObjects manual explains how to insert caption to longtables and much more. regards Uwe
Re: Request for screenshots
Would you like people to send them to you directly? It might help if you gave some specific list of the kind of screenshots you'd like, at least as a starter. Best regards, /Christian Right. It would be best if you sent them to me directly. Format: I think it would be most useful if people sent me the work in .lyx files. That way, I could decide whether to show the PDF output (to show people what the final product looks like) or to show the internal works if LyX (so people can see the intricacies of the editing environment). You don't have to send the entire original LyX file; you can just send a LyX file with the bit that would be relevant to the screenshot. Specific requests: anything that showcases cool things you can do in LyX. Some of my ideas: -Complex math structures (equation arrays, cool equations, matrices, etc) -Tables, figures,... -Cross-references, bibliography stuff -LyX comments, ERT, etc. -Syntax highlighted code/algorithms -Different types of documents: mathematical proofs/ -Something in a different language Feel free to add onto this. Rex
Re: Request for screenshots
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 02:48:26PM -0400, Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: Would you like people to send them to you directly? It might help if you gave some specific list of the kind of screenshots you'd like, at least as a starter. Best regards, /Christian Right. It would be best if you sent them to me directly. Format: I think it would be most useful if people sent me the work in .lyx files. That way, I could decide whether to show the PDF output (to show people what the final product looks like) or to show the internal works if LyX (so people can see the intricacies of the editing environment). You don't have to send the entire original LyX file; you can just send a LyX file with the bit that would be relevant to the screenshot. Specific requests: anything that showcases cool things you can do in LyX. Some of my ideas: -Complex math structures (equation arrays, cool equations, matrices, etc) -Tables, figures,... -Cross-references, bibliography stuff -LyX comments, ERT, etc. -Syntax highlighted code/algorithms -Different types of documents: mathematical proofs/ -Something in a different language Feel free to add onto this. Since you are at it: Feel free to make proposals how LyX appearance might be improved. After all, some (most... all...?) of the visual appearance of the main LyX canvas looks a bit old-fashioned, too. Andre'
Re: Request for screenshots
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Andre Poenitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you are at it: Feel free to make proposals how LyX appearance might be improved. After all, some (most... all...?) of the visual appearance of the main LyX canvas looks a bit old-fashioned, too. To be honest with you, I first also thought that the main canvas looked old-fashioned, particularly the background color looked somehow like dirty old parchment to me. But it is very gentle to my eyes as the contrast between text and background isn't as high as in MS Word. That being said, I see no need to change the appearance of the main canvas of LyX. But the toolbars look compared to Word 2007 pretty old-fashioned. I think a change of the icons would enhance the appearance of LyX substantially, but the general look is neither old-fashioned nor in need of improvement.
Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
Geevarghese Philip wrote:
but there is something wrong with the layout: LyX has no problem
processing (using Ctrl-D) the attached file nodef.lyx , in which a
Definition is included using tex code. But it gives the error Undefined
control sequence.
This is fixed now. See the layout file attached. The fix was to add:
Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
EndPreamble
to the layout file.
This results in an output file where the theorems etc have the section
numbers in their numbering. Eg: Theorem 1.2.1 . I would like to have the
theorems etc numbered sequentially,eg:- Theorem 5. I tried replacing
Input amsmaths.inc with Input amsmaths-seq.inc, but that resulted in
similar errors as before.
Thanks for the help, I guess I will do with Theorem 1.2.1 etc for now.
-- Philip
#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
# \DeclareLaTeXClass[report]{amsreport}
# Report textclass definition file. Taken from initial LyX source code
# Author : Matthias Ettrich ettrich-jNDFPZUTrfQQDnmTUQnR1uqEdJ8o/[EMAIL
PROTECTED]
# Transposed by Pascal André [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Heavily modifed and enhanced by serveral developers.
Format 4
Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
EndPreamble
Input stdclass.inc
Input amsmaths.inc
Input numreport.inc
Style Bibliography
TopSep4
LabelString Bibliography
LabelFont
Series Bold
SizeHuge
EndFont
End
Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
Geevarghese Philip wrote:
Geevarghese Philip wrote:
but there is something wrong with the layout: LyX has no problem
processing (using Ctrl-D) the attached file nodef.lyx , in which a
Definition is included using tex code. But it gives the error
Undefined control sequence.
This is fixed now. See the layout file attached. The fix was to add:
Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
EndPreamble
to the layout file.
Yes, sorry. That's elsewhere in the ams class files. Put that in the
theorem environment and it will be picked up elsewhere, too.
This results in an output file where the theorems etc have the section
numbers in their numbering. Eg: Theorem 1.2.1 . I would like to have
the theorems etc numbered sequentially,eg:- Theorem 5. I tried
replacing Input amsmaths.inc with Input amsmaths-seq.inc, but that
resulted in similar errors as before.
Change the Input amsmaths.inc line to Input amsmaths-seq.inc.
rh
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
On Sunday 23 March 2008 08:30, Daniel Lohmann wrote: Anybody an idea? Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted (bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO, possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard. Thanks, Daniel Hi Daniel, I don't understand what you're saying here. If you're speaking of connecting an arbitrary keystroke to an arbitrary LFUN, I think that's a great idea. Better still would be something that would do a character style with a keystroke. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: LFUN to open label / reference inset dialog
Steve Litt wrote:
On Sunday 23 March 2008 08:30, Daniel Lohmann wrote:
Anybody an idea?
Otherwise I might add a feature request. Changing an already inserted
(bibliographic) reference is a quite common task. It should be, IMHO,
possible to do this without having to leave the keyboard.
Thanks,
Daniel
I don't understand what you're saying here. If you're speaking of connecting
an arbitrary keystroke to an arbitrary LFUN, I think that's a great idea.
Better still would be something that would do a character style with a
keystroke.
LyX 1.6. will make some of this easier: There's a GUI keybindings
editor, thanks to Bo Peng. And it is possible to bind character styles
to keystrokes. In 1.6, it's something like
flex-insert CharStyle:Code
Or whatever else you like.
Steve, you'll also appreciate this: It will shortly be possible to embed
document-specific layout information into the document itself. The GUI
is still on my to-do list---initially, it'll just be like the Preamble
bit under DocumnetSettings---but the backend is almost done. So the
beginning of a LyX file might look like this:
#LyX 1.6.0alpha1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 321
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass article
\begin_local_layout
Style Objection
CopyStyleStandard
Margin First_Dynamic
LatexTypeEnvironment
LatexNameobjection
LabelTypeStatic
LabelString Objection:
LabelSep M
ParIndent
ParSkip 0.4
ParSep 0.4
TopSep 1.4
LabelFont
Series Bold
EndFont
EndLabelType No_Label
Preamble
\usepackage{objrep}
EndPreamble
End
stuf
Style Reply
CopyStyleStandard
Margin First_Dynamic
LatexTypeEnvironment
LatexNamereply
LabelTypeStatic
LabelString Reply:
LabelSep M
ParIndent
ParSkip 0.4
ParSep 0.4
TopSep 0.4
LabelFont
Series Bold
EndFont
EndLabelType No_Label
Preamble
\usepackage{objrep}
EndPreamble
End
\end_local_layout
\language english
\inputencoding auto
...
And it works!
rh
Re: Question about 'keep with next'
On Sunday 23 March 2008 09:56, Paul A. Rubin wrote: James Mansion wrote: Hi, I have a writing 'style' that tends to use a lot of bullet lists. I've been using 'Itemize' in my Koma-script book. The style tends to be: * with a point * or two In word annd OOo I use 'keep with next' and 'don't break paragraph' and widow and orphan control and the layout engine generally Does The Right Thing and the whole group gets put on one page. (I sometimes fiddle with inter-paragraph spacing for these too) I'm finding that doing the same thing in LyX is often breaking the page between the elements though. Is there a straightforward way to prevent this? No Good Can Come Of This. Inevitably, you'll end up with funky vertical spacing. That said, it's a LaTeX issue (not a LyX issue), and LaTeX provides an assortment of ways to screw with page breaking. Since AFAIK LaTeX assumes that breaking a page between items in a list is always fair, the simplest solution might be to put your bullet list inside a parbox (Insert - Box, then right click the box handle and change from the default minipage to parbox). You could even bind that to a key combination, I think (not sure if there's an LFUN for switching to a parbox) or hack the stdlists.inc file in the layout directory to include a new boxed-bullet-list environment (wrapping the list in a parbox in the preamble stuff). I think some good can come of this, assuming the author is reasonable about what he puts in the box. For instance, my 10 step Universal Troubleshooting Process really should be on one page, along with its header, even if it creates a gap on a page. One technique I personally use to minimize the likelihood of an intra-list break is to tweak my layout file so that list items are closer together. Here's an oversimplified example: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200210/200210.htm#_ChangingVerticalSpacing HTH SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Issue with LyX 1.5.3
Gents, I am a new user of the LyX system, which I find outstanding. I face the following issue: - when I try to open the User's Guide from the LyX Help menu, I get the following error message : Document class not available : layout file requested by this document is not available : scrbook.layout is not usable. LyX will not be able to produce output, - actually I cannot find this layout in the MiKteX distribution, but it exists in the LyK/resource folder, - I try to change the Document class to a simpler one, Book for example, but it still does not want to produce any output and yields the following message LaTeX Error: File `floatflt.sty' not found. Please can someone help me or provide solving hints? Environment: - LyX 1.5.3 - Windows XP Pro SP2 - MikTek 2.7.2845 Kind regards, Thank you and Happy Easter, Bruno Paris, France
Re: Website re-design ideas
On Monday 24 March 2008 06:09:32 am Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Les Denham wrote: I would suggest the following rules: I did not comment on the various designs because everyone's going to like something different, so just pick whatever looks good to you. Regardless of what layout you choose and how you go about building it (I, too, support xhtml and css), there is one universal design criterion I urge you to follow: high contrast between text and background. I've seen too many sites (e.g., those presenting python code examples and fragments) that use light grey text on a white background, and other light colors on the same white background. They're almost impossible to read, even when enlarged. Same with the light grey on back pages I've seen. So, however you deside to implement whatever look you want, please ensure that all text is in colors that strongly contrast with the Hear Hear! (But I suspect you're showing your age Rich -- and mine!) John O'Gorman background. Rich
Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
rgheck wrote: This results in an output file where the theorems etc have the section numbers in their numbering. Eg: Theorem 1.2.1 . I would like to have the theorems etc numbered sequentially,eg:- Theorem 5. I tried replacing Input amsmaths.inc with Input amsmaths-seq.inc, but that resulted in similar errors as before. Change the Input amsmaths.inc line to Input amsmaths-seq.inc. As I said, I tried doing this, but it gave similar error messages as before, about \theoremstyle not being defined. -- Philip
Re: feedback on LyX 1.5.1
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Michael Wojcik schrieb: I believe he meant: I have some comments regarding the LyX tutorial. I do not want to join a mailing list. I do not want my comments posted to a mailing list. I am not interested in replies to my comments. Why does he posting then his comments? Why sending comments when he don't want a reply? - All in all a senseless email. To me it sounded like he'd been in a private conversation with someone, and that he'd been asked to provide details or something... Was there perhaps an attachment with his first post? /C regards Uwe -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Re: Is there an AMS report class for LyX?
This is fixed now. See the layout file attached. The fix was to add:
Preamble
\usepackage{amsthm}
EndPreamble
to the layout file.
Yes, sorry. That's elsewhere in the ams class files. Put that in the
theorem environment and it will be picked up elsewhere, too.
Put what in the theorem environment? How do I put something in the
theorem environment(Without root permissions)?
-- Philip
Re: Using a network printer
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Michael Wojcik wrote: .ps-files... Personally, I think it'd be nice to be able to rpint directly from LyX. Out of curiosity, why? Different work flows I guess... I was writing a bit of math, more or less doing the derivations inside LyX. Now and then I want a hard copy to work on and proof read. In this case the document was purely for internal use, and I _know_ don't have to worry about checking it's appearance. Only the content mattered, so I never bothered with viewiers. Why should I? Even if the LyX screen doesn't show it exactly correct, it's still WYSIWYM, which was very good in this case. However, I did need the hard copy as I'm often more creative with plain pen and paper - as are most people I suspect! The question as I see it is if it's worth spending time trying to fix bugs in LyX that are related to printing. (And that are probably specific to the GNU/Linux distribution etc) The worst one isn't: File Print simply doesn't make sense, and that's true on all platforms. The design is broken. LyX supports multiple back ends, and as long as that's true, File Print is at best ambiguous. At worst, it's simply broken, for example if I have pdflatex-specific packages or commands in my document (in the preamble or in ERT). At the very least, the menu item should be named something like Print (Postscript) or Print (dvips). An unqualified Print menu action isn't meaningful for LyX. I'm inclined to agree with you... the drawback would be confusion for people that are used to other systems. If someone else thinks it's a good idea, I'll move this discussion to the developers' list and possibly make a bugzilla entry out of it. Regards, /christian PS. I saw that Helge had some tips on getting printing to work, I'll look at that later. -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
Upload screenshots to wiki! (Was: Request for screenshots)
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008, Julio Rojas wrote: P.S.: 3rd time I try to send this message. File size limits sucks!!! ;) Hi, This is just a reminder that you can upload the screenshots (or screencasts!) directly to the wiki. Just ask me, or any other developer, for the upload password. /Christian PS. This wiki page has information about uploading. If it's still not clear, _please_ ask me about it so that I can improve that page! http://wiki.lyx.org/Site/AboutUploading PPS. Because of spam, that page is protected from editing. If you'd like to improve it directly, just ask for the password! -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
