Re: Layouts for education?
Hello On 11/16/09, Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using AcroTex. In the past there were a couple of discussions on the subject. [1][2][3] Perhaps you can find something there. Liviu [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg66783.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg07159.html [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg68567.html
Re: BibLaTeX requires additional BibTeX run?
Piero Faustini wrote: Hello,I've been in trouble all the day and now I ask to the list...I use -WinXP sp3-LyX 1.6.4-last version of BibLaTeX (0.8i)-koma report classand I suddenly I can't have my citations and references in my final pdf (200+pages), where everything worked well till today.From the log, it seems is a problem of an extra BibTeX run needed.Till now I can tell LaTeX run 4 times (or even 5, but last time is too fast to tell, and I'm not good in reading logs!)so I guess everything should run once more.The log will show a number of warnings, expecially from BibLaTeX, I always ignored because everything worked well (till today!)Please help me, We already perform an extra bibtex run for biblatex, if needed. Does bibtex run 2 times for you? (you can see this best if you start LyX from a terminal) I'm about 10 day from the completion of my dissertation! Thanks!Piero If everything else fails, you can always export to LaTeX for the final version and run bibtex manually. Jürgen
Re: LyX doesn't find LaTeX (?)
Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@... writes: Seems that you LyX/LaTeX installation is broken. I recommend to do 1. uninstall TeXLive _completely_ 2. uninstall MiKTeX _completely_ (check the registry that there are no leftovers) 3. check the path to the former TeXLive and MiKTeX installations is no longer in the Windows environment variable PATH 4. uninstall LyX _completely (check afterwards that there is no folder named lyx16 somewhere in the folder C:\Documents and Settings) 5. open an Internet connection 6. reinstall LyX using the complete version of the alternative LyX for Windows installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller This installer will install MiKTeX and LyX at once and download needed LaTeX packages automatically from the Internet when LyX is first started. Thanks, Uwe, for your reply, but I somehow doubt that it will work. If I uninstall TeXLive and MiKTeX completely, and all other Latex/Lyx stuff, I will just reproduce the situation I had before I've installed everything. And the alternative installer was the installer I started with. I guess I'll give it a last try if we don't find any other way. But is there no way to find out how or where LyX is looking for all the Latex packages or point it to specific locations? I guess thats the problem...
RE: BibLaTeX requires additional BibTeX run?
We already perform an extra bibtex run for biblatex, if needed. Does bibtex run 2 times for you? (you can see this best if you start LyX from a terminal) Thanks, J. I think the main problem is that my dissertation is COMPLEX. Not huge, just complex (lot of internal references, lot of citations, floats, wrap floats etc.). I also make use of crossreferencing in BibTeX references.Everything went wrong when I added the 120+th reference and cited it.May it be that it was the last drop that made Bib(La)TeX needed to be run 3 times?Anyway, I run LyX from terminal. Here's 2 outputs; - Output 1 is for when thing went ok.- Output 2 is when I added my last citation (it happens if I cite most - not all - of any given new reference: I tried several times) and it talks about a FATAL ERROR: Terminal Output 1 (Everything - almost - OK): This is makeindex, version 2.14 [02-Oct-2002] (kpathsea + Thai support).Scanning style file C:/Programmi/LaTeX-related/MikTex27/makeindex/nomencl/nomencl.ist..done (10 attributes redefined, 3 ignored).Scanning input file TesiPhD.nlodone (7 entries accepted, 0 rejected).Sorting entriesdone (22 comparisons).Generating output file TesiPhD.nlsdone (21 lines written, 0 warnings).Output written in TesiPhD.nls.Transcript written in TesiPhD.ilg.This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (MiKTeX 2.7)The top-level auxiliary file: TesiPhD.auxThe style file: biblatex.bstDatabase file #1: TesiPhD-blx.bibDatabase file #2: F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibBiblatex version: 0.8iWarning--Invalid format of field 'month' in entry 'DOrmevilleGuisembergaRoma'Warning--Invalid format of field 'month' in entry 'DOrmevilleGuisembergaSpoleto' Warning--Invalid format of field 'month' in entry 'FilippiLaFalcePerseveranza1875'Warning--Invalid format of field 'month' in entry 'GiardaSangiorgiCentenario'(There were 4 warnings)This is makeindex, version 2.14 [02-Oct-2002] (kpathsea + Thai support).Scanning style file C:/Programmi/LaTeX-related/MikTex27/makeindex/nomencl/nomencl.ist..done (10 attributes redefined, 3 ignored).Scanning input file TesiPhD.nlodone (7 entries accepted, 0 rejected).Sorting entriesdone (22 comparisons).Generating output file TesiPhD.nlsdone (21 lines written, 0 warnings).Output written in TesiPhD.nls.Transcript written in TesiPhD.ilg. Terminal Output 2 (NO BIB, references, citations, etc. just labels in bold; - speak about fatal error: is this the reason?): This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (MiKTeX 2.7)The top-level auxiliary file: TesiPhD.auxThe style file: biblatex.bstDatabase file #1: TesiPhD-blx.bibDatabase file #2: F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra editor field--line 1974 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra title field--line 1975 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra shorttitle field--line 1976 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra publisher field--line 1977 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra year field--line 1983 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibBiblatex version: 0.8iNontop top of string stack---this can't happen*Please notify the BibTeX maintainer*(That was a fatal error)This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (MiKTeX 2.7)The top-level auxiliary file: TesiPhD.auxThe style file: biblatex.bstDatabase file #1: TesiPhD-blx.bibDatabase file #2: F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra editor field--line 1974 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra title field--line 1975 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra shorttitle field--line 1976 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra publisher field--line 1977 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra year field--line 1983 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibBiblatex version: 0.8iNontop top of string stack---this can't happen*Please notify the BibTeX maintainer*(That was a fatal error)This is makeindex, version 2.14 [02-Oct-2002] (kpathsea + Thai support).Scanning style file C:/Programmi/LaTeX-related/MikTex27/makeindex/nomencl/nomencl.ist..done (10 attributes redefined, 3 ignored).Scanning input file TesiPhD.nlodone (7 entries accepted, 0 rejected).Sorting entriesdone (22 comparisons).Generating output file TesiPhD.nlsdone (21 lines written, 0 warnings).Output written in TesiPhD.nls.Transcript written in TesiPhD.ilg. Thank you very much Piero _ Facile, veloce, sicuro: scarica Internet Explorer 8 per MSN http://www.microsoft.com/italy/windows/internet-explorer/msn.aspx
Re: Index not being printed
On 16 Nov 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Anything's possible. I'd run the individual commands to find out what's missing or different. I'll bet you can find the root cause in 40 minutes. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt I followed the steps you outlined, which went through without errors. I then tried LyX again on the file and this time the index came up correctly. So that's fine, though I still don't understand what was wrong - perhaps some residual file that was blocking the index generation? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell
Re: BibLaTeX requires additional BibTeX run?
Piero Faustini wrote: Everything went wrong when I added the 120+th reference and cited it.May it be that it was the last drop that made Bib(La)TeX needed to be run 3 times? Is this a specific reference or does the problem occur with any arbitrary 120est reference? Terminal Output 2 (NO BIB, references, citations, etc. just labels in bold; - speak about fatal error: is this the reason?): Most likely. But then, a third bibtex run most probably won't help. This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (MiKTeX 2.7)The top-level auxiliary file: Hm, you use standard bibtex. Probably, the rather small capacities of this program are reached (this happens easily with biblatex, see the manual). The first thing I'd try is to use bibtex8 instead. In Tools Preferences Output LaTeX, change the bibtex command to something like bibtex8 --wolfgang --csfile latin9.csf the --csfile argument specifies the encoding. The example above implies that you are using latin9 (i.e., the bib file is encoded in ISO 8859-15). --wolfgang sets the capacities to the highest predefined values. If this is still not sufficient (such as in a book I'm currently writing), you can extend the limits even further. For instance, I currently use: bibtex8 --wolfgang --mentstrs 5 --csfile latin9.csf (this is sufficient for ~700 references with biblatex). If you use bibtex8, you also need to change the biblatex options: you have to use the option backend=bibtex8. See the biblatex manual for further information about bibtex8. Jürgen
RE: BibLaTeX requires additional BibTeX run? [Solved]
The first thing I'd try is to use bibtex8 instead. In Tools Preferences Done 24 hours fiddling, and it was just this: too many references (or, maybe better said, citations!!!)THANK YOU Jürgen. I owe you my lifeAbout the encoding, I didn't specify it in the bibtex command as you suggested, just because I don't know how but I already found a perfect (unstable?) balance with encoding, .bib files, LyX and biblatex settings and I don't want to touch anything till something really doesn't work.But anyway:THANK YOU A LOT FOR YOUR HELP.Now I really owe the LyX project some help (as I can't help you directly!) Piero _ Più di 30 Web Radio: le trovi su Messenger http://www.messenger.it/radioMessenger.aspx
Re: BibLaTeX requires additional BibTeX run? [Solved]
Piero Faustini wrote: About the encoding, I didn't specify it in the bibtex command as you suggested, just because I don't know how but I already found a perfect (unstable?) balance with encoding, .bib files, LyX and biblatex settings and I don't want to touch anything till something really doesn't work. You just would have to check which encoding is specified in your BibTeX manager (in Jabref, it's in Preferences General Standard Encoding). Anyway, as long as the bibliography is sorted correctly, you can just leave it as it is and concentrate on fine-polishing your thesis. Good luck with that. Jürgen
bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
Following Jürgen's suggestion, I would like to try bibtex8, as my JabRef bibtex database is UTF8 encoded. But: which option do I have to specify for the -csfile ? The only .csl file with utf8 I have is utf8-dk.csf - can I use that one, although I do not use the danish language (I assume dk refers to Denmark)? Cheers, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
Rainer M Krug wrote: Following Jürgen's suggestion, I would like to try bibtex8, as my JabRef bibtex database is UTF8 encoded. But: which option do I have to specify for the -csfile ? Neither bibtex nor bibtex8 supports utf8, so you have to chose another encoding (a single-byte encoding such as latin9) for your bib file. If you really need utf8 in your bib file, you need to use biblatex-biber, which is still beta software, though. See http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#encoding Jürgen
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Rainer M Krug wrote: Following Jürgen's suggestion, I would like to try bibtex8, as my JabRef bibtex database is UTF8 encoded. But: which option do I have to specify for the -csfile ? Neither bibtex nor bibtex8 supports utf8, so you have to chose another encoding (a single-byte encoding such as latin9) for your bib file. Thanks - I'll look into that. In the same line: is there an easy way of identifying utf8 characters in the file? If you really need utf8 in your bib file, you need to use biblatex-biber, which is still beta software, though. See http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#encoding Jürgen -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
Rainer M Krug wrote: Thanks - I'll look into that. In the same line: is there an easy way of identifying utf8 characters in the file? A decent editor will inform you about that. However, using recode as described on the wiki should just work. Jürgen
Re: Index not being printed
2009/11/17 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk: On 16 Nov 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Anything's possible. I'd run the individual commands to find out what's missing or different. I'll bet you can find the root cause in 40 minutes. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt I followed the steps you outlined, which went through without errors. I then tried LyX again on the file and this time the index came up correctly. So that's fine, though I still don't understand what was wrong - perhaps some residual file that was blocking the index generation? It is possible, that change of temp dir for your document helped in case of some blocked files inside. Mainly these connected with index generation. -- Manveru jabber: manv...@manveru.pl gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Rainer M Krug wrote: Thanks - I'll look into that. In the same line: is there an easy way of identifying utf8 characters in the file? A decent editor will inform you about that. However, using recode as described on the wiki should just work. usiong as it is stated in the wiki, produces an error message: recode -d u8..ltex myfile.bib adding verbose: rk...@ecolmod:~/tmp$ recode -dv u8..ltex myfile.bib Request: UTF-8..:libiconv:..ISO-8859-1..LaTeX Shrunk to: UTF-8..ISO-8859-1..LaTeX Recoding myfile.bib... failed: Invalid input in step `UTF-8..ISO-8859-1' rk...@ecolmod:~/tmp$ I assume, that some strange characters are in the input file? Any ideas on how I can fix this? Rainer Jürgen -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
Rainer M Krug wrote: usiong as it is stated in the wiki, produces an error message: recode -d u8..ltex myfile.bib This is a utf8-7bit-LaTeX conversion. How about utf8-Latin9? recode u8..l9 myfile.bib Jürgen
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Rainer M Krug wrote: usiong as it is stated in the wiki, produces an error message: recode -d u8..ltex myfile.bib This is a utf8-7bit-LaTeX conversion. How about utf8-Latin9? recode u8..l9 myfile.bib rk...@ecolmod:~/tmp$ recode -dv u8..l9 myfile.bib Request: UTF-8..:libiconv:..ISO-8859-15 Shrunk to: UTF-8..ISO-8859-15 Recoding myfile.bib... failed: Invalid input in step `UTF-8..ISO-8859-15' rk...@ecolmod:~/tmp$ Same problem. Jürgen -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Language Problem with Theorems (AMS enhanced ).
Hallo @ all, I am really enjoy the use of the Program - Thank you for it! But I have a problem with Theorems (AMS enhanced). If I write a assumption I can see Annahme- wich means assumption in German at Lyx, but as soon as I create a .pdf of it there is assumption written in this pdf. I dont know how to fix this. Can you please help me. Thank You Matt
Re: lyx and pdf fonts
Steve Litt wrote: Good information here Helge... On Tuesday 10 November 2009 08:12:37 Helge Hafting wrote: ask2 wrote: Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from LYX? Yes. Make sure the default font is not a bitmap font. Unfortunately, the default font is a bitmap font. You must change it. So, go Document-Settings-Fonts and choose something else instead of standard. There is Latin Modern if you like the look of the standard font on paper, but want nice pdf. Or select something else like Times Roman, Palatino, . . . Helge -- I've been using Century Schoolbook, which shows up as one of the choices with LyX as it comes with Mandriva and Ubuntu. Is Century Schoolbook a vector font? I found Latin Modern too light and stringy. I don't know. Last time I tested, only the Default resulted in ugly PDFs. That was a long time ago though. The test is simple enough - write with the font you want to test, and view the resulting PDF in adobe acrobat. In acrobat, zoom in as much as possible. If the huge glyphs on your screen looks ok, then it is a good vector font. If there are staircase effects on anything that should be round or slanted, then you have a bitmap font. You should use acrobat for this test. Some other PDF viewers handle bitmap fonts better, and don't get such visible problems. To avoid making this change for every document, save it as the new default. Main purpose is to read on the computer so both images and text should be suitable for that. That took care of the text, now for the images. What exactly is the problem with your images? If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only for photos. I didn't know .png is a vector graphic. No, png is not a vector format. But a PC/mac screenshot is never in vector format anyway. The point was - when you need bitmaps, use good ones. Jpeg will mess up any hard edges (such as a screenshot with text and window edges in it.) Jpeg is fine for photos - that is what jpeg was designed for. (Joint Photographic Expert Group.) Unfortunately, too many people abuse jpeg for screenshots and line drawing, mistakenly thinking it is some kind of generig graphics format. It is definitely not! I've been converting graphics to PDF before using them -- PDF *is* a vector format after all, and it seems to scale well. However, it would be soo much easier to use .png. Thanks for the tip. If your material is bitmap graphics, then png is a good choice. Note that bitmaps can be converted to PDF, but that does not make it vector graphics. This because PDF can embed bitmaps. (And so can postscript.) If your app can save as pdf, ps, eps or svg, then chances are it makes vector graphics. And then it makes sense to keep the graphics in vector form all the way to the printer or the reader's screen. The problem with bitmaps is that they has limited resolution. If the reader's screen (or the printer ot be used) has higher resolution, then the bitmap has to be upscaled. Upscaling is _never_ a perfect process. It tend to introduce staircase effects on slanted lines, or possibly blurriness in an attempt to cover up the staircase effects. There are always someone with high-end equipment that has a higher-resolution screen than you. And even the cheap printers has much higher resolution than the best screen around. You can fix this by making bitmaps with very high resolution, but then the files get enormous and cumbersome. Vector graphics have no such problems. They are not arrays of pixels, but a set of drawing commands. [Draw a green line from location (5,5) to location (1882,9644) and so on.] Such drawing commands work with any resolution, be it a 96 dpi screen, or a 1200 dpi photosetter. The output is as good as it gets on that output device, no matter what. And the files are considerably smaller than high-resolution bitmaps too. It is the same with fonts. A vector font consist of drawing instructions for each letter. (A T is a couple of lines with a specific thickness, and so on.) A bitmap font provides a bitmap. The bitmap is ok at some resolution, and insufficient at higher resolutions. Historically, the bitmap approach was considered easier. As far as the original poster, I've found that the output quality depends as much on the PDF reader as anything else. I've had docs that were beautiful on Acroread and ugly on xpdf, and others that were ugly on Acroread and beautiful on xpdf. I hate to admit it, but if my eBooks look good on Acroread, that satisfies 95% of my potential readers so I let it go that way. Most people use acrobat indeed. Acrobat does not handle bitmap fonts too well, especially not if you magnify. This is why
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
Rainer M Krug wrote: Same problem. I see. I don't know if there's a tool for this task. I would open the file in an editor and look for suspicious glyphs. Jürgen
Lastchecked-option in Wassenhoven-Style
Dear list, I use Lyx 1.6.4.1, report [koma] and Dominik Wassenhovens biblatex- style. How could I enable the lastchecked-option? I want to see that in my citations in the footer. Thank you! E
Re: Index not being printed
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 03:59:11 Anthony Campbell wrote: On 16 Nov 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Anything's possible. I'd run the individual commands to find out what's missing or different. I'll bet you can find the root cause in 40 minutes. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt I followed the steps you outlined, which went through without errors. I then tried LyX again on the file and this time the index came up correctly. So that's fine, though I still don't understand what was wrong - perhaps some residual file that was blocking the index generation? Did you notice my instructions had you run latex twice -- once before and once after running makeindex? I'll bet you dollars to donuts whatever script the LyX environment calls doesn't do that double latex run. In fact, I ALWAYS generate PDFs via my own scripts, at least if I care about accuracy in the index. What might be interesting is to generate PDFs via a make file. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Rainer M Krug wrote: Same problem. I see. I don't know if there's a tool for this task. I would open the file in an editor and look for suspicious glyphs. Thanks - I'll do so. Cheers, Rainer Jürgen -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
Luca Carlon wrote: Hi guys! I know this is not the right place to ask this, but maybe you could be patient and at least try to give me some hints. I'm writing my thesis with LyX, and I produce PDF's using the ps2pdf command for my supervisor. Can you try pdflatex instead? The pdf will be made with different software, and usually much faster too. The only problem is if you use pstricks or something similiar that isn't supported by pdflatex. You'll notice that immediately though. Helgeg Hafting
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
Helge Hafting helge.haft...@... writes: Can you try pdflatex instead? The pdf will be made with different software, and usually much faster too. The only problem is if you use pstricks or something similiar that isn't supported by pdflatex. You'll notice that immediately though. Helgeg Hafting Unfortunaltely no, it is not possible. I use eps graphic files, and as far as I know, they're not supported by pdflatex. Luca
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Luca Carlon carlon.l...@gmail.com wrote: Helge Hafting helge.haft...@... writes: Can you try pdflatex instead? The pdf will be made with different software, and usually much faster too. The only problem is if you use pstricks or something similiar that isn't supported by pdflatex. You'll notice that immediately though. Helgeg Hafting Unfortunaltely no, it is not possible. I use eps graphic files, and as far as I know, they're not supported by pdflatex. At least under linux, it works. Rainer Luca -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@... writes: Unfortunaltely no, it is not possible. I use eps graphic files, and as far as I know, they're not supported by pdflatex. At least under linux, it works. Rainer Luca This is very strange, under MacOSX I get: Latex error: unknown graphics extension: .eps. I never tried pdf latex under Linux, but I can try that as well. Thanks. Luca
Update DVI/PDF Mac LyX feature not working - have tried Skim
Hello All, The Update DVI and Update PDF feature isn't working for me in LyX for Macintosh. I have installed Skim, but to no avail. If it helps, I am using LyX 1.6.4.2 under Mac OS 10.6.2. Thank you all very much in advance for any help.
How to change First and Last name spacing
Hello All, I would like to know how I can change the first and last name spacing. When I preview the Title environment, the author portion comes out: FirstLast Instead of First Last with a space. Even when I changed the author name spacing in the LaTeX preamble to reflect this, this was not reflected in the preview. Any help would be appreciated, thank you very much in advance.
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Luca Carlon carlon.l...@gmail.com wrote: Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@... writes: Unfortunaltely no, it is not possible. I use eps graphic files, and as far as I know, they're not supported by pdflatex. At least under linux, it works. Rainer Luca This is very strange, under MacOSX I get: Latex error: unknown graphics extension: .eps. I never tried pdf latex under Linux, but I can try that as well. as far as I understand LyX, it uses a chain of converters to convert incompatible graphic formats. Under Linux, eps files can be converted to a usable format. In contrast, it seems that this is not possible under Mac, or the appropriate converters are not installed. EPS - PDF conversion is handled by ps2pdf So I would assume if you can install this and reconfigure LyX, it should work. Rainer Thanks. Luca -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: Update DVI/PDF Mac LyX feature not working - have tried Skim
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Daisuke Koya dk...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello All, The Update DVI and Update PDF feature isn't working for me in LyX for Macintosh. I have installed Skim, but to no avail. If it helps, I am using LyX 1.6.4.2 under Mac OS 10.6.2. Thank you all very much in advance for any help. This is probably a Skim issue: Skim Preferences Sync: check the box for Check for file changes. BH
Re: LyX doesn't find LaTeX (?)
Sadjad Siddiq schrieb: Thanks, Uwe, for your reply, but I somehow doubt that it will work. If I uninstall TeXLive and MiKTeX completely, and all other Latex/LyX stuff, I will just reproduce the situation I had before I've installed everything. And the alternative installer was the installer I started with. I guess I'll give it a last try if we don't find any other way. Please try it out. Note that you need to have Admin permissions. But is there no way to find out how or where LyX is looking for all the Latex packages or point it to specific locations? I guess thats the problem... According to your description this is not the problem. LyX found LaTeX but the LyX configuration file is broken. regards Uwe
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@... writes: as far as I understand LyX, it uses a chain of converters to convert incompatible graphic formats. Under Linux, eps files can be converted to a usable format. In contrast, it seems that this is not possible under Mac, or the appropriate converters are not installed. EPS - PDF conversion is handled by ps2pdf So I would assume if you can install this and reconfigure LyX, it should work. Rainer Well... there already is, and I suppose it is working in LyX too as all my eps are also present as pdf, so I suppose LyX has already converted them. Maybe dvipdfm did the conversion? Anyway, the command convert is working and epstopdf is set in LyX and is working as well. I still get that message though. Thanks! Luca
Re: Language Problem with Theorems (AMS enhanced ).
Matthias Hoffmann schrieb: But I have a problem with Theorems (AMS enhanced). If I write a assumption I can see Annahme- wich means assumption in German at Lyx, but as soon as I create a .pdf of it there is assumption written in this pdf. You need to translate these terms manually for the output. How this is done is described in http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/I18nLabels (In the next major LyX version these translations will be done automatically.) regards Uwe
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Luca Carlon carlon.l...@gmail.com wrote: Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@... writes: as far as I understand LyX, it uses a chain of converters to convert incompatible graphic formats. Under Linux, eps files can be converted to a usable format. In contrast, it seems that this is not possible under Mac, or the appropriate converters are not installed. EPS - PDF conversion is handled by ps2pdf So I would assume if you can install this and reconfigure LyX, it should work. Rainer Well... there already is, and I suppose it is working in LyX too as all my eps are also present as pdf, so I suppose LyX has already converted them. Maybe dvipdfm did the conversion? Anyway, the command convert is working and epstopdf is set in LyX and is working as well. I still get that message though. Sorry - can't help you then. EPS - PDF is the only converter from EPS which is defined. Rainer Thanks! Luca -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: integral operators
Rodrigo Velez schrieb: I got a problem with integral operators. Looking at the Math help Chap 10, it says that in order to use integral operators one must have the option Use esint package automatically set in the documents settings. I have this option set, but for some reason when I am going to view my file in pdf, Lyx says the following: $\intop $ I wasn't able to read the size data for this font, so I will ignore the font specification. It seems that the LaTeX package esint is not installed in your LaTeX. To fix this problem, install esint via the package manager of your LaTeX distribution. Afterwards reconfigure LyX and try again. regards Uwe
Re: Background color of Text.
nikunj . schrieb:
I could do it. Include the package 'color' in preamble, i.e. add
\usepackage{color} in the preamble. (Document-settings-latex preamble)
After that go to tex mode/ERT (ctrl-L on windows ) and write
\colorbox{green}{the text} within the ERT. More info at
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Colors
For more info look at sec. 5.7 Colored Boxes of the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's
Help menu.
regards Uwe
Re: How to change First and Last name spacing
Daisuke Koya schrieb: I would like to know how I can change the first and last name spacing. When I preview the Title environment, the author portion comes out: FirstLast Instead of First Last with a space. What document class are you using, can you please provide a _small_ LyX example file? regards Uwe
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
On 17 nov 2009, at 13.59, Luca Carlon wrote: Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@... writes: Unfortunaltely no, it is not possible. I use eps graphic files, and as far as I know, they're not supported by pdflatex. At least under linux, it works. Rainer Luca This is very strange, under MacOSX I get: Latex error: unknown graphics extension: .eps. I never tried pdf latex under Linux, but I can try that as well. Thanks. Luca Hmmm, I think I remember having something like that a long time ago. Have you made your files in Illustrator? Have you tried eps2eps on the file? (i guess you have done the standard sudo texhash and LyXReconfigure). /Anders
Re: How to change First and Last name spacing
Hello again,
I thank both of you for the help.
However, through trial and error, I actually figured out the problem by myself.
As I don't know LaTeX, it seems I have confused pdfauthor with \author,
the latter which is at the end of the preamble.
I don't know what the markup
\title{}\author{FirstName LastName}\date{2009-11-17}
exactly means, but changing the spacing between FirstName and LastName
above, did the trick.
% This file was converted to LaTeX by Writer2LaTeX ver. 1.0
% see http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net for more info
\usepackage{amsfont...@ifundefined{definecolor}
{\usepackage{color}}{}
\usepackage{array}\usepackage{hhline}\usepackage{hyperref}\hypersetup{pdftex,colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue,citecolor=blue,filecolor=blue,urlcolor=blue,pdftitle=,pdfauthor=,pdfsubject=,pdfkeywords=}%
Page layout (geometry)
\setlength{\voffset}{-1in}\setlength{\hoffset}{-1in}\setlength{\topmargin}{1.27cm}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{1.27cm}\setlength{\textheight}{25.259cm}\setlength{\textwidth}{19.05cm}\setlength{\footskip}{0.0cm}\setlength{\headheight}{0cm}\setlength{\headsep}{0cm}%
Footnote rule
\setlength{\skip\footins}{0.119cm}\renewcommand{\footnoterule}{\vspace*{-0.018cm}\setlength\leftskip{0pt}\setlength\rightskip{0pt
plus
1fil}\noindent\textcolor{black}{\rule{0.25\columnwidth}{0.018cm}}\vspace*{0.101cm}}%
Pages styles
\makeatletter\newcommand{...@standard}{
\renewcomma...@oddhead{}
\renewcomma...@evenhead{}
\renewcomma...@oddfoot{}
\renewcomma...@evenfoot{}
\renewcommand\thepage{\arabic{page}}
}\makeatother\title{}\author{First Last}\date{2009-11-17}
On 17 Nov 2009, at 13:34, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Daisuke Koya schrieb:
I would like to know how I can change the first and last name spacing.
When I preview the Title environment, the author portion comes out:
FirstLast
Instead of
First Last
with a space.
What document class are you using, can you please provide a _small_ LyX
example file?
regards Uwe
Re: Update DVI/PDF Mac LyX feature not working - have tried Skim
Hello BH, Your suggestion worked! Thank you very much On 17 Nov 2009, at 13:13, BH wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Daisuke Koya dk...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello All, The Update DVI and Update PDF feature isn't working for me in LyX for Macintosh. I have installed Skim, but to no avail. If it helps, I am using LyX 1.6.4.2 under Mac OS 10.6.2. Thank you all very much in advance for any help. This is probably a Skim issue: Skim Preferences Sync: check the box for Check for file changes. BH
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
Am Tuesday 17 November 2009 schrieb Anders Ekberg: On 17 nov 2009, at 13.59, Luca Carlon wrote: Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@... writes: Unfortunaltely no, it is not possible. I use eps graphic files, and as far as I know, they're not supported by pdflatex. At least under linux, it works. Rainer Luca This is very strange, under MacOSX I get: Latex error: unknown graphics extension: .eps. I never tried pdf latex under Linux, but I can try that as well. Thanks. Luca Not strange. For pdflatex you may not use eps-figures. Hmmm, I think I remember having something like that a long time ago. Have you made your files in Illustrator? Have you tried eps2eps on the file? (i guess you have done the standard sudo texhash and LyXReconfigure). /Anders Kornel -- Kornel Benko kornel.be...@berlin.de signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
Anders Ekberg a...@... writes: Hmmm, I think I remember having something like that a long time ago. Have you made your files in Illustrator? Have you tried eps2eps on the file? (i guess you have done the standard sudo texhash and LyXReconfigure). /Anders No, I created those files with Matlab. No, I didn't try eps2eps... should I try it on all the eps files? Yes, I just tried the last two things, nothing changed. Thanks for your help guys! Luca
JabRef and Lyx on Mac
Hi there, I am having troubles with JabRef 2.5 and LyX 1.6.4.1 running with MacTex-2009 on Mac OS X 10.6.2. I am new to these tools and the Mac platform, so I haven't ruled out the possibility that I am doing something wrong. Are you able to tell from the explanation of my problem below whether I have a technical or user fault: I have configured my LyXServer path in LyX and Path to LyX pipe in JabRef both to: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyxpipe I then start a new *.lyx file in LyX. I then highlight the references I would like to push to LyX and click the Push selection to LyX/Kile button in JabRef. At this point it is confirmed that the two are communicating with each other as the predefined 'Bibtexkey' appears in square brackets on the new *.lyx document, i.e. [Author2009] . However, when I view the file in any format (PDF or PostScript) the reference appears on the document to be simply a question mark in square brackets - [?] , and not the full reference as expected. Any thoughts? Cheers, Phil
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
On 17 nov 2009, at 15.35, Luca Carlon wrote: Anders Ekberg a...@... writes: Hmmm, I think I remember having something like that a long time ago. Have you made your files in Illustrator? Have you tried eps2eps on the file? (i guess you have done the standard sudo texhash and LyXReconfigure). /Anders No, I created those files with Matlab. No, I didn't try eps2eps... should I try it on all the eps files? Yes, I just tried the last two things, nothing changed. Thanks for your help guys! Luca No, my mistake. Kornel is right. Possible the easiest for you is to convert to png (you can write png-files directly from your matlab script to make it easier). If you save with the same filename, but with .png you can just do a find and replace in an editor to replace the eps-file names with png-files. (Not a bad idea to save the eps-files too since they are resolution independent). /Anders
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com wrote: No, my mistake. Kornel is right. Possible the easiest for you is to convert to png (you can write png-files directly from your matlab script to make it easier). If you save with the same filename, but with .png you can just do a find and replace in an editor to replace the eps-file names with png-files. (Not a bad idea to save the eps-files too since they are resolution independent). /Anders Mmh... something strange is happening... I just tried to create the PDF using pdflatex under Linux Kubuntu 9.10 with LyX 1.6.4 and nothing changes. Same error message for eps files... -- Luca
Re: JabRef and Lyx on Mac
Have you inserted the bibliography through Insert-List/ToC-BibTeX Bibliography? - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Phil Underwood philjunderw...@gmail.comwrote: Hi there, I am having troubles with JabRef 2.5 and LyX 1.6.4.1 running with MacTex-2009 on Mac OS X 10.6.2. I am new to these tools and the Mac platform, so I haven't ruled out the possibility that I am doing something wrong. Are you able to tell from the explanation of my problem below whether I have a technical or user fault: I have configured my LyXServer path in LyX and Path to LyX pipe in JabRef both to: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyxpipe I then start a new *.lyx file in LyX. I then highlight the references I would like to push to LyX and click the Push selection to LyX/Kile button in JabRef. At this point it is confirmed that the two are communicating with each other as the predefined 'Bibtexkey' appears in square brackets on the new *.lyx document, i.e. [Author2009] . However, when I view the file in any format (PDF or PostScript) the reference appears on the document to be simply a question mark in square brackets - [?] , and not the full reference as expected. Any thoughts? Cheers, Phil
RE: JabRef and Lyx on Mac
Hi Phil, I've long had similar problems. I was never able to figure out the problem, though I believe it had something to do with the Java VM on Mac. (Which is a strange creature.) I finally had to move to another program. I understand that Change Programs is a poor solution, but nevertheless, you might want to take a look at BibDesk or at Mendeley (which can sync references to a BibTeX reference file). http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ http://www.mendeley.com/ I use both programs and I've been very happy with them. They also instantly solved by JabRef problems. Cheers, Rob Oakes -Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Phil Underwood Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7:27 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: JabRef and Lyx on Mac Hi there, I am having troubles with JabRef 2.5 and LyX 1.6.4.1 running with MacTex-2009 on Mac OS X 10.6.2. I am new to these tools and the Mac platform, so I haven't ruled out the possibility that I am doing something wrong. Are you able to tell from the explanation of my problem below whether I have a technical or user fault: I have configured my LyXServer path in LyX and Path to LyX pipe in JabRef both to: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyxpipe I then start a new *.lyx file in LyX. I then highlight the references I would like to push to LyX and click the Push selection to LyX/Kile button in JabRef. At this point it is confirmed that the two are communicating with each other as the predefined 'Bibtexkey' appears in square brackets on the new *.lyx document, i.e. [Author2009] . However, when I view the file in any format (PDF or PostScript) the reference appears on the document to be simply a question mark in square brackets - [?] , and not the full reference as expected. Any thoughts? Cheers, Phil
Re: JabRef and Lyx on Mac
Hi Rob, I'm still having the same issue, even after Julio's suggestion and so am now entertaining your suggestion. BibDesk is the same one that came with MacTex? Do you have a preferred tool? The screenshots of Mendeley look nice. Is it a native Mac application? Also, do you know if there's an easy way to import my existing JabRef *.bib database with either tool? Cheers, Phil On 17 Nov 2009, at 15:31, Rob Oakes wrote: Hi Phil, I've long had similar problems. I was never able to figure out the problem, though I believe it had something to do with the Java VM on Mac. (Which is a strange creature.) I finally had to move to another program. I understand that Change Programs is a poor solution, but nevertheless, you might want to take a look at BibDesk or at Mendeley (which can sync references to a BibTeX reference file). http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ http://www.mendeley.com/ I use both programs and I've been very happy with them. They also instantly solved by JabRef problems. Cheers, Rob Oakes -Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Phil Underwood Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7:27 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: JabRef and Lyx on Mac Hi there, I am having troubles with JabRef 2.5 and LyX 1.6.4.1 running with MacTex-2009 on Mac OS X 10.6.2. I am new to these tools and the Mac platform, so I haven't ruled out the possibility that I am doing something wrong. Are you able to tell from the explanation of my problem below whether I have a technical or user fault: I have configured my LyXServer path in LyX and Path to LyX pipe in JabRef both to: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyxpipe I then start a new *.lyx file in LyX. I then highlight the references I would like to push to LyX and click the Push selection to LyX/Kile button in JabRef. At this point it is confirmed that the two are communicating with each other as the predefined 'Bibtexkey' appears in square brackets on the new *.lyx document, i.e. [Author2009] . However, when I view the file in any format (PDF or PostScript) the reference appears on the document to be simply a question mark in square brackets - [?] , and not the full reference as expected. Any thoughts? Cheers, Phil
RE: JabRef and Lyx on Mac
Hi Phil, I honestly can't remember if BibDesk comes with MacTek, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did. The native file format for BibDesk is .bib, as a result, you'll just be able to open it and work with it in the same way that you did in JabRef. This is one of the wonderful things of using standards, your data is imminently portable. Moreover, there isn't any messiness or energy lost in the dance of export and import. In regards to Mendeley. It is a native Mac application (though based on the Qt framework, so cross platform). To import .bib references into the BibTeX database, just click on the add references button and select your .bib file. You can set up the .bib sync options in the preferences pane. I actually use them for very different reasons. Mendeley is my main reference management tool since it can also work with Zotero (for references and citations things off the web) and Microsoft Word/OpenOffice for writing. (Which, unfortunately, is a necessity when working with technically incompetent medical doctors.) I also use it to organize/sync my pdf library amongst different computers and share papers with collaborators. It's a very cool program. I use BibDesk when doing literature searches. It's far easier to download the references to a separate .bib file and then go about deleting those that aren't pertinent. I then can then tag all of them with a project description and import my working file into Mendeley for citation. Mendeley has a really nice feature called Collections that can be used for organizing the citations and creating project specific .bib files. More importantly, though, the BibTeX files are readable. I've had big problems with EndNote and Zotero creating unreadable BibTeX. (And a few of the people I work with are real hard-asses about it. One of them actually codes all of his BibTeX by hand, which just seems painful to me.) Hope this is of some help. Welcome to the Mac. It is a very nice ecosystem, but getting moved in can be painful. Even after two years, I'm still trying to get all of the boxes unpacked. Cheers, Rob -Original Message- From: Phil Underwood [mailto:philjunderw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:26 AM To: Rob Oakes Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: JabRef and Lyx on Mac Hi Rob, I'm still having the same issue, even after Julio's suggestion and so am now entertaining your suggestion. BibDesk is the same one that came with MacTex? Do you have a preferred tool? The screenshots of Mendeley look nice. Is it a native Mac application? Also, do you know if there's an easy way to import my existing JabRef *.bib database with either tool? Cheers, Phil On 17 Nov 2009, at 15:31, Rob Oakes wrote: Hi Phil, I've long had similar problems. I was never able to figure out the problem, though I believe it had something to do with the Java VM on Mac. (Which is a strange creature.) I finally had to move to another program. I understand that Change Programs is a poor solution, but nevertheless, you might want to take a look at BibDesk or at Mendeley (which can sync references to a BibTeX reference file). http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ http://www.mendeley.com/ I use both programs and I've been very happy with them. They also instantly solved by JabRef problems. Cheers, Rob Oakes -Original Message- From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Phil Underwood Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 7:27 AM To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: JabRef and Lyx on Mac Hi there, I am having troubles with JabRef 2.5 and LyX 1.6.4.1 running with MacTex-2009 on Mac OS X 10.6.2. I am new to these tools and the Mac platform, so I haven't ruled out the possibility that I am doing something wrong. Are you able to tell from the explanation of my problem below whether I have a technical or user fault: I have configured my LyXServer path in LyX and Path to LyX pipe in JabRef both to: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyxpipe I then start a new *.lyx file in LyX. I then highlight the references I would like to push to LyX and click the Push selection to LyX/Kile button in JabRef. At this point it is confirmed that the two are communicating with each other as the predefined 'Bibtexkey' appears in square brackets on the new *.lyx document, i.e. [Author2009] . However, when I view the file in any format (PDF or PostScript) the reference appears on the document to be simply a question mark in square brackets - [?] , and not the full reference as expected. Any thoughts? Cheers, Phil
Re: LyX crashes if preview svg
Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote: Here below: there is a message cannot mix incompatible Qt libraries? It appears so... Did you compile your own Qt? There is no backtrace here because gdb does not know which Qt to use apparently... I compiled LyX from the source to install , something like ./configure (with prefix), make, sudo make install. I have no idea about Qt, I guess this is the language to develop LyX, maybe PyQt ? Never try to do programming in Qt, Py or PyQt. I should learn ? How I can fix this ? it looks the qt libraries are messed up in your system. try reinstalling them. the last possibility would be to compile qt locally in your home and link lyx against them (some proper arg for configure). pavel
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Luca Carlon carlon.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Anders Ekberg a...@mac.com wrote: No, my mistake. Kornel is right. Possible the easiest for you is to convert to png (you can write png-files directly from your matlab script to make it easier). If you save with the same filename, but with .png you can just do a find and replace in an editor to replace the eps-file names with png-files. (Not a bad idea to save the eps-files too since they are resolution independent). /Anders Mmh... something strange is happening... I just tried to create the PDF using pdflatex under Linux Kubuntu 9.10 with LyX 1.6.4 and nothing changes. Same error message for eps files... I tried it again - just to make sure - with an eps, and it works under Karmic. If your eps are not to big, you could mail me one directly, and I could try it out locally. Rainer -- Luca -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Layout file for Information Mapping
Hi I am trying to get Information Mapping running on my Lyx 1.6.3., the LaTex class and style has been produced by Gerd Neugebauer as limap.cls and limap.sty, both are part of the TeX Live 2007 distribution. There is no accompanying .layout file for LyX, so I presume that I need to write one. However, after reading chapter 5 of the Customization Manual I am somewhat baffled as to what to do. Do I: 1) need to create a whole new document class, since limap.cls is not part of the standard classes, or 2) can I write a short layout file that points lyx in the right direction? If the former is the case then I'm unsure what it would help me to have a Latex .cls or .sty file in the first place, since I need to write the entire layout file anyway. Surely I'm missing something vital here? Kind regards, Daniel
Re: Layout file for Information Mapping
On 11/17/2009 05:54 PM, Daniel Hofmann wrote: Hi I am trying to get Information Mapping running on my Lyx 1.6.3., the LaTex class and style has been produced by Gerd Neugebauer as limap.cls and limap.sty, both are part of the TeX Live 2007 distribution. There is no accompanying .layout file for LyX, so I presume that I need to write one. However, after reading chapter 5 of the Customization Manual I am somewhat baffled as to what to do. Do I: 1) need to create a whole new document class, since limap.cls is not part of the standard classes, or 2) can I write a short layout file that points lyx in the right direction? If the former is the case then I'm unsure what it would help me to have a Latex .cls or .sty file in the first place, since I need to write the entire layout file anyway. Surely I'm missing something vital here? You don't need to write a document class, but to use that class with LyX, you do need to write a layout file for this class. The thing to understand is that, in a certain sense, LyX doesn't know anything about document classes. All information about them is contained in the layout files, even for standard classes, like article.cls. You can think of the layout file for a given document class as a translation manual between LyX constructs---paragraphs with their corresponding styles, many insets, etc---and the corresponding LaTeX constructs. Look, for example, at stdsections.inc, to see how sections and the like are defined. These map paragraphs in LyX that are marked with the Section, etc, layouts to corresponding LaTeX commands. The article.layout file basically just includes a ton of these std*.inc files. To get limap.cls working with LyX, then, as I said, you need an limap.layout file. But let's talk about that later. Since limap also comes as a package---indeed, from what I can tell, even limap.cls is really a kind of package in disguise that includes some other class, which you select via class options---you could start with the package. In this case, you can just write a module, which is (very roughly) what corresponds in LyX to a LaTeX package. Modules define certain sorts of LyX constructs---paragraph styles or custom insets---and tell LyX how to translate those constructs into LaTeX for output. In your module, you would define LyX constructs for the various commands and environments that limap.sty provides---whatever those are. The best way to get started is to study some of the existing modules---simple ones, like endnotes.module, for example. Then try to think of standard LaTeX commands that are in some way similar to the ones you want to define---even if they're just both commands---find out how it's done in the existing layout files, and then try to mimic it. Start simple. Don't worry about how the thing looks in LyX. Just try to get it working, so far as the LaTeX output goes. You can polish it later, putting all the section headings in a teeny tiny font with bright green italics. ;-) And feel free to ask lots of questions. The learning curve can be steep, but layout really isn't that hard in the end. Richard
Re: Layout file for Information Mapping
Hi Daniel, If there is already a LaTeX class and style, then you only need to create .layout file that points LyX in the right direction. A few weeks ago, I wrote a simple example that you can find at: http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/2009/11/02/custom-lyx-nih That example is mostly about changing how the document appear and modifying the section labels. Additionally, you might want to look at this article, which talks about creating a local layout file in a document template. Creating global layout files is kind of, sort of the same. (I haven't yet done anything with modules, but I assume that the same principles apply.) http://www.oak-tree.us/blog/index.php/2009/11/14/customize-lyx-character-styles If you need examples of layout modules with advanced features, I'd recommend looking at the Sweave example on the LyX website. While it is much more complicated than the examples above, I've found it invaluable for understanding LyX's internal mechanisms: On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 11:54 +1300, Daniel Hofmann wrote: Hi I am trying to get Information Mapping running on my Lyx 1.6.3., the LaTex class and style has been produced by Gerd Neugebauer as limap.cls and limap.sty, both are part of the TeX Live 2007 distribution. There is no accompanying .layout file for LyX, so I presume that I need to write one. However, after reading chapter 5 of the Customization Manual I am somewhat baffled as to what to do. Do I: 1) need to create a whole new document class, since limap.cls is not part of the standard classes, or 2) can I write a short layout file that points lyx in the right direction? If the former is the case then I'm unsure what it would help me to have a Latex .cls or .sty file in the first place, since I need to write the entire layout file anyway. Surely I'm missing something vital here? Kind regards, Daniel
Re: Layout file for Information Mapping - Part 2
Sorry Daniel, Apparently there is an undocumented send keyboard shortcut in Evolution that I didn't know about. The previous email wasn't complete. Below is the section that didn't get included. _ If you need examples of modules with advanced features, I'd recommend looking at the Sweave pages of the LyX website. While it is much more complicated than the examples above (see previous email), I've found it invaluable for understanding LyX's internal mechanisms: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyxWithRThroughSweave While there is a learning curve, it's pretty mild. The examples are pretty self explanatory and LyX has a logical design. Moreover, the members of the mailing list are very helpful. I've gotten some wonderful guidance on the questions I've posted. Best of luck with your project. Cheers, Rob Oakes
Re: LyX crashes if preview svg
How I can fix this ? it looks the qt libraries are messed up in your system. try reinstalling them. the last possibility would be to compile qt locally in your home and link lyx against them (some proper arg for configure). Thanks Pavel I really appreciate it I tried to find different libqt in synaptic and found libqtgui4 and libqtcore4 showing version 4.4.0. Others are version 4.3.4, including libqt4-core and libqt4-gui, both are version 4.3.4. I deleted libqtgui4 and libqtcore4. Now my LyX can preview directly svg file and can be externally edit using Inkscape, without any crash. There is a litle problem however, in LyX preview. All equations written using LaTeX text extension for Inkscape (textext) are not displayed, but appear perfectly in pdfview and in hard printing of this pdf is also OK. Below the message when I run LyX from terminal (ubuntu 8.04): wal...@waluyo-laptop:~$ lyx-1.6.4 link textext-2c447465-1 hasn't been detected! link textext-2c447465-1 hasn't been detected! This behaviour (cannot preview textext Inscape extension) also happens in another machine (ubuntu 9.04). Is that possible to preview the the textext embedded in Inkscape? Thank you for any information Regards Waluyo
Cryptic Latex message
Dear Lyxers, I am trying again to use Inkscape SVG images directly in Lyx (without converting to pdf/EPs from Inkscape). I am following the wiki instruction and they kind of worked for a couple of runs until, after a few minutes of tests, the pdf file produced by Lyx contains only 2 of the three images in the LyX file. In place of the third one there is a bounding box containing a long string that seems to be a Latex error message before it runs off the page/ The Latex log contains the following cryptic message just before the end of the run: (\end occurred inside a group at level 1) ### semi simple group (level 1) entered at line 147 (\begingroup) ### bottom level Can anyone tell what is going on? Thanks, S. __ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (979) 862-2211 Texas AM University Fax: (979) 845-0458 305B Bolton Hall fran...@philosophy.tamu.edu College Station, TX 77843-4237
Re: Layouts for education?
Hello On 11/16/09, Myriam Abramson mabram...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for quizzes and exams layouts. I'm presently using AcroTex. In the past there were a couple of discussions on the subject. [1][2][3] Perhaps you can find something there. Liviu [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg66783.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg07159.html [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg68567.html
Re: BibLaTeX requires additional BibTeX run?
Piero Faustini wrote: Hello,I've been in trouble all the day and now I ask to the list...I use -WinXP sp3-LyX 1.6.4-last version of BibLaTeX (0.8i)-koma report classand I suddenly I can't have my citations and references in my final pdf (200+pages), where everything worked well till today.From the log, it seems is a problem of an extra BibTeX run needed.Till now I can tell LaTeX run 4 times (or even 5, but last time is too fast to tell, and I'm not good in reading logs!)so I guess everything should run once more.The log will show a number of warnings, expecially from BibLaTeX, I always ignored because everything worked well (till today!)Please help me, We already perform an extra bibtex run for biblatex, if needed. Does bibtex run 2 times for you? (you can see this best if you start LyX from a terminal) I'm about 10 day from the completion of my dissertation! Thanks!Piero If everything else fails, you can always export to LaTeX for the final version and run bibtex manually. Jürgen
Re: LyX doesn't find LaTeX (?)
Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@... writes: Seems that you LyX/LaTeX installation is broken. I recommend to do 1. uninstall TeXLive _completely_ 2. uninstall MiKTeX _completely_ (check the registry that there are no leftovers) 3. check the path to the former TeXLive and MiKTeX installations is no longer in the Windows environment variable PATH 4. uninstall LyX _completely (check afterwards that there is no folder named lyx16 somewhere in the folder C:\Documents and Settings) 5. open an Internet connection 6. reinstall LyX using the complete version of the alternative LyX for Windows installer: http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller This installer will install MiKTeX and LyX at once and download needed LaTeX packages automatically from the Internet when LyX is first started. Thanks, Uwe, for your reply, but I somehow doubt that it will work. If I uninstall TeXLive and MiKTeX completely, and all other Latex/Lyx stuff, I will just reproduce the situation I had before I've installed everything. And the alternative installer was the installer I started with. I guess I'll give it a last try if we don't find any other way. But is there no way to find out how or where LyX is looking for all the Latex packages or point it to specific locations? I guess thats the problem...
RE: BibLaTeX requires additional BibTeX run?
We already perform an extra bibtex run for biblatex, if needed. Does bibtex run 2 times for you? (you can see this best if you start LyX from a terminal) Thanks, J. I think the main problem is that my dissertation is COMPLEX. Not huge, just complex (lot of internal references, lot of citations, floats, wrap floats etc.). I also make use of crossreferencing in BibTeX references.Everything went wrong when I added the 120+th reference and cited it.May it be that it was the last drop that made Bib(La)TeX needed to be run 3 times?Anyway, I run LyX from terminal. Here's 2 outputs; - Output 1 is for when thing went ok.- Output 2 is when I added my last citation (it happens if I cite most - not all - of any given new reference: I tried several times) and it talks about a FATAL ERROR: Terminal Output 1 (Everything - almost - OK): This is makeindex, version 2.14 [02-Oct-2002] (kpathsea + Thai support).Scanning style file C:/Programmi/LaTeX-related/MikTex27/makeindex/nomencl/nomencl.ist..done (10 attributes redefined, 3 ignored).Scanning input file TesiPhD.nlodone (7 entries accepted, 0 rejected).Sorting entriesdone (22 comparisons).Generating output file TesiPhD.nlsdone (21 lines written, 0 warnings).Output written in TesiPhD.nls.Transcript written in TesiPhD.ilg.This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (MiKTeX 2.7)The top-level auxiliary file: TesiPhD.auxThe style file: biblatex.bstDatabase file #1: TesiPhD-blx.bibDatabase file #2: F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibBiblatex version: 0.8iWarning--Invalid format of field 'month' in entry 'DOrmevilleGuisembergaRoma'Warning--Invalid format of field 'month' in entry 'DOrmevilleGuisembergaSpoleto' Warning--Invalid format of field 'month' in entry 'FilippiLaFalcePerseveranza1875'Warning--Invalid format of field 'month' in entry 'GiardaSangiorgiCentenario'(There were 4 warnings)This is makeindex, version 2.14 [02-Oct-2002] (kpathsea + Thai support).Scanning style file C:/Programmi/LaTeX-related/MikTex27/makeindex/nomencl/nomencl.ist..done (10 attributes redefined, 3 ignored).Scanning input file TesiPhD.nlodone (7 entries accepted, 0 rejected).Sorting entriesdone (22 comparisons).Generating output file TesiPhD.nlsdone (21 lines written, 0 warnings).Output written in TesiPhD.nls.Transcript written in TesiPhD.ilg. Terminal Output 2 (NO BIB, references, citations, etc. just labels in bold; - speak about fatal error: is this the reason?): This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (MiKTeX 2.7)The top-level auxiliary file: TesiPhD.auxThe style file: biblatex.bstDatabase file #1: TesiPhD-blx.bibDatabase file #2: F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra editor field--line 1974 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra title field--line 1975 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra shorttitle field--line 1976 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra publisher field--line 1977 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra year field--line 1983 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibBiblatex version: 0.8iNontop top of string stack---this can't happen*Please notify the BibTeX maintainer*(That was a fatal error)This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (MiKTeX 2.7)The top-level auxiliary file: TesiPhD.auxThe style file: biblatex.bstDatabase file #1: TesiPhD-blx.bibDatabase file #2: F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra editor field--line 1974 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra title field--line 1975 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra shorttitle field--line 1976 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra publisher field--line 1977 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibWarning--I'm ignoring ScapigliaturaFin's extra year field--line 1983 of file F:/DiLavoro/Tesi/TesiUTF.bibBiblatex version: 0.8iNontop top of string stack---this can't happen*Please notify the BibTeX maintainer*(That was a fatal error)This is makeindex, version 2.14 [02-Oct-2002] (kpathsea + Thai support).Scanning style file C:/Programmi/LaTeX-related/MikTex27/makeindex/nomencl/nomencl.ist..done (10 attributes redefined, 3 ignored).Scanning input file TesiPhD.nlodone (7 entries accepted, 0 rejected).Sorting entriesdone (22 comparisons).Generating output file TesiPhD.nlsdone (21 lines written, 0 warnings).Output written in TesiPhD.nls.Transcript written in TesiPhD.ilg. Thank you very much Piero _ Facile, veloce, sicuro: scarica Internet Explorer 8 per MSN http://www.microsoft.com/italy/windows/internet-explorer/msn.aspx
Re: Index not being printed
On 16 Nov 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Anything's possible. I'd run the individual commands to find out what's missing or different. I'll bet you can find the root cause in 40 minutes. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt I followed the steps you outlined, which went through without errors. I then tried LyX again on the file and this time the index came up correctly. So that's fine, though I still don't understand what was wrong - perhaps some residual file that was blocking the index generation? Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell
Re: BibLaTeX requires additional BibTeX run?
Piero Faustini wrote: Everything went wrong when I added the 120+th reference and cited it.May it be that it was the last drop that made Bib(La)TeX needed to be run 3 times? Is this a specific reference or does the problem occur with any arbitrary 120est reference? Terminal Output 2 (NO BIB, references, citations, etc. just labels in bold; - speak about fatal error: is this the reason?): Most likely. But then, a third bibtex run most probably won't help. This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (MiKTeX 2.7)The top-level auxiliary file: Hm, you use standard bibtex. Probably, the rather small capacities of this program are reached (this happens easily with biblatex, see the manual). The first thing I'd try is to use bibtex8 instead. In Tools Preferences Output LaTeX, change the bibtex command to something like bibtex8 --wolfgang --csfile latin9.csf the --csfile argument specifies the encoding. The example above implies that you are using latin9 (i.e., the bib file is encoded in ISO 8859-15). --wolfgang sets the capacities to the highest predefined values. If this is still not sufficient (such as in a book I'm currently writing), you can extend the limits even further. For instance, I currently use: bibtex8 --wolfgang --mentstrs 5 --csfile latin9.csf (this is sufficient for ~700 references with biblatex). If you use bibtex8, you also need to change the biblatex options: you have to use the option backend=bibtex8. See the biblatex manual for further information about bibtex8. Jürgen
RE: BibLaTeX requires additional BibTeX run? [Solved]
The first thing I'd try is to use bibtex8 instead. In Tools Preferences Done 24 hours fiddling, and it was just this: too many references (or, maybe better said, citations!!!)THANK YOU Jürgen. I owe you my lifeAbout the encoding, I didn't specify it in the bibtex command as you suggested, just because I don't know how but I already found a perfect (unstable?) balance with encoding, .bib files, LyX and biblatex settings and I don't want to touch anything till something really doesn't work.But anyway:THANK YOU A LOT FOR YOUR HELP.Now I really owe the LyX project some help (as I can't help you directly!) Piero _ Più di 30 Web Radio: le trovi su Messenger http://www.messenger.it/radioMessenger.aspx
Re: BibLaTeX requires additional BibTeX run? [Solved]
Piero Faustini wrote: About the encoding, I didn't specify it in the bibtex command as you suggested, just because I don't know how but I already found a perfect (unstable?) balance with encoding, .bib files, LyX and biblatex settings and I don't want to touch anything till something really doesn't work. You just would have to check which encoding is specified in your BibTeX manager (in Jabref, it's in Preferences General Standard Encoding). Anyway, as long as the bibliography is sorted correctly, you can just leave it as it is and concentrate on fine-polishing your thesis. Good luck with that. Jürgen
bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
Following Jürgen's suggestion, I would like to try bibtex8, as my JabRef bibtex database is UTF8 encoded. But: which option do I have to specify for the -csfile ? The only .csl file with utf8 I have is utf8-dk.csf - can I use that one, although I do not use the danish language (I assume dk refers to Denmark)? Cheers, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
Rainer M Krug wrote: Following Jürgen's suggestion, I would like to try bibtex8, as my JabRef bibtex database is UTF8 encoded. But: which option do I have to specify for the -csfile ? Neither bibtex nor bibtex8 supports utf8, so you have to chose another encoding (a single-byte encoding such as latin9) for your bib file. If you really need utf8 in your bib file, you need to use biblatex-biber, which is still beta software, though. See http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#encoding Jürgen
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Rainer M Krug wrote: Following Jürgen's suggestion, I would like to try bibtex8, as my JabRef bibtex database is UTF8 encoded. But: which option do I have to specify for the -csfile ? Neither bibtex nor bibtex8 supports utf8, so you have to chose another encoding (a single-byte encoding such as latin9) for your bib file. Thanks - I'll look into that. In the same line: is there an easy way of identifying utf8 characters in the file? If you really need utf8 in your bib file, you need to use biblatex-biber, which is still beta software, though. See http://wiki.lyx.org/BibTeX/Tips#encoding Jürgen -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
Rainer M Krug wrote: Thanks - I'll look into that. In the same line: is there an easy way of identifying utf8 characters in the file? A decent editor will inform you about that. However, using recode as described on the wiki should just work. Jürgen
Re: Index not being printed
2009/11/17 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk: On 16 Nov 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Anything's possible. I'd run the individual commands to find out what's missing or different. I'll bet you can find the root cause in 40 minutes. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt I followed the steps you outlined, which went through without errors. I then tried LyX again on the file and this time the index came up correctly. So that's fine, though I still don't understand what was wrong - perhaps some residual file that was blocking the index generation? It is possible, that change of temp dir for your document helped in case of some blocked files inside. Mainly these connected with index generation. -- Manveru jabber: manv...@manveru.pl gg: 1624001 http://www.manveru.pl
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Rainer M Krug wrote: Thanks - I'll look into that. In the same line: is there an easy way of identifying utf8 characters in the file? A decent editor will inform you about that. However, using recode as described on the wiki should just work. usiong as it is stated in the wiki, produces an error message: recode -d u8..ltex myfile.bib adding verbose: rk...@ecolmod:~/tmp$ recode -dv u8..ltex myfile.bib Request: UTF-8..:libiconv:..ISO-8859-1..LaTeX Shrunk to: UTF-8..ISO-8859-1..LaTeX Recoding myfile.bib... failed: Invalid input in step `UTF-8..ISO-8859-1' rk...@ecolmod:~/tmp$ I assume, that some strange characters are in the input file? Any ideas on how I can fix this? Rainer Jürgen -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
Rainer M Krug wrote: usiong as it is stated in the wiki, produces an error message: recode -d u8..ltex myfile.bib This is a utf8-7bit-LaTeX conversion. How about utf8-Latin9? recode u8..l9 myfile.bib Jürgen
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Rainer M Krug wrote: usiong as it is stated in the wiki, produces an error message: recode -d u8..ltex myfile.bib This is a utf8-7bit-LaTeX conversion. How about utf8-Latin9? recode u8..l9 myfile.bib rk...@ecolmod:~/tmp$ recode -dv u8..l9 myfile.bib Request: UTF-8..:libiconv:..ISO-8859-15 Shrunk to: UTF-8..ISO-8859-15 Recoding myfile.bib... failed: Invalid input in step `UTF-8..ISO-8859-15' rk...@ecolmod:~/tmp$ Same problem. Jürgen -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Language Problem with Theorems (AMS enhanced ).
Hallo @ all, I am really enjoy the use of the Program - Thank you for it! But I have a problem with Theorems (AMS enhanced). If I write a assumption I can see Annahme- wich means assumption in German at Lyx, but as soon as I create a .pdf of it there is assumption written in this pdf. I dont know how to fix this. Can you please help me. Thank You Matt
Re: lyx and pdf fonts
Steve Litt wrote: Good information here Helge... On Tuesday 10 November 2009 08:12:37 Helge Hafting wrote: ask2 wrote: Hi I try out LYX maybe once a year. What I am looking for when I try it is if the pdf files I can get is of high quality. Unfortunaltely that never is the case. So am I just stupid or is there a way to get really high quality pdf from LYX? Yes. Make sure the default font is not a bitmap font. Unfortunately, the default font is a bitmap font. You must change it. So, go Document-Settings-Fonts and choose something else instead of standard. There is Latin Modern if you like the look of the standard font on paper, but want nice pdf. Or select something else like Times Roman, Palatino, . . . Helge -- I've been using Century Schoolbook, which shows up as one of the choices with LyX as it comes with Mandriva and Ubuntu. Is Century Schoolbook a vector font? I found Latin Modern too light and stringy. I don't know. Last time I tested, only the Default resulted in ugly PDFs. That was a long time ago though. The test is simple enough - write with the font you want to test, and view the resulting PDF in adobe acrobat. In acrobat, zoom in as much as possible. If the huge glyphs on your screen looks ok, then it is a good vector font. If there are staircase effects on anything that should be round or slanted, then you have a bitmap font. You should use acrobat for this test. Some other PDF viewers handle bitmap fonts better, and don't get such visible problems. To avoid making this change for every document, save it as the new default. Main purpose is to read on the computer so both images and text should be suitable for that. That took care of the text, now for the images. What exactly is the problem with your images? If you draw something, make vector graphics rather than bitmaps, if possible. If you need screenshots, use png. Never jpeg, jpeg is only for photos. I didn't know .png is a vector graphic. No, png is not a vector format. But a PC/mac screenshot is never in vector format anyway. The point was - when you need bitmaps, use good ones. Jpeg will mess up any hard edges (such as a screenshot with text and window edges in it.) Jpeg is fine for photos - that is what jpeg was designed for. (Joint Photographic Expert Group.) Unfortunately, too many people abuse jpeg for screenshots and line drawing, mistakenly thinking it is some kind of generig graphics format. It is definitely not! I've been converting graphics to PDF before using them -- PDF *is* a vector format after all, and it seems to scale well. However, it would be soo much easier to use .png. Thanks for the tip. If your material is bitmap graphics, then png is a good choice. Note that bitmaps can be converted to PDF, but that does not make it vector graphics. This because PDF can embed bitmaps. (And so can postscript.) If your app can save as pdf, ps, eps or svg, then chances are it makes vector graphics. And then it makes sense to keep the graphics in vector form all the way to the printer or the reader's screen. The problem with bitmaps is that they has limited resolution. If the reader's screen (or the printer ot be used) has higher resolution, then the bitmap has to be upscaled. Upscaling is _never_ a perfect process. It tend to introduce staircase effects on slanted lines, or possibly blurriness in an attempt to cover up the staircase effects. There are always someone with high-end equipment that has a higher-resolution screen than you. And even the cheap printers has much higher resolution than the best screen around. You can fix this by making bitmaps with very high resolution, but then the files get enormous and cumbersome. Vector graphics have no such problems. They are not arrays of pixels, but a set of drawing commands. [Draw a green line from location (5,5) to location (1882,9644) and so on.] Such drawing commands work with any resolution, be it a 96 dpi screen, or a 1200 dpi photosetter. The output is as good as it gets on that output device, no matter what. And the files are considerably smaller than high-resolution bitmaps too. It is the same with fonts. A vector font consist of drawing instructions for each letter. (A T is a couple of lines with a specific thickness, and so on.) A bitmap font provides a bitmap. The bitmap is ok at some resolution, and insufficient at higher resolutions. Historically, the bitmap approach was considered easier. As far as the original poster, I've found that the output quality depends as much on the PDF reader as anything else. I've had docs that were beautiful on Acroread and ugly on xpdf, and others that were ugly on Acroread and beautiful on xpdf. I hate to admit it, but if my eBooks look good on Acroread, that satisfies 95% of my potential readers so I let it go that way. Most people use acrobat indeed. Acrobat does not handle bitmap fonts too well, especially not if you magnify. This is why
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
Rainer M Krug wrote: Same problem. I see. I don't know if there's a tool for this task. I would open the file in an editor and look for suspicious glyphs. Jürgen
Lastchecked-option in Wassenhoven-Style
Dear list, I use Lyx 1.6.4.1, report [koma] and Dominik Wassenhovens biblatex- style. How could I enable the lastchecked-option? I want to see that in my citations in the footer. Thank you! E
Re: Index not being printed
On Tuesday 17 November 2009 03:59:11 Anthony Campbell wrote: On 16 Nov 2009, Steve Litt wrote: Anything's possible. I'd run the individual commands to find out what's missing or different. I'll bet you can find the root cause in 40 minutes. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt I followed the steps you outlined, which went through without errors. I then tried LyX again on the file and this time the index came up correctly. So that's fine, though I still don't understand what was wrong - perhaps some residual file that was blocking the index generation? Did you notice my instructions had you run latex twice -- once before and once after running makeindex? I'll bet you dollars to donuts whatever script the LyX environment calls doesn't do that double latex run. In fact, I ALWAYS generate PDFs via my own scripts, at least if I care about accuracy in the index. What might be interesting is to generate PDFs via a make file. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
Re: bibtex8 and utf8 encoded file
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Jürgen Spitzmüller sp...@lyx.org wrote: Rainer M Krug wrote: Same problem. I see. I don't know if there's a tool for this task. I would open the file in an editor and look for suspicious glyphs. Thanks - I'll do so. Cheers, Rainer Jürgen -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
Luca Carlon wrote: Hi guys! I know this is not the right place to ask this, but maybe you could be patient and at least try to give me some hints. I'm writing my thesis with LyX, and I produce PDF's using the ps2pdf command for my supervisor. Can you try pdflatex instead? The pdf will be made with different software, and usually much faster too. The only problem is if you use pstricks or something similiar that isn't supported by pdflatex. You'll notice that immediately though. Helgeg Hafting
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
Helge Hafting helge.haft...@... writes: Can you try pdflatex instead? The pdf will be made with different software, and usually much faster too. The only problem is if you use pstricks or something similiar that isn't supported by pdflatex. You'll notice that immediately though. Helgeg Hafting Unfortunaltely no, it is not possible. I use eps graphic files, and as far as I know, they're not supported by pdflatex. Luca
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Luca Carlon carlon.l...@gmail.com wrote: Helge Hafting helge.haft...@... writes: Can you try pdflatex instead? The pdf will be made with different software, and usually much faster too. The only problem is if you use pstricks or something similiar that isn't supported by pdflatex. You'll notice that immediately though. Helgeg Hafting Unfortunaltely no, it is not possible. I use eps graphic files, and as far as I know, they're not supported by pdflatex. At least under linux, it works. Rainer Luca -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@... writes: Unfortunaltely no, it is not possible. I use eps graphic files, and as far as I know, they're not supported by pdflatex. At least under linux, it works. Rainer Luca This is very strange, under MacOSX I get: Latex error: unknown graphics extension: .eps. I never tried pdf latex under Linux, but I can try that as well. Thanks. Luca
Update DVI/PDF Mac LyX feature not working - have tried Skim
Hello All, The Update DVI and Update PDF feature isn't working for me in LyX for Macintosh. I have installed Skim, but to no avail. If it helps, I am using LyX 1.6.4.2 under Mac OS 10.6.2. Thank you all very much in advance for any help.
How to change First and Last name spacing
Hello All, I would like to know how I can change the first and last name spacing. When I preview the Title environment, the author portion comes out: FirstLast Instead of First Last with a space. Even when I changed the author name spacing in the LaTeX preamble to reflect this, this was not reflected in the preview. Any help would be appreciated, thank you very much in advance.
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Luca Carlon carlon.l...@gmail.com wrote: Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@... writes: Unfortunaltely no, it is not possible. I use eps graphic files, and as far as I know, they're not supported by pdflatex. At least under linux, it works. Rainer Luca This is very strange, under MacOSX I get: Latex error: unknown graphics extension: .eps. I never tried pdf latex under Linux, but I can try that as well. as far as I understand LyX, it uses a chain of converters to convert incompatible graphic formats. Under Linux, eps files can be converted to a usable format. In contrast, it seems that this is not possible under Mac, or the appropriate converters are not installed. EPS - PDF conversion is handled by ps2pdf So I would assume if you can install this and reconfigure LyX, it should work. Rainer Thanks. Luca -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: Update DVI/PDF Mac LyX feature not working - have tried Skim
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Daisuke Koya dk...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello All, The Update DVI and Update PDF feature isn't working for me in LyX for Macintosh. I have installed Skim, but to no avail. If it helps, I am using LyX 1.6.4.2 under Mac OS 10.6.2. Thank you all very much in advance for any help. This is probably a Skim issue: Skim Preferences Sync: check the box for Check for file changes. BH
Re: LyX doesn't find LaTeX (?)
Sadjad Siddiq schrieb: Thanks, Uwe, for your reply, but I somehow doubt that it will work. If I uninstall TeXLive and MiKTeX completely, and all other Latex/LyX stuff, I will just reproduce the situation I had before I've installed everything. And the alternative installer was the installer I started with. I guess I'll give it a last try if we don't find any other way. Please try it out. Note that you need to have Admin permissions. But is there no way to find out how or where LyX is looking for all the Latex packages or point it to specific locations? I guess thats the problem... According to your description this is not the problem. LyX found LaTeX but the LyX configuration file is broken. regards Uwe
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@... writes: as far as I understand LyX, it uses a chain of converters to convert incompatible graphic formats. Under Linux, eps files can be converted to a usable format. In contrast, it seems that this is not possible under Mac, or the appropriate converters are not installed. EPS - PDF conversion is handled by ps2pdf So I would assume if you can install this and reconfigure LyX, it should work. Rainer Well... there already is, and I suppose it is working in LyX too as all my eps are also present as pdf, so I suppose LyX has already converted them. Maybe dvipdfm did the conversion? Anyway, the command convert is working and epstopdf is set in LyX and is working as well. I still get that message though. Thanks! Luca
Re: Language Problem with Theorems (AMS enhanced ).
Matthias Hoffmann schrieb: But I have a problem with Theorems (AMS enhanced). If I write a assumption I can see Annahme- wich means assumption in German at Lyx, but as soon as I create a .pdf of it there is assumption written in this pdf. You need to translate these terms manually for the output. How this is done is described in http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/I18nLabels (In the next major LyX version these translations will be done automatically.) regards Uwe
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Luca Carlon carlon.l...@gmail.com wrote: Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@... writes: as far as I understand LyX, it uses a chain of converters to convert incompatible graphic formats. Under Linux, eps files can be converted to a usable format. In contrast, it seems that this is not possible under Mac, or the appropriate converters are not installed. EPS - PDF conversion is handled by ps2pdf So I would assume if you can install this and reconfigure LyX, it should work. Rainer Well... there already is, and I suppose it is working in LyX too as all my eps are also present as pdf, so I suppose LyX has already converted them. Maybe dvipdfm did the conversion? Anyway, the command convert is working and epstopdf is set in LyX and is working as well. I still get that message though. Sorry - can't help you then. EPS - PDF is the only converter from EPS which is defined. Rainer Thanks! Luca -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax:+27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax:+49 - (0)721 151 334 888 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
Re: integral operators
Rodrigo Velez schrieb: I got a problem with integral operators. Looking at the Math help Chap 10, it says that in order to use integral operators one must have the option Use esint package automatically set in the documents settings. I have this option set, but for some reason when I am going to view my file in pdf, Lyx says the following: $\intop $ I wasn't able to read the size data for this font, so I will ignore the font specification. It seems that the LaTeX package esint is not installed in your LaTeX. To fix this problem, install esint via the package manager of your LaTeX distribution. Afterwards reconfigure LyX and try again. regards Uwe
Re: Background color of Text.
nikunj . schrieb:
I could do it. Include the package 'color' in preamble, i.e. add
\usepackage{color} in the preamble. (Document-settings-latex preamble)
After that go to tex mode/ERT (ctrl-L on windows ) and write
\colorbox{green}{the text} within the ERT. More info at
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Colors
For more info look at sec. 5.7 Colored Boxes of the EmbeddedObjects manual that you find in LyX's
Help menu.
regards Uwe
Re: How to change First and Last name spacing
Daisuke Koya schrieb: I would like to know how I can change the first and last name spacing. When I preview the Title environment, the author portion comes out: FirstLast Instead of First Last with a space. What document class are you using, can you please provide a _small_ LyX example file? regards Uwe
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
On 17 nov 2009, at 13.59, Luca Carlon wrote: Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@... writes: Unfortunaltely no, it is not possible. I use eps graphic files, and as far as I know, they're not supported by pdflatex. At least under linux, it works. Rainer Luca This is very strange, under MacOSX I get: Latex error: unknown graphics extension: .eps. I never tried pdf latex under Linux, but I can try that as well. Thanks. Luca Hmmm, I think I remember having something like that a long time ago. Have you made your files in Illustrator? Have you tried eps2eps on the file? (i guess you have done the standard sudo texhash and LyXReconfigure). /Anders
Re: How to change First and Last name spacing
Hello again,
I thank both of you for the help.
However, through trial and error, I actually figured out the problem by myself.
As I don't know LaTeX, it seems I have confused pdfauthor with \author,
the latter which is at the end of the preamble.
I don't know what the markup
\title{}\author{FirstName LastName}\date{2009-11-17}
exactly means, but changing the spacing between FirstName and LastName
above, did the trick.
% This file was converted to LaTeX by Writer2LaTeX ver. 1.0
% see http://writer2latex.sourceforge.net for more info
\usepackage{amsfont...@ifundefined{definecolor}
{\usepackage{color}}{}
\usepackage{array}\usepackage{hhline}\usepackage{hyperref}\hypersetup{pdftex,colorlinks=true,linkcolor=blue,citecolor=blue,filecolor=blue,urlcolor=blue,pdftitle=,pdfauthor=,pdfsubject=,pdfkeywords=}%
Page layout (geometry)
\setlength{\voffset}{-1in}\setlength{\hoffset}{-1in}\setlength{\topmargin}{1.27cm}\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{1.27cm}\setlength{\textheight}{25.259cm}\setlength{\textwidth}{19.05cm}\setlength{\footskip}{0.0cm}\setlength{\headheight}{0cm}\setlength{\headsep}{0cm}%
Footnote rule
\setlength{\skip\footins}{0.119cm}\renewcommand{\footnoterule}{\vspace*{-0.018cm}\setlength\leftskip{0pt}\setlength\rightskip{0pt
plus
1fil}\noindent\textcolor{black}{\rule{0.25\columnwidth}{0.018cm}}\vspace*{0.101cm}}%
Pages styles
\makeatletter\newcommand{...@standard}{
\renewcomma...@oddhead{}
\renewcomma...@evenhead{}
\renewcomma...@oddfoot{}
\renewcomma...@evenfoot{}
\renewcommand\thepage{\arabic{page}}
}\makeatother\title{}\author{First Last}\date{2009-11-17}
On 17 Nov 2009, at 13:34, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Daisuke Koya schrieb:
I would like to know how I can change the first and last name spacing.
When I preview the Title environment, the author portion comes out:
FirstLast
Instead of
First Last
with a space.
What document class are you using, can you please provide a _small_ LyX
example file?
regards Uwe
Re: Update DVI/PDF Mac LyX feature not working - have tried Skim
Hello BH, Your suggestion worked! Thank you very much On 17 Nov 2009, at 13:13, BH wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Daisuke Koya dk...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello All, The Update DVI and Update PDF feature isn't working for me in LyX for Macintosh. I have installed Skim, but to no avail. If it helps, I am using LyX 1.6.4.2 under Mac OS 10.6.2. Thank you all very much in advance for any help. This is probably a Skim issue: Skim Preferences Sync: check the box for Check for file changes. BH
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
Am Tuesday 17 November 2009 schrieb Anders Ekberg: On 17 nov 2009, at 13.59, Luca Carlon wrote: Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@... writes: Unfortunaltely no, it is not possible. I use eps graphic files, and as far as I know, they're not supported by pdflatex. At least under linux, it works. Rainer Luca This is very strange, under MacOSX I get: Latex error: unknown graphics extension: .eps. I never tried pdf latex under Linux, but I can try that as well. Thanks. Luca Not strange. For pdflatex you may not use eps-figures. Hmmm, I think I remember having something like that a long time ago. Have you made your files in Illustrator? Have you tried eps2eps on the file? (i guess you have done the standard sudo texhash and LyXReconfigure). /Anders Kornel -- Kornel Benko kornel.be...@berlin.de signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Problems with PDF files generated by LyX
Anders Ekberg a...@... writes: Hmmm, I think I remember having something like that a long time ago. Have you made your files in Illustrator? Have you tried eps2eps on the file? (i guess you have done the standard sudo texhash and LyXReconfigure). /Anders No, I created those files with Matlab. No, I didn't try eps2eps... should I try it on all the eps files? Yes, I just tried the last two things, nothing changed. Thanks for your help guys! Luca
JabRef and Lyx on Mac
Hi there, I am having troubles with JabRef 2.5 and LyX 1.6.4.1 running with MacTex-2009 on Mac OS X 10.6.2. I am new to these tools and the Mac platform, so I haven't ruled out the possibility that I am doing something wrong. Are you able to tell from the explanation of my problem below whether I have a technical or user fault: I have configured my LyXServer path in LyX and Path to LyX pipe in JabRef both to: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/Resources/lyxpipe I then start a new *.lyx file in LyX. I then highlight the references I would like to push to LyX and click the Push selection to LyX/Kile button in JabRef. At this point it is confirmed that the two are communicating with each other as the predefined 'Bibtexkey' appears in square brackets on the new *.lyx document, i.e. [Author2009] . However, when I view the file in any format (PDF or PostScript) the reference appears on the document to be simply a question mark in square brackets - [?] , and not the full reference as expected. Any thoughts? Cheers, Phil
