Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
TheDarkMaster wrote: Please help me, I'm loosing an important university thesis. The last time I opened my Lyx document in Mac OSX (using the latest 1.5.5 Lyx versin), I added a lot of maths using the Lyx functions and when I tried to open the preview in pdf, it didn't work. So I restarted OSX thinking it was a temporary error but now, when I try to open my document, Lyx crashes and OSX tells me it has a bug report, here it is: It seems that this is related to the session file. I don't know where the session file is located under MacOSX but if you can, try to remove the file before launching LyX. This file is in the same directory as lyxrc.default. On Vista it is in C:\Users\abdel\AppData\Roaming\lyx-15\ Then, try to open your thesis. If it still crashes and if you can send me privately a copy, I can try to investigate. Second solution is to try the latest 1.6alpha. Even if it is still alpha, 1.6 is in general stabler when reading files. Abdel.
Re: OT? Ligatures in pdf documents to be used in LyX
Rich Shepard wrote: This is to be expected. It's perfectly normal behavior. What should be the behavior if you block text in a pdf document (displayed with xpdf, acroread, or another viewer) and copy that text into emacs, pine, or AbiWord? The first two are text-mode applications, the last is a GUI. How is the clipboard to know what to do with the characters in it? The problem is that the copied characters are apparently wrong. The clipboard should have the correct unicode code points for the ligatures, but it has some completely different (and unrelated) chars. Jürgen
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Hallo Abdel, I don't know which file to delete, you don't specify it in your answer, but at least I tried to look in my mac for the lyxrc.default file and I don't have it... Are you sure it can be a problem related to this, since I installed Lyx 1.5.5 over the old one and since it can still open other files? Only opening this file results in a crash... again, anyone, please help me. I'll send you a copy anyway, thank you soo much for your attention :) Luca P.S.: I don't care for copyrights, you can read it all, I release it under GPL... no one would care about an urbanistic thesis in Italian like this anyway ;) http://www.nabble.com/file/p17506928/Relazione%2BUrbanistica%2Bseconda.lyx Relazione+Urbanistica+seconda.lyx Abdelrazak Younes-2 wrote: TheDarkMaster wrote: Please help me, I'm loosing an important university thesis. The last time I opened my Lyx document in Mac OSX (using the latest 1.5.5 Lyx versin), I added a lot of maths using the Lyx functions and when I tried to open the preview in pdf, it didn't work. So I restarted OSX thinking it was a temporary error but now, when I try to open my document, Lyx crashes and OSX tells me it has a bug report, here it is: It seems that this is related to the session file. I don't know where the session file is located under MacOSX but if you can, try to remove the file before launching LyX. This file is in the same directory as lyxrc.default. On Vista it is in C:\Users\abdel\AppData\Roaming\lyx-15\ Then, try to open your thesis. If it still crashes and if you can send me privately a copy, I can try to investigate. Second solution is to try the latest 1.6alpha. Even if it is still alpha, 1.6 is in general stabler when reading files. Abdel. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyx-crashes-everytime-I-try-to-open-my-document-tp17502824p17506928.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
TheDarkMaster wrote: Hallo Abdel, I don't know which file to delete, you don't specify it in your answer, This is the file session sorry. but at least I tried to look in my mac for the lyxrc.default file and I don't have it... Are you sure it can be a problem related to this, since I installed Lyx 1.5.5 over the old one and since it can still open other files? Only opening this file results in a crash... OK, I misunderstood your report then. again, anyone, please help me. I'll send you a copy anyway, thank you soo much for your attention :) I cannot reproduce the crash, the file opens correctly with latest 1.5 here. Maybe it's related to one of the graphics linked in the document. Could you try to open your file from a directory where LyX will not find the graphics? Abdel.
Re: Text wrap float problems
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Yes, as I said, how should LaTeX typeset a wrapped thing that is within a paragraph that contains a page break? Also Word and co cannot do this. Easy to answer. And probably hard to program into current latex, or this would be solved already. If the paragraph contains a manual page break: 1. place the figure in a useful way, i.e. within the upper and lower margins. 2. Typeset the part of the paragraph before the break beside the figure. This does not necessarily fill the page completely, because of that break. Any such ugliness is the user's fault for specifying a break though. 3. Move to the next page, typeset the rest of the paragraph there. The figure is not on the next page, so use the full width there. If the page break isn't inserted by the user, then the paragraph doesn't contain a page break at all - it is instead the typesetter's job to find the ideal spot to break. 1. Place the figure 2. Typeset the narrow paragraph beside it until the page is full. 3. Move on to the next page. Continue the paragraph there, but now with full width of course. This is how it should be done - perhaps it will happen some day if someone interested bothers with it. Latex can typeset paragraphs with varying width already. Helge Hafting
Re: OT? Ligatures in pdf documents to be used in LyX
On 28.05.08, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: This is to be expected. It's perfectly normal behavior. What should be the behavior if you block text in a pdf document (displayed with xpdf, acroread, or another viewer) and copy that text into emacs, pine, or AbiWord? The first two are text-mode applications, the last is a GUI. How is the clipboard to know what to do with the characters in it? The problem is that the copied characters are apparently wrong. The clipboard should have the correct unicode code points for the ligatures, but it has some completely different (and unrelated) chars. They are not wrong but in a different encoding: witht the default settings, this is most probably the T1 encoding where ligatures are on places totally unrelated to the unicode points. (or even 0T1, where Umlauts will be wrong as well). A workaround would be to use a font without ligatures (try the standard postscript fonts). A solution would be to use XeTeX as engine, as XeTeX supports Unicode font encoding. GM
Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 and have a situation where I need to put spreadsheet data into tables in LyX -- several of them actually. I'm able to paste the spreadsheet data into LyX. But so far I haven't figured out a way other than the tedious method of cutting and pasting every cell's contents one-by-one into place in the table. Is there any way I can at least do columns or rows at a time if not a the whole block of columns and rows at once? There is another option too. Gnumeric can export a spreadsheet as latex code for a longtable. This works for spreadsheets made with gnumeric, openoffice and excel. The entire thing can then be imported by importing the latex file. This works fine for text and numbers, I don't know about bar graphs and such. I made an external inset that automates this process - there has been no interest so far though. Helge Hafting
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
The DarkMaster wrote: I cannot reproduce the crash, the file opens correctly with latest 1.5 here. Maybe it's related to one of the graphics linked in the document. Could you try to open your file from a directory where LyX will not find the graphics? Uhm... you 90% saved me already. Now the file opens, it was sufficient to copy it in another dir. OK. Why does this happen? Maybe some of your graphics is corrupted, that should not happen but it happens. And what can I do to use my graphic? Try to copy the graphics one by one to the new location and reopen the file each time. Once you've located the guilty graphic, try to open it with some other software to see if it can be corrected. Before I added math to the thesis, everything was fine and all of the pictures worked... cannot get what happened here. Plus, since I added all of this math, I cannot make a preview or export to pdf anyway... no damned error output is displayed :( Could you try to see a pdf preview yourself? I can't. LyX gives me this error message at the console. File 'C:/Users/abdel/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir120612a19492/lyx_tmpbuf0/Relaz ione_Urbanistica_seconda.tex' was not closed properly. I get the same if I try to export to LateX (pdflatex) and manually compile it. This looks like a bug in LyX indeed. And why shouldn't it work, or do you have a aclue on how can I fix this? No idea yet, Jürgen, do you have one? Abdel.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
TheDarkMaster wrote: Does anyone have any idea on how can I save my life and my document? :( Your document opens fine for me. I have no clue what the problem is, but if Abdel's guess about the figures does not help, you could try the following things (having quit LyX beforehand): 1) Delete everything that starts with lyx_ in /tmp [Try if it works.] 2) Rename ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5 to something else. Then re-run the LyX installer from the dmg file, start LyX, reconfigure, and try opening your document. If this works, then you know there is a problem with your settings/preferences/... If it does not work, replace the newly created ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5 by your old copy in order to restore your settings. (Alternatively you could try opening the document in another user account - but don't forget to run the installer in that account, too.) Maybe it helps. Regards, Konrad
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Before I added math to the thesis, everything was fine and all of the pictures worked... cannot get what happened here. Plus, since I added all of this math, I cannot make a preview or export to pdf anyway... no damned error output is displayed :( Could you try to see a pdf preview yourself? I can't. LyX gives me this error message at the console. File 'C:/Users/abdel/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir120612a19492/lyx_tmpbuf0/Relaz ione_Urbanistica_seconda.tex' was not closed properly. I get the same if I try to export to LateX (pdflatex) and manually compile it. This looks like a bug in LyX indeed. This is bug 4891 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4891). Abdel.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is bug 4891 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4891). JMarc has found the solution: replace the unicode greek letter Delta (∆) in your formula with the equivalent \Delta (press space after typing \Delta) or use the math panel to insert it. Unicode in math is unfortunately not supported at this point. Hmm, I did not know that I had found the solution... Let's say that it was a team work :-) How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths? In 1.5 forget about it. In 1.6 that would require a lot of work I guess. Alternatively, can we disable input of unicode? Or just point the user to the problematic character with the Error dialog. I think we do that right now for unrecognised character in text. Abdel.
Re: Default Float placement is pathetic
Marwan Boustany wrote: I understand, but one thing I noticed when allowing them to go on another page is that in the place where the figures used to be there is a gap in the text... If you put the float on a line of its own, then you have created a paragraph break and so there will be a gap in the text. You won't notice that gap _if_ the float happen to go exactly there anyway. Doing this is common because LyX looks neater that way. It is usually not a problem, because normal text have short paragraphs anyway. If you don't have that, be aware that you _may_ put a float in the middle of some sentence - and the sentence should then come out without any unusual breaks. this along with figures appearing in the wrong order, and appearing in the middle of my chapter conclusion... Figures should appear in the same order as in your LyX file. Tables should appear in the same order too. But I believe latex is allowed to move a figure past a table if that yields a better layout overall. If that is unacceptable, consider using only one type of float - i.e. put tables in figure floats too. Well, not if you really need separate list of figures and list of tables. Helge Hafting
Re: Unwanted vertical white space between figure and caption
Thanks for the advice, the caption package I was using to set other parameters of the captions allows a function to set the width so now I don't have to deal with miniboxes. It also has a function to set the gap between figures and the caption so the other problem is solved too! rgheck wrote: Boffinboy wrote: I am using the captions in a minibox as they contain a lot of text and are often wider than the figure itself. This doesn't look nice if LyX is left to handle it by default. By putting it in a minibox it's possible to set the width of the caption to correspond to that of the figure - a workaround I found through searching the messages here. Try searching ctan.org for caption-related packages. This sounds like a common-enough need that it would be very unsurprising if it hadn't been addressed in some more general way. rh rgheck wrote: Boffinboy wrote: I seem to be full of questions today! I am placing figures and tables in floats and using a minibox to provide the captions for each. With tables the caption sits flush with the bottom of the table and I have fixed this by inserting a default vertical skip in the caption minibox. However for figures (using eps files, jpeg etc.) there is already a gap between the bottom of the image and the text of the caption, however it is larger than I want it to be. Is there a way to prevent this space and replace it with the default vertical skip as I have done with the tables? Or is the only way to get a uniform look to use a larger skip with the tables so they match the look for figures? Thanks in advance - Boffinboy Maybe I missed some earlier exchange, but why aren't you just using normal captions? Then LaTeX handles the placement for you. rh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unwanted-vertical-white-space-between-figure-and-caption-tp17500765p17509837.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Awful feature or bug?
Nicolás wrote: Hi! When I select something in a document and then press Ctrl+N+N to get it inserted into a LyX Note, the part of the document that I had selected goes into the clipboard. I guess this is a bug. Or is it an awful feature? I believe this happens because LyX does something similiar to this: 1. Cut the marked stuff. It disappears from the document, and goes to the clipboard 2. Insert a note 3. Paste into the note. As always, a copy remains on the clipboard What is the awful part here? You lost something else that was on the clipboard? Consider filing a bug about this on bugzilla.lyx.org, and be sure to tell why it is a problem for you. Helge Hafting
Re: suppressing captions in some floats
Brian Guenter wrote: I want to insert program listings into my document. I don't want the program listings to be broken across pages so I put them inside figures. Now each program listing has a figure label and number which I don't want. Is there some way for me to insert these listings inside a float and suppress the caption printing of just that float? Yes, it is easy to get rid of the figure label. Just delete it. Unless your LyX is very old, a figure label is a thing that every float is created with. But there is nothing special about it. You can delete it using backspace, the delete key, or selecting and cutting it. Then you get a float without a label. This can be hard to follow for your readers, if the float happens to float to some other page like floats sometimes do by design. Helge Hafting
about the style of the section numbering
Hi, everyone. I am a freshman to lyx but I have some latex experiences. I got a question on how to change the style of the section numbering. In my current file, I got section number like I, II, III, IV in dvi files. Can u guys tell me how I can change this style back to 1, 2,3,4 ? Thanks Best Haiyang
Re: about the style of the section numbering
Haiyang Chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, everyone. I am a freshman to lyx but I have some latex experiences. I got a question on how to change the style of the section numbering. In my current file, I got section number like I, II, III, IV in dvi files. Can u guys tell me how I can change this style back to 1, 2,3,4 ? Hi, You have to tell us more about your document. What document class did you pick? JMarc
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
And what can I do to use my graphic? Try to copy the graphics one by one to the new location and reopen the file each time. Once you've located the guilty graphic, try to open it with some other software to see if it can be corrected. Ok, I followed your suggestion but something weird happened. All of the old graphics is inside the document right now and it opens fine with no error! I copied one by one all of the pictures and every time it worked. Now it works fine but still I have no preview capability, so I cannot export the document in pdf... So I don't know what to do :(
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Before I added math to the thesis, everything was fine and all of the pictures worked... cannot get what happened here. Plus, since I added all of this math, I cannot make a preview or export to pdf anyway... no damned error output is displayed :( Could you try to see a pdf preview yourself? I can't. LyX gives me this error message at the console. File 'C:/Users/abdel/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir120612a19492/lyx_tmpbuf0/Relaz ione_Urbanistica_seconda.tex' was not closed properly. I get the same if I try to export to LateX (pdflatex) and manually compile it. This looks like a bug in LyX indeed. This is bug 4891 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4891). JMarc has found the solution: replace the unicode greek letter Delta (∆) in your formula with the equivalent \Delta (press space after typing \Delta) or use the math panel to insert it. Unicode in math is unfortunately not supported at this point. Abdel.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is bug 4891 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4891). JMarc has found the solution: replace the unicode greek letter Delta (∆) in your formula with the equivalent \Delta (press space after typing \Delta) or use the math panel to insert it. Unicode in math is unfortunately not supported at this point. Hmm, I did not know that I had found the solution... How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths? Alternatively, can we disable input of unicode? JMarc
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
The DarkMaster wrote: And what can I do to use my graphic? Try to copy the graphics one by one to the new location and reopen the file each time. Once you've located the guilty graphic, try to open it with some other software to see if it can be corrected. Ok, I followed your suggestion but something weird happened. All of the old graphics is inside the document right now and it opens fine with no error! I copied one by one all of the pictures and every time it worked. Now it works fine but still I have no preview capability, so I cannot export the document in pdf... So I don't know what to do :( By the way, is there a reason why most of your figure floats are indented? Are you aware that floats are not supposed to be linked to a text? Abdel.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
The DarkMaster wrote: And what can I do to use my graphic? Try to copy the graphics one by one to the new location and reopen the file each time. Once you've located the guilty graphic, try to open it with some other software to see if it can be corrected. Ok, I followed your suggestion but something weird happened. All of the old graphics is inside the document right now and it opens fine with no error! I copied one by one all of the pictures and every time it worked. Now it works fine but still I have no preview capability, so I cannot export the document in pdf... So I don't know what to do :( Well the tex file _is_ generated (see attached), it is in the temp directory but for some reason LyX thinks that the export has failed and do not proceed to its compilation to pdf. You might want to try to compile manually this file. One way to investigate is to do a dichotomy on the lyx file: 1) cut first half of the document, if it compiles the problem is in the other half 2) undo 3) cut second half of the document etc. You should come pretty quickly to the problematic part of the file. Abdel. Relazione_Urbanistica_seconda.tex Description: TeX document
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: The DarkMaster wrote: And what can I do to use my graphic? Try to copy the graphics one by one to the new location and reopen the file each time. Once you've located the guilty graphic, try to open it with some other software to see if it can be corrected. Ok, I followed your suggestion but something weird happened. All of the old graphics is inside the document right now and it opens fine with no error! I copied one by one all of the pictures and every time it worked. Now it works fine but still I have no preview capability, so I cannot export the document in pdf... So I don't know what to do :( Well the tex file _is_ generated (see attached), it is in the temp directory but for some reason LyX thinks that the export has failed and do not proceed to its compilation to pdf. You might want to try to compile manually this file. One way to investigate is to do a dichotomy on the lyx file: 1) cut first half of the document, if it compiles the problem is in the other half 2) undo 3) cut second half of the document etc. You should come pretty quickly to the problematic part of the file. The problem seems to be in the last section of the document (3.1.3 Proiezioni con il Metodo di Hamilton e Perry). Erasing this paragraph allows the LateX compilation. Abdel.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths? In 1.5 forget about it. In 1.6 that would require a lot of work I guess. This wasn't any generic unicode character, it was a delta which is normally used in math. The only strange thing about it was that it was in unicode rather than spelled out \delta. Possibly pasted from somewhere else? Would it be easier to support a subset of unicode in math - i.e. only symbols that we already offer but which also exists in the form of unicode characters? I guess that will be a common case for unicode in math. A simple table with unicode characters and their equivalent math commands (\alpha, \beta, and so on) could translate any non-ascii the users somehow manages to bring into mathed. Helge Hafting
Lyx 1.5.3 not showing references from Jabref 2.3.1
Hi All, I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 and Jabref 2.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04. I have been using Lyx for about 2 years now (since Ubuntu 6.04) and have very successfully written dozens of documents using Lyx, along with Pybliogapher and Jabref. However, since upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 (fresh installation from CD), Lyx has not functioned properly. I can insert a bibliography, and I can insert references from that bib file. However, when I view PDF (or PS or DVI), the references show up as [?], and there is no bibliography. All of my settings are correct, and I've tried it with multiple combinations of document settings and bibliography settings. As I mentioned earlier, I've written many documents with Lyx, so I'm relatively familiar with the it. I love it, I can't live without it. Can anyone help? What's going on? I have a big essay due soon, so it's really bad timing! Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyx-1.5.3-not-showing-references-from-Jabref-2.3.1-tp17510841p17510841.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:45 AM, TheDarkMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Abdel, I don't know which file to delete, you don't specify it in your answer, but at least I tried to look in my mac for the lyxrc.default file and I don't have it... On Mac, the session file is located at: ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5/session Bennett
Footnote without numbering (new)
Hi, Is there a way to enter footnote without the automatic numbering? I think I saw something in the archives but it was for Lyx version 1.1.6 and the explanation was a little confusing. Thank you. Adrian _ Change the world with e-mail. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ChangeWorld
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, I did not know that I had found the solution... Let's say that it was a team work :-) I thought I only found the problem. JMarc
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes-2 wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: The problem seems to be in the last section of the document (3.1.3 Proiezioni con il Metodo di Hamilton e Perry). Erasing this paragraph allows the LateX compilation. Abdel. :clap::clap: Thanks to your suggestions I fixed it =) Seems like the problematic part was this: t+∆t I inserted it as it is now into a math edit box and maybe it was problematic because I didn't use the syntax t+Delta to have Text translate it in a real delta but I used the ∆ symbol directly? Well, in any case this could be a very interesting result for a bug report so I'll put this on the report page you created for me :-D Thank you so much to every one who contributed in helping me this quickly and gently! You all are the best! :handshake: -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyx-crashes-everytime-I-try-to-open-my-document-tp17502824p17511290.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Lossing hyperlinks in conversion
Hi, I am using Lyx to export my document out as postscript then running ps2pdf on it. In the final PDF document my hyperlinks are not preserved. The text for the hyperlinks is blue (e.g. in the TOC) like it should be but you cannot click on it. Do I need to specify some options when I export it in Postscript to keep the hyperlinks? I'm using Lyx 1.5.1. Thank you. Adrian _ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_family_safety_052008
Re: OT? Ligatures in pdf documents to be used in LyX
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: The problem is that the copied characters are apparently wrong. The clipboard should have the correct unicode code points for the ligatures, but it has some completely different (and unrelated) chars. Jürgen, Oh. OK. Now I understand. Thanks, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
Re: Lyx 1.5.3 not showing references from Jabref 2.3.1
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:48 AM, vu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 and Jabref 2.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04. I have been using Lyx for about 2 years now (since Ubuntu 6.04) and have very successfully written dozens of documents using Lyx, along with Pybliogapher and Jabref. However, since upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 (fresh installation from CD), Lyx has not functioned properly. I can insert a bibliography, and I can insert references from that bib file. However, when I view PDF (or PS or DVI), the references show up as [?], and there is no bibliography. All of my settings are correct, and I've tried it with multiple combinations of document settings and bibliography settings. As I mentioned earlier, I've written many documents with Lyx, so I'm relatively familiar with the it. I love it, I can't live without it. Can anyone help? What's going on? I have a big essay due soon, so it's really bad timing! Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyx-1.5.3-not-showing-references-from-Jabref-2.3.1-tp17510841p17510841.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. This sounds like it's going to be hard to diagnose and a little more information would be helpful. Have you tried multiple .bib files? Are you using the default bibliography manager or natbib or jurabib or something else? What .bst file are you trying to use? Maybe you could send a minimal example to the list for verification or diagnoses? Cheers, /Bob
Re: Footnote without numbering (new)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a way to enter footnote without the automatic numbering? I think I saw something in the archives but it was for Lyx version 1.1.6 and the explanation was a little confusing. Thank you. Adrian _ Change the world with e-mail. Join the i'm Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ChangeWorld What exactly are you trying to accomplish? You don't want automatic numbering, but what do you want? There is an option for the footmisc package that allows symbols rather than numbers. Is that sufficient? See the attached .pdf. Cheers, /Bob newfile1.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns
Helge Hafting wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 and have a situation where I need to put spreadsheet data into tables in LyX -- several of them actually. I'm able to paste the spreadsheet data into LyX. But so far I haven't figured out a way other than the tedious method of cutting and pasting every cell's contents one-by-one into place in the table. Is there any way I can at least do columns or rows at a time if not a the whole block of columns and rows at once? There is another option too. Gnumeric can export a spreadsheet as latex code for a longtable. There's also a CSV importer now, and almost any spreadsheet will export CSV. rh
Re: Unwanted vertical white space between figure and caption
Boffinboy wrote: rgheck wrote: Boffinboy wrote: I am using the captions in a minibox as they contain a lot of text and are often wider than the figure itself. This doesn't look nice if LyX is left to handle it by default. By putting it in a minibox it's possible to set the width of the caption to correspond to that of the figure - a workaround I found through searching the messages here. Try searching ctan.org for caption-related packages. This sounds like a common-enough need that it would be very unsurprising if it hadn't been addressed in some more general way. Thanks for the advice, the caption package I was using to set other parameters of the captions allows a function to set the width so now I don't have to deal with miniboxes. It also has a function to set the gap between figures and the caption so the other problem is solved too! As a general rule: If what you want to do seems like something people will have wanted to do before, search ctan.org. rh
Re: Lyx 1.5.3 not showing references from Jabref 2.3.1
Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:48 AM, vu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 and Jabref 2.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04. I have been using Lyx for about 2 years now (since Ubuntu 6.04) and have very successfully written dozens of documents using Lyx, along with Pybliogapher and Jabref. However, since upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 (fresh installation from CD), Lyx has not functioned properly. I can insert a bibliography, and I can insert references from that bib file. However, when I view PDF (or PS or DVI), the references show up as [?], and there is no bibliography. All of my settings are correct, and I've tried it with multiple combinations of document settings and bibliography settings. As I mentioned earlier, I've written many documents with Lyx, so I'm relatively familiar with the it. I love it, I can't live without it. Can anyone help? What's going on? I have a big essay due soon, so it's really bad timing! Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyx-1.5.3-not-showing-references-from-Jabref-2.3.1-tp17510841p17510841.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. This sounds like it's going to be hard to diagnose and a little more information would be helpful. Have you tried multiple .bib files? Are you using the default bibliography manager or natbib or jurabib or something else? What .bst file are you trying to use? Maybe you could send a minimal example to the list for verification or diagnoses? Export the document to LaTeX and try compiling it manually. Report the error messages. It sounds to me as if either LyX or LaTeX isn't finding the .bib file, and there are various reasons this can happen. rh
Re: Awful feature or bug?
Helge Hafting wrote: Nicolás wrote: Hi! When I select something in a document and then press Ctrl+N+N to get it inserted into a LyX Note, the part of the document that I had selected goes into the clipboard. I guess this is a bug. Or is it an awful feature? I believe this happens because LyX does something similiar to this: 1. Cut the marked stuff. It disappears from the document, and goes to the clipboard 2. Insert a note 3. Paste into the note. As always, a copy remains on the clipboard This is almost surely how it works. It is definitely how inset dissolving works. Fixing this, if it needs to be fixed, wouldn't be too hard. We'd just need to pass some sort of flag that means: Preserve the state of the clipboard. As Helge said, do file this on bugzilla. rh
RE: Footnote without numbering (new)
Thank you for the suggestion but unfortunately I really need to put a footnote without a symbol or anything. I am trying to use Lyx for my thesis. Our college requires that if any of the chapters has already appeared as a publication that we need to list it on the first page of the chapter as a footnote. This is why I just want put a footnote at the bottom without having it attached to a symbol in the main body. Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 07:54:26 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Footnote without numbering (new) CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a way to enter footnote without the automatic numbering? I think I saw something in the archives but it was for Lyx version 1.1.6 and the explanation was a little confusing. Thank you. Adrian _ Change the world with e-mail. Join the i'm Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ChangeWorld What exactly are you trying to accomplish? You don't want automatic numbering, but what do you want? There is an option for the footmisc package that allows symbols rather than numbers. Is that sufficient? See the attached .pdf. Cheers, /Bob _ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_family_safety_052008
Re: Lossing hyperlinks in conversion
Only pdflatex is able to hold hyperlinks during conversion. As far as I know when the document is processed to postscript, the hyperref pacakge does not generate hyperlinks anntations which then could be converted to proper links in final PDF file. M. 2008/5/28 Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am using Lyx to export my document out as postscript then running ps2pdf on it. In the final PDF document my hyperlinks are not preserved. The text for the hyperlinks is blue (e.g. in the TOC) like it should be but you cannot click on it. Do I need to specify some options when I export it in Postscript to keep the hyperlinks? I'm using Lyx 1.5.1. Thank you. Adrian _ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_family_safety_052008 -- Manveru jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
Re: Footnote without numbering (new)
Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you for the suggestion but unfortunately I really need to put a footnote without a symbol or anything. I am trying to use Lyx for my thesis. Our college requires that if any of the chapters has already appeared as a publication that we need to list it on the first page of the chapter as a footnote. This is why I just want put a footnote at the bottom without having it attached to a symbol in the main body. I thought that in such cases a numbered footnote was appended to the title of the chapter. JMarc
Re: Footnote without numbering (new)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the suggestion but unfortunately I really need to put a footnote without a symbol or anything. I am trying to use Lyx for my thesis. Our college requires that if any of the chapters has already appeared as a publication that we need to list it on the first page of the chapter as a footnote. This is why I just want put a footnote at the bottom without having it attached to a symbol in the main body. Then it sounds like you don't want an actual footnote, but a float. How about something like the attached? Bennett article.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Footnote without numbering (new)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the suggestion but unfortunately I really need to put a footnote without a symbol or anything. I am trying to use Lyx for my thesis. Our college requires that if any of the chapters has already appeared as a publication that we need to list it on the first page of the chapter as a footnote. This is why I just want put a footnote at the bottom without having it attached to a symbol in the main body. Then it sounds like you don't want an actual footnote, but a float. How about something like the attached? Ooops -- I just realized that the previously attached document won't compile as is. You'll need to delete the contents of the preamble (Document Settings LaTeX Preamble) for it to work. ... Or just cut and paste the contents into a new document. Bennett
RE: Footnote without numbering (new)
I would need the contents of the float to appear a footnote at the bottom of the page. Not clear how placing it in a float will cause this to occur. Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 10:51:49 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Footnote without numbering (new) CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Bennett Helm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the suggestion but unfortunately I really need to put a footnote without a symbol or anything. I am trying to use Lyx for my thesis. Our college requires that if any of the chapters has already appeared as a publication that we need to list it on the first page of the chapter as a footnote. This is why I just want put a footnote at the bottom without having it attached to a symbol in the main body. Then it sounds like you don't want an actual footnote, but a float. How about something like the attached? Ooops -- I just realized that the previously attached document won't compile as is. You'll need to delete the contents of the preamble (Document Settings LaTeX Preamble) for it to work. ... Or just cut and paste the contents into a new document. Bennett _ Change the world with e-mail. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ChangeWorld
Re: Footnote without numbering (new)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would need the contents of the float to appear a footnote at the bottom of the page. Not clear how placing it in a float will cause this to occur. Because you can tell LaTeX to place the float at the bottom of the page. Look at the example. Typeset it. Does it do what you want? Bennett
Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns
On Wednesday 28 May 2008 09:54, rgheck wrote: Helge Hafting wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 and have a situation where I need to put spreadsheet data into tables in LyX -- several of them actually. I'm able to paste the spreadsheet data into LyX. But so far I haven't figured out a way other than the tedious method of cutting and pasting every cell's contents one-by-one into place in the table. Is there any way I can at least do columns or rows at a time if not a the whole block of columns and rows at once? There is another option too. Gnumeric can export a spreadsheet as latex code for a longtable. There's also a CSV importer now, and almost any spreadsheet will export CSV. In what version did the CSV importer first make its appearance? SteveT Steve Litt Books written in LyX: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Troubleshooting: Just the Facts
Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns
Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 28 May 2008 09:54, rgheck wrote:
Helge Hafting wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 and have a situation where I need to put
spreadsheet data into tables in LyX -- several of them actually. I'm
able to paste the spreadsheet data into LyX. But so far I haven't
figured out a way other than the tedious method of cutting and
pasting every cell's contents one-by-one into place in the table.
Is there any way I can at least do columns or rows at a time if not a
the whole block of columns and rows at once?
There is another option too.
Gnumeric can export a spreadsheet as latex code for a longtable.
There's also a CSV importer now, and almost any spreadsheet will export
CSV.
In what version did the CSV importer first make its appearance?
I think it's new in 1.5.5. But it's just a python script, so it could be
run independently. I've attached it in case you want to play with it.
rh
#! /usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# file csv2lyx.py
# This file is part of LyX, the document processor.
# Licence details can be found in the file COPYING.
# author Hartmut Haase
# author José Matos
# Full author contact details are available in file CREDITS
# This script reads a csv-table (file name.csv) and converts it into
# a LyX-table for versions 1.5.0 and higher (LyX table format 276).
# It uses Python's csv module for parsing.
# The original csv2lyx was witten by Antonio Gulino [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# in Perl for LyX 1.x and modified for LyX table format 276 by the author.
#
import csv, unicodedata
import os, sys
import optparse
def error(message):
sys.stderr.write(message + '\n')
sys.exit(1)
header = #csv2lyx created this file
\lyxformat 276
\\begin_document
\\begin_header
\\textclass article
\\inputencoding auto
\\font_roman default
\\font_sans default
\\font_typewriter default
\\font_default_family default
\\font_sc false
\\font_osf false
\\font_sf_scale 100
\\font_tt_scale 100
\\graphics default
\\paperfontsize default
\\papersize default
\\use_geometry false
\\use_amsmath 1
\\use_esint 0
\\cite_engine basic
\\use_bibtopic false
\\paperorientation portrait
\\secnumdepth 3
\\tocdepth 3
\\paragraph_separation indent
\\defskip medskip
\\papercolumns 1
\\papersides 1
\\paperpagestyle default
\\tracking_changes false
\\output_changes false
\\end_header
\\begin_body
\\begin_layout Standard
\\align left
\\begin_inset Tabular
lyxtabular version=3 rows=%d columns=%d
features
cell = cell alignment=left valignment=top usebox=none
\\begin_inset Text
\\begin_layout Standard
%s
\\end_layout
\\end_inset
/cell
footer = /lyxtabular
\\end_inset
\\end_layout
\\end_body
\\end_document
# processing command line options
# delegate this to standard module optparse
args = {}
args[usage] = Usage: csv2lyx [options] csvfile [file.lyx]
args[description] = This script creates a LyX document containing a table created from a
comma-separated-value (CSV) file. The resulting LyX file can be opened
with LyX 1.5.0 or any later version.
If no options are given csv2lyx will try to infer the CSV type of the csvfile,
parser = optparse.OptionParser(**args)
parser.set_defaults(excel='', column_sep='')
parser.add_option(-e, --excel, metavar=CHAR,
help=CHAR corresponds to a CSV type:
'e': Excel-generated CSV file
't': Excel-generated TAB-delimited CSV file)
parser.add_option(-s, --separator, dest=column_sep,
help= column separator
't' means Tab)
group = optparse.OptionGroup(parser, Remarks, If your CSV file contains special characters (e. g. umlauts,
accented letters, etc.) make sure it is coded in UTF-8 (unicode).
Else LyX will loose some cell contents. If your CSV file was not written according to the Common Format and MIME Type for Comma-Separated Values (CSV) Files (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180) there may be unexpected results.)
parser.add_option_group(group)
(options, args) = parser.parse_args()
# validate input
if len(args) == 1:
infile = args[0]
fout = sys.stdout
elif len(args) ==2:
infile = args[0]
fout = open(args[1], 'w')
else:
parser.print_help()
sys.exit(1)
if not os.path.exists(infile):
error('File %s not found.' % infile)
dialects = {'' : None, 'e' : 'excel', 't' : 'excel-tab'}
if options.excel not in dialects:
parser.print_help()
sys.exit(1)
dialect= dialects[options.excel]
# Set Tab, if necessary
if options.column_sep == 't':
options.column_sep = \t
# when no special column separator is given, try to detect it:
if options.column_sep or dialect :
reader = csv.reader(open(infile, rb), dialect= dialect, delimiter=options.column_sep)
else:
guesser = csv.Sniffer()
input_file = .join(open(infile,'rb').readlines())
try:
dialect = guesser.sniff(input_file)
reader = csv.reader(open(infile, rb), dialect= dialect)
except:
reader = csv.reader(open(infile,
Re: about the style of the section numbering
JMarc： Thanks for your prompt response. Actually, Ｉjust need to modify another guy's file. But he is also not so familiar with lyx. My lyx file is using ieeetran.cls. It looks like document setting is the only part I can modify to change the page style. Best Haiyang On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Haiyang Chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, everyone. I am a freshman to lyx but I have some latex experiences. I got a question on how to change the style of the section numbering. In my current file, I got section number like I, II, III, IV in dvi files. Can u guys tell me how I can change this style back to 1, 2,3,4 ? Hi, You have to tell us more about your document. What document class did you pick? JMarc
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Helge Hafting wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths? In 1.5 forget about it. In 1.6 that would require a lot of work I guess. This wasn't any generic unicode character, it was a delta which is normally used in math. The only strange thing about it was that it was in unicode rather than spelled out \delta. Possibly pasted from somewhere else? I guess so, yes. Would it be easier to support a subset of unicode in math - i.e. only symbols that we already offer but which also exists in the form of unicode characters? I guess that will be a common case for unicode in math. That would be the plan yes. A simple table with unicode characters and their equivalent math commands (\alpha, \beta, and so on) could translate any non-ascii the users somehow manages to bring into mathed. Things are more complicated when you speak in terms of _current_ LyX code :-) Basically, mathed does not use unicode but sepecial 8-bit codepoints reflecting their associate modern font symbol codepoints. Abdel.
Re: about the style of the section numbering
Haiyang Chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JMarc： Thanks for your prompt response. Actually, Ｉjust need to modify another guy's file. But he is also not so familiar with lyx. My lyx file is using ieeetran.cls. It looks like document setting is the only part I can modify to change the page style. But do you really want to use ieeetran? What are your constraints? JMarc
Re: Spell check on the fly?
Hi All, This is an old thread, but I too would really like to see the Spell Check on Fly feature in LyX. And if I'm already at it, I would also like to see grammer on the fly, because this is also a great feature in MS-word, which I am really lacking with LyX. If I knew how to, I would gladly add these features in, but I can't, so I'm relying on one of you to do it in the future. Spell Check on the Fly is valuale for us (spelling blind people) because it gives us the confidence to write more fluently. I also found that my spelling and writing has improved because of it. Finally, since it is a Turn ON/OFF feature, it would not bother those who view it as a bug in itself. here is the link to vote for it in bugzilla: Please do it: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718 Thanks, Erez bigblop wrote: Is there any chance that LyX in the future will support spell check on fly, where each misspelled word is underlined with a red line in the editor if its incorrectly spelled? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Spell-check-on-the-fly--tp14274928p17516566.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
RE: Footnote without numbering (new)
Thanks! Now I see what you mean. I am going to try this out. Thanks again. Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:38:01 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Footnote without numbering (new) CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would need the contents of the float to appear a footnote at the bottom of the page. Not clear how placing it in a float will cause this to occur. Because you can tell LaTeX to place the float at the bottom of the page. Look at the example. Typeset it. Does it do what you want? Bennett _ Change the world with e-mail. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ChangeWorld
Re: Spell check on the fly?
Erez Yerushalmi wrote: Hi All, This is an old thread, but I too would really like to see the Spell Check on Fly feature in LyX. And if I'm already at it, I would also like to see grammer on the fly, because this is also a great feature in MS-word, which I am really lacking with LyX. If I knew how to, I would gladly add these features in, but I can't, so I'm relying on one of you to do it in the future. Spell Check on the Fly is valuale for us (spelling blind people) because it gives us the confidence to write more fluently. I also found that my spelling and writing has improved because of it. Finally, since it is a Turn ON/OFF feature, it would not bother those who view it as a bug in itself. here is the link to vote for it in bugzilla: Please do it: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718 http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718 Bugzilla is note a voting machine, there is a special page on the wiki for that, please go to it instead: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/FeaturePoll I am available for contract work if you can collect enough money to motivate me :-) Otherwise, this will have to wait until some developper badly need this feature. Abdel.
Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns
The simplest method (if you have a table of the right size set up in LyX) is to paste with shift held down as well i.e. shift+ctrl+v - that puts the data in to the cells, rather than all in one cell. I don't know why it works but it does and will save you having to export all of your spreadsheets. Hope that helps! jf7 wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 and have a situation where I need to put spreadsheet data into tables in LyX -- several of them actually. I'm able to paste the spreadsheet data into LyX. But so far I haven't figured out a way other than the tedious method of cutting and pasting every cell's contents one-by-one into place in the table. Is there any way I can at least do columns or rows at a time if not a the whole block of columns and rows at once? thanks, jamie faunt -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/importing-spreadsheet-rows-and-columns-tp17288380p17517948.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Thesis first pages
FWIW, I had a nightmare of a time meeting all the formatting stuff my WORD-centric academic admin wanted for my dissertation. So I made a set of front pages in MS Word that worked when exported as PDF (with Adobe full version Acrobat Pro), and just added them to the front of the LyX-generated PDF when I was done. It was the simplest solution. Vaclav Smidl wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Lukáš Oliva wrote: Hi all, I want to write thesis in lyx but my faculty uses quite complicated first section with images, legal note etc. I wanted to fill it in openoffice and export it to pdf and insert to LyX. I was able to do it as image, nevertheless I have two problems: 1) The pages with included forms have numbers on bottom 2) The pages inserted are automatically resized, so it does not look like the original pages. Could anyone help to solve these two problems? Hi, I do not think that including a pdf is the best approach. I would recommend to try to implement this using LyX means. A combination of \vspace (Menu Insert Formating Vertical space), \hfill (Menu Insert Formating Horizontal fill), \minipage (Menu Insert Box), is quite powerful once you get the logic of it. If you are not sure how to start, send a minimized copy of your pdf and I will send you an example .lyx file. vasek - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (USA) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Thesis-first-pages-tp17494603p17520466.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Collaboration using LyX in a MS Office workplace
Julio Rojas wrote: Check AREnable http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/, a very good command line tool to enable comments on PDF's. That's what I use. Worked for me. Thanks. The only trouble is that the rights are enabled only until the file is saved after editing. Then it reverts to uneditable. Any ideas of what to do without re-enabling rights each time someone wants to make changes? - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (USA) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Collaboration-using-LyX-in-a-MS-Office-workplace-tp17442859p17520525.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Installation glitch
So by the time LyX gets to that long scroll window during install, all it's doing is maintenance and configuration type work, and not critical installation stuff? In other words, Running configure from within LyX does the same thing? Critical is in the eye of the beholder, but yes, AFAIK once you're seeing stuff scroll, that's the configuration script, and it's the same script that Tools - Reconfigure runs. By the time you've gotten there, all the software bits have been installed, but the local configuration files (including the all-important textclass.lst) haven't been generated yet (that's what the script does). So if the script blows up, you've got a version of LyX that won't run without a reconfigure (but hopefully will at least start, although there have been blown installation instances where it wouldn't even launch). Following up on this last part to clarify (hopefully)... Uwe wrote me off-list and suggested that I should reinstall. So I uninstalled and did it all over again. It hung up this time at 'ltugboat'. To be specific, this is after the installation is complete and LyX is going to start for the first time. The installer says it could take a while, and then lots of stuff scrolls by in the command window. Then, it says LyX is inspecting your LaTeX configuration... (this could take a long time) (or something real close to that) and slowly checks each item in a long list, which I assume are document classes or LaTeX packages. It returns Yes/No for each thing in the list. So again I killed the window. LyX started about 10 minutes later and looked OK. I went to Tools - Reconfigure, closed and re-started LyX, and everything seems fine. So, this is just the configuration script running when LyX hangs? If so, why does that same script run like lightning in the LyX program window, but crawl in the installer? Just curious. - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (USA) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Installation-glitch-tp17410700p17520666.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Installation glitch
David Hewitt wrote: So by the time LyX gets to that long scroll window during install, all it's doing is maintenance and configuration type work, and not critical installation stuff? In other words, Running configure from within LyX does the same thing? Critical is in the eye of the beholder, but yes, AFAIK once you're seeing stuff scroll, that's the configuration script, and it's the same script that Tools - Reconfigure runs. By the time you've gotten there, all the software bits have been installed, but the local configuration files (including the all-important textclass.lst) haven't been generated yet (that's what the script does). So if the script blows up, you've got a version of LyX that won't run without a reconfigure (but hopefully will at least start, although there have been blown installation instances where it wouldn't even launch). Following up on this last part to clarify (hopefully)... Uwe wrote me off-list and suggested that I should reinstall. So I uninstalled and did it all over again. It hung up this time at 'ltugboat'. To be specific, this is after the installation is complete and LyX is going to start for the first time. The installer says it could take a while, and then lots of stuff scrolls by in the command window. Then, it says LyX is inspecting your LaTeX configuration... (this could take a long time) (or something real close to that) and slowly checks each item in a long list, which I assume are document classes or LaTeX packages. It returns Yes/No for each thing in the list. So again I killed the window. LyX started about 10 minutes later and looked OK. I went to Tools - Reconfigure, closed and re-started LyX, and everything seems fine. So, this is just the configuration script running when LyX hangs? Yes and no. LyX shells out to Python to run the configuration script. Each time the config script finds something new to look for in the LaTeX distro, Python shells out to LaTeX (in your case, MikTeX). Most often what the script is doing is invoking latex.exe to compile a trivial document using whatever package is the current target of inquiry. If (a) the package is not installed and (b) MikTeX is set to auto-download, MikTeX then invokes mpm to snag a copy of the package, install it and update the filename database. If so, why does that same script run like lightning in the LyX program window, but crawl in the installer? Assuming you have MikTeX set to auto-install, first time around (the installer) the configuration script looks for eight zillion packages, ten of which are already installed, and MikTeX downloads the other 8 zillion minus ten (hence crawl). Second time arouind (the LyX window), all that junk is installed, and so the downloading is avoided (hence run like lightning). On the other hand, if either you have MikTeX set to skip missing packages or you have a complete MikTeX installation before you run the LyX installer, then I have no idea what's up. /Paul
Re: Collaboration using LyX in a MS Office workplace
No idea, sorry. On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:12 PM, David Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Julio Rojas wrote: Check AREnable http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/, a very good command line tool to enable comments on PDF's. That's what I use. Worked for me. Thanks. The only trouble is that the rights are enabled only until the file is saved after editing. Then it reverts to uneditable. Any ideas of what to do without re-enabling rights each time someone wants to make changes? - David Hewitt Research Fishery Biologist USGS Klamath Falls Field Station (USA) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Collaboration-using-LyX-in-a-MS-Office-workplace-tp17442859p17520525.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- - Julio Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lyx 1.5.3 not showing references from Jabref 2.3.1
rgheck wrote: Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:48 AM, vu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 and Jabref 2.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04. I have been using Lyx for about 2 years now (since Ubuntu 6.04) and have very successfully written dozens of documents using Lyx, along with Pybliogapher and Jabref. However, since upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 (fresh installation from CD), Lyx has not functioned properly. I can insert a bibliography, and I can insert references from that bib file. However, when I view PDF (or PS or DVI), the references show up as [?], and there is no bibliography. All of my settings are correct, and I've tried it with multiple combinations of document settings and bibliography settings. As I mentioned earlier, I've written many documents with Lyx, so I'm relatively familiar with the it. I love it, I can't live without it. Can anyone help? What's going on? I have a big essay due soon, so it's really bad timing! Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyx-1.5.3-not-showing-references-from-Jabref-2.3.1-tp17510841p17510841.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. This sounds like it's going to be hard to diagnose and a little more information would be helpful. Have you tried multiple .bib files? Are you using the default bibliography manager or natbib or jurabib or something else? What .bst file are you trying to use? Maybe you could send a minimal example to the list for verification or diagnoses? Export the document to LaTeX and try compiling it manually. Report the error messages. It sounds to me as if either LyX or LaTeX isn't finding the .bib file, and there are various reasons this can happen. rh Hi, thanks for the help. I've exported it to LaTex (using pdflatex), but I don't know how to compile it manually. I haven't had a chance to really get into the fine details of Lyx. How would I do this? http://www.nabble.com/file/p17527137/CONS6017-Essay.log CONS6017-Essay.log http://www.nabble.com/file/p17527137/CONS6017-Essay.pdf CONS6017-Essay.pdf http://www.nabble.com/file/p17527137/CONS6017-Essay.tex CONS6017-Essay.tex I've also checked the Lyx log in my tmp folder, and fould that it says LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.. I'm not sure if this will be helpful, but I've included both the exported .tex file, the tmp .log file, and the PDF output as an attachment here. Please note that I have changed nothing in my setup of Lyx since changing to Ubuntu 8.04. I've had pretty much the same document settings (usually at Natbib, but sometimes Jurabib), and usually the same bst files (usually the ones included in Lyx, such as naturemag or author-date). Thanks again for all the help. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyx-1.5.3-not-showing-references-from-Jabref-2.3.1-tp17510841p17527137.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
TheDarkMaster wrote: Please help me, I'm loosing an important university thesis. The last time I opened my Lyx document in Mac OSX (using the latest 1.5.5 Lyx versin), I added a lot of maths using the Lyx functions and when I tried to open the preview in pdf, it didn't work. So I restarted OSX thinking it was a temporary error but now, when I try to open my document, Lyx crashes and OSX tells me it has a bug report, here it is: It seems that this is related to the session file. I don't know where the session file is located under MacOSX but if you can, try to remove the file before launching LyX. This file is in the same directory as lyxrc.default. On Vista it is in C:\Users\abdel\AppData\Roaming\lyx-15\ Then, try to open your thesis. If it still crashes and if you can send me privately a copy, I can try to investigate. Second solution is to try the latest 1.6alpha. Even if it is still alpha, 1.6 is in general stabler when reading files. Abdel.
Re: OT? Ligatures in pdf documents to be used in LyX
Rich Shepard wrote: This is to be expected. It's perfectly normal behavior. What should be the behavior if you block text in a pdf document (displayed with xpdf, acroread, or another viewer) and copy that text into emacs, pine, or AbiWord? The first two are text-mode applications, the last is a GUI. How is the clipboard to know what to do with the characters in it? The problem is that the copied characters are apparently wrong. The clipboard should have the correct unicode code points for the ligatures, but it has some completely different (and unrelated) chars. Jürgen
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Hallo Abdel, I don't know which file to delete, you don't specify it in your answer, but at least I tried to look in my mac for the lyxrc.default file and I don't have it... Are you sure it can be a problem related to this, since I installed Lyx 1.5.5 over the old one and since it can still open other files? Only opening this file results in a crash... again, anyone, please help me. I'll send you a copy anyway, thank you soo much for your attention :) Luca P.S.: I don't care for copyrights, you can read it all, I release it under GPL... no one would care about an urbanistic thesis in Italian like this anyway ;) http://www.nabble.com/file/p17506928/Relazione%2BUrbanistica%2Bseconda.lyx Relazione+Urbanistica+seconda.lyx Abdelrazak Younes-2 wrote: TheDarkMaster wrote: Please help me, I'm loosing an important university thesis. The last time I opened my Lyx document in Mac OSX (using the latest 1.5.5 Lyx versin), I added a lot of maths using the Lyx functions and when I tried to open the preview in pdf, it didn't work. So I restarted OSX thinking it was a temporary error but now, when I try to open my document, Lyx crashes and OSX tells me it has a bug report, here it is: It seems that this is related to the session file. I don't know where the session file is located under MacOSX but if you can, try to remove the file before launching LyX. This file is in the same directory as lyxrc.default. On Vista it is in C:\Users\abdel\AppData\Roaming\lyx-15\ Then, try to open your thesis. If it still crashes and if you can send me privately a copy, I can try to investigate. Second solution is to try the latest 1.6alpha. Even if it is still alpha, 1.6 is in general stabler when reading files. Abdel. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyx-crashes-everytime-I-try-to-open-my-document-tp17502824p17506928.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
TheDarkMaster wrote: Hallo Abdel, I don't know which file to delete, you don't specify it in your answer, This is the file session sorry. but at least I tried to look in my mac for the lyxrc.default file and I don't have it... Are you sure it can be a problem related to this, since I installed Lyx 1.5.5 over the old one and since it can still open other files? Only opening this file results in a crash... OK, I misunderstood your report then. again, anyone, please help me. I'll send you a copy anyway, thank you soo much for your attention :) I cannot reproduce the crash, the file opens correctly with latest 1.5 here. Maybe it's related to one of the graphics linked in the document. Could you try to open your file from a directory where LyX will not find the graphics? Abdel.
Re: Text wrap float problems
Uwe Stöhr wrote: Yes, as I said, how should LaTeX typeset a wrapped thing that is within a paragraph that contains a page break? Also Word and co cannot do this. Easy to answer. And probably hard to program into current latex, or this would be solved already. If the paragraph contains a manual page break: 1. place the figure in a useful way, i.e. within the upper and lower margins. 2. Typeset the part of the paragraph before the break beside the figure. This does not necessarily fill the page completely, because of that break. Any such ugliness is the user's fault for specifying a break though. 3. Move to the next page, typeset the rest of the paragraph there. The figure is not on the next page, so use the full width there. If the page break isn't inserted by the user, then the paragraph doesn't contain a page break at all - it is instead the typesetter's job to find the ideal spot to break. 1. Place the figure 2. Typeset the narrow paragraph beside it until the page is full. 3. Move on to the next page. Continue the paragraph there, but now with full width of course. This is how it should be done - perhaps it will happen some day if someone interested bothers with it. Latex can typeset paragraphs with varying width already. Helge Hafting
Re: OT? Ligatures in pdf documents to be used in LyX
On 28.05.08, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: Rich Shepard wrote: This is to be expected. It's perfectly normal behavior. What should be the behavior if you block text in a pdf document (displayed with xpdf, acroread, or another viewer) and copy that text into emacs, pine, or AbiWord? The first two are text-mode applications, the last is a GUI. How is the clipboard to know what to do with the characters in it? The problem is that the copied characters are apparently wrong. The clipboard should have the correct unicode code points for the ligatures, but it has some completely different (and unrelated) chars. They are not wrong but in a different encoding: witht the default settings, this is most probably the T1 encoding where ligatures are on places totally unrelated to the unicode points. (or even 0T1, where Umlauts will be wrong as well). A workaround would be to use a font without ligatures (try the standard postscript fonts). A solution would be to use XeTeX as engine, as XeTeX supports Unicode font encoding. GM
Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 and have a situation where I need to put spreadsheet data into tables in LyX -- several of them actually. I'm able to paste the spreadsheet data into LyX. But so far I haven't figured out a way other than the tedious method of cutting and pasting every cell's contents one-by-one into place in the table. Is there any way I can at least do columns or rows at a time if not a the whole block of columns and rows at once? There is another option too. Gnumeric can export a spreadsheet as latex code for a longtable. This works for spreadsheets made with gnumeric, openoffice and excel. The entire thing can then be imported by importing the latex file. This works fine for text and numbers, I don't know about bar graphs and such. I made an external inset that automates this process - there has been no interest so far though. Helge Hafting
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
The DarkMaster wrote: I cannot reproduce the crash, the file opens correctly with latest 1.5 here. Maybe it's related to one of the graphics linked in the document. Could you try to open your file from a directory where LyX will not find the graphics? Uhm... you 90% saved me already. Now the file opens, it was sufficient to copy it in another dir. OK. Why does this happen? Maybe some of your graphics is corrupted, that should not happen but it happens. And what can I do to use my graphic? Try to copy the graphics one by one to the new location and reopen the file each time. Once you've located the guilty graphic, try to open it with some other software to see if it can be corrected. Before I added math to the thesis, everything was fine and all of the pictures worked... cannot get what happened here. Plus, since I added all of this math, I cannot make a preview or export to pdf anyway... no damned error output is displayed :( Could you try to see a pdf preview yourself? I can't. LyX gives me this error message at the console. File 'C:/Users/abdel/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir120612a19492/lyx_tmpbuf0/Relaz ione_Urbanistica_seconda.tex' was not closed properly. I get the same if I try to export to LateX (pdflatex) and manually compile it. This looks like a bug in LyX indeed. And why shouldn't it work, or do you have a aclue on how can I fix this? No idea yet, Jürgen, do you have one? Abdel.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
TheDarkMaster wrote: Does anyone have any idea on how can I save my life and my document? :( Your document opens fine for me. I have no clue what the problem is, but if Abdel's guess about the figures does not help, you could try the following things (having quit LyX beforehand): 1) Delete everything that starts with lyx_ in /tmp [Try if it works.] 2) Rename ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5 to something else. Then re-run the LyX installer from the dmg file, start LyX, reconfigure, and try opening your document. If this works, then you know there is a problem with your settings/preferences/... If it does not work, replace the newly created ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5 by your old copy in order to restore your settings. (Alternatively you could try opening the document in another user account - but don't forget to run the installer in that account, too.) Maybe it helps. Regards, Konrad
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Before I added math to the thesis, everything was fine and all of the pictures worked... cannot get what happened here. Plus, since I added all of this math, I cannot make a preview or export to pdf anyway... no damned error output is displayed :( Could you try to see a pdf preview yourself? I can't. LyX gives me this error message at the console. File 'C:/Users/abdel/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir120612a19492/lyx_tmpbuf0/Relaz ione_Urbanistica_seconda.tex' was not closed properly. I get the same if I try to export to LateX (pdflatex) and manually compile it. This looks like a bug in LyX indeed. This is bug 4891 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4891). Abdel.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is bug 4891 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4891). JMarc has found the solution: replace the unicode greek letter Delta (∆) in your formula with the equivalent \Delta (press space after typing \Delta) or use the math panel to insert it. Unicode in math is unfortunately not supported at this point. Hmm, I did not know that I had found the solution... Let's say that it was a team work :-) How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths? In 1.5 forget about it. In 1.6 that would require a lot of work I guess. Alternatively, can we disable input of unicode? Or just point the user to the problematic character with the Error dialog. I think we do that right now for unrecognised character in text. Abdel.
Re: Default Float placement is pathetic
Marwan Boustany wrote: I understand, but one thing I noticed when allowing them to go on another page is that in the place where the figures used to be there is a gap in the text... If you put the float on a line of its own, then you have created a paragraph break and so there will be a gap in the text. You won't notice that gap _if_ the float happen to go exactly there anyway. Doing this is common because LyX looks neater that way. It is usually not a problem, because normal text have short paragraphs anyway. If you don't have that, be aware that you _may_ put a float in the middle of some sentence - and the sentence should then come out without any unusual breaks. this along with figures appearing in the wrong order, and appearing in the middle of my chapter conclusion... Figures should appear in the same order as in your LyX file. Tables should appear in the same order too. But I believe latex is allowed to move a figure past a table if that yields a better layout overall. If that is unacceptable, consider using only one type of float - i.e. put tables in figure floats too. Well, not if you really need separate list of figures and list of tables. Helge Hafting
Re: Unwanted vertical white space between figure and caption
Thanks for the advice, the caption package I was using to set other parameters of the captions allows a function to set the width so now I don't have to deal with miniboxes. It also has a function to set the gap between figures and the caption so the other problem is solved too! rgheck wrote: Boffinboy wrote: I am using the captions in a minibox as they contain a lot of text and are often wider than the figure itself. This doesn't look nice if LyX is left to handle it by default. By putting it in a minibox it's possible to set the width of the caption to correspond to that of the figure - a workaround I found through searching the messages here. Try searching ctan.org for caption-related packages. This sounds like a common-enough need that it would be very unsurprising if it hadn't been addressed in some more general way. rh rgheck wrote: Boffinboy wrote: I seem to be full of questions today! I am placing figures and tables in floats and using a minibox to provide the captions for each. With tables the caption sits flush with the bottom of the table and I have fixed this by inserting a default vertical skip in the caption minibox. However for figures (using eps files, jpeg etc.) there is already a gap between the bottom of the image and the text of the caption, however it is larger than I want it to be. Is there a way to prevent this space and replace it with the default vertical skip as I have done with the tables? Or is the only way to get a uniform look to use a larger skip with the tables so they match the look for figures? Thanks in advance - Boffinboy Maybe I missed some earlier exchange, but why aren't you just using normal captions? Then LaTeX handles the placement for you. rh -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Unwanted-vertical-white-space-between-figure-and-caption-tp17500765p17509837.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Awful feature or bug?
Nicolás wrote: Hi! When I select something in a document and then press Ctrl+N+N to get it inserted into a LyX Note, the part of the document that I had selected goes into the clipboard. I guess this is a bug. Or is it an awful feature? I believe this happens because LyX does something similiar to this: 1. Cut the marked stuff. It disappears from the document, and goes to the clipboard 2. Insert a note 3. Paste into the note. As always, a copy remains on the clipboard What is the awful part here? You lost something else that was on the clipboard? Consider filing a bug about this on bugzilla.lyx.org, and be sure to tell why it is a problem for you. Helge Hafting
Re: suppressing captions in some floats
Brian Guenter wrote: I want to insert program listings into my document. I don't want the program listings to be broken across pages so I put them inside figures. Now each program listing has a figure label and number which I don't want. Is there some way for me to insert these listings inside a float and suppress the caption printing of just that float? Yes, it is easy to get rid of the figure label. Just delete it. Unless your LyX is very old, a figure label is a thing that every float is created with. But there is nothing special about it. You can delete it using backspace, the delete key, or selecting and cutting it. Then you get a float without a label. This can be hard to follow for your readers, if the float happens to float to some other page like floats sometimes do by design. Helge Hafting
about the style of the section numbering
Hi, everyone. I am a freshman to lyx but I have some latex experiences. I got a question on how to change the style of the section numbering. In my current file, I got section number like I, II, III, IV in dvi files. Can u guys tell me how I can change this style back to 1, 2,3,4 ? Thanks Best Haiyang
Re: about the style of the section numbering
Haiyang Chao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, everyone. I am a freshman to lyx but I have some latex experiences. I got a question on how to change the style of the section numbering. In my current file, I got section number like I, II, III, IV in dvi files. Can u guys tell me how I can change this style back to 1, 2,3,4 ? Hi, You have to tell us more about your document. What document class did you pick? JMarc
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
And what can I do to use my graphic? Try to copy the graphics one by one to the new location and reopen the file each time. Once you've located the guilty graphic, try to open it with some other software to see if it can be corrected. Ok, I followed your suggestion but something weird happened. All of the old graphics is inside the document right now and it opens fine with no error! I copied one by one all of the pictures and every time it worked. Now it works fine but still I have no preview capability, so I cannot export the document in pdf... So I don't know what to do :(
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Before I added math to the thesis, everything was fine and all of the pictures worked... cannot get what happened here. Plus, since I added all of this math, I cannot make a preview or export to pdf anyway... no damned error output is displayed :( Could you try to see a pdf preview yourself? I can't. LyX gives me this error message at the console. File 'C:/Users/abdel/AppData/Local/Temp/lyx_tmpdir120612a19492/lyx_tmpbuf0/Relaz ione_Urbanistica_seconda.tex' was not closed properly. I get the same if I try to export to LateX (pdflatex) and manually compile it. This looks like a bug in LyX indeed. This is bug 4891 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4891). JMarc has found the solution: replace the unicode greek letter Delta (∆) in your formula with the equivalent \Delta (press space after typing \Delta) or use the math panel to insert it. Unicode in math is unfortunately not supported at this point. Abdel.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is bug 4891 (http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4891). JMarc has found the solution: replace the unicode greek letter Delta (∆) in your formula with the equivalent \Delta (press space after typing \Delta) or use the math panel to insert it. Unicode in math is unfortunately not supported at this point. Hmm, I did not know that I had found the solution... How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths? Alternatively, can we disable input of unicode? JMarc
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
The DarkMaster wrote: And what can I do to use my graphic? Try to copy the graphics one by one to the new location and reopen the file each time. Once you've located the guilty graphic, try to open it with some other software to see if it can be corrected. Ok, I followed your suggestion but something weird happened. All of the old graphics is inside the document right now and it opens fine with no error! I copied one by one all of the pictures and every time it worked. Now it works fine but still I have no preview capability, so I cannot export the document in pdf... So I don't know what to do :( By the way, is there a reason why most of your figure floats are indented? Are you aware that floats are not supposed to be linked to a text? Abdel.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
The DarkMaster wrote: And what can I do to use my graphic? Try to copy the graphics one by one to the new location and reopen the file each time. Once you've located the guilty graphic, try to open it with some other software to see if it can be corrected. Ok, I followed your suggestion but something weird happened. All of the old graphics is inside the document right now and it opens fine with no error! I copied one by one all of the pictures and every time it worked. Now it works fine but still I have no preview capability, so I cannot export the document in pdf... So I don't know what to do :( Well the tex file _is_ generated (see attached), it is in the temp directory but for some reason LyX thinks that the export has failed and do not proceed to its compilation to pdf. You might want to try to compile manually this file. One way to investigate is to do a dichotomy on the lyx file: 1) cut first half of the document, if it compiles the problem is in the other half 2) undo 3) cut second half of the document etc. You should come pretty quickly to the problematic part of the file. Abdel. Relazione_Urbanistica_seconda.tex Description: TeX document
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: The DarkMaster wrote: And what can I do to use my graphic? Try to copy the graphics one by one to the new location and reopen the file each time. Once you've located the guilty graphic, try to open it with some other software to see if it can be corrected. Ok, I followed your suggestion but something weird happened. All of the old graphics is inside the document right now and it opens fine with no error! I copied one by one all of the pictures and every time it worked. Now it works fine but still I have no preview capability, so I cannot export the document in pdf... So I don't know what to do :( Well the tex file _is_ generated (see attached), it is in the temp directory but for some reason LyX thinks that the export has failed and do not proceed to its compilation to pdf. You might want to try to compile manually this file. One way to investigate is to do a dichotomy on the lyx file: 1) cut first half of the document, if it compiles the problem is in the other half 2) undo 3) cut second half of the document etc. You should come pretty quickly to the problematic part of the file. The problem seems to be in the last section of the document (3.1.3 Proiezioni con il Metodo di Hamilton e Perry). Erasing this paragraph allows the LateX compilation. Abdel.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: How difficult would it be to support unicode in maths? In 1.5 forget about it. In 1.6 that would require a lot of work I guess. This wasn't any generic unicode character, it was a delta which is normally used in math. The only strange thing about it was that it was in unicode rather than spelled out \delta. Possibly pasted from somewhere else? Would it be easier to support a subset of unicode in math - i.e. only symbols that we already offer but which also exists in the form of unicode characters? I guess that will be a common case for unicode in math. A simple table with unicode characters and their equivalent math commands (\alpha, \beta, and so on) could translate any non-ascii the users somehow manages to bring into mathed. Helge Hafting
Lyx 1.5.3 not showing references from Jabref 2.3.1
Hi All, I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 and Jabref 2.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04. I have been using Lyx for about 2 years now (since Ubuntu 6.04) and have very successfully written dozens of documents using Lyx, along with Pybliogapher and Jabref. However, since upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 (fresh installation from CD), Lyx has not functioned properly. I can insert a bibliography, and I can insert references from that bib file. However, when I view PDF (or PS or DVI), the references show up as [?], and there is no bibliography. All of my settings are correct, and I've tried it with multiple combinations of document settings and bibliography settings. As I mentioned earlier, I've written many documents with Lyx, so I'm relatively familiar with the it. I love it, I can't live without it. Can anyone help? What's going on? I have a big essay due soon, so it's really bad timing! Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyx-1.5.3-not-showing-references-from-Jabref-2.3.1-tp17510841p17510841.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:45 AM, TheDarkMaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Abdel, I don't know which file to delete, you don't specify it in your answer, but at least I tried to look in my mac for the lyxrc.default file and I don't have it... On Mac, the session file is located at: ~/Library/Application Support/LyX-1.5/session Bennett
Footnote without numbering (new)
Hi, Is there a way to enter footnote without the automatic numbering? I think I saw something in the archives but it was for Lyx version 1.1.6 and the explanation was a little confusing. Thank you. Adrian _ Change the world with e-mail. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ChangeWorld
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, I did not know that I had found the solution... Let's say that it was a team work :-) I thought I only found the problem. JMarc
Re: Lyx crashes everytime I try to open my document
Abdelrazak Younes-2 wrote: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: The problem seems to be in the last section of the document (3.1.3 Proiezioni con il Metodo di Hamilton e Perry). Erasing this paragraph allows the LateX compilation. Abdel. :clap::clap: Thanks to your suggestions I fixed it =) Seems like the problematic part was this: t+∆t I inserted it as it is now into a math edit box and maybe it was problematic because I didn't use the syntax t+Delta to have Text translate it in a real delta but I used the ∆ symbol directly? Well, in any case this could be a very interesting result for a bug report so I'll put this on the report page you created for me :-D Thank you so much to every one who contributed in helping me this quickly and gently! You all are the best! :handshake: -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyx-crashes-everytime-I-try-to-open-my-document-tp17502824p17511290.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Lossing hyperlinks in conversion
Hi, I am using Lyx to export my document out as postscript then running ps2pdf on it. In the final PDF document my hyperlinks are not preserved. The text for the hyperlinks is blue (e.g. in the TOC) like it should be but you cannot click on it. Do I need to specify some options when I export it in Postscript to keep the hyperlinks? I'm using Lyx 1.5.1. Thank you. Adrian _ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_family_safety_052008
Re: OT? Ligatures in pdf documents to be used in LyX
On Wed, 28 May 2008, Juergen Spitzmueller wrote: The problem is that the copied characters are apparently wrong. The clipboard should have the correct unicode code points for the ligatures, but it has some completely different (and unrelated) chars. Jürgen, Oh. OK. Now I understand. Thanks, Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | IntegrityCredibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
Re: Lyx 1.5.3 not showing references from Jabref 2.3.1
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:48 AM, vu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 and Jabref 2.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04. I have been using Lyx for about 2 years now (since Ubuntu 6.04) and have very successfully written dozens of documents using Lyx, along with Pybliogapher and Jabref. However, since upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 (fresh installation from CD), Lyx has not functioned properly. I can insert a bibliography, and I can insert references from that bib file. However, when I view PDF (or PS or DVI), the references show up as [?], and there is no bibliography. All of my settings are correct, and I've tried it with multiple combinations of document settings and bibliography settings. As I mentioned earlier, I've written many documents with Lyx, so I'm relatively familiar with the it. I love it, I can't live without it. Can anyone help? What's going on? I have a big essay due soon, so it's really bad timing! Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyx-1.5.3-not-showing-references-from-Jabref-2.3.1-tp17510841p17510841.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. This sounds like it's going to be hard to diagnose and a little more information would be helpful. Have you tried multiple .bib files? Are you using the default bibliography manager or natbib or jurabib or something else? What .bst file are you trying to use? Maybe you could send a minimal example to the list for verification or diagnoses? Cheers, /Bob
Re: Footnote without numbering (new)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a way to enter footnote without the automatic numbering? I think I saw something in the archives but it was for Lyx version 1.1.6 and the explanation was a little confusing. Thank you. Adrian _ Change the world with e-mail. Join the i'm Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ChangeWorld What exactly are you trying to accomplish? You don't want automatic numbering, but what do you want? There is an option for the footmisc package that allows symbols rather than numbers. Is that sufficient? See the attached .pdf. Cheers, /Bob newfile1.pdf Description: Adobe PDF document
Re: importing spreadsheet rows and columns
Helge Hafting wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using LyX 1.5.3 and have a situation where I need to put spreadsheet data into tables in LyX -- several of them actually. I'm able to paste the spreadsheet data into LyX. But so far I haven't figured out a way other than the tedious method of cutting and pasting every cell's contents one-by-one into place in the table. Is there any way I can at least do columns or rows at a time if not a the whole block of columns and rows at once? There is another option too. Gnumeric can export a spreadsheet as latex code for a longtable. There's also a CSV importer now, and almost any spreadsheet will export CSV. rh
Re: Unwanted vertical white space between figure and caption
Boffinboy wrote: rgheck wrote: Boffinboy wrote: I am using the captions in a minibox as they contain a lot of text and are often wider than the figure itself. This doesn't look nice if LyX is left to handle it by default. By putting it in a minibox it's possible to set the width of the caption to correspond to that of the figure - a workaround I found through searching the messages here. Try searching ctan.org for caption-related packages. This sounds like a common-enough need that it would be very unsurprising if it hadn't been addressed in some more general way. Thanks for the advice, the caption package I was using to set other parameters of the captions allows a function to set the width so now I don't have to deal with miniboxes. It also has a function to set the gap between figures and the caption so the other problem is solved too! As a general rule: If what you want to do seems like something people will have wanted to do before, search ctan.org. rh
Re: Lyx 1.5.3 not showing references from Jabref 2.3.1
Bob Lounsbury wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:48 AM, vu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm using Lyx 1.5.3 and Jabref 2.3.1 on Ubuntu 8.04. I have been using Lyx for about 2 years now (since Ubuntu 6.04) and have very successfully written dozens of documents using Lyx, along with Pybliogapher and Jabref. However, since upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 (fresh installation from CD), Lyx has not functioned properly. I can insert a bibliography, and I can insert references from that bib file. However, when I view PDF (or PS or DVI), the references show up as [?], and there is no bibliography. All of my settings are correct, and I've tried it with multiple combinations of document settings and bibliography settings. As I mentioned earlier, I've written many documents with Lyx, so I'm relatively familiar with the it. I love it, I can't live without it. Can anyone help? What's going on? I have a big essay due soon, so it's really bad timing! Thanks in advance. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Lyx-1.5.3-not-showing-references-from-Jabref-2.3.1-tp17510841p17510841.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. This sounds like it's going to be hard to diagnose and a little more information would be helpful. Have you tried multiple .bib files? Are you using the default bibliography manager or natbib or jurabib or something else? What .bst file are you trying to use? Maybe you could send a minimal example to the list for verification or diagnoses? Export the document to LaTeX and try compiling it manually. Report the error messages. It sounds to me as if either LyX or LaTeX isn't finding the .bib file, and there are various reasons this can happen. rh
Re: Awful feature or bug?
Helge Hafting wrote: Nicolás wrote: Hi! When I select something in a document and then press Ctrl+N+N to get it inserted into a LyX Note, the part of the document that I had selected goes into the clipboard. I guess this is a bug. Or is it an awful feature? I believe this happens because LyX does something similiar to this: 1. Cut the marked stuff. It disappears from the document, and goes to the clipboard 2. Insert a note 3. Paste into the note. As always, a copy remains on the clipboard This is almost surely how it works. It is definitely how inset dissolving works. Fixing this, if it needs to be fixed, wouldn't be too hard. We'd just need to pass some sort of flag that means: Preserve the state of the clipboard. As Helge said, do file this on bugzilla. rh
RE: Footnote without numbering (new)
Thank you for the suggestion but unfortunately I really need to put a footnote without a symbol or anything. I am trying to use Lyx for my thesis. Our college requires that if any of the chapters has already appeared as a publication that we need to list it on the first page of the chapter as a footnote. This is why I just want put a footnote at the bottom without having it attached to a symbol in the main body. Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 07:54:26 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Footnote without numbering (new) CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a way to enter footnote without the automatic numbering? I think I saw something in the archives but it was for Lyx version 1.1.6 and the explanation was a little confusing. Thank you. Adrian _ Change the world with e-mail. Join the i'm Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ChangeWorld What exactly are you trying to accomplish? You don't want automatic numbering, but what do you want? There is an option for the footmisc package that allows symbols rather than numbers. Is that sufficient? See the attached .pdf. Cheers, /Bob _ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_family_safety_052008
Re: Lossing hyperlinks in conversion
Only pdflatex is able to hold hyperlinks during conversion. As far as I know when the document is processed to postscript, the hyperref pacakge does not generate hyperlinks anntations which then could be converted to proper links in final PDF file. M. 2008/5/28 Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am using Lyx to export my document out as postscript then running ps2pdf on it. In the final PDF document my hyperlinks are not preserved. The text for the hyperlinks is blue (e.g. in the TOC) like it should be but you cannot click on it. Do I need to specify some options when I export it in Postscript to keep the hyperlinks? I'm using Lyx 1.5.1. Thank you. Adrian _ Keep your kids safer online with Windows Live Family Safety. http://www.windowslive.com/family_safety/overview.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_Refresh_family_safety_052008 -- Manveru jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
Re: Footnote without numbering (new)
Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you for the suggestion but unfortunately I really need to put a footnote without a symbol or anything. I am trying to use Lyx for my thesis. Our college requires that if any of the chapters has already appeared as a publication that we need to list it on the first page of the chapter as a footnote. This is why I just want put a footnote at the bottom without having it attached to a symbol in the main body. I thought that in such cases a numbered footnote was appended to the title of the chapter. JMarc
Re: Footnote without numbering (new)
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Adrian Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the suggestion but unfortunately I really need to put a footnote without a symbol or anything. I am trying to use Lyx for my thesis. Our college requires that if any of the chapters has already appeared as a publication that we need to list it on the first page of the chapter as a footnote. This is why I just want put a footnote at the bottom without having it attached to a symbol in the main body. Then it sounds like you don't want an actual footnote, but a float. How about something like the attached? Bennett article.lyx Description: Binary data
