Re: Access LyX version number from within a document

[M . Speiser]

Steve Litt sl...@... writes:

 A simple Perl script could scan the doc, delete any lines starting with 
 \mylyxversion=, and then just before the \begin{document} insert 
 \mylyxversion = `lyx --version | head -n1`. Once you have the version in 
 \mylyxversion, that variable can be used in headers, footers, title pages, 
 whereever.
 
 By the nature of LyX, conversion to PDF is done by a shellscript, whether 
 that 
 shellscript is called by the user interface or called from the command line. 
 Either way, the shellscript can be changed.
 
 I constantly run specialized shellscripts to do things like personalize 
 eBooks 
 and renumbering a list that's just too difficult to renumber in LaTeX. This 
 is 
 one of the real powers of LyX -- you can use UNIX commands and computer 
 programs to insert things that just aren't known within LaTeX.
 
 

Interesting solution, thanks.
I was looking for simple functionality in this particular case, but I had never
really considered adding an extra layer of document processing (as a general
solution).

Cheers

install otf font using otfinst.py

[jelle feringa]

Hi,

I'm interested in adding a few otf fonts;
Following http://web.willbenton.com/writing/2008/better-latex, I'm trying to do 
so
 with the otfinst.py script. After setting:

export TEXMFMAIN='/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf'
export TEXMFLOCAL='~/Library/texmf'
export TEXMF={$TEXMFLOCAL:$TEXMFMAIN}

updmap spots that new files have been added.
After I press reconfigure in Lyx, and add \usepackage{storno} in the preamble,
 I still do get: LaTeX Error: File `storno.sty' not found.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-jelle

Re: install otf font using otfinst.py

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 4/18/2010 7:44 AM, jelle feringa wrote:

Hi,

I'm interested in adding a few otf fonts;
Following http://web.willbenton.com/writing/2008/better-latex, I'm trying to do 
so
  with the otfinst.py script. After setting:

export TEXMFMAIN='/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf'
export TEXMFLOCAL='~/Library/texmf'
export TEXMF={$TEXMFLOCAL:$TEXMFMAIN}

updmap spots that new files have been added.
After I press reconfigure in Lyx, and add \usepackage{storno} in the preamble,
  I still do get: LaTeX Error: File `storno.sty' not found.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-jelle



First verify that storno.sty was created by the script.  If so, try 
running texhash, then (in a terminal) 'kpsewhich storno.sty' to verify 
that the file is visible to LaTeX.


/Paul

Re: two columns article-lyx forget an error

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 17.04.2010 10:02, schrieb YURENA MENDOZA:


  The error is the following;

I have an article (paper style) but in two column and something wrong is
in
my keywords section:
 \noindent \textsf{\begin {multicols}{2}}

  I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be

spurious, as in `$x}$'. ...


Your file is full of errors:

- you forgot to load the package multicol in the document preamble
- you added spaces in between commands in TeX-code (for example \end 
{multicol} instead of
\end{multicol})
- you made the same mistake in your document preamble
- you can omit all package loading in your preamble, because LyX supports them 
natively
- you set for all text the explicit color black this is not necessary and can 
cause problems when
you use real colors in your document
- you overwrote the section heading appearance with custom settings - this 
causes LaTeX errors. If
you want to change the appearance of section headings, do this be redefining 
the section heading
commands or changing the document class
- ...

I fixed all these in the attached file.

regards Uwe



help-lyx.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Access LyX version number from within a document

[M . Speiser]

rgheck rgh...@... writes:

 I've just added this facility to LyX 2.0, via InsetInfo. To enter it, 
 use the mini buffer and enter:
  info-insert lyx version
 


Sweet!
Thanks a lot,

M. Speiser

Re: grammar check?

[Jose Quesada]

I'm definitely interested in this. If someone will be adding this
functionalty, I'll happily help debugging it.
Best,
-Jose

Jose Quesada, PhD.
Max Planck Institute,
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition,
Berlin
http://www.josequesada.name/
http://twitter.com/Quesada


2010/4/17 Marcelo Acuña mv...@yahoo.com.ar

   It is in schedule a grammar check in future versions
  of lyx?

  No. If there is a good open source one, it could perhaps be
  linked into
  LyX, if someone wanted to do that work.
 
  Richard
  Open Office has one, although with a poor implementation of the Spanish.

 Marcelo

word search generator

[Paul Sutton]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Hi

this probably isn't the right place to ask this, I am designing a
newsletter for my local rugby club using lyx,  I would like to include a
word search as a fun part of the document,

I am trying to google, but thought that I could ask here too,

what i need is something that will produce a word search in LaTeX that
is simple enough to perhaps copy / paste as ERT,  I have converted a
table using txt2tags that has the club league table on it,  but doing a
word search is more complex.

so type in or input a list of words
have these auto inserted in random places as you would find in a real
wordsearch and add filler letters

thanks for any help / suggestions. I am sure its possible,


Paul


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Re: alpha 2 crash

[Pavel Sanda]

Marcelo Acu?a wrote:
When I make a click in Find and Replace button, I
  have a crash.
  
   can't reproduce here, please file bug report and attach
  backtrace if possible.
   pavel
 
  The problem is with Find and Replace Advanced.
  This problem not appears with alpha 1.
  I have linux lenny, qt 4.6.2 and g++ 4.3.2.
  With this system I have compiled lyx 1.6.5, 2.0.0 alpha 1 and alpha 2.

Marcelo, the correct way how to report backtrace is here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/FurtherHelp#toc4

pavel

Re: Access LyX version number from within a document

[M . Speiser]

Steve Litt sl...@... writes:

 A simple Perl script could scan the doc, delete any lines starting with 
 \mylyxversion=, and then just before the \begin{document} insert 
 \mylyxversion = `lyx --version | head -n1`. Once you have the version in 
 \mylyxversion, that variable can be used in headers, footers, title pages, 
 whereever.
 
 By the nature of LyX, conversion to PDF is done by a shellscript, whether 
 that 
 shellscript is called by the user interface or called from the command line. 
 Either way, the shellscript can be changed.
 
 I constantly run specialized shellscripts to do things like personalize 
 eBooks 
 and renumbering a list that's just too difficult to renumber in LaTeX. This 
 is 
 one of the real powers of LyX -- you can use UNIX commands and computer 
 programs to insert things that just aren't known within LaTeX.
 
 

Interesting solution, thanks.
I was looking for simple functionality in this particular case, but I had never
really considered adding an extra layer of document processing (as a general
solution).

Cheers

install otf font using otfinst.py

[jelle feringa]

Hi,

I'm interested in adding a few otf fonts;
Following http://web.willbenton.com/writing/2008/better-latex, I'm trying to do 
so
 with the otfinst.py script. After setting:

export TEXMFMAIN='/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf'
export TEXMFLOCAL='~/Library/texmf'
export TEXMF={$TEXMFLOCAL:$TEXMFMAIN}

updmap spots that new files have been added.
After I press reconfigure in Lyx, and add \usepackage{storno} in the preamble,
 I still do get: LaTeX Error: File `storno.sty' not found.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-jelle

Re: install otf font using otfinst.py

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 4/18/2010 7:44 AM, jelle feringa wrote:

Hi,

I'm interested in adding a few otf fonts;
Following http://web.willbenton.com/writing/2008/better-latex, I'm trying to do 
so
  with the otfinst.py script. After setting:

export TEXMFMAIN='/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf'
export TEXMFLOCAL='~/Library/texmf'
export TEXMF={$TEXMFLOCAL:$TEXMFMAIN}

updmap spots that new files have been added.
After I press reconfigure in Lyx, and add \usepackage{storno} in the preamble,
  I still do get: LaTeX Error: File `storno.sty' not found.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-jelle



First verify that storno.sty was created by the script.  If so, try 
running texhash, then (in a terminal) 'kpsewhich storno.sty' to verify 
that the file is visible to LaTeX.


/Paul

Re: two columns article-lyx forget an error

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 17.04.2010 10:02, schrieb YURENA MENDOZA:


  The error is the following;

I have an article (paper style) but in two column and something wrong is
in
my keywords section:
 \noindent \textsf{\begin {multicols}{2}}

  I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be

spurious, as in `$x}$'. ...


Your file is full of errors:

- you forgot to load the package multicol in the document preamble
- you added spaces in between commands in TeX-code (for example \end 
{multicol} instead of
\end{multicol})
- you made the same mistake in your document preamble
- you can omit all package loading in your preamble, because LyX supports them 
natively
- you set for all text the explicit color black this is not necessary and can 
cause problems when
you use real colors in your document
- you overwrote the section heading appearance with custom settings - this 
causes LaTeX errors. If
you want to change the appearance of section headings, do this be redefining 
the section heading
commands or changing the document class
- ...

I fixed all these in the attached file.

regards Uwe



help-lyx.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Access LyX version number from within a document

[M . Speiser]

rgheck rgh...@... writes:

 I've just added this facility to LyX 2.0, via InsetInfo. To enter it, 
 use the mini buffer and enter:
  info-insert lyx version
 


Sweet!
Thanks a lot,

M. Speiser

Re: grammar check?

[Jose Quesada]

I'm definitely interested in this. If someone will be adding this
functionalty, I'll happily help debugging it.
Best,
-Jose

Jose Quesada, PhD.
Max Planck Institute,
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition,
Berlin
http://www.josequesada.name/
http://twitter.com/Quesada


2010/4/17 Marcelo Acuña mv...@yahoo.com.ar

   It is in schedule a grammar check in future versions
  of lyx?

  No. If there is a good open source one, it could perhaps be
  linked into
  LyX, if someone wanted to do that work.
 
  Richard
  Open Office has one, although with a poor implementation of the Spanish.

 Marcelo

word search generator

[Paul Sutton]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Hi

this probably isn't the right place to ask this, I am designing a
newsletter for my local rugby club using lyx,  I would like to include a
word search as a fun part of the document,

I am trying to google, but thought that I could ask here too,

what i need is something that will produce a word search in LaTeX that
is simple enough to perhaps copy / paste as ERT,  I have converted a
table using txt2tags that has the club league table on it,  but doing a
word search is more complex.

so type in or input a list of words
have these auto inserted in random places as you would find in a real
wordsearch and add filler letters

thanks for any help / suggestions. I am sure its possible,


Paul


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www.zleap.net

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Re: alpha 2 crash

[Pavel Sanda]

Marcelo Acu?a wrote:
When I make a click in Find and Replace button, I
  have a crash.
  
   can't reproduce here, please file bug report and attach
  backtrace if possible.
   pavel
 
  The problem is with Find and Replace Advanced.
  This problem not appears with alpha 1.
  I have linux lenny, qt 4.6.2 and g++ 4.3.2.
  With this system I have compiled lyx 1.6.5, 2.0.0 alpha 1 and alpha 2.

Marcelo, the correct way how to report backtrace is here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/FurtherHelp#toc4

pavel

Re: Access LyX version number from within a document

[M . Speiser]

Steve Litt  writes:
>
> A simple Perl script could scan the doc, delete any lines starting with 
> \mylyxversion=, and then just before the \begin{document} insert 
> "\mylyxversion = `lyx --version | head -n1`". Once you have the version in 
> \mylyxversion, that variable can be used in headers, footers, title pages, 
> whereever.
> 
> By the nature of LyX, conversion to PDF is done by a shellscript, whether 
> that 
> shellscript is called by the user interface or called from the command line. 
> Either way, the shellscript can be changed.
> 
> I constantly run specialized shellscripts to do things like personalize 
> eBooks 
> and renumbering a list that's just too difficult to renumber in LaTeX. This 
> is 
> one of the real powers of LyX -- you can use UNIX commands and computer 
> programs to insert things that just aren't known within LaTeX.
> 
> 

Interesting solution, thanks.
I was looking for simple functionality in this particular case, but I had never
really considered adding an extra "layer" of document processing (as a general
solution).

Cheers

install otf font using otfinst.py

[jelle feringa]

Hi,

I'm interested in adding a few otf fonts;
Following http://web.willbenton.com/writing/2008/better-latex, I'm trying to do 
so
 with the otfinst.py script. After setting:

export TEXMFMAIN='/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf'
export TEXMFLOCAL='~/Library/texmf'
export TEXMF={"$TEXMFLOCAL":"$TEXMFMAIN"}

updmap spots that new files have been added.
After I press reconfigure in Lyx, and add \usepackage{storno} in the preamble,
 I still do get: LaTeX Error: File `storno.sty' not found.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-jelle

Re: install otf font using otfinst.py

[Paul A. Rubin]

On 4/18/2010 7:44 AM, jelle feringa wrote:

Hi,

I'm interested in adding a few otf fonts;
Following http://web.willbenton.com/writing/2008/better-latex, I'm trying to do 
so
  with the otfinst.py script. After setting:

export TEXMFMAIN='/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf'
export TEXMFLOCAL='~/Library/texmf'
export TEXMF={"$TEXMFLOCAL":"$TEXMFMAIN"}

updmap spots that new files have been added.
After I press reconfigure in Lyx, and add \usepackage{storno} in the preamble,
  I still do get: LaTeX Error: File `storno.sty' not found.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

-jelle



First verify that storno.sty was created by the script.  If so, try 
running texhash, then (in a terminal) 'kpsewhich storno.sty' to verify 
that the file is visible to LaTeX.


/Paul

Re: two columns article-lyx forget an error

[Uwe Stöhr]

Am 17.04.2010 10:02, schrieb YURENA MENDOZA:


  The error is the following;

I have an article (paper style) but in two column and something wrong is
in
my "keywords" section:
" \noindent \textsf{\begin {multicols}{2}}

  I've deleted a group-closing symbol because it seems to be

spurious, as in `$x}$'. ...


Your file is full of errors:

- you forgot to load the package "multicol" in the document preamble
- you added spaces in between commands in TeX-code (for example "\end 
{multicol}" instead of
"\end{multicol}")
- you made the same mistake in your document preamble
- you can omit all package loading in your preamble, because LyX supports them 
natively
- you set for all text the explicit color "black" this is not necessary and can 
cause problems when
you use "real" colors in your document
- you overwrote the section heading appearance with custom settings - this 
causes LaTeX errors. If
you want to change the appearance of section headings, do this be redefining 
the section heading
commands or changing the document class
- ...

I fixed all these in the attached file.

regards Uwe



help-lyx.lyx
Description: application/lyx

Re: Access LyX version number from within a document

[M . Speiser]

rgheck  writes:
>
> I've just added this facility to LyX 2.0, via InsetInfo. To enter it, 
> use the mini buffer and enter:
>  info-insert lyx version
> 


Sweet!
Thanks a lot,

M. Speiser

Re: grammar check?

[Jose Quesada]

I'm definitely interested in this. If someone will be adding this
functionalty, I'll happily help debugging it.
Best,
-Jose

Jose Quesada, PhD.
Max Planck Institute,
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition,
Berlin
http://www.josequesada.name/
http://twitter.com/Quesada


2010/4/17 Marcelo Acuña 

> > > It is in schedule a grammar check in future versions
> > of lyx?
>
> > No. If there is a good open source one, it could perhaps be
> > linked into
> > LyX, if someone wanted to do that work.
> >
> > Richard
>  Open Office has one, although with a poor implementation of the Spanish.
>
> Marcelo
>
>
>
>

word search generator

[Paul Sutton]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Hi

this probably isn't the right place to ask this, I am designing a
newsletter for my local rugby club using lyx,  I would like to include a
word search as a fun part of the document,

I am trying to google, but thought that I could ask here too,

what i need is something that will produce a word search in LaTeX that
is simple enough to perhaps copy / paste as ERT,  I have converted a
table using txt2tags that has the club league table on it,  but doing a
word search is more complex.

so type in or input a list of words
have these auto inserted in random places as you would find in a real
wordsearch and add filler letters

thanks for any help / suggestions. I am sure its possible,


Paul


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www.zleap.net

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DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/ - please click on Group
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Re: alpha 2 crash

[Pavel Sanda]

Marcelo Acu?a wrote:
> > > > When I make a click in Find and Replace button, I
> > have a crash.
>  
> > > can't reproduce here, please file bug report and attach
> > backtrace if possible.
> > > pavel
> 
>  The problem is with Find and Replace Advanced.
>  This problem not appears with alpha 1.
>  I have linux lenny, qt 4.6.2 and g++ 4.3.2.
>  With this system I have compiled lyx 1.6.5, 2.0.0 alpha 1 and alpha 2.

Marcelo, the correct way how to report backtrace is here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/FurtherHelp#toc4

pavel