Re: latex template in lyx, newbe

[Janwillem van Dijk]

I did do that already and already made several nice documents with the
standard article class. I do, however, not see where the files from the
zip file supplied by the publisher must go
(http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/rpd/for_authors/Rpd_TeX.zip).
I copied the file Rpd.cls to a subdir rpd in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex
Did sudo chmod a+r Rpd.cls and sudo mktexlsr which did not complain.
Than as a kind of brute force attempt copied all the other files to both
~/.lyx/layouts and /.lyx/templates.
tex2lyx on the file document.tex results in Could not find layout file
for textclass Rpd.
Now I am stuck because I did not really know what I did and not what to
do. Many thanks for any help.

Rich Shepard wrote:

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Janwillem vn Dijk wrote:


What am I to do to get starting to write a publication using LyX?


Janwillem,

Download and install the latest version then work the Tutorial.

Rich

Re: latex template in lyx, newbe

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Janwillem van Dijk wrote:

 standard article class. I do, however, not see where the files from the
 zip file supplied by the publisher must go
 (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/rpd/for_authors/Rpd_TeX.zip).
 I copied the file Rpd.cls to a subdir rpd in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex
 Did sudo chmod a+r Rpd.cls and sudo mktexlsr which did not complain.
 Than as a kind of brute force attempt copied all the other files to both
 ~/.lyx/layouts and /.lyx/templates.

This seems wrong. As the publisher provides a (La)TeX template, all of this
files should be sorted into the texmf tree. Maybe the zip comes even with an
INSTALL or REAME explaining details?

Then you should try a simple LaTeX example (again, maybe, there is one or a
template in the zip). If this runs, you could start to think about
integration with LyX.

 tex2lyx on the file document.tex results in Could not find layout file
 for textclass Rpd.

You will find details in the HelpCustomization guide (how to install a new
LaTeX class). If there are specific problems left, ask again (best by
giving a minimal example).

Günter

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-07, Rich Shepard wrote:
Yesterday I downloaded the latest memoir class to replace the 5-year-old
 version I had here. I placed all the .sty and .clo files in
 /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/memoir/, and memoir.layout in ~/.lyx/layouts.

Next, I ran /usr/share/texmf/bin/texhash, reconfigured LyX, killed the
 process, and started a new one.

Good. Testing the new memoir install with a pure latex file might be a
further step to localize problems.

Is there some changelog or news file for the new memoir version? Maybe
the LyX layout needs adaption (or is there a LyX *.layout file that comes
with memoir).

 However, when I select the memoir book class for a document I'm
 writing, I get an error related to a section much later in the outline
 than where I'm currently working. 

LaTeX errors in packages are sometimes hard to trac/localize:

Have a look at DocumentLaTeX log,
start with a smaller example,
try to isolate the problematic part. 

Alternatively, export to LaTeX, run by hand ...

 The errors are that font commands (e.g. \sl and \rm) are
 not supported, 

These are obsolete since several years, maybe the new memoir class decided
to drop backwards compatibility. Are they used by LyX, ERT, or preamble
(maybe indirect)?

 and that \footruleskip is already defined.

You might need to have a look at your custom LaTeX preamble and the
layout and module files to find where this first and second definition
takes place.

Again, as this can be hidden in a package this could mean gradually
removing all special packages and customization.

Günter

Re: Keyboard Shortcut

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-07, Rich Shepard wrote:

 In earlier versions, when all shortcuts were in the appropriate bind
 file, it was easy enough to add new ones to make my writing more
 efficient. While I can live with the lists in the menu, I would like to
 find functions there.

HelpLyX-Functions

Also, you can still copy a bind file to your ~/.lyx/ dir and edit in an
editor or define a personal bind file under ToolsSettings which will
become the basis for the GUI customization.

Günter

Problems with starting lyx 1.6.2.

[Lasse Laakso]

Hi,

I just downloaded the new version of lyx, installed it according to  
instructions, but the program won't start now. My earlier version  
1.5.6. worked without any trouble. Where can I look for the flaw?  
Should I try some other way to install the software? I even tried to  
remove the prerequistis file from lyx 1.6. folder, but that either  
did not help. I even restarted the computer once after intalling, but  
still it will not start. Now text or notification is seen once I press  
the lyx-icon.


Sincerely,

Lasse Laakso
Finland

Re: Document Class

[rgheck]

Edwin Davis wrote:

Hello,
I am using LyX 1.6 to write a thesis and am having  a hard time figuring out 
how to change the document class for a single page. Please email me back at 
your earliest convenience.

  

You can't do that. It's the DOCUMENT class.

That said, what do you want to do on that page?

rh

Re: Problems with starting lyx 1.6.2.

[rgheck]

Lasse Laakso wrote:

Hi,

I just downloaded the new version of lyx, installed it according to 
instructions, but the program won't start now. My earlier version 
1.5.6. worked without any trouble. Where can I look for the flaw? 
Should I try some other way to install the software? I even tried to 
remove the prerequistis file from lyx 1.6. folder, but that either 
did not help. I even restarted the computer once after intalling, but 
still it will not start. Now text or notification is seen once I press 
the lyx-icon.



It'd help if you said what kind of computer you are using. Mac?

rh

Re: problem inserting .pdf as external material

[Giovanni]

  martedì 07 aprile 2009, 19:41, Anders Host-Madsen:

 Giovanni giovanni...@... writes:
 
 
  It's possible to have the content inserted in line, as a paragraph?
 
 Can't you just insert the pdf a graphic?
 Anyway, I had the opposite problem. I wanted to insert whole pages
 of an external pdf. I didn't know about the pdfpages package until
 you posting. This solved my problem, thanks.

  Actually i need both of these approaches: insert a single page (so
as a graphic it's a viable option) and multiple pages (so i need to
do it via pdfpages).
  If no better solution appears i'll use a mix of the two methods.

Thanks,
  Giovanni  

Re: problem inserting .pdf as external material

[Giovanni]

  martedì 07 aprile 2009, 16:54, Paul A. Rubin:
 
 If the content is text, you can use pdftext to extract the text from
 the PDF file and then import it into LyX (where you will need to
 reformat it if you do not want it using the format of the rest of
 your document). Otherwise, pasting it in as an image may be your best
 bet.

  I need to extract some pages from a catalogue, so the formatting it's
important too. I'll stick to import as images.

thanks,
  Giovanni

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:


Good. Testing the new memoir install with a pure latex file might be a
further step to localize problems.


Guenter,

  I'll try that later today on the same small (for now) document I'm writing
in LyX.


Is there some changelog or news file for the new memoir version? Maybe
the LyX layout needs adaption (or is there a LyX *.layout file that comes
with memoir).


  Yes. Many. I no longer remember the previously installed version, but it
was probably from 2006. I've attached the README file which lists all
changes by version.

  The memoir.layout is probably equally old. I've attached a copy of that,
too.


LaTeX errors in packages are sometimes hard to trac/localize:

Have a look at DocumentLaTeX log,
start with a smaller example,
try to isolate the problematic part.


  I've looked at the log and saw nothing that immediately clicked with me.
So, ...


Alternatively, export to LaTeX, run by hand ...


  I'll do this.


These are obsolete since several years, maybe the new memoir class decided
to drop backwards compatibility. Are they used by LyX, ERT, or preamble
(maybe indirect)?


  Oh. That's why they looked old to me.


You might need to have a look at your custom LaTeX preamble and the layout
and module files to find where this first and second definition takes
place.


  The only line (for now) in the preamble is \date{}


Again, as this can be hidden in a package this could mean gradually
removing all special packages and customization.


  Since I'm currently focusing on content, there are no additional packages
specified in the preamble. I can also go with the current KOMA-book class,
but I am not fond of the default san-serif typefaces.

Many thanks,

Rich

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http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863Memoir is a flexible class for typesetting poetry, fiction, 
non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or
manuscripts. Documents can use 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 14pt, or 17pt as the
normal fontsize and, if you have scalable fonts, 20pt, 25pt, 30pt, 36pt,
48pt, or 60pt sizes, or even larger. Many methods are provided to let 
you create your particular design. The class incorporates over 30 of the 
more popular packages.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE ASK THEM ON THE COMP.TEXT.TEX NEWSGROUP;
YOU ARE LIKELY TO GET FASTER AND BETTER ANSWERS THAN IF YOU EMAIL ME DIRECTLY
AS I AM AWAY MORE OFTEN THAN NOT.

NOTE: In order to provide fixes for any problems that may arise
between major releases, you may find a file called mempatch.sty
which contains any current fixes for the memoir class. The class
will automatically include this so DO NOT \usepackage{mempatch}.
The Change lists below do not neccessarily note each release of
the patch or addendum files.

   NOTE: Similarly, there may be file(s) called memmanadd.(tex|pdf) which 
provides amendments to the current version of the User Manual.

   NOTE: If you are using the hyperref package dated earlier than 2006/11/15, 
use the memhfixc package after the hyperref package, e.g.,
...
\usepackage[...]{hyperref}
\usepackage{memhfixc}
...
Later versions of the hyperref package automatically load the memhfixc package.

NOTE: The full User Manual (memman.pdf) is a large document approaching
600 pages in total. You do not need to print all of it, especially if you 
already have an earlier edition. Roughly speaking, the main portions are:
o Frontmatter: Preface, Toc, Introduction, Terminology  ~  35 pages
o Mainmatter: 
Design and typography   ~  60 pages
Class commands and environments, etc.   ~ 335 pages
o Appendices: (La)Tex programming, Errors and warnings  ~  40 pages
o Backmatter:
Command glossary~  40 pages
Bibliography, indexes   ~  50 pages


Changes (2009/02/06)

o Memoir v1.6180339d,e fixes a bug introduced by v1.6180339c

-- \makeheadwidth, \makerunningheadwidth and \makerunningfootwidth no longer 
   support the '+' syntax from the calc package.

-- under hyperref \nameref is now an alias for \titleref


Changes (2009/01/26)
o Memoir v1.6180339c released with minor bug fixes that could
  not be done via the patch file, plus some new functionality. The
  manual has NOT been updated and the changes are noted below.

-- New paper size options: `a0paper', `a1paper', `a2paper', `b0paper', 
   `b1paper', and `b2paper' for A0, A1, A2, B0,B1, and B2 size stock paper.

-- Macro \memoirpostopthook{} which is called after the options are
   processed but before anything else is done (like setting the page layout).
   As an example, you may define it as (before the \documentclass}
   command):
 \newcommand*{\memoirpostopthook}{%
   \setlength{\stockwidth}{wid}\setlength{\stockheight}{ht}}

Re: Document Class

[Uwe Stöhr]

Edwin Davis schrieb:


I am using LyX 1.6 to write a thesis and am having  a hard time

 figuring out how to change the document class for a single page.

Document classes are not to be changed. What you need to do is to choose a document class and use 
its power. For a thesis I can recommend to use the document class book(koma script) or 
report(koma script). Both document classes depend on the koma script LaTeX class which provides 
you everything you need for a thesis like automatic print space calculation, formatting of page 
headers and footers, binding correction, formatting of title pages, ...

koma script has an excellent documentation, search the web for the file 
scrguien.pdf

regards Uwe

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

-- Am Monday 06 April 2009 15:26:38 schrieben Sie:

I am sure there is somebody in the LyX community who uses Debian lenny and 
LyX1.6.2 who has ghostscript 8.64 running. Or is this ghostscript installable 
only under sid? I would very much need help on this issue.

Wolfgang  


 Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb:
  Is there any other way to avoid the Ghostscript error I am getting?

 I don't know. What you see is an error in Ghostscript, but can also be
 caused by buggy libraries at your Linux installation. The only thing I can
 say for sure is that I don't get the error here with GS 8.64 on Windows.

  Or is Debian sid safe to use?

 I don't know Debian. I only install the latest version of a package when I
 find bugs and am only on Windows.

 regards Uwe
(thanks, Uwe, and sorry for the error with the answer, which went to you 
instead of the group)

Re: Document Class

[Richard Heck]

Edwin Davis wrote:
I need this page to resemble a science article so I need the page to 
be 2 columns and be able to put a title at the top of it if that is 
possible.


The two-column bit you can do fairly easily, though I think you need ERT 
to do it. Check out the LaTeX multicol package, here:

   http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html
There may be something about its use on the wiki, as well.

As for the title, you'll probably have to do that manually, i.e., just 
formatting it as you want it to be.


rh

PS Keep it on the list, in case other people have the same question.

Springer 1-Column Proceedings Template with Lyx

[hartepizza]

Hello everybody,

I just can't figure out how to use the 1-Column Proceedings template from
Springer within Lyx.

On their website
http://www.springer.com/authors/manuscript+guidelines/kap+single-column+proceedings+volume?SGWID=0-40493-0-0-0
they offer a general template for LaTeX.

I tried Import from LaTeX within Lyx, but it seems not that easy ;) ... 
(fails)

Is there some FAQ / similiar post, where the necessary steps are described?

It would be really an advantage to do writing with Lyx!

Cheers,
hartepizza

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:


Good. Testing the new memoir install with a pure latex file might be a
further step to localize problems.


Guenter,

  I have the problem isolated to viewing the document with dvips. I exported
the text using the pdflatex option, and ran that on the *.tex file. No
problems. Next, within LyX, I changed the document class to memoir and
viewd it using pdflatex rather than dvips. It displayed properly.

  So, is this a 'feature' of the memoir class, or does LyX need adjustment?

Thanks,

Rich

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Re: Document Class

[Uwe Stöhr]

Edwin Davis schrieb:

Well is there a way to make a page multicolumn(2) like an article. But 
not the whole document, just one of the pages within the document


See as example sec. 22.8 Formulas in multi-column Text in the Math manual that you find in the 
Help menu of LyX.


regards Uwe

Re: Document Class

[Paul Sutton]

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Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Edwin Davis schrieb:
 
 Well is there a way to make a page multicolumn(2) like an article. But
 not the whole document, just one of the pages within the document
 
 See as example sec. 22.8 Formulas in multi-column Text in the Math
 manual that you find in the Help menu of LyX.
 
 regards Uwe

Hi

In my pre-amble I have

\usepackage{multicol}

then the first line of my main document is

\setlength{\columnsep}{2cm}\setlength{\columnseprule}{1pt}\begin{multicols}{3}

last line is

\end{multicols}

this produces a nice 3 column document,  if you just use
\begin{multicols}{2} it should do it,  if you did this

\begin{multicols}{2}
paragraph you want in 2 columns
\end{multicols}

normal formatted paragraph,

it should do the part after \end{multicols} as normal text,

I have put a 3 column document in pdf on my website at
http://www.zleap.net/downloads/ldtp-contribs/ along with the lyx source
code (ver 1.5.6)

hope this helps

Paul



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Re: Document Class

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Paul Sutton wrote:


... if you just use begin{multicols}{2} it should do it, if you did this

\begin{multicols}{2}
paragraph you want in 2 columns
\end{multicols}

normal formatted paragraph,

it should do the part after \end{multicols} as normal text,


  Yup. I used this exact procedure to insert a 2-column list in the middle
of a page of text in my book. Works flawlessly.

Rich

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How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

My book, which is intended to be an eBook, uses a document class derived from 
the Book document class. I want it to keep being derived from Book.

I unchecked the two sided document checkbox on the page layout part of the 
document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every chapter 
on an odd page.

Always starting on odd pages is great for a print book, but it just fluffs up 
an eBook. Is there a simple way to let chapters start on even pages, or am I 
going to have to modify the Chapter envionment in my layout file?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote:


I unchecked the two sided document checkbox on the page layout part of the
document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every chapter
on an odd page.


SteveT,

  Have you looked at using the report classes? About the only difference
between the book and report classes is the abstract environment in the
latter.

  Also, I'm sure that if you look in TLC2 you'll find a standard way of
having chapters start on the next available page. And, in the memoir class
(which derives from book) you can have chapters start on the same page as
the end of the previous chapter.

  Lotsa' options.

Rich

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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
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Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

[Richard Heck]

Rich Shepard wrote:

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote:

I unchecked the two sided document checkbox on the page layout 
part of the
document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every 
chapter

on an odd page.



There's some option for this. Maybe it's openany.

rh

Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

[Anthony Campbell]

On 08 Apr 2009, Richard Heck wrote:
 Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote:

 I unchecked the two sided document checkbox on the page layout  
 part of the
 document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every  
 chapter
 on an odd page.

 There's some option for this. Maybe it's openany.

 rh

It is.

Anthony

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Re: Problems with starting lyx 1.6.2.

[Marcelo Acuña]

 Hi,
 
 I just downloaded the new version of lyx, installed it
 according to instructions, but the program won't start
 now. My earlier version 1.5.6. worked without any trouble.
 Where can I look for the flaw? Should I try some other way
 to install the software? I even tried to remove the
 prerequistis file from lyx 1.6. folder, but that
 either did not help. I even restarted the computer once
 after intalling, but still it will not start. Now text or
 notification is seen once I press the lyx-icon.
 
 Sincerely,
 
 Lasse Laakso
 Finland

 Hi,
 What operating system do you have?
 You download a binary or a source and compiles it?
Regards
Marcelo


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lyx and jaunty

[Paul Sutton]

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Hi

I am also on the announce list looks like ubuntu 9,10 Jaunty jackalope
will may have lyx Version: 1.6.2-1

Paul
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Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages? SOLVED

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 03:08:16 pm Anthony Campbell wrote:
 On 08 Apr 2009, Richard Heck wrote:
  Rich Shepard wrote:
  On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
  I unchecked the two sided document checkbox on the page layout
  part of the
  document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every
  chapter
  on an odd page.
 
  There's some option for this. Maybe it's openany.
 
  rh

 It is.

 Anthony

Confirmed!

The following gave me chapter starts wherever they landed:

Document-Settings-Document_class-Options

Then type in the word openany without the quotes, and without a backslash. 
Works perfectly.

Thanks Richard and Anthony!

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ehud Kaplan schrieb:


But the white space around the graphics itself persists.


Because your image contains the whitespace. I converted your image to a PDF as I assume that your 
document should also be a PDF and removed the whitespace. (You can insert images to LyX in every 
format, but they can only be embedded to the resulting document PDF output when they are in the 
format PDF, JPG, PNG, or GIF. When you use another image format like EPS, LyX has to convert the 
images to one of the four formats in the background which extends the document compile time when 
viewing/exporting it.)


There were two other problems:

- you scaled the image absolutely, but when you want to control the whitespace, you need to scale 
the image relatively to the column width. When you e.g. set your wrap float to 50% column width and 
do the same for your image you get no whitespace. When you set the image to 40% column width, you 
get some whitespace around it.


- when you want the figure centered you can set its paragraph to centered and don't need to use a 
LaTeX command But when using wrapped figures one often wants the image to be aligned with the text 
column border. So in your case I would set the paragraph where the image is in to right aligned.


In a separate email I attached the example file.

regards Uwe

Re: latex template in lyx, newbe

[Janwillem van Dijk]

I did do that already and already made several nice documents with the
standard article class. I do, however, not see where the files from the
zip file supplied by the publisher must go
(http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/rpd/for_authors/Rpd_TeX.zip).
I copied the file Rpd.cls to a subdir rpd in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex
Did sudo chmod a+r Rpd.cls and sudo mktexlsr which did not complain.
Than as a kind of brute force attempt copied all the other files to both
~/.lyx/layouts and /.lyx/templates.
tex2lyx on the file document.tex results in Could not find layout file
for textclass Rpd.
Now I am stuck because I did not really know what I did and not what to
do. Many thanks for any help.

Rich Shepard wrote:

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Janwillem vn Dijk wrote:


What am I to do to get starting to write a publication using LyX?


Janwillem,

Download and install the latest version then work the Tutorial.

Rich

Re: latex template in lyx, newbe

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Janwillem van Dijk wrote:

 standard article class. I do, however, not see where the files from the
 zip file supplied by the publisher must go
 (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/rpd/for_authors/Rpd_TeX.zip).
 I copied the file Rpd.cls to a subdir rpd in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex
 Did sudo chmod a+r Rpd.cls and sudo mktexlsr which did not complain.
 Than as a kind of brute force attempt copied all the other files to both
 ~/.lyx/layouts and /.lyx/templates.

This seems wrong. As the publisher provides a (La)TeX template, all of this
files should be sorted into the texmf tree. Maybe the zip comes even with an
INSTALL or REAME explaining details?

Then you should try a simple LaTeX example (again, maybe, there is one or a
template in the zip). If this runs, you could start to think about
integration with LyX.

 tex2lyx on the file document.tex results in Could not find layout file
 for textclass Rpd.

You will find details in the HelpCustomization guide (how to install a new
LaTeX class). If there are specific problems left, ask again (best by
giving a minimal example).

Günter

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-07, Rich Shepard wrote:
Yesterday I downloaded the latest memoir class to replace the 5-year-old
 version I had here. I placed all the .sty and .clo files in
 /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/memoir/, and memoir.layout in ~/.lyx/layouts.

Next, I ran /usr/share/texmf/bin/texhash, reconfigured LyX, killed the
 process, and started a new one.

Good. Testing the new memoir install with a pure latex file might be a
further step to localize problems.

Is there some changelog or news file for the new memoir version? Maybe
the LyX layout needs adaption (or is there a LyX *.layout file that comes
with memoir).

 However, when I select the memoir book class for a document I'm
 writing, I get an error related to a section much later in the outline
 than where I'm currently working. 

LaTeX errors in packages are sometimes hard to trac/localize:

Have a look at DocumentLaTeX log,
start with a smaller example,
try to isolate the problematic part. 

Alternatively, export to LaTeX, run by hand ...

 The errors are that font commands (e.g. \sl and \rm) are
 not supported, 

These are obsolete since several years, maybe the new memoir class decided
to drop backwards compatibility. Are they used by LyX, ERT, or preamble
(maybe indirect)?

 and that \footruleskip is already defined.

You might need to have a look at your custom LaTeX preamble and the
layout and module files to find where this first and second definition
takes place.

Again, as this can be hidden in a package this could mean gradually
removing all special packages and customization.

Günter

Re: Keyboard Shortcut

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-07, Rich Shepard wrote:

 In earlier versions, when all shortcuts were in the appropriate bind
 file, it was easy enough to add new ones to make my writing more
 efficient. While I can live with the lists in the menu, I would like to
 find functions there.

HelpLyX-Functions

Also, you can still copy a bind file to your ~/.lyx/ dir and edit in an
editor or define a personal bind file under ToolsSettings which will
become the basis for the GUI customization.

Günter

Problems with starting lyx 1.6.2.

[Lasse Laakso]

Hi,

I just downloaded the new version of lyx, installed it according to  
instructions, but the program won't start now. My earlier version  
1.5.6. worked without any trouble. Where can I look for the flaw?  
Should I try some other way to install the software? I even tried to  
remove the prerequistis file from lyx 1.6. folder, but that either  
did not help. I even restarted the computer once after intalling, but  
still it will not start. Now text or notification is seen once I press  
the lyx-icon.


Sincerely,

Lasse Laakso
Finland

Re: Document Class

[rgheck]

Edwin Davis wrote:

Hello,
I am using LyX 1.6 to write a thesis and am having  a hard time figuring out 
how to change the document class for a single page. Please email me back at 
your earliest convenience.

  

You can't do that. It's the DOCUMENT class.

That said, what do you want to do on that page?

rh

Re: Problems with starting lyx 1.6.2.

[rgheck]

Lasse Laakso wrote:

Hi,

I just downloaded the new version of lyx, installed it according to 
instructions, but the program won't start now. My earlier version 
1.5.6. worked without any trouble. Where can I look for the flaw? 
Should I try some other way to install the software? I even tried to 
remove the prerequistis file from lyx 1.6. folder, but that either 
did not help. I even restarted the computer once after intalling, but 
still it will not start. Now text or notification is seen once I press 
the lyx-icon.



It'd help if you said what kind of computer you are using. Mac?

rh

Re: problem inserting .pdf as external material

[Giovanni]

  martedì 07 aprile 2009, 19:41, Anders Host-Madsen:

 Giovanni giovanni...@... writes:
 
 
  It's possible to have the content inserted in line, as a paragraph?
 
 Can't you just insert the pdf a graphic?
 Anyway, I had the opposite problem. I wanted to insert whole pages
 of an external pdf. I didn't know about the pdfpages package until
 you posting. This solved my problem, thanks.

  Actually i need both of these approaches: insert a single page (so
as a graphic it's a viable option) and multiple pages (so i need to
do it via pdfpages).
  If no better solution appears i'll use a mix of the two methods.

Thanks,
  Giovanni  

Re: problem inserting .pdf as external material

[Giovanni]

  martedì 07 aprile 2009, 16:54, Paul A. Rubin:
 
 If the content is text, you can use pdftext to extract the text from
 the PDF file and then import it into LyX (where you will need to
 reformat it if you do not want it using the format of the rest of
 your document). Otherwise, pasting it in as an image may be your best
 bet.

  I need to extract some pages from a catalogue, so the formatting it's
important too. I'll stick to import as images.

thanks,
  Giovanni

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:


Good. Testing the new memoir install with a pure latex file might be a
further step to localize problems.


Guenter,

  I'll try that later today on the same small (for now) document I'm writing
in LyX.


Is there some changelog or news file for the new memoir version? Maybe
the LyX layout needs adaption (or is there a LyX *.layout file that comes
with memoir).


  Yes. Many. I no longer remember the previously installed version, but it
was probably from 2006. I've attached the README file which lists all
changes by version.

  The memoir.layout is probably equally old. I've attached a copy of that,
too.


LaTeX errors in packages are sometimes hard to trac/localize:

Have a look at DocumentLaTeX log,
start with a smaller example,
try to isolate the problematic part.


  I've looked at the log and saw nothing that immediately clicked with me.
So, ...


Alternatively, export to LaTeX, run by hand ...


  I'll do this.


These are obsolete since several years, maybe the new memoir class decided
to drop backwards compatibility. Are they used by LyX, ERT, or preamble
(maybe indirect)?


  Oh. That's why they looked old to me.


You might need to have a look at your custom LaTeX preamble and the layout
and module files to find where this first and second definition takes
place.


  The only line (for now) in the preamble is \date{}


Again, as this can be hidden in a package this could mean gradually
removing all special packages and customization.


  Since I'm currently focusing on content, there are no additional packages
specified in the preamble. I can also go with the current KOMA-book class,
but I am not fond of the default san-serif typefaces.

Many thanks,

Rich

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http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863Memoir is a flexible class for typesetting poetry, fiction, 
non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or
manuscripts. Documents can use 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 14pt, or 17pt as the
normal fontsize and, if you have scalable fonts, 20pt, 25pt, 30pt, 36pt,
48pt, or 60pt sizes, or even larger. Many methods are provided to let 
you create your particular design. The class incorporates over 30 of the 
more popular packages.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE ASK THEM ON THE COMP.TEXT.TEX NEWSGROUP;
YOU ARE LIKELY TO GET FASTER AND BETTER ANSWERS THAN IF YOU EMAIL ME DIRECTLY
AS I AM AWAY MORE OFTEN THAN NOT.

NOTE: In order to provide fixes for any problems that may arise
between major releases, you may find a file called mempatch.sty
which contains any current fixes for the memoir class. The class
will automatically include this so DO NOT \usepackage{mempatch}.
The Change lists below do not neccessarily note each release of
the patch or addendum files.

   NOTE: Similarly, there may be file(s) called memmanadd.(tex|pdf) which 
provides amendments to the current version of the User Manual.

   NOTE: If you are using the hyperref package dated earlier than 2006/11/15, 
use the memhfixc package after the hyperref package, e.g.,
...
\usepackage[...]{hyperref}
\usepackage{memhfixc}
...
Later versions of the hyperref package automatically load the memhfixc package.

NOTE: The full User Manual (memman.pdf) is a large document approaching
600 pages in total. You do not need to print all of it, especially if you 
already have an earlier edition. Roughly speaking, the main portions are:
o Frontmatter: Preface, Toc, Introduction, Terminology  ~  35 pages
o Mainmatter: 
Design and typography   ~  60 pages
Class commands and environments, etc.   ~ 335 pages
o Appendices: (La)Tex programming, Errors and warnings  ~  40 pages
o Backmatter:
Command glossary~  40 pages
Bibliography, indexes   ~  50 pages


Changes (2009/02/06)

o Memoir v1.6180339d,e fixes a bug introduced by v1.6180339c

-- \makeheadwidth, \makerunningheadwidth and \makerunningfootwidth no longer 
   support the '+' syntax from the calc package.

-- under hyperref \nameref is now an alias for \titleref


Changes (2009/01/26)
o Memoir v1.6180339c released with minor bug fixes that could
  not be done via the patch file, plus some new functionality. The
  manual has NOT been updated and the changes are noted below.

-- New paper size options: `a0paper', `a1paper', `a2paper', `b0paper', 
   `b1paper', and `b2paper' for A0, A1, A2, B0,B1, and B2 size stock paper.

-- Macro \memoirpostopthook{} which is called after the options are
   processed but before anything else is done (like setting the page layout).
   As an example, you may define it as (before the \documentclass}
   command):
 \newcommand*{\memoirpostopthook}{%
   \setlength{\stockwidth}{wid}\setlength{\stockheight}{ht}}

Re: Document Class

[Uwe Stöhr]

Edwin Davis schrieb:


I am using LyX 1.6 to write a thesis and am having  a hard time

 figuring out how to change the document class for a single page.

Document classes are not to be changed. What you need to do is to choose a document class and use 
its power. For a thesis I can recommend to use the document class book(koma script) or 
report(koma script). Both document classes depend on the koma script LaTeX class which provides 
you everything you need for a thesis like automatic print space calculation, formatting of page 
headers and footers, binding correction, formatting of title pages, ...

koma script has an excellent documentation, search the web for the file 
scrguien.pdf

regards Uwe

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

-- Am Monday 06 April 2009 15:26:38 schrieben Sie:

I am sure there is somebody in the LyX community who uses Debian lenny and 
LyX1.6.2 who has ghostscript 8.64 running. Or is this ghostscript installable 
only under sid? I would very much need help on this issue.

Wolfgang  


 Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb:
  Is there any other way to avoid the Ghostscript error I am getting?

 I don't know. What you see is an error in Ghostscript, but can also be
 caused by buggy libraries at your Linux installation. The only thing I can
 say for sure is that I don't get the error here with GS 8.64 on Windows.

  Or is Debian sid safe to use?

 I don't know Debian. I only install the latest version of a package when I
 find bugs and am only on Windows.

 regards Uwe
(thanks, Uwe, and sorry for the error with the answer, which went to you 
instead of the group)

Re: Document Class

[Richard Heck]

Edwin Davis wrote:
I need this page to resemble a science article so I need the page to 
be 2 columns and be able to put a title at the top of it if that is 
possible.


The two-column bit you can do fairly easily, though I think you need ERT 
to do it. Check out the LaTeX multicol package, here:

   http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html
There may be something about its use on the wiki, as well.

As for the title, you'll probably have to do that manually, i.e., just 
formatting it as you want it to be.


rh

PS Keep it on the list, in case other people have the same question.

Springer 1-Column Proceedings Template with Lyx

[hartepizza]

Hello everybody,

I just can't figure out how to use the 1-Column Proceedings template from
Springer within Lyx.

On their website
http://www.springer.com/authors/manuscript+guidelines/kap+single-column+proceedings+volume?SGWID=0-40493-0-0-0
they offer a general template for LaTeX.

I tried Import from LaTeX within Lyx, but it seems not that easy ;) ... 
(fails)

Is there some FAQ / similiar post, where the necessary steps are described?

It would be really an advantage to do writing with Lyx!

Cheers,
hartepizza

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:


Good. Testing the new memoir install with a pure latex file might be a
further step to localize problems.


Guenter,

  I have the problem isolated to viewing the document with dvips. I exported
the text using the pdflatex option, and ran that on the *.tex file. No
problems. Next, within LyX, I changed the document class to memoir and
viewd it using pdflatex rather than dvips. It displayed properly.

  So, is this a 'feature' of the memoir class, or does LyX need adjustment?

Thanks,

Rich

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Re: Document Class

[Uwe Stöhr]

Edwin Davis schrieb:

Well is there a way to make a page multicolumn(2) like an article. But 
not the whole document, just one of the pages within the document


See as example sec. 22.8 Formulas in multi-column Text in the Math manual that you find in the 
Help menu of LyX.


regards Uwe

Re: Document Class

[Paul Sutton]

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Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Edwin Davis schrieb:
 
 Well is there a way to make a page multicolumn(2) like an article. But
 not the whole document, just one of the pages within the document
 
 See as example sec. 22.8 Formulas in multi-column Text in the Math
 manual that you find in the Help menu of LyX.
 
 regards Uwe

Hi

In my pre-amble I have

\usepackage{multicol}

then the first line of my main document is

\setlength{\columnsep}{2cm}\setlength{\columnseprule}{1pt}\begin{multicols}{3}

last line is

\end{multicols}

this produces a nice 3 column document,  if you just use
\begin{multicols}{2} it should do it,  if you did this

\begin{multicols}{2}
paragraph you want in 2 columns
\end{multicols}

normal formatted paragraph,

it should do the part after \end{multicols} as normal text,

I have put a 3 column document in pdf on my website at
http://www.zleap.net/downloads/ldtp-contribs/ along with the lyx source
code (ver 1.5.6)

hope this helps

Paul



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Re: Document Class

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Paul Sutton wrote:


... if you just use begin{multicols}{2} it should do it, if you did this

\begin{multicols}{2}
paragraph you want in 2 columns
\end{multicols}

normal formatted paragraph,

it should do the part after \end{multicols} as normal text,


  Yup. I used this exact procedure to insert a 2-column list in the middle
of a page of text in my book. Works flawlessly.

Rich

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How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

My book, which is intended to be an eBook, uses a document class derived from 
the Book document class. I want it to keep being derived from Book.

I unchecked the two sided document checkbox on the page layout part of the 
document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every chapter 
on an odd page.

Always starting on odd pages is great for a print book, but it just fluffs up 
an eBook. Is there a simple way to let chapters start on even pages, or am I 
going to have to modify the Chapter envionment in my layout file?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote:


I unchecked the two sided document checkbox on the page layout part of the
document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every chapter
on an odd page.


SteveT,

  Have you looked at using the report classes? About the only difference
between the book and report classes is the abstract environment in the
latter.

  Also, I'm sure that if you look in TLC2 you'll find a standard way of
having chapters start on the next available page. And, in the memoir class
(which derives from book) you can have chapters start on the same page as
the end of the previous chapter.

  Lotsa' options.

Rich

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Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

[Richard Heck]

Rich Shepard wrote:

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote:

I unchecked the two sided document checkbox on the page layout 
part of the
document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every 
chapter

on an odd page.



There's some option for this. Maybe it's openany.

rh

Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

[Anthony Campbell]

On 08 Apr 2009, Richard Heck wrote:
 Rich Shepard wrote:
 On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote:

 I unchecked the two sided document checkbox on the page layout  
 part of the
 document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every  
 chapter
 on an odd page.

 There's some option for this. Maybe it's openany.

 rh

It is.

Anthony

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and sceptical articles)

Re: Problems with starting lyx 1.6.2.

[Marcelo Acuña]

 Hi,
 
 I just downloaded the new version of lyx, installed it
 according to instructions, but the program won't start
 now. My earlier version 1.5.6. worked without any trouble.
 Where can I look for the flaw? Should I try some other way
 to install the software? I even tried to remove the
 prerequistis file from lyx 1.6. folder, but that
 either did not help. I even restarted the computer once
 after intalling, but still it will not start. Now text or
 notification is seen once I press the lyx-icon.
 
 Sincerely,
 
 Lasse Laakso
 Finland

 Hi,
 What operating system do you have?
 You download a binary or a source and compiles it?
Regards
Marcelo


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lyx and jaunty

[Paul Sutton]

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Hi

I am also on the announce list looks like ubuntu 9,10 Jaunty jackalope
will may have lyx Version: 1.6.2-1

Paul
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Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages? SOLVED

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 03:08:16 pm Anthony Campbell wrote:
 On 08 Apr 2009, Richard Heck wrote:
  Rich Shepard wrote:
  On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
  I unchecked the two sided document checkbox on the page layout
  part of the
  document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every
  chapter
  on an odd page.
 
  There's some option for this. Maybe it's openany.
 
  rh

 It is.

 Anthony

Confirmed!

The following gave me chapter starts wherever they landed:

Document-Settings-Document_class-Options

Then type in the word openany without the quotes, and without a backslash. 
Works perfectly.

Thanks Richard and Anthony!

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ehud Kaplan schrieb:


But the white space around the graphics itself persists.


Because your image contains the whitespace. I converted your image to a PDF as I assume that your 
document should also be a PDF and removed the whitespace. (You can insert images to LyX in every 
format, but they can only be embedded to the resulting document PDF output when they are in the 
format PDF, JPG, PNG, or GIF. When you use another image format like EPS, LyX has to convert the 
images to one of the four formats in the background which extends the document compile time when 
viewing/exporting it.)


There were two other problems:

- you scaled the image absolutely, but when you want to control the whitespace, you need to scale 
the image relatively to the column width. When you e.g. set your wrap float to 50% column width and 
do the same for your image you get no whitespace. When you set the image to 40% column width, you 
get some whitespace around it.


- when you want the figure centered you can set its paragraph to centered and don't need to use a 
LaTeX command But when using wrapped figures one often wants the image to be aligned with the text 
column border. So in your case I would set the paragraph where the image is in to right aligned.


In a separate email I attached the example file.

regards Uwe

Re: latex template in lyx, newbe

[Janwillem van Dijk]

I did do that already and already made several nice documents with the
standard article class. I do, however, not see where the files from the
zip file supplied by the publisher must go
(http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/rpd/for_authors/Rpd_TeX.zip).
I copied the file Rpd.cls to a subdir rpd in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex
Did sudo chmod a+r Rpd.cls and sudo mktexlsr which did not complain.
Than as a kind of brute force attempt copied all the other files to both
~/.lyx/layouts and /.lyx/templates.
tex2lyx on the file document.tex results in "Could not find layout file
for textclass "Rpd"".
Now I am stuck because I did not really know what I did and not what to
do. Many thanks for any help.

Rich Shepard wrote:

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009, Janwillem vn Dijk wrote:


What am I to do to get starting to write a publication using LyX?


Janwillem,

Download and install the latest version then work the Tutorial.

Rich

Re: latex template in lyx, newbe

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Janwillem van Dijk wrote:

> standard article class. I do, however, not see where the files from the
> zip file supplied by the publisher must go
> (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/rpd/for_authors/Rpd_TeX.zip).
> I copied the file Rpd.cls to a subdir rpd in /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex
> Did sudo chmod a+r Rpd.cls and sudo mktexlsr which did not complain.
> Than as a kind of brute force attempt copied all the other files to both
> ~/.lyx/layouts and /.lyx/templates.

This seems wrong. As the publisher provides a (La)TeX template, all of this
files should be sorted into the texmf tree. Maybe the zip comes even with an
INSTALL or REAME explaining details?

Then you should try a simple LaTeX example (again, maybe, there is one or a
template in the zip). If this runs, you could start to think about
integration with LyX.

> tex2lyx on the file document.tex results in "Could not find layout file
> for textclass "Rpd"".

You will find details in the Help>Customization guide ("how to install a new
LaTeX class"). If there are specific problems left, ask again (best by
giving a minimal example).

Günter

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-07, Rich Shepard wrote:
>Yesterday I downloaded the latest memoir class to replace the 5-year-old
> version I had here. I placed all the .sty and .clo files in
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/memoir/, and memoir.layout in ~/.lyx/layouts.

>Next, I ran /usr/share/texmf/bin/texhash, reconfigured LyX, killed the
> process, and started a new one.

Good. Testing the new memoir install with a pure latex file might be a
further step to localize problems.

Is there some changelog or news file for the new memoir version? Maybe
the LyX layout needs adaption (or is there a LyX *.layout file that comes
with memoir).

> However, when I select the memoir book class for a document I'm
> writing, I get an error related to a section much later in the outline
> than where I'm currently working. 

LaTeX errors in packages are sometimes hard to trac/localize:

Have a look at Document>LaTeX log,
start with a smaller example,
try to isolate the problematic part. 

Alternatively, export to LaTeX, run "by hand" ...

> The errors are that font commands (e.g. \sl and \rm) are
> not supported, 

These are obsolete since several years, maybe the new memoir class decided
to drop backwards compatibility. Are they used by LyX, ERT, or preamble
(maybe indirect)?

> and that \footruleskip is already defined.

You might need to have a look at your custom LaTeX preamble and the
layout and module files to find where this first and second definition
takes place.

Again, as this can be hidden in a package this could mean gradually
removing all special packages and customization.

Günter

Re: Keyboard Shortcut

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-07, Rich Shepard wrote:

> In earlier versions, when all shortcuts were in the appropriate bind
> file, it was easy enough to add new ones to make my writing more
> efficient. While I can live with the lists in the menu, I would like to
> find functions there.

Help>LyX-Functions

Also, you can still copy a bind file to your ~/.lyx/ dir and edit in an
editor or define a personal bind file under Tools>Settings which will
become the basis for the GUI customization.

Günter

Problems with starting lyx 1.6.2.

[Lasse Laakso]

Hi,

I just downloaded the new version of lyx, installed it according to  
instructions, but the program won't start now. My earlier version  
1.5.6. worked without any trouble. Where can I look for the flaw?  
Should I try some other way to install the software? I even tried to  
remove the "prerequistis" file from lyx 1.6. folder, but that either  
did not help. I even restarted the computer once after intalling, but  
still it will not start. Now text or notification is seen once I press  
the lyx-icon.


Sincerely,

Lasse Laakso
Finland

Re: Document Class

[rgheck]

Edwin Davis wrote:

Hello,
I am using LyX 1.6 to write a thesis and am having  a hard time figuring out 
how to change the document class for a single page. Please email me back at 
your earliest convenience.

  

You can't do that. It's the DOCUMENT class.

That said, what do you want to do on that page?

rh

Re: Problems with starting lyx 1.6.2.

[rgheck]

Lasse Laakso wrote:

Hi,

I just downloaded the new version of lyx, installed it according to 
instructions, but the program won't start now. My earlier version 
1.5.6. worked without any trouble. Where can I look for the flaw? 
Should I try some other way to install the software? I even tried to 
remove the "prerequistis" file from lyx 1.6. folder, but that either 
did not help. I even restarted the computer once after intalling, but 
still it will not start. Now text or notification is seen once I press 
the lyx-icon.



It'd help if you said what kind of computer you are using. Mac?

rh

Re: problem inserting .pdf as external material

[Giovanni]

  martedì 07 aprile 2009, 19:41, Anders Host-Madsen:

> Giovanni  writes:
> 
> 
> > It's possible to have the content inserted in line, as a paragraph?
> 
> Can't you just insert the pdf a graphic?
> Anyway, I had the opposite problem. I wanted to insert whole pages
> of an external pdf. I didn't know about the pdfpages package until
> you posting. This solved my problem, thanks.

  Actually i need both of these approaches: insert a single page (so
as a graphic it's a viable option) and multiple pages (so i need to
do it via pdfpages).
  If no better solution appears i'll use a mix of the two methods.

Thanks,
  Giovanni  

Re: problem inserting .pdf as external material

[Giovanni]

  martedì 07 aprile 2009, 16:54, Paul A. Rubin:
 
> If the content is text, you can use pdftext to extract the text from
> the PDF file and then import it into LyX (where you will need to
> reformat it if you do not want it using the format of the rest of
> your document). Otherwise, pasting it in as an image may be your best
> bet.

  I need to extract some pages from a catalogue, so the formatting it's
important too. I'll stick to import as images.

thanks,
  Giovanni

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:


Good. Testing the new memoir install with a pure latex file might be a
further step to localize problems.


Guenter,

  I'll try that later today on the same small (for now) document I'm writing
in LyX.


Is there some changelog or news file for the new memoir version? Maybe
the LyX layout needs adaption (or is there a LyX *.layout file that comes
with memoir).


  Yes. Many. I no longer remember the previously installed version, but it
was probably from 2006. I've attached the README file which lists all
changes by version.

  The memoir.layout is probably equally old. I've attached a copy of that,
too.


LaTeX errors in packages are sometimes hard to trac/localize:

Have a look at Document>LaTeX log,
start with a smaller example,
try to isolate the problematic part.


  I've looked at the log and saw nothing that immediately clicked with me.
So, ...


Alternatively, export to LaTeX, run "by hand" ...


  I'll do this.


These are obsolete since several years, maybe the new memoir class decided
to drop backwards compatibility. Are they used by LyX, ERT, or preamble
(maybe indirect)?


  Oh. That's why they looked old to me.


You might need to have a look at your custom LaTeX preamble and the layout
and module files to find where this first and second definition takes
place.


  The only line (for now) in the preamble is \date{}


Again, as this can be hidden in a package this could mean gradually
removing all special packages and customization.


  Since I'm currently focusing on content, there are no additional packages
specified in the preamble. I can also go with the current KOMA-book class,
but I am not fond of the default san-serif typefaces.

Many thanks,

Rich

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 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863Memoir is a flexible class for typesetting poetry, fiction, 
non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or
manuscripts. Documents can use 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 14pt, or 17pt as the
normal fontsize and, if you have scalable fonts, 20pt, 25pt, 30pt, 36pt,
48pt, or 60pt sizes, or even larger. Many methods are provided to let 
you create your particular design. The class incorporates over 30 of the 
more popular packages.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE ASK THEM ON THE COMP.TEXT.TEX NEWSGROUP;
YOU ARE LIKELY TO GET FASTER AND BETTER ANSWERS THAN IF YOU EMAIL ME DIRECTLY
AS I AM AWAY MORE OFTEN THAN NOT.

NOTE: In order to provide fixes for any problems that may arise
between major releases, you may find a file called mempatch.sty
which contains any current fixes for the memoir class. The class
will automatically include this so DO NOT \usepackage{mempatch}.
The Change lists below do not neccessarily note each release of
the patch or addendum files.

   NOTE: Similarly, there may be file(s) called memmanadd.(tex|pdf) which 
provides amendments to the current version of the User Manual.

   NOTE: If you are using the hyperref package dated earlier than 2006/11/15, 
use the memhfixc package after the hyperref package, e.g.,
...
\usepackage[...]{hyperref}
\usepackage{memhfixc}
...
Later versions of the hyperref package automatically load the memhfixc package.

NOTE: The full User Manual (memman.pdf) is a large document approaching
600 pages in total. You do not need to print all of it, especially if you 
already have an earlier edition. Roughly speaking, the main portions are:
o Frontmatter: Preface, Toc, Introduction, Terminology  ~  35 pages
o Mainmatter: 
Design and typography   ~  60 pages
Class commands and environments, etc.   ~ 335 pages
o Appendices: (La)Tex programming, Errors and warnings  ~  40 pages
o Backmatter:
Command glossary~  40 pages
Bibliography, indexes   ~  50 pages


Changes (2009/02/06)

o Memoir v1.6180339d,e fixes a bug introduced by v1.6180339c

-- \makeheadwidth, \makerunningheadwidth and \makerunningfootwidth no longer 
   support the '+' syntax from the calc package.

-- under hyperref \nameref is now an alias for \titleref


Changes (2009/01/26)
o Memoir v1.6180339c released with minor bug fixes that could
  not be done via the patch file, plus some new functionality. The
  manual has NOT been updated and the changes are noted below.

-- New paper size options: `a0paper', `a1paper', `a2paper', `b0paper', 
   `b1paper', and `b2paper' for A0, A1, A2, B0,B1, and B2 size stock paper.

-- Macro \memoirpostopthook{} which is called after the options are
   processed but before anything else is done (like setting the page layout).
   As an example, you may define it as (before the \documentclass}
   command):
 \newcommand*{\memoirpostopthook}{%
   \setlength{\stockwidth}{}\setlength{\stockheight}{}}

Re: Document Class

[Uwe Stöhr]

Edwin Davis schrieb:


I am using LyX 1.6 to write a thesis and am having  a hard time

> figuring out how to change the document class for a single page.

Document classes are not to be changed. What you need to do is to choose a document class and use 
its power. For a thesis I can recommend to use the document class "book(koma script)" or 
"report(koma script)". Both document classes depend on the koma script LaTeX class which provides 
you everything you need for a thesis like automatic print space calculation, formatting of page 
headers and footers, binding correction, formatting of title pages, ...

koma script has an excellent documentation, search the web for the file 
"scrguien.pdf"

regards Uwe

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

-- Am Monday 06 April 2009 15:26:38 schrieben Sie:

I am sure there is somebody in the LyX community who uses Debian lenny and 
LyX1.6.2 who has ghostscript 8.64 running. Or is this ghostscript installable 
only under sid? I would very much need help on this issue.

Wolfgang  


> Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb:
> > Is there any other way to avoid the Ghostscript error I am getting?
>
> I don't know. What you see is an error in Ghostscript, but can also be
> caused by buggy libraries at your Linux installation. The only thing I can
> say for sure is that I don't get the error here with GS 8.64 on Windows.
>
> > Or is Debian sid safe to use?
>
> I don't know Debian. I only install the latest version of a package when I
> find bugs and am only on Windows.
>
> regards Uwe
(thanks, Uwe, and sorry for the error with the answer, which went to you 
instead of the group)

Re: Document Class

[Richard Heck]

Edwin Davis wrote:
I need this page to resemble a science article so I need the page to 
be 2 columns and be able to put a title at the top of it if that is 
possible.


The two-column bit you can do fairly easily, though I think you need ERT 
to do it. Check out the LaTeX multicol package, here:

   http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/multicol.html
There may be something about its use on the wiki, as well.

As for the title, you'll probably have to do that manually, i.e., just 
formatting it as you want it to be.


rh

PS Keep it on the list, in case other people have the same question.

Springer 1-Column Proceedings Template with Lyx

[hartepizza]

Hello everybody,

I just can't figure out how to use the "1-Column Proceedings" template from
Springer within Lyx.

On their website
http://www.springer.com/authors/manuscript+guidelines/kap+single-column+proceedings+volume?SGWID=0-40493-0-0-0
they offer a general template for LaTeX.

I tried "Import from LaTeX" within Lyx, but it seems not that easy ;) ... 
(fails)

Is there some FAQ / similiar post, where the necessary steps are described?

It would be really an advantage to do writing with Lyx!

Cheers,
hartepizza

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:


Good. Testing the new memoir install with a pure latex file might be a
further step to localize problems.


Guenter,

  I have the problem isolated to viewing the document with dvips. I exported
the text using the pdflatex option, and ran that on the *.tex file. No
problems. Next, within LyX, I changed the document class to "memoir" and
viewd it using pdflatex rather than dvips. It displayed properly.

  So, is this a 'feature' of the memoir class, or does LyX need adjustment?

Thanks,

Rich

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Re: Document Class

[Uwe Stöhr]

Edwin Davis schrieb:

Well is there a way to make a page multicolumn(2) like an article. But 
not the whole document, just one of the pages within the document


See as example sec. "22.8 Formulas in multi-column Text" in the Math manual that you find in the 
Help menu of LyX.


regards Uwe

Re: Document Class

[Paul Sutton]

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Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Edwin Davis schrieb:
> 
>> Well is there a way to make a page multicolumn(2) like an article. But
>> not the whole document, just one of the pages within the document
> 
> See as example sec. "22.8 Formulas in multi-column Text" in the Math
> manual that you find in the Help menu of LyX.
> 
> regards Uwe

Hi

In my pre-amble I have

\usepackage{multicol}

then the first line of my main document is

\setlength{\columnsep}{2cm}\setlength{\columnseprule}{1pt}\begin{multicols}{3}

last line is

\end{multicols}

this produces a nice 3 column document,  if you just use
\begin{multicols}{2} it should do it,  if you did this

\begin{multicols}{2}
paragraph you want in 2 columns
\end{multicols}

normal formatted paragraph,

it should do the part after \end{multicols} as normal text,

I have put a 3 column document in pdf on my website at
http://www.zleap.net/downloads/ldtp-contribs/ along with the lyx source
code (ver 1.5.6)

hope this helps

Paul



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Re: Document Class

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Paul Sutton wrote:


... if you just use begin{multicols}{2} it should do it, if you did this

\begin{multicols}{2}
paragraph you want in 2 columns
\end{multicols}

normal formatted paragraph,

it should do the part after \end{multicols} as normal text,


  Yup. I used this exact procedure to insert a 2-column list in the middle
of a page of text in my book. Works flawlessly.

Rich

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How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

My book, which is intended to be an eBook, uses a document class derived from 
the Book document class. I want it to keep being derived from Book.

I unchecked the "two sided document" checkbox on the "page layout" part of the 
document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every chapter 
on an odd page.

Always starting on odd pages is great for a print book, but it just fluffs up 
an eBook. Is there a simple way to let chapters start on even pages, or am I 
going to have to modify the Chapter envionment in my layout file?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US

Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote:


I unchecked the "two sided document" checkbox on the "page layout" part of the
document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every chapter
on an odd page.


SteveT,

  Have you looked at using the report classes? About the only difference
between the book and report classes is the abstract environment in the
latter.

  Also, I'm sure that if you look in TLC2 you'll find a standard way of
having chapters start on the next available page. And, in the memoir class
(which derives from book) you can have chapters start on the same page as
the end of the previous chapter.

  Lotsa' options.

Rich

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Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

[Richard Heck]

Rich Shepard wrote:

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote:

I unchecked the "two sided document" checkbox on the "page layout" 
part of the
document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every 
chapter

on an odd page.



There's some option for this. Maybe it's "openany".

rh

Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

[Anthony Campbell]

On 08 Apr 2009, Richard Heck wrote:
> Rich Shepard wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
>>
>>> I unchecked the "two sided document" checkbox on the "page layout"  
>>> part of the
>>> document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every  
>>> chapter
>>> on an odd page.
>>
> There's some option for this. Maybe it's "openany".
>
> rh

It is.

Anthony

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Re: Problems with starting lyx 1.6.2.

[Marcelo Acuña]

> Hi,
> 
> I just downloaded the new version of lyx, installed it
> according to instructions, but the program won't start
> now. My earlier version 1.5.6. worked without any trouble.
> Where can I look for the flaw? Should I try some other way
> to install the software? I even tried to remove the
> "prerequistis" file from lyx 1.6. folder, but that
> either did not help. I even restarted the computer once
> after intalling, but still it will not start. Now text or
> notification is seen once I press the lyx-icon.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Lasse Laakso
> Finland

 Hi,
 What operating system do you have?
 You download a binary or a source and compiles it?
Regards
Marcelo


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lyx and jaunty

[Paul Sutton]

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Hi

I am also on the announce list looks like ubuntu 9,10 Jaunty jackalope
will may have lyx Version: 1.6.2-1

Paul
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Re: How to allow chapters to start on even numbered pages?

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 08 April 2009 03:08:16 pm Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 08 Apr 2009, Richard Heck wrote:
> > Rich Shepard wrote:
> >> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Steve Litt wrote:
> >>> I unchecked the "two sided document" checkbox on the "page layout"
> >>> part of the
> >>> document settings, but it still skips pages in order to start every
> >>> chapter
> >>> on an odd page.
> >
> > There's some option for this. Maybe it's "openany".
> >
> > rh
>
> It is.
>
> Anthony

Confirmed!

The following gave me chapter starts wherever they landed:

Document->Settings->Document_class->Options

Then type in the word "openany" without the quotes, and without a backslash. 
Works perfectly.

Thanks Richard and Anthony!

SteveT

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Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ehud Kaplan schrieb:


But the white space around the graphics itself persists.


Because your image contains the whitespace. I converted your image to a PDF as I assume that your 
document should also be a PDF and removed the whitespace. (You can insert images to LyX in every 
format, but they can only be embedded to the resulting document PDF output when they are in the 
format PDF, JPG, PNG, or GIF. When you use another image format like EPS, LyX has to convert the 
images to one of the four formats in the background which extends the document compile time when 
viewing/exporting it.)


There were two other problems:

- you scaled the image absolutely, but when you want to control the whitespace, you need to scale 
the image relatively to the column width. When you e.g. set your wrap float to 50% column width and 
do the same for your image you get no whitespace. When you set the image to 40% column width, you 
get some whitespace around it.


- when you want the figure centered you can set its paragraph to centered and don't need to use a 
LaTeX command But when using wrapped figures one often wants the image to be aligned with the text 
column border. So in your case I would set the paragraph where the image is in to right aligned.


In a separate email I attached the example file.

regards Uwe