Re: Creating macros in Lyx
Thanks. In fact, when I using the dialog box to modify the character type, it does not show any function in the status bar. Moreover, when I use "textstyle- update color 3", the color is set to red, but other attributes are reset (such as an italic text becomes regular). I think I have to play with this function. On jeudi 05 février 2009, rgheck wrote: > Pascal Francq wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anybody know if it is possible to create macro in Lyx and how to do > > it ? In practice, I want to add some shortcuts to action such as "putting > > the text in red" or "the text is in English". > > Thanks. > > Anything you can do in LyX---any sequence of actions---can be assigned > (bound) to a key. Two ways. (i) The file that sets the bindings is just > a text file, *.bind; you can find out which one you are using in > Tools>Preferences>Editing>Shortcuts. Copy that file to your LyX user > directory, and then edit as you wish. The syntax is reasonably > straightforward. (ii) Use the Shortcuts editor in > Tools>Preferences>Editing>Shortcuts. > > The only problem now is to know function what to assign. The available > functions are described in Help>LyX Functions, so you can look them up > there. But an easier way is to watch the status line when you perform > some action: LyX will usually pop up the name of the function you just > used. If you want to perform a sequence of actions, then you'll need to > use the command-sequence LFUN to do it, e.g.: > command-sequence word-select; textstyle-update color 3 > That selects the current word and makes it red. (Getting the > textstyle-update syntax right is less easy than with other things.) > > rh -- Pascal Francq signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX
jezZiFeR wrote:
> I have also done that. Everything worked fine, before I´ve chosen
> biblatex-dw as citation style, the standard-styles work fine. I also
> added this line:
> \usepackage[style=authortitle-dw]{biblatex}
>
> and I have disabled this one, with which I worked before trying to use
> biblatex-dw:
> %\usepackage[natbib=true,bibstyle=authortitle,citestyle=authoryear]
> {biblatex}
Then probably LaTeX doesn't find the biblatex-dw files at all. You
should try to compile a LaTeX document with biblatex-dw in order to find
out if your installation is correct.
Regards,
Dominik.-
svmult.cls
Hello, I am using svmult.cls for a paper. I think it's from IEEE. I have those requirements: (1) There are no page number in the header/footer area. Help! (2) Paper title should appear on the odd page header. It seems that svmult.cls does put the title in the odd page header so I'm fine there but it also tries to put the author on the even page header and complains that the length of the author field was too long. I have my name, affiliation and email in the author field so I guess that's why. How can I specify not to put anything on the even page header? TIA -- myriam
Re: Use in US government agencies
> Hello: > > Can anyone tell me is LyX is currently being used in any US > Government agency? I am particularly interested to know if > it is used in the USEPA. > > Haynes Goddard NASA? Yahoo! Cocina Recetas prácticas y comida saludable http://ar.mujer.yahoo.com/cocina/
Re: Strange LaTex /bibtex error prevents successful compilation
Stefano Franchi wrote: This is a reference that has been in my document for quite a while and never gave me any troubles. Perhaps the offending text is farther up, but how can I find it? Delete parts until you get something that compiles, then put bits back until you get something that doesn't. That's the first step. rh
Re: Strange LaTex /bibtex error prevents successful compilation
Hi,
Could it be that you've changed your bibtex file lately, and somewhere in
your document, this messes up your citation?
This happened to me once.
The bibtex file was changed, and three citations inside the documents
couldn't connect with the bibtex file.
Also, if it compiles on the first run, but not the second, this is a good
indication of this problem.
Best, Erez
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Stefano Franchi <
fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I find myself suddenly unable to compile a LyX file into pdf (through
> pdfLateX).
> The 'view pdf' command produces a list of errors of this kind:
>
> Undefined control sequence
> }
>
> some text from my file
>
>
> so it looks like there is an unmatched brace somewhere that's causing the
> errors. However, I did not insert any ERT since the last successful
> compilation---only regular text and citations---so I don't know where to
> look.
> Inspecting the LaTeX log does not help. At least it doesn't help me. It
> shows
> three control sequence erros inside a citation. They are of this kind:
>
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> \...@williams2006 ...aptive Networks}.\ Ph.\tmspace
> +\thinmuskip {.1667em}D
> th...
> l.2070 }
>
> he control sequence at the end of the top line
> of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
> misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
> spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
> and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
>
>
> This is a reference that has been in my document for quite a while and
> never
> gave me any troubles. Perhaps the offending text is farther up, but how can
> I
> find it?
>
>
>
> Finally, if I export to LaTeX and run the usual
> pdflatex/bibtex/pdflatex/pdflatex
> sequence from the command line, I do get what seems to be a correct pdf
> file,
> although the bibtex run produces a (non fatal) error:
>
> (\end occurred inside a group at level 1)
>
> ### semi simple group (level 1) entered at line 109 (\begingroup)
> ### bottom level
>
> The pdf seems to be correct, though. line 109 of the LaTex file is part of
> the
> preamble, and I cannot see anything wrong there.
>
>
> Any idea on where I should look to find the text that generates the errors?
>
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> S.
>
> __
> Stefano Franchi
> Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211
> Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458
> 305B Bolton Hall fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
> College Station, TX 77843-4237
>
>
--
Erez Yerushalmi
PhD Student
Warwick University, UK
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi
Strange LaTex /bibtex error prevents successful compilation
Hi all,
I find myself suddenly unable to compile a LyX file into pdf (through
pdfLateX).
The 'view pdf' command produces a list of errors of this kind:
Undefined control sequence
}
some text from my file
so it looks like there is an unmatched brace somewhere that's causing the
errors. However, I did not insert any ERT since the last successful
compilation---only regular text and citations---so I don't know where to look.
Inspecting the LaTeX log does not help. At least it doesn't help me. It shows
three control sequence erros inside a citation. They are of this kind:
! Undefined control sequence.
\...@williams2006 ...aptive Networks}.\ Ph.\tmspace
+\thinmuskip {.1667em}D
th...
l.2070 }
he control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.
This is a reference that has been in my document for quite a while and never
gave me any troubles. Perhaps the offending text is farther up, but how can I
find it?
Finally, if I export to LaTeX and run the usual
pdflatex/bibtex/pdflatex/pdflatex
sequence from the command line, I do get what seems to be a correct pdf file,
although the bibtex run produces a (non fatal) error:
(\end occurred inside a group at level 1)
### semi simple group (level 1) entered at line 109 (\begingroup)
### bottom level
The pdf seems to be correct, though. line 109 of the LaTex file is part of the
preamble, and I cannot see anything wrong there.
Any idea on where I should look to find the text that generates the errors?
Thanks for the help,
S.
__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211
Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237
Re: Typesetting verse
Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: What's the best way to typeset a poem or two? And how does one attain the spacing needed between lines? Thanks so much, FN Most of the classes have "quote" and "quotation" styles. Quotation is the style for verse. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk/ Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture freelance writer. Buy my article compilation book, Tech Book 1.
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Vincent van Ravesteijn writes: > As you understand by now, I only see improvements to LyX without the > need for having a different application. And improvements are of course > always worth implementing. When I'm talking about LyXght I don't think it should a *different* app, of course. I think much more as an alternative light installation, with shadowed buttons or menu items, forbidden (for user's sake) actions, perhaps some MSWord-like .ui and/or .cua default settings. Once released, newer subsequent LyX versions should just take in condideration specific settings/features for corresponding LyXlite, without any further work. One of the greatest effort should be taken in not to frighten a Word user. I mean: once, in this list, a guy (well, it looked much more like a serious academic) said LyX was very difficoult to use because of the LaTeX-like a- symmetric quotation marks. I mean, he stopped at the 1st purely exterior weird thing. Now - we know it was a silly thing, but I'm glad they "fixed" it in latest LyX versions, for my eyes, too. I read a lot of messages in this thread concerning HTML and LaTeX and so on converters/strategies. HTML is a "widely known" format? Where? I think we're talking about completely different areas. As I remarked - with some tragic irony - in my fields people use Word because it was the 1st blue (an thus relaxing) icon to appeare in their PC desktop when they bought it. They are academics, scholars, PhD students but I guess more than a half of them don't even know what a Word style is. Maybe they heard - in theory - what a html markup is but almost 90% of them NEVER heard about LaTeX. This is the situation in a history department in a second-size university of Italy. Can we generalize a little bit and tell that about 20% of world scholars (say, almost all humanistic departments, most of law departments, some of the economics ones...) are in a situation similar to this? Don't you think it's a "virgin market", as well as a strategic one, LyX should try to conquer? And we didn't mention non-academic areas. I didn't try LyX without MikTeX or further programs but I guess almost everything could work just fine. Let's focus on non-frightening attitude and appearance. This is pretty much a "marketing" problem! But to approach it we should try, just for a moment, to leave aside the technical/scientific point of view and related habits which are, IMHO, slowing down LyX acceptance in some strategical areas.
Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6
> then you set the cursor into it and then set it to be the legend, right? yep. When I read that it should not be a multi-column, what I did it was exactly the opposite :S > Please add there comments or add you to the CC list when you like. Ok, thanks :) > Set the cursor into a cell of the first row. No cell in this row may be a multi column! Then set the > legend and you get what you want. woow, it works! xD > regards Uwe regards NinaNutz
Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6
Maria José Garcia Soldado schrieb: I export the same table I sent to lyx 1.5.6 and when I open it, it appears like figure lyx_161.PNG in lyx 1.6.1 and appears like lyx_156.PNG in lyx 1.5.6... The problem is that your table is already broken in LyX 1.6.1 and therefore will also be broken in LyX 1.5.7. When I make a long table in lyx 1.6.1 is ok before mark the caption (figure example_table_before_mark_caption.PN). Then, when I mark the caption, it happens what you can see in figure marking_caption_1st_file.PNG. Now I understand how you managed to break the table: You set the first row to be a multi column, then you set the cursor into it and then set it to be the legend, right? I reported this bug: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5755 Please add there comments or add you to the CC list when you like. Setting the caption works fine when you don't set the first row as multi column: Set the cursor into a cell of the first row. No cell in this row may be a multi column! Then set the legend and you get what you want. regards Uwe
Re: Typesetting verse
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] schreef: What's the best way to typeset a poem or two? And how does one attain the spacing needed between lines? Thanks so much, FN February 14th approaching ? There is a verse environment in some of the standard classes that is intended for some such purpose, but I don't know how well it works. rh
Re: Typesetting verse
Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] schreef: What's the best way to typeset a poem or two? And how does one attain the spacing needed between lines? Thanks so much, FN February 14th approaching ?
Typesetting verse
What's the best way to typeset a poem or two? And how does one attain the spacing needed between lines? Thanks so much, FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://twitter.com/fn
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > Reading your other post: > > It may also be useful on computers too small for latex > > Lyx-light will be much easier to install because latex and other large > packages of supporting software is omitted. > > The only difference I see is an installer that does not ask whether you > would like to install the other packages/software ? imho this is the main idea - to have some link ftp://.../lyxlight.exe which is possible to install without any fuss and without frightening questions about words like "latex" which the collaborator possibly never heard before etc. to me its more about chaning installer than lyx itself (with the exception of error messages on missing latex classes). i belive that configure.py is intelligent enough that missing latex and convertors will cause export/view menu items to disappear. pavel
Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6
Anyway, I can solve the problem importing the table to lyx 1.5.6, then copy and paste in lyx 1.5.6 et voilá :) thank you Uwe :)
Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:54:40AM -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > It would appear that on Feb 4, David Mertens did say: > > Oops. I only sent this to Joe. Resending to LyX list. > > I had wondered about that extra copy... Probably my fault. I keep > forgetting which mailing lists need me to NOT include "me" on the Reply-To: > and which ones rewrite it to point at the list. Which is the only sensible and safe behaviour ;-) Andre'
Re: How to edit
I ran into the same problem. I just started using spellcheck. There is a more direct solution. In Finder you can select Go>Go To Folder (or shift-command-G). Then you can type /usr/local/etc (or just /usr and then navigate from there). You can then change the access privileges for aspell.conf. However, in my case I also had to change the access privileges for the etc folder. Once you have done that you can edit the aspell.conf file. Maybe this should be added to the wiki?
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
David Mertens wrote: I'm a bit puzzled about this, because python is needed to run the configure.py script that checks for installed programs and the like. Are you sure the installer didn't install python? rh I looked a bit closer and you are correct. Python was installed in my LyX program folder, not in 'C:\Program Files\', which is what I expected. The same holds for ghostscript and image magick. I presumed that the LyX developers had put python scripting into LyX itself, but clearly I was mistaken. I'd guess that a LyXLite probably wouldn't need python. We're never exporting; we're never compiling. We don't care what programs and packages are available or not. We're assuming that none are. So we just use the default. rh
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
> > I'm a bit puzzled about this, because python is needed to run the > configure.py script that checks for installed programs and the like. Are you > sure the installer didn't install python? > > rh I looked a bit closer and you are correct. Python was installed in my LyX program folder, not in 'C:\Program Files\', which is what I expected. The same holds for ghostscript and image magick. I presumed that the LyX developers had put python scripting into LyX itself, but clearly I was mistaken. David
Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6
NinaNutz schrieb: - you defined two rows as header row for the longtable You can define as much as you want, but only the last defined one is used. The rows appears when I mark the option legend. Every time I mark this option the table brokes... I cannot reproduce this. Your first row contains the caption - correct The second row contains the header - correct The third row is also marked as header row, see its settings - now you have two headers and only the one defined the last (in your case the third table row is used in the output). OK, LyX shouldn't allow to mark more than one row as header, I filed now a bug report: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5752 - Your table is broken: There is a gap between the 5th and the 6th row that I cannot reproduce. This gap is causing the problem you have, but I don't know how to get rid of this except of creating a new table. How did you manage to create this gap? If I open the table with the version 1.5.6 the table works, I can see the mistakes and I can solve the problems... I think there is a bug in the version 1.6... ¿could it be? I cannot follow you. So when you open your example LyX file with LyX 1.5.6 there is now problem, but only with LyX 1.6.1? I cannot reproduce this. Can you resend me a LyX 1.5.x file that works and won't work when opening with LyX 1.6.x. Concerning the caption issue, I found now a crash in LyX: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5753 and another major bug: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5754 It seems that our longtable support is really buggy. regards Uwe
Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX
Dear Dominik,
thank you for your reply.
I´ve had biblatex-dw installed in that folder before, and did it
again
now – with the same results. But I tried to get a minimal-sample now,
and there it seems, that biblatex-dw is not able to find my
bibliography. I entered this line, which worked fine without
biblatex-
dw:
\bibliography{/Users/me/documents/Bibliographien/BibDesk/Name}
Is this line in the preamble?
Yes, I have entered that line in the latex-preamble. Anyhow, Lyx seems
not to find my reference-file… when I try to insert a new citation
from "einfügen" (add?) -> "literaturverzeichnis" (index) I get a
window with no entries.
Different from 'normal' BibTeX, biblatex
needs this line to be in the preamble. The bibliography will be
printed
with the command \printbibliography which you have to give in ERT.
I have also done that. Everything worked fine, before I´ve chosen
biblatex-dw as citation style, the standard-styles work fine. I also
added this line:
\usepackage[style=authortitle-dw]{biblatex}
and I have disabled this one, with which I worked before trying to use
biblatex-dw:
%\usepackage[natbib=true,bibstyle=authortitle,citestyle=authoryear]
{biblatex}
See the biblatex manual for details on the differences between
biblatex
and the 'normal' BibTeX.
I can´t find help for my problem in the manual there, do I overread
something maybe? I looked thoroughly, but maybe I don´t get the point.
Thank you, best*
Jess
Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX
Dear Anders, thank you! From a few weeks of usage of LyX I find that the error messages I get from LyX is rather meaningless. It appears to my that LyX cuts away exactly the important parts. I would suggest you look at the LaTeX log, That´s what I did now. I do add the relevant part of the log here, maybe someone could tell if everything is alright with it. or try to export to LaTeX and compile to see what exactly happens in LaTeX. This does not work, because I use XeTex, and I get error-messages from TexShop. Best* Jess
Page numbers in beamer presentation
How do I get page numbers in my beamer presentation? (lyx-1.6.1)
Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)
> I could > compose something of the kind as a reply to this thread. If I kept it > all in plain text, it wouldn't take that much band width... What do > you think? Why not the Wiki -- wiki.lyx.org ? Easy to use.
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Feb 5, 2009, at 9:31 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I think this should hold for FullyLyX too. You should be able to use LyX without any Latex and/or Image conversion applications. Of course some export functions don't work and some images can't be converted, but plain text, etc. should work. We have LyX without LaTeX installed on the secretarial computers. That way a secretary can type my handwritten manuscript into a LyX file and email it to me. Then I can edit, add equations and figures, print, and so on. Bruce
Re: Use in US government agencies
> > Can anyone tell me is LyX is currently being used in any US Government > > agency? I am particularly interested to know if it is used in the USEPA. > >I doubt it very much. The federal government -- and almost all lower > levels, too -- are still stuck with Word. Can't even get them to use OO.o > and save documents as .odt. In general, we're locked into M$ stuff through our enterprise agreements. But that doesn't mean individuals can't use other stuff for their work as long as the products look the way the wheels want them to. :)
Re: Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD?
Well I don't often use LyX on FreeBSD, but when I did it behaved just the same as when I use it on Ubuntu or other Linux systems. I primarily use LyX on NetBSD. (I help maintain the pkgsrc package for LyX. And I use NetBSD for my primary desktop for many years.)
Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6
Uwe Stöhr writes:
> I found the following issues:
>
> - you defined two rows as header row for the longtable
> You can define as much as you want, but only the last defined one is used.
The rows appears when I mark the option legend. Every time I mark this option
the table brokes...
>
> - Your table is broken: There is a gap between the 5th and the 6th row that I
cannot reproduce. This
> gap is causing the problem you have, but I don't know how to get rid of this
except of creating a
> new table. How did you manage to create this gap?
>
If I open the table with the version 1.5.6 the table works, I can see the
mistakes and I can solve the problems... I think there is a bug in the version
1.6... ¿could it be?
> - You are using \cellcolor for consecutive cells in a row. This can be done
easier by using
> \rowcolor, see the EmbeddedObjects manual for an example.
I know, but it didn't work when I tried... and cellcolor works ok... :S
> - You don't need to have \usepackage{textcolor} in your document preamble. LyX
takes care of this
> for you.
noted
> Attached is your example that should work as you want it.
>
> - I also found a bug in LyX:
> http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5750
>
> regards Uwe
Thank you very much for everything.
regards NinaNutz
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
David Mertens wrote: 3. After installing most of what I needed, it downloaded the aspell software and installed it. I thought that Python was required for LyX (it used to be required), but this apparently is no longer the case, which is nice. I'm a bit puzzled about this, because python is needed to run the configure.py script that checks for installed programs and the like. Are you sure the installer didn't install python? rh
Re: problem with tables and lyx 1.6
Maria José Garcia Soldado schrieb:
Here is the table
I found the following issues:
- you defined two rows as header row for the longtable
You can define as much as you want, but only the last defined one is used.
- Your table is broken: There is a gap between the 5th and the 6th row that I cannot reproduce. This
gap is causing the problem you have, but I don't know how to get rid of this except of creating a
new table. How did you manage to create this gap?
- You are using \cellcolor for consecutive cells in a row. This can be done easier by using
\rowcolor, see the EmbeddedObjects manual for an example.
- You don't need to have \usepackage{textcolor} in your document preamble. LyX takes care of this
for you.
Attached is your example that should work as you want it.
- I also found a bug in LyX:
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5750
- I'm still not able to get vertical lines when \rowcolor or \cellcolor is used. I'm investigating
this further.
regards Uwe
tabla_problema2.lyx
Description: application/lyx
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
(Forgot to reply to the full list again. My apologies Helge.) @ Vincent - The installer would be different, and LyX would have to not give error messages for messed-up layout files. See my notes below. @all - Regarding MicroLyX (tested on Windows) - I recalled that LyX could be run without a LaTeX distro installed, so I tried it. I ran Win XP in my virtualbox and tried installing a light-weight LyX with the current binary installer. Here's how it went: 1. Downloaded the install binary, about 20 Mb, which is fine as far as I'm concerned. 2. Started the installer. I was only asked three things: (a) do I want latex (no), (b) what language should LyX use (English) and (c) what language dictionaries do I want (I chose English). 3. After installing most of what I needed, it downloaded the aspell software and installed it. I thought that Python was required for LyX (it used to be required), but this apparently is no longer the case, which is nice. Overall, the full-LyX installer had no trouble installing a minimal LyX system. Then I tried running LyX. I got an error saying: The layout file requested by this document, article.layout, is not usable. This is probably because the LaTeX class or style file required is not available. See the Customization documentation for more information. LyX will not be able to produce output. Once I clicked out of that, I was able to work within the document just fine. You can only view those document types you can create. Therefore, I was not given the option to view a pdf or postscript version of the document, so I was not able to bother LyX asking it to do something it couldn't do. I did not text image viewing/conversion, but in my experience when you insert an image that LyX does not know how to convert, it automatically displays a message along the lines of "Could not convert this image for display." Conclusion: for windows, installing a stripped-down LyX is easy except that it always complains about the layout file. MicroLyX could easily just be a recompilation of LyX that does not generate those warnings (and uses a different title), accompanied by a separate installer. Any thoughts? David
Re: Big document
Paul Johnson wrote: [...] There are no show-stopping problems for me, but a few little problems. Even though each chapter setup indicates that it has a master document, and I *thought* Lyx would get a pre-amble from that master document, it appears to have no effect when I look at chapters. I want LyX uses the preamble of the document for which you issue the print/export command. Print the master, and the master preamble is used. Print a chapter alone, and the chapter preamble is used. This is sometimes necessary, for example if you make a book that is a collection of parts that you also print freestanding. ragged-right output, and it appears necessary to put the \RaggedRight stuff in every chapter preamble. When I view chapters by themselves, they do not inherit the preamble of the master document. So I end up copying the whole preamble from the master document into each chapter. Boring. LyX could be improved with some master/subdoc commands, such as "copy master preamble to all subdocuments" and "import preamble from master". Also, it is a problem that Chapter numbering is not correct when you work on chapters by themselves. There is an easy fix to set the chapter counter in ERT at the top of the document, but it is a bit of a pain. I wrote a book with chapter subdocuments. This was never an issue because I didn't use those numbers much while writing. All references to page numbers are automatic, so they are automatically correct when the final print is done. When communicating with the publisher, they might say things like "fix the typo on page 4". But then I knew what document they were referring to. Getting the numbers "right" in the beginning wasn't interesting because later additions to chapter 1 would shift the rest of the numbers anyway. Another problem I notice is that it is tedious to experiment with different document settings when working on separate chapters. If the main document, the one that has all the includes, is KOMA script, but then a chapter is just regular book, then when you use LyX to try view the whole document, you will get a lot of warnings about child documents of different types every time you view. Yes, but the warning doesn't matter unless the child document uses features that aren't in the master class. In that case you have trouble anyway. Perhaps it'd be more user-friendly to have a document setting checkbox with "inherit settings from master document". Check that, and the child document settings are all greyed out and the master document consulted when printing (and when LyX decides what class-specific paragraph types to show in the user interface.) the child document could even be stored without other settings than this checkbox and the master reference. Helge Hafting
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: It'd be a simple piece of software, self-contained and easy to install on someone's pc for cooperative writing. Is there a reason it has to be installed? Maybe it'd be interesting with a version that can be run without having first been installed? /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
spell checking in Dutch (or perhaps other languages than English)
I installed the Dutch package for ispell, but Lyx complained "Could not find dutch.hash". In looking in the ispell directory, I found a nederlands.hash and nederlands.aff . I added symbolic links dutch.hash and dutch.aff and now everything works fine! Sincerely, Hubert -- Hubert Christiaen Bloesemlaan 17 3360 Korbeek-Lo Belgium
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Helge Hafting schreef: Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I think this should hold for FullyLyX too. You should be able to use LyX without any Latex and/or Image conversion applications. Of course some export functions don't work and some images can't be converted, but plain text, etc. should work. I believe LyX already do that. No latex means you can export plain text, and possibly docbook if docbook support software is installed. Plain text export is handled by Lyx itself, so no need for supporting software. Then I don't understand what the difference between LyghtLyX and LyX is. Reading your other post: > It may also be useful on computers too small for latex > Lyx-light will be much easier to install because latex and other large packages of supporting software is omitted. The only difference I see is an installer that does not ask whether you would like to install the other packages/software ? Vincent
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Ken wrote: Helge, Thanks for your message. Yes, I wrote to the IT folks a few weeks ago with the suggestion and will try to follow it up in a few weeks time. While there is no licensing costs they may have to worry about the installation and support cost/effort. But again, I think that LyX is far and away better than SWP and is definitely worth their investment... and will try to convince them of it :) There is also the cost-cutting angle. Get this free sw up and running, then the powers that be may evaluate it as a replacement for both swp and word. All instances is not realistic, but fewer licenses may cost less. Helge Hafting
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: I think this should hold for FullyLyX too. You should be able to use LyX without any Latex and/or Image conversion applications. Of course some export functions don't work and some images can't be converted, but plain text, etc. should work. I believe LyX already do that. No latex means you can export plain text, and possibly docbook if docbook support software is installed. Plain text export is handled by Lyx itself, so no need for supporting software. (LyX have 3 export formats built in - latex, plain text, and the stuff docbook uses.) Helge Hafting
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
A B wrote: Not quite true. Most (if not all) of the image formats typically used by Windows user are natively supported by LyX. interesting; i would expect postscript to be used as the most common format for scientific papers... For the images? Rather EPS or PDF. PDF is supported. As the conversion between these two is easy and loss-less, it should not be a problem to work with a PDF version in a "LyX LyX-light" collaboration. I might have missed something here (I'm sorry in that case) but are you suggesting a LyX-light version for people that does not want to use anything but word or a LyX-light for LyX users to work with files that comes from people that does not use LyX? Standard LyX is necessary for the one that makes and submit the final document. Those who work on pieces and usually prefer word, can use this lyx-light. Lyx-light will be much easier to install because latex and other large packages of supporting software is omitted. So all you can do with Lyx-light is to write text and formulas (and add images.) Lyx-light can't print and can't produce pdf. It'd be a simple piece of software, self-contained and easy to install on someone's pc for cooperative writing. It may aslo be useful on computers too small for latex - such as PDA or smartphone. You can then work on a document with such a device, but will need to transfer it to a pc for printing. Helge Hafting
Re: How to edit
On Feb 5, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009 04:01:47 Niklas Huldén wrote: Joachim K. Rennstich wrote: Thanks, Ian, for the fast reply Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit, Kate etc. You will probably need to edit this file as root. I am using Lyx 1.6.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.6. Unfortunately, I don't really know how to locate (and thus edit) the file in question. Sorry, I am one of those GUI folks who have no clue about the underlying structure of the Mac OS... In your program folder you have a program called "Textedit". Use that program to open the file "/usr/local/etc/aspell.conf". And as your earlier post said: Remove the line "home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/aspell" (line 38 including blanks), or disable it by adding a "#" sign at the begining. Save the file, exit Textedit and start LyX again. I am no longer on a Mac, but up to a couple of years ago, the system would not show the /usr directory in a GUI application. So the file open dialog of a regular GUI text editor would not even show you the file. Only (in Apple's often infuriatingly paternalistic way) by default. From (IIRC) the very first version of OS X, if you hit Cmd-Shift-G in either the Finder or a File/Open dialog box, you will be given a small input box in which you can enter "hidden" directory and file names. Typing "/usr", in particular, will show you that directory in the Finder or dialog box. Besides, if you need root privileges to write on it, you'd definitely need to go through the command line (i.e. the Terminal app). True. (Gnome and KDE, which bring up an input box that let's you authenticate as root when you try to edit a file with root permissions, are much smarter about this.) But in any case, using vi or some other fast terminal-based editor from the command line is generally much faster for this sort of quick 'n' dirty file editing. -chris
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-02-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: Editing yes, output would need LaTeX even for text (AFAIK). No, unless this has changed recently, LateX is not needed for text export in the 1.5 and 1.6 series. This was about citation support. But I see it works without LaTeX too (but with limited funtionality: giving the bibtex-key instead):: ... for details see [milde.ea.ieee-sensors:08] [LaTeX-Befehl: bibtex] FYI, I think Richard has further improved the bibtex parsing lately. Abdel.
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-02-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: In my view, to use LaTeX as exchange format, LyX development should a) concentrate on an improved LyX -> LaTeX -> LyX cycle (with the aim to get this round-trip lossless) and b) encourage development/improvement of LaTeX converters (to/from OOffice, HTML, reStructuredText) that emphasise preserving the semantic over visual appearance. In my view LateX is too specialized and complicated for an interchange format. reStructuredText or any other simple markup language would be just fine IMHO. But LaTeX is "feature complete", while reStructuredText is even missing math support Word people do math? :-) Anyway, I was talking about basic structured, text only, document collaboration. Anything more complicated will need of course the same backend format for all collaborators (either LyX or LateX I agree). Quite frankly, I find it illusionary to even think that it is possible to collaborate on complex documents when the collaborators use different tools. Abdel.
Re: Error message after Installation with current lyx-webinstaller (windows)
Tiago Rinck Caveden schrieb: My Lyx user directory is a network path that CMD doesn't allow me to go to execute the program suggested. I haven't understand the problem. When you install LyX with admin permissions, LyX is usable for all users on a PC, no matter what permissions they have. When you need to add a directory to the PATH environment variable, then open Windows' System settings dialog. There you find under the advanced tab the button "Environment variables" where you can add your path to the PATH variable. Is there a way I can change this user directory, or pass a parameter to the script saying where to create the folder? Yes, open in LyX the menu Tools -> Preferences and change there under Path the directories. regards Uwe
Re: Typing in Hebrew
Theo Yale schrieb: However, I am also trying to type in Hebrew, and I don't know how to set up LyX for that. We've set up a Wiki page for this purpose: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Hebrew Most of the steps there should also work on other OSes like Mac. There's also a special Linux page: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/HebrewOnLinux I hope this helps to start. When you found solutions that are not listed in the Wiki pages, please add them there. (Note that XeTeX is not yet supported by LyX.) regards Uwe
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Guenter Milde wrote: On 2009-02-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Guenter Milde wrote: In my view, to use LaTeX as exchange format, LyX development should a) concentrate on an improved LyX -> LaTeX -> LyX cycle (with the aim to get this round-trip lossless) and b) encourage development/improvement of LaTeX converters (to/from OOffice, HTML, reStructuredText) that emphasise preserving the semantic over visual appearance. Anyone thinking of doing this kind of thing should probably look at plastex, which provides a sort of LaTeX parser written in Python. That would pretty easily give you one direction. In my view LateX is too specialized and complicated for an interchange format. reStructuredText or any other simple markup language would be just fine IMHO. But LaTeX is "feature complete", while reStructuredText is even missing math support (not to speak of paragraph alignment, tables, citations or a glossary). Yes, to me, that's a deal breaker as far as using ReST goes. And I don't really see that their development goals will ever lead to a situation where ReST is feature complete, in that sense. So my own view, for what it's worth, is that a greatly improved LaTeX<-->ODT converter is needed, one that "preserves semantics", or else a direct LyX<-->ODT converter is needed. There seem to be some existing python tools for reading and writing ODF, so those could perhaps be used. rh
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On 2009-02-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> In my view, to use LaTeX as exchange format, >> LyX development should >> a) concentrate on an improved >> LyX -> LaTeX -> LyX >>cycle (with the aim to get this round-trip lossless) and >> b) encourage development/improvement of LaTeX converters (to/from >>OOffice, HTML, reStructuredText) that emphasise preserving the >>semantic over visual appearance. > In my view LateX is too specialized and complicated for an interchange > format. reStructuredText or any other simple markup language would be > just fine IMHO. But LaTeX is "feature complete", while reStructuredText is even missing math support (not to speak of paragraph alignment, tables, citations or a glossary). > I think it should not be difficult to extent lyx2lyx to handle > reStructuredText directly (or even HTML or OOfice). > Any taker? You just need to know python to handle this project, no need > to fiddle with LyX' internals at all. lyx2lyx provide a nice abstraction > layer other the lyx format. Sounds interesting, especially as the Docutils_ provide the abstraction of reStructuredText in Python as well, so a Docutils lyxwriter using lyx2lyx looks like a good idea. Günter
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
A B schreef: Not quite true. Most (if not all) of the image formats typically used by Windows user are natively supported by LyX. interesting; i would expect postscript to be used as the most common format for scientific papers... For the images? Rather EPS or PDF. PDF is supported. As the conversion between these two is easy and loss-less, it should not be a problem to work with a PDF version in a "LyX LyX-light" collaboration. I might have missed something here (I'm sorry in that case) but are you suggesting a LyX-light version for people that does not want to use anything but word Paradoxically yes. or a LyX-light for LyX users to work with files that comes from people that does not use LyX? Regards. Vincent
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
>>> Not quite true. Most (if not all) of the image formats typically used by >>> Windows user are natively supported by LyX. > >> interesting; i would expect postscript to be used as the most common format >> for scientific papers... > > For the images? Rather EPS or PDF. PDF is supported. > > As the conversion between these two is easy and loss-less, it should not > be a problem to work with a PDF version in a "LyX LyX-light" > collaboration. I might have missed something here (I'm sorry in that case) but are you suggesting a LyX-light version for people that does not want to use anything but word or a LyX-light for LyX users to work with files that comes from people that does not use LyX? Regards.
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Piero Faustini schreef: Helge Hafting writes: Or in the case of a serious cooperation setup - use the same config file as the guy who has the full lyx setup and does the printing. That's smart. LyghtLyX (got the word-pun?) should know that with that document, he is working on a project, for which he relies on the config supplied by a file and related to another machine - config problems are entirely THAT machine's problem. He doesn't care. If he can't give a visualization of a image or external material etc. he simply put this message in a in-text-box "I can't show you this image". He should be self-conscious of his different nature (that's the reason I used HE and not IT...). I think this should hold for FullyLyX too. You should be able to use LyX without any Latex and/or Image conversion applications. Of course some export functions don't work and some images can't be converted, but plain text, etc. should work. I read many opinions, and, although we need more, I made my mind that this LyX version should taken in serious consideration by main developers, .. I hope I'm closing in on that ;-) .. and we need to know how much work should this require. As you understand by now, I only see improvements to LyX without the need for having a different application. And improvements are of course always worth implementing. As a non-programmer I have no idea, but I guess it's less complicated than work on some rtf converters (which, btw, I strongly encourage, of course), the most complicated thing could be re-design the way LyX approach a document: now it should approach a PROJECT, and, even if I have NO experience nor any knoledge with project-management-software, I guess could be a interesting advance with respect to LaTeX or other scientific software. This should definitely be a feature of LyX ... sometime, but that is a little different topic. Anyway, hope that with last suggestion I contributed to move back the discussion to original problem: collaboration. I thought the whole discussion on LyghtLyX was for improved collaboration. Vincent
Re: (coco) Aspell and Lyx - how to add a Personal Dictionary file?
Thanks for all your help! None of these suggestions did the trick for me, however :-( I got a number or emails asking me to post a solution if I should ever find one, well, here goes: This solution assumes, that you got the aspell installation to work. The easiest way to do this is to use Cocoaspell. See the Lyx Mac Wiki for more instructions. The wiki now also states the critical advice that if If at this point you are unable to save new words to the personal dictionary you will need to edit the file at /usr/local/etc/aspell.conf. Remove the line "home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/aspell" (line 38 including blanks), or disable it by adding a "#" sign at the begining. I didn't really know how to do this, however, so here's my step-by-step guide: 1) Start Terminal. Copy or type the following line: open /usr/local/etc/aspell.conf This will open the hidden file in your predefined text editor (most likely TextEdit, unless you have donwloaded some editor). (2) Go to line 38 or look for the line home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/aspel (3) Add a # in front of the line (4) Chose "File > Open" from the menu to view the file aspell.conf and click once on the file in the dialog box to select it (do not double click) (5) Apple + I (press the key with the Apple logo or command key and the "i" key together). This brings up the "About..." box. At the very bottom, click on the lock symbol to be able to make changes. It will ask you for your administrative password. Now you can change the file to "read and write" in all three instance (just above the lock symbol). (6) After you have made the changes in your text editor (see (2) and (3)), save the file (which you now can. If you haven't done step (4) and (5) you will get the notification "read only." (7) Make sure, that in Lyx you have left the path in "Preferences > Languages Settings > Spellchecker" empty. If you have installed Aspell through Cocoaspell, then make sure that you have /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias in your "Alternative Language" path. All the other paths need to be empty. (8) Restart Lyx. Try the spelling checker now and learn some words. Check the file again. For me, this did the trick. Hope it will too, for you!
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On 2009-02-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> Editing yes, output would need LaTeX even for text (AFAIK). > No, unless this has changed recently, LateX is not needed for text > export in the 1.5 and 1.6 series. This was about citation support. But I see it works without LaTeX too (but with limited funtionality: giving the bibtex-key instead):: ... for details see [milde.ea.ieee-sensors:08] [LaTeX-Befehl: bibtex] Günter
Re: How to edit
Niklas Huldén writes: > In your program folder you have a program called "Textedit". Use that > program to open the file "/usr/local/etc/aspell.conf". > And as your earlier post said: > Remove the line "home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/aspell" (line 38 > including blanks), or disable it by adding a "#" sign at the begining. > > Save the file, exit Textedit and start LyX again I finally figured out a way to do this. In Mac OS X you cannot simply open hidden files in TextEdit (or any other standard text editors). Here are the steps that finally allowed me to add words to my dictionary: (1) Start Terminal. Copy or type the following line: open /usr/local/etc/aspell.conf This will open the hidden file in your predefined text editor (most likely TextEdit, unless you have donwloaded some editor). (2) Go to line 38 or look for the line home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/aspel (3) Add a # in front of the line (4) Chose "File > Open" from the menu to view the file aspell.conf and click once on the file in the dialog box to select it (do not double click) (5) Apple + I (press the key with the Apple logo or command key and the "i" key together). This brings up the "About..." box. At the very bottom, click on the lock symbol to be able to make changes. It will ask you for your administrative password. Now you can change the file to "read and write" in all three instance (just above the lock symbol). (6) After you have made the changes in your text editor (see (2) and (3)), save the file (which you now can. If you haven't done step (4) and (5) you will get the notification "read only." (7) Make sure, that in Lyx you have left the path in "Preferences > Languages Settings > Spellchecker" empty. If you have installed Aspell through Cocoaspell, then make sure that you have /Library/Application Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0/english.alias in your "Alternative Language" path. All the other paths need to be empty. (8) Restart Lyx. Try the spelling checker now and learn some words. Check the file again. For me, this did the trick. Hope it will too, for you!
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On 2009-02-05, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> Pavel Sanda wrote: >>> Piero Faustini wrote: want. No converters, no LaTeX. >>> no converters -> no pictures >> Not quite true. Most (if not all) of the image formats typically used by >> Windows user are natively supported by LyX. > interesting; i would expect postscript to be used as the most common format > for scientific papers... For the images? Rather EPS or PDF. PDF is supported. As the conversion between these two is easy and loss-less, it should not be a problem to work with a PDF version in a "LyX LyX-light" collaboration. Günter
Re: Creating macros in Lyx
Pascal Francq wrote: Hi, Does anybody know if it is possible to create macro in Lyx and how to do it ? In practice, I want to add some shortcuts to action such as "putting the text in red" or "the text is in English". Thanks. Anything you can do in LyX---any sequence of actions---can be assigned (bound) to a key. Two ways. (i) The file that sets the bindings is just a text file, *.bind; you can find out which one you are using in Tools>Preferences>Editing>Shortcuts. Copy that file to your LyX user directory, and then edit as you wish. The syntax is reasonably straightforward. (ii) Use the Shortcuts editor in Tools>Preferences>Editing>Shortcuts. The only problem now is to know function what to assign. The available functions are described in Help>LyX Functions, so you can look them up there. But an easier way is to watch the status line when you perform some action: LyX will usually pop up the name of the function you just used. If you want to perform a sequence of actions, then you'll need to use the command-sequence LFUN to do it, e.g.: command-sequence word-select; textstyle-update color 3 That selects the current word and makes it red. (Getting the textstyle-update syntax right is less easy than with other things.) rh
Re: Creating macros in Lyx
On 2009-02-05, Pascal Francq wrote: > Does anybody know if it is possible to create macro in Lyx No. But a key-binding. > In practice, I want to add some shortcuts to action such as "putting the te= > xt=20 > in red" or "the text is in English". After selecting an action from the menu/toolbars, LyX will show the used lyx-function (lfun) and arguments for a while in the status bar. You can test if this is really the needed command by writing it into the M-x (Alt-x) command buffer and if it's correct add it to your keybindings file. Günter
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Helge Hafting writes: > > Or in the case of a serious cooperation setup - use the same config file > as the guy who has the full lyx setup and does the printing. That's smart. LyghtLyX (got the word-pun?) should know that with that document, he is working on a project, for which he relies on the config supplied by a file and related to another machine - config problems are entirely THAT machine's problem. He doesn't care. If he can't give a visualization of a image or external material etc. he simply put this message in a in-text-box "I can't show you this image". He should be self-conscious of his different nature (that's the reason I used HE and not IT...). I read many opinions, and, although we need more, I made my mind that this LyX version should taken in serious consideration by main developers, and we need to know how much work should this require. As a non-programmer I have no idea, but I guess it's less complicated than work on some rtf converters (which, btw, I strongly encourage, of course), the most complicated thing could be re-design the way LyX approach a document: now it should approach a PROJECT, and, even if I have NO experience nor any knoledge with project-management-software, I guess could be a interesting advance with respect to LaTeX or other scientific software. Anyway, hope that with last suggestion I contributed to move back the discussion to original problem: collaboration.
Re: How to edit
On Thursday 05 February 2009 04:01:47 Niklas Huldén wrote: > Joachim K. Rennstich wrote: > > Thanks, Ian, for the fast reply > > > >> Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know > >> what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit, Kate > >> etc. You will probably need to edit this file as root. > > > > I am using Lyx 1.6.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.6. Unfortunately, I don't really > > know how to locate (and thus edit) the file in question. Sorry, I am one > > of those GUI folks who have no clue about the underlying structure of > > the Mac OS... > > In your program folder you have a program called "Textedit". Use that > program to open the file "/usr/local/etc/aspell.conf". > And as your earlier post said: > Remove the line "home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/aspell" (line 38 > including blanks), or disable it by adding a "#" sign at the begining. > > Save the file, exit Textedit and start LyX again > > best regards > > Niklas I am no longer on a Mac, but up to a couple of years ago, the system would not show the /usr directory in a GUI application. So the file open dialog of a regular GUI text editor would not even show you the file. Besides, if you need root privileges to write on it, you'd definitely need to go through the command line (i.e. the Terminal app) Things may have changed, though. Cheers, S. __ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211 Texas A&M University Fax: (979) 845-0458 305B Bolton Hall fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu College Station, TX 77843-4237
Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)
It would appear that on Feb 4, David Mertens did say:
>
> Oops. I only sent this to Joe. Resending to LyX list.
>
I had wondered about that extra copy... Probably my fault. I keep
forgetting which mailing lists need me to NOT include "me" on the Reply-To:
and which ones rewrite it to point at the list. Actually if I got
a reply worth responding to that wasn't obviously intended as a private
reply, which I couldn't find on the list id have probably have started a
reply with full quoting, then pasted it's contents into a reply to the
thread... Then as long as I remember which reply to cancel... ;-7
>
> Did you try using a vertical fill via Insert->Formatting->Vertical Space,
> select Vertical Fill? This seemed to work for me:
>
> [ some text at top, at least a protected space ]
> ^
> |
> Vertical Fill
> |
>
> [ text at bottom of page ]
>
No I didn't... But if vertical fill is designed to automatically expand
and or contract as necessary to keep the remaining text before a page
break at the bottom of the page. without changing where that next page
break occurs then it's exactly what I was looking for. And probably a
good reason why I should once again reread the documents found under
LyX->help. Cause now that you mention it I think I have a ghost of a
memory of reading about something like this way back when...
It would appear that on Feb 4, Steve Litt did say:
>
> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 04:21:26 am Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
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> >
> > All I need to figure out now is: how to suppress the printing of any
> > page number on pages I don't want numbered???
>
> \thispagestyle{empty}
>
> >
> > Well that and how to get Lyx to position the "by authorname" & copyright
> > information at the bottom of an otherwise blank page instead of at the
> > top of one???
>
> THIS, my friend, is why I always ERT fine tune my frontmatter. By the time
> you
> end up trying to outsmart your document class in order to get the frontmatter
> the way you want your frontmatter to look, it's easier to do the whole thing
> in ERT. Not only that, but a lot of people decide on a document class based
> on what they want the frontmatter to look like, and then suffer the
> consequences in the mainmatter.
Yup. Does that ever ring true... Now that I know how to separate
"front", "main", and if called for, "back" "matter" My only prob will
be in figuring out what to put in the gosh durned ERT boxes... Course,
this thread has given me several priceless clues on that...
Though in this case it looks like the functionality I was looking for
can be had internally with that " Vertical Fill" insert function.
> >
> > (and/or how to get it to use an arbitrary {hard coded?} date,
>
> \date{January 25, 2525}
>
This works for me... I'd just have to remember to update it if there
was a revision.
> Joe --- You've learned a lot. When you've gotten it all, I suggest you write
> a
> document about what you learned and post its URL here so we can all use it.
> The questions you ask pop up over and over again, and your in-the-trenches
> documentation would be very helpful to those who come after you.
Well I might do something like that sometime... But the only place I've
got to put such a thing is my isp provided ("personal web" / "online data
storage") space. And while I know how to post a link to that, it's not
n the other hand if the lyx mailing list has a web archive where a url
of a particular message could be referenced then perhaps I could
compose something of the kind as a reply to this thread. If I kept it
all in plain text, it wouldn't take that much band width... What do
you think?
It would appear that on Feb 5, Yago did say:
> > Plus how to suppress the date of output generation, from the title
> > page???
>
> \date{}
>
Now there's an elegantly brutal solution... I LIKE it!
Hmmmnn I'll have to experiment if something like this in the
frontmatter will affect something that inserts the current date
someplace in the mainmatter... Like perhaps an ERT \today
> > (and/or how to get it to use an arbitrary {hard coded?} date, or perhaps
> > even the date the .lyx file was last changed,instead...)
>
> isodate package.
>
Tell me more... I just did a google for "lyx isodate package" but it
didn't turn up anything that sounded like what I'm hoping you mean...
That is that there is a package that will let me tell lyx or latex to
extract the date (and time? from the lyx file's last modification time
stamp??? I'd be glad they did such a thing. Though I suspect it's likely
more work to figure out than is worth it to me.
Well I'd like to thank All of you for the kind help you've all shown
me. The info in this one thread is priceless.
--
| ~^~ ~^~
| <*> <*> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
| ^ J(tWdy)P
| \___/ <>
Re: Spell checking
Installing cocoAspell worked. Great.
Re: Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD?
On Thursday 05 February 2009 05:00:47 am Julian Stacey wrote: > Steve Litt wrote: > > Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD? How do you like it? > > I tried lyx-1.4.5.1_1 On FreeBSD-7.1 with /usr/ports/print/lyx > I wanted to generate 3 column stuff, asked for help here > Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:50:35 +0100 > Subject: 3 column 2 page leaflet in lyx - How to achieve it ? > & got zero response. > > I consumed a lot of searching, did some failed experiments adding > extra macro files & tex code, got puzzled by the front end, ran out > of time as deadline neared to produce 3 column, & dumped lyx in > favour of using .tex direct, ( a template for 3 column for which > was already under here http://www.berklix.org/bim/leaflet/ ) > > PS there were also mentions of FreeBSD in my reponse > Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:19:26 +0100 > to Steve of Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:59:32 -0500 (15:59 CET) > > Cheers, > Julian Thanks Julian, Were you already familiar with LyX from Linux or Windows? What I'm trying to ask is, were these problems a FreeBSD specific thing, or a LyX thing? Also, I tried the URL on your 12/26/2008 email, but got a 404. LyX aside, how do you like FreeBSD? Do you use it for a desktop? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thursday 05 February 2009 05:51:38 am Guenter Milde wrote: > Why not Ly-X (for lyx without TeX)? but this is a minor point. That doesn't roll smoothly off the tongue and sounds a little too much like "liar." SteveT
Re: Spell checking
OK, I can see that there is an answer to my question on the LyX wiki. Didn't realize that before asking here.
Spell checking
I badly need spell checking for my typing. LyX relies on aspell, which I don't have. I went to the aspell web page and downloaded, but I find no installation instructions. I'm lost. I use LyX on a Mac, and it seems aspell is some kind of unix thing. I can see that cocoAspell is a Mac version of aspell. If I install that, will it also work from LyX? Thanks.
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
I like the idea of LyX-Lite too. Perhaps one way to deal with the images problem is for LyX to export a LyX-Lite version with images in jpg/png format to a sub-directory along with the lyxlite.lyx file. Would this make sharing the images within a document easier and more light-weight? -Ken
Re: Typing in Hebrew
Follow
http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/Hebrew
Ehud Kaplan
Theo Yale wrote:
Hello there:
I am somewhat new to LaTeX (downloaded through MacTeX) and almost
totally nex to LyX. I am currently using 1.5.7 (operating on Mac OS
10.3.9). I have gone through the user's guides and tutorials, so I'm
able to make LyX pretty much do what I want in English.
However, I am also trying to type in Hebrew, and I don't know how to
set up LyX for that. Of course I have found several things onliine,
but all of them are either outdated (for example require teTeX);
windows specific; or unclear (most often a combination of the three).
Can anyone either explain to me in an idiot-proof fashion how to get
LyX to work in Hebrew or else point me towards a good current online
how-to?
I am intersted in writing whole Hebrew documents, documents with some
English words, or English documents with some Hebrew words. Currently
I can do the last one using XeTeX and ERT (\font\h="Lucida Grande" at
Xpt; {\h HEBREW TEXT}) but there are some problems even with that.
The most major of these is that the words show up in reverse order.
For example the sentence:
"These words are in Hebrew"
is displayed as
"Hebrew in are words These"
(but they compile correctly in pdf form)
Also,there are a few other things that don't work (Hebrew words won't
show up in the TOC) and it is in general just a pain in the neck.
So what am I supposed to do? Are there some settings I'm supposed to
click (changing the language settings in "preferences" or in "document
settings" hasn't helped at all)? Do I need to download something?
Thanks so much!
T. E. Yale
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Guenter Milde wrote: In my view, to use LaTeX as exchange format, LyX development should a) concentrate on an improved LyX -> LaTeX -> LyX cycle (with the aim to get this round-trip lossless) and b) encourage development/improvement of LaTeX converters (to/from OOffice, HTML, reStructuredText) that emphasise preserving the semantic over visual appearance. I think it should not be difficult to extent lyx2lyx to handle reStructuredText directly (or even HTML or OOfice). In my view LateX is too specialized and complicated for an interchange format. reStructuredText or any other simple markup language would be just fine IMHO. Any taker? You just need to know python to handle this project, no need to fiddle with LyX' internals at all. lyx2lyx provide a nice abstraction layer other the lyx format. Abdel.
Re: Puzzled
1. I certainly chose view/pdflatex when the failure occurred. 2. The pdflatext command is recognized by the failing Windows machine: I get a pdf file if I do not include pdf graphics in the Lyx file. It is only the pdf figures that cause it to produce a "damaged" file. Ehud Kaplan, Helge Hafting wrote: Ehud Kaplan wrote: This must be simple for the experts, but it puzzles me: I have a file with some figures. It compiles without any problem on both a WINDOWS (with Miktex 2.7) machine and on a Kubuntu 8.10 machine, both running Lyx 16.1. But on another WINDOWS machine (Miktex 2.7, Lyx 1.6.1) it fails to compile (View-->pdflatex), returning an errors. The exact error messages may be of help. However, if on that machine the pdf figures are replaced by their eps equivalents, all is fine. pdflatex is supposed to handle pdf figures - witout any conversion. The other ways of producing PDF (dvipdfm and ps2pdf) needs eps files. First, check to make sure that you really did use view->PDF(pdflatex) on the failing machine. Make sure it isn't view->PDF(ps2pdf) or view->PDF(dvipdfm). If the failing machine don't have pdflatex, then lyx will still offer the other two alternatives for PDF. This could also be a path problem. Check that pdflatex is in the path on both machines, i.e. the command "pdflatex" is recognized on the command line on both machines. Having the software is not enough, the PATH setting must be right too. Helge Hafting
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Guenter Milde wrote: Editing yes, output would need LaTeX even for text (AFAIK). No, unless this has changed recently, LateX is not needed for text export in the 1.5 and 1.6 series. Abdel.
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Pavel Sanda wrote: >> Piero Faustini wrote: >>> want. No converters, no LaTeX. >> no converters -> no pictures > > Not quite true. Most (if not all) of the image formats typically used by > Windows user are natively supported by LyX. interesting; i would expect postscript to be used as the most common format for scientific papers... pavel
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Helge, Thanks for your message. Yes, I wrote to the IT folks a few weeks ago with the suggestion and will try to follow it up in a few weeks time. While there is no licensing costs they may have to worry about the installation and support cost/effort. But again, I think that LyX is far and away better than SWP and is definitely worth their investment... and will try to convince them of it :) Ken 2009/2/5 Helge Hafting > Ken wrote: > > harder to export them to SWP even though they are both LaTeX editors. At >> the >> university, SWP is available as a standard install on machines but not >> LyX. >> > Have you tried getting the university to offer LyX as part of the standard > install as well? Being free means they don't need a budget or any licence > tracking, just the one-time job of setting up the install. Which shouldn't > be that tricky given that they already offer latex. > > This won't help with the guy stuck on SWP, but it will be easier to have > more people try. > > Helge Hafting >
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On 2009-02-05, Rainer M Krug wrote: > the options of editing via PDFs and conversion from and to rtf, should > be explored further as they really would solve the problem. The problem here is, that PDF and rtf do not provide semantic markup so most of the document structure and other vital information is irrevesibly lost. This means the scenario: LyX-file -> PDF/rtf-file -> Edit -> reconvert to LyX-file is impossible. OTOH, LaTeX and HTML * support semantic markup, * are widely known and used, * can be converted to and from a wide range of other formats by existing third party tools (with limitations, though), While HTML has wider prevalence, LaTeX supports more features an is closer to the docuement model used in LyX. In my view, to use LaTeX as exchange format, LyX development should a) concentrate on an improved LyX -> LaTeX -> LyX cycle (with the aim to get this round-trip lossless) and b) encourage development/improvement of LaTeX converters (to/from OOffice, HTML, reStructuredText) that emphasise preserving the semantic over visual appearance. c) optimise the LaTeX import from these converters. Using HTML as exchange format would require similar efforts a) use/improvement/development of HTML<->* converters that preserve the semantic information and leave the "presentational" layout completely to CSS. b) a common extension method to represent semantic information that has no direct counterpart in HTML. > I still consider the via comments in pdfs together with syncTeX as the > easiest to include. Also, with syncTeX, it should be possible to > import the comments as notes in the original LyX document (at the > right position) - stated from somebody who does not know anything > about the inner workings of LaTeX and pdfs. In principle, something like LyX-file -> PDF/rtf-file -> Annote -> import annotations into LyX-file should be possible. But I cannot say how much work this is and whether or when it could be done. Günter
Re: some questions on page numbering (pages BEFORE chapter 1)
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
[...]
Well that and how to get Lyx to position the "by authorname" & copyright
information at the bottom of an otherwise blank page instead of at the
top of one???
(there has to be a better way than inserting a bunch of hard returns.
I mean that method would have to be re-tweaked every time the output
page size changed.)
"Insert->Formatting->vertical space"
Select "vfill" to push what follows right to the bottom of the page.
Or specify any distance you like.
Plus how to suppress the date of output generation, from the title
page???
When you have a "Title", then a date will be added _unless_ you provide
one yourself.
So follow the title with a paragraph of type "Date".
If you want no date at all, just write a protected space there. (ctrl+space)
(and/or how to get it to use an arbitrary {hard coded?} date, or perhaps
even the date the .lyx file was last changed,instead...)
If you want a hardcoded date, just type it into that paragraph of type
"Date". Any format will do, for "Date" is just plain text centered
nicely under the "Title", using a suitable font.
Helge Hafting
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: Isn't this going to be a big problem? LyX objects rather strongly when it thinks you don't have the corresponding LaTeX class installed. Of course, this behaviour could be changed. Isn't this decision made based on what the configure script autodetected at install time? Just supply a fake config file where each and every latex feature is believed to exist. I think it is. Faking the config file is an interesting idea, but I worry it might not cause other problems. What should happen if the user tries to create a PDF? I guess this light version culd have those options removed from the menu system and the toolbars. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Ken wrote: harder to export them to SWP even though they are both LaTeX editors. At the university, SWP is available as a standard install on machines but not LyX. Have you tried getting the university to offer LyX as part of the standard install as well? Being free means they don't need a budget or any licence tracking, just the one-time job of setting up the install. Which shouldn't be that tricky given that they already offer latex. This won't help with the guy stuck on SWP, but it will be easier to have more people try. Helge Hafting
Typing in Hebrew
Hello there:
I am somewhat new to LaTeX (downloaded through MacTeX) and almost
totally nex to LyX. I am currently using 1.5.7 (operating on Mac OS
10.3.9). I have gone through the user's guides and tutorials, so I'm
able to make LyX pretty much do what I want in English.
However, I am also trying to type in Hebrew, and I don't know how to
set up LyX for that. Of course I have found several things onliine,
but all of them are either outdated (for example require teTeX);
windows specific; or unclear (most often a combination of the three).
Can anyone either explain to me in an idiot-proof fashion how to get
LyX to work in Hebrew or else point me towards a good current online
how-to?
I am intersted in writing whole Hebrew documents, documents with some
English words, or English documents with some Hebrew words. Currently
I can do the last one using XeTeX and ERT (\font\h="Lucida Grande" at
Xpt; {\h HEBREW TEXT}) but there are some problems even with that.
The most major of these is that the words show up in reverse order.
For example the sentence:
"These words are in Hebrew"
is displayed as
"Hebrew in are words These"
(but they compile correctly in pdf form)
Also,there are a few other things that don't work (Hebrew words won't
show up in the TOC) and it is in general just a pain in the neck.
So what am I supposed to do? Are there some settings I'm supposed to
click (changing the language settings in "preferences" or in "document
settings" hasn't helped at all)? Do I need to download something?
Thanks so much!
T. E. Yale
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Christian Ridderström wrote: On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) Why not Ly-X (for lyx without TeX)? but this is a minor point. Maybe it's _too_ close to LyX? Thus easily mistaken. lyxlight? minilyx? microlyx? Also, it may be that some settings are blocked if the supporting LaTeX package is missing. Isn't this going to be a big problem? LyX objects rather strongly when it thinks you don't have the corresponding LaTeX class installed. Of course, this behaviour could be changed. Isn't this decision made based on what the configure script autodetected at install time? Just supply a fake config file where each and every latex feature is believed to exist. Or in the case of a serious cooperation setup - use the same config file as the guy who has the full lyx setup and does the printing. Helge Hafting
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Guenter Milde wrote: idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) Why not Ly-X (for lyx without TeX)? but this is a minor point. Maybe it's _too_ close to LyX? Thus easily mistaken. Also, it may be that some settings are blocked if the supporting LaTeX package is missing. Isn't this going to be a big problem? LyX objects rather strongly when it thinks you don't have the corresponding LaTeX class installed. Of course, this behaviour could be changed. It could help, if you (or any other interested person) could try LyX without LaTeX (deinstall LaTeX and reconfigure LyX or install LyX on a box without LaTeX) and report the experience and problems. That's a good idea. And as Guenter says, remember to reconfigure LyX to experience the problems with missing LaTeX classes. regards, /Christian -- Christian Ridderström Mobile: +46-70 687 39 44
Re: Puzzled
Ehud Kaplan wrote: This must be simple for the experts, but it puzzles me: I have a file with some figures. It compiles without any problem on both a WINDOWS (with Miktex 2.7) machine and on a Kubuntu 8.10 machine, both running Lyx 16.1. But on another WINDOWS machine (Miktex 2.7, Lyx 1.6.1) it fails to compile (View-->pdflatex), returning an errors. The exact error messages may be of help. However, if on that machine the pdf figures are replaced by their eps equivalents, all is fine. pdflatex is supposed to handle pdf figures - witout any conversion. The other ways of producing PDF (dvipdfm and ps2pdf) needs eps files. First, check to make sure that you really did use view->PDF(pdflatex) on the failing machine. Make sure it isn't view->PDF(ps2pdf) or view->PDF(dvipdfm). If the failing machine don't have pdflatex, then lyx will still offer the other two alternatives for PDF. This could also be a path problem. Check that pdflatex is in the path on both machines, i.e. the command "pdflatex" is recognized on the command line on both machines. Having the software is not enough, the PATH setting must be right too. Helge Hafting
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On 2009-02-04, David Mertens wrote: >> 3. (optional, and not so inmediate) A light-weight full-view (and >> idiot-proof as well) LyX version, (I have the name: LyteX or LyghtX!) Why not Ly-X (for lyx without TeX)? but this is a minor point. >> is able to edit text (and structure) of conventional LyX docs >> This software should be completely LaTeX independent and, if possible, >> to have an alternate output system for printing a simple >> representation of the content. The main point is that its already possible to install and use LyX for document viewing and editing without the need to install helpers (TeX and Friends). I am not completely sure about the Text export. Also, it may be that some settings are blocked if the supporting LaTeX package is missing. >> Citation dialogs and any other stuff which do not need LaTeX should >> work. Editing yes, output would need LaTeX even for text (AFAIK). ... > Yeah, a LyX viewer/editor without document processing back-end > (and the associated 800Mb download) would be great. A basic standard LaTeX system should fit into <~ 20 MB but as already said it not required by LyX. It could help, if you (or any other interested person) could try LyX without LaTeX (deinstall LaTeX and reconfigure LyX or install LyX on a box without LaTeX) and report the experience and problems. Günter
Creating macros in Lyx
Hi, Does anybody know if it is possible to create macro in Lyx and how to do it ? In practice, I want to add some shortcuts to action such as "putting the text in red" or "the text is in English". Thanks. -- Pascal Francq signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Error message after Installation with current lyx-webinstaller (windows)
Hello everybody, I'm new to the list, I fount this thread on Nabble via Google and I'm having the same problem. My Lyx user directory is a network path that CMD doesn't allow me to go to execute the program suggested. Is there a way I can change this user directory, or pass a parameter to the script saying where to create the folder? Thanks! By the way... grapeshot wrote: > > > >>>1. Make sure that the MiKTeX bin directory is on your system command path. > > THIS advice has me very puzzled. WHAT does this mean?? Where do I check > this? > I think he meant Windows PATH environment variable. Right-click on My Computer -> Advanced -> Environment Variables. Find PATH, and add MiKTeX bin directory to the list. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Error-message-after-Installation-with-current-lyx-webinstaller-%28windows%29-tp477745p2274243.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
On 2009-02-04, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Piero Faustini wrote: >> want. No converters, no LaTeX. > no converters -> no pictures Well, pictures in formats supported directly by QT will still be visible (which are a lot). Günter
Re: How to edit
Joachim K. Rennstich wrote: Thanks, Ian, for the fast reply Configuration files should handled with a text editor. I don't know what that would be for your system but something like Vim, Gedit, Kate etc. You will probably need to edit this file as root. I am using Lyx 1.6.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.6. Unfortunately, I don't really know how to locate (and thus edit) the file in question. Sorry, I am one of those GUI folks who have no clue about the underlying structure of the Mac OS... In your program folder you have a program called "Textedit". Use that program to open the file "/usr/local/etc/aspell.conf". And as your earlier post said: Remove the line "home-dir $HOME/Library/Preferences/aspell" (line 38 including blanks), or disable it by adding a "#" sign at the begining. Save the file, exit Textedit and start LyX again best regards Niklas
Re: Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD?
Steve Litt wrote: > Anyone using LyX on FreeBSD? How do you like it? I tried lyx-1.4.5.1_1 On FreeBSD-7.1 with /usr/ports/print/lyx I wanted to generate 3 column stuff, asked for help here Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:50:35 +0100 Subject: 3 column 2 page leaflet in lyx - How to achieve it ? & got zero response. I consumed a lot of searching, did some failed experiments adding extra macro files & tex code, got puzzled by the front end, ran out of time as deadline neared to produce 3 column, & dumped lyx in favour of using .tex direct, ( a template for 3 column for which was already under here http://www.berklix.org/bim/leaflet/ ) PS there were also mentions of FreeBSD in my reponse Fri, 26 Dec 2008 17:19:26 +0100 to Steve of Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:59:32 -0500 (15:59 CET) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail plain ASCII text. HTML & Base64 text are spam. www.asciiribbon.org
Re: How to edit
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 01:43:30 + (UTC) Joachim K. Rennstich wrote: > I don't really know > how to locate (and thus edit) the file in question. Assuming the information in the wiki is correct, for your system, the file has been located already. /usr/local/etc/aspell.conf I don't know anything about Apple systems but I presume your text editor has a File/Open menu where you navigate to the file. Alternatively, you could open a terminal and type text-editor /usr/local/etc/aspell.conf where "text-editor" is the command to start your text editor. Remember, you probably need to have root privileges to edit a file in this location. Regards, Iain.
Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Pavel Sanda wrote: Piero Faustini wrote: want. No converters, no LaTeX. no converters -> no pictures Not quite true. Most (if not all) of the image formats typically used by Windows user are natively supported by LyX. Abdel.
Using example to promote (Was: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?)
Hi, Here's an ide for those wishing to promote LyX within their particular field or organisation: Create one or more simple example documents that use reasonable formatting and layout for your area. I think that if the starting threshold to actually being productive is lowered by being able to start from a suitable template or example document, it'll be much easier for people to be converted. The infrastructure for such examples is even in place... you can just create your own wiki page(s) and upload examples. When creating an example, remember to upload not only the .lyx-file, but also the .pdf. It's probably the PDF that they'll look at first to see the result. You're welcome to ask for help on how to create the wiki page or on how to upload examples. As for creating such examples, you can base them on documents you've already prepared. And, of course, you can ask for help on this list. It might also be a good idea to ask people on the list to scrutinize the methods used in the document to produce the required layout. Best regards /Christian PS. My thinking here was greatly inspired by noticing how much more productive I became when I used a template document as a starting point. This template document already has suitable headers, footers etc with logotype and whatnot. On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: Nice promotional page! I had planned to write a page on LyX on my very slow-living blog after the release of the version 1.6, but I have not time yet. My students normally use the tips I give there Maybe during the next holidays I will try to put it in place. The promotion is important. What about the publication in economic journals of articles exported from LyX? I slowly begin to switch to LyX but I keep SWP for professional issues since I know that it is accepted by international journals... Regards, Murat 2009/2/4 Erez Yerushalmi : Hi all, I agree with much of what has been said. Another thing which *diffuses* LyX into the academia is just pure*advertising * - I'm using Murat's words. For example, I am advertising LyX to all my students and colleagues. Maybe a good thing is for all those that like LyX, to do something similar. See example: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/phds/3rd_year/yerushalmi/computing/lyx In the economics department at Warwick University we have many LyX "converts". I really love LyX and thanks to it, have stopped writing by hand. Erez On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Murat Yildizoglu < murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr> wrote: I definitely support Ken's proposition. SWP really makes a huge mess with the latex file (even if the file is compilable by a standar Latex engine - I use the same TexLive 2005 with SWP and LyX). The possibility of easily switching to LyX can have some importance consequences on a larger diffusion of LyX in the academia. Murat 2009/2/4 Ken : It was a few months ago that I went through the hassle of import/exporting between LyX and SWP. Yes, SWP can export to "portable" latex, but it was not all that portable. However with a few tweaks it was possible to get a decent import into LyX. (I think there is a wiki page on it with regards to custom macros and images and I recall having a few other small issues). The much harder problem was getting LyX documents into SWP. I can't remember exactly but SWP didn't like certain table formats. Any attempt to import the tex file would cause SWP to balloon in memory requirements and hog the CPU until it either crashed the machine or I killed the process. In the end the inflexible SWP won as the default application. But it is so hard to go from amazing-and-free LyX to cumbersome-buggy-and-expensive SWP. In fact, I would have much much rather just edited the raw text file than use SWP (but even that was a nightmare as SWP adds line breaks to its text file making 'diff' imposible to use). Again, I suppose my recommendation would be to make it as easy as possible to have users move from SWP to LyX (and it isnt that bad at the moment) but it probably isnt worth the time or energy to make LyX documents compatible with SWP. I honestly think that once one writes a single paper with LyX they will never go back SWP (but getting them to do that first paper is the hard bit). -Ken 2009/2/3 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes I have worked with a co-author that insists on using Scientific Word. My experience is that not only is SW/SWP very expensive, I also find it a far inferior product to LyX. It is not easy to import documents from SWP and even harder to export them to SWP even though they are both LaTeX editors. At the university, SWP is available as a standard install on machines but not LyX. Is it still true that swp is able to export 'portable latex' or whatever, that is easier to import? How does LyX fare with that? JMarc -- *** NEW UNIVERSITY, NEW ADDRESS ! *** Prof. Murat Yildizoglu
Re: Installing biblatex-dw-style (Wassenhoven) on OSX
jezZiFeR wrote:
> I´ve had biblatex-dw installed in that folder before, and did it again
> now – with the same results. But I tried to get a minimal-sample now,
> and there it seems, that biblatex-dw is not able to find my
> bibliography. I entered this line, which worked fine without biblatex-
> dw:
> \bibliography{/Users/me/documents/Bibliographien/BibDesk/Name}
Is this line in the preamble? Different from 'normal' BibTeX, biblatex
needs this line to be in the preamble. The bibliography will be printed
with the command \printbibliography which you have to give in ERT.
See the biblatex manual for details on the differences between biblatex
and the 'normal' BibTeX.
Regards,
Dominik.-
