elsarticle

[Sandor Szabo]

Hello,

The new lyx 1.6.2 uses the elsart.cls or the new elsarticle.cls document 
class (Elsevier's new document class)?


Thanks,
Sandor

Re: elsarticle

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-09, Sandor Szabo wrote:

 The new lyx 1.6.2 uses the elsart.cls or the new elsarticle.cls document 
 class (Elsevier's new document class)?

Both.

/usr/share/lyx/layouts/elsart.layout
/usr/share/lyx/layouts/elsarticle.layout

Günter

Re: Springer 1-Column Proceedings Template with Lyx

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, hartepizza wrote:
 Hello everybody,

 I just can't figure out how to use the 1-Column Proceedings template
 from Springer within Lyx.
...
 they offer a general template for LaTeX.

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

HelpCustomization

search at wiki.lyx.org

Günter

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

I use Debian/testing and 

# ghostscript --version
8.64

. I would try to download the package from packages.debian.org and try an
install with `dpkg -i gho*.deb`. If the dependencies are met by Lenny
packages, this should work. If there are many unmet dependencies, you
could try to add testing to your sources.list.

Günter

Re: Problems with starting lyx 1.6.2.

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Lasse Laakso wrote:

 I just downloaded the new version of lyx, installed it according to  
 instructions, but the program won't start now. 

* Some people reported problems with buggy QT library versions.

* Some people reported problems with old customization (temporarily rename
  ~/.lyx to ~/.lyx.bak or so)
  
* There are many more reasons that we cannot guess.

Günter  

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Rich Shepard wrote:

 I can also go with the current KOMA-book class, but I am not fond of
 the default san-serif typefaces.

This is configurable. Write in your LaTeX preamble:

% Überschriften für alle Gliederungsebenen in normaler Schrift
% (und nicht serifenlos wie im KOMA default)
\setkomafont{sectioning}{\bfseries}

and read scrguien.pdf for details.

Günter

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Rich Shepard wrote:
 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.

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?

I cannot tell you. If you could further isolate the problem, this would
be a help for all LyX users. (It may turn out to be an obscure case that
noone else will experience or a general problem or a stale file/command.)
What happens with view/export as PDF?

Günter

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[E. Kaplan]

Thanks for the help and the information regarding the various formats.
Before I posted the question, I did try to use the pdf version of the 
figure, making sure it had no white region around the edges.  I noticed 
that it did leave less of a white area around the picture, but it was 
still not what I wanted, which is the complete control provided by  
Latex's independent specification of width for the caption and the graphics.
By the way, what is supposed to go into the Latex options on the third 
tab of the figure settings?  When I specify the width in there (say: 
width=2in), Lyx follows the instructions, which seem to overlap with the 
scale instructions on the first tab. 


Yours,
EK




Uwe Stöhr wrote:

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: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:


This is configurable. Write in your LaTeX preamble:


Guenter,

  Yes, I know that it is. I've changed the typefaces in other documents
using the KOMA classes.

Thanks,

Rich

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

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:


If you could further isolate the problem, this would be a help for all LyX
users.


Guenter,

  Please suggest how I can test to further isolate the problem and I will do
so.


What happens with view/export as PDF?


  I've not tried plain PDF, but viewing in pdflatex works fine, and it
compiled from the .tex file without errors when I used pdflatex. So I assume
that export works, too.

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[Uwe Stöhr]

E. Kaplan schrieb:

I noticed 
that it did leave less of a white area around the picture, but it was 
still not what I wanted, which is the complete control provided by  
Latex's independent specification of width for the caption and the graphics.


I don't understand what you miss, I can control everything: the image width, the float width, the 
caption size, caption width, caption format, image bounding box (I can say I only want to have a 
certain part of the image in the output). What do you miss?


By the way, what is supposed to go into the Latex options on the third 
tab of the figure settings? 


See the EmebeddedObjects manual chapter 1.

When I specify the width in there (say: 
width=2in), Lyx follows the instructions, which seem to overlap with the 
scale instructions on the first tab. 


This setting is the appearance within LyX only, therefore its name is show in LyX and then Scale 
on screen.


regards Uwe

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[Ehud Kaplan]

It is not clear to me how it is done.
I see on the first tab of the float setting (graphics) the setting for 
the scale, width or height,
and on the second tab (clipping) facilities for cropping and positioning 
the graphics.
How do you deal with the caption width?  I know I can do that with the 
caption package and ERT,
but are these facilities in the settings for the float?  Is that what I 
put in the Latex Options on the third tab?


EK

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

E. Kaplan schrieb:

I noticed that it did leave less of a white area around the picture, 
but it was still not what I wanted, which is the complete control 
provided by  Latex's independent specification of width for the 
caption and the graphics.


I don't understand what you miss, I can control everything: the image 
width, the float width, the caption size, caption width, caption 
format, image bounding box (I can say I only want to have a certain 
part of the image in the output). What do you miss?


By the way, what is supposed to go into the Latex options on the 
third tab of the figure settings? 


See the EmebeddedObjects manual chapter 1.

When I specify the width in there (say: width=2in), Lyx follows the 
instructions, which seem to overlap with the scale instructions on 
the first tab. 


This setting is the appearance within LyX only, therefore its name is 
show in LyX and then Scale on screen.


regards Uwe


--
Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor
Director, The laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural  Chemical Biology,
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave Levy Place
NY, NY, 10029 

Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Rich Shepard]

  I've not used the memoir(book) class before and thought that I'd give it a
try for workshop attendee material. I'm having problems with page numbering:

  -- The title page is numbered '1' but should be blank.
  -- I set the default \pagestyle{empty} in the preamble but that did not
remove the title page number.
  -- Frontmatter pagination is OK.
  -- Mainmatter pagination starts on the Part 1 page with number '3' despite
the command \setcounter{page}{1} in front of it. Chapter 1 than
begins on page 5.

  I've attached the first 195 lines from the .lyx file.

  I also see commands I don't recognize from previous versions, such as the
doubled 'newline' within the title and author environments.

  Your suggestions on how to properly set up this class so I correct these
pagination errors will be much appreciated.

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863#LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 345
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass memoir
\begin_preamble
\date{}
\pagestyle{empty}
\end_preamble
\use_default_options false
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\font_roman palatino
\font_sans default
\font_typewriter default
\font_default_family default
\font_sc true
\font_osf false
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100

\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\spacing single
\use_hyperref false
\papersize custom
\use_geometry true
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 0
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 6.125in
\paperheight 9.25in
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle default
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\author  
\author  
\end_header

\begin_body

\begin_layout Title
Workshops on Critical Environmental Impact Assessments
\begin_inset Newline newline
\end_inset

11-15 May 2009
\begin_inset Newline newline
\end_inset

Perth/Melbourne, Australia
\end_layout

\begin_layout Author
Presented by:
\begin_inset Newline newline
\end_inset

Dr.
 Richard B.
 Shepard, President
\begin_inset Newline newline
\end_inset

Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset ERT
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
newpage
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
vspace*{5.5in}
\end_layout

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard

Copyright 
\begin_inset ERT
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
copyright
\end_layout

\end_inset

 2009 Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard

\begin_inset ERT
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
newpage
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
pagestyle{headings}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
pagenumbering{roman}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
setcounter{page}{1}
\end_layout

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset CommandInset toc
LatexCommand tableofcontents

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset ERT
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
pagenumbering{arabic}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
setcounter{page}{1}
\end_layout

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Part
Overview
\end_layout

\begin_layout Chapter
Introduction
\end_layout

Warnings/advices after installing?

[Piero Faustini]

Hello,
I just re-installed LyX and MikTeX on WinXP and once again forgot to install 
italian and other languages hyphenation support in MikTeX. This made me think 
that as it is something I always have to do after installing MikTeX, LyX 
installer should someway warn the new user to check for every option in MikTeX, 
included, of course hyphenation patterns and language support. I can remember 
that the 1st time I used LyX (and LaTeX) I discovered this only after some 
weeks of various problems with my language.
Just a warning would be very useful for new users.
bye
H.

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ehud Kaplan schrieb:


It is not clear to me how it is done.
I see on the first tab of the float setting (graphics) the setting for 
the scale, width or height,
and on the second tab (clipping) facilities for cropping and positioning 
the graphics.
How do you deal with the caption width?  I know I can do that with the 
caption package and ERT,
but are these facilities in the settings for the float?  Is that what I 
put in the Latex Options on the third tab?


The caption format, and width can only controlled by the caption package, so you need here some 
preamble commands. The rest: image format, image part, float width and depth, whitespace around 
image, and the image alignment can be done via the float dialog. For a detailed description of 
caption formatting and much more, have a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual chap. 3.


regards Uwe

Re: Warnings/advices after installing?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Piero Faustini schrieb:

I just re-installed LyX and MikTeX on WinXP and once again forgot to install 
italian and other languages hyphenation support in MikTeX. This made me think 
that as it is something I always have to do after installing MikTeX, LyX 
installer should someway warn the new user to check for every option in MikTeX, 
included, of course hyphenation patterns and language support.


This would indeed be useful, but not easy to program. But I have to fix another installer issue the 
next days and will have a look if your request can be implemented.


regards Uwe

Re: elsarticle

[Uwe Stöhr]

Sandor Szabo schrieb:

The new lyx 1.6.2 uses the elsart.cls or the new elsarticle.cls document 
class (Elsevier's new document class)?


elsart is outdated and is no longer accepted by Elsevier. To use the new elsarticle class, I 
recommend to start with the elsarticle.lyx file that you find in LyX's template folder.


regards Uwe

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Thursday 09 April 2009 10:56:29 schrieb Guenter Milde:
 On 2009-04-08, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

 I use Debian/testing and

 # ghostscript --version
 8.64

 . I would try to download the package from packages.debian.org and try an
 install with `dpkg -i gho*.deb`. If the dependencies are met by Lenny
 packages, this should work. If there are many unmet dependencies, you
 could try to add testing to your sources.list.

 Günter

Thanks, Günther

I have upgraded to Debian squeeze
and made sure all the other pakages lyx 1.6.2 needs are installed
( http://packages.debian.org/de/sid/lyx)

I am still getting 

GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript

anyody any idea whats going wrong?

Wolfgang

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

[Uwe Stöhr]

Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb:

I am still getting 


GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript


Try out to update or reinstall ImageMagick. When this doesn't help, I would report this as bug to 
the Ghostscript developers.


regards Uwe

Spanish Thesaurus

[Pablo]

Hi there!
I'm a rather new user of LYX. At the moment I'm typing a report in spanish. I've
already downloaded the aspell spanish dictionary but failed to find a spanish
thesaurus. Is there one for Lyx?
Thank you very much for your help!

Re: Spanish Thesaurus

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Pablo schreef:

Hi there!
I'm a rather new user of LYX. At the moment I'm typing a report in spanish. I've
already downloaded the aspell spanish dictionary but failed to find a spanish
thesaurus. Is there one for Lyx?
Thank you very much for your help!

  
[For now,] LyX's thesaurus [is] very limited and restricted to English 
only...


see: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20#toc2

Vincent

Re: Spanish Thesaurus

[Pablo]

Thanks Vincent! Will check thar right away..

Re: latex template in lyx, newbe

[Janwillem van Dijk]

Thanks for the help. I think I did would you advised. The publishers zip 
does unfortunately not contain any help. It contains a file 
document.tex. Applying latex or pdflatex gives a lot of complains on 
a.o. font sizes but ends up with files that are visually identical to 
the also provided document.pdf. So that seems to work. However, tex3lyx 
gives Could not find layout file for textclass Rpd. So there is 
probably an unsolved install problem. Any idea?



Guenter Milde wrote:

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


  

where is the reference referenced from?

[Niko Schwarz]

I have a mark in a section heading and I'd like to know where it is
reference from – how can i find that out?
niko

Re: where is the reference referenced from?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Niko Schwarz schreef:

I have a mark in a section heading and I'd like to know where it is
reference from – how can i find that out?
niko

  
In LyX 1.6: Document - Outline - Labels and References. Find the 
label you're looking for and press the triangle before it. This wil show 
you all references to this label.


Does this answer your question ?

Vincent

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
I've not used the memoir(book) class before and thought that I'd give it
 a try for workshop attendee material. I'm having problems with page
 numbering:

-- The title page is numbered '1' but should be blank.
-- I set the default \pagestyle{empty} in the preamble but that did not
   remove the title page number.
-- Frontmatter pagination is OK.
-- Mainmatter pagination starts on the Part 1 page with number '3'
 despite the command \setcounter{page}{1} in front of it. Chapter 1 than
   begins on page 5.

I've attached the first 195 lines from the .lyx file.

I also see commands I don't recognize from previous versions, such as
 the doubled 'newline' within the title and author environments.

Your suggestions on how to properly set up this class so I correct these
 pagination errors will be much appreciated.

Rich,
I haven't that much experience with memois, but here is what I did differently 
to get this kind of thing working properly:

\begin{titlingpage}
before the start of the title.

\end{titlingpage}
after the material on the back of the title page.

then
\frontmatter

Contents
List of figures
\mainmatter

then the first chapter, etc.

I don't remember where I found out how to do this.

-- 
Les

~~
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Les Denham wrote:


I haven't that much experience with memois, but here is what I did
differently to get this kind of thing working properly:

\begin{titlingpage}
before the start of the title.

\end{titlingpage}
after the material on the back of the title page.

then
\frontmatter

Contents
List of figures
\mainmatter

then the first chapter, etc.

I don't remember where I found out how to do this.


Les,

  That looks very familiar; I don't do book class documents often enough to
remember how. I just assumed the class took care of everything. :-)

Thanks,

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
 Les,

    That looks very familiar; I don't do book class documents often enough
 to remember how. I just assumed the class took care of everything. :-)

Rich,

Neither do I do books often.  Or at least, I don't set up books often: once I 
get it set up, it's a while before I finish it.  The one I copied this 
information from I started writing in late 2007, changed from Komascript to 
Memoir about a year ago, more or less finished six months ago and dusted off 
recently to output a new PDF.

-- 
Les

~~
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Les Denham wrote:


... changed from Komascript to Memoir about a year ago, ...


  Well, I just did the opposite. I think this is why I did not use memoir
the last time I tried; it just threw errors where they were unexpected. So,
I went back to Komascript. I could use the svmono class I used for my
published book, but Komascript lets me put text on the verso of the title
page, and put the company logo there, too. The manual is extensive and very
easy to follow.

  More importantly, it works for me. :-)

Thanks,

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

questions about elsarticle template

[Gwen Barnes]

The elsarticle template has opt next to the authors and addresses that
lets you link them.  How do you insert that opt field?

-Gwen

Re: questions about elsarticle template

[Gwen Barnes]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Gwen Barnes gwen.bar...@gmail.com wrote:

 The elsarticle template has opt next to the authors and addresses that
 lets you link them.  How do you insert that opt field?


On a related note: it seems like it gives the addresses a and b and
gives the corresponding authors c and d.  Does anyone else have this
problem, and/or have any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks!

-Gwen

Re: questions about elsarticle template

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Gwen Barnes schreef:

The elsarticle template has opt next to the authors and addresses that
lets you link them.  How do you insert that opt field?

-Gwen

  
Insert Short Title either in the context menu or via Insert-Short 
Title.


Vincent

agutex layout?

[Gwen Barnes]

Has someone already made a layout for the new AGU latex class (agutex.cls,
http://www.agu.org/pubs/helpdesk/)?  Otherwise I will try writing one up.

-Gwen

Interesting Failure in 1.6.2

[Rich Shepard]

  In all the years I've used LyX I've never seen this before: while checking
the spelling of my document, a message box popped up reading, The
spellchecker has failed. No word lists can be found for the language
'latex'.

  The last word checked (which I had added to my personal spelling
dictionary was 'www' in the URL for our web site.

How strange!

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

no citation available though bib was imported

[Markus Brandstetter]

Hi!
Please excuse this newbie question:

I imported my Endnote library into BibTex using the BibTexConverter as
described here (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs#toc12). This seems
to have worked fine because I can also open the .bib-bibliography with
JabRef.

But I can't add any citation in the text in Lyx after I added the
bibliography at the bottom of the document. It doesn't give me any
available citations to select. What am I doing wrong?
(I entered 'apalike' as the bibliography style and 'natbib' as citation
style.)

I'm using Windows XP, Endnote X, Lyx 1.6.2.

Thank you so much!

-Markus

Re: no citation available though bib was imported

[Gwen Barnes]

 I imported my Endnote library into BibTex using the BibTexConverter as
 described here (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs#toc12). This seems
 to have worked fine because I can also open the .bib-bibliography with
 JabRef.

 But I can't add any citation in the text in Lyx after I added the
 bibliography at the bottom of the document. It doesn't give me any
 available citations to select. What am I doing wrong?
 (I entered 'apalike' as the bibliography style and 'natbib' as citation
 style.)

 I'm using Windows XP, Endnote X, Lyx 1.6.2.



If you click on BibTeX Generated Bibliography at the end of your document,
it should bring up a box that says Databases.  The name of your .bib file
should be listed in there; if not, browse for it and add it.

Then when you want to insert a citation, go to Insert-Citation in the
menu, you should get a list of all the citations in your database on the
left.  Higlight one, click add (it will show up on the right), then click
OK.

HTH.

-Gwen

Re: no citation available though bib was imported

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Markus Brandstetter schreef:

Hi!
Please excuse this newbie question:

I imported my Endnote library into BibTex using the BibTexConverter as
described here (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs#toc12). This seems
to have worked fine because I can also open the .bib-bibliography with
JabRef.

But I can't add any citation in the text in Lyx after I added the
bibliography at the bottom of the document. It doesn't give me any
available citations to select. What am I doing wrong?
(I entered 'apalike' as the bibliography style and 'natbib' as citation
style.)

I'm using Windows XP, Endnote X, Lyx 1.6.2.

Thank you so much!

-Markus

  

You might have non-latin characters in your bibtex file.

If so, remove them and it should work.

Vincent

Re: agutex layout?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Gwen Barnes schrieb:


Has someone already made a layout for the new AGU latex class (agutex.cls,
http://www.agu.org/pubs/helpdesk/)?  Otherwise I will try writing one up.


We provide two layouts, one for AGU++ and one for AGU-dtd. But it seems that agutex.cls is a new 
LaTeX class. I'm therefore CCing this mail to the author of our existing AGU layout files.


regards Uwe

okular dvi viewer failed in lyx

[Russell Davie]

Hi All
I just installed Lyx 1.6.1 and tested out the dvi viewer on intro.lyx.
The default dvi viewer, okular, came up and then crashed.

A Fatal Error Occurred
The application Okular (okular) crashed and caused the signal 11
(SIGSEGV).

Lyx stayed open.

OS: Ubuntu 8.10
default dvi viewer: okular

this happens with kdvi as well.

okular and kdvi works with other dvi I have, but not the dvi lyx makes.

also when changing the dvi viewer preference in 
Tools - Preferences - file formats - DVI 
from xdg-open to xdiv, xdvi opens but presents a blank page.
If the window size of xdvi is re-sized to a fraction smaller, the text appears.

any help appreciated

cheers

Russell

elsarticle

[Sandor Szabo]

Hello,

The new lyx 1.6.2 uses the elsart.cls or the new elsarticle.cls document 
class (Elsevier's new document class)?


Thanks,
Sandor

Re: elsarticle

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-09, Sandor Szabo wrote:

 The new lyx 1.6.2 uses the elsart.cls or the new elsarticle.cls document 
 class (Elsevier's new document class)?

Both.

/usr/share/lyx/layouts/elsart.layout
/usr/share/lyx/layouts/elsarticle.layout

Günter

Re: Springer 1-Column Proceedings Template with Lyx

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, hartepizza wrote:
 Hello everybody,

 I just can't figure out how to use the 1-Column Proceedings template
 from Springer within Lyx.
...
 they offer a general template for LaTeX.

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

HelpCustomization

search at wiki.lyx.org

Günter

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

I use Debian/testing and 

# ghostscript --version
8.64

. I would try to download the package from packages.debian.org and try an
install with `dpkg -i gho*.deb`. If the dependencies are met by Lenny
packages, this should work. If there are many unmet dependencies, you
could try to add testing to your sources.list.

Günter

Re: Problems with starting lyx 1.6.2.

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Lasse Laakso wrote:

 I just downloaded the new version of lyx, installed it according to  
 instructions, but the program won't start now. 

* Some people reported problems with buggy QT library versions.

* Some people reported problems with old customization (temporarily rename
  ~/.lyx to ~/.lyx.bak or so)
  
* There are many more reasons that we cannot guess.

Günter  

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Rich Shepard wrote:

 I can also go with the current KOMA-book class, but I am not fond of
 the default san-serif typefaces.

This is configurable. Write in your LaTeX preamble:

% Überschriften für alle Gliederungsebenen in normaler Schrift
% (und nicht serifenlos wie im KOMA default)
\setkomafont{sectioning}{\bfseries}

and read scrguien.pdf for details.

Günter

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Rich Shepard wrote:
 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.

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?

I cannot tell you. If you could further isolate the problem, this would
be a help for all LyX users. (It may turn out to be an obscure case that
noone else will experience or a general problem or a stale file/command.)
What happens with view/export as PDF?

Günter

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[E. Kaplan]

Thanks for the help and the information regarding the various formats.
Before I posted the question, I did try to use the pdf version of the 
figure, making sure it had no white region around the edges.  I noticed 
that it did leave less of a white area around the picture, but it was 
still not what I wanted, which is the complete control provided by  
Latex's independent specification of width for the caption and the graphics.
By the way, what is supposed to go into the Latex options on the third 
tab of the figure settings?  When I specify the width in there (say: 
width=2in), Lyx follows the instructions, which seem to overlap with the 
scale instructions on the first tab. 


Yours,
EK




Uwe Stöhr wrote:

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: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:


This is configurable. Write in your LaTeX preamble:


Guenter,

  Yes, I know that it is. I've changed the typefaces in other documents
using the KOMA classes.

Thanks,

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:


If you could further isolate the problem, this would be a help for all LyX
users.


Guenter,

  Please suggest how I can test to further isolate the problem and I will do
so.


What happens with view/export as PDF?


  I've not tried plain PDF, but viewing in pdflatex works fine, and it
compiled from the .tex file without errors when I used pdflatex. So I assume
that export works, too.

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[Uwe Stöhr]

E. Kaplan schrieb:

I noticed 
that it did leave less of a white area around the picture, but it was 
still not what I wanted, which is the complete control provided by  
Latex's independent specification of width for the caption and the graphics.


I don't understand what you miss, I can control everything: the image width, the float width, the 
caption size, caption width, caption format, image bounding box (I can say I only want to have a 
certain part of the image in the output). What do you miss?


By the way, what is supposed to go into the Latex options on the third 
tab of the figure settings? 


See the EmebeddedObjects manual chapter 1.

When I specify the width in there (say: 
width=2in), Lyx follows the instructions, which seem to overlap with the 
scale instructions on the first tab. 


This setting is the appearance within LyX only, therefore its name is show in LyX and then Scale 
on screen.


regards Uwe

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[Ehud Kaplan]

It is not clear to me how it is done.
I see on the first tab of the float setting (graphics) the setting for 
the scale, width or height,
and on the second tab (clipping) facilities for cropping and positioning 
the graphics.
How do you deal with the caption width?  I know I can do that with the 
caption package and ERT,
but are these facilities in the settings for the float?  Is that what I 
put in the Latex Options on the third tab?


EK

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

E. Kaplan schrieb:

I noticed that it did leave less of a white area around the picture, 
but it was still not what I wanted, which is the complete control 
provided by  Latex's independent specification of width for the 
caption and the graphics.


I don't understand what you miss, I can control everything: the image 
width, the float width, the caption size, caption width, caption 
format, image bounding box (I can say I only want to have a certain 
part of the image in the output). What do you miss?


By the way, what is supposed to go into the Latex options on the 
third tab of the figure settings? 


See the EmebeddedObjects manual chapter 1.

When I specify the width in there (say: width=2in), Lyx follows the 
instructions, which seem to overlap with the scale instructions on 
the first tab. 


This setting is the appearance within LyX only, therefore its name is 
show in LyX and then Scale on screen.


regards Uwe


--
Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor
Director, The laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural  Chemical Biology,
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave Levy Place
NY, NY, 10029 

Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Rich Shepard]

  I've not used the memoir(book) class before and thought that I'd give it a
try for workshop attendee material. I'm having problems with page numbering:

  -- The title page is numbered '1' but should be blank.
  -- I set the default \pagestyle{empty} in the preamble but that did not
remove the title page number.
  -- Frontmatter pagination is OK.
  -- Mainmatter pagination starts on the Part 1 page with number '3' despite
the command \setcounter{page}{1} in front of it. Chapter 1 than
begins on page 5.

  I've attached the first 195 lines from the .lyx file.

  I also see commands I don't recognize from previous versions, such as the
doubled 'newline' within the title and author environments.

  Your suggestions on how to properly set up this class so I correct these
pagination errors will be much appreciated.

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863#LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 345
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass memoir
\begin_preamble
\date{}
\pagestyle{empty}
\end_preamble
\use_default_options false
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\font_roman palatino
\font_sans default
\font_typewriter default
\font_default_family default
\font_sc true
\font_osf false
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100

\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\spacing single
\use_hyperref false
\papersize custom
\use_geometry true
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 0
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 6.125in
\paperheight 9.25in
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle default
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\author  
\author  
\end_header

\begin_body

\begin_layout Title
Workshops on Critical Environmental Impact Assessments
\begin_inset Newline newline
\end_inset

11-15 May 2009
\begin_inset Newline newline
\end_inset

Perth/Melbourne, Australia
\end_layout

\begin_layout Author
Presented by:
\begin_inset Newline newline
\end_inset

Dr.
 Richard B.
 Shepard, President
\begin_inset Newline newline
\end_inset

Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset ERT
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
newpage
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
vspace*{5.5in}
\end_layout

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard

Copyright 
\begin_inset ERT
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
copyright
\end_layout

\end_inset

 2009 Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard

\begin_inset ERT
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
newpage
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
pagestyle{headings}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
pagenumbering{roman}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
setcounter{page}{1}
\end_layout

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset CommandInset toc
LatexCommand tableofcontents

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset ERT
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
pagenumbering{arabic}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
setcounter{page}{1}
\end_layout

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Part
Overview
\end_layout

\begin_layout Chapter
Introduction
\end_layout

Warnings/advices after installing?

[Piero Faustini]

Hello,
I just re-installed LyX and MikTeX on WinXP and once again forgot to install 
italian and other languages hyphenation support in MikTeX. This made me think 
that as it is something I always have to do after installing MikTeX, LyX 
installer should someway warn the new user to check for every option in MikTeX, 
included, of course hyphenation patterns and language support. I can remember 
that the 1st time I used LyX (and LaTeX) I discovered this only after some 
weeks of various problems with my language.
Just a warning would be very useful for new users.
bye
H.

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ehud Kaplan schrieb:


It is not clear to me how it is done.
I see on the first tab of the float setting (graphics) the setting for 
the scale, width or height,
and on the second tab (clipping) facilities for cropping and positioning 
the graphics.
How do you deal with the caption width?  I know I can do that with the 
caption package and ERT,
but are these facilities in the settings for the float?  Is that what I 
put in the Latex Options on the third tab?


The caption format, and width can only controlled by the caption package, so you need here some 
preamble commands. The rest: image format, image part, float width and depth, whitespace around 
image, and the image alignment can be done via the float dialog. For a detailed description of 
caption formatting and much more, have a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual chap. 3.


regards Uwe

Re: Warnings/advices after installing?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Piero Faustini schrieb:

I just re-installed LyX and MikTeX on WinXP and once again forgot to install 
italian and other languages hyphenation support in MikTeX. This made me think 
that as it is something I always have to do after installing MikTeX, LyX 
installer should someway warn the new user to check for every option in MikTeX, 
included, of course hyphenation patterns and language support.


This would indeed be useful, but not easy to program. But I have to fix another installer issue the 
next days and will have a look if your request can be implemented.


regards Uwe

Re: elsarticle

[Uwe Stöhr]

Sandor Szabo schrieb:

The new lyx 1.6.2 uses the elsart.cls or the new elsarticle.cls document 
class (Elsevier's new document class)?


elsart is outdated and is no longer accepted by Elsevier. To use the new elsarticle class, I 
recommend to start with the elsarticle.lyx file that you find in LyX's template folder.


regards Uwe

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Thursday 09 April 2009 10:56:29 schrieb Guenter Milde:
 On 2009-04-08, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

 I use Debian/testing and

 # ghostscript --version
 8.64

 . I would try to download the package from packages.debian.org and try an
 install with `dpkg -i gho*.deb`. If the dependencies are met by Lenny
 packages, this should work. If there are many unmet dependencies, you
 could try to add testing to your sources.list.

 Günter

Thanks, Günther

I have upgraded to Debian squeeze
and made sure all the other pakages lyx 1.6.2 needs are installed
( http://packages.debian.org/de/sid/lyx)

I am still getting 

GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript

anyody any idea whats going wrong?

Wolfgang

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

[Uwe Stöhr]

Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb:

I am still getting 


GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript


Try out to update or reinstall ImageMagick. When this doesn't help, I would report this as bug to 
the Ghostscript developers.


regards Uwe

Spanish Thesaurus

[Pablo]

Hi there!
I'm a rather new user of LYX. At the moment I'm typing a report in spanish. I've
already downloaded the aspell spanish dictionary but failed to find a spanish
thesaurus. Is there one for Lyx?
Thank you very much for your help!

Re: Spanish Thesaurus

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Pablo schreef:

Hi there!
I'm a rather new user of LYX. At the moment I'm typing a report in spanish. I've
already downloaded the aspell spanish dictionary but failed to find a spanish
thesaurus. Is there one for Lyx?
Thank you very much for your help!

  
[For now,] LyX's thesaurus [is] very limited and restricted to English 
only...


see: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20#toc2

Vincent

Re: Spanish Thesaurus

[Pablo]

Thanks Vincent! Will check thar right away..

Re: latex template in lyx, newbe

[Janwillem van Dijk]

Thanks for the help. I think I did would you advised. The publishers zip 
does unfortunately not contain any help. It contains a file 
document.tex. Applying latex or pdflatex gives a lot of complains on 
a.o. font sizes but ends up with files that are visually identical to 
the also provided document.pdf. So that seems to work. However, tex3lyx 
gives Could not find layout file for textclass Rpd. So there is 
probably an unsolved install problem. Any idea?



Guenter Milde wrote:

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


  

where is the reference referenced from?

[Niko Schwarz]

I have a mark in a section heading and I'd like to know where it is
reference from – how can i find that out?
niko

Re: where is the reference referenced from?

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Niko Schwarz schreef:

I have a mark in a section heading and I'd like to know where it is
reference from – how can i find that out?
niko

  
In LyX 1.6: Document - Outline - Labels and References. Find the 
label you're looking for and press the triangle before it. This wil show 
you all references to this label.


Does this answer your question ?

Vincent

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
I've not used the memoir(book) class before and thought that I'd give it
 a try for workshop attendee material. I'm having problems with page
 numbering:

-- The title page is numbered '1' but should be blank.
-- I set the default \pagestyle{empty} in the preamble but that did not
   remove the title page number.
-- Frontmatter pagination is OK.
-- Mainmatter pagination starts on the Part 1 page with number '3'
 despite the command \setcounter{page}{1} in front of it. Chapter 1 than
   begins on page 5.

I've attached the first 195 lines from the .lyx file.

I also see commands I don't recognize from previous versions, such as
 the doubled 'newline' within the title and author environments.

Your suggestions on how to properly set up this class so I correct these
 pagination errors will be much appreciated.

Rich,
I haven't that much experience with memois, but here is what I did differently 
to get this kind of thing working properly:

\begin{titlingpage}
before the start of the title.

\end{titlingpage}
after the material on the back of the title page.

then
\frontmatter

Contents
List of figures
\mainmatter

then the first chapter, etc.

I don't remember where I found out how to do this.

-- 
Les

~~
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Les Denham wrote:


I haven't that much experience with memois, but here is what I did
differently to get this kind of thing working properly:

\begin{titlingpage}
before the start of the title.

\end{titlingpage}
after the material on the back of the title page.

then
\frontmatter

Contents
List of figures
\mainmatter

then the first chapter, etc.

I don't remember where I found out how to do this.


Les,

  That looks very familiar; I don't do book class documents often enough to
remember how. I just assumed the class took care of everything. :-)

Thanks,

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Les Denham]

On Thursday 09 April 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:
 Les,

    That looks very familiar; I don't do book class documents often enough
 to remember how. I just assumed the class took care of everything. :-)

Rich,

Neither do I do books often.  Or at least, I don't set up books often: once I 
get it set up, it's a while before I finish it.  The one I copied this 
information from I started writing in late 2007, changed from Komascript to 
Memoir about a year ago, more or less finished six months ago and dusted off 
recently to output a new PDF.

-- 
Les

~~
Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

Re: Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Les Denham wrote:


... changed from Komascript to Memoir about a year ago, ...


  Well, I just did the opposite. I think this is why I did not use memoir
the last time I tried; it just threw errors where they were unexpected. So,
I went back to Komascript. I could use the svmono class I used for my
published book, but Komascript lets me put text on the verso of the title
page, and put the company logo there, too. The manual is extensive and very
easy to follow.

  More importantly, it works for me. :-)

Thanks,

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

questions about elsarticle template

[Gwen Barnes]

The elsarticle template has opt next to the authors and addresses that
lets you link them.  How do you insert that opt field?

-Gwen

Re: questions about elsarticle template

[Gwen Barnes]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Gwen Barnes gwen.bar...@gmail.com wrote:

 The elsarticle template has opt next to the authors and addresses that
 lets you link them.  How do you insert that opt field?


On a related note: it seems like it gives the addresses a and b and
gives the corresponding authors c and d.  Does anyone else have this
problem, and/or have any ideas how to fix it?

Thanks!

-Gwen

Re: questions about elsarticle template

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Gwen Barnes schreef:

The elsarticle template has opt next to the authors and addresses that
lets you link them.  How do you insert that opt field?

-Gwen

  
Insert Short Title either in the context menu or via Insert-Short 
Title.


Vincent

agutex layout?

[Gwen Barnes]

Has someone already made a layout for the new AGU latex class (agutex.cls,
http://www.agu.org/pubs/helpdesk/)?  Otherwise I will try writing one up.

-Gwen

Interesting Failure in 1.6.2

[Rich Shepard]

  In all the years I've used LyX I've never seen this before: while checking
the spelling of my document, a message box popped up reading, The
spellchecker has failed. No word lists can be found for the language
'latex'.

  The last word checked (which I had added to my personal spelling
dictionary was 'www' in the URL for our web site.

How strange!

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
http://www.appl-ecosys.com Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

no citation available though bib was imported

[Markus Brandstetter]

Hi!
Please excuse this newbie question:

I imported my Endnote library into BibTex using the BibTexConverter as
described here (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs#toc12). This seems
to have worked fine because I can also open the .bib-bibliography with
JabRef.

But I can't add any citation in the text in Lyx after I added the
bibliography at the bottom of the document. It doesn't give me any
available citations to select. What am I doing wrong?
(I entered 'apalike' as the bibliography style and 'natbib' as citation
style.)

I'm using Windows XP, Endnote X, Lyx 1.6.2.

Thank you so much!

-Markus

Re: no citation available though bib was imported

[Gwen Barnes]

 I imported my Endnote library into BibTex using the BibTexConverter as
 described here (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs#toc12). This seems
 to have worked fine because I can also open the .bib-bibliography with
 JabRef.

 But I can't add any citation in the text in Lyx after I added the
 bibliography at the bottom of the document. It doesn't give me any
 available citations to select. What am I doing wrong?
 (I entered 'apalike' as the bibliography style and 'natbib' as citation
 style.)

 I'm using Windows XP, Endnote X, Lyx 1.6.2.



If you click on BibTeX Generated Bibliography at the end of your document,
it should bring up a box that says Databases.  The name of your .bib file
should be listed in there; if not, browse for it and add it.

Then when you want to insert a citation, go to Insert-Citation in the
menu, you should get a list of all the citations in your database on the
left.  Higlight one, click add (it will show up on the right), then click
OK.

HTH.

-Gwen

Re: no citation available though bib was imported

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Markus Brandstetter schreef:

Hi!
Please excuse this newbie question:

I imported my Endnote library into BibTex using the BibTexConverter as
described here (http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Programs#toc12). This seems
to have worked fine because I can also open the .bib-bibliography with
JabRef.

But I can't add any citation in the text in Lyx after I added the
bibliography at the bottom of the document. It doesn't give me any
available citations to select. What am I doing wrong?
(I entered 'apalike' as the bibliography style and 'natbib' as citation
style.)

I'm using Windows XP, Endnote X, Lyx 1.6.2.

Thank you so much!

-Markus

  

You might have non-latin characters in your bibtex file.

If so, remove them and it should work.

Vincent

Re: agutex layout?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Gwen Barnes schrieb:


Has someone already made a layout for the new AGU latex class (agutex.cls,
http://www.agu.org/pubs/helpdesk/)?  Otherwise I will try writing one up.


We provide two layouts, one for AGU++ and one for AGU-dtd. But it seems that agutex.cls is a new 
LaTeX class. I'm therefore CCing this mail to the author of our existing AGU layout files.


regards Uwe

okular dvi viewer failed in lyx

[Russell Davie]

Hi All
I just installed Lyx 1.6.1 and tested out the dvi viewer on intro.lyx.
The default dvi viewer, okular, came up and then crashed.

A Fatal Error Occurred
The application Okular (okular) crashed and caused the signal 11
(SIGSEGV).

Lyx stayed open.

OS: Ubuntu 8.10
default dvi viewer: okular

this happens with kdvi as well.

okular and kdvi works with other dvi I have, but not the dvi lyx makes.

also when changing the dvi viewer preference in 
Tools - Preferences - file formats - DVI 
from xdg-open to xdiv, xdvi opens but presents a blank page.
If the window size of xdvi is re-sized to a fraction smaller, the text appears.

any help appreciated

cheers

Russell

elsarticle

[Sandor Szabo]

Hello,

The new lyx 1.6.2 uses the elsart.cls or the new elsarticle.cls document 
class (Elsevier's new document class)?


Thanks,
Sandor

Re: elsarticle

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-09, Sandor Szabo wrote:

> The new lyx 1.6.2 uses the elsart.cls or the new elsarticle.cls document 
> class (Elsevier's new document class)?

Both.

/usr/share/lyx/layouts/elsart.layout
/usr/share/lyx/layouts/elsarticle.layout

Günter

Re: Springer 1-Column Proceedings Template with Lyx

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, hartepizza wrote:
> Hello everybody,

> I just can't figure out how to use the "1-Column Proceedings" template
> from Springer within Lyx.
...
> they offer a general template for LaTeX.

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

Help>Customization

search at wiki.lyx.org

Günter

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:

I use Debian/testing and 

#> ghostscript --version
8.64

. I would try to download the package from packages.debian.org and try an
install with `dpkg -i gho*.deb`. If the dependencies are met by Lenny
packages, this should work. If there are many unmet dependencies, you
could try to add "testing" to your sources.list.

Günter

Re: Problems with starting lyx 1.6.2.

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Lasse Laakso wrote:

> I just downloaded the new version of lyx, installed it according to  
> instructions, but the program won't start now. 

* Some people reported problems with buggy QT library versions.

* Some people reported problems with old customization (temporarily rename
  ~/.lyx to ~/.lyx.bak or so)
  
* There are many more reasons that we cannot guess.

Günter  

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Rich Shepard wrote:

> I can also go with the current KOMA-book class, but I am not fond of
> the default san-serif typefaces.

This is configurable. Write in your LaTeX preamble:

% Überschriften für alle Gliederungsebenen in normaler Schrift
% (und nicht serifenlos wie im KOMA default)
\setkomafont{sectioning}{\bfseries}

and read scrguien.pdf for details.

Günter

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-04-08, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 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.

>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?

I cannot tell you. If you could further isolate the problem, this would
be a help for all LyX users. (It may turn out to be an obscure case that
noone else will experience or a general problem or a stale file/command.)
What happens with view/export as PDF?

Günter

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[E. Kaplan]

Thanks for the help and the information regarding the various formats.
Before I posted the question, I did try to use the pdf version of the 
figure, making sure it had no white region around the edges.  I noticed 
that it did leave less of a white area around the picture, but it was 
still not what I wanted, which is the complete control provided by  
Latex's independent specification of width for the caption and the graphics.
By the way, what is supposed to go into the "Latex options" on the third 
tab of the figure settings?  When I specify the width in there (say: 
width=2in), Lyx follows the instructions, which seem to overlap with the 
scale instructions on the first tab. 


Yours,
EK




Uwe Stöhr wrote:

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: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:


This is configurable. Write in your LaTeX preamble:


Guenter,

  Yes, I know that it is. I've changed the typefaces in other documents
using the KOMA classes.

Thanks,

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Installing Memoir Class Upgrade

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Guenter Milde wrote:


If you could further isolate the problem, this would be a help for all LyX
users.


Guenter,

  Please suggest how I can test to further isolate the problem and I will do
so.


What happens with view/export as PDF?


  I've not tried plain PDF, but viewing in pdflatex works fine, and it
compiled from the .tex file without errors when I used pdflatex. So I assume
that export works, too.

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[Uwe Stöhr]

E. Kaplan schrieb:

I noticed 
that it did leave less of a white area around the picture, but it was 
still not what I wanted, which is the complete control provided by  
Latex's independent specification of width for the caption and the graphics.


I don't understand what you miss, I can control everything: the image width, the float width, the 
caption size, caption width, caption format, image bounding box (I can say I only want to have a 
certain part of the image in the output). What do you miss?


By the way, what is supposed to go into the "Latex options" on the third 
tab of the figure settings? 


See the EmebeddedObjects manual chapter 1.

When I specify the width in there (say: 
width=2in), Lyx follows the instructions, which seem to overlap with the 
scale instructions on the first tab. 


This setting is the appearance within LyX only, therefore its name is "show in LyX" and then "Scale 
on screen".


regards Uwe

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[Ehud Kaplan]

It is not clear to me how it is done.
I see on the first tab of the float setting (graphics) the setting for 
the scale, width or height,
and on the second tab (clipping) facilities for cropping and positioning 
the graphics.
How do you deal with the caption width?  I know I can do that with the 
caption package and ERT,
but are these facilities in the settings for the float?  Is that what I 
put in the Latex Options on the third tab?


EK

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

E. Kaplan schrieb:

I noticed that it did leave less of a white area around the picture, 
but it was still not what I wanted, which is the complete control 
provided by  Latex's independent specification of width for the 
caption and the graphics.


I don't understand what you miss, I can control everything: the image 
width, the float width, the caption size, caption width, caption 
format, image bounding box (I can say I only want to have a certain 
part of the image in the output). What do you miss?


By the way, what is supposed to go into the "Latex options" on the 
third tab of the figure settings? 


See the EmebeddedObjects manual chapter 1.

When I specify the width in there (say: width=2in), Lyx follows the 
instructions, which seem to overlap with the scale instructions on 
the first tab. 


This setting is the appearance within LyX only, therefore its name is 
"show in LyX" and then "Scale on screen".


regards Uwe


--
Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor
Director, The laboratory of Visual Neuroscience
Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical Biology,
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave Levy Place
NY, NY, 10029 

Using Memoir Class: Page Numbering Issues

[Rich Shepard]

  I've not used the memoir(book) class before and thought that I'd give it a
try for workshop attendee material. I'm having problems with page numbering:

  -- The title page is numbered '1' but should be blank.
  -- I set the default \pagestyle{empty} in the preamble but that did not
remove the title page number.
  -- Frontmatter pagination is OK.
  -- Mainmatter pagination starts on the Part 1 page with number '3' despite
the command \setcounter{page}{1} in front of it. Chapter 1 than
begins on page 5.

  I've attached the first 195 lines from the .lyx file.

  I also see commands I don't recognize from previous versions, such as the
doubled 'newline' within the title and author environments.

  Your suggestions on how to properly set up this class so I correct these
pagination errors will be much appreciated.

Rich

--
Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D.   |  IntegrityCredibility
Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.|Innovation
 Voice: 503-667-4517  Fax: 503-667-8863#LyX 1.6.2 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 345
\begin_document
\begin_header
\textclass memoir
\begin_preamble
\date{}
\pagestyle{empty}
\end_preamble
\use_default_options false
\language english
\inputencoding auto
\font_roman palatino
\font_sans default
\font_typewriter default
\font_default_family default
\font_sc true
\font_osf false
\font_sf_scale 100
\font_tt_scale 100

\graphics default
\paperfontsize default
\spacing single
\use_hyperref false
\papersize custom
\use_geometry true
\use_amsmath 1
\use_esint 0
\cite_engine basic
\use_bibtopic false
\paperorientation portrait
\paperwidth 6.125in
\paperheight 9.25in
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation indent
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language english
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 2
\paperpagestyle default
\tracking_changes false
\output_changes false
\author "" 
\author "" 
\end_header

\begin_body

\begin_layout Title
Workshops on Critical Environmental Impact Assessments
\begin_inset Newline newline
\end_inset

11-15 May 2009
\begin_inset Newline newline
\end_inset

Perth/Melbourne, Australia
\end_layout

\begin_layout Author
Presented by:
\begin_inset Newline newline
\end_inset

Dr.
 Richard B.
 Shepard, President
\begin_inset Newline newline
\end_inset

Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset ERT
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
newpage
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
vspace*{5.5in}
\end_layout

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard

Copyright 
\begin_inset ERT
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
copyright
\end_layout

\end_inset

 2009 Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.
\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard

\begin_inset ERT
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
newpage
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
pagestyle{headings}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
pagenumbering{roman}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
setcounter{page}{1}
\end_layout

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset CommandInset toc
LatexCommand tableofcontents

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Standard
\begin_inset ERT
status open

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
pagenumbering{arabic}
\end_layout

\begin_layout Plain Layout


\backslash
setcounter{page}{1}
\end_layout

\end_inset


\end_layout

\begin_layout Part
Overview
\end_layout

\begin_layout Chapter
Introduction
\end_layout

Warnings/advices after installing?

[Piero Faustini]

Hello,
I just re-installed LyX and MikTeX on WinXP and once again forgot to install 
italian and other languages hyphenation support in MikTeX. This made me think 
that as it is something I always have to do after installing MikTeX, LyX 
installer should someway warn the new user to check for every option in MikTeX, 
included, of course hyphenation patterns and language support. I can remember 
that the 1st time I used LyX (and LaTeX) I discovered this only after some 
weeks of various problems with my language.
Just a warning would be very useful for new users.
bye
H.

Re: Caption width in wrapped figures

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ehud Kaplan schrieb:


It is not clear to me how it is done.
I see on the first tab of the float setting (graphics) the setting for 
the scale, width or height,
and on the second tab (clipping) facilities for cropping and positioning 
the graphics.
How do you deal with the caption width?  I know I can do that with the 
caption package and ERT,
but are these facilities in the settings for the float?  Is that what I 
put in the Latex Options on the third tab?


The caption format, and width can only controlled by the caption package, so you need here some 
preamble commands. The rest: image format, image part, float width and depth, whitespace around 
image, and the image alignment can be done via the float dialog. For a detailed description of 
caption formatting and much more, have a look at the EmbeddedObjects manual chap. 3.


regards Uwe

Re: Warnings/advices after installing?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Piero Faustini schrieb:

I just re-installed LyX and MikTeX on WinXP and once again forgot to install 
italian and other languages hyphenation support in MikTeX. This made me think 
that as it is something I always have to do after installing MikTeX, LyX 
installer should someway warn the new user to check for every option in MikTeX, 
included, of course hyphenation patterns and language support.


This would indeed be useful, but not easy to program. But I have to fix another installer issue the 
next days and will have a look if your request can be implemented.


regards Uwe

Re: elsarticle

[Uwe Stöhr]

Sandor Szabo schrieb:

The new lyx 1.6.2 uses the elsart.cls or the new elsarticle.cls document 
class (Elsevier's new document class)?


elsart is outdated and is no longer accepted by Elsevier. To use the new elsarticle class, I 
recommend to start with the elsarticle.lyx file that you find in LyX's template folder.


regards Uwe

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Am Thursday 09 April 2009 10:56:29 schrieb Guenter Milde:
> On 2009-04-08, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
>
> I use Debian/testing and
>
> #> ghostscript --version
> 8.64
>
> . I would try to download the package from packages.debian.org and try an
> install with `dpkg -i gho*.deb`. If the dependencies are met by Lenny
> packages, this should work. If there are many unmet dependencies, you
> could try to add "testing" to your sources.list.
>
> Günter

Thanks, Günther

I have upgraded to Debian squeeze
and made sure all the other pakages lyx 1.6.2 needs are installed
( http://packages.debian.org/de/sid/lyx)

I am still getting 

GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript

anyody any idea whats going wrong?

Wolfgang

Re: Ghostscript 8.63: Unrecoverable error

[Uwe Stöhr]

Wolfgang Engelmann schrieb:

I am still getting 


GPL Ghostscript 8.64: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
dvipng warning: No GhostScript pngalpha output, cannot render raw PostScript


Try out to update or reinstall ImageMagick. When this doesn't help, I would report this as bug to 
the Ghostscript developers.


regards Uwe

Spanish Thesaurus

[Pablo]

Hi there!
I'm a rather new user of LYX. At the moment I'm typing a report in spanish. I've
already downloaded the aspell spanish dictionary but failed to find a spanish
thesaurus. Is there one for Lyx?
Thank you very much for your help!

Re: Spanish Thesaurus

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

Pablo schreef:

Hi there!
I'm a rather new user of LYX. At the moment I'm typing a report in spanish. I've
already downloaded the aspell spanish dictionary but failed to find a spanish
thesaurus. Is there one for Lyx?
Thank you very much for your help!

  
[For now,] LyX's thesaurus [is] very limited and restricted to English 
only...


see: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20#toc2

Vincent

Re: Spanish Thesaurus

[Pablo]

Thanks Vincent! Will check thar right away..