Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5
Dear Users, An .eps figure is inserted into a figure float. This picture has a bounding box. When its sizes are obtained from the file (get from file), the bounding box is neglected and the full figure (the whole A4 page) is shown in LyX. However, if one deletes any of the four sizes, and then writes it back, LyX will show the correct bounding box, i. e. the part of the figure within the bounding box. This can be repeated any times. In the former versions of LyX this behaviour could be prevented by using older versions of ImageMagick instead of the newer ones coming with the LyX installer. Now, however, selected ImageMagick files are preinstalled in LyX directories and the previous workaround with the older ImageMagicks no longer works. For those writing long scientific documents in LyX, full of pictures, it would be extremely important to fix this problem. I tried to send a test document but the system found it too long and refused it. With best wishes, Gyorgy Pota
Aspell Russian Dictionary corrupt
Hi all, Has anyone tried to install Aspell Russian Dictionary with standard installation of LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP? After downloading the russian spellchecker the following error message appears. The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete. This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or a virus. You may want to contact the author of this installer to obtain a new copy. It may be possible to skip this check using the \NCRC command line switch (NOT RECOMMENDED) -- Zorigtkhuu Davaanyam
Re: Change tracker continues to have problems
On 13.05.08, Jim Rockford wrote:
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Rockford schrieb:
I had this exact same problem with 1.5.4, which 1.55 has inherited. With
the change tracker, when I elect to Show Changes In Output I get
the following error:
Package soul Error: Reconstruction failed.
What exactly is the problem? I don't get this package error. Have you
reported the problem on bugzilla.lyx.org?
Hi -- there was one important piece of information that I discovered: this
problem only occurs with pdflatex output. No problems with dvipdfm,
postscript, and so forth. Just pdflatex. Also, I am running lyx on WinXP.
I haven't tried to see whether this problem occurs on a linux machine.
So it is not the problem with strikeout of citations:
If the deleted text contains a Bibtex-citation (and sometimes
also if it contains a reference to a label in a float), Show
Changes In Output results in missing } inserted and paragraph
ended before ... errors.
A workaround is to disable the strikeout and rely on the red
colouring. In the LaTeX preamble write e.g. ::
\renewcommand{\lyxdeleted}[3]{{\color{lyxdeleted}#3}}
Another quick fix is to reject the deltion of the citations (select and
DocumentChangeReject), however this leads to residua if the whole
change is accepted later.
Günter
Re: Embedding asymptote in LyX
Oh, I see...
They also wrote this line under that figure: For ASYMPTOTE versions ≥
1.14, you can simply call PDFLATEX directly - but I have misunderstood
it, probably; I thought it meant that in this specific case (version ≥
1.14), I *don't* need to do that.
Well, then...
I am looking for a workaround now.
Is it possible to export a LyX document to a TeX document without losing
data? Then, I'll be able to do what they suggest in the documentation.
Thanks,
Peleg.
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 19:38 +0200, Manveru wrote:
Hough!
I am not a specialist of ASYMPTOTE, but I've just looked into the
documentation. They directly tell about makefile for latex with asymptote:
document.pdf: document.tex
pdflatex -shell-escape document
asy document
pdflatex -shell-escape document
It means that ASYMPTOTE need an additional step during document generation
which launch asy command between two pdflatex invocations. This is what
LyX is *not able* to do. Generation process is compiled in, automatic... and
as some people suggests, not user configurable.
Maybe it is worth to put feature request in bugzilla, to get this to work
when \usepackage{asymptote} is used in preamble definition.
Regards,
M.
2008/5/13 Peleg Michaeli [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello!
I am trying to embed Asymptote in LyX documents.
I am following this tutorial:
http://www.dse.nl/~dario/projects/asylatex/asylatex.pdfhttp://www.dse.nl/%7Edario/projects/asylatex/asylatex.pdf
I am doing everything as suggested:
* I have included \usepackage{asymptote} and
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} in the LaTeX preamble
* I have done Crtl-L in the middle of the document and added this LaTeX
code:
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{asy}
size (3cm);
draw (unitcircle);
\end{asy}
\caption{Embedded Asymptote figures are easy!}
\label{fig:embedded}
\end{figure}
When I generate the document (using pdflatex), I get nothing special: a
figure with PDF written there, but no image (no unitcircle)...
when I do the same, but with DVI, I get EPS written instead of the
unitcircle. Either way, I don't see any picture...
I have a new version of Asymptote: 1.18 - so it should work
automatically with pdflatex.
Any ideas?
Maybe I should ask a different list?
Thanks ahead,
Peleg.
Re: Best choice of 'intermediate' graphics format
Thanks for the reply, On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:52 +0200, G. Milde wrote: The best choice (for Inkskape) should be SVG. LyX can be set to support it directly (search for SVG on wiki.lyx.org). Here is a sample of export formats offered by Designer: AI, PSD, DXF, MGX, PLT, IGS, PPF, PNG, SCT, EMF (not to mention WMF). Have a look which of these Inkskape supports (do not use the bitmap formats as PNG) and try how it works. OOdraw should also support WMF. If OOdraw has a command line option to convert WMF to PFD or EPS, you could even make LyX aware of the WMF format (search for SVG on wiki.lyx.org as an template on how to configure LyX for WMF). What puzzles me is that if I open, say, a WMF in OODraw, I get a whole block which cannot be separated into its individual components. (Not a LyX issue, however.) These graphics will appear in documents for printing and pdf output. If you use pdflatex, preferabely save the drawings as pdf (but LyX can be told to convert eps to pdf as well). If you use latex+dvips+ps2pdf, save them as eps (but LyX can be told to convert to eps as well). I'm feeling ignorant here: I don't see where to adjust these choices (hence, which one LyX selected by default for me)... -- Daniel CLEMENT
Re: Embedding asymptote in LyX
Ok, I have succeded to export to TeX, and I am now trying asymptote as
the instructions advised.
It is NOT a LyX question, I guess, but still it might be useful to ask
it here, since I believe that there are LyX users who use Asymptote...
and because it might be still LyX related, because of the following
fact:
doing what the instructions advised, on a test.tex file which contains
only what's written in this document, works well. Here is the code:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{asymptote}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{asy}
size (3cm);
draw (unitcircle);
\end{asy}
\caption{Embedded Asymptote figures are easy!}
\label{fig:embedded}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
Again - this code works WELL.
So now I am trying to do the same with an exported-to-tex LyX document.
For that purpose, I have created a very simple LyX document, and
exported it to TeX; it worked as well.
I have tried to make it a bit more complicated - I tried to do the SAME
simple document, but in Hebrew (as I usually do). I have left the code
inside the asymptote example in English.
And that's it. Now it is not working any more...
A simple analyzation of the situation:
a. when the document was in English, the first pdflatex asytest2 had
created a file named asytest2.asy with this line in it:
defaultfilename='asytest2_1';
this is probably good, because the command asy asytest2 generates a
file asytest2_1.pdf with the unit circle, and the second pdflatex
asytest2 generates asytest2.pdf with the unit circle embedded.
but:
b. when the document is still mainly in English, but I have a *single
word* in Hebrew (actually, in a Hebrew direction, but it is still with
English characters; it looks like that: [in the tex file] sometext
\inputencoding{cp1255}\R{some more text}) then the first pdflatex
asytest2 generates the file asytest2.asy as before, but in it, the
relevant line is now:
defaultfilename='asytest2_\protect \beginL 1\endL ';
and that is probably not good, since the command asy asytest2
generates a file named asytest2_\protect eginL 1\endL .pdf (which
can't be good) and of course, the second pdflatex asytest2 does *not*
embed the nice unitcircle from that pdf.
manually removing the line \inputencoding{cp1255}\R{text} does not
make any difference, so I assumed it is something with the main
configuration of the tex file. So, I have compared to files, one with
thi encoding difference, and one without, that are otherwise the same,
and these are the results:
The ONLY difference (besides the line with
\inputencoding{cp1255}\R{text} - which its removal changes nothing), is
in the heading -
\documentclass[10pt,english]{article} becomes
\documentclass[10pt,hebrew,english]{article}
and \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} becomes
\usepackage[cp1255,latin9]{inputenc}
I have tried to remove only one of them, so see what happens... I have
tried only to remove hebrew from the first line, but then the second
line caused an error; so I have kept the hebrew in the first line, and
removed cp1255 from the second line. well, that didn't change anything
either.
Removing both changes, that is, removing both hebrew and cp1255 from
the heading, return the situation - of course - to the one we had in the
beginning - a pure English document; then, of course, it worked well
again.
That's my little research...
Any ideas?
Thanks ahead,
Peleg.
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 08:40 +0100, Peleg Michaeli wrote:
Oh, I see...
They also wrote this line under that figure: For ASYMPTOTE versions ≥
1.14, you can simply call PDFLATEX directly - but I have misunderstood
it, probably; I thought it meant that in this specific case (version ≥
1.14), I *don't* need to do that.
Well, then...
I am looking for a workaround now.
Is it possible to export a LyX document to a TeX document without losing
data? Then, I'll be able to do what they suggest in the documentation.
Thanks,
Peleg.
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 19:38 +0200, Manveru wrote:
Hough!
I am not a specialist of ASYMPTOTE, but I've just looked into the
documentation. They directly tell about makefile for latex with asymptote:
document.pdf: document.tex
pdflatex -shell-escape document
asy document
pdflatex -shell-escape document
It means that ASYMPTOTE need an additional step during document generation
which launch asy command between two pdflatex invocations. This is what
LyX is *not able* to do. Generation process is compiled in, automatic... and
as some people suggests, not user configurable.
Maybe it is worth to put feature request in bugzilla, to get this to work
when \usepackage{asymptote} is used in preamble definition.
Regards,
M.
2008/5/13 Peleg Michaeli [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello!
I am trying to embed Asymptote in LyX documents.
I am following this tutorial:
http://www.dse.nl/~dario/projects/asylatex/asylatex.pdfhttp://www.dse.nl/%7Edario/projects/asylatex/asylatex.pdf
Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5
In the former versions of LyX this behaviour could be prevented by using older versions of ImageMagick instead of the newer ones coming with the LyX installer. Now, however, selected ImageMagick files are preinstalled in LyX directories and the previous workaround with the older ImageMagicks no longer works. this is not the only problem wrt new versions of imagemagick. with older versions of imagemagick my black-white eps pictures get converted and resized nicely in the anti-aliased way; now it is no more and those pictures are very hard to read on the screen. can you observe it too? I tried to send a test document but the system found it too long and refused it. you can always put it in bugzilla. pavel
Re: Aspell Russian Dictionary corrupt
I had similar problem with Polish some time ago. I manually installed proper dictionary for Aspell, not even those orginal one from Aspell pages but from projects connected I think with OpenOffice - they have much better dictionaries. 2008/5/14 D. Zorig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Has anyone tried to install Aspell Russian Dictionary with standard installation of LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP? After downloading the russian spellchecker the following error message appears. The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete. This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or a virus. You may want to contact the author of this installer to obtain a new copy. It may be possible to skip this check using the \NCRC command line switch (NOT RECOMMENDED) -- Zorigtkhuu Davaanyam -- Manveru jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have just installed a fresh Ubuntu 8.04 distro onto my machine, together with LyX that I am using to write my PhD thesis because I love the way that it doesn't let control codes get in the way of the prose. There seems to be a very nagging problem, however, in that whenever I'm in a maths environment, the LaTeX command \propto is always displayed as a \mu, rather than its correct symbol. The PDF output is fine, as is the instant preview option, so I'm guessing that this is something to do with a character encoding issue? Is there an obvious fix for this, I wonder? Many thanks, Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIKrnVlOUulwj5l8QRAmssAKCPNoR+zO7RlsgngDv2D2TeViaR2ACfSJJ5 AZ3zp3lZVAw3yI4bb6GrUUc= =1ykV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Best choice of 'intermediate' graphics format
On 14.05.08, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Thanks for the reply, On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:52 +0200, G. Milde wrote: The best choice (for Inkskape) should be SVG. LyX can be set to support it directly (search for SVG on wiki.lyx.org). There is even a windows version of Inkskape, so you could use it instead of Designer for improved portability of the results. Here is a sample of export formats offered by Designer: AI, PSD, DXF, MGX, PLT, IGS, PPF, PNG, SCT, EMF (not to mention WMF). Have a look which of these Inkskape supports (do not use the bitmap formats as PNG) and try how it works. Newer versions of Inkskape can even import and edit EPS and PDF. There might be some problems, however as these formats miss some information present in e.g. SVG that is needed (or at least helpfull) in editing but not needed for printing. OOdraw should also support WMF. What puzzles me is that if I open, say, a WMF in OODraw, I get a whole block which cannot be separated into its individual components. I.e. you can annote, overwrite but not really edit :-( This is the usual behaviour of MS-Windows apps as well: try a Designer-produced WMF on a MS-Win machine without Designer. These graphics will appear in documents for printing and pdf output. If you use pdflatex, preferabely save the drawings as pdf (but LyX can be told to convert eps to pdf as well). If you use latex+dvips+ps2pdf, save them as eps (but LyX can be told to convert to eps as well). I'm feeling ignorant here: I don't see where to adjust these choices (hence, which one LyX selected by default for me)... LyX will choose the right route, the above was intended as fallback if there is no 'intermediate' format that works directly with lyx. GM
smaller text in table
How can I convince LyX to use smaller text (eg footnotesize) in a table? I tried before the table (but in the float) \footnotesize and after the table \normalsize, both in ERT, but it does not seem to obey. Wolfgang
Re: Aspell Russian Dictionary corrupt
D.Zorig wrote: Has anyone tried to install Aspell Russian Dictionary with standard installation of LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP? After downloading the russian spellchecker the following error message appears. I think a mirror server contains an outdated version. Try this one: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/aspell6-windows/aspell6-ru-0.99f7-1.exe Joost
Re: smaller text in table
I use the text style dialog and it works : I select the text in the table and I change the font size... (Works on 1.5.5 on Windows XP ) Hope it helps. Siegfried.
Re: smaller text in table
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: How can I convince LyX to use smaller text (eg footnotesize) in a table? I tried before the table (but in the float) \footnotesize and after the table \normalsize, both in ERT, but it does not seem to obey. What works for me is highlighting all the text in the table and then using the font dialog to change the size. /Paul
Automated generation of graphs to be included
I wrote a little python to generate a bunch of graphs. How do I format this to a file to include in lyx? I tried making a file with: \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Graphics filename N=512,e=--20.pdf width 100line% \end_inset And tried insert/file/lyx, but lyx says it's not a lyx file. What is the best way to implement this?
Bibtex question
Hi. Using lyx 1.5.4 on ubuntu, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to reference according to my Uni guidelines - which I believe are Chicago Manual of Style. What I need as output that can be seen by the Chicago Manual of Style section on this webpage: http://web.reed.edu/cis/Help/LaTex/bibtexstyles.html, where it has the footnote and then the bibliography at the end. I've selected to use natbib, etc, but I cannot figure out how to get lyx to do the footnoting part - it still insists on in-text referencing and then providing the bibliography at the end. Any help would be great. Thanks a lot. -- - DJM
Re: Automated generation of graphs to be included
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 13:54:04 Neal Becker wrote: I wrote a little python to generate a bunch of graphs. How do I format this to a file to include in lyx? I tried making a file with: \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Graphics filename N=512,e=--20.pdf width 100line% \end_inset And tried insert/file/lyx, but lyx says it's not a lyx file. What is the best way to implement this? How about using external insets? -- José Abílio
Re: Automated generation of graphs to be included
José Matos wrote:
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 13:54:04 Neal Becker wrote:
I wrote a little python to generate a bunch of graphs. How do I format
this to a file to include in lyx?
I tried making a file with:
\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset Graphics
filename N=512,e=--20.pdf
width 100line%
\end_inset
And tried insert/file/lyx, but lyx says it's not a lyx file. What is the
best way to implement this?
How about using external insets?
Not sure what you mean here.
What I did:
Add \usepackage{graphicx} to preamble.
Add child doc using \input
Child doc has just a bunch of lines:
\includegraphcs[blah blah]{filename}
problems with Beamer presentations
Hi everybody, I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several problems. Of course, like always, i waited for the very last moment to start to write my presentation (last time was some year ago, with another linux, another verions of lyx, another computer...)... :-(. Any help will be greatly appreciated ! 1/ if i put a Theorem environnement, it appears completely at the bottom of the page, and nothing else in the page :-( see : http://www.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~roy/Capture_theo.png 2/ following the official documentation from http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ i create one frame with only a TOC inside. But it does produces an empty frame. 3/ i have menu on the left, with the list of sections (only one at the moment, called CV). I expected that there will be a hyperlink from this menu to the corresponding section. But not. Should i activate something ? 4/ Similarly, i remember that in the past, i a navigation bar at the bottom of the documents, with standard buttons left, right, back, How can i activate that ? Thanks a lot in advance for any help. nicolas -- Dr Nicolas Roy Geometric Analysis Group Institut für Mathematik Humboldt Universität Rudower Chaussee 25 Berlin D-12489 Tel: +49 (30) 20932358 Fax: +49 (30) 20932727 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/~roy/
Re: problems with Beamer presentations
Sorry, i did not precise : i'm under Ubuntu 7.10, with Lyx 1.5.1 nicolas nicolas roy a écrit : Hi everybody, I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several problems. Of course, like always, i waited for the very last moment to start to write my presentation (last time was some year ago, with another linux, another verions of lyx, another computer...)... :-(. Any help will be greatly appreciated ! 1/ if i put a Theorem environnement, it appears completely at the bottom of the page, and nothing else in the page :-( see : http://www.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~roy/Capture_theo.png 2/ following the official documentation from http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ i create one frame with only a TOC inside. But it does produces an empty frame. 3/ i have menu on the left, with the list of sections (only one at the moment, called CV). I expected that there will be a hyperlink from this menu to the corresponding section. But not. Should i activate something ? 4/ Similarly, i remember that in the past, i a navigation bar at the bottom of the documents, with standard buttons left, right, back, How can i activate that ? Thanks a lot in advance for any help. nicolas -- Dr Nicolas Roy Geometric Analysis Group Institut für Mathematik Humboldt Universität Rudower Chaussee 25 Berlin D-12489 Tel: +49 (30) 20932358 Fax: +49 (30) 20932727 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/~roy/
Re: Automated generation of graphs to be included
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 14:38:02 Neal Becker wrote: Not sure what you mean here. Help-Customization- Chapter 6 - Including External Material -- José Abílio
Re: Bibtex question
Daniel Miles wrote: Hi. Using lyx 1.5.4 on ubuntu, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to reference according to my Uni guidelines - which I believe are Chicago Manual of Style. What I need as output that can be seen by the Chicago Manual of Style section on this webpage: http://web.reed.edu/cis/Help/LaTex/bibtexstyles.html, where it has the footnote and then the bibliography at the end. I've selected to use natbib, etc, but I cannot figure out how to get lyx to do the footnoting part - it still insists on in-text referencing and then providing the bibliography at the end. Any help would be great. Thanks a lot. If you want Chicago style, another option is Charles Schaum biblatex files : http://groups.google.it/group/comp.text.tex/msg/354f326ca49961b2?hl=frq=chicago.cbx For biblatex, look at the Lyx wiki Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly
Chris Jewell schrieb: There seems to be a very nagging problem, however, in that whenever I'm in a maths environment, the LaTeX command \propto is always displayed as a \mu, rather than its correct symbol. Do you have the LaTeX-XFT fonts installed? regards Uwe
Re: Change tracker continues to have problems
Jim Rockford schrieb: Hi -- there was one important piece of information that I discovered: this problem only occurs with pdflatex output. What exactly is the problem? Does it appear for any document? Please open a bug report and attach there a small example file to be able to reproduce the problem if the method Günter wrote you doesn't help. regards Uwe
Re: Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There seems to be a very nagging problem, however, in that whenever I'm in a maths environment, the LaTeX command \propto is always displayed as a \mu, rather than its correct symbol. Do you have the LaTeX-XFT fonts installed? Ok, installing the LaTeX-XFT fonts has cured the problem. Thank you! Perhaps this should be added to the dependencies for the deb LyX package? Kind regards, Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIKwSylOUulwj5l8QRAtFSAJ4h38GiaVK7tOHefjnWFzQnCT9qpQCfQJVh V9K6V81FsL2F54ZblFLCbSk= =LCKH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
endfloat package and sideways figures + tables
Hi,
I have some problems with the endfloat package in combination with
sideways figures + tables. Rotated floats are not directly supported by
endfloat. According to the endfloat documentation, there is an
alternative configuration file called efxmpl.cfg which should fix the
problem after renaming it to endfloat.cfg. This did not, however, solved
the problem - rotated floats are still handled incorrectly.
Does anybody know how to solve my problem?
Here is what I exactly did:
- include
\usepackage[...]{endfloat}
in the preamble
- rename the file C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\efxmpl.cfg to
endfloat.cfg.
Thanks!
ps: I use
LyX Version 1.5.4
Operating System: Windows XP
Re: SVG to PDF
Thanks, I did what you told me. It works now, in LyX Preferences SVG converters appeared using Inkscape. I have a problem with SVGs containing raster picture. I made a capture to explain the case: http://zaradek.hu/svg/Linked_image_not_found.png. I use Inkscape to put captions made by LaTeX onto the 3D raster picture. I put it into LyX but the raster image is missing from the LyX window and (after compiling the LyX file) from the PDF as well. It would be great to fix this problem. The other thing I noticed (but it's not relevant for me) is that if I open the SVG file from LyX then the toolbar of Inkscape collapses, the button images aren't shown up: http://zaradek.hu/svg/Crashed_toolbar.png. Cheers, Máté - Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr To: Máté Salát Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:13 PM Subject: Re: SVG to PDF Máté Salát schrieb: I use LyX and Inkscape on Win XP. I compile my documents exclusively with pdflatex. If I insert an SVG image into my LyX document and compile it then the automatic conversation gives a wrong sized image with wide white border on the bottom and on the right side. So it won't be centered on the page and so on. If I open the SVG in Inkscape and save it in PDF then I get the Image with the right size. The mentioned files are at http://zaradek.hu/svg. When you install LyX using this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller Inkscape is used to convert the SVG to PDF as you want it. The whitespace problem you described was a bug in ImageMagick (that also appears for PDF and PS images). To get a fixed version: - uninstall the Existing ImageMagick (if you have it installed) - reinstall LyX 1.5.5 using the obove mentioned installer that delivers the latest ImageMagick regards Uwe
Re: problems with Beamer presentations
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: Sorry, i did not precise : i'm under Ubuntu 7.10, with Lyx 1.5.1 nicolas nicolas roy a écrit : Hi everybody, I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several problems. Of course, like always, i waited for the very last moment to start to write my presentation (last time was some year ago, with another linux, another verions of lyx, another computer...)... :-(. Any help will be greatly appreciated ! snip Thanks a lot in advance for any help. nicolas, I can identify with your problem -- several years ago I tried to put together a presentation with beamer, and gave up. I turned to powerdot instead, and have generally found it to be very satisfactory. I think it is a standard class with LyX 1.5.1, and Ubuntu 7.10 should have a new enough version of texlive for everything to work (when I started with powerdot all my systems had tetex, which does not have recent enough versions of several LaTeX packages for powerdot). The only caveat with powerdot is you have to remember to generate the PDF output using ps2pdf, not pdflatex. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly
Ok, installing the LaTeX-XFT fonts has cured the problem. Thank you! Perhaps this should be added to the dependencies for the deb LyX package? Yes, please report this issue to the LyX debian package manager (this is Sven Höxter as far as I know). regards Uwe
LyX compiled easily on Mandriva 2008 spring, 64 bit
Hi all, After the horror show compiling LyX for Mandriva 2007, I was expecting trouble when Mandriva 2008 spring 64 bit didn't come with LyX. But no problem -- I downloaded LyX 1.5.4, and did: ./configure make src/lyx and it worked perfectly, so far as I can tell. I haven't actually made any docs with it yet. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?
Hi all, All of my books except one are in LyX 1.4.2. The latest book is LyX 1.5.3. I'm hoping to get a 64bit machine with 8GB of Ram, and use LyX 1.5.4. I know that once you open and save a LyX 1.4.2 doc in 1.5.4, you can never go back to 1.4.2. So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will reformat my 1.4.2 documents in any way? Forewarned is forearmed. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5
Dear Pavel, I also experience the lack of antialiasing though there seem to be some exceptions. I am afraid I will not be able to use the promising new 1.6 series if these problems remain unsolved. I am really afraid as my lecture notes, slides etc. are almost entirely written by LyX and I would not be able to learn LaTeX (age, time etc.). Let's hope. Gyorgy
Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:55:28 Steve Litt wrote: So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will reformat my 1.4.2 documents in any way? Forewarned is forearmed. It should not, if it does that and is not documented in NEWS or RELEASE-NOTES it is a bug and it should be fixed. So if you want to see any possible problems read both NEWS and RELEASE-NOTES files. SteveT -- José Abílio
Re: Fuzzy fonts (Hebrew)
On Tue, 13 May 2008 17:18:40 +0100 Peleg Michaeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have opened an Ubuntu page on the wiki, and also added this: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HebrewOnLinux Don't know if it's needed under ubuntu but under debian you also need the t1utils package. Don't know how to edit the page to add that. I'll be happy to hear comments, if there are... :-) Thanks, Peleg. On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 15:40 +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Peleg Michaeli wrote: After a short discussion with Ivritex, I got this conclusion (and it might help some others, so I write it here). could you add this to the LyX wiki as well? Jürgen
Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:55:28PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, All of my books except one are in LyX 1.4.2. The latest book is LyX 1.5.3. I'm hoping to get a 64bit machine with 8GB of Ram, and use LyX 1.5.4. I know that once you open and save a LyX 1.4.2 doc in 1.5.4, you can never go back to 1.4.2. So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will reformat my 1.4.2 documents in any way? Forewarned is forearmed. Copy the file, try it and report your results. :) Guess that's the best way to find it out. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep]
Re: problems with Beamer presentations
I turned to powerdot instead, and have generally found it to be very satisfactory. I think it is a standard class with LyX 1.5.1, and Ubuntu 7.10 should have a new enough version of texlive for everything to work (when I started with powerdot all my systems had tetex, which does not have recent enough versions of several LaTeX packages for powerdot). The only caveat with powerdot is you have to remember to generate the PDF output using ps2pdf, not pdflatex. Dear Les, I was about to try powerdot, but in my lyx, in the list of document classes, presentation (powerdot) appears with a unavailable (indisponible in french) before. BAd sign :-( But powerdot seems to be in my latex tree. What to do !? nico -- Dr Nicolas Roy Geometric Analysis Group Institut für Mathematik Humboldt Universität Rudower Chaussee 25 Berlin D-12489 Tel: +49 (30) 20932358 Fax: +49 (30) 20932727 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/~roy/
Re: problems with Beamer presentations
nicolas roy a écrit : I turned to powerdot instead, and have generally found it to be very satisfactory. I think it is a standard class with LyX 1.5.1, and Ubuntu 7.10 should have a new enough version of texlive for everything to work (when I started with powerdot all my systems had tetex, which does not have recent enough versions of several LaTeX packages for powerdot). The only caveat with powerdot is you have to remember to generate the PDF output using ps2pdf, not pdflatex. Dear Les, I was about to try powerdot, but in my lyx, in the list of document classes, presentation (powerdot) appears with a unavailable (indisponible in french) before. BAd sign :-( But powerdot seems to be in my latex tree. What to do !? nico More precisely, when i force the programm to choose the document class powerdot, i have an alert : the layout file requested by this document powerdot.layout is not usable. This is probably because a Latex class or style file required by it is not available. nicolas -- Dr Nicolas Roy Geometric Analysis Group Institut für Mathematik Humboldt Universität Rudower Chaussee 25 Berlin D-12489 Tel: +49 (30) 20932358 Fax: +49 (30) 20932727 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/~roy/
Re: problems with Beamer presentations
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: More precisely, when i force the programm to choose the document class powerdot, i have an alert : the layout file requested by this document powerdot.layout is not usable. This is probably because a Latex class or style file required by it is not available. Nicolas, Look in the Powerdot documentation (probably /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf or /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf, definitely at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/doc/powerdot.pdf) at Table 2 on page 26, which lists the required LaTeX packages. You can download these individually from CTAN (http://www.ctan.org) and follow the installation instructions for each one; or as an alternative, just install all the texlive packages available for Ubuntu -- you'll get them in there somewhere, but I don't know where, and the total download is hundreds of megabytes. Once you have installed the missing LaTeX packages, reconfigure LyX and try to open the sample Powerdot LyX presentation, powerdot-example.lyx (which on my system is at /usr/share/texmf/doc/powerdot/lyx, but may be somewhere else on yours) and check whether you can export to PDF (using ps2pdf). If you can, everything is working. The best way to start your own presentation is by modifying the example: getting the preamble and powerdot options right is sometimes tricky. There is a mailing list archived at http://www.freelists.org/archives/powerdot/ which is helpful for a new user. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5
I also experience the lack of antialiasing though there seem to be some exceptions. I am afraid I will not be able to use the promising new 1.6 series if these problems remain unsolved. I am really afraid as my lecture notes, slides etc. are almost entirely written by LyX and I would not be able to learn LaTeX (age, time etc.). Let's hope. feel free to add your problems to this bug, i think your problem is related. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4749 pavel
Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?
All of my books except one are in LyX 1.4.2. The latest book is LyX 1.5.3. I'm hoping to get a 64bit machine with 8GB of Ram, and use LyX 1.5.4. I know that once you open and save a LyX 1.4.2 doc in 1.5.4, you can never go back to 1.4.2. So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will reformat my 1.4.2 documents in any way? Forewarned is forearmed. unfortunately my experience is that one have to carefully look on the typesetted output to check the differences. what i can advise: - before migration make export to both .pdf and .tex. pdf for having output to post, .tex to have something which more stable format over the time. - backup all this - except comparing output one can check the intermediate .tex by means of diff, but don't go this wat unless you are friend with latex and diff tools :) - consider whether not to wait some month more to migrate directly to 1.6. when i was thinking some time ago about these format migrating issues i realised there is really no single format maybe except plain ASCII text file which is stable enough that after some 10 years i will be able to read appropriately for sure. even the most stable tex files have problems because tex compilers are evolving in subtle ways and all the tools around for e.g. pictures or bibliography are in movement too. not a single thing you can stick on :( pavel
Re: Summary to the individual embedding debate.
Bo, thanks for your responses. - was there some conclusion about filename extension? if there are going to be any tricks with copying or moving .lyx file itself i smell thousand and one problems of rewrites, bad deletions on user side etc. i think that some .lyz would be much more appropriate here. I am not quite sure about what you are talking here. In my approach, a file will be given a random name and copied to lyx temp directory. This temp name will be used just for this file and be saved in .lyx file. The embedded files are sorted before written to .lyx file so there will be no massive content change after simple editions. nono, i mean the extension of the resulting embeded (or bundled) file. currently the name will filename.lyx (right?) which i'm opposed and will later flame on, no matter which proposal is going to be used :) once all these these copying/moving files magic is possible with lyx files i want to know it from the first sight on the file, its dangerous job to open it, ie to have some name like fileneme.lyz. I certainly disagree, but Richard and JMarc said yes. They were talking about not allowing any out of tree file. I strongly object any unnecessary restriction on how users use external files. i'm sorry, but i see these restrictions neccessary if you intend to extract the files back to filesystem. I hope that you feel comfortable with my pack/unpack solution. no i don't feel comfortable with either of these :D what i most of all dislike is that lyx could ever write-touch to some external paths ever. besides the normal chaos which can be caused by this, i feel security hole here. i was trying to retrieve your solution by adding the constraint of only the current dir+subdirs write acces or something in this way, but you seem do not like it too. Richard's solution is safe in this regard, but the work is finally put on the shoulders of the user, so at the end its easier to just manage the whole thing by myself as described by the workflow i described lately. so i just tried to save the workflow i depicted (and which seems you use too) while avoiding the 'free write back to tree' regime. if both of these is not doable, then the whole bundling bussiness is not usable for me and a will just comment on the security concerns in next debates. pavel
Re: Summary to the individual embedding debate.
Bo, agh, sorry wrong list :( pavel
Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5
An .eps figure is inserted into a figure float. This picture has a bounding box. When its sizes are obtained from the file (get from file), the bounding box is neglected and the full figure (the whole A4 page) is shown in LyX. This was a bug in ImageMagick. Update to ImageMagick 6.3.8-11 or newer and it should work. regards Uwe
LyX is outputting PDF's which use raster fonts?
I was looking at properties of the PDF I'm outputting, and all the fonts are along the lines of CMBX12 (Embedded subset), or F16. When I zoom right in on text, it's clearly raster fonts. But I think I'm just using the default latex font (which I see in most latex pdfs). I've attached the layout I'm using. Someone else made it, but I can't think why they would specify raster fonts, so I don't know if it would be in there. Anyone know what I need to do to fix this and use proper fonts? Thanks! http://www.nabble.com/file/p17245471/unswthesis.layout unswthesis.layout -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/LyX-is-outputting-PDF%27s-which-use-raster-fonts--tp17245471p17245471.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?
I've used Lyx for writing my thesis and it has been wonderful! Everything works beautifully and I'm ready to submit my final pdf file. However, I just realized I need to embed all the fonts in the pdf, and I haven't been able to figure out how to do this. I've found lots of information on using ps2pdf, but at this point with a 150 page document, I'm worried about the conversion from pdf - ps - pdf. Is there a way to embed the fonts with pdflatex, which is what I'm already using in Lyx? I'm checking whether the fonts are embedded using Acrobat (properties) and pdffonts. There are a scary number of fonts (~100) and most are not embedded. I found instructions about pdflatex here: http://do.whileloop.org/soft/tricks/pdflatex-fonts.php but it seemed like my pdftex config file is already set to *pdftexDownloadBase14 true *but I tried anyway and used the command *initexmf --edit-config-file updmap* to edit updmap.cfg and added the following lines: *pdftexDownloadBase14 true dvipsPreferOutline true dvipsDownloadBase35 true dvipdfmDownloadBase14 true* But the added lines seem to have no affect on the embedded pdf fonts. Any help is much appreciated. (using Windows XP Pro with Lyx 1.5.5, Miktex 2.7 with all updated packages)
Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5
Dear Users, An .eps figure is inserted into a figure float. This picture has a bounding box. When its sizes are obtained from the file (get from file), the bounding box is neglected and the full figure (the whole A4 page) is shown in LyX. However, if one deletes any of the four sizes, and then writes it back, LyX will show the correct bounding box, i. e. the part of the figure within the bounding box. This can be repeated any times. In the former versions of LyX this behaviour could be prevented by using older versions of ImageMagick instead of the newer ones coming with the LyX installer. Now, however, selected ImageMagick files are preinstalled in LyX directories and the previous workaround with the older ImageMagicks no longer works. For those writing long scientific documents in LyX, full of pictures, it would be extremely important to fix this problem. I tried to send a test document but the system found it too long and refused it. With best wishes, Gyorgy Pota
Aspell Russian Dictionary corrupt
Hi all, Has anyone tried to install Aspell Russian Dictionary with standard installation of LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP? After downloading the russian spellchecker the following error message appears. The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete. This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or a virus. You may want to contact the author of this installer to obtain a new copy. It may be possible to skip this check using the \NCRC command line switch (NOT RECOMMENDED) -- Zorigtkhuu Davaanyam
Re: Change tracker continues to have problems
On 13.05.08, Jim Rockford wrote:
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Uwe Stöhr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jim Rockford schrieb:
I had this exact same problem with 1.5.4, which 1.55 has inherited. With
the change tracker, when I elect to Show Changes In Output I get
the following error:
Package soul Error: Reconstruction failed.
What exactly is the problem? I don't get this package error. Have you
reported the problem on bugzilla.lyx.org?
Hi -- there was one important piece of information that I discovered: this
problem only occurs with pdflatex output. No problems with dvipdfm,
postscript, and so forth. Just pdflatex. Also, I am running lyx on WinXP.
I haven't tried to see whether this problem occurs on a linux machine.
So it is not the problem with strikeout of citations:
If the deleted text contains a Bibtex-citation (and sometimes
also if it contains a reference to a label in a float), Show
Changes In Output results in missing } inserted and paragraph
ended before ... errors.
A workaround is to disable the strikeout and rely on the red
colouring. In the LaTeX preamble write e.g. ::
\renewcommand{\lyxdeleted}[3]{{\color{lyxdeleted}#3}}
Another quick fix is to reject the deltion of the citations (select and
DocumentChangeReject), however this leads to residua if the whole
change is accepted later.
Günter
Re: Embedding asymptote in LyX
Oh, I see...
They also wrote this line under that figure: For ASYMPTOTE versions ≥
1.14, you can simply call PDFLATEX directly - but I have misunderstood
it, probably; I thought it meant that in this specific case (version ≥
1.14), I *don't* need to do that.
Well, then...
I am looking for a workaround now.
Is it possible to export a LyX document to a TeX document without losing
data? Then, I'll be able to do what they suggest in the documentation.
Thanks,
Peleg.
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 19:38 +0200, Manveru wrote:
Hough!
I am not a specialist of ASYMPTOTE, but I've just looked into the
documentation. They directly tell about makefile for latex with asymptote:
document.pdf: document.tex
pdflatex -shell-escape document
asy document
pdflatex -shell-escape document
It means that ASYMPTOTE need an additional step during document generation
which launch asy command between two pdflatex invocations. This is what
LyX is *not able* to do. Generation process is compiled in, automatic... and
as some people suggests, not user configurable.
Maybe it is worth to put feature request in bugzilla, to get this to work
when \usepackage{asymptote} is used in preamble definition.
Regards,
M.
2008/5/13 Peleg Michaeli [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello!
I am trying to embed Asymptote in LyX documents.
I am following this tutorial:
http://www.dse.nl/~dario/projects/asylatex/asylatex.pdfhttp://www.dse.nl/%7Edario/projects/asylatex/asylatex.pdf
I am doing everything as suggested:
* I have included \usepackage{asymptote} and
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} in the LaTeX preamble
* I have done Crtl-L in the middle of the document and added this LaTeX
code:
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{asy}
size (3cm);
draw (unitcircle);
\end{asy}
\caption{Embedded Asymptote figures are easy!}
\label{fig:embedded}
\end{figure}
When I generate the document (using pdflatex), I get nothing special: a
figure with PDF written there, but no image (no unitcircle)...
when I do the same, but with DVI, I get EPS written instead of the
unitcircle. Either way, I don't see any picture...
I have a new version of Asymptote: 1.18 - so it should work
automatically with pdflatex.
Any ideas?
Maybe I should ask a different list?
Thanks ahead,
Peleg.
Re: Best choice of 'intermediate' graphics format
Thanks for the reply, On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:52 +0200, G. Milde wrote: The best choice (for Inkskape) should be SVG. LyX can be set to support it directly (search for SVG on wiki.lyx.org). Here is a sample of export formats offered by Designer: AI, PSD, DXF, MGX, PLT, IGS, PPF, PNG, SCT, EMF (not to mention WMF). Have a look which of these Inkskape supports (do not use the bitmap formats as PNG) and try how it works. OOdraw should also support WMF. If OOdraw has a command line option to convert WMF to PFD or EPS, you could even make LyX aware of the WMF format (search for SVG on wiki.lyx.org as an template on how to configure LyX for WMF). What puzzles me is that if I open, say, a WMF in OODraw, I get a whole block which cannot be separated into its individual components. (Not a LyX issue, however.) These graphics will appear in documents for printing and pdf output. If you use pdflatex, preferabely save the drawings as pdf (but LyX can be told to convert eps to pdf as well). If you use latex+dvips+ps2pdf, save them as eps (but LyX can be told to convert to eps as well). I'm feeling ignorant here: I don't see where to adjust these choices (hence, which one LyX selected by default for me)... -- Daniel CLEMENT
Re: Embedding asymptote in LyX
Ok, I have succeded to export to TeX, and I am now trying asymptote as
the instructions advised.
It is NOT a LyX question, I guess, but still it might be useful to ask
it here, since I believe that there are LyX users who use Asymptote...
and because it might be still LyX related, because of the following
fact:
doing what the instructions advised, on a test.tex file which contains
only what's written in this document, works well. Here is the code:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{asymptote}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{asy}
size (3cm);
draw (unitcircle);
\end{asy}
\caption{Embedded Asymptote figures are easy!}
\label{fig:embedded}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
Again - this code works WELL.
So now I am trying to do the same with an exported-to-tex LyX document.
For that purpose, I have created a very simple LyX document, and
exported it to TeX; it worked as well.
I have tried to make it a bit more complicated - I tried to do the SAME
simple document, but in Hebrew (as I usually do). I have left the code
inside the asymptote example in English.
And that's it. Now it is not working any more...
A simple analyzation of the situation:
a. when the document was in English, the first pdflatex asytest2 had
created a file named asytest2.asy with this line in it:
defaultfilename='asytest2_1';
this is probably good, because the command asy asytest2 generates a
file asytest2_1.pdf with the unit circle, and the second pdflatex
asytest2 generates asytest2.pdf with the unit circle embedded.
but:
b. when the document is still mainly in English, but I have a *single
word* in Hebrew (actually, in a Hebrew direction, but it is still with
English characters; it looks like that: [in the tex file] sometext
\inputencoding{cp1255}\R{some more text}) then the first pdflatex
asytest2 generates the file asytest2.asy as before, but in it, the
relevant line is now:
defaultfilename='asytest2_\protect \beginL 1\endL ';
and that is probably not good, since the command asy asytest2
generates a file named asytest2_\protect eginL 1\endL .pdf (which
can't be good) and of course, the second pdflatex asytest2 does *not*
embed the nice unitcircle from that pdf.
manually removing the line \inputencoding{cp1255}\R{text} does not
make any difference, so I assumed it is something with the main
configuration of the tex file. So, I have compared to files, one with
thi encoding difference, and one without, that are otherwise the same,
and these are the results:
The ONLY difference (besides the line with
\inputencoding{cp1255}\R{text} - which its removal changes nothing), is
in the heading -
\documentclass[10pt,english]{article} becomes
\documentclass[10pt,hebrew,english]{article}
and \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} becomes
\usepackage[cp1255,latin9]{inputenc}
I have tried to remove only one of them, so see what happens... I have
tried only to remove hebrew from the first line, but then the second
line caused an error; so I have kept the hebrew in the first line, and
removed cp1255 from the second line. well, that didn't change anything
either.
Removing both changes, that is, removing both hebrew and cp1255 from
the heading, return the situation - of course - to the one we had in the
beginning - a pure English document; then, of course, it worked well
again.
That's my little research...
Any ideas?
Thanks ahead,
Peleg.
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 08:40 +0100, Peleg Michaeli wrote:
Oh, I see...
They also wrote this line under that figure: For ASYMPTOTE versions ≥
1.14, you can simply call PDFLATEX directly - but I have misunderstood
it, probably; I thought it meant that in this specific case (version ≥
1.14), I *don't* need to do that.
Well, then...
I am looking for a workaround now.
Is it possible to export a LyX document to a TeX document without losing
data? Then, I'll be able to do what they suggest in the documentation.
Thanks,
Peleg.
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 19:38 +0200, Manveru wrote:
Hough!
I am not a specialist of ASYMPTOTE, but I've just looked into the
documentation. They directly tell about makefile for latex with asymptote:
document.pdf: document.tex
pdflatex -shell-escape document
asy document
pdflatex -shell-escape document
It means that ASYMPTOTE need an additional step during document generation
which launch asy command between two pdflatex invocations. This is what
LyX is *not able* to do. Generation process is compiled in, automatic... and
as some people suggests, not user configurable.
Maybe it is worth to put feature request in bugzilla, to get this to work
when \usepackage{asymptote} is used in preamble definition.
Regards,
M.
2008/5/13 Peleg Michaeli [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello!
I am trying to embed Asymptote in LyX documents.
I am following this tutorial:
http://www.dse.nl/~dario/projects/asylatex/asylatex.pdfhttp://www.dse.nl/%7Edario/projects/asylatex/asylatex.pdf
Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5
In the former versions of LyX this behaviour could be prevented by using older versions of ImageMagick instead of the newer ones coming with the LyX installer. Now, however, selected ImageMagick files are preinstalled in LyX directories and the previous workaround with the older ImageMagicks no longer works. this is not the only problem wrt new versions of imagemagick. with older versions of imagemagick my black-white eps pictures get converted and resized nicely in the anti-aliased way; now it is no more and those pictures are very hard to read on the screen. can you observe it too? I tried to send a test document but the system found it too long and refused it. you can always put it in bugzilla. pavel
Re: Aspell Russian Dictionary corrupt
I had similar problem with Polish some time ago. I manually installed proper dictionary for Aspell, not even those orginal one from Aspell pages but from projects connected I think with OpenOffice - they have much better dictionaries. 2008/5/14 D. Zorig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Has anyone tried to install Aspell Russian Dictionary with standard installation of LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP? After downloading the russian spellchecker the following error message appears. The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete. This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or a virus. You may want to contact the author of this installer to obtain a new copy. It may be possible to skip this check using the \NCRC command line switch (NOT RECOMMENDED) -- Zorigtkhuu Davaanyam -- Manveru jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have just installed a fresh Ubuntu 8.04 distro onto my machine, together with LyX that I am using to write my PhD thesis because I love the way that it doesn't let control codes get in the way of the prose. There seems to be a very nagging problem, however, in that whenever I'm in a maths environment, the LaTeX command \propto is always displayed as a \mu, rather than its correct symbol. The PDF output is fine, as is the instant preview option, so I'm guessing that this is something to do with a character encoding issue? Is there an obvious fix for this, I wonder? Many thanks, Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIKrnVlOUulwj5l8QRAmssAKCPNoR+zO7RlsgngDv2D2TeViaR2ACfSJJ5 AZ3zp3lZVAw3yI4bb6GrUUc= =1ykV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Best choice of 'intermediate' graphics format
On 14.05.08, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: Thanks for the reply, On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:52 +0200, G. Milde wrote: The best choice (for Inkskape) should be SVG. LyX can be set to support it directly (search for SVG on wiki.lyx.org). There is even a windows version of Inkskape, so you could use it instead of Designer for improved portability of the results. Here is a sample of export formats offered by Designer: AI, PSD, DXF, MGX, PLT, IGS, PPF, PNG, SCT, EMF (not to mention WMF). Have a look which of these Inkskape supports (do not use the bitmap formats as PNG) and try how it works. Newer versions of Inkskape can even import and edit EPS and PDF. There might be some problems, however as these formats miss some information present in e.g. SVG that is needed (or at least helpfull) in editing but not needed for printing. OOdraw should also support WMF. What puzzles me is that if I open, say, a WMF in OODraw, I get a whole block which cannot be separated into its individual components. I.e. you can annote, overwrite but not really edit :-( This is the usual behaviour of MS-Windows apps as well: try a Designer-produced WMF on a MS-Win machine without Designer. These graphics will appear in documents for printing and pdf output. If you use pdflatex, preferabely save the drawings as pdf (but LyX can be told to convert eps to pdf as well). If you use latex+dvips+ps2pdf, save them as eps (but LyX can be told to convert to eps as well). I'm feeling ignorant here: I don't see where to adjust these choices (hence, which one LyX selected by default for me)... LyX will choose the right route, the above was intended as fallback if there is no 'intermediate' format that works directly with lyx. GM
smaller text in table
How can I convince LyX to use smaller text (eg footnotesize) in a table? I tried before the table (but in the float) \footnotesize and after the table \normalsize, both in ERT, but it does not seem to obey. Wolfgang
Re: Aspell Russian Dictionary corrupt
D.Zorig wrote: Has anyone tried to install Aspell Russian Dictionary with standard installation of LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP? After downloading the russian spellchecker the following error message appears. I think a mirror server contains an outdated version. Try this one: ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/aspell6-windows/aspell6-ru-0.99f7-1.exe Joost
Re: smaller text in table
I use the text style dialog and it works : I select the text in the table and I change the font size... (Works on 1.5.5 on Windows XP ) Hope it helps. Siegfried.
Re: smaller text in table
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: How can I convince LyX to use smaller text (eg footnotesize) in a table? I tried before the table (but in the float) \footnotesize and after the table \normalsize, both in ERT, but it does not seem to obey. What works for me is highlighting all the text in the table and then using the font dialog to change the size. /Paul
Automated generation of graphs to be included
I wrote a little python to generate a bunch of graphs. How do I format this to a file to include in lyx? I tried making a file with: \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Graphics filename N=512,e=--20.pdf width 100line% \end_inset And tried insert/file/lyx, but lyx says it's not a lyx file. What is the best way to implement this?
Bibtex question
Hi. Using lyx 1.5.4 on ubuntu, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to reference according to my Uni guidelines - which I believe are Chicago Manual of Style. What I need as output that can be seen by the Chicago Manual of Style section on this webpage: http://web.reed.edu/cis/Help/LaTex/bibtexstyles.html, where it has the footnote and then the bibliography at the end. I've selected to use natbib, etc, but I cannot figure out how to get lyx to do the footnoting part - it still insists on in-text referencing and then providing the bibliography at the end. Any help would be great. Thanks a lot. -- - DJM
Re: Automated generation of graphs to be included
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 13:54:04 Neal Becker wrote: I wrote a little python to generate a bunch of graphs. How do I format this to a file to include in lyx? I tried making a file with: \begin_layout Standard \begin_inset Graphics filename N=512,e=--20.pdf width 100line% \end_inset And tried insert/file/lyx, but lyx says it's not a lyx file. What is the best way to implement this? How about using external insets? -- José Abílio
Re: Automated generation of graphs to be included
José Matos wrote:
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 13:54:04 Neal Becker wrote:
I wrote a little python to generate a bunch of graphs. How do I format
this to a file to include in lyx?
I tried making a file with:
\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset Graphics
filename N=512,e=--20.pdf
width 100line%
\end_inset
And tried insert/file/lyx, but lyx says it's not a lyx file. What is the
best way to implement this?
How about using external insets?
Not sure what you mean here.
What I did:
Add \usepackage{graphicx} to preamble.
Add child doc using \input
Child doc has just a bunch of lines:
\includegraphcs[blah blah]{filename}
problems with Beamer presentations
Hi everybody, I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several problems. Of course, like always, i waited for the very last moment to start to write my presentation (last time was some year ago, with another linux, another verions of lyx, another computer...)... :-(. Any help will be greatly appreciated ! 1/ if i put a Theorem environnement, it appears completely at the bottom of the page, and nothing else in the page :-( see : http://www.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~roy/Capture_theo.png 2/ following the official documentation from http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ i create one frame with only a TOC inside. But it does produces an empty frame. 3/ i have menu on the left, with the list of sections (only one at the moment, called CV). I expected that there will be a hyperlink from this menu to the corresponding section. But not. Should i activate something ? 4/ Similarly, i remember that in the past, i a navigation bar at the bottom of the documents, with standard buttons left, right, back, How can i activate that ? Thanks a lot in advance for any help. nicolas -- Dr Nicolas Roy Geometric Analysis Group Institut für Mathematik Humboldt Universität Rudower Chaussee 25 Berlin D-12489 Tel: +49 (30) 20932358 Fax: +49 (30) 20932727 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/~roy/
Re: problems with Beamer presentations
Sorry, i did not precise : i'm under Ubuntu 7.10, with Lyx 1.5.1 nicolas nicolas roy a écrit : Hi everybody, I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several problems. Of course, like always, i waited for the very last moment to start to write my presentation (last time was some year ago, with another linux, another verions of lyx, another computer...)... :-(. Any help will be greatly appreciated ! 1/ if i put a Theorem environnement, it appears completely at the bottom of the page, and nothing else in the page :-( see : http://www.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~roy/Capture_theo.png 2/ following the official documentation from http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ i create one frame with only a TOC inside. But it does produces an empty frame. 3/ i have menu on the left, with the list of sections (only one at the moment, called CV). I expected that there will be a hyperlink from this menu to the corresponding section. But not. Should i activate something ? 4/ Similarly, i remember that in the past, i a navigation bar at the bottom of the documents, with standard buttons left, right, back, How can i activate that ? Thanks a lot in advance for any help. nicolas -- Dr Nicolas Roy Geometric Analysis Group Institut für Mathematik Humboldt Universität Rudower Chaussee 25 Berlin D-12489 Tel: +49 (30) 20932358 Fax: +49 (30) 20932727 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/~roy/
Re: Automated generation of graphs to be included
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 14:38:02 Neal Becker wrote: Not sure what you mean here. Help-Customization- Chapter 6 - Including External Material -- José Abílio
Re: Bibtex question
Daniel Miles wrote: Hi. Using lyx 1.5.4 on ubuntu, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to reference according to my Uni guidelines - which I believe are Chicago Manual of Style. What I need as output that can be seen by the Chicago Manual of Style section on this webpage: http://web.reed.edu/cis/Help/LaTex/bibtexstyles.html, where it has the footnote and then the bibliography at the end. I've selected to use natbib, etc, but I cannot figure out how to get lyx to do the footnoting part - it still insists on in-text referencing and then providing the bibliography at the end. Any help would be great. Thanks a lot. If you want Chicago style, another option is Charles Schaum biblatex files : http://groups.google.it/group/comp.text.tex/msg/354f326ca49961b2?hl=frq=chicago.cbx For biblatex, look at the Lyx wiki Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly
Chris Jewell schrieb: There seems to be a very nagging problem, however, in that whenever I'm in a maths environment, the LaTeX command \propto is always displayed as a \mu, rather than its correct symbol. Do you have the LaTeX-XFT fonts installed? regards Uwe
Re: Change tracker continues to have problems
Jim Rockford schrieb: Hi -- there was one important piece of information that I discovered: this problem only occurs with pdflatex output. What exactly is the problem? Does it appear for any document? Please open a bug report and attach there a small example file to be able to reproduce the problem if the method Günter wrote you doesn't help. regards Uwe
Re: Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There seems to be a very nagging problem, however, in that whenever I'm in a maths environment, the LaTeX command \propto is always displayed as a \mu, rather than its correct symbol. Do you have the LaTeX-XFT fonts installed? Ok, installing the LaTeX-XFT fonts has cured the problem. Thank you! Perhaps this should be added to the dependencies for the deb LyX package? Kind regards, Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIKwSylOUulwj5l8QRAtFSAJ4h38GiaVK7tOHefjnWFzQnCT9qpQCfQJVh V9K6V81FsL2F54ZblFLCbSk= =LCKH -END PGP SIGNATURE-
endfloat package and sideways figures + tables
Hi,
I have some problems with the endfloat package in combination with
sideways figures + tables. Rotated floats are not directly supported by
endfloat. According to the endfloat documentation, there is an
alternative configuration file called efxmpl.cfg which should fix the
problem after renaming it to endfloat.cfg. This did not, however, solved
the problem - rotated floats are still handled incorrectly.
Does anybody know how to solve my problem?
Here is what I exactly did:
- include
\usepackage[...]{endfloat}
in the preamble
- rename the file C:\Programme\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\efxmpl.cfg to
endfloat.cfg.
Thanks!
ps: I use
LyX Version 1.5.4
Operating System: Windows XP
Re: SVG to PDF
Thanks, I did what you told me. It works now, in LyX Preferences SVG converters appeared using Inkscape. I have a problem with SVGs containing raster picture. I made a capture to explain the case: http://zaradek.hu/svg/Linked_image_not_found.png. I use Inkscape to put captions made by LaTeX onto the 3D raster picture. I put it into LyX but the raster image is missing from the LyX window and (after compiling the LyX file) from the PDF as well. It would be great to fix this problem. The other thing I noticed (but it's not relevant for me) is that if I open the SVG file from LyX then the toolbar of Inkscape collapses, the button images aren't shown up: http://zaradek.hu/svg/Crashed_toolbar.png. Cheers, Máté - Original Message - From: Uwe Stöhr To: Máté Salát Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:13 PM Subject: Re: SVG to PDF Máté Salát schrieb: I use LyX and Inkscape on Win XP. I compile my documents exclusively with pdflatex. If I insert an SVG image into my LyX document and compile it then the automatic conversation gives a wrong sized image with wide white border on the bottom and on the right side. So it won't be centered on the page and so on. If I open the SVG in Inkscape and save it in PDF then I get the Image with the right size. The mentioned files are at http://zaradek.hu/svg. When you install LyX using this installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller Inkscape is used to convert the SVG to PDF as you want it. The whitespace problem you described was a bug in ImageMagick (that also appears for PDF and PS images). To get a fixed version: - uninstall the Existing ImageMagick (if you have it installed) - reinstall LyX 1.5.5 using the obove mentioned installer that delivers the latest ImageMagick regards Uwe
Re: problems with Beamer presentations
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: Sorry, i did not precise : i'm under Ubuntu 7.10, with Lyx 1.5.1 nicolas nicolas roy a écrit : Hi everybody, I'm trying to use the beamer presentation style and encounter several problems. Of course, like always, i waited for the very last moment to start to write my presentation (last time was some year ago, with another linux, another verions of lyx, another computer...)... :-(. Any help will be greatly appreciated ! snip Thanks a lot in advance for any help. nicolas, I can identify with your problem -- several years ago I tried to put together a presentation with beamer, and gave up. I turned to powerdot instead, and have generally found it to be very satisfactory. I think it is a standard class with LyX 1.5.1, and Ubuntu 7.10 should have a new enough version of texlive for everything to work (when I started with powerdot all my systems had tetex, which does not have recent enough versions of several LaTeX packages for powerdot). The only caveat with powerdot is you have to remember to generate the PDF output using ps2pdf, not pdflatex. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly
Ok, installing the LaTeX-XFT fonts has cured the problem. Thank you! Perhaps this should be added to the dependencies for the deb LyX package? Yes, please report this issue to the LyX debian package manager (this is Sven Höxter as far as I know). regards Uwe
LyX compiled easily on Mandriva 2008 spring, 64 bit
Hi all, After the horror show compiling LyX for Mandriva 2007, I was expecting trouble when Mandriva 2008 spring 64 bit didn't come with LyX. But no problem -- I downloaded LyX 1.5.4, and did: ./configure make src/lyx and it worked perfectly, so far as I can tell. I haven't actually made any docs with it yet. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?
Hi all, All of my books except one are in LyX 1.4.2. The latest book is LyX 1.5.3. I'm hoping to get a 64bit machine with 8GB of Ram, and use LyX 1.5.4. I know that once you open and save a LyX 1.4.2 doc in 1.5.4, you can never go back to 1.4.2. So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will reformat my 1.4.2 documents in any way? Forewarned is forearmed. SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5
Dear Pavel, I also experience the lack of antialiasing though there seem to be some exceptions. I am afraid I will not be able to use the promising new 1.6 series if these problems remain unsolved. I am really afraid as my lecture notes, slides etc. are almost entirely written by LyX and I would not be able to learn LaTeX (age, time etc.). Let's hope. Gyorgy
Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?
On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:55:28 Steve Litt wrote: So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will reformat my 1.4.2 documents in any way? Forewarned is forearmed. It should not, if it does that and is not documented in NEWS or RELEASE-NOTES it is a bug and it should be fixed. So if you want to see any possible problems read both NEWS and RELEASE-NOTES files. SteveT -- José Abílio
Re: Fuzzy fonts (Hebrew)
On Tue, 13 May 2008 17:18:40 +0100 Peleg Michaeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have opened an Ubuntu page on the wiki, and also added this: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HebrewOnLinux Don't know if it's needed under ubuntu but under debian you also need the t1utils package. Don't know how to edit the page to add that. I'll be happy to hear comments, if there are... :-) Thanks, Peleg. On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 15:40 +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Peleg Michaeli wrote: After a short discussion with Ivritex, I got this conclusion (and it might help some others, so I write it here). could you add this to the LyX wiki as well? Jürgen
Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:55:28PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, All of my books except one are in LyX 1.4.2. The latest book is LyX 1.5.3. I'm hoping to get a 64bit machine with 8GB of Ram, and use LyX 1.5.4. I know that once you open and save a LyX 1.4.2 doc in 1.5.4, you can never go back to 1.4.2. So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will reformat my 1.4.2 documents in any way? Forewarned is forearmed. Copy the file, try it and report your results. :) Guess that's the best way to find it out. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep]
Re: problems with Beamer presentations
I turned to powerdot instead, and have generally found it to be very satisfactory. I think it is a standard class with LyX 1.5.1, and Ubuntu 7.10 should have a new enough version of texlive for everything to work (when I started with powerdot all my systems had tetex, which does not have recent enough versions of several LaTeX packages for powerdot). The only caveat with powerdot is you have to remember to generate the PDF output using ps2pdf, not pdflatex. Dear Les, I was about to try powerdot, but in my lyx, in the list of document classes, presentation (powerdot) appears with a unavailable (indisponible in french) before. BAd sign :-( But powerdot seems to be in my latex tree. What to do !? nico -- Dr Nicolas Roy Geometric Analysis Group Institut für Mathematik Humboldt Universität Rudower Chaussee 25 Berlin D-12489 Tel: +49 (30) 20932358 Fax: +49 (30) 20932727 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/~roy/
Re: problems with Beamer presentations
nicolas roy a écrit : I turned to powerdot instead, and have generally found it to be very satisfactory. I think it is a standard class with LyX 1.5.1, and Ubuntu 7.10 should have a new enough version of texlive for everything to work (when I started with powerdot all my systems had tetex, which does not have recent enough versions of several LaTeX packages for powerdot). The only caveat with powerdot is you have to remember to generate the PDF output using ps2pdf, not pdflatex. Dear Les, I was about to try powerdot, but in my lyx, in the list of document classes, presentation (powerdot) appears with a unavailable (indisponible in french) before. BAd sign :-( But powerdot seems to be in my latex tree. What to do !? nico More precisely, when i force the programm to choose the document class powerdot, i have an alert : the layout file requested by this document powerdot.layout is not usable. This is probably because a Latex class or style file required by it is not available. nicolas -- Dr Nicolas Roy Geometric Analysis Group Institut für Mathematik Humboldt Universität Rudower Chaussee 25 Berlin D-12489 Tel: +49 (30) 20932358 Fax: +49 (30) 20932727 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.hu-berlin.de/~roy/
Re: problems with Beamer presentations
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, nicolas roy wrote: More precisely, when i force the programm to choose the document class powerdot, i have an alert : the layout file requested by this document powerdot.layout is not usable. This is probably because a Latex class or style file required by it is not available. Nicolas, Look in the Powerdot documentation (probably /usr/share/texmf/doc/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf or /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/powerdot/powerdot.pdf, definitely at http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/powerdot/doc/powerdot.pdf) at Table 2 on page 26, which lists the required LaTeX packages. You can download these individually from CTAN (http://www.ctan.org) and follow the installation instructions for each one; or as an alternative, just install all the texlive packages available for Ubuntu -- you'll get them in there somewhere, but I don't know where, and the total download is hundreds of megabytes. Once you have installed the missing LaTeX packages, reconfigure LyX and try to open the sample Powerdot LyX presentation, powerdot-example.lyx (which on my system is at /usr/share/texmf/doc/powerdot/lyx, but may be somewhere else on yours) and check whether you can export to PDF (using ps2pdf). If you can, everything is working. The best way to start your own presentation is by modifying the example: getting the preamble and powerdot options right is sometimes tricky. There is a mailing list archived at http://www.freelists.org/archives/powerdot/ which is helpful for a new user. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5
I also experience the lack of antialiasing though there seem to be some exceptions. I am afraid I will not be able to use the promising new 1.6 series if these problems remain unsolved. I am really afraid as my lecture notes, slides etc. are almost entirely written by LyX and I would not be able to learn LaTeX (age, time etc.). Let's hope. feel free to add your problems to this bug, i think your problem is related. http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4749 pavel
Re: How badly is a LyX upgrade going to mess me up?
All of my books except one are in LyX 1.4.2. The latest book is LyX 1.5.3. I'm hoping to get a 64bit machine with 8GB of Ram, and use LyX 1.5.4. I know that once you open and save a LyX 1.4.2 doc in 1.5.4, you can never go back to 1.4.2. So my question is, do you think 1.5.4 will reformat my 1.4.2 documents in any way? Forewarned is forearmed. unfortunately my experience is that one have to carefully look on the typesetted output to check the differences. what i can advise: - before migration make export to both .pdf and .tex. pdf for having output to post, .tex to have something which more stable format over the time. - backup all this - except comparing output one can check the intermediate .tex by means of diff, but don't go this wat unless you are friend with latex and diff tools :) - consider whether not to wait some month more to migrate directly to 1.6. when i was thinking some time ago about these format migrating issues i realised there is really no single format maybe except plain ASCII text file which is stable enough that after some 10 years i will be able to read appropriately for sure. even the most stable tex files have problems because tex compilers are evolving in subtle ways and all the tools around for e.g. pictures or bibliography are in movement too. not a single thing you can stick on :( pavel
Re: Summary to the individual embedding debate.
Bo, thanks for your responses. - was there some conclusion about filename extension? if there are going to be any tricks with copying or moving .lyx file itself i smell thousand and one problems of rewrites, bad deletions on user side etc. i think that some .lyz would be much more appropriate here. I am not quite sure about what you are talking here. In my approach, a file will be given a random name and copied to lyx temp directory. This temp name will be used just for this file and be saved in .lyx file. The embedded files are sorted before written to .lyx file so there will be no massive content change after simple editions. nono, i mean the extension of the resulting embeded (or bundled) file. currently the name will filename.lyx (right?) which i'm opposed and will later flame on, no matter which proposal is going to be used :) once all these these copying/moving files magic is possible with lyx files i want to know it from the first sight on the file, its dangerous job to open it, ie to have some name like fileneme.lyz. I certainly disagree, but Richard and JMarc said yes. They were talking about not allowing any out of tree file. I strongly object any unnecessary restriction on how users use external files. i'm sorry, but i see these restrictions neccessary if you intend to extract the files back to filesystem. I hope that you feel comfortable with my pack/unpack solution. no i don't feel comfortable with either of these :D what i most of all dislike is that lyx could ever write-touch to some external paths ever. besides the normal chaos which can be caused by this, i feel security hole here. i was trying to retrieve your solution by adding the constraint of only the current dir+subdirs write acces or something in this way, but you seem do not like it too. Richard's solution is safe in this regard, but the work is finally put on the shoulders of the user, so at the end its easier to just manage the whole thing by myself as described by the workflow i described lately. so i just tried to save the workflow i depicted (and which seems you use too) while avoiding the 'free write back to tree' regime. if both of these is not doable, then the whole bundling bussiness is not usable for me and a will just comment on the security concerns in next debates. pavel
Re: Summary to the individual embedding debate.
Bo, agh, sorry wrong list :( pavel
Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5
An .eps figure is inserted into a figure float. This picture has a bounding box. When its sizes are obtained from the file (get from file), the bounding box is neglected and the full figure (the whole A4 page) is shown in LyX. This was a bug in ImageMagick. Update to ImageMagick 6.3.8-11 or newer and it should work. regards Uwe
LyX is outputting PDF's which use raster fonts?
I was looking at properties of the PDF I'm outputting, and all the fonts are along the lines of CMBX12 (Embedded subset), or F16. When I zoom right in on text, it's clearly raster fonts. But I think I'm just using the default latex font (which I see in most latex pdfs). I've attached the layout I'm using. Someone else made it, but I can't think why they would specify raster fonts, so I don't know if it would be in there. Anyone know what I need to do to fix this and use proper fonts? Thanks! http://www.nabble.com/file/p17245471/unswthesis.layout unswthesis.layout -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/LyX-is-outputting-PDF%27s-which-use-raster-fonts--tp17245471p17245471.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
how do I embed all fonts using pdflatex on windows?
I've used Lyx for writing my thesis and it has been wonderful! Everything works beautifully and I'm ready to submit my final pdf file. However, I just realized I need to embed all the fonts in the pdf, and I haven't been able to figure out how to do this. I've found lots of information on using ps2pdf, but at this point with a 150 page document, I'm worried about the conversion from pdf - ps - pdf. Is there a way to embed the fonts with pdflatex, which is what I'm already using in Lyx? I'm checking whether the fonts are embedded using Acrobat (properties) and pdffonts. There are a scary number of fonts (~100) and most are not embedded. I found instructions about pdflatex here: http://do.whileloop.org/soft/tricks/pdflatex-fonts.php but it seemed like my pdftex config file is already set to *pdftexDownloadBase14 true *but I tried anyway and used the command *initexmf --edit-config-file updmap* to edit updmap.cfg and added the following lines: *pdftexDownloadBase14 true dvipsPreferOutline true dvipsDownloadBase35 true dvipdfmDownloadBase14 true* But the added lines seem to have no affect on the embedded pdf fonts. Any help is much appreciated. (using Windows XP Pro with Lyx 1.5.5, Miktex 2.7 with all updated packages)
Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5
Dear Users,
An .eps figure is inserted into a figure float. This picture has a
bounding box. When its sizes are obtained from the file ("get from
file"), the bounding box is neglected and the full figure (the whole A4
page) is shown in LyX. However, if one deletes any of the four sizes,
and then writes it back, LyX will show the correct bounding box, i. e.
the part of the figure within the bounding box. This can be repeated any
times.
In the former versions of LyX this behaviour could be prevented by using
older versions of ImageMagick instead of the newer ones coming with the
LyX installer. Now, however, selected ImageMagick files are preinstalled
in LyX directories and the previous workaround with the older
ImageMagicks no longer works.
For those writing long scientific documents in LyX, full of pictures, it would
be extremely important to fix this problem.
I tried to send a test document but the system found it too long and refused it.
With best wishes,
Gyorgy Pota
Aspell Russian Dictionary corrupt
Hi all, Has anyone tried to install Aspell Russian Dictionary with standard installation of LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP? After downloading the russian spellchecker the following error message appears. The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete. This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or a virus. You may want to contact the author of this installer to obtain a new copy. It may be possible to skip this check using the \NCRC command line switch (NOT RECOMMENDED) -- Zorigtkhuu Davaanyam
Re: Change tracker continues to have problems
On 13.05.08, Jim Rockford wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Uwe Stöhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Jim Rockford schrieb:
> >
> > I had this exact same problem with 1.5.4, which 1.55 has inherited. With
> > > the change tracker, when I elect to "Show Changes In Output" I get
> > > the following error:
> > >
> > > "Package soul Error: Reconstruction failed."
> >
> > What exactly is the problem? I don't get this package error. Have you
> > reported the problem on bugzilla.lyx.org?
> Hi -- there was one important piece of information that I discovered: this
> problem only occurs with pdflatex output. No problems with dvipdfm,
> postscript, and so forth. Just pdflatex. Also, I am running lyx on WinXP.
> I haven't tried to see whether this problem occurs on a linux machine.
So it is not the problem with strikeout of citations:
If the deleted text contains a Bibtex-citation (and sometimes
also if it contains a reference to a label in a float), "Show
Changes In Output" results in "missing } inserted" and "paragraph
ended before ..." errors.
A workaround is to disable the strikeout and rely on the red
colouring. In the LaTeX preamble write e.g. ::
\renewcommand{\lyxdeleted}[3]{{\color{lyxdeleted}#3}}
Another quick fix is to "reject" the deltion of the citations (select and
Document>Change>Reject), however this leads to residua if the whole
change is accepted later.
Günter
Re: Embedding asymptote in LyX
Oh, I see...
They also wrote this line under that figure: "For ASYMPTOTE versions ≥
1.14, you can simply call PDFLATEX directly" - but I have misunderstood
it, probably; I thought it meant that in this specific case (version ≥
1.14), I *don't* need to do that.
Well, then...
I am looking for a workaround now.
Is it possible to export a LyX document to a TeX document without losing
data? Then, I'll be able to do what they suggest in the documentation.
Thanks,
Peleg.
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 19:38 +0200, Manveru wrote:
> Hough!
>
> I am not a specialist of ASYMPTOTE, but I've just looked into the
> documentation. They directly tell about makefile for latex with asymptote:
>
> document.pdf: document.tex
> pdflatex -shell-escape document
> asy document
> pdflatex -shell-escape document
>
> It means that ASYMPTOTE need an additional step during document generation
> which launch "asy" command between two "pdflatex" invocations. This is what
> LyX is *not able* to do. Generation process is compiled in, automatic... and
> as some people suggests, not user configurable.
>
> Maybe it is worth to put feature request in bugzilla, to get this to work
> when \usepackage{asymptote} is used in preamble definition.
>
> Regards,
> M.
>
> 2008/5/13 Peleg Michaeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I am trying to embed Asymptote in LyX documents.
> >
> > I am following this tutorial:
> > http://www.dse.nl/~dario/projects/asylatex/asylatex.pdf
> >
> > I am doing everything as suggested:
> > * I have included \usepackage{asymptote} and
> > \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} in the LaTeX preamble
> > * I have done Crtl-L in the middle of the document and added this LaTeX
> > code:
> >
> > \begin{figure}
> > \centering
> > \begin{asy}
> > size (3cm);
> > draw (unitcircle);
> > \end{asy}
> > \caption{Embedded Asymptote figures are easy!}
> > \label{fig:embedded}
> > \end{figure}
> >
> > When I generate the document (using pdflatex), I get nothing special: a
> > "figure" with "PDF" written there, but no image (no "unitcircle")...
> > when I do the same, but with DVI, I get "EPS" written instead of the
> > unitcircle. Either way, I don't see any picture...
> >
> > I have a new version of Asymptote: 1.18 - so it should work
> > automatically with pdflatex.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> > Maybe I should ask a different list?
> >
> > Thanks ahead,
> > Peleg.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Re: Best choice of 'intermediate' graphics format
Thanks for the reply, On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:52 +0200, G. Milde wrote: > The best choice (for Inkskape) should be SVG. LyX can be set to support it > directly (search for SVG on wiki.lyx.org). > > > Here is a sample of export formats offered by Designer: AI, PSD, DXF, > > MGX, PLT, IGS, PPF, PNG, SCT, EMF (not to mention WMF). > > Have a look which of these Inkskape supports (do not use the bitmap > formats as PNG) and try how it works. OOdraw should also support WMF. > > If OOdraw has a command line option to convert WMF to PFD or EPS, you > could even make LyX aware of the WMF format (search for SVG on > wiki.lyx.org as an template on how to configure LyX for WMF). What puzzles me is that if I open, say, a WMF in OODraw, I get a whole block which cannot be separated into its individual components. (Not a LyX issue, however.) > > These graphics will appear in documents for printing and pdf output. > > If you use pdflatex, preferabely save the drawings as pdf (but LyX can > be told to convert eps to pdf as well). > If you use latex+dvips+ps2pdf, save them as eps (but LyX can be told to > convert to eps as well). I'm feeling ignorant here: I don't see where to adjust these choices (hence, which one LyX selected by default for me)... -- Daniel CLEMENT
Re: Embedding asymptote in LyX
Ok, I have succeded to export to TeX, and I am now trying asymptote as
the instructions advised.
It is NOT a LyX question, I guess, but still it might be useful to ask
it here, since I believe that there are LyX users who use Asymptote...
and because it might be still LyX related, because of the following
fact:
doing what the instructions advised, on a test.tex file which contains
only what's written in this document, works well. Here is the code:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{asymptote}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centering
\begin{asy}
size (3cm);
draw (unitcircle);
\end{asy}
\caption{Embedded Asymptote figures are easy!}
\label{fig:embedded}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
Again - this code works WELL.
So now I am trying to do the same with an exported-to-tex LyX document.
For that purpose, I have created a very simple LyX document, and
exported it to TeX; it worked as well.
I have tried to make it a bit more complicated - I tried to do the SAME
simple document, but in Hebrew (as I usually do). I have left the code
inside the asymptote example in English.
And that's it. Now it is not working any more...
A simple analyzation of the situation:
a. when the document was in English, the first "pdflatex asytest2" had
created a file named "asytest2.asy" with this line in it:
defaultfilename='asytest2_1';
this is probably good, because the command "asy asytest2" generates a
file "asytest2_1.pdf" with the unit circle, and the second "pdflatex
asytest2" generates "asytest2.pdf" with the unit circle embedded.
but:
b. when the document is still mainly in English, but I have a *single
word* in Hebrew (actually, in a Hebrew "direction", but it is still with
English characters; it looks like that: [in the tex file] sometext
\inputencoding{cp1255}\R{some more text}) then the first "pdflatex
asytest2" generates the file "asytest2.asy" as before, but in it, the
relevant line is now:
defaultfilename='asytest2_\protect \beginL 1\endL ';
and that is probably not good, since the command "asy asytest2"
generates a file named "asytest2_\protect eginL 1\endL .pdf" (which
can't be good) and of course, the second "pdflatex asytest2" does *not*
embed the nice unitcircle from that pdf.
manually removing the line "\inputencoding{cp1255}\R{text}" does not
make any difference, so I assumed it is something with the main
configuration of the tex file. So, I have compared to files, one with
thi encoding difference, and one without, that are otherwise the same,
and these are the results:
The ONLY difference (besides the line with
\inputencoding{cp1255}\R{text} - which its removal changes nothing), is
in the heading -
\documentclass[10pt,english]{article} becomes
\documentclass[10pt,hebrew,english]{article}
and \usepackage[latin9]{inputenc} becomes
\usepackage[cp1255,latin9]{inputenc}
I have tried to remove only one of them, so see what happens... I have
tried only to remove hebrew from the first line, but then the second
line caused an error; so I have kept the "hebrew" in the first line, and
removed "cp1255" from the second line. well, that didn't change anything
either.
Removing both changes, that is, removing both "hebrew" and "cp1255" from
the heading, return the situation - of course - to the one we had in the
beginning - a pure English document; then, of course, it worked well
again.
That's my little research...
Any ideas?
Thanks ahead,
Peleg.
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 08:40 +0100, Peleg Michaeli wrote:
> Oh, I see...
>
> They also wrote this line under that figure: "For ASYMPTOTE versions ≥
> 1.14, you can simply call PDFLATEX directly" - but I have misunderstood
> it, probably; I thought it meant that in this specific case (version ≥
> 1.14), I *don't* need to do that.
>
> Well, then...
>
> I am looking for a workaround now.
>
> Is it possible to export a LyX document to a TeX document without losing
> data? Then, I'll be able to do what they suggest in the documentation.
>
> Thanks,
> Peleg.
>
> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 19:38 +0200, Manveru wrote:
> > Hough!
> >
> > I am not a specialist of ASYMPTOTE, but I've just looked into the
> > documentation. They directly tell about makefile for latex with asymptote:
> >
> > document.pdf: document.tex
> > pdflatex -shell-escape document
> > asy document
> > pdflatex -shell-escape document
> >
> > It means that ASYMPTOTE need an additional step during document generation
> > which launch "asy" command between two "pdflatex" invocations. This is what
> > LyX is *not able* to do. Generation process is compiled in, automatic... and
> > as some people suggests, not user configurable.
> >
> > Maybe it is worth to put feature request in bugzilla, to get this to work
> > when \usepackage{asymptote} is used in preamble definition.
> >
> > Regards,
> > M.
> >
> > 2008/5/13 Peleg Michaeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I am trying to embed Asymptote in LyX documents.
> > >
> > > I am following this tutorial:
Re: Strange behaviour of .eps figures in LyX 1.5.5
> In the former versions of LyX this behaviour could be prevented by using > older versions of ImageMagick instead of the newer ones coming with the LyX > installer. Now, however, selected ImageMagick files are preinstalled in LyX > directories and the previous workaround with the older ImageMagicks no > longer works. this is not the only problem wrt new versions of imagemagick. with older versions of imagemagick my black-white eps pictures get converted and resized nicely in the anti-aliased way; now it is no more and those pictures are very hard to read on the screen. can you observe it too? > I tried to send a test document but the system found it too long and > refused it. you can always put it in bugzilla. pavel
Re: Aspell Russian Dictionary corrupt
I had similar problem with Polish some time ago. I manually installed proper dictionary for Aspell, not even those orginal one from Aspell pages but from projects connected I think with OpenOffice - they have much better dictionaries. 2008/5/14 D. Zorig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > Has anyone tried to install Aspell Russian Dictionary with standard > installation of LyX 1.5.5 on Windows XP? > After downloading the russian spellchecker the following error message > appears. > > The installer you are trying to use is corrupted or incomplete. > This could be the result of a damaged disk, a failed download or a virus. > You may want to contact the author of this installer to obtain a new copy. > > It may be possible to skip this check using the \NCRC command line switch > (NOT RECOMMENDED) > > -- > Zorigtkhuu Davaanyam > -- Manveru jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
Maths screen fonts displayed incorrectly
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have just installed a fresh Ubuntu 8.04 distro onto my machine, together with LyX that I am using to write my PhD thesis because I love the way that it doesn't let control codes get in the way of the prose. There seems to be a very nagging problem, however, in that whenever I'm in a maths environment, the LaTeX command \propto is always displayed as a \mu, rather than its correct symbol. The PDF output is fine, as is the instant preview option, so I'm guessing that this is something to do with a character encoding issue? Is there an obvious fix for this, I wonder? Many thanks, Chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIKrnVlOUulwj5l8QRAmssAKCPNoR+zO7RlsgngDv2D2TeViaR2ACfSJJ5 AZ3zp3lZVAw3yI4bb6GrUUc= =1ykV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Best choice of 'intermediate' graphics format
On 14.05.08, Daniel CLEMENT wrote: > Thanks for the reply, > On Tuesday 13 May 2008 10:52 +0200, G. Milde wrote: > > The best choice (for Inkskape) should be SVG. LyX can be set to support it > > directly (search for SVG on wiki.lyx.org). There is even a windows version of Inkskape, so you could use it instead of Designer for improved portability of the results. > > > Here is a sample of export formats offered by Designer: AI, PSD, DXF, > > > MGX, PLT, IGS, PPF, PNG, SCT, EMF (not to mention WMF). > > Have a look which of these Inkskape supports (do not use the bitmap > > formats as PNG) and try how it works. Newer versions of Inkskape can even import and edit EPS and PDF. There might be some problems, however as these formats miss some information present in e.g. SVG that is needed (or at least helpfull) in editing but not needed for printing. > > OOdraw should also support WMF. > What puzzles me is that if I open, say, a WMF in OODraw, I get a whole > block which cannot be separated into its individual components. I.e. you can annote, overwrite but not really edit :-( This is the usual behaviour of MS-Windows apps as well: try a Designer-produced WMF on a MS-Win machine without Designer. > > > These graphics will appear in documents for printing and pdf output. > > > > If you use pdflatex, preferabely save the drawings as pdf (but LyX can > > be told to convert eps to pdf as well). > > If you use latex+dvips+ps2pdf, save them as eps (but LyX can be told to > > convert to eps as well). > I'm feeling ignorant here: I don't see where to adjust these choices > (hence, which one LyX selected by default for me)... LyX will choose the right route, the above was intended as fallback if there is no 'intermediate' format that works directly with lyx. GM
