environment feature request

[Sam Liddicott]

Could Lyx please set some environment variables before it calls it's
conversion routines? It would save the need to customize the conversion.

My current literate-program filter sets them for me:

cat $$i | newfangle -Rlyx-build - | env LYX_b=$$b LYX_i=$$i LYX_o=$$o
LYX_p=$$p LYX_r=$$r NOWEB_SOURCE=$$i bash

With a lyx-build fragment containing:

PROJECT_DIR=$LYX_r
LYX_SRC=$PROJECT_DIR/${LYX_i%.nw}.lyx
NW_DIR=$LYX_p
NW_SRC=$NW_DIR/$LYX_i
cd $PROJECT_DIR || exit 1

so that I can extract files in my lyx document directory.

The extra flag originaldir seems to do nothing.

Sam

Re: how to install LyX in Linux?

[Helge Hafting]

icebna wrote:

What distribution you have ?


I use debian. Not the simplest to install, and not the prettiest.
But one of the easiest to keep going for a decade without reinstalling,
and one of the biggest collections of installable software.

Helge Hafting

Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all. I'm trying to use biblatex with lyx, using the verbose
style. I followed carefully the instructions in the wiki. Lyx compiles
the document, but instead of showing full citations for the first time
a reference is used, I only get the key for the reference in the PDF.
This is the preamble I'm using:

\usepackage[natbib=true,style=verbose-note,autocite=footnote,sorting=nyt]{biblatex}
\bibliography{biblatex-apa-test-references}
\renewcommand\cite{\autocite}
\renewcommand\citep{\autocite}

I redefine the cite and citep commands to use footnote cites, but
that's it. You can see the output in an attached PDF. The weird part
is that if I export the document to latex and compile it by hand, the
desired result is obtained. I believe that maybe LyX is not compiling
the bibliography as it should and it only shows the results of a badly
constructed bbl file.

Does anybody know about this problem? I have to work on a big document
and I think biblatex is the way to go, but not at the cost of having
to work directly on Latex.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com


biblatex_test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document


biblatex_test_latex.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Piero]

Julio Rojas jcredbe...@... writes:

 
 Does anybody know about this problem? I have to work on a big document
 and I think biblatex is the way to go, but not at the cost of having
 to work directly on Latex.

BibLaTeX IS your man. As LyX is.
just 1 question: did you put

   \bibliography{mybibfile}

in the preamble, after the above lines?
In my case (WinXP) it works only if I insert the ENTIRE path (C:/MyFolder...)

Anyway, it's funny:
 I never have been able to have BibLaTeX work with plain LaTeX 
without LyX.
 Seems that LyX can show LaTeX the right .bib path.

Tell me ifit works.

Bye
HPiero

Re: Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Julio Rojas]

Everything is in the same folder. Lyx can read the file and shows the
references when I select them, so no, I believe this is not the
problem. You can see the bibliography declared in the lines I
provided:

\bibliography{biblatex-apa-test-references}

I'm working right now in Ubuntu 9.04, but I also work in XP and Leopard.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Pieropierofaust...@hotmail.com wrote:
 Julio Rojas jcredbe...@... writes:


 Does anybody know about this problem? I have to work on a big document
 and I think biblatex is the way to go, but not at the cost of having
 to work directly on Latex.

 BibLaTeX IS your man. As LyX is.
 just 1 question: did you put

   \bibliography{mybibfile}

 in the preamble, after the above lines?
 In my case (WinXP) it works only if I insert the ENTIRE path (C:/MyFolder...)

 Anyway, it's funny:
  I never have been able to have BibLaTeX work with plain LaTeX
 without LyX.
  Seems that LyX can show LaTeX the right .bib path.

 Tell me ifit works.

 Bye
 HPiero

How to get a preview for custom graphics format?

[Daniel Lohmann]

Hi,

Even though I consider myself a LyX master in many respects, the  
exact usage of File Formats, Converters and External Material...  
have always remained a mystery to me. Today I gave it another try (LyX  
1.6.3-mac) -- and failed again.


So here is what I want to achieve:

I have some TikZ figures (which are actually stand-alone LaTeX- 
documents with the extension .tikz) that I want to embed (not the  
source, but the PDF/EPS via \includegraphics) into my LyX document in  
a way that (1) the LyX-Preview does work (2) PDF generation does work,  
and (3) the .tikz-file is opened in vim when I select Edit  
externally...


So far I got (2) and (3) working, but not (1):

-- Under [File Handling -- File formats] I have added a new file  
format TikZ as Vector graphics format, 
Short Name: Tikz, Extension: tikz, and Editor: vim.


-- Under [File Handling -- Converters] I have added a Converter  
Definition TikZ -- PDF (ps2pdf) 
with Converter: pdflatex $$i


If I now embed a .tikz-file, external editing and PDF generation works  
fine, but LyX is not able to show a preview. As I interpret the output  
of lyx -dbg graphics, LyX does not know how to generate a pixmap   
from the input format (TikZ). Do I have to define a converter to  
some pixmap format as well?  How to do so?


This is pretty confusing. As I understand the manuals (don't remember  
where exactly I have read this) LyX should be able to deduce its route  
through conversion rules automatically, that is, to convert from TikZ  
to PDF first  and then from PDF to the pixmap required for the preview  
functionality.


Your  help is highly appreciated!

Daniel



lyx.log
Description: Binary data


converter.lyx
Description: Binary data


image.tikz
Description: Binary data



 

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Aug 6, Helge Hafting did say:

 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
  
  As it is the only one I leave on is standard. And that to keep the
  viability of the  3-key,2-stroke keybinding alt+p[space]. Thus
  I put up with wasting a whole line of screen space on mostly useless
  stuff I would never ever click on.

 You can turn off all the toolbars if you like. I did not know that you
 could loose keybindings that way, but define the keybindings in a custom
 key binding file instead. That way, you can have the same keybindings
 without any toolbars. (And you can define other keybindings you find
 useful also.)

First let me clarify... I don't think I actually lose the keybinding
itself. But this particular binding. Nor in fact do I truly know
what to call the function it invokes. But several versions of LyX ago
I discovers that using the default (cua) bind file the sequence of
holding the alt key and pressing p, then pressing the spacebar results
in the same effect that i would get if I spent (more than 30 seconds
on a bad day) trying to get the #R$^$#*^$ing mouse pointer lined
up so I could click on the arrow in that scrollbox normally located
at the extreme lefthand end of the standard toolbar...

IE to insert a new chapter I hit [enter]alt+p[space] then arrow-key
down until chapter is highlighted, press [enter] and start typing a
chapter heading... 

But if I close the otherwise useless standard toolbar, the scrollbox
isn't on the screen, thus it doesn't open so that I can select
chapter,(or other {is it called section type?} choice from list...)
Thus the viability of the shortcut sequence I described requires that
the standard toolbar be turned on... 

I'm sure that I could set the new line to chapter with one of the other
arguments to alt+p if I bothered to look it up and memories it.
But I can only remember just so many shortcut sequences, And this one
gets me a list of many selectable choices.

 To get rid of the document tabs too, open all your files in
 separate windows. (ALT+f w, or File-New Window)
 Then, use your window manager to switch
 between them. This is usually performed by alt+tab, although some
 keyboard centric window managers might do it differently.

Yeah, As I said in a different reply, Because of the fact that I
usually open a half dozen .LyX files (with long filenames) using the
window manager to switch between them is not a good choice. Where as
my script always lists the filename arguments to LyX in the same order 
So I know that alt+D[2] will always switch to the main story
document and alt+D[5] will always switch to my descriptive list of
characters... Unless I happen to be working on those same .LyX files
from one of my other linux distributions which still have older
versions of LyX which means same result would happen by typing
alt+V[2]  alt+V[5] instead. 

Of course, since I insist on being able to work on this story even if
I happen to have booted another linux version, my shell script on this
one also has to automatically invoke: lyx2lyx -t 276  on them when I'm done...

But in any case, I thank you for the kind hearted help. I for one think 
this list is lucky to have you... correction: *_very_* lucky ;-)

-- 
|   ---   ___
|   0   -  Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
|   ^   J(tWdy)P
|~\___/~ jtw...@ttlc.net

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

But if I close the otherwise useless standard toolbar, the scrollbox
isn't on the screen, thus it doesn't open so that I can select
chapter,(or other {is it called section type?} choice from list...)
Thus the viability of the shortcut sequence I described requires that
the standard toolbar be turned on... 
  
Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden 
(after Alt-P space)


Vincent

Re: Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Piero]

Julio Rojas jcredbe...@... writes:

 
 Everything is in the same folder. Lyx can read the file and shows the
 references when I select them, so no, I believe this is not the
 problem. You can see the bibliography declared in the lines I
 provided:
 
 \bibliography{biblatex-apa-test-references}
 
 I'm working right now in Ubuntu 9.04, but I also work in XP and Leopard.


Ooops, didn't see the line, sorry.

Anyway, BibLaTeX doesn't work with me without the FULL PATH, and PDF only show 
bibtex keys. Tried already?

Re: Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Stefano Franchi]

On Friday 07 August 2009 02:58:32 pm Piero wrote:
 Julio Rojas jcredbe...@... writes:
  Everything is in the same folder. Lyx can read the file and shows the
  references when I select them, so no, I believe this is not the
  problem. You can see the bibliography declared in the lines I
  provided:
 
  \bibliography{biblatex-apa-test-references}
 
  I'm working right now in Ubuntu 9.04, but I also work in XP and Leopard.

 Ooops, didn't see the line, sorry.

 Anyway, BibLaTeX doesn't work with me without the FULL PATH, and PDF only
 show bibtex keys. Tried already?

I had this problem a while ago, and solved it by always giving the full path 
to the bib files in the preamble. If I remember correctly, the problem has to 
do with LyX's compilation strategy. To produce a pdf file, Lyx first produces a 
.tex file in a temporary directory, and then runs (pdf)latex on it. At that 
point, latex can no longer find the .bib database because it is no longer in 
the same directory as the .tex file.

Have you tried exporting your .lyx  file to a  latex (.tex) file and then 
running (pdf)latex on it from the command line? If I am right, it should 
produce correct references while the ViewPDF command in Lyx (which uses the 
strategy above) shouldn't. Looking at the full Latex log (DocumentLatex log) 
can be helfpul too.


Cheers,

Stefano

__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy  Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Inserting a bibliography into a Lyx file

[Ehud Kaplan]

Is there a convenient way of inserting a bibliography into a Lyx file 
without using a bibtex database,

and without going through Latex with the .bbl file?
What I am looking for is something like:
Insert/file/.bbl
where Lyx will convert the .bbl material to its own representation.
This will save me (and others, I assume) much time and frustration.

--
Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
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 

Re: Inserting a bibliography into a Lyx file

[Enrico Forestieri]

Ehud Kaplan writes:

 Is there a convenient way of inserting a bibliography into a Lyx file 
 without using a bibtex database,
 and without going through Latex with the .bbl file?
 What I am looking for is something like:
 Insert/file/.bbl
 where Lyx will convert the .bbl material to its own representation.
 This will save me (and others, I assume) much time and frustration.

Simply import the .bbl file as a latex file using File-Import-LaTeX,
then copypaste where you need it.

-- 
Enrico

Step bullet item lists in Beamer

[Venable]

Dear LyX Users,

I would like to use step bullet item lists in a Beamer presentation.
This is fairly simple in SWP, since there is a Step Bullet List Item
Item Tag available with a simple keyboard shortcut. Does a similar
function exist in LyX? If not, is it possible to customize either LyX
itself or the .lyx file to create similar functionality?

I suppose one workaround would be to add new environments to the LaTeX
preamble (see below for excerpt from Portable LaTeX code created by
SWP) and then add ERT (e.g. \begin{stepitemize}, \item, etc.).
However, this seems a bit unwieldy.

Many thanks for any suggestions. I apologize if the solution is
obvious or has already been discussed. I searched a fair amount in the
manuals and on the mailing list but did not find a solution. If I have
missed something, please let me know.



(new environment LaTeX code)
\newenvironment{stepenumerate}{\begin{enumerate}[+-]}{\end{enumerate}}
\newenvironment{stepitemize}{\begin{itemize}[+-]}{\end{itemize} }
\newenvironment{stepenumeratewithalert}{\begin{enumerate}[+-|
al...@+]}{\end{enumerate}}
\newenvironment{stepitemizewithalert}{\begin{itemize}[+-|
al...@+]}{\end{itemize} }

Re: Step bullet item lists in Beamer

[rgheck]

On 08/07/2009 09:39 PM, Venable wrote:

Dear LyX Users,

I would like to use step bullet item lists in a Beamer presentation.
This is fairly simple in SWP, since there is a Step Bullet List Item
Item Tag available with a simple keyboard shortcut. Does a similar
function exist in LyX? If not, is it possible to customize either LyX
itself or the .lyx file to create similar functionality?

I suppose one workaround would be to add new environments to the LaTeX
preamble (see below for excerpt from Portable LaTeX code created by
SWP) and then add ERT (e.g. \begin{stepitemize}, \item, etc.).
However, this seems a bit unwieldy.

Many thanks for any suggestions. I apologize if the solution is
obvious or has already been discussed. I searched a fair amount in the
manuals and on the mailing list but did not find a solution. If I have
missed something, please let me know.



(new environment LaTeX code)
\newenvironment{stepenumerate}{\begin{enumerate}[+-]}{\end{enumerate}}
\newenvironment{stepitemize}{\begin{itemize}[+-]}{\end{itemize} }
\newenvironment{stepenumeratewithalert}{\begin{enumerate}[+-|
al...@+]}{\end{enumerate}}
\newenvironment{stepitemizewithalert}{\begin{itemize}[+-|
al...@+]}{\end{itemize} }

   
I'm not terribly familiar with beamer, but so far as I can see this 
ought to be a pretty trivial layout. E.g.:


Style StepEnumerate
CopyStyle Enumerate
Preamble

\newenvironment{stepenumerate}{\begin{enumerate}[+-]}{\end{enumerate}}

EndPreamble
End

Style StepItemize
CopyStyle Itemize
Preamble
\newenvironment{stepitemize}{\begin{itemize}[+-]}{\end{itemize} }
EndPreamble
End

You might want to tweak that a bit, of course, but that may be all it 
takes. If so, you might consider putting them into a module and adding 
it to the wiki.


If some of this is opaque, look at chapter five of the Customization manual.

rh

TOCLOFT - numwidth - Understanding Documentation

[Marcelo Reis]

Hi GuysFirst of all I'd like to wish you all a pretty good weekend
:-)

Secondly, (here it comes...)
I'm trying to understanding the TocLoft documentation to use in my
College Paper but I'm stuck in the following:


How would be the procedure to set the numwidth of a specific entry?!?!

I mean, how would I do to change the 2.3 numwidth from the Section(or
any other) Entry to another value?

Searching on internet and reading the documentation I can figure it out.
Do you have any idea??
Regards
and Thank you ALL

Marcelo

Re: TOCLOFT - numwidth - Understanding Documentation

[rgheck]

On 08/07/2009 10:44 PM, Marcelo Reis wrote:
Hi
GuysFirst of all I'd like to wish you all a pretty good weekend
:-)
  
Secondly, (here it comes...)
I'm trying to understanding the TocLoft documentation to use in my
College Paper but I'm stuck in the following:
  
  
How would be the procedure to set the numwidth of a specific entry?!?!
  
I mean, how would I do to change the 2.3 numwidth from the Section(or
any other) Entry to another value?
  

Look at the \cftsetindents macro.

rh

environment feature request

[Sam Liddicott]

Could Lyx please set some environment variables before it calls it's
conversion routines? It would save the need to customize the conversion.

My current literate-program filter sets them for me:

cat $$i | newfangle -Rlyx-build - | env LYX_b=$$b LYX_i=$$i LYX_o=$$o
LYX_p=$$p LYX_r=$$r NOWEB_SOURCE=$$i bash

With a lyx-build fragment containing:

PROJECT_DIR=$LYX_r
LYX_SRC=$PROJECT_DIR/${LYX_i%.nw}.lyx
NW_DIR=$LYX_p
NW_SRC=$NW_DIR/$LYX_i
cd $PROJECT_DIR || exit 1

so that I can extract files in my lyx document directory.

The extra flag originaldir seems to do nothing.

Sam

Re: how to install LyX in Linux?

[Helge Hafting]

icebna wrote:

What distribution you have ?


I use debian. Not the simplest to install, and not the prettiest.
But one of the easiest to keep going for a decade without reinstalling,
and one of the biggest collections of installable software.

Helge Hafting

Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all. I'm trying to use biblatex with lyx, using the verbose
style. I followed carefully the instructions in the wiki. Lyx compiles
the document, but instead of showing full citations for the first time
a reference is used, I only get the key for the reference in the PDF.
This is the preamble I'm using:

\usepackage[natbib=true,style=verbose-note,autocite=footnote,sorting=nyt]{biblatex}
\bibliography{biblatex-apa-test-references}
\renewcommand\cite{\autocite}
\renewcommand\citep{\autocite}

I redefine the cite and citep commands to use footnote cites, but
that's it. You can see the output in an attached PDF. The weird part
is that if I export the document to latex and compile it by hand, the
desired result is obtained. I believe that maybe LyX is not compiling
the bibliography as it should and it only shows the results of a badly
constructed bbl file.

Does anybody know about this problem? I have to work on a big document
and I think biblatex is the way to go, but not at the cost of having
to work directly on Latex.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com


biblatex_test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document


biblatex_test_latex.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Piero]

Julio Rojas jcredbe...@... writes:

 
 Does anybody know about this problem? I have to work on a big document
 and I think biblatex is the way to go, but not at the cost of having
 to work directly on Latex.

BibLaTeX IS your man. As LyX is.
just 1 question: did you put

   \bibliography{mybibfile}

in the preamble, after the above lines?
In my case (WinXP) it works only if I insert the ENTIRE path (C:/MyFolder...)

Anyway, it's funny:
 I never have been able to have BibLaTeX work with plain LaTeX 
without LyX.
 Seems that LyX can show LaTeX the right .bib path.

Tell me ifit works.

Bye
HPiero

Re: Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Julio Rojas]

Everything is in the same folder. Lyx can read the file and shows the
references when I select them, so no, I believe this is not the
problem. You can see the bibliography declared in the lines I
provided:

\bibliography{biblatex-apa-test-references}

I'm working right now in Ubuntu 9.04, but I also work in XP and Leopard.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Pieropierofaust...@hotmail.com wrote:
 Julio Rojas jcredbe...@... writes:


 Does anybody know about this problem? I have to work on a big document
 and I think biblatex is the way to go, but not at the cost of having
 to work directly on Latex.

 BibLaTeX IS your man. As LyX is.
 just 1 question: did you put

   \bibliography{mybibfile}

 in the preamble, after the above lines?
 In my case (WinXP) it works only if I insert the ENTIRE path (C:/MyFolder...)

 Anyway, it's funny:
  I never have been able to have BibLaTeX work with plain LaTeX
 without LyX.
  Seems that LyX can show LaTeX the right .bib path.

 Tell me ifit works.

 Bye
 HPiero

How to get a preview for custom graphics format?

[Daniel Lohmann]

Hi,

Even though I consider myself a LyX master in many respects, the  
exact usage of File Formats, Converters and External Material...  
have always remained a mystery to me. Today I gave it another try (LyX  
1.6.3-mac) -- and failed again.


So here is what I want to achieve:

I have some TikZ figures (which are actually stand-alone LaTeX- 
documents with the extension .tikz) that I want to embed (not the  
source, but the PDF/EPS via \includegraphics) into my LyX document in  
a way that (1) the LyX-Preview does work (2) PDF generation does work,  
and (3) the .tikz-file is opened in vim when I select Edit  
externally...


So far I got (2) and (3) working, but not (1):

-- Under [File Handling -- File formats] I have added a new file  
format TikZ as Vector graphics format, 
Short Name: Tikz, Extension: tikz, and Editor: vim.


-- Under [File Handling -- Converters] I have added a Converter  
Definition TikZ -- PDF (ps2pdf) 
with Converter: pdflatex $$i


If I now embed a .tikz-file, external editing and PDF generation works  
fine, but LyX is not able to show a preview. As I interpret the output  
of lyx -dbg graphics, LyX does not know how to generate a pixmap   
from the input format (TikZ). Do I have to define a converter to  
some pixmap format as well?  How to do so?


This is pretty confusing. As I understand the manuals (don't remember  
where exactly I have read this) LyX should be able to deduce its route  
through conversion rules automatically, that is, to convert from TikZ  
to PDF first  and then from PDF to the pixmap required for the preview  
functionality.


Your  help is highly appreciated!

Daniel



lyx.log
Description: Binary data


converter.lyx
Description: Binary data


image.tikz
Description: Binary data



 

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Aug 6, Helge Hafting did say:

 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
  
  As it is the only one I leave on is standard. And that to keep the
  viability of the  3-key,2-stroke keybinding alt+p[space]. Thus
  I put up with wasting a whole line of screen space on mostly useless
  stuff I would never ever click on.

 You can turn off all the toolbars if you like. I did not know that you
 could loose keybindings that way, but define the keybindings in a custom
 key binding file instead. That way, you can have the same keybindings
 without any toolbars. (And you can define other keybindings you find
 useful also.)

First let me clarify... I don't think I actually lose the keybinding
itself. But this particular binding. Nor in fact do I truly know
what to call the function it invokes. But several versions of LyX ago
I discovers that using the default (cua) bind file the sequence of
holding the alt key and pressing p, then pressing the spacebar results
in the same effect that i would get if I spent (more than 30 seconds
on a bad day) trying to get the #R$^$#*^$ing mouse pointer lined
up so I could click on the arrow in that scrollbox normally located
at the extreme lefthand end of the standard toolbar...

IE to insert a new chapter I hit [enter]alt+p[space] then arrow-key
down until chapter is highlighted, press [enter] and start typing a
chapter heading... 

But if I close the otherwise useless standard toolbar, the scrollbox
isn't on the screen, thus it doesn't open so that I can select
chapter,(or other {is it called section type?} choice from list...)
Thus the viability of the shortcut sequence I described requires that
the standard toolbar be turned on... 

I'm sure that I could set the new line to chapter with one of the other
arguments to alt+p if I bothered to look it up and memories it.
But I can only remember just so many shortcut sequences, And this one
gets me a list of many selectable choices.

 To get rid of the document tabs too, open all your files in
 separate windows. (ALT+f w, or File-New Window)
 Then, use your window manager to switch
 between them. This is usually performed by alt+tab, although some
 keyboard centric window managers might do it differently.

Yeah, As I said in a different reply, Because of the fact that I
usually open a half dozen .LyX files (with long filenames) using the
window manager to switch between them is not a good choice. Where as
my script always lists the filename arguments to LyX in the same order 
So I know that alt+D[2] will always switch to the main story
document and alt+D[5] will always switch to my descriptive list of
characters... Unless I happen to be working on those same .LyX files
from one of my other linux distributions which still have older
versions of LyX which means same result would happen by typing
alt+V[2]  alt+V[5] instead. 

Of course, since I insist on being able to work on this story even if
I happen to have booted another linux version, my shell script on this
one also has to automatically invoke: lyx2lyx -t 276  on them when I'm done...

But in any case, I thank you for the kind hearted help. I for one think 
this list is lucky to have you... correction: *_very_* lucky ;-)

-- 
|   ---   ___
|   0   -  Joe (theWordy) Philbrook
|   ^   J(tWdy)P
|~\___/~ jtw...@ttlc.net

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

But if I close the otherwise useless standard toolbar, the scrollbox
isn't on the screen, thus it doesn't open so that I can select
chapter,(or other {is it called section type?} choice from list...)
Thus the viability of the shortcut sequence I described requires that
the standard toolbar be turned on... 
  
Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden 
(after Alt-P space)


Vincent

Re: Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Piero]

Julio Rojas jcredbe...@... writes:

 
 Everything is in the same folder. Lyx can read the file and shows the
 references when I select them, so no, I believe this is not the
 problem. You can see the bibliography declared in the lines I
 provided:
 
 \bibliography{biblatex-apa-test-references}
 
 I'm working right now in Ubuntu 9.04, but I also work in XP and Leopard.


Ooops, didn't see the line, sorry.

Anyway, BibLaTeX doesn't work with me without the FULL PATH, and PDF only show 
bibtex keys. Tried already?

Re: Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Stefano Franchi]

On Friday 07 August 2009 02:58:32 pm Piero wrote:
 Julio Rojas jcredbe...@... writes:
  Everything is in the same folder. Lyx can read the file and shows the
  references when I select them, so no, I believe this is not the
  problem. You can see the bibliography declared in the lines I
  provided:
 
  \bibliography{biblatex-apa-test-references}
 
  I'm working right now in Ubuntu 9.04, but I also work in XP and Leopard.

 Ooops, didn't see the line, sorry.

 Anyway, BibLaTeX doesn't work with me without the FULL PATH, and PDF only
 show bibtex keys. Tried already?

I had this problem a while ago, and solved it by always giving the full path 
to the bib files in the preamble. If I remember correctly, the problem has to 
do with LyX's compilation strategy. To produce a pdf file, Lyx first produces a 
.tex file in a temporary directory, and then runs (pdf)latex on it. At that 
point, latex can no longer find the .bib database because it is no longer in 
the same directory as the .tex file.

Have you tried exporting your .lyx  file to a  latex (.tex) file and then 
running (pdf)latex on it from the command line? If I am right, it should 
produce correct references while the ViewPDF command in Lyx (which uses the 
strategy above) shouldn't. Looking at the full Latex log (DocumentLatex log) 
can be helfpul too.


Cheers,

Stefano

__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy  Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas AM University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Inserting a bibliography into a Lyx file

[Ehud Kaplan]

Is there a convenient way of inserting a bibliography into a Lyx file 
without using a bibtex database,

and without going through Latex with the .bbl file?
What I am looking for is something like:
Insert/file/.bbl
where Lyx will convert the .bbl material to its own representation.
This will save me (and others, I assume) much time and frustration.

--
Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
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 

Re: Inserting a bibliography into a Lyx file

[Enrico Forestieri]

Ehud Kaplan writes:

 Is there a convenient way of inserting a bibliography into a Lyx file 
 without using a bibtex database,
 and without going through Latex with the .bbl file?
 What I am looking for is something like:
 Insert/file/.bbl
 where Lyx will convert the .bbl material to its own representation.
 This will save me (and others, I assume) much time and frustration.

Simply import the .bbl file as a latex file using File-Import-LaTeX,
then copypaste where you need it.

-- 
Enrico

Step bullet item lists in Beamer

[Venable]

Dear LyX Users,

I would like to use step bullet item lists in a Beamer presentation.
This is fairly simple in SWP, since there is a Step Bullet List Item
Item Tag available with a simple keyboard shortcut. Does a similar
function exist in LyX? If not, is it possible to customize either LyX
itself or the .lyx file to create similar functionality?

I suppose one workaround would be to add new environments to the LaTeX
preamble (see below for excerpt from Portable LaTeX code created by
SWP) and then add ERT (e.g. \begin{stepitemize}, \item, etc.).
However, this seems a bit unwieldy.

Many thanks for any suggestions. I apologize if the solution is
obvious or has already been discussed. I searched a fair amount in the
manuals and on the mailing list but did not find a solution. If I have
missed something, please let me know.



(new environment LaTeX code)
\newenvironment{stepenumerate}{\begin{enumerate}[+-]}{\end{enumerate}}
\newenvironment{stepitemize}{\begin{itemize}[+-]}{\end{itemize} }
\newenvironment{stepenumeratewithalert}{\begin{enumerate}[+-|
al...@+]}{\end{enumerate}}
\newenvironment{stepitemizewithalert}{\begin{itemize}[+-|
al...@+]}{\end{itemize} }

Re: Step bullet item lists in Beamer

[rgheck]

On 08/07/2009 09:39 PM, Venable wrote:

Dear LyX Users,

I would like to use step bullet item lists in a Beamer presentation.
This is fairly simple in SWP, since there is a Step Bullet List Item
Item Tag available with a simple keyboard shortcut. Does a similar
function exist in LyX? If not, is it possible to customize either LyX
itself or the .lyx file to create similar functionality?

I suppose one workaround would be to add new environments to the LaTeX
preamble (see below for excerpt from Portable LaTeX code created by
SWP) and then add ERT (e.g. \begin{stepitemize}, \item, etc.).
However, this seems a bit unwieldy.

Many thanks for any suggestions. I apologize if the solution is
obvious or has already been discussed. I searched a fair amount in the
manuals and on the mailing list but did not find a solution. If I have
missed something, please let me know.



(new environment LaTeX code)
\newenvironment{stepenumerate}{\begin{enumerate}[+-]}{\end{enumerate}}
\newenvironment{stepitemize}{\begin{itemize}[+-]}{\end{itemize} }
\newenvironment{stepenumeratewithalert}{\begin{enumerate}[+-|
al...@+]}{\end{enumerate}}
\newenvironment{stepitemizewithalert}{\begin{itemize}[+-|
al...@+]}{\end{itemize} }

   
I'm not terribly familiar with beamer, but so far as I can see this 
ought to be a pretty trivial layout. E.g.:


Style StepEnumerate
CopyStyle Enumerate
Preamble

\newenvironment{stepenumerate}{\begin{enumerate}[+-]}{\end{enumerate}}

EndPreamble
End

Style StepItemize
CopyStyle Itemize
Preamble
\newenvironment{stepitemize}{\begin{itemize}[+-]}{\end{itemize} }
EndPreamble
End

You might want to tweak that a bit, of course, but that may be all it 
takes. If so, you might consider putting them into a module and adding 
it to the wiki.


If some of this is opaque, look at chapter five of the Customization manual.

rh

TOCLOFT - numwidth - Understanding Documentation

[Marcelo Reis]

Hi GuysFirst of all I'd like to wish you all a pretty good weekend
:-)

Secondly, (here it comes...)
I'm trying to understanding the TocLoft documentation to use in my
College Paper but I'm stuck in the following:


How would be the procedure to set the numwidth of a specific entry?!?!

I mean, how would I do to change the 2.3 numwidth from the Section(or
any other) Entry to another value?

Searching on internet and reading the documentation I can figure it out.
Do you have any idea??
Regards
and Thank you ALL

Marcelo

Re: TOCLOFT - numwidth - Understanding Documentation

[rgheck]

On 08/07/2009 10:44 PM, Marcelo Reis wrote:
Hi
GuysFirst of all I'd like to wish you all a pretty good weekend
:-)
  
Secondly, (here it comes...)
I'm trying to understanding the TocLoft documentation to use in my
College Paper but I'm stuck in the following:
  
  
How would be the procedure to set the numwidth of a specific entry?!?!
  
I mean, how would I do to change the 2.3 numwidth from the Section(or
any other) Entry to another value?
  

Look at the \cftsetindents macro.

rh

environment feature request

[Sam Liddicott]

Could Lyx please set some environment variables before it calls it's
conversion routines? It would save the need to customize the conversion.

My current literate->program filter sets them for me:

cat $$i | newfangle -Rlyx-build - | env LYX_b=$$b LYX_i=$$i LYX_o=$$o
LYX_p=$$p LYX_r=$$r NOWEB_SOURCE=$$i bash

With a lyx-build fragment containing:

PROJECT_DIR="$LYX_r"
LYX_SRC="$PROJECT_DIR/${LYX_i%.nw}.lyx"
NW_DIR="$LYX_p"
NW_SRC="$NW_DIR/$LYX_i"
cd $PROJECT_DIR || exit 1

so that I can extract files in my lyx document directory.

The "extra flag" originaldir seems to do nothing.

Sam

Re: how to install LyX in Linux?

[Helge Hafting]

icebna wrote:

What distribution you have ?


I use debian. Not the simplest to install, and not the prettiest.
But one of the easiest to keep going for a decade without reinstalling,
and one of the biggest collections of installable software.

Helge Hafting

Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all. I'm trying to use biblatex with lyx, using the verbose
style. I followed carefully the instructions in the wiki. Lyx compiles
the document, but instead of showing full citations for the first time
a reference is used, I only get the key for the reference in the PDF.
This is the preamble I'm using:

\usepackage[natbib=true,style=verbose-note,autocite=footnote,sorting=nyt]{biblatex}
\bibliography{biblatex-apa-test-references}
\renewcommand\cite{\autocite}
\renewcommand\citep{\autocite}

I redefine the cite and citep commands to use footnote cites, but
that's it. You can see the output in an attached PDF. The weird part
is that if I export the document to latex and compile it by hand, the
desired result is obtained. I believe that maybe LyX is not compiling
the bibliography as it should and it only shows the results of a badly
constructed bbl file.

Does anybody know about this problem? I have to work on a big document
and I think biblatex is the way to go, but not at the cost of having
to work directly on Latex.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com


biblatex_test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document


biblatex_test_latex.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Re: Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Piero]

Julio Rojas  writes:

> 
> Does anybody know about this problem? I have to work on a big document
> and I think biblatex is the way to go, but not at the cost of having
> to work directly on Latex.

BibLaTeX IS your man. As LyX is.
just 1 question: did you put

   \bibliography{mybibfile}

in the preamble, after the above lines?
In my case (WinXP) it works only if I insert the ENTIRE path (C:/MyFolder...)

Anyway, it's funny:
 I never have been able to have BibLaTeX work with plain LaTeX 
without LyX.
 Seems that LyX can show LaTeX the right .bib path.

Tell me ifit works.

Bye
HPiero

Re: Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Julio Rojas]

Everything is in the same folder. Lyx can read the file and shows the
references when I select them, so no, I believe this is not the
problem. You can see the bibliography declared in the lines I
provided:

\bibliography{biblatex-apa-test-references}

I'm working right now in Ubuntu 9.04, but I also work in XP and Leopard.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com



On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Piero wrote:
> Julio Rojas  writes:
>
>>
>> Does anybody know about this problem? I have to work on a big document
>> and I think biblatex is the way to go, but not at the cost of having
>> to work directly on Latex.
>
> BibLaTeX IS your man. As LyX is.
> just 1 question: did you put
>
>   \bibliography{mybibfile}
>
> in the preamble, after the above lines?
> In my case (WinXP) it works only if I insert the ENTIRE path (C:/MyFolder...)
>
> Anyway, it's funny:
>  I never have been able to have BibLaTeX work with plain LaTeX
> without LyX.
>  Seems that LyX can show LaTeX the right .bib path.
>
> Tell me ifit works.
>
> Bye
> HPiero
>
>

How to get a preview for "custom" graphics format?

[Daniel Lohmann]

Hi,

Even though I consider myself a "LyX master" in many respects, the  
exact usage of "File Formats", "Converters" and "External Material..."  
have always remained a mystery to me. Today I gave it another try (LyX  
1.6.3-mac) -- and failed again.


So here is what I want to achieve:

I have some TikZ figures (which are actually stand-alone LaTeX- 
documents with the extension .tikz) that I want to embed (not the  
source, but the PDF/EPS via \includegraphics) into my LyX document in  
a way that (1) the LyX-Preview does work (2) PDF generation does work,  
and (3) the .tikz-file is opened in vim when I select "Edit  
externally..."


So far I got (2) and (3) working, but not (1):

-- Under [File Handling --> File formats] I have added a new file  
format "TikZ" as Vector graphics format, 
Short Name: "Tikz", Extension: "tikz", and Editor: "vim".


-- Under [File Handling --> Converters] I have added a Converter  
Definition "TikZ --> PDF (ps2pdf)" 
with Converter: "pdflatex $$i"


If I now embed a .tikz-file, external editing and PDF generation works  
fine, but LyX is not able to show a preview. As I interpret the output  
of "lyx -dbg graphics", LyX does not know how to generate a pixmap   
from the input format ("TikZ"). Do I have to define a converter to  
some pixmap format as well?  How to do so?


This is pretty confusing. As I understand the manuals (don't remember  
where exactly I have read this) LyX should be able to deduce its route  
through conversion rules automatically, that is, to convert from TikZ  
to PDF first  and then from PDF to the pixmap required for the preview  
functionality.


Your  help is highly appreciated!

Daniel



lyx.log
Description: Binary data


converter.lyx
Description: Binary data


image.tikz
Description: Binary data



 

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

It would appear that on Aug 6, Helge Hafting did say:

> Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
> > 
> > As it is the only one I leave on is "standard". And that to keep the
> > viability of the  "3-key,2-stroke" keybinding "+[space]". Thus
> > I put up with wasting a whole line of screen space on mostly useless
> > stuff I would never ever "click" on.
>
> You can turn off all the toolbars if you like. I did not know that you
> could loose keybindings that way, but define the keybindings in a custom
> key binding file instead. That way, you can have the same keybindings
> without any toolbars. (And you can define other keybindings you find
> useful also.)

First let me clarify... I don't think I actually lose the keybinding
itself. But this particular binding. Nor in fact do I truly know
what to call the function it invokes. But several versions of LyX ago
I discovers that using the default (cua) bind file the sequence of
holding the alt key and pressing p, then pressing the spacebar results
in the same effect that i would get if I spent (more than 30 seconds
on a bad day) trying to get the #$&^$

Re: Lyx 1.6.3 Can I ditch the pointNclick list of open files below the toolbars???

[Vincent van Ravesteijn]

But if I close the otherwise useless standard toolbar, the scrollbox
isn't on the screen, thus it doesn't open so that I can select
chapter,(or other {is it called section type?} choice from list...)
Thus the viability of the shortcut sequence I described requires that
the standard toolbar be turned on... 
  
Magically, the dropdownbox is also shown when the toolbar is hidden 
(after Alt-P )


Vincent

Re: Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Piero]

Julio Rojas  writes:

> 
> Everything is in the same folder. Lyx can read the file and shows the
> references when I select them, so no, I believe this is not the
> problem. You can see the bibliography declared in the lines I
> provided:
> 
> \bibliography{biblatex-apa-test-references}
> 
> I'm working right now in Ubuntu 9.04, but I also work in XP and Leopard.


Ooops, didn't see the line, sorry.

Anyway, BibLaTeX doesn't work with me without the FULL PATH, and PDF only show 
bibtex keys. Tried already?

Re: Biblatex and Lyx: Verbose Style

[Stefano Franchi]

On Friday 07 August 2009 02:58:32 pm Piero wrote:
> Julio Rojas  writes:
> > Everything is in the same folder. Lyx can read the file and shows the
> > references when I select them, so no, I believe this is not the
> > problem. You can see the bibliography declared in the lines I
> > provided:
> >
> > \bibliography{biblatex-apa-test-references}
> >
> > I'm working right now in Ubuntu 9.04, but I also work in XP and Leopard.
>
> Ooops, didn't see the line, sorry.
>
> Anyway, BibLaTeX doesn't work with me without the FULL PATH, and PDF only
> show bibtex keys. Tried already?

I had this problem a while ago, and solved it by always giving the full path 
to the bib files in the preamble. If I remember correctly, the problem has to 
do with LyX's compilation strategy. To produce a pdf file, Lyx first produces a 
.tex file in a temporary directory, and then runs (pdf)latex on it. At that 
point, latex can no longer find the .bib database because it is no longer in 
the same directory as the .tex file.

Have you tried exporting your .lyx  file to a  latex (.tex) file and then 
running (pdf)latex on it from the command line? If I am right, it should 
produce correct references while the "View>PDF" command in Lyx (which uses the 
strategy above) shouldn't. Looking at the full Latex log (Document>Latex log) 
can be helfpul too.


Cheers,

Stefano

__
Stefano Franchi
Department of Philosophy  Ph:  (979) 862-2211
Texas A University  Fax: (979) 845-0458
305B Bolton Hall  fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu
College Station, TX 77843-4237

Inserting a bibliography into a Lyx file

[Ehud Kaplan]

Is there a convenient way of inserting a bibliography into a Lyx file 
without using a bibtex database,

and without going through Latex with the .bbl file?
What I am looking for is something like:
Insert/file/.bbl
where Lyx will convert the .bbl material to its own representation.
This will save me (and others, I assume) much time and frustration.

--
Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
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 

Re: Inserting a bibliography into a Lyx file

[Enrico Forestieri]

Ehud Kaplan writes:

> Is there a convenient way of inserting a bibliography into a Lyx file 
> without using a bibtex database,
> and without going through Latex with the .bbl file?
> What I am looking for is something like:
> Insert/file/.bbl
> where Lyx will convert the .bbl material to its own representation.
> This will save me (and others, I assume) much time and frustration.

Simply import the .bbl file as a latex file using File->Import->LaTeX,
then copy where you need it.

-- 
Enrico

Step bullet item lists in Beamer

[Venable]

Dear LyX Users,

I would like to use step bullet item lists in a Beamer presentation.
This is fairly simple in SWP, since there is a "Step Bullet List Item"
Item Tag available with a simple keyboard shortcut. Does a similar
function exist in LyX? If not, is it possible to customize either LyX
itself or the .lyx file to create similar functionality?

I suppose one workaround would be to add new environments to the LaTeX
preamble (see below for excerpt from Portable LaTeX code created by
SWP) and then add ERT (e.g. \begin{stepitemize}, \item, etc.).
However, this seems a bit unwieldy.

Many thanks for any suggestions. I apologize if the solution is
obvious or has already been discussed. I searched a fair amount in the
manuals and on the mailing list but did not find a solution. If I have
missed something, please let me know.



(new environment LaTeX code)
\newenvironment{stepenumerate}{\begin{enumerate}[<+->]}{\end{enumerate}}
\newenvironment{stepitemize}{\begin{itemize}[<+->]}{\end{itemize} }
\newenvironment{stepenumeratewithalert}{\begin{enumerate}[<+-|
al...@+>]}{\end{enumerate}}
\newenvironment{stepitemizewithalert}{\begin{itemize}[<+-|
al...@+>]}{\end{itemize} }

Re: Step bullet item lists in Beamer

[rgheck]

On 08/07/2009 09:39 PM, Venable wrote:

Dear LyX Users,

I would like to use step bullet item lists in a Beamer presentation.
This is fairly simple in SWP, since there is a "Step Bullet List Item"
Item Tag available with a simple keyboard shortcut. Does a similar
function exist in LyX? If not, is it possible to customize either LyX
itself or the .lyx file to create similar functionality?

I suppose one workaround would be to add new environments to the LaTeX
preamble (see below for excerpt from Portable LaTeX code created by
SWP) and then add ERT (e.g. \begin{stepitemize}, \item, etc.).
However, this seems a bit unwieldy.

Many thanks for any suggestions. I apologize if the solution is
obvious or has already been discussed. I searched a fair amount in the
manuals and on the mailing list but did not find a solution. If I have
missed something, please let me know.



(new environment LaTeX code)
\newenvironment{stepenumerate}{\begin{enumerate}[<+->]}{\end{enumerate}}
\newenvironment{stepitemize}{\begin{itemize}[<+->]}{\end{itemize} }
\newenvironment{stepenumeratewithalert}{\begin{enumerate}[<+-|
al...@+>]}{\end{enumerate}}
\newenvironment{stepitemizewithalert}{\begin{itemize}[<+-|
al...@+>]}{\end{itemize} }

   
I'm not terribly familiar with beamer, but so far as I can see this 
ought to be a pretty trivial layout. E.g.:


Style StepEnumerate
CopyStyle Enumerate
Preamble

\newenvironment{stepenumerate}{\begin{enumerate}[<+->]}{\end{enumerate}}

EndPreamble
End

Style StepItemize
CopyStyle Itemize
Preamble
\newenvironment{stepitemize}{\begin{itemize}[<+->]}{\end{itemize} }
EndPreamble
End

You might want to tweak that a bit, of course, but that may be all it 
takes. If so, you might consider putting them into a module and adding 
it to the wiki.


If some of this is opaque, look at chapter five of the Customization manual.

rh

TOCLOFT - numwidth - Understanding Documentation

[Marcelo Reis]

Hi GuysFirst of all I'd like to wish you all a pretty good weekend
:-)

Secondly, (here it comes...)
I'm trying to understanding the TocLoft documentation to use in my
College Paper but I'm stuck in the following:


How would be the procedure to set the numwidth of a specific entry?!?!

I mean, how would I do to change the 2.3 numwidth from the Section(or
any other) Entry to another value?

Searching on internet and reading the documentation I can figure it out.
Do you have any idea??
Regards
and Thank you ALL

Marcelo

Re: TOCLOFT - numwidth - Understanding Documentation

[rgheck]

On 08/07/2009 10:44 PM, Marcelo Reis wrote:
Hi
GuysFirst of all I'd like to wish you all a pretty good weekend
:-)
  
Secondly, (here it comes...)
I'm trying to understanding the TocLoft documentation to use in my
College Paper but I'm stuck in the following:
  
  
How would be the procedure to set the numwidth of a specific entry?!?!
  
I mean, how would I do to change the 2.3 numwidth from the Section(or
any other) Entry to another value?
  

Look at the \cftsetindents macro.

rh