Re: Memoir/hyperref conflict is a known issue
On Monday 25 August 2008 19:15:38 Steve Litt wrote: > Second, I'm really bent out of shape (American idiom for extremely angry) > because those fool packagers at Mandriva put in a 2004 Memoir package into > Mandriva 2008.1. I've got nine months to get over my anger, but right now > I'm inclined to switch to another distro next summer. Hi Steve, first I must say that I can understand your anger. :-) OTHO I would like to give the other side of the coin. I am a Fedora packager and from our point of view (la)tex packaging is a mess. One of the things that takes time with a new set of packages is to guarantee that everything works and that there are no new problems when using different packages together. Also from Fedora point of view we need to review the licenses to ensure that all the packages have the right license (allow us to redistribute and modify) with the non-commercial clause (as an example). In conclusion for us to update the tex distribution is always an adventure (not necessarily in the best sense). I know that things have been improving, as this has been a problem for long time, but we are still not there where some random packager can feel confident to update a package like memoir to the latest version in an easy way. -- José Abílio
Re: LyX for MAC: problems in handling file images
On 26.08.2008, at 04:15, Bennett Helm wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Pierfranco Minsenti < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have checked my installation of ImageMagick: 6.3.3. Most elements are in the .usr/local/lib Maybe I installed it when I installed the full MacTeX package containing the texlive2007 package. It *is* installed with MacTeX. If you can, you might want to wait a week or so (it should be out "real soon now") to download MacTeX based on texlive 2008; installing that will give you a new installation of ImageMagick. Alternatively, you could use MacTeX 2007 to do it again. But these are big downloads, and I'm not even sure if this will solve the problem. Pierfranco, I have had problems with ImageMagick, too, they disappeared after installing the newest version. I can really recommend MacPorts for this type of software installations. There are good chances that you already have installed MacPorts on your box. If not, it is anyway a good idea to get it. Most OpenSource programs and tools are provided as a MacPorts package for OSX; installing and especially upgrading such software via MacPorts is very convenient. So open a terminal window and type the following commands: sudo port selfupdate sudo port install ImageMagick This may take a while. If "sudo" moans that "port" can not be found, you have to install MacPorts first. AFAIK you can find it on the second DVD that comes with Leopard. Otherwise look at http://www.macports.org Daniel
Re: Memoir/hyperref conflict is a known issue
On 25.08.08, Steve Litt wrote: > What remains now is to find a different way to code my list > compressions, and test everything else to make sure there are no other > problems. I have in my layout extensions definitions for "Dense" versions of Enumerate, Itemize, and Description. They work well with the KOMA classes, I cannot tell about memoire. Another point is that the vertical space between items is too big if you set the paragraph separator to "Vertical Space" in Document>Settings. So applying the workaround in http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4796 might help in this case. Günter
Re: Set paragraph separation in Layout file
rgheck wrote: > Andre Bonhote wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 3:21 PM, G. Milde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Or you could provide a template along your layout file and set the > >> paragraph separation there with Document>Settings>... > ... > > Pity it's not possible in the layout. > You can do this, ... > There may be a better way to do it using the koma-script functions. > Check the docs. It is: KOMA-scripts scrlttr2 has options for the parskip setting: (see scrguide.pdf table 6.4 on pg. 170) Class options are well supported by LyX layouts, so inserting ClassOptions Other "parskip=half" End into scrlttr2.layout will ensure that paragraph separation will be by vertical space in the printout as well as in the LyX window (even with the "indent" setting). Günter
Ignore All Button in SpellCheck doesn't work
Currently I am working on a paper with lyx. I found that Ignore All Button in SpellCheck doesn't work. For example KMV is incorrect in dictionary, while it is correct in my paper. I want the lyx's spellcheck just ignore all KMV words. Unfortunately the Ignore All button in spellcheck window doesn't work. Many thanks! 2008-08-26 wangyq
Re: Natbib sort option
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Guillaume Larocque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I would like to use the natbib package for my citations in Lyx > with the [sort] option so that multiple citations are ordered into the > sequence in which they appear in the list of references. However, > specifying > > \usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib} > > in the preamble of my document produces an error when compiling to > pdf. It says the package has already been called. Is there any other > way of doing this in Lyx? > > Thanks, > Put the options in: Document->Settings->Document Class->Options and don't specify anything in the preamble. Cheers, /Bob
Re: Natbib sort option
Put the options in: Document->Settings->Document Class->Options and don't specify anything in the preamble. Cheers, /Bob You mean simply adding 'sort' to the other options? As in: chapterprefix, sort I tried that and it doesn't change the order of the citations. I forgot to mention this is a Book(Koma-script) document and I am using a elsart-harv style file for the bibiography. Thanks, Guillaume
Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer
> Again, I haven't tried this myself, so I'm not sure it will work. Good > luck. > > /Paul > Thank you for your helpful suggestion. I haven't touched sty file before. I should learn and try ... WAS
Re: Position of chapter heading - left or right page?
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 25 Aug 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > I'm using the default book category. > > > > > > The chapter headings come out on the left-hand (even number) page. This > > > doesn't seem to be usual in any of the books I look at. Is there a way > > > to make it appear on every page, or alternatively on the right-hand > > > (odd number) page? > > > > I use fancy headers and I have: > > > > % I want chapter on right odd pages to right side > > % and book title on left even pages to left side > > \fancyhead{}% delete the default header > > \fancyhead[LE]{I put title here} > > \fancyhead[RO]{\leftmark} > > This doesn't seem to work for me - perhaps I'm misssing something. Do > you put it at the beginning of Chapter 1? > > This does work: > > \pagestyle{myheadings} > \markboth{Book title}{chapter title} > > But the code has to be inserted for each chapter and and the correct > chapter title inserted, so it's only semi-automated. I have it only once -- in my preamble. I am using scrbook and "fancy" paperpagestyle.
Re: Natbib sort option
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Guillaume Larocque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Put the options in: >> >> Document->Settings->Document Class->Options >> >> and don't specify anything in the preamble. >> >> Cheers, >> /Bob >> >> > > You mean simply adding 'sort' to the other options? As in: > > chapterprefix, sort Yes. > I tried that and it doesn't change the order of the citations. I forgot to > mention this is a Book(Koma-script) document and I am using a elsart-harv > style file for the bibiography. Strange. It works on my end with Koma and elsart-harv. I did assume that you have Document->Settings->Bibliography set to Natbib->Numerical, which is why you received an error saying Natbib has already been called. Could you send a small example file demonstrating the problem? Cheers, /Bob
Re: Natbib sort option
Strange. It works on my end with Koma and elsart-harv. I did assume that you have Document->Settings->Bibliography set to Natbib->Numerical, which is why you received an error saying Natbib has already been called. Could you send a small example file demonstrating the problem? Cheers, /Bob My bibliography settings are Natbib author-year, and this is what I want. The command I actually tried in the preamble is this one \usepackage[authoryear,sort]{natbib} Thanks, Guillaume
Re: Ignore All Button in SpellCheck doesn't work
wangyq wrote: > Currently I am working on a paper with lyx. I found that Ignore All Button in > SpellCheck doesn't work. > For example KMV is incorrect in dictionary, while it is correct in my paper. > I want the lyx's spellcheck just ignore all KMV words. Unfortunately the > Ignore All button in spellcheck window doesn't work. > Works fine for me. You'll need to give more details (OS, LyX version, which spell checker you're using, ...). /Paul
Re: Float placement
Guillaume Larocque wrote: Hi, I would like to use the natbib package for my citations in Lyx with the [sort] option so that multiple citations are ordered into the sequence in which they appear in the list of references. However, specifying \usepackage[numbers,sort&compress]{natbib} in the preamble of my document produces an error when compiling to pdf. It says the package has already been called. Is there any other way of doing this in Lyx? You can just add the options to the Options field in Document>Settings>Document Class. They're passed to other packages, as they're loaded. rh
Re: Natbib sort option
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Guillaume Larocque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Strange. It works on my end with Koma and elsart-harv. I did assume >> that you have Document->Settings->Bibliography set to >> Natbib->Numerical, which is why you received an error saying Natbib >> has already been called. >> >> Could you send a small example file demonstrating the problem? >> >> Cheers, >> /Bob >> >> > > My bibliography settings are Natbib author-year, and this is what I want. > The command I actually tried in the preamble is this one > > \usepackage[authoryear,sort]{natbib} > > Thanks, > > Guillaume Like I said, it works just fine for me. Without an example of how it's not working for we could probably talk until we're blue in the face without a resolution. Maybe I just don't understand the problem. So, I've attached a small example showing how Natbib is 'sort'ing the bibliography. As you can see in the example the first citation is Smith & Weston in LyX, but in the pdf output from LyX it is the last citation in the text because it is the last citation in the Bibliography. Hence, Natbib is 'sort'ing the citations in the output text according to the bibliography order. Isn't this what you wanted? Bob natbib-test.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer
On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: > Hi All > > In my presentation [using presentation (beamer) class], I want to put two > logos in every page: One on the top-left (university logo) and another one > on the top-right (research group logo) > How can I do that, or any suggestions to place two different logo images in > every presentation page in the header or footer. > > Thank you Obviously, from the lack of clear, simple replies, this is not a trivial problem. I use powerdot, not beamer, and it is not trivial there, either. But putting one logo on every page is. A simple solution would therefore be to create a combined image with the two logos in it, spanning the full with of the top of the screen. In powerdot, the size, location and file name of the logo is put in the preamble. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Nomenclature sorting
Hello everybody! Someone can tell me how can i do to sort the nomenclature in this way: first all the english word in alphabetical order and than the greek symbol?? Thanx a lot! /davide -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Nomenclature-sorting-tp784511p784511.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Nomenclature sorting
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:55 AM, newnoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everybody! > > Someone can tell me how can i do to sort the nomenclature in this way: first > all the english word in alphabetical order and than the greek symbol?? > Thanx a lot! > /davide > -- > View this message in context: > http://n2.nabble.com/Nomenclature-sorting-tp784511p784511.html > Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > I created two additional sections, Greek and Subscript with this code: \RequirePackage{ifthen} \renewcommand{\nomgroup}[1]{% \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{G}}{\item[\textbf{Greek}]}{ \ifthenelse{\equal{#1}{S}}{\item[\textbf{Subscripts}]}{}}} This created two additional sections with titles Greek and Subscripts in the nomenclature page. Then when you insert a nomenclature item, in the 'Sort as:' box you could put either a, g, s for alphabetic, greek, or subscript and then you could put the alphabetical order afterwords. For example, to sort the greek letter beta I would put 'gb' in the sort as box. This would sort beta as greek and then alphabetically by 'b'. Cheers, /Bob
Re: Floating Table Objects Error [solved]
Hello, again thank you all very much for your help. I solved the problem now. As Günter guessed, it had s.th. to do with the declaration of the figure- and tablecaptions. I defined the figurecaption, but not the tablecaption. It works now by adding following lines: %Fügt "Tabelle " vor die Nummern in der LOT \makeatletter [EMAIL PROTECTED] } [EMAIL PROTECTED] \par \addcontentsline{\csname [EMAIL PROTECTED] {\csname [EMAIL PROTECTED] \csname the#1\endcsname}{\ignorespaces #2}}% \begingroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] \fi \normalsize [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] #3}\par \endgroup} \makeatother Thanks again regards Nico G. Milde schrieb: On 22.08.08, Nico wrote: Hello Günter, I don't think that some unbalanced brackets are in my float... It's the same effect if I insert just an empty tabular-float-environment. It works with figure-float-environment... OK, to a table-float triggers the error but does not produce it. Might have to do with tablecaption settings... I've realized now, that it must have s.th. to do with the declarations I did in the preamble, because it works without it. I tried to take parts out to recognize the guilty lines. Yes, this is the recommended way. With the first lines, the float is generated: %Definition des Absatz-Abstandes \setlength{\parskip}{0pt} ...[36 more lines] ... But when I insert these Lines, the error appears: %Realisierung der Hyperref-Attribute unter verschiedenen Voraussetzungen \usepackage{ifpdf} % part of the hyperref bundle ... [116 more lines] Does s.o. see the reason for my problem in these lines? This are far too many line for me to spot an error in restricted time. I'd recommend to try further by "divide and conquer. Keep an eye on settings that have to do with table floats. Günter
Re: Memoir/hyperref conflict is a known issue
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 04:39:00 am José Matos wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2008 19:15:38 Steve Litt wrote: > > Second, I'm really bent out of shape (American idiom for extremely angry) > > because those fool packagers at Mandriva put in a 2004 Memoir package > > into Mandriva 2008.1. I've got nine months to get over my anger, but > > right now I'm inclined to switch to another distro next summer. > > Hi Steve, > first I must say that I can understand your anger. :-) > > OTHO I would like to give the other side of the coin. I am a Fedora > packager and from our point of view (la)tex packaging is a mess. One of the > things that takes time with a new set of packages is to guarantee that > everything works and that there are no new problems when using different > packages together. > > Also from Fedora point of view we need to review the licenses to ensure > that all the packages have the right license (allow us to redistribute and > modify) with the non-commercial clause (as an example). > > In conclusion for us to update the tex distribution is always an > adventure > (not necessarily in the best sense). I know that things have been > improving, as this has been a problem for long time, but we are still not > there where some random packager can feel confident to update a package > like memoir to the latest version in an easy way. Thanks José, I never really thought of it from the packager's point of view, always figuring those guys were so Linuxly smart that somehow getting the package combo would be easy for them. But now that you mention it, I consider compiling LyX with a recent Qt4 a burden, so I can't even imagine how difficult it would be to put together a whole distro. Thanks for the different perspective. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US
Can't bind lyx function to certain keys
I'm trying to set up my keybindings so that when I enter a greek character, it inserts the greek character in math mode. I have my keyboard set up (with xmodmap) so that pressing Mode_switch-a generates "Greek_alpha", Mode_switch-b generates "Greek_beta", and so on. Then in my lyx keybindings file I have a bunch of lines like: \bind "Greek_alpha" "math-insert \alpha" \bind "Greek_beta" "math-insert \beta" ... For some reason though, these bindings get ignored, and just the regular greek letters get input (i.e. if I look at the source with view->view source, I see the actual greek characters, instead of \alpha, \beta, etc. commands). Then if I try to export to dvi or pdf, I get a warnig about some characters not being representable in the chosen encoding. I also tried binding other functions to the greek letters, just to test, but the bindings are always ignored. Does anyone know what might be going wrong? Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Can%27t-bind-lyx-function-to-certain-keys-tp784706p784706.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer
Les Denham wrote: On Wednesday 20 August 2008, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Hi All In my presentation [using presentation (beamer) class], I want to put two logos in every page: One on the top-left (university logo) and another one on the top-right (research group logo) How can I do that, or any suggestions to place two different logo images in every presentation page in the header or footer. Thank you Obviously, from the lack of clear, simple replies, this is not a trivial problem. I use powerdot, not beamer, and it is not trivial there, either. But putting one logo on every page is. That's also quite easy in beamer, although the logo placement depends on the theme being used. A simple solution would therefore be to create a combined image with the two logos in it, spanning the full with of the top of the screen. In powerdot, the size, location and file name of the logo is put in the preamble. I don't use powerdot. Does it not put a slide title at the top of the screen? If so, this would seem to block the title (or vice versa). /Paul
Problems with layout files
Greetings I have a problem with lyx 1.5.6 for windows. When openning the file user´s guide that comes with the lyx help this message appears: The design file required by this document scrbook.layout is not wearable. This because a class or style latex file that it needs not is available. Lyx will be unable to produce exit. There is reconfigured several times lyx and anything. I revised the documentation and seemingly it doesn't lack any file. How more I should make? Thanks for your answer Sincerely -- Rubén Darío Alvarado Loja, Ecuador, South America
Graphics in Quote Environment
In a recent manuscript with lots of figures, I inserted each figure in a Quote environment. This automatically provided pleasant indentation of the figure, with nice vertical spacing above and below. Has anyone else done this?
Mac Spellchecking
Is there a simple, idiot-proof way to set up spellchecking in LyX/Mac 1.5.4? Bruce
Kudos to LyX Development Team
Just finished a 45 page article with lots of figures, mathematics, citations, and bibtex generated references. Not even the tiniest screw up. Perfect. Thank you, thank you, to the LyX development team! Bruce
Re: Mac Spellchecking
wiki: http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/MacSpelling I've had trouble getting cocoAspell to work, but have successfully compiled Aspell from source on 2 machines following the wiki directions. Z Bruce Pourciau wrote: Is there a simple, idiot-proof way to set up spellchecking in LyX/Mac 1.5.4? Bruce
Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 02:04:33 pm Paul A. Rubin wrote: > I don't use powerdot. Does it not put a slide title at the top of the > screen? If so, this would seem to block the title (or vice versa). > Paul, Most layouts for Powerdot do put the title at the top of the slide -- but they write it on top of the background, so they will write on top of the logo if it runs across the top. I just moved the logo into the center of the top on one of my presentations and viewed the resulting PDF to make sure this was what it did. Therefore, if you create your full-width logo with the two required logos on each side, and the center section (where the slide title will appear) consisting of a background the same as the slide style has in that position, the effect is the same as having separate logos in each corner. It would probably be simple to modify powerdot.sty to allow a second logo, but most people (including me) don't want to mess with the internals of LaTeX. Les
Re: Kudos to LyX Development Team
On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Bruce Pourciau wrote: > Just finished a 45 page article with lots of figures, mathematics, > citations, and bibtex generated references. Not even the tiniest > screw up. Perfect. Thank you, thank you, to the LyX development team! > I second that. I just finished a 95 page report with 114 figures, five tables and two appendices, and satisfied a nit-picking client with strange and strongly held ideas about page layout. -- Les ~~ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
Re: Problems with layout files
Greetings > > I have a problem with lyx 1.5.6 for windows. When openning the file user´s > guide that comes with the lyx help this message appears: > > I think it happens to everyone after the installation. If you see the Document settings class, the User's guide is in book (KOMA-script), but by default LyX does not provide that document class. You can install the KOMA-script from MikTeX. (you can find: start>program list), or if you have an internet connection, then when you do reconfigure Tools>reconfigure, it will download the KOMA-script, just select classes you need. I am suggesting to LyX developers to make sure that new users can read and view pdf all documents listed in Help, after the first installation completed. WAS
Re: Logo in Presentation Beamer
Les Denham wrote: It would probably be simple to modify powerdot.sty to allow a second logo, but most people (including me) don't want to mess with the internals of LaTeX. I find myself in the majority there. /Paul