Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 17 June 2010 14:59:36 Gary Kline wrote:
 On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:42:53AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
  On Thursday 17 June 2010 02:46:53 Gary Kline wrote:
   People,
  
   Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want
   to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program set.
  
   Given the superb toolset that TeX offers, I would like to use
   different typefaces: typewriter fonts --- as per my example
   typewritten letter.  I also have places where I am thinking of
   using a small, bold handwriting font.  And one large bold
   handwritten script where my blind character writes a short poem
   to her lover.
  
   In other words, the only trouble I have been having in the past
   two weeks is getting the typewriter fonts to fit, indented the
   way a BLOCKQUOTE /BLOCKQUOTE would do.   I have found that
   the \small macro 9pt does not work for the typewriter fonts.
   Only the \tiny macro works; but 5pt is simply too small to be
   read easily.
  
   The nutshell here is:: Can lyx help me do what I want and switch
   from, say, newcent {at 10pt} to courier {at 9 pt} and back.
 
  Not sure, but I think I can help you. I think you need the \begin{sloppy}
  command at the beginning of your typewriter font, and the \end{sloppy}
  command at the end of your typewriter font. To test my hypothesis, just
  insert the raw LaTeX (ERT). If indeed that works, then using a layout
  file, create an environment called mylegalese or some such name that:
 
  1: Begins with \begin{sloppy}
  2: \begin{ttfamily}
  3: \begin{small}
  4: Prints the content
  5: \end{small}
  6: \end{ttfamily}
  7: \end{sloppy}
 
  The preceding is an oversimplification. To get it to act like normal
  environments you might need to implement it as a list, but I think just
  doing the preceding should get you close.
 
  I've written some docs about making your own environments. The table of
  contents for those docs is at:
  http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm
 
  HTH
 
  SteveT
 
  Steve Litt
  Recession Relief Package
  http://www.recession-relief.US
  Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
 
   No joy.  At least not with my latex file and the markup you
   had.  I'm using mutt as my MUA.  Will check out your
   troubleshooters URL shortly.

Yeah, I just pulled it out of my (#$*(#$ without actually tech editing it. 
But you can do *something like* what I wrote to accomplish your goal.

 
   I'm having some trouble putting my latex file {OR} plain
   ASCII fie with LaTeX markup into the lyx processor.  I think
   this was one reason i gave up on lyx back in the 90's!

If you mean your layout file, yeah, those are a pain. I understand your giving 
up LyX -- I came darned close to giving up on it after a few weeks, and then a 
few months, and even once after about 5 years. All because of the same thing 
-- the difficulty involved in creating new styles or modifying existing ones. 
What I can promise you is as you get more experience with LyX it gets easier.

SteveT

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

Re: Spell check on 1.6.6.1

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2010/6/17 Olivier Ripoll:
 Today, I have noticed that when spell-checking is done on a file without
 spelling mistakes, the window with word count will pop-up twice, the second
 time with the double of words (e.g. if the text has 158 words, the first
 pop-up will say 158 words checked, the second 316). This does not happen the
 first time the spell checker is used though, but on any further calls. And
 it does not happen if there was a spelling mistake (corrected or ignored).

http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6254

(will be fixed in 1.6.7)

Jürgen

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

[stephen's mailinglist account]

On 17 June 2010 18:45, Frederick Noronha  wrote:
 Dear all: Is it possible to give a command that would ensure that no page
 numbers appeare on the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks!
 FN
 --
 -
 Journalism, editing, photography http://photosfromgoa.notlong.com


I think you can do this by using fancyhead and redefining \fancypagestyle{plain}
to not have the page number

something like
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
}

inserted in preamble having chosen fancyhead. You may then want to
customise your fancyheaders too

-- 
Stephen

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Jose Quesada]

Hi Jean-Marc,

Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could
try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent.
No, where do I get it?

Best,
-Jose

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


On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES lasgout...@lyx.orgwrote:

 Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com writes:

  Hi again,
 
  I have to say, I still find slowness overall. On both sabayon and ubuntu.
  Everybody I know describes LyX as lighting fast. And it has the most
 useful
  outliner I know (and getting better). It'd be a pity we cannot have both
  things at the same time.

 Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could
 try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent.

 JMarc

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES]

Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com writes:

 Hi Jean-Marc,

Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could
try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent.
 No, where do I get it?

Excellent question. Where did you get your LyX version?

JMarc

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Jean-Marc,
Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could
try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent.
 No, where do I get it?

It seems that you use Ubuntu. Since there seems to be no lyx-dbg on
either Debian or Ubuntu, you would probably need to compile LyX to
have it in debugging mode.
Liviu

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account
stephen4mailingli...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre

I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever
debug symbols are needed, either install *-dbg package or build from
source. The latter should suffice for minimal debugging. If you want
to make sure debugging is at max verbosity, you may want to hunt some
--debug=full or similar ./configure switch.
Liviu

TOC Chapter description

[Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér]

Is it possible to generate a Table of Contents where I write a
description below the chapter names? Like:
1. Project description . 5
  On the scope and progress of the project
2. Challenges . 20
  On the challenges encountered in the course of the research

I could probably hack something with cross references, but if it is
part of the system, it would be nice.

Yours,
Morten
__
Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
http://writtenandread.net * mor...@writtenandread.net

Re: TOC Chapter description

[Richard Heck]

On 06/18/2010 08:13 AM, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote:

Is it possible to generate a Table of Contents where I write a
description below the chapter names? Like:
1. Project description . 5
   On the scope and progress of the project
2. Challenges . 20
   On the challenges encountered in the course of the research

I could probably hack something with cross references, but if it is
part of the system, it would be nice.


I'd search CTAN for a package that supported this. I don't know of one 
myself. Or maybe have a look at the docs for memoir. Maybe it does this.


Richard

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Marcelo Acuña]

  Hi again,
 
  I have to say, I still find slowness overall. On both
 sabayon and ubuntu.
  Everybody I know describes LyX as lighting fast. And
 it has the most useful
  outliner I know (and getting better). It'd be a pity
 we cannot have both
  things at the same time.

 Several months ago, this problem force to me to move to multiple file doc.
 This solution was satisfactory.
Marcelo

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

[Marcelo Acuña]

 Dear all: Is it possible to give a
 command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on
 the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN

 If you use koma-script, this style have specific commands for that.
Marcelo

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES]

Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com writes:

 On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account
 stephen4mailingli...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre

 I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever
 debug symbols are needed, either install *-dbg package or build from
 source. The latter should suffice for minimal debugging. If you want
 to make sure debugging is at max verbosity, you may want to hunt some
 --debug=full or similar ./configure switch.

/configure --enable-debug is the best.

--enable-build-type=rel may be needed if using a non-release build.

JMarc

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Jose Quesada]

I'm using both sabayon (laptop) and ubuntu (2 desktops).
Will try to compile it with debug symbols, but now I'm under deadline
pressure. Maybe 1st Jul or so, I'll report back...
Thanks!
Best,
-Jose

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


On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES lasgout...@lyx.orgwrote:

 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com writes:

  On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account
  stephen4mailingli...@googlemail.com wrote:
  Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre
 
  I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever
  debug symbols are needed, either install *-dbg package or build from
  source. The latter should suffice for minimal debugging. If you want
  to make sure debugging is at max verbosity, you may want to hunt some
  --debug=full or similar ./configure switch.

 /configure --enable-debug is the best.

 --enable-build-type=rel may be needed if using a non-release build.

 JMarc

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

[stephen's mailinglist account]

2010/6/18 Marcelo Acuña mv...@yahoo.com.ar:
 Dear all: Is it possible to give a
 command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on
 the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN

  If you use koma-script, this style have specific commands for that.
 Marcelo

\usepackage{scrpage2}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\cfoot[]

last line removes default page number from plain page style
you might want to alter some of the other header and footers. There
are options for all pages or separate options for facing pages


-- 
Stephen

Problems with Lyx 2.0 alpha4 - XFig files

[Pascal Francq]

Hi,
I have download and compile the alpha version of the next 2.0 release, and I 
have small problem concerning files created with xfig when I create, from LyX, 
a 
PDF file (the same LyX file works fro 1.6.x series). LyX (or LaTeX to be more 
precise) says that it cannot determine the size of the graphic.
I know that in this new version, you can use the insert external object 
option, which works for xfig files. The problem is that I combine xfig files 
with 
the /psfrag to replace some text in the xfig files with some LaTeX stuff 
(like 
formulas). And with the insert external object, it does not take into 
account these commands.
A tip how to manage that ?
Thanks.
-- 
Dr. Ir. Pascal Francq
Belgium


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Computer algebra systems (CAS) in LYX

[Kristian Mølhave]

Hi

On the lyx.org features page it says
Basic support for various Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) - Maple, Maxima, 
Octave, Mathematica 

However on my windows XP mathematica does not work with Lyx 1.6.6.1 that i just 
installed. But it did seem to work with octave on a linux system I have been 
using a while ago.

There seems to be no documentation on the CAS link in the wiki documents... 
wouldn't it be a good idea to link directly from the features page to a place 
where more information can be found in the individual features? Sometimes it 
can be difficult to find - or maybe it is absent?

From the web I can see that CAS in Lyx apparently is not working too well - 
does anyone have an overview of this functionality in terms of how well it 
works and if something is under development?

With best regards
Kristian

Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 17 June 2010 14:59:36 Gary Kline wrote:
 On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:42:53AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
  On Thursday 17 June 2010 02:46:53 Gary Kline wrote:
   People,
  
   Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want
   to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program set.
  
   Given the superb toolset that TeX offers, I would like to use
   different typefaces: typewriter fonts --- as per my example
   typewritten letter.  I also have places where I am thinking of
   using a small, bold handwriting font.  And one large bold
   handwritten script where my blind character writes a short poem
   to her lover.
  
   In other words, the only trouble I have been having in the past
   two weeks is getting the typewriter fonts to fit, indented the
   way a BLOCKQUOTE /BLOCKQUOTE would do.   I have found that
   the \small macro 9pt does not work for the typewriter fonts.
   Only the \tiny macro works; but 5pt is simply too small to be
   read easily.
  
   The nutshell here is:: Can lyx help me do what I want and switch
   from, say, newcent {at 10pt} to courier {at 9 pt} and back.
 
  Not sure, but I think I can help you. I think you need the \begin{sloppy}
  command at the beginning of your typewriter font, and the \end{sloppy}
  command at the end of your typewriter font. To test my hypothesis, just
  insert the raw LaTeX (ERT). If indeed that works, then using a layout
  file, create an environment called mylegalese or some such name that:
 
  1: Begins with \begin{sloppy}
  2: \begin{ttfamily}
  3: \begin{small}
  4: Prints the content
  5: \end{small}
  6: \end{ttfamily}
  7: \end{sloppy}
 
  The preceding is an oversimplification. To get it to act like normal
  environments you might need to implement it as a list, but I think just
  doing the preceding should get you close.
 
  I've written some docs about making your own environments. The table of
  contents for those docs is at:
  http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm
 
  HTH
 
  SteveT
 
  Steve Litt
  Recession Relief Package
  http://www.recession-relief.US
  Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
 
   No joy.  At least not with my latex file and the markup you
   had.  I'm using mutt as my MUA.  Will check out your
   troubleshooters URL shortly.

Yeah, I just pulled it out of my (#$*(#$ without actually tech editing it. 
But you can do *something like* what I wrote to accomplish your goal.

 
   I'm having some trouble putting my latex file {OR} plain
   ASCII fie with LaTeX markup into the lyx processor.  I think
   this was one reason i gave up on lyx back in the 90's!

If you mean your layout file, yeah, those are a pain. I understand your giving 
up LyX -- I came darned close to giving up on it after a few weeks, and then a 
few months, and even once after about 5 years. All because of the same thing 
-- the difficulty involved in creating new styles or modifying existing ones. 
What I can promise you is as you get more experience with LyX it gets easier.

SteveT

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

Re: Spell check on 1.6.6.1

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2010/6/17 Olivier Ripoll:
 Today, I have noticed that when spell-checking is done on a file without
 spelling mistakes, the window with word count will pop-up twice, the second
 time with the double of words (e.g. if the text has 158 words, the first
 pop-up will say 158 words checked, the second 316). This does not happen the
 first time the spell checker is used though, but on any further calls. And
 it does not happen if there was a spelling mistake (corrected or ignored).

http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6254

(will be fixed in 1.6.7)

Jürgen

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

[stephen's mailinglist account]

On 17 June 2010 18:45, Frederick Noronha  wrote:
 Dear all: Is it possible to give a command that would ensure that no page
 numbers appeare on the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks!
 FN
 --
 -
 Journalism, editing, photography http://photosfromgoa.notlong.com


I think you can do this by using fancyhead and redefining \fancypagestyle{plain}
to not have the page number

something like
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
}

inserted in preamble having chosen fancyhead. You may then want to
customise your fancyheaders too

-- 
Stephen

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Jose Quesada]

Hi Jean-Marc,

Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could
try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent.
No, where do I get it?

Best,
-Jose

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


On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES lasgout...@lyx.orgwrote:

 Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com writes:

  Hi again,
 
  I have to say, I still find slowness overall. On both sabayon and ubuntu.
  Everybody I know describes LyX as lighting fast. And it has the most
 useful
  outliner I know (and getting better). It'd be a pity we cannot have both
  things at the same time.

 Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could
 try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent.

 JMarc

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES]

Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com writes:

 Hi Jean-Marc,

Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could
try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent.
 No, where do I get it?

Excellent question. Where did you get your LyX version?

JMarc

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Jose Quesada ques...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi Jean-Marc,
Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could
try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent.
 No, where do I get it?

It seems that you use Ubuntu. Since there seems to be no lyx-dbg on
either Debian or Ubuntu, you would probably need to compile LyX to
have it in debugging mode.
Liviu

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account
stephen4mailingli...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre

I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever
debug symbols are needed, either install *-dbg package or build from
source. The latter should suffice for minimal debugging. If you want
to make sure debugging is at max verbosity, you may want to hunt some
--debug=full or similar ./configure switch.
Liviu

TOC Chapter description

[Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér]

Is it possible to generate a Table of Contents where I write a
description below the chapter names? Like:
1. Project description . 5
  On the scope and progress of the project
2. Challenges . 20
  On the challenges encountered in the course of the research

I could probably hack something with cross references, but if it is
part of the system, it would be nice.

Yours,
Morten
__
Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
http://writtenandread.net * mor...@writtenandread.net

Re: TOC Chapter description

[Richard Heck]

On 06/18/2010 08:13 AM, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote:

Is it possible to generate a Table of Contents where I write a
description below the chapter names? Like:
1. Project description . 5
   On the scope and progress of the project
2. Challenges . 20
   On the challenges encountered in the course of the research

I could probably hack something with cross references, but if it is
part of the system, it would be nice.


I'd search CTAN for a package that supported this. I don't know of one 
myself. Or maybe have a look at the docs for memoir. Maybe it does this.


Richard

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Marcelo Acuña]

  Hi again,
 
  I have to say, I still find slowness overall. On both
 sabayon and ubuntu.
  Everybody I know describes LyX as lighting fast. And
 it has the most useful
  outliner I know (and getting better). It'd be a pity
 we cannot have both
  things at the same time.

 Several months ago, this problem force to me to move to multiple file doc.
 This solution was satisfactory.
Marcelo

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

[Marcelo Acuña]

 Dear all: Is it possible to give a
 command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on
 the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN

 If you use koma-script, this style have specific commands for that.
Marcelo

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES]

Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com writes:

 On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account
 stephen4mailingli...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre

 I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever
 debug symbols are needed, either install *-dbg package or build from
 source. The latter should suffice for minimal debugging. If you want
 to make sure debugging is at max verbosity, you may want to hunt some
 --debug=full or similar ./configure switch.

/configure --enable-debug is the best.

--enable-build-type=rel may be needed if using a non-release build.

JMarc

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Jose Quesada]

I'm using both sabayon (laptop) and ubuntu (2 desktops).
Will try to compile it with debug symbols, but now I'm under deadline
pressure. Maybe 1st Jul or so, I'll report back...
Thanks!
Best,
-Jose

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


On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES lasgout...@lyx.orgwrote:

 Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com writes:

  On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account
  stephen4mailingli...@googlemail.com wrote:
  Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre
 
  I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever
  debug symbols are needed, either install *-dbg package or build from
  source. The latter should suffice for minimal debugging. If you want
  to make sure debugging is at max verbosity, you may want to hunt some
  --debug=full or similar ./configure switch.

 /configure --enable-debug is the best.

 --enable-build-type=rel may be needed if using a non-release build.

 JMarc

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

[stephen's mailinglist account]

2010/6/18 Marcelo Acuña mv...@yahoo.com.ar:
 Dear all: Is it possible to give a
 command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on
 the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN

  If you use koma-script, this style have specific commands for that.
 Marcelo

\usepackage{scrpage2}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\cfoot[]

last line removes default page number from plain page style
you might want to alter some of the other header and footers. There
are options for all pages or separate options for facing pages


-- 
Stephen

Problems with Lyx 2.0 alpha4 - XFig files

[Pascal Francq]

Hi,
I have download and compile the alpha version of the next 2.0 release, and I 
have small problem concerning files created with xfig when I create, from LyX, 
a 
PDF file (the same LyX file works fro 1.6.x series). LyX (or LaTeX to be more 
precise) says that it cannot determine the size of the graphic.
I know that in this new version, you can use the insert external object 
option, which works for xfig files. The problem is that I combine xfig files 
with 
the /psfrag to replace some text in the xfig files with some LaTeX stuff 
(like 
formulas). And with the insert external object, it does not take into 
account these commands.
A tip how to manage that ?
Thanks.
-- 
Dr. Ir. Pascal Francq
Belgium


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Computer algebra systems (CAS) in LYX

[Kristian Mølhave]

Hi

On the lyx.org features page it says
Basic support for various Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) - Maple, Maxima, 
Octave, Mathematica 

However on my windows XP mathematica does not work with Lyx 1.6.6.1 that i just 
installed. But it did seem to work with octave on a linux system I have been 
using a while ago.

There seems to be no documentation on the CAS link in the wiki documents... 
wouldn't it be a good idea to link directly from the features page to a place 
where more information can be found in the individual features? Sometimes it 
can be difficult to find - or maybe it is absent?

From the web I can see that CAS in Lyx apparently is not working too well - 
does anyone have an overview of this functionality in terms of how well it 
works and if something is under development?

With best regards
Kristian

Re: can anyone help me get moving with LyX?

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 17 June 2010 14:59:36 Gary Kline wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 05:42:53AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 June 2010 02:46:53 Gary Kline wrote:
> > > People,
> > >
> > > Appended is a greatly abbreviated sample of the novel that I want
> > > to get typeset via the TeX/LaTex/LyX program set.
> > >
> > > Given the superb toolset that TeX offers, I would like to use
> > > different typefaces: typewriter fonts --- as per my example
> > > typewritten letter.  I also have places where I am thinking of
> > > using a small, bold handwriting font.  And one large bold
> > > handwritten script where my blind character writes a short poem
> > > to her lover.
> > >
> > > In other words, the only trouble I have been having in the past
> > > two weeks is getting the typewriter fonts to fit, indented the
> > > way a   would do.   I have found that
> > > the "\small" macro 9pt does not work for the typewriter fonts.
> > > Only the "\tiny" macro works; but 5pt is simply too small to be
> > > read easily.
> > >
> > > The nutshell here is:: Can lyx help me do what I want and switch
> > > from, say, "newcent" {at 10pt} to "courier" {at 9 pt} and back.
> >
> > Not sure, but I think I can help you. I think you need the \begin{sloppy}
> > command at the beginning of your typewriter font, and the \end{sloppy}
> > command at the end of your typewriter font. To test my hypothesis, just
> > insert the raw LaTeX (ERT). If indeed that works, then using a layout
> > file, create an environment called "mylegalese" or some such name that:
> >
> > 1: Begins with \begin{sloppy}
> > 2: \begin{ttfamily}
> > 3: \begin{small}
> > 4: Prints the content
> > 5: \end{small}
> > 6: \end{ttfamily}
> > 7: \end{sloppy}
> >
> > The preceding is an oversimplification. To get it to act like normal
> > environments you might need to implement it as a list, but I think just
> > doing the preceding should get you close.
> >
> > I've written some docs about making your own environments. The table of
> > contents for those docs is at:
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/index.htm
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
> > Recession Relief Package
> > http://www.recession-relief.US
> > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
> 
>   No joy.  At least not with my latex file and the markup you
>   had.  I'm using mutt as my MUA.  Will check out your
>   troubleshooters URL shortly.

Yeah, I just pulled it out of my &(#$*(#$ without actually tech editing it. 
But you can do *something like* what I wrote to accomplish your goal.

> 
>   I'm having some trouble putting my latex file {OR} plain
>   ASCII fie with LaTeX markup into the lyx processor.  I think
>   this was one reason i gave up on lyx back in the 90's!

If you mean your layout file, yeah, those are a pain. I understand your giving 
up LyX -- I came darned close to giving up on it after a few weeks, and then a 
few months, and even once after about 5 years. All because of the same thing 
-- the difficulty involved in creating new styles or modifying existing ones. 
What I can promise you is as you get more experience with LyX it gets easier.

SteveT

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

Re: Spell check on 1.6.6.1

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

2010/6/17 Olivier Ripoll:
> Today, I have noticed that when spell-checking is done on a file without
> spelling mistakes, the window with word count will pop-up twice, the second
> time with the double of words (e.g. if the text has 158 words, the first
> pop-up will say 158 words checked, the second 316). This does not happen the
> first time the spell checker is used though, but on any further calls. And
> it does not happen if there was a spelling mistake (corrected or ignored).

http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6254

(will be fixed in 1.6.7)

Jürgen

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

[stephen's mailinglist account]

On 17 June 2010 18:45, Frederick Noronha  wrote:
> Dear all: Is it possible to give a command that would ensure that no page
> numbers appeare on the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks!
> FN
> --
> -
> Journalism, editing, photography http://photosfromgoa.notlong.com

>
I think you can do this by using fancyhead and redefining \fancypagestyle{plain}
to not have the page number

something like
\fancypagestyle{plain}{%
\fancyhf{} % clear all header and footer fields
}

inserted in preamble having chosen fancyhead. You may then want to
customise your fancyheaders too

-- 
Stephen

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Jose Quesada]

Hi Jean-Marc,

>Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could
>try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent.
No, where do I get it?

Best,
-Jose

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


On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote:

> Jose Quesada  writes:
>
> > Hi again,
> >
> > I have to say, I still find slowness overall. On both sabayon and ubuntu.
> > Everybody I know describes LyX as lighting fast. And it has the most
> useful
> > outliner I know (and getting better). It'd be a pity we cannot have both
> > things at the same time.
>
> Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could
> try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent.
>
> JMarc
>

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES]

Jose Quesada  writes:

> Hi Jean-Marc,
>
>>Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could
>>try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent.
> No, where do I get it?

Excellent question. Where did you get your LyX version?

JMarc

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Jose Quesada  wrote:
> Hi Jean-Marc,
>>Do you have a version of lyx with debugging symbols? If you do you could
>>try to run sysprof on it and see where the time is spent.
> No, where do I get it?
>
It seems that you use Ubuntu. Since there seems to be no lyx-dbg on
either Debian or Ubuntu, you would probably need to compile LyX to
have it in debugging mode.
Liviu

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Liviu Andronic]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account
 wrote:
> Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre
>
I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever
debug symbols are needed, either install *-dbg package or build from
source. The latter should suffice for minimal debugging. If you want
to make sure debugging is at max verbosity, you may want to hunt some
--debug=full or similar ./configure switch.
Liviu

TOC Chapter description

[Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér]

Is it possible to generate a Table of Contents where I write a
description below the chapter names? Like:
1. Project description . 5
  On the scope and progress of the project
2. Challenges . 20
  On the challenges encountered in the course of the research

I could probably hack something with cross references, but if it is
part of the system, it would be nice.

Yours,
Morten
__
Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér
http://writtenandread.net * mor...@writtenandread.net

Re: TOC Chapter description

[Richard Heck]

On 06/18/2010 08:13 AM, Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér wrote:

Is it possible to generate a Table of Contents where I write a
description below the chapter names? Like:
1. Project description . 5
   On the scope and progress of the project
2. Challenges . 20
   On the challenges encountered in the course of the research

I could probably hack something with cross references, but if it is
part of the system, it would be nice.


I'd search CTAN for a package that supported this. I don't know of one 
myself. Or maybe have a look at the docs for memoir. Maybe it does this.


Richard

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Marcelo Acuña]

> > Hi again,
> >
> > I have to say, I still find slowness overall. On both
> sabayon and ubuntu.
> > Everybody I know describes LyX as lighting fast. And
> it has the most useful
> > outliner I know (and getting better). It'd be a pity
> we cannot have both
> > things at the same time.

 Several months ago, this problem force to me to move to multiple file doc.
 This solution was satisfactory.
Marcelo

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

[Marcelo Acuña]

> Dear all: Is it possible to give a
> command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on
> the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN

 If you use koma-script, this style have specific commands for that.
Marcelo

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES]

Liviu Andronic  writes:

> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account
>  wrote:
>> Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre
>>
> I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever
> debug symbols are needed, either install *-dbg package or build from
> source. The latter should suffice for minimal debugging. If you want
> to make sure debugging is at max verbosity, you may want to hunt some
> --debug=full or similar ./configure switch.

/configure --enable-debug is the best.

--enable-build-type=rel may be needed if using a non-release build.

JMarc

Re: lyx chokes on documents with many subsections?

[Jose Quesada]

I'm using both sabayon (laptop) and ubuntu (2 desktops).
Will try to compile it with debug symbols, but now I'm under deadline
pressure. Maybe 1st Jul or so, I'll report back...
Thanks!
Best,
-Jose

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


On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Jean-Marc LASGOUTTES wrote:

> Liviu Andronic  writes:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, stephen's mailinglist account
> >  wrote:
> >> Is this with ./configure --enable-build-type=pre
> >>
> > I am not sure how this works for LyX. From my experience whenever
> > debug symbols are needed, either install *-dbg package or build from
> > source. The latter should suffice for minimal debugging. If you want
> > to make sure debugging is at max verbosity, you may want to hunt some
> > --debug=full or similar ./configure switch.
>
> /configure --enable-debug is the best.
>
> --enable-build-type=rel may be needed if using a non-release build.
>
> JMarc
>
>

Re: No page number on page starting new chapter

[stephen's mailinglist account]

2010/6/18 Marcelo Acuña :
>> Dear all: Is it possible to give a
>> command that would ensure that no page numbers appeare on
>> the starting page of every chapter (of a book)? Thanks! FN
>
>  If you use koma-script, this style have specific commands for that.
> Marcelo
>
\usepackage{scrpage2}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}
\cfoot[]

last line removes default page number from plain page style
you might want to alter some of the other header and footers. There
are options for all pages or separate options for facing pages


-- 
Stephen

Problems with Lyx 2.0 alpha4 - XFig files

[Pascal Francq]

Hi,
I have download and compile the alpha version of the next 2.0 release, and I 
have small problem concerning files created with xfig when I create, from LyX, 
a 
PDF file (the same LyX file works fro 1.6.x series). LyX (or LaTeX to be more 
precise) says that it cannot determine the size of the graphic.
I know that in this new version, you can use the "insert external object" 
option, which works for xfig files. The problem is that I combine xfig files 
with 
the "/psfrag" to replace some text in the xfig files with some LaTeX stuff 
(like 
formulas). And with the "insert external object", it does not take into 
account these commands.
A tip how to manage that ?
Thanks.
-- 
Dr. Ir. Pascal Francq
Belgium


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Computer algebra systems (CAS) in LYX

[Kristian Mølhave]

Hi

On the lyx.org features page it says
"Basic support for various Computer Algebra Systems (CAS) - Maple, Maxima, 
Octave, Mathematica "

However on my windows XP mathematica does not work with Lyx 1.6.6.1 that i just 
installed. But it did seem to work with octave on a linux system I have been 
using a while ago.

There seems to be no documentation on the CAS link in the wiki documents... 
wouldn't it be a good idea to link directly from the features page to a place 
where more information can be found in the individual features? Sometimes it 
can be difficult to find - or maybe it is absent?

>From the web I can see that CAS in Lyx apparently is not working too well - 
>does anyone have an overview of this functionality in terms of how well it 
>works and if something is under development?

With best regards
Kristian