Re: Import and export to many formats...

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-03-04, Nikos Alexandris wrote:

 OK, I think I found it: I also had an Appendix with a rotated table. I
 removed the Appendix completely and it worked! :-)

 Well, as expected, it looks horrible but at least the text is there.


This is why I believe we should be more specific about the export
options of LyX in the Features advertisement. Something like

* good export to latex, PDF, PS, HTML

* via external converters, it is also possible to convert to oo, rtf,
  word, however there are limitations due to the conceptual
  differences in these formats.

Maybe even more fine-grained (excellent, good, acceptable,
problematic, ...)

Günter

Re: how to vary the spacing between paragraphs?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-03-04, John Coppens wrote:
 On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:12:37 +0100
 Richard Brown rich...@guidedelearning.com wrote:

 Thanks for that; but I'm sorry I should have been clearer in my
 question. I don't want to change the default settings for paragraph
 spacing in the whole document. I just need to be able to say that
 certain paragraphs will be nearer to the paragraph which follows, on a
 case by case basis.

 Try Insert|Formatting|Vertical spacing...

If you select Custom, also negative values can be given.

Günter

Re: lyx 1.6.5 will not open lyx 2 docs

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-03-04, William Seager wrote:
 On  Thursday 04 March 2010  at  10:05,  Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:

 Yes, it works.

 There should be a .lyx16 file next to the original .lyx file, which can
 be opened by LyX 1.6.5.

 Vincent

 thanks - that works perfectly (I just didn't see the file which is created
 without any notice to the user)


This is why I would really want to have a prompt to select a file name
when exporting.

Günter

Re: how to vary the spacing between paragraphs?

[Hellmut Weber]

Am 04.03.2010 21:15, schrieb Paul Rubin:

Richard Brownrich...@...  writes:



I don't seem to be able to vary the distance between paragraphs. I'm
sure there must be a way. Grateful for pointers.



In one specific spot:  Insert  Formatting  Vertical Space.

Globally, adjust the \parskip length in the preamble (see, for instance,
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Customizing_LaTeX#Paragraph_formatting).


Hi Paul,
thank you very much for this reference, I didn't know it and t seems to 
be very interesting.


Happy LyXing

Hellmut

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ML archives request

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Journal abbreviation JabRef

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Slightly off topic:
I am using Jabref for handling references in my LyX documents. I would like to 
use Journal abbreviations, and there exists a list jabref-journals. This is, 
however, quite uncomplete, at least for my field (biology). External lists 
can be added under JabRef. Has somebody experience with it?

I am particularly interested in the following:
The references I am using are in most cases already abbreviated. But they are 
not recognized, probably, because the full titles are missing. Do I have to 
add them or can one somehow circumwent it?

Any other way to do this job without spending too much time with it?

Wolfgang

Re: title page using koma script book

[Richard Brown]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:



 Are you using two-sided, I have no problem in two-sided. Also
 Uppertitleback and Lowertitleback environments work in two-sided only.

 Waluyo


Yes, I am using two sided. It seems that Uppertitleback and Lowertitleback
can each only include one paragraph, and that if I define multiple
paragraphs then only the last one in the list will be output.

Re: ML archives request

[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 10:19 +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I just subscribed to lyx-users and lyx-devel.
 
 Can someone, please, send me the mailing list archives in mbox
 format ? I'll import it to claws-mail directory and enjoy the grep
 feature in claws :)
 
 Thanks in advance.


Janek,

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Re: LyX 2 over Mac OS X Snow Leopard make error

[BH]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Yvon Thoraval yvon.thora...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes -- that fixes it for me. (Assuming this is the right fix, can
 someone check it in?)


 Unfortunately no ;-)

You're not understanding. To check in the fix is to modify the
official source so that everyone can get the fix by using svn to
update the source code on local machines (by simply entering svn up
-- you don't have to check out the code from the beginning as you
did). So far no one has checked in the fix yet, so testing now won't
change anything for you.

You can either wait for the fix to be checked in, or you can manually
make the change Lase proposed earlier in this thread.

BH

Re: Journal abbreviation JabRef

[Julien Rioux]

Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@... writes:

 
 Slightly off topic:
 I am using Jabref for handling references in my LyX documents. I would like 
 to 
 use Journal abbreviations, and there exists a list jabref-journals. This is, 
 however, quite uncomplete, at least for my field (biology). External lists 
 can be added under JabRef. Has somebody experience with it?

I manage my own list for journals that I encounter during research (mostly
physics journals). I find it easy enough to navigate to the menu Options 
Manage journal abbreviations and simply add new journals as you encounter 
them.

 
 I am particularly interested in the following:
 The references I am using are in most cases already abbreviated. But they are 
 not recognized, probably, because the full titles are missing. Do I have to 
 add them or can one somehow circumwent it?

No harm is done if no abbreviation is found for the journal, but you won't be
able to use the fullname--abbreviation toggling feature for this particular
article.

 
 Any other way to do this job without spending too much time with it?
 

I don't know. Try jabref mailing list?
jabref-us...@lists.sourceforge.net

 Wolfgang
 
 

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Typesetting poetry

[Richard Brown]

I'm using Komsascript book, and have a fair amount of poetry in my
manuscript. But the VERSE environment is not very satisfactory: The main
problem is that there is too much space between one line and the next, and I
must absolutely adjust that. It would also be nice if I had greater
flexibility for laying out the poems in the manuscript.
As always, thanks for your pointers.

Problems with the TOC

[Daniele_P]

Dear LyX users,

I am writing a essay in LyX and have a problem with the document class
“Book” and the buitl-in option to create the TOC.

In particular, when I introduce the TOC LyX automatically adds the titles of
the chapters also at the top of each page (actually with an interval of 1
page, let's say the odd pages).

This would be actually nice if the whole title fit into the page.. Indeed,
the titles of some chapters are quite long and LyX keeps writing them in one
single, with the result that in the pdf format, only part of the title fits
into the page. 

Do you have any clues about how to tell LyX not to report the title of the
paraghraph at the top of the pages along the document?


Thanks!

Best,

Daniele


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Re: Problems with the TOC

[rgheck]

On 03/05/2010 02:00 PM, Daniele_P wrote:

Dear LyX users,

I am writing a essay in LyX and have a problem with the document class
“Book” and the buitl-in option to create the TOC.

In particular, when I introduce the TOC LyX automatically adds the titles of
the chapters also at the top of each page (actually with an interval of 1
page, let's say the odd pages).

This would be actually nice if the whole title fit into the page.. Indeed,
the titles of some chapters are quite long and LyX keeps writing them in one
single, with the result that in the pdf format, only part of the title fits
into the page.

Do you have any clues about how to tell LyX not to report the title of the
paraghraph at the top of the pages along the document?

   
The page style can be changed under DocumentSettingsPage Layout, but 
there is another option. Where you have begun a chapter, put the cursor 
at the beginning of the line. Then do InsertShort Title. The short 
title is used for the page heading.


rh

Re: Typesetting poetry

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 05 March 2010 11:27:24 Richard Brown wrote:
 I'm using Komsascript book, and have a fair amount of poetry in my
 manuscript. But the VERSE environment is not very satisfactory: The main
 problem is that there is too much space between one line and the next, and
  I must absolutely adjust that. It would also be nice if I had greater
  flexibility for laying out the poems in the manuscript.
 As always, thanks for your pointers.

Using a layout file you can make a new environment, based on the VERSE 
environment, that has smaller line spacing and any other modifications you 
need. You could also simply modify VERSE in-place using the same techniques. 
Here are some articles I've written on creating and changing environments:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200210/200210.htm

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/presentations/lyx_leap/toc.html

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/latex_laboratory.htm

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/surefire_layout.htm


SteveT
 
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how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha]

I'm trying to port a powerpoint presentation to lyx with beamer. The one problem 
I ran into is reproducing a 3d text effect similar to

http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~michf/example.jpg
I found a package that does the shadow (and some mirror and other effects in 
tik-z) but could find anything that can do highlights on text to get the 3d effects.
I even tried downloading a font creation tool and create a new font with these 
glyphs instead of producing the effect, but it seems that fonts can only contain 
b/w bitmaps as far as I can tell and no highlight effects


Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Thanks

Re: title page using koma script book

[Marcelo Acuña]

 Uisng koma script book, and having on
 my title page only a title,
 subject and authors, for some reason I get a white page
 after the title
 page whereas I need to put the title verso there. I can't
 see any reason
 why this is happening: what should I check?

 A long time ago I decided to prepare all frontmatter aside, if it is 
necessary, in several archives aside, and then to include them in the main file.
 These separated archives can be done with Lyx or any other tool and then 
exported to pdf. Then they are simply included at the beginning of the main 
file.
 In the preamble of main file I put \title{} and \date{}.
 Definitively this is very comfortable.
Marcelo
 


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Seperate Numbering for Theorems, Defs, Examples, etc

[Srinivas Nedunuri]

Hello, is there a way to get Lyx to use seperate numbering for these 
different mathematical elements. ie, instead of Theorem 1, Def 2, 
Example 3, Theorem 4, etc
I want
Theorem 1, Def 1, Example 1, Theorem 2, etc

Right now I'm hacking the generated Latex file removing the [thm] in 
\newtheorem{defn}[thm]{Definition} but I'd rather not

cheers 

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Stefaan Himpe]

Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
such drawings for you.

See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/

Best regards,
Stefaan.

Re: Seperate Numbering for Theorems, Defs, Examples, etc

[Srinivas Nedunuri]

Quick apology: I asked this question before, and was pointed at a lyx page 
that was supposed to contain some modules that I could use. However the link 
((http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Modules) appears broken. I looked on the main wiki 
page but i couldnt see anything that was obviously relevent:

Srinivas Nedunuri nedun...@cs.utexas.edu wrote 
in message news:hms5hh$ju...@dough.gmane.org...
 Hello, is there a way to get Lyx to use seperate numbering for these 
 different mathematical elements. ie, instead of Theorem 1, Def 2, 
 Example 3, Theorem 4, etc
 I want
Theorem 1, Def 1, Example 1, Theorem 2, etc

 Right now I'm hacking the generated Latex file removing the [thm] in 
 \newtheorem{defn}[thm]{Definition} but I'd rather not

 cheers


 

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha]

On 06/03/2010 01:55, Stefaan Himpe wrote:

Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
such drawings for you.

See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/

Best regards,
Stefaan.


If it's possible to call it from inside latex then it's a good solution. I want 
to create a beamer theme that takes the slide header and typesets the text with 
a 3d effect, so I need something that works as a latex package and commands.


I've also looked into asymptote, but don't see anything that seems to be able to 
do the job either ...


I'm looking for something that can work like tikz or asymptote, i.e include a 
package, wrap the text with some commands and get the effect

RE: Garamond in LyX?

[Rob Oakes]

Piero,

If you have access to open type or true type fonts, you might consider using
XeLaTeX and fontspec.  I've had better success going this route than trying
to install Garamond by hand (for some reason the Ubuntu packages just don't
seem to work well for me.)

Cheers,

Rob

-Original Message-
From: Piero [mailto:pierofaust...@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 3:58 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Garamond in LyX?

Hello,
Anyone succeeded in installing and using URW Garamond  or any other Garamond
fonts in LyX?
I found this page http://gael-varoquaux.info/computers/garamond/index.html
 whose
examples works perfectly without any installation using TexWorks,  but have
no idea on how to install it on MikTeX or having it working under LyX 1.6.5

The garamond package docs seems a bit confusing, referring to files which
actually don't exist and so on...
Any idea?

I'm Windows MikTeX user.
Thanks!
Piero 

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha Feigin]

On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:55:39 +0100
Stefaan Himpe stefaan.hi...@gmail.com wrote:

  Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?
 Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
 such drawings for you.
 
 See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/
 
 Best regards,
 Stefaan.
 

I've gotten close by using \write18 to create the image to include. Still not 
ideal as I'm not sure about getting a two line title but that is minor.

The question remains now of how to achieve the 3d effect with an external 
program so that I get the text image to include. Got the shadow rather easily 
but can't manage to get the highlights for the text. Any idea? (gotten close 
with gimp but I don't know how to automate it, still far away with convert)

It's still only tested with straight latex, will see how to handle \write18 
from within lyx later on

Re: Import and export to many formats...

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-03-04, Nikos Alexandris wrote:

 OK, I think I found it: I also had an Appendix with a rotated table. I
 removed the Appendix completely and it worked! :-)

 Well, as expected, it looks horrible but at least the text is there.


This is why I believe we should be more specific about the export
options of LyX in the Features advertisement. Something like

* good export to latex, PDF, PS, HTML

* via external converters, it is also possible to convert to oo, rtf,
  word, however there are limitations due to the conceptual
  differences in these formats.

Maybe even more fine-grained (excellent, good, acceptable,
problematic, ...)

Günter

Re: how to vary the spacing between paragraphs?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-03-04, John Coppens wrote:
 On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:12:37 +0100
 Richard Brown rich...@guidedelearning.com wrote:

 Thanks for that; but I'm sorry I should have been clearer in my
 question. I don't want to change the default settings for paragraph
 spacing in the whole document. I just need to be able to say that
 certain paragraphs will be nearer to the paragraph which follows, on a
 case by case basis.

 Try Insert|Formatting|Vertical spacing...

If you select Custom, also negative values can be given.

Günter

Re: lyx 1.6.5 will not open lyx 2 docs

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-03-04, William Seager wrote:
 On  Thursday 04 March 2010  at  10:05,  Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:

 Yes, it works.

 There should be a .lyx16 file next to the original .lyx file, which can
 be opened by LyX 1.6.5.

 Vincent

 thanks - that works perfectly (I just didn't see the file which is created
 without any notice to the user)


This is why I would really want to have a prompt to select a file name
when exporting.

Günter

Re: how to vary the spacing between paragraphs?

[Hellmut Weber]

Am 04.03.2010 21:15, schrieb Paul Rubin:

Richard Brownrich...@...  writes:



I don't seem to be able to vary the distance between paragraphs. I'm
sure there must be a way. Grateful for pointers.



In one specific spot:  Insert  Formatting  Vertical Space.

Globally, adjust the \parskip length in the preamble (see, for instance,
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Customizing_LaTeX#Paragraph_formatting).


Hi Paul,
thank you very much for this reference, I didn't know it and t seems to 
be very interesting.


Happy LyXing

Hellmut

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ML archives request

[Janek Kozicki]

Hi,

I just subscribed to lyx-users and lyx-devel.

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format ? I'll import it to claws-mail directory and enjoy the grep
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Journal abbreviation JabRef

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Slightly off topic:
I am using Jabref for handling references in my LyX documents. I would like to 
use Journal abbreviations, and there exists a list jabref-journals. This is, 
however, quite uncomplete, at least for my field (biology). External lists 
can be added under JabRef. Has somebody experience with it?

I am particularly interested in the following:
The references I am using are in most cases already abbreviated. But they are 
not recognized, probably, because the full titles are missing. Do I have to 
add them or can one somehow circumwent it?

Any other way to do this job without spending too much time with it?

Wolfgang

Re: title page using koma script book

[Richard Brown]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:



 Are you using two-sided, I have no problem in two-sided. Also
 Uppertitleback and Lowertitleback environments work in two-sided only.

 Waluyo


Yes, I am using two sided. It seems that Uppertitleback and Lowertitleback
can each only include one paragraph, and that if I define multiple
paragraphs then only the last one in the list will be output.

Re: ML archives request

[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 10:19 +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote:
 Hi,
 
 I just subscribed to lyx-users and lyx-devel.
 
 Can someone, please, send me the mailing list archives in mbox
 format ? I'll import it to claws-mail directory and enjoy the grep
 feature in claws :)
 
 Thanks in advance.


Janek,

a few days ago I subscribed myself in the lyx-devel list and I
received, along with the confirmation-related mail(s) the extremely
usfeul Administrative commands for the lyx-devel list (see below).

I managed to get the posts I wanted. I don't know/remember if the same
is valid for the lyx-users. Check it out - Good Luck.

Regards, Nikos


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Re: LyX 2 over Mac OS X Snow Leopard make error

[BH]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Yvon Thoraval yvon.thora...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes -- that fixes it for me. (Assuming this is the right fix, can
 someone check it in?)


 Unfortunately no ;-)

You're not understanding. To check in the fix is to modify the
official source so that everyone can get the fix by using svn to
update the source code on local machines (by simply entering svn up
-- you don't have to check out the code from the beginning as you
did). So far no one has checked in the fix yet, so testing now won't
change anything for you.

You can either wait for the fix to be checked in, or you can manually
make the change Lase proposed earlier in this thread.

BH

Re: Journal abbreviation JabRef

[Julien Rioux]

Wolfgang Engelmann engelm...@... writes:

 
 Slightly off topic:
 I am using Jabref for handling references in my LyX documents. I would like 
 to 
 use Journal abbreviations, and there exists a list jabref-journals. This is, 
 however, quite uncomplete, at least for my field (biology). External lists 
 can be added under JabRef. Has somebody experience with it?

I manage my own list for journals that I encounter during research (mostly
physics journals). I find it easy enough to navigate to the menu Options 
Manage journal abbreviations and simply add new journals as you encounter 
them.

 
 I am particularly interested in the following:
 The references I am using are in most cases already abbreviated. But they are 
 not recognized, probably, because the full titles are missing. Do I have to 
 add them or can one somehow circumwent it?

No harm is done if no abbreviation is found for the journal, but you won't be
able to use the fullname--abbreviation toggling feature for this particular
article.

 
 Any other way to do this job without spending too much time with it?
 

I don't know. Try jabref mailing list?
jabref-us...@lists.sourceforge.net

 Wolfgang
 
 

--
Julien

Typesetting poetry

[Richard Brown]

I'm using Komsascript book, and have a fair amount of poetry in my
manuscript. But the VERSE environment is not very satisfactory: The main
problem is that there is too much space between one line and the next, and I
must absolutely adjust that. It would also be nice if I had greater
flexibility for laying out the poems in the manuscript.
As always, thanks for your pointers.

Problems with the TOC

[Daniele_P]

Dear LyX users,

I am writing a essay in LyX and have a problem with the document class
“Book” and the buitl-in option to create the TOC.

In particular, when I introduce the TOC LyX automatically adds the titles of
the chapters also at the top of each page (actually with an interval of 1
page, let's say the odd pages).

This would be actually nice if the whole title fit into the page.. Indeed,
the titles of some chapters are quite long and LyX keeps writing them in one
single, with the result that in the pdf format, only part of the title fits
into the page. 

Do you have any clues about how to tell LyX not to report the title of the
paraghraph at the top of the pages along the document?


Thanks!

Best,

Daniele


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Re: Problems with the TOC

[rgheck]

On 03/05/2010 02:00 PM, Daniele_P wrote:

Dear LyX users,

I am writing a essay in LyX and have a problem with the document class
“Book” and the buitl-in option to create the TOC.

In particular, when I introduce the TOC LyX automatically adds the titles of
the chapters also at the top of each page (actually with an interval of 1
page, let's say the odd pages).

This would be actually nice if the whole title fit into the page.. Indeed,
the titles of some chapters are quite long and LyX keeps writing them in one
single, with the result that in the pdf format, only part of the title fits
into the page.

Do you have any clues about how to tell LyX not to report the title of the
paraghraph at the top of the pages along the document?

   
The page style can be changed under DocumentSettingsPage Layout, but 
there is another option. Where you have begun a chapter, put the cursor 
at the beginning of the line. Then do InsertShort Title. The short 
title is used for the page heading.


rh

Re: Typesetting poetry

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 05 March 2010 11:27:24 Richard Brown wrote:
 I'm using Komsascript book, and have a fair amount of poetry in my
 manuscript. But the VERSE environment is not very satisfactory: The main
 problem is that there is too much space between one line and the next, and
  I must absolutely adjust that. It would also be nice if I had greater
  flexibility for laying out the poems in the manuscript.
 As always, thanks for your pointers.

Using a layout file you can make a new environment, based on the VERSE 
environment, that has smaller line spacing and any other modifications you 
need. You could also simply modify VERSE in-place using the same techniques. 
Here are some articles I've written on creating and changing environments:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200210/200210.htm

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/presentations/lyx_leap/toc.html

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/latex_laboratory.htm

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/surefire_layout.htm


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how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha]

I'm trying to port a powerpoint presentation to lyx with beamer. The one problem 
I ran into is reproducing a 3d text effect similar to

http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~michf/example.jpg
I found a package that does the shadow (and some mirror and other effects in 
tik-z) but could find anything that can do highlights on text to get the 3d effects.
I even tried downloading a font creation tool and create a new font with these 
glyphs instead of producing the effect, but it seems that fonts can only contain 
b/w bitmaps as far as I can tell and no highlight effects


Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Thanks

Re: title page using koma script book

[Marcelo Acuña]

 Uisng koma script book, and having on
 my title page only a title,
 subject and authors, for some reason I get a white page
 after the title
 page whereas I need to put the title verso there. I can't
 see any reason
 why this is happening: what should I check?

 A long time ago I decided to prepare all frontmatter aside, if it is 
necessary, in several archives aside, and then to include them in the main file.
 These separated archives can be done with Lyx or any other tool and then 
exported to pdf. Then they are simply included at the beginning of the main 
file.
 In the preamble of main file I put \title{} and \date{}.
 Definitively this is very comfortable.
Marcelo
 


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Seperate Numbering for Theorems, Defs, Examples, etc

[Srinivas Nedunuri]

Hello, is there a way to get Lyx to use seperate numbering for these 
different mathematical elements. ie, instead of Theorem 1, Def 2, 
Example 3, Theorem 4, etc
I want
Theorem 1, Def 1, Example 1, Theorem 2, etc

Right now I'm hacking the generated Latex file removing the [thm] in 
\newtheorem{defn}[thm]{Definition} but I'd rather not

cheers 

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Stefaan Himpe]

Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
such drawings for you.

See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/

Best regards,
Stefaan.

Re: Seperate Numbering for Theorems, Defs, Examples, etc

[Srinivas Nedunuri]

Quick apology: I asked this question before, and was pointed at a lyx page 
that was supposed to contain some modules that I could use. However the link 
((http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Modules) appears broken. I looked on the main wiki 
page but i couldnt see anything that was obviously relevent:

Srinivas Nedunuri nedun...@cs.utexas.edu wrote 
in message news:hms5hh$ju...@dough.gmane.org...
 Hello, is there a way to get Lyx to use seperate numbering for these 
 different mathematical elements. ie, instead of Theorem 1, Def 2, 
 Example 3, Theorem 4, etc
 I want
Theorem 1, Def 1, Example 1, Theorem 2, etc

 Right now I'm hacking the generated Latex file removing the [thm] in 
 \newtheorem{defn}[thm]{Definition} but I'd rather not

 cheers


 

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha]

On 06/03/2010 01:55, Stefaan Himpe wrote:

Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
such drawings for you.

See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/

Best regards,
Stefaan.


If it's possible to call it from inside latex then it's a good solution. I want 
to create a beamer theme that takes the slide header and typesets the text with 
a 3d effect, so I need something that works as a latex package and commands.


I've also looked into asymptote, but don't see anything that seems to be able to 
do the job either ...


I'm looking for something that can work like tikz or asymptote, i.e include a 
package, wrap the text with some commands and get the effect

RE: Garamond in LyX?

[Rob Oakes]

Piero,

If you have access to open type or true type fonts, you might consider using
XeLaTeX and fontspec.  I've had better success going this route than trying
to install Garamond by hand (for some reason the Ubuntu packages just don't
seem to work well for me.)

Cheers,

Rob

-Original Message-
From: Piero [mailto:pierofaust...@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 3:58 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Garamond in LyX?

Hello,
Anyone succeeded in installing and using URW Garamond  or any other Garamond
fonts in LyX?
I found this page http://gael-varoquaux.info/computers/garamond/index.html
 whose
examples works perfectly without any installation using TexWorks,  but have
no idea on how to install it on MikTeX or having it working under LyX 1.6.5

The garamond package docs seems a bit confusing, referring to files which
actually don't exist and so on...
Any idea?

I'm Windows MikTeX user.
Thanks!
Piero 

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha Feigin]

On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:55:39 +0100
Stefaan Himpe stefaan.hi...@gmail.com wrote:

  Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?
 Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
 such drawings for you.
 
 See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/
 
 Best regards,
 Stefaan.
 

I've gotten close by using \write18 to create the image to include. Still not 
ideal as I'm not sure about getting a two line title but that is minor.

The question remains now of how to achieve the 3d effect with an external 
program so that I get the text image to include. Got the shadow rather easily 
but can't manage to get the highlights for the text. Any idea? (gotten close 
with gimp but I don't know how to automate it, still far away with convert)

It's still only tested with straight latex, will see how to handle \write18 
from within lyx later on

Re: Import and export to many formats...

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-03-04, Nikos Alexandris wrote:

> OK, I think I found it: I also had an Appendix with a rotated table. I
> removed the Appendix completely and it worked! :-)

> Well, as expected, it looks horrible but at least the text is there.


This is why I believe we should be more specific about the export
options of LyX in the Features advertisement. Something like

* good export to latex, PDF, PS, HTML

* via external converters, it is also possible to convert to oo, rtf,
  word, however there are limitations due to the conceptual
  differences in these formats.

Maybe even more fine-grained (excellent, good, acceptable,
problematic, ...)

Günter

Re: how to vary the spacing between paragraphs?

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-03-04, John Coppens wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:12:37 +0100
> Richard Brown  wrote:

>> Thanks for that; but I'm sorry I should have been clearer in my
>> question. I don't want to change the default settings for paragraph
>> spacing in the whole document. I just need to be able to say that
>> certain paragraphs will be nearer to the paragraph which follows, on a
>> case by case basis.

> Try Insert|Formatting|Vertical spacing...

If you select "Custom", also negative values can be given.

Günter

Re: lyx 1.6.5 will not open lyx 2 docs

[Guenter Milde]

On 2010-03-04, William Seager wrote:
> On  Thursday 04 March 2010  at  10:05,  Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW wrote:

>> Yes, it works.

>> There should be a .lyx16 file next to the original .lyx file, which can
>> be opened by LyX 1.6.5.

>> Vincent

> thanks - that works perfectly (I just didn't see the file which is created
> without any notice to the user)


This is why I would really want to have a prompt to select a file name
when exporting.

Günter

Re: how to vary the spacing between paragraphs?

[Hellmut Weber]

Am 04.03.2010 21:15, schrieb Paul Rubin:

Richard Brown  writes:



I don't seem to be able to vary the distance between paragraphs. I'm
sure there must be a way. Grateful for pointers.



In one specific spot:  Insert>  Formatting>  Vertical Space.

Globally, adjust the \parskip length in the preamble (see, for instance,
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Customizing_LaTeX#Paragraph_formatting).


Hi Paul,
thank you very much for this reference, I didn't know it and t seems to 
be very interesting.


Happy LyXing

Hellmut

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ML archives request

[Janek Kozicki]

Hi,

I just subscribed to lyx-users and lyx-devel.

Can someone, please, send me the mailing list archives in mbox
format ? I'll import it to claws-mail directory and enjoy the grep
feature in claws :)

Thanks in advance.
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Journal abbreviation JabRef

[Wolfgang Engelmann]

Slightly off topic:
I am using Jabref for handling references in my LyX documents. I would like to 
use Journal abbreviations, and there exists a list jabref-journals. This is, 
however, quite uncomplete, at least for my field (biology). External lists 
can be added under JabRef. Has somebody experience with it?

I am particularly interested in the following:
The references I am using are in most cases already abbreviated. But they are 
not recognized, probably, because the full titles are missing. Do I have to 
add them or can one somehow circumwent it?

Any other way to do this job without spending too much time with it?

Wolfgang

Re: title page using koma script book

[Richard Brown]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Waluyo Adi Siswanto wrote:

>
>
> Are you using "two-sided", I have no problem in two-sided. Also
> Uppertitleback and Lowertitleback environments work in two-sided only.
>
> Waluyo
>

Yes, I am using two sided. It seems that Uppertitleback and Lowertitleback
can each only include one paragraph, and that if I define multiple
paragraphs then only the last one in the list will be output.

Re: ML archives request

[Νίκος Αλεξανδρής]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 10:19 +0100, Janek Kozicki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just subscribed to lyx-users and lyx-devel.
> 
> Can someone, please, send me the mailing list archives in mbox
> format ? I'll import it to claws-mail directory and enjoy the grep
> feature in claws :)
> 
> Thanks in advance.


Janek,

a few days ago I subscribed myself in the "lyx-devel" list and I
received, along with the confirmation-related mail(s) the extremely
usfeul "Administrative commands for the lyx-devel list" (see below).

I managed to get the posts I wanted. I don't know/remember if the same
is valid for the lyx-users. Check it out - Good Luck.

Regards, Nikos


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Re: LyX 2 over Mac OS X Snow Leopard make error

[BH]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Yvon Thoraval  wrote:
>>
>> Yes -- that fixes it for me. (Assuming this is the right fix, can
>> someone check it in?)
>>
>
> Unfortunately no ;-)

You're not understanding. To "check in" the fix is to modify the
official source so that everyone can get the fix by using svn to
update the source code on local machines (by simply entering "svn up"
-- you don't have to check out the code from the beginning as you
did). So far no one has checked in the fix yet, so testing now won't
change anything for you.

You can either wait for the fix to be checked in, or you can manually
make the change Lase proposed earlier in this thread.

BH

Re: Journal abbreviation JabRef

[Julien Rioux]

Wolfgang Engelmann  writes:

> 
> Slightly off topic:
> I am using Jabref for handling references in my LyX documents. I would like 
> to 
> use Journal abbreviations, and there exists a list jabref-journals. This is, 
> however, quite uncomplete, at least for my field (biology). External lists 
> can be added under JabRef. Has somebody experience with it?

I manage my own list for journals that I encounter during research (mostly
physics journals). I find it easy enough to navigate to the menu Options >
"Manage journal abbreviations" and simply add new journals as you encounter 
them.

> 
> I am particularly interested in the following:
> The references I am using are in most cases already abbreviated. But they are 
> not recognized, probably, because the full titles are missing. Do I have to 
> add them or can one somehow circumwent it?

No harm is done if no abbreviation is found for the journal, but you won't be
able to use the fullname<-->abbreviation toggling feature for this particular
article.

> 
> Any other way to do this job without spending too much time with it?
> 

I don't know. Try jabref mailing list?
jabref-us...@lists.sourceforge.net

> Wolfgang
> 
> 

--
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Typesetting poetry

[Richard Brown]

I'm using Komsascript book, and have a fair amount of poetry in my
manuscript. But the VERSE environment is not very satisfactory: The main
problem is that there is too much space between one line and the next, and I
must absolutely adjust that. It would also be nice if I had greater
flexibility for laying out the poems in the manuscript.
As always, thanks for your pointers.

Problems with the TOC

[Daniele_P]

Dear LyX users,

I am writing a essay in LyX and have a problem with the document class
“Book” and the buitl-in option to create the TOC.

In particular, when I introduce the TOC LyX automatically adds the titles of
the chapters also at the top of each page (actually with an interval of 1
page, let's say the odd pages).

This would be actually nice if the whole title fit into the page.. Indeed,
the titles of some chapters are quite long and LyX keeps writing them in one
single, with the result that in the pdf format, only part of the title fits
into the page. 

Do you have any clues about how to tell LyX not to report the title of the
paraghraph at the top of the pages along the document?


Thanks!

Best,

Daniele


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Re: Problems with the TOC

[rgheck]

On 03/05/2010 02:00 PM, Daniele_P wrote:

Dear LyX users,

I am writing a essay in LyX and have a problem with the document class
“Book” and the buitl-in option to create the TOC.

In particular, when I introduce the TOC LyX automatically adds the titles of
the chapters also at the top of each page (actually with an interval of 1
page, let's say the odd pages).

This would be actually nice if the whole title fit into the page.. Indeed,
the titles of some chapters are quite long and LyX keeps writing them in one
single, with the result that in the pdf format, only part of the title fits
into the page.

Do you have any clues about how to tell LyX not to report the title of the
paraghraph at the top of the pages along the document?

   
The page style can be changed under Document>Settings>Page Layout, but 
there is another option. Where you have begun a chapter, put the cursor 
at the beginning of the line. Then do Insert>Short Title. The short 
title is used for the page heading.


rh

Re: Typesetting poetry

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 05 March 2010 11:27:24 Richard Brown wrote:
> I'm using Komsascript book, and have a fair amount of poetry in my
> manuscript. But the VERSE environment is not very satisfactory: The main
> problem is that there is too much space between one line and the next, and
>  I must absolutely adjust that. It would also be nice if I had greater
>  flexibility for laying out the poems in the manuscript.
> As always, thanks for your pointers.

Using a layout file you can make a new environment, based on the VERSE 
environment, that has smaller line spacing and any other modifications you 
need. You could also simply modify VERSE in-place using the same techniques. 
Here are some articles I've written on creating and changing environments:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200210/200210.htm

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/presentations/lyx_leap/toc.html

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/latex_laboratory.htm

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/surefire_layout.htm


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how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha]

I'm trying to port a powerpoint presentation to lyx with beamer. The one problem 
I ran into is reproducing a 3d text effect similar to

http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~michf/example.jpg
I found a package that does the shadow (and some mirror and other effects in 
tik-z) but could find anything that can do highlights on text to get the 3d effects.
I even tried downloading a font creation tool and create a new font with these 
glyphs instead of producing the effect, but it seems that fonts can only contain 
b/w bitmaps as far as I can tell and no highlight effects


Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Thanks

Re: title page using koma script book

[Marcelo Acuña]

> Uisng koma script book, and having on
> my title page only a title,
> subject and authors, for some reason I get a white page
> after the title
> page whereas I need to put the title verso there. I can't
> see any reason
> why this is happening: what should I check?

 A long time ago I decided to prepare all frontmatter aside, if it is 
necessary, in several archives aside, and then to include them in the main file.
 These separated archives can be done with Lyx or any other tool and then 
exported to pdf. Then they are simply included at the beginning of the main 
file.
 In the preamble of main file I put \title{} and \date{}.
 Definitively this is very comfortable.
Marcelo
 


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Seperate Numbering for Theorems, Defs, Examples, etc

[Srinivas Nedunuri]

Hello, is there a way to get Lyx to use seperate numbering for these 
different mathematical elements. ie, instead of Theorem 1, Def 2, 
Example 3, Theorem 4, etc
I want
Theorem 1, Def 1, Example 1, Theorem 2, etc

Right now I'm hacking the generated Latex file removing the [thm] in 
\newtheorem{defn}[thm]{Definition} but I'd rather not

cheers 

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Stefaan Himpe]

Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
such drawings for you.

See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/

Best regards,
Stefaan.

Re: Seperate Numbering for Theorems, Defs, Examples, etc

[Srinivas Nedunuri]

Quick apology: I asked this question before, and was pointed at a lyx page 
that was supposed to contain some modules that I could use. However the link 
((http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Modules) appears broken. I looked on the main wiki 
page but i couldnt see anything that was obviously relevent:

"Srinivas Nedunuri"  wrote 
in message news:hms5hh$ju...@dough.gmane.org...
> Hello, is there a way to get Lyx to use seperate numbering for these 
> different mathematical elements. ie, instead of Theorem 1, Def 2, 
> Example 3, Theorem 4, etc
> I want
>Theorem 1, Def 1, Example 1, Theorem 2, etc
>
> Right now I'm hacking the generated Latex file removing the [thm] in 
> \newtheorem{defn}[thm]{Definition} but I'd rather not
>
> cheers
>
>
> 

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha]

On 06/03/2010 01:55, Stefaan Himpe wrote:

Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?

Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
such drawings for you.

See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/

Best regards,
Stefaan.


If it's possible to call it from inside latex then it's a good solution. I want 
to create a beamer theme that takes the slide header and typesets the text with 
a 3d effect, so I need something that works as a latex package and commands.


I've also looked into asymptote, but don't see anything that seems to be able to 
do the job either ...


I'm looking for something that can work like tikz or asymptote, i.e include a 
package, wrap the text with some commands and get the effect

RE: Garamond in LyX?

[Rob Oakes]

Piero,

If you have access to open type or true type fonts, you might consider using
XeLaTeX and fontspec.  I've had better success going this route than trying
to install Garamond by hand (for some reason the Ubuntu packages just don't
seem to work well for me.)

Cheers,

Rob

-Original Message-
From: Piero [mailto:pierofaust...@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 3:58 PM
To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Garamond in LyX?

Hello,
Anyone succeeded in installing and using URW Garamond  or any other Garamond
fonts in LyX?
I found this page http://gael-varoquaux.info/computers/garamond/index.html
 whose
examples works perfectly without any installation using TexWorks,  but have
no idea on how to install it on MikTeX or having it working under LyX 1.6.5

The garamond package docs seems a bit confusing, referring to files which
actually don't exist and so on...
Any idea?

I'm Windows MikTeX user.
Thanks!
Piero 

Re: how to get text effects in beamer (3d, shadow)

[Micha Feigin]

On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:55:39 +0100
Stefaan Himpe  wrote:

> > Is there anything that can do that in lyx/beamer/latex?
> Not sure if that is acceptable to you, but imagemagick can easily create
> such drawings for you.
> 
> See e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fonts/
> 
> Best regards,
> Stefaan.
> 

I've gotten close by using \write18 to create the image to include. Still not 
ideal as I'm not sure about getting a two line title but that is minor.

The question remains now of how to achieve the 3d effect with an external 
program so that I get the text image to include. Got the shadow rather easily 
but can't manage to get the highlights for the text. Any idea? (gotten close 
with gimp but I don't know how to automate it, still far away with convert)

It's still only tested with straight latex, will see how to handle \write18 
from within lyx later on