Re: Unicode - IPA-Phonetic characters - Which packages, preambel?
Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: OK, I'm still on LyX 1.5.6. LyX 1.5.7 is not released yet. The fix I'm talking about has been put in yesterday, right after your report. BTW, the fact of easiest (undeclared and unconfigured) use of IPA- Unicode should be more flashly, apparitionally presented as LyX feature, impeding people like me of making indirections and endless seeking how to achieve it. I agree. BTW did you come across this? http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX You're invited to extend and propagate this site. LyX 1.6 will also ship a linguist example file that presents some of its new features. BTW (2), I find the document class tufte-layout worth to be transformed into a LyX document class, style or template - for the time being I did not find a way to import the sample-handout into Lyx. Yes, this looks nice. Should not be too hard to write a layout for this. Jürgen
Line Space changes when scaling the font size of an object below
Hi all, I'm using Lyx 1.5.0 on Windows and I have encountered a problem: I'm using 1.5-line space (Zeilenabstand). For some reason, when I changed the font size of a math formular to very small so that it fits the line, my text above it suddenly changed its linespace to 1.0 but without mentioning it. So when I create a PDF file I can clearly see that there is no extra space between the lines, but in Lyx I still see (and I can also verify) that my linespace is still 1.5 I encoutered this problem before with an image, but I'm not quite sure. Yet, this time, I was able to really see what's happening. I scaled down my font size (12) gradually from normal down to very small and when I reached very small, the lines above that math part suddenly corrupted. I tried using Lyx 1.5.6 - to no avail. I also tried making the text size bigger or smaller. Nothing seems to help. thx in advance Christian
Re: ERT boxes
Hi, You are right, I can change the ERT font, and I can make collapsed all my ETR boxes. But on the one hand I prefer to be ETRs opened, and on the other hand it doesn't change the fact that opened ERTs have improper height. As for the user guide, in LyX 1.6 it seems to be different: http://screencast.com/t/L1ppd1sZd0g. I couldn't find the Inline state beyond the Collapsed and Open. Moreover, Left-clicking on an Open ERT box doesn't close it. Regards, Máté - Original Message - From: Konrad Hofbauer To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Cc: LyX users Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 7:10 AM Subject: Re: ERT boxes Máté Salát wrote: You can see the enormous place that the ert boxes take. It is relative huge even compared to the other box types, e.g. the references. This is in the UserGuide (sec. 6.9.1): The box itself can be displayed in three different styles: Inline, Collapsed, and Open. To change the style, right-click on the box and use the appearing dialog. Left-clicking on the box will switch between Collapsed and Open. You can also press Ctrl-I to change it to inline. /Konrad
Re: Lyx pdf Booksurge Self publishing
Jonathan Kroner wrote: Does Booksurge accept a Lyx generated pdf, or must it be further processed through acrobat? 1. If you have self published through Booksurge, please answer whether Booksurge accepts LyX generated pdfs. I will soon be self-publishing a book, preferably through Booksurge. Booksurge accepts PDF files, but only if they meet Booksurge specifications. However, they do not explain their specifications. Instead, they only explain the steps to save/print the PDF from various versions of adobe acrobat. In order to find out whether my pdf will meet their requirements they require full payment of their up-front fee. They will not provide any additional assistance in determining whether a LyX pdf meets their requirements. 2. Most of their specifications do not apply to me since this will be a black-and-white, no images, text only book. But one area is of more concern. They instruct: *Under the fonts tab* ** * Deselect the subset embedded fonts option.* ** * Select ALL of the fonts under Font Source and add them to Always Embed.* These instructions are found here for acrobat version 8 http://www.booksurgepages.com/Downloads/TwoStepstoPDFv8.pdf In my Lyx generated PDF document under Properties the Fonts tab shows a long list of fonts and following each font is written:(embedded subset) type 1, encoding: custom. Booksurge claims they could not answer whether (embedded subset) type 1, encoding: custom meets their requirements. Any opinions? Thank you Jonathan Kroner LyX 1.6.0rc3, pdflatex, Windows Vista home premium Booksurge wants you to emded all fonts in your pdf. Sometimes, the 14 basic fonts are not embed. You can see what fonts are embed in a pdf file with Acrobat Reader, KPDF or the command line program pdfinfo If you produce your pdf with pdflatex, the option to look is the dvipdfmDownloadBase14 which is updmap.cfg If you produce you pdf with xetex, there is a -E option for xdvipdfmx that will try to embed all fonts. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Importing texinfo files
Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing out in LyX please? Kind Regards, Keith - Websites: http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk The mind of the prudent is ever getting knowledge, and the eear of the wise is ever seeking, inquiring for and craving knowledge. Pr. 18:15 Amp Where will you spend Eternity? http://www.fellowshiptractleague.org/tracts/images/PDF/tract_130.pdf All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -
Re: Importing texinfo files
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Keith Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Importing texinfo files Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing out in LyX please? Woops! It's actually a Linux man page - tree.1.gz I'm need a way to typeset it for printing out. I copied and pasted the screen text to a text file and printed that. The line length has messed up the output though. Kind Regards, Keith
Re: Line Space changes when scaling the font size of an object below
Hi all, I'm using Lyx 1.5.0 on Windows and I have encountered a problem: I'm using 1.5-line space (Zeilenabstand). For some reason, when I changed the font size of a math formular to very small so that it fits the line, my text above it suddenly changed its linespace to 1.0 but without mentioning it. So when I create a PDF file I can clearly see that there is no extra space between the lines, but in Lyx I still see (and I can also verify) that my linespace is still 1.5 I encoutered this problem before with an image, but I'm not quite sure. Yet, this time, I was able to really see what's happening. I scaled down my font size (12) gradually from normal down to very small and when I reached very small, the lines above that math part suddenly corrupted. I tried using Lyx 1.5.6 - to no avail. I also tried making the text size bigger or smaller. Nothing seems to help. thx in advance Christian I have same problem with lines above quotation. I have not changed line space, but I redefined quotation fonts to sans serif and parargraph above quotation have smaller interline spacing in pdf. How I can solved this? Marcelo __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar
Re: Line Space changes when scaling the font size of an object below
Christian Schunck wrote: I'm using Lyx 1.5.0 on Windows and I have encountered a problem: I'm using 1.5-line space (Zeilenabstand). For some reason, when I changed the font size of a math formular to very small so that it fits the line, my text above it suddenly changed its linespace to 1.0 but without mentioning it. So when I create a PDF file I can clearly see that there is no extra space between the lines, but in Lyx I still see (and I can also verify) that my linespace is still 1.5 Could you post a minimal example file that shows this behaviour? Jürgen
Re: Importing texinfo files
On 20.10.2008, at 14:11, Keith Roberts wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Keith Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Importing texinfo files Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing out in LyX please? Woops! It's actually a Linux man page - tree.1.gz I'm need a way to typeset it for printing out. I copied and pasted the screen text to a text file and printed that. The line length has messed up the output though. If you just need a nice printed version of the man page: man -t manpage dumps a man page in nicely formattted postscript to stdout. You can pipe this directly into lpr, gv, pstopdf or whatever. Daniel
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
M-L wrote: Can't seem to find any reference on this anywhere, net or otherwise. Someone might know if this is doable? If I place 3 or four lines of text one below the other into a footer, it drives the text below the physical page. If I set the footer as ERT or in the preamble the result is the same of course. Is it possible to bring the footer higher so: * 3 or four lines of text can be placed, one below the other in the footer * there is a space between the bottom edge of the physical page and the last line of text? A quick experiment shows that I get more footer space by specifying a taller bottom margin. Document Settings-Page Margins. Uncheck default margins and experiment with the bottom margin settings. A smaller foot skip will also help, but the footer will then be closer to the bottom of the text. Helge Hafting
Re: Installing a truetype font in LyX
Jacob Hunt wrote: I was just hopeful that someone could point me to a how to, on installing truetype fonts for use in LyX. If you want an on-screen font, just install the font so your OS can use it, and then select it in tools-preferences. If you want to use the font in printed documents (which is what most people want), install the font so that latex can use it. Then, open the document preamble in LyX, and insert the appropriate latex command for selecting the now latex-supported font. You should do some research about this. Some fonts have latex support packages already. Those are usually not hard to use in LyX. Basically, you get the latex support package installed, and then you use the font by adding a \usepackage command in the document preamble in LyX. Many fonts have no such support though. It is then much more work to get latex support, but it is still possible. Xetex _may_ be a way to go - as xetex apparently can use any font you install for your OS. But xetex isn't that well supported by LyX. I have found multiple sites on-line but all seem to require tools that aren't installed or available to my system, or I just couldn't get them to work. Most tools are available for linux, so consider asking for help about it. People here can usually help you with LyX, and some latex. Note that there are separate latex forums where ypou can get help with the latex side of things. Helge Hafting
Re: LyX 1.6 ...nothing seems to work
Thanks for the tip but this isn't that bug. I mean, the new *printer system* doesn't work in my, or any of my friend's, systems. I think could be a bug related to other virtual printer already installed but every time I try the installation and configuration process consumes at least two our of my time so I may wait to the final release to check again.
Re: LyX 1.6 ...nothing seems to work
Jose Moises Padilla Miranda schrieb: I mean, the new *printer system* doesn't work in my, or any of my friend's, systems. Please report this bug at bugzilla.lyx.org. I was confused as you write nothing seems to work regards Uwe
Theorem cross reference title missing
Hi all, I'm strugling to get the word 'theorem' in front of the reference to a theorem. Like you get for a figure or a section or whatever. Do I really need to type 'Theorem' in front of every reference. All I get is the number of the theorem. What am I missing here? Note: I have the same with sections but up to now I did not need this Jef -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Theorem-cross-reference-title-missing-tp1356499p1356499.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Theorem cross reference title missing
Jef Patat wrote: Hi all, I'm strugling to get the word 'theorem' in front of the reference to a theorem. Like you get for a figure or a section or whatever. Do I really need to type 'Theorem' in front of every reference. All I get is the number of the theorem. What am I missing here? This ought to work. The labels need to be of the form: thm:whatever, and then you just choose formatted reference in the xref dialog. See the attached. rh thm.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Helge Hafting engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: --} M-L wrote: --} Can't seem to find any reference on this anywhere, net or otherwise. --} --} Someone might know if this is doable? --} --} If I place 3 or four lines of text one below the other into a footer, it --} drives the text below the physical page. --} --} If I set the footer as ERT or in the preamble the result is the same of --} course. --} --} Is it possible to bring the footer higher so: --} --} * 3 or four lines of text can be placed, one below the other in the footer --} --} * there is a space between the bottom edge of the physical page and the last --} line of text? --} --} A quick experiment shows that I get more footer space by specifying --} a taller bottom margin. --} Document Settings-Page Margins. --} Uncheck default margins and experiment with the bottom margin --} settings. A smaller foot skip will also help, but the footer will then --} be closer to the bottom of the text. --} --} Helge Hafting --} Thanks for that Helge. I will attempt that, though I may have tried it before? I know I have tried just about everything I could think of, and found nothing that worked. I tried that firstfootvpos though I didn't know whether it required a \ in front of it or not and tried it with that and without and various brackets and a whole lot of other combinations. If I knew more about LaTeX and LyX, would have a crack at re-writing the manual but in a different format. That's not a criticisms, it's simply and observation as to why I, who is in the minority, can't grasp all the concepts. Probably because I left school at the age of 14, and have only used computers for the last decade. For someone like me it really requires an example of the preamble and then an explanation of each line, and why those commands work in letter and not in article, etc., or whatever. I started reading the scrguien.pdf from the start, but it was hard going, and data overload. Going to the sections was better, but like many of these manuals written by experts, they presume the reader has a greater understanding than may be the case, which chases me back to previous chapters and then I start getting lost again. During my frustrations I wrote in my journal: [quote] Trying to understand something this large with a brain this small is an arrogance of a kind in itself. [end quote] I then tried the letter [KOMA v2] template and started adapting it to my needs. I still didn't understand much of what it did, and found things in the preamble were duplicated by the commands that were point and click in LyX, and other preamble entries were not permitted. [Disclaimer - aware that LyX does not take all LaTeX commands and may never do so as stated in the introduction of LyX] There was also a funny thing, when I opened a new document in LyX Letter [KOMA-script v2] and tried to insert some of the preamble from the template, one at a time, they didn't work, or didn't work properly. I couldn't understand that at all. I kept adding things from the template and I'm not certain that I didn't copy the whole preamble into the new LyX document before they worked? But I am not sure any more if this was the case. I have a funny feeling they still didn't work, so the template used something different again? It did get a bit frustrating, but then I don't really understand LyX or LaTeX maybe because I have never written a complete document in a text editor and then look at it from that point. Though I have tried a few manipulations opening a LyX document in a text editor and changing it, but with little success. I wish not only that I had more time, but was just a little more clever. Anyway using the postscript in LyX I have something that I can live with, it's not what I want or even close, but life is full of those disappointments. I will try what you said, and thank you for the time and follow up. Be well, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *** Meditation is not an escape from life . . . but preparation for really being in life. -THICH NHAT HANH *** Debian, just the best way to create magic ___
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
M-L wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Helge Hafting engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: --} M-L wrote: --} Can't seem to find any reference on this anywhere, net or otherwise. --} --} Someone might know if this is doable? --} --} If I place 3 or four lines of text one below the other into a footer, it --} drives the text below the physical page. --} --} If I set the footer as ERT or in the preamble the result is the same of --} course. --} --} Is it possible to bring the footer higher so: --} --} * 3 or four lines of text can be placed, one below the other in the footer --} --} * there is a space between the bottom edge of the physical page and the last --} line of text? --} --} A quick experiment shows that I get more footer space by specifying --} a taller bottom margin. --} Document Settings-Page Margins. --} Uncheck default margins and experiment with the bottom margin --} settings. A smaller foot skip will also help, but the footer will then --} be closer to the bottom of the text. --} --} Helge Hafting --} Thanks for that Helge. I will attempt that, though I may have tried it before? I know I have tried just about everything I could think of, and found nothing that worked. I tried that firstfootvpos though I didn't know whether it required a \ in front of it or not and tried it with that and without and various brackets and a whole lot of other combinations. If I knew more about LaTeX and LyX, would have a crack at re-writing the manual but in a different format. That's not a criticisms, it's simply and observation as to why I, who is in the minority, can't grasp all the concepts. Probably because I left school at the age of 14, and have only used computers for the last decade. For someone like me it really requires an example of the preamble and then an explanation of each line, and why those commands work in letter and not in article, etc., or whatever. I started reading the scrguien.pdf from the start, but it was hard going, and data overload. Going to the sections was better, but like many of these manuals written by experts, they presume the reader has a greater understanding than may be the case, which chases me back to previous chapters and then I start getting lost again. During my frustrations I wrote in my journal: [quote] Trying to understand something this large with a brain this small is an arrogance of a kind in itself. [end quote] I then tried the letter [KOMA v2] template and started adapting it to my needs. I still didn't understand much of what it did, and found things in the preamble were duplicated by the commands that were point and click in LyX, and other preamble entries were not permitted. [Disclaimer - aware that LyX does not take all LaTeX commands and may never do so as stated in the introduction of LyX] There was also a funny thing, when I opened a new document in LyX Letter [KOMA-script v2] and tried to insert some of the preamble from the template, one at a time, they didn't work, or didn't work properly. I couldn't understand that at all. I kept adding things from the template and I'm not certain that I didn't copy the whole preamble into the new LyX document before they worked? But I am not sure any more if this was the case. I have a funny feeling they still didn't work, so the template used something different again? It did get a bit frustrating, but then I don't really understand LyX or LaTeX maybe because I have never written a complete document in a text editor and then look at it from that point. Though I have tried a few manipulations opening a LyX document in a text editor and changing it, but with little success. I wish not only that I had more time, but was just a little more clever. Anyway using the postscript in LyX I have something that I can live with, it's not what I want or even close, but life is full of those disappointments. I will try what you said, and thank you for the time and follow up. Page layout is very complicated. I certainly can't say I understand it. But let me suggest one other thing you might try reading: the manual for the geometry package, which you should have as geometry.pdf somewhere. I'll also play around with this and see if I can get it to work. Feel free to send me a stripped-down test version of what you're trying to do. rh
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
PS If I understand exactly what you want to do, I think what you need to play with is the \footskip length. But if you change that, you'll have to change \textheight, or some other parameter, so that everything adds up right. Maybe the geometry package, which LyX uses, will make it just work, though. I'm not sure. rh
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, rgheck engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: --} --} PS If I understand exactly what you want to do, I think what you need to --} play with is the \footskip length. But if you change that, you'll have --} to change \textheight, or some other parameter, so that everything adds --} up right. Maybe the geometry package, which LyX uses, will make it just --} work, though. I'm not sure. --} --} rh --} --} Thank you both - I will try and see what I can accomplish. Be well, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *** You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeing it. ---CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK *** Debian, just the best way to create magic ___
Re: Importing texinfo files
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Daniel Lohmann wrote: To: Keith Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Importing texinfo files On 20.10.2008, at 14:11, Keith Roberts wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Keith Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Importing texinfo files Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing out in LyX please? Woops! It's actually a Linux man page - tree.1.gz I'm need a way to typeset it for printing out. I copied and pasted the screen text to a text file and printed that. The line length has messed up the output though. If you just need a nice printed version of the man page: man -t manpage dumps a man page in nicely formattted postscript to stdout. You can pipe this directly into lpr, gv, pstopdf or whatever. Daniel Thanks for that Daniel :) Keith Roberts - Websites: http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk The mind of the prudent is ever getting knowledge, and the eear of the wise is ever seeking, inquiring for and craving knowledge. Pr. 18:15 Amp Where will you spend Eternity? http://www.fellowshiptractleague.org/tracts/images/PDF/tract_130.pdf All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -
Re: Unicode - IPA-Phonetic characters - Which packages, preambel?
Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: OK, I'm still on LyX 1.5.6. LyX 1.5.7 is not released yet. The fix I'm talking about has been put in yesterday, right after your report. BTW, the fact of easiest (undeclared and unconfigured) use of IPA- Unicode should be more flashly, apparitionally presented as LyX feature, impeding people like me of making indirections and endless seeking how to achieve it. I agree. BTW did you come across this? http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX You're invited to extend and propagate this site. LyX 1.6 will also ship a linguist example file that presents some of its new features. BTW (2), I find the document class tufte-layout worth to be transformed into a LyX document class, style or template - for the time being I did not find a way to import the sample-handout into Lyx. Yes, this looks nice. Should not be too hard to write a layout for this. Jürgen
Line Space changes when scaling the font size of an object below
Hi all, I'm using Lyx 1.5.0 on Windows and I have encountered a problem: I'm using 1.5-line space (Zeilenabstand). For some reason, when I changed the font size of a math formular to very small so that it fits the line, my text above it suddenly changed its linespace to 1.0 but without mentioning it. So when I create a PDF file I can clearly see that there is no extra space between the lines, but in Lyx I still see (and I can also verify) that my linespace is still 1.5 I encoutered this problem before with an image, but I'm not quite sure. Yet, this time, I was able to really see what's happening. I scaled down my font size (12) gradually from normal down to very small and when I reached very small, the lines above that math part suddenly corrupted. I tried using Lyx 1.5.6 - to no avail. I also tried making the text size bigger or smaller. Nothing seems to help. thx in advance Christian
Re: ERT boxes
Hi, You are right, I can change the ERT font, and I can make collapsed all my ETR boxes. But on the one hand I prefer to be ETRs opened, and on the other hand it doesn't change the fact that opened ERTs have improper height. As for the user guide, in LyX 1.6 it seems to be different: http://screencast.com/t/L1ppd1sZd0g. I couldn't find the Inline state beyond the Collapsed and Open. Moreover, Left-clicking on an Open ERT box doesn't close it. Regards, Máté - Original Message - From: Konrad Hofbauer To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Cc: LyX users Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 7:10 AM Subject: Re: ERT boxes Máté Salát wrote: You can see the enormous place that the ert boxes take. It is relative huge even compared to the other box types, e.g. the references. This is in the UserGuide (sec. 6.9.1): The box itself can be displayed in three different styles: Inline, Collapsed, and Open. To change the style, right-click on the box and use the appearing dialog. Left-clicking on the box will switch between Collapsed and Open. You can also press Ctrl-I to change it to inline. /Konrad
Re: Lyx pdf Booksurge Self publishing
Jonathan Kroner wrote: Does Booksurge accept a Lyx generated pdf, or must it be further processed through acrobat? 1. If you have self published through Booksurge, please answer whether Booksurge accepts LyX generated pdfs. I will soon be self-publishing a book, preferably through Booksurge. Booksurge accepts PDF files, but only if they meet Booksurge specifications. However, they do not explain their specifications. Instead, they only explain the steps to save/print the PDF from various versions of adobe acrobat. In order to find out whether my pdf will meet their requirements they require full payment of their up-front fee. They will not provide any additional assistance in determining whether a LyX pdf meets their requirements. 2. Most of their specifications do not apply to me since this will be a black-and-white, no images, text only book. But one area is of more concern. They instruct: *Under the fonts tab* ** * Deselect the subset embedded fonts option.* ** * Select ALL of the fonts under Font Source and add them to Always Embed.* These instructions are found here for acrobat version 8 http://www.booksurgepages.com/Downloads/TwoStepstoPDFv8.pdf In my Lyx generated PDF document under Properties the Fonts tab shows a long list of fonts and following each font is written:(embedded subset) type 1, encoding: custom. Booksurge claims they could not answer whether (embedded subset) type 1, encoding: custom meets their requirements. Any opinions? Thank you Jonathan Kroner LyX 1.6.0rc3, pdflatex, Windows Vista home premium Booksurge wants you to emded all fonts in your pdf. Sometimes, the 14 basic fonts are not embed. You can see what fonts are embed in a pdf file with Acrobat Reader, KPDF or the command line program pdfinfo If you produce your pdf with pdflatex, the option to look is the dvipdfmDownloadBase14 which is updmap.cfg If you produce you pdf with xetex, there is a -E option for xdvipdfmx that will try to embed all fonts. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Importing texinfo files
Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing out in LyX please? Kind Regards, Keith - Websites: http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk The mind of the prudent is ever getting knowledge, and the eear of the wise is ever seeking, inquiring for and craving knowledge. Pr. 18:15 Amp Where will you spend Eternity? http://www.fellowshiptractleague.org/tracts/images/PDF/tract_130.pdf All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -
Re: Importing texinfo files
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Keith Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Importing texinfo files Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing out in LyX please? Woops! It's actually a Linux man page - tree.1.gz I'm need a way to typeset it for printing out. I copied and pasted the screen text to a text file and printed that. The line length has messed up the output though. Kind Regards, Keith
Re: Line Space changes when scaling the font size of an object below
Hi all, I'm using Lyx 1.5.0 on Windows and I have encountered a problem: I'm using 1.5-line space (Zeilenabstand). For some reason, when I changed the font size of a math formular to very small so that it fits the line, my text above it suddenly changed its linespace to 1.0 but without mentioning it. So when I create a PDF file I can clearly see that there is no extra space between the lines, but in Lyx I still see (and I can also verify) that my linespace is still 1.5 I encoutered this problem before with an image, but I'm not quite sure. Yet, this time, I was able to really see what's happening. I scaled down my font size (12) gradually from normal down to very small and when I reached very small, the lines above that math part suddenly corrupted. I tried using Lyx 1.5.6 - to no avail. I also tried making the text size bigger or smaller. Nothing seems to help. thx in advance Christian I have same problem with lines above quotation. I have not changed line space, but I redefined quotation fonts to sans serif and parargraph above quotation have smaller interline spacing in pdf. How I can solved this? Marcelo __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar
Re: Line Space changes when scaling the font size of an object below
Christian Schunck wrote: I'm using Lyx 1.5.0 on Windows and I have encountered a problem: I'm using 1.5-line space (Zeilenabstand). For some reason, when I changed the font size of a math formular to very small so that it fits the line, my text above it suddenly changed its linespace to 1.0 but without mentioning it. So when I create a PDF file I can clearly see that there is no extra space between the lines, but in Lyx I still see (and I can also verify) that my linespace is still 1.5 Could you post a minimal example file that shows this behaviour? Jürgen
Re: Importing texinfo files
On 20.10.2008, at 14:11, Keith Roberts wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Keith Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Importing texinfo files Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing out in LyX please? Woops! It's actually a Linux man page - tree.1.gz I'm need a way to typeset it for printing out. I copied and pasted the screen text to a text file and printed that. The line length has messed up the output though. If you just need a nice printed version of the man page: man -t manpage dumps a man page in nicely formattted postscript to stdout. You can pipe this directly into lpr, gv, pstopdf or whatever. Daniel
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
M-L wrote: Can't seem to find any reference on this anywhere, net or otherwise. Someone might know if this is doable? If I place 3 or four lines of text one below the other into a footer, it drives the text below the physical page. If I set the footer as ERT or in the preamble the result is the same of course. Is it possible to bring the footer higher so: * 3 or four lines of text can be placed, one below the other in the footer * there is a space between the bottom edge of the physical page and the last line of text? A quick experiment shows that I get more footer space by specifying a taller bottom margin. Document Settings-Page Margins. Uncheck default margins and experiment with the bottom margin settings. A smaller foot skip will also help, but the footer will then be closer to the bottom of the text. Helge Hafting
Re: Installing a truetype font in LyX
Jacob Hunt wrote: I was just hopeful that someone could point me to a how to, on installing truetype fonts for use in LyX. If you want an on-screen font, just install the font so your OS can use it, and then select it in tools-preferences. If you want to use the font in printed documents (which is what most people want), install the font so that latex can use it. Then, open the document preamble in LyX, and insert the appropriate latex command for selecting the now latex-supported font. You should do some research about this. Some fonts have latex support packages already. Those are usually not hard to use in LyX. Basically, you get the latex support package installed, and then you use the font by adding a \usepackage command in the document preamble in LyX. Many fonts have no such support though. It is then much more work to get latex support, but it is still possible. Xetex _may_ be a way to go - as xetex apparently can use any font you install for your OS. But xetex isn't that well supported by LyX. I have found multiple sites on-line but all seem to require tools that aren't installed or available to my system, or I just couldn't get them to work. Most tools are available for linux, so consider asking for help about it. People here can usually help you with LyX, and some latex. Note that there are separate latex forums where ypou can get help with the latex side of things. Helge Hafting
Re: LyX 1.6 ...nothing seems to work
Thanks for the tip but this isn't that bug. I mean, the new *printer system* doesn't work in my, or any of my friend's, systems. I think could be a bug related to other virtual printer already installed but every time I try the installation and configuration process consumes at least two our of my time so I may wait to the final release to check again.
Re: LyX 1.6 ...nothing seems to work
Jose Moises Padilla Miranda schrieb: I mean, the new *printer system* doesn't work in my, or any of my friend's, systems. Please report this bug at bugzilla.lyx.org. I was confused as you write nothing seems to work regards Uwe
Theorem cross reference title missing
Hi all, I'm strugling to get the word 'theorem' in front of the reference to a theorem. Like you get for a figure or a section or whatever. Do I really need to type 'Theorem' in front of every reference. All I get is the number of the theorem. What am I missing here? Note: I have the same with sections but up to now I did not need this Jef -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Theorem-cross-reference-title-missing-tp1356499p1356499.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Theorem cross reference title missing
Jef Patat wrote: Hi all, I'm strugling to get the word 'theorem' in front of the reference to a theorem. Like you get for a figure or a section or whatever. Do I really need to type 'Theorem' in front of every reference. All I get is the number of the theorem. What am I missing here? This ought to work. The labels need to be of the form: thm:whatever, and then you just choose formatted reference in the xref dialog. See the attached. rh thm.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Helge Hafting engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: --} M-L wrote: --} Can't seem to find any reference on this anywhere, net or otherwise. --} --} Someone might know if this is doable? --} --} If I place 3 or four lines of text one below the other into a footer, it --} drives the text below the physical page. --} --} If I set the footer as ERT or in the preamble the result is the same of --} course. --} --} Is it possible to bring the footer higher so: --} --} * 3 or four lines of text can be placed, one below the other in the footer --} --} * there is a space between the bottom edge of the physical page and the last --} line of text? --} --} A quick experiment shows that I get more footer space by specifying --} a taller bottom margin. --} Document Settings-Page Margins. --} Uncheck default margins and experiment with the bottom margin --} settings. A smaller foot skip will also help, but the footer will then --} be closer to the bottom of the text. --} --} Helge Hafting --} Thanks for that Helge. I will attempt that, though I may have tried it before? I know I have tried just about everything I could think of, and found nothing that worked. I tried that firstfootvpos though I didn't know whether it required a \ in front of it or not and tried it with that and without and various brackets and a whole lot of other combinations. If I knew more about LaTeX and LyX, would have a crack at re-writing the manual but in a different format. That's not a criticisms, it's simply and observation as to why I, who is in the minority, can't grasp all the concepts. Probably because I left school at the age of 14, and have only used computers for the last decade. For someone like me it really requires an example of the preamble and then an explanation of each line, and why those commands work in letter and not in article, etc., or whatever. I started reading the scrguien.pdf from the start, but it was hard going, and data overload. Going to the sections was better, but like many of these manuals written by experts, they presume the reader has a greater understanding than may be the case, which chases me back to previous chapters and then I start getting lost again. During my frustrations I wrote in my journal: [quote] Trying to understand something this large with a brain this small is an arrogance of a kind in itself. [end quote] I then tried the letter [KOMA v2] template and started adapting it to my needs. I still didn't understand much of what it did, and found things in the preamble were duplicated by the commands that were point and click in LyX, and other preamble entries were not permitted. [Disclaimer - aware that LyX does not take all LaTeX commands and may never do so as stated in the introduction of LyX] There was also a funny thing, when I opened a new document in LyX Letter [KOMA-script v2] and tried to insert some of the preamble from the template, one at a time, they didn't work, or didn't work properly. I couldn't understand that at all. I kept adding things from the template and I'm not certain that I didn't copy the whole preamble into the new LyX document before they worked? But I am not sure any more if this was the case. I have a funny feeling they still didn't work, so the template used something different again? It did get a bit frustrating, but then I don't really understand LyX or LaTeX maybe because I have never written a complete document in a text editor and then look at it from that point. Though I have tried a few manipulations opening a LyX document in a text editor and changing it, but with little success. I wish not only that I had more time, but was just a little more clever. Anyway using the postscript in LyX I have something that I can live with, it's not what I want or even close, but life is full of those disappointments. I will try what you said, and thank you for the time and follow up. Be well, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *** Meditation is not an escape from life . . . but preparation for really being in life. -THICH NHAT HANH *** Debian, just the best way to create magic ___
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
M-L wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Helge Hafting engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: --} M-L wrote: --} Can't seem to find any reference on this anywhere, net or otherwise. --} --} Someone might know if this is doable? --} --} If I place 3 or four lines of text one below the other into a footer, it --} drives the text below the physical page. --} --} If I set the footer as ERT or in the preamble the result is the same of --} course. --} --} Is it possible to bring the footer higher so: --} --} * 3 or four lines of text can be placed, one below the other in the footer --} --} * there is a space between the bottom edge of the physical page and the last --} line of text? --} --} A quick experiment shows that I get more footer space by specifying --} a taller bottom margin. --} Document Settings-Page Margins. --} Uncheck default margins and experiment with the bottom margin --} settings. A smaller foot skip will also help, but the footer will then --} be closer to the bottom of the text. --} --} Helge Hafting --} Thanks for that Helge. I will attempt that, though I may have tried it before? I know I have tried just about everything I could think of, and found nothing that worked. I tried that firstfootvpos though I didn't know whether it required a \ in front of it or not and tried it with that and without and various brackets and a whole lot of other combinations. If I knew more about LaTeX and LyX, would have a crack at re-writing the manual but in a different format. That's not a criticisms, it's simply and observation as to why I, who is in the minority, can't grasp all the concepts. Probably because I left school at the age of 14, and have only used computers for the last decade. For someone like me it really requires an example of the preamble and then an explanation of each line, and why those commands work in letter and not in article, etc., or whatever. I started reading the scrguien.pdf from the start, but it was hard going, and data overload. Going to the sections was better, but like many of these manuals written by experts, they presume the reader has a greater understanding than may be the case, which chases me back to previous chapters and then I start getting lost again. During my frustrations I wrote in my journal: [quote] Trying to understand something this large with a brain this small is an arrogance of a kind in itself. [end quote] I then tried the letter [KOMA v2] template and started adapting it to my needs. I still didn't understand much of what it did, and found things in the preamble were duplicated by the commands that were point and click in LyX, and other preamble entries were not permitted. [Disclaimer - aware that LyX does not take all LaTeX commands and may never do so as stated in the introduction of LyX] There was also a funny thing, when I opened a new document in LyX Letter [KOMA-script v2] and tried to insert some of the preamble from the template, one at a time, they didn't work, or didn't work properly. I couldn't understand that at all. I kept adding things from the template and I'm not certain that I didn't copy the whole preamble into the new LyX document before they worked? But I am not sure any more if this was the case. I have a funny feeling they still didn't work, so the template used something different again? It did get a bit frustrating, but then I don't really understand LyX or LaTeX maybe because I have never written a complete document in a text editor and then look at it from that point. Though I have tried a few manipulations opening a LyX document in a text editor and changing it, but with little success. I wish not only that I had more time, but was just a little more clever. Anyway using the postscript in LyX I have something that I can live with, it's not what I want or even close, but life is full of those disappointments. I will try what you said, and thank you for the time and follow up. Page layout is very complicated. I certainly can't say I understand it. But let me suggest one other thing you might try reading: the manual for the geometry package, which you should have as geometry.pdf somewhere. I'll also play around with this and see if I can get it to work. Feel free to send me a stripped-down test version of what you're trying to do. rh
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
PS If I understand exactly what you want to do, I think what you need to play with is the \footskip length. But if you change that, you'll have to change \textheight, or some other parameter, so that everything adds up right. Maybe the geometry package, which LyX uses, will make it just work, though. I'm not sure. rh
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, rgheck engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: --} --} PS If I understand exactly what you want to do, I think what you need to --} play with is the \footskip length. But if you change that, you'll have --} to change \textheight, or some other parameter, so that everything adds --} up right. Maybe the geometry package, which LyX uses, will make it just --} work, though. I'm not sure. --} --} rh --} --} Thank you both - I will try and see what I can accomplish. Be well, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *** You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeing it. ---CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK *** Debian, just the best way to create magic ___
Re: Importing texinfo files
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Daniel Lohmann wrote: To: Keith Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Importing texinfo files On 20.10.2008, at 14:11, Keith Roberts wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Keith Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Importing texinfo files Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing out in LyX please? Woops! It's actually a Linux man page - tree.1.gz I'm need a way to typeset it for printing out. I copied and pasted the screen text to a text file and printed that. The line length has messed up the output though. If you just need a nice printed version of the man page: man -t manpage dumps a man page in nicely formattted postscript to stdout. You can pipe this directly into lpr, gv, pstopdf or whatever. Daniel Thanks for that Daniel :) Keith Roberts - Websites: http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk The mind of the prudent is ever getting knowledge, and the eear of the wise is ever seeking, inquiring for and craving knowledge. Pr. 18:15 Amp Where will you spend Eternity? http://www.fellowshiptractleague.org/tracts/images/PDF/tract_130.pdf All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -
Re: Unicode - IPA-Phonetic characters - Which packages, preambel?
Joachim Kreimer-de Fries wrote: > OK, I'm still on LyX 1.5.6. LyX 1.5.7 is not released yet. The fix I'm talking about has been put in yesterday, right after your report. > BTW, the fact of easiest (undeclared and unconfigured) use of IPA- > Unicode should be more flashly, apparitionally presented as LyX > feature, impeding people like me of making indirections and endless > seeking how to achieve it. I agree. BTW did you come across this? http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LinguistLyX You're invited to extend and propagate this site. LyX 1.6 will also ship a linguist example file that presents some of its new features. > BTW (2), I find the document class "tufte-layout" worth to be > transformed into a LyX document class, style or template - for the > time being I did not find a way to import the sample-handout into Lyx. Yes, this looks nice. Should not be too hard to write a layout for this. Jürgen
Line Space changes when scaling the font size of an object below
Hi all, I'm using Lyx 1.5.0 on Windows and I have encountered a problem: I'm using 1.5-line space (Zeilenabstand). For some reason, when I changed the font size of a math formular to "very small" so that it fits the line, my text above it suddenly changed its linespace to 1.0 but without mentioning it. So when I create a PDF file I can clearly see that there is no extra space between the lines, but in Lyx I still see (and I can also verify) that my linespace is still 1.5 I encoutered this problem before with an image, but I'm not quite sure. Yet, this time, I was able to really see what's happening. I scaled down my font size (12) gradually from normal down to very small and when I reached very small, the lines above that math part suddenly corrupted. I tried using Lyx 1.5.6 - to no avail. I also tried making the text size bigger or smaller. Nothing seems to help. thx in advance Christian
Re: ERT boxes
Hi, You are right, I can change the ERT font, and I can make collapsed all my ETR boxes. But on the one hand I prefer to be ETRs opened, and on the other hand it doesn't change the fact that opened ERTs have improper height. As for the user guide, in LyX 1.6 it seems to be different: http://screencast.com/t/L1ppd1sZd0g. I couldn't find the Inline state beyond the Collapsed and Open. Moreover, Left-clicking on an Open ERT box doesn't close it. Regards, Máté - Original Message - From: Konrad Hofbauer To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Cc: LyX users Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 7:10 AM Subject: Re: ERT boxes Máté Salát wrote: > You can see the enormous place that the ert boxes take. It is relative huge even compared to the other box types, e.g. the references. This is in the UserGuide (sec. 6.9.1): The box itself can be displayed in three different styles: Inline, Collapsed, and Open. To change the style, right-click on the box and use the appearing dialog. Left-clicking on the box will switch between Collapsed and Open. You can also press Ctrl-I to change it to inline. /Konrad
Re: Lyx pdf & Booksurge Self publishing
Jonathan Kroner wrote: > Does Booksurge accept a Lyx generated pdf, or must it be further processed > through acrobat? > > 1. If you have self published through Booksurge, please answer whether > Booksurge accepts LyX generated pdfs. > > I will soon be self-publishing a book, preferably through Booksurge. > Booksurge accepts PDF files, but only if they meet Booksurge > specifications. However, they do not explain their specifications. > Instead, they only explain the steps to save/print the PDF from various > versions of adobe acrobat. > > In order to find out whether my pdf will meet their requirements they > require full payment of their up-front fee. They will not provide any > additional assistance in determining whether a LyX pdf meets their > requirements. > > > 2. Most of their specifications do not apply to me since this will be a > black-and-white, no images, text only book. But one area is of more > concern. They instruct: > *"Under the fonts tab* > ** > * Deselect the "subset embedded fonts" option.* > ** > * Select ALL of the fonts under Font Source and add them to Always > Embed."* > > These instructions are found here for acrobat version 8 > http://www.booksurgepages.com/Downloads/TwoStepstoPDFv8.pdf > > In my Lyx generated PDF document under "Properties" the "Fonts" tab shows > a > long list of fonts and following each font is written:"(embedded > subset) type 1, encoding: custom." > > Booksurge claims they could not answer whether "(embedded subset) type > 1, > encoding: custom" meets their requirements. Any opinions? > > Thank you > Jonathan Kroner > LyX 1.6.0rc3, pdflatex, Windows Vista home premium Booksurge wants you to emded all fonts in your pdf. Sometimes, the 14 basic fonts are not embed. You can see what fonts are embed in a pdf file with Acrobat Reader, KPDF or the command line program pdfinfo If you produce your pdf with pdflatex, the option to look is the dvipdfmDownloadBase14 which is updmap.cfg If you produce you pdf with xetex, there is a -E option for xdvipdfmx that will try to embed all fonts. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Importing texinfo files
Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing out in LyX please? Kind Regards, Keith - Websites: http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk The mind of the prudent is ever getting knowledge, and the eear of the wise is ever seeking, inquiring for and craving knowledge. Pr. 18:15 Amp Where will you spend Eternity? http://www.fellowshiptractleague.org/tracts/images/PDF/tract_130.pdf All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -
Re: Importing texinfo files
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Keith Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Importing texinfo files Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing out in LyX please? Woops! It's actually a Linux man page - tree.1.gz I'm need a way to typeset it for printing out. I copied and pasted the screen text to a text file and printed that. The line length has messed up the output though. Kind Regards, Keith
Re: Line Space changes when scaling the font size of an object below
> Hi all, > > I'm using Lyx 1.5.0 on Windows and I have encountered a > problem: I'm > using 1.5-line space (Zeilenabstand). For some reason, when > I changed > the font size of a math formular to "very small" > so that it fits the > line, my text above it suddenly changed its linespace to > 1.0 but without > mentioning it. So when I create a PDF file I can clearly > see that there > is no extra space between the lines, but in Lyx I still see > (and I can > also verify) that my linespace is still 1.5 > I encoutered this problem before with an image, but I'm > not quite sure. > Yet, this time, I was able to really see what's > happening. I scaled down > my font size (12) gradually from normal down to very small > and when I > reached very small, the lines above that math part suddenly > corrupted. > I tried using Lyx 1.5.6 - to no avail. I also tried making > the text size > bigger or smaller. Nothing seems to help. > > thx in advance > > Christian I have same problem with lines above quotation. I have not changed line space, but I redefined quotation fonts to sans serif and parargraph above quotation have smaller interline spacing in pdf. How I can solved this? Marcelo __ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! ¡Abrí tu cuenta ya! - http://correo.yahoo.com.ar
Re: Line Space changes when scaling the font size of an object below
Christian Schunck wrote: > I'm using Lyx 1.5.0 on Windows and I have encountered a problem: I'm > using 1.5-line space (Zeilenabstand). For some reason, when I changed > the font size of a math formular to "very small" so that it fits the > line, my text above it suddenly changed its linespace to 1.0 but without > mentioning it. So when I create a PDF file I can clearly see that there > is no extra space between the lines, but in Lyx I still see (and I can > also verify) that my linespace is still 1.5 Could you post a minimal example file that shows this behaviour? Jürgen
Re: Importing texinfo files
On 20.10.2008, at 14:11, Keith Roberts wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Keith Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Importing texinfo files Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing out in LyX please? Woops! It's actually a Linux man page - tree.1.gz I'm need a way to typeset it for printing out. I copied and pasted the screen text to a text file and printed that. The line length has messed up the output though. If you just need a nice printed version of the man page: man -t dumps a man page in nicely formattted postscript to stdout. You can pipe this directly into lpr, gv, pstopdf or whatever. Daniel
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
M-L wrote: Can't seem to find any reference on this anywhere, net or otherwise. Someone might know if this is doable? If I place 3 or four lines of text one below the other into a footer, it drives the text below the physical page. If I set the footer as ERT or in the preamble the result is the same of course. Is it possible to bring the footer higher so: * 3 or four lines of text can be placed, one below the other in the footer * there is a space between the bottom edge of the physical page and the last line of text? A quick experiment shows that I get more footer space by specifying a taller bottom margin. Document Settings->Page Margins. Uncheck "default margins" and experiment with the bottom margin settings. A smaller "foot skip" will also help, but the footer will then be closer to the bottom of the text. Helge Hafting
Re: Installing a truetype font in LyX
Jacob Hunt wrote: I was just hopeful that someone could point me to a how to, on installing truetype fonts for use in LyX. If you want an on-screen font, just install the font so your OS can use it, and then select it in tools->preferences. If you want to use the font in printed documents (which is what most people want), install the font so that latex can use it. Then, open the document preamble in LyX, and insert the appropriate latex command for selecting the now latex-supported font. You should do some research about this. Some fonts have latex support packages already. Those are usually not hard to use in LyX. Basically, you get the latex support package installed, and then you use the font by adding a \usepackage command in the document preamble in LyX. Many fonts have no such support though. It is then much more work to get latex support, but it is still possible. Xetex _may_ be a way to go - as xetex apparently can use any font you install for your OS. But xetex isn't that well supported by LyX. I have found multiple sites on-line but all seem to require tools that aren't installed or available to my system, or I just couldn't get them to work. Most tools are available for linux, so consider asking for help about it. People here can usually help you with LyX, and some latex. Note that there are separate latex forums where ypou can get help with the latex side of things. Helge Hafting
Re: LyX 1.6 ...nothing seems to work
Thanks for the tip but this isn't that bug. I mean, the new *printer system* doesn't work in my, or any of my friend's, systems. I think could be a bug related to other virtual printer already installed but every time I try the installation and configuration process consumes at least two our of my time so I may wait to the final release to check again.
Re: LyX 1.6 ...nothing seems to work
Jose Moises Padilla Miranda schrieb: I mean, the new *printer system* doesn't work in my, or any of my friend's, systems. Please report this bug at bugzilla.lyx.org. I was confused as you write "nothing seems to work" regards Uwe
Theorem cross reference title missing
Hi all, I'm strugling to get the word 'theorem' in front of the reference to a theorem. Like you get for a figure or a section or whatever. Do I really need to type 'Theorem' in front of every reference. All I get is the number of the theorem. What am I missing here? Note: I have the same with sections but up to now I did not need this Jef -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Theorem-cross-reference-title-missing-tp1356499p1356499.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Theorem cross reference title missing
Jef Patat wrote: Hi all, I'm strugling to get the word 'theorem' in front of the reference to a theorem. Like you get for a figure or a section or whatever. Do I really need to type 'Theorem' in front of every reference. All I get is the number of the theorem. What am I missing here? This ought to work. The labels need to be of the form: thm:whatever, and then you just choose "formatted reference" in the xref dialog. See the attached. rh thm.lyx Description: application/lyx
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Helge Hafting engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} M-L wrote: >--} > Can't seem to find any reference on this anywhere, net or otherwise. >--} > >--} > Someone might know if this is doable? >--} > >--} > If I place 3 or four lines of text one below the other into a footer, > it --} > drives the text below the physical page. >--} > >--} > If I set the footer as ERT or in the preamble the result is the same > of --} > course. >--} > >--} > Is it possible to bring the footer higher so: >--} > >--} > * 3 or four lines of text can be placed, one below the other in the > footer --} > >--} > * there is a space between the bottom edge of the physical page and > the last --} > line of text? >--} >--} A quick experiment shows that I get more footer space by specifying >--} a taller bottom margin. >--} Document Settings->Page Margins. >--} Uncheck "default margins" and experiment with the bottom margin >--} settings. A smaller "foot skip" will also help, but the footer will then >--} be closer to the bottom of the text. >--} >--} Helge Hafting >--} Thanks for that Helge. I will attempt that, though I may have tried it before? I know I have tried just about everything I could think of, and found nothing that worked. I tried that firstfootvpos though I didn't know whether it required a "\" in front of it or not and tried it with that and without and various brackets and a whole lot of other combinations. If I knew more about LaTeX and LyX, would have a crack at re-writing the manual but in a different format. That's not a criticisms, it's simply and observation as to why I, who is in the minority, can't grasp all the concepts. Probably because I left school at the age of 14, and have only used computers for the last decade. For someone like me it really requires an example of the preamble and then an explanation of each line, and why those commands work in letter and not in article, etc., or whatever. I started reading the scrguien.pdf from the start, but it was hard going, and data overload. Going to the sections was better, but like many of these manuals written by experts, they presume the reader has a greater understanding than may be the case, which chases me back to previous chapters and then I start getting lost again. During my frustrations I wrote in my journal: [quote] Trying to understand something this large with a brain this small is an arrogance of a kind in itself. [end quote] I then tried the letter [KOMA v2] template and started adapting it to my needs. I still didn't understand much of what it did, and found things in the preamble were duplicated by the commands that were point and click in LyX, and other preamble entries were not permitted. [Disclaimer - aware that LyX does not take all LaTeX commands and may never do so as stated in the introduction of LyX] There was also a funny thing, when I opened a new document in LyX Letter [KOMA-script v2] and tried to insert some of the preamble from the template, one at a time, they didn't work, or didn't work properly. I couldn't understand that at all. I kept adding things from the template and I'm not certain that I didn't copy the whole preamble into the new LyX document before they worked? But I am not sure any more if this was the case. I have a funny feeling they still didn't work, so the template used something different again? It did get a bit frustrating, but then I don't really understand LyX or LaTeX maybe because I have never written a complete document in a text editor and then look at it from that point. Though I have tried a few manipulations opening a LyX document in a text editor and changing it, but with little success. I wish not only that I had more time, but was just a little more clever. Anyway using the in LyX I have something that I can live with, it's not what I want or even close, but life is full of those disappointments. I will try what you said, and thank you for the time and follow up. Be well, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *** Meditation is not an escape from life . . . but preparation for really being in life. -THICH NHAT HANH *** Debian, just the best way to create magic ___
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
M-L wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Helge Hafting engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: --} M-L wrote: --} > Can't seem to find any reference on this anywhere, net or otherwise. --} > --} > Someone might know if this is doable? --} > --} > If I place 3 or four lines of text one below the other into a footer, it --} > drives the text below the physical page. --} > --} > If I set the footer as ERT or in the preamble the result is the same of --} > course. --} > --} > Is it possible to bring the footer higher so: --} > --} > * 3 or four lines of text can be placed, one below the other in the footer --} > --} > * there is a space between the bottom edge of the physical page and the last --} > line of text? --} --} A quick experiment shows that I get more footer space by specifying --} a taller bottom margin. --} Document Settings->Page Margins. --} Uncheck "default margins" and experiment with the bottom margin --} settings. A smaller "foot skip" will also help, but the footer will then --} be closer to the bottom of the text. --} --} Helge Hafting --} Thanks for that Helge. I will attempt that, though I may have tried it before? I know I have tried just about everything I could think of, and found nothing that worked. I tried that firstfootvpos though I didn't know whether it required a "\" in front of it or not and tried it with that and without and various brackets and a whole lot of other combinations. If I knew more about LaTeX and LyX, would have a crack at re-writing the manual but in a different format. That's not a criticisms, it's simply and observation as to why I, who is in the minority, can't grasp all the concepts. Probably because I left school at the age of 14, and have only used computers for the last decade. For someone like me it really requires an example of the preamble and then an explanation of each line, and why those commands work in letter and not in article, etc., or whatever. I started reading the scrguien.pdf from the start, but it was hard going, and data overload. Going to the sections was better, but like many of these manuals written by experts, they presume the reader has a greater understanding than may be the case, which chases me back to previous chapters and then I start getting lost again. During my frustrations I wrote in my journal: [quote] Trying to understand something this large with a brain this small is an arrogance of a kind in itself. [end quote] I then tried the letter [KOMA v2] template and started adapting it to my needs. I still didn't understand much of what it did, and found things in the preamble were duplicated by the commands that were point and click in LyX, and other preamble entries were not permitted. [Disclaimer - aware that LyX does not take all LaTeX commands and may never do so as stated in the introduction of LyX] There was also a funny thing, when I opened a new document in LyX Letter [KOMA-script v2] and tried to insert some of the preamble from the template, one at a time, they didn't work, or didn't work properly. I couldn't understand that at all. I kept adding things from the template and I'm not certain that I didn't copy the whole preamble into the new LyX document before they worked? But I am not sure any more if this was the case. I have a funny feeling they still didn't work, so the template used something different again? It did get a bit frustrating, but then I don't really understand LyX or LaTeX maybe because I have never written a complete document in a text editor and then look at it from that point. Though I have tried a few manipulations opening a LyX document in a text editor and changing it, but with little success. I wish not only that I had more time, but was just a little more clever. Anyway using the in LyX I have something that I can live with, it's not what I want or even close, but life is full of those disappointments. I will try what you said, and thank you for the time and follow up. Page layout is very complicated. I certainly can't say I understand it. But let me suggest one other thing you might try reading: the manual for the geometry package, which you should have as geometry.pdf somewhere. I'll also play around with this and see if I can get it to work. Feel free to send me a stripped-down test version of what you're trying to do. rh
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
PS If I understand exactly what you want to do, I think what you need to play with is the \footskip length. But if you change that, you'll have to change \textheight, or some other parameter, so that everything adds up right. Maybe the geometry package, which LyX uses, will make it "just work", though. I'm not sure. rh
Re: Bringing the footer higher...
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, rgheck engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} >--} PS If I understand exactly what you want to do, I think what you need to >--} play with is the \footskip length. But if you change that, you'll have >--} to change \textheight, or some other parameter, so that everything adds >--} up right. Maybe the geometry package, which LyX uses, will make it "just >--} work", though. I'm not sure. >--} >--} rh >--} >--} Thank you both - I will try and see what I can accomplish. Be well, Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 *** You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeing it. ---CHARLOTTE JOKO BECK *** Debian, just the best way to create magic ___
Re: Importing texinfo files
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Daniel Lohmann wrote: To: Keith Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Importing texinfo files On 20.10.2008, at 14:11, Keith Roberts wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, Keith Roberts wrote: To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org From: Keith Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Importing texinfo files Is it possible to import a Linux textinfo document and then convert it to PDF for viewing and printing out in LyX please? Woops! It's actually a Linux man page - tree.1.gz I'm need a way to typeset it for printing out. I copied and pasted the screen text to a text file and printed that. The line length has messed up the output though. If you just need a nice printed version of the man page: man -t dumps a man page in nicely formattted postscript to stdout. You can pipe this directly into lpr, gv, pstopdf or whatever. Daniel Thanks for that Daniel :) Keith Roberts - Websites: http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk The mind of the prudent is ever getting knowledge, and the eear of the wise is ever seeking, inquiring for and craving knowledge. Pr. 18:15 Amp Where will you spend Eternity? http://www.fellowshiptractleague.org/tracts/images/PDF/tract_130.pdf All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -
