Re: Bibliography problem and [?] questionmarks

[stephen's mailinglist account]

2010/1/15 Anastasia Melekou trob...@gmail.com:
 This is all a bit advanced for me. All I can do about encoding is change the 
 way I export to bibtex from zotero and I choose utf8 for that, but I don't 
 know were else I can change encoding in my lyx file.

 I created a new lyx file, a new library in zotero, exported it in the same 
 folder as y file, tried ti add citation and the same thing happens.


Occasionally I have had similar problems with missing bibliography
items - almost always the problem seems to be from BibTeX entries that
I have copied the titles directly from pdfs and the offending
characters seem to generally be right or left quotes or em-dashes that
bibTeX cannot cope with.  I suspect that characters with Unlauts etc
may also cause problems.
When I clean up the offending entries - everything works


-- 
Stephen

Document with PDFs

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, I have a document with some images in PDF format. I have
prepared the images in Inkscape (Windows XP). The document is being
compiled in LyX 1.6.5 (Leopard). When the document is compiled the
following message is presented:

basic_filebuf::_M_convert_to_external conversion error

I tried compiling the document in LaTeX directly and it worked
perfectly. I also tried convert directly with one of the images,
turning the PDF into a PS, and it also worked perfectly.

Any idea? Thanks in advance.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Install Fourier package/style

[KR Thorne]

I managed to get the Fourier-GUT package installed on my laptop, but now I have 
a netbook that I need to sync with the laptop files and *cannot* seem to find 
the info on how to install the Fourier-GUT in LyX.

I tried doing what the readme said regarding using updmap, but keep getting an 
error that says could not find fourier.map at all. The file IS there, because 
I hunted around in the Fourier-GUT folders and found it. But the install is not 
finding it.

Please note I am running Linux 8 Helena on my brand-new Gateway LT2108u 
netbook, so the above was accomplished via terminal. I have only been using 
Linux about 6 mos, so I don't know all the geek-speak (very little, actually). 
The instructions I've found usually seem written in ancient Sumerian, as I only 
recently left the Windows environment where you just click an .exe file and 
everything is installed for you. Simple, newbie, dummy-proof English would be 
most appreciated!!

Thanks,
Karen



  

Re: Install Fourier package/style

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-01-24, KR Thorne wrote:

 I managed to get the Fourier-GUT package installed on my laptop, but
 now I have a netbook that I need to sync with the laptop files and
 *cannot* seem to find the info on how to install the Fourier-GUT in
 LyX.

You cannot install Fourier in LyX. It's a LaTeX package that should
(preferabely) be installed via your Linux package manager.

Under Debian (and probabely also under Ubuntu), you would just install
the package texlive-fonts-extra.

 Please note I am running Linux 8 Helena
...

I don't know about Helena, what kind of Linux distribution is this
(Fedora, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, ...)?

Which LaTeX packages did you install?

 I tried doing what the readme said regarding using updmap, but keep
 getting an error that says could not find fourier.map at all. The
 file IS there, because I hunted around in the Fourier-GUT folders and
 found it. But the install is not finding it.

This looks like a manual install. Some REAME files are not up-to date.
My receipe is

   1. copy to /usr/local/share/texmf/
   2. `mktexlsr` or `texhash`
   3. create /etc/texmf/updmap.d/42*.conf with 
Map *.map Datei
  (see existing dvips/config/config.* or *.conf files)
   4. `update-updmap`
   5. `updmap-sys`

Günter

Re: question about family fonts

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-01-23, Marcelo Acuña wrote:

 Thanks Guenter, but, lamentably for me, to include fonts to the Lyx is
 an unattainable art. Marcelo

Three simple steps:

* Open the document in LyX and set DocumentSettingsFonts to [Default].

* find a font in the font catalogue (http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/)

* Copy the Usage line(s) to DocumentSettingsLaTeX preamble


This assumes that the font in question is installed in your system.
Installing LaTeX fonts might be simple or not, depending on your LaTeX
distribution and the particular font. 
(Ask again, if necessary, giving OS, LaTeX disto and font.)

Günter

Clear double page and start at left page

[Jan Piet Joris en Corneel]

Dear all,

I have two pages of graphs of a measurement in a two sided layout with
normal left-to-right text. I use classicthesis.

The graphs consists of four floats and should be printed on two pages
opposite to each other, so when someone opens the document, one can
see all four graphs at once.

Until now, I tried with clear page, clear double page ect. to do this.
Unfortunately after 'clear double page', a right (odd) page starts,
which is expected behaviour. I want to change this to left for this
case.

In the other parts of the document, clear double page should behave normally.

Does anybody have some suggestions? Maybe clever use of minipage or ERT?

Thanks,
Corné

Re: Bibliography problem and [?] questionmarks

[stephen's mailinglist account]

2010/1/15 Anastasia Melekou trob...@gmail.com:
 This is all a bit advanced for me. All I can do about encoding is change the 
 way I export to bibtex from zotero and I choose utf8 for that, but I don't 
 know were else I can change encoding in my lyx file.

 I created a new lyx file, a new library in zotero, exported it in the same 
 folder as y file, tried ti add citation and the same thing happens.


Occasionally I have had similar problems with missing bibliography
items - almost always the problem seems to be from BibTeX entries that
I have copied the titles directly from pdfs and the offending
characters seem to generally be right or left quotes or em-dashes that
bibTeX cannot cope with.  I suspect that characters with Unlauts etc
may also cause problems.
When I clean up the offending entries - everything works


-- 
Stephen

Document with PDFs

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, I have a document with some images in PDF format. I have
prepared the images in Inkscape (Windows XP). The document is being
compiled in LyX 1.6.5 (Leopard). When the document is compiled the
following message is presented:

basic_filebuf::_M_convert_to_external conversion error

I tried compiling the document in LaTeX directly and it worked
perfectly. I also tried convert directly with one of the images,
turning the PDF into a PS, and it also worked perfectly.

Any idea? Thanks in advance.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Install Fourier package/style

[KR Thorne]

I managed to get the Fourier-GUT package installed on my laptop, but now I have 
a netbook that I need to sync with the laptop files and *cannot* seem to find 
the info on how to install the Fourier-GUT in LyX.

I tried doing what the readme said regarding using updmap, but keep getting an 
error that says could not find fourier.map at all. The file IS there, because 
I hunted around in the Fourier-GUT folders and found it. But the install is not 
finding it.

Please note I am running Linux 8 Helena on my brand-new Gateway LT2108u 
netbook, so the above was accomplished via terminal. I have only been using 
Linux about 6 mos, so I don't know all the geek-speak (very little, actually). 
The instructions I've found usually seem written in ancient Sumerian, as I only 
recently left the Windows environment where you just click an .exe file and 
everything is installed for you. Simple, newbie, dummy-proof English would be 
most appreciated!!

Thanks,
Karen



  

Re: Install Fourier package/style

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-01-24, KR Thorne wrote:

 I managed to get the Fourier-GUT package installed on my laptop, but
 now I have a netbook that I need to sync with the laptop files and
 *cannot* seem to find the info on how to install the Fourier-GUT in
 LyX.

You cannot install Fourier in LyX. It's a LaTeX package that should
(preferabely) be installed via your Linux package manager.

Under Debian (and probabely also under Ubuntu), you would just install
the package texlive-fonts-extra.

 Please note I am running Linux 8 Helena
...

I don't know about Helena, what kind of Linux distribution is this
(Fedora, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, ...)?

Which LaTeX packages did you install?

 I tried doing what the readme said regarding using updmap, but keep
 getting an error that says could not find fourier.map at all. The
 file IS there, because I hunted around in the Fourier-GUT folders and
 found it. But the install is not finding it.

This looks like a manual install. Some REAME files are not up-to date.
My receipe is

   1. copy to /usr/local/share/texmf/
   2. `mktexlsr` or `texhash`
   3. create /etc/texmf/updmap.d/42*.conf with 
Map *.map Datei
  (see existing dvips/config/config.* or *.conf files)
   4. `update-updmap`
   5. `updmap-sys`

Günter

Re: question about family fonts

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-01-23, Marcelo Acuña wrote:

 Thanks Guenter, but, lamentably for me, to include fonts to the Lyx is
 an unattainable art. Marcelo

Three simple steps:

* Open the document in LyX and set DocumentSettingsFonts to [Default].

* find a font in the font catalogue (http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/)

* Copy the Usage line(s) to DocumentSettingsLaTeX preamble


This assumes that the font in question is installed in your system.
Installing LaTeX fonts might be simple or not, depending on your LaTeX
distribution and the particular font. 
(Ask again, if necessary, giving OS, LaTeX disto and font.)

Günter

Clear double page and start at left page

[Jan Piet Joris en Corneel]

Dear all,

I have two pages of graphs of a measurement in a two sided layout with
normal left-to-right text. I use classicthesis.

The graphs consists of four floats and should be printed on two pages
opposite to each other, so when someone opens the document, one can
see all four graphs at once.

Until now, I tried with clear page, clear double page ect. to do this.
Unfortunately after 'clear double page', a right (odd) page starts,
which is expected behaviour. I want to change this to left for this
case.

In the other parts of the document, clear double page should behave normally.

Does anybody have some suggestions? Maybe clever use of minipage or ERT?

Thanks,
Corné

Re: Bibliography problem and [?] questionmarks

[stephen's mailinglist account]

2010/1/15 Anastasia Melekou :
> This is all a bit advanced for me. All I can do about encoding is change the 
> way I export to bibtex from zotero and I choose utf8 for that, but I don't 
> know were else I can change encoding in my lyx file.
>
> I created a new lyx file, a new library in zotero, exported it in the same 
> folder as y file, tried ti add citation and the same thing happens.
>

Occasionally I have had similar problems with missing bibliography
items - almost always the problem seems to be from BibTeX entries that
I have copied the titles directly from pdfs and the offending
characters seem to generally be right or left quotes or em-dashes that
bibTeX cannot cope with.  I suspect that characters with Unlauts etc
may also cause problems.
When I clean up the offending entries - everything works


-- 
Stephen

Document with PDFs

[Julio Rojas]

Dear all, I have a document with some images in PDF format. I have
prepared the images in Inkscape (Windows XP). The document is being
compiled in LyX 1.6.5 (Leopard). When the document is compiled the
following message is presented:

basic_filebuf::_M_convert_to_external conversion error

I tried compiling the document in LaTeX directly and it worked
perfectly. I also tried "convert" directly with one of the images,
turning the PDF into a PS, and it also worked perfectly.

Any idea? Thanks in advance.
-
Julio Rojas
jcredbe...@gmail.com

Install Fourier package/style

[KR Thorne]

I managed to get the Fourier-GUT package installed on my laptop, but now I have 
a netbook that I need to sync with the laptop files and *cannot* seem to find 
the info on how to install the Fourier-GUT in LyX.

I tried doing what the readme said regarding using updmap, but keep getting an 
error that says "could not find fourier.map at all." The file IS there, because 
I hunted around in the Fourier-GUT folders and found it. But the install is not 
finding it.

Please note I am running Linux 8 Helena on my brand-new Gateway LT2108u 
netbook, so the above was accomplished via terminal. I have only been using 
Linux about 6 mos, so I don't know all the geek-speak (very little, actually). 
The instructions I've found usually seem written in ancient Sumerian, as I only 
recently left the Windows environment where you just click an .exe file and 
everything is installed for you. Simple, newbie, dummy-proof English would be 
most appreciated!!

Thanks,
Karen



  

Re: Install Fourier package/style

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-01-24, KR Thorne wrote:

> I managed to get the Fourier-GUT package installed on my laptop, but
> now I have a netbook that I need to sync with the laptop files and
> *cannot* seem to find the info on how to install the Fourier-GUT in
> LyX.

You cannot install Fourier "in LyX". It's a LaTeX package that should
(preferabely) be installed via your Linux package manager.

Under Debian (and probabely also under Ubuntu), you would just install
the package "texlive-fonts-extra".

> Please note I am running Linux 8 Helena
...

I don't know about Helena, what kind of Linux distribution is this
(Fedora, RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, ...)?

Which LaTeX packages did you install?

> I tried doing what the readme said regarding using updmap, but keep
> getting an error that says "could not find fourier.map at all." The
> file IS there, because I hunted around in the Fourier-GUT folders and
> found it. But the install is not finding it.

This looks like a manual install. Some REAME files are not up-to date.
My receipe is

   1. copy to /usr/local/share/texmf/
   2. `mktexlsr` or `texhash`
   3. create /etc/texmf/updmap.d/42*.conf with 
Map *.map Datei
  (see existing dvips/config/config.* or *.conf files)
   4. `update-updmap`
   5. `updmap-sys`

Günter

Re: question about family fonts

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-01-23, Marcelo Acuña wrote:

> Thanks Guenter, but, lamentably for me, to include fonts to the Lyx is
> an unattainable art. Marcelo

Three simple steps:

* Open the document in LyX and set Document>Settings>Fonts to [Default].

* find a font in the font catalogue (http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/)

* Copy the Usage line(s) to Document>Settings>LaTeX preamble


This assumes that the font in question is installed in your system.
Installing LaTeX fonts might be simple or not, depending on your LaTeX
distribution and the particular font. 
(Ask again, if necessary, giving OS, LaTeX disto and font.)

Günter

Clear double page and start at left page

[Jan Piet Joris en Corneel]

Dear all,

I have two pages of graphs of a measurement in a two sided layout with
normal left-to-right text. I use classicthesis.

The graphs consists of four floats and should be printed on two pages
opposite to each other, so when someone opens the document, one can
see all four graphs at once.

Until now, I tried with clear page, clear double page ect. to do this.
Unfortunately after 'clear double page', a right (odd) page starts,
which is expected behaviour. I want to change this to left for this
case.

In the other parts of the document, clear double page should behave normally.

Does anybody have some suggestions? Maybe clever use of minipage or ERT?

Thanks,
Corné