Re: Hide tracked changes?

[Matts Lindström]

 The later situation actually seems very useful to me: you just edit your
 file without those horrible blue texts, but LyX keeps track of the
 changes nevertheless.

 JMarc


Yes this was exactly what I was looking for -- the ability to toggle the
visibility of those blue edits.

Matts

Re: Anyone used Lytex?

[Wolfgang Keller]

Hello,

sorry for replying sooo late.

 I do not have administrative privileges at work computers but am so dependent 
 on using lyx for my writing and want to be able to use it on a USB drive or a 
 network drive that I have access to. I wondered if anyone has used Lytex  as 
 suggested in the wiki?
 I tried it and get error messages. The home page for Lytex does not give any 
 email addresses for requesting help.

I have successfully used LyX from a USB stick in the past.

In fact LyX itself seems to be portable right out of the box.

The point was to get a LaTeX installation that works from a stick without 
installation. I managed to get it done by using TeX Live 2008. I bought a 
copy of their DVD (you could also download the iso disk image) and simply moved 
the entire contents to my USB stick, alongside the LyX folder. Again: I did 
_NOT_ install TeX Live using the installer on the DVD, but only copy the 
contents from the DVD to the USB stick. Then I modified the tl-lyx.bat file 
from http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~elts2/lyx/tl-lyx.bat as follows:

@echo off
set TEXDIR=%~dp0
set tldrive=%~d0
%tldrive%
cd %TEXDIR%

set TEXDIRW=%USERPROFILE%\.tlportable2008\
if not exist %TEXDIRW% md %TEXDIRW%

set TEXMFSYSVAR=%TEXDIR%texmf-var
set TEXMFSYSCONFIG=%TEXDIR%texmf-config
set TEXMFMAIN=%TEXDIR%texmf
set TEXMFDIST=%TEXDIR%texmf-dist
set TEXMFLOCAL=%TEXDIR%texmf-local
set TEXMFHOME=%TEXDIRW%texmf-home
set TEXMFVAR=%TEXDIRW%texmf-var
set TEXMFCONFIG=%TEXDIRW%texmf-config
set TEXBINDIR=%TEXDIR%bin\win32
set platform=win32

set PERL5LIB=%TEXDIR%tlpkg\installer\perllib
%TEXDIR%tlpkg\installer\perl %TEXDIR%install-tl --portable
if not errorlevel 1 goto doit
echo Initialization of TeXLive failed!
pause
exit

:doit
path %TEXDIR%bin\win32;%path%

set LYX_DIR=%TEXDIR%..\LyX16\
path %LYX_DIR%python;%path%
path %LYX_DIR%bin;%path%
path %LYX_DIR%imagemagick;%path%

set GS_DIR=%LYX_DIR%ghostscript\
path %GS_DIR%bin;%path%
set GS_LIB=%GS_DIR%lib;%GS_DIR%fonts;%GS_DIR%Resource

%TEXDIR%..\LyX16\bin\lyx.exe %*

I never managed to make the TeX Live package manager work in portable mode, 
so I had to install and update packages by hand, but well, *sigh*...

Hope this helps,

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

-- 
NO Courtesy Copies PLEASE!

Typing lag in Lyx 1.6.4.1, OS X 10.6.0

[Josh Whitney]

I'm currently working on an early 2008 Macbook with 4 gb of RAM.  I am  
running OS X 10.6.0 and Lyx 1.6.4.1.  I've been writing some very long  
documents in Lyx and once they are more than a few pages long typing  
becomes excruciatingly slow.  That is, I type and the characters  
appearing on the screen lag the keystrokes by several seconds.  I was  
also having the same issue both with earlier versions of Lyx and with  
OS X 10.5.*, though it seemed a bit more mild with Leopard.


I do not have the view source window open.  I started typing the  
document with  instant preview off for math but after reading some of  
the questions on the mailing list I've turned instant preview on.  The  
typing remains very slow and also the preview for math doesn't seem to  
want to work (i.e., all math remains text instead of previewed as  
typeset).


I've read through the mailing list to see if I could find a solution  
to this problem but nothing seemed to work.  Any help would be greatly  
appreciated.


Thanks,
Josh Whitney

Natbib options in Lyx with embedded bibliography

[E.Kaplan]

When I embed a bibliography in the Lyx file itself (using the .AUX or 
.bbl file), and then click on a citation reference in the Lyx file, I do 
not get the option to choose a citation style, as I do when I call the 
citation from a bibtex database.  I am using natbib (author-year), and 
indicated that in the Document Settings.

How do I regain the ability to choose the citation style?

Thanks,
EK

Re: Typing lag in Lyx 1.6.4.1, OS X 10.6.0

[James C. Sutherland]

On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Josh Whitney wrote:

I'm currently working on an early 2008 Macbook with 4 gb of RAM.  I  
am running OS X 10.6.0 and Lyx 1.6.4.1.  I've been writing some very  
long documents in Lyx and once they are more than a few pages long  
typing becomes excruciatingly slow.  That is, I type and the  
characters appearing on the screen lag the keystrokes by several  
seconds.  I was also having the same issue both with earlier  
versions of Lyx and with OS X 10.5.*, though it seemed a bit more  
mild with Leopard.


I do not have the view source window open.  I started typing the  
document with  instant preview off for math but after reading some  
of the questions on the mailing list I've turned instant preview  
on.  The typing remains very slow and also the preview for math  
doesn't seem to want to work (i.e., all math remains text instead of  
previewed as typeset).


I've read through the mailing list to see if I could find a solution  
to this problem but nothing seemed to work.  Any help would be  
greatly appreciated.


FWIW, I am running LyX 1.6.4.1 on 10.6 and haven't seen any of these  
problems (only the pseudo-crash that has been mentioned previously).   
So this is likely not a universal problem, but perhaps a problem  
related to your system in particular?

Re: Trigonometric tipography

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-09-15, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Yago schrieb:

 Uwe, as you know Javier Bezos is an reconigsed expert on spanish 
 tipography. If you can read spanish

 I'm currently learning Spanish and thus cannot understand everything yet.

The answer stated, that in the given example, the square brackets are more
irritating than helpfull.

 This will be my last reply to this topic: The most important thing is
 that people will understand what you are _exactly_ meaning. When I
 (German) and the other LyX user (US American) misunderstood your
 typesetting, then we both obviously didn't understand what you meant. 

Most important is, that the *audience* understands the meaning. I the
convention in the field is to do without brackets, this is to be
preferred when publishing for this audience. If misunderstanding arised
in this list, brackets are helpful *in the context of this list*.

The presence of different mathematical notations and conventions is a
fact that we have to live with. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.

While at school I learned to write sin(x), cos(x), ..., the IAPP's
Symbols, Units and Nomenclature in Physics states:

  sin x  sine of x
  cos x  cosine of x
  ...
  
and (in the German translation Symbole, Einheiten und Nomenklatur in der
Physik, Weinheim 1981):

  Es wird empfohlen (it is recommended) in Ausdrücken wie
  
sin {2\pi(x-x_0)/\lambda}
exp {-V(r)/kT)}

  das Argument zwischen Klammern zu setzen, sofern das Argument nicht ein
  einfaches Produck aus zwei Größen ist, z.\,B. $\sin kx$

i.e. braces (not brackets) are recommended (but optional) for complex
arguments.

Günter

Re: Natbib options in Lyx with embedded bibliography

[Ehud Kaplan]

Lyx */does/* know a lot about the citations, since when I click on one, 
it shows its details (and in the left column all the other citations 
that have been included in the Lyx file), but not the formatting options.
I inserted the references into the Lyx file through the circuitous route 
of exporting the Lyx file to Latex, using \begin{thebibiolgraphy} ... 
end{thebibliography} etc. with the .bbl file pasted in.

Once it compiled correctly with pdflatex, I then imported it back to Lyx.

EK

rgheck wrote:

On 09/16/2009 07:15 AM, E.Kaplan wrote:
When I embed a bibliography in the Lyx file itself (using the .AUX or 
.bbl file), and then click on a citation reference in the Lyx file, I 
do not get the option to choose a citation style, as I do when I call 
the citation from a bibtex database.  I am using natbib 
(author-year), and indicated that in the Document Settings.

How do I regain the ability to choose the citation style?

I'm a little unclear about how you've got things set up. Are you 
including the bbl file, via the InsertFile mechanism? Pasting it as 
ERT? Or what? My hunch is that the problem is that LyX does not know 
anything about the citation entries, so it is not giving you any 
options about them.


RIchard

Re: How many use Linux:

[Helge Hafting]

I use LyX on debian linux. LyX is what I use for
all formatted text I write on computers:
A book, letters, lectures, and presentations.

Helge Hafting

Re: How many are left handed

[Helge Hafting]

Andrew Sullivan wrote:

You can see from the subject that there is an air of irrelevance about
this.

But it seems to me that knowing how many are left handed would,
naturally, lead to enhancements targetted at the left-hand community.

I answer that the customizability and portability of the LyX code base
is sufficient that a typing-able user on any modern desktop-target
platform is in a position to use LyX, and figuring out even rough
numbers for distribution on supported platforms is a distraction to
the LyX community.  This is true even if the user is left handed, or
non-Linux using, or whatever.


Is there anything in LyX a left-handed person might want different?
I think most of the support goes in the OS: left handed mouse,
and anything you might want change about the keyboard.

And you can already put the toolbars wherever you like them, but I am 
not sure that actually matters.


Helge Hafting

Re: How many are left handed

[f wonghc]

Digress:-
 
Some languages like Arabia and Hebrew writes from right to left.  
 
When (sometimes) you browse those sites with these two languages, the scroll 
bar is on the right hand side of the browser (e.g. Internet Explorer),  I just 
guess they may also like to have the mirror image of lyx, not 
just port-siders only :-)
 


--- On Wed, 9/16/09, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote:


From: Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no
Subject: Re: How many are left handed
To: Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 10:20 PM


Andrew Sullivan wrote:
 You can see from the subject that there is an air of irrelevance about
 this.
 
 But it seems to me that knowing how many are left handed would,
 naturally, lead to enhancements targetted at the left-hand community.
 
 I answer that the customizability and portability of the LyX code base
 is sufficient that a typing-able user on any modern desktop-target
 platform is in a position to use LyX, and figuring out even rough
 numbers for distribution on supported platforms is a distraction to
 the LyX community.  This is true even if the user is left handed, or
 non-Linux using, or whatever.

Is there anything in LyX a left-handed person might want different?
I think most of the support goes in the OS: left handed mouse,
and anything you might want change about the keyboard.

And you can already put the toolbars wherever you like them, but I am not sure 
that actually matters.

Helge Hafting



  

Lyx Title problems

[matteo abeni]

Hello,

I am using lyx to write my thesis. But i have a problem. when i write the
title and then the author and I see them as PDF file I have a problem cause
both stay in the top side of the A4 paper and the other part of the paper
stay blank. I wish to put title and author in the middle of the paper but i
can't. I tried /vspace{}, or insertformatting vertical space, but they
didn't work. how can i do that?
My document class is Book(ams)

Thanks


-- 
Matteo Abeni

Re: Lyx Title problems

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 10:50:44 matteo abeni wrote:
 Hello,

 I am using lyx to write my thesis. But i have a problem. when i write the
 title and then the author and I see them as PDF file I have a problem cause
 both stay in the top side of the A4 paper and the other part of the paper
 stay blank. I wish to put title and author in the middle of the paper but i
 can't. I tried /vspace{}, or insertformatting vertical space, but they
 didn't work. how can i do that?
 My document class is Book(ams)

 Thanks

Hi Matteo,

What I do is for the Frontmatter, instead of relying on the document  class's 
properties and then trying to defeat them when necessary (like putting the 
title in the middle), I use ERT and custom environments to construct the 
Frontmatter. It works out great, and I can put anything anywhere I want, 
quickly, with little muss and fuss. 

All you need is a little LaTeX knowledge.

Note that for the Mainmatter, I do the opposite, and use almost no ERT, 
relying solely on environments and character styles.

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: [okmail] Re: Installing missing packages in Lyx

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ludwik Celnikier schrieb:


Two questions, though:

1)  I am using Miktex, which has distributed the latex files in 
localtexmf and texmf.


It seems that you are using an older version of MiKTeX. I recommend to update to MiKTeX 2.8 when you 
are using MiKTeX 2.6 or older. When you do this, uninstall MiKTeX _completely_ before installing the 
new version.
Afterwards reconfigure LyX. (This might take a long time (about 15 min.) because LyX will install 
all needed LaTeX packages from the Internet when reconfiguring.)


 I suppose that the Kluwer (and other) package 
files should be in a subfolder

in the texmf folder?


Yes.

2)  What is texhash?   To configure the miktex latex distribution I 
execute initexmf --update-fndb  -   does that do the same job?


I assumed that you are using TeXLive. On MiKTeX installing package is very simple: Open the program 
Browse packages that you find in Windows' Start menu under MiKTeX. Search there for kluwer and 
install the package.

That's all. Finally reconfigure LyX and start writing.

regards Uwe

Re: Natbib options in Lyx with embedded bibliography

[rgheck]

On 09/16/2009 10:07 AM, Ehud Kaplan wrote:
Lyx */does/* know a lot about the citations, since when I click on 
one, it shows its details (and in the left column all the other 
citations that have been included in the Lyx file), but not the 
formatting options.
I inserted the references into the Lyx file through the circuitous 
route of exporting the Lyx file to Latex, using 
\begin{thebibiolgraphy} ... end{thebibliography} etc. with the .bbl 
file pasted in.

Once it compiled correctly with pdflatex, I then imported it back to Lyx.

So the citations in Bibliography environments at the end of the paper, 
yes? Then the problem is that, in order for natbib to make sense out of 
author-year citations, when you insert them this way, the key MUST be in 
a certain form. Otherwise, natbib has no way of knowing what the author 
and the year are. (It can't just parse the entry.) I think the form is: 
author[year], but I am not sure. Jurgen told me about this some time ago 
on one or another of the lists, so you might find it that way. Or you 
might email him directly. Though I think he's incommunicado for a bit. 
Probably the natbib docs have something about this, too.


Richard

Re: Lyx Title problems

[rgheck]

On 09/16/2009 11:09 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 10:50:44 matteo abeni wrote:
   

Hello,

I am using lyx to write my thesis. But i have a problem. when i write the
title and then the author and I see them as PDF file I have a problem cause
both stay in the top side of the A4 paper and the other part of the paper
stay blank. I wish to put title and author in the middle of the paper but i
can't. I tried /vspace{}, or insertformatting  vertical space, but they
didn't work. how can i do that?
My document class is Book(ams)
 
   
As Steve implied, the appearance of the title page is controlled by your 
document class, and there is no easy way to modify it, other than to 
redefine the routine, in the document class, that typesets the 
titlepage. Some document classes (koma-script?) may provide facilities 
for making such modifications, but the AMS book class is not one of 
them, so far as I know.


The reason the vertical space stuff does not work is that the title 
environment is really inserting the \title{...} command, which actually 
does nothing but set a variable. The titlepage itself is printed by the 
command \maketitle, which is what you would have to redefine, if you 
wanted to do the titlepage that way.


That said, why do you want the title in the center? The designers of the 
AMS book class went to a lot of trouble to design a titlepage that 
conformed to good typographical practice and would allow for lots of 
information to be included there. Are you absolutely sure your 
preferences, as compared to theirs, are well founded?


I should also add that most universities and such have pretty detailed 
specifications about the titlepage, so you may end up having to do more 
detailed formatting, anyway. In that case, a good start might be to try 
to borrow the \maketitle routine from one of the many thesis classes 
that are out there, and modify that as necessary.


We can help with that if necessary.

Richard

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Olivier Ripoll]

Neal Becker wrote:
What do you usually use for Fourier transform?  Calligraphic F, or maybe 
something else?


Hi,

Calligraphic F is not the right symbol, although it seems more and more 
used now :-( (probably because people don't find the correct one, at 
least that was my case in the past).


What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is \mathscr{F}, 
the script F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf

You'll need some additional packages:
amsmath and (IIRC) mathrsfs.

I attach to this mail my layout module to add some common math functions 
to LyX. Drop it to you layout folder(*), reconfigure, and add it to the 
file via the document settings. Then all you need is to type \FT for it 
and \iFT for the inverse Fourier transform.


You can also just pick the interesting code and drop it to the preamble

Best regards,

Olivier

(*)On Windows, it would be something like
C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\Application Data\lyx16\layouts
on Linux, something like
/home/username/.lyx/layouts
#\DeclareLyXModule{More Maths Functions}
#DescriptionBegin
#Additional functions: erf, erfc, sinc, sgn , missing hyperbolic  inverse 
hyperbolic functions,
#Fourier transform  inverse, logarithms in base 10 and 2, floor/ceil (letters 
and mathematical
#notation).
#DescriptionEnd

# Author : Olivier Ripoll

Format 11

Requiresamsmath,mathrsfs

AddToPreamble
\DeclareMathOperator{\sinc}{sinc}
\DeclareMathOperator{\sgn}{sgn}
\DeclareMathOperator{\erf}{erf}
\DeclareMathOperator{\erfc}{erfc}
\DeclareMathOperator{\FT}{\mathscr{F}}
\DeclareMathOperator{\iFT}{\mathscr{F}^{-1}}
\DeclareMathOperator{\logten}{log_{10}}
\DeclareMathOperator{\logtwo}{log_2}
\DeclareMathOperator{\sech}{sech}
\DeclareMathOperator{\csch}{csch}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arsinh}{arsinh}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arcosh}{arcosh}
\DeclareMathOperator{\artanh}{artanh}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arcoth}{arcoth}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arsech}{arsech}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arcsch}{arcsch}
\newcommand{\Floor}[1]
 {\left\lfloor {#1} \right\rfloor}
\DeclareMathOperator{\floor}{floor}
\newcommand{\Ceil}[1]
 {\left\lceil #1 \right\rceil}
\DeclareMathOperator{\ceil}{ceil}
EndPreamble

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is \mathscr{F}, 
the script F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf


Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that character. The character is nevertheless unfortunately 
not available in Windows' standard fonts like Arial or Times New Roman. Even none of the fonts I 
have installed support this character. This might be the reason why is character is rarely used.


regards Uwe

Once again: Margin alignment

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,

margin alignment with Lyx 1.6.4.1, OSX and microtype seems to work,  
but just very lightly (I´m not really sure, because it´s so lightly).  
Could somebody tell me how to increase the factor, what do I have to  
enter in the preamble? Up to now I just use:

\usepackage{microtype}

For the margin alignment I found an old notice of mine, that I would  
have to use the option protrusion with the factor of max. 1000…


Thanks, best*
E.

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Olivier Ripoll]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is \mathscr{F}, 
the script F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf


Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that character. The character is 
nevertheless unfortunately not available in Windows' standard fonts like 
Arial or Times New Roman. Even none of the fonts I have installed 
support this character. This might be the reason why is character is 
rarely used.


It works for me through:
insert-special characters-symbols...-Letterlike Symbols
I'm using the Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New fonts for the 
LyX interface. It looks however better with Déjà Vu fonts than with MS 
fonts in LyX.


So who that allow to have the Fourier transform character displayed in 
LyX with my module instead of \FT latex code ?


Best regards,

Olivier


regards Uwe

Re: How many are left handed

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 09:20:50 Helge Hafting wrote:
 Is there anything in LyX a left-handed person might want different?
 I think most of the support goes in the OS: left handed mouse,
 and anything you might want change about the keyboard.

I am left handed, and I really don't want anything different.  I use enough 
different computers (mainly set up by right handed people) that I have given up 
wanting anything special.  I'm just happy if the mouse (or trackball) is not 
one of those blatantly discriminatory gadgets which can only be used in the 
right hand, and if it can be moved to the left side of the keyboard.

Les

-- 
..
Les Denham

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-09-16, Olivier Ripoll wrote:
 Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

 What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is \mathscr{F}, 
 the script F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart
 http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf

 Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that character. The character is 
 nevertheless unfortunately not available in Windows' standard fonts like 
 Arial or Times New Roman. Even none of the fonts I have installed 
 support this character. This might be the reason why is character is 
 rarely used.

 It works for me through:
 insert-special characters-symbols...-Letterlike Symbols
 I'm using the Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New fonts for the 
 LyX interface. It looks however better with Déjà Vu fonts than with MS 
 fonts in LyX.

 So who that allow to have the Fourier transform character displayed in 
 LyX with my module instead of \FT latex code ?

If you define a math-macro, you can separately define the LaTeX command and
the look-in-lyx. Unfortunately, 

* you can't define a math-macro in a module,
* you can't define a preamble command in a LyX file.

This is why I have a file full of math macros which I include in all my
math-heavy publications. Instead of the preamble command \MathOperator, I use
e.g. \operatorname{sgn} as LaTeX command. ViewSource shows this as

  \global\long\def\sgn{\operatorname{sgn}}
  \global\long\def\Re{\operatorname{Re}}
  \global\long\def\Im{\operatorname{Im}}

...

Günter

Multiple footnotes

[jezZiFeR]

Dear List,

is it possible to enter a small comma between two footnote-numerals?  
When I do have two or even more footnotes in sequence I could not find  
a posibility to enter a small comma, which is also elevated, I mean  
over the grund line.


Best*
E.

Re: Typing lag in Lyx 1.6.4.1, OS X 10.6.0

[Josh Whitney]

James C. Sutherland james.sutherl...@... writes:

 
 
 On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Josh Whitney wrote:
 
  I'm currently working on an early 2008 Macbook with 4 gb of RAM.  I  
  am running OS X 10.6.0 and Lyx 1.6.4.1.  I've been writing some very  
  long documents in Lyx and once they are more than a few pages long  
  typing becomes excruciatingly slow.  That is, I type and the  
  characters appearing on the screen lag the keystrokes by several  
  seconds.  I was also having the same issue both with earlier  
  versions of Lyx and with OS X 10.5.*, though it seemed a bit more  
  mild with Leopard.
 
  I do not have the view source window open.  I started typing the  
  document with  instant preview off for math but after reading some  
  of the questions on the mailing list I've turned instant preview  
  on.  The typing remains very slow and also the preview for math  
  doesn't seem to want to work (i.e., all math remains text instead of  
  previewed as typeset).
 
  I've read through the mailing list to see if I could find a solution  
  to this problem but nothing seemed to work.  Any help would be  
  greatly appreciated.
 
 FWIW, I am running LyX 1.6.4.1 on 10.6 and haven't seen any of these  
 problems (only the pseudo-crash that has been mentioned previously).   
 So this is likely not a universal problem, but perhaps a problem  
 related to your system in particular?
 

James,
Thanks for the quick reply.  I suspect you are correct that this is an issue
with my system only since, as far as I can see, nobody else has mentioned it
with 1.6.*.  I suppose I was just wondering if there was any suggestions on how
to fix it.  I tried deleting Lyx and reinstalling, but that didn't seem to help.
 Is it possible that I'm not completely getting rid of Lyx and that this is why
the problem remains?

Thanks,
Josh

Re: Multiple footnotes

[Uwe Stöhr]

jezZiFeR schrieb:

is it possible to enter a small comma between two footnote-numerals? 
When I do have two or even more footnotes in sequence I could not find a 
posibility to enter a small comma, which is also elevated, I mean over 
the grund line.


Do you need a spacer between subsequent footnotes? If so look at the Math manual's preamble. You 
find there this command sequence that adds some space:


% insert additional vertical space of 1.5 mm between footnotes,
\let\myFoot\footnote
\renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\myFoot{#1\vspace{1.5mm}}}

This command can easily be adopted to insert a character instead of a space 
before the footnote text:

\let\myFoot\footnote
\renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\myFoot{,{}#1}}

regards Uwe

Re: How Many use linux

[marc]

I use Linux since 1998 on Mandriva (Mandrake at those times)
and lyx almost since the same time

best regards,

Marc

Le samedi 12 septembre 2009 16:56:31, Paul Drake a écrit :
 I use Lyx on linux, and have been since 2003

 Cheers

 Paul

Re: Multiple footnotes

[jezZiFeR]

Hello Uwe,

this ist great, and I will use it, but this is not what I was looking  
for actually. I forgot to mention, or maybe it´s just difficult for me  
to do that in english, that I mean the footnotes inside of the text, I  
mean the reference I thin – sorry, I´m not sure with those english  
words.


But anyway, I like the vertical space in the footer which I achieved  
with your command much better than without.


All the best*
E.


Am 17.09.2009 um 00:01 schrieb Uwe Stöhr:


jezZiFeR schrieb:

is it possible to enter a small comma between two footnote- 
numerals? When I do have two or even more footnotes in sequence I  
could not find a posibility to enter a small comma, which is also  
elevated, I mean over the grund line.


Do you need a spacer between subsequent footnotes? If so look at the  
Math manual's preamble. You find there this command sequence that  
adds some space:


% insert additional vertical space of 1.5 mm between footnotes,
\let\myFoot\footnote
\renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\myFoot{#1\vspace{1.5mm}}}

This command can easily be adopted to insert a character instead of  
a space before the footnote text:


\let\myFoot\footnote
\renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\myFoot{,{}#1}}

regards Uwe

Re: Trigonometric tipography

[Yago]

Thank you Guenter.
- Original Message - 
From: Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Trigonometric tipography



On 2009-09-15, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Yago schrieb:



Uwe, as you know Javier Bezos is an reconigsed expert on spanish
tipography. If you can read spanish



I'm currently learning Spanish and thus cannot understand everything yet.


The answer stated, that in the given example, the square brackets are more
irritating than helpfull.


This will be my last reply to this topic: The most important thing is
that people will understand what you are _exactly_ meaning. When I
(German) and the other LyX user (US American) misunderstood your
typesetting, then we both obviously didn't understand what you meant.


Most important is, that the *audience* understands the meaning. I the
convention in the field is to do without brackets, this is to be
preferred when publishing for this audience. If misunderstanding arised
in this list, brackets are helpful *in the context of this list*.

The presence of different mathematical notations and conventions is a
fact that we have to live with. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.

While at school I learned to write sin(x), cos(x), ..., the IAPP's
Symbols, Units and Nomenclature in Physics states:

 sin x  sine of x
 cos x  cosine of x
 ...

and (in the German translation Symbole, Einheiten und Nomenklatur in der
Physik, Weinheim 1981):

 Es wird empfohlen (it is recommended) in Ausdrücken wie

   sin {2\pi(x-x_0)/\lambda}
   exp {-V(r)/kT)}

 das Argument zwischen Klammern zu setzen, sofern das Argument nicht ein
 einfaches Produck aus zwei Größen ist, z.\,B. $\sin kx$

i.e. braces (not brackets) are recommended (but optional) for complex
arguments.

Günter

LyX Beamer Sweave: makebeamertitle not being defined?

[Daniel E. Weeks]

I am using LyX to make Beamer slides while supporting the use of R  
statistical commands via the Sweave package.


If I follow the instructions found here

 http://ggorjan.blogspot.com/2008/09/using-beamer-with-lyx-sweave.html

LyX/Sweave/Beamer works just fine.  But as soon as I try to put in  
Title or Author information at the beginning, LyX refuses to typeset  
the presentation, returning instead this error message:


Undefined control sequence.

 \makebeamertitle
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.


This is mystifying to me, as the 'makebeamertitle' is defined in the  
included beamer.layout now packaged with LyX.


Here's the literate-beamer.layout file I am using, which should be  
loading the 'beamer.layout' information:


#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[beamer, Sweave.sty]{beamer (beamer Sweave noweb)}
#
# What: literate-article textclass definition file.
# Author: Gregor Gorjanc gregor.gorj...@bfro.uni-lj.si
# $Id: literate-article.layout 58 2007-01-02 00:41:59Z ggorjan $
#
# This is a copy of literate-article.layout from LyX, but changed for
# Sweave - NoWeb syntax:
#  - changed noweb.sty to Sweave.sty
#  - moved preamble to literate-scrap.inc

Format 2
Input beamer.layout
Input literate-scrap.inc


If I typeset the tex file that LyX generates myself using TeXShop, it  
generates a pdf without any complaints, but fails to show the  
requested title page, even though these lines are found in the  
generated tex file:


\begin{document}

\title{Test Title}

\makebeamertitle


If I paste this code from the 'beamer.layout' into my LaTeX file (or  
into the 'LaTeX preamble' section of my LyX Document Settings):


  \newcommand\makebeamertitle{\frame{\maketitle}}%
  \AtBeginDocument{
\let\origtableofcontents=\tableofcontents
\def\tableofcontent...@ifnextchar[{\origtableofcontents} 
{\gobbletableofcontents}}

\def\gobbletableofcontents#1{\origtableofcontents}
  }

then the title page appears.

But I can get the title pages to appear O.K. if I use the  
'presentation (beamer)' style instead.


So for some reason, the 'beamer.layout' definitions are not  
functioning properly in terms of defining the 'makebeamertitle' with  
my custom 'literate-beamer.layout' file.  However, this used to work  
with an earlier version of LyX last year, as I made several beamer  
presentations that way.


Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

Dan Weeks


LyX Version 1.6.4.1
Platform: Mac OS X Versoni 10.5.8 on an Intel machine.

Help! pdflatex error

[Myriam Abramson]

I've just installed Ubuntu Hardy and it downloads Lyx 1.5.3.
(It's a new OS for me so how can I tell it to download a newer
version?)

Anyhow, I have problems viewing my Lyx document with pdflatex because
of the graphics. Here are the errors I get: 

Package pdfpages Error: the graphics package was loaded with driver
Latex error: cannot determine size of graphic in ... 

what to do?


-- 
   myriam

Re: Multiple footnotes

[Uwe Stöhr]

jezZiFeR schrieb:

this ist great, and I will use it, but this is not what I was looking 
for actually. I forgot to mention, or maybe it´s just difficult for me 
to do that in english, that I mean the footnotes inside of the text, I 
mean the reference I think


Sou you want to have this?:
bla bla ,1
instead of
blabla 1

Where ,1 is the footnote mark? If so this can be achieved by redefining the LaTeX-command 
\...@makefnmark, see http://texnik.dante.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=footnotes/footnotes


regards Uwe

Downloading LyX 1.6.4: Error by accessing the server

[I Wayan Warmada]

Dear LyX lists,
I have tried to download the new lyx since it has been
announced, but up to now is not successed. The server
said. I have checked it everyday:
--
Error!
Could not connect. FTP server may be too busy.

You tried to access the address ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.4, which is 
currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly 
spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.
--

I have also tried all of the mirrors, but I found that the newest LyX version 
is 1.6.0.

Thank you very much for your help.

Best Regards,
Wayan
---
Dr. I Wayan WARMADA
Jurusan Teknik Geologi 
Fakultas Teknik, Universitas Gadjah Mada 
Jl. Grafika 2 Yogyakarta 55281 - INDONESIA 
Phone: +62-274-901380; Fax: +62-274-513668 
http://warmada.staff.ugm.ac.id 
--


  

Re: Multiple footnotes

[BH]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote:
 jezZiFeR schrieb:

 this ist great, and I will use it, but this is not what I was looking for
 actually. I forgot to mention, or maybe it´s just difficult for me to do
 that in english, that I mean the footnotes inside of the text, I mean the
 reference I think

 Sou you want to have this?:
 bla bla ,1
 instead of
 blabla 1

 Where ,1 is the footnote mark? If so this can be achieved by redefining
 the LaTeX-command \...@makefnmark, see
 http://texnik.dante.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=footnotes/footnotes

I think what is wanted is, when there are multiple footnotes in the
same spot in the text, to have the footnote numbers appear like this:
1, 2 (superscripted). Right?

One way to get it is to use footmisc.sty with the multiple option by
putting the following in your preamble:

\usepackage[multiple]{footmisc}

BH

Re: Downloading LyX 1.6.4: Error by accessing the server

[Uwe Stöhr]

I Wayan Warmada schrieb:


I have tried to download the new lyx since it has been
announced, but up to now is not successed. The server
said. I have checked it everyday:
--
Error!
Could not connect. FTP server may be too busy.

You tried to access the address ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.4, which is 
currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly 
spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.


Right now it works for me. When you are looking for LyX for Windows, you can also get it from my 
installer project page:

http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall/

regards Uwe

LyX and Biblatex

[Daniel Owens]

I am using LyX 1.6.4, MikTeX 2.7, and the latest biblatex release (as of 
a few days ago) using biblatex-historian (I need Turabian citations and 
bibliography). I am able to get a bibliography and create citations 
using \autocite, but when I do so a lot of extra whitespace is added 
between the footnotes and the footer. Has anyone encountered that and 
have a solution?


Daniel

Re: How to copy required files into the temporary directory?

[Yihui Xie]

Thanks a lot! Finally I added the 'cp' command in the converter to
copy the files I needed (*.pdf and *.txt) before compiling:

cp $$r/*.pdf $$r/*.txt ./  [converting commands here, e.g. pdflatex $$i]

It's still not a complete solution, but works for my situation.

Regards,
Yihui
--
Phone: 515-294-6609 Web: http://yihui.name
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
3211 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA



On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:10 AM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote:
 On 09/16/2009 12:36 AM, Yihui Xie wrote:

 Thanks! Yes the file name is annoying. What's more, Lyx will use a
 different temp directory each time, so it's difficult to copy the
 files to the temp directory by hand, as I don't know the destination.



 Yes, I know. But it should actually be fairly easy to write a little script
 to find it, though if LyX crashes you'd have to remove it yourself else the
 script would fail.

 The other option, of using some customized script to run LaTeX, etc,
 wouldn't have this problem.

 rh

Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy

[Myriam Abramson]

Sorry, I'm new to Ubuntu (I was using Fedora before). Ubuntu comes
with 1.5.3 and apt-get refuses to let me upgrade to a newer version. 
I've tried to put that in the /etc/apt/sources.list but it didn't
work:

deb ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ubuntu hardy main 

and then apt-get update and upgrade but no luck. 

Any clue? I have a deadline. 
TIA,

-- 
   myriam

Re: Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy

[John Jason Jordan]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:32:51 -0400
Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com dijo:

 
 Sorry, I'm new to Ubuntu (I was using Fedora before). Ubuntu comes
 with 1.5.3 and apt-get refuses to let me upgrade to a newer version. 
 I've tried to put that in the /etc/apt/sources.list but it didn't
 work:
 
 deb ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ubuntu hardy main 
 
 and then apt-get update and upgrade but no luck. 

Go here and get the .deb file:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/lyx-common/download

Once you have the .deb file, right click on it and install it with
gDebi package installer. You can also install it from the command line
or with Synaptic, but gDebi is easier because it's just a couple of
mouse clicks.

In theory you could also add it with upgrade if you could figure out
the right repository. I have had bad luck trying to figure out exactly
which repo a program is in. I just find the .deb file and install it
manually.

Re: Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy

[Myriam Abramson]

That doesn't work too well. There are too many dependencies. 


-- 
   myriam

John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net writes:

 On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:32:51 -0400
 Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com dijo:

 
 Sorry, I'm new to Ubuntu (I was using Fedora before). Ubuntu comes
 with 1.5.3 and apt-get refuses to let me upgrade to a newer version. 
 I've tried to put that in the /etc/apt/sources.list but it didn't
 work:
 
 deb ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ubuntu hardy main 
 
 and then apt-get update and upgrade but no luck. 

 Go here and get the .deb file:

 http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/lyx-common/download

 Once you have the .deb file, right click on it and install it with
 gDebi package installer. You can also install it from the command line
 or with Synaptic, but gDebi is easier because it's just a couple of
 mouse clicks.

 In theory you could also add it with upgrade if you could figure out
 the right repository. I have had bad luck trying to figure out exactly
 which repo a program is in. I just find the .deb file and install it
 manually.

Re: Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy

[Myriam Abramson]

I tried to add a mirror to sources.list but I got this error:

W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org sid Release: The following signatures 
couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 
9AA38DCD55BE302B

-- 
   myriam

Re: Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:35:15PM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote:
 
 I tried to add a mirror to sources.list but I got this error:
 
 W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org sid Release: The following signatures 
 couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 
 9AA38DCD55BE302B
 

That's a secure-apt problem.  There's a wiki on the debian site that
explains how you deal with this.  One thing you're allowed to do is
just accept unsigned packages, although there are probably better
alternatives.

A

-- 
Andrew Sullivan
a...@shinkuro.com
Shinkuro, Inc.

Re: Hide tracked changes?

[Matts Lindström]

 The later situation actually seems very useful to me: you just edit your
 file without those horrible blue texts, but LyX keeps track of the
 changes nevertheless.

 JMarc


Yes this was exactly what I was looking for -- the ability to toggle the
visibility of those blue edits.

Matts

Re: Anyone used Lytex?

[Wolfgang Keller]

Hello,

sorry for replying sooo late.

 I do not have administrative privileges at work computers but am so dependent 
 on using lyx for my writing and want to be able to use it on a USB drive or a 
 network drive that I have access to. I wondered if anyone has used Lytex  as 
 suggested in the wiki?
 I tried it and get error messages. The home page for Lytex does not give any 
 email addresses for requesting help.

I have successfully used LyX from a USB stick in the past.

In fact LyX itself seems to be portable right out of the box.

The point was to get a LaTeX installation that works from a stick without 
installation. I managed to get it done by using TeX Live 2008. I bought a 
copy of their DVD (you could also download the iso disk image) and simply moved 
the entire contents to my USB stick, alongside the LyX folder. Again: I did 
_NOT_ install TeX Live using the installer on the DVD, but only copy the 
contents from the DVD to the USB stick. Then I modified the tl-lyx.bat file 
from http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~elts2/lyx/tl-lyx.bat as follows:

@echo off
set TEXDIR=%~dp0
set tldrive=%~d0
%tldrive%
cd %TEXDIR%

set TEXDIRW=%USERPROFILE%\.tlportable2008\
if not exist %TEXDIRW% md %TEXDIRW%

set TEXMFSYSVAR=%TEXDIR%texmf-var
set TEXMFSYSCONFIG=%TEXDIR%texmf-config
set TEXMFMAIN=%TEXDIR%texmf
set TEXMFDIST=%TEXDIR%texmf-dist
set TEXMFLOCAL=%TEXDIR%texmf-local
set TEXMFHOME=%TEXDIRW%texmf-home
set TEXMFVAR=%TEXDIRW%texmf-var
set TEXMFCONFIG=%TEXDIRW%texmf-config
set TEXBINDIR=%TEXDIR%bin\win32
set platform=win32

set PERL5LIB=%TEXDIR%tlpkg\installer\perllib
%TEXDIR%tlpkg\installer\perl %TEXDIR%install-tl --portable
if not errorlevel 1 goto doit
echo Initialization of TeXLive failed!
pause
exit

:doit
path %TEXDIR%bin\win32;%path%

set LYX_DIR=%TEXDIR%..\LyX16\
path %LYX_DIR%python;%path%
path %LYX_DIR%bin;%path%
path %LYX_DIR%imagemagick;%path%

set GS_DIR=%LYX_DIR%ghostscript\
path %GS_DIR%bin;%path%
set GS_LIB=%GS_DIR%lib;%GS_DIR%fonts;%GS_DIR%Resource

%TEXDIR%..\LyX16\bin\lyx.exe %*

I never managed to make the TeX Live package manager work in portable mode, 
so I had to install and update packages by hand, but well, *sigh*...

Hope this helps,

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

-- 
NO Courtesy Copies PLEASE!

Typing lag in Lyx 1.6.4.1, OS X 10.6.0

[Josh Whitney]

I'm currently working on an early 2008 Macbook with 4 gb of RAM.  I am  
running OS X 10.6.0 and Lyx 1.6.4.1.  I've been writing some very long  
documents in Lyx and once they are more than a few pages long typing  
becomes excruciatingly slow.  That is, I type and the characters  
appearing on the screen lag the keystrokes by several seconds.  I was  
also having the same issue both with earlier versions of Lyx and with  
OS X 10.5.*, though it seemed a bit more mild with Leopard.


I do not have the view source window open.  I started typing the  
document with  instant preview off for math but after reading some of  
the questions on the mailing list I've turned instant preview on.  The  
typing remains very slow and also the preview for math doesn't seem to  
want to work (i.e., all math remains text instead of previewed as  
typeset).


I've read through the mailing list to see if I could find a solution  
to this problem but nothing seemed to work.  Any help would be greatly  
appreciated.


Thanks,
Josh Whitney

Natbib options in Lyx with embedded bibliography

[E.Kaplan]

When I embed a bibliography in the Lyx file itself (using the .AUX or 
.bbl file), and then click on a citation reference in the Lyx file, I do 
not get the option to choose a citation style, as I do when I call the 
citation from a bibtex database.  I am using natbib (author-year), and 
indicated that in the Document Settings.

How do I regain the ability to choose the citation style?

Thanks,
EK

Re: Typing lag in Lyx 1.6.4.1, OS X 10.6.0

[James C. Sutherland]

On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Josh Whitney wrote:

I'm currently working on an early 2008 Macbook with 4 gb of RAM.  I  
am running OS X 10.6.0 and Lyx 1.6.4.1.  I've been writing some very  
long documents in Lyx and once they are more than a few pages long  
typing becomes excruciatingly slow.  That is, I type and the  
characters appearing on the screen lag the keystrokes by several  
seconds.  I was also having the same issue both with earlier  
versions of Lyx and with OS X 10.5.*, though it seemed a bit more  
mild with Leopard.


I do not have the view source window open.  I started typing the  
document with  instant preview off for math but after reading some  
of the questions on the mailing list I've turned instant preview  
on.  The typing remains very slow and also the preview for math  
doesn't seem to want to work (i.e., all math remains text instead of  
previewed as typeset).


I've read through the mailing list to see if I could find a solution  
to this problem but nothing seemed to work.  Any help would be  
greatly appreciated.


FWIW, I am running LyX 1.6.4.1 on 10.6 and haven't seen any of these  
problems (only the pseudo-crash that has been mentioned previously).   
So this is likely not a universal problem, but perhaps a problem  
related to your system in particular?

Re: Trigonometric tipography

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-09-15, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Yago schrieb:

 Uwe, as you know Javier Bezos is an reconigsed expert on spanish 
 tipography. If you can read spanish

 I'm currently learning Spanish and thus cannot understand everything yet.

The answer stated, that in the given example, the square brackets are more
irritating than helpfull.

 This will be my last reply to this topic: The most important thing is
 that people will understand what you are _exactly_ meaning. When I
 (German) and the other LyX user (US American) misunderstood your
 typesetting, then we both obviously didn't understand what you meant. 

Most important is, that the *audience* understands the meaning. I the
convention in the field is to do without brackets, this is to be
preferred when publishing for this audience. If misunderstanding arised
in this list, brackets are helpful *in the context of this list*.

The presence of different mathematical notations and conventions is a
fact that we have to live with. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.

While at school I learned to write sin(x), cos(x), ..., the IAPP's
Symbols, Units and Nomenclature in Physics states:

  sin x  sine of x
  cos x  cosine of x
  ...
  
and (in the German translation Symbole, Einheiten und Nomenklatur in der
Physik, Weinheim 1981):

  Es wird empfohlen (it is recommended) in Ausdrücken wie
  
sin {2\pi(x-x_0)/\lambda}
exp {-V(r)/kT)}

  das Argument zwischen Klammern zu setzen, sofern das Argument nicht ein
  einfaches Produck aus zwei Größen ist, z.\,B. $\sin kx$

i.e. braces (not brackets) are recommended (but optional) for complex
arguments.

Günter

Re: Natbib options in Lyx with embedded bibliography

[Ehud Kaplan]

Lyx */does/* know a lot about the citations, since when I click on one, 
it shows its details (and in the left column all the other citations 
that have been included in the Lyx file), but not the formatting options.
I inserted the references into the Lyx file through the circuitous route 
of exporting the Lyx file to Latex, using \begin{thebibiolgraphy} ... 
end{thebibliography} etc. with the .bbl file pasted in.

Once it compiled correctly with pdflatex, I then imported it back to Lyx.

EK

rgheck wrote:

On 09/16/2009 07:15 AM, E.Kaplan wrote:
When I embed a bibliography in the Lyx file itself (using the .AUX or 
.bbl file), and then click on a citation reference in the Lyx file, I 
do not get the option to choose a citation style, as I do when I call 
the citation from a bibtex database.  I am using natbib 
(author-year), and indicated that in the Document Settings.

How do I regain the ability to choose the citation style?

I'm a little unclear about how you've got things set up. Are you 
including the bbl file, via the InsertFile mechanism? Pasting it as 
ERT? Or what? My hunch is that the problem is that LyX does not know 
anything about the citation entries, so it is not giving you any 
options about them.


RIchard

Re: How many use Linux:

[Helge Hafting]

I use LyX on debian linux. LyX is what I use for
all formatted text I write on computers:
A book, letters, lectures, and presentations.

Helge Hafting

Re: How many are left handed

[Helge Hafting]

Andrew Sullivan wrote:

You can see from the subject that there is an air of irrelevance about
this.

But it seems to me that knowing how many are left handed would,
naturally, lead to enhancements targetted at the left-hand community.

I answer that the customizability and portability of the LyX code base
is sufficient that a typing-able user on any modern desktop-target
platform is in a position to use LyX, and figuring out even rough
numbers for distribution on supported platforms is a distraction to
the LyX community.  This is true even if the user is left handed, or
non-Linux using, or whatever.


Is there anything in LyX a left-handed person might want different?
I think most of the support goes in the OS: left handed mouse,
and anything you might want change about the keyboard.

And you can already put the toolbars wherever you like them, but I am 
not sure that actually matters.


Helge Hafting

Re: How many are left handed

[f wonghc]

Digress:-
 
Some languages like Arabia and Hebrew writes from right to left.  
 
When (sometimes) you browse those sites with these two languages, the scroll 
bar is on the right hand side of the browser (e.g. Internet Explorer),  I just 
guess they may also like to have the mirror image of lyx, not 
just port-siders only :-)
 


--- On Wed, 9/16/09, Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no wrote:


From: Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no
Subject: Re: How many are left handed
To: Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 10:20 PM


Andrew Sullivan wrote:
 You can see from the subject that there is an air of irrelevance about
 this.
 
 But it seems to me that knowing how many are left handed would,
 naturally, lead to enhancements targetted at the left-hand community.
 
 I answer that the customizability and portability of the LyX code base
 is sufficient that a typing-able user on any modern desktop-target
 platform is in a position to use LyX, and figuring out even rough
 numbers for distribution on supported platforms is a distraction to
 the LyX community.  This is true even if the user is left handed, or
 non-Linux using, or whatever.

Is there anything in LyX a left-handed person might want different?
I think most of the support goes in the OS: left handed mouse,
and anything you might want change about the keyboard.

And you can already put the toolbars wherever you like them, but I am not sure 
that actually matters.

Helge Hafting



  

Lyx Title problems

[matteo abeni]

Hello,

I am using lyx to write my thesis. But i have a problem. when i write the
title and then the author and I see them as PDF file I have a problem cause
both stay in the top side of the A4 paper and the other part of the paper
stay blank. I wish to put title and author in the middle of the paper but i
can't. I tried /vspace{}, or insertformatting vertical space, but they
didn't work. how can i do that?
My document class is Book(ams)

Thanks


-- 
Matteo Abeni

Re: Lyx Title problems

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 10:50:44 matteo abeni wrote:
 Hello,

 I am using lyx to write my thesis. But i have a problem. when i write the
 title and then the author and I see them as PDF file I have a problem cause
 both stay in the top side of the A4 paper and the other part of the paper
 stay blank. I wish to put title and author in the middle of the paper but i
 can't. I tried /vspace{}, or insertformatting vertical space, but they
 didn't work. how can i do that?
 My document class is Book(ams)

 Thanks

Hi Matteo,

What I do is for the Frontmatter, instead of relying on the document  class's 
properties and then trying to defeat them when necessary (like putting the 
title in the middle), I use ERT and custom environments to construct the 
Frontmatter. It works out great, and I can put anything anywhere I want, 
quickly, with little muss and fuss. 

All you need is a little LaTeX knowledge.

Note that for the Mainmatter, I do the opposite, and use almost no ERT, 
relying solely on environments and character styles.

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: [okmail] Re: Installing missing packages in Lyx

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ludwik Celnikier schrieb:


Two questions, though:

1)  I am using Miktex, which has distributed the latex files in 
localtexmf and texmf.


It seems that you are using an older version of MiKTeX. I recommend to update to MiKTeX 2.8 when you 
are using MiKTeX 2.6 or older. When you do this, uninstall MiKTeX _completely_ before installing the 
new version.
Afterwards reconfigure LyX. (This might take a long time (about 15 min.) because LyX will install 
all needed LaTeX packages from the Internet when reconfiguring.)


 I suppose that the Kluwer (and other) package 
files should be in a subfolder

in the texmf folder?


Yes.

2)  What is texhash?   To configure the miktex latex distribution I 
execute initexmf --update-fndb  -   does that do the same job?


I assumed that you are using TeXLive. On MiKTeX installing package is very simple: Open the program 
Browse packages that you find in Windows' Start menu under MiKTeX. Search there for kluwer and 
install the package.

That's all. Finally reconfigure LyX and start writing.

regards Uwe

Re: Natbib options in Lyx with embedded bibliography

[rgheck]

On 09/16/2009 10:07 AM, Ehud Kaplan wrote:
Lyx */does/* know a lot about the citations, since when I click on 
one, it shows its details (and in the left column all the other 
citations that have been included in the Lyx file), but not the 
formatting options.
I inserted the references into the Lyx file through the circuitous 
route of exporting the Lyx file to Latex, using 
\begin{thebibiolgraphy} ... end{thebibliography} etc. with the .bbl 
file pasted in.

Once it compiled correctly with pdflatex, I then imported it back to Lyx.

So the citations in Bibliography environments at the end of the paper, 
yes? Then the problem is that, in order for natbib to make sense out of 
author-year citations, when you insert them this way, the key MUST be in 
a certain form. Otherwise, natbib has no way of knowing what the author 
and the year are. (It can't just parse the entry.) I think the form is: 
author[year], but I am not sure. Jurgen told me about this some time ago 
on one or another of the lists, so you might find it that way. Or you 
might email him directly. Though I think he's incommunicado for a bit. 
Probably the natbib docs have something about this, too.


Richard

Re: Lyx Title problems

[rgheck]

On 09/16/2009 11:09 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 10:50:44 matteo abeni wrote:
   

Hello,

I am using lyx to write my thesis. But i have a problem. when i write the
title and then the author and I see them as PDF file I have a problem cause
both stay in the top side of the A4 paper and the other part of the paper
stay blank. I wish to put title and author in the middle of the paper but i
can't. I tried /vspace{}, or insertformatting  vertical space, but they
didn't work. how can i do that?
My document class is Book(ams)
 
   
As Steve implied, the appearance of the title page is controlled by your 
document class, and there is no easy way to modify it, other than to 
redefine the routine, in the document class, that typesets the 
titlepage. Some document classes (koma-script?) may provide facilities 
for making such modifications, but the AMS book class is not one of 
them, so far as I know.


The reason the vertical space stuff does not work is that the title 
environment is really inserting the \title{...} command, which actually 
does nothing but set a variable. The titlepage itself is printed by the 
command \maketitle, which is what you would have to redefine, if you 
wanted to do the titlepage that way.


That said, why do you want the title in the center? The designers of the 
AMS book class went to a lot of trouble to design a titlepage that 
conformed to good typographical practice and would allow for lots of 
information to be included there. Are you absolutely sure your 
preferences, as compared to theirs, are well founded?


I should also add that most universities and such have pretty detailed 
specifications about the titlepage, so you may end up having to do more 
detailed formatting, anyway. In that case, a good start might be to try 
to borrow the \maketitle routine from one of the many thesis classes 
that are out there, and modify that as necessary.


We can help with that if necessary.

Richard

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Olivier Ripoll]

Neal Becker wrote:
What do you usually use for Fourier transform?  Calligraphic F, or maybe 
something else?


Hi,

Calligraphic F is not the right symbol, although it seems more and more 
used now :-( (probably because people don't find the correct one, at 
least that was my case in the past).


What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is \mathscr{F}, 
the script F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf

You'll need some additional packages:
amsmath and (IIRC) mathrsfs.

I attach to this mail my layout module to add some common math functions 
to LyX. Drop it to you layout folder(*), reconfigure, and add it to the 
file via the document settings. Then all you need is to type \FT for it 
and \iFT for the inverse Fourier transform.


You can also just pick the interesting code and drop it to the preamble

Best regards,

Olivier

(*)On Windows, it would be something like
C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\Application Data\lyx16\layouts
on Linux, something like
/home/username/.lyx/layouts
#\DeclareLyXModule{More Maths Functions}
#DescriptionBegin
#Additional functions: erf, erfc, sinc, sgn , missing hyperbolic  inverse 
hyperbolic functions,
#Fourier transform  inverse, logarithms in base 10 and 2, floor/ceil (letters 
and mathematical
#notation).
#DescriptionEnd

# Author : Olivier Ripoll

Format 11

Requiresamsmath,mathrsfs

AddToPreamble
\DeclareMathOperator{\sinc}{sinc}
\DeclareMathOperator{\sgn}{sgn}
\DeclareMathOperator{\erf}{erf}
\DeclareMathOperator{\erfc}{erfc}
\DeclareMathOperator{\FT}{\mathscr{F}}
\DeclareMathOperator{\iFT}{\mathscr{F}^{-1}}
\DeclareMathOperator{\logten}{log_{10}}
\DeclareMathOperator{\logtwo}{log_2}
\DeclareMathOperator{\sech}{sech}
\DeclareMathOperator{\csch}{csch}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arsinh}{arsinh}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arcosh}{arcosh}
\DeclareMathOperator{\artanh}{artanh}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arcoth}{arcoth}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arsech}{arsech}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arcsch}{arcsch}
\newcommand{\Floor}[1]
 {\left\lfloor {#1} \right\rfloor}
\DeclareMathOperator{\floor}{floor}
\newcommand{\Ceil}[1]
 {\left\lceil #1 \right\rceil}
\DeclareMathOperator{\ceil}{ceil}
EndPreamble

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is \mathscr{F}, 
the script F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf


Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that character. The character is nevertheless unfortunately 
not available in Windows' standard fonts like Arial or Times New Roman. Even none of the fonts I 
have installed support this character. This might be the reason why is character is rarely used.


regards Uwe

Once again: Margin alignment

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,

margin alignment with Lyx 1.6.4.1, OSX and microtype seems to work,  
but just very lightly (I´m not really sure, because it´s so lightly).  
Could somebody tell me how to increase the factor, what do I have to  
enter in the preamble? Up to now I just use:

\usepackage{microtype}

For the margin alignment I found an old notice of mine, that I would  
have to use the option protrusion with the factor of max. 1000…


Thanks, best*
E.

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Olivier Ripoll]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is \mathscr{F}, 
the script F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf


Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that character. The character is 
nevertheless unfortunately not available in Windows' standard fonts like 
Arial or Times New Roman. Even none of the fonts I have installed 
support this character. This might be the reason why is character is 
rarely used.


It works for me through:
insert-special characters-symbols...-Letterlike Symbols
I'm using the Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New fonts for the 
LyX interface. It looks however better with Déjà Vu fonts than with MS 
fonts in LyX.


So who that allow to have the Fourier transform character displayed in 
LyX with my module instead of \FT latex code ?


Best regards,

Olivier


regards Uwe

Re: How many are left handed

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 09:20:50 Helge Hafting wrote:
 Is there anything in LyX a left-handed person might want different?
 I think most of the support goes in the OS: left handed mouse,
 and anything you might want change about the keyboard.

I am left handed, and I really don't want anything different.  I use enough 
different computers (mainly set up by right handed people) that I have given up 
wanting anything special.  I'm just happy if the mouse (or trackball) is not 
one of those blatantly discriminatory gadgets which can only be used in the 
right hand, and if it can be moved to the left side of the keyboard.

Les

-- 
..
Les Denham

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-09-16, Olivier Ripoll wrote:
 Uwe Stöhr wrote:
 Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

 What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is \mathscr{F}, 
 the script F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart
 http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf

 Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that character. The character is 
 nevertheless unfortunately not available in Windows' standard fonts like 
 Arial or Times New Roman. Even none of the fonts I have installed 
 support this character. This might be the reason why is character is 
 rarely used.

 It works for me through:
 insert-special characters-symbols...-Letterlike Symbols
 I'm using the Times New Roman, Arial and Courier New fonts for the 
 LyX interface. It looks however better with Déjà Vu fonts than with MS 
 fonts in LyX.

 So who that allow to have the Fourier transform character displayed in 
 LyX with my module instead of \FT latex code ?

If you define a math-macro, you can separately define the LaTeX command and
the look-in-lyx. Unfortunately, 

* you can't define a math-macro in a module,
* you can't define a preamble command in a LyX file.

This is why I have a file full of math macros which I include in all my
math-heavy publications. Instead of the preamble command \MathOperator, I use
e.g. \operatorname{sgn} as LaTeX command. ViewSource shows this as

  \global\long\def\sgn{\operatorname{sgn}}
  \global\long\def\Re{\operatorname{Re}}
  \global\long\def\Im{\operatorname{Im}}

...

Günter

Multiple footnotes

[jezZiFeR]

Dear List,

is it possible to enter a small comma between two footnote-numerals?  
When I do have two or even more footnotes in sequence I could not find  
a posibility to enter a small comma, which is also elevated, I mean  
over the grund line.


Best*
E.

Re: Typing lag in Lyx 1.6.4.1, OS X 10.6.0

[Josh Whitney]

James C. Sutherland james.sutherl...@... writes:

 
 
 On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Josh Whitney wrote:
 
  I'm currently working on an early 2008 Macbook with 4 gb of RAM.  I  
  am running OS X 10.6.0 and Lyx 1.6.4.1.  I've been writing some very  
  long documents in Lyx and once they are more than a few pages long  
  typing becomes excruciatingly slow.  That is, I type and the  
  characters appearing on the screen lag the keystrokes by several  
  seconds.  I was also having the same issue both with earlier  
  versions of Lyx and with OS X 10.5.*, though it seemed a bit more  
  mild with Leopard.
 
  I do not have the view source window open.  I started typing the  
  document with  instant preview off for math but after reading some  
  of the questions on the mailing list I've turned instant preview  
  on.  The typing remains very slow and also the preview for math  
  doesn't seem to want to work (i.e., all math remains text instead of  
  previewed as typeset).
 
  I've read through the mailing list to see if I could find a solution  
  to this problem but nothing seemed to work.  Any help would be  
  greatly appreciated.
 
 FWIW, I am running LyX 1.6.4.1 on 10.6 and haven't seen any of these  
 problems (only the pseudo-crash that has been mentioned previously).   
 So this is likely not a universal problem, but perhaps a problem  
 related to your system in particular?
 

James,
Thanks for the quick reply.  I suspect you are correct that this is an issue
with my system only since, as far as I can see, nobody else has mentioned it
with 1.6.*.  I suppose I was just wondering if there was any suggestions on how
to fix it.  I tried deleting Lyx and reinstalling, but that didn't seem to help.
 Is it possible that I'm not completely getting rid of Lyx and that this is why
the problem remains?

Thanks,
Josh

Re: Multiple footnotes

[Uwe Stöhr]

jezZiFeR schrieb:

is it possible to enter a small comma between two footnote-numerals? 
When I do have two or even more footnotes in sequence I could not find a 
posibility to enter a small comma, which is also elevated, I mean over 
the grund line.


Do you need a spacer between subsequent footnotes? If so look at the Math manual's preamble. You 
find there this command sequence that adds some space:


% insert additional vertical space of 1.5 mm between footnotes,
\let\myFoot\footnote
\renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\myFoot{#1\vspace{1.5mm}}}

This command can easily be adopted to insert a character instead of a space 
before the footnote text:

\let\myFoot\footnote
\renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\myFoot{,{}#1}}

regards Uwe

Re: How Many use linux

[marc]

I use Linux since 1998 on Mandriva (Mandrake at those times)
and lyx almost since the same time

best regards,

Marc

Le samedi 12 septembre 2009 16:56:31, Paul Drake a écrit :
 I use Lyx on linux, and have been since 2003

 Cheers

 Paul

Re: Multiple footnotes

[jezZiFeR]

Hello Uwe,

this ist great, and I will use it, but this is not what I was looking  
for actually. I forgot to mention, or maybe it´s just difficult for me  
to do that in english, that I mean the footnotes inside of the text, I  
mean the reference I thin – sorry, I´m not sure with those english  
words.


But anyway, I like the vertical space in the footer which I achieved  
with your command much better than without.


All the best*
E.


Am 17.09.2009 um 00:01 schrieb Uwe Stöhr:


jezZiFeR schrieb:

is it possible to enter a small comma between two footnote- 
numerals? When I do have two or even more footnotes in sequence I  
could not find a posibility to enter a small comma, which is also  
elevated, I mean over the grund line.


Do you need a spacer between subsequent footnotes? If so look at the  
Math manual's preamble. You find there this command sequence that  
adds some space:


% insert additional vertical space of 1.5 mm between footnotes,
\let\myFoot\footnote
\renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\myFoot{#1\vspace{1.5mm}}}

This command can easily be adopted to insert a character instead of  
a space before the footnote text:


\let\myFoot\footnote
\renewcommand{\footnote}[1]{\myFoot{,{}#1}}

regards Uwe

Re: Trigonometric tipography

[Yago]

Thank you Guenter.
- Original Message - 
From: Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de

To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:46 PM
Subject: Re: Trigonometric tipography



On 2009-09-15, Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Yago schrieb:



Uwe, as you know Javier Bezos is an reconigsed expert on spanish
tipography. If you can read spanish



I'm currently learning Spanish and thus cannot understand everything yet.


The answer stated, that in the given example, the square brackets are more
irritating than helpfull.


This will be my last reply to this topic: The most important thing is
that people will understand what you are _exactly_ meaning. When I
(German) and the other LyX user (US American) misunderstood your
typesetting, then we both obviously didn't understand what you meant.


Most important is, that the *audience* understands the meaning. I the
convention in the field is to do without brackets, this is to be
preferred when publishing for this audience. If misunderstanding arised
in this list, brackets are helpful *in the context of this list*.

The presence of different mathematical notations and conventions is a
fact that we have to live with. There is no one-size-fits-all solution.

While at school I learned to write sin(x), cos(x), ..., the IAPP's
Symbols, Units and Nomenclature in Physics states:

 sin x  sine of x
 cos x  cosine of x
 ...

and (in the German translation Symbole, Einheiten und Nomenklatur in der
Physik, Weinheim 1981):

 Es wird empfohlen (it is recommended) in Ausdrücken wie

   sin {2\pi(x-x_0)/\lambda}
   exp {-V(r)/kT)}

 das Argument zwischen Klammern zu setzen, sofern das Argument nicht ein
 einfaches Produck aus zwei Größen ist, z.\,B. $\sin kx$

i.e. braces (not brackets) are recommended (but optional) for complex
arguments.

Günter

LyX Beamer Sweave: makebeamertitle not being defined?

[Daniel E. Weeks]

I am using LyX to make Beamer slides while supporting the use of R  
statistical commands via the Sweave package.


If I follow the instructions found here

 http://ggorjan.blogspot.com/2008/09/using-beamer-with-lyx-sweave.html

LyX/Sweave/Beamer works just fine.  But as soon as I try to put in  
Title or Author information at the beginning, LyX refuses to typeset  
the presentation, returning instead this error message:


Undefined control sequence.

 \makebeamertitle
The control sequence at the end of the top line
of your error message was never \def'ed. If you have
misspelled it (e.g., `\hobx'), type `I' and the correct
spelling (e.g., `I\hbox'). Otherwise just continue,
and I'll forget about whatever was undefined.


This is mystifying to me, as the 'makebeamertitle' is defined in the  
included beamer.layout now packaged with LyX.


Here's the literate-beamer.layout file I am using, which should be  
loading the 'beamer.layout' information:


#% Do not delete the line below; configure depends on this
#  \DeclareLaTeXClass[beamer, Sweave.sty]{beamer (beamer Sweave noweb)}
#
# What: literate-article textclass definition file.
# Author: Gregor Gorjanc gregor.gorj...@bfro.uni-lj.si
# $Id: literate-article.layout 58 2007-01-02 00:41:59Z ggorjan $
#
# This is a copy of literate-article.layout from LyX, but changed for
# Sweave - NoWeb syntax:
#  - changed noweb.sty to Sweave.sty
#  - moved preamble to literate-scrap.inc

Format 2
Input beamer.layout
Input literate-scrap.inc


If I typeset the tex file that LyX generates myself using TeXShop, it  
generates a pdf without any complaints, but fails to show the  
requested title page, even though these lines are found in the  
generated tex file:


\begin{document}

\title{Test Title}

\makebeamertitle


If I paste this code from the 'beamer.layout' into my LaTeX file (or  
into the 'LaTeX preamble' section of my LyX Document Settings):


  \newcommand\makebeamertitle{\frame{\maketitle}}%
  \AtBeginDocument{
\let\origtableofcontents=\tableofcontents
\def\tableofcontent...@ifnextchar[{\origtableofcontents} 
{\gobbletableofcontents}}

\def\gobbletableofcontents#1{\origtableofcontents}
  }

then the title page appears.

But I can get the title pages to appear O.K. if I use the  
'presentation (beamer)' style instead.


So for some reason, the 'beamer.layout' definitions are not  
functioning properly in terms of defining the 'makebeamertitle' with  
my custom 'literate-beamer.layout' file.  However, this used to work  
with an earlier version of LyX last year, as I made several beamer  
presentations that way.


Thanks for any suggestions you might have.

Dan Weeks


LyX Version 1.6.4.1
Platform: Mac OS X Versoni 10.5.8 on an Intel machine.

Help! pdflatex error

[Myriam Abramson]

I've just installed Ubuntu Hardy and it downloads Lyx 1.5.3.
(It's a new OS for me so how can I tell it to download a newer
version?)

Anyhow, I have problems viewing my Lyx document with pdflatex because
of the graphics. Here are the errors I get: 

Package pdfpages Error: the graphics package was loaded with driver
Latex error: cannot determine size of graphic in ... 

what to do?


-- 
   myriam

Re: Multiple footnotes

[Uwe Stöhr]

jezZiFeR schrieb:

this ist great, and I will use it, but this is not what I was looking 
for actually. I forgot to mention, or maybe it´s just difficult for me 
to do that in english, that I mean the footnotes inside of the text, I 
mean the reference I think


Sou you want to have this?:
bla bla ,1
instead of
blabla 1

Where ,1 is the footnote mark? If so this can be achieved by redefining the LaTeX-command 
\...@makefnmark, see http://texnik.dante.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=footnotes/footnotes


regards Uwe

Downloading LyX 1.6.4: Error by accessing the server

[I Wayan Warmada]

Dear LyX lists,
I have tried to download the new lyx since it has been
announced, but up to now is not successed. The server
said. I have checked it everyday:
--
Error!
Could not connect. FTP server may be too busy.

You tried to access the address ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.4, which is 
currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly 
spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.
--

I have also tried all of the mirrors, but I found that the newest LyX version 
is 1.6.0.

Thank you very much for your help.

Best Regards,
Wayan
---
Dr. I Wayan WARMADA
Jurusan Teknik Geologi 
Fakultas Teknik, Universitas Gadjah Mada 
Jl. Grafika 2 Yogyakarta 55281 - INDONESIA 
Phone: +62-274-901380; Fax: +62-274-513668 
http://warmada.staff.ugm.ac.id 
--


  

Re: Multiple footnotes

[BH]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote:
 jezZiFeR schrieb:

 this ist great, and I will use it, but this is not what I was looking for
 actually. I forgot to mention, or maybe it´s just difficult for me to do
 that in english, that I mean the footnotes inside of the text, I mean the
 reference I think

 Sou you want to have this?:
 bla bla ,1
 instead of
 blabla 1

 Where ,1 is the footnote mark? If so this can be achieved by redefining
 the LaTeX-command \...@makefnmark, see
 http://texnik.dante.de/cgi-bin/mainFAQ.cgi?file=footnotes/footnotes

I think what is wanted is, when there are multiple footnotes in the
same spot in the text, to have the footnote numbers appear like this:
1, 2 (superscripted). Right?

One way to get it is to use footmisc.sty with the multiple option by
putting the following in your preamble:

\usepackage[multiple]{footmisc}

BH

Re: Downloading LyX 1.6.4: Error by accessing the server

[Uwe Stöhr]

I Wayan Warmada schrieb:


I have tried to download the new lyx since it has been
announced, but up to now is not successed. The server
said. I have checked it everyday:
--
Error!
Could not connect. FTP server may be too busy.

You tried to access the address ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.6.4, which is 
currently unavailable. Please make sure that the Web address (URL) is correctly 
spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.


Right now it works for me. When you are looking for LyX for Windows, you can also get it from my 
installer project page:

http://developer.berlios.de/projects/lyxwininstall/

regards Uwe

LyX and Biblatex

[Daniel Owens]

I am using LyX 1.6.4, MikTeX 2.7, and the latest biblatex release (as of 
a few days ago) using biblatex-historian (I need Turabian citations and 
bibliography). I am able to get a bibliography and create citations 
using \autocite, but when I do so a lot of extra whitespace is added 
between the footnotes and the footer. Has anyone encountered that and 
have a solution?


Daniel

Re: How to copy required files into the temporary directory?

[Yihui Xie]

Thanks a lot! Finally I added the 'cp' command in the converter to
copy the files I needed (*.pdf and *.txt) before compiling:

cp $$r/*.pdf $$r/*.txt ./  [converting commands here, e.g. pdflatex $$i]

It's still not a complete solution, but works for my situation.

Regards,
Yihui
--
Phone: 515-294-6609 Web: http://yihui.name
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
3211 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA



On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:10 AM, rgheck rgh...@bobjweil.com wrote:
 On 09/16/2009 12:36 AM, Yihui Xie wrote:

 Thanks! Yes the file name is annoying. What's more, Lyx will use a
 different temp directory each time, so it's difficult to copy the
 files to the temp directory by hand, as I don't know the destination.



 Yes, I know. But it should actually be fairly easy to write a little script
 to find it, though if LyX crashes you'd have to remove it yourself else the
 script would fail.

 The other option, of using some customized script to run LaTeX, etc,
 wouldn't have this problem.

 rh

Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy

[Myriam Abramson]

Sorry, I'm new to Ubuntu (I was using Fedora before). Ubuntu comes
with 1.5.3 and apt-get refuses to let me upgrade to a newer version. 
I've tried to put that in the /etc/apt/sources.list but it didn't
work:

deb ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ubuntu hardy main 

and then apt-get update and upgrade but no luck. 

Any clue? I have a deadline. 
TIA,

-- 
   myriam

Re: Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy

[John Jason Jordan]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:32:51 -0400
Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com dijo:

 
 Sorry, I'm new to Ubuntu (I was using Fedora before). Ubuntu comes
 with 1.5.3 and apt-get refuses to let me upgrade to a newer version. 
 I've tried to put that in the /etc/apt/sources.list but it didn't
 work:
 
 deb ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ubuntu hardy main 
 
 and then apt-get update and upgrade but no luck. 

Go here and get the .deb file:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/lyx-common/download

Once you have the .deb file, right click on it and install it with
gDebi package installer. You can also install it from the command line
or with Synaptic, but gDebi is easier because it's just a couple of
mouse clicks.

In theory you could also add it with upgrade if you could figure out
the right repository. I have had bad luck trying to figure out exactly
which repo a program is in. I just find the .deb file and install it
manually.

Re: Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy

[Myriam Abramson]

That doesn't work too well. There are too many dependencies. 


-- 
   myriam

John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net writes:

 On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:32:51 -0400
 Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com dijo:

 
 Sorry, I'm new to Ubuntu (I was using Fedora before). Ubuntu comes
 with 1.5.3 and apt-get refuses to let me upgrade to a newer version. 
 I've tried to put that in the /etc/apt/sources.list but it didn't
 work:
 
 deb ftp://ftp.lyx.org/ubuntu hardy main 
 
 and then apt-get update and upgrade but no luck. 

 Go here and get the .deb file:

 http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/lyx-common/download

 Once you have the .deb file, right click on it and install it with
 gDebi package installer. You can also install it from the command line
 or with Synaptic, but gDebi is easier because it's just a couple of
 mouse clicks.

 In theory you could also add it with upgrade if you could figure out
 the right repository. I have had bad luck trying to figure out exactly
 which repo a program is in. I just find the .deb file and install it
 manually.

Re: Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy

[Myriam Abramson]

I tried to add a mirror to sources.list but I got this error:

W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org sid Release: The following signatures 
couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 
9AA38DCD55BE302B

-- 
   myriam

Re: Lyx and Ubuntu Hardy

[Andrew Sullivan]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:35:15PM -0400, Myriam Abramson wrote:
 
 I tried to add a mirror to sources.list but I got this error:
 
 W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org sid Release: The following signatures 
 couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 
 9AA38DCD55BE302B
 

That's a secure-apt problem.  There's a wiki on the debian site that
explains how you deal with this.  One thing you're allowed to do is
just accept unsigned packages, although there are probably better
alternatives.

A

-- 
Andrew Sullivan
a...@shinkuro.com
Shinkuro, Inc.

Re: Hide tracked changes?

[Matts Lindström]

>
>
> The later situation actually seems very useful to me: you just edit your
> file without those horrible blue texts, but LyX keeps track of the
> changes nevertheless.
>
> JMarc
>

Yes this was exactly what I was looking for -- the ability to toggle the
visibility of those blue edits.

Matts

Re: Anyone used Lytex?

[Wolfgang Keller]

Hello,

sorry for replying sooo late.

> I do not have administrative privileges at work computers but am so dependent 
> on using lyx for my writing and want to be able to use it on a USB drive or a 
> network drive that I have access to. I wondered if anyone has used Lytex  as 
> suggested in the wiki?
> I tried it and get error messages. The home page for Lytex does not give any 
> email addresses for requesting help.

I have successfully used LyX from a USB stick in the past.

In fact LyX itself seems to be "portable" right out of the box.

The point was to get a LaTeX installation that works from a stick without 
"installation". I managed to get it done by using TeX Live 2008. I bought a 
copy of their DVD (you could also download the iso disk image) and simply moved 
the entire contents to my USB stick, alongside the LyX folder. Again: I did 
_NOT_ "install" TeX Live using the installer on the DVD, but only copy the 
contents from the DVD to the USB stick. Then I modified the tl-lyx.bat file 
from http://www-staff.lboro.ac.uk/~elts2/lyx/tl-lyx.bat as follows:

@echo off
set TEXDIR=%~dp0
set tldrive=%~d0
%tldrive%
cd %TEXDIR%

set TEXDIRW=%USERPROFILE%\.tlportable2008\
if not exist "%TEXDIRW%" md "%TEXDIRW%"

set TEXMFSYSVAR=%TEXDIR%texmf-var
set TEXMFSYSCONFIG=%TEXDIR%texmf-config
set TEXMFMAIN=%TEXDIR%texmf
set TEXMFDIST=%TEXDIR%texmf-dist
set TEXMFLOCAL=%TEXDIR%texmf-local
set TEXMFHOME=%TEXDIRW%texmf-home
set TEXMFVAR=%TEXDIRW%texmf-var
set TEXMFCONFIG=%TEXDIRW%texmf-config
set TEXBINDIR=%TEXDIR%bin\win32
set platform=win32

set PERL5LIB=%TEXDIR%tlpkg\installer\perllib
"%TEXDIR%tlpkg\installer\perl" "%TEXDIR%install-tl" --portable
if not errorlevel 1 goto doit
echo Initialization of TeXLive failed!
pause
exit

:doit
path %TEXDIR%bin\win32;%path%

set LYX_DIR=%TEXDIR%..\LyX16\
path %LYX_DIR%python;%path%
path %LYX_DIR%bin;%path%
path %LYX_DIR%imagemagick;%path%

set GS_DIR=%LYX_DIR%ghostscript\
path %GS_DIR%bin;%path%
set GS_LIB=%GS_DIR%lib;%GS_DIR%fonts;%GS_DIR%Resource

%TEXDIR%..\LyX16\bin\lyx.exe %*

I never managed to make the TeX Live "package manager" work in portable mode, 
so I had to install and update packages "by hand", but well, *sigh*...

Hope this helps,

Sincerely,

Wolfgang

-- 
NO "Courtesy Copies" PLEASE!

Typing lag in Lyx 1.6.4.1, OS X 10.6.0

[Josh Whitney]

I'm currently working on an early 2008 Macbook with 4 gb of RAM.  I am  
running OS X 10.6.0 and Lyx 1.6.4.1.  I've been writing some very long  
documents in Lyx and once they are more than a few pages long typing  
becomes excruciatingly slow.  That is, I type and the characters  
appearing on the screen lag the keystrokes by several seconds.  I was  
also having the same issue both with earlier versions of Lyx and with  
OS X 10.5.*, though it seemed a bit more mild with Leopard.


I do not have the view source window open.  I started typing the  
document with  instant preview off for math but after reading some of  
the questions on the mailing list I've turned instant preview on.  The  
typing remains very slow and also the preview for math doesn't seem to  
want to work (i.e., all math remains text instead of previewed as  
typeset).


I've read through the mailing list to see if I could find a solution  
to this problem but nothing seemed to work.  Any help would be greatly  
appreciated.


Thanks,
Josh Whitney

Natbib options in Lyx with embedded bibliography

[E.Kaplan]

When I embed a bibliography in the Lyx file itself (using the .AUX or 
.bbl file), and then click on a citation reference in the Lyx file, I do 
not get the option to choose a citation style, as I do when I call the 
citation from a bibtex database.  I am using natbib (author-year), and 
indicated that in the Document Settings.

How do I regain the ability to choose the citation style?

Thanks,
EK

Re: Typing lag in Lyx 1.6.4.1, OS X 10.6.0

[James C. Sutherland]

On Sep 16, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Josh Whitney wrote:

I'm currently working on an early 2008 Macbook with 4 gb of RAM.  I  
am running OS X 10.6.0 and Lyx 1.6.4.1.  I've been writing some very  
long documents in Lyx and once they are more than a few pages long  
typing becomes excruciatingly slow.  That is, I type and the  
characters appearing on the screen lag the keystrokes by several  
seconds.  I was also having the same issue both with earlier  
versions of Lyx and with OS X 10.5.*, though it seemed a bit more  
mild with Leopard.


I do not have the view source window open.  I started typing the  
document with  instant preview off for math but after reading some  
of the questions on the mailing list I've turned instant preview  
on.  The typing remains very slow and also the preview for math  
doesn't seem to want to work (i.e., all math remains text instead of  
previewed as typeset).


I've read through the mailing list to see if I could find a solution  
to this problem but nothing seemed to work.  Any help would be  
greatly appreciated.


FWIW, I am running LyX 1.6.4.1 on 10.6 and haven't seen any of these  
problems (only the pseudo-crash that has been mentioned previously).   
So this is likely not a universal problem, but perhaps a problem  
related to your system in particular?

Re: Trigonometric tipography

[Guenter Milde]

On 2009-09-15, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Yago schrieb:

>> Uwe, as you know Javier Bezos is an reconigsed expert on spanish 
>> tipography. If you can read spanish

> I'm currently learning Spanish and thus cannot understand everything yet.

The answer stated, that in the given example, the square brackets are more
irritating than helpfull.

> This will be my last reply to this topic: The most important thing is
> that people will understand what you are _exactly_ meaning. When I
> (German) and the other LyX user (US American) misunderstood your
> typesetting, then we both obviously didn't understand what you meant. 

Most important is, that the *audience* understands the meaning. I the
convention in the field is to do without brackets, this is to be
preferred when publishing for this audience. If misunderstanding arised
in this list, brackets are helpful *in the context of this list*.

The presence of different mathematical notations and conventions is a
fact that we have to live with. There is no "one-size-fits-all" solution.

While at school I learned to write sin(x), cos(x), ..., the IAPP's
Symbols, Units and Nomenclature in Physics states:

  sin x  sine of x
  cos x  cosine of x
  ...
  
and (in the German translation "Symbole, Einheiten und Nomenklatur in der
Physik, Weinheim 1981):

  Es wird empfohlen (it is recommended) in Ausdrücken wie
  
sin {2\pi(x-x_0)/\lambda}
exp {-V(r)/kT)}

  das Argument zwischen Klammern zu setzen, sofern das Argument nicht ein
  einfaches Produck aus zwei Größen ist, z.\,B. $\sin kx$

i.e. braces (not brackets) are recommended (but optional) for complex
arguments.

Günter

Re: Natbib options in Lyx with embedded bibliography

[Ehud Kaplan]

Lyx */does/* know a lot about the citations, since when I click on one, 
it shows its details (and in the left column all the other citations 
that have been included in the Lyx file), but not the formatting options.
I inserted the references into the Lyx file through the circuitous route 
of exporting the Lyx file to Latex, using \begin{thebibiolgraphy} ... 
end{thebibliography} etc. with the .bbl file pasted in.

Once it compiled correctly with pdflatex, I then imported it back to Lyx.

EK

rgheck wrote:

On 09/16/2009 07:15 AM, E.Kaplan wrote:
When I embed a bibliography in the Lyx file itself (using the .AUX or 
.bbl file), and then click on a citation reference in the Lyx file, I 
do not get the option to choose a citation style, as I do when I call 
the citation from a bibtex database.  I am using natbib 
(author-year), and indicated that in the Document Settings.

How do I regain the ability to choose the citation style?

I'm a little unclear about how you've got things set up. Are you 
including the bbl file, via the Insert>File mechanism? Pasting it as 
ERT? Or what? My hunch is that the problem is that LyX does not know 
anything about the citation entries, so it is not giving you any 
options about them.


RIchard

Re: How many use Linux:

[Helge Hafting]

I use LyX on debian linux. LyX is what I use for
all formatted text I write on computers:
A book, letters, lectures, and presentations.

Helge Hafting

Re: How many are left handed

[Helge Hafting]

Andrew Sullivan wrote:

You can see from the subject that there is an air of irrelevance about
this.

But it seems to me that knowing how many are left handed would,
naturally, lead to enhancements targetted at the left-hand community.

I answer that the customizability and portability of the LyX code base
is sufficient that a typing-able user on any modern desktop-target
platform is in a position to use LyX, and figuring out even rough
numbers for distribution on supported platforms is a distraction to
the LyX community.  This is true even if the user is left handed, or
non-Linux using, or whatever.


Is there anything in LyX a left-handed person might want different?
I think most of the support goes in the OS: left handed mouse,
and anything you might want change about the keyboard.

And you can already put the toolbars wherever you like them, but I am 
not sure that actually matters.


Helge Hafting

Re: How many are left handed

[f wonghc]

Digress:-
 
Some languages like Arabia and Hebrew writes from right to left.  
 
When (sometimes) you browse those sites with these two languages, the scroll 
bar is on the right hand side of the browser (e.g. Internet Explorer),  I just 
guess they may also like to have the "mirror image" of lyx, not 
just port-siders only :-)
 


--- On Wed, 9/16/09, Helge Hafting  wrote:


From: Helge Hafting 
Subject: Re: How many are left handed
To: "Andrew Sullivan" 
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 10:20 PM


Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> You can see from the subject that there is an air of irrelevance about
> this.
> 
> But it seems to me that knowing how many are left handed would,
> naturally, lead to enhancements targetted at the left-hand community.
> 
> I answer that the customizability and portability of the LyX code base
> is sufficient that a typing-able user on any modern desktop-target
> platform is in a position to use LyX, and figuring out even rough
> numbers for distribution on supported platforms is a distraction to
> the LyX community.  This is true even if the user is left handed, or
> non-Linux using, or whatever.

Is there anything in LyX a left-handed person might want different?
I think most of the support goes in the OS: left handed mouse,
and anything you might want change about the keyboard.

And you can already put the toolbars wherever you like them, but I am not sure 
that actually matters.

Helge Hafting



  

Lyx Title problems

[matteo abeni]

Hello,

I am using lyx to write my thesis. But i have a problem. when i write the
title and then the author and I see them as PDF file I have a problem cause
both stay in the top side of the A4 paper and the other part of the paper
stay blank. I wish to put title and author in the middle of the paper but i
can't. I tried /vspace{}, or insert>formatting> vertical space, but they
didn't work. how can i do that?
My document class is Book(ams)

Thanks


-- 
Matteo Abeni

Re: Lyx Title problems

[Steve Litt]

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 10:50:44 matteo abeni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using lyx to write my thesis. But i have a problem. when i write the
> title and then the author and I see them as PDF file I have a problem cause
> both stay in the top side of the A4 paper and the other part of the paper
> stay blank. I wish to put title and author in the middle of the paper but i
> can't. I tried /vspace{}, or insert>formatting> vertical space, but they
> didn't work. how can i do that?
> My document class is Book(ams)
>
> Thanks

Hi Matteo,

What I do is for the Frontmatter, instead of relying on the document  class's 
properties and then trying to defeat them when necessary (like putting the 
title in the middle), I use ERT and custom environments to construct the 
Frontmatter. It works out great, and I can put anything anywhere I want, 
quickly, with little muss and fuss. 

All you need is a little LaTeX knowledge.

Note that for the Mainmatter, I do the opposite, and use almost no ERT, 
relying solely on environments and character styles.

HTH

SteveT

Steve Litt
Recession Relief Package
http://www.recession-relief.US
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt

Re: [okmail] Re: Installing missing packages in Lyx

[Uwe Stöhr]

Ludwik Celnikier schrieb:


Two questions, though:

1)  I am using Miktex, which has distributed the latex files in 
localtexmf and texmf.


It seems that you are using an older version of MiKTeX. I recommend to update to MiKTeX 2.8 when you 
are using MiKTeX 2.6 or older. When you do this, uninstall MiKTeX _completely_ before installing the 
new version.
Afterwards reconfigure LyX. (This might take a long time (about 15 min.) because LyX will install 
all needed LaTeX packages from the Internet when reconfiguring.)


 I suppose that the Kluwer (and other) package 
files should be in a subfolder

in the texmf folder?


Yes.

2)  What is texhash?   To configure the miktex latex distribution I 
execute "initexmf --update-fndb"  -   does that do the same job?


I assumed that you are using TeXLive. On MiKTeX installing package is very simple: Open the program 
"Browse packages" that you find in Windows' Start menu under MiKTeX. Search there for "kluwer" and 
install the package.

That's all. Finally reconfigure LyX and start writing.

regards Uwe

Re: Natbib options in Lyx with embedded bibliography

[rgheck]

On 09/16/2009 10:07 AM, Ehud Kaplan wrote:
Lyx */does/* know a lot about the citations, since when I click on 
one, it shows its details (and in the left column all the other 
citations that have been included in the Lyx file), but not the 
formatting options.
I inserted the references into the Lyx file through the circuitous 
route of exporting the Lyx file to Latex, using 
\begin{thebibiolgraphy} ... end{thebibliography} etc. with the .bbl 
file pasted in.

Once it compiled correctly with pdflatex, I then imported it back to Lyx.

So the citations in Bibliography environments at the end of the paper, 
yes? Then the problem is that, in order for natbib to make sense out of 
author-year citations, when you insert them this way, the key MUST be in 
a certain form. Otherwise, natbib has no way of knowing what the author 
and the year are. (It can't just parse the entry.) I think the form is: 
author[year], but I am not sure. Jurgen told me about this some time ago 
on one or another of the lists, so you might find it that way. Or you 
might email him directly. Though I think he's incommunicado for a bit. 
Probably the natbib docs have something about this, too.


Richard

Re: Lyx Title problems

[rgheck]

On 09/16/2009 11:09 AM, Steve Litt wrote:

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 10:50:44 matteo abeni wrote:
   

Hello,

I am using lyx to write my thesis. But i have a problem. when i write the
title and then the author and I see them as PDF file I have a problem cause
both stay in the top side of the A4 paper and the other part of the paper
stay blank. I wish to put title and author in the middle of the paper but i
can't. I tried /vspace{}, or insert>formatting>  vertical space, but they
didn't work. how can i do that?
My document class is Book(ams)
 
   
As Steve implied, the appearance of the title page is controlled by your 
document class, and there is no easy way to modify it, other than to 
redefine the routine, in the document class, that typesets the 
titlepage. Some document classes (koma-script?) may provide facilities 
for making such modifications, but the AMS book class is not one of 
them, so far as I know.


The reason the vertical space stuff does not work is that the title 
environment is really inserting the \title{...} command, which actually 
does nothing but set a variable. The titlepage itself is printed by the 
command \maketitle, which is what you would have to redefine, if you 
wanted to do the titlepage that way.


That said, why do you want the title in the center? The designers of the 
AMS book class went to a lot of trouble to design a titlepage that 
conformed to good typographical practice and would allow for lots of 
information to be included there. Are you absolutely sure your 
preferences, as compared to theirs, are well founded?


I should also add that most universities and such have pretty detailed 
specifications about the titlepage, so you may end up having to do more 
detailed formatting, anyway. In that case, a good start might be to try 
to borrow the \maketitle routine from one of the many thesis classes 
that are out there, and modify that as necessary.


We can help with that if necessary.

Richard

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Olivier Ripoll]

Neal Becker wrote:
What do you usually use for Fourier transform?  Calligraphic F, or maybe 
something else?


Hi,

Calligraphic F is not the right symbol, although it seems more and more 
used now :-( (probably because people don't find the correct one, at 
least that was my case in the past).


What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is "\mathscr{F}", 
the "script" F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf

You'll need some additional packages:
amsmath and (IIRC) mathrsfs.

I attach to this mail my layout module to add some common math functions 
to LyX. Drop it to you layout folder(*), reconfigure, and add it to the 
file via the document settings. Then all you need is to type \FT for it 
and \iFT for the inverse Fourier transform.


You can also just pick the interesting code and drop it to the preamble

Best regards,

Olivier

(*)On Windows, it would be something like
C:\Documents and Settings\yourusername\Application Data\lyx16\layouts
on Linux, something like
/home/username/.lyx/layouts
#\DeclareLyXModule{More Maths Functions}
#DescriptionBegin
#Additional functions: erf, erfc, sinc, sgn , missing hyperbolic & inverse 
hyperbolic functions,
#Fourier transform & inverse, logarithms in base 10 and 2, floor/ceil (letters 
and mathematical
#notation).
#DescriptionEnd

# Author : Olivier Ripoll

Format 11

Requiresamsmath,mathrsfs

AddToPreamble
\DeclareMathOperator{\sinc}{sinc}
\DeclareMathOperator{\sgn}{sgn}
\DeclareMathOperator{\erf}{erf}
\DeclareMathOperator{\erfc}{erfc}
\DeclareMathOperator{\FT}{\mathscr{F}}
\DeclareMathOperator{\iFT}{\mathscr{F}^{-1}}
\DeclareMathOperator{\logten}{log_{10}}
\DeclareMathOperator{\logtwo}{log_2}
\DeclareMathOperator{\sech}{sech}
\DeclareMathOperator{\csch}{csch}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arsinh}{arsinh}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arcosh}{arcosh}
\DeclareMathOperator{\artanh}{artanh}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arcoth}{arcoth}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arsech}{arsech}
\DeclareMathOperator{\arcsch}{arcsch}
\newcommand{\Floor}[1]
 {\left\lfloor {#1} \right\rfloor}
\DeclareMathOperator{\floor}{floor}
\newcommand{\Ceil}[1]
 {\left\lceil #1 \right\rceil}
\DeclareMathOperator{\ceil}{ceil}
EndPreamble

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Uwe Stöhr]

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is "\mathscr{F}", 
the "script" F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf


Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that character. The character is nevertheless unfortunately 
not available in Windows' standard fonts like Arial or Times New Roman. Even none of the fonts I 
have installed support this character. This might be the reason why is character is rarely used.


regards Uwe

Once again: Margin alignment

[jezZiFeR]

Hello,

margin alignment with Lyx 1.6.4.1, OSX and microtype seems to work,  
but just very lightly (I´m not really sure, because it´s so lightly).  
Could somebody tell me how to increase the factor, what do I have to  
enter in the preamble? Up to now I just use:

\usepackage{microtype}

For the margin alignment I found an old notice of mine, that I would  
have to use the option "protrusion" with the factor of max. 1000…


Thanks, best*
E.

Re: What symbol for Fourier transform?

[Olivier Ripoll]

Uwe Stöhr wrote:

Olivier Ripoll schrieb:

What you want to get the really nice Fourier symbol is "\mathscr{F}", 
the "script" F. It is visible as number 2131 in this unicode chart

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2100.pdf


Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of that character. The character is 
nevertheless unfortunately not available in Windows' standard fonts like 
Arial or Times New Roman. Even none of the fonts I have installed 
support this character. This might be the reason why is character is 
rarely used.


It works for me through:
insert->special characters->symbols...->Letterlike Symbols
I'm using the "Times New Roman", "Arial" and "Courier New" fonts for the 
LyX interface. It looks however better with Déjà Vu fonts than with MS 
fonts in LyX.


So who that allow to have the Fourier transform character displayed in 
LyX with my module instead of \FT latex code ?


Best regards,

Olivier


regards Uwe

Re: How many are left handed

[Les Denham]

On Wednesday 16 September 2009 09:20:50 Helge Hafting wrote:
> Is there anything in LyX a left-handed person might want different?
> I think most of the support goes in the OS: left handed mouse,
> and anything you might want change about the keyboard.

I am left handed, and I really don't want anything different.  I use enough 
different computers (mainly set up by right handed people) that I have given up 
wanting anything special.  I'm just happy if the mouse (or trackball) is not 
one of those blatantly discriminatory gadgets which can only be used in the 
right hand, and if it can be moved to the left side of the keyboard.

Les

-- 
..
Les Denham